At McDonalds All American game - Lance Stephenson shoots in the 3-Point contest which is the beginning round and is not been telecasted on ESPN2 tonight. Lance talks to fellow McDonalds All Americans on the court at BankUnited in Miami.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Kensington Runestone in Minnesota
Kensington Runestone is found in Minnesota in 1800’s, and it has been criticized as false b7y most of the scholars. A new revise has given a suggestion that the stone may be genuine.
Olof Ohman one of the Minnesota farmer from Sweden had found a 202-pound carved stone on his ranch in 1898. This stone was covered with runes, which said the story of a Norse journey which turned brutal and saw the end on that location in 1362. The stone was denounced as a scam, but the controversy has simmered for more than a century.
A book by Richard Nielsen and Scott F. Wolter, titled The Kensington Runestone - Compelling New Evidence claims to have proven the authenticity of Ohman’s find. Wolter, who does petrographic analysis for a living, conducted a study of the Kensington stone and concluded that its degree of weathering was not consistent with the theory that it had been carved in the 1800’s.
Other objections were reportedly overcome when a heretofore unknown rune variant found on the stone was discovered in inscriptions from the Swedish island of Gotland. And to top things off, the year 1362 was found to be encoded in the runic inscription, using a medieval Easter calendar.
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Olof Ohman one of the Minnesota farmer from Sweden had found a 202-pound carved stone on his ranch in 1898. This stone was covered with runes, which said the story of a Norse journey which turned brutal and saw the end on that location in 1362. The stone was denounced as a scam, but the controversy has simmered for more than a century.
A book by Richard Nielsen and Scott F. Wolter, titled The Kensington Runestone - Compelling New Evidence claims to have proven the authenticity of Ohman’s find. Wolter, who does petrographic analysis for a living, conducted a study of the Kensington stone and concluded that its degree of weathering was not consistent with the theory that it had been carved in the 1800’s.
Other objections were reportedly overcome when a heretofore unknown rune variant found on the stone was discovered in inscriptions from the Swedish island of Gotland. And to top things off, the year 1362 was found to be encoded in the runic inscription, using a medieval Easter calendar.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
“Anything Goes”
At KITP, Wati Taylor gave titled “Freedom and Constraints” yesterday in the Landscape of Intersecting/Magnetized Branes. In which he explained the difficulty of lack of predicting the cause by the landscape.
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
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We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
“Anything Goes”
At KITP, Wati Taylor gave titled “Freedom and Constraints” yesterday in the Landscape of Intersecting/Magnetized Branes. In which he explained the difficulty of lack of predicting the cause by the landscape.
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
We all know that “Anything Goes”, and string theory is of no use for predicting anything. He was looking at some particular classes of vacua which were chosen for the computational tractability, and hoping to find some constraints among the quantities one can compute. There’s no known reason to expect this, but one can compute anyway and hope. The end result was the expected one: you can get whatever you want. Here are some quotes from the talk:
So, We’re really in a very challenging situation where we don’t really know how to define the theory, we don’t know what the set of solutions are, and even if we did we would have a very hard time making a sensible statement about what that means for predictions…
Every piece of data we have so far I would say is consistent with the notion that everything is pretty much uniformly and randomly distributed in the landscape.
There was extensive discussion of the predicitivity problems and overwhelming evidence string theory can’t ever predict anything below the Planck scale (this wasn’t discussed, but I don’t see how it predicts much above the Planck scale either). For some reason there was no drawing of the obvious conclusion that one should just give up on the idea and try something else.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Malaysian Fashion Designer - Zang Toi
The Malaysian fashion designer Zang Toi based in America has now signed as The Encore sponsor of The School of American Ballet’s Winter Ball which will take place in New York, scheduled on March 9th, 2009. Along with the expectation of this event, he also has provided an exclusive preview of the beautiful gown which he has designed for Event Chair and philanthropist Pamela Joyner.
The Winter Ball is The School of American Ballet has the uppermost profile in the annual benefit, and they will serve as the School’s celebration of their 75th Anniversary this year. The exciting black-tie dinner dance at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater dance will be filled by 400 of New York City’s socialites and philanthropists, which will include the event chairmen Chelsea Clinton, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Pamela Joyner, Coco Kopelman and New York City Ballet dancers Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar.
Along with them will be Susan Dunlevy, Dr. Deepa Pakianathan, Janice & Jonathan Zakin, Fran Streets, Sandy Barrett, Alison Carlson, and Dayle Haddon, and many others as the attendees from San Francisco.
Van Cleef & Arpels has created a special Award of Excellence named after Claude Arpels to honor the 75th Anniversary of the school, and whose friendship with SAB co-founder George Balanchine was the inspiration for the ballet “Jewels” in 1967. The first award, which will become annual, will be presented to George Balanchine posthumously and will be accepted by SAB Artistic Director Peter Martins.
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The Winter Ball is The School of American Ballet has the uppermost profile in the annual benefit, and they will serve as the School’s celebration of their 75th Anniversary this year. The exciting black-tie dinner dance at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater dance will be filled by 400 of New York City’s socialites and philanthropists, which will include the event chairmen Chelsea Clinton, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Pamela Joyner, Coco Kopelman and New York City Ballet dancers Sara Mearns and Amar Ramasar.
Along with them will be Susan Dunlevy, Dr. Deepa Pakianathan, Janice & Jonathan Zakin, Fran Streets, Sandy Barrett, Alison Carlson, and Dayle Haddon, and many others as the attendees from San Francisco.
Van Cleef & Arpels has created a special Award of Excellence named after Claude Arpels to honor the 75th Anniversary of the school, and whose friendship with SAB co-founder George Balanchine was the inspiration for the ballet “Jewels” in 1967. The first award, which will become annual, will be presented to George Balanchine posthumously and will be accepted by SAB Artistic Director Peter Martins.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Shauna Raisch - Twiggs Salonspa
Shauna Raisch who owns Twiggs Salonspa, in a Minneapolis suburb which is featuring $165 razor cuts. Shauna is a perfectionist. She does not allow fat people to work in her salon. Shauna Raisch the best hair dresser will be on the “Split Ends” the reality show from the Style Network about hair salons.
Her Twiggs Salonspa has won awards, and also she has gained the result of a lifetime commitment to excellence. She is a professional who has dedicated herself to the commercial fashion and design by serving clients achieve amazing results, her specialty is designing customized, professional looks by combining face shape, body shape, color, texture and personal preference. Shauna will be in all the fashion capitals of the world working on her high profile fashion shoots and runway shows to bring back trends and inspiration to the Minneapolis market.
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Her Twiggs Salonspa has won awards, and also she has gained the result of a lifetime commitment to excellence. She is a professional who has dedicated herself to the commercial fashion and design by serving clients achieve amazing results, her specialty is designing customized, professional looks by combining face shape, body shape, color, texture and personal preference. Shauna will be in all the fashion capitals of the world working on her high profile fashion shoots and runway shows to bring back trends and inspiration to the Minneapolis market.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Kim Kardashian's ShoeDazzle.com
Kim Kardashian the expert of designing has launched her new website called ShoeDazzle.com where the creations of the shoes will be done by the stylists and specialists.
The shoe line called Shoe Dazzle was launched in November 2008 which consisted aof all the fashionable shoes created by the stylists and these shoes and many more recent creation of the Shoe dazzle can be found at the ShoeDazzle.com website NOW.
There was a launch party which was organized in Los Angles and it was Dazzling as the Kim Kardashian’s smile on Friday night. Along with the launch of this website the ambitions of Kim has been confirmed and its for sure she will reach great heights.
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The shoe line called Shoe Dazzle was launched in November 2008 which consisted aof all the fashionable shoes created by the stylists and these shoes and many more recent creation of the Shoe dazzle can be found at the ShoeDazzle.com website NOW.
There was a launch party which was organized in Los Angles and it was Dazzling as the Kim Kardashian’s smile on Friday night. Along with the launch of this website the ambitions of Kim has been confirmed and its for sure she will reach great heights.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Scholar Karen Armstrong
There was a discussion which took place with the scholar Karen Armstrong which had the topic of human commonalities and many of her work on the international charter for compassion. She is the well-known author of "The Battle for God and the Bible: A Biography," and also the receiver of the coveted TED Prize in 2008.
Armstrong is one of the world's leading analysts on religious affairs, which had given her the recognition with her critically-acclaimed book "Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Many of her books are best sellers one amongst them is "The History of God", "The Battle for God", "Jerusalem".
She was in an interview with Bill Moyer’s and below is the introduction and the interview report just for you:
Introduction by Moyers: She's written a biography of Buddha, and a short history of Islam. Soon we'll have her new memoir of her life after the convent where she spent seven years as a nun. Joining me now is one of the world's foremost students of religion, Karen Armstrong. Thank you.
KAREN ARMSTRONG: Thank you Bill.
BILL MOYERS: If you were God, would you do away with religion?
ARMSTRONG: Well, there are some forms of religion that must make God weep. There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Religion that has concentrated on egotism, that's concentrated on belligerence rather than compassion.
MOYERS: And so much of religion has been the experience of atrocity.
ARMSTRONG: But then you have to remember that this is what human beings do. Secularism has shown that it can be just as murderous, just as lethal, uh, as religion. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
MOYERS: You get September 11th ... you get the Crusades, you get ... do you remember the young Orthodox Jew who assassinated Itzhak Rabin? I can see him right now, looking into the camera, and he says, everything I did, I did for ...
ARMSTRONG: For God.
MOYERS: ... for the glory of God.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. Yes. Well, this is ... this is bad religion. Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.
MOYERS: Fear?
ARMSTRONG: There's great fear. We fear that if we're not in control, other people will cut us down to size, and so we hit out first.
From the beginning, violence was associated with religion, but the advanced religions, and I'm talking about Buddhism, Hinduism, monotheism, the Hebrew prophets, they insisted that you must transcend this violence, you must not give in to this violence, but you must learn to recognize that every single other human being is sacred.
MOYERS: That's what we're taught when ... growing up, you know, Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. But as soon as they grow up, they go for each other's throats.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. And a lot of this talk about love and compassion can be on the rather sloppy level. Or rather easy, facile level, where compassion is hard. It's nothing to do with feeling. It's about feeling with others. Learning to put yourself in the position of another person. There were years in my life when I was eaten up with misery and anger, I was sick of religion but when I got to understand what religion was really about, uh, not about dogmas, not about propping up the church, not about converting other people to your particular wavelength, but about getting rid of ego and approaching others in reverence, I became much happier.
But you have to go a long journey, a journey that takes you away from selfishness, from greed. And that leads you to value the sacredness in all others. I'm thinking of Abraham in Genesis — there's a wonderful story, where Abraham is sitting outside his tent and it's the hottest part of a Middle Eastern afternoon, and he sees three strangers on the horizon.
And now most of us would never dream of bringing a total stranger from the streets into our own homes, strangers are potentially lethal people. But that's exactly what Abraham does. He runs out, he bows down before them, as though they were kings, and brings them into his encampment, and makes his wife prepare an elaborate meal. And in the course of the ensuing conversation, it transpires quite naturally that one of those strangers is Abraham's God, that the act of practical compassion led to a divine encounter.
In Hebrew, the word for holy, kadosh, means separate, other. And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
MOYERS: What happened in your case? You said that you came to this insight that you weren't a good person.
ARMSTRONG: After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
I had no job at all, and I was asked to do a television series on Saint Paul, and I was working with an Israeli film company ...I went to Jerusalem. And there, very importantly, I encountered Judaism and Islam. And up until that point, my religious life had been very parochial, been very Catholic, and I'd never thought of Judaism as anything but the kind of prelude to Christianity, and I'd never thought about Islam at all. But in Jerusalem, where you see these three religions jostling together, often very uneasily, even violently, you become aware of the profound connections between them and it was the study of these other faiths that led me back to an appreciation of what religion was trying to do.
MOYERS: What appealed to you about Islam? Because in the context of 9/11 ... there's so much talk about Islam as a violent religion. We saw those suicide bombers, heard those suicide bombers invoking the name of Allah, saying they were doing this in the name of ... of God, and the name of their own faith. So you're saying, there are good things about this religion, that helped you rediscover your own spiritual journey.
ARMSTRONG: Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. That Mohammed didn't believe he had come to found a new religion to which everybody had to convert, but he was just the prophet sent to the Arabs, who hadn't had a prophet before, and left out of the divine plan. There's a story where Mohammed makes a sacred flight from Mecca to Jerusalem, to the Temple Mount. And there he is greeted by all the great prophets of the past. And he ascends to the divine throne, speaking to the prophets like Jesus and Aaron, Moses, he takes advice from Moses, and finally encounters Abraham at the threshold of the divine sphere. This story of the flight of Mohammed and the ascent to the divine throne is the paradigm, the archetype of Muslim spirituality. It reflects the ascent that every Muslim must make to God and the Sufis, when I started talking ...
MOYERS: The mystical sect.
ARMSTRONG: The mystical branch of Islam, the Sufi movement, insisted that when you had encountered God, you were neither a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim. You were at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple or a church, because all rightly guided religion comes from God, and a man of God, once he's glimpsed the divine, has left these man-made distinctions behind.
MOYERS: How do you explain the hatred in the world of Islam toward the west, toward America in particular?
ARMSTRONG: Well, uh, all fundamentalist movements, that's whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle.
Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy is ... is holding them back.
MOYERS: Why do they think American foreign policy is the root of their ills?
ARMSTRONG: This was very much an Arab feeling. They feel that they are fighting a holy war ... that America fights Muslims, has killed Muslims, in Iraq, that America is still continuing to bomb Iraq ...
MOYERS: And yet in Bosnia, we went to the defense of Muslims there.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly, exactly. There's a running sore of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been festering for so long, and has become symbolic of everything that Muslims feel that is wrong with the modern world. Just as here, in the United States, fundamentalists have symbolic issues, abortion, uh, and evolution, which they can't see rationally, but they've become symbolic of ... of the evils of modernity. The state of Israel, which meant that Palestinians lost their home, has become for Muslims a symbol of their impotence in the modern world.
It wasn't always like this. At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans, they didn't know about America yet, that the Europeans, uh, were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means, uh, some people have allowed this ... these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
MOYERS: On a cross, crucified.
ARMSTRONG: The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
MOYERS: You said once that you felt the fundamentalists were trying to restore God to the world.
ARMSTRONG: Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
MOYERS: They drag God back into the political world by denying democratic aspirations.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: I mean, do you think democracy and fundamentalism are, uh, can co-exist?
ARMSTRONG:Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Wants to wipe them out. Jewish fundamentalism, for example, came into being ... came really to the fore in a new way after the Nazi Holocaust ...
And some fundamentalists in the Muslim world have experienced secularism, not as we have, as a liberating process, but so rapid and accelerated that it's often been an assault.The Shahs of Iran used to have their soldiers go out with their bayonets out, taking the womens' veils off, and ripping them to pieces in front of them, because they wanted their society to look modern, never mind the fact that the vast majority of the people had not had a western education, and didn't know what was going on. On one occasion in 1935, Shah Reza Pahlevi, gave his soldiers orders to shoot at hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in one of the holiest shrines of Iran, who were peacefully protesting against western dress, uh, obligatory western dress, and hundreds of Iranians died that day. Now, in a climate like this, secularism is not experienced as something benign, it's experienced as a deadly assault.
MOYERS: When fundamentalism experienced its rebirth in this country, a quarter of a century ago, political rebirth, it was because the federal government, the Internal Revenue Service, had, uh, denied their parochial religious schools tax-exempt status ...
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: ... if they segregated.
ARMSTRONG: That's right.
MOYERS: And the fundamentalists became alarmed at that, and fearing that they were going to be annihilated.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly so. And similarly, in the famous Scopes Trial, which I think tells us a lot about the fundamentalist process in 1925, you'll remember, fundamentalists tried to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools, and there was a celebrated trial, in which the fundamentalists were really ridiculed in the secular press. After the Scopes Trial, after the ridicule, they swung to the extreme right, and there they've remained.
MOYERS: The inequality gap in this country is larger, I believe, than in any other industrial society.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: What does that say about the most religious country in the world? And that's your definition. America's the most religious country in the world, and yet it's the most unequal economically.
ARMSTRONG: It's ... and this should trouble us all. It should trouble us all. Religious people should join hands, and fight for ... for greater equality. Try and see if you can introduce Christian, Jewish or true Muslims values into society. Not trying to force other people, but bringing to bear that respect for the sacred rights of others that all religions, at their best, three very important words, at their best, are trying to promote.
MOYERS: Where are you in your own journey? You're not a practicing Catholic, are you?
ARMSTRONG: No. I usually call myself these days a freelance monotheist. I draw nourishment from all three of the religions of Abraham, uh, I spend my life studying these faiths, in a sense I'm still a nun. I live alone, and I've never married, and I spend my life writing and talking and reading and studying spirituality and God. And I can not see in essence any one of these three faiths as superior to any of the others. I suppose one of my hopes in life is to try to get Jews, Christians and Muslims to realize the profound unanimity, the unanimous vision that they share, and to join hands together to stop the kind of cruelty, violence and obscenity, moral obscenity that we saw on September the 11th.
MOYERS:Thank you, Sister Karen.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Bill.
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Armstrong is one of the world's leading analysts on religious affairs, which had given her the recognition with her critically-acclaimed book "Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet. Many of her books are best sellers one amongst them is "The History of God", "The Battle for God", "Jerusalem".
She was in an interview with Bill Moyer’s and below is the introduction and the interview report just for you:
Introduction by Moyers: She's written a biography of Buddha, and a short history of Islam. Soon we'll have her new memoir of her life after the convent where she spent seven years as a nun. Joining me now is one of the world's foremost students of religion, Karen Armstrong. Thank you.
KAREN ARMSTRONG: Thank you Bill.
BILL MOYERS: If you were God, would you do away with religion?
ARMSTRONG: Well, there are some forms of religion that must make God weep. There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Religion that has concentrated on egotism, that's concentrated on belligerence rather than compassion.
MOYERS: And so much of religion has been the experience of atrocity.
ARMSTRONG: But then you have to remember that this is what human beings do. Secularism has shown that it can be just as murderous, just as lethal, uh, as religion. Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
MOYERS: You get September 11th ... you get the Crusades, you get ... do you remember the young Orthodox Jew who assassinated Itzhak Rabin? I can see him right now, looking into the camera, and he says, everything I did, I did for ...
ARMSTRONG: For God.
MOYERS: ... for the glory of God.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. Yes. Well, this is ... this is bad religion. Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people? And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.
MOYERS: Fear?
ARMSTRONG: There's great fear. We fear that if we're not in control, other people will cut us down to size, and so we hit out first.
From the beginning, violence was associated with religion, but the advanced religions, and I'm talking about Buddhism, Hinduism, monotheism, the Hebrew prophets, they insisted that you must transcend this violence, you must not give in to this violence, but you must learn to recognize that every single other human being is sacred.
MOYERS: That's what we're taught when ... growing up, you know, Jesus loves the little children. All the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world. But as soon as they grow up, they go for each other's throats.
ARMSTRONG: Yes. And a lot of this talk about love and compassion can be on the rather sloppy level. Or rather easy, facile level, where compassion is hard. It's nothing to do with feeling. It's about feeling with others. Learning to put yourself in the position of another person. There were years in my life when I was eaten up with misery and anger, I was sick of religion but when I got to understand what religion was really about, uh, not about dogmas, not about propping up the church, not about converting other people to your particular wavelength, but about getting rid of ego and approaching others in reverence, I became much happier.
But you have to go a long journey, a journey that takes you away from selfishness, from greed. And that leads you to value the sacredness in all others. I'm thinking of Abraham in Genesis — there's a wonderful story, where Abraham is sitting outside his tent and it's the hottest part of a Middle Eastern afternoon, and he sees three strangers on the horizon.
And now most of us would never dream of bringing a total stranger from the streets into our own homes, strangers are potentially lethal people. But that's exactly what Abraham does. He runs out, he bows down before them, as though they were kings, and brings them into his encampment, and makes his wife prepare an elaborate meal. And in the course of the ensuing conversation, it transpires quite naturally that one of those strangers is Abraham's God, that the act of practical compassion led to a divine encounter.
In Hebrew, the word for holy, kadosh, means separate, other. And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
MOYERS: What happened in your case? You said that you came to this insight that you weren't a good person.
ARMSTRONG: After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.
I had no job at all, and I was asked to do a television series on Saint Paul, and I was working with an Israeli film company ...I went to Jerusalem. And there, very importantly, I encountered Judaism and Islam. And up until that point, my religious life had been very parochial, been very Catholic, and I'd never thought of Judaism as anything but the kind of prelude to Christianity, and I'd never thought about Islam at all. But in Jerusalem, where you see these three religions jostling together, often very uneasily, even violently, you become aware of the profound connections between them and it was the study of these other faiths that led me back to an appreciation of what religion was trying to do.
MOYERS: What appealed to you about Islam? Because in the context of 9/11 ... there's so much talk about Islam as a violent religion. We saw those suicide bombers, heard those suicide bombers invoking the name of Allah, saying they were doing this in the name of ... of God, and the name of their own faith. So you're saying, there are good things about this religion, that helped you rediscover your own spiritual journey.
ARMSTRONG: Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. That Mohammed didn't believe he had come to found a new religion to which everybody had to convert, but he was just the prophet sent to the Arabs, who hadn't had a prophet before, and left out of the divine plan. There's a story where Mohammed makes a sacred flight from Mecca to Jerusalem, to the Temple Mount. And there he is greeted by all the great prophets of the past. And he ascends to the divine throne, speaking to the prophets like Jesus and Aaron, Moses, he takes advice from Moses, and finally encounters Abraham at the threshold of the divine sphere. This story of the flight of Mohammed and the ascent to the divine throne is the paradigm, the archetype of Muslim spirituality. It reflects the ascent that every Muslim must make to God and the Sufis, when I started talking ...
MOYERS: The mystical sect.
ARMSTRONG: The mystical branch of Islam, the Sufi movement, insisted that when you had encountered God, you were neither a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim. You were at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple or a church, because all rightly guided religion comes from God, and a man of God, once he's glimpsed the divine, has left these man-made distinctions behind.
MOYERS: How do you explain the hatred in the world of Islam toward the west, toward America in particular?
ARMSTRONG: Well, uh, all fundamentalist movements, that's whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle.
Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy is ... is holding them back.
MOYERS: Why do they think American foreign policy is the root of their ills?
ARMSTRONG: This was very much an Arab feeling. They feel that they are fighting a holy war ... that America fights Muslims, has killed Muslims, in Iraq, that America is still continuing to bomb Iraq ...
MOYERS: And yet in Bosnia, we went to the defense of Muslims there.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly, exactly. There's a running sore of the Arab-Israeli conflict, which has been festering for so long, and has become symbolic of everything that Muslims feel that is wrong with the modern world. Just as here, in the United States, fundamentalists have symbolic issues, abortion, uh, and evolution, which they can't see rationally, but they've become symbolic of ... of the evils of modernity. The state of Israel, which meant that Palestinians lost their home, has become for Muslims a symbol of their impotence in the modern world.
It wasn't always like this. At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Some of them even said that the Europeans, they didn't know about America yet, that the Europeans, uh, were better Muslims than they themselves, because their modern society had enabled them to create a fairer and more just distribution of wealth, than was possible in their pre-modern climates, and that accorded more perfectly with the vision of the Quran.
Then there was the experience of colonialism under Britain and France, experiences like Suez, the Iranian revolution, Israel, and some people, not all by any means, uh, some people have allowed this ... these series of disasters to corrode into hatred. Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
MOYERS: On a cross, crucified.
ARMSTRONG: The cross, crucified, and that turned into victory. Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it's been able to make no headway, and this is as disturbing for Muslims as the discoveries of Darwin have been to some Christians. The Quran says that if you live according to the Quranic ideal, implementing justice in your society, then your society will prosper, because this is the way human beings are supposed to live. But whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.
MOYERS: You said once that you felt the fundamentalists were trying to restore God to the world.
ARMSTRONG: Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
MOYERS: They drag God back into the political world by denying democratic aspirations.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: I mean, do you think democracy and fundamentalism are, uh, can co-exist?
ARMSTRONG:Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. Wants to wipe them out. Jewish fundamentalism, for example, came into being ... came really to the fore in a new way after the Nazi Holocaust ...
And some fundamentalists in the Muslim world have experienced secularism, not as we have, as a liberating process, but so rapid and accelerated that it's often been an assault.The Shahs of Iran used to have their soldiers go out with their bayonets out, taking the womens' veils off, and ripping them to pieces in front of them, because they wanted their society to look modern, never mind the fact that the vast majority of the people had not had a western education, and didn't know what was going on. On one occasion in 1935, Shah Reza Pahlevi, gave his soldiers orders to shoot at hundreds of unarmed demonstrators in one of the holiest shrines of Iran, who were peacefully protesting against western dress, uh, obligatory western dress, and hundreds of Iranians died that day. Now, in a climate like this, secularism is not experienced as something benign, it's experienced as a deadly assault.
MOYERS: When fundamentalism experienced its rebirth in this country, a quarter of a century ago, political rebirth, it was because the federal government, the Internal Revenue Service, had, uh, denied their parochial religious schools tax-exempt status ...
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: ... if they segregated.
ARMSTRONG: That's right.
MOYERS: And the fundamentalists became alarmed at that, and fearing that they were going to be annihilated.
ARMSTRONG: Exactly so. And similarly, in the famous Scopes Trial, which I think tells us a lot about the fundamentalist process in 1925, you'll remember, fundamentalists tried to ban the teaching of evolution in the public schools, and there was a celebrated trial, in which the fundamentalists were really ridiculed in the secular press. After the Scopes Trial, after the ridicule, they swung to the extreme right, and there they've remained.
MOYERS: The inequality gap in this country is larger, I believe, than in any other industrial society.
ARMSTRONG: Yes.
MOYERS: What does that say about the most religious country in the world? And that's your definition. America's the most religious country in the world, and yet it's the most unequal economically.
ARMSTRONG: It's ... and this should trouble us all. It should trouble us all. Religious people should join hands, and fight for ... for greater equality. Try and see if you can introduce Christian, Jewish or true Muslims values into society. Not trying to force other people, but bringing to bear that respect for the sacred rights of others that all religions, at their best, three very important words, at their best, are trying to promote.
MOYERS: Where are you in your own journey? You're not a practicing Catholic, are you?
ARMSTRONG: No. I usually call myself these days a freelance monotheist. I draw nourishment from all three of the religions of Abraham, uh, I spend my life studying these faiths, in a sense I'm still a nun. I live alone, and I've never married, and I spend my life writing and talking and reading and studying spirituality and God. And I can not see in essence any one of these three faiths as superior to any of the others. I suppose one of my hopes in life is to try to get Jews, Christians and Muslims to realize the profound unanimity, the unanimous vision that they share, and to join hands together to stop the kind of cruelty, violence and obscenity, moral obscenity that we saw on September the 11th.
MOYERS:Thank you, Sister Karen.
ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Bill.
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Imperious Valentina
The Imperious Valentina was the first designer of New York and had supremacy in 1930 and 1940’s; she was both dressed and topped in the A-list.
Valentina was a legend in her own time and had clients such as Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, she was the designer who had incredible beauty and brains. In ‘‘Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity’’, Kohle Yohannan has rejuvenated the legend of a woman. Valentina had flawless taste and an extra ordinary instinct for self-promotion. Yohannan describes Valentina as, ‘‘the first designer not just to make fashion a red-carpet affair, but to be a red-carpet affair in her own right.’’
Valentine was known as the queen of New York’s celebrity culture. She started her career in the theaters in 1922, but couldn’t make it shine for her as her accent was not as perfect as required. But still she was on stage for many years and improved her style for self-presentation, and later she implemented those styles as a designer when she started dress making. Soon Valentina was news everywhere she went. Later there were rumors which were spread about her having an affair with Garbo who would frequently be seen with Valentina and her husband George Schlee, these rumors left others to take advantage of her personal life and her career brand. The press coverage was so extensive that she never had to pay for any page advertising.
But her dramatic emotional responses also were conversant like her designing visuals. The critic Brooks Atkinson once said of the costumes she designed for a Broadway show that they ‘‘act before ever a line is spoken.’’ She applied even that in her dressmaking creations.
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Valentina was a legend in her own time and had clients such as Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, she was the designer who had incredible beauty and brains. In ‘‘Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity’’, Kohle Yohannan has rejuvenated the legend of a woman. Valentina had flawless taste and an extra ordinary instinct for self-promotion. Yohannan describes Valentina as, ‘‘the first designer not just to make fashion a red-carpet affair, but to be a red-carpet affair in her own right.’’
Valentine was known as the queen of New York’s celebrity culture. She started her career in the theaters in 1922, but couldn’t make it shine for her as her accent was not as perfect as required. But still she was on stage for many years and improved her style for self-presentation, and later she implemented those styles as a designer when she started dress making. Soon Valentina was news everywhere she went. Later there were rumors which were spread about her having an affair with Garbo who would frequently be seen with Valentina and her husband George Schlee, these rumors left others to take advantage of her personal life and her career brand. The press coverage was so extensive that she never had to pay for any page advertising.
But her dramatic emotional responses also were conversant like her designing visuals. The critic Brooks Atkinson once said of the costumes she designed for a Broadway show that they ‘‘act before ever a line is spoken.’’ She applied even that in her dressmaking creations.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Innovalight
One of our most striking discoveries while working on Earth is “The Sequel” was just how much fun energy innovators are having. Bernie Karl had spent around $20,000 on building an ice hotel in the Alaskan interior, and some $700 a day on diesel refrigeration, and then the whole thing melted in the midnight sun.
Some Forbes said it was "the dumbest business idea of the year." But Bernie didn’t care about the comments and he re built the whole thing again, and hired an engineer named Gwen who could figure out the usage of energy in hot springs to keep it cold.
Most of the experts said Bernie’s experiment would fail, but Bernie made it work. He went on to collaborate with United Technologies on a geothermal power plant capable of using the lowest temperature heat resource ever used anywhere in the world. This opened up many possibilities to turn the low-temperature industrial waste heat, or the waste hot water that comes up with oil from Texas wells, into electricity.
Jack Newman is one of three young founders of a remarkable bio-fuels company called Amyris , which genetically engineers yeast to ferment sugar not into ethanol, but directly into diesel, jet fuel and gasoline chemically identical to fuels made from petroleum. They've assembled an incredibly multi-disciplinary team to achieve their mission, Jack says. "They just sort of ride that wave of energy of people wanting to do something interesting that's going to make a difference, and then it just becomes a great day at work."
For some, the fun is in realizing an opportunity to grow and make money even in these difficult times. Conrad Burke, CEO of a cutting edge solar thin-film company called Innovalight , says "I'm not an environmentalist; I'm a capitalist." In January, Innovalight installed the world's first solar production line using silicon ink, which is printed onto the substrate, making for high-throughput, low-cost manufacture. Amryis is also charging ahead: last year it opened its first pilot diesel plant in California, and formed a joint venture with one of Brazil's largest ethanol distributors to quickly scale-up production. SantelisaVale, the second-largest ethanol and sugar producer in Brazil, committed two million tons of sugar cane crushing capacity for the initial production of their "no-compromise" diesel. And this month, Raser Technologies began delivering geothermal power made in Utah using the technology Bernie helped develop to Anaheim California.
You can meet all these innovators and many more on the Discovery TV special, tonight at 10 p.m. ET, or in the book, which just came out in paperback with a new afterword and illustrations.
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Some Forbes said it was "the dumbest business idea of the year." But Bernie didn’t care about the comments and he re built the whole thing again, and hired an engineer named Gwen who could figure out the usage of energy in hot springs to keep it cold.
Most of the experts said Bernie’s experiment would fail, but Bernie made it work. He went on to collaborate with United Technologies on a geothermal power plant capable of using the lowest temperature heat resource ever used anywhere in the world. This opened up many possibilities to turn the low-temperature industrial waste heat, or the waste hot water that comes up with oil from Texas wells, into electricity.
Jack Newman is one of three young founders of a remarkable bio-fuels company called Amyris , which genetically engineers yeast to ferment sugar not into ethanol, but directly into diesel, jet fuel and gasoline chemically identical to fuels made from petroleum. They've assembled an incredibly multi-disciplinary team to achieve their mission, Jack says. "They just sort of ride that wave of energy of people wanting to do something interesting that's going to make a difference, and then it just becomes a great day at work."
For some, the fun is in realizing an opportunity to grow and make money even in these difficult times. Conrad Burke, CEO of a cutting edge solar thin-film company called Innovalight , says "I'm not an environmentalist; I'm a capitalist." In January, Innovalight installed the world's first solar production line using silicon ink, which is printed onto the substrate, making for high-throughput, low-cost manufacture. Amryis is also charging ahead: last year it opened its first pilot diesel plant in California, and formed a joint venture with one of Brazil's largest ethanol distributors to quickly scale-up production. SantelisaVale, the second-largest ethanol and sugar producer in Brazil, committed two million tons of sugar cane crushing capacity for the initial production of their "no-compromise" diesel. And this month, Raser Technologies began delivering geothermal power made in Utah using the technology Bernie helped develop to Anaheim California.
You can meet all these innovators and many more on the Discovery TV special, tonight at 10 p.m. ET, or in the book, which just came out in paperback with a new afterword and illustrations.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
Space Shuttle Launch Postponed
NASA has postponed the space shuttle “Discovery" launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday. It was delayed due to the leakage of hydrogen during the fueling and also announced that they will try again on Sunday.
The Lift off of the space shuttle on Sunday is scheduled for 7:43 p.m. (2343 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The flight was the first of the five plans of this year and the purpose is to deliver the concluding set of solar power panels to the space station, along with that was the transport the first astronaut of Japan who would be a member and serve the live-aboard station crew.
The launch attempt was called off on Wednesday as there was spill of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while the shuttle was being filled.
“Our business requires perfection and our vehicle was not perfect today” said Mike Leinbach the shuttle launch director.
“The leak appeared around a vent valve that funnels hydrogen gases that have boiled off during the fill-up to a disposal system on the ground, creating a potential fire hazard.
Hydrogen gas leaking overboard is not an acceptable condition” Leinbach said.
Managers expect to meet again on Friday to discuss repair options. NASA has until Tuesday to get Discovery off the launch pad to avoid a conflict with a Russian mission to deliver a new crew to the space station. If Discovery cannot fly before the Soyuz arrival, NASA will reschedule the mission for April.
A launch next week, however, will mean the shuttle crew will have to shave a few days off its planned 14-day mission. Mike Moses, head of the shuttle mission management team, said at least one of the four spacewalks planned by the Discovery crew would be canceled and the work rescheduled for the resident station crew members to complete.
Discovery's mission had already been delayed a month due to safety concerns about fuel pressure valves, but after extensive testing and studies, managers cleared the ship for flight. Wednesday's fuel leak was unrelated to the valve issue, NASA officials said.
The main goal of Discovery's flight is to deliver a $300 million set of solar wing panels, as well as a new distiller for the station's urine recycling system.
The panels are inside a 16-tonne module that will complete the station's 11-segment exterior backbone. The seven-man crew includes Japan's Koichi Wakata, a two-time shuttle veteran who will stay behind on the space station to serve as a flight engineer after the shuttle departs. He replaces NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, who has been in orbit since November.
The station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, has been under construction 220 miles above Earth for more than a decade. The U.S. space agency has up to nine flights remaining to complete assembly, as well as a final servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope, before it retires the shuttle fleet next year.
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The Lift off of the space shuttle on Sunday is scheduled for 7:43 p.m. (2343 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The flight was the first of the five plans of this year and the purpose is to deliver the concluding set of solar power panels to the space station, along with that was the transport the first astronaut of Japan who would be a member and serve the live-aboard station crew.
The launch attempt was called off on Wednesday as there was spill of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while the shuttle was being filled.
“Our business requires perfection and our vehicle was not perfect today” said Mike Leinbach the shuttle launch director.
“The leak appeared around a vent valve that funnels hydrogen gases that have boiled off during the fill-up to a disposal system on the ground, creating a potential fire hazard.
Hydrogen gas leaking overboard is not an acceptable condition” Leinbach said.
Managers expect to meet again on Friday to discuss repair options. NASA has until Tuesday to get Discovery off the launch pad to avoid a conflict with a Russian mission to deliver a new crew to the space station. If Discovery cannot fly before the Soyuz arrival, NASA will reschedule the mission for April.
A launch next week, however, will mean the shuttle crew will have to shave a few days off its planned 14-day mission. Mike Moses, head of the shuttle mission management team, said at least one of the four spacewalks planned by the Discovery crew would be canceled and the work rescheduled for the resident station crew members to complete.
Discovery's mission had already been delayed a month due to safety concerns about fuel pressure valves, but after extensive testing and studies, managers cleared the ship for flight. Wednesday's fuel leak was unrelated to the valve issue, NASA officials said.
The main goal of Discovery's flight is to deliver a $300 million set of solar wing panels, as well as a new distiller for the station's urine recycling system.
The panels are inside a 16-tonne module that will complete the station's 11-segment exterior backbone. The seven-man crew includes Japan's Koichi Wakata, a two-time shuttle veteran who will stay behind on the space station to serve as a flight engineer after the shuttle departs. He replaces NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, who has been in orbit since November.
The station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, has been under construction 220 miles above Earth for more than a decade. The U.S. space agency has up to nine flights remaining to complete assembly, as well as a final servicing call to the Hubble Space Telescope, before it retires the shuttle fleet next year.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
"Nicole Lamarche"
Nicole Lamarche is the beauty queen, church pastor. Nicole Lamarche has made her way into the news today. A newspaper article published today discloses her beauty pageant past and her new life and duties as pastor of Cotuit Federated Church in Cotuit, Massachusetts, a Cape Cod village with approximately 2,600 year-round residents.
The church is a federation of the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. The church members were opposing Nicole Lamarche being with them, they had had googled her and found out about her past life as a beauty queen. Now 30 years old, Lamarche has been pastor of the church for two years and has been widely accepted by members who number less than 100.
Nicole Lamarche in an interview had mentioned that there was difficulty with some in the church for “pastor in a swimsuit thing.” But she had dissimilar perception; she needed the scholarship money from the pageant to continue her education and added, “If you can walk on a stage in your swimsuit, you can do anything.”
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The church is a federation of the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. The church members were opposing Nicole Lamarche being with them, they had had googled her and found out about her past life as a beauty queen. Now 30 years old, Lamarche has been pastor of the church for two years and has been widely accepted by members who number less than 100.
Nicole Lamarche in an interview had mentioned that there was difficulty with some in the church for “pastor in a swimsuit thing.” But she had dissimilar perception; she needed the scholarship money from the pageant to continue her education and added, “If you can walk on a stage in your swimsuit, you can do anything.”
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Friday, March 6, 2009
The UNC Chapel Hill
The community of The UNC Chapel Hill had got together on Thursday to honor the life of former Student Body President Eve Carson, who was murdered one year ago.
There were more than 1,000 people who had gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the remembrance of the murdered student body president Eve Carson.
Holden Thorp, the chancellor spoke during the ceremony on Thursday, after a year of Carson's vicious death. Thorp requested to remember the Athens, Ga. native for her commitment to community service and her excitement about life.
Eve Carson's body was found in one of the Chapel Hill's residential street on March 5, 2008. Demario Atwater and Laurence Lovette were the two men who are charged with her murder and kidnapping. They are in prison waiting for trial.
The 22 year old Demario Atwater and 18 year old Laurence Lovette are charged with first-degree murder and Atwater has to face the death penalty. Laurence Lovette will not be facing the execution as he was under the age of 18 when the shooting incident occurred.
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There were more than 1,000 people who had gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the remembrance of the murdered student body president Eve Carson.
Holden Thorp, the chancellor spoke during the ceremony on Thursday, after a year of Carson's vicious death. Thorp requested to remember the Athens, Ga. native for her commitment to community service and her excitement about life.
Eve Carson's body was found in one of the Chapel Hill's residential street on March 5, 2008. Demario Atwater and Laurence Lovette were the two men who are charged with her murder and kidnapping. They are in prison waiting for trial.
The 22 year old Demario Atwater and 18 year old Laurence Lovette are charged with first-degree murder and Atwater has to face the death penalty. Laurence Lovette will not be facing the execution as he was under the age of 18 when the shooting incident occurred.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Horton Foote
Mr Foote was a generous, genteel American dramatist who had a profound and long-lived human insights were expressed with uncommon sympathy for the fears of decent, small-town Americans, died Wednesday at age 92. According to several reports, Foote was in his temporary apartment in Hartford, Conn., working on a future production of one of his plays.
Horton Foote has passed away. He was the man who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in many plays and films in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 92years old said his daughter Hallie Foote.
"In a body of work" was the play for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Mr. Foote was well known as the writer’s writer, and an author who would never neglect his vision or altered his simple, homespun style even when Broadway and Hollywood temporarily turned their backs on him.
In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship, disappointment, loss and death. His work earned him a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards.
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Horton Foote has passed away. He was the man who chronicled America’s wistful odyssey through the 20th century in many plays and films in a small town in Texas and left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday. He was 92years old said his daughter Hallie Foote.
"In a body of work" was the play for which he won the Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Mr. Foote was well known as the writer’s writer, and an author who would never neglect his vision or altered his simple, homespun style even when Broadway and Hollywood temporarily turned their backs on him.
In screenplays for such movies as “Tender Mercies,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Trip to Bountiful,” and in plays like “The Young Man From Atlanta” and his nine-play cycle “Orphans’ Home,” Mr. Foote depicted the way ordinary people shoulder the ordinary burdens of life, finding drama in the resilience by which they carry on in the face of change, economic hardship, disappointment, loss and death. His work earned him a Pulitzer Prize and two Academy Awards.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Medicean Stars Discovered By Galileo
The four moons of the planet Jupiter is called as the "Medicean Stars", it was actually named by Galileo when he discovered with his small telescope at those time.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, our planet earth has only one moon, but the planet Jupiter a confirmed 63 moons! Moons are the space bodies which are smaller than the planet and those which revolve around the planet due to the gravitational force of the planet.
History of the Medicean Stars: It was on 7 January 1610 when the legend Galileo noticed with his telescope what he explained then as “three fixed stars” which was some distance away from Jupiter. The next night he saw that the “fixed stars” had change places! On the 10th of January Galileo noted that one of them had disappeared, an examination which he recognized to its being hidden behind Jupiter. After which he came to a conclusion that they were not actual stars but instead are moons which were orbiting Jupiter!
It was noted in the History when Galileo discovered three of Jupiter’s four largest moons: and named them as Io, Europa, and Callisto. After some days he also discovered Ganymede.
Galileo named these four satellites he had discovered Medicean stars, in honour of the grands duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici and Cosimo’s three brothers! Yea at that time it was like you had to gave the dumbs with powers importance so that your work is recognised!!
However later on now..scientist have renamed the Medicean Stars as Galilean satellites in honour of Galileo himself.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, our planet earth has only one moon, but the planet Jupiter a confirmed 63 moons! Moons are the space bodies which are smaller than the planet and those which revolve around the planet due to the gravitational force of the planet.
History of the Medicean Stars: It was on 7 January 1610 when the legend Galileo noticed with his telescope what he explained then as “three fixed stars” which was some distance away from Jupiter. The next night he saw that the “fixed stars” had change places! On the 10th of January Galileo noted that one of them had disappeared, an examination which he recognized to its being hidden behind Jupiter. After which he came to a conclusion that they were not actual stars but instead are moons which were orbiting Jupiter!
It was noted in the History when Galileo discovered three of Jupiter’s four largest moons: and named them as Io, Europa, and Callisto. After some days he also discovered Ganymede.
Galileo named these four satellites he had discovered Medicean stars, in honour of the grands duke of Tuscany Cosimo II de’ Medici and Cosimo’s three brothers! Yea at that time it was like you had to gave the dumbs with powers importance so that your work is recognised!!
However later on now..scientist have renamed the Medicean Stars as Galilean satellites in honour of Galileo himself.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Its Square Root Day Celebrations
Its square root say today so dust the slide rules and recharge all your calculators. The math-buffs’ holiday occurs only nine times every century now, is on Tuesday March 03rd 2009.
“These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they’re gone” was the comment of Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the Square Root Day event. The winner will get $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon’s daughter has also set up a Facebook page which is dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with the plans to celebrate in some way. The celebrations are very weird some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
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“These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day — and poof — they’re gone” was the comment of Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the Square Root Day event. The winner will get $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event.
Gordon’s daughter has also set up a Facebook page which is dedicated to the holiday — and hundreds of people had signed up with the plans to celebrate in some way. The celebrations are very weird some cut root vegetables into squares, others make food in the shape of a square root symbol.
The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
Monday, March 2, 2009
"Robert Goulet"
Robert Goulet is a man who has earned huge respect from many people. His greatness and morality has been spoken and written about more often. It was also said that some institute was ready to create the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year honor, won in 2008 by retired police detective Tim Galvin of New York.
John Connolly and Vince Diviacchi of Chicago and the AMI Friends have decided to put on the annual Robert Goulet party. This event will be held near the Windy Apple, and it is the sixth year of the Goulet party and it has grown each time - last year more than 300 people packed into Mystic Celt for this event that benefits the American Cancer Society.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
John Connolly and Vince Diviacchi of Chicago and the AMI Friends have decided to put on the annual Robert Goulet party. This event will be held near the Windy Apple, and it is the sixth year of the Goulet party and it has grown each time - last year more than 300 people packed into Mystic Celt for this event that benefits the American Cancer Society.
"For more news about The World Leaders, be sure to visit http://the-world-leaders.blogspot.com/"
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