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"The Psalms are among the oldest poems in the world, and they still rank with any poetry in any culture, ancient or modern, from anywhere in the world. They are full of power and passion, horrendous misery and unrestrained jubilation, tender sensitivity and powerful hope. Anyone at all whose heart is open to new dimensions of human experience, anyone who loves good writing, anyone who wants a window into the bright lights and dark corners of the human soul–anyone open to the beautiful expression of a larger vision of reality should react to these poems like someone who hasn't had good meal for a week or two. It's all here." N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms, p. 2.
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How Long Does it Take to Read the Bible?
Not very long. Someone who reads slower than average reads the entire thing in one year at just ten minutes a day.
See for yourself: www.howlongdoesittaketoreadthebible.com
There are 1189 chapters in the Bible, which means you read the Bible in a year at less than 3.3 chapters a day. Since a chapter is roughly a page in most Bibles, this means three pages a day and you've got it. Now, say you read eagerly, you know, the way you would if you thought the best-selling, most influential book in the history of the world was interesting and worthy of attention, not to mention God-breathed and inspired by the Holy Spirit. This would increase your reading speed. You would also need to not let yourself get bogged down, but to read comprehensively first in order to get the big picture. Afterall, could you imagine the Ephesians telling Paul it took them two weeks to read his six page letter because they got bogged down in word studies in the first chapter? It's great to get bogged down in word studies, but only after you've made your way through the whole thing. By then, you are going to get a whole lot more out of the word studies anyway, having a bigger context to process them in. So if you speed up a bit your reading, say to 400 words per minute, which is faster than average but not by much, you can read whole thing twice in a year. Kick it up a real notch to 600wpm, and you're at three times. It's almost hard not to do it.
Holy Obscene Writ
If primitive is an appropriate word to describe the content of Scripture, obscene is even more so. All of the obscenities of sin are recorded with clear and forthright language in the Scripture. And what is more obscene than the cross? Here we have obscenity on a cosmic scale. On the cross Christ takes upon himself human obscenities to redeem them.
–RC Sproul
Tyndale, Chesterton, and Sitting on your Bible
William Tyndale is known, though not enough, as one of the first translators of the Bible into English. In 1521 he left Cambridge to return to Gloustershire where he began tutoring the children of Sir John and Lady Anne Walsh at their home of Little Sudbury Manor. This is a curiosity to biographers, since years before he had already earned an M.A. from Oxford, and then spent some time at Cambridge. Why would he leave for a humble position tutoring two young children? This would make sense if he was preparing to translate the Bible into the vernacular and received little support at the universities to do so. The stories about him at Gloustershire confirm this.
The Walshes showed hospitality to priests from time to time, and would also invite Tyndale to join them for dinner. At these occasions Tyndale would astonish and offend the priests by his knowledge of the Bible, so much in fact that they stopped coming to dinner.
It was around this time that a priest told Tyndale that with the laws and decrees of the Pope available, it was not necessary to have the Bible in English. Tyndale famously replied, "I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, I will make the boy that driveth the plough know more of the Scripture than thou dost." His goal was not to just to get the book into English, but to provide it in such a way that the average person–the plowboy, grocer, bank teller–could and would want to read it. This is why his translation, a major part of the King James and therefore of most modern translations, is so phenomenal. You can get a great copy Tyndale's New Testament for a little scratch. Or you can just read the one you have.
It's encouraging that the Bible was first given in English with the intent that everyone read it in a humble and easy way. The ploughboy didn't have a study full of books, a Bible dictionary, internet access and probably even lacked good preaching. He could pick it up and read Tyndale's poetic, rhythmic but accessible translation for a few minutes a day, and there by making progress slowly, would gain more knowledge than the distracted, superstitious and religiously employed priest.
This has particular relevance for parents. Moses tells Israel to take his words, their very life, to heart, "that you may command them to your children" (Dt. 32:46). When interest in and reading of the Bible is limited to "quiet" and private times, love for the Word isn't likely to spill out very much. Kids learn by imitation, and what they don't see, they don't imitate. It isn't the only way, but in this context, it's an important one, revealing the heart.
Numbers in Acts
The church growth strategy in the New Testament church is simple: preach the Word, shepherd the flock. Some would call this no strategy, but that would be mistaken. The numbers are obviously important to Luke who writes for Theophilus and the church community in the book of Acts.
The church in Jerusalem began with 120 people, but after Peter's sermon on Pentecost, we're told 3000 were added (Acts 1:13; 2:41). Then, an additional 5000 men, not including women and children came in (4:4). Even after the sobering deaths of Ananias and Sapphira, "more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitutudes of both men and women" (5:14). Again, the church "disciples were increasing in number" (6:1), so they appointed deacons. And it "multiplied" some more (6:7).
Lest we think this was confined to Jerusalem, the church in Judea, Galilee and Samaria "grew in numbers" (9:31). All the residents of Lydda and Sharon who saw Peter "turned to the Lord" (9:35). When people in Joppa heard, "many people believed in the Lord" (9:42). Increase of "great numbers" are mentioned three times about the church in Antioch (11:21, 24, 26). "A great number of Jews and gentiles believed" at Iconium when Paul first visited there (14:1). At Derbe it was "a large number of disciples" (14:21), and in sum "the churches…grew daily in numbers" (16:5). The second journey produced similar results with "a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few promienent women" being added ot teh church (17:4). Berea was no different (17:12). Demetrius complains about the "large numbers of peole here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia" Paul had convinced (19:26), apparently enough to put pagan religious craftsmen out of work!
To say the growth strategy was simple is not to say it was easy; it also resulted in jail time and many stripes. But the apostles preached to the unconverted and they were heard. Luke consulted with those who knew how many heard, and it's a regular part of his narrative. This tells us that numbers matter and we ought to strive for God's blessings in God's ways.
Live in that Book
"The Acts is also important, however, for the contemporary inspiration which it brings us. Calvin called it 'a kind of vast treasure.' Martyn Lloyd-Jones referred to it as 'that most lyrical of books', and added: 'Live in that book, I exhort you: it is a tonic, the greatest tonic I know of in the realm of the Spirit.' It has, in fact, been a salutary exercise of the Christian church of every century to compare itself the church of the first, and to seek to recapture something of its confidence, enthusiasm, vision and power. At the same time, we must be realistic. There is a danger lest we romanticize the early church, speaking of it with bated breath as if it had no blemishes. For then we shall miss the rivalries, hypocrisies, immoralities and heresies which troubled the church then as now. Nevertheless, one thing is certain. Christ's church had been overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit, who thrust it out to witness."
–John Stott, The Message of Acts, pp. 5-6
Covenant with Levi
In covenant theology, the covenant with Adam is called both the covenant of works and the covenant life, by the Westminster Divines for example. Interestingly, Malachi calls the Mosaic law a covenant of life, peace and fear: "…my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts. My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity" (Mal. 2:4-7). Those who call the Mosaic law a republication of the covenant of works usually deny the graciousness of the covenant of works with Adam before the fall. They then deny the gracious aspects of the Mosaic covenant as well. But there is continuity between the covenant with Adam and with Levi (or Levi through Moses). Adam was promised life, and so was Levi. Oddly, where Adam disobeyed, according to Malachi, Levi obeyed. And we know Levi's obedience wasn't perfect obedience, that a perfect sacrifice for sin was still required. Apparently Levi feared God by faith and trusted in God to save him.
Block Party Restoration
We tend to over-spiritualize the work of God. I should say falsely spiritualize or unspiritualize, because whenever the Spirit does something in Scripture, it's always concrete, powerful, obviously seen and experienced.
I've been working through the minor prophets and came today that great passage describing what the restoration would look like in Jerusalem. "Thus says the LORD of hostst: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girl playing in its streets. Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts? " (Zech. 8:4-6).
The restoration was the precursor of the coming of Christ, a mighty work of the Spirit. And what would it look like? Old people with canes watching kids playing in the streets. It would look like a multi-generational block party.
Plank Out, Then Judge
One of the most common and trite quotations of the Bible is "Judge not, lest you be judged" (Matt. 7:1). Even people who can write "damnation" in the dust covering their Bible (HT: LG) seem to have this verse memorized. It's employed whenever someone wants to stop someone else from making an ethical judgment, and in doing so they make a judgment–"Don't do that, I'm telling you it's wrong." So it's contradictory, but still incorrect.
Jesus isn't teaching us to refrain from ethical judgments. In Matthew 7 he says whatever standard of judgment you use for others, the same will be applied to you (7:2). He forbids hypocrisy. The solution to hypocritical judgment isn't to remove judgment altogether anymore than the antidote for stealing is to stop convicting thieves. What's needed is a just police force and unbribeable judges. In the plank-speck analogy, Jesus says to get the plank out your own eye so that you can help get the speck out of your brother's eye (7:5). Repent yourself, then you will be qualified to help someone else.
We are in dire need of wise and true judgment, which means we are in dire need of repentance. Sound judgment and integrity necessarily follow true repentance. Just a few verses later Jesus talks about identifying (judging) wolves in sheep's clothing (Matt. 7:15-20). Why do churches tolerate wolves masquerading as sheep? Why is the US Treasury run by someone who won't pay his own taxes? It's hard to see with eyes full of wood. But for those with integrity, de-planked and walking in the light, judgment is a must. It must be wise and charitable, governed by the golden rule (7:12), but then players are obvious: "You will know them by their fruits" (7:20).
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38 U.S. Code § 8123 - Procurement of prosthetic appliances
The Secretary may procure prosthetic appliances and necessary services required in the fitting, supplying, and training and use of prosthetic appliances by purchase, manufacture, contract, or in such other manner as the Secretary may determine to be proper, without regard to any other provision of law.
Source(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1254, § 5013; amended Pub. L. 94–581, title II, § 210(e)(8),Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2865; renumbered § 5023,Pub. L. 96–22, title III, § 301(b)(1),June 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 61; renumbered § 8123,Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1),May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E),Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)
1991—Pub. L. 102–40renumbered section 5023 of this title as this section.
Pub. L. 102–83substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator" in two places.
1976—Pub. L. 94–581substituted "the Administrator" for "he".
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Money,,, that article was interesting but it had a few mistakes in it and it was unclear. I think the author doesn't really understand the Orbite processes.
For example he says at one point 3 billion tonnes and then says 3 million tonnes. It seems to me that since he knows about the HPA plant startup he thinks that HPA is the only term to use.
I wouldn't put too much faith in that article.


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cabbage worms
by Justin
(Blacksburg, VA)
Holes in my kale
Hello! I recently planted some Kale, and I've noticed some holes are appearing in the leaves of some of my kale (not all). I've attached a picture. What can I do to get rid of them in a sustainable way?
Greetings Justin
I think you are having a problem with the cabbage worm but your picture is a little vague so I have added a couple pictures and a description, of the bugs that may be bugging you.
Let me know if you see any of these worms or butterflies in your garden.
If you have the cabbage worm they are easy to find, look on the underside of your leaves.
Cabbage worms are 1 to 1 1/4-inch light green caterpillar with one yellow stripe. It chews foliage, and produces soft green excrement. Its bullet-shaped whitish yellow eggs are laid singly on leaves. The adult is a white day-flying butterfly with three to four black spots on its wings. It over-winters as a pupa in the soil. Several generations occur each year and your problem should subside in the cooler weather of fall.
The easiest way to control the cabbage worm in a small garden is to check along the stems and between leaves for the gelatinous eggs and green caterpillars. They are easy to find and pick off. You can feed them to your chickens or kill them and put them in your compost.
You can also use parasitic wasps, ground beetles, soldier bugs and lace wings which are all natural predators of the cabbage worm and moth. You may need to tolerate a little damage to avoid using pesticides but it is well worth it and you can still eat the leaves even with the holes.
You can also use biological controls with Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, sold as Dipel or Thuricide. The Bt bacteria kills only true caterpillars and is safe for people, pets, wildlife and other types of insects.
You can also prevent damage by covering your plants with a floating row cover sold as ReeMay. These polypropylene fabrics allow air, light and water through, but prevent the butterflies and moths from laying their eggs on the plants.
Let me know how your kale grows and if you are able to stop the chewers and harvest the beautiful kale you have planted.
Good Luck
Farmer Dave
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Newburyport Daily News
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I am very concerned about the upcoming mosquito spraying in West Newbury.
I have done quite a lot of online research and don't feel that such spraying is warranted. It will only kill adult mosquitoes it comes in direct contact with, leaving many of them unharmed. Some birds feed on insects, including mosquitoes. How might this affect them? Do we really know the answer to this and numerous other questions? Are we sure that we aren't doing more harm than good?
At the same time Duet is known to be harmful to aquatic life, to bees and to other insects, as stated on its product labeling. Do townspeople know this?
Spraying is to take place at or near Mill Pond. There is plenty of aquatic life there. Also, lots of people fish there! People bring their dogs there. Children play there ... It is stated that the ingredients in Duet dissipate rapidly, but by the time they do, have they already wreaked havoc on aquatic life? Killed dragonflies and bees?
Pesticides are cumulative in our bodies, our environment and in that of all living things. One can't simply look at one product and not consider all of the other pesticides, car and truck fumes, food additives, and other pollutants of various sorts that we breathe in, ingest, absorb through our skin, etc. We must consider the total combined effects of everything in our environment when considering the safety of such products as pesticides.
While the risk to humans, aquatic life, other animals, bees, dragonflies, etc. for one product might be relatively low, the more we are exposed to these agents cumulatively, the more those risks increase.
Given the tiny number of cases of human EEE and West Nile virus when you look at the total population, and the fact that people can stay indoors at dawn and dusk and/or use repellents, even if only on their clothing if they do want or need to be outside during those hours or at any time, if they are very worried, spraying with such products seems unwarranted.
Humans have already done a great deal to upset the delicate balance that exists in our natural world. When are we going to stop the damage? We have already caused climate change that may no longer be reversible!
Finally, I think it is unreasonable that residents must apply before March 1 if they do not want their property sprayed. How can anyone know if the town will be spraying six months before they do so?
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Interesting? Or just weird? You be the judge. Came across this by accident. I never knew there were so many people still in the parking during game time. Looks like a shot of the OBNUG tailgate at the 10:35 mark. Detailed description:
Take a night time bicycle ride around the Broncos Stadium parking lot at Boise State during the home opener against Tulsa on September 24th, 2011. It was a fun tailgating game night, and the Broncos won 41-21.


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My Avs Roster Breakdown
I write a little blog about Colorado sports and this is my Avs preview. It has nothing on this lovely blog and frankly many of my opinions are based on ideas brought up here, but I had fun with it. Check it out if you wish to kill about 10 minutes and laugh a couple times.


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"Just in this life, I need no other
Just this day, I need no more"
Her OC, Ana, spending some quality time with a very playful Milo. This two are such a fresh and pretty couple for me. They make me smile
I'm so sorry it took me too long, my dear. Hope you like it, as much as I enjoyed drawing this for you!!
Saint Seiya © Kurumada Masami
Scorpio Milo © Kurumada Masami.
North Wolf Ana © *Oceanmermaid
Art by *Sunrise-Spirit


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Detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man. The
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notification of family members.
victim was found in the driver's seat of a black Acura. He'd been shot
several times and was pronounced dead on the scene.
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The 2012 Kentucky Derby is nearly upon us and the country is getting swept up in Derby Fever. This highly infectious disease is only treatable via direct viewing of monstrous hoofed beasts charging, in an oval, headlong towards a finish line for up to two minutes. Once of the more notable people who has contracted this virus is Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who loves the Derby so much that he would like to give some of his money away.
Irsay posted the following Twitter message on Saturday:
Derby Time! Pick Winner $300 and A Luck Jersey..Bonus extra $300 for picking Win,Place,Show,1 guess only by 4pm,Abby hatpick for Winner!— Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) May 5, 2012
In a nutshell -- if you're having difficulty reading this, like I did -- Irsay is offering a hefty $300 and an Andrew Luck Colts jersey (presumably a Colts jersey, anyway) for the person who tweets the winner of the race to him and will pony up (lol) another $300 for the person who can correctly pick the horses that win, place and show. The last item, "Abby hatpick for Winner!" which may seem like a spasm-induced series of typos, refers to Irsay's assistant, Abby Williams. She will put the winning picks in a hat and select the winner!
So go ahead and try to win Jim Irsay's money! Make work for Abby by having her print out your tweets and place them into a hat!
Wait a minute -- Irsay owns the Colts, he wants you to win money on the Derby -- I think this guy might really like horses, you guys.
For complete coverage of the 2012 Kentucky Derby, please visit this StoryStream or check out racing blog And Down the Stretch They Come.


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Emergency response teams are responding to an operational emergency at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
2:44 Feb. 5, 2014 Update:
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- Officials at WIPP are working on a plan for safe re-entry to the WIPP underground
- The plan must be approved by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
- No time frame has been determined for the plan to be approved and for actual re-entry to the mine
- Emergency response personnel at WIPP are trained to respond to a wide variety of emergencies
Information Released at 12:25 p.m.
- Shortly after 11 a.m., WIPP's Emergency Operations Center was activated
- An underground vehicle used to transport salt is on fire in the underground
- All underground personnel are accounted for and have been safely evacuated to the surface
- Powered ventilation to the underground has been suspended
- Multiple employees are being transported to a local hospital for potential smoke inhalation
- All waste handling operations are suspended
- There is no waste in the vicinity of the fire
- WIPP's mine rescue teams are being activated and one additional mine rescue team is on standby
- Access to the site is restricted
- A news conference will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Skeen-Whitlock Building in Carlsbad at 4021 National Parks Highway
A Joint Information Center (JIC) has been established in Carlsbad, located at 4021 National Parks Highway, to provide emergency public information. Public inquiries can be made to the JIC from Carlsbad by calling (575) 234-7380 and (575) 234-7305 for media inquiries. If outside the local calling area, call 1-800-336-9477 for updated information.
Concerned residents can listen to their local radio stations to receive fast-breaking information announced by the JIC.
WIPP, a cornerstone of DOE's cleanup effort, is the nation's first repository for the permanent disposal of defense-generated transuranic radioactive waste left from research and production of nuclear weapons.
Located in southeastern New Mexico, 26 miles east of Carlsbad, WIPP's facilities include disposal rooms excavated in an ancient, stable salt formation, 2,150 feet (almost one-half mile) underground. Waste disposal began at WIPP on March 26, 1999.
For more information about WIPP, call 1-800-336-9477, or visit the WIPP Web site at http://www.wipp.energy.gov.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court rules for landowner disputing US claim to bike-trail right of way
Posted Mar 10, 2014 10:28 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled for a Wyoming property owner fighting the federal government's effort to construct a bike trail on abandoned railroad tracks.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the government did not retain a right of way when the railroad abandoned the tracks. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion (PDF) and Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the lone dissenter.
The Mountain States Legal Foundation represented landowner Melvin Brandt, who opposed the government's claim to the land when it filed an action to quiet title in 2006. Brandt's parents had obtained title to the land crossed by the railroad from the U.S. government in 1976, subject to the rights granted to the railway company, its successors and assigns.
The case called on the court to interpret an 1875 law granting railroads a right of way through public lands. According to Roberts, the U.S. government argued the law "granted the railroads something more than an easement [in the abandoned railroad land], reserving an implied reversionary interest in that something more to the United States." Roberts, however, said that interpretation was wrong.
The United States did not reserve any interest in the right of way when it conveyed the land to Brandt's parents, and the railroad merely held an easement that terminated with abandonment, Roberts said. He cited a 1942 case, Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States, in which the government argued that only an easement had been granted and the railroad had no right to drill for oil under its right of way.
"The government loses [its] argument today, in large part because it won when it argued the opposite before this court more than 70 years ago," Roberts said.
Sotomayor argued the majority opinion placed on the Great Northern precedent "more weight than that case will bear." The court has long considered railway rights apart from the usual common-law regime, she said.
"By changing course today," Sotomayor wrote, "the court undermines the legality of thousands of miles of former rights of way that the public now enjoys as means of transportation and recreation. And lawsuits challenging the conversion of former rails to recreational trails alone may well cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars."
SCOTUSblog dubs the dispute the "rails to trails" case. The case is Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States.
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What Is In Fracking Fluid?
As Idaho prepares for natural gas fracking, we should know what is in the fluid.
With natural gas fracking proposed for Idaho, we want to know just what is in that fluid. The High County News has done a great job of pulling together a chart, "What in the well?" that show the types of chemicals associated with the practice of fracking.
If you need a refresher on fracking and what is happening with it in Idaho, you can read up on it here.
The recent discovery of natural gas in western Idaho has us, and hopefully many of you, wondering if their drinking water wells will be protected from contamination. I do know the track record is not good when developers are entrusted with protecting the public.


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The Nation online
September 27, 2007 (October 15, 2007 issue)
Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'
Greg Grandin
Last year, the New York Times reported that Hugo Chávez, in his speech before the United Nations--the one in which he called George W. Bush the Devil and urged Americans to read Noam Chomsky--expressed regret that he hadn't had a chance to meet the linguist before he died. A call to Mr. Chomsky's house, the Times writer quipped, found him very much alive. The Times, though, had to issue a quick correction when, upon review of the original Spanish, it became clear that Chávez was referring not to Chomsky but rather to John Kenneth Galbraith, who had indeed passed away a few months before.
There is something more than a little ironic about this incident, where the press, in a rush to ridicule the controversial Hugo Chávez, lost John Kenneth Galbraith in translation, for it is exactly the Harvard economist's brand of New Deal social democracy, itself long expunged from public discussion, that would allow for a more honest consideration not just of Chavismo but the broader Latin American left of which it is a vital part. ]
The rest of the article is available only to subscribers. But the short piece concludes:
[ The re-emergence of the Latin American left signals a revival ofdemocratic developmentalism, but with a key difference. While in the1940s reformers sought to extend political power through unions andpeasant associations vertically linked to parties or leaders, todaythey rely on a diverse, horizontal array of "new social movements" tocounter their countries' extreme concentration of wealth and politicalpower--Brazil's Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, forexample, or Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo, less a political partythan a coalition of social movements, or Ecuador's powerful indigenousgroups. ]
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[ Chávez often repeats an observation by one of his favorite economists to bring homethe point. "Never before," the Venezuelan president quotes Galbraithas saying, "has the distance between reality and 'conventional wisdom'been as great as it is today." ]
Friday, September 28, 2007
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4 comments:
- Sontín said...
I had not heard that John Kenneth Galbraith had died. While I do not agree with everthing he writes, he was always interesting to read.
That Time should mess up that seriously shows how eager they are to make Chavez appear a fool, and how bad their Spanish must be...
- September 30, 2007 at 5:12 PM
- Foxessa said...
No kidding. Just like the forever stories for the last 40 years that Fidel is dying, dead, etc.
Love, C.
- September 30, 2007 at 9:26 PM
- Sontín said...
It must be difficult to want something so badly and suffer decades of disapointment.
- October 1, 2007 at 1:32 PM
- Foxessa said...
Indeed. On the other hand, who has more than earned this disappointment?
Into each life comes disappointment.
Think of how much has come into mine!
These disappointed, are at least, you known, rich and running things.
Love, C.
- October 3, 2007 at 1:27 PM
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within the near future. :) Ok, now that I have your attention, I'll proceed. I was disgusted by the endless flood of Walker trade rumors over the past year. His one of our few hitters who (prepare yourself, this is going to sound crazy but yes he actually...) gets on base for us. On top of that, he commands the hefty salary of $2.5M, which is peanuts in pro baseball today, unless the paycheck is being written to Neifi Perez. However, despite the stupidity of not trying to re-sign this guy, I believe the cubs will try to move him before the deadline. Here's why...
1.) the cubs have always been stupid enough to want to move him
2.) Dusty actually called out a player yesterday, and big surprise, it was walker. In reaction to walker's flip to cedeno to get the double play, "Walker bobbled the ball and didn't field it cleanly. When you bobble like that, the baserunner gets closer than you want."
Walker then criticized Brenly's analysis of the play. Finally, Walker called out his teammate, as well as the team, stating, " If Ronny makes an accurate throw, of course that changes the inning. But we gave up four hits before that, too."
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It was the first bell for Vespers, not a bell in a bell-tower but a hand-bell, rung outside by the Soeur Reglementaire, the bell-ringer, and in ones and twos, the nuns came in, those from the farm and garden shedding their heavy boots and dark blue overalls, all taking off their aprons . . . This was the time when each told, before them all, of any fault she had made.
"What -- every day?" asked Father Marc, the new Aumonier. "that seems a little over-scrupulous. What faults could they possibly have?"
"Only faults against charity and I'm sure not many." The Prioress smiled. "But at our Bethanies we need charity as perhaps nowhere else."
"And, perhaps as nowhere else," Marc was to say when he knew them better, "these Sisters understand the creeping power of sin, if you allow the least crack . . . "
"I lingered in the garden after recreation and so kept two of my sisters waiting."
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"He came in drunk, the third time that week. He sat down and vomited all over my clean table and his food . . . I took a kitchen-knife -- it wasn't big . . . "
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Rothstein roundup: Domino at ease, Tallahassee on edge, law firm on defensiveby George Bennett | November 9th, 2009
Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein and Gov. Charlie Crist
State Rep. Carl Domino, R-Jupiter, doesn't sound eager to make an issue of the $21,750 or more that GOP state Senate primary rival Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, has received over the years from alleged investment swindler Scott Rothstein.
"There but for the grace of God…." Domino said last week when asked about Bogdanoff's Rothstein money and his apparently Rothstein-free portfolio.
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OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities were working on plans Friday to raise a capsized yacht where three suburban New York City children died during a Fourth of July outing to watch fireworks and 24 other people were left scrambling for their lives.
The accident left more questions than answers in the search for a definitive cause. Investigators are counting on gaining knowledge from survivors and the boat itself once it is brought up from 60 feet below the surface of Long Island Sound.
James Mercante, lawyer for an insurance company who is representing the boat's owner, said it appeared that the boat might not get raised before Saturday. He said the expertise of the Coast Guard and the Navy was being tapped for the effort.
Mercante said authorities want to learn whatever they can from the boat.
"Thirty-four foot boats shouldn't roll over, with or without people on it," he said.
He said he'd like to know if something mechanical was responsible, "if something gave way."
Authorities said several possibilities might have combined to doom the vessel known as Candi 1 as it was being positioned so passengers could watch fireworks.
Nassau County Detective Lt. John Azzata said the cause remained under investigation but possibilities include the weather, overcrowding and a wake from another vessel. He said the area was busy with boaters watching the fireworks.
The boat's skipper, Sal Aureliano, has told TV's News12 Long Island that he saw two lightning bolts and then a wave suddenly hit the 34-foot boat off Oyster Bay, on the north shore of Long Island.
"It turned the boat around," he said, his voice cracking. "It just turned the boat. I didn't see it. It was dark. I didn't see it."
"The next thing I know, we're turning, and we just kept turning, and everybody was in the water. It was chaos," said Aureliano, who didn't answer the door to The Associated Press.
Authorities said the children who died got trapped in the cabin.
Killed were Aureliano's nephew David Aureliano, 12, and two girls, 11-year-old Harley Treanor and 8-year-old Victoria Gaines. No serious injuries were reported by the 24 other adult-and-children passengers who were rescued from the water, mostly by fellow boaters.
The Silverton yacht was built in 1984 but purchased recently. The yacht company filed for bankruptcy in April, and no one was available to say what the maximum number aboard should be.
The boat's owner is Kevin Treanor, said Mercante, who was hired by an insurance company to represent him. Mercante said he had not spoken with Treanor but emphasized Treanor wasn't the yacht's operator when the accident occurred.
Police and the Coast Guard would not say how many of those aboard were adults and how many were children. Safety experts said most boats have a manufacturer's plate that lists capacity by number of adults and by total weight. So theoretically, a boat could safely handle more passengers if some were children.
Phil Cusumano, a Boston-based safety instructor and yacht captain with 35 years of experience, said there is no question the boat was badly overloaded. He said he would limit a vessel of that size to six adults. Other boating sites suggested a maximum of 15 passengers.
"Twenty-seven is just crazy," Cusumano said. "I wouldn't dream of doing that. I wouldn't do it at the dock, much less take it out on the water. It would tip over with the first turn."
Each Fourth of July, vessels crowd the Long Island Sound shoreline to watch public and private fireworks displays. When the shows end, the exodus can be the nautical equivalent of a highway traffic jam.
Scott Menzies, who said he positioned his 20-foot motor boat in the area to take in the celebration but did not see the accident, estimated there were at least 1,000 vessels on the water.
"It was pretty crazy," he said.
Associated Press writers Mary Esch in Albany, N.Y., and Tom Hays, Larry Neumeister and Colleen Long in New York and researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.
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Arline K. Thomson was a beloved artist who passed away September 8, 2010 just two days short of her 98th birthday.
In the early 1960s, she began to do freelance artwork for the University of Maine and in 1962 became an artist and graphic designer for the Department of Public Affairs (now University Relations) and book designer for the University Press. She was married to Robert B. Thomson, director of the Honors Program (now the Honors College).
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Cheerleader Turned Extreme Hunting Enthusiast Taking Heat For Big Game Facebook Photos
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 10:39 PM EDT
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Global animal lovers are up in arms over a teenage Texas girl's love of killing big African game, so much so that they're even demanding she be banned from posting pictures of herself smiling alongside her trophies online.
Nineteen-year-old Kendall Jones claims photos of dead hippos, elephants, lions and other beasts on Facebook are a testament to her hunting skills and dedication to game preservation.
But critics are appalled by the teen's beaming social media and are calling Kendall sick and depraved for killing the rare animals and boasting about it online.
An online petition to force Kendall to remove her page because it promotes animal cruelty had gained over 40,000 signatures in just a week.
'For the sake of all animals,' reads the petition as it implored animal lovers to sign, 'especially the animals in the African region... where hunters are going for fun just to kill an animal!'
Jones, whose Facebook indicates she 'is looking to host a TV show in January 2015,' maintains she is doing what's best for the preserves, where there isn't always space for even threatened species like elephants or lions.
'Controlling the male lion population is important within large fenced areas like these,' Jones writes. 'Funds from a hunt like this goes partially to the government for permits but also to the farm owner as an incentive to keep and raise lions on their property.'
Jones's photos show her posing with bagged zebras, hugging a dead leopard, and smiling beside elephants she's killed.
One particular photo, in which she's posing alongside a an extremely endangered rhinoceros, has her critics especially steaming, but the Texas Tech cheerleader says it was alive and well.
'The vet drew blood, took DNA samples, took body and head measurements, treated a leg injury and administered antibiotics. I felt very lucky to be part of such a great program and procedure that helps the White Rhino population through conservation,' she wrote.
However, Jones has in her quest to bag the Big 5 African game animals (lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and White/Black rhinoceros) shot a white rhino, which number around 20,000.
'The first animal I ever shot was a White Rhino with a .416 Remington!!' the teen writes on her Facebook page.
Because of her enthusiasm for killing rare game and what they say is her dubious standing as a conservationist, some critics say Jones should be banned from hunting in Africa completely.
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Los Angeles Mayor Dating Another Local Reporter
Villaraigosa was photographed June 1 shopping with KLTA reporter Lu Parker. He hasn't confirmed his relationship, but KTLA has.
Station manager Don Corsini said, "There is no concern as to the ethics whatsoever," but news director Jason Ball said that Parker will no longer be covering local news.
This is Villaraigosa's second affair with a reporter in three years. In 2007, he dated Los Angeles Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas. Villaraigosa is married but is separated from his wife, Corina, and is in the process of being divorced.
He sounds like just the man California needs as governor now. He, along with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Jerry Brown, both of whom have already announced their intentions to run, are seen as the top contenders for the previously desirable position. He has not announced whether he will run yet.
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text: If taste didn't exist, neither would variety. Yes, it's true: Fear Factory has definitely change directions since "Soul of a New Machine". After all, that album was pure death-metal, with barely any extra industrial spice. In my opinion, that disk was all-out DM, and eventhough some songs are good, we would never be able to compare it against the likes of Sepultura or Pestilence. Hell, some songs in there even sound like fillers. It's the industrial and techno notes that add the interesting flavour to Fear Factory; thus when Demanufacture was released it was such a rush. Obsolete came next, and the techno base grew, along with the amount of singing instead of growling, and some other interesting addings, like "Edge-Crusher" rap-metal approach. Coming to the present we have Digimortal. By far, I haven't found anything to call bad on the album. True, it's not Death Metal as before, but it isn't as soft as Obsolete either. Personaly, I see in this album their best combination of metal with techno and industrial. Now, why do I dare contradict the opinion of the other so-called "metalists" that write comments here? Simple: musicianship. Anyone that knows of musicianship knows that in metal, the best music is not the hardest, nor the speediest. It's the music that is performed to perfection, no matter the speed, hardness, intensity, variation of rythms nor anything else. This disk is very consistent in terms of speed and intensity…perhaps not in hardness, but it is in power. It's a concept album about the future posibility of "encapulating" the mind's thougts into a digital chip, process that would allow the person to "extend" his life by adding his memory to another body. The question that remains would be: what about the soul?. This theme is analized throughout the album (reason for it to be a concept album, which is not something easy to build) with the usual darkness that could acompany the rest of the musical atmosphere. Burton's singing as usual is terrific on both sides: hard-edged and crunchy during the intense moments of the songs, soft and melodic when the music has gone low tempo. And Raymond's drumming…DAMN!!!…Whoever tells me that Raymond's double-kick drumming got slower deserves a beating! Still as impressive as usual, and definitely one of Metal's faster feet (right next to Lombardo of course). So then, my recomendation to the buyers: if you're a Death Metal fan and afraid of changes in the direction of the musical style, thus proving yourselves to be an obtuse bunch that's afraid of the word "Change", then don't buy this album. On the other hand, if you're like me, and enjoy changes in style that are overall consistent and perfectly combined in melodics and tempo, and love the tightness of the construction, then you'll love this CD.


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It has well been said that when people cease to believe in the God of the Bible they don't believe in nothing: they believe in anything. A recent instance of this may be the huge success in the United States of the novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. People are now reading it in this country. Working on this Coloured Supplement in the train at the end of September, what should I see across the aisle but a woman reading this very book! James Hitchcock writes a good summary: "Dan Brown turns the biblical story into a thriller in which Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, a rich woman who financed his ministry, but after his death (there being no resurrection), the apostles conspired to suppress the truth in order to maintain male dominance." None of this is based on fact. As Hitler said (to justify his lying to millions): "the great masses of people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."The so called "evidence" for such a view comes from the apocryphal Gospel of Philip, one of the documents found in 1945 in a cave near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt. These were "Gnostic" texts from the third to fourth centuries. We have known about the heresies of Gnosticism from the 2nd century writers Irenaeus and Tertullian. But here was more of the Gnostics own literature than we had before. However, we already knew the fictitious nature of what the Gnostics believed. That is why the early Church rejected Gnosticism. It was simply false. And these discovered documents confirm that the Church was right to do so. The Gospel of PhilipThe Gospel of Philip was probably written in the second half of the third century AD. As Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, says: "that puts it as long after Jesus' life as we are today after the time of George the Second, when Handel and Bach were writing music and George Washington was a small boy ... it tells us a good deal about third-century practice in the Gnostic sect which wrote it, but nothing of any value about the first century." So what does it say about Jesus and Mary Magdalene? This: "the companion of the [Saviour is] Mary Magdalene. [But Christ loved] her more than [all] the disciples, and used to kiss her [often] on her [mouth]. The rest of [the disciples were offended] ... They said to him, 'Why do you love her more than all of us?' The Saviour answered and said to them, 'Why do I not love you as [I love] her?'" But, as Tom Wright points out, that passage is sandwiched between such texts as: "God is a man-eater. For this reason men are sacrificed to him. Before men were sacrificed animals were being sacrificed, since those to whom they were sacrificed were not gods." And: "The Lord went into the dye works of Levi. He took seventy-two different colours and threw them into the vat. He took them out all white. And he said, 'Even so has the Son of Man come as a dyer.'" As Professor F.F.Bruce says: "A comparison of the New Testament writings with the contents of The Nag Hammadi Library should be instructive." It is!The New TestamentThe early Christians did compare these Gnostic writings with the New Testament and they judged them to be spurious. It is important to remember that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are not the result of some arbitrary selection of some church synod or committee that sat round the table with a stack of Christian documents and said. "Let's decide which of these shall we say has divine authority." No! Rather it was when these twenty-seven books were generally accepted by Christians throughout the known world that then they were said to be authoritative. So "when at last a Church Council gave a ruling on the matter, all that it did was to ratify the general consensus of Christians, who (we may believe) had been guided in this respect by a wisdom higher than their own ... Canonicity implies supreme authority in matters of faith. By including a document in the canon, the early Christians meant that it might be confidently appealed to in the establishment of matters of doctrine, whether in debates within the 'catholic' [the Greek word for the Latin word 'universal'] church itself or in disputes with heretics. But they included these writings in the canon because they already recognized their authority; the writings did not acquire authority by being included in the canon. One of the chief criteria (though not the only one) in recognizing the authority and canonical quality of a work was apostolic authority. So much was this so, that individuals or groups wishing to invest their own line of teaching with special authority liked to set it forth in the form of a 'Gospel', a book of 'Acts', an 'Epistle', or even an 'Apocalypse' [a 'Revelation'], bearing the name of an apostle" (F.F.Bruce). And so you have the Gnostic Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Peter, the Acts of John and so on. Ancient GnosticismGnosis is simply the Greek word for "knowledge". But in Gnosticism it was knowledge of a superior sort; and salvation came not through faith in Christ and his death for us on the cross with the victory of the Resurrection and the giving of the Holy Spirit, but through knowing (bizarre) secrets. The key secret was that Jesus came into this world to release the divine element that had become imprisoned in our flesh and lead it back home. So "the fall" was not rebellion against God, but being involved in the material world. Nor did the supreme God create the world. That was the work of the demiurge, often identified as the God of the Old Testament. So Gnosticism was "dualistic". It saw not one God, but two irreconcilable principles: spirit and matter, or light and darkness.Some Gnostics became very ascetic, as in the heresy behind Paul's letter to the Colossians, "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!" (Col. 2.21). Some others said that if the spirit is everything and matter nothing, it doesn't matter what you do with your body - so indulge it if you wish. Gnostics did not accept the Incarnation of Jesus (matter being evil). They, therefore, asserted that the Gospels were not to be taken at face value but as stories with hidden symbolic meanings. So they felt free to write new gospels. The Gnostics did not see themselves bound by what may or may not have happened while Jesus was on earth. That is how they could say that Mary Magdalene become Jesus' lover, even though it was quite untrue and blasphemous. They could dismiss the New Testament as essentially false even though it was essentially true.Modern GnosticismAll this is so congenial to many moderns. It leads to distinguished scholars coming up with the most unlikely theories. Hence Elaine Pagels, an academic who specializes in Gnosticism, suggests that Thomas is written up as doubting Thomas in the New Testament in order to discredit the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. There is not the slightest evidence whatsoever for this. But as "truth" for many is no longer important, what can you expect?I first came across Elaine Pagels in an Observer article she wrote on Sunday 23 December 1979 - the sort of article "journalistic charlatans" (to quote Professor Charlie Moule) produce to destroy the faith of people at Christmas time. Referring to the Nag Hammadi texts her headline said, "they challenge traditional belief in the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection." In the Spring of the following year, 1980, her best-selling book, The Gnostic Gospels was published which expanded on her theories. However, Pagels is not a disinterested scholar. 20 years later she made a confession. In her book Beyond Belief she says that she was brought up with an evangelical background, but couldn't cope with the way some people spoke about Hell. So she was turned off church. She still, however, chose to do a Doctorate in religious studies, in the course of which she read a text in the Gospel of Thomas: "if you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you." This had a profound effect on her. She said: "The strength of this saying is that it does not tell us what to believe but challenges us to discover what lies hidden within ourselves; and with a shock of recognition, I realized that this perspective seemed to me self evidently true." Her personal history may have affected the way she looks at the Gnostic texts.The tragedy of GnosticismThis is so sad. For she and many ancient and modern Gnostics have a gospel of self-actualization, which is no gospel at all. The human predicament is that we cannot find the answers to life's problems within ourselves. We are not God. In the recent past, men and women have been trying to live as Gods. The result, in particular in the 20th century, was probably more killing and more suffering than in all previous history put together. No! We need the true God to reveal his truth to us. This he has done in history, climaxing in the death and the Resurrection (in history) of Jesus, as recorded in the Bible. The apostle Paul was spot on in his second letter to Timothy in a passage that is so important to remember amid all the confusions of today:
"In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage - with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry" (2 Timothy 4.1-5).
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An Australian journalist attending the Pacific Islands News Association Summit in Pacific Harbor claims the leadership of PINA had something to do with the journalists attending the summit not allowed to ask Prime Minister, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama any questions when he opened the meeting earlier this week.
Radio Australia's Bruce Hill said in a report that he found out that the leadership of the Pacific Islands News Association or PINA did not want questions to be asked.
According the report, Fiji's Ministry of Information told Hill that PINA has imposed censorship on its own media gathering at the Pacific Media Summit.
Hill said journalists were told that there would no questions entertained.
He said the journalists attending were looking forward to asking the Prime Minister some questions.
PINA Media Manager, Matai Akauola said it would not have been right in the Pacific or Fijian culture to door-stop the Prime Minister after the official opening.
Akauola said there was no request made for time for journalists attending the media summit to ask questions and it was improper to do that.
Permanent Secretary for Information, Sharon Smith-Johns said Hill is misleading the people.
Fijivillage questioned Smith-Johns on whether Hill had called her about the issue. She said Hill had asked but they need to understand that PINA asked the Prime Minister to officially open the media summit, not to have a media conference.
She said she never said to Hill that PINA had asked the Prime Minister not to take any questions.
Story by: Vijay Narayan
Free. Fair. Fearless. Intelligentsiya is made up of Fiji Islanders who are libertarians in their own way and who cherish the free flow of news, ideas and information and will peacefully resist any attempts by the country's military rulers to stifle free speech. intelligentsiya will also bear witness, report and discuss human rights abuses by the authorities.
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Somerset Part 3
Anyway, this issue will have part 3 of my Somerset medallion. Are you making this quilt? It is a fairly easy quilt to make and with the 4 part format it makes it easy to stay on top of it time-wise.
This installment you will be making some quick to applique compass blocks and piecing simple chain blocks.
I got a couple of good blog suggestions from some of you and will be putting out some posts soon. A post on big stitch is coming up next.
Happy Quilitng, Dawn
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- Shakerwood said...
Can't wait for the new book AND the new posts. I would love to see one on the Big Stitch. I'm sure I could figure it out eventually but having had someone that has done it already with some hints of what makes it easier would be great!!
- July 8, 2013 at 8:09 AM
- Me and My Stitches said...
Love this magazine - I always anxiously await its arrival in my mail box! Glad someone suggested info on the big stitch, I would like to try it.
- July 8, 2013 at 8:27 AM
- Tina said...
I agree with the other folks about the Big Stitch - I love it too, just not sure how it's done!?
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Hi, Dawn, thanks for posting my progress. This quilt is a joy to make and a feast for the eyes!
I was just thinking this weekend how I would love to learn how to Big Stitch. Can't wait for the post!
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- Theresa said...
This is gorgeous!
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- Juanita said...
Hello Dawn, I just came by your site via Rabbits Lair. enjoyed all the information on this blog. So sorry to see the injury on hand it does look very painful. But most of all the inspiration of hand quilting lit my fire. the large stitch quilting was an eye opener for me as I tend to make small stitches but no more. I am looking forward to your new book
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UPDATE: Nomad is absolutely "shocked" by the Camp Humphreys delay announcement.
Will this be the straw that broke the camel's back of the US-ROK Alliance? From the Marmot's Hole:
A government source told Yonhap that it looks like transfer of the U.S. garrison at Yongsan to Pyeongtaek, originally scheduled to take place in 2007, would be delayed by five years to late 2013.
A source from one of the related government ministries said the possibility of completing the transfer by 2008 as scheduled was currently low, and that Korean government ministries handling the move were actively discussing a plan to delay the transfer from Yongsan and the competition of new base facilities in Pyeongtaek to 2013.
The government will reportedly announce this plan sometime next week.
The source said the change in schedule was necessary due to delays in discussions between authorities connected to the move and setbacks caused by protests from residents and civic groups.
I agree with Robert's analysis that the Korean government is trying to stop the relocation since Secretary Rumsfeld has been removed from the Pentagon. They are testing the new Defense Secretary Robert Gates who is scheduled to be sworn in on December 18th.
Those of us who have served in Korea for awhile knew the 2008 timeline wasn't going to happen, but 2013 give me a break? The Korean government has never wanted to allow the USFK relocation to Camp Humphreys just like they have never really wanted to take operational control from USFK either. Both the Yongsan and the operational control issues have long served as great cannonfodder by South Korean politicians looking to demagoge the issue to their own political advantage. Plus the Koreans have never wanted to fully fund the move despite all the prime real estate they are gaining from the closed out USFK facilities. Heck they won't even properly fund the US-ROK Alliance while giving over a billion dollars to North Korea a year!
You also have the Fifth Column in South Korea, organized by North Korean agents that want to stop the move because North Korea wants to keep 2ID and USFK locked into their current locations that are well within artillery range of North Korea which would mean their easy destruction during war time. Additionally the locations of the bases, particularly Yongsan have been completely surrounded by urban cities which has led to accidents and incidents with the Korean public that gets demagoged by the North Korean sponsored anti-US activists groups in order to draw a wedge between USFK and the general Korean public. The consolidation of US forces would remove all US forces out of North Korean artillery range and additionally under the ballistic missile protection of US Army PATRIOT missile batteries. This would create better force protection for USFK forces along with giving USFK commanders more flexibility during war time.
It will be interesting to see the Pentagon's reaction if this 2013 timeline is true. I tend to think that the Pentagon would accept a 2009 relocation time line that would coincide with a 2009 handover of operational control. A 2013 timeline is just an effort to further push this issue down the road and hope the Pentagon gives up on it just like what the Korean government is doing with the operational control issue.
I think it may be close to ultimatum time. Is it too late to bring General Trexler out of retirement?


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Brunel University has come under fire for allowing a homophobic Muslim preacher to speak at an event.
Abu Usamah At-Thahabi, who has previously compared homosexuals to dogs, will be speaking at an event organised by Brunel Islamic Society on 27 November.
Thahabi's appearance has drawn criticism from the non-partisan group Student Rights, who tackle political extremism and marginalisation of vulnerable students.
Associate professor at the National University of Malaysia says 'obviously the LGBT culture is against religion'
An associate professor at the National University of Malaysia said in an interview on Wednesday that LGBT people should 'migrate to the West to live this kind of lifestyle'.
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Protesters in Canada plan to march for an end to hate crime following the attack of a gay student at the University of Alberta.
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A Malaysian constitutional expert has claimed in a recent conference that condoning gay rights would see criminals taking charge of society.
But two other speakers at the intellectual forum titled "Homosexuality: Crime or Right" begged to differ from Dr Shamrayahu Abdul Aziz, who was expressing the view at her International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).
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Healthcare quality improvement has traditionally been focused on the clinical aspects of care whether in a nursing home, hospital or in the home. Many skip over the fact that healthcare quality starts with culture change. And that is based in people. Empowered people led by inspiring leaders are the key to quality improvement in aging services. This article serves as an underpinning for any quality initiatives that you might be pursuing whether from a clinical standpoint or otherwise. In short healthcare quality improvement and culture change are tied at the hip.
Marketing and Customer Experience
Two-thirds of the economy is influenced by word of mouth. One word of mouth is equal to 600 advertising exposures. Word of mouth is the most potent marketing a business has going. Just ask the auto industry. In a 20-year span they increased their television advertising by 1,378 percent but sales only increased 17 percent.
Consider this quote from Andy Sernovitz, CEO, Word of Mouth Marketing Association: "In many cases, WOM isn't actually "marketing" at all. It's great customer service that earns customer respect."
So word of mouth is spread through customer experiences. Yet not all experiences have the same value. You can buy a cup of coffee for a quarter in many places. So why do many spend three dollars or more to buy one at Starbucks? Yes, it's the experience. But what about it? My Starbucks-like experience is at Panera Bread. The following contributes to my experience.
- It is a place to gather and be with others.
- I conduct business there. In fact I can spend a whole day in a Panera and never be asked to leave.
- They have free WIFI.
- They have good, healthy food that I perceive as reasonable priced.
In short it is the total experience that makes me loyal. In healthcare, there have been numerous studies of quality. But here's the thing. When those in the profession talk about quality, they speak of certain metrics, specific measures around clinical care. When the public talks about their quality healthcare experience, they are referring to the total experience. So even if the operation was a success, if the discharge planning fell apart, well some might convey to others that they had a bad experience. So first connect marketing to experience. Now let's look at experience management in healthcare, the building block for any clinical quality improvements.
Experience Management Slow to Make Progress
There is a big movement afoot in healthcare to change patient experiences. In hospitals they call it patient centered care. In nursing homes, it is person centered care. Being an "insider" I am very close to the industry and see the advances that have been made. Yet perceptions outside of healthcare are neutral or negative. And actual patient/resident experiences have not progressed very far.
In an annual survey of caregivers and nursing home staff, My InnerView found that 85% of consumers rate nursing homes as good to excellent in satisfaction and willingness to recommend. Of that, 35 percent give it the excellent rating. On the other side, 68 percent of employees rate their nursing home as good to excellent place to work. While you may think these figures are good, they are a good start only.
In one of our presentations, we show a photo of a nursing home manual entitled "Death and Dying in Long Term Care Facilities, Operational Guidelines. The person who posted that picture on Flickr, cynically commented:
"So, if you die in a long term care facility without following the operational guidelines, do they make you die all over again (correctly this time)?"
The point made is that in healthcare we are often swallowed by regulations that we tend to forget that there is a real person at the end of this who is receiving care. Healthcare is siloed and often all the parts do not communicate with each other because they are too busy following the rules that govern their domain.
Here is another analogy we use that might shed light on why quality and experience management has not moved more swiftly.
Consider that healthcare workers are like firefighters. Both experience tremendous joy and sorrow as part of the job. Yet the healthcare family suffers from burnout while people actually volunteer to be part of the firefighter culture. The firefighting culture includes the camaraderie and community of the firehouse where firemen share, vent, cry and laugh. They are considered heroes.
Yet, healthcare workers suffer burnout. The stress they carry has nowhere to go so they take it home. Stress leads to poor quality, missed steps and can endanger lives.
Cleveland Clinic has helped address this by instituting what they call Code Lavender. If anyone in the organization is suffering emotionally and mentally (maybe a close patient died) a team of social workers, pastoral care workers and others will come in like a SWAT team and help that person or unit.
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"Shine" is a modern-day masterpiece based on the life of David Helfgott (played by Geoffrey Rush). Since early childhood, David is suppressed by his tyrannical father who seriously damages his mental and emotional health. Armin Mueller-Stahl (who plays his father) does an excellent job portraying a strict and overbearing father who constantly pushes his child to the edge and eventually to near insanity. He is fueled by his obsession for David's greatness as a pianist which ends up putting his son through hell. Rush's astonishing performance masterfully portrays his life-long struggle to please his father and his commitment to playing the piano. David, as an adolescent, is played by an enthused Noah Taylor, whose stellar performance also captures Helfgott's deep passion for his music.
David's wife Gillian (Lynn Redgrave) is a loving, understanding and supportive astrologer who loves him in spite of all his eccentricities. Though Redgrave's role is brief, her impact has an immense effect on the outcome.
The all-around enthusiasm brought to this biography by the actors provides a strong sense of realism. The script is well written, thought-out, and directed. What I particularly liked aren't the special effects or trick photography, but that the movie is an authentic portrait of a man's life. This movie not only walked away with many Oscars, but also with my undivided attention. I would certainly recommend it to anyone who would like to sit down, take a break from all the action movies and watch an extraordinary man's life unfold. .
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