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NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions
19 Feb 2002
Central African Republic
- 5.0 km Bangui; Market
- 4.362 18.583
- 7:44 - 41:25
- Stereo
- 48kHz
- 16-bit
Spaced Omni Stereo; DPA 4060
Show: ELEPHANTS
Log of DAT #: 1A
Engineer: Bill McQuay
Date: February 19, 2002
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ok = okay
g = good
vg = very good
Note: Using vest mics with the Sonosax preamps
Music at the hotel from Bill's balcony [ng]
10:09 AC Standup: We're in the market, we're trying to buy some potatoes. This is called 5 kilometer market. It's five km from downtown Bangui, and it's full of people walking along the street. There are some shops. Some people have set up shops, others just have goods at the side of the road on a piece of burlap ¿..[buying
potatoes] + Ambi [ng]
19:21 - 23:50 Ambi from the market [SS] [G]
jingling, cars, horns, people passing
26:07 ¿ 37:19 Get out of truck and walk through the market again.
Listen around 27:34 ff - Best Ambi ¿ hotter, brighter, more active
36:04 ¿ Car beep plus more ambi leading to Alex's Standup in the market.
37:24 AC Standup: "It sounds as though we're in the middle of Times Square,
but this is actually a rutted dirt road running behind a couple of hundred yards of storefront, and just a lot of people here selling everything, there's a fire cooking right in front of me. There's a woman, she's got some water going, potatoes for sale, a lot of onions, oil, second hand clothes,
38:11 ¿ 39:49 [pickup] but this is actually an African market. There's a couple hundred yards of storefront and this rutted dirt road running down between it, and people all along either side. And lots of yellow taxis going by, people pushing carts full of all kinds of goods, benches stacked. The market's closing up now, wrapping up in burlap piles of second hand clothes, putting away piles of potatoes, onions, garlic, dried chili's¿.. 39:37 It's just quarter after six in the evening, but the sun is gone, there are a few street lights on. When it gets dark here things stop. The market's closing. End of market at 41:15
42:03 - Ambi at hotel ¿ rainstorm to 1:11:30 End [ng]


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The hospital's active clinical research program -- encompassing at least 10 clinical trials at any given time -- has put the hospital on the map nationally and created a key recruiting tool for attracting talented doctors.
"We have been the top enroller in several studies," said Dr. Kirk Voelker, who heads Sarasota Memorial's clinical research effort. "We have a very active research component."
The public hospital joined the conversation with Jackson Lab and its academic research partner, the University of South Florida, in mid-January. That is when it became apparent that the lab's plan to establish a personalized medicine institute in Collier County had disintegrated.
This week, the Jackson contingent paid its second set of site selection visits to Sarasota and Hillsborough counties. Along with Sarasota County officials and philanthropies led by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice, Voelker has been involved because of his lead research role.
"We do bedside research, clinical research," Voelker said, explaining that once a company has developed a new device or drug, it needs to go through extensive trials under the auspices of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The most promising advances make it to the point where human trials are deemed appropriate.
That is where a hospital like Sarasota Memorial fits in, picking and choosing to be in trials that its doctors and surgeons deem worthwhile.
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In his own field of pulmonary medicine, Voelker is involved in a program that allows him "to use valves and stents in the lungs to try to help people with emphysema that aren't helped by drugs."
Recruitment draw
One of the primary attributes Jackson is looking for in a community is that it be an attractive environment for recruiting scientists, said Hyde, Maine-based Jackson's vice president for advancement.
"We have to look at the recruitment picture," Hyde said. "Is this a community to which some of the most sought-after scientists in the world would want to come?"
Proximity to USF's School of Medicine and its researchers also is important. Hillsborough County clearly has the edge there: the entire USF-Health Campus is in Tampa. But Hyde volunteered that "USF has a major presence in both communities, so either is highly desirable for them."
Also vital is the willingness of the community to participate through as much as $100 million in donations to the cause, which could take the form of cash, property or bequests.
Sarasota Memorial's reputation for being an active participant in trials, plus its attractive surroundings, already have proven useful in drawing talented physicians to practice in this region.
Because the hospital has become a nexus for research, "We can attract excellent physicians -- world-class physicians -- who for whatever reason don't want to go into academic medicine but still want to be involved in cutting-edge research," Voelker said.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ranks Sarasota Memorial among the Top 10 largest public hospitals nationally and No. 3 in Florida.
Sarasota's waterfront ambience has also proven to be a draw not only for doctors looking for an interesting place to practice, but also for medical symposiums and conventions.
"One of the things Jackson does is education -- for researchers, for physicians," Voelker said. "Usually these are not huge conferences. They are something that Sarasota could very well accommodate."
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There is a strong, imminent nexus between aging and personalized medicine, meaning customizing treatment based on growing knowledge of a patient's genetic makeup and other factors, such as proteins.
Already a $232 billion-per-year market in the U.S., personalized medicine is expected to double in size by 2015, according to a recent study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Different drugs and treatments can be effective in combating one person's illness and completely ineffective on another.
Those differences can sometimes be predicted based on genetic or protein screening.
"It's this ability to be precise," said Hyde, in explaining predictions that money spent on personalized medicine will explode in the coming years.
For instance, Receptin, a drug used to treat women with breast cancer, is effective on only about one in five women.
But in cases when it is effective, it is four or five times as efficacious as other cancer-fighting drugs, Hyde said.
Genetically screening women would enable the use of the drug only on the 20 percent who would respond.
Picking the right treatment is not only important in curing a patient, it also saves insurers and governments from paying for ineffective treatments.
The potential savings in targeting treatments genetically are vast, particularly in a state like Florida, where Medicare and Medicaid spending is among the highest in the country, Hyde said.
In trying to hone down its planned research to meet expected Florida state budget constraints, Jackson says it will focus its Florida personalized medicine research on cardiovascular and diabetes treatment in addition to neurology.
For cardiovascular and diabetes research, the Sarasota area's demographics put the region on the leading edge of an aging global population.
Of the bigger counties in the U.S., Sarasota is the oldest, with 32 percent over the age of 65. Out of the smaller counties, Charlotte is the oldest with 34 percent over age 65.
"One of our resources happens to be that we have vibrant, healthy octogenarians and nonagenarians here that you don't have in other parts of the country," Voelker said.
Those demographics and the region's affluence are a strong combination for attracting researchers in personalized medicine.
"We have a good population for it. Not only that, but it is a desirable place for researchers to come to, with a small-town feel," Voelker said.
"If Jackson doesn't come, and if we want to build a biotechnical research village, we could still do it."
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If Jackson Laboratory picks this region for its personalized medicine institute, Sarasota Memorial Hospital will likely have been a key factor in the choice.


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According to Arvind Mathur, Head of the Department Medicine said, R K Soni a resident of Ratanada locality, was admitted to the hospital on Feb 4, under critical conditions, with symptoms of Pneumonia.
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CBS News Correspondent Lisa Hughes reports it's a loss their mothers feel every day.
And in response to the incident, the Dunblane mothers waged a successful, two-year campaign to have handguns banned in Britain.
Three of those womenall of whom lost daughterswill participate in the Million Mom March in Washington Sunday. In fact, they have been asked to open the rally, which will call for handgun licensing and registration.
"We're not here to say you've got to ban handguns," said Kareen Turner, one of the Scottish moms. "We're here to say, 'Look at your laws, look at what you're doing. And make a safer place. Make Children safe.'"
And the Dunblane moms won't be the only Scottish voices heard at the rally.
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I. Intimacy
Roland Barthes's late works enfold the reader in a disquietingly intimate embrace. Not because the glimmers of personal life he delivers up for inspection are particularly shocking; on the contrary, the fact that our prurient interest can be aroused by such slender offerings is the source of our trouble. It is not what he shows us, but rather our eagerness to look that makes us blush—an eagerness that we did not know we felt, having kept it buried so long by mutual contract with the coolest of critics, whose disarming obliqueness leaves us ill-equipped to answer intimacy's summons.
Barthes seems to share our discomfort. Having set the stage for intimacy, he finds it difficult to follow the script. In texts such as Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, the posthumously published Mourning Diary and Incidents, and his last seminars at the Collège de France, he makes a skittish tour guide to his affective interior. He gives vague directions to places that don't seem to exist. He beckons us to follow only to disappear around a corner. He offers us an "autobiography" consisting of aphoristic fragments in which he refers to himself in the third person.1 He occupies himself by writing diaries while publishing an essay proclaiming the uselessness of such a project.2 He constructs a critical reflection on photography on the basis of an image of great personal significance that he nevertheless refuses to reveal.3
Is it authorial evasiveness that obscures our understanding, or rather a readerly tendency to take things too literally? Does he say too little in these works, so that we constantly must supply our own meanings, or do we listen too ardently, hearing language where there is only rustling? Are we misled by our own affective investment in his personal life, thrilled by his new proximity to us, in thrall to the elegiac mood we interpose onto works that we know (as he did not) would be his last?
In his foreword to the published text of Barthes's 1976 lectures entitled How to Live Together,4 Éric Marty warns of a dissatisfying discrepancy between what Barthes promises and what he delivers. The lectures are "disappointing," he writes, because for all of their lushly layered erudition, they seem to aim nowhere, toward no particular philosophy or theory. Barthes engages in a "positive exploration of a field of knowledge" without any seeming interest in incorporating his discoveries "into a personal phenomenology" (xiii). Even as Marty recuperates this "disappointment" by claiming it as deliberate, generative, and central to the project of giving a lecture, his defensive repetition of the word "disappointment" only serves to convince the reader of its inevitability. And the question implicitly posed in the very title of the seminar—"Can we live together?"—seems to be answered at every turn, as Marty admits, in the negative. Disappointing indeed.
Of course Barthes opens the How to Live Together seminar by envisioning the idiorrhythmic Living-Together, in which "each subject lives according to his own rhythm," as a fantasy (6)—and surely no word adheres more pertinently to the word "fantasy" than "disappointment." The fantasy of idiorrhythmy is founded in an aporia under permanent threat of collapse, that can be described as the difficulty of maintaining a tolerable distance from one another:
Living-Together, especially idiorrhythmic Living-Together, implies an ethics (or a physics) of distance between cohabiting subjects. The problem is a formidable one—without doubt the fundamental problem of Living-Together and consequently of this lecture course. (72)
For Barthes, there is no greater obstacle at the heart of Living-Together than achieving this distance, and thus perhaps no more fraught scenario, or one with greater potential for disappointment. An irresolvable ambivalence concerning desire for the other is at the heart of the aporia: if closeness to other bodies is what arouses desire, then to defuse desire's tumult, we try to keep other bodies at a distance. But distance succeeds all too well in extinguishing desire, and to live without desire is to be closer to death than to life: "If I'm never unsettled by someone else's body, if I can never touch anyone else, what's the point in living?" (73).
Closeness is thus impelled by distance, a tension that both recalls the non-dialectical nature of fantasy itself, in which "there's nothing contradictory about wanting to live alone and wanting to live together" (4-5), and is reproduced at the scene of reading. Just as Living-Together requires sufficient distance to temper desire without quenching it completely, Barthes suggests that the practice of reading similarly depends on a carefully calibrated distance from what or whom we encounter as we read. In The Pleasure of the Text, Barthes writes that to devote one's full attention while reading a text is to miss out on its greatest pleasures, as if looking at it too closely would be to fatally miss its rewards: "[The text] produces, in me, the best pleasure if it manages to make itself heard indirectly; if, reading it, I am led to look up often, to listen to something else" (24-25). "The best pleasure" results from the reader's inattention; in the service of that pleasure, we must read as if eavesdroppers, attuned to other conversations. Something else must always compel our attention. However our reading is not only distracted, but derives its pleasurable aspect precisely from this quality of distractedness, as if inclining away from the text in front of us places us at a more auspicious angle to appreciate its charms. Indirection—looking away—is a necessary condition of pleasure. The practice of reading involves constantly adjusting how closely one interacts with the text, in order to counterbalance distraction with attention, admitting our desire without being undone by it.
III. Reading
The reader, like any other subject, cannot live without desire. If the text does not excite our desire, what are the stakes of our reading? Although we may find ourselves disturbed by the revelation of the author's private life in a text, reading without this intimate presence seems dissatisfying. And yet the distance the reader keeps from the text allows something in the text to escape notice, to slip away undetected, thus forestalling the complete apprehension that would strip it of its seductiveness: "Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes?" (Pleasure 9). It is not what is baldly apparent but what is barely and only momentarily visible that signals the presence of eroticism, the sliver of flesh intermittently seen. For Barthes, the passages in texts that are skipped, skimmed over, or remain unread by the reader likewise constitute the reader's secret relationship with the text, his idiosyncratic and idiorrhythmic choice of what not to read, and thus indicate his particular pleasure: "a rhythm is established, casual, unconcerned with the integrity of the text; our very avidity for knowledge impels us to skim or to skip certain passages … we boldly skip (no one is watching) descriptions, explanations, analyses, conversations" (Pleasure 11-12). What makes this relationship secret? Strangely, its very physicality, apparent in the French words "survoler" (to skim, but also to fly over), "enjamber" (to continue across a line break, but also to step over), and "sauter" (to skip from passage to passage, but also to jump), used to describe the movements of the reader's eyes (Plaisir 21). The practice of reading is a secret the body keeps, sending its eyes here and there on clandestine missions that are imperceptible to others. No praise here for eyes fixed in concentration, the steady, plodding non-rhythm of the "long-term contract," which for Barthes is "an excellent way to erase desire" (Incidents 164); instead their dynamic movements follow eroticism's rhythm of intermittence, marked by "the flash [that] seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance" (Pleasure 10).
Skipping, skimming, and leaving passages unread are readerly techniques that recall the habituation of Christian monks who must abide by a litany of rules mandating how far apart they must stand, sit, and sleep from one another, in order to regulate their desire. For Barthes, the "meticulous rigor of the monastic rules with respect to distances between bodies" is exemplary:
It is forbidden to wash your entire body while naked. It is forbidden to wash or anoint anyone else's body; it is forbidden to speak to anyone else in darkness. It is forbidden to hold anyone's hand; instead, whether standing or walking a distance of one cubit (around fifty centimeters) from others must be respected at all times. (How to Live Together 189)
In the service of achieving a tolerable "distance between bodies," these "spatial and metrical" restrictions seek to control eroticism without annihilating it—that is, without resorting to repression or castration (73). Although like all rules, they enumerate prohibitions. For Barthes, the constraints they impose have a positive valence, for they represent "the best of distances, because there's investment in an activity, a labor of distanciation: alert; keeping your body on alert, in control" (74).
IV. Cruising
The image of the alert body, actively invested in keeping the object of desire at a distance, recalls the concurrence of distracted reading and cruising recounted in the diaristic entries that make up Barthes's posthumously published "Evenings in Paris." The solitary nights he spends reading books or newspapers at the Parisian cafés he frequents are punctuated by a symphony of glances and greetings from acquaintances and gigolos, who interrupt his reading or alternatively are solicited by his wandering eyes. Reading and cruising are rhythmic counterparts, two activities simultaneously pursued by the reader's digressive gaze, which alights on both pages and faces in pleasing alternation. What Barthes claims for theory in The Pleasure of the Text, he enacts in practice, sitting alone at the Deux Magots reading Pascal, "looking up often but still getting something out of [the Pensées]" (Incidents 154). His distraction does not diminish but rather heightens his pleasure in the various objects—book and boys alike—taken in by his restless look: "I went to the Flore to resume Pascal's Pensées and smoke my cigar. A tall dark gigolo, whom I know by sight, came to say hello, he sat down, ordered a lemonade" (Incidents 154). If reading is cadenced by the eyes' skimming and skipping, unsurprisingly, cruising is also modulated by the look.
Renaud Camus's "cruising memoir" Tricks, for which Barthes wrote the preface, reads as a primer in both the syntax of cruising, animated by bodies in motion, brushing up against each other, following each other or standing noticeably still, the better to be seen; and in its diction, comprised of a typology of looks including, among others, the quick glance, the indiscreet peek, and the slow stare. The dozens of brief accounts of spontaneous, mostly joyful sexual encounters that comprise Camus's book affirm that the eyes are never deprived of an object of desire, as long as they know where to look. Both the Manhattan, the club where Camus meets most of his tricks, and Le Palace, the club to which Barthes pays homage in his essay "At the Palace Tonight," provide the terrain for inexhaustible opportunities for observation: "Le Palace is indeed a place devoted to seeing: you spend your time looking around the room, and, when you come back from dancing, you start looking again" (Incidents 120).
Among the many kinds of looks in Camus's inventory is one that is, paradoxically, a look away. The look away most closely mimics the gesture of the inattentive reader, who lifts his head while reading, and thus represents a curious specimen within the catalog of looks that the trick deploys in the choreographed exchange that will culminate—or not—in an invitation to action:
He was standing quite still, but as soon as I noticed him, he stopped looking in my direction and moved away, disappearing from my field of vision. … Three or four minutes later, the cowboy was back. … This time he gave me the chance to see him better … At the moment he shifted position, his eyes were on me. It seemed a clear invitation. (Camus 184, my emphasis)
Just as Barthes's reader lifts his head to listen elsewhere, the trick averts his eyes, not simply to feign inattention in a mode of seduction, but to offer up the non-reciprocity of gaze as a gift. To avert his eyes in this context is to create a space of privacy, without which the man cruising him could not luxuriate in "the chance to see him better," as Camus writes of another trick: "I had trouble looking at him because he didn't take his eyes off me" (13). Being looked at too closely can interfere with the pleasure of looking, so that only when the trick consents to turn away can the other look freely, as long and as much as he likes. The distance that is created by the trick's averted eyes both invites and is the prerequisite for closeness and pleasure.
V. Listening
In both cases—reading and cruising—distance is put into place in the service of proximity. Barthes does not specify precisely what compels the reader to lift his head—nor does the trick who looks away feel compelled by a different man who attracts his notice. Indeed, the compulsion is not to look at but rather to look away; what the attention actually turns towards is of secondary importance. The gesture is not one of promiscuity but, rather of intimacy; not one of attraction but rather, of discretion. The look away is an act of modesty that softens the aggression of encounter; direct address is replaced by indirect address as the trick's eyes withdraw their question in a momentary suspension of desire, just as, for Barthes, monastic rules of distance redirect and suspend desire without abolishing it.
In like manner, the reader's look away from the text is also an act of discretion, a willingness to suspend both desire and judgment in the face of the text's potential to disappoint, and its tendency towards the incomplete. For the text leaves something out. It contains only all that can be said, not all that can be expressed, as Barthes notes: "My suffering is inexpressible but all the same utterable, speakeable" (Mourning 175); "pleasure is speakable, jouissance is not" (Plaisir 187, my translation). There remains a node of opacity, an affective core that, for Barthes, remains unrepresentable. Nevertheless, he does not resign himself to silence, but rather, turns his desire, like an object, over and over in his hands, worrying it, trying to say its name, committing himself to a kind of speaking that he knows in advance will not—and cannot—say what he most needs it to say. And so the reader lifts his head, listening elsewhere, for nothing in particular: a missing piece, a remainder, an ambient discourse carried along by the wind: "I am not necessarily captivated by the text of pleasure; it can be an act that is slight, complex, tenuous, almost scatterbrained: a sudden movement of the head like a bird who understands nothing of what we hear, who hears what we do not understand" (Pleasure 25). Like a bird who is unable to decipher speech yet who is acutely attuned to inchoate sound, the listener's idiosyncratic hearing is not a failure but rather the product of both discretion and attentiveness.
Barthes invokes an ethics of distance in the service of living together; in his idiorrhythmic fantasy, we keep our distance from each other as a means of remaining proximate. And indeed, the intimacy of Barthes's late writings calls for a practice of reading that must constantly negotiate its distance from the text. The reader must tread lightly, remain at a certain distance from the text, keep an ear cocked for what is unsaid, and in exchange, the "I" will try to say his suffering and his desire, even knowing the extent to which it must remain inexpressible. Barthes notes that the writer's pleasure is not automatically reciprocated by the reader; rather, the writer "must seek out the reader (must "cruise" him) without knowing where he is" (Pleasure 4). To achieve intimate distance, readers must learn when and how to look away, out of an ethical concern for the integrity, privacy, and vulnerability of the writer. Here, Barthes seems to say—remain at a distance to keep close to me, avert your eyes and listen.
1) The handwritten epigraph to this "autobiography," Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, reads: "It must all be considered as if spoken by a character in a novel" (trans. Richard Howard).
2) In his 1968 essay "Deliberation," Barthes diagnoses what he calls "diary disease" as the following "insoluble doubt": "The question I raise for myself: 'Should I keep a journal?' is immediately supplied, in my mind, with a nasty answer: 'Who cares?' or, more psychoanalytically: 'It's your problem'" (The Rustle of Language, 359-373, trans. Richard Howard).
3) The "Winter Garden Photograph," an old photo that Barthes discovers of his mother at the age of five, is arguably the founding document of his book Camera Lucida, despite the fact that it is not reproduced anywhere in its pages.
4) Published by Seuil in 2002, Comment vivre ensemble comprises not a transcription, but rather the preparatory notes that Barthes wrote for his first series of seminars at the Collège de France in 1976-1977, and to which he hewed surprisingly closely in his lectures. The English translation of the text by Kate Briggs was published in 2013.
Works Cited
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Print.
—. How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces. Trans. Kate Briggs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Print.
—. Incidents. Trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan. London: Seagull Books, 2010. Print.
—. Mourning Diary. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010. Print.
—. Le Plaisir du texte. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1973. Print.
—. The Pleasure of the Text. Trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1975. Print.
—. "Preface." Tricks. By Renaud Camus. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1981. vii-x. Print.
—. Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010. Print.
—. The Rustle of Language. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Print.
Camus, Renaud. Tricks. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1981. Print
Youna Kwak was born in Seoul, Korea. Her poems, articles and translations have appeared in journals including the Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cerise Press, The Horizon Review, Left-Facing Bird, Muthafucka, Neo, Po&sie, and West Branch Wired. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of French at New York University.


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The Belt Of Truth
Last week I started talking about the armor of God from Ephesians 6:10-20 but my ADD kicked in and I got distracted. Seriously…it did…oh look…shiny…
Other things had come up, like the porcine plague and I put the armor of God on the back burner. It's my blog and I can do that.
So today I wanted to talk more about the armor God has equipped His followers with and how we can use it today. Not many of us have need for real chain mail or plate mail armor. It looks really neat but it's hard to keep polished and really uncomfortable on the commute to work, not to mention all the weird looks you would get from the carpool at your kids' school. No, the armor that the Bible talks about is figurative. I had never heard about the armor of God before until last year when I was trying to find something to speak about at the She Speaks conference. I am a very visual speaker, I move a lot and I like to have things for people to relate to. That way if they don't remember what I said, maybe one of my visuals will lock in a thought or an idea that will simmer in their subconscious and God will use that as a trigger for how they can apply it.
In my talk about the armor of God I was equipped with what I pictured as my "belt of truth". It was a tool belt that I blinged out with rhinestones and crosses (hey, I told you I saw something shiny). In my tool belt I carried my journal, my bible, my coffee cup and my pens and markers. But we are talking about the belt today. The belt of truth. Ephesians 6:14 states,
"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist.."
Yes, there is more to it, stop rushing me. Truth. Truth is the key to everything. If you know the truth then nothing can come against you. Satan uses lies and misunderstandings, criticism and blame, to cause a rift amongst believers. If Satan can cause two Christians to come against each other, then he has won half the battle already. Think about this for a moment, how many times have you jumped to a conclusion, went with the wrong information, ran off at the mouth, spread gossip, or whispered a secret that caused pain or hurt to someone else? All action, all detrimental and all something you probably shouldn't have done, but look back up at the scripture, "stand firm…" Don't move, be still (and know that I am …sorry, ADD moment again.).
Jesus starts so many of his lessons with, "I tell you the truth…" John 14:6 states,
" 6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me."
So your belt, what holds it all together, what binds you, what ties all the rest of your armor together is truth. God's truth, which can be found in His son, Jesus.
I believe that it's listed as the first piece of armor because in order to have the rest of it, you have to have that piece first. None of the other works without the truth. I cannot have righteousness, or readiness, or peace, or faith and I cannot fight the Evil one without Jesus, without truth. If Satan is the king of lies, then who do you think is the King of Truth? The truth that God equips us with through His word is how we fight Satan but we can only fight when we know how to use the weapon. We have to learn God's truth. Satan's lies permeates everything, the television we watch, the music we listen to, the books we read, conversations we have, conversations our kids have, Satan is everywhere, but the cool thing about that is, so is God and His truth works against every single one of Satan's lies. Get out your tool belt, bling it up if you want to, and put it on. Equip yourself with the truth, God's truth, so that you can fight Satan's lies, the ones that come against you in your day to day battle, not only with the outside world, but with the lies that Satan whispers in your head.
Here are a few weapons for your arsenal.
These are only a few of the wonderful truths that can be found in scripture. Read them, study them, and understand that they were written for us and for the battle that we are fighting every single day.
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An Escondido man accused of keeping illegal fireworks, homemade PVC pipe bombs, flash powder and other materials that could be used to make explosives, has posted bond for the second time and was released Wednesday from county jail.
Richard John Hinkel, 45, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 16 felony charges related to possession of destructive devices and one misdemeanor charge of storing fireworks without a permit. He was initially arrested Nov. 28, but posted bond — 10 percent of the total $25,000 bail amount — a short time later.
During Hinkel's Tuesday arraignment, Vista Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett increased Hinkel's bail to $125,000.
According to jail authorities, Hinkel posted bond again and was released from custody Wednesday morning.
Escondido police were called to Hinkel's home on Country View Glen near North Summit Circle, after receiving reports that Hinkel was yelling obscenities at his neighbors and a security guard. An officer heard Hinkel throwing objects in his backyard, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Hinkel told the officer he was depressed, needed money for his medication — Vicodin — and believed someone was out to get him, the officer reported in the document. Hinkel had several firearms registered in his name and gave the officer permission to remove the weapons.
Police said previously that they confiscated about a dozen rifles and 10 handguns from the property. They also found improvised explosive charges, fireworks that had been taped together with fuses, flash powder and sealant, according to the search warrant affidavit.
Hinkel told police he purchased the fireworks in Nevada years ago and the explosives were made out of a firework called "Piccolo Pete."
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Most people have a basic understanding of what a stingray is. At the very least, the majority of people know that they are a type of fish. However, few people really understand what stingrays are.
What are stingrays? Why should you learn about them? Read on if you would like to discover more about these amazing creatures.
Stingray Essentials
Like sharks, stingrays are a type of cartilaginous fish. As a matter of fact, stingrays are one of the shark's closest relatives.
There are many different kinds of stingrays. There are eight different families of stingrays, and about 70 species in total. Stingray species include round rays, stingarees, deepwater stingrays, sixgill stingrays, and eagle rays.
Stingrays prefer warm water, and they also prefer to stay close to the coast. These creates can be found in tropical and subtropical waters all around the world.
Are Stingrays Dangerous?
Stingrays rarely attack humans. With that said, the majority of stingrays do have a barbed stinger that is located on their tail. They don't use this stinger to hunt their prey; they only use the stinger to protect themselves from danger. The stinger can be as large as 14 inches, and it typically contains two glands of venom.
Humans are able to swim alongside stingrays safely. With that said, it's smart for people to be cautious about how they approach stingrays. If someone doesn't know a lot about stingrays, it might be smarter for for them to stay out of the water.
Why You Should Learn About Stingrays
People have caught and used stingrays as food as in the production of products. With that said, stingrays are a very pleasant creature that people can enjoy spending time around.
Rays tend to be very calm and very friendly. In many areas, people can swim with rays without an issue. Some types of rays, like manta rays, will even guide people around in the water.
Stingrays are also very intelligent. Studies have shown that rays have excellent memories, and that they are able to recognize people that they have spent time around in the past.
If you don't know very much about stingrays, you should be learning as much as you can. If you take the time to deepen your understanding of stingrays, you'll be able to learn a great deal. Make sure you have a better understanding of this amazing ocean creature! Stingrays are absolutely incredible.