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Bowl-a-thon Sunday to aid children's home
DOVER — Lanes are filling quickly for this weekend's bowl-a-thon to support Dover Children's Home.
On Sunday, Feb. 17, the event will bring in 90 lanes worth of community members to bowl candlepin or tenpin, raising money for the home that houses struggling adolescents and troubled youth.
"So many businesses and groups have come together for the great cause," Donna Coraluzzo, Executive Director of the Home said.
Dover Police Charities, New Hampshire State Police, First Parish Church, Liberty Mutual, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, TD Bank, Sun Life Financial and Stonewall Kitchen are just a few of the participating businesses.
"As of (Monday), we have 14 lanes left to fill," Coraluzzo said, adding that 304 bowlers have registered.
All bowling shoes and lane fees are provided free of charge for all participants by the underwriters of the event, Summit Land Development and Great Island Realty.
Lanes can be reserved for four-person teams on Sunday at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. or 3 p.m., by registering online now at http://doverchildrenshome.brownpapertickets.com.
The event is open for all ages, but each bowler is asked to raise at least $100 in pledges. However, there is no required minimum.
Prizes will be awarded after each session for teams that raise the most money, have the highest bowling score and have the most creative team attire.
The members of each team who raise a combined total of $800 or more will be entered into a grand-prize drawing for a two-night stay, with breakfast, at the Courtyard Marriott in Lake Placid, New York.
For pledge forms, visit http://doverchildrenshome.org/images/Bowl-a-thon%20Pledge%20Form.pdf.
All checks should be made payable to Dover Children's Home. All monetary pledges should be brought to the event. The Bowl-a-Thon will be held at Dover Bowl at 887 Central Avenue.
For more information, contact Donna Coraluzzo at (603) 742-4289, ext. 12. or by email at email@example.com.


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The new-look Big 12 is ready for some football.
OK, the conference's logo is what's new this year. There are no changes in the makeup or format of the 10-team league, the only power conference with a round-robin schedule that determines a champion without an extra game.
The goal now for the Big 12, last represented in the BCS national championship game five seasons ago, is to get a team in the new four-team College Football Playoff that begins this season. The first championship game will be played in the heart of Big 12 country -- Arlington, Texas.Baylor arrives Monday at Big 12 Football Media Days as the defending league champion for the first time. The Bears should be pretty good again, but eight-time champ Oklahoma is the preseason pick to win another title.
Here are five things to know about media days, which are Monday and Tuesday in Dallas:
DIFFERENT TONE? When Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby addressed the media during the opening session last year, he was part of a coordinated effort by the leaders of the power conferences -- the Big 12, SEC, Big Ten, Pac 12 and ACC -- in calling for transformative changes in the governance system of the NCAA. Bowlsby's opening address Monday comes 2 1/2 weeks before the NCAA board of directors vote Aug. 7 on a formal proposal to give schools in the highest-profile conferences more influence over the college rules. The proposal also would give athletic directors and student-athletes bigger roles in the legislative process.
• Division I moves closer to new structure
WHO'S PICKED FIRST? There is much more consensus this year among the media on who will win the Big 12 title. Oklahoma is the overwhelming favorite to win its ninth Big 12 championship. The Sooners got 47 of the 56 first-place votes, with defending champ Baylor getting the other nine. In the same poll before last season, there were 43 total votes cast -- and six different teams got picked first. Oklahoma State was then the preseason pick and the Bears were tabbed fifth with only two first-place votes.
STRONG DEBUT: The last of the 10 coaches to take the podium in the main news conference room at the Omni Dallas Hotel will be new Texas coach Charlie Strong. It is first time since 1997 that Mack Brown isn't speaking on behalf of the Longhorns. Strong did a 12-city tour this past spring, with a message to Texas fans about improved mental and physical toughness. This will be his first appearance before the fully assembled Big 12 media.
WHERE ARE ALL THE QBs? After leading Baylor to its first Big 12 title, throwing for 4,200 yards with 32 touchdowns and leading the Big 12 with 14 rushing scores, Bryce Petty is an obvious pick to take part in media days. He was also voted by media as the Big 12's preseason offensive player of the year. But Petty is only one of three quarterbacks set to be in Dallas. The others are Oklahoma sophomore Trevor Knight, who threw four TDs in a Sugar Bowl victory against Alabama, and Kansas State senior Jake Waters.
NEW IDENTITY: The Big 12 unveiled its new logo July 1 as part of a new set of branding and identity standards. Big 12 Football Media Days will be the first major event for prominent display of the new logo which Bowlsby said "integrates the league's iconic heritage with a progressive new look." The new logo still incorporates the use of Roman numerals.
• Big 12 Football Media Days schedule
• College football tickets

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Monday, December 15, 2008
Watch Emmanuel's Christmas Pageant LIVE!
67 comments:
- New BBC Open Forum said...
Just curious. Is your church charging the people who attend? What is your opinion about churches charging people to attend their Christmas and Easter programs?
- Mon Dec 15, 10:55:00 PM 2008
- wadeburleson.org said...
We don't charge.
I really have no opinion on churches that do.
- Mon Dec 15, 11:03:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
No opinion about churches that charge people to hear the gospel? Wow.
I'm glad your church doesn't charge and I'll try to tune in tomorrow. If a church has to charge to present a Christmas or Easter program, they need to scale back the program.
Bellevue Baptist in Memphis will be streaming their Singing Christmas Tree production live tomorrow and Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. CST on 316Networks or through Bellevue's website. That's free, but if you want to see it in person you have to buy a ticket, and once there, you'll be encouraged to pony up a voluntary donation.
- Mon Dec 15, 11:45:00 PM 2008
I just cannot pass this by...you know I love your blog and have learned so much from you and so totally respect you...so take this as a joke...but i thought my computer had malfunctioned...Wade Burleson, no opinion...did I read that right? HA!
- Tue Dec 16, 07:11:00 AM 2008
New BBC, the "donation you are asked to pony up" is normally referred to as an "offering." Happens as often as having food in most So. Baptist churches. :)
- Tue Dec 16, 07:30:00 AM 2008
- John Daly said...
If there's food being served I can see a charge for members but never for visitors.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:47:00 AM 2008
- Jake Barker said...
The program must be good. My wife and I were in Enid, Sunday afternoon and Emmanuel's parking lot was packed full....even had folks directing the parking. It was hard to believe the number of folks at a church on a Sunday mid-afternoon.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:55:00 AM 2008
- Bob Cleveland said...
I've always felt that a refusal to form an opinion as to someone else's actions, to which you are not a party, is the essence of "judge not...".
- Tue Dec 16, 08:49:00 AM 2008
- Scott Shaffer said...
I think it is quite possible to form an opinion without judging, at least in the sense Jesus meant, but it is impossible to judge someone without first forming an opinion.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:55:00 AM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
Bob: I've always felt that a refusal to form an opinion as to someone else's actions, to which you are not a party, is the essence of "judge not...".
Well, I am "not a party" to the thousands of abortions performed every day in this country. However, I do have a very strong opinion that abortion is wrong. Matthew 7:1 has to be one of the most misinterpreted and misused verses in the Bible. By your definition and that of most of the world, having an opinion regarding right and wrong makes one "judgmental."
- Tue Dec 16, 09:26:00 AM 2008
- Alan Paul said...
Wow. Baptists will find ANYTHING to argue about and play one upsmanship over- even a simple ad for a church event. How sad.
- Tue Dec 16, 10:32:00 AM 2008
New BBC open Forum,
After reading your blog, and if I am to assume that all of this stuff is true, your church I must say is a disgrace to the convention.
That being said, I thought the interpretive dance was awesome. I would most certainly allow it in my church and could only hope my kids did as good a job. But if not and if their hearts were in the right place then glory be to God.
But seriously. What is up with the people at BBC? Are they happy that their pastor is another Patterson/Brunson type? Funny that I never heard in Expository Preaching class an illustration like that of the dining room set. While the son preached against Osteen, the father preaches "Jesus wants to bless you."
I like Wade, have no opinion either on the inappropriateness of charging people to attend a worship service to the Living God in Heaven.
- Tue Dec 16, 11:16:00 AM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
Anon 9:30,
No, the word used was "donation." I didn't hear the word "offering" one time.
There is no food, and everyone, member and visitor alike, has to purchase a ticket.
In past years they've offered 10 complimentary sponsor tickets to each member to distribute in the workplace and community. (Last year that number was cut to 8.) Anyone could show up before each performance without a ticket and be seated for free. But so many people have left Bellevue and with the economy on the downturn the money is drying up, so they decided to charge everyone. Never mind that there have been plenty of empty seats left for every performance. Anyone who wanders in still has to purchase a ticket. Based upon the number of tickets left as of one week ago, the number of seats in the auditorium, and the number of performances, someone estimated they'd already taken in around $440,000. (Bet that got the attention of some of you guys!) That number has certainly gone up since then as more tickets have been sold.
Last year and this year the setting was New York's Rockefeller Center. The "drama" is so corny, disjointed, and badly acted it's painfully embarrassing to watch, much less think of guests watching. One of the main characters is an Italian chef named Luigi who runs around wearing a bushy, fake mustache, jabbering in a thick Italian accent.
This year they grounded the flying angels, which was probably the only big cost (for the tracks and rigging which they rented every year) since they reuse the sets from year to year, and now the angels just come out on the stage and cavort around.
The cast and crew are all volunteers. In fact, open auditions were held -- for anyone in the community. There are many non-members and even non-Christians participating. It's more like a community theater production.
Gone are Mary and Joseph except for two brief appearances with an infant and then a toddler. Gone is the whole wise men/kings procession which used to be one of the highlights as a long procession of kings, wise men, and attendants in beautiful costumes wound their way through the audience to the accompaniment of stirring music and onto the stage to bow before Jesus. This year they simply cut from NYC to Mary and Joseph standing there with the toddler Jesus, and three or four wise men who apparently stealthily walk on from the side of the stage where they're seen bowing in front of young Jesus with the modern day characters milling around them. It's more like a postcard than a presence, and if one didn't already know the story, he would have no idea what any of it means. It makes no sense.
Almost all the beautiful, traditional songs are gone (Handel's Hallelujah Chorus remains for now), replaced by tuneless, unrecognizable numbers and irreverently jazzed-up versions of old songs (e.g. Joy to the World and No Room) which now sound like something you'd hear in a lounge act rather than a church.
The soul-stirring Mary/Joseph/angel trio singing Hail, Favored One is gone. Two angels are lowered from the ceiling in front, a boy, then a girl, but they don't seem to be connected to anything. The boy angel is hanging in front of the windows of Rockefeller Center which just looks ridiculous. He would have looked more at home up there in a Superman outfit and cape. In fact, Joseph might as well be gone altogether since all he does is stand there and smile. Mary sings an unfamiliar duet with one of the modern characters. That doesn't make sense either. So much of what made the production about the true meaning of Christmas is gone or greatly scaled back and has been replaced by senseless, cornball skits by modern-day characters and endless dance routines.
This is the complete text of how the production is described in the promotional materials:
A chill is in the air. The department store windows are decked out with imaginative displays capturing the excitement of the season. In Rockefeller Center, the biggest Christmas tree you've ever seen is glowing with lights. There's no place like New York City at Christmas, and the 2008 Singing Christmas Tree will once again bring a New York City-sized celebration right here to Bellevue. Join Kate, Luigi, and the cast for an unforgettable musical celebration.
Hello? This could just as easily be the promo for a Broadway show. No doubt Kate, Luigi, and all the other characters and dancers will be there every night. What a shame there's so little room left for JESUS, Mary, Joseph, and the wise men, shepherds, and angels.
Re tickets: from Bellevue's website...
This year, tickets are required for admission to the Singing Christmas Tree. If you do not have a ticket when you come to the presentation, you will need to go to the Events Registration Center to obtain one. Non-ticket holders will not be allowed to fill empty seats when the presentation begins. Don't take a chance on seats being available.
Complimentary (free) tickets will not be available. Tickets are now available at three price levels: $3, $6, and $12 instead of $10 across the board as in the past. While there are no complimentary seats, there are seats at a much lower price point than in years past.
Funny they had to explain that "complimentary" means "free." First of all, it's never been $10 "across the board." The $10 seats were what are now mostly "gold" and "silver" level seats, for sponsors or for anyone who wanted to reserve a particular seat. The "common folk" generally got in free.
Second, the whole (stated) point of the SCT has been to share the gospel with those in the community who otherwise might not hear it. Isn't it great that Jesus didn't think of charging the people who came to hear him speak! I'm reminded of this story someone related about the SCT from two years ago:
Remember the story of the single mom with two girls, who was homeless, had a car and was driving from Texas to family in Kentucky maybe. Her car broke down somewhere near the crosses [on I-40], and she walked into BBC on the night of the performance. They of course let her in, she was saved, as was one of her daughters I think. They gave her food, got her a hotel for the night, got her car fixed, and gave her money for the road. This year, no such story will we hear. Because she won't be let in.
What is our world coming to when churches won't even present the gospel without charging for it? How does anyone come up with such an idea and NO one stands up to tell them they are a fool? Scary!!
Scary, indeed.
(Word verification: trashily. Pretty apt description of some of the caliber of some of the performances in this year's SCT.)
Looking forward to seeing the performance from Enid tonight!
- Tue Dec 16, 12:48:00 PM 2008
- John Daly said...
Uhhh, BBC, might be time for a new fellowship to attend. I like going to the live Nativity scenes, you really can't be the realism. Although it's a little strange seeing Joseph & Mary change shifts every 15 minutes :)
- Tue Dec 16, 12:56:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
"What is up with the people at BBC? Are they happy that their pastor is another Patterson/Brunson type?"
I don't want to hijack Wade's blog with the issues at Bellevue. (The SCT was on topic. The rest of the BBC mess is not, at least not in this thread.) Apparently many of the people left are either content or just holding on and afraid to speak out. You're welcome to come over to our blog to continue this particular discussion.
The dining room furniture story was... ummm... different, huh?
- Tue Dec 16, 12:58:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
LOL! Ya think?
- Tue Dec 16, 01:05:00 PM 2008
BBC - Hearing one side of the story certainly makes the church sound as if they have made a series of bad decisions. I was going to suggest you find another place to fellowship as did NV.
However, since you have since given the impression that you have already left or soon will be leaving, my attention instead turns to you as I wonder why you feel it is appropriate to speak of the church as you have when you are not attending there or soon will not be attending there?
I think you and that congregation need a 4 week series (every service) delivered by John Piper.
And then do it again the next 4 weeks.
- Tue Dec 16, 05:38:00 PM 2008
- Bob Cleveland said...
No disagreement, but BBC expressed disdain, disbelief, or dissomething that Wade expressed no opinion about those other churches.
Failure to have an opinion on something like that is more to be admired than questioned..
- Tue Dec 16, 06:42:00 PM 2008
I attended the second performance Sunday! Packed out and excellent!
We came Tuesday night last year and couldn't find a seat. I don't think that will be a problem tonight. Hope there are some who come. Roads are HORRIBLE and ice covered. Please be careful one and all cast members. I'll be watching.
Tue Dec 16, 08:48:00 PM 2008
- Tue Dec 16, 06:49:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
At least you put it more kindly than most. After Steve Gaines ran roughshod over what was formerly a thriving church, one of the most commonly heard phrases there, including from the pulpit, was... "If you don't like it, leave." This to people who'd been there 20, 30, 40, 50 years or longer. People who helped build that church (lower case "c") through their offerings, time, sweat, and sacrifices. People who weren't opposed to change (it's not "all about the music"), but people who recognized that something was terribly wrong.
"I wonder why you feel it is appropriate to speak of the church as you have when you are not attending there or soon will not be attending there?"
Oh, I don't know. Maybe for some of the same reasons Wade still speaks of the IMB. Or maybe I'm just eeeeeeevil! Please refrain from questioning my motives when you know nothing of the situation. If I didn't know better I might think you were judging me.
Sorry, I'm not a fan of John Piper, but thank you for your thoughts.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:30:00 PM 2008
- John Daly said...
Okay I'm currently watching, is anyone else?
- Tue Dec 16, 07:39:00 PM 2008
Yep. Doug from Japan
- Tue Dec 16, 07:48:00 PM 2008
I don't know that people watching would be on the blog. Two separate sites.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:49:00 PM 2008
- Zack Barnes said...
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- Tue Dec 16, 07:50:00 PM 2008
Working on my computer.
Watching it live now.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:52:00 PM 2008
Carol from Panama City.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:53:00 PM 2008
Really enjoying it.
- Tue Dec 16, 07:54:00 PM 2008
The candle song is cool!!
- Tue Dec 16, 07:59:00 PM 2008
- John Daly said...
Yea, that's my favorite so far.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:00:00 PM 2008
What size church is Emmanuel? I just ask because there seems to be a full orchestra and if this is the sixth of seven performances, it seems to be pretty large, but I thought Enid was only a community of 50,000. Am I wrong?
- Tue Dec 16, 08:02:00 PM 2008
Nope. You are right. Half the town belongs to Emmanuel.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:03:00 PM 2008
The drama portion begins after the opening concert. I was there the other night, and I can sure tell you the gospel is shared. My teenage niece asked Christ into her life after the evening performance. Pretty powerful crucifixion and resurrection scene.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:05:00 PM 2008
You will be told at the end that the drama portion of the pageant is based on a real man who was a member of Emmanuel in the 1960's and died in a rescue mission in Laos in the spring of 1969 flying an old Skyraider. Pretty cool story. I was there the night the pilot's son was recognized.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:11:00 PM 2008
- Ramesh said...
I just started watching about 15 minutes ago. I did not realize that Pastor Wade is a good speaker, very articulate. I guess he has to be, for a senior pastor. Lot of times, it's hard to visualize how one sounds when one is reading the blogs. I did hear Pastor Wade preach only once on the internet. I had just forgotten.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:36:00 PM 2008
- Ramesh said...
BTW, I am watching from Philadelphia, PA.
- Tue Dec 16, 08:37:00 PM 2008
That dude is awesome!
- Tue Dec 16, 09:03:00 PM 2008
What dude?
- Tue Dec 16, 09:04:00 PM 2008
The preacher dude. Great presentation.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:05:00 PM 2008
Really enjoying the gospel presentation. Very clear throughout.
Thanks for offering this!
- Tue Dec 16, 09:08:00 PM 2008
Excellent work Emmanuel. Watching from Hungary. I have a group of new believers around the monitor. I know that for some in the US, this is old hat, but let me tell you, there are a bunch of open mouths here in Hungary. They've never seen anything like it. Keep up the good work.
As we watch my wife is translating the good news into the language of a couple of locals who are asking questions about what they are seeing. Right now Christ is dying on the cross (of course, the pageant representation). I wish you could hear the questions.
Great job Emmanuel. Keep preaching the gospel.
One of your M's.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:17:00 PM 2008
Thanks for the good word M. We are praying for you.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:20:00 PM 2008
- Tue Dec 16, 09:21:00 PM 2008
- Tue Dec 16, 09:35:00 PM 2008
- Bob Cleveland said...
Please tell all involved how much I've enjoyed and appreciated it.
You included (can I be your agent?).
- Tue Dec 16, 09:39:00 PM 2008
I watched the entire presentation with my granddaughter over the internet. Thanks so much for doing this for not only your community, but for the world.
Grandma Chaney
- Tue Dec 16, 09:40:00 PM 2008
All I can say after watching the Christmas Pageant is that whoever has ever called Pastor Wade Burleson a liberal owes him an apology. He may be liberal in grace, liberal in patience, and liberal in all the good qualities of Christ, but I've never seen a clearer presentation of the good news than what I heard given tonight. I know liberals, I work with liberals, he ain't no liberal.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:45:00 PM 2008
- Ramesh said...
Thank you, Emmanuel Baptist Church. It was good. I should try to catch up on Pastor Wade's sermons that are archived.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:45:00 PM 2008
Great show!
Grace to you all.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:46:00 PM 2008
Thy Peace.
Listen to Pastor Wade's Christmas message called "Counselor" from two weeks ago in the series "The Christ We Know." I think you will like it and it will give you a sense for what it is like to listen to him Sunday after Sunday. Let me know what you think.
- Tue Dec 16, 09:48:00 PM 2008
You had to buy a ticket to get the pre-show dinner.
Ya didn'know?
Great Pageant!
- Tue Dec 16, 09:48:00 PM 2008
"message called "Counselor" from two weeks ago in the series "The Christ We Know."
Right before the Pageant I watched last week's called: "The Mighty God" It was really less of a sermon and more of a testimony of passion for the Christ. I even got goose bumps at one point when he made the point that if Jesus had not called Lazarus by name and had simply said "Come forth!" that it is possible that every dead body in earshot would have burst out of their graves in obedience to the King of Creation WOW!
I love it that I can always learn new amazing things about my Lord.
- Tue Dec 16, 10:04:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
Great presentation of the gospel message, Wade! I'd lose Elvis and Helga next year though. I was about ready to click out after those two but decided to give it a little longer, and I'm glad I did.
I invite everyone to watch Bellevue Baptist's Singing Christmas Tree production tomorrow night at 7:00 CST on 316Networks.com or through Bellevue's site.
Again, great job!
- Tue Dec 16, 10:20:00 PM 2008
"I invite everyone to watch Bellevue Baptist's Singing Christmas Tree production tomorrow night at 7:00 CST on 316Networks.com or through Bellevue's site."
Or you could NOT watch with me and protest by going to Prayer Meeting and praying for Dr. Financial Gaines.
- Tue Dec 16, 10:35:00 PM 2008
I think the Elvis thing was just an opening lighthearted song.
You might be interested to know that the "Elvis" in the Pageant was Brent Price, point guard for the Houston Rockets, Washington Bullets, and Sacramento Kings. He played at both South Carolina and then transferred to OU. He's the brother of Cleveland Cavaliers All-NBA and Dream Team Mark Price.
You may not have liked it, but I thought it was the best Elvis I've ever seen.
- Tue Dec 16, 10:42:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
"I think the Elvis thing was just an opening lighthearted song."
Fair enough. But how do you explain Helga? ;o)
- Tue Dec 16, 11:35:00 PM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
"Or you could NOT watch with me and protest by going to Prayer Meeting and praying for Dr. Financial Gaines."
I think he needs new living room furniture.
Seriously, I think you should watch. I believe you'll see quite a contrast between what we saw tonight versus what you'll see tomorrow night.
To their credit, Bellevue puts on the Memphis Passion Play before Easter every year, and that has always been more like what Wade's church did tonight... except of course you have to buy a ticket.
- Tue Dec 16, 11:44:00 PM 2008
BBC said, "Sorry, I'm not a fan of John Piper, but thank you for your thoughts."
Hence, the cause of your grief and the church's grief (including Gaines and the other members) has reared it's ugly head.
Good luck with everything though.
- Wed Dec 17, 01:15:00 AM 2008
Our congregation's sanctuary choir partnered with the sancutary choir of another local SBC church this year to present a tremendous Christmas musical. The combined choir has sung at both churches--on Sunday morning and evening, December 14--and will sing the musical tonight at the local prison. If you're reading this thread today (December 17), please pray for hearts to be stirred among the prison population and for souls to be saved! Thanks.
- Wed Dec 17, 04:22:00 AM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
"Hence, the cause of your grief and the church's grief (including Gaines and the other members) has reared it's ugly head."
Huh? There you go again, shooting off your mouth about something about which you know nothing. I suppose my not being a John Piper fan around here is the unpardonable sin. (I imagine Steve Gaines loves him.) If that's the case, so be it. I will not apologize for choosing not to endorse a man who has written such gems as "Why a Woman Shouldn't Run for Vice President, but Wise People May Still Vote for Her" (hey, if it's wrong for her to run, it's wrong to vote for her) and "co-edited" the "bible" for CBMW. Not thinking John Piper hung the moon is NOT the cause of the problems. An abusive pastor (and those like him) and his little band of yes men are the problem.
- Wed Dec 17, 09:09:00 AM 2008
I watched the Pageant from the computer this year. Great job. This is the seventeenth pageant I've seen and the crucifixion, rising scene still moves me. This year was no exception.
- Wed Dec 17, 09:19:00 AM 2008
BBC - If you would give more thought to the One who "hung the moon" and less thought to your own self appointed police work of other people, you might actually enjoy Piper and his message.
With your attitude as it is now, I can see why you dislike Piper and anything he says.
Your attitude and Piper's message clash horribly.
I have zero interest in any further exchange with you, so you may have the last cheap shot and I will bid a simple goodbye.
- Wed Dec 17, 10:03:00 AM 2008
Awe, come on Sl1m Shaddy,
Surely you jest. It should be obvious that he does not hate Piper. Piper is a card carrying Calvinist to the Glory of God. BBC is a breeding ground for Arminians. It should go without saying that that the members (or former members) of BBC will tend to pronate in the opposite direction of Minneapolis. Don't get me wrong, I love Piper. I even gave every attender at my Easter Sunrise Service this past year a book of his. But I think that cooperation and civility should not be based on whether or not one prays to Bethlehem 5 times a day.
Speaking of that...be right back...
- Wed Dec 17, 10:16:00 AM 2008
- New BBC Open Forum said...
Godspeed, SL1M.
Thank you, K, but I'm actually neither Calvinist nor Arminian, and unlike some of the people here, I "bow" in the direction of no man. I respected Adrian Rogers but didn't agree with him on every point by any means. And I don't "hate" John Piper, nor do I disagree with everything he says. I just find it difficult to get past a lot of the things he has said, not to mention his close association with the CBMW. It has nothing whatsoever to do with his Calvinist beliefs.
- Wed Dec 17, 10:53:00 AM 2008
I think I might be the only one, but I got your point KMC. :)
Let me add that I have always appreciated your theology but hated your comments (pro or con Wade, no matter).
However, recently your comments have shown an amazing improvement.
Thank you. And leave your theology alone.
The real SL1M shady
- Thu Dec 18, 09:18:00 AM 2008
- wadeburleson.org said...
I, too, have seen a wonderful improvement in Kevin's tone and spirit.
Well done KC.
- Thu Dec 18, 09:18:00 PM 2008
So happy to see you all getting along with each other in the Christmas Spirit. :) L's
(I hope it lasts.) :)
- Fri Dec 19, 03:36:00 PM 2008
^^ nice blog!! ^@^
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The housing concept is a three-story apartment building built on stilts with an earthquake, wind and water resistant core. This core holds all the necessary elements, like water lines, power, staircases and each apartment's kitchen and bathroom. Radiating out from the core are three living pods per floor, inexpensively constructed completely out of bamboo. Each family also has access to the roof and an escape hatch for the most dire of storms. Stilts help the house withstand flooding from storms or monsoons, and should the bamboo living pods get torn off they can easily be reconstructed when the family has time and can afford it.
Spurred on by the devastation caused by the tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana) in the Phillipines in 2009 MyShelter Foundation launched an entire design competition to create disaster proof housing. The winning entry from the competition will actually be built as a prototype disaster-resistant and livable eco-village in Quezon City. The bamboo eco housing and community center complex was awarded the Green Award and $3,500, but unfortunately will not be built through this program.
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The gaffe-prone vice president, Joe Biden, claimed in a speech aboard a few months ago that the Washington Post "brought down" Richard Nixon's corrupt presidency in the Watergate scandal.
That's a media myth — a misreading of history that not even the Post embraces.
While Biden's blunder didn't receive much media attention at the time, the flub merited inclusion in Time magazine's lineup of memorable mischaracterizations of American history offered by leading U.S. politicians.
In a posting yesterday, the magazine's "Swampland" politics blog offered what it termed were nine "epically wrong politician accounts of yesteryear."
The "Swampland" lineup included two flubs by Michele Bachmann, the Republican congresswoman running for president — that the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in New Hampshire and that John Quincy Adams was among America's founding fathers.
Biden made the "Swampland" lineup for his laughable statement that President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on television and spoke to Americans after the stock market crash of 1929. Roosevelt didn't become president until 1933 and television wasn't pervasive in American households until the 1950s.
While perhaps not as delicious as the FDR-market crash gaffe, Biden's ahistoric flub about the Post and Watergate would have rounded out the "Swampland" list at 10.
Its inclusion would've underscored how unraveling a scandal as complex as Watergate required far more investigative clout than any news organization could muster.
Although it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973, the Post's Watergate-related reporting was scarcely enough to turn a sitting president from office. Nixon resigned in August 1974.
Biden's mischaracterization of Watergate was astonishing and the "Swampland" list is incomplete without mentioning the blunder. The vice president told an audience in Moscow in March:
"In my country it was a newspaper, not the FBI, or the Justice Department, it was a newspaper, the Washington Post that brought down a President for illegal actions."
It didn't.
As I write in my latest book, Getting It Wrong,to argue that the Post and the dogged reporting of its reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein took down Nixon "is to abridge and misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth."
I note that rolling up a scandal of the sweep and dimension of Watergate "required the collective if not always the coordinated forces of special prosecutors, federal judges, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as the Justice Department and the FBI."
And even then, I write, "Nixon likely would have served out his term if not for the audiotape recordings he secretly made of most conversations in the Oval Office of the White House.
"Only when compelled by the Supreme Court did Nixon surrender those recordings, which captured him plotting the cover-up" of Watergate's signal crime — the break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in June 1972.
So against the tableau of subpoena-wielding authorities, the contributions of the Post in Watergate fade in significance.
Those contributions were not decisive, as top officials at the Post have noted over the years.
Katharine Graham, the newspaper's publisher during and after the Watergate years, said in 1997, at a program marking the scandal's 25th anniversary:
"Sometimes people accuse us of bringing down a president, which of course we didn't do. The processes that caused [Nixon's] resignation were constitutional."
Ben Bradlee,who was the Post's executive editor during Watergate, said on the "Meet the Press" interview show in 1997:
"[I]t must be remembered that Nixon got Nixon. The Post didn't get Nixon."
And Woodward himself has disputed the mediacentric interpretation of Watergate, declaring in 2004 in an interview with American Journalism Review:
"To say the press brought down Nixon, that's horseshit."
Recent and related:
- Mythmaking in Moscow: Biden says WaPo brought down Nixon
- Pumping up Watergate's heroic-journalist myth
- Who, or what, brought down Nixon?
- WaPo on 'historically faulty' films: Ignoring ATPM
- 'Follow the money,' a made-up Watergate line
- Jimmy Carter fumbles Watergate history
- Palin's new book invokes 'bra-burning' stereotype
- Sniffing out media myths
- Suspect Murrow quote pulled at Murrow school
- 'Exquisitely researched and lively'
- 'Getting It Wrong' wins SPJ award for Research about Journalism


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12th November 2017
Another slight detour I am afraid. This is due to the recent publication of the ORBITA study. Reported in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), thus:
'Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not significantly better than a placebo procedure in improving exercise capacity or symptoms even in patients with severe coronary stenosis, research has found.1
The ORBITA study, published in the Lancet, is the first double blind randomised controlled trial to directly compare stenting with placebo in patients with stable angina who are receiving high quality drug treatment.' Compared to the sham-controlled group:
- PCI did not significantly improve exercise time. The numerical incremental increase in average exercise time was 16 seconds (P=0.20).
- PCI did not significantly improve measures on well-validated patient-centered angina questionnaires.
- PCI did not significantly improve the Duke treadmill score or peak oxygen uptake.
- PCI did significantly improve the dobutamine stress echo wall-motion index, indicating that stenting reduced ischemic burden.
In short, PCI did nothing at all. I can hear cardiologists across the US putting plans for new swimming pools on hold. 2
As many people know, the purpose of a stent is to open up obstructed coronary arteries, and then keep them open, using a metal framework 'stent', that sits within the artery. This procedure has been done on thousands, millions, of people. In an acute myocardial infarction (MI or heart attack to you) it provides benefits. However, in non-acute blockage it does nothing, apart from enrich interventional cardiologists.
Frankly, I was surprised that these researchers got ethical approval for this study. Carrying out a sham operation is a pretty major thing to do to a patient. I am further surprised they managed to get any volunteers, but they did. I very much take my hat off to these researchers. Bold, very bold, indeed. They must have been pretty damned certain they were going to see no benefit from stents.
Anyway, this study only proves what many people had suspected for some time. Stents, in the non-acute situation, do not work. Of course, this study has already been attacked and dismissed. Here is one review from SouthWestern medical centre, entitled 'Stents do work: A closer look at the ORBITA study data.':
'ORBITA was small – too small, in fact, considered definitive evidence that cardiologists should change the role of stents in clinical practice.
I participate in a number of cardiology care guidelines committees and even wrote a piece about the ORBITA trial for the American College of Cardiology. In order for regulating bodies to change clinical practices, research studies must present data from a much larger pool, such as the 2007 COURAGE PCI study, which enlisted more than 2,000 participants. In general, larger trials present data that are more statistically significant and more appropriate to apply to specific patient segments.' 3
Too small? Wrong patient type, no doubt the wrong atmospheric pressure as well. Unlike the studies that were used when cardiologists first started doing stents, where the study size was precisely zero. In fact, if you read the entire article from the Southwestern medical centre, it is gibberish. But it will have the desired effect. The ORBITA study will have no impact stenting revenue. Like many other ideas in medicine, it is too seductive, and far too lucrative. The artery is blocked, it must be opened. End of.
Many years ago, Bernard Lown had precisely the same issue with Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG). Another massively lucrative intervention which rapidly became the operation – based on no evidence whatsoever. It was such an obviously brilliant idea that to question it was to defy 'common sense.' You have a blockage in an artery, bypass it with a graft.'
One thing that you find about good science is that it is usually very far removed from 'pure common sense.' It is counterintuitive. It is counterintuitive because it challenges established thinking a.k.a. prejudices. As Einstein had to say. 'Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before age eighteen.' He also said that 'It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.'
If you want a really good read, I recommend Bernard Lown [he is my hero]. He was the first to challenge the orthodoxy that CABG was an unquestioned good. For which he was of course, roundly attacked. His essay on this can be read here4. I include a particularly poignant section by Bernard Lown discussing CABG:
'One might wonder why patients acquiesced to undergoing a painful and life-threatening procedure without the certainty of improving their life expectancy. I have long puzzled at such acquiescence. Surprisingly, patients not only agreed to the recommended intervention but commonly urged expediting it. Such conduct is compelled by ignorance as well as fear. Patients are readily overwhelmed by the mumbo-jumbo of medical jargon. Hearing something to the effect of "Your left anterior descending coronary artery is 75 percent occluded and the ejection fraction is 50 percent" is paralyzing. To the ordinary patient such findings threaten a heart attack or, worse, augur sudden cardiac death.
Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons frequently resort to frightening verbiage in summarizing angiographic findings. This no doubt compels unquestioning acceptance of the recommended procedure. Over the years I have heard several hundred expressions, such as: "You have a time bomb in your chest" and its variant "You are a walking time bomb." Or, "This narrowed coronary is a widow maker." And if patients wish to delay an intervention, a series of fear-mongering expressions hasten their resolve to proceed: "We must not lose any time by playing Hamlet." Or, "You are living on borrowed time." Or, "You are in luck — a slot is available on the operating schedule." Maiming words can infantilize patients, so they regard doctors as parental figures to guide them to some safe harbour.'
The man is a genius and he can write far better than wot I can. I should hate him.
Some forty years later, or so, we find that CABG has been replaced by PCI/stenting. Exactly the same knuckle headed stupidity has driven stenting. The noise of sheep bleating 'Narrow artery bad, open artery good,' fills the air. My goodness, I think they've got it. Who could possibly argue with that? Kerching!
Those who have read my endless blog on the causes of on CVD will know I have long been highly sceptical of stenting as the answer to anything very much. Other than the removal of large sums of money from person A, to hospital B, and interventional cardiologist C.
Why does it not work? How can it possibly not work?
Because the heart is not simply a pump, arteries are not simply pipes, and humans are not inanimate objects whereby our function, or lack thereof, is purely dependant on some form of medical or surgical intervention. Thus endeth the lesson on stenting.
1: http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5076
2: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/888115?pa=ItuYp8yggqEV0rOdozORa13VwlwcjMMn88tJMLYfucZ3N%2FNEihiaVx2Ypnp0WNqT8SIvl8zjYv73GUyW5rsbWA%3D%3D
3: http://www.utswmedicine.org/stories/articles/year-2017/stent-PCI-ORBITA.html
4: https://bernardlown.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/mavericks-lonely-path-in-cardiology/


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Laguna Hills, Calif., October 5, 2012 – TeleProviders Inc., a premier communications and technology solutions provider, is pleased to announced that Joanne Peterson, director of Converged Cloud and Data Services, has accepted an invitation by Channel Partners, to serve on its Channel Partners Advisory Board. Channel Partners the leader in providing news and analysis to indirect sales channels serving the communications and technology industry.
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As part of the Channel Partners Advisory Board, Ms. Peterson will lend her industry expertise on emerging trends around enterprise cloud and data center. In addition, she will contribute articles, white papers and present at the Channel Partners conferences.
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The industrialized hackers are intent on one goal–making money. They also know the basic rules of the business of increasing revenues while cutting costs. (Part IV In a Series on Cybercrime. Read Part I, Part II, Part III)
As hackers started making money, the field became full of "professionals" that inspired organized cyber crime. Similar to industrial corporations, hackers have developed their own business models in order to operate as a profitable organization. What do these business models look like?
Hacker Business Models
The industrialized hackers are intent on one goal–making money. They also know the basic rules of the business of increasing revenues while cutting costs.
Increasing Revenue
Data has become the hacker's currency. More data, more money. So the attack logic is simple: the more attacks, the more likely victim—so you automate. But an interesting variation has emerged. A few months ago, Imperva's ADC research team witnessed a phishing campaign which employed such a business model. In this scheme, a master hacker wrote a phishing toolkit for other hackers to use. The "proxy" hackers downloaded the kit, chose a phishing site using a simple GUI dashboard and, just like that, the proxy hackers were good to go. The popularity of the kit soared, since, as opposed to traditional phishing setups where hackers are required to set up and allocate storage for the data collection, this kit offered to remove that back-office work from the "proxy" hacker. The master hacker had actually provided with his kit "cloud storage" for the fraudulently obtained credentials. The credentials, once retrieved, would go to the cloud storage and reside in a location allocated only for the single "proxy" hacker. Controls were set such that one proxy hacker could not access the allocation area of another proxy hacker. The proxy hackers could continue with their attacks without every worrying about being cheated out by a fellow hacker. But this kit had a twist: although access to the credentials storage was secured from the eyes of fellow proxy hackers, this was not the case with the master hacker. A backdoor on the storage system allowed the viewing of all these credentials by the master hacker who wrote the kit. In reality then, all the proxy hackers were each gathering the credentials for the master hacker! Now consider the scenario – assume each proxy hacker gains a dozen credentials. And a thousand hackers have downloaded the kit – that's already over 10K worth of valuable data without the master hacker ever needing to dirty his hands with the actual target! In fact, the master hacker boasted some 200K downloads. This number may surely be exaggerated, but the point is clear – it is widely in use.
Cutting Costs
Similarly to any organization, hackers want to tighten their belt on budget spending. Time is money, even hacker time. So instead of re-developing the wheel, hackers are looking for already-existing tools which they can re-use. Templates and kits exist for just about every kind of attack. For example, the phishing kit downloaded by the proxy hackers as mentioned earlier. Off the shelf kits are not the only way to cut costs. Different technology solutions are deployed to cut the costs of storage and hosting. We saw how hackers were lured to use cloud technologies for their backend data collection. But they are also using free hosting providers. In a XSS attack campaign, the hacker was storing all the stolen credentials on such a free hosting site. Digging deeper and the researchers found that the hosting provider was servicing in a similar manner numerous cyber-thieves.
Another cost-cutting method is to increase the capacity of each attack. This is one of the reasons why controlling servers are so appealing to hackers. Utilizing the server's resources – for example, network bandwidth and CPU – a stronger attack impact could be performed. In fact, a recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack was achieved by employing servers in the attack campaign.
What's the point of having a state-of-the art hacker tool if no one is going to use it? For this the hackers turn to the marketing department. The aforementioned phishing kit was advertised in different underground hacker forums. But even more mainstream venues are used. For example, last month Damballa uncovered the IMDDOS botnet. The operators of the botnet had actually set up a public facing Web site offering their service – performing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the target of the user's choice. All the user had to do was to go to that certain website to subscribe to the service.
Like any successful business, it is not enough to just advertise. To really penetrate the market, you need to show you know your stuff. And hackers are even using YouTube as a channel to promote their skills. Video tutorials of hacks are common. For instance, a YouTube tutorial of an XSS attack was uploaded to YouTube in 2007. The 2010 XSS attack campaign mentioned earlier, used nearly identical steps to perform the attack.
• Study the hacker business model – Understanding these models allows the security industry to focus their controls on the problem itself, rather than on the symptom. Up until now, many phishing-targeted companies (banking applications, retails, webmail, etc) were taking off the malicious sites, one URL at a time. But that's an endless game: given that hackers only need to repost the Web front end with a new URL, they're back in business within a few clicks. However, when the business model is understood, namely, that hackers are fool-sourcing their attacks, these organizations can locate the brain and heart of the malicious operation. Removing these vital organs, and the hacker activity is slowed down as these proxy hackers look for another kit and storage.
• Educate yourself on the way of hackers – Study the techniques used in order to put the necessary controls to protect your system against different classes of attacks. Remember the 2007 tutorial? Watch and learn!
• Blacklist known "hacker"-servicing hosting providers – if an IP address belonging to a hosting site known to be used by the hacker, consider blacklisting it. But here is also a message to free hosting sites – be more vigilant as to who is using your services.
Coming Up Next – Technologies Hackers Are Using
Understanding the business models the hacker industry is developing is paramount for knowing how to apply the correct protection. But in order to be one step ahead of the hackers, it is required to know the technologies that hackers are using. So stay tuned as I turn to the emerging hacker technologies!
(This Column is Part IV In a Series on Cybercrime. Read Part I, Part II, Part III)


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SeaWorld shares are crashing, having fallen as much as 31% on Wednesday, after the theme-park operator reported earnings and revenue that missed expectations.
This report comes about a year CNN's controversial documentary "Blackfish," which brought to light questions regarding the treatment of Orca whales.
SeaWorld reported earnings of $0.43 per share, less than the $0.59 that was expected by analysts.
Second-quarter revenue also missed expectations, coming in at $405.2 million against expectations for $445.3 million.
Attendance at the company's parks increased modestly, rising 0.3% against the prior year to 6.6 million. Attendance in the second quarter last year, however, declined 9%. Year to date, attendance at SeaWorld parks is down 4.3%.
"We were pleased to report attendance growth in the quarter despite a challenging industry and competitive environment and a tough comparison to the prior year quarter," SeaWorld CEO Jim Atchison said.
For the full year, SeaWorld expects revenue to decline 6% to 7% over last year, which contrasts sharply with current Wall Street expectations for an increase of 3%. The company also expects adjusted EBITDA, or earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization, to decline 14% to 16% from a year ago.
Atchison added: "In order to drive growth, we are undertaking a number of initiatives, including a detailed review of our Company-wide cost structure with the goal of driving significant cash cost savings in 2014 and 2015. Our intent is to re-invest these savings into additional new attractions at our destination parks and return capital to shareholders."
As part of its capital return plans, SeaWorld announced a $250 million share repurchase authorization, which begins Jan. 1.
On Twitter, CNBC's Giovanny Moreano noted that SeaWorld's plunge put the shares at their lowest level on record.
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Chopin never wrote for the bagpipes. And there wasn't a drop of Scottish blood in him. But even as a teenager he was a dedicated follower of fashion – and dances. And in those days, you were as likely to hear the Écossaise – French for "Scottish" – as you would a Mazurka or a Waltz.
Like its country of origin, the Écossaise was by nature straightforward, sturdy, and a bit…numpty, as the Scots might say.
Chopin was sixteen – at the start of his career – when he wrote his three Écossaises as Warsaw party favors. He never wrote another.
But the Scots weren't done with Chopin. Here's how George Sand's daughter described two of his most important students: "During lesson-times at the master's house, one would often come across two long persons, of Scottish origin and size, thin, pale, ageless, solemn, dressed in black, never smiling." Chopin, however, called them "mes braves Écossaises" – "My Brave Scots". They were Jane Stirling and her sister, Katherine Erskine.
It was Jane Stirling who spirited Chopin away to Scotland when the revolution broke out in Paris. Ostensibly it was to promote Chopin's concert career. But Stirling had her own motives, which backfired: Indifferent audiences, drafty castles, and chilly members of the Stirling clan had a disastrous effect on Chopin's health. "I cannot compose anything," he wrote from Glasgow. "I am closer to the coffin than the marriage bed."
About that Chopin was right. He fended off both marriage proposals and a last-ditch attempt to convert him to Presbyterianism before returning to Paris. He would be dead within a year.
Jane Stirling may have been a Scot, but there was nothing stingy OR frugal about her devotion to Chopin. She wound up paying his bills, publishing his works, and buying up most of his estate. This "Brave Scot" did much to preserve Chopin's legacy for the world. - Benjamin K. Roe


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I almost screamed with joy after opening up my email to find an invitation to join the press event for the opening of the New Fantasyland. I couldn't believe I was granted such a coveted badge to the biggest expansion in the history of the Magic Kingdom. This was my first major press event, so naturally I was nervous as well as excited to cover it. So I began my preparations.
Some of my friends couldn't understand why I decided to book a hotel close to the parks, considering I live only forty five minutes away. See, I knew that Disney was going to make this a party–one that might start before dawn and end long after the sun went down. The hotel was a must, and so, with my family in tow, we set out for three days of Disney fun.
The first night was a party in the park with all of New Fantasyland to ourselves. We were bused in a back way, and from the moment we set foot at the park we were treated like royalty. The food was amazing, and with all of the new attractions open and ready for us, the lines were significantly less than what the guests would be experiencing the next day. The really cool part about the first night was that there were no speeches or talks, just lots of food and fun for everyone to enjoy.
The highlight of my night came when I saw the most amazing dragon fly over and around Beast's castle. The cloud coverage was just right to hide how Disney was performing this amazing feet of magic. My son was really excited to see the dragon as he breathed fire a few times, as if to tell us all, "I'm here, look at me!" Then the creature disappeared into the night. I heard someone say that the dragon made the special appearance in honor of the opening of New Fantasyland, so it's a shame that regular guests won't get to see it for themselves.
After the dragon was gone, we made our way into Be Our Guest, where I jumped in for a picture with the Beast.
Later, once the stunning fireworks performance was over, we were all sent home with New Fantasyland Mickey ears. I was really happy to have a room close by, because by the time we got to our car, it was well after midnight and the next day was going to be an early one. 7 A.M to be exact. I was right in my planning ahead.
Day two was the big day: the grand opening of New Fantasyland.
We were greeted into the park early by friendly cast members with free treats and popcorn in Storybook Circus. We took our son in to Dumbo he immediately wanted to hit the playground. After all, who cares about a flying elephant when you can have a spacious playground to yourself? Eventually we got him out and on Dumbo. We were the only ones in the queue, so my husband and son experienced it all to themselves.
Afterwards, they hit up the Great Goofini (formerly known as Goofy's Barnstormer) and had front row seats and the entire train to themselves. After we were done with the rides, we made our way into the rest of New Fantasyland, and we were given a real backstage view of how something of this magnitude goes on. There were racks of costumes, boxes of equipment, film crews and Disney characters done up in their finest, either filming or getting ready to film a segment on the expansion.
We walked around the areas not being used for the filming and got some great pictures of Gaston's Tavern. Be Our Guest was being used for the radio shows and interviews so we made sure to avoid that area.
Next, we ventured onto the Voyage of the Little Mermaid and I was amazed at the details in everything from the pavement to the animatronics. Once we were done with the rides and taking final pictures for my report, we left New Fantasyland and enjoyed the rest of the park.
We had a few hours to kill before the grand opening at the castle, so we walked around, got some lunch, and just relaxed. It had been a while since I had visited the Magic Kingdom and I was really happy to see they were making some improvements in certain areas of the park. One of the "construction" areas I enjoyed seeing the most was Rapunzel's tower where the old Skyway ride used to be.
All this time, my head buzzed with excitement. I tried to take in every detail and made notes about everything, as I was afraid I would forget. When it came time for the grand opening, we made our way to the castle only to be disappointed at the lack of viewing areas. I asked a cast member were the press were supposed to stand, to which she replied "with everyone else". I was bummed and a little surprised, so I made my way into the crowd, hoping I could at least catch a small glimpse of what was going to happen.
While looking for a place to stand, another cast member saw me and noticed my badge–he was very quick to point out that I was a member of the "privileged class" today and told me exactly where I needed to be… at the very front of the crowd. Score! However, with five minutes to show time, my son declared the inevitable: "I need to go to the bathroom." Thankfully, my husband was with me and ran him (faster than he has ever ran before) to the bathroom and back with only seconds to spare.
The ceremony was amazing, complete with familiar Disney characters, and Jordin Sparks and Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White on Once Upon a Time) as well as a formal speech by the Chairman of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Mr. Thomas Staggs. The total ceremony lasted about ten minutes, but it was the best ten minutes of my day.
After the ceremony was complete, the rest of the day was ours. We enjoyed hanging out at the Magic Kingdom, but finally had to head back to our hotel for some much needed rest and relaxation before the grand opening of Test Track that night.
A few hours of rest and a dip in the pool later, we headed out to Epcot to enjoy the new Test Track and some more amazing Disney food. We got there a little early, so we hung out that the Coke testing station and toasted to a great day.
When the festivities were ready to begin, we jumped in with two feet and found ourselves knee deep in shrimp, steak medallions, and a ton of other delicious food. I let my son pick us out a spot to sit and eat and boy did he… right in front of the all you could eat ice cream bar. Thankfully, the servings were about the size of a small stack of quarters, so I didn't feel too bad about letting him have a few with his dinner.
The highlight of the night was the grand opening of Test Track followed by a private concert featuring One Republic. As for the ride, they made quite a few changes to the queue line and the actual ride now had more of a Tron feel to it.
The next day was all about 2013 at the movie theater at Downtown Disney. Children were treated to a theater all to themselves, while the adults sat in on a special presentation about what to expect from Disney in 2013. During the presentation we learned more about the many different experiences that Disney has to offer including the Disney Cruise Line and Adventures by Disney.
At the end of the presentation our host announced the new Limited Time Magic opportunities for guests and we all got a special surprise of our own: the original boy band, the Dapper Dans, performed a remix of new boy band hits in their own unique style. It was a great little surprise and a neat way to introduce the kind of surprises that Limited Time Magic will bring to the guests.
After a very early (and very yummy) lunch at Splitsville, we headed back to our hotel and I started work on my New Fantasyland post. My husband and son took in some much needed time at the pool, and then we departed for home.
Looking back, I'm still in awe at being able to be a part of it all. Even though the entire experience was a lots of fun, I also wanted to make sure that I took the notes and pictures I needed to give you, the readers, the best coverage possible. There wasn't a moment during the three-day experience when I wasn't thinking of you and what you wanted to hear about when I got back.
For all intents and purposes, I wasn't there to have a magical vacation, I was there to work; but I have to say, it was the best three days of work I've ever had.


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The Game Changer
Tapping into the right movement can radically change your body.
Find that missing ingredient and you'll build more muscle faster, drop fat quicker, and kick any ass on any field of play. And I'm going to tell you what that missing ingredient is for most weight-trained men. Ready?
It's the loaded carry.
The loaded carry does more to expand athletic qualities than any other single thing I've attempted in my career as a coach and athlete. And I do not say that lightly.
A few years ago, I worked with an athlete named Ted. Now, Ted's issue was interesting: He was a solid powerlifter and very good at the two Olympic lifts, the snatch and the clean and jerk. In other words, he wasn't a wannabe, a beginner, a neophyte, or an Internet warrior. Ted was the real deal.
When he came to visit with me for a week, there wasn't a ton of stuff I could help him with in the weight room. A pointer here and there and I was finished. So, being finished, we went outside for a "finisher."
"Would you rather do carries, walks, or sleds?" I asked.
"I've never done any of those things," Ted said.
Good, I thought. I can help.
Within seconds of his first attempt with the farmer bars weighing 105 pounds apiece, he was a stumbling drunk. He could pull hundreds of pounds off the floor, but didn't have the stability – the cross strength – to handle more than a few feet with the bars.
Next I tried to get him to walk holding a 150-pound bag to his chest. He gasped for breath and nearly choked to death. Literally, his human "inner tube" had almost no range past five seconds.
I'd found Ted's missing movement. Ted needed to simply carry heavy stuff.
A few weeks later, I get the call: "Dan, you're a genius! My deadlift has gone up (low 500s to high 500s) and I'm just thicker all over!" Ted tells me. Humbled coach blushes, but nods knowingly.
I'm not surprised. Again, in my coaching toolbox, nothing has been a game changer like loaded carries. So, are you ready to learn how to do a few variations? Good. Let's do it.
I break loaded carries into three main categories.
1. Weights in the Hand
These are the simplest and most recognized: grab a dumbbell or kettlebell and walk away.
One-Handed Carries
Waiter's Walk
The weight is held with a straight arm overhead like a European waiter in a café. This is usually the lightest of the carries and does wonders for shoulders.
Suitcase Walk
Grab the weight in one hand like a suitcase and walk. The obliques on the other side of the weight will want to have a discussion with you the next day.
Rack Walk
Usually done with kettlebells, hold the 'bell in the racked position, which is the weight on the chest, like a clean. This is a fairly remedial move but it can teach an athlete about how the abs work.
Two-Handed Carries
The Press Walk
This is simply a double waiter's walk but the weights come alive as you move. Warning: Do not do this to failure. It looks dangerous because, well, it is dangerous.
Farmers Walk
The King of Carries. Go as heavy as you can with 'bells in both hands, just like in a Strongman competition. This can be done really heavy for short distances or lighter for great distances. My favorite variation is really heavy for great distances.
Double Rack Walk
Same as above but with two kettlebells. Again, a learning move, but it's a great way to teach the athlete to breath under stress.
Cross Walk
Waiter's walk in one hand while doing the farmers walk in the other. It's a very interesting way to teach the athlete to lock down the midsection during movement.
2. Bags, Packs, and Vests
This group includes backpacks, sandbags, and weighted vests. Personally, I still prefer the old duffle bag or field pack.
Go to any grocery store and buy either water softener salt or salt for de-icing. For about five to ten dollars, you can get 150 pounds of salt. Sand works better in many situations. Get whatever is cheap.
The basic bag carries are simple. It comes down to either "backpacking," holding the weight over the shoulders like a squat bar, or bear-hugging it. The backpack or vest setup is ideal as it leaves your hands free.
Bear hugging is a great training tool as the weight is not unlike Zercher squats: the internal pressure is building, the breath is choked off by the weight on the chest, and squeezing it hard in order to hold it is adding to all the problems. All in all, just nothing but fun.
3. Sleds
I also include sleds, pushing cars, going up hills (forward and backward), and all the various new pushing devices available in good gyms these days.
It's simple: Hook up a sled either with a harness or weight belt and tow away!
Each of these moves works well alone. But here's the "secret" to taking loaded carries over the top: combine them.
Hook yourself up to a dragging sled. Then don a 150-pound backpack. Now pick up farmers walk implements weighing 150 each. That's one of the most difficult things I've done in my life. You try it.
Obviously, some combinations don't work as well as others. Cross walks and overhead walks of any kind are usually epic failures when combined with something else. Fun to watch though.
I have high school sophomores use 85 pounds per hand in the farmer bars and we have more advanced athletes work up to 155 pounds per hand. I've done more in competition and wouldn't suggest you do it... yet. So, whatever you have at hand is going to be a good start.
A bag of salt or sand weighing 50 pounds is an amazing eye-opener. I also recommend going to a warehouse home supply place and getting a wheelbarrow shell (just that green part that holds stuff), string a rope through it and connect it to your weight belt. For weights, I started out with just cement that had been thrown out and a bunch of rocks.
So, with two dumbbells or kettlebells, a wheelbarrow shell, a weight belt, a backpack, some sand and some rocks, you can train at the top end of the food chain.
How far? How many? How long? Well, it depends. I usually tell people to first try every movement from waiter's walks to cross walks. Hug a bag to your chest and walk around. Don't go far and don't do much. Simply get a sense of things. Rarely do we do more than "down and back" with each move as we strive to keep adding elements each set. So:
- Suitcase walk
- Farmer walk
- Suitcase walk with backpack
- Farmer walk with backpack
- Sled pull
- Sled pull with hear-hugged bag
- Sled pull with backpack
- Sled pull with backpack and farmer bars
That's eight movements down and back with minimal equipment and a lot of work. The "how far" question is usually answered with "not very." You'll find out why.
Do some kind of loaded carry three times a week, but only one of the days should be "everything." You want to be aggressive and intense when you attack these movements. Farmers walks and bear hug carries are my personal favorite moves and tend to be some of the best bang-for-the-buck choices.
Get back to me after doing these for three weeks. Obviously, your grip will be better. Your legs will be stronger. You'll discover that the weight room isn't that tough any more. You'll look leaner, but be bigger.
Now get to work.


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GAIA IN THE ANTHROPOCENE By Bruno Latour
"Geologists are beginning to use the term ANTHROPOCENE to designate the era of Earth's history that extends from the scientific and industrial revolutions to the present day. These geologists see humanity as a force of the same amplitude as volcanoes or even plate tectonics. It is now before GAIA that we are summoned to appear: Gaia, the odd, doubly composite figure made up of science and mythology, used by certain specialists to designate the Earth that surrounds us and that we surround, the truly global Globe that threatens us even as we threaten it.
If I wanted to dramatize – perhaps overdramatize – the ambiance of my investigative project, I would say that it seeks to register the aftershocks of the MODERNIZATION FRONT just as the confrontation with Gaia appears imminent.
At all events, we shall not cure the Moderns of their attachment to their cherished theme, the modernization front, if we do not offer them an alternate narrative… After all, the Moderns have cities who are often quite beautiful; they are city-dwellers, citizens, they call themselves (and are sometimes called) "civilized".
Why would we not have the right to propose to them a form of habitation that is more comfortable and convenient and that takes into account both their past and their future – a more sustainable habitat, in a way? Why would they not be at ease there? Why would they wander in the permanent utopia that has for so long made them beings without hearth or home – and has driven them for that very reason to inflict fire and bloodshed on the planet?
After all these years of wandering in the desert, do they have hope of reaching not the Promised Land but Earth itself, quite simply, the only one they have, at once underfoot and all around them, the aptly named Gaia?"
"An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns"
Harvard University Press, 2013. Translated by Catherine Porter.
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