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Abandoned snake found by McDonald's staff
A snake has been found abandoned in a branch of McDonald's. ...
Snake found 'abandoned' in Middlesbrough McDonald's
A 12-inch (30cm) snake has been found "abandoned" at a McDonald's branch on Teesside. The reptile was discovered in a closed plastic tub at 23:00 BST on Saturday by...
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Staff rattled by discovery of snake in McDonald's
Corn snake was left in a takeaway tub in Middlesbrough restaurant on Saturday night Staff in a Middlesbrough McDonald's received a surprise guest on Saturday night when a...
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Snake found in McDonald´s branch in Middlesbrough
Staff in a Middlesbrough McDonald's received a surprise guest on Saturday night when a snake was found abandoned in the restaurant. The corn snake, thought to be...
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McDonald\'s staff shocked after live SNAKE found at UK restaurant
The three week old corn snake was found in a plastic takeaway box outside the chain at Fleet Lane roundabout in Middlesbrough ......
No drunk driving please: 15-foot pet snake abandons owner who was driving under influence
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Walz Orders Flags At Half-Staff To Honor Medical Chopper Pilot Timothy McDonald
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This aspect of QRP radios utility is lost on the designers of QRP radio designers, they really squander the radios potential by producing a low power radio with poor IMD performance which could make excellent drivers for tetrode amplifiers. It would be very easy to homebrew a 200 watt tube amp that only takes 1 watt of drive or less.
Can you recommend a tube?
control should come in the next few months. you can read and see more here.
Incidentally, I like this package so much I am likely going to put the IC 7000 up for sale and get a QS1R in the shack to run with this as well.
Can't we all just get along? I just got my KX3 and want to set it up with my computer to learn more about SDR. All I seem to find here is some arcane argument about what SDR means using insulting language to try to make this point. OK, let's talk about what SDR means, but why does it have to take the form of an argument???
I'll check back in a while to see if the tone of conversation has changed and if there is anything actually interesting here that illuminates the KX3 and SDR.
We are a diverse group here on eham with differing views. If one only wants to see their view discussed they are not going to learn much.
I think cat control is very important, as my neighbor's cat makes noise all night long when she's in heat and if our windows are open it's really annoying.
Simple 19 inch rack box with KX3, power supply and 200 watt FET PA. A simple touch screen front panel running any embdedded ARM processor, the result a hot knobbed SDR radio.
The possibilities are endless, some people just need to stop drinking Koolaid or maybe they should add some LSD to the Koolaid to get some color and imagination.
A radio that is dependent on a PC is a archaic tool that wont have place in the future. Witness the success of tablets. If everyone thinks they always going to be able to buy a desktop PC in the future they in for a rude awakening.
Typing your product to a PC based platform is a recipe for planned obsolescence. A Android tablet that could plug into the KX3 would be a fantastic future option that would radically transform peoples thinking about knobbed radios.
Transmit only on HF, no 6M/2M TX.
The RDR 54B was interesting in that it has no buttons and only one knob. The Tablet like touch screen certainly looked like a good implementation for a SDR. As a regular Tablet user I would have to agree that this is the way to go for controlling a SDR. Mouse free and almost like a regular knobbed radio.
I wish my browser would have translated this site, I would have liked to seen more info in English. It is thinking and Engineering like this company exhibits that will obsolete SDR companies like Flexradio.
If everyone thinks they always going to be able to buy a desktop PC in the future they in for a rude awakening.
You cannot get any real work done on a iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, etc... Just try to do some programming on one, or do an Autocad drawing, run a serious simulation, or compose a serious document. Do you think that the programmers who develop applications for these tablets or develop their firmware or their hardware design do so on a tablet? Desktop PCs will be around a long time because of this. It's only the non-productive mindless PLAY BABIES that only want to search the internet, send emails, tweets, and text messages who believe the desktop PC is going away anytime soon. The PLAY BABIES like the tablets for their incessant tweeting and facebooking (as if anyone really cares to hear about every little detail of what they are doing from minute to minute).
I have all of the above and I certainly do not think the desktop PC is going away anytime soon because of it.
Ahh, but for an interface for a SDR the tablet would seem to be perfect.
Before retiring I worked in Instrumentation in a industrial setting. All standalone Instruments were being phased out for touch screens thru computer control. There were many advantages to this over knobs and buttons and readouts on an Instrument.
The same thing happened many years ago in motor control circuits. All touch screens, no start/stop buttons, no stepping relays etc. Devices like Allen Bradley PLC's completely changed the way industry controlled equipment.
The same thing IS going to happen in Hamradio and the German SDR link for radios is an excellent example of where it is going to go. Zenki is right, PC control of hamradios via mouse is old school. Very old school. Tablet control of (SDR) hamradios is coming soon. They will be an integral part of the radio.
I love Tablets. I love desktop PC's. Given a choice I would much rather have a Tablet control a hamradio.
I do not see Desktop PC's fading away in spite of the Tablet.
I agree that PC based control and DSP of SDRs is a problem and not necessarily the way to go. I have argued this multiple times on eHam in the past. I'd much rather see embedded control and DSP integrated into the SDR.
My only issue with Zenki's statement is when he said that desktop PCs are going away period - he did not say that they were only going away for SDRs. The only people who think desktop PCs are going away are the consumers of things, not the producers of things. If these people really produced anything, they would immediately understand that a tablet, or phone, is not what you use to produce serious things (except for tweets, facebook posts, and other nonsense).
If these people really produced anything, they would immediately understand that a tablet, or phone, is not what you use to produce serious things (except for tweets, facebook posts, and other nonsense).
The Tablet was never intended to produce anything except maybe emails, and as you say other nonsense.
It was and is a device to consume information and provide entertainment.. Information/Entertainment = Movies, Books, Newspapers, WebSurfing, Gaming etc. It is a game changer. I full expect paper produced Books/Newspapers/Magazines to be extinct within several years because of Tablets.
Using a Tablet for Controlling a ham radio would be a game changer too. Imagine a non-SDR radio like a Icom Pro III with one tuning knob and no mechanical buttons. A beautiful spectrum scope with waterfall on the tablet display. All radio functions could be controlled by the integrated tablet on the front of the Radio. A propagation map/DX Cluster/Logbook could be integrated within the Radio's Tablet. Automatic CW/Digital decoding below the waterfall. Get tired of radioing? Just hit the eham 'Button" on the Tablet and voila you are ready for serious complaining.


Many people regard France as the home of gastronomy and Lyon the culinary capital of France, so that's where the journey begins as Dave and Si explore the 'bouchon' - a restaurant traditionally run by a female chef or 'mere Lyonnaise'.
The home of Mozart, the Sound of Music and Arnie (Schwarznegger) provides the fifth leg of the Hairy Bikers' adventure. The trip starts in Vienna, patisserie capital of the world and ends atop the spectacular Grossglockner Alpine pass, one of the world's most spectacular biking roads.


Freedom is what I seek, looking out of my untitled dream. Fantasy comes along since I live and exist at the same time. I pray to you, the Lord of the Lords, although I know not the prayers, I need not the words..to converse with you and demand. My silence gets heard, so I believe. Just a soul I am perhaps, in the world that is now familiar. Filled with anonymity and worth. I pray to you, the Lord of the Lords, to help me solve the mysteries. I'm a river that doesn't follow, but flows in a direction nonetheless. I am yet to meet my ocean of desires. I am yet to know the truths that are meant for me to know.
I pray to you, the Lord of my soul, to make for me my pathways visible. To let me know one good reason why I exist. To free the ways that belong to me. To free me from the ways I've left behind.
very deep ,WELL WRITTEN POST :).
Belief. That's what makes us put one foot in front of the other despite everything else.
It's deep and I love what you're saying.
" I am yet to meet my ocean of desires. I am yet to know the truths that are meant for me to know"


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Review of Omega Speedmaster 57 Co-Axial: an iconic member of speedmaster family
Some Replica Omega watches tend to stand out through brand name, others through durability and others through an out of this world design. The Omega Speedmaster is an icon among the icons. First introduced in 1957 under the reference CK2915, it had been updated several times in its life to now have a slightly distinct case and dial. This process is made on the entire watch (and not only the movement) and concerns its accuracy, its power reserve, its average daily precision in daily wearing conditions, its water-resistance and its resistance to magnetic fields. This nice watch was unfortunately not as faithful to the original as the collectors wanted to.
Nevertheless, back in 2013, Omega decided to introduce a re-issue of the very first Speedy, an upgraded edition that was keeping the overall identical look with a modern twist and innovative movement. This is now corrected, with the Omega Speedmaster 57 Co-Axial revisited with Broad Arrow Hands and a new dial (ref. 331.10.42.51.01.002).
No doubt it features Omega's co-axial escapement with the silicium (Si 14) balance spring, a free-sprung screw balance and it's chronometer rated – identical movement than the Seamaster 600m Chrono or the Speedmaster gray Side of The Moon.
The 2013 Omega Speedmaster 57 was using the identical recipe as the Omega Seamaster 300 Master Co-Axial introduced last year, which means a classical inspired watch but not a simple re-edition. Omega chose to modernize the design – but still using some classical gimmicks – and to bring into the case a modern, efficient and reliable movement, the calibre 9300, instead of just recreating the exact identical watch. therefore, the Omega Speedmaster 57 features this bi-compax movement, with hours & minutes chronograph hands in a single sub-dial, a self-winding mechanism and 2 barrels for 60 hours of power reserve. The stainless steel case, with its straight lugs and its brushed metallic bezel – just like the original Omega Speedmaster CK2915 from 1957 – measures 41.5mm and has both polished and brushed surfaces. The dial is also updated, with beige transferred dial indications. Distinguishing this model from its 2013 counterpart are the recessed hour markers that are partially filled with classical Super-LumiNova that emits a green light instead of the applied indexes.
Alpha-shaped hands can be found in the small 60-minute and 12-hour recorder at 3 o'clock and the small seconds sub-dial at 9 o'clock. The 2013 Omega Speedmaster 57 was coming with 'Alpha' hands – that refer to the 1959 Speedmaster CK2998 and not to the 1957 Speedmaster CK2915 – and applied indexes in white metal, filled with luminous paint.
The bracelet is also made in stainless steel and features polished external links and a central brushed link. The novelties for 2015 nevertheless are not here. You'll have to take a closer to the hands and the dial to find out.
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Home / Knife News / Coil spring knives update!!
We have three of the four knives made from an old Land Rover coil spring finished. We have a bird and trout knife with cherry burl and a red liner. We have a bush craft knife with ebony and a yellow liner and a beautiful bird and trout with brass and snake wood with a black liner. The fourth knife is a Skinner which we finished forging today and will hopefully be finished in a couple of days. The Skinner having a taller blade then the others required us to upset the spring forcing more metal into a smaller area. Our first attempt using the springs normal size ended up with the metal being far to thin. Coil spring steel is really great steel for making knives out of . It is hard and flexible. However it has the ability to air harden which makes it impossible to anneal and drill so all holes need to be hand punched while hot. I like the end result but it is really hard making a knife out of spring steel compared to other steels we work with.
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Q: Variational calculus applied to the strain energy functional in solid mechanics The question is basically about when to apply the variational operator...
Given the general functional representing the strain energy of a solid under a given stress state $\sigma$ and strain state $\varepsilon$, both representing vectors.
$$U=\frac12\int_{V}\sigma^T\varepsilon dV$$
The stress is related to the strain with:
$$\sigma=C \varepsilon$$
where C is a symmetric matrix with constant terms (for linear elastic materials).
Suppose I want the variation of $U$ and the functions that I am varying are the strain field functions. Which one of the following  two possibilities should I do:
1-)$$\delta U=\frac12\int_V \sigma^T\delta\varepsilon dV$$
2-)$$\delta U=\frac12 \left( \int_V \delta \varepsilon^T C \varepsilon dV + \int_V \varepsilon^T C \delta\varepsilon dV\right)=\int_V \varepsilon^T C \delta \varepsilon dV=\int_V \sigma^T \delta \varepsilon dV$$
Another case is when we approximate the displacement field by a set of approximation functions (finite element, for example). Then it comes that:
$$\varepsilon=Bc$$
Where $B$ is a matrix containing all the strain-displacement equations and the approximation functions (may be a function of $c$ for non-linear analysis). And $c$ is a vector containing all the amplitudes of each term in the approximation function (Ritz constants). The new energy functional becomes:
$$U=\frac12 \left( \int_V\sigma^T BdV \right) c$$
$c$ is the unkkown of the problem and the variational now should be applied to $c$, such that the following two options may be used:
1-)$$\delta U=\frac12 \left( \int_V\sigma^T BdV \right) \delta c +\frac12 \left( \int_V\sigma^T \delta BdV \right)c$$
2-)$$\delta U=\frac12 c^T \left( \int_V B^T C BdV \right) \delta c
            + \frac12 \delta c^T \left( \int_V B^T C BdV \right) c
            + \frac12 c^T \left( \int_V B^T C \delta BdV \right)c
            + \frac12 c^T \left( \int_V \delta B^T C BdV \right)c$$
$$=c^T \left( \int_V B^T C BdV \right) \delta c  + c^T \left( \int_V B^T C \delta BdV \right)c$$
$$=\left( \int_V \sigma^T BdV \right) \delta c  + \left( \int_V \sigma^T \delta BdV \right)c$$
In both cases the difference is the $\cfrac12$...
Which option (if any!) is the right one? This may be a basic question, but it remains not totally clear to me...

A: I got the point here... based on the fact that the variation operator works similarly as the total differential operator with the independent variables constants, it comes that the chain rule should be applied to $\delta \sigma$.
Option 2-) was correct and the following shows how option 1-) should be corrected to render the same result:

*

*directly applied to the strain vector:
$$\delta U=\frac12\int_V \sigma^T\delta\varepsilon dV
            + \frac12\int_V \delta \sigma^T\varepsilon dV$$

*applied to the approximated strain field (corrected option 1-)):
$$\delta U=\frac12 \left( \int_V\sigma^T BdV \right) \delta c
+\frac12 \left( \int_V\sigma^T \delta BdV \right)c
+\frac12 \left( \int_V \delta \sigma^T BdV \right)c$$

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Seniors make 'bowl' statement
November 25, 2002 12:00 am by Anthony Gagliano
The litany of accomplishments for the USF senior class is too many to list.
In the six-year history of South Florida football, the Bulls' 13 seniors have done much to cement that foundation: first win against a Division I-A team, a winning season their first time out as a I-A team, defeating teams that went to bowl games.
The Bulls (9-2) added another notch to their belt by dismantling Houston 32-14 Saturday, recording the program's first nine-win season in the process. The showing also raised the Bulls in the eyes of the voters, jumping from two votes to 13 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll and from four to 21 in the Associated Press poll. Those numbers rank USF 34th by the coaches and 32nd by the media.
But, USF coach Jim Leavitt will be disappointed if his seniors' careers concluded on the field in Houston.
"Maybe I should run naked through the streets of Tampa with a sign that says, 'We need to go to a Bowl,'" Leavitt said on his post-game radio show on WQYK 1010. "I don't know what else to do. If I need to do that, then I'll do it. I'll probably get arrested. I'll probably get fired as the head football coach.
"Really, what do we have to do? It's crazy. You win nine games like this, you lose to Oklahoma (Sept. 28), and Arkansas (Sept. 14), it's not bad. We beat everybody else, and we made some exclamation points these last few games. I told our guys for us not to get invited to a bowl would be a joke. It should be a no-brainer."
However, USF would be hard pressed to put on a more dominating display to end the season. The Cougars (4-7, 2-5 in Conference USA) seemed like putty in the Bulls' hands. USF snared seven interceptions from Houston quarterback Nick Eddy, a pair by J.R. Reed to set both the USF single-season and career marks for interceptions.
"I thought our defense had a great game, I really did," said Leavitt. "(Houston) had that one drive in the third quarter that I was disappointed in. We were probably playing too passive. But you have to remember Houston is a good football team. They play extremely well at home. It's hard to hold that team to 14 points."
The USF defense continually had its way with Houston, picking up four sacks and limiting C-USA's top rusher, Joffrey Reynolds, to 59 yards on 22 attempts. Reynolds had been averaging more than 130 yards a game.
The USF offense also dictated the game on its end, piling on 18 points in under 5 1/2 minutes in the third quarter to turn a comfortable 14-0 lead into an insurmountable 32-0 advantage.
The Bulls' seniors figured heavily in the outcome. Quarterback Marquel Blackwell reaffirmed why he has a stranglehold on the USF record book, throwing for 305 yards and two touchdowns and adding three more scores on the ground. The fifth-year senior also extended his interception-less streak to 235, second all-time in NCAA history to Trent Dilfer's 271 straight throws without a pick in 1993 while with Fresno State. The three rushing scores also made Blackwell the Bulls' career leader in rushing touchdowns with 20.
Wideout Hugh Smith had a productive finale, grabbing four balls for 107 yards and a touchdown. The senior extended his single-season catch mark to 62 and broke Huey Whittaker's yardage record from 2001 by recording 661.
Leavitt and the Bulls must hope that Saturday's showing was enough as they sit and wait out the final two weeks of the regular season to see if a bowl invitation is coming.
"Probably an act of Congress," Leavitt said. "Probably the President has to come out and say, 'Listen I see an unfairness going on this country, and I think the South Florida Bulls need to go to the American Bowl.' And the President's going to have to come out and make it happen.
"I'm hopeful. I'm going to pray for these guys that somebody will give them an opportunity because of how hard these guys have worked and gone after it, the whole deal."


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The mission of Jesus Christ was not only to redeem and baptize believers with the Holy Ghost, but to also separate, purge, and winnow the wheat from the chaff. What a terrible aspect of His mission — to separate and destroy the corrupt seed and prepare it for burning.
The church has experienced a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There has been a great ingathering of people from all religions and walks of life. God's holy floor is full and overflowing with a copious harvest. In fact, those whitened fields have been yielding a record harvest.
The mission of Jesus Christ was not only to redeem and baptize believers with the Holy Ghost, but to also separate, purge, and winnow the wheat from the chaff. What a terrible aspect of His mission - to separate and destroy the corrupt seed and prepare it for burning.
There is a media blitz aimed at the destruction of the Christian home. Satan is out to wreck every marriage, to break up every Christian couple and destroy the God-ordained concept of "faithful...till death do us part."
"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise" (Proverbs 20:1).
This nation is fast becoming a sodden society of too many intoxicated citizens. Alcohol is now the modern golden calf, and millions of people, young and old, male and female, have been seduced by it.
It is high time to speak out against all the Hollywood holiness and show business salvation that is now contaminating the house of God. How sad the heart of God must now be to see so many who call themselves Christians corrupting and defiling themselves at the devil's table. There is a cancer of worldliness growing in the church.
Temptation is an invitation or an enticement to commit an immoral act. And right now Satan is raging over the earth as a roaring lion trying to devour Christians through powerful enticements toward immorality. No one is immune and the closer you get to God, the more Satan will desire to sift you.
The apostle Paul wrote, "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16).
"Children of God." We often use this phrase to describe ourselves as believers. But I believe we use these words too flippantly, with little understanding of the power and depth of their true meaning.
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BASECAMP OFF-ROAD
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Baja 1000 Roll-Over Repair
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BaseCamp Off-road Team
In a word...Diehards.
Actually, call us ..."Livehards" - because we think living should be bold, no looking back for us dyed-in-the-wool upstate New Yorkers. The challenge, perseverance and hard work needed to prepare for the Baja 1000 is right up our alley. The fact that it is the longest, nonstop, point-to-point endurance race in the world added to the temptation to join the "this is crazy hard" crew we admire.
Our team values integrity in people and integrity in process. We believe the best challenge for ourselves, and for each other, is to do the right thing, treat people right, don't take shortcuts, and take pride in our work.
Desert racing is not for everyone. So even if you are not up for "crazy hard", we encourage you to live big, take the high road, challenge yourself, and don't take the easy way out of anything. It's what we're going to do while we finish preparing for the Baja 1000 this November.
"If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live."
From his time as a US Army Paratrooper when he jumped out of that first plane - throughout his career as a law-enforcement official - Sgt. Matt Barnes has always found value and great satisfaction in the preparation and training for all endeavors. That hardened work ethic, an appreciation for challenges and an annoyingly childish sense of humor culminate in some unexpected endeavors...like entering the world's most grueling off-road race...for his first racing attempt ever. That's right, there is no "double dog dare" you could defiantly throw his way that Barnes would not seriously consider. Aha, you start to discern the devilish glint in his eye.
Go big or go home is the attitude here. Like pulling off the first Upstate New York, US Army Best Ranger style law enforcement competition to determine bragging rights for the Rochester area's "Best Cop." With the help of then Greece Police Chief Todd Baxter, the law enforcement skills challenge went out and was met by dozens of area cops with the rallying cry to "strengthen and connect our law enforcement community." From the ground up, Barnes planned, built, carried, and strong-willed the sponsors, supporters and law enforcement community into a unifying day of police tactical challenges including live shooting, rappelling and a helicopter rescue event. Gotta love big ideas.
So the Baja 1000 doesn't sound quite so intimidating if you know these players.
Foolhardy? Maybe. Unprepared? Never.
Todd Baxter
Discipline. Service. Leadership. Oh yeah, and a sense of adventure.
Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter is mostly work, except for that sense of adventure. That unique nature that drives a 22 year Army veteran, 30 year law enforcement career, former SWAT Commander and now top cop in Monroe County. So you might ask, what compels one to sign on as co-driver and navigator in this notorious off-road race? Sheriff Baxter replies simply, "Barnes asked me." Guess he knows a cool adventure when he hears one.
This is bucket list spontaneity at its best.
AnDy May
As a fleet mechanic for Fairport Electric Company, Andy, in his modest way would not admit to being the "Master Jedi" level mechanic we were lucky enough to find. Andy claims, "I thought this was going to be a cruise night car" yet his expertise in all things on wheels is the only reason we are willing to risk life and limb at the Baja 1000 this November in Mexico.
During five years of steady work on this project as mechanic, vicarious shop teacher and friend, Andy started out with a "little help assembling the front end" and guided us through completion to our now off-road racing worthy vehicle.
Andy sums up his passion, "I'd rather be building than racing."
And what a beauty you've helped build, Andy.
John Bosch
In Upstate New York, where most people don't know how to spell Baja, much less race in it...guess who we found? Yessiree, a bona fide racing fanatic (we say that in great admiration) and true VW nut who grew up working on Volkswagens. The fact that we didn't actually find him (Gary Walker brought him in on the biggest, two-for-one jackpot imaginable) shows how lucky we are.
John Bosch has an impressive race history and an appreciation for detail that we continue to learn is crucial to our madcap attempt to become desert off-road racers. Having John on the team assures us we will last beyond the first (or fifth or fifteenth) hurdle that will be speeding our way at the Baja 1000. Can we mention again that John and Gary Walker finished in the top ten BOTH times they entered the Baja 1000 on bikes? Double underscore our further admiration.
John's Race History:
2 time Baja 1000 Moto finisher with Gary Walker - 8th place 2014, 6th place 2015
Rolex Grand Am Series competitor 2008-2012
SCCA World Challenge Competitor 2002
AMA Motocross Competitor 1987-present
Cup Light Competitor 2000's
Ice Racing series competitor 1990's
Bob Bondurant Pro Search Finalist 1993
Brian Schrom
Brian is a lifelong resident of Upstate New York and an avid outdoor enthusiast. Brian has raced snowmobiles and dirt bikes since he was a kid (exactly how long ago he hides so well!) but as of late, family and career are winning this race now.
Brian is a multi-useful addition to our team this year; he is another law enforcement professional - are we partial? Brian has a lifetime of mechanical knowledge to bolster our "street smarts" at the Baja 1000 while thankfully lowering the median age of our team to a less laughable level.
And the tipoff that he's the right guy for this mission? Brian was abruptly introduced to Officer Barnes some years ago when young Schrom was dabbling in a little hell-raising, racing his dirt bike down the street. Yep, he fits right in with this crew!
CONTACT: BaseCampOffRoad@gmail.com
The few really good photos on here are courtesy of Hank Kula Photography: KulaImagery


It was always believed that resistance is provoked by antimalarial drugs; they cause plasmodium to evolve and become tougher. Consequently it was important to kill the last parasite to avoid recrudescence. But Andrew Read (Conference Evolution, Utah, June 21-25 2013) finds that in a weakened immune system parasites multiply to extremely high densities. This pool of parasites contains a larger number of mutants, upping the chances of some having greater virulence potential.
It is common knowledge that anything which leads to a depressed immune system (diarrhea, repeated malaria episodes, pregnancy, HIV, malnutrition, immune suppressing drugs…) will lead to a higher plasmodium load in the infected person.
The easiest way, although incomplete, to assess immunosuppression is the CD4 count. Several recent papers (JK Kirinyet et al., Intern.J. Adv Res. 2013, 1:3, 140-149, SN Shah et al., HIV infection and Antimalarial Treatment, 2006, 194, 1519-28) have shown that in patients with low CD4 count it was impossible to lower the high plasmodium load to zero with antimalarial treatment, even with the strongest drug known: dihydroartemisinin (YM Tatfeng et al., J Vect Borne Dis , 44. June 2007, 111-115). After a malaria attack the CD4 count remains low for several months in persons which had a low CD4 baseline at the moment of the infection.
Boosting the immune system becomes eventually more important in the fight against malaria than reducing the parasite count with a strong antimalarial drug.
Artemisinin and its chemical derivatives, as well as amodiaquine and mefloquine are immunodepressive. As ACTs they may give spectacular results in the short run, but be detrimental in the long run for malaria eradication. PCR at day 28 is a vain effort if it is not done in parallel with a CD4 count.


With a few deft strokes of a paintbrush, Sandy Gervais speaks from her heart with color and paint. Mixing expressions of joy and kindness with whimsical flowers and quirky textures, Sandy celebrates life with a vibrant color palette of Peacock, Geranium, Pesto and Citrine. Use these prints to express your creative spirit with quilts and accessories.


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Categories: Ethnic groups | U.S. ethnic groups
Whites is a broad term used to describe people of ethnic European descent, especially those with fair skin. The term Caucasian is sometimes used with much the same meaning in the USA although people elsewhere would more likely understand the use of the word Caucasian to refer to people from the Caucasus. It is often used in contrast with other racial color terms, such as black or, rarely, yellow or brown. Although the most prevalent term in casual conversation, the term white is increasingly rare in academic and formal discussions of racial demographics, however it is still often used in discussions of racial attitudes, particularly in the humanities, and in fields such as Black studies, Critical race theory , and Whiteness studies.
The scope of the term white has been confused over time, and the confusion varies from place to place. For example, in the USA and Canada, Ashkenazi Jews and Slavs were often considered separate from the white race for many years, and have generally been considered "white" since World War II. Similarly, in Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil light-skinned people of mixed (African and European) descent are considered "white"; in the United States or Canada, those same people would be considered "black".
Additionally, the popular definition of white in the United States and Canada often excludes all Hispanic and Latino peoples, even though "Hispanic" and "Latino" can include peoples of European Spanish descent. However, relatively few Hispanics in the U.S. are of primarily Spanish descent; the majority of U.S. Hispanics are mestizo (mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry). Turks, Iranians, and Arabs are viewed by most North Americans as non-white as well, while some Europeans generally consider them to be white.
This usage is sometimes criticized by those who argue that it de-ethnicizes various groups. During the era of Jim Crow Laws in the US South, facilities were commonly divided into separate sections for "White" and "Colored" people. These terms were defined by law, with people of exclusively northern and western European descent being labeled "White" and African-Americans labeled as "Colored". The categorization of people of other ethnicities and mixed ancestries varied from state to state and in different municipalities.
Countries with an important percent of whites include most the of the nations of Europe as well as countries colonized by Europeans in the 15th century-19th century such as the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, the Asiatic territories of Russia, Australia, and New Zealand. In these nations, the relatively small indigenous populations were overwhelmed by white colonists from one or more European "mother countries".
Significant minorities of whites live in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and in the various Latin American and Caribbean countries. Many of these nations have experienced considerable political conflict between the white minority (descended from settlers from the former colonial power) and a non-European majority, heightening the sense of white racial identity.
Whites is also the common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.


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Air Date: Sunday, August 14, 2005
Time Slot: 9:00 PM-9:30 PM EST on FOX
Episode Title: (FG-408) "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" (Repeat)
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PA: Due to some sexual content, parental discretion is advised.
PETER CATCHES QUAGMIRE RED HANDED ON "FAMILY GUY" SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, ON FOX
When Peter hears screams coming from Cleveland and Loretta's house, he tries to help but discovers Loretta in a compromising position. Peter identifies the other man as Quagmire and decides to tell Cleveland of his wife's extracurricular activities. But when Loretta walks out on Cleveland, he doesn't take it lying down on the "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" episode of FAMILY GUY Sunday, Aug. 14 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FG-408) (TV-D, L, S)
Voice Cast: Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Quagmire; Alex Borstein as Lois Griffin; Seth Green as Chris Griffin; Mila Kunis as Meg Griffin; Mike Henry as Cleveland and Cleveland, Jr.
Guest Voice Cast: Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie and Macho Man Randy Savage as Macho Man Randy Savage.


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Obama's cleverly crafted socialist agenda
Some people believe there is a worldwide conspiracy of powerful, influential, and wealthy persons, including political leaders, corporate heads, and members of Europe royalty, whose goal is to create a New World Order, devoid of national and regional boundaries, where everyone is submissive to their agenda.
Agenda 21 (actual name: the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests), is a global plan of action run by the United Nations that would oversee every area in which man impacts the environment.
Two agendas with one goal, as both the New World Order and Agenda 21 are nothing more than plans to impose worldwide socialism.
Yes, both agendas should indeed raise serious red flags, but here in America we have red flags of our own. We must deal with the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama and deal with it NOW or our beloved America will be turned into something unrecognizable to us and far removed from what our Founders had in mind.
Obama's plan, comprised of elements of both NWO and Agenda 21, is simple...to turn our country into a socialistic nation that is seriously overburdened with massive government spending and entitlement programs.
And on that, so far, he has succeeded.
I have always called Barack Hussein Obama 'the enemy within' and for good reason. Case in point, Obama's entitlement programs, freebies, and handouts, mostly given to ILLEGALS, have turned our country into what amounts to a socialist nation where a good percentage of people need and rely on the government for their survival. These people will always vote for bigger government, and him, simply because it means bigger handouts for them. These folks (remember in Obamaland ILLEGALS do vote and vote more than once) will always vote for the person (Obama) who will promise them these handouts. Obama knows this as he is well aware of the fact that no one willingly bites the hand that feeds them.
Obama's hope of legalizing millions of ILLEGAL immigrants gives him millions of new votes. But what's even worse is that once legalized those millions of people will add trillions of dollars to our national debt for they will demand and get welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, free medical care, etc., and this could very well totally bankrupt our country.
But Obama doesn't care as he will just force a raise in the debt ceiling, borrow more money from foreign countries, as he smiles happily knowing he has those votes permanently locked up.
Nothing this man has done has helped 'We the People.' His stimulus program and bailouts were a farce as most dollars just went to help create more government jobs instead of going to create private sector jobs; went to shady groups like ACORN; went to unions that leaned Democratic; went to companies that contributed millions to his campaign effort; the list is endless but the bottom line is that the few hundred dollars we taxpayers were given as a token was a joke, because in today's economy a few hundred dollars stimulates nothing.
Barack Hussein Obama wants our country to fail just as long as he remains at the helm where he can redistribute the wealth of the haves to those who did nothing but vote for him.
Barack Hussein Obama is committed to destroying capitalism, democracy, and freedom as he steamrollers over 'We the People' by creating class warfare, government dependency, and a racial divide that we might never recover from. That's why it's critical that this man be voted out of office in November, as this very well might be our last chance to reclaim our country from a man and his minion who are hell bent on bringing her and us to our knees.
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Vice President Marco Rubio?
By STEPHEN F. HAYES / The Weekly Standard
Senator Marco Rubio appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace this weekend and gave viewers a clear understanding why many conservatives see him as a strong candidate to be Mitt Romney's running mate. Rubio answered Wallace's questions directly and forcefully, drawing sharp contrasts between Obama's record and the Republican vision for the next four years.
Part of what makes Rubio so effective, beyond his obvious grasp of the substance of the policies being discussed, is the tone he uses to criticize the Obama administration. It's not so much anger, though some anger might be warranted, but disappointment. So when Rubio talks about Obama's failings on the economy, he reminds viewers of the promises Obama made – to revive the economy and restore the faith of Americans in their government – and laments the president's inability to deliver. He did the same thing when asked for his reaction to the Obama administration's use of the death of Osama bin Laden.
"Let me focus on this issue of bin Laden for a moment. That was a very proud day for all Americans. Our Armed Forces did a phenomenal job and the president made an important and wise decision – and he has gotten his due credit, and rightfully so, for making that decision. But now he's taken if further. He has taken something that should unite the American people – a moment of pride for our country – and instead turned it into a weapon of political warfare. And I think that's wrong. I really do. I think it's wrong for the president and for the vice president to take this issue and use it for politics."
Rubio then used his disappointment to make a larger point about Obama, one that speaks directly to the segment of the electorate who invested in their hopes in Obama and have been let down.
"And it goes back to the point I tried to make earlier: When this president ran for office in 2008, he said he was going to be different. He was going to be a post-partisan uniter, to bring Americans together. And three and a half years later, the president, quite frankly, has become just like anyone else in Washington, D.C. And in his obsessive effort to win his reelection, he has lost himself and he has lost what makes him different. And this issue of they've used the bin Laden raid is one example about how this administration is just like everybody else."
It's an argument that won't appeal to the 30-something percent of the electorate who will vote for Obama under any circumstances and are now spending their time explaining and excusing his failures. But Obama won because he inspired millions of new voters to invest their faith in him and persuaded others to support his cause. It's those voters who will be so important this time around – and their decisions about whether to back him again, to stay home or to support Romney, will go a long way to determining who wins the election.
Rubio spoke to them Sunday morning—and, if Mitt Romney was watching, it's hard to believe he didn't see the potential of having Rubio as a full-time spokesman on his behalf this fall.
That is what much of the current speculation about Rubio-as-running mate misses. It's been largely a focus on geography and ethnicity – a steady stream of musing about his ability (or alleged inability) to move Hispanic voters to the Romney column and theorizing about whether the mere presence of his name would win Florida for Romney. The whole thing has a static quality about it as if what Rubio actually did on the ticket was somehow secondary.
It's not. And the strongest argument for Rubio's inclusion on the ticket, in spite of concerns about his age, relative inexperience, and a challenging friend, is how Rubio would actually perform as a candidate. The quality of his appearance on Fox News Sunday is the rule, not the exception. On the stump, he usually speaks without notes and in thirty minutes, with seemingly little effort, can transform a room of sleepy senior citizens into a raucous crowd of would-be reformers ready to put up yard signs until Election Day. Beyond that, imagine a television ad in which running mate Rubio speaks directly to the camera and tells the story of his upbringing, of his mother working as a maid and his father as a bartender so that their children might have opportunities that they did not. In Rubio's telling, it's both exceptional and typical – a moving tale of family sacrifice that will be familiar to so many across the country.
There are reasons that Romney might want another running mate and reasons Rubio might prefer to remain in the Senate. But if Romney decides to ask Rubio to be considered and eventually to run with him, I suspect it'll have much less to do with Rubio's name and his native state than it will with what Rubio would do as a running mate and vice president.
Obama Could Finally Acquire Elusive Internet "Kill Switch"
By Doug Book / The Western Center for Journslism
For three years Barack Hussein Obama and his handlers have labored to create a functioning dictatorship in the midst of a constitutional republic. It was shamefully easy at first. With unassailable majorities in House and Senate, even a Republican leadership unafraid to contest the excesses of the first black president would have been powerless to slow the implementation of his agenda.
The left passed ObamaCare, giving itself the means of executing a calculated program of attrition against millions of reliably Republican seniors. At the same time, a corrupt Department of Justice worked to undermine the 2nd Amendment, interfered with the effort of states to legislate against voter fraud and facilitated the entry of millions of illegals by refusing to enforce immigration law.
Even a disastrous midterm election has not slowed Obama's acquisition of power as 190 House Republicans helped vote into law the infamous National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), providing the Commander and Chief unlimited authority to detain and imprison without due process any American he considers a threat to national security.
But one vitally important power has eluded the usurper in the White House, that being the legal means to control the world-wide web. Countless attempts have been made to provide Obama that longed for internet "kill switch," many of them originating with Senator Joe Lieberman. Yet from Net Neutrality to the 2010 "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act," all have met with such an outcry from left and right alike that they have died in Congress.
All, that is, until now. A week ago the House of Representatives passed the latest Congressional attempt to nullify the last remaining exercise of American freedom, the "cyber-security" bill called CISPA—the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
According to lawmakers, the purpose of CISPA is to make it easier for companies and the federal government to share information about methods of thwarting hackers. Until now, such information sharing about individual web users could have provided the grounds for a law suit. CISPA, however, "… would allow companies to freely share "cyber-threat information" without consequence." (1)
Critics of the bill point to the fact that, in the form passed by the House, "…any web-related service provider may share 'cyber threat information with any other entity,' including the military and National Security Agency NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW…" In short, once enacted the terms of CISPA would take precedence over any existing state or federal law. Privacy laws would be a thing of the past. (1)
Though Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security has "monitored" the mood of the public for some time, the enactment of CISPA would transform the now shadowy Department methods of spying on the enemies of Barack into a full-time, executive branch operation. (2) As civil liberties groups have claimed, the bill is so broadly written that it "would allow companies to share private consumer information with the government under the guise of sharing information about potential hacker threats." (3)
For a would-be despot of Barack Obama's ilk, the possibilities for abuse inherent in such a law are staggering. He would have the authority to flagrantly spy on any group or individual under the pretense of concern for national security. And as he may, under the powers afforded him by the NDAA, declare such groups or individuals a threat to the United States, the chilling effect upon any declared opposition to his nefarious schemes would be enormous. What better way to kill the internet than to clear it of all dissent!
Some claim that CISPA will have a difficult time in the US Senate. We must hope that will be the case.
To read more use these links:
(1) http://theweek.com/article/index/227172/cispa-a-guide-to-the-big-brother-cyber-security-bill
(2) http://epic.org/foia/epic-v-dhs-media-monitoring/
(3) http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-04-27/news/31422019_1_private-sector-privacy-bill
Somewhat overboard on the end results but still worth paying attenion to
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of "insignificant" by comparison. Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons? None of that even matters if we don't solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet. (See the numbers below.)
The resulting releasing of radiation would turn North America into a "dead zone" for humans... mutated (and failed) crops, radioactive groundwater, skyrocketing infant mortality, an explosion in cancer and infertility... this is what could be unleashed at any moment from an earthquake in Japan. Such an event could result in the release of 85 times the Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl catastrophe, say experts (see below). And the Chernobyl catastrophe made its surrounding regions uninhabitable by humans for centuries.
Yet, astonishingly, the usual suspects of deception are saying absolutely nothing about this problem. The mainstream media (the dying dinosaur media, actually) pretends there's no problem with Fukushima. President Obama says nothing about it. Federal regulators, including the NRC, are all but silent. It's as if they think their silence on the issue somehow makes it go away.
Perhaps these professional liars in the media and government have become so used to idea that they can simply spin their own reality (and get the public suckers to believe almost anything) that they now believe they can ignore the laws of physics. That's why they have refused to cover the low-level radiation plume that continues to be emitted from Fukushima.
The fate of the world now rests on reactor No. 4
"It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on No.4 reactor." - Mitsuhei Murata, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and Senegal, Executive Director, the Japan Society for Global System and Ethics
Mr. Murata's stunning statement should be front-page news everywhere around the world. Why? Because he's right. If reactor No. 4 suffers even a minor earthquake, it could set off a chain reaction of events that quickly lead to North America becoming uninhabitable by humans for centuries to come. Imagine California, Oregon and Washington states being inundated with radiation -- up to 85 times the radiation release from Chernobyl. We're talking about the end of human life on the scale of continents.
Here's how this could happen, according to Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy:
"The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident. The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters." (http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-...)
Note: He says "10 times" the Cesium-137 of Chernobyl. Others say up to 85 times. Nobody is 100% certain of what would actually occur because this has never happened before. We are in uncharted territory as a civilization, facing a unique and imminent threat to our continued survival. And both governments and the corporations that assured us nuclear power was safe are playing their "cover my ass" games while the world waits in the crosshairs of a nuclear apocalypse.
Fukushima Facts
To better understand the severity of this situation, read these facts about Fukushima reactor No. 4 which I have assembled from available news sources:
• Reactor #4 contains 1,535 spent fuel rods which remain highly radioactive.
• These fuel rods currently hold the potential to emit 37 million curies of radiation.
• Those fuel rods are stored in a concrete pool located 100 feet above the ground, inside the structurally compromised reactor building, effectively making the pool open to the air.
• The pool holding these fuel rods is "structurally damaged."
• "If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident." - Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy.
• "The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors." - Mr. Alvarez.
• Just 50 meters from reactor No. 4, a much larger pool of spent fuel rods contains 6,375 fuel rods, all of which remain highly radioactive.
• All these fuel rods are, astonishingly, exposed to the open air. They are not held inside any containment vessel.
• The total number of spent fuel rods across all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site is 11,421.
• If reactor No. 4 suffers a structural failure, the release of radiation from the 1,535 spent fuel rods would make it virtually impossible for work to continue on the site, potentially resulting in an inability to halt a massive radiation release from all the other rods.
• In all, the 11,421 fuel rods held at the Fukushima Daiichi facility contain roughly 336 million curies of "long-lived radioactivity." Roughly 134 million curies of that is Cesium-137.
• "Reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet." - Mr. Robert Alvarez, U.S. Dept. of Energy
• This amount of Cesium-137 radioactivity held in the full collection of fuel rods at Fukushima is 85 times the amount released at Chernobyl.
• The release of this amount of Cesium-137 would "destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is an issue of human survival." (http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html)
• The mainstream media operates in a total blackout of this news, refusing to even acknowledge the existence of this immediate threat to human civilization.
• The mainstream media is, in large part, owned by General Electric, the very company that designed the Fukushima reactors in the first place. It is clear that GE is diligently running a total media blackout on this news in order to cover its own ass and prevent people from asking questions about the faulty engineering and nuclear facility site selection that led to this catastrophe.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1uBeiGFUd
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This couple holds a special place in my heart – I've known Gerry since I was born, and Tanya – well it feels like I have known her just as long!
I was SO HONORED to capture their wedding day ( not just party along with everyone!) It was probably the hottest day of the year ( 102 people! ) but the love, laughter and joy captured – didn't look hot at all!
I am so happy for you two love birds!!


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Pope Francis and the Catholic God
Pope Francis's interview with atheist journalist Eugenio Scalfari may not have grabbed secular headlines in the US the way that this interview with Jesuit publications did, but it has caused some stir in Catholics circles. I can certainly understand a certain amount of this. We've had two very intellectual popes who have lead the church for the last thirty years, taking it from a time in which even orthodox Catholics felt unsure and adrift into a new dynamism and evangelism. In addition to being towering intellects, John Paul II and Benedict XVI (Benedict even more so) were popes hailing from central/northern Europe. Encountering a Latin pope for the first time in my life (Francis is, after all, not just from Argentina but also the son of Italian immigrants, so he's at the confluence of two southern European cultures) and one who is not a theologian, I'm realizing how much the emotive and more casual aspects of southern Europe and South America (primarily colonized by southern Europe) are not mine. Culturally and intellectually, John Paul II and Benedict XVI are simply much more my style.
That said, I don't necessarily follow how it is that certain statements become points of controversy. One of these is from this "second interview" and it comes after Francis asks Scalfari what he believes in. Scalfari responds, "I believe in Being, that is in the tissue from which forms, bodies arise." And Francis says:
And I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Do you think we are very far apart?
(Scalfari says they are, and in the next interchange Francis pushes him to explain, if he believe in "Being" but doesn't believe in God, what does he mean.)
Now, apparently this has caused some unease in Catholic circles because of the phrase "not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God". Does this suggest some kind of indifferentism in which the Catholic understanding of God is no better than any other? A generic God without qualities that everyone has some insight into?
Actually, I think people are wrong to see this particular statement as problematic. There is, obviously, only one God. Or as Francis said, "[T]here is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation." We, as Catholics, recognize that the Church provides us with the most complete and accurate understanding of God's teachings available to us as human beings here on earth, and also with the body and blood of Christ through the Eucharist. But God Himself is not sectarian. He is not "the Catholic God" or "the Christian God" as if there were other gods or other ways of understanding God. He is simply God, and the Church is the way to understanding of and union with him.
We use the phrase "the Christian God" at times, as a shorthand to refer to the Christian understanding of God, and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure that I've used the phrase plenty of times. But I think there's also a value, as Francis does here, in underlining that God is not some cordoned off thing relevant only to Christians or Catholics. There is the objective existence of God, and all our doctrines are simply an attempt to describe that existence. But God is primary and the Church is a response to Him, not vice versa.
This is not, clearly, something that orthodox Christians need to be reminded of. (Though perhaps flaky Christians of the sort likely to think of all religions as being true could use the reminder.) But it is, arguably, a point worth making with a non-Christian who is claiming that he believes in "Being". Our doctrines don't consist of believing in some restricted Being relevant only to us Christians. Rather, the teachings of the Church describe that Being, God, and His encounter with us through the Incarnation. The Church's teachings represent the completion, the end point, of any sense that God is out there somewhere. As Paul said, the unknown god is no longer unknown. We know him.
Posted by Darwin at 11:47 AM
Part of the problem here is that, on the right, a lot of orthodox Catholics who are very unused to the sort of approach Francis is taking are find themselves lumped in with "radTrads" who freak out at the slightest sign of non-uber-(their version of)-orthodoxy.
Meanwhile on the left, socially liberal Catholics and some anti-Catholics (see NARAL's leadership) are presenting the Pope as 'Hey look, the Pope is approving of abortion and contraception and gay marriage!' That's a wild abuse and pretty much lie about his message, but the same worried Catholics see this and really start to worry. So they're getting hammered from both sides.
I agree that their worries are largely over misinterpretations, but at this stage I'm very worried about downplaying their concerns (not that you have.) I agree with your explanation of the 'no Catholic God' bit - it's the same as mine. But I sincerely hope the Pope clarifies his stances and views a bit more soon. I am entirely behind what I see as his goal to reach out to some liberal and non-Catholics and find some common ground in terms of message, while sacrificing no orthodoxy. But I find myself taking the worries of a lot of orthodox Catholics - not some extreme sedevacantists, but orthodox and believing Catholics, who feel snubbed - seriously.
Jeff Culbreath said...
Strictly speaking, it is possible to interpret the words in an orthodox manner.
Likewise the words "there is no Catholic truth".
And yet, how do these words sound to you? Depending on who says them, their meaning is either heretical or, at best, clever in the sense of an artful dodge.
Jeff Culbreath,
Honestly, the "orthodox manner" seemed the completely obvious one to me when I first read the interview (which I read cold as someone I knew had linked to it on Facebook without comment and I'd been to busy to ready blogs much lately, so I read it without hearing about any of the fuss.)
If anything, it seems to me like the unorthodox reading of it requires on squint slightly and hold one's head at an angle, as it seems in obvious contradiction to the sense of the question and reply.
There's stuff Francis has said I think is poorly phrased and likely to lead to confusion, but this really doesn't strike me as one.
Darwin, I think you and me both, and most everyone who has been critical of these words, have developed an instinctive habit of interpreting everything the pope says in an orthodox manner. Which is a good thing, of course.
I don't accuse Pope Francis of meaning something heretical. I accuse him of dodging the real issue - the one the interviewer was obviously getting at - as though God did not establish just one Church, the Catholic Church, for the salvation of souls.
The message that most people take away from a statement like this is that "the Catholic Church doesn't have a monopoly on religious truth". He said nothing in the interview to counter this interpretation whatsoever.
I think there's a sense in which Francis was dodging that issue - but I think it's similar (not exact, but similar) to how, say, someone who is arguing for the Kalam cosmological argument may dodge questions of 'But how does this show that CHRIST is God?' It's an important question, but it's not necessarily one that a person wants to focus on at the moment.
I'm pretty sure both PJPII and B16 both disagreed with the idea that the Catholic Church had a monopoly on truth. I recall PJPII - I think - saying expressly that some amount of truth can be found in other religions or teachings. The Church offers something different and authoritative, but that's speaking about the hwole.
1. Why on earth would Pope Francis want to focus on the idea that there isn't a Catholic God? What is that supposed to achieve? And what does it even mean?
2. I didn't say "truth", but "religious truth". The Catholic Church, at minimum, does indeed have a monopoly on religious truth - at the least the only religious truth that saves.
Again, the only point of saying "there is no Catholic God" - no matter who says it - is to disassociate God with the Catholic Church and with Catholic religious truth.
Here's what I think Pope Francis may have been trying to do, with the best of intentions. He assumed that Scalfari's atheism was an emotional reaction against the Church, as it is for many. Perhaps he was trying to nudge Scalfari back towards a generic theism without all the "Catholic" baggage, thinking it to be a stepping stone.
The alternative is unthinkable, that the Vicar of Christ truly has no interest in Scalfari's or anyone else's conversion. But then, he basically said as much, so who knows?
We're just going to have to get used to the fact that Pope Francis is not a theologian, or even a careful thinker. Neither does he seem to be worried about doctrine in the least. It's as though my diocesan bishop was just elected pope, but with more piety and fewer administrative skills.
Well, keep in mind, at this point it's not the interviewer asking Francis questions but rather Francis asking the interviewer questions and pushing him to concede that he actually does believe in God in some sense.
Francis: But now let me ask you a question: you, a secular non-believer in God, what do you believe in? You are a writer and a man of thought. You believe in something, you must have a dominant value. Don't answer me with words like honesty, seeking, the vision of the common good, all important principles and values but that is not what I am asking. I am asking what you think is the essence of the world, indeed the universe. You must ask yourself, of course, like everyone else, who we are, where we come from, where we are going. Even children ask themselves these questions. And you?
Scalfari: I am grateful for this question. The answer is this: I believe in Being, that is in the tissue from which forms, bodies arise.
Francis:And I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Do you think we are very far apart?
Scalfari: We are distant in our thinking, but similar as human beings, unconsciously animated by our instincts that turn into impulses, feelings and will, thought and reason. In this we are alike.
Francis: But can you define what you call Being?
Scalfari: Being is a fabric of energy. Chaotic but indestructible energy and eternal chaos. Forms emerge from that energy when it reaches the point of exploding. The forms have their own laws, their magnetic fields, their chemical elements, which combine randomly, evolve, and are eventually extinguished but their energy is not destroyed. Man is probably the only animal endowed with thought, at least in our planet and solar system. I said that he is driven by instincts and desires but I would add that he also contains within himself a resonance, an echo, a vocation of chaos.
Francis: All right. I did not want you to give me a summary of your philosophy and what you have told me is enough for me. From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
Now, what Francis is doing here seemed very familiar to me, in that it's a lot like what I've done when I've found myself in arguments with atheists: Start out by taking what supernatural things the atheist does believe in, and push on those beliefs in order to show that although the atheist claims he's a materialist he actually does believe in "good" or "justice" or what have you. Then I try to point out that this thing, this something more than mere matter, is a glimpse of what we call God.
In that context, of the conversation that Francis is having, it seems clear to me that what he's saying is, "Look, the God we Catholics talk about is not some relativistic thing that only has relevance to us. He is not a sectarian God which you can ignore because you are not Catholic. God is the one great fact, a fact that even without quite knowing it you have identified. And it is the Church which has the full understanding of that fact, that God came to us in the Incarnation, that He loves us, that he desires us to be perfect that we may be happy with Him forever in heaven."
I think Crude's right to point out that in this sense the Church does not have a monopoly on truth or religious truth. We have the fullness of truth, but that doesn't mean no one else has any. That have fragments of the truth, but they can only find the fullness of which those fragments are a part in the Catholic Church.
So in answer to your question:
Why on earth would Pope Francis want to focus on the idea that there isn't a Catholic God? What is that supposed to achieve? And what does it even mean? ... Again, the only point of saying "there is no Catholic God" - no matter who says it - is to disassociate God with the Catholic Church and with Catholic religious truth. ... Here's what I think Pope Francis may have been trying to do, with the best of intentions. He assumed that Scalfari's atheism was an emotional reaction against the Church, as it is for many. Perhaps he was trying to nudge Scalfari back towards a generic theism without all the "Catholic" baggage, thinking it to be a stepping stone.
No, I don't think that's it at all. I don't think that Francis is trying to disassociate God from Catholicism, but rather to make the point that God is not a creation of religion, but rather that religion is a response to God. God is the objectively existing Being.
Yes, there's a sense in which he's aiming to get Scalfari to acknowledge the existence of God before working on the question of whether the Church is the one fullest means of approaching God, but he's doing that in the sense of insisting that God precedes religion, He doesn't precede from religion.
I imagine something similar to when (to my recollection) Benedict and Pope John Paul II said things along those lines (the muslims and jews and the catholics all worship the same God), or even Aquinas with "and this all men call God."
And what does it achieve? For one thing, it cuts down on the misunderstanding that the Catholics worship one God and the Anglicans worship another and the Jews yet another, etc. It promotes a legitimate common ground. Now, you can argue that it also runs risk of encouraging even more misunderstanding - but at that point I think you're getting into talks of tradeoffs.
I think that's paring away the claim an awful lot. So yes, other religions and beliefs can contain truth. They can even contain religious truth. There are unique truth and even means of devising the truth that only the Church has - absolutely. But that still leaves others with having truth.
Truth that saves? That's a whole other story. On the other hand, it's a story Francis didn't get into with that question.
The Pope didn't endorse walking into a discussion with the explicit and singular goal of 'convert someone to the faith'. And I admit, while that is nice - while that's a desire - I also don't think it should be the sole and most prominent goal. Again, not only is this not new, but it's the MO of quite a lot of the most prominent orthodox philosophers, apologists, and more. Once again, Aquinas is great here: the Five Ways don't get a person to Catholicism. They don't even get a person to Christianity in and of themselves. But they may well get a person to God. That's not conversion, but that is a fantastic step all the same.
Admission, for what it's worth, when having an argument with someone I know who I don't agree wi religiously, I've several times had the exchange:
Other: "Look, I'm not going to convert."
Darwin: "I'm not trying to convert you. If I can just get to the point where you understand what I'm talking about and I understand what you're talking about, I will have done as much as I can do."
Now, have I wanted those people to convert? Sure. But I know that it's not in my own power to convert them. It takes God's grace to achieve that. And I've been plenty willing to try to use the disarming phrase that I'm not "trying to convert them" (which to most people means talking at them rather than with them) but rather just trying to get them to understand what I believe.
I've never had someone say 'Look, I'm not going to convert', but I'm usually in a similar situation. I do want people to convert. Or I want them to change their mind about something (abortion, etc.) But I think the whole process proceeds better when it's pretty much what the Pope said - a conversation, where you're finding out what they think, why think they what they do, and so on. There, I've seen progress.
I also, for the record, encounter people for whom even that is not an option. There's no common ground, there's just hostility - so, on I move. People like that do exist, and I think they're who many orthodox have in mind when they worry about this attitude of outreach, where they imagine someone bending over backwards to appease (I keep using this example, because it's so apt) NARAL. That's nonsense and a bad idea. On the other hand, I don't think the Pope is doing that at all.
Yeah, there are other people who start from the point of, "I'm right, and I don't care what you think, I just want to know if you accept me or not."
And really, those people, you just can't talk to.
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