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F or nine months, I've been interviewing Rupert Murdoch, in an unlikely spirit of openness precipitated by his great satisfaction in having bought The Wall Street Journal, about journalism, his business, politics, his family, and the future for a new biography. I was warned about his charm by many other journalists—warned not to fall victim to it. So the surprise was his lack of it. He's without introspection and self-analysis and doesn't like to talk about the past. What's more, he mumbles terribly (and with a heavy Aussie accent) and seldom finishes a sentence. For the first three months of our interviews, he never addressed a word to or even looked at my research assistant, Leela de Kretser, who was at each of the sessions, and ignored her questions—perhaps because it's not necessary to acknowledge a girl, or possibly because it was embarrassing for him that she was, at the time, a pregnant girl. (She had the baby. He eventually warmed up.)
But his odd lack of seductiveness or felicitousness—contributing to his aura of villainy—became after a while alluring in itself. There's no spin, because he really can't explain himself. Rather, what you see is what you get. He's transparent. The nature of the beast is entirely evident.
One morning when Leela and I arrived at Murdoch's office for another interview session, we found the 77-year-old News Corp. chairman and C.E.O. hunched over the phone reporting out a story. He'd been out the night before and gotten a tip. Now he was trying to nail it down. His side of the conversation was straight reporter stuff: Who could he call? How could he get in touch? Will they confirm? Barked, impatient, just the facts. Here was the old man, in white shirt, singlet visible underneath, doing one of the same basic jobs he'd been doing since he was 22, having inherited the Adelaide News in Australia from his father. And he was good at it. He was parsing each answer. Re-asking the question. Clarifying every point. His notepad going. He knew the trade. Of how many media-company C.E.O.'s could that be said? This wasn't a destroyer of journalism—this was a practitioner.
On the other hand, he was trying to smear somebody. At the dinner party he'd attended—since his marriage to Wendi Deng, he's become an unlikely fixture at fashionable tables—he heard that a seniormost Hillary Clinton operative was a partner in an online porn company. He didn't like the operative, didn't like—no matter how much he had tried—Hillary Clinton. So it didn't much matter that the story itself seemed far-fetched and tenth-hand. It was juicy and would slime somebody he thought was … a slime. True, it didn't pan out—and, to his credit, that was the end of it. Well, sort of. Because he kept recycling it. While it did not end up on the *Post'*s "Page Six," it became a staple in Murdoch's repertoire of whispers and confidences and speculations. Rupert Murdoch doesn't need to print or broadcast the news to make it … news.
He may be among the biggest gossips in New York. In the months of interviewing him, I found that the most reliable way to hold his interest was to bring him a rich nugget. His entire demeanor would change. He'd instantly light up. He'd go from distracted to absolutely focused. Gossip gives him life (and business opportunities). This, I believe, is how the rumor about Michael Bloomberg's buying The New York Times got legs. I offered it to him as a bit of speculation—conflating two of his favorite subjects, Bloomberg, whom he greatly admires, and the Times, which he does not—that a Bloomberg-Times deal could be possible. He paused, considered, opened his mouth, seemed blissed out for a second, processed this information against his own needs and interests … and then said, "It makes sense. I think I'll ask him." And suddenly the rumor was everywhere—he was telling everybody, which made it true. The mayor's people seemed to like the rumor so much that they began to talk it up themselves. Bloomberg himself seemed to fancy it (offering only a tepid denial) and, Murdoch thinks, could act on it.
He's a troublemaker—maybe the last troublemaker in the holier-than-thou, ethically straitjacketed news business:
Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch's chief aide and one of News Corp.'s highest executives—and a former Clinton White House staffer—told his boss that he was planning to go to Paris, in August 2007, for the wedding of his friend Doug Band, Bill Clinton's chief aide. Band was marrying the handbag designer Lily Rafıi, and the wedding was going to be a party-hearty Clinton affair with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, real-estate-heir-film-producer Steve Bing, and Bill Clinton himself, Ginsberg reported to Murdoch (Ginsberg too knows that Murdoch likes—needs—gossip). So Murdoch, onto not just a good story but also a way to annoy Ginsberg, secretly called the New York Post editor, Col Allan, and, busting the expense budget, had "Page Six" send a reporter to Paris. Headline (to Ginsberg's consternation): bill & pals do paris (the city, not the bimbo).
The great fear about Rupert Murdoch, among journalists and proper liberals everywhere, beyond even his tabloidism and his right-wing politics, is that he acknowledges no rules. He does it, without mercy, his way. If you watch him up close, this certainly seems true. He sits in his office and plots and schemes and figures out ways to get (to take) what he wants.
Although he'd agreed with the Bancroft family, Dow Jones's former owners, to accept a strict structure for protecting *The Wall Street Journal'*s editorial independence, I watched how blithely he paid no attention to it. It barely figured into his plans or consciousness. Except that he seemed briefly tickled to have figured out that if he merely called his chosen editor, Robert Thomson, the publisher, then he'd have his choice. He was only slightly confounded (and a bit bemused) that it took Journal editor Marcus Brauchli four months to get the message that he was out.
Still, up close, such lack of restraint doesn't necessarily seem so threatening. It seems, in fact … fun. There's no artifice. There's no bureaucracy. There's no pretense. There's no corporate this and that—Murdoch's truly the anti-corporate man. It's all determination and enthusiasm. It's all about his passions and the effect he can have. (Of course he was going to replace the *Journal'*s editor. What was everybody thinking?)
It's his adventure. Part of the reason so many of the people around him are so loyal—such true believers—is that they're caught up in it. It's a grand enterprise.
Though not necessarily such a well-organized or even rational one.
There was the moment, in the car heading out to the airport in the weeks before The Wall Street Journal formally became his, when Merrill Lynch was going into the tank. Its C.E.O., Stan O'Neal, had just been fired. Anticipating events—Merrill's need for cash, its inevitable sale of assets—Murdoch, for an hour or so, decided he ought to be the presumptive buyer of Merrill's 20 percent stake in Bloomberg (Murdoch cultivates obsessions, and Bloomberg is one). Soon to have The Wall Street Journal, now soon to have his mitts on Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, at least in his own mind, would control worldwide financial information. It's management by fantasy—even though this one, like so many, was shortly to pass.
Buying The Wall Street Journal was surely an exercise of pure fantasy. To think he could take over a company absolutely controlled by a family that had repeatedly said it would never sell was fantasy. To think it was worth what he was paying for it was fantasy. And yet … now it's his, and if his shareholders are puzzled and grumpy (News Corp. shares are down by more than 30 percent since he bought Dow Jones), so be it (he'll ignore them as much as he ignores his other critics). He's in it for the long haul—even at 77.
He is spending time now in consideration of an even more far-fetched fantasy, The New York Times: he'd really like to own it too. Now, everybody around him continues to tell him that buying the Times is pretty much impossible. There will be regulatory problems. The Sulzberger family would never … And then there's the opprobrium of public opinion.
But it's obviously irresistible to him. I've watched him go through the numbers, plot out a merger with the *Journal'*s backroom operations, and fantasize about the staff's quitting en masse as soon as he entered the sacred temple. It would be sweet revenge—because the Times for so long has made him the bogeyman and vulgarian. And wonderful to own not just one of America's most important papers but both (he believes in monopolies). And the realization of his destiny: because the Times represents the ultimate in newspaper proprietorship—when he was 19, he and his father, the most successful newspaper executive in Australia, made a pilgrimage to Hillandale, the Sulzberger family home in Connecticut—and he believes he is the ultimate newspaper proprietor.
And because he loves newspapers—he may be the last person to love newspapers. He thinks the Times, with its soft stories and newsless front page and all its talk of being a news brand instead of a newspaper, has forsaken what a newspaper is.
He's really not interested in all this talk about newspapers as the basis of new information franchises … blah blah. That's maybe what they say at News Corp. to gull Wall Street. But Rupert Murdoch wants the physical thing. He pokes the paper, slashes at it—move this, reduce that, enlarge this. It may be the ultimate fantasy, his continuing, contrary belief in newspapers.
A newspaper makes you into something. When he bought The Sun in London in 1969, it turned him into Britain's greatest tabloid publisher and threat to ritual and propriety. The Wall Street Journal is going to turn him into something else again.
Here's the headline: Rupert Murdoch is becoming a liberal—sort of.
Or, anyway, his purchase of The W.S.J., and his covetousness of the Times, is also about wanting to trade the illiberal—the belligerent, the vulgar, the loud, the menacing, the unsubtle—for the better-heeled, the more magnanimous, the further nuanced. He's looking for better company.
This most unsocialized of men is becoming socialized—sort of.
This is, in part, the Wendi transformation. The woman from Shandong Province, 38 years his junior, whom he married after breaking up his 32-year marriage to his second wife, Anna, has brought him into the liberal world. The angry outsider, the anti-elitist, the foe of airs and pretension ("Ole Grumpy," as he's known by various of his employees), has become part of the achieving, glamorous, clever, socially promiscuous set. Davos, Cannes, Sun Valley, Barry Diller's yacht—this is now Rupert Murdoch's world.
Or it's his wife's world, which he's been drawn into.
It would be hard not to be. The girl whose American adventure starts in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant before she can speak English and takes her to the Yale School of Management and then into the arms of Rupert Murdoch is a compelling heroine. Her adventure may be as great as his. He's captivated by her ambition (their pillow talk, one might suspect, is business). You can see this as comic: no fool like an old fool—the shapeless conservative suits become Prada (although still worn with the singlets), his gray hair flaming orange (or sometimes aubergine). But I think that misses the true nature of the change. Of the plot twist. Rupert Murdoch is, characteristically, seizing an opportunity. The Zeitgeist is changing and he's after it.
All right, he's not quite a liberal. He remains a militant free-marketeer and is still pro-war (grudgingly, he's retreated a bit). And there was the moment, one afternoon, when over a glass of his favorite coconut water (meant to increase electrolytes) he was propounding the genetic theory that the basic problem of the Muslim people was that they married their cousins.
And yet, he's come to like the liberals more than the conservatives. Bono and Tony Blair and the Google guys and Nicole Kidman and David Geffen are his and Wendi's circle. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and real-estate scion and New York Observer owner Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are regular invites to the Murdochs' for dinner. Liking Wendi's friends so much better than his own (actually, he really had never had any friends), he finds himself with an increasingly divided temperament.
It's life with Wendi versus life with Fox. (And, too, it's The Wall Street Journal—and maybe The New York Times—versus Fox.)
Fox has been his alter ego. For a long time he was in love with the Fox chief, Roger Ailes, because he was even more Murdoch than Murdoch. And yet now the embarrassment can't be missed—he mumbles even more than usual when called on to justify it; he barely pretends to hide the way he feels about Bill O'Reilly. And while it is not possible that he would give Fox up—because the money is the money; success trumps all—in the larger sense of who he is, he seems to want to hedge his bets.
Just before the New York Democratic primary, when I found myself undecided between Clinton and Obama, I said to Murdoch (a little flirtation, like a little gossip, softens him), "Rupert, I don't know who to vote for—so I'm going to give you my vote. You choose."
He paused, considered, nodded his head slowly: "Obama—he'll sell more papers."
Even though his daughter Elisabeth and her husband, high-flying P.R. man Matthew Freud, have been raising money for Obama in Notting Hill, in London, where they live, and his wife has been attending fund-raisers for Obama in Los Angeles with David Geffen, this is a leap for Murdoch. Murdoch has traditionally liked politicians to come to him. His historic shift in the 1990s to Tony Blair came after Blair made a pilgrimage to Australia.
Obama, on the other hand, was snubbing Murdoch. Every time he reached out (Murdoch executives tried to get the Kennedys to help smooth the way to an introduction), nothing. The Fox stain was on Murdoch.
It wasn't until early in the summer that Obama relented and a secret courtesy meeting was arranged. The meeting began with Murdoch sitting down, knee to knee with Obama, at the Waldorf-Astoria. The younger man was deferential—and interested in his story. Obama pursued: What was Murdoch's relationship with his father? How had he gotten from Adelaide to the top of the world?
Murdoch, for his part, had a simple thought to share with Obama. He had known possibly as many heads of state as anyone living today—had met every American president from Harry Truman on—and this is what he understood: nobody got much time to make an impression. Leadership was about what you did in the first six months.
Then, after he said his piece, Murdoch switched places and let his special guest, Roger Ailes, sit knee to knee with Obama.
Obama lit into Ailes. He said that he didn't want to waste his time talking to Ailes if Fox was just going to continue to abuse him and his wife, that Fox had relentlessly portrayed him as suspicious, foreign, fearsome—just short of a terrorist.
Ailes, unruffled, said it might not have been this way if Obama had more willingly come on the air instead of so often giving Fox the back of his hand.
A tentative truce, which may or may not have vast historical significance, was at that moment agreed upon.
I confess to getting a little misty when Murdoch talks about his children, which he does frequently and naturally (he's often on the phone with them—this coldest of men making protestations of love).
True, he is often talking about them in some otherworldly, even fantastic dynastic sense—perhaps no other business empire has such an air of royalty about it as News Corp. And yet, at the same time, he seems like any old conscientious dad and ordinarily burdened family man.
For one thing, there is his mother, at 99 an indomitable matriarch—something like the Queen Mum of Australia—at the family estate (which has neither heat nor, apparently, a vacuum cleaner), outside of Melbourne, with the world-famous garden she's been tending for 80 years, still stewing about the breakup of his second marriage, to Anna. "I remember saying to Rupert, 'Rupert, you're going to be very, very lonely and the first desiring female who comes along will snap you up.' He said, 'Don't be ridiculous, Mum, I'm far too old for that.' That's exactly what happened. Never mind." One would not like to face that. (When I visited her, she sat for a three-hour interview full of witty chat and then took me for a wild ride, double-clutching an old golf cart, through her gardens.)
Contrary to the expected outcome in dynastic families, the Murdoch kids have turned out well. They're diligent achievers. Beyond a few tattoos and piercings and a gossip-column affair (Elisabeth left her husband for Freud), they're not too rebellious either. And they get along—mostly (though his sons, when they were both on the News Corp. board, sometimes bickered endlessly during meetings). And that's good because his four oldest children will inherit voting control of one of the most influential companies in the world without any mechanism to break a tie.
There's Prue, the daughter from his first marriage, a 50-year-old Sydney housewife, the mother of his three oldest grandchildren, who has mostly forgiven him for not considering her—because she was a girl—as dynastic material. Prue, whose husband, Alasdair MacLeod, is a ranking player in the Australian operation, is the child who can most take him to task. ("I've said to him, 'Dad, I understand about dyeing the hair and the age thing'—he never wants to die—'but just go somewhere proper.' But he insists on doing it over the sink because he doesn't want anybody to know. Well, hello! Look in the mirror.") She is, in a sense, more like his wife than his wives. (Actually, he often mistakes her for one of his sisters.)
There's Elisabeth, 40, his first child with Anna, who, in his gradually transforming view of women (very gradual), was a candidate for running the company until, mad at him for leaving her mother, she upped and quit in 2000, to his great regret. She now lives in London with Freud and her four children and owns one of the largest independent television-production companies in the world (The Office and Ugly Betty are her company's shows).
There's his first son, Lachlan, 38, whom he had pronounced his heir apparent, whom he openly adores—almost pines after—and who left the company after his father failed to stand up for him against other News Corp. executives. Lachlan, although raised as a New Yorker, has reconstituted himself as an Australian. He owns a cricket team in India and, with Jamie Packer, the son of the late Kerry Packer, one of Murdoch's epochal enemies in the Australian media wars, tried and failed earlier this year to complete a multi-billion-dollar leveraged buyout of an Australian media company. (Murdoch was obviously pained when I returned from seeing Lachlan in Sydney and knew more about his son's deal than he did. Pained enough for him to try to pretend he knew—that his son hadn't excluded him.)
There's James, of whom he is clearly in some awe. James, who is based in London and who runs News Corp.'s business in Europe and Asia, has become exactly the sort of businessman he himself is not, programmatic, marketing-driven—rather, in fact, a highly intelligent automaton—and is now the favorite to become the C.E.O. of News Corp. (answering, however, to his three siblings, or at least to two of them, to get a majority).
And there are Murdoch's two youngest children: Grace, aged six, and Chloe, aged five, with whom he lives a Manhattan life of nannies, dogs, play dates, and a father picking up after them.
It's not just the sense of him as an attentive and concerned father that I find makes me misty, but this further sense he implies, even as he dreams of dynastic succession, of his lack of control over the children and their futures.
If he's proud of his kids' separate achievements, he's desperate to have them back in the business and around him. He openly spins scenarios about how they might be tempted back—stuck with the fact that he's raised them all well enough that they aren't particularly dependent on him (and, too, they are savvy enough to have figured out the virtue of distance).
In his divorce from Anna he agreed to make inviolable his four older children's control and interest in the trust. This agreement became hard to reconcile following the birth of his two younger children, and he petitioned his older children to admit their new siblings to the trust. A long negotiation ensued. He agreed to disburse $150 million to each of his children (with all of the family's wealth in News Corp. stock, the Murdoch kids have long complained to any News Corp. exec who would listen that they never had much real money to call their own), and, in return, his four older children gave up his ex-wife's so-called watertight agreement and admitted Grace and Chloe to an equal economic interest in the trust—but not a voting interest. (He was too scared or guilty about this decision to tell his wife directly and, instead, let it slip during an interview in 2006 on Charlie Rose—precipitating, when Wendi watched the interview, a marital battle that is still a legend at News Corp.)
His attitude about this is now curious, or alarming, or crafty. Although his older children happily spell out the terms of the trust, as does Murdoch's longtime lawyer, Arthur Siskind, Murdoch himself baldly denies that what is, is. All his children will participate equally, he says flatly. This is a broken synapse or his way of dealing with his lack of control or it's what he's telling his wife or it's Murdochian principle that everything can be renegotiated.
His takeover of The Wall Street Journal happened because the family that controlled Dow Jones for nearly a hundred years couldn't control itself. And while Murdoch both took advantage of the Bancroft family's weakness and was contemptuous of it (and morbidly fascinated by it), the irony hasn't passed him by that some variation on this fate will be his family's, too. (When I asked him in our final interview what he can do to prevent what happened to the Bancrofts from happening to his family, he threw his hands up in the air and said, "Oh, simple, I can't. All I can do is delay it.")
There is at News Corp. never a discussion of Murdoch's exit. It is referred to only as "in 30 or 40 years," when he is gone—which may have started as an amusing locution, but is now a practiced and even official one. His existential predicament is, in other words, his own.
This is an aspect of his special powers. People at News Corp. really do believe he is near immortal—or they are afraid not to believe (because after him the deluge). And he knows that the world (not just his world but the world he has had such an effect on) exists only as long as he does. Indeed, there may not be newspapers unless he owns them. It's a world that's on his shoulders.
It continues to all depend on him.
Michael Wolff is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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HITACHI, JAPAN--(Marketwire - Jan 22, 2013) - Kinbasha Gaming International, Inc. (OTCQB: KNBA), owner and operator of retail pachinko gaming centers nationally in Japan, today released a letter to shareholders from Masatoshi Takahama, Chief Executive Officer, providing investors with corporate highlights of 2012 and management's vision for the company in 2013.
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Kops suck and nobody wants to be one, BUT you know what - civilization evolved from anarchy when someone took it upon themselves to risk being perceived as as little bit uncool and pose the question "have you thought about what that the fuck you're about to do?" in an adult, civilized manner.
I just read the windsurfers thread and the contrast in opinion is remarkable:
"Just because a kite took out the wind sensor does not mean the kiter did anything wrong, or was a rookie (even if in this case, he was)... ...How was anyone supposed to know that he shouldn't be kiting there?"
vs "...Are you telling me that AFTER knocking out our precious sensor this guy went out into the Bay?? AND then required a rescue after that? Who is this guy because he should be banned from ever launching at Crissy again!"
I don't fully agree with either but wtf happened to a bit of humility and a good dose of personal responsibility? Wherever we ride we have a responsibility to not endanger others, public property, or ourselves to the point of getting our ass in a sling (too often). If you choose to behave otherwise, you're acting like a kid, and don't be surprised if some adults make some rules to govern your behavior.
I don't want to be a cop either, but I do think it's time we stopped pussy-footing around with kooks who seem bound to fuck up Crissy for everyone before long. The tide test suggested by @tgautier above is a good one. When a stranger in the parking lot asks me "how is it out there?" my stock answer is "super sketchy, don't go out," unless they demonstrate some real knowledge of the spot. When someone like the Fuel dude who took out the sensor just straight rigs up and walks out to launch without a word to anyone, it basically requires someone to intercept and have a word with Fuel while he's trying to sneak out to launch. That feels like being a cop, but how did we get people to stop littering, leaving dogshit on the sidewalk, or for that matter jacking up tourists for a few spare bucks?
Peer pressure... Civilization. I for one will try to be more diligent and if I see Fuel et al in the future and it occurs to me to have a word, I will do so.


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Philly's Ultimo Coffee, which started at 15th and Mifflin Streets in 2009 and opened a second shop last year at 22d and Catharine Streets, just snagged the #1 spot on TheDailyMeal.com's list of America's Best Coffee Shops.
"What makes Ultimo tick — and brings in Philadelphians in flocks? Simplicity, and a little bit of love," the blurb reads, in part. "And many will argue that Philadelphia, often seen as the underdog to the big cities of the Northeast, is hands-down the winner for the best cup of coffee because the coffee scene there is hardly home to the snobbery that can come with 'Third Wave' coffee." No atty-tude!
Town Hall in Merion Station - open about two years on Montgomery Avenue - came in at #33 nationally. The blurb reads, in part: "If we could transport the vibe from Cheers — where everyone knows your name — it could only be found at Town Hall Coffee Co." (Owner Tim Noble is about to open a second shop, downtown, in the Ben Franklin House at Ninth and Chestnut Streets.)
TheDailyMeal says its drink editor, Marcy Franklin, went through hundreds of listings of coffee shops. A panel of coffee aficionados and surveyors - coffee bloggers, coffee roasters, shop owners and baristas - then weighed in.
Editors also calculated the national "craft" coffee chains to be ranked among the list of independently owned coffee shops (in order to be considered "national," the chain must have shops in more than one state).
After Ultimo, the top five was rounded out by Gimme Coffee of Ithaca, N.Y.; Barista of Portland, Ore.; Courier Coffee of Portland, Ore.; and Cafe Grumpy of New York City.
Philly newcomer Joe was ranked #9 on the list.
Ultimo not only is a great name. It's the owners' name. Aaron and Elizabeth Ultimo set up their flagship location behind St. Agnes Hospital in a corner store shared with Brew, the craft-beer bottle shop owned by South Philadelphia Tap Room's John Longacre. Their Southwest Center City location is also shared; it's downstairs from Counter Culture's training center. Coincidence, perhaps, but both Ultimo and Town Hall sell Counter Culture Coffee.
Reached just after the list's midnight release, Aaron Ultimo said: "I'm obviously completely proud, honored and utterly blown away."


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Metzelaars To Join Academic All-America Hall of Fameby Brent Harris • March 3, 2011 Share:
Pete Metzelaars '82, along with four other former Academic All-America student-athletes, will be inducted into the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in June.
Dr. Carol Lally Shields (University of Notre Dame 1979), Dr. Randal Pinkett (Rutgers University 1994), Dr. Julie Bremner Romias (The University of California Los Angeles), and Dr. Megan Neyer (University of Florida, 1986) will join Metzelaars as inductees into the Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame. The five honorees will join 112 previous inductees as members of the Hall of Fame, which was created in 1988. The ceremony will take place on June 28 at CoSIDA's annual workshop, to be held in Marco Island, Florida.
"The Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame truly represents the 'Best of the Best' and the Class of 2011 truly lives up to this moniker," Larry Dougherty, Temple University Associate Athletics Director and 2010-11 CoSIDA President said. "Not only did these five individuals perform at the highest level — both in their sports as well as in the classroom — as student-athletes at their respective institutions, but they have gone on to continue to excel in their chosen fields and within their communities. It is with great pride that CoSIDA honors them as the newest members of the Capital One Academic All-America Hall of Fame."
Metzelaars excelled in both football and basketball during his four seasons at Wabash College. As a senior, he led Wabash to the NCAA Division III Men's Basketball National Championship while earning Tournament MVP and National Player of the Year honors. He set the NCAA Division III record for career field goal percentage (72.4 percent), which is still second in the current Division III record book and fourth in all NCAA divisions of college basketball. Metzelaars ranks second on the Wabash all-time scoring list with 1,976 points and holds the all-time record for rebounds with 1,176. He is the only player in Little Giant history with more than 1,000 career boards. His 370 rebounds as a senior is a Wabash single-season record.
Metzelaars also starred in football, where he earned Kodak Small College All-America honors in 1981. He caught 77 passes for a total of 1,196 yards and nine touchdowns as a tight end, helping Wabash to a record of 32-3-1 during his career. He ranks in the top-30 in Little Giant football history in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown catches. He was inducted into the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame in 1988.
Metzelaars graduated from Wabash in 1982 as an economics major. He was named to the 1981-82 CoSIDA Academic All-America Men's College Division Honorable Mention team with a 3.34 grade point average.
Drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 1982 in the third round of the NFL draft, Metzelaars would go on to play 16 seasons in the league with Seattle, Buffalo, Carolina, and Detroit. He played in four Super Bowls with Buffalo Bills, setting the club's record for pass receptions by a tight end with 302, which also ranks sixth on the all-time Bills' receptions list. He played in 235 games during his pro career, setting the NFL record for most games played by a tight end. Metzelaars was named to the Buffalo Bills' 50th Anniversary team in 2009. He was three-time Pro Bowl alternate, caught a touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXVI against the Washington Redskins, and caught the first touchdown pass in Carolina Panthers football history.
After retiring from the NFL at the end of the 1997 season, Metzelaars began his coaching career working with the Charlotte Christian School. He spent five seasons as a high school assistant coach while also working as a youth pastor in the church. In 2003 he was accepted into the NFL Europe coaching internship program. He spent the summer of the 2003 season with the Indianapolis Colts at the team's training camp before heading to Spain to work with the Barcelona Dragons. He also worked with Wingate University as an assistant coach during the 2003 season.
Metzelaars returned to the NFL as a coach, taking a position with the Indianapolis Colts as the team's offensive quality control coach in 2004. He was elevated to assistant offensive line coach in 2008 and was named the Colts' offensive line coach in 2010. He was part of the Colts' staff that guided the team to Super Bowls XLI and XLIV, adding a Super Bowl championship title to his coaching resume in 2007.
Metzelaars and his family have been active in their various communities. He and his wife, Barbara, were named the 1995 Western New York Citizens of the Year for their charitable work in the Buffalo area. They currently work with Life Centers in Indianapolis, where Barbara serves as the nursing director for the Center.
The Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame as selected by CoSIDA was established to honor former college student-athletes who have excelled in their professions and made substantial contributions to their community. To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, a candidate must have been an Academic All-America team member who graduated at least ten year prior to nomination.


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Damien890 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 889 diseños de 225 diseñadores freelance.
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Our website is currently live at http://www.fluide.com (we are changing our name from "Fluide" to "Scalable Path" and need a new logo).
Scalable Path is a web development consultancy specializing in web application development. The owner and lead consultant, Damien Filiatrault (me), is located primarily in San Francisco, California. We are more technically focused than most web developers (more coders than designers). We enjoy solving tricky technical problems quickly and affordably for clients. We primarily build complicated websites (applications), but will also do simpler websites and other work if we have the skills. We are successful because we offer the quality of an agency in San Francisco at less than half the cost of most other agencies. Our developers are mostly in their twenties and pride themselves on keeping up with the latest technologies. We are a young company (just formed this year) but we are doing very well. This is our first official website. The employees have strong technical backgrounds. Damien Filiatrault (me) led the PHP team of 15 developers at a major San Francisco agency, SolutionSet.
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-A "path" is also something that comes from computer science and is a link or edge between two points or nodes on a graph.
I am imagining some use of the graph idea in the logo. Perhaps the graph or "path" is growing or going in an upwards direction to represent the "scalable" part.
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- Cartoonists: Editorial cartoonists will include Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher from the Baltimore Sun, Cal Grodahl from the Ogden Standard Examiner and Pat Bagley from the Salt Lake Tribune.
- Paleontology Writer: Acclaimed science writer Brian Switek will discuss the most recent dinosaur discoveries and how our understanding of what dinosaurs looked like continues to change.
- Fossil Prep Lab: Go behind the glass windows to tour the Museum's Fossil Prep Lab to see real dinosaur fossils and the tools used to uncover them.
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Sony has turned to SanDisk to help it develop the next incarnation of its Memory Stick memory card format: the Memory Stick Pro HG. The Memory Stick Duo-sized card ups the maximum storage capacity to 32GB, though it may be some time before 32GB cards come to market.
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Dr. Louis B. Daniel III, Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, upon the recommendation of Laura Gerald, M.D., M.P.H., State Health Director, Department of Health and Human Services, hereby announces that the following shellfish area temporary closures will take effect immediately:
No person shall take or attempt to take any oysters, clams or mussels or possess, sell or offer for sale any oysters, clams or mussels taken from the following polluted areas:
All those waters between ICWW marker "84" near Ocean Isle and the South Carolina State Line, to include the Tubbs Inlet area.
Lockwoods Folly River: All those waters north of a line beginning on the west shore at a point 33°55.7954'N - 78°13.3096' W approximately midway between Genoes Point and Spring Creek; running southeasterly to a point 33°55.2284'N - 78°12.7791' W near the northwest point of Horse Island, to include the open portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Water Way north of Horse Island.
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The interior of your home is important, but the warmer months provide you with the perfect opportunity to adorn its exterior. Planting colorful window boxes is a great way to invigorate your home on a dime, albeit temporarily. Here are some tips for how.
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May 05, 2014
Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy will acknowledge a special group of Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Middle School students who have given of their time and completed several charity projects for the community.
Most recently the members of the Family and Consumer Sciences Club at RCS completed a quilt for donation to the Linus project, which provides new handmade blankets to children who are ill or have been traumatized in some way. The children have also carried out book drives, volunteered at the Regional Food Bank and have collected money for Pennies for Patients, which helps those with leukemia and lymphoma.
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Minnesota Statute 136F.67 requires that colleges and universities charge parking fees to generate revenue for parking lot construction, improvements and maintenance, and parking enforcement.
Vehicles parked on campus of Alexandria Technical & Community College must have a parking permit hanging from the rearview mirror, facing forward, and visible from the front of the vehicle.
Vehicles displaying government plates are exempt from the parking permit requirement.
The purchase of a parking permit does not guarantee availability of a parking space.
All persons operating motor vehicles on college property shall do so at their own risk. No responsibility or liability shall be assumed by ATCC for loss of property, damage to vehicle while parked, damage which may be incurred through the process of impounding the vehicle, or any other damage or loss of any kind sustained while on ATCC property.
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Despite being two of the most famous, successful people on the planet, Beyonce and Jay-Z aren't exactly what you'd call a very public couple. They're basically the opposite of Kim and Kanye. (No wonder Bey isn't wild about being Kim's new BFF.) So when Jay and his wife, aka the Belle of the 2013 Super Bowl, shared a huge hug in front of others (specifically makeup artist Joanna Simkin, who did a gorgeous job!) last night, we gasped a little. "Mutual gravity," Simkin wrote of the photo. "Hold down and be held down. #TheCarters."
Awww! Cue the gushfest. I feel like we're especially fascinated with Bey and Jay's romance, because OMG, they are both so freakin' successful! Who knew celebs who are so busy and so talented actually have time to be so ... normal? And sweet? And affectionate?
But, realistically, when you're living on top of the world and have so much going on, it's probably not easy to enjoy much quiet, alone time together. Let alone remember to shower one another in "random acts of romance" all the time.
Yeah, sometimes, those just pop up naturally, but sometimes, you have to remind yourself to make 'em a priority. To send a supportive text or tweet or pouncing on them when they've come home from a long hard day (or performing in front of an entire SUPERDOME full of people, whatevs) to show your mate how much you support and adore them. Especially when careers, kids, other obligations consume you. But even little displays of affection -- public or private -- go a long way to accomplishing that.
More from The Stir: Beyonce's S&M Super Bowl Outfit & 'Nip Slip' Have People Freaking Out
Sheesh, really, when you think about it ... seeing how these two mega-stars clearly make the effort to express their love in small but significant ways, there's no excuse for any of us to not be doing the same for our sweeties!
How cute is their PDA? Do you and your partner go out of your way to make sure you're showing one another little displays of love?


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xbay wrote:JayPat keeps forgetting to set his rosters. There's a reason why he's 1-35-9.
To be honest, it's better if it stays that way, as then it will be even for everyone. What might do and the lot of yous can say what you think, is wait until everyone has played JPat once and then place his players in active roster positions. That leaves this week and next week and then it's back to playing the person you played in week 1 again


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Big Sister Dress, Big Sister Shirt, Birth Announcement, Big Sister Announcement, New Baby Gift for Sister, Sister Gift, New Baby Announcement, Little Sister, Lil Sister.
This listing is for (2)Long Sleeve Dress Set "Big Sister & Little Sister". Hair Bow clips are not included, but sold separately( See link below).
Please choose Big Sister and Little Sister DRess Sizes from Dropdown and Leave 2 glitter choices for design in notes section at checkout (1-lettering and wreath, 1-heart)
Hair Bow Listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/385963602/sequin-hair-bow-glitter-hair-bow-bow?ref=shop_home_active_1
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***Please Measure your child, as items cannot be returned or exchanged, once they are shipped***
Wash Instructions: Cold Water, inside out with like colors, dry on low or hang dry.
Processing time is 7-14 business days, if you should need your order by a specific date, please contact me:)
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The latest entry in the pseudo-documentary horror film sweepstakes, "The Last Exorcism" has its terrifying moments and its silly ones.
Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) is an evangelist who has been barnstorming since he was a kid. (He appears to have been modeled somewhat on Marjoe Gortner, who was the subject of the 1972 documentary "Marjoe.") He's also a con man. Intending to blow the lid off his charlatanism, he brings along a camera crew to a rural Louisiana home to document how he fakes the exorcism of the stricken daughter (Ashley Bell, suitably high-strung) of a fundamentalist farmer (Louis Herthum). Cotton, of course, ends up confronting more than he anticipated.
The director, Daniel Stamm, and writers Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko are trying for more than a run-of-the-mill horror cheapie – the rural atmosphere is well wrought and so is the depiction of phony evangelism – but it all devolves into the usual heebie-jeebies by the end. Grade: B- (Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent content and terror, some sexual references, and thematic material.)
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Simon.strode needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Halpin Financial Services
Boutique Financial Planning practice, advising clients since 1972. Specialising in high net worth private clients and SME's. Advice areas include portfolio advice, strategic advice and risk management advice. Clients are generally sourced from Business Accounting relationships. Demographic of clients: on average aged 45+, very few clients below this age. The average client is conservative and wealthy. Our business name is Halpin Financial Services although most clients would know us as 'Genesys Wealth Advisers' as we are part of what is known as a dealer group, essentially a franchise. We have chosen to begin moving away from the Genesys brand to promote our own identity.
High Net Worth clients. Small to Medium sized business owners. Middle Class clients in the age group 45+. High income earning Professionals/managers.
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Looking for a logo that gives an impression of high end, quality, financial advice. A logo that implies trust, history, and success.
Style Guide for 'Genesys Wealth Advisers' attached. As already mentioned, we are looking to move away from this brand. Merely attached for background of how the business currently represents itself. We do not wish to use the Genesys colours.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kaytlyn Coleman of Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) has been named the NAIA National Women's Indoor Track Athlete of the Week and Gabi Jenkins of Nebraska Wesleyan has been selected as the NAIA National Women's Indoor Field Athlete of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Coleman and Jenkins were selected based on their performances from Feb. 3 – 9.
Coleman, a sophomore from Kennewick, Wash., recorded a season-best and NAIA-leading distance of 18.92 meters (62'-2") en route to an individual title in the weight throw at the Idaho Vandal Indoor in Moscow, Idaho, on Feb. 7. She also finished fifth among a field of 15 in the shot put with a mark of 13.23 (43'-5"). One day later at the Vandal Open, Coleman claimed top prize in both the weight throw (18.28 meters – 59'-11 ¾") and shot put (12.91 meters – 42'-4 ¼"). Both victories came against fields of at least 24 participants.
Jenkins, a sophomore from Papillion, Neb., won the 3,000 meters at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., on Feb. 8. She recorded a season-best and school record time of 9:58.32 to best a 20-person field comprised of NCAA Division I and Division II individuals.
The next Women's Indoor Track & Field weekly awards will be announced on Feb. 19. For the complete Athlete of the Week calendar, click here.
Track Nominees: Breanne Newton, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Lindsey Martin, Columbia (Mo.); Lee Anna Sanders, William Woods (Mo.); Jasmine Hurd, College of Idaho; Irene Olivo, Eastern Oregon; Abby Dunn, Goshen (Ind.); Hannah Schroder, Taylor (Ind.); Kyla Morgan, Indiana Wesleyan; Latecia Howell, Carroll (Mont.); Ana Richter, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Rachel Cundy, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Nicole Brist, Great Falls (Mont.); Hannah Kellerman, The Master's (Calif.); Kim Wood, Concordia (Neb.); Katie Bonnema, Dordt (Iowa); Sandrae Farquharson, Doane (Neb.); Neeia Cooperwood, Morningside (Iowa); Megan Walhof, Northwestern (Iowa); Sarah Niemeier, Missouri Valley; Jillian Benson, Baker (Kan.); Jillian Benson, Baker (Kan.); Sharica Pleasant, McPherson (Kan.); Danielle Hoop, Cumberlands (Ky.); Talisa Budder, Haskell (Kan.); Austyn Thier, Clarke (Iowa); Hannah Stouffer, Grand View (Iowa); Deja Lewis, William Penn (Iowa); Aleona Reyes, Jamestown (N.D.); Akela Jones, Oklahoma Baptist; Katrina Nolan, Oklahoma City; Brenda Filipe, Texas Wesleyan; Jess Maggio, Southern Wesleyan (S.C.); Mariah Johnson, Northwood (Fla.); Halle Green-Anderson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Trinity Hulst, Cornerstone (Mich.); Malika Rashid, Indiana Tech; Stephanie Marquardt, Siena Heights (Mich.); Kelsee VanderBaan, Davenport (Mich.).
Field Nominees: Tali Fagen, Eastern Oregon; Isi Edeko, St. Francis (Ill.); Holli Leslie, Indiana Wesleyan; Ashley Medeiros, Carroll (Mont.); Ashley Thoeny, Great Falls (Mont.); Jessica Vogt, Doane (Neb.); Jennifer Maag, Hastings (Neb.); Kayla Hannam, Baker (Kan.); Brittany Brisco, Missouri Valley; Kaitlyn Davis, Bethany (Kan.); Taylor Mayes, Cumberlands (Ky.); Colleen Frank, Grand View (Iowa); Brittany Demmer, Clarke (Iowa); Meaghan Foster, William Penn (Iowa); Jessica Meland, Valley City State (N.D.); Josie Bopp, Jamestown (N.D.); Akela Jones, Oklahoma Baptist; Ongelic Hill, Texas Wesleyan; Amber King, Southern Wesleyan (S.C.); Reta Woodard, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Mariah Johnson, Northwood (Fla.); Brittany Green, Cornerstone (Mich.); Stacia Murray, Indiana Tech; Taylor Byron, Siena Heights (Mich.).
2014 Women's Indoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week (Field, Track)
Week 1 (Jan. 22): Akela Jones, Oklahoma Baptist; Hannah Helker, Oklahoma Baptist
Week 2 (Jan. 29): Brittany Green, Cornerstone (Mich.); Shani Adams, Wayland Baptist (Texas)
Week 3 (Feb. 5): Akela Jones, Oklahoma Baptist; Avante Newsome-Gunn, Bethel (Ind.)
Week 4 (Feb. 12): Kaytlyn Coleman, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Gabi Jenkins, Nebraska Wesleyan


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From late October to the end of the year, it's a very demanding time in the kitchen. Between holiday cookie baking (and shipping), to the celebratory meals of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, there never truly is a respite for those of us who cook and bake.
Busy cooks, whose responsibilities include a whole lot more than cooking, particularly feel seasonal stress and come this time of the year, welcome ways to restore balance into our lives.
Returning ourselves and those we cook for to simpler meals like soup, for instance, is a good way to begin the restorative process. In fact, many of you have shared that your bodies are actually screaming for soup — chicken, beef, no meat at all, you don't care — as long as it's hot, nutritious and chock full of vegetables.
For those in need of a sweeter post-holiday stress-reducer, a homemade old-fashioned kind of pudding, such as butterscotch, has been known to deliciously do the job, as well.
You'll find two recipes for butterscotch here, one that is baked, from Sur La Table's "Simple Comforts: 50 Heartwarming Recipes, the other for a less-rich version, cooked on top of the stove.
Even if you find yourself enviably stress-free and feeling rather well — trust me — a bowlful of steaming soup or velvety, made-from-scratch pudding, will make you even better.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 683-0375.
3 medium onions, peeled and cut into quarters
1 pound lean ground beef
2 cloves garlic minced
2 quarts rich beef stock
1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes, undrained
3 celery stalks, with leaves, slices
2 medium carrots, sliced
4 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into large chunks
1 (14.5 ounce) can cut green beans, drained
1 (8.5 ounce) can baby lima beans, drained
1 (11-ounce) can vacuum-packed whole kernel corn
¾ cup dry red wine
½ medium head cabbage, cut into eighths
¼ cup minced fresh parsley, plus more
for garnishing
2 bay leaves
¾ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
¾ teaspoon dried marjoram
Salt and fresh ground black pepper
In a large soup pot, or Dutch oven, cook onion, beef and garlic, until beef is browned. Drain fat from pot. Add remaining ingredients to pot, except for the cabbage salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for one hour. After one hour, add cabbage to the soup pot, cooking for 20 minutes, more. Remove bay leaves and season with salt and pepper, to taste, before serving. Makes 8 servings.
Recipe courtesy "Simple Comforts: 50 Heartwarming Recipes," compiled by Sur la Table (www.surlatable.com); Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (www.andrewsmcmeel.com).
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 cups heavy cream
½ cup whole milk
1 teaspoon coarse salt
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg
5 large egg yolks
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Melt the butter in a medium, heavy-based saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar and stir with a wooden spoon or heatproof rubber spatula until blended. Bring the thick sugar mixture to a boil and cook, stirring and scraping, for about 4 minutes from the time it starts to bubble. At first it will look puffy and frothy, but eventually it turns smoother and creamier as the moisture cooks off. Scrape the sides and bottom of the pan well so the sugar caramelizes but doesn't burn. Carefully pour in the cream and milk. It will sizzle and the sugar will seize up in a lump, but that's okay. Gently whisk the mixture over medium heat until all the sugar has melted and the mixture is smooth. Whisk in the salt and vanilla. Put the egg and eggs yolks into a medium bowl and whisk until blended. Gently whisk in the hot cream until well blended, but don't whisk vigorously because you don't want to work air into the pudding. Put six 6-ounce cups into a 13 x 9-inch baking dish and pour the pudding batter into the cups. Add very hot water to the baking dish so it comes halfway up the ramekins. Cover the whole dish with foil and carefully transfer the dish in the oven. Don't let the water slosh into the puddings. Bake until the edges of the puddings are set and the centers are still quite wobbly, 45 to 50 minutes. Remove the dish from the oven, take the puddings from the water bath using tongs or a kitchen towel to protect your hands and let them cool for about an hour on a rack. Cover each with plastic wrap and transfer to the fridge to chill for at least 3 hours or up to 3 days. Serves 6*.
*Kitchen Ade note: Using 6-ounce ramekins, I was able to get 8 servings from this recipe.
Chicago Metallic's Crème Brûlée Six-Piece Set, which comes equipped with an 8-inch square aluminized steel baking dish, chrome wire holding rack and four (6-ounce) porcelain ramekins, makes transporting pudding and custards to and from the oven in a water bath an easy process. To use the set, the wire rack is placed into the pan and then the pan is filled halfway with hot water. After the pan is filled with the water, the ramekins are placed into the wire rack and the pudding mixture is poured into the cups. (For this pudding recipe, I used two Crème Brûlée sets.) Find the set, which retails for approximately $20, at Sur La Table, www.surlatable.com, 800-243-0852, or at other stores and on-line sources specializing in kitchenware and cook's tools.
2¼ cups whole milk
⅔ cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
Pinch salt
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, optional
Place 2 cups of the milk, sugar and salt in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Stirring constantly, cook mixture to scalding, then remove pan for heat. Combine the cornstarch and remaining ¼ cup of milk into a small mixing bowl, stirring to blend until smooth. Whisk cornstarch mixture into scalded milk mixture, then return pan to medium-low heat heat, stirring until the mixture thickens and begins to boil, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring constantly and being careful not to let mixture burn or stick to the bottom of the pan. Remove pan from heat and stir in butter (if using) and vanilla, mixing until butter is complelely melted. Divide pudding among four small serving dishes, covering each with a piece of plastic wrap to keep a skin from forming on top of the pudding. (If you like the skin that forms on top of the pudding as it cools — skip this step). Refrigerate until chilled, about 3 hours, or enjoy warm. Pudding is best eaten within one day of making. Makes 4 servings.


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You rarely find Black people, mostly older ones, conversating for more than a few minutes without the subject of church or "how good God is" randomly being brought up. Me having yet to confess my Atheism to my family (only because I'm still somewhat dependent on them), I constantly have to endure my extremely religious grandmother giving me a two-hour lecture about the grace of God and how getting on my knees and begging for help will fix my life. Possibly even worse is my father telling me I should attend church more often to get more blessings and to sleep with a Bible under my pillow to combat frightening dreams brought about by a mental illness I have (dreams of the Hebrews slaughtering the Caananites at Jericho is hardly a desirable substitute). Needless to say it doesn't work at all. I've even had serious thoughts of deleting my Facebook account just because I'm so effing tired of seeing "God is so good","I'll let the Lord handle this", etc. You'd think young adults would be more proud of their own accomplishments and more willing to fight their own battles, but logic can't be applied to some situations.
Any person following any religion is illogical to me, but it upsets me to see even the most intelligent of my people following Christianity; a religion that was imposed upon us by slaveholders that kidnapped, abused, and sold us like loaves of bread, denies scientific facts and discoveries that have been proven a billion ways, condones slavery, and is based around a book that has so many opposing views and contradictions (if you can even find a copy that isn't over-translated.... good luck with that) that you would think the co-authors are Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. Just think about it, this God placed you on Earth without your consent and expects you to praise him incessantly for it, makes you follow his guidelines to a tee in exchange for a somewhat decent life at most, and punishes you cruelly for even the slightest infraction of the rules he has imposed on you. It's damn near a dictionary description of slavery! So for the people reading this (thanks, by the way), I would like your opinion.
Why are Black people so overwhelmingly Christian?
Why are Black still openly participating in slavery?
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Sorry I don't have time to read all the responses in this thread right now, but wanted to answer to one of your questions.
Black people are overwhelmingly Christian in this country because they are oppressed. Karl Marx said "religion is the opiate of the masses" and by that he didn't mean that theists are a bunch of dopeheads, but rather that the capitalist class (those who own the means of production...factories, farms etc..) and former chattel slave-owning class use(d) religion to dope the masses. Marx went on to say that religion is the "heart of a heartless world" by which he means that if the world had a heart that people wouldn't turn to religion. Black people have experienced tremendous suffering and use religion as dope. Anything to distract from their suffering, some use real dope, most use religion. Why search for answers to your oppression in a scientific manner when everything is in god's hands? Why bother with trying to change your place in this world when the most important life is to come? Furthermore, Black families have historically owned less means of production and the vast majority spend a great deal of their existence wrapped up in securing their survival, whereas rich White families are afforded the ability to set around and study about what interests them while Black and other oppressed peoples (including some Whites) are doing the vast majority of the labor that keeps society going. There are less Black atheists, not because Black people are genetically inferior to others, but because White male supremacy is built into the very fabric of the capitalist system. Revolution to place the means of production into common ownership is necessary to defeat the dictatorship of the capitalist class and the White male supremacy that flows from it.
I'll read all the responses and dig deeper into your excellent questions sometime tomorrow. There's a real good talk about this subject that (should) autoplay on my page.
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