Ms. Dorothy Moore Addison 77 of Fairmont N.C. passed away on Friday February 23, 2018 at Southeastern Health in Lumberton.
On October 18, 1940 God allowed the union of Fitzugh and Elizabeth Mae Moore to be blessed with a daughter, Dorothy, who took her position as the fourth in the family of 11 siblings.
Dorothy Mae Moore Addison, a true gift from God. She departed her earthly life on Friday, February 23, 2018 with her sisters and brother in law by her side at the hospital during her final moments.
She was educated at Rosenwald High School in Fairmont, NC. She later moved to Brooklyn, NY where she lived most of her life before returning to Fairmont, NC in 2011 where she lived the remainder of her life in the care of her sisters, brother, and brother in law.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Valentin Addison; one daughter, Carol; her parents Fitzugh and Elizabeth Emanuel Moore; her siblings, Grace John, Eugene, Francis and Sterling; and one grandson, Terry Jr.
She leaves to cherish her loving memories,daughters: Charmaine, Ebony, and Monique Jones of Brooklyn, NY and Shahara Jones of Philadelphia, PA, and a son Earl Jones of Brooklyn, NY. Grandchildren: Jada, Makaila, Sha'Mel, Taliyah, Nashawn, Isaiah, Kimora, Madison, Moryah. She also raised a special niece Uvelia (Vib) Moore. Four sisters, Brenda Washington, Maggie Washington (Ricky), Linda Floyd (Walter) and Glenda Dillahunt all of Fairmont, NC. One brother: Wallace Moore of Fairmont, NC. She had two best friends, Faye and Betty of Brooklyn, NY who will truly miss her.


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Stay comfortably at our hotel near SMU Dallas. Perfeclty located in the upscale Uptown Dallas neighborhood, guests enjoy apartment-stype rooms and easy access to top attractions in the area.
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The Hard Rock Cafe Dallas, located just a few blocks from the American Airlines Center, home of the Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars, anchors the Southern end of the Victory Park urban development center. Our convenient location is just miles from the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden and a short walk from the Dallas Museum of Art and the Perot Museum. Our restaurant features 265-seats, outdoor dining, and a living museum of music history on the walls.
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Marie Gabrielle Restaurant
The first restaurant and venue established in the Harwood District, Marie Gabrielle is a true Dallas gem nestled among the hustle and bustle of the city. The space features an enchanting 1.5-acre European garden with breathtaking views, beautiful oak and river birch trees, and a spectacular reflecting pool.
Nick & Sams
Founded in 1999, our universal appeal is a result of exceptional prime steaks, chops, seafood, and world class sushi, in addition to the best selections of Japanese Wagyu in the U.S. and paired with a Wine List of 500 labels and outstanding customer service.
Experience a refined lunch, dinner, or group dining in the sophisticated comfort of The Capital Grille at the Crescent Hotel in Dallas, TX.
Deep in the heart of Texas lies American Airlines Center, one of the nation's top arenas. Since opening its doors in 2001, American Airlines Center has been setting the precedent for sporting and live entertainment events. Bringing in a wide variety of big name shows such as The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Garth Brooks, Beyonce, Elton John, Billy Joel, Madonna, Paul McCartney, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Katy Perry and many, many more.
Dallas World Aquarium
The aquarium gallery features coral reef and kelp forest ecosystems in large naturalistic displays including a 20,000-gallon walk-through tunnel exhibit which is home to hundreds of Indo-Pacific fishes.
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Whether you're a local looking for fun things to do in Downtown Dallas or a visitor wanting to experience the best of the Big D, the West End Historic District is the ultimate destination. Located in the northwest corridor of Downtown Dallas Texas, our 67.5 acres district is full of restaurants, museums, shops, and entertainment
Six Floor Museum
The Museum, located within the former Texas School Book Depository building, chronicles the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The main exhibit, John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation, is on the sixth floor. Special exhibits and public programs are presented on the seventh floor. While visiting, stop by the Museum Stores + Café.
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Purpose: The application of minimally invasive surgery to liver malignancies remains controversial and difficult, especially in case of liver cirrhosis. We report the preliminary experience of 24 consecutive laparoscopic hepatectomies for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC) and liver cirrhosis to assess the feasibility and initial surgical outcome of laparoscopic liver resection.
Materials and Methods: Patients with HCC suitable for surgery were carefully assessed for laparoscopic hepatectomy. The inclusion criteria were solitary tumor with tumor size?5cm and located in peripheral segments (segment II, III, IV, V and VI). Patient characteristics, operative data and initial post-operative outcome were collected prospectively and analyzed.
Results: From May 2008 to July 2009, 24 patients underwent laparoscopic hepatectomy were included. Fifteen patients were male and 7 were female. The mean age was 58.4±13.5 years. There were 7 anatomic resections (left lateral segmentectomy) and 15 subsegmentectomies. Conversion to open surgery was required for two patients because of difficult tumor location and major bleeding. The mean tumor size was 2.9±1.5cm and all surgical margins were free for malignancy. According to Metafir fibrosing stage, sixteen patients (66.7%) revealed moderate to severe liver cirrhosis. The mean operative time was 243±80 minutes and blood loss was 472±572c.c.(range, 30-2300c.c). The mortality and morbidity rate were 0% and 4%. One complication of bile leakage developed on 8th post-operative day need a second surgery. The mean hospital stay was 5.2±1.8 days.
Conclusion: In carefully selected HCC patients even with liver cirrhosis, laparoscopic hepatectomy was feasible and safe. However, more experience and long-term follow up is still needed.


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Create Colorful Spring Eggs at Pellissippi State
by elsimpson | posted in: Business and Community Services, Community, Events, Non Credit Courses | 0
Pellissippi State offers unique egg classes to decorate your home for spring. Learn the ancient batik dye process of creating pysanky, eggs dyed using a Ukrainian wax-resist method, in non-credit courses this spring.
Learn Pysanky: Ukrainian Egg Dyeing Workshop will be held from 5-9 p.m., Thursday, April 19. Cost is $49 plus a $15 materials fee. Design and wax an egg you'll take home that evening.
Pysanky Jewelry: Designing Batik Eggshell Jewelry will be held from 6:15-8:15 p.m., Mondays, April 16-30. Cost is $65 plus a $65 materials fee. Using the same classic Ukrainian batik art, make earrings and matching pendant or brooch from goose eggshells.
For more information about lifelong learning and non-credit courses at Pellissippi State, visit www.pstcc.edu/bcs or call 865-539-7167. To request accommodations for a disability for one of these classes, call 865-539-7401 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.
Pellissippi State gem class compliments traditional Valentine's Day gifts
by Brian Galloway | posted in: Adult Education, Business and Community Services, Non Credit Courses | 0
Do you ever wonder why one diamond is priced more than another? And how do you know which one to select? Pellissippi State Community College is offering a noncredit class that will teach you the ins and outs of diamonds, pearls and gemstones.
Gemology Certificate with Jewelry Television is a 12-hour class that the college is offering in partnership with Jewelry Television in Knoxville. The class will teach you how these raw materials are formed, mined, identified, graded and priced.
As an added bonus, if you register for a gem class before Feb. 15, you will receive a coupon for 15 percent off your entire regular priced purchase at the Gemstore by Jewelry Television. There is not an expiration date, so the coupon can be used at your convenience for an entire regular price purchase. The Gemstore is located at 9933 Kingston Pike.
Hobbyists, artists, jewelry lovers and anyone looking to explore a career in the industry will enjoy this series.
"This class is an opportunity to learn extremely technical gem information in an easy-to-understand and enjoyable environment," said instructor Hillary Spector. "Participants get to touch and feel product and use high-tech lab equipment to identify gems."
Spector, a graduate gemologist and former Gemological Institute of America (GIA) instructor, has more than 25 years of experience in the gemological industry and is presently the instructional specialist for Jewelry Television.
Classes are held at Jewelry Television's Jewel School Institute in West Knoxville March 5-8, and sections are scheduled mornings or evenings, from 9 a.m.-noon or from 6-9 p.m. You may register for individual sections or for the full four-day lineup. Cost is $395 for the full four-day session or $99 per class.
For more information about non-credit courses at Pellissippi State, visit www.pstcc.edu/bcs or call 865-539-7167. To request accommodations for a disability for one of these classes, call 865-539-7401 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.
Pellissippi State offers free 'lifelong learning' classes at Weekend College
by hnbeck | posted in: Business and Community Services, Magnolia Avenue Campus, Non Credit Courses | 0
Pellissippi State Community College invites the community to take part in free lifelong learning classes this spring at Weekend College at the Magnolia Avenue Campus.
Lifelong learning classes are non-credit continuing education courses. Although the classes are free, registration is required at www.pstcc.edu/bcs or by calling 865-539-7167. New classes are available each Saturday from Jan. 27 to April 7.
Introduction to Ukrainian Egg Dyeing — 10-11:30 a.m., Jan. 27. Artist and instructor Jordan Byrd will demonstrate how she creates pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs, using a wax-resist dye/etching technique on eggshells.
Handgun Safety — 9:30 a.m.-noon, Feb. 3. State handgun certified officers teach basic handgun safety and how to choose the best handgun to fit your needs.
Social Media Marketing Bootcamp for Small Business — 9-11:30 a.m., Feb. 10.
Identified Flying Objects: Drones — 9-11:30 a.m., Feb. 17. FAA-certified pilot Cole Hood discusses how to develop and improve your drone flight skills.
Welcome to Beginner Mandolin — 10:30-11:30 a.m., Feb. 24. WDVX Blue Plate special musician Anna Uptain showcases an easy beginner class that requires no musical experience.
Welcome to Basket Making — 9-11:30 a.m., Feb. 24. Appalachian artist Sheri Burns demonstrates an easy basket for beginners.
Leadership Skills for the 21st Century — 9-11:30 a.m., March 3. Leadership coach Jeff Rowe will introduce key leadership concepts to help you build your business.
Resume Workshop — 9:30-11 a.m., March 3. Begin or improve a resume with professional guidance.
Welcome to Beginner Dulcimer — 9-11:30 a.m., March 24. Instructor Rudy Ryan plays the dulcimer, answers questions and demonstrates basic techniques.
Beginner Cyber Security — 9-11:30 a.m., April 7. Learn basic techniques to keep your personal computer secure, create strong passwords and avoid common phishing scams.
For more information about Weekend College at Pellissippi State, visit www.pstcc.edu/weekend or call 865-694-6400. To request accommodations for a disability at one of these classes, call 865-539-7401 or email accommodations@pstcc.edu.
Never too early: DIY holiday gifts at Pellissippi State
by hnbeck | posted in: Business and Community Services, Community, Non Credit Courses | 0
It's never too early to look for gift ideas for the holidays — and Pellissippi State Community College offers a do-it-yourself opportunity to make creative holiday gifts.
Learn the ancient batik dye process of creating pysanky, eggs dyed using a Ukrainian wax-resist method, in non-credit courses this fall. The elaborately decorated eggs make unique and beautiful tree ornaments or gifts.
Pysanky: The Art of Ukrainian Egg Dyeing will be held from 7-9 p.m., Tuesdays, Sept. 19-Oct. 10. Cost is $79 plus a $55 materials fee. Create two to three ornaments from eggshells, learning the process from blowing and prepping the shells to varnishing the dyed product.
Pysanky Jewelry: Designing Batik Eggshell Jewelry will be held from 7-9 p.m., Thursdays, Oct. 26-Nov. 9. Cost is $79 plus a $65 materials fee. Using the same classic Ukrainian batik art, make earrings and matching pendant or brooch from goose eggshells.
Pysanky Sampler: Batik Ornaments in a Day will be held from 5-9 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 5. Cost is $45 plus a $15 material fee. Create an ornament or hanging art display.


PLEASANT VIEW, Tenn. -- A middle-school counselor in Tennessee is being called a hero after talking a teenager into handing over a loaded handgun.
Media outlets report that a 14-year-old boy went to Sycamore Middle School Wednesday asking to speak with counselor Molly Hudgens.
Authorities say he told her he was having problems and was going to kill teachers and a police officer, but no students; he told her she was the only one who could talk him out of it.
"My previous training and experience granted me the opportunity to help a student in need while protecting our school family as well," Hudgens said in a taped statement to CBS Nashville affiliate WTVF-TV.
Cheatham County Sheriff Mike Breedlove said Thursday that after they talked for 45 minutes in her office, the boy agreed to hand over the loaded semi-automatic handgun he had hidden under his clothing.
The boy was taken into custody without injury, and has not been identified.
He is being held in Williamson County Jail on charges of possessing a weapon on school property and threatening school employees.
The sheriff did not say how the student got the gun or what problems prompted the threats.
The district's policy of zero tolerance for weapons on campus requires his expulsion from school for not less than one year.


The plan was already set up for Lamjung and was my second trip though bags are packed one day in advance to leave early next morning. The night was calm without electricity as load shedding has taken over celebrity's spaces in Nepal, especially the Capital City Kathmandu with half a city with lights and half with dark. A little fear if an earthquake would miss us while in a deep sleep, a few days ago an earthquake pushed us around nearly 5 AM which was smaller than the huge tragedy we had.
The mobile gave an alarm signal and told its time to get ready to be in Balaju bus park on time, not really cold but the chill atmosphere was quiet happiness outside. We four Anu, Manu and Nabin headed to Bus park and fixed the ticket which for 7 Am. You will be seeing people busy around bus park most of the time as street shops are active, and no doubt streets foods are tastier than the professional restaurant but with a little care of hygiene, you should be fine. I had a black tea in a plastic ups with extra sugar and strong tea and refreshen up, there was a type of melody rhythm by bus staffs calling people for their vacant seats like hello, here, Pokhara, dumre, etc and if you are a clever you would get discount cause they do not want loose their clients. With an imaginary long bus ride sliding through Tirsuli river, we took our seats but in a while a man appeared with dozens of bed sheets and forced to buy 3 or 4 at once with discounts which we ignored but he was keep pushing us and I stare with the angry evil eye then he stepped away.
Let me skip you here and land at Dumre to minimise your anxiousness for my boring blog post.
We are at Dumre after almost four hours drive, it's time to catch another local bus to Borang Khola, We had to wait another half an hour for bus, we waited outside cause we did not want to boil ourselves inside the bus in 35 degrees, heaps of cement sacks were filled up, some chicken too and its grains, you need to walk over the cement sack to get your seats. If the bus moves the breaches waves you a little air through the windows, but while the bus stops you will be struggling with cement powder and chicken grains husk. But it was nice to have an experience travelling in local buses. As soon as you leave the Dumre, you will be greeting by Chepe River and greenery hills that your eyes won't get tired. Thrilling yourself looking bus wheels that just drives right at the edge of the roadside and better not to imagine if it could happen.
Walking in a hill terrace with great views where clouds sometimes try to cover the clear sky give a sing to rain sometime later and let you walk hopefully leaving your tiredness. We did walk for more than an hour to reach the home resting and viewing while walking where villagers keep watching you if you are a new in the area.
Panthedada is a small village with rich in culture, nature & religion in Lamjung District in Western Development region of Nepal and Besishahar is the headquarter. Its altitude between 1500 m to 2000m approximately. It is an idea of paradise for those who love hiking, trekking or Camping or even home stay to get closer to culture, People are innocent and beautiful with nature. It's a historical place which holds the Shah dynasty's memory of Drabhya Shah and Narhari Shah. The Chepe Khola runs between two districts Gorkha and Lamjung, where Liglig kot is nestled in Gorkha and Rainas Kot, is nestled in Lamjung. Mother of two Shah's handed over Liglig Kot to Drabya Shah and Rainas Kot to Narhari Shah to run their reign. It was the time where Nepal was divided into 24 reigns.


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Just Because! is a 2017 Japanese anime television series by Hajime Kamoshida, the author of The Pet Girl of Sakurasou and Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, and Kiseki Himura, the author of Getsuyoubi no Tawawa. The 12-episode anime, produced by Pine Jam, aired between October and December 2017.
It is winter of their third year of high school, near the end of second semester, when students have very little time in high school left. Everyone is just waiting for graduation. Until Eita Izumi—their classmate in middle school who had moved far away—suddenly moves back home at a peculiar time. This reunites them, as if a go signal rang out to the feelings of the students who had just thought their high school life would end without fanfare.
The project was first teased as an April's Fools joke in 2017 under title April 1st The Animation. It was later confirmed as real in the June issue of Gakken's Megami Magazine.
Kiseki Himura designed the characters, Atsushi Kobayashi directed the series with screenplay by Hajime Kamoshida. Hiroyuki Yoshii adapted Kiseki's art into animation. Keisuke Fukunaga produced the series. Pine Jam produced the animation. It aired from October 5 to December 28, 2017 on AT-X, Tokyo MX, TV Kanagawa, MBS, and BS Fuji's programming block Anime Guild. Nagi Yanagi served as music producer as well performed the opening theme titled "Over and Over", while Karin Isobe, Yuna Yoshino, and Lynn performed the ending theme "behind". Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series and streamed it on Amazon's Anime Strike service in the US. Sentai released the series for home video with an English dub on February 12, 2019.
Tropes associated with Just Because!
Band Geek: Hazuki is a member of the school concert band.
Beauty Mark: Hazuki has one under her left eye.
Brutal Honesty: Ena speaks her mind openly where everyone else is too nervous to speak up.
Camera Fiend: Ena's part of the photography club.
Cannot Spit It Out: Eita has had a crush on Mio since middle school but hasn't been able to confess.
Childhood Friends: Eita and Haruto.
Curtains Match the Window: Hazuki, Yoriko, and Mayuko.
"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The voice actresses of Mio Natsume, Hazuki Morikawa, and Ena Komiya: Karin Isobe, Yuna Yoshino, and Lynn respectively, performed the ending theme "Behind".
Girlish Pigtails: Mayuko.
Go-Getter Girl: Ena.
Hime Cut: Sanae.
Love Dodecahedron: Eita has a crush on Mio but could not confess to her, who in turn has unrequited feelings for Haruto, who gets rejected by Hazuki at first and says she won't date him until she is settled in college and Haruto finds a stable job and if he still loves her by that time. All the while Ena starts developing a crush on Eita.
Meganekko: Momoka.
New Transfer Student: Eita's a transfer student who has come back to his hometown after four years.
Really Moves Around: Eita's a type 2 example. Because his father's job was often relocated, Eita often transferred schools.
Senior Year Struggles: The show focuses on a group of senior year students in their last semester. They each have their own anxieties about graduation. This is further complicated when their old friend transfers back in at the last minute.
Shipper on Deck: Yoriko helps Hazuki and Haruto get together.
You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Eita, Mio, and Hazuki with dark blue, magenta, and dark purple hair respectively.
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Q: How to setup a grub dualboot with Kubuntu 18.04 and windows 10? Hello everyone and thanks for reading this
I have Windows 10 and Kubuntu 18.04 installed on different SSDs and I would like to set up a clean dual boot with Grub.
At the moment I use the 'choose boot device' of my motherboard by pressing F8 during boot.
I have tried to use boot-repair but it absolutely doenst change anything. In the log it seems that Windows 10 is detected though.
Boot-repair report : http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/QPgQHNWCVk/
Do you have any idea ? Thanks !
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I have tried again with boot repair and it messed my install completely.
Here is my boot menu now.
The first one (windows) is working, so the MBR of the windows disk is fine.
But the second (Windows) and the last (ubuntu) are not working and lead to this error. They are both on the same disk where kubuntu ubuntu should be installed.. it is not normal I guess...
Can you please help ? I am totally lost at this point !

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I've been following Jason Vale's juicing programme i.e. I've achieved 5 days and 2 x 7 days (one last week) and lost a few pounds as I wanted. My question is, can someone juice every day without eating solids?
Well Sonja, in my opinion the question should be "why…?" and not can someone…?". Juicing is very important particularly during the hot season as you get all the vitamins an minerals you need; proper sugars are available very fast and you hydrates your body perfectly. But you need even to balance with different foods; most of them can be eaten mainly via solids (proteins, fibers, etc…).
I'm not vegan and either a vegetarian; I follow a balanced diet with proper physical activity.
I eat white meat just once a week, fish three times a week, pasta with tomato once a week and a lot of vegetables during all the day (fruits mainly at breakfast and in the afternoon). That's a diet that makes me feel perfectly and in good shape.
Try to supplement with natural products like Asea as well….you will feel the difference.
Thank you, Matteo. Friends etc keep saying I need to eat food with protein, that I'm not going to get them through juicing. I was drinking Asea and will do so again but I am waiting for my next blood test to see how my cholesterol and diabetes are doing. Anyway I feel great right now.
My pleasure Sonja! If you have diabetes issues try to avoid juicing at dinner or night, because even if you get good sugars they tend to be absorbed by your body if you don't burn them with some activity. Thus your body has to produce insuline to metabolize them.
Anyway if you would like to continue on this kind of nutrition it's better to ask a nutritionist for advice on a long term diet.


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Q: How to enable/disable authentication without password when executing commands as superuser? On a Fedora 19 system which I set up for somebody a while ago I noticed that no authentication is required when commands are executed as the superuser. So, for example, when running Yum Extender, configuring the firewall or running some command with sudo in the terminal, I am not asked to provide a password. (With graphical applications the authentication dialog pops up for a few milliseconds.) For better security I would like to disable this automatic (authentication-less) assumption of superuser privileges. I do not remember if or how I enabled this authentication without a password. I might have enabled it for convenience for the non-pro user of this machine, but did not do any "fancy" things (like editing config files) to do so. I did not edit the sudoer file. I just checked that. I might have checked a "Do not ask for password again" checkbox or something similar. Whatever I did, I would like to undo it and enforce authentication for superuser tasks again.

A: Type man sudoers.  Look for NOPASSWD and timeout on the man page for clues.

A: The user most likely has the NOPASSWD Tag_Spec set in /etc/sudoers (if that link dies, it was just a link to the result of running man 5 sudoers on a normal Linux system).
You'll want to remove or comment out (by putting a '#' at the beginning of the line) the line(s) pertaining to that user's NOPASSWD status.
If no such line exists, it's possible the user has a ridiculously long timeout between authentications, in which case grep for passwd_timeout; if that value is set to 0 then timeout is unlimited, but otherwise the timeout is in minutes and indicates how long the user can continue using sudo after an initial authenticated use before authenticating again.
The user may also be in the wheel group (as turned out to be the case).


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About 400 people were detained in the occupied territory of Donetsk oblast for breaking the curfew over the past weekend. This is reported by the press service of the fake "MIA" operating in the part of the region controlled by the militants.
The curfew violators were discovered during the so-called "Night City operation". About 700 fake "policemen" were involved in the events.
394 people were detained, they were not at home in the period from 23:00 to 5:00.
About 34 thousand people who "violated" the curfew were detained over the past year.
It was earlier reported that the violators were detained until the morning for the first time. They were fingerprinted, they all were written administrative protocols. If one of them gets caught by the "police" again, he/she will be detained for fifteen days.
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Grab your friends and family and enjoy a great day of golf full of fun and excitement! The Daily Grounds Ticket – $10 on Tuesday, $15 on Wednesday, $45 on Thursday, $50 on Friday, and $55 on the weekend – is a single-day ticket which provides admission to all the action on the tournament grounds, public grandstands, concessions, and fun interactive areas! Access to corporate hospitality and upgraded areas must be purchased separately. Quantities are limited.
Come enjoy the very first Rocket Mortgage Classic on any day of your choice. Good Any One Day (GAOD) Grounds Tickets are the perfect way for you to decide which day is best for you and your group to attend the Rocket Mortgage Classic. GAOD Grounds Tickets provide access to the tournament grounds, public grandstands, concessions, and fun interactive areas and may be used any one day of the tournament, Tuesday, June 25 - Sunday, June 30. Quantities are limited.
Can't decide on a single day to visit the inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic? Why not partake in all the fun? Come watch your favorite players on the PGA TOUR compete all week for the right to be called the inaugural Rocket Mortgage Classic champion! A Weekly Grounds Ticket includes one ticket for each day of golf action that provides access to the tournament grounds, public grandstands, concessions, and fun interactive areas Tuesday, June 25 –Sunday June 30. Quantities are limited.
Experience the unique comfort and appeal of a premier hospitality environment at an affordable price. Located behind the 16th green, the LendingTree Lounge provides intimate viewing of the 16th green and 17th tee. This venue features a patio with umbrella tables, tiered seats and a covered viewing deck, making the LendingTree Lounge a perfect place to gather and enjoy the action. A ticket to the LendingTree Lounge gets you access to the Club and grounds access on the day of your choice Thursday, June 27 – Sunday, June 30. An upgraded food and beverage menu, including bar service, will be available for purchase. Quantities are limited.
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(Safeco Field is a beehive of activity Sunday at FanFest. I snapped this photo shortly before the event closed. A total of 12,298 fans attended the two-day event, according to Rebecca Hale of the Mariners. Hale says that's just shy of last year's crowd, but well ahead of attendance for 2006-09).
While at FanFest on Saturday to talk to Chone Figgins, I had a chance to ask Jack Zduriencik about their fourth-round draft pick in 2010, left-handed pitcher James Paxton, who remains unsigned. I know a lot of readers have asked about Paxton, so I made a point of talking to Zduriencik about him.
The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Paxton is a very interesting case. He had a breakout season as a junior at the University of Kentucky in 2009, finishing third in the NCAA in strikeouts per nine innings (13.22). He put himself on the map in a game with eventual NCAA champion LSU, in a duel with their ace, Anthony Ranuado (now one of the top pitching prospects in the Red Sox organization). Paxton got 12 of his first 13 outs via strikeout and finished with 14 strikeouts in six innings, allowing five hits and three runs. In his next start, with 60 scouts in attendance, he out-dueled Vanderbilt's Mike Minor — an eventual first-round pick by the Braves — by allowing just two hits in 6 2/3 innings, with 10 strikeouts.
The Blue Jays made Paxton a supplemental first-round selection in the 2009 draft (No. 37 overall), but the two sides could not come to contract terms. Paxton, with Scott Boras as his advisor, reportedly turned down a bonus in the neighborhood of $1 million, and decided to return to Kentucky for his senior season.
Baseball America named him the top senior in college baseball prior to the season, and he was widely regarded as a likely top 10 draft pick in 2010. However, Paxton became wrangled in a legal battle with the NCAA over Boras's role in his negotiations. The upshot was that he was not allowed to play for Kentucky his senior season. Paxton eventually wound up pitching for the independent Grand Prarie Air Hogs in Texas and trying his lot again in the 2010 draft.
In that 2010 draft last June, the Mariners picked Paxton — who is from Ladner, British Columbia — in the fourth round (132nd overall). Many scouting analysts felt it was a shrewd sleeper pick by Seattle, and that the Mariners had stolen a potential first-round talent. Yet here it is Jan. 31, and Paxton still hasn't signed. Because he is no longer in college, Paxton was not subject to the Aug. 16 signing deadline. The Mariners thus own his rights until the week before the 2011 draft in June — but Zduriencik is hoping it doesn't get that far.
"There has been a conversation or two over the course of the winter," he said. "It will be an interesting one, because here's a guy who lives just an hour and a half up the road, and there's a point in time he needs to get his career moving. You know, he's missed time in pro ball. I couldn't think of a better scenario for him and his family (than) to drive right down the road and play for the Seattle Mariners.
In a somewhat similar situation, not long after he was hired, Zduriencik signed reliever Josh Fields, the Mariners' first-round pick in 2008 (No. 20 overall) on Feb. 16, 2009 — just as spring training was starting. Fields, as a college senior at Georgia, also would have remained their property until a week before the next draft. The difference is that Fields (also represented by Boras) had pitched his senior season, while Paxton has been limited to brief time in independent ball since he last pitched collegiately in 2009.
I asked Zduriencik if there was a shot to sign Paxton in time to get him to camp this spring.
You have to wonder now whether Paxton will be able to regain the form that once made him such a highly touted prospect, considering the layoff. If so, he could indeed be that sleeper pick that scouts talked about. It seems logical, however, that the longer he waits, the more difficult his task becomes.


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Hello my dear students. I'm really excited to begin this new school year, and I'm looking forward to facing all the challenges it will bring. I hope you are, too.
Don't forget to check this page from time to time to see if I have posted information you may further need.
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Process Versus Action: The Root of Marxist Versus Bourgeois Thinking.
Communism is All Process, or, Dictatorship Through 'Procedural' Bureaucracy. American and Western 'Bourgeoisie' are all about Action: Getting Real Things Done.
Vic Biorseth, Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The reason 'Dilbert' is my favorite cartoon in the funny papers is that, behind the humor, there is the ring of truth to it. It is cubicle life in the corporate world, in which, the bigger the corporation becomes, the more it becomes about process and the less it becomes about actual work. Dilbert strikes a familiar chord in all who have ever lived the cubicle life.
In my own former cubicle life, my work was repeatedly and sometimes almost constantly interrupted by (usually) pointless meetings. Often meetings that had a point to them meandered off the point and became pointless. I may have doomed my own chances at rising above senior technical level by humorously criticizing meetings about meetings, and the committee to control committees, and calling for a meeting on meetings of the Committee Committee. I may have gotten a few muffled chuckles, but not exactly the admiration of my superiors.
Now we're seeing what appears to be Marxism-dominated bureacratic 'Process' thinking taking over the sole authority of the Pope to decisively keep the Church within the rails of the one true faith, as can be seen in the Complicit Clergy article below.
Are they now bringing the Church into a 'Permanent' Synod?
And we see a complicit Pope abandoning his holy mandate.
What brought this to my attention was an email from a friend pointing to the Fr. Altman story to the right. Another shocking story of the attack on Truth, and the muzzling of those who dare speak it.
If you are a Catholic Trad, despised by the wayward and Left-leaning seeming majority of Catholic clergy today, you need to be familiar or get more familiar with Complicit Clergy and get on their mailing list. We need all the truth we can get, and they need all the support we can give.
The 'Permanent Synod' story above may prove to be the high water mark for Communism inside the Catholic Church. It intends to get some select bunch of Bishops into a permanent, never ending meeting, from which the Church will be governed, as if the permanent synod were an actual government, displacing the original mandate of the Pope. And a Pope going along with it.
Way back in 2010 we wrote the Catholic Communism page, in which we heavily quoted Ludwig Von Mises, the famous Austrian economist, who described early Communism as trying to model itself on the Catholic Church, which he described as 'the perfect bureaucracy'. It was perfect because,
it had found the way to not change itself; and,
it had found the way to transfer ruling authority peacefully.
Note well, as Marxism has noted, that the Catholic Papacy is the oldest continuously existing human institution on earth, by a very wide margin.
But the differences between Catholicism and Communism - or, rather, the differences between Catholic bureaucracy and Communist bureaucracy - was that Catholicism had a Creed and a Depositum Fidei to protect unchanged until the end of time, and, Communism is all about change, of everything, always, and continuously.
And, of course, the real biggie pointed out by Mises: Communism had no process for the peaceful transfer of power. New dictators come to rule in Communist lands by ruthless politics, political intrigue, political assassinations, military coup or even Civil War. In Communist lands, when a dictator dies, there are never very many who will publicly announce their candidacy for the position, because that just might be a death sentence. There is nothing transparent or publicly known about high level inner Communist politics. Many do not even want to know.
By now it should be clear to all Catholic traditionalist observers that Communism - both Communist secret agents, and worse, Communist Ideology - has not only infiltrated but taken over most of the ruling hierarchy of Bishops and the Vatican itself.
Just as it has infiltrated and taken over much of the American government.
See the Hildebrand Interview in the Unreferenced Communism page. The late Bella Dodd was a secret Soviet agent, among others, who managed to get hundreds of Communist agents and hundreds of secret homosexual activists into Catholic seminaries, before she was converted into an actual repentant, contrite Catholic by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. But the damage was done.
We have written about the many Islamo-Commie-Homo Bishops and Cardinals who rose through the ranks from that underhanded beginning.
Communism, inside the Catholic Church, is turning Von Mises' comparison of Red bureaucracy to Church bureaucracy upside down. The new 'Communist' Catholic bureaucracy is opposed to protecting immutable truths and unchanging creeds; it is dedicated, instead, to never ending change, for the creation of a more Communist and Communizing world.
Religiously speaking, Catholicism is all about Truth, proselytizing and social stability, and Communism is all about Revolution, and revolutionary change.
Bureaucratically speaking, Catholicism is all about action - the proactive living of Catholic life, and Communism is all about process - the making, changing and remaking of rules restricting and constraining action.
Essentially, Catholicism is about life, and Communism is about death.
Communism itself is a lie. But whole generations of Catholics and Americans don't know that any more. It has been educated out of them. Education today is Communist indoctrination, and journalism today is Communist propaganda.
And that brings us to the differences between bourgeois thinking and Communist thinking.
The bourgeois employer constantly seeks to price his product and sell enough of it to cover licenses and taxes, the wages of his employees, the cost of his raw material, the rent, heat and electric, equipment, etc., and still make enough personal profit to make the personal business worthwhile.
The bourgeois employee constantly monitors the competitive job market for profitable opportunities, works overtime or more than one job in order to 'get ahead', and maybe start a business of his own, or homestead, or build a fortune on which to retire, or find some way to 'be his own boss'.
Bourgeois thinking is independent thinking. Communism hates that.
Independent thinking made the American Capitalist model, which made the largest, most wealthy and highest living Middle Class in all of world history.
But Communism hates Capitalism, and targets the bourgeois for destruction. The most hated and most often repeated words in Marx's Communist Manifesto are bourgeois and the bourgeoisie, singled out for destruction and eventual annihilation.
Until the bourgeoisie are finally annihilated, Communism seeks to grow Socialist thinking at the expense of bourgeois thinking, and schmooze independent populations into dependency on their own ever increasingly Communist governments before they become aware of it, and then, when the time is right, bring the hammer down.
It's happening in the Church, and it's happening in the nations.
The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Communist America thinks that we the bourgeois joined Trump; but the truth is, Trump, the bourgeois billionaire, joined us. Or, he always was one of us. He was one of us by his bourgeois thinking. The truth is, we were always of like minds.
Trump, the classical bourgeois, gets in there and gets things done, always favoring bourgeois American independent thinking.
Our increasingly Communist government works feverishly on process, and creating processes restricting bourgeois independence and action.
Today, most of our own American government hates and restricts the great American middle class, and establishes processes that harm it.
Original bourgeois American independent thinking is almost dead in American government today. No political party, as a party, promotes or defends it. Communists in American government today may call themselves New World Order 'conservatives', or even Globalists, or they may even favor a so-called 'Global Reset' without saying so, but, bottom line, they are Communist in their thinking, because that's what Communism is all about.
And that makes them just as anti-American as the Marxocrat Party.
So here we are, with Communists running Catholicism, and Communists running America, and Communists by other names controlling the whole election process, from the ballots to the booths to the boxes to the counting, all over America.
It's the American bourgeois - the American majority - against the whole world.
Will we do something about it, or will we just wait to be annihilated?
The only thing Truth has going for Him in this world is us.
The restoration of Truth = Reality in the hearts and minds of men is now totally dependent upon you and me; if we don't do it, it won't get done.
Sign the Letter to your Bishop, and make our Church Catholic again.
Join Cardinal Burke's Storm Heaven Rosary Campaign.
Get behind President Trump, and make America Constitutional again.
Pray for a strategic collaboration between Vigano and Trump.
Wishful Thinking?
EENS: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
(Outside the Church there is no salvation)
With fear and trembling, work out your salvation--Phil 2:12
Seek the Truth; Find the Way; Live the Life.
Please God, and Live Forever.
Communizing America After Communizing The American Government.
Communized Political-Party-Politics, Academia, Education And News Control Are Now Communizing The Rest Of America.
Introducing Catholitics and all denomination inclusive Christianitics.
The best way to politically defeat godless Marxist-Globalist politics in America is to build and weaponize Christian Religiotics against them.
Insubstantial Magical Science Versus Substantial and Real Theology
Where's the Empirical Evidence Proving Evolution, or, the Billions-and-Billions-of-Years-of-Time Theory? The Solid Evidence for Christianity is All Around You.


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This is probably just a coincidence. OK, its definitely just a coincidence.This week, the State of New York overturned legislation which had previously banned DFS throughout the state. Also this week, the PGA Tour finds itself in perhaps the New Yorkiest of New York venues (and I mean that lovingly), as Bethpage Black will play host to The Barclays.Its a coincidence, but lets call yet one big, happy coincidence as those outside the ropes might have a little extra rooting interest toward those on the inside.To residents of New York and everywhere else, heres what we should look for when picking lineups for this week: Long, accurate drivers of the golf ball; good scramblers; players who can take a U.S. Open type of mentality, if scoring does indeed remain as tough as its been there.Heres what we shouldnt look for: Players who played well here at the 2009 U.S. Open, a waterlogged event from start to finish that should be the opposite of what were expecting this week. 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I think from an aero perspective -- NASCAR took all the cars after Pocono -- and from an aero perspective right now the Fords are the worst.So when you go to a lower downforce [for 2017], we arent at quite a disadvantage. Since we are running well, we have other advantages on the car, but from an aero perspective we are the worst in that category.Its not a surprise to hear Keselowski say that. The statistics show it.In the 18 races using the 2016 aerodynamic package (in other words, races not including restrictor-plate events at Daytona and Talladega, and the 2017 package races at Michigan and Kentucky), Toyotas have led 62 percent of all laps and won 10 of them. Chevrolets have led 30 percent with six wins, and Fords have led just eight percent with two wins.In those races, Toyota earned 46 percent of the top-five starting positions, which shows its speed. Chevrolet does have 48 percent of the overall top-five finishes.Obviously, the number and strength of the manufacturers teams -- Toyota is primarily Joe Gibbs Racing and affiliate Furniture Row Racing -- play a role in these results. And a postrace car in the wind tunnel is never truly an accurate picture since the cars had just run hundreds of laps.I am sure you would bbe shocked to know who won, Keselowski said about the wind-tunnel testing, referring to Toyota.dddddddddddd I didnt see the numbers personally so it isnt fair for me to say [exactly how far were off].But I could read the faces of the people that did see the numbers and I know the meetings that happened right after and I would say based on that there were some reactions to say we were a little further behind than we wanted to be.The former Sprint Cup champion said this as just plain fact and he swore he wasnt trying to lobby for a rule change the rest of the season. NASCAR officials wouldnt release numbers nor confirm Keselowskis assessment from the test, but they said they have no plans to make any rules changes based on what they saw.Balance of performance is something that hurts our sport when we continue to make changes and concessions, Keselowski said. As long as when we are on the good side of that, it stays the same.It seems every time we get on top there is a wind tunnel test or some kind of rule change to try to pull us down. But when we are behind it is like, Oh now, lets keep it fair and equal and everyone with the same opportunity. As long as it is consistent either way, I am good with that.Ford introduced a new nose in 2016, and Toyota changed some of its body style in 2015. The Chevrolets have remained relatively the same but would expect to have a new car either in 2017 or 2018 as Chevrolet closes its SS production plants in Australia next year.The Gibbs guys have got, I feel like, a little bit of an advantage right now because they have just been working hard on it, said Richard Childress Racing driver Austin Dillon, who drives a Chevrolet. We just have to keep working on it in our camp and see if we can catch them before the end of the year. ' ' '
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Stream Underground Country Legend Aaron Watson's New Album 'Vaquero'
"We ride a horse named hustle."
by Annalise Domenighini
Feb 21 2017, 3:52pm
After 18 years in the music business resulting in 13 albums and over two thousand shows worth of experience later, Aaron Watson only has a few words to say about how he and his band have gotten where they are: "We don't focus on phases, phases, stages, and flavors of the month," he tells me. "We stay true to our brand, we work hard, and we ride a horse named hustle."
When I ask the obvious follow up, what he considers a "flavor of the month," Watson comes back with a quick and dirty history of what's been trending in country music. "Think of all the transitions that country music has gone through," he points out. "From kind of the boy band Rascal Flatts phase to the Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich MuzikMafia phase to skinny jean wearing, pop bro-Country phase, to this new kind of R&B country phase."
Watson is unapologetically Texan and strikes as the kind of guy people are talking about when they talk about cowboys, a door-to-door salesman of country music. Following in the footsteps of fellow Texas country artists like George Jones and George Strait, Watson's music situates himself between the two. His latest contribution to his discography, Vaquero—out February 24—mixes elements of Red Dirt country and Texas country music. By starting the album with a song like "Texas Lullaby," Watson sits down and looks the influence of Mexico and the deserts of the southwestern United States on country music straight in the eye. Not a single song on this album escapes the influence of Texas and through it Watson builds his image as a freewheeling' troubadour-cum-ranchero with a penchant for soaring guitar riffs and fiddle.
The album isn't safe from Music City's influence, no matter how hard Watson may or may not have tried to avoid the flavor of the month on this one, and its current cliches come to life on "Big Love in a Small Town." The dabbling in countrypolitan style never overpowers the image of singer-as-ranchero on the album, but it consistently lurks in the periphery of the album.
Truthfully, he could sell out tomorrow and with the fanbase and reputation he's amassed in a decades-long career do pretty well for himself. Even without the backing of a major label he managed to "make it"—his previous album, The Underdog, made him the first independent male country artist to debut at number one on the Billboard country album charts. "Honestly the fact is, I'm just incredibly average," Watson says on what's kept him in the industry for so long, apart from needing a way to pay the bills. "And being that I'm so incredibly average it gives me a really good perspective on life and what's important. And I think people relate to me, I think that's why I sell so many records, is I write songs that people relate to."
Vaquero is a collection of songs by a rambling man written for all the people who find themselves rambling around with a sense of direction but without a clear picture of where they're heading. From the opening lines of "Texas Lullaby" to the closing of "Diamonds and Daughters" we're given a glimpse into the life of a man who couldn't stop if he wanted to, not that he would.
Vaquero is out Friday on BIG Label Records. Listen below.
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Hard Vaccum has a postmortem on the excellent Lost Garden blog here – the game saw itself as extending Dune 2, a RTS which was ahead of it's time in many ways. In any case, in Hard Vaccum the supply lines largely auto-configured themselves, but required defending from enemy units. This works to some extent, but is more suited for a more tactical game, where individual resource flows are more important.
Perhaps one more recent and moderately successful example was Perimeter, where you extended a flat zone around your base with terraforming, then extended you control onto it, sucking energy from the soil. Unfortunately, this was often done in a fairly formulaic way in the single player game, with areas you were "expected" to expand into, rather than encouraging non-set piece tactics.
Perimeter's multiplayer game was more interesting, but the actual fighting in the game was largely decoupled from the resource elements, you built units, combined them and sent them into the fray, storming through the enemy base. There was little tactical subtlety, and the sequel was awful, abandoning many of the more fun elements of the original.
Another, albeit limited, concept is used in Company of Heroes, where you can capture points on the map – giving you resources when they link to your base, or allowing a deep strike to interfere with the enemy's resource generation by cutting off a portion of their network. While an interesting concept, it means battles can heavily revolve around a few points, and that battles on the same map are far less freeform than Total Annihilation.
Easy for the player to understand. Too many games concepts of supply are more frustrating than helpful . The "supply" concept can be as complex as necessary to the game's designer, but must present a clean and useable interface to the end-user – complexity in design is not the same as complexity for the end user.
Promote base-building, without making the map static. Introducing the concept of considering the layout of a base is a good thing, but allowing that base to be built where the player find convenient, rather than limited to fixed points on the map, prevent the game from becoming stale or forcing timed builds onto a map.
Proper usage makes a real difference to the outcome of fighting. Many RTS games try, for example, boosting the power of some base units if another building is nearby, but that may mean for example that an expensive and fragile building which should not be exposed to enemy fire must be risked, and the player ends up not using the "supply" concept at all! Others, as mentioned before, simply "automate" supply to the level where it's effectively invisible to the player.Equally, striking at an enemy's AE-generating units should be a valid strategy, depriving him of a powerful bonus – while this should not be crippling, this requires either protection or redundancy in the AE network.
Counters rushing. Supply line concepts can let us counter the bane of many a RTS, rushing, without requiring special adjustments – for example, low-end laser towers in the Total Annihilation balance mod UberHack had increased damage versus rush units – for that purpose. I'd prefer to avoid quite that crude type of adjustment, but there are other types of tweak we can make – as I'll discuss in part 7 – which can be useful there.
What magical concept can do all four? Well, for starters, your aura of energy is generated by energy-producing base structures. That's right, your solar panels and fusion reactors produce AE, this being visible in the control view, and possibly specialist structures for some sides will be able to amplify or extend AE's coverage. Bigger and more powerful power generating units will have larger AE radii, but a simple solar panel will allow units and structures placed directly next to them to benefit – allowing AE to be important from early in the game, and allowing the player redundancy in case of losing their big reactor. But, you say, what does AE actually do?
Friendly units regenerate.This removes the need for the player to specifically repair each and every defending unit without liberally handing out self-repair capacity: attacking units can still suffer from attrition between fights, but defending units will have regenerated their health. This discourages early raiding and removes micro-management.
Powerful buildings require AE. All top-tier buildings which are not themselves energy-generating will need to be within your AE to function. Your nuclear silos, advanced research institutes and annihilation lasers need those power plants! This adds strategic options of attacking the relatively vulnerable power-generating structures, and encourages "backup" AE generating structures next to critical parts of your base.
Prevents capturing (Or may even be required for building captures). Capturing is usually either overpowered (hi, Homeworld!) or more often useless in RTS games – laden with too many special rules. Even in TA, capturing units was rare. By allowing capturing to occur on base structures relatively easily, but forcing the player to take out enemy AE-generating structures before they can do so, we ensure that a player must always build enough energy-generating structures and to properly support capture efforts with AE-generation of his own.
Prevents base sprawl. Buildings cost an additional amount of energy to make outside the AE, this cost rising the further they are from friendly AE. Most expansions, thus, will be based around AE-producing buildings and taking out an expansion's energy-producing building can make continuing with it, without rebuilding the AE-generating building (which are immune themselves to the rise in energy cost) expensive.
Affects weapon behaviour. The most tentative of these concepts, AE might affect weapon behaviour. As will be discussed in article 6 (weapons and armor), energy and projectile weapons behave differently. Within AE, capacitors charge more rapidly, allowing energy-firing units to engage at higher rates of fire for longer. On the other hand, projectile weapons dissipate waste heat into the AE network, raising their rate of fire slightly. The reason this is more tentative is because the other effects may well have the desired results without needing this concept to be implemented, but it gives units on the defensive, especially energy-weapon using ones, greater punch.
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Tomb of Jesus (Friday update)
I haven't had time recently to post more about the "tomb of Jesus." Possibly I'll be able to in the next few days, though I'll be traveling most of next week. Instead, see a summary of some recent replies at Denny Burk's blog. I have added a few names to the list of scholars who think there is something to the theory and those who do not. James Tabor is the only one I've seen who suggests that it is worthy of consideration. I think his credibility is taking some big hits on this one.
In the recent barrage, there are a couple of interviews with scholars worthy of posting here.
From Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Modern architects of fantastic finds try to provide an air of legitimacy by invoking scientific jargon, said Garrett G. Fagan, a classics professor at Penn State University and author of, "Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public" (RoutledgeFalmer, $46.95).
"They're not scientists, but they need to dress themselves in the clothes of science to pass muster," Fagan said.
Some choose prestigious channels that style themselves as vehicles for public education, he said.
"Television is not in the business of education, even with the so-called educational channels like Discovery," Fagan said. "Ultimately, they're in the business of making money."
And when critics pounce on the discoveries, Fagan said it's often too late.
"By the time the rebuttals come out, the mass media would have moved on to the next sensation," Fagan said, "and people will have this vague notion that they have found the tomb of Jesus."
Fagan said he expects more fantastic archaeological discoveries to be announced in the near future.
"Someone is going to say they've discovered Moses' beard," he said.
From the Washington Post:
Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, expressed irritation that the claims were made at a news conference rather than in a peer-reviewed scientific article. By going directly to the media, she said, the filmmakers "have set it up as if it's a legitimate academic debate, when the vast majority of scholars who specialize in archaeology of this period have flatly rejected this,'' she said.
Magness noted that at the time of Jesus, wealthy families buried their dead in tombs cut by hand from solid rock, putting the bones in niches in the walls and then, later, transferring them to ossuaries.
She said Jesus came from a poor family that, like most Jews of the time, probably buried their dead in ordinary graves. "If Jesus' family had been wealthy enough to afford a rock-cut tomb, it would have been in Nazareth, not Jerusalem,'' she said.
Magness also said the names on the Talpiyot ossuaries indicate that the tomb belonged to a family from Judea, the area around Jerusalem, where people were known by their first name and father's name. As Galileans, Jesus and his family members would have used their first name and home town, she said.
"This whole case (for the tomb of Jesus) is flawed from beginning to end,'' she said.
I think there are some significant problems with the theory in the statistical analysis, but it will probably be some time before a qualified expert has time to prepare and present a rebuttal. And, as Fagan notes above, by then, the media will have moved on. (In the meantime, see Mark Goodacre.)
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The MSM coverage I've seen thus far in the USA has been very skeptical -- almost tongue-in-cheek; as if the reporters were trying to say "we have to cover this, but we all know it's just hyperbole."
The fact that Cameron is Hollywood, not Academia - much less Archeology - is well reported. The message is clear - this is about money, not science and certainly not religion.
By Thom, at Fri Mar 02, 07:58:00 AM
I am surprised you would think my considered views, after three years of research on this, means I have "taken some hits on my credibility." By far the majority of those commenting this week have done so through interests of theology or based on press reports. Do you really think it is an issue of credibility when one holds indepedent opinions after careful study rather than commenting on things they have "heard" about? Do you really think the way we determine things is to take polls of what people have said in soundbites? I can tell you that I have heard privately from dozens of major scholars about their positive attitude toward the basic research that is represented by the film, but they have the good sense not to go before cameras and press and comment on something they have neither seen nor read.
By James D. Tabor, at Sat Mar 03, 09:50:00 AM
Discovery Channel has used Jodi as a commentator on previous shows. I wonder if they will consult her expertise here.
It seems to me there is a very crafty marketing push going on at Discovery Channel these days. I notice in the new BAR they have a full page ad for several books on "the real Jesus" found in the gnostic writings such as the Gospel of Judas, et. al. I think they saw the huge interest generated by the DaVinci Code and are looking to cash in.
Unfortunately, yet more people will dismiss Christianity based on "media reports" and specials on the Discovery Channel rather than looking into the claims in depth
By psychobob, at Sat Mar 03, 09:54:00 PM
Dr. Tabor,
I think that when a scholar supports a weak theory that is sensational and inflammatory that his/her credibility suffers. I think that scholars know the difference between poor scholarship and "independent opinions." I of course am not the judge of what poor scholarship is, but there is a value to scholarly consensus (whether you would call that a "poll" or not).
If you are right and there are "dozens of major scholars" who are positive about the research, then they will support it publicly in due time. My prediction is that they will never come out because the basis for their belief is an anti-Christian prejudice which is not supported by this particular theory (and they know it). So they're letting you take the hits for them. I could well be wrong; time will tell.
There's no doubt that the media distorts things, but I think that the blogosphere is a helpful corrective to that, as it allows scholars like you to air your ideas directly. I am unsure why it is necessary to watch the film; it seems hardly possible that the media blitz of the producers (press conference, extensive website, etc.) omitted key points of evidence which is only included in the film. Watching the film or buying the book serves someone's financial interests but doesn't necessarily give any additional information. Indeed, I would suggest that if the film is at all like "The Exodus Decoded," then the viewer will end up with less information than if they read good articles and blogs on the internet. But perhaps this film is honest and fair, unlike the previous one.
By Todd, at Mon Mar 05, 05:20:00 AM
What no one seems to have understood, is that Tabor never had any credibility to begin with. Now is the time to seriously reexamine his spurious claims (also based on a misuse of DNA and other evidence) regarding the "Essene latrine". See, for example, the thoughtful article by Katharina Galor and Jurgen Zangenberg at http://www.forward.com/articles/led-astray-by-a-dead-sea-latrine/.
And if any doubt remains, see the remarks by N. Golb in his latest article on the Oriental Institute website, the link is http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/scr/.
Tabor's conduct merely exemplifies a pattern of foolish argumentation, evidentiary abuse, and sensationalistic declarations to the press, and no one should stand for it, no matter how much enthusiasm they have for the mystique of the great Holy Land archaeologists. This is the moment for people to turn away from the charlatanry once and for all, and to embrace the rationalist methods of Golb, Magen, Zangenberg and all the other serious thinkers who have rejected 50 years of rubbish.
By Charles Gadda, at Thu Mar 08, 09:36:00 PM
Let's look at the statistics of the lost tomb of Jesus I accept the factor of one in a thousand (from literature) as the possibly of finding an inscription of Jesus son of Joseph. Likewise I accept a factor of one in a thousand as the possibly of finding an inscription of a named son of Jesus. This means that for a thousand tombs, only one would have the inscription of Jesus son of Joseph. Of a thousand tombs, only one would have a named son of Jesus. This means that there would be only one tomb in a million with both inscriptions.
For each of the two females names, there might be one chance in ten that the name is Mary. There would be 9 other names. The same statistics might apply to the two male names (possible a named brother and grand father – Mathew). As a result, there is only one chance out of ten thousand million (10 billion – 2.5 million in lost tomb book – 600 by recent calculation in literature) of finding the Jesus tomb. This is like finding a needle in a very very large haystack.
I have not made a point that I feel I need to make. I apologize for my lack of capability in statistics. The authors of the lost tomb state that the chances of finding the tomb (with the names of Jesus' family) by random chance are so small that the lost tomb is really the "real tomb" of Jesus. Let's call these tombs the "random tomb" (found by random chance) and the "real tomb" (with bones of Jesus and family).
The chances of finding the "real tomb" are important because we might say that the discovered lost tomb is probably the "random tomb" if the chances of finding the "real tomb" are say one in 5 million as compared to one in 2.5 million (10 billion as calculated above)as reported in the lost tomb book.
The area is large and there are many tombs. Again what are the chances of finding the "real tomb" in this area?
For the name of Jesus in the "real tomb", there are other names of Jesus. For each such name, there may be say 9 other names (not Jesus). For each name of Mary associated with Jesus, there are 9 other names - and so on. Continuing with this procedure, the statistics can be repeated for the "real tomb" as was done for the "random tomb".
As a result, there is one chance in 2.5 million of finding the "real tomb" of Jesus (with same names as "random tomb" ). I believe the number is much larger than 2.5 million (10 billion as previously explained).
In theory, the possibly of finding the "real tomb" is much less than that of finding the "random tomb" because as will be explained later, both names of Mary could be mother, wife, one of several daughters, or granddaughters. The same could be said for the names of the men. As will be shown later, of the ten thousand "random tombs", only one would be expected to be e a tomb in which Mary would be his mother, the other Mary his wife, and the two male names his son and grandfather.
The chances of finding a "real tomb" or even a "random tomb" are so small that I believe the "lost tomb" in the lost tomb book to be a hoax developed recently or in the past.
The chances of finding a very recent hoax are one in one. For a past hoax, it is assumed that the tomb would be located in a place easy to find, and the chances of finding it would be one in a fairly small factor.
For all practical purposes the "real lost tomb" mentioned in the book most likely could not have been found. In my opinion, its "finding" is a hoax.
Here I have used only information from the tomb. Many other factors could be considered, but I wanted to evaluate only the tomb and its meaning. However, I do not think it makes any difference whether a small area or large area is considered, or whether the data is somehow skewed or not as far as the conclusions are concerned.
Say that the lost tomb is not a hoax (and we do not know if it is "real" or "random" as is the case). What is the possibility that it belongs to Christ? Again I am considering only information found in the tomb. As previously stated either Mary could be his mother, wife, one of several sisters, daughters, or grand daughters. I say there is one chance in ten that each Mary is his wife or mother. A similar factor could be applied for Mathew or the other named man. This means that there is one chance out of ten thousand possibilities that Mary is his mother or wife, and the other named men (not his son) are his grand father or brother. Therefore, the possibility of finding the "real tomb" would be only one thousandth of that of finding a "random tomb". Stated another way: there would be ten thousand "random tombs" for each "real tomb".
Even if we could say that the tomb contained Mary the mother, Mary the wife, the son, brother, and grandfather of Jesus, we are still far from proving that this is the tomb of Christ because volumes of history do not support this conclusion.
I think the best interpretation of statistics indicates strongly that the tomb is a hoax. I do not blame the Discovery team. The hoax could have been developed by someone or a group either very recently or a thousand years ago, but it is a hoax nevertheless in my opinion.
By Anonymous, at Wed Apr 25, 01:19:00 PM
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