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CLEVELAND – The Angels closer situation is now as unclear as ever after a new, unexpected twist Thursday afternoon, with Manager Mike Scioscia making a surprising series of decisions that backfired.
Ernesto Frieri gave up a Nick Swisher grand slam in the 10th inning of the Angels' 5-3 loss to the Cleveland Indians, but this was nothing like the earlier meltdowns in Frieri's frustrating season.
This time Frieri was first passed over for the save situation in favor of rookie Cam Bedrosian, who got into a bases-loaded jam before Frieri was summoned to try to bail him out.
Frieri got the second out, but then left a 1-2 fastball over the middle and Swisher belted it over the right-field fence. It was the eighth homer Frieri has allowed in just 291/3 innings.
"I'm fighting, man," Frieri said. "I don't know, man. I've been working, watching videos, asking questions. It seems like nothing goes my way."
Five days earlier, Frieri had allowed four runs to blow a ninth-inning lead. Scioscia insisted in the days following that game that he still planned to use Frieri as his primary closer, with Joe Smith getting an occasional opportunity.
Smith, however, had already worked the ninth in the tie game when the Angels scored two runs in top of the 10th on an Albert Pujols single.
That's when Scioscia brought in Bedrosian for his second save opportunity in six-game big league career.
Bedrosian had blown the other opportunity, on Saturday. Overall, he had allowed 12 of the 27 batters he'd faced to reach base, including five walks. His 1.12 ERA and 45 strikeouts in 24 innings in Class-A and Double-A had not yet translated to the majors.
Scioscia, however, insisted that Bedrosian was the best suited of his available options to work the 10th, partly because the Indians had never seen him.
"Ernie has been struggling a bit, so we wanted to give them a fresh look," Scioscia said. "They haven't seen Bedrock yet. We had confidence he was going to get it done, and if we needed Ernie to bail him out, he was there. In trying to build the back end of our bullpen, Bedrock has a good arm, we feel he can handle it, and he didn't get it done today."
Scioscia said he chose Bedrosian over Mike Morin, who has a 1.21 ERA in 21 big league games, because Morin "has been throwing a lot." Morin had pitched four of five days through Saturday, but he'd thrown only one inning and 13 pitches in the previous four days.
Mostly, however, Scioscia said he wanted Bedrosian because of his repertoire, a mid-90s fastball.
"Cam has the type of stuff we know will play in the back end," Scioscia said. "It was an opportunity for him. We had every confidence he was going to go out there and make his pitches."
He didn't. Bedrosian walked Michael Bourn, struck out Asdrubal Caberera, gave up a double to Jason Kipnis and then walked Carlos Santana to load the bases.
"When you go out there you have to get the job done, plain and simple," Bedrosian said. "You can't keep messing around with this. These guys don't have to pay for it every day. It can't happen."
With the bases loaded, Scioscia still could have brought in Morin, a ground ball specialist. Instead he called for Frieri, the pitcher he said was "struggling" enough for him to pick someone else as the closer. Asked if that was a tough spot for Frieri, Scioscia said: "Any time there's a save situation, it's a tough spot."
Frieri, who was rattled enough by the entire situation that several teammates came to console him later, chose not to comment when asked if he was surprised Bedrosian got the call over him.
He said it wasn't an excuse for what happened next, though.
"I've pitched in that situation before," he said. "Last year I came in the eighth inning a couple times with the bases loaded and guys on base and just did my job, made my pitches. Today, I missed my pitch and I got hurt. It cost me the win."
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text: Federal sentence delayed for Shawn Lester By Zac Taylor June 12, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge has postponed the sentencing for Shawn Thomas Lester on federal firearm charges over concerns that testimony during the hearing would implicate him on murder charges he faces in a state trial next month.U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver said Tuesday that testimony federal prosecutors planned to present during Lester's sentencing hearing Wednesday might prejudice the Kanawha County jury picked for West Virginia's murder case next month.Lester is accused of using a scoped rifle to gun down three people at convenience stores in 2003. Prosecutors say the killings were drug-related. A federal grand jury indicted Lester on firearm possession charges late last year, after investigators in the state's case unearthed photographs of Lester holding a gun, according to court documents.Lester has a lengthy felony history and would have been prohibited from carrying a firearm in 2007 -- the year federal authorities say the photographs are time stamped. He pleaded guilty to the gun charges earlier this year.According to Lester's attorney, Deirdre Purdy, federal prosecutors have asked the judge to levy a harsher sentence on Lester because of his habitual drug use and prior "bad acts" they say point to a violent nature.Prosecutors intend to call Alicia Ramey, Lester's ex-lover, who apparently will testify that Lester wanted to keep her as a sex slave, according to a sentencing memorandum written by Purdy.Prosecutors also intend to enter an audio recording of Lester telling a confidential informant that he intended to use a stun gun during a robbery, and that he intended to kill his victim if he had a certain amount of pills, according to the memorandum.Purdy pointed out that the purported victim of Lester's alleged threats, who was not identified in the sentencing memorandum, was not killed or robbed. The federal sentencing has nothing to do with a slaying, just the illegal possession of a firearm, Purdy noted. A stun gun is not a firearm under federal criminal code, she said.As it relates to Ramey, Purdy said prosecutors have not presented evidence indicating that Lester did anything more than "muse on the subjects of keeping a woman as a sex slave." "These are all instances that are unrelated to these charges," she told the judge Tuesday.Purdy asked the judge to prevent prosecutors from allowing those witnesses to testify during his sentencing, which has been postponed to September. Purdy has asked the judge for a sentence in the range of 37 to 46 months on the gun charges.Lester's habitual drug use apparently is explained in part by a series of open-heart surgeries he had in 2005 and 2006, according to the sentencing memorandum. He became addicted to prescription painkiller medication following those surgeries sometime in 2007, the memorandum states.Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Gregory McVey said the government has avoided presenting evidence that overlaps with Lester's state murder charges. McVey, however, did not oppose the judge's decision to postpone Lester's sentencing until September.The second prosecutor in the federal case, Maryclaire Akers, also represents the state in the murder case against Lester.Last March, police arrested Lester after one of his longtime friends reportedly told police that Lester had admitted to killing Jeannie Patton in August 2003 in retaliation for the theft of a big-block Chevrolet motor from a garage on Rutledge Road in Charleston. Prosecutors say rare, pink methamphetamine was hidden inside the engine. Patton was killed by a bullet fired from a scoped Magnum Marlin rifle as she stood outside a convenience store. That same night, Okey Meadows Jr. was shot and killed outside another store. A few days earlier, Gary Carrier Jr. was shot and killed outside of yet another convenience store.A Kanawha County grand jury indicted Lester in all three slayings. The case has yielded more than 75,000 pages of documents, which has caused several delays in the trial.Reach Zac Taylor at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5189. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 2 Man charged after motorcycle pursuit early Sunday 3 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 4 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 5 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis Hatfield, McCoy descendants vie for reality TV show Previous Story Putnam business owes $125K after county foul-up Next Story


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Mary E. Dembinski (nee Gradish), 90, of Lorain, passed away Friday, May 3, 2013, at New Life Hospice Residential Center, Lorain, following a short illness. Born July 2, 1922 in Mammoth, Pennsylvania, she came to Lorain as a young child.
She graduated from Lorain High School in 1938B. Mary was a member St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Elyria, and a member the former St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Lorain. She enjoyed crocheting, oil painting, ceramics and watching wrestling and the Game Show Network. She kept her mind sharp by working on word searches daily.
Surviving is her son, David of Lorain; a daughter, Donna Dembinski of Lorain; grandsons, Dusty and Dana; a great grandson; a sister, Betty Osko of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; many nieces and nephews; and her loving Schnauzer, Stanley.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester in 1967; a son, Richard in 1966; her parents, Paul and Elizabeth (nee Berdak) Gradish; brothers, John Gradish, Paul Gradish and Ray Gradish; and sisters, Marge Staszak, Agnes Garcia, and Elsie Gradish.
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This is a belated follow-up to my post "On completely misunderstanding the threat of superhuman AI." There, make the point that it seems like you could maximize pleasure by hooking people up to drugs or electrodes, and the fact that we wouldn't want that shows that pleasure isn't all we care about that.
I only briefly mentioned the point that something similar might be true of happiness. That's actually a really important point. If you read Eliezer Yudkowsky's short story "Failed Utopia #4-2," part of the implied message seems to be that there's more to life than happiness. We're led to believe the AI is right when it claims that as a result of its actions, humans will be "considerably happier starting around a week from now."
At the time, though, I wasn't quite sure that was really Eliezer's point. Recently, however, I've been reading through his old blog posts systematically, and came across a post on doublethink, specifically the possibility that if all you care about is happiness, it might be rational to be irrational. Most of the post is about whether it's really possible to do that, but Eliezer also mentions that, on his view, "there is more to life than happiness."
And that seems right. Religion is positively correlated with happiness, not as strongly as some things, but still correlated. Yes, correlation is not causation, but suppose future research found evidence for causation. There are plenty of happy atheists around, other correlations are stronger, so we're never going to discover religion is necessary for happiness, but what if you knew for a fact that it helped? Atheists, would you therefore want to be religious? I wouldn't, even assuming Eliezer was wrong and the necessary level of doublethink were an option for me.
This issue is somewhat tricky, though, because our concept of happiness is morally (or quasi-morally) charged in a way that our concept of "pleasure" isn't. From a post on the Experimental Philosophy blog titled, "Could Paris Hilton Ever Be Happy?":
Luke Misenheimer, Joshua Knobe and I have recently been doing some research on attributions of happiness (much like Dan Haybron and Sven Nyholm). In particular, we suspected that there would be an evaluative component in people's attributions of happiness that was totally absent from their attributions of unhappiness.
To investigate whether or not unhappiness had an evaluative component, participants were told about a woman named Maria who is described as a caring individual with a great family life and a variety of meaningful friendships and projects. Nonetheless, she feels terrible all the time and regards her life as fundamentally a failure.
Participants were then asked whether they agreed that Maria is unhappy. Not too surprisingly they agreed that Maria was unhappy despite having a good life. What this seems to show is that a person could be unhappy whether or not they have a good life.
We took a really similar approach to testing happiness. Maria is described as a vapid individual who has no real no goals beyond going to parties and gaining greater social status. Nonetheless, she enjoys her day-to-day activities and feels like there isn't anything she would rather be doing with her life.
Participants were then asked whether they agreed that Maria is happy.
Surprisingly, participants disagreed! They reported that, despite Maria's positive mental states, she wasn't happy. This seems to suggest that the ordinary concept of happiness has an evaluative component that the concept of unhappiness does not.
Curious to hear people's thoughts on this. I wonder if maybe our concept of happiness is unusually fuzzy even by the standards of human concepts, so there may be no uniquely right way to say, program an AI to make people happy.


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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor: atheists are "not fully human"
At first I thought the Cardinal was just saying anyone who fails to consider the transcendent has an impoverished conception of what it is to be human. But at the end he is clear that those who fail to consider such bigger questions are themselves not fully human.
Well, in a way, I would agree. The Cardinal's mistake, I think, is not in suggesting that someone who never thinks about the bigger questions is lacking in an important dimension of human existence - that may be true (it's a weaker claim than the Socratic assertion that the unexamined life is not even worth living) - but in supposing that atheists never think about such questions, and indeed have no time for them. This is the popular straw man fallacy endlessly wheeled out against atheists: they don't even ask such big questions, but just dismiss them as worthless. I have previously commented on it here (where I point out Rowan Williams also commits the fallacy).
I could spend more time unpacking the various muddles the Cardinal gets into here (such as e.g. he seems to conflate (i) saying that a conception X of humanity is importantly deficient re humanity, with (ii) saying that those who have conception X of humanity are importantly deficient re humanity), but it is also worth just drawing attention to the fact that going round saying that those with whom one most profoundly disagrees are "not fully human" is an extraordinarily insulting and dangerous thing to say, whether true or not.
Religious folk regularly moan about Dawkins being rude and insulting to religious people. This, surely, is far, far more insulting. I get the impression it's intended to be.
Isn't the Cardinal at least aware of the disturbing connotations of the phrase, "They are not fully human"? It is surely most closely associated with mass-murdering dictators and eugenicists. If I really am not fully human, according to the Cardinal, I wonder to what lengths he might be prepared to go to make me fully human? And does he consider my not-fully-human existence worth less than that of a fully-human religious person? The use of this chilling phrase is, at the very least, bad PR for the Catholic Church.
35 comments:
- splittter said...
I suppose the place to start would be to ask Cardinal O'Connor what he means by 'a search for transcendent meaning' and on what grounds he 'calls that god'. Most of the time I get the impression that when 'transcendent' is employed it's used as shorthand for 'in-principle indeterminable', so that athiests attempting to sort out ethical questions are not engaged in a search for transcendent meaning because they might insist that ethical principles are grounded and explainable.
- May 14, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Kyle said...
Well, I don't really know very much about O'Connor, but I can imagine saying something like that myself.
What I would mean by it is not that atheists are sub-human, but that their lives lack a vitally important aspect: a relationship with God.
Perhaps not very many people look at it this way, but lots of people think that having human relationships is an important (perhaps most important) part of our lives. Such a person may say that if you lock yourself away from all other people then you are not fully human.
I agree that saying things like that are only likely to cause confusion and upset when said on the BBC.
- May 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- anticant said...
I have already blogged about this here:
- May 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- AC said...
I think the wording may be crucial here.
If I was referring to someone who did something along the lines of what Kyle mentions (say locking themselves away from other people), I would perhaps say that (I think) they are rejecting or denying a part of their humanity, or part of what makes them human.
Saying that someone is "not fully human" could be taken to suggest that they are inherently lacking, rather than consciously choosing to lack, I think.
One can also quite easily use 'not fully human' and 'subhuman' pretty much interchangeably. The majority of definitions I can find for the prefix 'sub-' seem to suggest meanings like 'less than', 'nearly', 'almost' and 'not quite' in the context of 'subhuman' and I really don't see how 'not fully' is any different.
Murphy O'Connor's choice of wording here seems particularly poor. If not, perhaps he is deliberately seeking to offend, or perhaps he really does see atheists as subhuman?
- May 15, 2009 at 12:01 AM
- franklin said...
What on earth is this chap on about? If he intends to mean that some persons are less than human because of their religious beliefs, or lack of them, he is clearly ready to be "sectioned" under the Mental Health legislation.
- May 15, 2009 at 2:36 AM
- Russell Blackford said...
I don't like the idea of someone who could say something like that - which sounds all too much like what Nazis might have said about Jews or homosexuals - having temporal power or influence. I'm not saying he would use it in the horrific way that the Nazis did, although the way that the Cult of Misery uses power and influence is bad enough. But anyway, even on the most generous reading, what he said was naive or ignorant to an extreme degree, to point that shows a man who is totally out of touch with the experience of people who don't share his supernatural beliefs. Such a man would be a poor appointment to the House of Lords.
Btw, I've also blogged briefly about this, and PZ Myers and John Wilkins have both blogged about it in their respective forums over at Scienceblogs. It's getting a lot of coverage in the secular blogosphere.
- May 15, 2009 at 2:47 AM
- Hank said...
Ah, that old chesnut! And there he is wearing a dress and saying something trite, ignorant and offensive :D
You could turn the words of the good cardinal around (if you were feeling particularly "strident"):
'You cannot and should not be considered a fully evolved homo sapien if you continue to cling to repeatedly debunked dogma and invalidated superstition when all the evidence accumulated by humanity's collected investigative endeavour points in no such direction.'
But that might be a tad shrill, so I won't.
God I love how religion gives stupid people in stupid hats a free pass to act like stupid bastards toward anyone who doesn't accept their mythology.
- May 15, 2009 at 3:32 AM
- Paul P. Mealing said...
It's such a bad choice of words, but I think he has a very simplistic view of the world, because he's effectively saying if you don't have a relationship with God you are essentially deficient in humanity, which is also what Kyle infers, though I don't want to put words in his mouth.
If he was serious about realising or contemplating a greater humanity, he would acknowledge that a belief in God is not a requisite at all. I would argue that empathy is what the world really needs more of – a belief in God can sometimes enhance it but oftentimes achieves the exact opposite. So at the end of the day, it's not God that matters, but the individual who believes or doesn't believe.
The Catholic Church is becoming increasingly an anachronistic institution in the 21st Century and this is more evidence of the same.
Regards, Paul.
- May 15, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- anticant said...
It's abundantly obvious from the pronouncements of this numbskull and the present Pope that the RC Church isn't fit for purpose (if it has one).
- May 15, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Kyle said...
I haven't actually checked to see if the people posting in this thread also posted in the Singh thread, but quite a few people here seem to be judging Singh by what he intended, and O'Connor by what he could be interpreted as saying.
- May 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Ideas like this could be seen to follow automatically from sincerely held religious beliefs. If you actually believe that a supernatural being is responsible for the continued existence of everything, and that this being is also the source of all moral and aesthetic value, then it might indeed seem to you that an atheist cannot be truly moral, or appreciate art, or be capable of participating fully in human society, and therefore in some sense not fully human. It may not be pleasant, but surely he is being consistent?
- May 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- Dick said...
There's an assumption here that we can know for sure what 'being human' entails. I'm not sure that anyone, religious or otherwise, can claim to have achieved 'full humanity'. I'm sure it means more than simply having the DNA of homo sapiens - that's only the starting point. But I'm automatically sceptical of anyone who reckons they have completed the process of 'becoming fully human'.
- May 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Paul P. Mealing said...
I listened to it again. I can agree with the desire to look for the transcendent, whatever you want to call it, and I think Stephen makes a similar point.
It's obvious that atheists can find meaning in their lives, and that they do contemplate the bigger questions - history is full of philosophers of various persuasions - no one, and no culture, in my opinion, has a monopoly on truth and meaning. And to pre-empt Kyle, that doesn't make for moral relativism.
But it's the idea that a belief in God is a panacea, or makes someone a superior person to an atheist that I find particularly uninformed, even for a theologian. There are so many different ideas of what God is, some of which are genocidal.
To quote an essay I read recently by Raymond Smullyan in reference to giving God a personality: But the so-called "personality" of a being is really more in the eyes of the beholder than in the being itself.
As I like to point out to fundamentalists: do they really think that George Bush and Osama Bin Laden believe in the same God?
As I've said previously, I'm not against people's belief in God, but it's obvious to me that the God someone believes in says more about them than it says about God.
Regards, Paul.
- May 15, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Paul P. Mealing said...
Correction. Should have said: to quote from an essay by Raymond Smullyan.
- May 15, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- AC said...
I think the main difference is that Singh does explain what he means by 'bogus' in the article - there's no need to speculate on what he intended. Perhaps he could have explained it more thoroughly. Perhaps a different word would've been a better choice. The libel case appears to hinge on a specific definition of bogus, even though Singh does provide some explanation of the way he uses the word.
The Cardinal's lack of detailed explanation is obviously due to the different medium involved, but without one, all we can do is speculate. As far as I am aware, though, no-one is suing Murphy O'Connor for slander. On the other hand, the clip seems to be the Cardinal explaining previous comments to the same effect, so I'm not sure what to think here.
I wanted to have a look to see how other people may use the term 'not fully human', so googled it. Leaving out the obvious raft of results referring to the topic at hand, I found most of the references to it do infer the meaning 'subhuman'. The strength of the inference seemed to correlate to how political the results were. Pro-life sites had the weakest inference, a book on human rights had a strong inference, and a quote from Robert Heinlein used the term interchangeably with 'subhuman'.
That's not to say that the Murphy O'Connor was using it in that way, of course.
That's a very good point. I think by wording things in the way I suggested in my first comment, that assumption could be avoided. Although you'd still need to argue as to why whatever you were referring to is part of being human.
- May 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- AC said...
I think ultimately Stephen, splitter and Paul are correct - The straw man aspect of the Cardinal's comment is the really important point.
- May 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM
do we have any reason to believe that the cardinal has in fact been on a journey of his own to achieve "the transcendent"? I rather think that he has accepted his religion's scripture,dogma and interpretation thereof with a singularly unthoughtful attitude and would have no idea of where to start or how to proceed. One starts of course with doubt and this man obviously has none of those! Is not his very unfortunate choice of insult an actionable instance of hate speech? Let's try it a different way - "Muslims are less than human" or "Black People are less than human" or, perhaps, "christians are less than human". How long before you end in court?
- May 15, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Steven Carr said...
I wonder if the Cardinal would ever claim that a baby in its mothers woman was not fully human because it did not have a sense of the transcendent, and never went to Mass.
- May 16, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Stephen Law said...
Also notice that he says secularists are not fully human. Now secularists can be religious, given the way the term is often used by secularists (a secular society, as e.g. the BHA understand the term,is simply neutral on religious matters, defending the right to be religious and non-religious equally, privileging neither view). However, the Cardinal clearly places secularism in opposition to religion, which is a very different view. That's another straw man.
- May 16, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Kyle "Such a person may say that if you lock yourself away from all other people then you are not fully human."
Autistic people?
Sociability may be the norm, but it does not seem to be definitive.
- May 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Stephen Law said...
You agree with the Cardinal, but your argument is not his. Yes you can argue that without a relationship with God we cannot be fully human (which I consider about as cogent as arguing that without a relationship with Santa we cannot be fully human), but the Cardinal's argument here is not that, but the currently more fashionable argument (see my reference to Rowan Williams) that only religious folk consider the transcendental/bigger questions, and that to fail to consider them is to miss out on a key aspect of what it is to be human. That popular argument is a straw man, as I explained previously.
This Cardinal is, shall we say, one of the less bright religious leaders. I imagine his academic advisors put their heads in their hands when he transformed the above popular argument with which he'd been fed into "atheists aren't fully human".
- May 16, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- M. Tully said...
Failure to "search for a transcendent meaning..."
Silly Cardinal, what do you think led me to naturalism?
- May 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- anticant said...
Nietszche wrote a book called "Human, All Too Human".
That fits the Cardinal to a tee.
- May 16, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- Paul P. Mealing said...
Hi Stephen,
I read your link, Another Myth about Atheism, and I think it puts the argument very succinctly.
And there are theologians who would agree with you, though not the Cardinal I would expect.
And I think your point about what constitutes a secular society is also often overlooked.
Regards, Paul.
- May 17, 2009 at 1:32 AM
- Steven Carr said...
Cartoon on the subject....
- May 17, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Paul P. Mealing said...
Thanks Steven Carr,
Loved it.
- May 17, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Tom said...
Dear oh dear.
What an ill-informed piece of self righteous nonsense. Coming from a man that protected a child abusing priest!
Athiests are on the whole decent thoughtful folk who have spent time reading different views and making decisions on facts as opposed to following what they are just told to accept.
When someone who is an athiest does voluntary work, they do it as they believe its the right thing to do not because they think it will give them a better chance of some reward in a later life.
When we ( I am an athiest) obey the laws of the land, we do it because we see and understand that society works better with respect. There is no need of a god!
That makes us MORE human as we care for others because it is simply the RIGHT thing to do, not because of what we can get out of it.
- May 18, 2009 at 12:20 AM
- Balanor said...
Cormac looks like a cardinal, but he talks like a mockingbird.
What does 'fully human' mean anyway? O'Connor can't explain it.
Does it mean enslavement to a dogmatic artificial world culture guided by silly men who do not have a clue about life for 4 billion inhabitants of this lovely mudball?
Corrmac was once a whiny little baby like the rest of us. He messed his diaper, made his demands for mama's nipple, proceeded through the terrible 2's and 3's.
Somewhere the old scary catholic ladies got ahold of his natural superstitious nature...his fear of everything in the neighborhood. The gave sissy Cormac a personal superman with which to deal with the world. He did not experience the joy of his heroes from comic books though. He picked up his mythologies from that supercomic book: the bible. Most of us outgrew our comic book heroes, but Cormac had no inner strength; he clung to the cute myths and discovered he could make a living ...a good living by scaring ignorant or well educated people laden with fears.
All of his life he has enjoyed trying to control the fearful with his comic book heroes. For new problems, he simply comes up with new but empty theories.....non-participants in the theistic culture are now NOT fully human; how nice. He could not offer any half brained reasoning for this conclusion. His law is that good old solid "because I told you so" law promulgated throughout the romcath empire. Cormac, like his colleagues, is just another carnie, another malicious conductor who enjoys making his enslaved zombies kneel and stand and bow and cry and laugh to the tune of his stick. Cons like him have never given a tiny bit of evidence for anything that pukes out of their mouths.
James said every culture needs its leeches; western culture was damned with these oversized leeches.
Any average human being can investigate anything and everything that they spew as truth and law; all will discover that not one word computes to a reasonable person.
Alas! this is the problem with long term indoctrination. You can't break your bonds...you fear breaking your bonds. You support those who would tighten those bonds.
So sad....so sad...when freedom and truth await any of you who break those bonds that have no more power than tissue paper. So sad....your whole life controlled and wasted as a result of these myths that were supposed to go away in adulthood along with superman, mickey mouse, batman and cardinalman.
- May 18, 2009 at 1:58 AM
- AC said...
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- May 22, 2009 at 1:21 AM
- AC said...
More from the Cardinal here, at the end of the article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6334837.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084Now it appears to be "Atheism: greatest of evils"
- May 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM
- anticant said...
Different leopards, same spots.
- May 22, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Mona Albano said...
I, for one, think that child-buggering and child-raping hypocritical priests are not fully human.
- May 28, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Penn of Penn & Teller refutes the Cardinals position with philosophical elegance :-
- June 4, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Hold on, I'll just check my genome.
No, I'm fully human.
Try again Cormac.
- November 16, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- Geremia said...
I, being a Catholic physicist, find all this talk among Catholics about needing to be Catholic to be more human very heterodox and even heretical, for we believe every human is created in God's image (cf. Gen. 1:27); there is no gradation of humanness. This Cardinal Cormack Murphy is likely caught up in the modern heresy of "Modernism" (although from my perspective I interpret him merely saying that God is responsible for any humans' being human). Chief amongst the errors of Modernism is for Catholics to deny anything supernatural, which, incidentally, atheist materialists do deny. Catholics also believe God created humans for a supernatural end, so what would it matter to an atheist materialist had this cardinal instead said something like: "...you're not fully saintly"? Of course you likely wouldn't be insulted at all.
Catholics fallen to the heresy of Modernism also, for the most part, detest the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He has been, in my opinion, the greatest scientist-theologian ever to live; he laid the foundations upon which much modern science developed. He also wrote—in an extremely logical, syllogistic manner—about the relationship of and differences between faith and reason, and he is firmly on the side of scientists in modern questions like the Protestants' flawed "Intelligent Design theory." The Catholic Church, not some of its flawed human constituents, has never opposed true science.
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After a successful opening-night performance by Luke Bryan on his 2014 That's My Kind of Night Tour in Columbus, Ohio last night (Jan. 16), four crew members suffered injuries when a portion of the stage collapsed during the tear-down process. The show took place at the Schottenstein Center, located on the campus of Ohio State University.
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According to local news outlet NBC4i.com, a forklift may have caused the collapse when it struck the rear of the stage. Luckily, the report also notes that injuries to each of the four workers are minor.
Because of the accident, Bryan cancelled his show tonight (Jan. 17) in Lexington, Kentucky. The show has now been rescheduled for Friday, Feb. 21.
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As for the show itself, the opening night of what is among 2014's biggest and most-anticipated country concert tours, it appears to have gone off as planned, with Bryan wowing fans as covering hits from throughout his career.
"Bryan masterfully segued between at least six years of music, with nearly every number being a crowd pleaser," wrote a reviewer in Ohio State University newspaper The Lantern. "He nailed older releases 'Someone Else Calling You Baby,' 'Drunk on You' and 'Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye' while giving the audience a taste of the new with 'Play it Again,' which he announced will be his next single from his Crash My Party album."
Related: Luke Bryan Talks About His Songs & Latest Album Crash My Party
"The only flaw in Bryan's performance," the reviewer noted, "was a terrible cover of Macklemore's 'Can't Hold Us,' where he fumbled over the rap a bit, but I still give him props for trying. It just proved that country music is where Bryan's soul lives."
A second review of Bryan's show in the Columbus Dispatch echoed some of these same sentiments, calling the "Drink a Beer" singer "a goofball," but doing so in an affectionate way — "he's The People's Goofball," a guy who has "gleefully [stolen] stadium-sized moves from hard rock and hip-hop alike."
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Earlier this week Bryan announced additional concert dates on his 2014 That's My Kind of Night Tour, including three headlining gigs at NFL stadiums in Pittsburgh (June 21), Philadelphia (Aug. 15) and Chicago (Aug. 31). The tour winds down Oct. 25 with a final show at the Hollywood Bowl. Supporting acts on the tour include Cole Swindell and Lee Brice, with Dierks Bentley joining for the shows in Pittsburgh and Chicago.


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GEAR UP will serve 3,000 students attending 12 middle schools in East Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury through 2019, and will follow these students though middle school, high school and their first year of college, authorities said.
"We need to better understand and break down the barriers Connecticut's students face when they are preparing for higher education," Malloy said in a statement. "Access to higher education is critical not only for these students' own future personal success, but for Connecticut's future economic success as well."
GEAR UP in Connecticut is a partnership between the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education; three higher education institutions in the state - Manchester Community College, Naugatuck Valley Community College and Southern Connecticut State University; and their local school districts, including East Hartford Middle School; Michael F. Wallace Middle, North End Middle and West Side Middle School in Waterbury; and eight schools and academies in New Haven.
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HHS (NE) audit finds 'one grand mess,' possible fraud in $6.5 million Medicaid program
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LINCOLN State Auditor Mike Foley made public an audit Wednesday showing gross mismanagement and serious financial discrepancies in a Medicaid-related program.
Foley said the problems the audit uncovered hurt taxpayers and participants alike. Some acts might be criminal fraud, he said.
All in all, this program is one grand mess in need of radical surgery, he said.
In a formal response, state Department of Health and Human Services officials said they were reviewing procedures related to the program and addressing problems.
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1. Local, state story. n/t
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Wed May 29, 2013, 09:58 PM
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3. Nebraska?
At least they should mention the state.
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Tx4obama (36,974 posts)
4. Here's a couple (FEDERAL) NATIONAL stories re: Medicare fraud, for those that might've missed them
U.S. charges 89 people in $223 million Medicare fraud schemes
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Federal officials charged 89 people including doctors, nurses and other medical professionals in eight U.S. cities on Tuesday with Medicare fraud schemes that the government said totaled $223 million in false billings.
In the latest big Medicare fraud crackdown, more than 400 law enforcement officers including FBI agents fanned out in Miami, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and other cities to make arrests. Authorities said suspects posed as physicians, preyed on the poor and otherwise scammed the $590 billion healthcare program with phony or unnecessary bills.
About one in four defendants was a doctor, a nurse, a physical therapist or some other medical professional.
"In many of these alleged schemes, the fraudulent billings could not have occurred without a doctor signing off on bogus services, or a nurse or therapist filling out false paperwork," Acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman told reporters.
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siligut (12,272 posts)
5. I saw so much Medicare and Medicaid fraud working across the country
And I am convinced that the easy money compromised care. I am also convinced that this is where some of the opposition to Obamacare is coming from, these thieves knew that their gravy-train would be cut off.
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Thu May 30, 2013, 08:26 AM
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6. Interesting point of view
You may very well be right, we always hear about the Medicare fraud. My question is aren't private insurance companies subject to fraud to? Are they immune somehow?
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7. Working in Medicaid for about 4 years now
I have always said if we really tackled fraud waste and abuse there would be no need to talk cuts. Same for SNAP, as I do that program also.


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A Middle East settlement that would replace Israel with a secular state in which Israelis and Palestinians would share in a federal government, was endorsed here last night by Dr. Noam Chomsky, a leader of the New Left and professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Chomsky, who is Jewish and describes himself as a non-Zionist Socialist, was the featured speaker at the third annual convention of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates held at Northwestern University. The Mideast solution he favors is similar to that proposed by El Fatah, the Palestinian guerrilla organization and far more extreme than the kind of settlement the Arab states, such as Egypt and Jordan, profess to favor. It would include the entire area of what is now Israel plus the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank. The plan drew the unanimous support of the 500 delegates–mostly Arab-Americans and Arab nationals resident in this country–although there were sharp differences of opinion over the methods to be employed in establishing a binational state. Some speakers were less vociferous than others in their criticism of Israel and U.S. support of Israel.
Dr. Chomsky said it was clear that the Palestinian groups could not create their state by military force. If they persisted, he said, they would destroy themselves or cause a nuclear war on the Middle East. He said that Israel, on the other hand, had attempted through force of arms to destroy the commando movement, "but the more they win by force, the more they lose." He claimed that Israel has "brought the Russians further and further in, created an even higher degree of hostility toward themselves and kept the Arabs united against them." Dr. Chomsky said that "Israel can argue with reason that she cannot give up territory without guaranteed security. But there is no such thing as a meaningful security guarantee. And the more Israel must depend on her own armed strength, the more dependent she has become on outside support." Dr. Chomsky claimed that there were Israelis willing to consider a secular bi-national state to which the Palestinian refugees could return. "Certainly it would mean some abandonment of independence but this would be a small price compared with the loss Israel and the Palestinians are now suffering through their growing dependence on other groups, including the great powers," Dr. Chomsky said.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ( TheStreet) -- Ariad Pharmaceuticals ( ARIA) is an interesting stock because its leukemia drug Iclusig offers plenty of gristle to both bears and bulls. Despite a relatively successful commercial launch, many investors remain unconvinced about Iclusig's potential to become a blockbuster cancer drug for Ariad. Flattening growth in the number of Iclusig prescriptions written is only adding to the debate over the drug. Ariad bears see waning Iclusig prescriptions as an early warning signal; Ariad bulls counter that this is just a natural progression of a new drug launch. Through all the noise, Ariad stands a good chance of turning Iclusig into a blockbuster drug. To get there, the company must successfully climb three walls of worry in the short, medium and long term. Ariad reports second-quarter results on August 7, with analysts, on average, expecting $10.3 million in Iclusig sales. Weekly prescription data, however, suggest June quarter sales could come in closer to $15 million. Despite the potential for a significant sales beat in the second quarter, Iclusig sales in the third quarter appear to have slowed. According to Symphony Health, new Iclusig prescriptions peaked at 62 for week ended June 7, and have since steadily fell to 29 new prescriptions two weeks ago followed by a rise to 41 new prescriptions last week. While the number of new Iclusig prescriptions is on the downtrend, the total number of prescriptions written for the drug each week has held up fairly well. To a certain extent, the divergence between new and total prescriptions is expected as a drug launch matures. In the beginning, new prescriptions are a majority of the total but as patients go back for refills, the share of new prescriptions to total prescriptions decreases. In recent weeks, new Iclusig prescriptions have fallen to about 30 percent of total prescriptions, which is in line with both Sprycel and Tasigna, two competing leukemia drugs marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY) and Novartis ( NVS), respectively. Investors are forward looking, so better-than-expected Iclusig sales for the second quarter won't mean as much if worries mount about Ariad's ability to meet or exceed Iclusig sales expectations for the third quarter or full year.
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My heart's desire is to love God and love people. I don't want to waste my life. I want to be completely His. I think this quote reminds me of where I am and where I want to be:
"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. For all the ill that Satan can do, when God describes what keeps us from the banquet table of his love, it is a piece of land, a yoke of oxen, and a wife (Luke 14:18-20). ….the most deadly appetites are not for the poison of evil, but for the simple pleasures of earth."
~John Piper in A Hunger for God
I want to be HIS. I am here, struggling to find the meaning in the mundane. Raising four babies and helping a husband is no small quest. I hope this blog is an encouragement to other women who are in the same place as I am- serving God in everyday homemaking.


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Ribery refuses to be drawn on future at Bayern
Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery is refusing to commit himself to the club beyond the end of this season but insists he is happy at the Bundesliga club.
The France international has a deal till 2011 but could be a transfer target for many next summer, after recently admitting he did not know whether he would complete his contracted stay.
"There are lots of clubs in Europe who I dream of (playing for)," Ribery told Munich's Tz newspaper. "Nobody knows what will happen next season. It is far too early to talk about it.
"At the moment, I am not even considering a transfer. I feel very happy in Munich - the people love me, and I love the fans.
"There is a great atmosphere in the team, and everything is fantastic."
Despite suggestions of interest from Real Madrid, Bayern's general manager Uli Hoeness recently said the 25-year-old is not for sale at any price.
But Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer knows it may be hard to keep hold of Ribery if a serious offer did arrive.
"Clubs cannot hold on to players against their will," he told Premiere television. "In the end, the player always wins if there is a battle - so if he really wants to move to Real Madrid, then why not?
"Bayern will do everything to keep him. But he does only have a contract until 2011 - and could move before then."
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A NOVEL inspired by an incident where two builders came to blows arguing over whether an elf was watching them from a tree, has attracted international interest.
Ian Johnson's debut novel, The Witcher Keys, is attracting the attention of global audiences, with its story set amongst the folklore of the North York Moors.
The story was originally intended for young adults and tells of a teenager's attempts to solve the mystery of her mother's death and a kidnap attempt which left her baby sister in a coma.
Her journey brings her into contact with the often dark world of hobgoblins, elves, spriggans and other entities on the North York Moors.
Mr Johnson, a civil engineer, from Malton, began to take an interest in otherworldly entities whilst working on building projects on the North York Moors, where he has worked for the past 14 years.
One day, the father-of-three says he witnessed a fight between two builders on a project he was working on, when one wouldn't believe the other's claim that an elf was watching them from a nearby tree.
Then, nine years ago, a curious incident on a building project prompted him to begin researching the subject in more earnest.
He had been working on a large home in a remote location on the moors which became progressively uninhabitable.
People reported feeling nauseaus, headaches and low moods when inside the property and there was a 60 volt static charge on the roof.
Ian said that after tests using sensitive monitoring equipment detected nothing abnormal, he was told by experts in geopathic stress that three ley lines crossing at a single point, directly below the property.
"This was a rare occurrence in itself, but they also uncovered an even more curious and disturbing problem," he said.
He was told a horde of small "goblin or imp-like creatures" in trees close by were furious that a spring supplying a drinking trough at their main meeting place had been diverted and were making their displeasure known.
"I would have been sceptical before then if someone had said "there's goblins over there watching me"," said Mr Johnson.
"But now I have a totally different view point."
Interest in the book, published in October last year, has grown rapidly. The hardback version has sold out and the paperback edition is being published ahead of schedule.
The publishers, Book Guild Ltd, are now organising talks with publishing houses in Australia and America and plan to showcase the book at the London Book Fair this April.
On Saturday, (February 16) Mr Johnson will sign the last 25 hardback editions at Waterstones, Northallerton.


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|================================| | THE TALOSIAN INCIDENT | | ULTRA-VIOLENCE DEMO COLLECTION | |================================| *** A Black Star Coven Release *** This is a collection of LMPs for all 18 levels + 2 secret levels of THE TALOSIAN INCIDENT by Black Star Coven. These demos show how to complete every level on UltraViolence skill, starting with a pistol and ending with 100% kills and 100% secrets (where possible). These demos were recorded by: Jason Henry aka King God Space
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These demos require Doom2 v1.9 to run. To play these demos, place the files in your Doom2 directory, then type: doom2 -file talosl.wad talosg.wad talosm.wad -playdemo tal??-uv where ?? is the level number (do not type the .lmp extension) If you don't have The Talosian Incident, you need to get it at: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/talosian.zip or visit the Black Star Coven homepage at: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8666/ NOTE: Be sure you have the Talosian Incident v1.2 to run these demos. Some were recorded with earlier versions, but all have been tested and should playback fine with v1.2. Some demos will NOT run properly with earlier versions. If you run into any synchronization problems (i.e. the player dies), or any other problems, please contact Jason Henry at firstname.lastname@example.com, or John Bye (our holy leader :) at email@example.com. A big thank you to all the BSC members involved in designing these levels, and to id software for creating the BEST game of all time! MAY DOOM NEVER DIE! Level Designed by Recorded by Time Kills Items Secrets ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 John Bye Jason Henry 1:59 0% 0% 100% 02 Malcolm Sailor Malcolm Sailor 9:11 100% 100% 100% 03 Dan Huff Jason Henry 12:40 100% 100% 100% 04 John Bye Jason Henry 4:41 100% 0% 100% 05 John Bye Jason Henry 10:29 100% 95% 100% 06 John Bye Jason Henry 8:35 100% 100% 100% 07 Malcolm Sailor Malcolm Sailor 10:24 100% 100% 100% 08 Ola Bjorling/John Bye Yonatan Donner 3:35 100% 25% 0% 09 John Bye Jason Henry 6:42 100% 100% 100% 10 Malcolm Sailor Jason Henry 6:14 100% 100% 100% 11 Malcolm Sailor Jason Henry 7:27 100% 100% 100% 12 Patrick Martin Patrick Martin 8:32 105% 100% 100% 13 Malcolm Sailor Yonatan Donner 0:59 100% 50% 100% 14 Malcolm Sailor Malcolm Sailor 10:09 100% 100% 100% 15 Brian Owens Jason Henry 14:45 100% 80% 0% 16 John Bye Jason Henry 5:25 100% 100% 100% 17 Malcolm Sailor Jason Henry 3:17 373% 100% 0% 18 John Bye Jason Henry 6:49 100% 100% 100% 31 Malcolm Sailor Malcolm Sailor 10:20 100% 100% 100% 32 Malcolm Sailor Jason Henry 5:18 100% 100% 100% Ok, here's what we all have to say about this project: Jason ----- As a beta-tester for Black Star Coven, it was my pleasure to see these levels before they were released, and to add my suggestions here and there. A lot of time and energy was invested in this project -- sometimes John and I would spend hours discussing whether a medkit should be a stimpack, etc. -- and I believe it shows. I wish the Coven had more time to create more levels and expand existing ones; still, I believe this is one of the best level sets out there, and I have seen many! Special thanks to my fellow recorders Malcolm, Patrick, and Yonatan, for lending their expertise to these lmps. These are some of the best players out there (ever seen a cyberdemon punched to death??) and I hope one day to match their skill. Equipment used: A crappy 486/66 with 20 Megs RAM. I'm still a keyboard player, and will die a keyboard player. Separate strafe keys, what's that? ;-) Personal info: 29, live in Los Angeles, where it's sunny and 72 degrees all the time...I'm hopelessly addicted to watching and/or recording lmps for Doom2. Want proof of my obsession? Check out http://www.wgn.net/~space Malcolm ------- I'm goin to pout for a while cause I didn't get to do MAP12 :( I hope everyone likes my demoes and loves my levels... my favourites (of mine) are MAP14 and MAP31. Also check out my Chord1.wad (this is my fav.) and my demo of it. Sorry all my Talosian levels are so easy (Jason disagrees;) Equiptment Used: A KICK-ASS Logitech 3-button mouse! A 486/66 with 16 megs. After tommorow it will be a p166 with 32megs and a 3dfx! Woohoo! Personal info: I'm 13 (14 in two days as I write this) and I live in Saskatoon. I like punk like Crass and Aus-Rotten. Patrick ------- Equipment used: A P5-100 with 16 Megs RAM. I use only the keyboard. I can't quite seem to get used to the mouse. Personal info: I am 25 and I currently live in Oklahoma. Yonatan ------- Jason told me about this wad and I downloaded it when it came out. Then I found two levels which I liked, 8 and 13 (because it was so short :), and recorded them. 8 is my favorite in this wad, I also like 11 and 10. Thanks to Jason for telling me about this wad and organizing the whole lmp collection. Equipment used: P133, 16mb ram, completely crappy video card (1mb) Personal info: visit my homepage at http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4704/ if you really care... Level-by-level comments (written by the person who recorded the level): MAP01 "THE TRANSPORT" (Jason, 1:59): Err, this is basically a -nomonsters demo, since there's nothing to kill here...(you can't kill the revenant.) All you need is the weapons & ammo, the blue key, the chainsaw secret, and you're done. Watch out for the radiation areas. MAP02 "DESOLATION" (Malcolm, 9:11): Whooo boy did I suck on those barons, but thats why this demo is so damn fun to watch. MAP03 "THE CLIFF TOP FORT" (Jason, 12:40): A large, complex, extremely confusing fortress level. The keys can be frustratingly hard to find -- it took me over 40 minutes to complete, the first time I played it. Press space on the altar to open the door between the red pillars. MAP04 "THE CHAPEL" (Jason, 4:41): The chaingunners here are extremely dangerous, they can kill you from amazing distances... MAP05 "FORT I" (Jason, 10:29): This underground fortress is one of my favorite levels, design-wise. Some long distances need to be covered to get all the secrets, but I don't mind... Watch out for the archvile trap, VERY easy to rocket-frag yourself there! MAP06 "FORT II" (Jason, 8:35): I love how the first part of this level matches the previous level, with dead bodies of the monsters you already killed everywhere. The soulsphere secret is extremely lethal, usually costing you over 100% health. :) MAP07 "THE CHURCH" (Malcolm, 10:24): I didn't realize john was calling his other map "the chapel" oh well... I dislike the gameplay on this map, I recorded this when I was dead bored. MAP08 "FOCUS" (Yonatan, 3:35): This one has incredible lighting and a very good design, in most parts. Easy. MAP09 "THE PALACE" (Jason, 6:42): This was one of the first levels I saw in beta-testing. It's also a good measure of how I've improved as a Doom player. The first time I played it, I had a hard time surviving. Now I have a hard time dying. :) Excellent design, reminiscent of CygnusIV. MAP10 "HARDWARE" (Jason, 6:14): Punch the demons & spectres to avoid ammo problems. It also helps to let the cacos and arachnotrons fight each other, but that took too long, so... MAP11 "SOFTWARE" (Jason, 7:27): This level is in the style of Malcolm's Nosun levels, MEAN and unforgiving. Many chances to get hung up on a door frame or a pillar. WARNING: DO NOT GRAB THE SOULSPHERE UNTIL THE ARCHVILE IS DEAD! MAP12 "VULCAN" (Patrick, 8:32): Don't dally after you leave the first computer lab -- cacodemons will rise from the pit and try to cut you off. Be sure to visit the storage area to pick up better weapons BEFORE you even try to go after the blue key. Over 1,000 bullets are available on the level, so feel free to keep that pistol or chaingun blazing. Be very careful near the end. MAP13 "GET THE HELL OUT" (Yonatan, 0:59): Nice level, just grab the rocket launcher, kill some monsters and exit. This one is also easy. MAP14 "BENEATH" (Malcolm, 10:09): This is my favourite level of mine in the whole set. I did a crappy job of getting those spiders to kill each other, but oh well. Normally I finish with plenty of shells. MAP15 "SOLVENT" (Jason, 14:45): This level was in beta-testing longer than any other level. To my chagrin, the ammo/health kept going down, while the number of monsters kept going up... Finding all the switches can be a mind-bender. The secret exit is here. MAP31 "INFERNO REVISITED" (Malcolm, 10:20): This map is fun as hell especially the beginning. I hope you all can find it cause this is a good one. MAP32 "PORTALS" (Jason, 5:18): I still think you overdid it on the imps, Malcolm. ;-) The "BAD" portal ends the level & restarts on map32 again...a good way to stock up on ammo, if you need to! MAP16 "THE CANYONS" (Jason, 5:25): Starting this from scratch is quite a challenge, watch carefully to see how I create a path... The chaingunners at the end are extremely difficult to hit. MAP17 "THE GREAT OUTDOORS" (Jason, 3:17): A nightmare of a level -- throw the switch, then wait 3 minutes for the bridge to rise while monsters teleport in all around you... A lot of luck, patience, and nerves of steel is required to survive this one. Oh yes, then there are the 13 (yes, THIRTEEN) cyberdemons guarding the exit. The secret...RUN!!! MAP18 "HI HONEY, I'M HOME" (Jason, 6:49): Well, you're back on your ship, but it's not as empty as when you left it... The chaingunner battle near the reactor core is VERY difficult, since you can't see them and it's very easy to shoot your "clone" in the stasis chamber! The final archvile battle always gives me problems, too.
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The Masai Mara is the largest game reserve in Africa and home to the Masai people, whose traditions still live on today. The reserve has an impressive population of big cats including cheetahs, lions and leopards, as well as grazers such as the wildebeest, gazelle and zebras who migrate yearly on a circular route through the Masai Mara in Kenya to the neighbouring Serengeti in Tanzania.
Mzima Springs in the Tsavo National Park is a series of four natural hot springs where hippos and Nile crocodiles thrive. Fruit trees also flourish in this area and the vervet monkeys can be seen gorging on the fresh fruit.
Tsavo National Park is split into two sections, but overall accounts for 4% of Kenya's total land mass and is one of the largest national parks in the world. Tsavo East is the larger of the two halves and is home to a wide array of birds and animals, including elephants, bat-eared foxes, mongooses, rhinos, ground squirrels, warthogs, lions, leopards, giraffes, civets, buffalo, baboons, kingfishers, kestrels, secretary birds, and much, much more.
Kenya is the original wildlife holiday destination, where the concept of the 'safari' was developed, and is still one of the best places in the world to view wildlife, as well as its beautiful landscapes and the traditions and hospitality of its people.


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The UNDERCOVER x Nike "GYAKUSOU" collection has enjoyed a massive amount of exposure of the last few weeks culminating in the project's Tokyo launch just recently. The collection has mostly focused on technical performance with its jackets, shirts and bottoms as well as running shoes. However, for those looking to capture the essence of the collection without the technical aspect, a graphic t-shirt is presented here. The shirt will be available only via Nike Harajuku and the UNDERCOVER store in Aoyama.
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Personal genetics company 23andMe announced that it has entered into a partnership with Pfizer to research genetic factors linked with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its treatment. Together, the partners will enroll 10,000 people with IBD to gather genetic information that will help advance understanding of the disease's onset, progression, severity and response to treatment.
IBD afflicts around 1.4 million people in the U.S. alone where it is one of the top five most common gastrointestinal disease burdens. There is no currently no cure for the chronic condition. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two most common inflammatory bowel diseases. Both diseases are characterized by an abnormal response of the body's immune system to food, bacteria, and other substances in the intestines, which it mistakes for foreign bodies. The immune system is led to attack the cells of the intestines and causes chronic inflammation.
23andMe CEO and Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki, "We are excited to team up with Pfizer to take an innovative, consumer-centered approach to try to understand the fundamentals of inflammatory bowel disease and the variability of treatment response."
The study is open to U.S. residents only. Participants who have been diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis will be given 23andMe's genome service which will include ancestry analysis and uninterpreted raw genetic data. Data collected in the study will be used to guide Pfizer's drug development efforts for the treatment of IBD.
The partners have engaged IBD experts to assist in the survey development, data analysis, and to maintain research objectivity. 23andMe has stated that participants' individual data will be shared anonymously with Pfizer and future research partners to protect patients' privacy.
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Atlanta, GA, United States, 2013/10/21 - Leading bankcard servicer partners with global contact center technology leader to speed and streamline its customer contact management - Cardworks.com / NobleSystems.com.
Noble Systems Corporation, a global leader in unified contact center technology solutions, announces that CardWorks Servicing, LLC, the largest privately held servicer of bankcard card products, has selected the Noble® Enterprise solution to improve the management and performance of its customer contact activities.
"Noble Systems is proud to partner with CardWorks, said Chris Hodges, Senior Vice-President of Sales at Noble Systems. The Noble Enterprise platform is an ideal fit for financial services organizations with complex contact requirements because of the advantages it offers in functionality, flexibility, scalability and reliability. Noble also provides tools for contact management and privacy that help collections operations meet critical compliance regulations and help protect them against litigation. "
CardWorks Servicing, LLC, a subsidiary of CardWorks, Inc., is a nationally recognized, leading servicer of credit cards, national debit cards, pre-paid cards and other unique card products and is the largest privately held servicer of MasterCard®/Visa® cards. CardWorks Servicing provides 24-hour, 7-day-a-week card servicing through its state-of-the-art facilities in Woodbury, NY and Pittsburgh, PA. The solution package is tailored to meet CardWorks business requirements and includes Nobles blended inbound/outbound contact platform, with web-based agent desktops with unified workflows, IVR to improve contact routing, transaction recording for quality control, and workforce management to schedule resources more efficiently.
"We looked at several technology players in our search. With its proven performance for outbound and blended contact management and the flexibility to integrate within our existing environment, Noble Systems made the most business sense, said Kevin Begly, Senior Vice President, Collections/Operations of CardWorks Servicing. The Noble Systems contact center solution will play an integral role in customer communications and account management for our collection operations. "
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