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As I have mentioned this morning, tonight I'm just really going to talk to you. I've been doing a lot of thinking in the last few weeks and some pretty extensive reading, continuing to read on the subject of evolution and creation and I really don't want to sort of gild the lily, I don't want to overdo this.
Several things struck me. I picked up a copy of Time Magazine and the cover said, "How man evolved, amazing new discoverings reveal the secrets of our past." And the article is titled, "Up from the apes." It talks about remarkable new evidences filling in the story of how we became human. And it's just more of the same old impossible fabrications that have been debunked again and again and again and again. They continue to force the issue.
This is a concerted anti-god, anti-Bible effort. In fact, as I was reading through the dating here, four point four million years ago, five point five million years ago, two point three million years ago, and all of these, they have a new way to identify time. They reject very overtly in Time magazine, B.C. which stands for Before Christ, and A.D. which in the Latin is Anno Domini, or the year of our Lord, and they have come up with a new one, B.P., Before the Present. Now this is again...this is like giving away your whole agenda here, let's just not only not acknowledge God, but let's not acknowledge Christ either. And so what you're going to start seeing in science now isn't going to talk about A.D., it's...or B.C., it's going to talk about B.P., Before the Present.
The thing that struck me was I noticed on the cover of Time magazine that Stephen J. Gould had written an article in this edition on the creationism wave, reacting to the pro-creationists decision in Kansas that you might have read about where the Kansas State Legislature struck down evolution from the curriculum in the public school system, which is pretty monumental. Don't know how long that will hold up. But this has really infuriated the atheistic leftist liberal evolutionist crowd. And in Stephen J. Gould's case, he's a formidable professor of geology at Harvard and New York University and he is a rabid anti-Christian, he says, and I quote, "No scientific theory, including evolution, can pose any threat to religion. For these two great tools of human understanding operate in complimentary fashion in their totally separate realms. Science is an inquiry about the factual state of the natural world. Religion is a search for spiritual meaning and ethical values."
I don't know this man, I don't know much about him, I know he's not an honest scientist, that much I do know. And whatever level of scientist he might be, he is even less a philosopher because there would be few people who would affirm that one's view of the origin of the world has no implications in terms of morality, values or spiritual life.
He further says, "No factual discovery of science," that is statements about how nature is, "no factual discovery of science can lead us to ethical conclusions, that is how we ought to behave, or to convictions about intrinsic meaning, that is the purpose of our lives."
So what he is saying is that there is no connection between science and nature or how nature exists and why it exists. Or, how we ought to behave, or how we ought to find meaning in our lives. In other words, he is completely free as a scientist to do whatever he wants and to claim that it has absolutely no ethical implications whatsoever.
Frankly, nothing could be further from the truth. And without begging the issue, I just want to make a suggestion of some things that are implications of an evolutionary view. Here are some very serious matters that have to be considered. They are corollary, they are immediately corollary to one's view of origins.
Now let me review what I said a couple of weeks ago in the final message because some of you weren't here then. Go back to Genesis 1 for just a moment. For those of you who haven't been a part of the series or didn't get the comments I made last time, you have three options as to the origin of the universe. Option number one is the materialist's view. That is the idea that we are seeing and experiencing a universe that came about out of nothing. That it is simply the result of random forces acting on nothing...nobody times nothing equals everything...would be the equation. That once there was nothing and then there was something but there wasn't anyone who made the something. That is the materialist's view, that somehow energy and matter came into existence without any cause. Now that view is impossible and unacceptable. It is irrational. It is idiotic.
The second possible view is what is called theistic evolution, that is that evolution is true but there was a first cause, namely God who not only must have created the original matter and the original energy, but along the way it punctuated the evolutionary process with some other creative acts. We know that can't be true because since evolution can't happen at all, theistic evolution can't happen at all either. We have gone over that in detail. If evolution can't occur, if it's impossible, and it is impossible because things cannot move upward, they all move downward in decay, that's the law of thermodynamics, called entropy. It's easy to illustrate. If you take your car or somebody's car and put it out in the desert and leave it there for 50 years, you'll go back and you'll find a rotted out, rusted out, dilapidated, collapsing pile of junk. It would be idiocy to conclude that if you just left it there for another hundred years it would start running.
There are some serious, serious faults in human logic at that point. Daniel Lapin in his remarkable book, America's Real War, Daniel is an orthodox rabbi, written a remarkable book called America's Real War, I just finished reading it this week, he says that there was an old rabbi flying on an airplane and he had some of his students around him. And Rabbi Lappen was flying and sitting next to some passenger who was curious at the way the students of this old rabbi treated him. They were constantly asking him if he needed something to drink, if his pillow was comfortable, if he needed a blanket, could they put his chair back, could they get him something to read, is there anything they could do? And this guy was struck by the doting students.
And so he finally asked Rabbi Lappen, "What is this? It's astounding to see how they pay attention to this man. Why are they so attentive to this man?" I can't remember all the details of the story but it was something like..."Because they're not evolutionists," was his reply.
Well that's a strange reply to that kind of a question. But he went on to explain. You see, if you believe in evolution you believe that you're just one step better than the prior generation and they ought to serve you. It's little wonder that children don't have any interest in their parents, they're just one step closer to monkeys, the children are actually further down the chain. Those kinds of things are silly ways to look at the absurdity of evolution but point up its irrationality.
So we can't believe in materialistic evolution, it's irrational, it's impossible and it has never been proven it doesn't occur. DNA, genetic information, sees to it that it can't occur. It has never been seen to occur. Jumping from species to species in an upward fashion does not happen, cannot happen, has never happened. We can't accept theistic evolution because we can't accept any kind of evolution because evolution can't happen.
Which leaves us with only one other alternative and that is divine creation. The only possible explanation for the universe is that God created it, that an infinite mind with infinite power created the universe the way it is. And wonderfully since that is the reasonable thing to conclude, we have a record that that is in fact what happened in Genesis chapter 1. It says in verse 1, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." And it tells us how the universe came into existence. God made the heavens and the earth. That's verse 1 and verse 1 simply says that as a fact and then from verse 2 to the end of the chapter it shows how He did that. And we have already learned that God created the universe, as we know it, in six 24-hour days, identified by the constant phrase, "And there was evening and there was morning," that is there was a period of day and a period of night which constitutes a normal solar day. In six normal solar 24-hour days God created the entire universe. And as we've noted in our study, He did it about six or seven thousand years ago. That's how old this entire universe is.
That may be shocking to some of you who haven't been with us in the series, I would recommend you get the series. You'll never be able to read this kind of silliness again with any kind of conviction that it is remotely connected to reality.
We believe that it is reasonable to assume a creator for the complexity and variety of this creation. We don't have to just trust our rational understanding because we have a record in Genesis 1.
We have been talking about also the fact that it's such a sad thing to see evangelical Christians deny the truthfulness of Genesis 1. They just flatly say it isn't what it says. They deny the Scripture. Now you're treading on some serious ground when you strike a blow against your reason, but you're treading on much more serious ground when you strike a blow against the revelation of God. It is blasphemous to deny the reality of Genesis 1. This is God's inspired, inerrant record of how He created the universe. This is it.
Now if you accept an evolutionary view, you then go against your reason which is a faculty that God has given you. It's part of personhood. And more importantly, you violate revelation because God has clearly indicated that He Himself created the world. Genesis 1 lays it out in absolutely clear and explicit terms. And we've gone phrase by phrase, word by word through that entire chapter.
But then to say I'm a materialistic evolutionist, I believe in evolution but it doesn't have any implications is another act of idiocy. Of course it has implications. If we are nothing but the end of some evolutionary process, if we're just another kind of animal, if we're just educated apes, if we're just one step removed from a baboon, if we've just come out of the slime in the evolutionary animal chain by sort of natural selection, if we've been in this battle and happen to survive...as progeny of the fittest along the way, if we're just part of what is material, it has tremendous implications...tremendous.
Let me just suggest some of the categories of implications. First of all would be the implication in the field of criminal punishment. The implication in the field of criminal punishment. If we are the noble product of the survival of the fittest, then how could anybody possibly be punished for killing somebody? Isn't that how we got here? We don't...we don't hold a trial for a cougar that goes into the ranch and kills the farmer's sheep, do we? We don't have a trial for the killer whale that gobbles up the tuna fisherman's crop. We don't execute the coyotes that come down and eat the rabbits in the back yard that you're trying to raise. We don't go to Africa and kill all the lions because they eat up all the antelope. In fact, we do the opposite. We try to preserve all of those quote/unquote noble species.
If it's noble then to survive and if it's noble in the process of survival to kill, why all of a sudden when we get to humanity do we make it a crime punishable by incarceration for life and sometimes death? Why? How is it any different? How is it any different if I'm just a glorified baboon? In fact, if you want to be rational about the whole thing, there's a whole lot of people in this society who could be categorically put in the...in the segment of society called debilitating, having a retarding influence on the progressive nobility of man and they should be summarily executed. You wind up with Adolph Hitler being your greatest hero.
That's pretty severe implications, don't you think? If you're nothing but an animal, if you got where you are by the survival of the fittest, then why do we punish criminals? And on the basis of what law? Where does law come from? And where does justice come from? Do you know anything about courts among monkeys? Do you know anything about lawyers among monkeys? Judges? Policemen? Jails? The whole understanding of criminal behavior is transcendental to a material world. The reason the Bible advocates punishment of criminal behavior, the reason the Bible advocates capital punishment is because man is created in the image of God and to take his life is to commit a crime against Him is to malign the image of God. It is to intrude upon the wonderful and glorious freedoms which he enjoys having been created in the image of God. Take away the image of God, make man into an animal, you have no justification for punishing him for any kind of crime.
Another area with tremendous implications is the whole area of family...the whole area of family. Only human beings understand family. We're the only ones who understand parenting. And it isn't surprising to me that leftist liberal evolutionists, anti-god people are also anti-family. Oh they may go to church, they may pretend to be religious, but they don't believe in the family. And one of the indications they don't believe in the family is that they believe homosexuality is an alternative life style and that homosexuals ought to be able to raise children as well. In fact, they believe that we ought to legislate homosexuals as legally married. You're going to see that, by the way, on the ballot in California. There's going to be a referendum to try to stop the state of California from legalizing same-sex, quote/unquote, marriage. When you see somebody who advocates homosexuality, who advocates homosexuality as an alternative life style, somebody who exalts feminism to the point where they exalt the single mother, the single parent, God intended families with fathers and mothers to raise children. But if we are simply moving along in the evolutionary chain, family plays no role. I hate to tell you this, folks, dolphins eat their own young. Yeah, Flipper...it's not a big issue to them and so do many other species of animals. Only among humans is there family, that's part of the image of God. Remember how important it was and when we talked about the image of God? We talked about that. We were created...,"Let us make man in our image," and God uses a plural pronoun because God is a plurality of three persons in one, and when He made us in His image He made us not only with personhood but He made us to have relationships even as the trinity has relationships.
Family...wherever you have evolution in a society you're going to have the death of the family. Family doesn't matter cause relationships don't matter, parenting doesn't matter. The state will try to convince you that they can do a better job raising your children. That's what Hillary Clinton tried to say in her book, It Takes a Village." It doesn't take a village, it takes a father and a mother and some grandparents and aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters. God's design, one man/one woman together for life raising their children. You come up with an evolutionary view and you convince people that we're just on an evolutionary cycle trying to survive and you destroy the family. And believe me, the liberal agenda is anti-family. They can talk about family all they want, they only know one thing and that is to throw money at people who have made such bad choices that they've destroyed their families and take the money from hard-working faithful families to do that.
One of the implications, also, and I'm not saying all that I might have said, but another one that obviously strikes you is morality. Now if you tell your teenager, if he goes to high school, and you say to your teenager, "You're just a glorified baboon, you've just...you've just come out of a muck and you were floating around in some primordial slime and eventually you wound up in the sea in some form and then you as an amphibian crawled up on the land and eventually you evolved into some kind of primate and here you are," how are you then going to say to him, "Here's the standard of morality by which you must live?" On the basis of what do you tell that teen-aged boy that he shouldn't go and impregnate every female he can find who will bow to his advances? On the basis of what? I mean, do monkeys ask? Do monkeys get parental permission? Do they get marital documentation? I mean, if we're just animals...if that's all we are tell me that doesn't have implications. That has massive implications. If there is no God there is no law, there is no morality, there is no standard...so why not? How do you tell the criminal not to steal? On the basis of what? On the basis of what law? What morality? What standard if he's nothing but an animal? We have to have something transcendental, we have to have something beyond the material.
I don't know where Stephen J. Gould thinks morality came from. And I don't know what he would want to tell somebody about how they ought to behave if all we are are animals. It has immense implications.
Another one is in the area of selfishness. We've talked about law and criminal punishment. We've talked about family, relationships. We've talked about achievement. We've talked about morality. Let me talk for a minute about selfishness or pride.
If I'm just an animal, folks, and it's survival of the fittest, then sorry, you don't really matter, I do. I'm the one that matters. And the only reason that you matter to me is because if I can do something good for you I can elevate myself in my own mind and in the minds of other people, right? You don't really matter, after all, you're only protoplasm waiting to become manure anyway, just like me, so the sooner you become manure the less of a problem you're going to be, what's the point? Nobody really matters.
If you don't matter then all that does matter is me. And this certainly fits in to the me-ism of our society today. You see how contrary to everything we know this is? Not only in the Bible is all of this stuff clearly indicated to us, there is law in the Bible, there is a very, very, very finely tuned criminal justice system laid out on the pages of the Word of God. Family is defined in very explicit terms. Relationships are very clearly defined.
When it comes to morality, the Bible lays out a very clear standard. It's primarily summed up in "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, your neighbor as yourself." It's expanded into the Ten Commandments and expanded yet into the fullness of the Mosaic Law and expanded even beyond that by Jesus in the New Testament as He reinterpreted the Old Testament law, its true meaning, and throughout the New Testament enriched, enhanced, and clarified that great law. You see, all of that is predicated on the existence of God, the creator and sustainer of the universe.
And just two other things I would mention to you. Another implication if you believe in evolution is there's no meaning in life...there's absolutely no meaning in life except the moment. And so you must become existential. There can't be any future. There isn't any future. Death is just the blank end, that's it. And so you have no purpose, you have no value. Have you ever asked yourself, "What does a child think? What does say a ten-year-old child sitting in a class in science in elementary school or in junior-high school, twelve or thirteen-year-old being told that he's just a part of an evolutionary process and one day he's just going to die and be buried and it will all be over?" And that child has built into the fabric of his thinking a sense of eternity.
One of the early presidents of Yale University was asked how he could explain the hunger in the human heart for eternity? And he explained it by saying it's like a little blind boy holding a kite in a high wind, he can't see the kite but he can feel the tug in his hand. And I really believe that as human beings we feel the pull of eternity. The very fact that we can conceive of eternity is transcendent beyond anything material or animal. We feel the pull of eternity. There's hope in the human heart about a life after death. Every ethnic system on the face of the globe has some understanding of life after death, except those pure materialists who think we just go back to fertilizing the cemeteries.
And so, life has no meaning. How do you convince a young 17-year-old, 16-year-old, 15-year-old kid or a college student that if that's all there is that life has any meaning at all? Any meaning? We don't view it like that. Everything you do in this life for a Christian has implications in eternity, right? It has implications in terms of your eternal reward. Every time you influence another life that has implications in eternity. Every time you lead someone to the knowledge of Jesus Christ you've purchased a friend forever, haven't you? Every time you invest in the Kingdom of God in your ministry and your service, you've laid up treasure in heaven, treasure which cannot corrupt, cannot be stolen, cannot rust. We live in the light of eternity.
And that leads to maybe the last point and it ties with that...life after death. Somebody said to me the other day, this was...I was mentioning this to our faculty, they said, it was a marital context, "Well, I'm just not fulfilled." Really...really, you're not fulfilled. You know something... maybe I'm abnormal, I never had such a thought in my life. What does that mean? I'm not fulfilled either, I'd like to get out of Romans 7, I don't like this...I don't like this law warring against the law of my mind that constantly drags me into sin. I find myself resenting myself more, far more than I approve of myself. Are you like that? I'm not fulfilled. Of course I'm not fulfilled. In fact, I should have said to this person, "Well I'm glad you're not fulfilled because if you are fulfilled I'd be really worried about you. Who's fulfilled?" Not only am I a sinner, I'm married to one. She's not fulfilled and together we're not fulfilled. And then my kids and grandkids are all sinners too, and so none of us are fulfilled. You can't be fulfilled in this life. What are you talking about? Well, we don't live in the light of this light, do we. You take all that God gives you in this life, you rejoice, you embrace it, you...you embrace it with gratitude whether it's joy or whether it's pain, whether it's happiness or whether it's sorrow, whether it's triumph or whether it's defeat, whether it's the great gain or a great loss, you embrace it all and you just file it in the purposes of God, count it all joy when you fall into all these trials because you never will be fulfilled in this life. It doesn't matter.
I'll tell you one thing though, in this sense I am fulfilled. I certainly am getting far more than I deserve. Right? So don't come up and say...I'm not fulfilled. Of course you're not. Who is in this life? I'm not even trying to find fulfillment in this life. I don't believe that if I had a different kind of car I'd be fulfilled. I don't believe if I had a different house I'd be fulfilled, if I had more money I'd be fulfilled. I don't think there's anything in this world that could possibly come to me that would make me satisfied with life here, do you? If it will, then you're not viewing it the way I view it because, you see, the real issue for fulfillment in my life is to be like Christ. Paul said to his Galatian congregation, "I'm in travail until Christ is fully formed in you." There's not going to be any fulfillment here.
Oh the Lord has given me so many wonderful gifts and I don't want to be misunderstood. He gave me the most precious wife a man could ever have, the most beloved children a man could ever have, the sweetest grandchildren you could ever want, and they bring tremendous richness into my life and joy, constant joy. But also there are struggles and sorrows just like everybody else. But that's okay. I just have one concern really, and that is that they all know Jesus Christ so that some day we together can enjoy the fulfillment that God has planned for us, right? That's how I live my life.
But, you see, if you're a...if you're an evolutionist, if you believe there's nobody out there, that has immense implications cause you don't have any future. You don't have any meaning. You don't have any purpose. There really is no value to your life. That's sad.
Now we believe in God who is creator, sustainer and Savior. He's given us His Word and because of that we have a standard to live by and we know how to fill our lives with meaning and purpose. We know how to maximize the present in the light of the future. We know how to prepare for the future so that we can live forever in the glories of eternal heaven. We know what the responsibilities of family are. We know what's involved in parenting. We understand relationships. We understand that others matter more than we do. We understand that all around us people are dying and going to an eternal hell and they will be there without God in punishment forever. And we've been given the responsibility to communicate the saving message of Jesus Christ to them and we care a lot about that. We have been blessed with creative powers, with unique gifts and talents that have been given to us genetically, as well as experientially, that have developed us into a snowflake, the likes of which there is no other. And we fit wonderfully into God's world, able to create and produce things in a way unique to us.
Isn't it wonderful how all of us as Christians influence other lives creatively and spiritually and productively in so many ways? We have a moral standard. We understand what it is to live for others and not our own self and our own pride.
You know, really this is like taking us back into Romans 1. I won't do that, we've done that a number of times. But when you say no to God and you worship the creature more than the creator, all the lights go out and you profess to be wise but you are a fool. And don't say it has no implications, it has massive implications.
Are you grateful that God in His mercy and His grace delivered to you the knowledge of the truth? Amen...I am as well. Let's pray.
Father, we do thank You. We wouldn't know You if You hadn't designed to know us. We would be just like the rest of the world thinking we came up from the apes and were headed for oblivion, nothingness. We would be flotsam and jetsam floating down stream completely at the mercy of the rushing water. We wouldn't know where we came from, why we were here or where we were going. We wouldn't have any moral standards. We wouldn't know what to accept and what not to accept, what to believe and what to reject. We couldn't tell the truth from a lie. We wouldn't understand our obligation to one another in a marriage. We wouldn't understand our responsibility to our children or our parents. We wouldn't know what You expected of us in terms of work and productivity and achievement. We'd be so lost. We wouldn't know what it was to give our lives away for others because it has eternal consequences, maximizing time for the sake of eternity. But, Lord, we do know those things because You have brought us to the light. You have saved us. You have renewed our minds. You have planted Your Spirit within us. You have given us Your holy Word. You have instructed us. You have taught us. And, Lord, we have the mind of Christ. We view the world the way You view it because we know Your Word. And we ask what the Apostle Paul asked, "Where is the wisdom of the wise?" For what appears to be wisdom to them is foolishness with You. But we who appear to be foolish to them have the true wisdom. How can we thank You for that? It is all of grace, it is all of mercy and we praise You for it. In our Savior's name everyone said, Amen.
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What can you say about this years ESTA Bracket Finals Team except for, Outstanding. The group of racers and support people that Gary and Robin assembled for this year's assault at the annual bracket bash gave us a third place finish which is our highest ever. After the first round we were down to six Supers, six Pro and nine Bike / Sled racers and from that point on the guys dug in their heels and just kept winning. I believe that going into round five we still had nine racers left. This group worked very well together and the results showed.
Jason Longley, who may be the first one to win this event on aStreet Bike rode his '06 Suzuki to the Bike/Sled win and earned himself a spot in the Summit National E.T. Finals which willbe held in Pomona, CA. The racewill be held November 12-15 where Jason will take his shot at the winner take all $5,000 payout.
Mike LaRose took the runner up spot in Pro driving his Dodge Dart. Mike went red with a -.004 just missing his chance at a second Pro win at this event, a razor thin margin that kept him from his second trip to the National E.T. Finals which he won in 2001.
Matt Bunal made his first trip to the Bracket Finals a memorable one when he drove his Camaro to the High School Eliminator win. Thanks to everyone that made this a successful weekend. And thanks to Taz for keeping the food coming off the grills.
Maple Grove Raceway, 88 points
Atco Raceway, 66
ESTA Safety Park, 58
Old Bridge Twp. Raceway Park, 52
Lebanon Valley Dragway, 51
Cecil County Dragway, 50
Island Dragway, 47
Capitol Raceway, 45
Mason-Dixon Dragway, 43
Virginia Motorsports Park, 42
Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way, 41
Numidia Dragway, 41
US 13 Dragway, 40
Napierville Dragway, 38
Spencer Speedway, 26
This Sunday, October 4th we will see our National Parts Peddler E.T. Series back on the track. NPP E.T. Series racing will continue every Sunday this month with the final points race on the 25th. See you at the track!


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Performing Arts
'American Idiot' rocks, rages and engages at the Broward Center
The older folks who bailed while the show was going strong would disagree, but American Idiot is an accomplished, moving piece of 21st century theater.
More in the style of shows like Rent, Spring Awakening, The Who's Tommy or Chess, the show that will be raging and rocking at Broward Center for the Performing Arts through April 6 is even more opera-like in its use of lyrics to convey its loose story and, more pointedly, its characters' surging emotions. American Idiot is about as far from South Pacific or Oklahoma! as Broadway theater gets; hence, those scattered walkouts.
Crafted from the punk-pop band Green Day's concept CD, with a few additions from 21 Guns, American Idiot tells the stories of three aimless suburban friends whose restless boredom makes them hatch a plan to head for the excitement of the big city. Pals Johnny (Jared Nepute) and Tunny (Dan Tracy) make it out of the 'burbs. Their friend Will (Casey O'Farrell) nearly does, but when his girlfriend Heather (Mariah MacFarlane) lets him know she's pregnant with his baby, he stays.
Soon, the guys find that change doesn't equal happily ever after.
Inspired by a TV soldier (Michael Pilato) surrounded by hotties in sparkly red, white and silver dresses, Tunny enlists and is sent off to war. Lonely Johnny embraces his partying, drug-pushing alter ego St. Jimmy (Carson Higgins) and gets involved with a beautiful woman he calls Whatsername (Olivia Puckett), pulling her into his downward spiral. Will stays planted on his couch, smoking, drinking and feeling stuck.
Each young man's journey leads him home, but at great cost. For Johnny, the loss is love; for Tunny, it's physical wholeness; for Will, it's family. The characters' angry angst may resonate most powerfully with younger audience members, but such losses are familiar to us all.
The way that American Idiot has been brought to life is in keeping with Green Day's music, edgy and insightful and of the moment. Director Michael Mayer, who co-authored the script with Green Day vocalist-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, keeps much of the 90-minute, intermission-free show flowing as frenetically as some of the more blistering music, though there are moments of lovely stillness, as when Nepute's Johnny strums a guitar and sings When It's Time.
Choreographer Steven Hoggett embraces that frenetic, even frantic vibe to create several group "dances" that feel like head-banging in lockstep. But he also achieves a kind of hallucinatory sensuality in the hospital-set Extraordinary Girl, and an awful yet arresting pas de deux as Johnny and Whatsername become entwined in a heroin addict's rubber hose.
Christine Jones' set, Kevin Adams' lighting design and Darrel Maloney's video-projection design combine to suggest a world of constant sensory bombardment — our world, in other words.
Under music director Evan Jay Newman, the show's five musicians, tucked upstage on either side of the action, deliver orchestrator Tom Kitt's arrangements with the kind of range the score demands. They're explosive on numbers like American Idiot and Letterbomb, richly layered on such songs as Boulevard of Broken Dreams and 21 Guns.
The young cast is, from the outset, a powerful ensemble. A few actors push a little too hard, trying to sketch character through lyrics during fleeting moments in the spotlight. But leads Nepute, O'Farrell and Tracy are terrific singer-actor-musicians, with all those talents showcased as they sing the haunting Wake Me Up When September Ends.
American Idiot is not a typical Broadway touring show. Yes, it can be loud, but it's also contemplative, cautionary and compassionate. And well done.


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Monday, March 12, 2012
Gourmand Awards at the Folies Bergere, Paris
"Drinking Japan," written by Nonjatta's Chris Bunting, was the second best wine tourism book published in 2011 according to the judges of the Gourmand Awards, a global food book prize in which about 8,000 books are entered every year.
The book is is a general guide to Japanese drinking culture, rather than specifically a wine book, but I think the judges at the Gourmand Awards interpret "wine" quite broadly. It covers sake, shochu, awamori, beer, wine, and Japanese whisky, giving details of the history and current culture of those drinks and recommendations on places to enjoy them in dedicated chapters.
The winner of the wine tourism prize was "Turismo del Vino" by F. Xavier Medina. "Drinking Japan" won the Japan category.
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- Pierre W said...
Congratulations, this is a terrific achievement!
- March 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM
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Liz is never happy about how things fit and she has, shall we say, her own sense of fashion and woe to the mother or grandmother that disagrees with her. Jae has been having quite a time getting her to wear her school clothes and I've been having a time keeping her jacket on her.
Jae brought Nikki & Liz to the garage yesterday morning so they could ride with me and Liz had a brand new backpack. Jae tightened the straps as far as they would go and then knotted the extra strap so it wouldn't come undone. Liz put it on, declared that it was too tight and immediately shrugged it off. Now I was pretty sure it was hitting her butt so I told her I didn't think it was too tight and to put it back on so I could check and I'd fix it if it needed it. She went straight back to Jae who told her she had to leave but she could put it back on & I would fix it for her or Jae would fix it after work and she left. Of course she refused to put it back on so I told her oh-well and went back to talking to a co-worker. That did not suit Liz at all, so she started working at the knot on one of the straps and I watched out of the corner of my eye as she got it loosened just a little bit. She then pulled it up tight again and loudly declared, "There, I fixed it myself!" We had all we could do not to crack up. I asked her if it was ok now, not too tight? - Nope just right!
So we set off to pick up the other kids. Liz sits right behind me so I asked her how her dance lesson had gone.
"Grandmaaaaaaaa, you know we had open house at school last night!!!!!!! So we didn't goooo to dance."
"I'm sorry, I forgot about open house, I guess I'm old and forgetful. So how did open house go?"
"It was good except that the cheerleaders were in the gym! So I couldn't show them the gym!!!"
"Well, that's OK honey. Your parents used to go to your school so they know what it looks like."
"But grandmaaaaaa, THEY'RE OLD and I don't think they remember."
I'm sure the parent at the first stop was wondering why I was laughing out loud as I pulled up. So we're making our rounds and, not wanting Liz to have to sit alone, I put a couple of kindergarten girls with her so that none of them would have to sit alone. I overheard one of the other girls saying "well your grandma ......" uh-oh. I didn't catch what else was said. As soon as I had set the brake at school Liz was out of her seat and at my side.
"Grandma I want a new seat."
"Why is that?"
"She said her daddy is stronger than my daddy!!!!!!" I was trying not to laugh, really I was, but I must have cracked a grin. By now the other girl is right there too and the "but she said", "no you said", "I did not say" started." What ever was said about me obviously wasn't too upsetting. LOL. We all agreed that they are not going to be best friends (at least not this week) and I told them that they wouldn't have to sit together anymore.
So this morning I had her sit with Nikki. In my defense I had another group of students that weren't getting along and I thought Liz would be OK one morning back with the older kids. I heard a couple of other kids yell out her name a couple of times and I looked up just in time to see her doll go sailing into the seat behind hers! I'll find her a seat closer to me in the morning ;-)
Thursday, October 02, 2008
45 Minutes with Liz
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How fun to have your granddaughter on the bus and be able to see and hear her interact with others! I'm sure it was a special 45 minutes for you.ReplyDelete
That was such a cute post! "Oh Grandma!" Isn't it funny to think that was us once upon a time?ReplyDelete
She sure keeps you smiling :) Lucky you to see so much of your grandchildren. Our little guys were here this past weekend. We had fun gathering pumpkins and leaves. Grandpa and their dad showed them how to target shoot, and of course they had a tractor ride and enjoyed the kitties :)ReplyDelete
LOL - I love to listen to the little ones talk. Finding them the "right" seats can be a challenge though. Sounds like a blast.ReplyDelete
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Just stumbled across this. Looks like an interesting way to blow an evening with some friends.
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The purpose of S.1 is to extend programs and activities under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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|2011-11-25, 05:19
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Grumpy Russian bear
PS. Page claim for good Nanoha/Negima crossovers that make sense... Why, why, WHY there aren't any?
|2011-11-25, 06:20
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Well this thread turned out more popular than I thought it'd be.
|2011-11-25, 07:26
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Damn... Now I'm wishing I don't have a nasty block due to hyper-imagination....
In FF.net, there's a NarutoXNanoha fic called Die Sterne. It's a fanfic about Hinata and Fate having some sort of connection that allows them to communicate for a some time.
While most of us know they have similar family issue, some of us know that both of them shares Nana Mizuki as their VA...
I'm not imposing a challenge but it's quite interesting to see the interaction 2 different persons from different worlds/realities while having either the same/similar background or issue and/or having the same voice due to their VA's and both of them tries to help each other out.
What do you guys think about it?
|2011-11-25, 08:45
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|2011-11-25, 10:54
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I'm here for the reason..
Speaking about Naruto and Nanoha crossovers, does kekkei genkai included in the Rare Skill ability? You know, like combining two different Nature Transformations (Naruto's equivalent to Nanoha's Mana Conversion Affinity)?
1. Ice = Water + Wind
2. Wood = Earth + Water
3. Lava = Fire + Earth
4. Blaze = Manipulation of Amaterasu's black flames
1. So far, there is two MCA in Nanoha-verse: Fire and Lightning.
2. Despite Shamal have a Shield of Wind ability and Hayate's Breath of Ice area-of-effect spells, both are not included in the MCA.
3. There is a possibility that Corona's golem summons made from earth and soil materials.
4. I wonder know if there is a water MCA, for example, an spell to create tsunami waves.
|2011-11-25, 11:53
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How about this idea:
On their way to Midchilda after the Book Of Darkness Incident, the Asura, with the whole gang aboard, is caught in a dimensional storm. Their ship is more-or-less undamaged, but they are tossed out into a universe previously unknown, in orbit of a humongous gas giant. Their scanners pick up something unusual: a heavily-damaged, blocky, mass-weapon-using starship trying to fight off several sleek, plasma-using alien ships, while a huge ringworld hangs in the distance...
Another idea that I can't think of a way to make into a snippet: StrikerS era (or after) and Mass Effect. Nanoha and company help Shepard in dealing with Saren and the Collectors... and, in revenge, when the Reapers' invasion of the galaxy commences, they also hit Midchilda.
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|2011-11-25, 14:41
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Besides, Naruto has two such grafts in the form of his mother and father's souls. So maybe the TSAB could turn both of them into Unison Devices, or make two Unison Devices based on what's left behind in Naruto's soul when they pass on.
Yes, they would. Any power or ability which cannot be learned, but only inherited genetically, would be classified as a Rare Ability or Bloodline Limit (Kekkai Genkai).
A Shrinking Violet can grow into a Yamato Nadeshiko, but she isn't one yet.
In any case, I am also reading Die Sterne at the moment. I don't yet have an opinion on it, but I have one more chapter to go.
I'd be willing to give a chance to other such crossovers that link together characters by personality and voice-actor.
For example, Saber from Fate/Stay Night and Gwendolyn from the Vanillaware videogame, Odin Sphere. Though there doesn't seem to be much of a point to that, considering how their stories go.
Much more so than Macross, Warhammer, or Halo.
The Nanohaverse just isn't going to mesh well with settings involving giant mecha, since mages already fill the role of mecha. A gundam looks pretty silly next to a ten-year-old girl that works just as well.
And what's Master Chief supposed to do when ten-year-olds appear like Superman to solve all of his problems?
The best sort of crossovers DO NOT render the protagonists of one side pointless.
That's why, if you have a Metal Gear / Transformers crossover, you have to feature Solid Snake fighting the miniature transformers in tactical espionage action, and keep encounters with the regular giant Transformers limited to climax moments, as if they were Metal Gear.
Sticking Snake in the middile of a heavy metal deathmatch between Optimus Prime and Megatron would be bad writing.
|2011-11-25, 16:20
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|2011-11-25, 18:15
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if mecha does not work well, we still have TRANSFORMERS! They have elements of mecha yet they can adapt well to any world without a problem. However, they will not look good since the vehicles in Midchilda look kind of square.
Another idea I have is to have Angry Birds XD. They can be in the place where Erio and Caro work. Their constant war affect the whole ecosystem and the two young mage need to settle it once and for all.
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|2011-11-25, 20:39
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Okay... seeing as my previous suggestions were ignored...
Picture this: A certain hero is tossed through the realms and onto Midchilda by a mishap during an experiment run by his two-tailed little sidekick. Nanoha & co. are fighting off a swarm of Scaglietti's Gadget Drones. A group of them are about to overrun the Forwards. Suddenly, a blue blur of speed comes crashing in, bouncing off of and destroying the droids with incredible speed.
Caro: "Who... Who and what are you? Some kind of living super-weapon or something?"
"Heh. Nothing like that. What you see is what you get - just a guy who loves adventure! I'm Sonic! Sonic the Hedgehog!"
Maybe later on, the rest of the Sonic crew (Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Amy, Rouge, etc) would show up. Oh, and imagine Nanoha and Fate empowered by the Chaos Emeralds. ...Would the Emeralds count as Lost Logia?
|2011-11-25, 21:17
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Oh, and you should know by now that people here would rather not say anything than throw out generic, useless blabber like "fund it!" or "shut up and take my money!" We're not SB. So silence doesn't mean it was ignored outright. You didn't even wait a full day to bump it, as it is.
|2011-11-25, 21:25
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@ The SONIC THE HEDGEHOG idea:
You could consider their planet of Mobius (sp?) to exist in the same universe; it's definitely not Earth.
Considering how well he does against Robotnik's robots, Sonic would even fit in just fine in the JS Incident.
Of course, everyone will probably freak out a bit, because Sonic will be the first non-human alien seen in the Nanohaverse. They might wonder if he's a strange form of Familiar.
Jail will want to capture him for study, especially if he theorizes Sonic's super speed to be an organic form of Inherent Skill... which it might very well be. (Or does the existing term "Rare Skill" cover that already? Either way, Jail wants to puzzle it out.)
Anyone else who isn't Tails or Knuckles can stay the hell away, and I consider even those two optional.
@ Halo
I already answered it. You may have missed it, since it wasn't the main point of the posts in which I mentioned Halo.
This is because I consider it a silly idea. I've already explained why.
|2011-11-26, 04:46
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|2011-11-26, 10:17
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found this a few days ago
|2011-11-26, 12:06
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Garyu's humanoid form might be the result of deliberate genetic design, as I imagine he and the bugs and other summons are biological weapons from Al Hazard or Ancient Belkan.
*checks that episode*
So, there are people wearing normal Midchildan clothes, but who happen to have longer, pointy ears and no other visible difference.
They could be familiars. Or it could be some sort of mutation. It could be some nonsense the artists threw in because no one would notice it and it wasn't going to impact anything.
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We can have a stronger economy by creating jobs in America instead of sending them to Mexico, China, India and other parts of the world.
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We can do these two things with some work and still have a great coal industry. A more energy independent America, a large work force of American people and more money spent at home on our roads, bridges and infrastructure will make for a more prosperous America.
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Hi TA,
I came across the following article
Do any of us, however ill, have the right to die?
It is about a paralyzed man who wishes to die. Now this is a sensitive issue, but what I'm just disgusted by is the author, who belittles a man so defenseless in such a low and crass manner. She suggest he should wait until an infection kills him, or starve himself to death - comparing him to a whiny child.
I'm fully for everyones right to end their own lives. And I'm not going to be as arrogant and even suggest that I could understand what this man must feel, or say something stupid like "oh he's just giving up!". So because of that I was truly shocked by how misguided this person is. How low will some of these zealous people sink? Whether or not you agree with his wish is your opinion (which should not affect him), but to ridicule the only wish of such a man as if you're somehow morally superior?
What is Think Atheist's opinion?
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"...a sign of lingering doubt (even if only subconscious) in any sort of afterlife."
Several times, while talking with Xians who seem to have some ego-strength, I've asked, "With so wonderful a place to go to when Xians die, why do they hang on here so tightly?"
The usual reply is "I don't know either."
Great! Allow our lives to be dictated by a woman who can't spell defense.
I think she's British and writing for one of their newspapers, and they do spell it "defence" over there. (Yes, it's a quaint dialect of American, isn't it?)
Your "quaint dialect of American" gave me a long-lasting smile. Thanks.
Brits spell lots of words differently.
Our "...ize" words (materialize) are their "ise" (materialise) words. Many of our "...or" words (favor) are their "...our" (favour) words.
They also punctuate differently, putting a full stop (a period) outside a closing quote, as in "Knock me up sometime, Yank".
I'll leave "knock me up" for you to translate.
Try being a Canadian, we don't know how to spell anything. Our official spellings are majorly British, but the majority of our media (even local) uses American spelling. Sometimes I spell 'colour' as 'color' in the same paragraph. Not to mention the pain of using American style spell checking.
I fully support the 'right to die'. I have MS and currently take several meds for pain. If the pain ever got to the point where I couldn't take it any more, I would appreciate the option to leave this world with some dignity.
I'm fully in support of the 'right to die' with informed consent. I do think there is room to intercede if a person is mentally ill and perhaps not able to think things through - although if that state of mental illness is one of continually wanting, indefinitely, to die then even in that case I believe it should be granted. Not only should people be allowed to end their lives but I feel as a society we should assist them in ending their life with dignity - suicides can be very undignified when not well planned/executed.
Informed consent is pretty tricky to nail down for such a thing. I'm sure there are black and white cases where terminally ill and in pain seems to be a justifiable reason to wish to die, but I doubt many cases would fall into such a category. Even I've had excruciating pain to the point of blindness to reason and I've lived a fairly safe and healthy life. There would be no way of knowing if a person would have changed his/her mind after euthanasia, so taking corrective measures for regulating who is determined to have informed consent and who does not would be difficult. I would not fault someone for assisting in a planned suicide if it was wished for, but to regulate and legalise it would open the door to many poor choices.
As a side note I do not think of any death as dignified, death is the period at the end of an essay. The only things that are dignified imo are actions, and thoughts, and the dead have neither.
Raymond, your post tells me you studied philosophy and/or theology but have had little or no experience with serious illness, and no experience with anyone in a vegetative state.
How does a reason to die become justifiable, and in whose mind?
Who has a right to say another person's choice to die is poor?
Probably the ones that hurt the most from a poor choice, family and friends. Would you argue that a suicidally depressed teenager has a justifiable case for euthanasia? Perhaps a case of Romeo and Juliet type broken hearted fatalism.
All of the cases of people I knew/know with serious illness never contemplated suicide (at least made me aware of it). So it's true that I don't have much experience with those on their deathbed wishing for a quicker death. But I did know several peers growing up that commited suicide, all of those cases were considered tragedies and the victims were friends and their families. I would say that those were poor choices.
As an extension to the case of teenage suicide would be temporary pain and suffering. I wonder how much pain and suffering it takes to make someone wish to die, and how many have gone through that pain and suffering been thankful that their wish wasn't granted. The state of suffering does not encourage rational choices, and in many cases would lead to poor choices.
Informed consent does not mean having to justify the choice - simply establishing whether or not the person making the choice understands the choice. It is irrelevant whether or not a cure might be found the next day, or the person might have lived to change their mind.
So you don't think any death is dignified? You don't see a difference between a person feeling tremendous relief from their pain, losing consciousness and then coding - or another person screaming, moaning, crying, pissing and then going into convulsions before finally dying? You don't see a difference between not knowing when the pain will end - or actually having the choice to end it within your power? You don't see the difference between getting drunk and high, while shaking in tears at the fear you will fail as you struggle to find the courage to put that rope around your neck and step off the chair - or going to the 'clinic' to be sedated, knowing for a fact the end is near and it won't involve an experience of choking on your own vomit?
In my experience, when it comes to teen suicide, those who cry the loudest at the funeral were those directly responsible for pushing that teen over the edge. These days I suppose the bullying problem might be growing to be a more significant factor - but many of the victims in that case have been crying out for help for years only to be told they are weak, or a snitch. Fuck the people who feel they are the victims of that teen suicide - they should have listened to that teen if they loved them so much.


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Slave Coffle, Central Africa, 1861
David and Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 (London, 1865, facing p. 356; reprinted New York, 1866, facing p. 376).
Men linked by forked logs, children and women attached by chains or ropes, with their African guards armed with guns. Caption reads: Gang of Captives met at Mbame's on their way to Tette. The scene was witnessed in July, 1861. Mbame was a village chief, friendly to Livingstone. Tette/Tete, a village (now a town) on the Zambezi River, located in present-day Western Mozambique was the last Portuguese outpost on the Zambezi. This image was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (vol. 32 [Dec. 1865-May 1866], p. 719) not long after the appearance of the New York edition to accompany an article, Livingstone's Last African Expedition (pp. 709-23); the article gives a summary account of the Livingstones' Narrative of an Expedition. The captives shown here were destined for the East African trade. Compare this image with image C017 on this website. The image and its historical context, as well as sources in which it is found, is discussed at length in Jerome Handler and Annis Steiner, Identifying Pictorial Images of Atlantic Slavery: Three Case Studies, Slavery and Abolition 27 (2006), 52-54.
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Hi Cluesforum
Since I'm new here, a short presentation: I'm 40+ and live in Sweden. I started to woke up about a year ago. A colleague at work talked about a third building on 9/11. Checked it out and went down the rabbit hole. A couple of weeks ago I came across September Clues and think that is the most rational theory. That led me to this excellent forum. I'm on the same page with most stuff here I think, but I do believe artificial satellites is a reality.
Being a scuba diver for several years I thought it might be a contribution if I do an analysis of the so called space walks from that perspective.
When you dive, controlling your buoyancy is a skill that takes time to master. Especially when using a dry suit. Even your breathing affects your buoyancy. When you take a breath from the air tank, the air in your lungs makes you positively buoyant and that makes you float up a little. This in turn reduces the water pressure around you and causes the air you have in your dry suit to expand thus increasing your buoyancy further. You start to float up and as the air continues to expand your ascent rate will increase. You then have two options – To vent air, by using the dump valve on your suit and/or exhaling. You can also swim or push yourself down so that the water pressure increases and compresses the air in your suit again and makes you neutrally buoyant. But if you go to deep you will start to descend progressively because of the increased pressure. Then you have to swim up or buoyancy compensate by injecting air into your suit from a valve.
This is something all new divers struggle with and a very common sight is rookies surfacing feet first with a dry suit. This is because the dump valve is placed on the upper part of the suit but if you don't pay attention air can escape to the feet section and causing you to float up feet first. Then the scenario described above plays out but since you're going up feet first it's hard to swim down and impossible to vent the expanding air.
When looking at the numerous so called space walks videos I see these rules of physics play out all the time. And the space clowns have a tougher task. They cannot control their buoyancy by venting air of course because bubbles. So they need to use the constant depth technique. Just a few centimeters can make you ascend or descend. And the speed progresses because of the pressure change. That is why you see the clowns always holding on to things and having problems moving around. And they can of course not use their hands or feet to swim because that would reveal the trickery. But you see them do that anyway sometimes trying to make it look like they're waving.
Another thing I see a lot is the feet up problem. In the video below a space clown tries to go head first under some contraption, but then backs up again. This is because the air in his suit escapes to his feet, making them more buoyant than the rest of him, so that he cannot force himself under. And then he get snagged in a line. All in all it looks like inexperienced divers fooling around.
This is nothing what I think it would look like if they were in a zero g vacuum environment. Then they would be able to effortlessly float around, going up/down/right/left with the nudge of a finger. They would move exactly like in the fake ISS movies when they use the Vomet Comet airplanes. Also their suits would not look compressed, but inflated since they would always have positive pressure compared to the vacuum. This is so silly.
I think this is also the reason they like to strap the space clowns onto that stupid crane they have on the ISS. This way they don't have to try to make it look like zero g in their bulky swim suits. Instead they show their space toys to fool people. The reason that screw driver is so bulky, is of course because it contains air pockets to make it buoyancy neutral.
Also I would say simulating zero g and training for space missions in a pool is pretty stupid because of the mentioned problems. It would be a whole different set of skills to master compared to what I imagine it would be in zero g. So the only reason I can see they do this is because this is also they way they fake the space walks.
"Enjoy" the video below to see some of the things I talked about. There is also some bubbles escaping in that video but I missed to note the time. Cudos if someone spots it. I also noticed that the film speed has be slightly increased. Probably to try to make it look less like water and more like space. But to me it only looks stupid I'm afraid.
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A Naval Research Laboratory scientist is part of a team that has recently discovered that vast clouds of hot gas are "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. The scientists are studying the hot (30 million degree) gas using X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from the Very Large Telescope to see the galaxies.
The long blue curved streamer you see above is a wave of extraordinarily hot gas (30 million degrees C!) over a million light years long that got "sloshed" around by the cluster's gravity. Keep in mind that the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across, 1/10th as big as that wave!
Abell 2052 is a galaxy located in the constellation Serpens, about 480 million light years from Earth. This image was captured using X-rays from Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from the Very Large Telescope.
"The X-ray images were amazing. We were able to see gas sloshing like liquid in a glass" explains NRL's Dr. Tracy Clarke. "Of course this would be one enormous glass since we see the gas sloshing over a region of nearly a million light years across!"
The Chandra data reveal the huge spiral structure in the hot gas around the outside of the image. Zooming in on the cluster reveals "cavities" or "bubbles" surrounding the central giant elliptical galaxy. The spiral began when a small cluster of galaxies collided off-center with a larger one positioned around that central galaxy.
The gravitational attraction of the smaller cluster drew the hot gas out of the central cluster toward the smaller cluster. Once the smaller cluster passed by the central cluster core, the gas movement reversed and it was pulled back toward the center of the main cluster. The hot cluster gas overshot the cluster center, creating the "sloshing" effect that is like the sloshing that occurs when a glass holding a liquid is quickly jerked sideways.In the cluster, gravity pulls back on the gas cloud, creating the spiral pattern.
For scientists, the observation of the "sloshing" motion in Abell 2052 is important for two reasons. First, the "sloshing" helps to move some of the cooler, dense gas in the center of the core farther away from the core. This cooler gas is only about 10 million degrees, as compared to the average temperature of 30 million degrees. This movement reduces the amount of cooling in the cluster core and could limit the amount of new stars being formed in the central galaxy.
The "sloshing" movement in Abell 2052 also helps redistribute heavy elements like iron and oxygen, which are created out of supernova explosions. These heavy elements are an important part of the make-up of future stars and planets. The fact that Chandra's observation of Abell 2052 lasted more than a week was critical in providing scientists with the details detected in this image.
Besides the large-scale spiral feature, the Chandra observations also allowed scientists to see details in the center of the cluster related to outbursts from the supermassive black hole. The data reveal bubbles resulting from material blasted away from the black hole which are surrounded by dense, bright, cool rims. In the same way that the "sloshing" helps to reduce the cooling of the gas at the core of the cluster, the bubble activity has the same effect, limiting the growth of the galaxy and its supermassive black hole.
The Daily Galaxy via nrl.navy.mil
Image Credit – X-ray: NASA/CXC/BU/E. Blanton; Optical: ESO/VLT


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Winchester [6] is an historic cathedral city in the English county of Hampshire, situated within the South East region.
Winchester has a long history: there has been continuous settlement at the site for over 2,000 years.
Winchester began as a Celtic hill fort, predating the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE. After the Roman conquest, the town grew and became known as Venta Belgarum. After prospering under Roman imperial rule for several centuries, Winchester discovered a new identity as an important Saxon city. Ultimately, King Alfred the Great named Winchester as the capital, first of his kingdom of Wessex and later all of England south of the Danelaw - despite the growing importance of London, it remained so until the Norman invasion of 1066. During the Middle Ages Winchester was renowned for its woollen goods, amongst other produce.
Presently, Winchester is an attractive and peaceful cathedral city deep in the southern English countryside, located conveniently close to both London and Southampton.
A visitor staying in London but with a day to spare and a desire to see more of England could do much worse than simply to hop on a train to Winchester (which gives good views of the southern English countryside) and spend the day wandering around Winchester.
Get in
By plane
The most convenient airports for Winchester are (in order of distance):
By taxi
There are couple of Winchester based taxi companies providing long distance transfers from major airports, towns, bus and rail stations to Winchester. Winchester Taxi Co [11], Winch Taxis Winchester [12], Airport Taxis Winchester [13] and Winchester Taxi Link [14] provide online cab/taxi booking facility.
By train
Winchester has a station on the main line from London to Southampton, Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth. It is also served by long-distance services from Reading, Oxford, Birmingham and places further north.
From London, trains to Winchester depart from London Waterloo; there are several trains an hour which take about one hour for the journey. A "cheap" day-return adult ticket between Winchester and London Waterloo is typically around £22. Train times (from any location) can be found on the National Rail Planner [15] or by calling 08457 48 49 50 from anywhere in the UK.
Bear in mind that engineering works can occur, particularly at weekends. Double-check your journey with South West Trains before you travel. If engineering works are occurring, consider using a coach/bus for travels outside Winchester instead - it may be faster than the replacement rail bus service and is invariably cheaper.
Crossing to the other platform at Winchester station is possible via a footbridge.
By bus
National Express [16] operate services to Winchester from cities throughout the UK including London. Advanced ticketing is required. National Express coaches drop off in the Broadway. Megabus [17], which requires online pre-booking, offers cheap daily tickets to Winchester from London on the routes to Southampton and Bournemouth. The drop off location is St. Catherine's Park and Ride car park, 15 minutes' walk from the city centre.
For those with a special interest in cathedral cities, Wilts & Dorset [18] operate the branded Cathedral Connection between Salisbury and Winchester, taking in some very attractive countryside on route. Despite its branding, this is a rural bus service (number 68) with no need for advance ticketing; it operates six times a day (except Sundays) and takes about an hour and a half for the journey. Timetable details can be found on the website, or by telephoning +44 1722 336855. Sometimes the buses take a long time to arrive.
By car
The town is conveniently situated for the M3 motorway (US English: freeway) from London to Southampton, with the A34 providing access from the Midlands and the North. Winchester and its city centre are generally regarded as car-unfriendly; an excellent Park and Ride site National Park and Ride Directory [19] is located just off junction 10 of the M3 (from M3 north, exit at junction 9 and follow the signs) and buses provide a link to the city centre every 10-15 mins taking under 10 mins for the journey. Operates Mo-Fr 7.30AM-6.30PM; Sa 8AM-6PM; no service Sundays; £2.70 per car (including all passengers).
On foot
Winchester is at the western end of the South Downs Way [20] and hikers starting out on or completing the 100-mile trail are a common sight in the city.
Get around
If you are planning to do any visiting or exploring beyond central Winchester, you will probably want to obtain a decent map of the area. You should ensure that any map you buy clearly shows the national grid reference lines, and explains how to use them, as grid references are frequently used to indicate out of town locations. The best maps for this purpose are those published by the Ordnance Survey (Britain's national mapping agency) and the following maps cover all the locations mentioned below:
These maps can be found in any good local bookshop, or can be bought online from the Ordnance Survey's web site [21].
By foot
Most of the things to see and do in Winchester, and the places to eat, drink and sleep are within easy walking distance of each other and the rail station. There are several attractive walks in the surrounding countryside, particularly towards Twyford along the Water Meadows, and on Old Winchester Hill.
By bus
Winchester has a reasonable bus service, both within the town and to the surrounding area, although frequencies can be quite low with little service in the evenings or on Sunday.
By car
Winchester is quite small and a car is unlikely to be necessary for getting around. In addition, town centre parking can be difficult; if visiting for the day consider using the Park and Ride described above. Visitors with mobility problems can arrange to borrow a wheelchair or electric scooter through the Shopmobility office situated in the Brooks car park, off Friarsgate Street.
Museums and Galleries
Parks and Gardens
Abbey Grounds - located off the Broadway between King Alfred's statue and the rer of Winchester Cathedral. These are formal gardens through which the Itchen flows, and include a children's play area. Cathedral Grounds - the green space around the Cathedral contains part of the burial ground, and is a popular meeting spot. The main grounds are around the West entrance of the cathedral, and there is also green space on the Southern side.
Fairs & Festivals
The compact city centre of Winchester is unusual in retaining a number of independent bookshops, boutiques, toyshops, galleries, antique and foodshops, particularly in the Upper High Street and in the roads off the High Street such as Parchment Street, Southgate Street, Great Minster Street and The Square. Winchester is not a major shopping centre; if you want the large chains, go to Southampton, Reading or London.
There are lots of places to eat in central Winchester, particularly in Jewry Street, the High Street and the Square, and a good way to find one is simply to keep your eyes open as you visit. Here is a small selection recommended by individual Wikitravellers. The prices are best guesses for a meal including drinks & tips.
England is known for its pubs and public houses, and Winchester - being the ancient heart of England - is no exception. Winchester has a good selection of city centre pubs, many of which are noted in the Real Ale bible 'The Good Beer Guide', and a few that are worth taking a stroll and the time to discover - such as the Wickham, The Black Boy and The Bell.
This plethora of public houses does not mean that Winchester is saturated with one type of beer. It is in the unique position that there are many brewers represented in the city. Although the best approach is to wander around and to go into the one you like the look of, there are a few - such as the Eclipse and the Black Boy - that may not reveal their delights until you venture inside.
There are many different places to sleep in Winchester. The following can only be a set of suggestions. The prices quoted are negotiable.
Winchester's area code is 01962 when dialed from within the UK or +44 1962 from outside the UK.
Get out
The area around Winchester contains some very attractive scenery and some interesting attractions. Use of a car (or a bicycle) is a near necessity for exploring most of these, although with patience and careful use of a bus timetable some are accessible by public transport.


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Hoverkraft Levitating Construction Challenge
Castles in the air
- Futuristic building & balancing game
- A ThinkGeek creation and exclusive!
- For 1 to 8 players, ages 8 and up
Winner of Popular Science's Best of Toy Fair 2016 award!
You won't be surprised to hear we love new games around here. At our holiday party, one room was dedicated to nothing but new board games. So when we realized we could create our own board game, well... that's a temptation we just could not resist.
Hoverkraft is an old-school building game with a twist. Players take turns stacking pieces on a platform... that levitates. Using magnetic repulsion, we've built a gameboard that defies gravity (take that, weak force!). Stack translucent game pieces higher and higher or remove them as the die dictates.
Hoverkraft is intended for two players, but it's fun to challenge yourself to build bigger and better structures. And it's a fast game, lasting anywhere from 30 seconds (what? we were distracted) to 5 minutes. Bring it to a party and you can have an entire tournament in a few hours. Your friends may curse you for introducing them to Hoverkraft at first, but they'll be drawn back to it. There's something addictive about it.
Product Specifications
- Futuristic building & balancing game
- A ThinkGeek creation and exclusive!
- For 1 to 8 players
- Ages 8+
- Play time: 5 minutes
- Use blocks to build structures on the floating platform
- Platform is suspended using magnetic repulsion, creating levitation effect
- Last player to place a block without causing the platform to tumble (or pieces to fall off it) wins
- 24 translucent plastic blocks:
- 6 pyramids
- 6 corners (tetracubes)
- 6 L-shapes (tetracubes)
- 6 straight pieces (tetracubes)
- Materials: Plastic, wires, 5 rare-earth magnets, and science
- Dimensions: Base is 6" square, platform is just over 3" square
- Includes playing board with magnetic floating platform, 24 plastic blocks, game-specific 6-sided die, and block storage tray
- Initial Set-Up: Before you play, rotate calibration wheel all the way counter-clockwise, tilt board so platform hangs vertical, and then slowly lower back down into starting position. (Thank you, Robert!)


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A variety of unique and lucrative applications await those who print digitally onto fabrics.
Offshore production is a contentious subject in the U.S., especially when the economy is down and unemployment is high. Revitalizing a diminished manufacturing base is most often seen as a political endeavor, but to Ann Sawchak of Expand Systems, and others, the problem can also be addressed entrepreneurially (Figures 1A-1E). Given the right equipment and know-how, it only makes sense to keep direct digital textile printing within the U.S.
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Together with her husband, Mark, Sawchak created the Rosewell, GA-based company Expand Systems to educate the domestic market on the benefits and opportunities associated with digital textile printing, not just on polyester, but on natural fibers as well. Along with championing the process, Expand also ventured into the equipment and supplies side of the market.
"As the economy goes down, the interest [in digital textile printing] goes up because of several factors. Number one, everybody wants American-made. So if they can make something here, they want to make it here. Another factor is that a lot of people were getting things out of China, and China now has its own middle class to support. So they've raised minimums, raised lead times. They don't care as much about meeting our needs," Sawchak says.
With China no longer providing cheap labor on the same scale it had in the past, a door has opened for domestic printers to fill the void. Sawchak said that for the market to take off, designers need to be made aware that they no longer need to think in terms of one screen per color, and that producing short runs or samples doesn't have to be cost prohibitive. She recalls meeting a dealer at an Atlanta trade show who was selling wall hangings and pillows, and she was able to convince him that he could handle some of the printing himself.
"He bought a printer, and within six months he bought a second one. He said that being able to print his short runs and his samples himself saved $12,000," she says.
Another major factor that is driving digital textile printing in this country is its ability to create a more efficient supply chain and a more cost-effective inventory management system.
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