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I find Banares a bit cocky; I think this is evident in his match with Hohmann. And giving Efren 9-10. Wow!

Watch the first seven minutes of this video. Granted that it was just practice session before a match, and pockets are wide. But still....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atl24dxOook

Thanks for these links. I enjoyed them a lot.

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion

What's the difference between an invisible, ineffable, undefinable God and a non-existent one? ________________________ The invisible and the non-existent look pretty much the same - D. Mckown

The Dragon In My Garage by Carl Sagan "A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage" Suppose (I'm following a group therapy approach by the psychologist Richard Franklin) I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable...

I am sympathetic to the view that kids not be indoctrinated with religion before a certain age. Teach and inculcate ethical and moral values like justice, fairness, kindness, etc. They are too young to be labeled Catholic or Protestant or Mormon. When they are grown up having been raised in a...

I am sympathetic to the view that kids not be indoctrinated with religion before a certain age. Teach and inculcate ethical and moral values like justice, fairness, kindness, etc. They are too young to be labeled Catholic or Protestant or Mormon. When they are grown up having been raised in a...

Maybe we should just pray to Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci gets stuff done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ZcA4uGgRI _______________________________ If some Americans are descended from Europeans, why are there still Europeans?

Our species’ relationship to other extant apes (I say other because we humans are likewise apes) is comparable to my relationship to my cousin. It is not me and to my parent. Me and my cousin have common grandparents. Wedge, If you are so inclined, these two evolution websites are very...

Since the topic touches on the question of the efficacy of prayer. I think it is appropriate to link to this Harvard University scientific study, the largest study of its kind and considered the most rigorous. http://web.med.harvard.edu/sites/RELEASES/html/3_31STEP.html...

At the age of five Efren was sent by his parents to Manila to live with his uncle, who owned a pool room. That's where he learned to play. Here is an article by the Atlantic partly relating that aspect of hisyoung life, and his accomplishments...

Forgive, Oh Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me - Robert Frost

I thought Mika was rushing his shots. He played to lose. Kind of unprofessional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfygzMIT_k0 Mika got distracted by some noise from the crowd in the fourth rack (I think). Affected him for the rest of the match.

This may have been posted here before, just the same some regulars here may have missed this. Weird variant, no wonder it has not caught up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CLREZyNT4

Alex set to join tourney in Jakarta There is a news item that he will join other pinoys in this tourney http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=13831 Interestingly, he was mentioned way down in that article, as an afterthought.