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In 1896 Oscar Osborne, met and wed a southern belle from his home state of Tennessee. Her name was Lillie Scheibner and she lived with her pioneering parents in Wilbur. One day Lillie was down in Northrup Canyon visiting her brother Charles Scheibner and Oscar happened to stop over on business. While waiting for Charles, the two started talking about the south and hit it off immediately. By the fall of that year the two were married in Spokane. Oscar had a new house constructed for his new bride and they moved in together. Lillie was known for her cooking, especially southern style biscuits and fried chicken. Eventually Lillie and Oscar had three children, Floyd, Joan and Thomas, all three attended school at Steamboat Rock. Since the school was several miles off, they all rode horse to get to it, even in the cold of winter. Sometimes in the spring they would have to cross washed out streams on horseback where there was always the fear of being washed away. The Osborne’s were successful cattle ranchers around the coulee and when Floyd was old enough he went to to Milwaukee for education in electronics and mechanics, which he later used to wire the ranch. Joan went to school in Spokane, Bellingham and San Jose State College in California before she returned to the area and became a teacher herself. The youngest of Lillie and Oscar’s children Thomas stayed closer to home, helping on the ranch and eventually created the town named after his family, Osborne.

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Date: November 30, 2011

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RIGBY, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - High school rodeo is happening sooner than previously thought. District 7 is holding events this weekend in Rigby starting Thursday night.

On April 27, Idaho High School Rodeo Association president Matt Jones sent a letter stating all district rodeos are postponed until June 13. That is when Governor Little's stage four recovery plan begins. It would allow large sporting venues to open with social distancing.

According to a document on District 7's website, the rodeos are considered youth events. Organized youth activities are allowed under the stage one of Little's plan.

The IHSRA board of directors voted Wednesday to allow districts to go forward with rodeos. District officials would be required to ensure all laws, ordinances and protocols are followed.

Jones tells Sports Line that the decision by the board goes against the recommendations of the president, vice president and 2nd vice president of the executive board.

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This video takes a very thorough look at the history of machine guns and what lead up to the development of the M60. Warfare changed drastically from World War I to World War I. With such fast advancements in military hardware, nations kept on copying each other and keeping what works and tossing out what doesn’t. The German’s MG 42 was devastating on the battlefield, which largely inspired the development of the M60.

While 10 minutes is a little long of a video, if you’re interested in the history of firearms, and/or military tactics, this is a fascinating educational video to watch. The contrast of its involvement in military history and how it shapes entertainment is quite interesting to say the least.

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Agnostic/atheists pick on religion a lot, and frankly, it deserves it. But religions do have positive qualities. My mom dragged me to Christmas mass and it was as rote and soulless as always. Yet I did see a bunch of well-meaning people gathering together in celebration and fellowship, singing songs, listening to stories, shaking hands and smiling. It got me thinking about the tangible good things that religion is capable of:

1. They sing songs and shake hands and smile.
2. They do charitable works.
3. They create community.
4. They teach.
5. It brings people together in a common purpose.

It made me wonder whether there are secular versions of the same thing. Organizations with the sole purpose of fostering togetherness, charity, community, art and education. Imagine a bunch of atheists meeting once per week and playing music, telling stories, reading aloud from books and having discussions, coffee and donuts. It might be kind of fun. Now what if they pitched money in together to help improve people’s lives and spread a message of tolerance and peacefulness. It could be very effective. (I’m sure many such groups exist.)

So besides the metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, religion may fill a need in people’s lives in other ways. As we continue, from what I know, to become less and less of a church going population, is there a gap there? Do we need to congregate to have healthy societies?

Of course we are all very social creatures and participate in all sorts of cliches and clubs and social circles. It’s not that we don’t have fellowship with people around us. There is a difference, I wonder, when the entire point of gathering is focus on the big picture and the big questions: death and god.

I don’t know. I’m just wondering.

I’m basically an atheist/agnostic now because all these religions seem like simplistic mythology to me. Wishful thinking of fatherly deities who hug you when you feel sad and promise eternal happiness when you die. From a universe that has quantum mechanics, general relativity and the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I can’t believe that I am a little actor on a little stage that God made. The answer certainly has to be more complex. I believe a lot of things are possible. I believe that there can exist beings greater than I. But heaven, hell, Moses, Jesus, Allah, sin — it’s all fiction.

Even so, much of it is good or at least interesting philosophy. I do believe we should treat others as we would be treated. The teachings of Christ, Mohammed or Lao Tzu are worthy of our study.

I’m rambling…

Religion's Good Stuff

God or Darwin?

PZ pointed out this article entitled It’s God or Darwin. It’s a mind-bendingly idiotic article and a real insult to religious people, IMHO. Apparently one can’t believe in a rigorous scientific method and God according to the author. This is just so fucked up it’s hard for me to understand. I know the author, and other proponets of intelligent design (ID) are not stupid, yet it is hard to determine this by writings like this. I just don’t understand this communication chasm. Science studies natural explanations!. What is so fucking hard to understand about this? Science does not study supernatural explanations. Yes, indeed, sir, science is blind to the influences of deities. That does not mean that people cannot include the divine in their own world views, it just means that science will not include the divine in generally accepted scientific theories. I don’t know how seemingly intelligent people such as David Klinghoffer can miss this.

I know I am a broken record on this but articles like this really hurt the debate.

God or Darwin?

If intelligent design is true, the design is called evolution.

I’ve had a few interesting comments on my Scott Adams bit from micadelic and I thought I’d bring the discussion to the main stage here…

Evolution is a scientific fact, no question. I’m with you there. My religious friends even agree. What I hear from them is that they believe that humans are not 100% directly a result of evolution. They say; “where’s the missing link?” Why aren’t there species that are somewhere in-between humans and animals? Humans are so much more intelligent than animals, so much more capable of manipulating their environment, contemplating the infinite, understanding the mechanisms of life itself, shit, creating life for that matter. What they say is evolution absolutely explains 99.9% of nature but there is something different about a human that is the result of a divine intervention. We were made in the image of our creator. The rest of creation is there for us, the animals of the land and the sea, etc., etc. I would also have to say that while they accept evolution, they believe that it was evolution that was designed, implemented and shepherded by a higher power.

It’s a valid thought, and discussion is warranted, but not in science class. That is an opinion. There is a leap of faith there. It is not a scientific theory.

If I were religious, I would reconcile it like this:

Science studies natural explanations. As such, science cannot “prove” my belief in divine intervention. Therefore science will uncover or discover the natural explanations and I, myself, in my own spiritual quest, will uncover or discover the influence of the divine. I will not expect science to prove or disprove that which it cannot study. Indeed, part of the answers of the biggest questions in life cannot be answered by science. Hence philosophy, art, culture, religion, etc. Science just addresses the science-y parts.

So, if humans are, as some believe, a result of some degree of divine intervention, or if there is even a possibility that this may be the case, should it not be mentioned in a science class instead of simply stating “Humans are a result of Darwinian evolution, that’s it, no argument, end of class, better get it right on the test.” In other words, forget what your parents and your priests have taught you Johnny, they’re wrong, you evolved from a monkey.

Science class should teach the generally accepted theory. It should also mention competing scientific theories. Intelligent design isn’t a scientific theory. This is not an opinion. There is a rigorous scientific community that studies the subject in question and there are no comparable competing theories, certainly not ID. Science class is the wrong place to contemplate supernatural explanations. Mom and Dad can still teach their kids what they think is right.

Now, I’m not saying I’m with the IDs here, just saying that it’s an interesting debate and I’d like to hear your take on it.

I appreciate your thoughtful comments and I like *any* debate, but this shouldn’t be a debate. Have you ever heard of, for example, a mathematical theorem on late 19th century British literature? Mathematics does not address matters of literature. Biology and physics do not address matters concerning all-powerful dieties. This is as it should be. If intelligent design is true, the design is called evolution.

If intelligent design is true, the design is called evolution.

Scott Adams vs. PZ

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, keeps poking his nose in the Intelligent Design (ID) debate. I welcome such poking but he keeps getting soundly beaten by our dear friend PZ. Rightly so. I’ll take my own crack at Mr. Dilbert. He says:

But I have to wonder if thatâ€™s the real reason most scientists oppose including it in schools. I would expect scientists to welcome such a clear model of something that is NOT science, as an example of exactly that.

â€œKids, astronomy is science and astrology isnâ€™t. Here are some more examples of things that arenâ€™t science…â€

Sure, it might confuse the dumb kids, but they arenâ€™t the ones building the spaceships of tomorrow anyway. I learned about not using “ain’t” in English class and that didn’t hurt me too much. So it just seems fishy to me that scientists are so worked up about Intelligent Design.

I don’t think any scientists or educators are opposed to stating very clearly in class that Intelligent Design is complete and utter nonsense. I think they would happily teach that ID is not science. That is not at all what the debate is about. The debate is about whether we should teach ID as an alternative explanation of human origins. Mr. Dilbert does us all a disservice when he acts surprised that this offends us. Of course it offends us and of course we should keep that mystical crap out of science class. Nothing too confusing about this at all, except perhaps to Mr. Dilbert.

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Geithner nails it

How short the memories of the electorate.

When the president took office, the American economy, the envy of the world, was falling off the cliff. Growth was declining at an annual rate of about 6 percent. We were losing three-quarters-of-a-million jobs every month. The American financial system was in freefall.

People were wondering whether they should keep their money in banks, whether they should buy treasuries, the first time since the Great Depression that happened. That was the reality when this president came into office. And there was no way out of that, except for the president, working with the Fed and the Congress, to go take aggressive, strong, bold actions to arrest the freefall and start the economy growing again. And that’s what he did, and that’s what’s happened.

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The hysteria on the Right is manufactured

(This was going to be a comment on this post.)

What if, and I realize it is a big if, Obama’s health insurance reforms work. What if we all do measurably better under a cooperative approach legislated by the Democrats. Would conservatives be OK with it?

I deplore double-standards and I ask myself — what if we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that tax cuts for the rich, for example, was the best approach to raise the median standard of living. What if conservatives were right and tax rates are north of the sweet spot for the best return into the US Treasury. I would be DELIGHTED. What if the Bush approach to Iraq had succeeded in 6 months, like they hoped. DELIGHTED. My goal is not that the Left “wins”. My goal is that we get better at government so that we get the most bang for the buck on our shared interests such as national security, the economy, health care and education.

I’ve said this before, but some people think: the Left was mean to Bush so we can be as mean as we want to Obama. You have to remember that we were all hopeful for Bush in the early days. He ran on the compassionate conservative thing and I honestly hoped he’d be successful. He was immediately deeply partisan in every single thing he did. Many of us were shocked. Bush earned our hatred. He really did. He earned it day after day for 8 years.

It is completely possible that Obama justly earns people’s hatred. If he is highly unsuccessful in measurable ways like Bush was, he’ll have earned our disapproval. If he is highly political, highly partisan, shady, obtuse and, accordingly to some, criminal like Bush was, he’ll have earned our hate. But he hasn’t been any of these things. The jury is still out on most of his policies, but he has not been a bait and switch like Bush and he has been an honest broken on the issues. I realize that Left and Right disagree on the prescriptions but even fuckwits like Glen Beck should be able to see that Obama is a straight shooter.

The hysteria on the Right is manufactured and they’ve done so because “it worked” that we all hated Bush. Even the Right hated Bush by the end. But the ideologues are jumping the gun on Obama and they are losing their credibility as a result, except to the extent that they preach to their own little retarded choir.

But frankly, if Obama can’t do this job well, I am seriously worried for us. He is as smart and as well-informed as individual we have seen in that office. He is no raging liberal. I think the vitriol we are seeing 9 months into his term is unfounded.

The hysteria on the Right is manufactured

God Bless America

I often say “bless you” to people, like when they bring me a cold frosty Summit Extra Pale Ale. I like the phrase, even though I’m an atheist. But I just want to take a moment to say THANK YOU JESUS! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

The United States of America did the right thing. We made history tonight but more importantly, we chose an excellent man for the job.

God Bless America.

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Powell sums it up

Collin Powell, that left-wing socialist un-American loon has done it again.

On Palin:

I don’t believe she’s ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president

On the rat-bastard Republicans:

I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said: such things as, “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim; he’s a Christian, has always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, “What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?” The answer’s “No, that’s not America.” Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion he’s Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.

On the economic crisis:

I have especially watched, over the last six or seven weeks, as both of them have really taken a final exam with respect to this economic crisis that we are in, and coming out of the conventions.

And I must say that I’ve gotten a good measure of both. In the case of Mr. McCain, I found that he was a little unsure as to how to deal with the economic problems that we’re having, and almost every day there was a different approach to the problem. And that concerned me. I got the sense that he didn’t have a complete grasp of the economic problems that we had.

On McCain’s campaign:

I’ve also been disappointed, frankly, by some of the approaches that Senator McCain has taken recently — or his campaign ads — on issues that are not really central to the problems that the American people are worried about.

This Bill Ayers situation that’s been going on for weeks became something of a central point of the campaign, but Mr. McCain says that he’s a washed-out terrorist. Then why do we keep talking about him? And why do we have these robo-calls going on around the country, trying to suggest that because of this very, very limited relationship that Senator Obama has had with Mr. Ayers, somehow Mr. Obama is tainted? What they’re trying to connect him to is some kind of terrorist feelings. And I think that’s inappropriate.

I agree with Powell on this one.

Powell sums it up

Conservatives, if that's what you call them, freak out

This is fascinating: Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, founder of the National Review, resigns from the National Review because he endorsed Obama on a blog:

Obama has in himâ€”I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy â€œWe are the people we have been waiting forâ€ silly rhetoricâ€”the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for.
So, I wish him all the best. We are all in this together. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship. And so, for the first time in my life, Iâ€™ll be pulling the Democratic lever in November. As the saying goes, God save the United States of America.

He also slams John McCain:

John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, â€œWe came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.â€ This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget â€œby the end of my first term.â€ Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?

So the Right is pissed off and Buckley offers, and the National Review accepts, his resignation.

One would be tempted to say the obvious except we don’t have to, Buckley does it for us:

I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of â€œconservativeâ€ government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.

Mr. Buckley is not alone among conservatives. Oddly enough, the conservative vote this year is for Obama.

Conservatives, if that's what you call them, freak out

Palin's great moment

A friend sent me this. We’ve all seen that Palin clip by now. I think it is maybe the first time that SNL was able to use a quote word for word and have it be absolutely hilarious. Jack is mad and he should be.

I would forgive Palin for having one bad moment. We all say stupid things. Lord knows micadelic is going to paste some Obama clip to insure proper balance. But with Palin they are ALL bad moments. I haven’t heard her say an intelligent thing yet, outside of her speech at the convention. She’s not quick on her feet, she’s not well-informed, she’s not highly educated and she’s not articulate. She would be a horrible candidate for President. With McCain being 72 years old, she is running for President. And thus the MaCain-Palin ticket is excluded from being a serious choice for your vote.

I know, I’m some big elitist because I want our highest leaders to be highly intelligent.

Palin's great moment

Palin is a liability

Palin is a liability to McCain and the US of A. She is the intellectual equivalent of George W. Bush. She is not educated, not informed, not intellectually curious, not quick on her feet and completely inappropriate for the job of President. It has nothing to do with her being a woman. I’m glad that we are starting to get women in these races. I would love to vote for a woman for President if she shared my views and demonstrated the skills necessary to do the job.

Palin is doing the one thing that a VP candidate should never do — weakening the ticket. The Republican ticket consists of an old man who can’t seem to control his campaign and a woman who clearly doesn’t have a clue. The financial crisis on Wall St. is damning as hell to the incumbent party and I think we are at the beginning of a McCain tailspin to defeat.

It’s clearly not over yet, but the Palin love affair, with the exception of the most brain-washed pro-lifers, is completely over.

Palin is a liability

Obama's Resume

Over at 2 Focus Inn there is a post of an email forward comparing Palin and Obama. Look, Righties, we know that Obama is running against McCain. YOU invited the comparison between Palin and Obama because you keep harping on this incorrect notion that Obama is inexperienced. McCain is old and his VP choice has a reasonably good chance of becoming President. Palin must be judged as a potential President.

Here’s a quote from the above link:

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

Obama’s resume is fantastic. He is the most qualified candidate since Clinton, in terms of his intelligence, education and firm grasp of the issues. He has good judgment, good insights, he’s candid, articulate and personable. He’d be a great President.

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So long October!

With a blink of the eye – we’re through October and well into November.  It didn’t seem like life was busy outside of work, but I had a lot on my mind… well, I had one thing on my mind and that was whether or not I was going to sign up for a full Ironman in 2018 and if I was, which one.

It was also the “off-season” which means no formal triathlon training plans, but it doesn’t mean that I was sitting around doing nothing.  In the off-season, its time to work on weaknesses and less formalized activities.  One of the weaknesses that I desperately want to improve, regardless of what race distance I choose for 2018, is my running.  At the end of my race season, my coach pointed out that I need to strengthen my legs and glutes if I want to run better.  So, I have been hitting the gym and lifting weights since the end of August.  Since I wasn’t sure exactly what I should be doing and wanting to get the most out of what I was doing, I decided to work with a personal trainer.  It’s been productive so far as I’m lifting heavier weights and my form is better.

The other area I wanted to work on was my mental strength.  And that doesn’t just mean making up mantras and working hard.  I need to believe in my athletic abilities and that I am capable of doing hard things.  When the going gets tough, I don’t want to stop and walk, I want to find the strength within me to keep running and pushing forward.  I’m tired of giving up and walking in a race.  I’ve got more in me and I have to find a way to harness it.

So – what am I doing about it?  First thing I started doing again is meditating.  I started meditating last year, but stopped around May or June when things got busy and life became about going to the cabin and training.  I use the Headspace app and finished off the Focus series and started in on the Balance series.  When I didn’t have 10 minutes to spare, I did some of the short exercises available.  I even did one session on my own in the sauna after a run at the gym.  It does help settle my mind, I definitely sleep better and I’m able to recognize negative or self-defeating thoughts and let them go a bit more now.  I think the thing that triggered me adding meditation back into my life was when I was at a work conference recently.  There was a session about meditation and the presenter spoke about how meditation can change your DNA – or more specifically, change how our DNA reacts to stress – it can actually help lower inflammation that is a response to living in a stressed state and reduces the risk of related diseases. COOL!!  And it isn’t that hard – a few minutes a day is all it takes.  My goal for the next few months is to meditate three times a week.

I also read Peak Performance written by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness.  An amazing book about top performers in not just sports, but also business so there were lots of things I found I could apply to my life – not just triathlon training.  I’m hoping to share more in another post because this one is already too long!  But I will share the most important thing I learned – define your values and develop your purpose which will help you with the going gets tough.  So that’s what I’m currently working on.  (And they also mention meditation in the book.)

In case you missed my last post – I decided to go after the Ironman finish line and registered for Ironman Mont Tremblant in August 2018.

Cheers for now!  It’s November and I’m back into a regular training routine…

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text: Happy Father's Day! It's that special day of the year where we tip our hats to dads around the globe thanking them for everything they do, and rockers are no different. Many musicians are checking in on Twitter today to share their gratitude and well wishes with their own fathers in addition to all dads in general. Check out what rockers like Nikki Sixx, Nickelback, Disturbed's Dave Draiman and many more had to say below to all the dads out there.


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New Brand for Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport celebrated with official unveiling

June 6, 2019

Today history was made as the new brand for the recently renamed Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF) was officially unveiled by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Lonnie Ali, wife of Muhammad Ali. Officials with the Louisville Regional Airport Authority, the Muhammad Ali Center and Louisville Tourism also took part in the special event.

“Muhammad Ali’s incredible story, his connection to our city and his legacy present us with both an opportunity and a responsibility. We must do more than preserve his legacy; we must nurture, cultivate and advance that legacy because the name Muhammad Ali – and the values that he stood for – will forever have the power to inspire people to make the world a better place,” said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. “That’s why we’re renaming this airport for him, why we’re unveiling a logo today that symbolizes his boldness and his ability to connect with people around the world – the mark of a compassionate warrior. We want the world to know that The Champ’s legacy is alive and well, and growing in Louisville.”

“I am so very proud, yet humbled by today’s renaming of the Louisville International Airport in honor of my late husband, Muhammad Ali,” said Lonnie Ali, widow of Muhammad Ali. “No matter how many miles Muhammad travelled, he always came back to the place he called home and he always made his visitors feel welcome. It is my hope that all people who travel to Louisville will feel that same welcoming spirit as they enter this airport and want to return to visit again soon.”

The brand unveiling follows action taken by the Airport Authority Board, who voted in January 2019 to change the airport’s name to honor Louisville native Muhammad Ali. The airport’s three-letter International Air Transport Association Location Identified – SDF – will remain the same.

“Today is an exciting day for the airport,” said Dale Boden, Airport Authority Board member. “As the world arrives in Louisville, we’re pleased they will be met with the name of ‘The Greatest’ that is prominently represented in the airport. We want travelers to feel his greatness and strength, to feel the compassion of our city and to feel welcomed in a great facility.”

The new brand was created by Badge Design, an identity and design studio that is part of the Louisville-based media and marketing communications company, OvareGroup.

The range of colors in the brand mark – from deep red to a golden orange – highlight the action of the Champ’s arms raising in victory while signifying strength and power. The shape of the butterfly pays homage to Ali’s famous phrase, “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” and the context of flight for the airport. These elements, combined with the iconic silhouette offer a boldness that is unique to Louisville and its airport.

“Muhammad Ali was a global citizen who impacted the world through his respect and love for all people, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender or geographic border,” said Donald Lassere, President and CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center. “The renaming of the airport communicates to the world that Muhammad Ali’s hometown is bold in its thinking, along with being a city of greatness and compassion.”

The unveiling took place as part of Ali Week, hosted by the Muhammad Ali Center to honor The Greatest. This annual event is held the first week of June to mark the passing of Ali with special events, art, music and other activities to celebrate his legacy and impact as a heavyweight champion, activist, cultural icon and global humanitarian.

“Muhammad Ali was and is an inspiration to the world for people of different backgrounds,” said Anwar Khan, President and Founder of Islamic Relief USA, who spoke at the event. “The renaming of this airport shows the world that Louisville is open to the world. The Muslim community appreciates this gesture of openness and love, which recognizes the legacy of one of Louisville’s favorite sons.”

Nearly 3.9 million travelers pass through Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport each year, and will be greeted with representation of one of the most well-known worldwide.

“The Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport serves as a gateway to tourism for the city, and it will now be a place for visitors to have a touchpoint with one of the world’s most recognized icons of all time,” says Karen Williams, President and CEO of Louisville Tourism. “Even three years after our city’s most famous son’s passing, Louisville continues to see people coming from across the globe to discover and trace Ali’s legacy. The airport rebranding supports current marketing efforts to engage in Ali’s ‘Footsteps of Greatness’ as a reason to inspire visitation to Louisville.”

The Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport is served by six airlines offering flights to more than 30 nonstop destinations including 19 of the region’s top 20 domestic markets. With just one stop, travelers from across the region can reach more than 460 destinations in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Sam Gafford Delivers Otherworldly Terror and Suspense in “Whitechapel”

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My dear unknown friend,

I never set out to become intimately familiar with Jack the Ripper. This familiarity arose due to professional concerns. As a magician, every year at Halloween I would hold a Jack the Ripper séance. Being the stickler for preparation and research I am the amount of material I accumulated soon bordered on the obsessive. The same goes for Arthur Machen. When my wife and I first moved in together I was delighted to find fine editions of The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams on her bookshelf. In temperament and views Machen is the  writer of weird fiction I am most in simpatico with so when I heard of a new novel in which Jack the Ripper was pursued by none other than Arthur Machen himself I must confess my first thought was less than charitable. Then I saw the novel in question was written by Sam Gafford, a writer well versed in the minutiae of weird fiction, that was enough to overcome my initial reluctance.

whitechapelWhitechapel is the engagingly told tale of a young man named Albert who departs Cornwall for the promise of a literary life in London. Events do not proceed as smoothly as he envisioned and in time he finds himself destitute, wandering the streets of London, truly at wit’s end when he falls in with Arthur Machen. Machen sees his younger self in young Albert’s plight and takes Albert under his wing, guiding him through London and thus through Albert’s sought after literary life. Yet like all gifts in this world there is a toll to be paid.

Gafford has mastered the art of providing just enough detail to place the reader within the setting, be it the slums of the East End of London or an opulent Victorian theater, without weighing the reader down with unnecessary elements to press the point home. Gafford does employ Machen’s device of having his characters comment upon their own dialogue. I noticed this towards the end of the novel and I would be curious to know the effect this has upon readers unfamiliar with Machen’s work before reading White Chapel. This happens infrequently and is in no way a reason to pass by this excellent novel. I observed it being employed when Mr. Gafford wished the character of Arthur Machen to pass along to the reader knowledge of Welsh culture as we neared the end of the novel and it was only due to the finesse with which he established his London tableaux that this became apparent.

thedreamerMr. Gafford has also captured the element of timing within this novel perfectly. He knows precisely the correct point at which to apply excitement and action and when to lay back and allow the reader to recoup. One of the heartbreaks of writing this is that I cannot write a review of both Whitechapel and Gafford’s just released collection of short fiction from Hippocampus Press, The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories. One of the great joys I had last week was reading the collection straight after the novel and seeing not only the building blocks of locations and characters but also the lessons Mr. Gafford applied so beautifully in plotting the action and timing of Whitechapel. I would humbly advise aspiring writers reading this review to do precisely this. Read Whitechapel, then read The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories to see the careful construction at hand.

samgThere’s two more points I’d like to make about Whitechapel. The first is Sam Gafford’s use of historical figures which I found absolutely delightful. We all know what a minefield this area is yet Mr. Gafford pulls it off with aplomb, largely by separating the historical figure in question from our preconceived images of them. I will not say whom he uses within Whitechapel for that is part of the thrill in reading the novel from which I will not deprive you. A large part of the time Gafford accomplishes this with the use of age, at others with a shift of intensity yet I always felt it compelling. I would encourage any writers considering using historical figures within their own works to study Whitechapel as a template of one possible direction in which to proceed.

The second point I would like to make is Mr. Gafford’s use of the supernatural. Elements of it fit perfectly in line with Machen’s own writings* yet Gafford brings his own lagniappe to the table which makes scenes within the book both terrifying and horrifying. As a point of clarification I recently had a conversation with a friend where we discussed the idea that terror is the emotion one feels preceding an event and horror is the emotion one feels witnessing the effects following from the event. Gafford employs both to devastating effect within Whitechapel, building a foreboding sense of malaise and then, most importantly, delivering when called upon. He does not shirk from this calling. It is not just with Machen that Gafford shows skill and familiarity with within the world of Whitechapel. He uses the spiritualist practices and fraternal magical orders of Victorian England with an adroit hand that not only advances the story in an intelligent manner but adds an otherworldly air to Whitechapel that feels neither forced nor belabored.

house-of-nodens-cover-front-v1As is obvious by now I loved Whitechapel and consider it one of the finer books to come out in a year marked by particularly strong novels. I also feel it marks the discovery of a truly dazzling novelist. As much as I enjoy and appreciate Mr. Gafford’s short stories I feel this area is where he shines. I know this may be premature after reading only one novel from him yet Whitechapel is simply that strong. With Whitechapel Sam Gafford has come surging out of the gate and leaves me chomping at the bit to read his next offering, the forthcoming The House of Nodens. If there was a window to place money on writers to watch Mr. Gafford would have a large part of my action.

* I would encourage those unfamiliar with Arthur Machen’s works to start with the Penguin collection The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics). Then once you are well and truly hooked consider joining The Friends of Arthur Machen  which prints the lovely journal Faunus twice a year and the newsletter Machenalia.

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On February 16, 2020 we visited the Song Lo Orphanage and brought essential supplies. We had spoken to the nuns at the orphanage, and made a detailed list of items they required. Our team of volunteers did the shopping at local markets, loaded up a van, and drove out to orphanage.

The children helped carry and stack everything in the main common room. On this trip, we brought  bags of rice, mung beans, and peanuts, packages of instant noodles, packages of vegan meat substitutes, dried mushrooms, bottles of hot sauce, seasonings, breading, milk, baby formula, laundry detergents, toiletries, diapers, and sanitary masks and gloves.

As a fun treat for the children, we brought a sweet drink with fruit. Our team stayed a visited for a while with these amazing children. This charity trip was made possible through the kind donations of Khang Do. Thank you!!!

The history of the Song Lo Orphanage’s beginnings is heartwarming. As the story goes, a Buddhist monk was travelling in the countryside when he encountered a woman who said she could not care for her 2 children. She left the babies with the monk and fled. Not expecting to have 2 babies to care for, the monk made his way to the Song Lo pagoda, and the head nun at the pagoda, Sister Cat, agreed to care for the children. From that point on, orphans have been either brought to the pagoda, or abandoned at their gates. Formed in 2012, the Song Lo Orphanage cares for a small group of young children. Located adjacent the Son Lo pagoda, it’s a small facility deep in the countryside west of Nha Trang.


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Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

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Graduate training in synthetic organic chemistry. Research focus will be on development of cascade reactions based on coupled pericyclic reactions/rearrangements and applications of the formed products in transition metal catalysis and complex molecule (natural product) synthesis.

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Application: Attach (1) Cover letter, (2) Academic CV, (3) Short summary of research accomplishments (e.g. diploma work). Max 2 pages, New Times Roman 12pt).

Students with basic eligibility for third-cycle studies are those who- have completed a second-cycle degree- have completed courses of at least 240 credits, of which at least 60 credits are from second-cycle courses, or- have acquired largely equivalent knowledge in some other way, in Sweden or abroad.

The employment of doctoral students is regulated in the Swedish Code of Statues 1998: 80. Only those who are or have been admitted to PhD-studies may be appointed to doctoral studentships. When an appointment to a doctoral studentship is made, the ability of the student to benefit from PhD-studies shall primarily be taken into account. In addition to devoting themselves to their studies, those appointed to doctoral studentships may be required to work with educational tasks, research and administration, in accordance with specific regulations in the ordinance.

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Tenure of Modi Government will be known for bold economic decisions. Among many
bold decisions, demonetization and implementation of Good and Services Tax
(GST) are supposed to be the boldest ones. Deciding is one thing, but dealing
with situations that are created after that is completely different. While
demonetization can be said to be backfired, because none of the stated
objectives as spelled by Prime Minister Modi on the day of announcement came to
be achieved, the implementation of GST is likely to succeed, though it is
passing through a painful process, in which traders and entrepreneurs are
facing a lot of hardships. Changing the indirect tax regime is really a very
tough process and the hardships being faced by entrepreneurs are on expected
But these two decisions of the government have created some new problems for
the government and the nation and they should be addressed on priority basis.
One problem relates to revenue crisis and another relate the poor health of our
banking system. With the implementation of GST, government was expecting better
tax revenue collection. In the first two months, the collection was more or
less satisfactory, but later on it started declining. One reason of decline in tax
collection was the downward revision of tax rates of some goods and services.
Government was forced to reduce the rates because of political compulsion. In
Gujarat election ruling BJP was facing tough challenge from Congress, which had
made GST as one of its election issues. Rahul Gandhi was dubbing GST as Gabbar
Singh Tax and it was feared by BJP leaders that the party may lose heavily in
urban areas. Hence the climb down was made in tax fixation. The policy to
downslide the tax rates of many items proved helpful and BJP scored big win in
urban areas of Gujarat. Out of 56 urban seats, it won 44 and finally emerged
victorious in election.
Though BJP had won the election, but the down sliding the tax rates resulted
into revenue loss on collection front. In the month of November the drop of tax
collection was Rs 10,000 crore and in December it was over Rs 12,000 crore. It
is anticipated that the tax collection in GST regime will be Rs 50,000 less
than what it would have been, had the initial tempo continued. Anyway,
anticipating the loss of revenue, the government had decided to borrow Rs
50,000 crore to meet its budget expenditure and to keep fiscal deficit within
appropriate limit.
Borrowing from the market by our government is not new thing. In the past our
government has resorted to this borrowing many times, but it is good if this
measure is adopted to finance the development project. To fund to non
development expenditure only increases the burden of the government, which must
be avoided.
Another problem faced by both the government and the nation pertains to bad
financial health of our banking system. Demonetization was being appreciated by
claiming that the money saved by people would come into our banks and by having
larger deposits banks would prosper. No doubt, bank deposits rose heavily after
demonetisation, but the demand for bank loans also declined, because business
sentiments had been hurt after the demonetisation. Banks have to pay interests
on the money deposited in their branches and hence there is cost of having
money. The cost is recovered and profits out of deposits are earned by
advancing loans. Our banks were found to be facing a situation of too much
deposit and too less borrowers. This situation only burdened our banks, which
were already facing the problems of Non Performing Assets accumulated to the
tune of over Rs 800,000 crore.
Now government is facing the challenge to revive the banking system and to
overcome this challenge it needs strong fiscal situation, which is possible
only through higher collection of tax. Finance Minister, Arun Jaitely will have
to do careful rope walking, while preparing its next budget. We can see the
response of the government to these two challenges, only after he presents his
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This merger frenzy is exciting, but is it really good for society?

written by Lisa Eason

Occasionally a book title can encapsulate an important truth in just a few words. The new work by Nicholas Lemann, Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, does just that.

It tells the story of how, since the 1970s, the US economy has become ever more dominated by transactions rather than institutions. The same process has happened in this country.

The book uses Morgan Stanley as an example to explain how things shifted. Historically, the merchant bank focused on underwriting stock and bond issues for big corporations and institutions. In 1974, it developed a specialist mergers and acquisitions department. Then it opened a sales and trading operation. Meanwhile, the rest of Wall Street took advantage of deregulation and expanded their activities, embracing high-powered new forms of capitalism, such as derivatives, leveraged buyouts, hostile takeovers and private equity.

Subsequently, the country’s institutional structure was reorganised at an increasingly rapid rate. Other factors have played a part — the inflation of the 1970s, the growth of new technology, globalisation, the rise of institutional investors and so forth.

Old oligopolies were broken up and competition in many industries increased dramatically. Shareholder returns became more important, capital gains trumped dividend income, and the complacent managerialism of the 1960s was shaken up. In many respects, this corporate disruption delivered benefits to the consumer and society — more choice and lower prices, new inventions and the computer revolution, but it also exacerbated financial instability, showered the public with debt, and destroyed the traditional concept of a job for life in the private sector.

The business culture in Britain and the US focuses to a high degree on deals — the buying and selling of companies — rather than long-term stewardship and organic investment and growth. Consequently, the Masters of the Universe at banks such as Morgan Stanley occupy the commanding heights of the system, as opposed to the founders and those who run companies.

Meanwhile, most stock market investors are relatively short-term and encourage an extractive approach to business. Capitalism has never been a charitable endeavour, but the triumph of transactions has caused collateral damage. The City of London has benefited to an enormous degree thanks to the vast rivers of fees that flow to intermediaries and advisers, but frequent changes of ownership and relentless consolidation have not necessarily helped local workers or even boosted the British economy as a whole.

Over the decades, previously conservative investment banks, such as Morgan Stanley, dramatically increased their capital and appetite for risk. This backfired horribly during the financial crisis of 2008. The bank was bailed out by the US government, which loaned it $107bn. Morgan Stanley’s rise and near-death experience was promoted by transaction men, intent on winning their bonuses at almost any cost.

I am a transaction man of sorts, although I’m a principal, not an adviser, and I like to own companies for the longer term, but deals are exciting, and can sometimes be transformational.

In this arena it is easy to be a hypocrite. In countries such as Italy and Germany, family owned firms dominate, and wheeler-dealers have never enjoyed the same influence as here or in America. Generally, I would say more conservative capital structures, funded with patient capital, are healthier than the merger frenzy that is so common in the Anglo-American business scene.

When I was a stockbroker in the 1980s, institutional funds were already in the ascendant but the invasion of the hedge funds had not begun. They are the ultimate hit-and-run traders, with a devil take the hindmost philosophy and extraordinary rake-offs for those who do well. Their supremacy peaked about five years ago — perhaps their retreat signifies a new phase.

Unfortunately, institutions take a long time to build, yet can be ruined quickly. As Martin Vander Weyer recently noted, only 27 of the original constituents of the founding FTSE 100 in 1984 remain in the index today.

That turnover of huge organisations at the top suggests dynamism but also impermanence. Transactions tend to generate transient rewards — enduring success is more boring, and elusive, but surely creates a stronger society.


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Why the “Compassion Forum” Bothers Me

I don’t have cable television – and thus no CNN – and I did not see the "Compassion Forum" on Sunday night, the discussion about faith and compassion with Senators Clinton and Obama.  But I’ve read some of the news coverage, including a skim through the transcript

The whole concept just bothers me.  I’d gladly ask questions of faith when my synod elects a bishop or when my congregation votes to call a pastor.  But why ask questions about faith to the person who wants to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?  I just don’t see the point.

Kudos to John McCain – the Republican – for not showing up.  For once, we have the Democrats pandering to religious leaders while the Republican shies away from speaking of faith.

Clinton and Obama may each have strong faith.  They may also have passionate perspectives on the Designated Hitter.  They might also have opinions about whether Bob Dylan’s performance at the Newport Folk Festival was an unfortunate sellout or a siesmic shift in the history of rock and roll.  But these are not the kind of issues that will come across the President’s desk in the Oval Office.

Here’s one question posed to Senator Clinton:

BROWN: Let’s talk about your faith. And we warned people the questions
tonight would be pretty personal. So I want to ask you. You said in an
interview last year that you believe in the Father, Son and the Holy
Spirit. And you have actually felt the presence of the Holy Spirit on
many occasions.  Share some of those occasions with us.

Huh?  How is this relevant to the Presidency, to leading our military in war or our government in providing for the common good?

And here’s a question posed to Senator Obama:

MEACHAM: Senator, do you believe that God intervenes in history and
rewards or punishes people or nations in real time for their behavior?

Again . . . huh?  How is this relevant?  We’re electing a Commander in Chief, not a Pastor in Chief.  Give me a break.

To be fair, many of the questions were not explicitly about theology, faith or the Bible, but about social justice, freedom, and hunger, and other issues related to compassion around the world.  These (otherwise valid) questions could just as easily been asked in a normal presidential debate, but in the context of a discussion of faith (on the campus of a Christian college) these questions took on a greater hue of morality and faith.

But again I ask the question – why?  Why do we need to ask faith questions of our political leaders?

Some will say that this kind of forum helps us understand who the person is, how she or he makes decisions, and what kind of leader they will be in the White House.  Perhaps this will help voters of faith relate to the candidates.  After all, voters in 2000 said that they found George W. Bush more likable than Gore.  Likability, relatability are important qualities these days in politics.  Whole lot of good that criterion did us.

When McCain, Clinton or Obama is sworn in next January as President of the United States, they will pledge to uphold not religious truth or faithful doctrine, but the Constitution and laws of this land.  Please, let us quiz our candidates on matters of law and governance, politics and policy, not faith and theology.

Perhaps in a few days I’ll respond to the "substance" of the forum, to the candidate’s answers and what their answers reveal about their personal faith and their politics.  And too, perhaps, I’ll look at what impact having such a conversation has on political discourse and the separation of church and state.

But . . . what if we had an atheist candidate?  If religious conversation is now a pre-requisite for becoming president we’ve set up an unconstitutional, uneasy, unnecessary, and unhelpful expectations for candidates to speak in terms of faith while they’re running for the presidency.  That is, the Compassion Forum represents a kind of religious litmus test.  This can’t be good for democracy and the first amendment.

And I also fear that this forum is bad for religion – for the political pandering it inevitably seeks, the religious lip service it inevitably generates, and the narrow presentation of faith that such a forum inevitably offers.  Is this good for anyone?

I pray and I vote, and I’m passionate about both.  But when I vote, I don’t care if my president prays.  That is not why I elect a president.  Rather, when I vote I care that she or he can do a good job carrying out the tasks of the presidency.  And nowhere do I see faith or religion in the president’s job description.

Forums such as the "Compassion Forum" risk blurring the lines between religion and politics, and hurting both in the process.  And that bothers me.

  1. PS · April 15, 2008

    While I feel some of the same discomfort that you feel about these questions, I do think that a person’s faith does affect their feeling, views, and actions, especially how they treat people. So how do we get at those issues?
    A person could parrot the theology of the church, believing it either unthinkingly or actually having gone through some faith crisis which caused them to ponder it more deeply, but that person could still not apply it to deeper actions and reactions in society. This is relevant, but how do we get at this through questions?
    The current president professes a great faith. Perhaps that is behind his positive leadership in getting money to help fight malaria and AIDS in Africa. He was modest when asked directly about this. But then, we have the war and all that entails.
    Sound bite questions and answers will never really address the faith issues that are important. But if possible, I would want to know about a person’s faith-in-action beliefs when I vote.

  2. Shaun Casey · April 16, 2008

    I had the opportunity to be at Messiah College for the Compassion Forum so I read your post with great interest. I think the major reason for the event was to force the major candidates and the national media to face questions dealing with a broader moral agenda than we usually see in the presidential election process.
    It is true that the CNN questions tended toward the inane and irrelevant. But the faith leaders who asked questions leaned toward hard policy questions on global climate change, domestic poverty, the global AIDS pandemic, etc. The sponsors of the event, Faith in Public Life, the ONE campaign, Oxfam, and Messiah College wanted to press the moral questions. (As an aside I think one reason McCain did not come is that he did not want to face these “liberal” questions. He knew that he would not fare as well as the Democrats on these questions in front of attentive religious audiences.)
    So I actually think the forum was a good thing. It really wasn’t a pandering event. What it was was a remarkable coalition of interfaith groups from right to left, putting policy questions to the candidates that otherwise get short shrift in an era when the candidates are bowling and scarfing down a bump and beer for the cameras.

  3. Nancy Stevens · April 16, 2008

    I think you are absolutely right. Absolutely.
    n, np

  4. John Petty · April 18, 2008

    I agree also. Actually, one of the reasons I support Hillary is because of her being shaped by the Methodist tradition, which I trust. (It didn’t “take” on George W., unfortunately.)
    But I don’t like to see candidates being put through the ringer on theological issues. In a liberal democracy, that’s kind of creepy.
    On this, I like Luther’s practicality. “I’d rather be governed by a smart Turk than a dumb Christian.”

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