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The following obituaries were received on Wednesday
Deleba June Turner – Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Delena June Turner, 87, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, tiptoed away on September 3, 2011.
Mrs. Turner, known as "Dee" was born on June 18, 1924 in Bedford, Indiana to Kermit Paul and Catherine Dillman Smith. She married Paul William Turner on October 6, 1941 in New Albany, Indiana and was married to him until he died on February 2, 1985.
Mrs. Turner graduated from Bedford High School in 1941. During her life, she loved to travel and visited twenty-seven countries around the world. She lived in Abadan, Iran where her husband was in charge of welding operations at the Abadan Oil Refinery. Oak Ridge, Tennessee was also her home for many years. Her children, Jimmie D. Turner and Linda Turner Hamilton, graduated from Oak Ridge High School.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Girl Scouts of America. She was also active in politics. She was an avid lover of all creatures great and small, especially the cats she kept as pets. She liked crocheting, reading and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. During her later years, she lived at Frank Callahan Towers and delighted in organizing and cooking for community socials.
She is survived by her son, Jimmie D. Turner and his wife, Judy McNew Turner of Olver Springs, Tennessee; her daughter Linda Turner Hamilton, of Hallandale Beach, Florida; her brother Donald DePierre and sister Joanne Wray and a cousin who was like a sister Delores Turner.
She was preceded in death by a son, Tracy Lee Turner, who died from spina bifida in his infancy; siblings John Buddy DePierre, Betty Robbins and Madge Smith. She is survived by a cousin, Delores Turner; grandchildren Joy Turner Vittone and husband William; Cyntia Turner Lawson and husband Donnie, Shannon Paul Turner and wife Amanda, of Tennessee; Troy Turner Hamilton and wife Gisela, Michelle Hamilton Lara and husband Victor, of Georgia; Heidi Hamilton Anderson and husband Eric, of Florida.
She is also survived by great-grandchildren, Abigail Vittone, Phoebe Paredes, Karly Turner, Zach Turner, Victoria Lara, Christian Salas, Alek Turner, Jacob Vittone, Emilie Hamilton, Madelynn Lara, Matthew Anderson and Colin Lara.
A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Saturday, September 10th at Day & Carter Mortuary. The family will receive friends from noon until the hour of service on Saturday September 10th at the Day & Carter Mortuary. Family and friends are invited to sign the guest book and light a candle in memory of Delena at www.daycarter.com

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Dom Marmion: The Risen Christ
On the day of His Resurrection Jesus Christ left in the tomb the shroud which is the symbol of our infirmities, our weaknesses, our imperfections. Christ comes from the tomb triumphant--completely free of earthly limitation; He is animated with a life that is intense and perfect, and which vibrates in every fibre of His being. In Him everything that is mortal has been absorbed by His glorified life.
Here is the first element of the sanctity represented in the risen Christ: the elimination of everything that is corruptible, everything that is earthly and created; freedom from all defects, all infirmities, all capacity for suffering.
But there is also another element of sanctity: union with God, self-oblation and consecration to God. Only in heaven shall we be able to understand how completely Jesus lived for His Father during these blessed days. The life of the risen Christ became an infinite source of glory for His Father. Not a single effect of His sufferings was left in Him, for now everything in Him shone with brilliance and beauty and possessed strength and life; every atom of His being sang an unceasing canticle of praise. His holy humanity offered itself in a new manner to the glory of the Father.
From Dom Columba Marmion, O.S.B., The Mysteries Of The Rosary. Translated and published by the Monks of Marmion Abbey, Aurora, Illinois. Translation of Dom Columba Marmion's "Les Mysteres du Rosaire" published with the permission of the Abbey of Maredsous in Belgium.


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Willis "Bing" Davis
Willis "Bing" Davis was born in Greer, South Carolina but grew up in Dayton, Ohio where he lives today. He attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1959. He attended the school of the Dayton Art Institute and received his M.Ed. in 1967 from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Davis also pursued graduate study at Indiana State University from 1975-1976. His career as an art educater includes: teaching in the Dayton Public School System; Teaching at Depauw and Miami Universities; and twenty years at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. While at CSU, Bing was also Chair of the Art Department and Director of the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center. He has also served as an art ist-in-residence for the School of Education at the University of Dayton, and visiting scholar at Wright State University. He is currently President of the National Conference of Artists.
Davis' record as an artist and a curator is equally illustrious, including exhibitions at Studio Museum of Harlem, American Craft Museum, Renwick Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Anacostia Museum, National Museum of Senegal West Africa, U.S. Embassy Accra, Ghana, and Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Frankfurt, Germany. H e participated in the recent Stop Asking: We Exist exhibition of African-American craft at the Society for Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and curated the popular and groundbreaking exhibition, Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African-American Craft Art, which toured the United States in the mid 1990's.


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Top 10 Best Drumming Performances of All Time
10 Creepy Old Mysteries We Will Probably Never Solve
10 Movie Scenes That Really Happened without the Help of CGI
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Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.
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Top 10 Internet Memes and Phenomena
Since the evolution of the internet, certain fads have taken off and become so well known that they are now regarded as Internet Memes. In fact, some people will even tell you that you are a true citizen of the Internet if you don't know their most favourite meme. This is a list of what I consider to be the top 10.
Before starting, this is a brief definition of an Internet meme: An Internet meme is a piece of digital content that spreads rapidly, widely, and organically from person to person on the Internet. The term is a reference to the memes as virus-like self-replicating packet of information.
10 Lolcats
A lolcat (the term is a portmanteau of lol – laughing out loud, and cat) is an image of a cat with an amusing or odd caption. The captions tend to be fairly childlike and usually use text-message like or bad spelling. For example: "Call the offis. I iz gonna be latez". The caption usually ties in to the image in some way, as you can see from the example above.
This meme is so popular that it has spawned a whole network of websites – the most popular of which is "I can has cheezeburger?" Lolcats now appear frequently in social networking sites and forums.
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9All Your Base
All your base is a phenomenon that started in 2001, with the spread of a flash animation taken from the first moments of a Japanese video game from 1989 called Zero Wing by Toaplan. The popularity of this video comes mostly from the "Engrish" (ie, Japaneseifcation of English) captions contained in the clip. For example: "All your base are belong to us" as opposed to "All your bases belong to us".
While its popularity has waned a little recently, it is still well known enough that new videos appear on youtube from time to time which play on the meme.
8 Goatse
First, the image above is not goatse – it is too horrible to include on this page (though there is a link below for your viewing pleasure… erm..) This rather horrible image became very famous when it spread like wildfire through internet forums as trolls would paste a link to it while pretending the link lead to something of interest to the users of the forum. It became such a problem that Slashdot had to modify their code to show where links in article comments were pointing to, to stop people being caught out.
It has enjoyed a recent infamy as it has managed to be shown on CNN (by mistake) and the BBC (albeit in a cartoon form) forums and news program. It was originally found on a site called goatse.cx (which was a play on the word goatsex). It contains an image of a man showing his rear-end in a rather revolting manner.
7 Kikia
Kikia was the first example of a flash shock site and it unleashed a torrent of shockers that continues to this day. Starting out with a cartoon drawing of a little boy, Chinese writing, and gentle music, the cartoon moves along slowly until you are suddenly shown a hideous animation of a face with a loud scream.
The original kikia was posted on a Taiwanese website Kimo, under the username Netspooky. Many popular images to appear in these screamers are taken from the film The Exorcist.
6Dancing Baby
The dancing baby (also known as baby cha-cha) was one of the first Internet memes, originating in 1996. It contains a 3d animation baby and was originally created as a demo for 3d Studio Max. The baby dances to music and appeared frequently on the television programme Ally McBeal – symbolising the main characters ticking biological clock.
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5 ORLY Owl
ORLY stands for Oh Really and usually features a snowy owl with the caption "O RLY?" – this is often followed by a YA RLY response. It can frequently lead to a whole conversation using Internet slang. It was first seen as early as August 2003 on the Something Awful forums. The original image was taken by John White and posted to alt.binaries.pictures.animals in 2001.
It became so popular that it even appears in a gameboy advance game. The caption itself is now often found on any photograph, not just photographs of owls.
4 The Hamster Dance
The Hamster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes, first appearing on Geocities (in its heyday) featuring rows of animated hamsters and rabbits dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller.
It was designed in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as part of a competition with her brother to see who could generate the most traffic. It is an homage to her pet hamster Hampton Hamster. Frankly, I think it is rather sinister.
3 Loituma Girl
Loituma is one of the most recent Memes to appear on the Internet – first appearing in 2006. The name itself comes from the original band that sang the song popular in the flash clip. The band Loituma is a Finnish quartet utilising traditional singing and instrumental styles from Finnland. In 1997 they were select Ensemble of the Year at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival.
The first instance of this phenomenon online was a cartoon based shockwave flash animation featuring which consists of a 4-frame animation of the Bleach anime character Orihime Inoue twirling a leek to a 27-second loop from the song. The animation loops continuously. Since then many other examples have come up where the image is replaced with something else – but the song is always the same.
2 Snowclones
A snowclone is a type of formula-based cliché which uses an old idiom in a new context. It was originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different jokey variants by lazy journalists and writers.
Probably the most well known (and overused) snowclone is "In Soviet Russia Y Xs you" – this was originally coined by comedian Yakov Smirnoff, a standup comedian in Russia when he said: "In Soviet Russia party finds you".
1 The startwars kid
The starwards kid is an Internet phenomenon which started when a video clip recorded by Ghyslain Raza, a fourteen-year-old French Canadian male high school student, was leaked online. The video was filmed at the studio of his high school, and the tape was left forgotten in a basement. The original owner of the videotape discovered his recorded acts and immediately shared it with some friends. Thinking that it would be a funny prank, they encoded it to a WMV file and shared it using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network.
Within two weeks it had been downloaded several million times. Since then it has been downloaded over 900 million times, making it the most popular viral videos. In July 2003, his parents filed a $250,000 lawsuit against four of his fellow students who settled out of court.


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'Experience Old Spice' Invests Youngbloods with Worldliness
We were ready to pan this new campaign by Old Spice but after exploring it we realized there was no way that we could. Experience Old Spice reaches for a younger demographic, but instead of trying to make itself young and cool like other brands, Old Spice positions itself as the brand of choice for men of culture and experience.
And who better to tell you what manliness is than Bruce Campbell, the kitsch king who demolishes zombies with chainsaws and boomsticks?
The campaign includes a 50-question test gauging whether you're man or boy. And instead of asking beer-oriented questions while a chick undresses, these are actually pretty tough. Can most 20-something guys tell the difference between a Monet and a Van Gogh? We're sure they'll be able to after this.
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In and of the World: How Culture is Transforming Protestants
- D.G. Hart
- Updated Nov 09, 2022
Throughout most of the twentieth century, evangelical Protestants, the ones to be distinguished from fellow protesters in the mainline denominations, manifested a remnant mentality. This stemmed from a feeling of displacement. Having been part of the large, white, English-speaking Protestant denominations and a generically WASP culture, evangelicals migrated after the fundamentalist controversy of the 1920s to the backwaters of American life. American society had once been but was no longer their home. Evangelical theology and practice reinforced this sense of exile. Beliefs about the imminence of Christ's second coming and prohibitions about all manner of worldly amusements spoke loud and clear that, as one evangelical hymn put it, this place "was not their home" because evangelicals were "just a-passing through."
A different attitude emerged, however, when evangelicals went from being a faithful remnant to a moral majority. Indeed, the culture wars and the politics of identity those battles inspired lured evangelicals out of their isolation into arenas of human achievement markedly distant from the Bible colleges, foreign missions agencies, Christian broadcasting and publishing that had formed the conservative Protestant cultural ghetto.
One aspect remained the same despite the different ways that evangelicals engaged the culture before and after 1975. Although its leaders now found their way on to the cover of Time magazine, the religious right still reflected the remnant mentality of fundamentalists. After all, the point of engaging public life was to remedy the worldliness that was corrupting not simply the mainline churches or even American society, but was also trickling down to the very institutions by which evangelicals reproduced (both physically and spiritually) their way of life. Seldom pointed out, however, is that this political activism stemmed not only from desires to rebuild the walls between the secular society and evangelical hearth and home to keep out the harmful influences of a decadent culture. It also sprang from the social mobility and rising affluence of born-again baby boomers. In this sense, evangelical cultural engagement was simply what suburban, college-educated, white, middle-class Americans do. That evangelicals during this time replaced songs like "This World is Not My Home" with "Shine Jesus, Shine" was more than coincidental. If you believe, as the latter song sings, "As we gaze on your kindly brightness/So our faces display your likeness" you might tend to feel comfortable, as they say, in your own skin and the world supporting it.
Andy Crouch's thoughtful and engaging book, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (InterVarsity Press), is intended explicitly for evangelicals who no longer regard cultural engagement as something at odds with or forbidden to their religious identity. As he explains at the outset, the book is written for "a Christian community on the threshold of cultural responsibility." [9] His purpose is not simply to point evangelicals away from a culture-warrior posture. Equally problematic is the other side of evangelical cultural life found more in the style sections of newspapers than in stories on electoral politics. Born-again Protestants have an intuitive knack for appropriating various forms of popular culture and turning them into mechanisms for recruiting new converts and attracting the faithful to forms of devotion more contemporary ("hip" comes to mind) than your father's method of following Jesus. The phenomenon of contemporary Christian music and its liturgical equivalent of Praise & Worship worship (redundancy mine) is the clearest example of this kind of cultural appropriation (critics call it cultural syncretism). Crouch observes correctly that evangelical cultural imitation has been wildly successful with college students and young adults, in fact turning many of evangelicalism's biggest and most successful churches into little more than youth ministries for grown ups. The problem with either the antagonistic or imitative approach to culture is that each has a thin account of cultural endeavor and so does not take culture seriously. Crouch is trying to remedy this.
Traditionalist conservatives have generally employed an argument about the significance and priority of cult to culture when trying to argue for the importance of culture. Russell Kirk, for instance, followed T. S. Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture in asserting for close links between religion and cultural expression. As Kirk explained in an essay, "Civilization without Religion?," "A culture is a joining together for worship . . . the attempt of people to commune with a transcendent power." And from this common association in acts of religious devotion "human community grows." "Once people are joined in a cult, cooperation in many other things becomes possible," Kirk wrote. "Common defense, irrigation, systematic agriculture, architecture, the visual arts, music, the more intricate crafts, economic production and distribution, courts and government—all these aspects of a culture arise gradually from the cult, the religious tie." Cultural decline occurs then, according to Kirk, as well as Eliot, Christopher Dawson, and Eric Voegelin, when the cult withers. Without the spiritual convictions and practices that created a given culture, the civilization planted on it would inevitably dry up and decay.
This construction of the relationship between cult and culture has generally had more appeal to Roman Catholics (or Roman Catholic leaning Protestants) than to Protestants per se if only because of the attraction of medieval Europe before the Reformation. The reason, of course, has to do with the synthesis of cultural and religious life that Christendom embodied. That construction of the relationship of cult and culture was always a harder sell to Protestants who were willing to accept the trade off of a divided Christendom for a reformed church. In fact, the implication of Protestant teaching on salvation for cultural life was that cultural endeavors at best had a paradoxical relationship to the cult. If human effort and creativity, to put it crassly, did not merit salvation in any way, then Protestants had an easier time than other Christians saying that the best forms of cultural life could not be correlated with the true religion. On Protestant terms, culture may not be independent of the cult but neither was it dependent on the cult. Mozart was definitely better music than Amy Grant but his Jupiter Symphony had no more chance of winning God's favor than her "In My Daddy's Eyes." Consequently, the Protestant stress upon faith alone as opposed to good works threw a wrench not only into the machinery of Christendom, but also into theorizing that tried to find Christianity in any civilization.
That Crouch fails to employ Kirkean arguments about Christianity and culture may stem from his own Protestant identity (he acknowledges that for much of his working life he was a campus minister for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard). But just as likely is the history of twentieth-century evangelicalism and Crouch's need to persuade Christians traditionally ambivalent about culture because of its secular or worldly aspects. Of the five models of relating to culture that H. Richard Niebuhr identified in his classic book, Christ and Culture, twentieth-century conservative Protestants clearly fit the "Christ-against-culture" type. For evangelicals living after the fundamentalist controversy, the historic Protestant view of culture shifted to an avoidance of activities and delights that would distract and tempt believers to infidelity. In other words, the readers Crouch has most in mind were likely disinclined to theorize about culture after the fashion of a Kirk or Eliot. For those suspicious of culture, the cult-culture paradigm would not work, while for those inclined to imitate popular culture to achieve relevance, theorizing about culture was a foreign exercise.
Yet, Crouch gives the sense that older arguments about Christian civilization have less value to his project than others and not simply for theological reasons. Because the understanding of culture in the works of a Kirk or Eliot assumed an elitist perspective on cultural life, Crouch appears to be uninterested in the reflections of a Dawson, Kirk, or Eliot. Culture for Crouch is a common, prosaic endeavor that comes to human beings like swimming to fish. That may be something of an overstatement. But if culture is not the equivalent of the air that human beings breathe, it is for Crouch the natural result of being human. This egalitarian, even anti-hierarchical understanding of culture may explain why Crouch spends as much time talking about food as he does about music, or theorizing about the federal highway system more than about Herman Melville.
The explicit reason Crouch avoids high culture is that culture itself is larger than any particular cultural tradition. Christian efforts to come to grips with cultural life, Crouch argues, have paid too much attention to only one slice of culture—high, pop, ethnic, or even political. Culture is more varied and more basic than any of these particular expressions. It is the fundamentally human activity of making sense and making something of the world. "Meaning and making go together," Crouch writes, "culture, you could say, is the activity of making meaning." [24] He makes this definitional move because culture, the word, is too abstract. "We don't make Culture, we make omelets," Crouch asserts. "We tell stories. We build hospitals. We pass laws. These specific products of cultivating and creating . . . are what eventually, over time, become part of the framework of the world for future generations." [26] This expansive view of culture, valuable apparently because it avoids abstraction, leads Crouch to describe almost anything human beings touch as culture. Again, the reason stems from human beings as creatures whose natures are essentially cultural. "The beginning of culture and the beginning of humanity are one and the same because culture is what we were made to do." [36]
This is a frustratingly simple definition of culture that seems to reflect the desire of a large slice of contemporary evangelicalism that is fundamentally opposed to hierarchies and norms in evaluating and transmitting culture. For good reasons Crouch wants to go beyond simply analyzing culture for the sake of what it does to children or for whether it is appropriate for Christian consumption. He prefers the postures of cultivating and creating culture to critiquing, copying, or consuming. Crouch does suggest that some forms of culture may have more integrity than others. A cultural endeavor achieves integrity when it is "more whole, more faithful to the world of which it is making something." [55] But the limits of this conception are evident when Crouch puts omelets, highways, and software programming on a par with some of the West's greatest achievements. Is it really possible to suggest Interstate 95 has as much integrity as Thomas Eakins' Gross Clinic? When Crouch ventures his own list of "cultural artifacts" that represent the "glory and honor" of the cultural traditions he knows—Bach's B Minor Mass, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Arvo Paert's "Spiegel im Spiegel," green-tea crème brûlée, fish tacos, bulgogi, Moby Dick, the Odyssey, the iPod, and the Mini Cooper—it appears that his understanding of culture is well positioned to justify a middle-class baby boomer's tastes, income, and education. But what Crouch thinks about declining cultural standards in the West or how Christians might respond to that problem is not on his radar.
To be sure, the advantage of this approach, and the astute recommendation that evangelical Protestants need to develop postures of cultivation and creation in cultural endeavors is its recognition that human beings cannot escape culture (the fundamentalist temptation) and that simply imitating culture (the Jesus Rock temptation) is inferior to creative expressions of worth. In fact, Crouch even ups the ante for his fellow evangelicals when he turns from culture-making as basic to human identity to culture-making as a biblical duty.
In the second section of the book, Crouch decides to take a relatively quick tour of the history of salvation recounted in the Old and New Testaments. Not surprisingly, in a book devoted to not simply the legitimacy but also the necessity of culture, Crouch sees cultural life writ large throughout the pages of holy writ. This strategy can become tedious. Creation in Genesis 1 is culture. Adam and Eve were given the task of creating culture, specifically, agriculture. As a nation, Israel was political culture, while its cultural insights in the religious sphere replaced henotheism with monotheism. Jesus was a cultural figure in his training and work as a carpenter. He died on a cross, a cultural instrument of torture. The apostles took the message of Christianity to cities, arenas of great cultural significance. Pentecost overturned Jewish culture and gave Christianity's blessing to cultural diversity. Finally, the new heavens and new earth in the last book of the Bible reassert the import of the city and cultural life. According to Crouch, culture is "the furniture of heaven." [170] He adds, "human beings, in God's original intention and in their redemptive destination, cannot be separated from the cultural goods they create and cultivate at their best." [170]
As inspiring as such a cultural reading of the Bible may be for evangelicals like Crouch, it loses some of its loftiness when in the next paragraph the author adds a few of his favorite things, such as fish tacos, the iPod, and Moby Dick. The impression Crouch creates is that without a biblical justification, evangelical Protestants would be powerless to recognize the value of cultural activities. It is as if being human is not good enough for cultural life; so culture needs the lift of redemption and the approval of God to lose either its worldly reputation or become the object of devotion. Indeed, confusion about the relationship between creation and salvation haunts Crouch's argument. The muddle might have been avoided had Crouch interacted carefully with Christian teaching (whether Protestant or Roman Catholic but especially Augustinian) on the relationship between nature and grace. As it stands, Crouch interacts with Niebuhr's Christ and Culture not to discover analytic categories for reflecting on the relationship between cult and culture but mainly to find Niebuhr's implicit endorsement of cultural transformation deficient for the aim of evangelical cultural engagement.
The reason for Niebuhr's deficiency becomes clear in the third and final section of the book where Crouch provides a number of worthwhile insights into the work of culture engagement. To avoid the culture-war propensity, Crouch steers clear of the word transformation, preferring "culture making" to "changing the culture." Here he addresses topics such as unintended consequences, economies of scale, power, wealth, and consumption. These cautions are intended to direct evangelicals away from imposition or conquest. Instead, he recommends that their cultural posture be one of introducing the fundamental realities of human beings as culture makers wherever they go. He offers the example of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. There travelers may find a high modern oasis of an atrium with rocking chairs across from a food court. As opposed to the dehumanization of air travel, this space introduces smiles and relaxed conversations "where good news whispers just a bit more audibly." [215] Crouch believes that this human touch is at the heart of culture and is needed in exurbs, cities, and suburbs. It is also at the heart of being Christian because "our calling is to join [God] in what he is already doing—to make visible what, in exodus and resurrection, he has already done." [216]
Examples such as Crouch's reflections on Charlotte's airport and omelets leave the impression that the new evangelical cultural engagement is no thicker than baby boomers' parents' ideal of a cultural remnant preserving the faith once delivered. To be sure, rocking chairs in airports can buoy the spirits of weary travelers and a fluffy omelet may hit the spot on a leisurely Saturday morning (if, of course, the eater's cardiologist approves). But unclear is whether attention to small rays of uplift that shine through either the most unpleasant form of human transportation or food preparation is sufficient for confronting the cultural decay that affects the West. Crouch's book does signal a hopeful development, which is that the evangelical pursuit of culture warfare was and is a dead end. Had evangelicals been reading the likes of Kirk or Dawson, though, they would have known that the ballot box and the White House were poor vehicles, even if sometimes necessary conditions, for a healthy culture. Less encouraging is the motive behind Crouch's apparent fatigue with the culture war. He does not simply find the warrior mindset defective but seems to be mainly comfortable with the cultural goods available to middle-class, urban-friendly, suburban Americans. Evangelicals like Crouch have found a home in the modern world; they are no longer a-passing through.
If this is a fair reading of Crouch's sensibility, then the legacy of the Religious Right is indeed ironic. By leaving the religious ghetto to right the mainstream society, the likes of a Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson undermined older taboos that had nurtured among evangelicals a sense of being resident aliens, pilgrims on a journey to a different homeland, enduring hardships now for untold future comforts. In effect, the politics of the Religious Right turned evangelicals from otherworldly saints into this-worldly citizens. The indication being, perhaps, that this transformation of born-again Protestants is no better for cultural life in North America than it is for the Christian religion.
D.G. Hart is the Director of Academic Projects and Faculty Development at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Hart is an essayist and the author of numerous books, including Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham (2005), Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America (2003), Recovering Mother Kirk: A Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition (2003), and A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State (2006).
This review originally appeared at First Principles Journal. Republished here with permission. First reprinted April 7, 2009.
Further Reading:
How Should We Deconstruct Christian Culture?
Evangelical Tracts and Real Art
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Time for another dose of cyberchisme, your fave bloggie gossip.
Local grilled cheese joint gets tons of cash
American Grilled Cheese in San Francisco (South Park, South of Market) wins a $250K for their local impact, one of 12 business in the US. More than 3 billion voters voted.
Bread is local. Cheese comes from Marin. No secret we are foodies here.
My favorite is their cheese puns on the chalkboard. If you haven't been, it's a must.
Congrats! Read more here, via marketwatch: Chase and LivingSocial Award 12 Small Businesses
*PS their drip coffee rocks.
/American Grilled chese: previously posted here on October, 2010: Hello, cheesy
Bay Area's Little league team
Petaluma is about 40 miles north of San Francisco and its little league team continues to be hot right now and underway to the Little League series, beating Connecticut last night.
Go sports! sfgate: Petaluma boys advance in World Series //
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Coffee is the new wine
It's like siblings, please stop comparing them to one another.
Anywas, interesting read. Tip/Hat to a few emails I received about this, including Alex.
The rest of the article here via NPR Food Blog:
Coffee Is The New Wine. Here's How You Taste It
Four Barrel coffee turns fourVintage road twitter.com/plattyjo/statu…
— Jenny Oh Hatfield (@plattyjo) August 19, 2012
Delicious. I love you. Congrats.
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"To celebrate four years of serving the coffee-drinking denizens of San Francisco, Four Barrel will be throwing our annual birthday bash on Wednesday, August 22nd, from 7am to 4pm. As we do every year, we will be giving away free coffee and espresso drinks all day long. And yes: the drinks are 100% free, no joke." Read more here: Four Barrel's fourth birthday


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Michigan officials are planning an Oct. 24 auction of state-owned oil and gas lease rights.
The auction was formally approved Thursday during a meeting of the state's Natural Resources Commission.
The auction affects a total of roughly 196,000 acres of state land in Oakland, Allegan, Arenac, Barry, Bay, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Ionia, Iosco, Kalkaska, Kent, Lake, Manistee, Midland, Montmorency, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Ottawa, Presque Isle, Saginaw, Tuscola and Wexford counties.
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The Hahn-Banach theorem is rightly seen as one of the Big Theorems in functional analysis. Indeed, it can be said to be where functional analysis really starts. But as it's one of those "there exists ..." theorems that doesn't give you any information as to how to find it; indeed, it's quite usual when teaching it to introduce the separable case first (which is reasonably constructive) before going on to the full theorem. So it's real use is in situations where just knowing the functional exists is enough - if you can write down a functional that does the job then there's no need for the Hahn-Banach Theorem.
So my question is: what's a good example of a space where you need the Hahn-Banach theorem?
Ideally the space itself shouldn't be too difficult to express, and normed vector spaces are preferable to non-normed ones (a good non-normed vector space would still be nice to know but would be of less use pedagogically).
Edit: It seems wrong to accept one of these answers as "the" answer so I'm not going to do that. If forced, I would say that $\ell^\infty$ is the best example: it's probably the easiest non-separable space to think about and, as I've learnt, it does need the Hahn-Banach theorem.
Incidentally, one thing that wasn't said, and which I forgot about when asking the question, was that such an example is by necessity going to be non-separable since countable Hahn-Banach is provable merely with induction.


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From May 26-31, a group of Robert Morris University staff members, students, alumni, and friends embarked on a group bike ride from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., with stops in Ohio Pyle (Pa.), Cumberland (Md.), Hancock (Md.), and Harpers Ferry (W. Va.). Over the next five days, RMU Senior Writer Valentine J. Brkich will be sharing his first-hand account of the journey. SPOILER ALERT: Val survived. Barely.
DAY ONE – Boston (Pa.) to Ohiopyle (Pa.)
Ride my bike to D.C. It sounded doable.
Sure, I may just be your average
desk jockey, but I try to keep in shape, going for the occasional jog and walking instead of driving to the bank or the grocery store when I can. I even stand up at my desk while working. Surely I was fit enough to ride 60 miles a day at a leisurely pace over a span of five-days.
During the first two days of the trip, the 22 of us would be riding along the Great Allegheny Passage (G.A.P.), an old rail bed covered with a layer of packed, crushed limestone, which snakes its way through southwestern Pennsylvania down to Cumberland, Md. The average grade is only 1% until you reach the Eastern Continental Divide. After that, I was told, it would be "all downhill" as we continued on the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Canal Towpath to D.C.
Heck, this was going to be more like a vacation than anything.
We hit the trail at 9:20 a.m. on May 26 in Boston, Pa. It was the perfect morning. Partly sunny. Temperature in the mid-60s. We were abuzz with anticipation as we mounted our pedal-powered steeds and shoved off for our nation's capital, a mere 300 or so miles down the trail.
If you've never ridden along an old rail trail, it triggers an awakening of the senses. A spring trickles down the rock face to your right. A butterfly flutters through the air to your left. The perfume of spring flowers. The crackle of rubber tire on crushed stone. It's peaceful and exhilarating, and you feel as if you could ride forever.
Then you hit the 5-mile mark.
Five miles! Is that all the farther we've ridden? How many more do we have? FIFTY-FIVE?!?!
I just need to get warmed up, I told myself, as fatigue began to set in. Then my allergies kicked in, and soon my eyes felt like they were filled with sand (Photo: My feeling-like-they're-filled-with-sand eyes). Then my left knee began to throb. My upper back ached. My lower back began to spasm.
Maybe I should have trained for this.
This first day of our adventure saw a series of bad omens. At Boston, before he had even put foot to pedal, Todd Hamer, the ride's organizer and RMU's strength and conditioning coach, got a flat tire and immediately fell behind the pack. Bill Joyce, RMU's director of planning and design, busted the crank on his bike and had to backtrack for a lost bolt. Further down the trail, Ethan, a sophomore finance major, clipped a wooden post and tore a gash in his right arm. Later on, his father, Mark, collided with an oncoming rider, flipped over his handlebars, and bent his front fork. Jamie, a sophomore psychology major, had a bad spill and suffered a painful cut on her left arm and a bruise on her hip. All along the trail there were landslides and signs of recently downed trees, giving you the eerie feeling that, at any moment, you could be pedaling your little heart out to avoid being crushed by a falling sycamore or an avalanche of mud and rock. And did I mention the unforgiving headwind?
So much for a leisurely ride along the trail.
We persevered, however, and continued on down the dusty trail, past the Old Dravo Cemetery (est. 1824); past secluded hamlets like Buena Vista, Van Meter, and Whitsett; and past the ghosts of former industry, like old trestles and the site of the once bustling Banning No. 1 Coal Mine.
Somewhere along the trail I caught up with Jamie, who was struggling mightily under the mid-day sun. Luckily Mark J. Eschenfelder, Ph.D., associate professor of economics at RMU, his brother Michael, and their friend Jonathan were already there helping. After a brief stop to rest and rehydrate, we decided to walk a ways down the trail before hopping back on our bikes. Jamie recovered and was soon chugging along again.
After a brief stop in Connellsville for lunch at the local Sheetz (Gatorade and a pre-wrapped mystery-meat sandwich), we continued on down the trail. By this time I had learned to hate milepost markers. You try to ignore them, so as not to see what little distance you've covered, but it's impossible. They stick out from the foliage along the side of the trail like signposts of your physical inadequacy, mocking you as you huff and puff your way along the path.
Finally in mid-afternoon we began to trickle into our day-one destination: Ohiopyle. Around 3:50 p.m. I slowly rolled across the town's familiar arched bridge, which spans the white waters of the Youghiogheny River. Ethan and Mark were already there, so I had them pose for a photo with RoMo, who I'd brought along for the ride (Photo: Ethan and Mark with RoMo).
Famished and fatigued, I stumbled passed Armand Buzzelli, RMU's director of campus recreation, and Mike Yuhas, RMU event manager, sitting at the local ice cream shop enjoying milkshakes and looking way too composed.
"Don't worry," said Armand. "You'll feel better after a shower."
I hope I can stand up long enough to take a shower.
An hour later, just as we were about to head off to dinner at Falls City Pub, a freak squall blew through, knocking out all power in town. Clearly the gods were against us. Fortunately there was enough cold beer to hold us off while Seth, an online MBA student, ordered pizzas from the next town over. When the pies finally arrived nearly an hour later, we tore into them like ravenous piranha. I managed to grab just two pieces in the frenzy, as the pub's menu of mouthwatering specials stood nearby, reminding us of what we could have been eating (Photo: What we could have been eating).
And so, still hungry and getting stiffer by the minute, I staggered back to my room to hit the sack early (8:30 p.m.) and prepare for the next day—the mostly uphill, 72-mile jaunt to Cumberland.
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Conservation Easement Program of Maryland Environmental Trust
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John Turgeon joined Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) as the Conservation Easement Program Manager in July of 2014 and has been serving as Acting Director of MET since March 2015. Mr. Turgeon has close to 16 years of land conservation work experience in both the non-profit and local government sectors. Previous to MET, he was with the Willistown Conservation Trust, a non-profit land conservation trust near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked for 10 years, first as Associate Director and then as Director of Land Protection.From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Turgeon worked for Montgomery County, Maryland, where he served as senior planner for the County's "Legacy Open Space" initiative to protect its critical natural and cultural open space resources. In previous positions as a planner for the cities of Gaithersburg and Frederick, Maryland, he worked primarily on urban forest conservation planning. Mr. Turgeon holds a B.A. degree in Geography from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh and a Master of Regional Planning degree from the State University of New York at Albany. He resides in Annapolis, Maryland.


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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
Weakest link - A chain is only as strong as its
Wear your heart on your sleeve
What God has joined together let no man put asunder
What part of no don't you understand?
What you see is what you get - wysiwyg
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
When in Rome, do as the Romans do
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Where there's muck there's brass
While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
Whole kit and caboodle - The
Whole nine yards - The
Whole shebang - The
Why does bread always fall butter side down?
Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?
Wick - you get on my
Wide berth - Keep a
(On a) wing and a prayer
Wit's end - At one's
Without so much as a by your leave
Woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - A
Woman's place is in the home - A
Word in edgeways - A
Words coined by William Shakespeare
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Kids (where did I put those darn instructions?)
We'd only just arrived at the ticket counter to check luggage and get our boarding passes for our trip home when a woman came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said something. I heard it but didn't think I heard it right so I must have looked confused and that prompted her to repeat it:
"I just want to say that I think you're doing a great job with your children."
I struggled to get my mind around it. What she joking? Being sarcastic?
No, she was smiling and this seemed like a sincere compliment. I smiled back and thanked her then did a quick mental review of the last few minutes to figure out what the heck she was talking about.
We'd just finished navigating the ticket line at the airport in Las Vegas for our return flight home. We had our luggage and our kids and, like most of our excursions, it took a great deal of physical and intellectual strength to get everyone and everything through the line and up to the agent at the counter. The luggage was willing (and on wheels) but Maddy and Gwen weren't so easily maneuverable. We'd push a suitcase a few inches and then there would be a complaint from one or both of the girls about an unfairness or hardship! Honestly, I can't remember any of the specifics and it does't matter because it could have been anything. I did the best I could to deal with it. I tried calmly reasoning with both of them. Giving them plenty of easy options to make a good choice and be happy. But over and over again, they chose misery. Maddy was especially hard that morning and I finally had to pick her up and put my nose about 1/8 of an inch from hers and sternly demand that she be respectful. I told her that she didn't have to like what we said to her but she had to do it anyway and she wasn't allowed to be rude to us about it. Period.
This is the trend, lately. The girls have stopped getting mad about the foot-stomping injustices in their life (crust on sandwiches, who holds the car keys, etc) and have focused all of their rage completely upon us instead.
We've become the evil Mom and Dad who inflict these terrible injustices upon them and they don't waste any time telling us about how much they hate every minute of it. Maddy has even started telling me that she doesn't love me anymore (but I'm immune to that particular form of psychological warfare).
We've offered empathy and sympathy and acknowledged their angst in every way possible. But, in the end, we've held fast to our vow to never negotiate with terrorists.
When they were younger, we cut them some slack but those days are over because they're certainly old enough to take "no" for an answer now. And we're trying to be consistent with our insistence that they do just that. They can disagree but they have to do it respectfully and they have to ultimately accept our final decision because (call the social workers!!!)... our family isn't a democracy.
Most recently, we're helping Maddy to say "Oh, I'm so disappointed!" instead of getting red-faced angry at us every time we have to curb her behavior in any way. It's ridiculous that the smallest correction brings about the biggest huff from her. I can't help but wonder if she would be behaving this way if she was still in China, living with her birth family in rural Qinzhou. Really, I don't know the answer to this but I do wonder about it quite often. I have similar questions about what Gwen would be doing today if her birth family was able to keep her. Would she not eat rice? Weird thing to wonder, I know, but she absolutely won't eat it for us. But I digress...
As you can imagine, drama is the noun of the year in our household. Hopefully we'll save ourselves some anguish later by laying down some ground rules now.
What works with your kids? Any pointers or tips? Any good books to recommend? Please! Fresh techniques benefit everyone!
UPDATE: I listen to podcasts of my favorite morning talk-radio program and just happened across an interview with John Rosemond and really liked what he had to say. Specifically, that the advice Great Grandma gave Grandma back when Grandma had her babies was superior to the advice of most of the parenting "experts" today. I can appreciate that! I may even buy one of his books!
Speaking of books, there's one in particular that I consulted many times while Michael was growing up. It's called "Who's in Control?" by Lawrence Balter. You may have to contact the author directly to get this book since Amazon says it's out of print. I really give the book high marks though. It's funny and practical and divided into chapters that deal with issues specific to certain ages of children (so you don't have to read the whole entire book to benefit immediately from it).


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Feedback archive → Feedback 2012
Animal numbers on the Ark and the amoral nature of atheism
These feedback emails ask questions regarding whether the Ark could have accommodated all the animals, and whether atheism can provide a logical basis for morals. CMI's Lita Sanders and Dr Don Batten respond.
Chris C. from the United States writes:
I was having a discussion with someone about creation and evolution and they said this:
Estimates for undiscovered species range up to 100M more than those we already know about, plus MORE extinct ones that we don't yet know about. CMI and AIG readily admit these facts, but they don't count on you doing the math. Think about it. 2M species divided by [x number of Biblical kinds] divided by, say, the first 3000 years post-Flood. You're talking about speciation events happening within hours of each other, even with species that have gestation periods in the range of 4-14 months each.
I'm no math genius or anything, so could you tell me what he means and if you guys acknowledge this how, according to him, unbelievable it sounds?
CMI's Lita Sanders responds:
Dear Chris,
There are several pertinent points:
1. Scientists can't agree within an order of magnitude how many species there actually are. Out of the species we know that are living today, many are acknowledged by all parties to come from a common ancestor—e.g. lions and tigers. Many can interbreed (ligers, zorses, etc), meaning that they are the same biological species.
2. The vast majority of species (both living and extinct) are marine animals, insects, plants, and tiny things like bacteria and protists. It is precisely these things we don't have to account for, because the Ark only took on land vertebrates as obligate passengers. A secular Internet source I looked at said that there are around 31,000 known species of land vertebrates living today. I would argue that the addition of created kinds which have no living representatives would not be significant enough to affect our argument (for instance, maybe 50 basic kinds of dinosaurs—see Too many dinosaur names).
3. This number counts, for instance, panthers, leopards, housecats, lions, and tigers as all different species. So we can agree surely that a very generous estimate to the atheist would put the number of 'kinds' as 10,000–15,000. Incidentally, John Woodmorappe in his Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study showed that it was possible to house and care for 16,000 animals and store food sufficient for a year with space left over on a vessel the dimensions of the biblical Ark. If the level of created kind is as high up as the family, then the number of animals is in the hundreds—at most, just a few thousand.
4. Given that we're talking about land vertebrates, the amount of speciation required is not one that exceeds the ability of these animals to procreate. If 1,000 kinds of animals aboard the Ark had to generate 31,000 species extant today, that's less than 7 species per kind per millennium, which we can hopefully agree is not unrealistic. We need even less speciation if there are more created kinds.
Several articles may also be helpful:
- Variation, information and the created kind
- Trilobites on the Ark?
- Evidence for the design of life: part 2—Baranomes
- The design of life: part 3—an introduction to variation-inducing genetic elements
- Chapter 13 How did the animals fit on Noah's Ark?
I also recommend Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study:
I hope these are helpful for you.
Lita Sanders
Reynold H. from Canada in response to article Suicidal atheist converts to Christ:
What? Is this a joke?
"There is no difference between the embrace of a loving husband and the violence of a vicious rapist, the actions of a doctor trying to save a life and the mass murderer who kills at whim, the actions of our greatest leaders and the inaction of a lazy sluggard.
"Both are totally the same in atheism."Huh? Seriously? I call [expletive deleted] here. I'm an atheist, I know atheists, and I have never heard ANY atheist, even the famous ones like Dawkins, Hitchens, etc. say something like that.
This more straw than a barn can hold.
CMI's Dr Don batten responds:
Dear Reynold,
Thanks for your comment.
Taken out of context, as you have done, the statement does appear over-the-top. However, here it is in context:
"Atheism inescapably leads to naturalism, and from naturalism follows atheism's great skeleton which its followers try to keep hidden; determinism.
"Determinism is inescapable if one is a naturalist, as all that exists is material and has come about by purely natural processes.
"This means then, that the mind of man, our greatest treasure, is reducible to material bound by physical laws; namely, our thoughts, feelings, and actions are reducible to reactions of chemicals in the brain.
"Few people realize, then, that this destroys all that makes us human. Namely; if our thoughts, feelings, and actions are simply chemical reactions in the brain, those reactions are simply the by-products of prior reactions forming an unbreakable chain which leads to the very beginning of the universe.
"This means then, that whatever we do, we do because we have to. We cannot do anything other than what we do, it simply isn't possible.
"All actions are the result of prior actions in an unbreakable chain. We are no different than a cog in a watch or a falling domino.
" … atheism is utterly horrific! Sadly, most atheists are unaware of these things! I believe if they truly understood the consequences of what they believed, they would reconsider their position.
"There is no difference between the embrace of a loving husband and the violence of a vicious rapist, the actions of a doctor trying to save a life and the mass murderer who kills at whim, the actions of our greatest leaders and the inaction of a lazy sluggard.
"Both are totally the same in atheism."
Please note the first four highlighted paragraphs, which lead up to the statements you object to, which are an inescapable rational conclusion from rationalism. Some atheists have indeed articulated this conclusion. Prof. William Provine, Cornell University, for example. If there is no free will, as Provine recognizes, then true love is an illusion. Of course Dawkins and the like rarely admit anything like this because they are in the business of proselytizing for atheism and you would not want prospective converts seeing what they are in for and getting cold feet, would you? However, in a radio interview with Justin Brierley, Richard Dawkins, when cornered, admitted that for evolutionists like him value judgments such as 'rape is wrong' are arbitrary, like whether evolution gave us five fingers instead of six (audio with subtitles at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8whbFgIbQ. Fuller transcript in: "Dawkins: rape as wrong as having six fingers", available via web.archive.org).
Of course few atheists can live with such an outlook, which leads to madness, so they live as if there is real meaning to their lives. But this is not rational; it is an existential leap in the dark.
The only possibility of true meaning is that there is a spiritual dimension to our existence. This provides for something additional to chemistry to explain behaviour and something other than annihilation at death as our destiny. According to the Bible there will be justice and Hitler, Stalin and co will get their just desserts. In materialism there is no purpose, meaning or ultimate justice.
Jesus said,
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." (John 10:10)
With kind regards,
Don Batten


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Oct. 30, 2010: The finish in Saturday afternoon's Mountain Dew 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway was so close even Kyle Busch and his No. 18 Traxxas Toyota Tundra team weren't entirely sure who had crossed the finish line first. But when the dust settled, Busch was posted as the winner by .002 of a second over Aric Almirola, the closest margin of victory in series history when using electronic scoring.
Busch, who led three times for just eight laps, went below Almirola in the final few hundred yards before the finish line and managed to beat him by inches when the checkered flag flew. The win was Busch's second consecutive victory at Talladega and his sixth Truck Series victory of 2010. Ironically, Busch beat Almirola last year at Talladega by just .057 of a second. "That was cool," Busch said. "I didn't want to do it. Man, Aric (Almirola) deserved to win the race and deserved it from last year. I had Johnny (Sauter) pushing on me and I was getting loose through the tri-oval – just trying to stay with the 51 (Almirola). I turned it back to the bottom to try to straighten it back out and I was still loose alongside of him. I thought the 13 (Sauter) was going to my bottom so I wanted to block him. It was just crazy there at the end.
"I can't thank Traxxas and Toyota enough– these guys do an awesome job here at Kyle Busch Motorsports. M&M's, Flexco, NOS Energy Drink, Gillette and my good friend Jim Hunter (NASCAR vice president of corporate communications) who passed away last night. Thoughts go to him and his family and everybody. Real proud of all these guys and this is a cool one."
The victory was Busch's 22nd career Camping World Truck Series victory in 82 starts, but more importantly vaulted Busch into the lead in the owner's championship with three races remaining. The No. 18 truck now has a 42-point margin over the No. 30 truck of Germain Racing, which is driven full-time by Todd Bodine, who was involved in a multi-truck accident on lap 91 and finished 18th.
"It's not over until it's over," said Busch, who entered the race 30 points behind the No. 30 truck. "We feel comfortable with where we're at especially after our win today with our Traxxas Tundra. We're looking forward to these last three races and it's going to be a shootout and a fight to the end. We'll go to Texas next week with Interstate Batteries on board and then to Phoenix with Z-Line Designs and end at Homestead with Traxxas on board."
Busch now has 83 career NASCAR victories (Sprint Cup – 19, Nationwide – 42, Camping World Truck – 22), and will next fly Traxxas colors at Miami Homestead, the finale of the Camping World Truck Series


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New Car/Review
SEE ALSO: Dodge Buyer's Guide
Dodge Intrepid ES (2000)
By Tom Hagin
SPECIFICATIONS Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price $ 22,085 Price As Tested $ 26,480 Engine Type SOHC 24-valve 3.2 Liter V6 w/SMFI* Engine Size 197 cid/3231 cc Horsepower 225 @ 6300 RPM Torque (lb-ft) 225 @ 3800 RPM Wheelbase/Width/Length 113.0"/74.7"/203.7" Transmission Four-speed automatic Curb Weight 3528 pounds Fuel Capacity 17.0 gallons Tires (F/R) 225/60R16 all-season touring Brakes (F/R) Disc (ABS)/disc (ABS) Drive Train Front-engine/front-wheel-drive Vehicle Type Five-passenger/four-door Domestic Content 86 percent Coefficient of Drag (Cd.) 0.30 PERFORMANCE EPA Economy, miles per gallon city/highway/average 19/28/23 0-60 MPH 9.5 seconds 1/4 (E.T.) 17.5 seconds @ 84.0 mph Top-speed 115 mph * Sequential multi-port fuel injection
When it first came out in 1993, the Dodge Intrepid revolutionized the way new cars would look. Dodge used every card in its deck to make its whole line of LH cars look sexy, and it worked. The new version comes in base, sporty R/T and as our tester, the mid-trim Intrepid ES.
OUTSIDE - Every sharp line, crease and fold was smoothed and rounded, and the windshield was raked radically forward which created a expansive dashboard and lots of controversy. A restyle was completed in 1998, and with it came structural reinforcements and body enhancements to freshen it up. It slices the wind cleanly with a 0.30 coefficient of drag, which is on par with sportier cars in a higher price bracket. The doors are long and open wide, especially the rear doors which open to a cavernous back seat. Its steeply sloping rear roof pillar can make climbing back there somewhat awkward for tall people. Externally, not much has changed for 2000 except for a half-dozen new colors.
INSIDE - The Intrepid is classified by the EPA as being a "Large Car" with good reason. Nearly any size driver can tailor a comfortable seating position behind the wheel and larger drivers will find lots of leg and headroom. The Intrepid can be ordered with either a three-across front bench seat or a pair of well-bolstered buckets. Its rear seat can hold three full-sized adults, but the center rear passenger will be the least comfortable. The two outboard rear passengers, however, will enjoy lots of leg, head and hip room, even with the front seats moved back. Its interior is designed for both style and function, with sporty white-faced gauges and durable standard premium cloth upholstery. Standard features include air conditioning, power windows, mirrors and door locks, tilt steering, speed control and variable speed intermittent wipers. An optional sunroof is now available on base models, while our test car was well-optioned with over $4,000 in extra equipment.
ON THE ROAD - Depending on the model, the Intrepid is available with one of three different engines. Base models come standard with an all-aluminum, dual overhead cam 2.7 liter V6 engine. It produces 200 horsepower and 190 pound-feet or torque. The standard ES uses the same engine, except with its dual-tuned intake manifold adds 2 more horsepower and five more pound-feet of torque. The top-line R/T adds a 3.5 liter single overhead cam engine with an exciting 242 horsepower and 248 lb-ft of torque. Our test car, however, came with a third option, a single-cam 3.2 liter V6 with 225 horsepower and the same amount of torque. All models are certified to meet Low Emissions Vehicle (LEV) standards, and all can be run safely on regular unleaded fuel. We found power to be adequate, though after the engine reached its upper rpms range, it showed some unwanted engine noise. Its standard four-speed automatic transmission shifted smoothly and the ES model's standard AutoStick shifting system proved that an automatic can be sporty and fun to drive. Traction control is optional.
BEHIND THE WHEEL - Like most passenger cars these days, the Intrepid is built atop a unibody platform, though Dodge uses separate front and rear subframes for the independent suspension systems, which do an excellent job of filtering out vibrations. The front and rear suspensions use MacPherson struts, tube shocks, coil springs and anti-roll bars. Its handling is above-par when compared to others in its class, and we found its emergency handling characteristics to be good also. Its power rack-and-pinion steering system proved quick to react to driver inputs, with plenty of road and on-center feel. Its stellar handling comes, in part, from the use of 225-series 16-inch all-season tires, which grip well on both wet and dry pavement. The R/T model will handle twisting roads even better, but it comes as a tradeoff to an ultra-smooth ride. Braking is done by four-wheel disc with an optional anti-lock braking system (ABS) that's packaged with traction control.
SAFETY - Dual front airbags, rear child seat tether anchors, side- impact door beams are standard. ABS and traction control are optional.
OPTIONS - Preferred package: $3,045; ABS/traction control: $775; 3.2 liter engine: $500; destination charge: $550.


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For years, the big knock on the iPad is that Windows desktop software plays poorly on the touch-based tablet, if it plays at all. The market is littered with failed attempts, namely OnLive's train wreck, as well as a plethora of watered-down versions of Microsoft Office for the iPad.
Now Parallels thinks it has found the answer in a new iPad app called Access, which it unveiled today. Parallels says it spent two years in stealth mode developing a touch-gesture interface that maps to the mouse and keyboard-one that closely resembles the native iPad experience.
Here's how it works: Users launch the Access app over their Wi-Fi or 4G-connected iPad, which, in turn, remotely accesses their Mac or Windows computer running a Parallels desktop agent. Through Access, iPad users can use their full-blown desktop software that's "applified" by the touch-gesture interface.
"The app is unique in that it customizes and optimizes-or 'applifies,' a term Parallels coined-all of your desktop applications by enabling native tap and swipe-type gestures that will be an innovative intuitive experience for iPad users," says Laura DiDio, principal at Information Technology Intelligence Consulting. "It's going to disrupt the market, not the user."
I got a sneak preview of Access earlier this month and was impressed with its speed over 4G, although moving around graphics in Microsoft Office seemed a bit slow and buggy. Not too surprising for a beta version. Then there's the screen-size problem: Some desktop apps require too much screen real estate to ever really work well on a tablet, regardless of Access' magnifying glass feature.
Parallels had hoped to get Access out sooner but faced delays after Apple's developer website was hacked in mid-July and stayed down for a month.
Access is available on the App Store for a free trial run before an annual subscription at $79.99 for each computer being accessed kicks in. After you download the app to the iPad, download a Mac or Windows agent to your computer. The free trial lasts 14 days for the Mac.
The free Windows trial, however, may last several weeks because the Windows agent is still in beta. Parallels says Windows is more of a challenge, because the Windows agent must be tested on many PC hardware configurations.
Tom Kaneshige covers Apple, BYOD and Consumerization of IT for CIO.com. Follow Tom on Twitter @kaneshige. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline, Facebook, Google + and LinkedIn. Email Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com
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(This post is not intended to be legal advice. If you find yourself in a situation like those described below, seek competent legal advice. This post is principally meant to serve as a resource for lawyers who may have to deal with these issues from time to time. -- And I should emphasize that this relates to Canadian law only.)
As part of my practice, I often deal with business clients who call when the police or national security folks are knocking on the door and are looking for information about customers. When faced with a cop or a CSIS agent with a badge, particularly when they are pushy and use words like "obstruction", the natural inclination may be to hand over the information.
When the police show up and start asking for customer information, unless they have a search warrant and unless they say it is a matter of life and death, the business should request that they put their request in writing. This provides a clear record of what the police asked for and what they assert as the legal basis for their request. In conversation, what appears to be a compulsory process translates into a voluntary one once put in writing.
(If the police clearly say it's a matter of imminent life or death, the business is probably justified in providing the information and any risk of liability for the disclosure would likely be minimal. Still, try to get it in writing.)
Oftentimes, what will arrive next will be a "Letter of Request for Information".
It is important to carefully read and thoroughly understand what the letter says. Here's an example based on one that recently crossed my desk.
[Police letterhead]
Business Name
Bus Address
Bus Fax #
Date of Request: *** Our file: ***
[1] I, Detective/Constable *** of the ***, am a peace officer within the *** Unit. I am involved in the ongoing investigation *** and am requesting *** information pursuant to Section 487.014 of the Criminal Code for this investigation. In accordance with my duty to investigate contraventions of the Criminal Code, I am requesting the following information from you which is necessary for my investigation:
- [2]***
[3]The information I am providing you relates to a criminal investigation. This information and the existence of this query should not be further disseminated or divulged outside the purpose for which it is provided to you; any attempt to further disseminate or divulge the information outside this purpose may be construed as obstructing, perverting or defeating the course of justice possibly resulting in criminal sanctions under s. 139(2) of the Criminal Code.
Please provide the information requested to myself, ***, by means of email to *** or by phone ***.
Peace Office rank and name Peace Officer Badge # Peace Officer Telephone Number Supervisor's rank and name Supervisor's Telephone Number
To begin with, it must be clearly understood that nothing in such a letter requires the business to provide any information whatsoever to the police. Unless it is a search warrant, a production order or a subpoena, any information to be provided is voluntary on the part of the business.
Let's parse the letter.
[1] This section sets out some of the background facts to the investigation and is presumably there set the foundation for "lawful authority" to request the information as is required under Section 7(3)(c.1) of PIPEDA:
(3) For the purpose of clause 4.3 of Schedule 1, and despite the note that accompanies that clause, an organization may disclose personal information without the knowledge or consent of the individual only if the disclosure is. . .
(c.1) made to a government institution or part of a government institution that has made a request for the information, identified its lawful authority (emphasis added) to obtain the information and indicated that . . .(ii) the disclosure is requested for the purpose of enforcing any law of Canada, a province or a foreign jurisdiction, carrying out an investigation relating to the enforcement of any such law or gathering intelligence for the purpose of enforcing any such law, or...The paragraph continues that the request is pursuant to Section 487.014 of the Criminal Code. This makes it sound like the recipient of the letter has to provide the information, but that's far from the case. This section only says that the police can ask for information to be provided voluntarily.
Power of peace officer487.014 (1) For greater certainty, no production order is necessary for a peace officer or public officer enforcing or administering this or any other Act of Parliament to ask a person to voluntarily provide to the officer documents, data or information that the person is not prohibited by law from disclosing.
[2] This paragraph or list sets out the information requested.
[3] This paragraph suggests a gag order and implicitly threatens that if the recipient tells anyone, they could be obstructing justice. One has to be very careful with this. Telling the subject of the investigation of the existence of the request would perhaps constitute obstruction, but the business should be free to seek legal advice without fear of this supposed gag order.
So what's a business to do? It is up to the business at this stage to decide whether it wants to comply, but it has to be mindful of any other legal obligations that it might have that would prevent it from making the disclosure. There is some question as to whether Section 7(3)(c.1) of PIPEDA is intended to permit businesses to hand over information without a warrant in connection with a criminal investigation. There is some legal authority either way, but none of the published decisions address any liability for the business. At the very least, the business needs to ask itself if it wants to make the disclosure and whether it's prepared to take the risk of some liability to the subject of the investigation.
Part of the examination of potential liability should involve an examination of any privacy policies or privacy statements that the business uses. For example, if the policy has language that suggests information will only be provided to third parties where "required by law", this written request does not constitute "required by law". Again, it's only voluntary.
If information is provided, the business should keep a copy.
My personal preference is to require a warrant or a production order in all circumstances, since it is not the job of any business to act as a deputy of the police. If the police can convince a judge that they need to have it, then that's good enough for me. Anything less is something less.
A final word about subpoenas: a subpoena is not an order to provide particular information to the police, but an order to appear in court with the information. Just because they have a subpoena about the information doesn't mean the recipient can -- or should -- just hand it over.


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