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The latest spike in the "have it all" debate is characteristically out of touch with the reality of what modern families are like and how they function. White, privileged, heterosexual, and married, we are a poster pair for the discussion. And yet the ongoing buzz surrounding Anne-Marie Slaughter's recent Atlantic cover story on whether – and how – women can balance career success with family doesn't accurately encapsulate even our experience or ambition.
According to the Council for Contemporary Families, close to half of US residents 18 and older are single. Between 1965 and 2003, men tripled the amount of time they spent on childcare. At least 1 in 7 children live with a parent who had lost his or her job. US census data for 2000 suggests more than 250,000 children are being raised by lesbian and gay parents. The world, as reflected in this latest iteration of the "have it all" debate, simply doesn't cover the challenges and choices many families face.
As we look toward the next stage of our lives (more diapers, less dining out), we've been thinking a lot about where and how to live – our own "have it all" debate.
A daughter and a son of middle class Midwesterners, we've been dreaming about how we might remix the best of the families we grew up in – Courtney's parents' undying curiosity, John's parents' spirit of service – for our own moment.
In the 1980s, when we were coming of age, it made sense for our parents to strive and struggle with full-time work and co-parenting; they were in step with the more, better, faster times – aspiring to make more money than their parents had (our mothers were the first women in their respective families to work after giving birth) and own their own suburban homes, with a garage for two family cars. They raised us, and their other children, to dream bigger than they'd ever dared.
But a funny thing happened along the way: Big became less sexy – at least to us. We're living in the hangover of the ambition-drunken times in which we came of age. We're attuned – not to acquisition or status, but to core joys: family and friends around us, careers aimed at making the world a better place, as well as a lot of flexibility, and enough money to live without insecurity, but not so much that it becomes a focus of our days.
Truth be told, our dreams aren't all that big: We want a small, comfortable house; hope to own only one car (neither of us have had a car for years), and never want job titles that require us to miss out on important moments with our friends and family.
Our question is not, how can we – husband and wife considering children – have it all? Our question is, how can we have enough? We believe the latter is a much more worthwhile question, and one that will lead us not down a black hole of debate, but toward more fulfilling, fun lives – for us and our children.
We aspire to continue what we call our communal life. Our community is not necessarily a place, after all; it is a cozy, little node in a much larger network. We dream about raising our kids near some of our dearest friends and our siblings a short flight or drive away.
Mary and Chris can teach them about poetry, Jody and Aaron about design, Auntie Jen about science and sex. As anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, "Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."
We don't want the impossible. We don't want to have it all. We want to be happy and helpful.
Our newest role models for this kind of "it takes a village" lifestyle come from an unlikely place. We've had two close friends recently have babies on their own by choice, and it's been inspiring to watch as their motley crew of friends and family members weave in and out of their lives – taking night shifts here, planning baby showers there, being on call for whatever, whenever.
Even with four hands on deck, we hope to adopt that kind of interdependent ethos when we have kids. It will require some vulnerability, some spontaneity, but the reward we expect is profound – a sense that your community is wide and willing.
The day after Thanksgiving last year, John's parents rented out a whole bowling alley in Milwaukee, Wis., and his big, Catholic family took it over for the day. There were 18 of us – everyone from Grandma Audrey, 84 years old, to baby Audrey, 2 years old, Courtney's brother, a poet, to John's, a sports agent. Our scores weren't very impressive, but it was one of the best days of our year.
If having it all means bowling alone, as sociologist Robert Putnam would put it, then consider us uninterested.
Courtney E. Martin is co-author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women," among other books, and a TED speaker. John Cary is editor of PublicInterestDesign.org and author of "The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients." Follow Courtney on Twitter at @courtwrites. Follow John at @johncary.

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A grandfather-of-three from Tameside is helping University of Manchester researchers become the first in the world to assess all the genetic links with Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CPA) - a debilitating fungal lung infection that claims the lives of thousands of people in the UK and millions more worldwide.
Using state of the art next generation exome* sequencing technology, 61-year old Doug Steele will join 160 other patients from across the UK to have his DNA assessed and compared for all the individual gene links.
Despite more than 20 years of illness which has left him with only 40 per cent lung function and in need of almost daily drug injections, Doug, who lives in Dukinfield, says he was very happy to sign up for the study. " I hope it helps me of course I do, but I know it will help others. I have utmost faith in the team who through their treatment and care have saved my life."
New diagnostic tests and opportunities for novel treatments to prevent progressive lung destruction by the airborne fungus Aspergillus are likely discoveries. The work will take about 18 months to complete and will cost £150,000.
Leading the research team is Dr David Denning, Professor of Infectious Diseases in Global Health, at The University of Manchester, who explains: "CPA causes progressive destruction of the lungs. Why some people get it and others not, is a mystery. It causes weight loss; fatigue, breathlessness and sufferers cough up blood from the damaged lung tissue. As the infection progresses people are unable to work, become dependant on their families and will eventually die (80 per cent over five years). Antifungal therapy alleviates symptoms and prevents progressive lung destruction in about 60 per cent. CPA is often diagnosed late and only the underlying lung problem is recognised so treatment is often started at a much more advanced stage when quality of life is unrestorable."
Doug's problems started in 1985 when he was diagnosed with TB. For years he was treated for the condition but it was not until ten year's later that he was transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital where doctors told him he had developed CPA. He said: "To be honest I had never heard of aspergillosis but with a change in treatment I started to feel a bit better. I've had my setbacks. Five years ago I developed a resistance to oral drugs and my wife Chris had to learn how to give me my medication through a drip. I'm not complaining. This is the best I've felt in ages."
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NEWTOWN -- The Legislative Council voted unanimously Wednesday night to formalize creation of two funds that the town previously set up quickly to serve as vehicles to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in private donations following the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Just as quickly, the Council voted unanimously to authorize a special appropriation so the town can distribute the entire balance of one of the funds, currently at $90,076, to the families of the 26 victims who died in the tragedy, plus two school staff members who were injured in the attack.
The equal distribution from what was dubbed the Sandy Hook Private Purpose account, based on what's currently in the account, would be $3,217 per family. Any additional funds that come in would be distributed at a later date, Finance Director Robert Tait said after the meeting.
The money represents private gifts donated specifically to benefit the families. It is separate from the many other private funds that have been set up, including one created by Newtown Savings Bank and the United Way, that now has collected well into the millions of dollars.
The second newly created Sandy Hook Special Revenue Fund that the Council voted to authorize includes a total of $195,329 donated for other purposes.
Line items include "undesignated" -- the largest amount at $102,345 -- and accounts for schools, Sandy Hook School in particular, children, parks, playground, memorial, police, firefighters, first responders, "other," a proposed memorial sidewalk and mental health needs.
That money will be used at a later date, Tait told the Council.
"I think this is pretty straightforward. The funds are for the aftermath of Dec. 14," said Council Chairman Jeffrey Capeci.
Tait said the town began receiving calls from people wanting to donate a couple of days after the incident, which is among U.S. history's worst mass shooting incidents.
Adam Lanza, a troubled 20-year-old, began the day by shooting his mother four times as she lay in bed in their Sandy Hook home, then drove to the school with four guns, took three of them in with him and used a Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle to shoot and kill 20 first-graders and six female staff members.
Council member George T. Ferguson III, R-1, asked, "Was there ever any discussion around making it need-based?"
First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra responded that the money was simply specified "for the families."
In a related matter, the Council opted not to continue pursuing charter revision at this time, in part because many people in town, as a result of Dec. 14, are focused on other things.
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BlackBerry is Black-Bear-y againMay 8, 2014: 1:19 PM ET
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Just a few months ago, investors were head over heels (resisting the urge to throw in a YouTube clip of The Go-Go's ... or Tears for Fears ... #ilovethe80s!) for new BlackBerry CEO John Chen.
Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) were up nearly 50% in 2014 through the end of February. At that time, the stock was far and away the top performer in CNNMoney's Tech 30 index.
BlackBerry fans were optimistic about Chen's plans to refocus the struggling smartphone maker's strategy on its core business customers ... a market segment that the company refers to as professional consumers or "prosumers."
(Remember that Buzzword Bingo game from the last tech bubble in the late 1990s? "Prosumer" easily would make the 2014 version along with "social," "cloud," "phablets," "Internet of things" and "wearables.")
Related: Is John Chen the most doomed CEO?
The stock was also benefiting from the hype surrounding messaging services. Facebook (FB) had just purchased WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion. And that deal reminded Wall Street that BlackBerry had its own in-house BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) platform.
Maybe Chen would be able to find a way to sell that unit? Or at least make more money from it? So went the bull thesis.
That argument is falling on deaf ears now. The stock has plunged more than 30% since hitting its high point for the year. Shares are now essentially flat in 2014. This stock is once again Black-Bear-y.
What happened?
The sell-off can be partly blamed on more macro conditions than BlackBerry-specific problems. Momentum tech stocks (and BlackBerry amazingly enough was one of them earlier this year) have all been hit hard in the past few weeks as investors gravitate more toward steady, dividend-paying blue chip companies.
But investors may also be wondering if BlackBerry's turnaround is for real. There are still major concerns about its declining sales and market share, a steady stream of red ink and deteriorating balance sheet.
BlackBerry announced at the end of March that it had $2.7 billion in cash at the end of its last quarter, down from $3.2 billion at the end of the previous quarter. BlackBerry can't keep burning through $500 million in cash every three months. So that's clearly scaring investors.
"We don't own BlackBerry. There are too many unknowns and uncertainties," said Leslie Thompson, co-founder of investment firm Spectrum Management Group. "With tech stocks, we want companies with strong balance sheets that can be nimble and strong market positions."
Along those lines, Thompson said her firm owns tech leaders such as Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOGL), EMC (EMC) and Qualcomm (QCOM).
Related: T-Mobile no longer selling BlackBerry
Still, it may be a mistake to bust out a bugle and start playing Taps (or the Canadian/British military equivalent ... Last Post) for BlackBerry just yet.
While the company's viability remains in question, there are some reasons to believe that Chen has a little time to turn things around.
BlackBerry just announced on Monday that it was selling a majority of its Canadian real estate holdings for nearly $300 million. (The company will remain headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario.) That sale gives Chen more cash to put to use.
And some investors still think that BlackBerry could eventually get sold ... in pieces or parts. BlackBerry had been tinkering with the idea of a sale last year before bringing Chen on board. But it's not out of the realm of possibility that Chen might eventually be able to find a willing buyer. After all, he did sell his last turnaround effort -- Sybase -- to SAP (SAP) for a tidy sum in 2010.
Related: Court victory for BlackBerry against Ryan Seacrest-backed Typo
One short seller who used to be bearish on BlackBerry said it's a risky stock to bet against currently because of the possibility of a corporate break-up.
"We would not short it now as we feel it is trading for cheaper than the sum of all the parts," said Brad Lamensdorf, co-manager of Ranger Bear Equity (HDGE), an actively managed exchange-traded fund that shorts individual stocks.
And over on Mergerize, a new Website that is an offshoot of crowdsourced earnings tracker Estimize, there is at least one brave soul who thinks the company could get taken over for a juicy premium.
A Mergerize user named Shanan Levin is predicting that Microsoft (MSFT) will buy BlackBerry for $6 billion. That's 56% more than BlackBerry's current market value.
Levin's rationale? "Buying BBRY is a good way for MSFT to keep a tight grip on enterprise customers still using BBRY devices and software along with their Windows software."
That may be true. But Chen still has to prove that BlackBerry isn't losing that "tight grip" for good.
Related: Things go from 'bad' to 'less bad' for BlackBerry
It's encouraging that Chen seems to be doing all he can to stabilize BlackBerry. Analysts are still predicting a loss of $1 a share for this fiscal year, according to estimates from FactSet. But that would be a narrower loss than a year ago. It's also a smaller loss than what analysts had forecast at the start of the year.
Still, unless BlackBerry can narrow its losses while also regaining momentum on the top line, investors are going to remain nervous. And the numbers there don't look promising.
Analysts have a consensus revenue estimate of $3.96 billion for this year. That's down sharply from last year -- and estimates are heading in the wrong direction. Analysts had expected sales of $4.3 billion at the beginning of 2014.
So the days of BlackBerries being CrackBerries may be long gone. There aren't nearly as many people addicted to the mobile messaging device anymore. If Chen is going to save the company from the same fate that met Palm, he has to find a way to get subscribers hooked again.
Reader Comment of the Week! This award was pretty much wrapped up Monday morning after a certain demonic reader responded to my tweet about whether Google should get California Chrome to appear in ads for its browser if the horse goes on to win the Triple Crown. (I hope he does. Been waiting since 1978! Come on!)
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Friday the 13th was lucky for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) as both banks' stocks rose higher despite dark news that preceded their second-quarter 2012 earnings reports.
JPMorgan posted lower profits of $5 billion, down 8.7% from a year ago, due largely to the chief investment office's (CIO) trading losses of $4.4 billion in the quarter, according to JPMorgan's Q2 earnings report. Also on Friday, JPMorgan announced plans to claw back compensation from CIO traders involved in the losses. But considering the bank's disastrous London Whale trading troubles, JPM's $1.21 earnings per share versus last year's $1.27 cheered investors and analysts, who had expected per-share earnings of only $0.70.
Wells, meanwhile, reported that Q2 profits rose 17% to $4.6 billion from $3.9 billion a year ago. Earnings stood at $0.82 per share, a penny higher than analysts' expectations.
The bank's massive mortgage business, with $131 billion of originations in Q2 versus $129 billion in Q1 and $64 billion a year ago, was clearly unhindered by a $175 million settlement with the Justice Department for Wells' alleged discrimination against minority homeowners between 2004 and 2009. "Litigation accruals" related to that settlement, announced Thursday, were including in the $524 million operating loss. The bank had an operating loss of $477 million in the first quarter.
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In early afternoon trading, JPMorgan stock was up 5.92% at $36.06 versus Thursday's close of $34.04. WFC also was up, by 3.23%, to trade at $33.91 versus Thursday's close of $32.85.
"In general, we're seeing some strength come through in the stock prices," said Shannon Stemm, a finance sector analyst with Edward Jones, in a phone interview after the earnings releases. "It's a mixed picture with JPM, driven more by relief, and Wells is driven more by underlying strength with the company's earnings consistency."
Stemm was pleased with the steps that JPMorgan has taken to address "what's been a disappointing situation," and said the $4.4 billion loss was large but manageable given the large size of JPMorgan's balance sheet.
Turning to the Wells settlement, she said, "It's always good to see lawsuits and legal uncertainty put behind a company. As far as that lawsuit impacting the overall mortgage activity at Wells, no, you haven't seen that and you're not going to see that going forward."
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Down 10.9%; Wells Wealth Unit Up 1.8%
JPM unit J.P. Morgan Asset Management saw profits decrease to $391 million, down 10.9% from $439 million a year ago but up from $386 million in the prior quarter. Revenue from private banking was $1.3 billion, up 4% from a year ago.
In Wells' business segment covering wealth, brokerage and retirement, profits rose to $343 million, up 1.8% from $337 million a year ago and up from $296 million in the prior quarter. Wealth management reported client assets of $197 billion, down $8 billion, or 4%, from a year ago. The wealth, brokerage and retirement unit includes 15,170 financial advisors as of June 30, an increase over the 15,134 financial advisors reported as of March 31. This figure includes 10,913 advisors in the traditional brokerage channel, lower than the 10,987 reported in the previous quarter.
During JPMorgan's two-hour earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Doug Braunstein announced that year-to-date losses amounted to $5.8 billion. And in a mea culpa moment during the call, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon acknowledged that the bank had made serious missteps and was now engaged in equally serious efforts at damage control.
"We are not proud of this moment," Dimon said, "but we are proud of the company. We not making light of this. We think is an isolated event. Obviously, on this one we shot ourselves in the foot."
Also during the call, JPMorgan announced a two-year compensation clawback that targets the CIO traders responsible for the London losses, including former CIO chief Ina Drew, who left the bank after news of the bad trade broke. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said following the clawback announcement that it was welcome news. In June, Johnson called on Dimon to testify on the trading loss and pressed him on clawbacks.
"To help restore confidence in our financial system, Wall Street banks should use this effective tool whenever it is appropriate," Johnson said in a statement.
Q2 Now Officially Underway
Now that JPMorgan and Wells have reported, the second-quarter earnings season is officially under way. Edward Jones' Stemm said she expected capital-market weakness to be a driver in the results that get reported.
"The expectations were low already, so when you think about JPMorgan—and this also relates to Bank of America and Citigroup—JPM met or slightly exceeded expectations, but the macroeconomic environment is weak, and that really bled through into some of the investment banking results. I think you're going to see that trend continue. When you look at Wells, the standout strength there was mortgage banking, most of it driven by refinancing and new applications for refinancing homes. I think you're going to see those more regional-focused banks get a lift from improved mortgage banking activity."
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CNN's GPS blog has posted my assessment of the possible steps the United States could take if Qaddafi continues to hang on in Libya.
More than two months of bombing make it clear that the United States and its NATO allies are seeking to oust Libyan strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi. The air war, however, is not producing the quick result that NATO wanted.
President Obama continues to resist European calls for a greater American commitment. He argues for sitting tight--the air war will eventually force Qaddafi from power.
Public opinion polls explain Obama's reluctance to do more right now--Americans take a dim view of the operation. A new Quinnipiac University Poll finds that 57 percent of Americans don't think that the United States should be involved in Libya. Democrats and Republicans are equally unenthusiastic.
But sitting tight requires patience that Americans and Europeans may not have. If domestic opposition to the air war grows, Qaddafi and his supporters might gain confidence that he can hang on, thereby undermining the bombing campaign.
What steps could the administration take if it decides that the current air war isn't working, or working fast enough? Obama has repeatedly ruled out sending in U.S. combat troops. Given the American public's intervention fatigue, he isn't likely to change his mind.
So what might he do instead? Here are five possibilities:
1) Seek a negotiated solution. Washington could cut a deal with Qaddafi that imposes a ceasefire or sends him into exile. The Libyan dictator looks to be searching for such a deal.
Obama has said it is "impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Qaddafi in power." So any deal that allows him or his sons to continue ruling, which is what a ceasefire would do, would be seen as a substantial defeat.
2) Arm the Rebels. Obama has authorized sending Libyan rebels $25 million worth of nonlethal equipment like body armor and uniforms. The British, French, and Italians have gone slightly further, providing some military advisers. Sending military arms might tip the balance in the fighting because airstrikes have seriously degraded Qaddafi's military forces.
Arming the rebels does not guarantee a quick victory. Sophisticated weapons require training to use, and that training can take months. Washington also worries that weapons sent to Libyan rebels today could end up in the hands of anti-U.S. forces tomorrow.
3) Ask NATO allies to do more. Obama has pushed Britain and France to lead the air war. They have grumbled but complied. Britain and France have begun dispatching attack helicopters to Libya. Washington can insist they do even more.
How much more NATO allies can and will do, though, is an open question. The capacity of some contributing countries is already being tested, and European capitals share Washington's reluctance to wade deeper into Libya. So pushing Europe to do more could strain the transatlantic alliance
4) Expand the air war. NATO could expand its target list to put more pressure on Qaddafi's supporters. It also could use airpower to support rebel fighters on the ground. Britain and France want the United States to commit roughly ten close air support aircraft to the fight. These AC-130 and A-10 planes were used early in the fighting to destroy Qaddafi's tanks.
Two months of bombing have destroyed most of Libya's militarily significant targets. Qaddafi's forces now avoid airstrikes by hiding amongst civilians. Widening the target set or sending in close air support aircraft risks killing more civilians and undermining domestic support for the air war.
5) Send in Special Forces. Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They could try to replicate that feat in Tripoli.
The Abbottabad raid worked because the United States had exceptional intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts as well as the element of surprise. Precise information about Qaddafi's location is hard to come by, and Special Forces wouldn't have surprise working for them. A raid that turned into Blackhawk Down rather than Abbottabad would hand Qaddafi a major political victory.
Even as Obama struggles with how to push out Qaddafi, he has to contemplate a bigger challenge: what to do once he is gone. Iraq offers a cautionary lesson that it is far easier to topple dictators than it is to install just and effective governments.
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We have just succesfully bid at auction at Waddington's in Toronto for this portrait by Sir William Orpen of Major Gilbert Russell, a former owner of Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire. We received a last-minute tip-off from Tim Knox, director of Sir John Soane's Museum and himself a keen collector, that this was coming up. In the nick of time we were able to locate some funds and set up a bid.
Gilbert Russell was a great-grandson of the 6th Duke of Bedford. His military career took him to Egypt and the Sudan in 1898, South Africa between 1899 and 1902 and France during the First World War. He married Maud Nelke, who was to become a prominent hostess and patron of the arts.
The Russells bought Mottisfont in 1934 from the Barker-Mill family and set about refurbishing it inside and out. The interiors were furnished in the neo-Georgian style which was then a relatively avant-garde taste. In the garden the Russells employed both Norah Lindsay and Geoffrey Jellicoe to redesign specific areas.
The Russells entertained a circle of artists and writers, and Maud had her portrait painted by Orpen, John Singer Sargent, Sir William Nicholson and Henri Matisse (although she professed herself to be 'horrified' by how Matisse had depicted her). They commissioned Rex Whistler to decorate the drawing room at Mottisfont in his romantic and whimsical style.
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Pastor Blames Hurricane Isaac on New Orleans' Southern Decadence
A conservative pastor is blaming Hurricane Isaac's arrival in New Orleans on the city's massive Labor Day Weekend-long gay party known as Southern Decadence.
John McTernan, an author, pastor and founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith ministries, recently wrote a blog post on the Defend and Proclaim website and pointed out that Isaac's arrival coincides with Southern Decadence, which is one of the bigger Circuit-style weekends. He also notes that Isaac comes seven years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
"The church, city and nation have not repented and the homosexual agenda is far worse than it was in 2005," he wrote. "New Orleans is still hosting Southern Decadence with open homosexuality manifesting in the streets of the city. It could be that God is putting an end to this city and its wickedness. The timing of Hurricane Isaac with Southern Decadence is a sign that God's patience with America's sin is coming to an end."
Southern Decadence is scheduled for Wednesday, August 29 through Monday, September 3. According to the event's official website, Southern Decadence "will produced as scheduled." It also says, "the storm is forecast to have passed through the New Orleans area by Thursday afternoon."
Hurricane Isaac missed New Orleans but impacted the parishes surrounding the city. "The city's biggest problems seemed to be downed power lines, scattered tree limbs and minor flooding," reported the Associated Press. Only one person has been reported killed, compared with 1,800 deaths from Katrina. At its strongest, Isaac was far weaker than Katrina.
"Let's all watch this very closely, because if New Orleans is destroyed, it is a sure sign that the final judgment for the national sin of America has arrived," McTerna concluded in his post.
McTernan isn't alone in his (mis)reading of the Mind of God. The "news" website World Net Daily also wondered if Hurricane Isaac was a result of the evils of Southern Decadence.
Robin Cox, a lifelong resident of the Gulf Coast, asked WND, "A hurricane hitting a celebration of decadence twice in seven years. What are the odds?"
Mary Starkey, another local, asked the publication, "Does it seem God has it in for New Orleans? Just contemplating why this has happened twice in seven years at exact same time of year."
Leave it, in the end, to Steven Colbert to explain the cause of Isaac: "Hurricanes form from rising moisture created by hot steamy man action aboard a gay Caribbean cruise. When that sin gets high enough it makes the angels cry and those tears fall to earth in the form of massive precipitation because homosexuals are a vital part of the water cycle. That's why the gay symbol is a rainbow!"


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A tip of the boonie hat and deep genuflection to Irregular Stan who forwarded this CalGuns post, "Government GPS not hidden well enough."
The original poster said:
Me and my friend went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car. . . i am pretty confident it is a tracking device by the FBI but my friend's roommates think it is a bomb..any thoughts?
To which "jeanmarcp" replied:
It's a Guardian ST820. It's a GPS tracking unit made by the company Cobham, the product line is called Orion. The redditor who said that the battery and magnetic unit is hand made is wrong, you've got the standard kit, it is sold like that by Cobham. Sales is restricted to army and law enforcement. . . yes, FBI or Police is after you.
"jl123" on CalGuns helpfully posted this link to the GSA parts and pricing list for the unit.
From this we can conclude that the taxpayers are out a pretty penny, although by now the Fibbies have sent some embarrassed junior g-man to retrieve it. "Can we have our tracker back? Please?"
If it were me, I would have just put it in a Faraday cage inside a steel box and "disappeared" it. Let them try to figure out what happened to it. Or, maybe, better yet, I would have sent the Faraday cage incognito to Eric Holder at Main Justice. They would have handled it like a bomb. Very funny. "Well, who made it?!?" "Uh, sir, its one of ours."
Final thought: Whatever happened to the vaunted micro-bugs we have heard so much about?


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Inflation continues to outpace teacher salary growth
Average teachers' salaries declined over the past decade
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Teachers across the nation are continuing to lose spending power for themselves and their families as inflation continued to outpace teacher salaries last year, according to the National Education Association's update to the annual report Rankings and Estimates: Rankings of the States 2008 and Estimates of School Statistics 2009.
Over the decade from 1997-98 to 2007-08, in constant dollars, average salaries for public schoolteachers declined 1 percent while inflation increased 31.4 percent. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia saw real declines in average teacher salaries over those years, adjusting for inflation.
"Public schoolteachers deserve professional pay for professional work," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "If we are going to close the achievement gaps, reduce school dropouts and recruit and retain highly qualified teachers, we need to compensate teachers across the country fairly for the work they do."
According to the report, the average one-year increase in public schoolteacher salaries was 3.1 percent, while inflation increased 4.3 percent. The national average public schoolteacher salary for 2007-2008 was $52,308. State average public schoolteacher salaries ranged from those in California ($64,424), New York ($62,332) and Connecticut ($61,976) at the high end, to South Dakota ($36,674), North Dakota ($40,279) and Utah ($41,615) at the low end.
Rankings and Estimates provides statistics to raise public understanding of key issues affecting teaching and learning conditions in the nation's public schools. Teacher salaries and public education indicators including school enrollment, student-teacher ratios and school funding at the local, state and federal levels are reported in the annual state-by-state report. Among the other highlights:
- " Public school enrollment - Public school enrollment was 48,949,723 million, up 0.3 percent over fall 2006. The largest percentage enrollment increases from fall 2006 to fall 2007 were in Nevada (3.5 percent), Arizona (2.5 percent), Delaware (2.1 percent) and Ohio (2.1 percent). Twenty states and the District of Columbia experienced declines in student enrollment in fall 2007. The greatest declines were in the District of Columbia (-3.6 percent), Michigan (-2.6 percent), Vermont (-2.0 percent) and North Dakota (-1.6 percent).
- " Gender diversity in teaching - Males comprised 24.5 percent of public schoolteachers in 2008. Many of them taught in Kansas (33.6 percent), Oregon (31.6 percent), Alaska (30.9 percent) or Indiana (30.5 percent). States with the lowest percentage of male faculty were Arkansas (16.2 percent), Virginia (17.4 percent), Mississippi (17.5 percent), Louisiana (18 percent), South Carolina (18.5 percent) and Georgia (19.7 percent).
- " Expenditures per student - The U.S. average per student expenditure for public elementary and secondary schools in 2007-08 fall enrollment was $9,963. States with the highest per student expenditures were New Jersey ($15,374), New York ($15,286), Vermont ($14,336), Wyoming ($13,967) and Massachusetts ($13,768). Arizona ($5,346), Utah ($5,734), Nevada ($7,133), Mississippi ($7, 175) and Idaho ($7, 305) had the lowest per student expenditures.
Rankings and Estimates has presented selected education statistics since the 1960s.
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No fear, just lots of layers: Packers fans bundle up for Sunday's game
Ticket holders prepare for subzero temperatures at LambeauPackers fans bundle up for Sunday's game
FORT ATKINSON, Wis. — Packers enthusiast Katie Duesterbeck owns three jerseys, and she plans on wearing all of them to her first game Sunday.
"I already knew it was supposed to be really cold, winter, but that cold?" Duesterbeck said. "Yeah, I automatically started making a list of all of the things I should bring to layer up."
Duesterbeck already started stacking up her layers, including snow pants, thermals, three hats, multiple pairs of gloves and boots.
"Maybe it'll be during or after that I'm like, 'Why did I do this?' During, maybe. I don't know," Duesterbeck said. "But if we win on top of it, hands down probably be the most awesome thing I've done."
Forecasts have wind chills well below zero at Lambeau Field on Sunday.
Jim Bryce, a partner of the Milwaukee-based Ticket King online broker, said the temperature is just one factor that kept people from buying tickets for the playoff game.
While sales on Ticket King's site have been steady this week, the Packers were still 3,000 tickets short of a sell-out as of Thursday afternoon. The NFL granted the franchise an extension on ticket sales, so the team now has until 4 p.m. Friday to sell as many as possible.
If the Packers don't sell enough, there is still the possibility the playoff game could be blacked out of television broadcasts in Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Bryce said he's confident that will not happen.
Unless the Packers want to see people turn over cars and set them on fire, there is not a shot they're going to black this game out.
Bryce said along with the cold weather, fans didn't have much faith the Packers would make the playoffs a month ago, around the time when season ticket-holders were offered the chance to buy their seats.
In addition, Bryce said the game coming right after the holidays, when most people have already spent their savings, isn't the best timing. The Packers also added thousands of seats to Lambeau Field before this season, making it that much harder to fill up the stands.
"I think people just need to relax," Bryce said. "Frankly, it's a story and it's about the Packers, but it's just there are so many factors that came together, and we went over all of those. And it all happened in a really short span of time, and it's just personally, I highly doubt that this will ever happen again."


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To stuff your turkey, you'll need 4 cups unbaked stuffing for a 12-pound bird. Stuff it right before roasting and bake remaining stuffing in a 2-quart baking dish.
1 loaf crusty white bread, cut into 3/4-inch pieces (8 cups)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for baking dish
1 medium yellow onion, diced medium
2 large celery stalks, diced medium
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4 ounces dried chorizo, cut into thin half-moons
1 cup roughly chopped toasted almonds
2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano leaves
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1/2 cup roughly chopped fresh parsley leaves
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
3 cups low-sodium chicken broth
Preheat oven to 400 degrees, with racks in middle and lower thirds. On two rimmed baking sheets, arrange bread in a single layer. Toast until dry and pale golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool.
Meanwhile, lightly butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a large skillet, melt butter over medium. Add onion, celery, and garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until onion and celery are softened, about 7 minutes. Add chorizo, almonds, oregano, and lemon zest and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Transfer to a large bowl and season with salt and pepper.
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We'll be frank. While we wouldn't exactly say our job is tough—we mean, going through seriously spectacular closets makes us feel pretty lucky most days—every once in a while we come across a piece that, well, has even the most (ahem) jaded among us taking a closer look. You know, it's the dress so special, we want to build a little shrine to the fashion gods that be (Lagerfeld, Prada and Tisci, we're looking at you) and throw our credit card limits out the window then and there. More often than not, those wondrous, couture-like pieces, usually unearthed in the wardrobes of a rarified few (Amy Astley and Suzanne Rogers, we're looking at you) have that white label with definitive black lettering spelling out: Mary Katrantzou. See where we're going with this, you guys?
Being fans of the designer since what feels like Day 1, we figured it was about time we went to the source of those magical, wildly printed and bedazzled dresses. And what better time to check in with Mary herself than London Fashion Week—of which she is indisputably the queen. So, a few days after her prime time show (of which, all we can say is, mind blown) we found ourselves in the company of the woman herself, and, wouldn't you know it, she's as sweet and lovely as her clothes are extreme.
While it was a whirlwind over at Katrantzou HQ, Mary met us armed with some of those blindingly intricate fresh-off-the-runway pieces as well as a whole lot of her archival greatest hits. And while the designer herself might stick to a uniform of all black (all the better to clear her mind for those kaleidoscopic prints, kids), she obviously dreams in vibrant color, 'cause up close and personal, lets just say those pieces have serious impact. And when it comes to what people in our business like to call a statement piece, our new BFF Mary is boss. No, but seriously—Mary? For our next big blow-out shindig? Call us?


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In a New York Times' op-ed story written by Angelina Jolie and titled My Medical Choice, the star, 37, explains that she spent the last three months undergoing and recovering from a double mastectomy.
Jolie, who lost her mother to ovarian cancer, writes, "My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87% to under 5%," Jolie writes. "I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
The honest, open and sweet first-person piece chronicles the journey she managed to keep secret in a day and age when so many stars rush to tell all on any topic.
"My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a 'nipple delay,' which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple.
"Two weeks later" she writes, she had "the major surgery, where the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place. The operation can take eight hours. You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life."
After nine weeks, she notes, "the final surgery" was "completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful."
She also writes that her children "can see my small scars" but adds, "Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was." She feels no "less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."
And she gives a shout-out to her sweetie, Brad Pitt, "who is so loving and supportive," she says, "Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center (in Beverly Hills), where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has."
The news has also been met with love and support from celebs who are praising Jolie's decision to go public.
Kristen Bell calls her "admirable." Rosanne Cash, who battled brain cancer, calls her "courageous." Sheryl Crow, who faced breast cancer says, "I commend Angelina Jolie for her courage and thoughtfulness in sharing her story today regarding her mastectomy. So brave!"
Giuliana Rancic, who had the same procedure done, wrote that she is "proud" of Jolie for using "her incredible platform to educate women."
Some more reaction popping up on Twitter:
Elizabeth Banks: "Much respect & for sharing in classy way: Angelina Jolie on why she had a double mastectomy & how it can save lives"
Soleil Moon Frye: "My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie. Read this, re-tweet it, share it with friends & family. Awareness can save lives"
Marlee Matlin: "Brave, honest, strong. Angelina Jolie gets a double mastectomy."
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Poo isn't something generally talked about in polite company but like it or not, all of that human waste has to go somewhere. In smaller rural communities, it usually goes to wastewater lagoon systems; the alternative is mechanical treatment plants which process waste far more quickly but are expensive, labor intensive and often use chemicals. Enter the "Poo-Gloo," or Bio-Dome as it is officially known – an igloo-shaped device that can reportedly clean up sewage as effectively, but far more cheaply, than its mechanical counterparts. The Poo-Gloo, developed by Wastewater Compliance Systems, Inc., uses a combination of air, dark environment and large surface area to encourage the growth of a bacterial biofilm which consumes the wastewater pollutants. It is claimed that Poo-Gloos can treat pollutants just as quickly as mechanical plants while operating at a fraction of the cost – hundreds of dollars a month rather than thousands – and can be retrofitted to existing lagoon systems.
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Court is adjourned for Garcelle Beauvais, who announced on Twitter Wednesday that she will not return for Franklin & Bash's upcoming third season.
"Just found out that I'm not being asked back on Franklin & Bash," she tweeted, adding that she was "stunned."
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Beauvais, 45, played Hanna Linden, a senior partner at the Infeld Daniels firm who used to date Damien Karp (Reed Diamond) and was seen by many as the successor to current managing partner Stanton Infeld (Malcolm McDowell). It is unclear why her character is being written out, but Beauvais stayed positive about the unexpected turn of events.
"Had fun on Franklin & Bash [and I] wish them a great season. Lots of projects in the works," she wrote, listing upcoming roles, including Psych, where she'll play a love interest for Gus (Dule Hill), and the upcoming season of Arrested Development. It is unknown who she will portray on the cult comedy series, or how many episodes she will appear in.
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Birth control pills come in packs. The most common type has 3 weeks of hormone pills. Some packs have sugar pills for the fourth week. During that fourth no-hormone week, you have your menstrual period. After the fourth week (28 days), you start a new pack.
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Tornado's life: Graham rules Valley e-news
The Augusta County Free Press is the leading local source of online news in its area. Chris Graham is the Augusta County Free Press.
Since parting ways with the free-falling Observer in 2002, Waynesboro-based Graham has continued to beef up his journalistic reputation by running, writing, and maintaining his own daily news web portal.
He has help. His wife, Crystal, well known to public television audiences as co-host of Virginia Tonight on WVPT, contributes, and his team of freelancers includes another Observer veteran, Patrick Hite. But Graham is still the principal writer and handles all of the editing duties.
"It's sort of a one-man team, although there are a lot of people behind that one man," he says. "Nothing goes through the Free Press that my eyes don't see first."
It's a lot to handle. He says he routinely pulls 65- and 75-hour weeks– and that's after he scaled back his operation from seven days a week to five.
"I call it the life of a tornado," he says. "It spins, it moves forward, I don't know where it's going to go, and I don't know what I'm going to pick up along the way."
He never expected to find himself in his current position when he was younger.
"I wanted to be Atticus Finch," he recalls. "I wanted to go to law school and then come back and save my hometown." Those aspirations explain his pre-law focus during his career at UVA in the early '90s, but they fizzled when the time came to bite the bullet at the University of Richmond's law school.
"I lasted a week before I wised up," he laughs. "I realized that I was going to have to work in the bowels of a law firm, kind of like those lawyers John Grisham always writes about... you know, the ones who end up not being lawyers anymore."
After working for a year as a substitute teacher, he finally managed to score a job as a sports writer at the News Virginian in Waynesboro in September 1995, the same paper he had read while growing up. Five years later, he moved to the Observer as a sports writer, but left a couple of years later under somewhat contentious circumstances.
Having found himself both available and qualified for the first time in his life, Graham began plotting the development of a humble online news organization that has come to rival papers around the region, including two hard-copy dailies in Augusta County alone.
The original concept had been a weekly print paper, but the Grahams decided to go digital when they ran into funding issues. That meant they also had to move to a daily model– "The Internet is 24/7," says Chris– but they backed down to weekdays when they realized that most of their readers were active during business hours. In August they added "wire service" to their repertoire when the Hook began buying some of their stories for the Charlottesville market.
"Constant tweaks to the business model," says Graham, "if there is a business model– we're constantly flying by the seat of our pants." Nevertheless, Graham seems to be quite happy with his creation.
"What is the need for that piece of paper?" he asks The Hook, tongue deep within his cheek.
Age: 32
Why here? I was born here.
What's worst about living here? Generally, the lack of cultural opportunities, even though that's changing. It's changed tremendously since I was a child.
Favorite hangout? The golf course
Most overrated virtue? I was dubbed the most prolific writer in Central Virginia, I think by another Charlottesville weekly, and I don't really think of myself that way.
People be surprised to know: I can do a dead-on impression of Scooby Doo.
What would you change about yourself? I think sometimes I get too passionate about things I get involved in.
Proudest accomplishment? The Augusta Free Press
People find most annoying about you? I don't often give sound bite answers.
Whom do you admire? Mark Warner. And he'll be surprised to hear that, actually. Every time Mark comes to the Valley, we trade barbs, and I've made him an editorial target in the past.
Favorite book? The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Subject that causes you to rant? What subject doesn't cause me to rant?
Biggest 21st century thrill? The Internet, and what the Internet means in terms of "free speech" for the world at large. In five or 10 years, there are going to be thousands of us "citizen journalists" out there.
Biggest 21st century creep-out? The technology. Cell phones and the Internet and email are all great, but we don't have as much solitude as we used to. Standing in front of the microwave for two minutes is a long time now; it used to be that you had to cook your dinner for an hour.
What do you drive? 1996 Geo Metro– the world's fastest Geo, I call it in my column.
In your car CD player right now: My CD player is broken. The answer should have been, "I listen to NPR," but then my radio broke. As a result, my solitude is driving. I'm not sure I'm going to get it fixed. My fortress of solitude, I call it. The World's Fastest Geo has a Fortress of Solitude within it. If I drove slower, I guess I'd have more time to enjoy my Fortress of Solitude.
Next journey? I'd like to do nonfiction books.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? When I was four years old– I don't know why this happened– I took the newspapers that were out and put them on my parent's gas stove. Fast forward about 27 years, and my mom was telling a story about how my sister had done this, and I had to tell her, "Actually, mom, I did that." If it's possible when you're 30 years old to get in trouble with your mom, I did.
Regret? I regret not having foreseen that I would be doing what I'm doing now when I was in college so that I could have prepared myself better.
Favorite comfort food? Chocolate chip ice cream
Always in your refrigerator? Diet Big K soda. Gotta have caffeine.
Must-see TV? Reruns of Seinfeld
Favorite cartoon? Aqua Teen Hunger Force. My Sunday night schedule is based on "I gotta get done so I can watch Adult Swim."
Describe a perfect day. A Saturday, a nice cool crisp fall day. I get to go hit some golf balls at the driving range and come back and watch college football all day.
Walter Mitty fantasy? I'd like to run for political office.
Who'd play you in the movie? Drew Carey. He'd have to grow a good head of hair, because I haven't had a haircut in about a year.
Most embarrassing moment? Delivering a high school graduation speech that I wasn't supposed to give
Best advice you ever got? Never say "no."
Favorite bumper sticker? I have a bumper sticker on the back of the World's Fastest Geo– it doesn't slow it down: "Newt Free Zone."
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Top Ramen Pizza
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Hot pizza quick and easy the Top Ramen way!
Cover pizza pan with aluminum foil. Build up foil edges to form about 1/2" tall rim around the pan. Lightly grease the aluminum surface. Cook both packages of Top Ramen noodles in water with pinch of salt. Do not use flavor packets. Drain noodles and set aside. Brown beef, onions and mushrooms together. Drain excess fat. Stir both flavor packets into meat mixture. Set aside. Beat together egg, milk and parmesan cheese. Stir this mixture into Top Ramen noodles. Evenly spread noodle/egg mixture onto pizza pan. Pour spaghetti sauce over noodles. Sprinkle meat mixture over sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until golden , bubbly brown. Let stand 5 minutes before slicing. Great for parties!
* 2 packages Beef Flavor Top Ramen
* Salt
* 3 cups water
* 1/2 pound ground beef
* 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
* 1 jar spaghetti sauce (15-1/2oz.)
* 3 Tbsp. Parmesan cheese
* 1/2 cup onion, chopped
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1 egg
* 8 oz. mozzarella cheese, grated
* 1 pizza pan
* aluminum foil
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i just found this recipe for ramen pizza online... i haven't tried it, but it sounds delicious....
Embrace the noodles of all cultures, and listen to Bob Marley... He's good, and his hair is like noodles
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Most ramen recipes are meant to be for when you have nothing much in the cupboard and you whip something together.
There are so many ingredients in it that I would need to go to the store. Which then begs the question of why I don't just buy some pizza crust?
There are so many ingredients in it that I would need to go to the store. Which then begs the question of why I don't just buy some pizza crust?
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Based on events from about 1400-1000 B.C., the Mahabharata (the great epic of the Bharata dynasty) is one of the two major epics of India. Its importance stems largely from its high literary merit and the fact that one of its four parts is the Bhagavadgita (Song of the Lord), the primary religious text of Hinduism. With more than 100,000 couplets, the Mahabharata is approximately seven times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. Its main components are thought to have been compiled between 1400 and 1000 B.C by multple authors.


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I have a question about the unforgivable sin. It is named in Matthew 12 and also in 1 John 5:16. John recommends us not to pray for people who are fallen into this sin.
1. What exactly is this sin?
2. How can you recognize this sin?
With regard to these passages I have found the comments of Matthew Poole to be very balanced and helpful. Jesus said this:
"All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come" (Mt. 12:31-32).
Poole identifies the sin mentioned here as "maliciously speaking to the highest reproach of the Holy Spirit, contrary to the rational conviction of their own consciences." Here are his comments:
"... if any person hath been instructed in the things of God, and hath made a profession of religion and godliness, and afterwards falleth off from his profession, and becomes a bitter enemy to it; saying that those things are the effects of the devil in men, which his heart telleth him are the operations of the Holy Spirit, and be so hardy as to persecute and seek to destroy such persons for such profession: the interpretation be to those that hate us, and to the enemies of our God...."
He adds this qualification:
"...not words spoken ignorantly or hastily, or according to our real judgment and opinion; but words spoken maliciously, in order to destroy God or Christ, if it were possible...."
The passage in 1 John says, "If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it" (1 John 5:16).
Poole says that this refers to "... such as have apostatized from a former specious profession into heresy and debauchery, and continue obstinate therein, against all methods of recovery; that are, as Jude 12, even twice dead...."
As to your questions:
1. What is exactly this sin?
I do not believe that a person can unknowingly or unconsciously commit the unpardonable sin. It would seem that the unpardonable sin is a deliberate act of apostasy committed by someone who has known the truth and made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.
2. How can you recognize this sin?
When someone who has professed Christ denies the faith and becomes a bitter enemy to the faith, maliciously trying to destroy Christ and His church.
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Report: Ex-Turkish army chief freed pending trial
Turkey's state television says the country's former military chief has been released from custody pending trial over his role in the ousting of a pro-Islamic government in the 1990s.
TRT television says Friday a court freed Gen. Ismail Hakki Karadayi after he was questioned by prosecutors over his alleged role in forcing the resignation in 1997 of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan. No trial date has been set.
Dozens of other people, including the country's former chiefs of air force and land forces, were charged over Erbakan's ouster.
Karadayi, who is 80, served as the chief of the military staff between 1994 and 1998.
The military pressured Erbakan to resign over his alleged attempts to raise the profile of Islam in the predominantly Muslim but secular country.


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Shipper signs 10-year lease for Portland terminal
First container ship to arrive in about a month
An Icelandic shipping company has signed a 10-year lease on a waterfront freight terminal in Portland as it prepares to make the city its primary East Coast port of call beginning next month.
Eimskip says a container cargo ship will stop in Portland every 14 days carrying imports from overseas and taking on exports from Maine businesses bound for eastern Canada and Europe.
City and state officials, along with Eimskip and Pan Am Railways representatives, held a news conference Wednesday at the International Marine Terminal to tout the benefits of the return of container cargo shipping to Maine.
"What's happening today is exactly what we wanted to have happen: to have a major business come to the City of Portland and to, all of a sudden, open up markets to local businesses, to business throughout the state ... business throughout the region in ways that we haven't in the past," Portland Mayor Michael Brennan said at the news conference.
Others at the news conference said the new deal could help the state's seafood, lumber and agriculture businesses by opening up new markets.
Eimskip USA General Manager Larus Isfeld said imports from Europe will be transported from Portland by train and truck to customers in New England and beyond. Eimskip is partnering with Pan Am Railways so goods in Portland can move throughout North America by rail.
The first container ship will arrive in Portland in about a month.
Eimskip had been operating from Norfolk, Va., for 27 years before making the decision to move to Maine.


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Jennifer Lopez is far from traditional. After three failed marriages, she's dating a man half her age and not afraid to show him off to the world. In a recent interview with ABC News, JLo made a comment that really caught our attention and made us love her even more.
In light of her new controversial show The Fosters, which includes a lesbian couple raising a child, Jenny defended her choice by pointing out that she herself isn't traditional, and she wants her children to grow up knowing that tradition isn't necessarily the "right way" to live.
"I am a non-traditional family," the hot 43-year-old star said. "Me being a single mom, their dad doesn't live at home with them. They have three stepbrothers from two other moms . . . that's not traditional. There is no perfect [image of] what a family is supposed to be."
She goes on to admit that she used to think she failed her family.
"It's about love and that's what I constantly remind myself of because I kind of let society get inside my head, 'Oh, it shouldn't be like this. I did this, I did that. I failed.' And it's like, no. They're happy, they're healthy, they're loved more than anything in the world and they're going to be fine."
That's right JLo, we couldn't agree more.
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BIRMINGHAM, England, June 11 (UPI) -- Fourth-seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria fell in a second-round upset to young American qualifier Alison Riske Tuesday at the grass-court Aegon Classic.
Riske, a 22-year-old Pittsburgh native, rallied for a 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over grass-court specialist Paszek, who has advanced to the Wimbledon quarterfinals the last two years.
In another Round 2 match-up, No. 6 Mona Barthel of Germany held off Serbia's Vesna Dolonc 7-5, 2-6, 7-5, but eighth-seeded Pole Urszula Radwanska was bounced by Croatia's Donna Vekic 6-3, 6-2.
Madison Keys also gained the third round with a comeback 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) decision over fellow unseeded American Jamie Hampton.
Elsewhere at Edgbaston Priory Club Tuesday, first-round contests saw No. 9 Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, No. 12 Kristina Mladenovic of France, No. 14 Heather Watson of Britain, No. 15 Francesca Schiavone of Italy and Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova emerge with victories.


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City Council advances single-terminal design for KCI Airport
Aviation director says airport is outdated
On a 9-3 vote, the City Council approved changing Kansas City International Airport's long-range plan to include converting the airport to a single terminal.
Council members Scott Wagner, Scott Taylor and John Sharp voted against the change in the plan.
In a blog post this week, Kansas City Mayor Sly James called for "an adult discussion" over the proposed changes.
"I mean, this is a five-year process. Nobody is building anything today. Not yet. And there will be plenty of time for people to get information -- information that makes sense to people," James told KMBC TV on Thursday.
KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that grassroots opposition to the plan has percolated up on several fronts. A website and Facebook page are both dedicated to "saving" the airport. Many opponents said the city is trying to fix a problem that isn't there.
The city's aviation director Mark VanLoh said the airport is outdated, has too many gates requiring too many security agents and there are environmental issues.
A frequent flyer, Kansas City businesswoman Laura Brown, said she appreciates the convenient nature of KCI. She also said that sentiment aside, the city must make an objective decision.
"It probably has to be a business decision. It is more economical to operate one terminal or the three altogether," Brown said.
Another frequent traveler at KCI on Thursday was Dallas businesswoman Ronnie Krause.
She does not agree that a new airport may attract more airlines or more nonstop flights as the plan's boosters hope.
She said she frequently travels through Dallas' older airport, Love Field, rather than the more modern DFW.
She said she does that because Southwest Airlines flies out of Dallas from Love Field.
"When Southwest is flying into an airport, tickets are cheaper. That's just competition, that's the way it is," she said.


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The online retailer has announced that its movie development arm, Amazon Studios, wants to fund original episodic television programming for its Instant video streaming service. If you have an amazing idea for a "smart, character-driven" comedy or children's series, you can pitch it to the company right now.
Creators will receive $10,000 for optioned scripts, and $55,000—plus royalties—if a series is produced.
This isn't the first time Amazon has offered to pay creators for original content. Amazon Studios was first formed in 2010 to solicit test scripts and ideas for theatrical films, which are passed to partner studio Warner Bros. for consideration. In the case of its serialized television efforts, however, Amazon Studios plans to produce and distribute the best ideas itself.
According to the company's website, a 22-minute comedy series pitch (or 11-minutes for children's programming) must include a pilot script, a "mini-bible" outlining main characters and mythology, in addition to pre-existing footage, if any. Applicants have the option of submitting their ideas privately—only for Amazon Studios staff to review—or publicly, where "other users will be able to contribute content to [a] project, like revised scripts and trailers" at the creator's discretion.
Speaking with All Things D, Amazon Studios head Roy Price wouldn't discuss budget for potential series, nor a timeline for release.


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Happy Thursday!
This weeks schedule changed a tad bit, but it was no problem for our awesome class! In this email I will be covering the schedule for this week and next, as I will not be sending home an email next week (this is because we will meet on Wednesday and it's a shortened week). Please sign up for a time to meet with me if you haven't already!
Also, our class started a project. We are becoming authors and creating a class book. In this class book, each student will have two stories. One for Thanksgiving: What are you thankful for? And one for Christmas: they have two choices (a) Are you on Santa's nice or naughty list and why? Or (b) A Christmas Story, this is a story of the students choice, fiction or non-fiction, serious or funny. I sent home fliers, please submit it to me! Submit it to me even if you aren't purchasing a book! If all of the parents submit their slips, we get a free class copy of the book. Parents may purchase a copy (or multiple, your choice) of the class book. However, there is also a place to check "No" if you don't want to purchase one.
Have a great weekend!