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The film about HH Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi has apparently been released and may be available in other sources. I have included the BOS (Dutch Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation) link because it may be available there tomorrow (or shortly thereafter). This was an ad on FB for a cable presentation or for livestreaming (don't know which).Imagine that you are a Tibetan child and people tell you that you were a famous Buddhist teacher in your previous life. What do you do then (or what happens then)? Find out tomorrow (Sunday) 10 February on the BOS (program?) on NL2 (a Dutch cable channel?) at 2 PM. You can click on the trailer here
There is also a Crestone Films channel on YouTube which has clips from the movie and interviews. There is also a website for the film: Yangsithemovie.com
Je bent een Tibetaanse kleuter en men vertelt je dat je in je vorige leven een beroemde boeddhistische leraar bent geweest. Wat gebeurt er dan? Kijk morgen (zondag) 10 feb. naar de BOS op NL2 om 14 uur. Bekijk de trailer op http://ow.ly/htCAY


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Write a short story/flash fiction story in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, including a poem. Begin the story with the words, "Shadows crept across the wall". These five words will be included in the word count.
If you want to give yourself an added challenge (optional), do one or more of these:And here is my entry --
- end the story with the words: "everything faded." (also included in the word count)
- include the word "orange" in the story
- write in the same genre you normally write
- make your story 200 words exactly!
Shadows Crept across the wall, the signal of the sun rising through the blinds. Shay already had her bag packed and her hiking boots on. It was going to be a good day.
Not that Shay liked to hike, she had never really done much hiking before, but she did get to go with Lance. Plus it didn't hurt that she got to hit up Eddie Bauer for the first time her life the day before. Because, where else can you find authentic hiking gear in the mall?
The doorbell rang and Shay scrambled down the stairs, poofing her hair as she went. She opened the door and leaned on the frame, biting her lower lip. "Hi Lance."
"Are you wearing shorts?" Lance said pointing at the carefully picked cargos that highlighted Shay's long legs.
"Well, yeah."
"It's like twenty degrees out here, and it's going to get colder towards the top."
Shay looked out over the snowy landscape and orange horizon. "I'll be fine!"
Even though she said the words she didn't believe them. Her hands shook as she took her first step outside. Those one-hundred dollar hiking boots didn't hold up. She slid on the ice and everything faded.
P. S. Last Weeks giveaway winners are - Jenny Morris with a copy of Everneath, David Powers King with a copy of Pride and Popularity, and Larissa Hardesty with the $10 gift card. Congrats to the winners!
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its final outings of the fall season, the No. 8 MIT women's sailing team captured eighth place at the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship while the No. 16 coed squad was 11th at its own Atlantic Coast Championship this past weekend. Prior to the postseason competitions, the Engineers participated in the Dark of Night Invitational last Thursday where they secured ninth and 14th place.
Senior Hanna Vincent (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and sophomore Lisa Sukharev-Chuyan (Temple, N.H.) collaborated for a seventh-place performance out of 18 teams in the B Division of the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship. The duo entered the top 10 in seven of the 11 rounds, highlighted by third place in the sixth race, fourth place in the eighth rotation, and a pair of fifth-place finishes. In the A Division, juniors Chloe Lepert (Belmont, Calif.) and Samantha Albright (Madison, Conn.) ranked 12th as they won the 10th round, were the runner-ups in the eighth race, claimed third place in the final outing, and added placements of ninth and 10th.
At the 18-team Atlantic Coast Championship, freshman Alec Stewart (Duxbury, Mass.) and senior Iris Xu (Madison, Wis.) captured third place on the strength of 10 top-10 finishes in the B Division. The pair won the sixth and seventh rotations, finished second in the fifth race, and came in fourth on four occasions. Senior David Alfonso (San Juan, Puerto Rico), sophomore David Larson (La Jolla, Calif.), junior Kayla Ngan (Sudbury, Mass.), and freshman Jordan Ladd (St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) represented MIT in the A Division where they finished 17th. The contingent was sixth in the 12th and 14th rounds, eighth in the fifth race, 10th in the opening outing, and added three 11th-place performances.
Freshmen Nicole O'Brien (Winthrop, Mass.) and Jorlyn Le Garrec (Pittsburgh, Pa.) led the "Angry Beavers" to seventh place in the B Division of the Dark of Night Invitational as they placed 12th and 14th in the two rotations that were completed. Fellow classmates Kyle Joba-Woodruff (Montreal, Quebec) and David Zhang (Boyds, Md.) claimed eighth and fifth place en route to another seventh-place finish in the A Division, helping the squad rank ninth overall. MIT's second entry, the "Engineers", was 14th as it secured the same spot in the A and B Divisions. Freshmen Moseley Andrews (Ross, Calif.) and Ellie Simonson (Bismarck, N.D.) captured sixth and eighth place in the B Division while sophomores Cali Warner (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Alissa Borshchenko (Brooklyn, N.Y.) ranked 16th and 13th in their two A-Division races.


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The Sequester and/or Government Shutdown Approacheth
Anybody else ****ing fed up with this shit? 2013: Year of the Cliff.
Sequester hits March 1st. Government shutdown hits March 27th.
Here's the conversation on the fiscal cliff. Here's the conversation on the debt ceiling (which we'll be returning to by May... sigh).
The White House discusses the entirety of the impact in post 136. It's devastating.
Here's the FAQ on the sequester (from September):
The sequester, explained
Posted by Suzy Khimm
on September 14, 2012 at 2:35 pm
The White House has released its plan explaining how the sequesters mandatory spending cuts to defense and domestic spending will be implemented in 2013. Heres the background on what the sequester is, how it happened and what happens from here:
What is the sequester?
Its a package of automatic spending cuts thats part of the Budget Control Act (BCA), which was passed in August 2011. The cuts, which are projected to total $1.2 trillion, are scheduled to begin in 2013 and end in 2021, evenly divided over the nine-year period. The cuts are also evenly split between defense spending with spending on wars exempt and discretionary domestic spending, which exempts most spending on entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid, as the Bipartisan Policy Center explains. The total cuts for 2013 will be $109 billion, according to the new White House report.
Under the BCA, the cuts were triggered to take effect beginning Jan. 1 if the supercommittee didnt to agree to a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction package by Nov. 23, 2011. The group failed to reach a deal, so the sequester was triggered.
Why does everyone hate the sequester so much?
Legislators dont have any discretion with the across-the-board cuts: They are intended to hit all affected programs equally, though the cuts to individual areas will range from 7.6 percent to 9.6 percent (and 2 percent to Medicare providers). The indiscriminate pain is meant to pressure legislators into making a budget deal to avoid the cuts.
How would these cuts affect the country?
Since the details just came out, its not entirely clear yet. But many top defense officials have warned that the cuts will lead the military to be hollowed out. Democratic legislators have similarly warned about the impact on vital social programs. And defense, health care and other industries that are significantly dependent on federal spending say that major job losses will happen if the cuts end up taking effect.
At the same time, if legislators try to avoid the sequester without replacing it with real deficit reduction, the U.S. could face another credit downgrade.
Why did Congress and the White House agree to the sequester in the first place?
The government was approaching its debt limit, which needed to be raised through a congressional vote or else the country would default in early August 2011. While Democrats were in favor of a clean vote without strings attached, Republicans were demanding substantial cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.
President Obama and congressional leaders ultimately agreed to the BCA, which would allow the debt ceiling to be raised by $2.1 trillion in exchange for the establishment of the supercommittee tied to the fall-back sequester, as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities explains. The deal also includes mandatory spending reductions on top of the sequester by putting caps on non-entitlement discretionary spending that will reduce funding by $1 trillion by 2021.
Who supported the debt-ceiling deal?
Party leaders, the White House and most members of Congress supported the debt-ceiling deal: The BCA passed on a 268-161 vote in the House, with about one-third of House Republicans and half of House Democrats opposing it. It passed in the Senate, 74-26, with six Democratic senators and 19 Republican senators opposing it.
Can the sequester be avoided?
Yes, but only if Congress passes another budget deal that would achieve at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. Both Democrats and Republicans have offered proposals to do so, but there still isnt much progress on a deal. The political obstacles are the same as during the supercommittee negotiations: Republicans dont want to raise taxes to generate revenue, while Democrats are reluctant to make dramatic changes to entitlement programs to achieve savings.
What happens from here?
No one on Capitol Hill thinks any deal will happen before Election Day. After Nov. 6, Congress will have just a few weeks to come up with an alternative to the sequester. The challenge is complicated by the fact that the Bush tax cuts, the payroll tax, unemployment benefits and a host of other tax breaks are all scheduled to expire Dec. 31. The cumulative impact of all of these scheduled cuts and changes is whats popularly known as the fiscal cliff. Theres already talk of passing a short-term stopgap budget plan during the lame-duck session to buy legislators more time to come up with a grand bargain.
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The party of Reagan, or the party of the Club for Growth?
Posted by Greg Sargent
on February 6, 2013 at 3:07 pm
At a press conference just now, Republican officials who fear that the sequester will damage our national security trained their fire mostly on President Obama, lambasting him for putting us in a position that could compromise our military.
But no matter how much ire was directed at the President, what the presser revealed with overwhelming clarity is that the battle over the sequester has sparked intra-party tensions among Republicans — one that exposes the rift between "anti-tax Republicans" and "defense Republicans," as Josh Green put it today.
At the presser, GOP officials like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, and Buck McKeon all lined up to warn that the sequester must be averted at all costs. McKeon has long been pushing for a bill that would avert the sequester with an across the board cut of 10 percent to the federal workforce.
"Our defense should not be used as a bargaining chip," Ayotte said.
The only trouble with this line is that other Republicans have explicitly said they are prepared to use the sequester in just this way — to force the spending cuts they want. John Boehner recently told the Wall Street Journal that the sequester (and not the debt ceiling) would be the primary source of the party's leverage in the fiscal battles to come. Paul Ryan has hinted he's prepared to let the sequester go forward if Dems won't agree to avert it only with spending cuts. The Club For Growth, meanwhile, is actively urging lawmakers to allow it to happen.
But at the presser, defense Republicans denounced this course of action as a threat to the country's security, and even likened it to helping the enemy. At one point, Lindsey Graham said: "I'm sure Iran is very supportive of sequestration."
I asked Club for Growth spokesman Barney Keller for a response. "Congress promised when they passed the Budget Control Act that if the supercommittee failed, they'd do sequestration," he said. "We don't think it's at all unreasonable to do what they promised they would do."
Asked specifically to respond to Graham's Iran crack, Keller said: "I'm not going to stoop to that level."
For much of the presser, Republican officials managed to keep the tension between these two wings of the party under wraps by continually directing their fire at Obama as being to blame for the current sequester threat. But towards the end of the presser, Graham explicitly targeted fellow Republicans, making the tensions explicit.
Graham said that McKeon would be holding hearings on the sequester's impact, and then added, in a barb directed at Republicans: "After this hearing, if you feel comfortable cutting the government this way, then you have lost your way as much as the president." Graham indignantly noted that Ronald Reagan had said government's number one responsibility is to fund defense, and concluded: "I intend to fight for the party of Ronald Reagan."
The larger story here is that these tensions all flow from one basic fact: The refusal of many Republicans to entertain even another penny in new revenues from the wealthy. After all, Republicans have a very simple way out of this mess: They can agree to new revenues via tax reform. If they did, Obama and Dems would agree to spending cuts, and on balance, the overall deficit reduction ledger would, at the end of the day, still remain tilted toward Republicans. A handful of Republicans have been willing to openly entertain agreeing to new revenues rather than let the sequester slice into defense spending. But the vast majority won't, and because of this, the sequester is looming, and the party is divided over what to do about it.
The reflexive ideological opposition to cutting defense (which Republicans have long equated with weakness) is running headlong into the reflexive ideological insistence on shrinking government.
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Democrats Seek to Stave Off $1 Trillion in Cuts
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: February 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — With at least one million jobs on the line, Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were closing in on legislation to temporarily head off nearly $1 trillion in cuts that were already affecting Pentagon decision-making and could force significant reductions in staffing and services across the government.
Despite strong resistance from Republican leaders to new tax revenues, Democrats said that they expected the onset of federal furloughs and layoffs on March 1 to make Republicans more receptive to an emerging solution that would combine spending cuts with revenue from closing tax loopholes. Lawmakers were being spurred by increasingly dire warnings from top Pentagon officials about the implications of the automatic reductions.
"This is not a game; this is reality," Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said emphatically in a speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday, as he warned that the cuts would curtail American naval operations in the western Pacific by as much as a third and force one-month furloughs for as many as 800,000 Defense Department civilian employees starting this spring.
"These steps would seriously damage the fragile American economy, and they would degrade our ability to respond to crisis precisely at a time of rising instability across the globe," he said.
Within hours of the speech, the Pentagon announced that the pending budget cuts had forced it to delay the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the crucial Persian Gulf, leaving only one near the Strait of Hormuz and the coastline of Iran after March. Because of the tensions in the region, the Pentagon has kept two carriers in the area for most of the last two years.
At a closed-door retreat in Annapolis, Md., this week, Senate Democratic leaders struck a populist tone. They suggested they could rally public support for a measure that would temporarily suspend the cuts by limiting tax breaks for oil and gas exploration, reducing the tax advantages for wealthy private-equity employees who pay a lower 20 percent capital gains rate on much of their income, and ending tax deductions for the cost of moving business functions overseas.
A presentation by Senator Patty Murray of Washington, who spoke along with Senators Max Baucus of Montana and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, described the income gains of the richest 1 percent of Americans amid rising poverty and stagnating middle-class incomes.
"Republicans ultimately have to choose whether they are more interested in protecting tax breaks for Big Oil and other special interests, or protecting defense spending and the economy," said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
Republican leaders are no less firm that the cuts will come into force in three weeks unless Democrats agree to equivalent spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, without tax increases.
"At some point, Washington has to deal with its spending problem," Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio said Wednesday. "I've watched them kick this can down the road for 22 years since I've been here. I've had enough of it. It's time to act."
While federal officials have historically warned of government disruptions to avoid cutbacks, the potential impact of the cuts is being cited by both parties. Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said the military side alone would eliminate 350,000 jobs directly, and 650,000 more that depend on the government programs.
Domestic programs, from the National Institutes of Health to the Department of Education, would be hit nearly as hard. The Army would cut intelligence and surveillance aircraft and pull back on efforts to counter roadside bombs. Defense Department furloughs would potentially begin as early as April and would cut one work day a week from the Pentagon's vast civilian work force for the next six months. The employees would face a corresponding 20 percent cut in pay.
At a House Democratic retreat in Virginia on Thursday, Representative Nita Lowey of New York is expected to lay out the domestic side. About 10 percent of the Federal Aviation Administration's 40,000 workers would be furloughed. Because meat and poultry inspectors would be kept home, food plants that cannot operate without them would have to be shuttered. Coast Guard air and surface operations would be down nearly 25 percent.
Wait times at the nation's busiest airports could rise as much as three hours with the furloughing of customs agents. Some 70,000 children would be dropped from Head Start. And as Republicans continue to delve into the deaths of four Americans at the American Mission in Benghazi, Libya, the State Department would have to absorb a $168 million cut to embassy security.
Both parties are showing cracks in their resolve. Some Republicans with large military installations in their districts said they could support a postponement in the military cuts while negotiations continued on a broader deficit reduction plan. Fearing for Hill Air Force Base, Representative Rob Bishop, Republican of Utah, did not rule out supporting a Senate bill that closed tax loopholes and cut spending to stave off the cuts.
"It would depend on what the details are," he said.
Republican leaders of the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees proposed Wednesday to cancel the Pentagon cuts for 2013 by applying savings from a 10 percent cut in the federal work force over the next decade.
Most of the Armed Services Republican leaders were steadfast in their opposition to any more tax increases to resolve the impasse. After describing the situation as "desperate," Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate committee, added, "It's not desperate enough to raise taxes."
The cuts were required in 2011 when a special House-Senate committee was unable to come up with a compromise plan to reduce the deficit.
But Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said both parties bear responsibility for agreeing to the cuts to force a bipartisan deficit deal that remains out of reach.
"We got into this mess together," he said. "We're going to have to get out of it together."
House Democrats produced legislation that would stave off the cuts through Sept. 30 by ending direct subsidy payments to agribusinesses, eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies, and establishing a minimum 30-percent effective tax rate on annual incomes over $1 million.
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The first circle is the part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 that created the fiscal cliff and the sequester.
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It was irresponsible of Republicans to agree to the defense sequestration possibility in the first place. They should have known that Obama and many democrats would be willing, if not thrilled, to neuter our defense capabilities anyway. It was a stupid move.
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Sequester cuts a time bomb for GOP?
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN
Republicans open to letting billions in sequester cuts go through figure they can blame the president if the economy goes south.
But Democrats are betting they can shift that blame right back to the GOP.
They're so confident, in fact, that they're already eyeing at least 10 Republican-held seats with strong military connections from Florida to California to target in 2014, after sequester cuts have trickled down to local bases where jobs are lost and voters notice.
"Republicans who are unwilling to compromise, unwilling to find solutions and are responsible for cuts to defense and jobs in their districts are going to find an unwelcome reception from voters," said Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The Republicans can't say they weren't warned: The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that sequestration could cost 1 million jobs and send the country into another recession.
If anyone should know about sequestration politics, it'd be the Republicans.
Mitt Romney warned about the devastating job losses from sequestration as he toured 2012 battleground states. But the campaign last year revolved around theoretical spending cuts.
Say sequestration kicks in on March 1: then lawmakers are suddenly in a much different place, reacting to very real reductions in government services the public relies on, as well as a rippling of layoffs in the private sector.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner both said this week they'd like to avoid sequestration, but they are worlds apart in how to address it and have shown no signs that negotiations will resume to end it. Proposals bouncing around Capitol Hill to delay the cuts have yet to build a critical majority and House and Senate leaders are still gaming out whether votes will come up on any of them.
Meanwhile, key Republicans have been speaking openly for weeks about their willingness to let sequestration take effect, regardless of the political risk they'd face at the ballot box in 2014.
"I'm a lot more concerned about trillion-dollar deficits every year stretching to infinity," said Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who also added, "That's obviously a more indirect issue to somebody who's about to lose their job or has lost their job, and I respect that 100 percent."
Several polls released since last November's election show Republicans would get the bulk of the blame if the so-called "fiscal cliff" hits, whether it be tax hikes that nearly hit on New Year's Day or the threat of a government default absent a raise in borrowing authority. If sequestration happens, House Democrats say they'll have tangible proof that the GOP is a dysfunctional party that can't even tie its own shoelaces on something as essential to its long-standing tradition as the Pentagon budget.
The DCCC is circulating a list of Republican members who represent districts where defense and domestic cuts could cause lasting damage and help turn the seats from red to blue, or at least force the GOP to spend money it didn't plan on spending.
A top target is two-term Rep. Scott Rigell, whose Hampton Roads, Va., district is home to the world's largest naval base and a defense contracting community so big it's known as "Pentagon South."
Other high-profile defense advocates whom Democrats see as beatable because of sequestration are House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (Calif.) and Rep. Bill Young, a 22-term Floridian who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of the Pentagon's purse strings. They also are eyeing members with military bases or defense contractors in their backyards, including Reps. Andy Barr (Ky.), Dan Benishek (Mich.), John Fleming (La.), Mick Mulvaney (S.C.), Steve Pearce (N.M.), Tom Reed (N.Y.), Steve Southerland (Fla.) and David Valadao (Calif.).
Even if the targeted GOP members work to stop the cuts and cast votes to stop them from going into effect, Democrats say the Republicans' electoral prospects could still be dragged down if enough conservatives win on forcing sequestration to happen anyway.
"If they continue with the extremism that they've engaged in and continue to hold our economy hostage and refuse to work with Democrats and the president to try to make sure we can move our economy forward and get the economy kicked into a higher gear, yes, I absolutely think they will suffer politically, as I think they did quite frankly in the last election," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Speaking Thursday at the House Democrats' retreat in Lansdowne, Va., Obama challenged Republicans to come up with a compromise that turns off the automatic spending cuts while looking ahead to the next political season.
"They recognize that the sequester is a bad idea, but what they've suggested is that the only way to replace it now is for us to cut Social Security, cut Medicare, and not close a single loophole, not raise any additional revenue from the wealthiest Americans or corporations who have a lot of lawyers and accountants who are able to maneuver and manage and work and game the system," Obama said. "I have to tell you, if that's an argument they want to have before the court of public opinion, that is an argument I'm more than willing to engage in."
Democrats also said sequestration would pose problems for Republicans if it started March 1 but got retroactively fixed through legislation — a strategy some in the GOP say may be their best option — because of the uncertainty in front of defense contractors.
"Even if it's undone, they will pay a political price," said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
Several Republicans acknowledged the political predicament that incumbents are in come 2014.
"Balancing budgets in the abstract is very politically popular, but when you specifically vote on specific cuts to programs that your constituents want, there's a price to be paid for that," said Matt Schlapp, the former political director of George W. Bush's White House.
Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) said he's safe next year because he didn't vote for sequestration in the first place. But the second-term congressman noted the cuts — if they happen — also don't bode well for his constituents.
"It's awful," he said. "What about active-duty military? What about Medicare? What about doctors? It's not the right way to do business and it's not the right scenario."
Young, the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee chairman and longest-serving current House Republican, said there could be some political blowback for incumbents who have been trying to stop sequestration.
"That could be the case, but that's not my concern. My main concern is what it does to the readiness of my country," he told POLITICO.
Rigell, an Armed Services Committee member and among the top House recipients last cycle of defense industry campaign contributions, said he's been "making every effort to avert or mitigate" the effects of sequestration in his district. Come 2014, he said he'll win another term thanks to his record.
"While not minimizing this, I am saying that a member can surely navigate through it if they led well," Rigell told POLITICO.
Schlapp said sequestration politics "are definitely tricky when it comes to communities that'll receive less military funding."
But he said it shouldn't be all bad news for members considering the next election cycle should have larger economic undercurrents.
"We're going into uncharted waters, where actually there's an upside politically to members who say, 'Yes I voted for cuts, including ones that helped my district,'" he said. "If there was ever a time to make that argument, 2014 has to be the best time to make it in my lifetime."
Several Republicans said spending cuts should resonate with their voters.
"Too often, some in Washington underestimate the knowledge base of the voters," Oregon Rep. Greg Walden, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told POLITICO. "And from a Republican perspective, it's a base that believes much more needs to be done to reduce the size and scope of the federal government because we can't continue to borrow 43 cents on the dollar and survive."
If voters are looking to pin the blame on anyone, several Republicans said Obama and the Senate Democrats should face the consequences for not agreeing to legislation passed by the House that could have already turned sequestration off.
"If you're looking for somebody who will take it hard, I think it's the president, because he said during the campaign, 'Nah, it's not going to happen,'" Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said.
Jim Dyer, a Republican who was House Appropriations Committee staff director, said incumbents in both parties could be at risk come 2014 if they can't stop the spending cuts.
"I think the problem you have is there's no good way to spin this stuff," he said. "This is not a spin-able story. This is just something that could be fixed, should be fixed. Everybody knows it, but they aren't doing it. And that's a pain in the ass."
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Nips and Tucks and Big Budget Cuts
By TYLER COWEN
Published: February 2, 2013
UNLESS lawmakers act by March 1, the budget sequestration process will start cutting government spending automatically — reductions that would amount to $1.2 trillion by 2021. Congress and the White House agreed in 2011 to the sequestration, and many people see it as a kind of political gimmick.
But I believe that it can turn out to be a very good thing — and that most of these cuts should proceed on schedule, though with some restructuring along the way.
One common argument against letting this process run its course is a Keynesian claim — namely, that cuts or slowdowns in government spending can throw an economy into recession by lowering total demand for goods and services. Nonetheless, spending cuts of the right kind can help an economy.
Half of the sequestration would apply to the military budget, an area where most cuts would probably enhance rather than damage future growth. Reducing the defense budget by about $55 billion a year, the sum at stake, would most likely mean fewer engineers and scientists inventing weaponry and more of them producing for consumers.
In the short run, lower military spending would lower gross domestic product, because the workers and resources in those areas wouldn't be immediately re-employed. Still, that wouldn't mean lower living standards for ordinary Americans, because most military spending does not provide us with direct private consumption.
To be sure, lower military spending might bring future problems, like an erosion of the nation's long-term global influence. But then we are back to standard foreign policy questions about how much to spend on the military — and the Keynesian argument is effectively off the table.
On a practical note, the military cuts would have to be defined relative to a baseline, which already specifies spending increases. So the "cuts" in the sequestration would still lead to higher nominal military spending and roughly flat inflation-adjusted spending across the next 10 years. That is hardly unilateral disarmament, given that the United States accounts for about half of global military spending. And in a time when some belt-tightening will undoubtedly be required, that seems a manageable degree of restraint.
The other half of sequestration would apply to domestic discretionary spending, where the Keynesian argument against spending cuts has more force.
But here, too, much of the affected spending should be cut anyhow. Farm support programs would be a major target, and most economists agree that those payments should be abolished or pared back significantly. Regulatory agencies would also lose funds, but instead of across-the-board cuts, we could give these agencies the choice of cutting their least valuable programs — or, for that matter, we could cut farm subsidies even further.
Of course, much discretionary spending goes toward useful projects — building or repairing roads, for example, or research toward medical innovation. Limiting these investments would bring the Keynesian argument into play, and perhaps harm productivity, too. So we should look to substitute some areas for others — and turn to Keynesian macroeconomics for guidance.
THE Keynesian argument suggests that spending cuts do the least harm in economic sectors where demand is high relative to supply. Thus, the obvious candidate for the domestic economy is health care, and the sequestration would cut many Medicare reimbursement rates by 2 percent. We could go ahead with those cuts or even deepen them, because America has had significant health care cost inflation for decades.
We already have huge demand in our health care system, along with a corresponding shortage of doctors. And the coverage extension in the Affordable Care Act will add to the strain. In this setting, cutting Medicare reimbursement rates wouldn't result in fewer health care services over all. Yes, doctors might be less keen to serve Medicare patients but might be more available for others, including the poor and the young. In the long run, the improved access for those groups would yield much return on investment, and would move the health care system closer to many of the European models.
In any case, these Medicare cuts would be unlikely to bring a macroeconomic debacle, and would ease long-term fiscal pressures. We could address the shortage of doctors by removing some barriers to entry into the profession, and, in possible new legislation for immigration, easing the way for more medical professionals to come to the United States.
Most generally, there is an issue of global investor perceptions. As the credit rating agencies have noted, some investors wonder whether spending cuts of any kind are possible in the nation's current political environment. And even if the economic recovery is causing budget deficits to shrink, there are plenty of negative signals about our political ability to address longer-term fiscal concerns, which will become more severe as the population ages.
Simply accepting the automatic spending cuts of the sequestration, without modification, could look like more dysfunctional politics, too. Though many of the reductions have merit, others need orderly renegotiation so the resulting cuts aren't just necessary acts of fiscal restraint, but also net pluses for the economy.
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Theresa Marie Jones 10/28/2004 7:44:28 AMDavid, Love the way you captured this goodlooking family, the lighting is super! #182989
Joey Adam Kulkin 10/28/2004 7:51:54 AMOutstanding work. This is one of the best photos I've seen in a long time. #874621
Cathy Barrows 10/28/2004 8:47:58 AMwonderful...this is a great way to capture a family portrait...really gives you a sense of how their features look like each other #874724
Leanne M.E. Boyd 10/28/2004 8:50:02 AMBeautiful family, and gorgeous capture! #874731
Theresa McCloskey 10/28/2004 8:59:35 AMvery nicely done David - wonderful capture :-) #874762
Edward Snyder 10/28/2004 11:34:59 AMThis is VERY cool. #875048
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Darren M. Alexander 10/28/2004 2:12:28 PMthis is really nice! :-) #875304
Jason 10/28/2004 2:59:15 PMI have never seen a composition such as this. I think it may just be one of my most favorite people images ever posted here! Awesome. #875350
Audrea Telkamp 11/14/2004 5:59:40 PMBeautiful image David!! What a wonderful keepsake for this family!! #909702
Dale Ann Cubbage 11/14/2004 9:42:15 PMA beautiful family portrait! Original idea, beautiful lighting! I really love it . . . might have to try this sometime! LOL!
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Jessica McCollam 11/14/2004 10:10:55 PMThis is one of the best family portraits I have ever seen. Great lighting, very creative image, David! #910046
Wendy Stevenson 11/15/2004 5:46:25 PMCongratulations David on making the finals. #912493
Dale Ann Cubbage 11/15/2004 6:58:03 PMCongrats on your finalist!
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Amanda E. Radovic 11/15/2004 8:48:26 PMmmmmm ...... I think the silver finalist oval will change colour in a couple of days ;-) #914566
Amanda E. Radovic 11/15/2004 8:48:34 PMmmmmm ...... I think the silver finalist oval will change colour in a couple of days ;-) #914567
Marta Azevedo 11/15/2004 9:02:31 PMvery well done. Congrats #914620
Kathleen K. Parker 11/16/2004 5:13:40 AMCongratulations on your finalist!! This is wonderful!!!
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Wong Chek Poh 11/16/2004 6:16:25 AMGreat lighting and posture. Congrats :) #916341
Michael H. Cothran 11/16/2004 7:43:21 AMGreat post-shooting work, and great lighting for this technique (although the hairlight seems to be a little different in each one).
Lori S. Aschbrenner 5/30/2005 3:57:30 AMThis is one of the best, unique family portraits I've seen! Well done and congratulations on your well deserved finalist! #1410058
W Evans 5/20/2006 2:50:21 AMI may be a minority of one here, but while this photo is technically well done, I find the portrait itself a little creepy looking. In a dimly lit room it could be downright scary. So the question becomes, is it really BP that sucks? #2787758
Peter Hundley 5/20/2006 11:55:45 AMNow that you Mention it, "W", I think you're right. The expressions are a bit.... intense. #2789808
Cynthia L. Deters 8/27/2007 6:01:55 AMThis is a crazy image, but such a neat idea for a family with older kids. Congrats on the finalist pic. Nice family portrait. #4703521
Avril Young 11/23/2009 5:14:52 PMwow, love the way you took the family photo...what a fantastic idea and profile capture of this good looking family...love the black background...congrats on this well deserving finalist! #8159468
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DELAND, Fla. – The Lipscomb men's golf team opened play in the Stetson/CFSC Invitational on Monday finding themselves in sixth place in the nine-team field after 36 holes of action at the Victoria Hills Golf Club.
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Warner Bros. Hates Libraries, Wants To Embargo DVD Sales To Libraries For A Month
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Here's the thing, though. What's to stop a library from just buying an official version and lending it out? The whole thing is pretty silly anyway. Is Warner Bros. really thinking that if someone can't take out one of its movies from the library, that they'll really go buy the DVD from WB? Also, doesn't this seem like a form of price fixing?
In the end, though, it's unlikely to actually help. Slightly more enlightened studios, such as Paramount, actually tested such 28-delays and looked at the data, which said Netflix and Redbox don't cannibalize sales, and appear to "expand" the movie business. Too bad Warner Bros. hasn't seen that movie yet. Perhaps they're still waiting for the 28-day delay to pass.


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The Best (and worst!) of SEMA 2011Posted in Project Vehicles on April 1, 2012
Each year the Jp staff scours the Las Vegas convention center to check out the latest creations of the automotive aftermarket industry. The annual convergence is a spectacle for the eyes and punishing to our feet, as over 2,000 exhibitors fill up two million square feet of floor space with vehicular frivolities to astonish nearly 100,000 attendees. Premier car builders from across the nation face off for the annual who's-who of automotive customization. In the months leading up to the show, limitless budgets merge with unstinted creativity to produce some of the most useless vehicles in existence. Amongst the sea of superfluous new product ideas and non-functional show cars, we always seem to find a gem or two that are worth shooting—whether it's for target practice or magazine content. Our primary mission with SEMA coverage is to point out cool stuff that will make you smile (or drool). Typically we only report on what we feel is relative to Jeep vehicles. However, this year we decided to take a little different approach and include some of the most obscene things we found during our four-day trek and contrast them to their real-world Jeep equivalents.
Engine Swaps
The SEMA show always features vehicles stuffed with alternative engine combinations, however this was the first time we've ever seen such a misapplication of power. To counteract the offense, we found Bruiser Conversions, a company that specializes in turn-key engine conversions for Wrangler JKs. Utilizing a turbocharged Cummins 4BT, the company claims to double highway mpg and cruising range. Several configurations are available but in stock form, the oil-burner puts out 400 lb-ft of torque at 1,700 rpm.
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727/709-0239, dieselbruiser.com
Superior Interior
We stopped counting at nine. If there is one place were SEMA vehicles seem to have no issue with excessive abundance, it is with flat-screen displays mounted inside the vehicle. We suspect that the owner of this Chevy truck was deprived of television as a child. To combat this needless waste of interior space, ARB has a new series of modular roller drawers that installs easily in the cargo area of any Jeep. The drawer design is robust with lockable compartments to suit a wide variety of uses. Accessories such as cargo barriers and removable anchor points add versatility, while the standard UV-stable, commercial-grade carpet lines the exterior.
Info: ARB USA
425/264-1391, arbusa.com
Few places can compare to the SEMA show when it comes to finding wheels that are downright offensive to look at. This hideous example comes from our unapologetic friends in the lowrider industry. If your vomit splash missed the magazine, read on. You will be happy to learn that Pro Comp now offers an awesome looking cast-aluminum wheel for redemption. It's called Series 3036 and it was designed specifically for '07-'11 JKs. This new wheel features an extra-thick outer bead surface to help prevent rock rash and a clear-coated machine finish with black accents. It's only available in a 17-inch diameter with 5-on-5 lug spacing and 4.75 inches of back spacing, which is perfect for lower control arm and sway bar link clearance on JKs running larger-than-stock tires.
Info: Pro Comp USA, 800/776-0767, procompusa.com
Get Hitched
Amongst all the jacked-up Super Duty and Silverado pickups at SEMA, we could have built an entire Jeep from the scrap metal used to construct drop hitches. Some of these units were interesting to look at, but you wouldn't catch us towing with them. If you tow a trailer with your Jeep or are amongst the 33 percent of Jp readers who tow a Jeep to the trail, check out the new weight-distribution hitch setup from Andersen Hitch company. The design is radically different than others available today, and it costs less too. Instead of bulky spring bars to transfer trailer weight forward, the Andersen model uses two chains in tension, which are connected to a bracket that preloads the ball shank in a double-shear arrangement. The system dampens bounce and sway thanks to a pair of polyurethane motion-arrest bushings. It also features a self-adjusting conical ball shank that is lined with brake pad material to further resist trailer sway.
Info: Andersen Hitch, 800/635-6106, andersenhitches.com
Spare care
Savvy SEMA attendees will usually notice some vehicles with unfinished business. Take this Hummer H2 SUT in the dub magazine area, for example. We bet the owner/builder was up in arms when he couldn't find a tire shop in Las Vegas to mount his spare rubber band tire to his 30-inch wheels at the last minute. Luckily, his lifestyle probably never requires that he venture beyond the paved confines of suburbia. A strong argument in favor of having a full-size spare tire is any trail. TeraFlex understands this and thanks to a thoughtful redesign of the factory tailgate hinges, there is now a way for JK owners to mount a 37-inch spare tire to the factory tailgate without compromise. The new system features forged steel hinge bases that replace the factory units. A stout cast-aluminum pivot assembly attaches to each of the bases and the tailgate to provide a much stronger mounting system for oversized spares. This setup allows you to run a stock or aftermarket rear bumper without the need for a swing-out tire carrier.
Info:TeraFlex, 801/288-2585
Axle Beef
When it comes to the automotive aftermarket, chrome plating is largely reserved for curvy bumpers and original trim pieces on retro vehicles. At SEMA however, chrome plating is like a special-interest group funding a political champagne mixer. Everyone notices it, but nobody says anything about it—unless of course, you're a member of the donk club. Donks are jacked-up lowrider cars with gigantic wheels. Affluent members of this bizarre subculture still use chrome to attract members of the opposite sex. (Note: Insert mental image of sassy diva chick squatting to see axle here) The only way to counteract the dizzying effect of all that chrome is an overabundance of beef. Nowhere else was there more beef at SEMA than in Dynatrac's booth. This is the new ProRock 80. It brings the strength of massive 2.5-ton Rockwell axles in a package that Jeep enthusiasts can work with. We expect to see these massive differentials popping up in heavier four-door JKs with V-8s and big rubber soon.
Info: Dynatrac
714/596-4461, dynatrac.com
Bolt-on Intoxication
While navigating our way towards the Ford booth, we stumbled into a unique hot rod with dual supercharged V-8 engines. The engines were arranged side-by-side in the chassis, overtaking the engine bay. We had to stop to check it out. Upon closer inspection, we noticed that the owner also likes margaritas. We probably wouldn't admit it in person, but the idea of blending ice-cold margaritas on the trail does sound good. Just think how popular you would be with the ladies. Our only fear is that such a modification could lead to trouble with law enforcement officials. Instead, we found a better way to add courage under the hood. Gail Banks Engineering offers a turbocharger system for the Jeep 4.0L found in '00 to '06 TJs. The bolt-on setup is said to improve performance by 45 percent over stock. The compact oil-cooled turbocharger spools quickly for low-speed crawling while a turbo-specific engine calibration handles all drivability and emissions issues. This system is currently pending CARB approval.
Info: Gail Banks Engineering
800/601-8072, bankspower.com
Grille vs. Grill
We love analogies that start off with "useless as a". Like udders on a bull, perfume on a pig, a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest, and now, carbon fiber on a JK. In exchange for most of your money, this replaces the factory plastic grille for one made of real carbon fiber. This $1,199 option is high on our wish list, right next to bulletproof bed sheets. One the other hand, EWP Global showed off a trick barbeque grill that doubles as a toolbox. The combo isn't priced out of reach, either. For just $999.95, you can own this unique 38,000 Btu, double-bank cooking grill, complete with 304 stainless steel lids and ceramic-coated, cast-iron grill inserts. Just be sure to wheel it out of the shop before firing it up at lunch time. Oh, and don't leave any tools in the top three drawers when cooking.
Info: EWP Global, 262/925-8824, ewpglobalinc.com
Plush-free Seating
You can't help but wonder if some of the custom interiors at the SEMA show have ever seen the butt of a real person. Seriously, the only thing these ultra-plush interiors made us think about are those little padded rooms at the insane asylum. Maybe that's how the people who own these vehicles can justify spending all that cash: It saves on psychotherapy. We see no use for such interior treatment in a Jeep vehicle. However, we did manage to find a smart interior product for JK owners that like to play in the dirt. Made from durable and waterproof Cordura material, these AEV seat covers are a great way to preserve the factory seats and prevent stains from pets, kids, and general everyday use.
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Landon Donovan will not be playing in a record fourth World Cup for the U.S. this summer after the Galaxy star was left off the final 23-man roster announced Thursday.
Released from the team along with Donovan were forward Terrence Boyd, midfielders Joe Corona and Maurice Edu, and defenders Brad Evans, Clarence Goodson and Michael Parkhurst.
The timing of Thursday's announcement was a surprise since U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann said he intended to wait until the June 2 deadline to submit the roster. The U.S. has two friendlies -- Tuesday against Azerbaijan and June 1 against Turkey -- to play before that deadline.
Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez did make the cut despite a knee injury that forced him to miss the club's last game before the start of the World Cup training camp.
As for Donovan, U.S. Soccer's all-time leader in goals (57) and assists (57) as well as in World Cup games (12) and goals (five), the decision wasn't a total surprise. He and Klinsmann have had a chilly relationship since Donovan took a three-month sabbatical at the start of World Cup qualifying in 2013. Donovan also said earlier this week that his spot on the team was far from a lock.
"In 2006 and 2010, I knew for the most part, unless I was awful, that I was going to make the team," he said. "This time it's more similar to '02, when I wasn't sure. In that way, it's as competitive for me as it's been in a long time.
"But I have to prove that," he continued. "And I have to earn that."
The U.S. roster for the 2014 World Cup:
GOALKEEPERS (3): Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
DEFENDERS (8): DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Timmy Chandler (Nürnberg), Omar Gonzalez (Galaxy), Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders FC)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Julian Green (Bayern Munich), Jermaine Jones (Besiktas), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City)
FORWARDS (4): Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)


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On a special day at this time of the year, but more years ago than I care to remember, I received my very first birthday greeting. I still cherish it because it came from my father, who was serving away from home in the Air Force and who had hardly had a chance yet to get to know me. Not one to show much of how he was feeling, he nevertheless sent me this greeting, in beautiful copperplate handwriting on a simple piece of paper:
My dear Margaret. As the shop hasn't got any birthday cards for little girls only one year old, I have to write and say 'Happy Birthday' this way. With lots of love from Daddy.
The memory of this letter came to mind twice recently, when I heard the stories of two other letters, both just as special for different reasons.
The first was a friend's reminiscence about her early childhood. Her father, she told me, had been almost blind with apparently inoperable cataracts on both eyes. Unable, therefore, to manage his own business correspondence, he recruited his eldest daughter, then still of primary school age, to read his letters to him and write the responses. She became very adept at this task but, inevitably, sometimes resented the burden of her role.
Time passed, eye surgery techniques improved, and eventually it became possible to remove the cataracts. By this time she was grown up and living away from home. Then one day a letter arrived from her father, beautifully penned, thanking her for all her support in earlier years and celebrating the fact that now, at last, he was able to write this, his first letter in his own hand.
A few hours later, the second story came my way. It was at the end of a day of reflection in which a group of participants had been thinking, among other things, about how very often we don't get to see the fruits of the seeds we sow in the soil of humanity as we live our lives. We called these the "hidden fruit" and had been struck by the importance of trusting that the seeds we sow will indeed bear fruit, but in God's time and in God's way.
One participant told how she had picked a book off the shelf and found an old letter folded away between its pages. The letter was from her mother, written a few months before her death. It was an upbeat, hope-filled letter, describing a wonderful afternoon spent in the garden planting bulbs for the coming springtime. "I know I won't see the blossoms myself," she had written, "but I have been so happy planting something that will bring joy to others when I am gone."
There was a silence around the room. For a moment we were all there in that beloved garden which, the daughter said, had been vibrant with spring flowers on the day of her mother's funeral.
Three letters, each with its own unique message to deliver: a message of love that transcends all separation and distance and difficulty; a message of gratitude that remembers past blessings and rejoices in being able to give thanks; a message of hope and trust in a future that we may never see but that we are seeding here and now in the present moment.
Paul reminds us: "You are a letter from Christ, written not in ink but with the spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on the tablets of human hearts" (2 Cor 3:1-3). Perhaps this is more than just a striking image. Perhaps it is a challenge for every single morning. Each day, as we emerge from the cocoon of sleep and come out from between our sheets, we might just pause to reflect that we are like a letter being taken out of an envelope and delivered into the world of this new day.
Every letter carries its own personal message. Some make demands. Some generate anxiety or frustration, or even anger. Some give life and hope. Some are full of words but mean nothing. Others say little but mean everything: letters written out of duty, threatening letters, letters of encouragement, letters that inspire, letters that speak of love.
When you get up tomorrow, and your "letter" comes out of its envelope, what kind of a letter will it be, and how will it affect the hearts of those who receive it? Will your presence in the world tomorrow shed light or cast shadows upon those you meet? We might do well to begin every morning by asking for the grace that we might truly be "letters from Christ," adding a little bit, each new day, to the store of love, hope and trust in the world.
To be more specific to the article, literal letters can be "letters from Christ", communications of love fulfilling his commandment.
I hope you never stop planting seeds in these pages, Margaret Silf.
In gratitude, Anne
An accusing letter, a grateful letter, a compassionate letter. We can all
be these in our daily life and more. So when God wakes us up in the morning, when we open our palms to invite him to join us walk this day with us, let us ask for His grace that we may be His "letters" to all the people we will meet that day.
Which "letter" will be I be today, Lord?
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Jim Wallis is known internationally as a bestselling author, preacher, faith-based activist, and sought-after commentator on religion and politics.
Yet he calls himself "a 19th-century Evangelical born in the wrong century." His heroes are the faith leaders who ignited the social movements of their day, transforming America by ending slavery and child labor. Evangelist Charles Finney, he explains enthusiastically in an interview, linked religious revivals directly to the antislavery cause by signing up new converts immediately to the abolitionist campaign.
For the ebullient Reverend Wallis, faith isn't full-blown unless it goes beyond being a private matter to pursue the public good.
"What became of religion that believed its duty was to change society on behalf of justice?" he asks in his new bestseller, "The Great Awakening."
Could it be that its time has come again? Signs grow that a shift is under way in this direction within the evangelical movement, and particularly among the young. At the same time, Wallis's last bestseller – "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" – helped nudge Democratic presidential candidates into articulating a connection among their faith, values, and policies.
Currently on a 20-city book tour, the voluble white-haired preacher scoots from speeches in packed churches to radio and TV interviews, pressing his message that a new social movement is indeed stirring to address the moral issues of today.
To a Sunday-afternoon crowd at Trinity Church in Boston, he talks of faith's role in overcoming cynicism and bringing about societal change.
"Hope is a choice made because of faith; believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change," he says. "The best social movements have spiritual foundations."
Wallis could be his own best example. Until recently, he felt like a man born out of time because for decades, evangelical fervor has focused predominantly – and often angrily – on issues of personal morality, such as abortion. It ignored what Wallis considers the concerns central to Jesus' teachings. At the top of his list: care for the poor.
When he was a seminary student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago in the 1960s, Wallis and his classmates searched the Bible for references to poverty. When they turned up thousands, it sparked a personal "awakening" that has guided his life ever since.
"God hates injustice," he says. He founded Sojourners, a social-justice ministry and magazine, and began what has become three decades of living in low-income communities in Washington, D.C.
"Your perspective is shaped by what you see when you get out of bed in the morning," he says, quoting a truism from the civil rights movement.
When the religious right was at full throttle in the 1990s, Wallis started Call to Renewal, a network of pastors from across the United States (mainline and black Protestants, Roman Catholics, evangelicals), to work toward overcoming poverty.
"The Call to Renewal effort was very productive in making it clear the religious right didn't speak for all churches," says the Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, a nonprofit, "and also making it clear to churches they needed to speak out."
It was at a 2006 Call to Renewal conference that Sen. Barack Obama gave his major speech on faith and politics.
This country has not conquered poverty, Wallis believes, because most Americans don't have any relationships with poor people. "Lack of relationship leads to lack of understanding, empathy, and urgency, and creates stereotypes, myths, and excuses," he says. Instead, the bureaucracy has "serviced" poverty.
But crisscrossing the country over the past few years, Wallis is exhilarated by what he sees happening in the evangelical community – and, broadly, among young people. The National Association of Evangelicals has officially stepped out to embrace a broader agenda, including poverty and environmental action.
"Jim is one of the people who's inspired Bible-believing Christians to see the connection between justice for the poor and Christian faith," Mr. Beckmann says.
And youths have been showing up at his talks eager to get involved in social justice issues, from HIV/AIDS to Darfur to poverty. They are mostly Christians, but also Jews, Muslims, and even atheists.
One Muslim youth leader who's been strongly influenced is Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. In a Washington Post online column, Mr. Patel writes of seeking out Wallis and going to hear him many times in recent years. He calls himself a member of "the Jim Wallis generation," and says, "we are ready to change the world."
Some Evangelicals have criticized Wallis as a liberal who's not vocal enough on issues like abortion. In his book, he says people are tired of right and left and hungry for "a moral center" focused on the common good and getting things done.
In an interview, Wallis says he's talked with both Democrats and "compassionate conservative" Republicans, seeking a bipartisan way to put poverty and the UN's Millennium Development Goals on the public agenda. The day his new book came out, he says delightedly, Congress passed a resolution committing to the goal of cutting poverty in half in 10 years.
"It's a nonbinding resolution, but you can build on it," he says. "Britain has made that commitment and already cut it by 7 percent."
But he isn't likely to focus his time lobbying Congress or getting involved in partisan politics. Experience tells him that nothing will change on the big issues until there's strong public pressure on politicians to make them accountable. That's where a new social movement comes in.
Wallis is clear that a "vision without a strategy is like faith without works." He has a plan for galvanizing people into action – and it looks a lot like that of his 19th-century heroes.
He proposes a set of "Justice Revivals" in various US cities. In what he calls "a combination of Billy Graham and Martin Luther King Jr.," they'll involve a call to faith, but lead to specific actions.
Next month in Columbus, Ohio, he and local pastors from various denominations will hold the first week-long revival in the city's largest megachurch. Along with preaching, they'll discuss how to commit to having a long-term positive impact on the city. People of other faiths will be welcome.
What makes him feel this will work?
In all his travels, he says, it's what he hears from the young people. They know what they think is wrong in society and they're eager to do something about it.
Even the children. A third-grade girl at one speech particularly touched him. "When you talked about that 'silent tsunami' that is killing so many children every day because of poverty – children like me ... I started to think to myself, 'If I'm a Christian, I better do something about that,' " she told Wallis afterward, according to an account in his book.
A movement happens, he says, when people change their minds about what is acceptable in the world, and have faith that what needs to be done is possible.


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Barbara Ledermann
Born: September 4, 1925
Berlin, Germany
Barbara was the older of two daughters born to Jewish parents in Germany's capital, Berlin. Barbara's father was a successful lawyer. As soon as Barbara was old enough to walk, he would take her around Berlin to see the sights and tour the city's art museums. Barbara liked to go horseback riding and dreamed of becoming a dancer.
1933-39: After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, it was illegal for my father to have non-Jewish clients. His law practice quickly folded. Later that year when I was 7, our family moved to the Netherlands where my mother had relatives. I continued my schooling in Amsterdam and quickly learned Dutch. Although we no longer lived in a big house with servants, I enjoyed Amsterdam--it had a much less formal atmosphere than Berlin.
1940-44: The Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. Two years later, when they began to deport many Jews, my boyfriend, Manfred, told me that these deportations to "labor camps" really meant death. He got false IDs for me and my family, and told me, "If you get called up, don't go." I asked, "What will happen to my parents if I don't go?" "Nothing that wouldn't happen otherwise," he answered. "What do you mean?" I asked, and he responded, "Everyone who goes will be killed. They are all going to die."
Barbara remained in hiding until May 1945, when Amsterdam was liberated by Canadian troops. She emigrated to the United States in November 1947.


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Where Have All The Burp Cloths
Gone Gnome?
When Eve was a baby big enough to "crawl" (and "crawl" meant, for several months, dragging her tiny body along the floors by her right arm like a wounded soldier), she went through a charming period where she spit up ALL THE TIME. For about three months, Eve would start army-crawling herself across the floor, puke up half her bottle, then slide herself through it. (All of her baby clothes from this period in her life have gray stains down the center.)
Now, those of you without children who ever did this sort of thing might be wondering: Um, once she spit up, why didn't you just clean it up BEFORE she could crawl through it?
There are two answers.
Sometimes? It just happened too quickly. One second she'd be happy and clean and dry, the next second she'd be two feet to the left and have milkpuke on her chin and a trail of milkpuke behind her.
But mostly? Because the burp cloths were gone. Vanished. Nowhere to be found. We owned eleventeenmillion burp cloths and we had them stacked and ready to go in handy places and then they were carried away by puke gnomes.
This post is about puke gnomes. Spit-up goblins. Burp cloth monsters. Whatever you want to call them. They exist.
And now that I have ANOTHER crawler...
Well. I hoped he'd be different.
He eats differently than Eve and boy, does he ever move differently than Eve!
He is fast and on all fours (and climbing walls and trying to mount the cat).
Yet despite their differences, he has reached the age where he, too, has become a Master Of Spit-Up.
Of course THIS time? THIS time we have MORE burp cloths. We have all the ones left over from Eve's days spent mopping the floor with her goo PLUS tons more we added to the collection to ensure we'd never be without burp cloths.
So that now whenever we're like, "Hey, where's the baby?"
And he's all:
And we're all:
We just have to turn to our burp-cloth supply! On our burp-cloth table!
It's the Puke Gnome! The Spit-Up Goblin! THE BURP CLOTH MONSTER! He has come to our home when our backs were turned and has made off with the entire stack of burp cloths!!! AGAIN!!!!!
|Bleeeerrggggg! I'm absconding with the burp cloths and returning to my home land! We need the burp cloths more than this family!
There are no burp cloths. Anywhere. So in like, 3 seconds we have to go from seeing the baby spitting up to our empty table to weighing our options.
Do we rape the environment just a little harder by using a paper towel?
|Pretty sure Dr. Sears doesn't recommend dry paper towels for wiping goo off the baby. Or anyone who cares about being green. This is not a good idea. Works, though.
Do we use our disgusting, germ-infested, crusty (but cute!) decorative dish towel?
You know darn well what we use.
|A sleeve.
At least, we use the sleeve of our shirts to wipe the mess off the kid. Then something else to get the mess off the floor.
And then go searching for that damned gnome.
In case you're wondering how I've been? I've been fine. But probably
you can guess from this post that the baby isn't yet sleeping through the night.
you can guess from this post that the baby isn't yet sleeping through the night.


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Last week was truly a monumental one for me. At last, I assembled my bits of courage collected over the last four years and got my driver's license. Yes, it took me half way through college before achieving this "rite of passage" and, to be frank, I am still in denial.
As a twenty-year-old student active in her community, I somehow bore the humiliation of being a "ride mooch" who couldn't drive anywhere, but always had to be somewhere. In four years, I have become a master ride-bummer… not necessarily a good thing.
So why did I wait so long?
Pure fear.
When I was sixteen, I was really excited to drive, but also harbored some paranoia thanks to the morbidity of the news. After being told, "If so-and-so can do it, you can!" many a time, I pushed my fear aside and practiced until it was test time.
Regrettably, the only vehicle we had back then was a very large space-shuttle-like van. Now, I'm only 5 feet tall and barely pushing 100 pounds. Practicing in it was difficult; I could barely see over the dash! There was itty bitty me, high up off the ground in a monstrous and clunking beast, trudging down the main road taking up all available space in my lane. I had no leeway. The van stretched back for miles it seemed, and I was unaware of where it ended and began. I felt like I needed a "caution: wide turn" signal.
The dreaded test time came. It was my first shot. I wore my most comfortable shoes and sported a "driving outfit" worn for comfort and flexibility. I hopped into the big van with my dad in the passenger's seat, and we drove off for the examination station in the early hours of the morning.
This is where the seed of my fear was planted. Not too far from our house, I decided to go back. My nerves were getting to me, and I decided my shoes would hinder my driving. Overthinking things, I wanted to head home to change them. Dad told me to pull the clunker into a driveway and turn around to head home, but as I was backing out I went too far and the enormous van crushed the mailbox across the street tearing it clear out of the ground.
There was a loud crash, we dipped into a small ditch, and the van's rear bumper was stuck to the mangled pole. It wouldn't budge. Dad was at a boiling point, and fear and adrenaline took over. I handed over the wheel, and he cleverly maneuvered us away. I was stressed and nervous beyond belief.
'Do you still want to take the test?" dad asks.
And in disbelief I respond, "Um, I don't really think I should be on the road… do you?"
He drove us home, and I stormed into the house furious at myself. I don't know if my dad ever contacted the owners of the mailbox, but that incident was enough to keep me off the road for four years. I was terrified, and the intense fear was punishment enough.
Just last week, I scheduled my first driver's exam since. Thanks to my boyfriend's car and a new vehicle purchase by my dad, I was able to practice in cars much more fitting to my size, which made ALL the difference. I got an adequate amount of practice in, scheduled my exam for the afternoon, and I was ready.
I drove to the exam station with my boyfriend, the nerves making their existence known within my stomach. I walked in, they processed me, and then it was show time. It was a humid and rainy day, but as soon as I walked to the car with the examiner, my emotions turned off and I was on autopilot.
Where I live, we're required to take a maneuverability test similar to parallel parking. I did this first with ease save for a few bumps of the markers. Then it was time for the road test. We rode into a neighborhood, and I followed his instructions exactly. He marked me off for a few mistakes, but once we rolled back into the exam station parking lot, it was silent.
"You passed!"
Four years of tension and guilt flowed out of me, and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. I did it.
My newfound independence has been a godsend. Now my passion for volunteering can blossom in ways that were deemed impossible in the past. I'm already dreaming of the near future where I can pick up my "Little" and be the "Big Sister" I've always wanted to be. I no longer have an excuse to have "lazy days" every weekend, and I like it.
So instead of taking this common ability to drive for granted, I'm going to take this priviledge of mine and share it with those who can benefit from it. Oh, and I won't pass up the occasional shopping spree either.


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There is an old expression that goes: "Nothing is foolproof, 'cause fools are so ingenuous." This is not to say that census enumerators and indexers fall into that category. Far from it. However, honest mistakes are often made. For instance, in the case of the Titus census records, it was common for indexers to mistake the capital T for a capital F. Thus, Titus ended up being interpreted as Fitus. Other errors simply involved misspellings by the enumerators. I have tried to include a few of them here, with spellings of Tytus and Titis. The point is, if you cannot find the family you are looking for in the records, a search for spelling variations may help. Good luck!!
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As a positive methods dog trainer, it's natural for me to look for behavior that I like and reinforce it, and I don't just do that for dogs. The species that I personally spend the most time with is people, and lately I've noticed similar commendable behavior in many of them. The commonality is a willingness to take care of other people's dogs no matter how inconvenient or challenging that may be. I applaud and admire all those who watch other people's dogs in times of need, especially the following two who have done so when it was far from easy.
A week ago, I saw a neighbor pushing a double jog stroller and walking three dogs. After rushing over to see her 11-day old baby for the first time and offer congratulations to the new 22-month old big sister, I realized that her daughter wasn't the only new addition.
"Did you get a new dog?" I asked, secretly thinking that of all the bad times to get a new dog, the first week or so after having a baby has got to top the list.
"No," she replied, "It's my sister's dog. My mom was supposed to watch her while she's in Hawaii, but at the last minute, she couldn't, so she asked me."
When I expressed surprise at the timing of this dog sitting request and offered to walk any or all of her dogs at any time, she just smiled and said, "Oh, I don't mind. She'd do the same thing for me."
That may well be true, but I am still impressed that she so cheerfully took on the responsibility of a third dog when she clearly had her hands full with two children under the age of two and a pair of dogs of her own.
I have a distant cousin who also deserves praise for taking on the responsibility of dogs even though her health issues and age would make a refusal completely reasonable. She is well into her 80s with a range of health issues that cause her a lot of pain and also limit her mobility. Despite that, she regularly watches the dogs of her human children, all of whom require more care than her own dog does.
In the last few months, she has taken care of four different dogs at her children's request. She has watched a rambunctious puppy, a 15-year old dog with arthritis and a serious neurological issue who needs to be lifted in and out of the car, and two untrained 4-year old dogs who constantly make those around them feel like they are in some sort of circus fun house.
She is very caring to attend to these dogs despite the strain on her physically, and presumably emotionally, especially since she is often asked to do so on short notice. In one case, her son dropped off the 15-year old dog while she was not home, left no explanation, and my cousin only knew how long she would have the dog because of how many cans of food were left. Obviously, their family dynamics and boundaries might make an easy target for criticism, but I prefer to focus on the kindness involved in this woman taking care of the dogs. It's easy to see that they are very happy when they are with her and that there is much adoration all around.
I'm still grateful to my neighbor Stephanie and my fellow dog trainer Shannon who took care of our dog Bugsy when I was in the hospital giving birth to my first son. It was such a relief not to have to worry about him and or about having to call before the sun came up since we had been given permission to call them "at any time of day or night."
Is there someone who has taken care of your dogs who deserves a special thank you for extra effort?