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So my parents (who are Christians) and I just had a huge debate about the supposed "truth" of Christianity, homosexuality and reasons for belief. I'd love to hear some rational opinions about some of the points they made (which I wholeheartedly disagreed with). Feel free to pick any points you'd like to discuss. Here they are:
"When it comes to homosexuals, I don't hate the sinner, I hate the sin. The human body is not designed to have sex with someone of the same sex. That's why God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve."
"The Bible has PREDICTED the fall of Israel, it has also predicted an event in which the sky went black and there was fire, but no scientists had an explanation for what happened."
"There have been people diagnosed with incurable cancer and the doctors had no idea what it was but the person prayed and they were cured."
"Evolution doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make sense how there was one organism, an amoeba or whatever, that just divides and evolves into different species. And where did that come from? There has to be a creator." <---This is one where I brought up circular reasoning. Also, can someone provide some good sources for abiogenesis for me? I admit I had a hard time explaining this one (and they simply don't understand the process to begin with).
"I've read bits about other religions, Islam, Shintoism etc and they just don't make sense to me the way the Bible does."
"The Bible does not condone slavery or rape or any of those things. When people read that stuff they read it out of context, but when you read the rest of the chapter it actually makes sense."
"People always ask 'Why did God create Cancer?' - well God didn't create cancer, cancer is just something that's part of man's existence. But either way he allows it so that people can learn to be closer to God. People always bring that up when it comes to suffering kids, but God has a reason why he does certain things."
"People are all born into sin. Babies are a product of their sinful parents so it's up to them to repent when they become familiar with the word of God."
"What people need to understand is that not everything in the Bible is supposed to be taken literally. A lot of it is figurative."
"Sure there are people from all different religions, but the Bible says that they'll all be introduced to the word of God and it will be up to them to decide whether they follow Jesus or not, but only those who follow Jesus will be saved."
"People come across tough times in their lives, particularly when they're not aligned with the word of God, but then they realize that as soon as they start to read the Bible and live by God that things start to look up. That's no coincidence."
"God sent his own son down to wash away the sins of man. Man has a choice to be sinful, God gives them free will. There's a set of laws that God sets out for people to follow and if they don't, there are consequences."
"What I know is that the disciples who spoke to God were the ones who wrote the Bible, actually, Moses was one of the only people who was PROVEN to have seen God, but their word is good enough for me. "
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I'd say that being attracted to children in a sexual way does not make you immoral. But acting upon it is an entirely different story...
I know of a gay minister who came out to his congregation. He told them being gay is not a choice. He has a blog and in the blog he responded to people who pointed out the argument that pedophiles are born that that way so why does he not think it is okay for them. Basically, he said the difference is pedophiles cannot and should not have consensual relationships with children.
He is still a believer that has now come to believe God is okay with gay.
He also writes about what it was like to be a secretly gay minister about two-thirds the way down the page:
Hopefully he will become an atheist some day.
** Xian texts and commentaries on them contain no facts -- they are about nothing
If reasoning about nature or human action were used only to persuade; then, there would only be successful persuasion and unsuccessful persuasion. Not even fundies would want to claim that their apologetics was persuasive but untrue.
• Nevertheless to confuse being persuaded that a statement is true with that statement's being known is a blatant conceptual mistake. No matter how many persons over two thousand years have been literally indoctrinated by a xian culture to a belief that "Christ rose from the dead" -- that statement is factually false beyond a reasonable doubt.
Persuading is not a proxy for determining the truth or falsity of a statement. To imagine otherwise plays directly into the unreasonable techniques of xian apologetics -- religious texts are not self-justifying.
• Knowledge can only be a public object. It is not a psychological (brain) state. No (empirical) statement can be knowledge without publicly available evidence based on legitimate methods for its being true.
Religion and morality therefore contain no knowledge. No matter the arguments, there are no experts "on God" -- there are no experts on morality. There's no deity to be an expert on. And xian mores are male supremacist claims for total social control over women and children.
Modern biology and psychology show that homosexuality exists as a normal expression of human genetics -- sexualized "sin" does not exist. Moral condemnation by xians belongs back in the sewers of ancient Rome' s eastern empire where it came from
Most of us rely upon information which comes from relevant scientific experts who have made the methodologically appropriate tests. And this need exposes everyone to liars and deliberate falsifiers who debase the hard-earned golden coin of knowledge -- like modern evolutionary theory -- for their own gain (money and power) and to our collective loss. MET is true no matter how many damned fundies try say otherwise and force their views into the classroom.
• The god of theologians bears scant resemblance to the ill-tempered, immoral, misogynist in the canons of the Big-3 Monster Theisms. Their texts as read display "God" as a moral monster. No theologian can save "God" from "His" bad habits by "interpretation" or using philosophy to give "Him" a makeover. No need to waste time on pointless theological gamesmanship. Theology is fifth-rate fan fiction.
Religion and mores easily survive in cultures without well-grounded methods for establishing knowledge claims. Science and Law operate successfully using a reality principle, a finding of fact beyond a "reasonable doubt." Beyond a reasonable doubt lies unreasonable doubt, beliefs which are neither creditable nor credible.
• Mores and religion are cultural atavisms given over to indoctrination, paternalist norms, and wish fulfillment. Without formal systems of rule-governed method and rule-governed review, Science and Law would disappear.
There are no god-given religions, only human religious institutions. Manned by self-anointed god proxies who have no rational methods for demarcating false claims from true ones. Who offer only illogic (apologetics) and who make authoritarian demands (xian fascism).
They are those who counsel intolerance and hatred, violence and murder as legal and godly acts. They would persuade us to trust them and to do evil.
1.The human body is not designed to have sex with someone of the same sex ask them to define sex?
2.The Bible predicted what fact? where is the peer reviewed scientific documentation of this source please ?
3.Praying cures cancer point me to the peer reviewed scientific documentation and the tested theory and it's results stats and the guarentee in writing please ?
4.Evolution doesn't make sense ? 2+2= 4
If you think it doesn't it doesn't mean 2+2 = God !
It just means you need to learn Math! ,
I would like them to explain evolution in a bit more detail than the explanation they have given you clearly they have no understanding of it at all maybe a starting point is showing them the peppered moth !
4.Other religions don't make sense so they've cherry picked 1? Well I hope they aren't worried about all the OTHER hells in case they have the wrong one?
5.Babies are born into sin well obviously they are the result of wicked parents how wicked were yours to get an Atheist lol! and being that we are all wicked can we be be trusted with such wickedness to choose to follow a moral God ? We must have some weird ability to choose and at acknowledge what god is the right one to follow despite our evil sinful wickedness lol
6.Why did god create cancer , well if he did hes not teaching a lesson hes being an inhumane bastard i always tackle this one with well your god shuts the door and lets rape, child molestation and cancer happen and punishes the perpetrater later , I will if able try to stop these things immediately if I didn't i'd be a monster that's the difference between me and your god!
7.Not everything in the bible is to be taken literally hmm well considering Gods so clever and can do all this other stuff could he have not organised a one liner next to each statement saying literal or not literal?
What a dumb arse especially if he knows humans so well and that some are bound to take it literally being the so called creator and all ? Can cure cancer but cant include a footnote?
8.Only those who follow Jesus will be saved ? Saved from what exactly ?
9. Well documented well studied scientific and peer reviewed yes the power of suggestion and placebo work some people like to avoid the terminollogy and call it God lol
10.hmm free will thats a debate all on its own I tend to lean toward evolution determining what a species does and doesn't do and social responsabilities and morals are a part of surviving in the human world because we need to get along to some extent to survive as a species and protect and spread our own genes .
11. The bible has been analyzed by hand writing specialists and scholars and the writing styles are completely inconsistent with the possibilty that 1 person write it so they don't know at all and whoever told them that is full of shit .
I hope that helps ! Good luck !
Reesie, you say you wholeheartedly disagree with your parents.
I'm seeing in your post a need to prove their beliefs wrong.
To do that, you have to prove their experiences wrong.
What keeps you from saying you respect their experiences and going on with your life?
It's not so much a need to prove their beliefs wrong as it is an attempt to educate them about the things they condemn. Their views on homosexuality specifically bother me, as well as their misinformation about evolution and atheists. Also, I can't really say I respect their experiences when they attribute something as mundane as getting to the gas station before the gas in their car runs out as "God looking out for them". They're otherwise logical people until it comes down to discussing religion. If it didn't affect me directly then I wouldn't have such an issue with it, but unfortunately it does.
RE: "they attribute something as mundane as getting to the gas station before the gas in their car runs out as 'God looking out for them'."
Here's a thought, Reesie - though not one you're going to rush to embrace - it sounds to me like believing an invisible sky daddy watches out for them seems to give them a great deal of comfort and security. Maybe they're not strong enough, as you are, to live without that childish delusion.
Oh I completely agree. But with that said, it's one thing to feel a sense of comfort in their beliefs, it's another to form blatantly ignorant and misinformed views based on a lack of knowledge - especially when said views start to cloud their judgment and impede on the rights of others. THAT I have a problem with. I have no intentions of de-converting them in any way.
Most importantly, Reesie, if you want to try to convince either of them of anything, separate them and speak to them individually, otherwise they'll tag-team you and support each other, and you'll be left hanging out there all by your lonesome.
You might even try this:
Issolate them, and try the Prisoner's Dilemma on them. Say that the Dad has just sided with you on many points, and now you are trying to see if Mom will do the same.
A little mean and calculating, but might open the door to some form of de-programing.
James, I understand that it is well-meaning, but outright deception seems unethical.


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Total TimePrep: 25 min. Grill: 10 min.
Makes4 servings
- 4 salmon fillets (4 ounces each)
- 6 tablespoons thawed orange juice concentrate, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 5 cups fresh baby spinach
- 1 medium navel orange, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
- 4-1/2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 cup crumbled goat cheese
- Brush salmon with 4 tablespoons orange juice concentrate. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon salt, paprika and pepper. Moisten a paper towel with cooking oil; using long-handled tongs, lightly coat the grill rack. Grill salmon, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 8-10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
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The C4 model provides a static view of a single software system but, in the real-world, software systems never live in isolation. For this reason, and particularly if you are responsible for a collection of software systems, it's often useful to understand how all of these software systems fit together within the bounds of an enterprise. To do this, simply add another diagram that sits "on top" of the C4 diagrams, to show the system landscape from an IT perspective.
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On the amount, revenue neutral is code for cut benefits for the many. It is also code for cutting investments that grow our wealth or sustain it -- infrastructure, research and education among the examples.
For decades we have taxed less than we spend.
Calling for revenue neutral changes while decrying red ink budgets is incoherent.
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The bottom line is: there are no economic reasons for tax reform to be revenue neutral. Given the longer-term fiscal situation I think arguing that tax reform needs to be revenue neutral defies common sense.
Beyond the idea that tax reform does not imply revenue neutrality, right-wing media are ignoring a number of important facts, particularly that additional revenue is needed.
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If Australia qualifies with the West Indies does that mean that Australia will qualify second because the West Indies beat them?
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if u have notice the date i pridicted that before the Sir Lanka VS South Africa's match. considering the fact that thronga, and jaywardne was in form along with sangkara i thought Sir Lanka would be a good team for sami final but they fell short.Originally Posted by winneer123
india's performance was disappointing but they have the abality to bounce back and win this thing. as iam not good in predicting so i won't predict this time who is going to win. we just have to wait and watch the match lol
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The series could have gone 3-2 the other way but for a couple periods of play. My point being that 4-1 doesn't exact reveal the whole truth of that series.Originally Posted by Perm
South Africa top qualifier in group B so that means that the semi's IMO are likely to be:
Australia vs New Zealand
West Indies vs South Africa
4-1 was still a fair result though. Even though it could have been 3-2 to the West Indies, NZ were still the better team in that series if you ask me.
ha, you a betting man mate, put something up...Originally Posted by Mr Mxyzptlk
West Indies would have to lose to England for this to happen...Originally Posted by Natman20
I think it was a fair reflection, while the West Indies did play well when touring New Zealand I think it was fair to say that the Black Caps were the better team throughout the series.Originally Posted by Mr Mxyzptlk
Semi Finals
Wednesday, Mohali
West Indies vs New Zealand
Thursday, Jaipur
South Africa vs India/Australia
If Aus qualify, their match vs. SA will be a jaffer.
Let's hope they don't though
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
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All the world may be a stage, but the cheeky tale of Will Shakespeare's first romance found perfect expression on the screen.
Even though its leading character was a wordsmith who'd penned stories that have remained popular for centuries, "Shakespeare In Love" remains one of the most unlikely candidates to not only have made it to the movie screen but also score with a wide audience and ultimately claim seven Academy Awards, including trophies for stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench and the biggest prize of all, 1998's Best Picture Oscar. As the film makes its bow on Blu-Ray, director John Madden recalls the much ado that the film inspired every step of the way.
So many amazing things conspired to produce "Shakespeare In Love." Where was your entry point with the film?
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Well, Gwyneth's an easy story because I knew Gwyneth. I'd auditioned her for the second movie I ever made, which nobody's ever seen, called 'Golden Gate,' and wanted to cast her but was not allowed to by the studio that was making it. They didn't agree with my choice. And I had always remembered her, and that was the very first thing I said to Harvey when he said, 'Do you want to do it?' I said, 'Well, I think Gwyneth should play Viola.' And he said, 'She doesn't want to do it.' Supposedly because she was offered it right after she'd made 'Emma,' and she didn't, I think, want to go straight back into costume drama or something. So I was scouring the land on both sides of the Atlantic to find somebody to play her, as well as Shakespeare, and somewhere down that process she became aware of the script again, or aware that I was directing it, and suddenly decided that she was interested in it after all. And I had just not succeeded in finding Shakespeare. I mean, Harvey had all kinds of ideas about actors who he thought should be playing it – very prominent American actors, all of whom, I have to say, were smart enough to know that that was probably a poisoned chalice for an American actor. I knew Joe Fiennes as an actor but his first audition just didn't make a big impact on us. And then when we were just wracking our brains I kept saying, 'I think Joe's just got to be the guy. He felt right. He had a certain kind of quality that others didn't have where he just seemed utterly believable as that character.' So I decided to do another audition with him, and he begged to have the material to work on. I wouldn't let him have it. I said, 'I don't want you to prepare it. I just want you to come in and work on it with me.' And it was a brilliant audition. And what was completely extraordinary about him, because he didn't play a funny scene before, was his sense of humor. Incredibly adept with the comedy without sacrificing the believability or the romantic kind of core of the character. And that was a trick absolutely nobody could pull off with it. But then, because I had the task of persuading Harvey, and so I thought the way to do that was to bring him and Gwyneth together. And that just clicked immediately. They just matched each other physically so well, and she trusted him immediately. And so that endorsement from her, I think, made a huge difference.
And almost an embarrassment of riches in the rest of the cast. How easily or how difficult was it to get in that lineup? Did everybody just sort of fall into place?
Some actors were very nervous of the material, and others weren't. Judi Dench fit immediately without reading the script – not that that's unusual, because she very seldom does read the script. Geoffrey Rush could not believe his luck when the script arrived in his hands. It took his breath away – he found it so funny and so delicious. Ben Affleck was very keen to have a bash at it and put himself on tape for me, and that was a very counterintuitive piece of casting. But in a lot of ways a perfect piece of casting, because he's just exactly the sort of size and dimension that that part needed. I auditioned more people for that piece, and particularly for Will and Viola, than any other film I've ever auditioned for.
What was the key to keeping it from being, as you said, this extended in-joke, and really finding the magic that was there to make it work onscreen?
[Screenwriter] Tom Stoppard quite openly confesses that when the project came to him, he imagined he was making, as he told me, a Zucker Brothers farce. And I suppose it's true to say that the direction the script moved in was more towards the tone of a Shakespearean comedy, I suppose, and the classic kind of jewels – in that the 'Twelfth Nights,' the 'As You Like Its, the 'Much Ados' and all of these plays mix a very profound and complex emotional core and a romantic one with some outrageous comedy to please the masses. And that's exactly what Shakespeare was doing – he knew you wouldn't have a hit, the play wouldn't run or float unless the groundlings were kept happy. But the brilliance of what he did was to elevate and penetrate beyond the expectations of both halves of his audience. And so I think the trick was really simply to take Shakespeare seriously, and as irreverent as the piece is, and it's completely irreverent, it also takes his genius seriously, and takes the world that he creates seriously. And I think that open-handedness is what allows the piece its universality, really. You enjoy going from one extreme to the other, but it was exactly that quality that made people nervous about it. I think the key was just letting it be real in the midst of all of that mayhem that was going on.
The film had legs all the way to Oscar night. What was your most vivid memory of that whole experience on the road to the Academy Awards?
Very quickly it seemed that the film had achieved kind of a pretty rare thing of near critical unanimity, and so I think at that point that was pretty memorable. That was a rather sort of startling moment. And the last one, obviously, was the eons-long pause [at the Academy Awards ceremony] before Harrison Ford said 'Shakespeare In Love,' because I think he was perceivably registering his own astonishment that it wasn't 'Saving Private Ryan' – which everybody assumed it would be since Spielberg had just won the Best Director Oscar, and that split between Best Director and Best Film was relatively uncommon then.
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Coffee or tea in the morning?
SC: Coffee.
Early riser or sleeping in on an off-day?
SC: Sleeping in, maybe until 10 a.m.
Best gift card to receive as a gift and use?
SC: Barnes and Noble.
Favorite historical figure you've studied?
SC: Ulysses S. Grant.
WATCH: Clark's highlights from his playing experience in Norway
Favorite soccer match-up on TV to watch outside of MLS?
SC: Liverpool versus Everton.
Most recent movie you saw?
SC: District 9.
Place you'd most want to play a round of golf?
SC: Playing my home course with my dad and brothers.
Which professional goalkeeper did Clark look up to as a younger player? What type of books does the 27-year-old prefer reading? How many siblings did he grow up with? Learn more by checking out Clark's bio.
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Too Many Walks
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**KK was 6-1 with a 2.28 ERA in his career against Atlanta. At home, he had a streak of 15 straight scoreless innings against the Braves and hadn't given them a run since July 25.
**The Phillies pitching staff had issued 276 walks, fewest in the NL.
**Phillies relievers had allowed just seven runs in 43.1 innings since July 20.
All those numbers went out the window. Going into the second inning, KK had a 1-0 lead thanks to J-Roll's lead-off homer, his 40th. It came on the first pitch he saw.
KK then came unglued in a 50-pitch, four-run second inning that included three walks. Two innings later, Atlanta led, 6-1. A big lead like that against Tim Hudson is usual lethal. But, the Phillies battled back with five to tie at 6-6 before the pen broke down, allowing six runs on three hits and six walks in two innings. The Braves got 12 runs on 10 hits, nine walks (two intentional) and one error.
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Day off on Thursday and then Alumni Weekend against the Cardinals, the highest-scoring NL team.
J-Roll's homer was his 700th extra-base hit. Only Mike Schmidt has more in Phillies history, 1,015.
Ryan's homer was his 500th extra-base hit. He's 11th on the Phillies all-time list, three behind Cy Williams.
Four in that top 10 have played at Citizens Bank Park, J-Roll, Ryan, Bobby Abreu (585) and Pat Burrell (518).
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Lehigh Valley nipped Buffalo, 5-4, in 12 innings on a wild pitch. RH Tyler Cloyd, no decision; gave up 4 runs in 6.2 innings, the most runs he's allowed since May 20 when he gave up 5 in losing his only game of the season. Including Reading, he's 14-1. RF Steve Susdorf, 2-5, with a steal, caught stealing and a pick off.
Reading beat Trenton, 7-2, as RH Ethan Martin (2-0) won his second straight, 2 runs, 1 earned, 5 hits, 6.1 innings. Homers by 1B Darin Ruf (23), LF Leandro Castro (8) and RF Brandon Tripp (5).
Clearwater lost its fifth straight, 4-3, to Tampa. LHS Austin Wright, no decision, 3 runs (1 earned), 7 innings, 5 strikeouts. OF Zach Collier, 2 hits, 2 RBI, seventh steal.
Lakewood blanked Kannapolis, 5-0, as LH Hoby Milner (4-2) won his third straight and stretched his scoreless streak to 18.2 innings, 5 hits, 6.1 innings, 5 strikeouts. 3B Miakel Franco, 3-4, 3 runs scored. He hit .207 in the first half; .318 in the second half.
Williamsport was a 6-2 winner at Mahoning Valley. RH Ulises Joaquin (1-1), 0 runs, 3 hits, 5 innings. First save for Luis Gonzalez, 3 innings, 3 hits, 5 strikeouts. C Chace Numata hit his first homer in 70 games as a pro.
Gulf Coast League Phillies were defeated by the Yankees, 4-2. Loser LH Franklyn Vargas (4-3); gave up the 4 runs in the first inning. 3B Zach Green, 2 doubles. He and teammate C Willians Astudillo are tied for the league lead in doubles (12) with two other players.
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Alt+Enter should do the trick.
I also have an Intel Celeron N2830, which is about 30x the speed of CPUs from when Outpost 1 would have been out.
It seems a bit surprising that performance is an issue, even with the overhead of emulation. Usually emulation overhead is ballpark 10%. Though I suppose that does depend quite heavily on the emulator. There's infinite possibility to write badly performing code.
Maybe a different emulation package would work better? I'm guessing DOSBox was chosen not just as an emulator, but also for the software environment it provides.


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Cheeseburgers with your pizza? It's a reality from Pizza Hut Middle East, which has released the "Crown Crust Burger Pizza," which has a crust lined with tiny cheeseburgers, the Los Angeles Times is reporting:
Hot on the heels of the much-discussed "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust" pizza from a few weeks ago, Pizza Hut has once again proven itself the leader in the world of pizza crust innovation.
The "Crown Crust Burger Pizza," in fact, makes the United Kingdom's "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" look tame by comparison. The crust on this self-described masterpiece is made up of tiny cheeseburger patties encased in nests of pizza crust (Pizza Hut calls these "mini cheeseburger gems"). The cheese pizza center comes topped with beef, iceberg lettuce, tomato, melted cheese, and "Pizza Hut's special sauce, inviting comparisons to yet another junk food staple: the taco salad.
The "Crown Crust Burger Pizza" also has a sister entrée, the "Crown Crust Chicken Fillet Pizza," It comes bordered by, you guessed it, tiny chicken "gems."
The chicken pizza commercial looks suspiciously like the cheeseburger commercial, except for the chicken:
Check on YouTube.com, for Crown Crust pizzas the world over.
The new cheeseburger and chicken pizzas are available only in the Middle East, according to the Christian Science Monitor:
The new pizzas are available in 12 countries across the Middle East, including Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Egypt. Coupled with the hot dog crust pizza and Japan's "Winter Double King" pizza (that crust is stuffed with shrimp and mayonnaise), the Crown Crust Burger Pizza is just the latest slight to adventurous stateside pizza lovers. Does Pizza Hut think we're not ready to venture too far outside the box (or the crust) when it comes to our pizzas?


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My first trip out to Fall Instructional League was three years ago, a decision triggered by two factors:
There was a third reason, related to the second: I didn't know how I was going to rank all those players added in the June draft and the July trading season and otherwise in that winter's Bound Edition Top 72, without getting the chance to see them, even if for just a few days.
Looking back at the roster of 45 that suited up in 2007 for Instructs -- which primarily features only players from the lower (mostly short-season) levels of the farm system, plus a handful of upper-level players who need some extra work -- you can see a ridiculous amount of impact on the 2010 playoff club. Among those 45 were:
That's not to mention the Rangers' top pitching prospect at the moment, Martin Perez, or the club's top position player prospect, Engel Beltre, who were at their first Rangers camp as well.
The Rangers would probably admit that there may never be another fall crop like that one -- for starters, we hope never again to be that team that's selling off players like Mark Teixeira, Eric Gagne, and Kenny Lofton in July -- but the point is that while the dozens of young players who are gathered here from leagues in Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, California, Texas, and the Dominican Republic for one final month of instruction are a footnote in a season like this one, spending a couple days on the back fields this time of year serves as a reminder of the importance of keeping the pipeline flowing.
Names like Luke Jackson and Luis Sardinas and Jake Skole may be more familiar than David Perez and Christian Villanueva and Jared Hoying, but there are prospects everywhere you turn out here, some of whom we've known about since the day they were drafted or signed internationally -- and others who, like Holland and Ian Kinsler before them, will have opened eyes internally well before their numbers draw anyone's attention outside the organization.
By time I got from the airport to the complex on Thursday morning, most of the 67 players invited to Instructs were locked up in the late innings of a high-intensity Fungo Game, where everyone -- including pitchers -- took their turns at the plate, not stepping in against anyone on the mound but instead digging in with both a bat and a ball in hand. Jayce Tingler's squad won the game in dramatic fashion, in front of a crowd of maybe 12, as righthander Cody Buckel tripled and righthander Tanner Scheppers banged a walkoff sac fly to deep left center.
(The Scheppers swing, poorly phone-photographed by me)
It was an off-day on the Instructional League schedule (those are necessary in 108-degree heat), setting the stage for the Fungo Game, but the Advanced Instructional League did play, as the Rangers-Royals squad traveled to Maryvale to take on the Brewers-Mariners team, in front of a crowd of 44.
While AIL lineups are a mix of players from the two clubs that share the roster, each day only one of the two clubs sends its pitchers, and yesterday was a Royals day. (I hear that Scheppers and camp star Fabio Castillo will pitch in today's AIL game, which might be enough for me to take that contest in rather than the standard IL game.)
But I did get to see five Rangers prospects in action: third baseman Mike Olt, shortstop Leury Garcia, first baseman Jared Bolden, left fielder Josh Richmond, and designated hitter Vin DiFazio. The only one who distinguished himself in the chances he got was Garcia, who had a couple impressive at-bats and made a tough play on a ball slowed by a deflection off the pitcher's glove look easy.
You see these players over enough Marches and Septembers and you start to color in the picture, but for a fan like me to leap to any real conclusions on a young player in such limited looks would be foolish, considering that even the Rangers folks who watched John Danks every day as a farmhand and the Red Sox officials who watched David Murphy every day in the minor leagues underestimated what they had. Scouting isn't easy. And I'm no scout. I don't know what Garcia will become, but he sure is fun to watch, with that plus arm and plus-plus speed in that not-quite-5'10", 160-lb. frame, and while a lot more has to come together for the 19-year-old, the capacity is there for him to make it.
Garcia's not going to be Rafael Furcal despite the nickname, and a scout who really likes the player may lack the conviction to predict an Erick Aybar future, but Andres Blanco was a legitimate prospect once, well before his career was redefined as "journeyman," and if years from now Garcia solidifies a bench role for a contender, maybe even stepping things up in place of a key injured veteran for a few weeks, that would be OK, too. Blanco has a place in this game, and one day Garcia might as well.
While the big league team, which last night extended its division lead to a franchise-high 11 games as it tunes up for playoff baseball, is a bunch of grown men acting like kids with their claw-and-antlers bit that's led to a T-shirt craze, the organization is using T-shirts to try and help make men out of a bunch of kids in Surprise. The workout shirts in the above photo say the following on the back:
"I trust my teammates.
I trust myself."
-- Michael Young, All-Time Texas Rangers Hit Leader
And the coaches' shirts:
The Ranger Way:
The work being done out here by the organization isn't all about mechanics or technique.
Back home on Thursday, Neftali Feliz was busy setting a Major League record for saves by a rookie, nailing his ninth in nine tries against the Angels and 39th overall. Three years ago, he was at Fall Instructs, a 19-year-old with 81.1 career innings in three pro seasons, all at the short-season level, making him less experienced than Andrew Doyle is right now. Is there another Feliz in this year's group? Doubtful, but read this:
[His] delivery has some moving parts and some wrist funk in the back, but there are no red flags and his arm is exceptionally loose and fast. His explosive fastball sits in the mid-90s and tops out at 98 mph. He also flashes a plus slider that reaches 87 mph, though it's inconsistent. His developing changeup also shows promise, giving him the makings of a three-pitch starter's repertoire. [He] has No. 1 starter upside if everything comes together for him, but his command is a work in progress, as he needs to do a better job repeating his arm slot and release point.
That's not a 2007 writeup on Feliz, but instead a September 2010 Baseball America writeup on righthander Roman Mendez, who was just named the number five prospect in the New York-Penn League based on the work he did this summer as a Boston farmhand, before coming to Texas in the July trade for Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Mendez is slated to throw a side today, and I can't wait to see it.
Meanwhile, the Rangers had six of the top 20 prospects in the Northwest League, as league managers recognized shortstop Jurickson Profar (number 1), Olt (4), lefthander Miguel De Los Santos (10), catcher Kellin Deglan (11), Skole (13), and Hoying (16) in Baseball America's survey. BA's Jim Callis calls Profar the fourth-best prospect in baseball among those who haven't yet played in a full-season minor league. Lefthanders Robbie Erlin (5) and Robbie Ross (15) were recognized in the South Atlantic League rankings, but they're not out here. Most full-season prospects are back home, recovering from the long season.
The focus right now, properly, is on Josh Hamilton's return to action tonight, Cliff Lee's outstanding tune-up effort last night, and whether the Rays will be able to hold the Yankees off this weekend after losing again last night. I don't ever mean to suggest, by all the attention I pay to what goes on in the minor leagues, that its significance is somehow greater than how it factors into making the big league team better, through scouting and player development and trades.
It's ultimately about what goes on in Arlington, but part of that involves what's going on right now in Surprise, as kids Michael Young has never heard of all wear a shirt stamped with his words, and all compete to one day get where Young and his teammates are, not only playing big league baseball but gearing up to extend things beyond 162.
It's Time in Texas
But Surprise development
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Saint Afan of Wales
- Avan
- Avanus
Bishop. Nothing else is known about him for certain; various writers have made him a descendant of the 3rd century Cynedda Wledig, King of Britain, a cousin of 6th century Saint David of Wales, and the 10th century bishop Jeuan who was killed by Viking invaders, but no one today knows for sure.
The church dedicated to him at Lanafan Fawr, Powys, Wales was apparently a site of pilgrimages in times past, and site of at least one miracle. The English Lord Philip de Braose came to the area to hunt, and decided that the church was the best lodging for him and his dogs. When he woke at sunrise, his dogs had gone mad and he was blind. His sight was only restored by making his willingness to fight in the Crusades.
- entombed in the churchyard of Saint Afan's Church, Lanafan Fawr, Powys, Wales
Llanafan remembers thee, O Hierarch Afan, thou teacher of piety, pastor, guide and inspirer of men's hearts. Wherefore, O holy one, entreat Christ our God that He will grant great mercy to our souls. – troparion of Saint Afan
- "Saint Afan of Wales". CatholicSaints.Info. 10 April 2020. Web. 3 June 2020. <>


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Often, Mark suggests things that make me roll my eyes.
Either because he put it in a pun– which wear on me. Or I know it's something that is NEVER going to happen. Example: "On Saturday, let's all get out the door by 8am so we can get to the Farmer's Market across town and buy the best Persian Mulberries before the guy sells out."
Cut to an entire house sleeping on Saturday save for Rex jumping up and down on my chest screaming "Bubble Guppies, Bubble Guppies". So, my wifely eye roll is "come on, let's deal in reality."
So, when Mark said, "we should make a tire swing" in our big, new backyard I filed it in the part of my brain where I also lodged his frequent comment to guests, "We are going to have a zip line going from the patio to the end of the yard!" Snare drum anyone?
So, imagine my surprise when one day we had tire swing in our back yard.
My husband is a stud.


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This is an excerpt from Delavier's Core Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier.
Set your goals.
The very first step in creating your core workout program is to be specific when defining your goals. Are you working out for these reasons?
Often, your goals may be a combination of several of the items listed. However, if you do not define your goals well, it will be difficult to establish an optimal program. Write down your goals on paper so that you can read them before every workout.
Then, you need to quantify your goals. For example, I want to
The time frame and amount of progress for your goals must be realistic. Keep in mind that no one ever progresses as fast as desired. You might often feel that you have hit a plateau. But with a good program, a true plateau is rare. By quantifying your goals and creating monthly milestones, you will more easily be able to gauge your progress. Each step you achieve will serve as motivation to continue exercising. We provide some typical programs in part 6 of this book. These are basic plans, and you will be able to personalize them using various parameters that we describe next.
How many workouts should you do each week?
Your schedule will be the determining factor in answering this question. Unfortunately, your schedule is not always optimal. Just know that if you can work out only once a week, that is still better than not working out at all! You will still make progress. Working out twice weekly is a good minimum. The ideal scenario would probably be three core workouts per week. However, we recommend that you do no more than five workouts per week. Be aware that overtraining slows progress more than undertraining. Only very serious athletes will benefit from daily workouts.
Ideally, you should begin with two workouts per week for a few weeks. When you feel ready, you can move up to three workouts per week. At first, do not go beyond these three weekly workouts. After three months of working out regularly, you could try four workouts per week.
On which days of the week should you exercise?
You should alternate exercise days with rest days. If this doesn't fit your schedule, do the best you can between what is ideal and what will work for you. Some options:
Should you exercise once or twice per day?
Only champion athletes exercise more than once a day. And they do it only when preparing for a competition! For everyone else, it is better to exercise only once a day and not every day.
If you can work out only once a week because of your schedule, you might eventually want to divide that into two workouts: a session in the morning and one in the evening. You should consider that only after you exercise for a few weeks, though; that program is far from ideal.
The exception is if your goal is to lose inches off of your waist quickly. In this case, you could consider two workouts per day. In fact, doing a circuit of abdominal and core exercises will still burn fat even if the muscle is overworked and not in its optimal shape. Nonetheless, overall fatigue could result. If that happens, you will need to reduce the frequency of your workouts.
What time of day should you exercise?
Some people prefer to train in the morning and others in the afternoon or evening. In fact, strength varies depending on the time of day. Some people are stronger in the mornings and weaker in the afternoons. For others, the opposite is true. These fluctuations are caused by the central nervous system and are completely normal. It is rare to find athletes who have consistent strength throughout the day.
Ideally, you should exercise when your muscles are the strongest. The majority of athletes are strongest around 6 to 7 p.m. This time works out well because it is when many people have the time to exercise.
Read more about Delavier's Core Training Anatomy by Frederic Delavier.
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Ok this is the team I drafted what do you guys think I need to improve my team.It's a HeadtoHead league
Martin, Russell C LA
Konerko, Paul 1B CHW
Upton, B.J. 2B/CF TB
Ramirez, Aramis 3B CHC
Ramirez, Hanley SS FLA
Griffey, Ken CF CIN
Hamilton, Josh CF TEX
Suzuki, Ichiro RF SEA
Burrell, Pat LF PHI
Bedard, Erik SP SEA
Harang, Aaron SP CIN
Isringhausen, Jason RP STL
Jones, Todd RP DET
Liriano, Francisco SP MIN
Lowe, Derek SP LA
Street, Huston RP OAK
Gordon, Alex 3B/1B KC
Dye, Jermaine RF CHW
Kemp, Matt CF LA
Accardo, Jeremy RP TOR
Capps, Matt RP PIT
Ryan, B.J. RP TOR


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Film Festival Preview
Albuquerque Film Festival Returns
And we interview guest of honor Monte Hellman
The second annual Albuquerque Film Festival is about to open the floodgates, letting loose five days' worth of films, panels, workshops and parties. Throughout the weekend, there will be feature films, both local (Rod McCall's coming-of-age drama Becoming Eduardo, Andrew Lauer's kiddie fantasy Adventures of a Teenage Dragon Slayer) and national (the Iraq War drama The Dry Land starring America Ferrera, the low-budget indie dramedy Fanny, Annie & Danny).
Reel World
The Answer Is 42
The 42nd annual Bubonicon science-fiction and fantasy convention will take place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Albuquerque Grand Airport Hotel. This year's guest of honor is writer Peter David. David is best known for his work at Marvel Comics (where he helped revive "The Incredible Hulk" in the '80s). He also penned a few movies for Charles Band back in the Full Moon glory days. Trancers 4: Jack of Swords, Trancers 5: Sudden Deth, Oblivion and Oblivion 2: Backlash are all his work. They're kind of crummy and kind of fun, and Oblivion does actually predate Joss Whedon's "Firefly" as a sci-fi Western—so be sure and ask him about that. In other film-related events, the convention will screen the 2005 version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (this being Bubonicon 42) beginning at 9 p.m. on Saturday. There will also be a late-night screening of the locally shot horror thriller Fugue State at 11 p.m. If you don't have a day pass to Bubonicon (available online at bubonicon.com) you can get into the movie screenings for $3. Bubonicon
Idiot Box
Too Many Cooks
Food Network vs. Cooking Channel
Today, many cable networks seem to be chafing at their self-imposed genres and trying to "expand their programming" (read: "add a bunch of cheap reality shows") beyond what would appear to be dictated by their very name. (Syfy, for example. Or the Game Show Network.) Remember when G4, the video game channel, actually had programming dedicated to video games? Good luck finding any of that these days.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
"Stan Lee's Superhumans" (History 8 p.m.) Tonight, the Human Speed Bump. Honestly, these are some pretty useless powers Stan the Man's digging up. ... "Did you stop the bank robbers, Human Speed Bump?" "No, but they might have spilled their Big Gulps when they ran over me!"
"The Gulf Is Back" (KWBQ-19 7 p.m.) If The CW says it's true, it must be. And they've got David Hasselhoff hosting a concert by Ricky Skaggs, Bo Bice, Taylor Hicks, Drake Bell and Brian McKnight in to prove it! Hey, if the Gulf Coast weren't fully recovered from Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, would the Hoff be there?


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It's been one hell of a week in national security and personal insecurity. Here are some of the highlights.
• Late last week, the House narrowly defeated legislation that would have defunded the NSA's domestic data collection. The 205-to-217 vote was the closest thing we've seen to actual bipartisanship since Congress approved all of this spy stuff following 9/11.
[ Who stacks up as high-tech's heroes and zeros so far this year? Cringely can name a few. | For a humorous take on the tech industry's shenanigans, subscribe to Robert X. Cringely's Notes from the Underground newsletter and follow Cringely on Twitter. | Get the latest insight on the tech news that matters from InfoWorld's Tech Watch blog. ]
• The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald released news of yet another, even more sinister and comprehensive, NSA spying program. Called XKeyscore, it "allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals," per Greenwald.
• The Senate Judiciary Committee publicly spanked the spooks for spying on innocent Americans and threatened to send NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis to bed without his dinner. Now even the NSA's staunchest defenders in Congress are starting to do DC's oldest dance: the backpedal two-step.
• Ed Snowden was finally allowed to leave the Moscow airport and received a year's asylum in the land of ballet and borscht. My recommendation to the Snowman: Keep your head low and your lips sealed. Journalists and whistleblowers have a funny way of disappearing in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Predictive search, unforeseen consequences
Still, all of that pales to what happened yesterday -- or at least, what we thought happened yesterday. Freelance journalist Michele Catalano published a piece in Medium about a visit her husband received from members of a joint terrorism task force at their home on Wednesday. Six plainclothes officers with badges and guns pulled up in black SUVs at their home in East Meadow, N.Y., and proceeded to search their house and ask detailed questions about their Google habits. She wrote:
They asked if they could search the house, though it turned out to be just a cursory search. They walked around the living room, studied the books on the shelf (nope, no bomb making books, no Anarchist Cookbook), looked at all our pictures, glanced into our bedroom, pet our dogs. They asked if they could go in my son's bedroom but when my husband said my son was sleeping in there, they let it be.
Meanwhile, they were peppering my husband with questions. Where is he from? Where are his parents from? They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked....
Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker bomb? My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them if they themselves weren't curious as to how a pressure cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them admitted they did.


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Also spelled Ring Tum Diddy, Rum Tum Tiddy, and variations in between, this dish is a kissing cousin of Welsh Rarebit and I found recipes in several vintage cookbooks. "Rum Tum Tiddy" is an entry in the 1965 edition of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, in which it is described as "especially good for the teen-age crowd", and consisted solely of tomato soup mixed with melted cheese and a little seasoning. A 1945 edition of the same cookbook has the same recipe, only a beaten egg is mixed in at the last minute.
In a 1973 edition of the Joy of Cooking I found a recipe for Tomato Rarebit, also known as Woodchuck (more silly names!), which called for a concoction of tomato soup, onions, cheese and separately beaten egg yolks and whites served over toast or crackers. Older cookbooks I consulted did not have recipes for anything tomatoey, eggy and cheesy, so I suspect this may have been one of those Depression Era comfort foods that arose and fell during the mid to late 20th century.
I like the heartier version of Rink Tum Tiddy Gretchen provided as it's got a bit more texture and vegetable heft. It's a quick recipe and a tasty, if slightly messy, one too. It certainly was an inexpensive brunch for us this past week, piled onto one of Dan's tender Buttermilk Biscuits. It reminded me of an inside-out Western Omelet, and could certainly be changed with different seasonings and vegetable ingredients to suit a variety of tastes.
Gretchen's recipe was a little vague on certain points (to stir up the eggs for the final cooking or let them steam cook a la a frittata?) and left out some measurements (or was that the fault of the typist? I'll take responsibility there) for ingredients later mentioned in the cooking instructions, so I've adjusted things a bit in the recipe below:
Rink Tum Tiddy
2 Tbsp. butter
1 green pepper, seeded and chopped
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
2 cups tomatoes, chopped (I used most of a 14.5 oz. can of diced tomatoes, drained)
1 cup sharp Chedddar, cubed
2 eggs, beaten well
Melt butter in a heavy skillet. Add peppers and onions and cook until softened, about 7-10 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, another 5 minutes. Add in cheese and let melt. Pour eggs over all and cook over low heat, letting eggs set on top and gently prodding around the edges with a thin spatula to keep bottom from browning too much.
Serve hot over a toasted biscuit or bread. The juiciness of the Rink Tum Tiddy will soften the underlying bread quite nicely.
Makes two very hearty supper/brunch servings or 4 smaller breakfast portions. I imagine one could add more veggies, (celery, cooked potato cubes, more eggs and cheese) to feed an even larger crew.
I'm linking up this satisfying mess of cheap eats with:
|Weekend Cooking at Beth Fish Reads
|Any One Can Cook at Taste of Pearl City


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Fitness and exercise news from around the world
* In a newly released study titled The U.S. Weight Loss and Diet Control Market, Marketdata Enterprises notes that the overall $32 billion U.S. weight-loss market grew 5.9 percent in 1999-and predicts strong growth for 2000. Among the study's major findings: The number of Web-based services for weight loss has exploded; mail order and multi-level marketing companies and infomercials are generating huge sales of diet products and programs; the do-it-yourself trend is popular again, with dieters turning to over-the-counter diet products; and 8.5 million prescriptions were written for weight-loss drugs such as Xenical.
Marketdata estimates that there are now 51 million American dieters, and as the above findings indicate, many of them are not relying on health clubs for weight-loss solutions. Now is the time for your club to establish and/or market weight loss for members and prospects.
* A study from the Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and New York University Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Travel Administra-tion found that half of women who travel on business exercise a similar amount when on the road as at home. The study also noted that the more a woman traveled, the more likely she was to exercise.
According to the study, 11 percent of the female business travelers who exercised used a hotel-affiliated commercial gym or health club. With that in mind, has your club partnered with a local hotel? If not, you could be missing out on an opportunity to sell temporary passes to avid exercisers looking to stay healthy on the road.


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Germany's central bank has finally recovered most of the billions in loans that a local subsidiary of Lehman Brothers defaulted on when the U.S. investment bank went bust in 2008.
Lehman's German subsidiary, Lehman Brothers Bankhaus, owed the Bundesbank (EURO)8.5 billion ($11.36 billion) when it and its U.S. parent filed for bankruptcy. The subsidiary had been eligible to borrow from the central bank just like other banks by offering collateral, in this case 33 separate securities.
The Bundesbank said Wednesday it has now restructured and sold off the collateral. The proceeds of the sales, along with redemption payments and interest coming in on the securities, have led to a recovery of (EURO)7.4 billion. And it expects to regain at least part of the rest, plus interest, from bankruptcy proceedings.
The recovery helped shrink the total amount in default to the Eurosystem - Europe's central bank network under the aegis of the European Central Bank - from (EURO)5.6 billion at the end of 2008 to (EURO)300 million at the end of last year.
The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany sets monetary policy including interest rates for the 17 countries that belong to the euro - including Germany. However its credit operations, such as the loans to Lehman, are conducted through member countries' national central banks, such as the Bundesbank.
Earlier this year, the Bundesbank said it sold the largest item in Lehman's collateral portfolio - real estate loans bundled together as securities and dubbed Excalibur - to private equity firm Lone Star for (EURO)1.4 billion. Excalibur had a face value of (EURO)2.16 billion.
Lehman Brothers Bankhaus was the chief way in which the Lehman group tapped central bank funding in Europe. Its U.S. parent, Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008. The failure worsened the global financial turmoil at the time and helped cause a global recession. The Bundesbank says it is still owed (EURO)3.5 billion by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. but expects further payments from bankruptcy proceedings.
The Bundesbank pointed out that it did not purchase the securities through its own investment decision but accepted them under the collateral rules in effect at the time.
Many complex investments backed by real estate loans became illiquid in the panicky days after the Lehman failure, meaning they lacked buyers and it was hard to tell what they were worth. However if the loans backing them are repaid they can keep at least some of their value.
The Eurosystem has tightened its risk control measures as a consequence of the Lehman failure, the Bundesbank statement said. The ECB has said that it manages risk of default by making sure the amount of a loan is less than the face value of the securities it accepts, giving it a margin of safety against the chance that the collateral will fall in value after a default.


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