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FTC Gets Medieval on Spammers, Canada Cries Like a BabyWritten by Malcolm James on March 14, 2013
There's nothing quite so satisfying as seeing bad things happen to bad people. And unquestionably, spammers are bad people. Before you jump all over that statement and try to make a case for some email or text marketers, trying to convince us that they deserve a crack at the Nobel Peace Prize (actually, nobody but an email marketer would try to defend another email marketer), remember that the very definition of spam is unwanted, unsolicited mail. The stuff that clogs our inboxes on a daily basis is a social disease that leaves most of us baffled and befuddled as to how to deal with the nasty stuff. Well, the United States Federal Trade Commission has two words for 29 people this week: "you're busted."
The FTC made an all-out major attack on spam by filing eight separate complaints against the 29, according to CNET. The accused, says CNET, "tricked consumers into divulging sensitive personal information by promising free gifts or prizes, including $1,000 gift cards at major retailers. Consumers who clicked on the links were taken through a maze of Web sites that required victims to sign up for subscription services or credit cards before they could receive the "free" gifts."" Victims were, in some cases, required to sign up for as many as 13 offers. The criminals then used the registration information as a means of padding their own wallets by selling it to others for marketing purposes. It's the sleazy circle of life.
This is a major victory for the US in the ever-annoying war against spam. Those 29 were responsible for more than 180 million spam messages, and in some cases, it cost a lot of people real money. According to the FTC, 12 percent of the targeted users weren't subscribed to a text messaging plan and therefore it cost them to receive the evil messages.
Charles Harwood, acting Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, put it aptly: "Today's announcement says 'game over' to the major league scam artists behind millions of spam texts. For consumers who find spam texts on their phones, delete them, immediately. The offers are, in a word, garbage." Amen, Charles Harwood. Amen.
CNET notes that the FTC is seeking restraining orders against the 29 accused to prevent them from bothering anyone else, but it's not clear what will happen to them beyond that. The FTC is a regulatory body, not a law enforcement agency, and the organization does note in its release that "the Commission files a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law. The cases will be decided by the court."
So we're not sure whether it's a civil or criminal suit, but the FTC states that "the Commission's complaints seek restraining orders against the defendants preventing them from continuing their alleged deceptive and unfair practices as well as preserving and accounting for their assets." So there's hope that these [allegedly] nasty, nasty people will be made to feel very uncomfortable, and hopefully, rendered penniless. They're all named in the FTC document, so feel free to send them a few million emails and see how they like it.
D'Oh! Canada
What this action does show is that the US government is not satisfied merely talking about the evils of spam. It's actually doing something about it. The same cannot be said for the United States' neighbor to the north. The Canadian government was lauded only a couple of years ago for passing what was very likely the toughest anti-spam legislation in the world. But the Canadian Anti-Spam legislation (CASL) has been met with a great deal of opposition, especially from companies that believe the law should protect them, and not consumers. The government passed the law in 2010, with ballyhoo suggesting that Canada was the new sheriff in Spam town. But three years of foot dragging and numerous public and industry consultations have managed to water down the legislation to the point where no one has any faith in the Canadian government's ability – or desire – to actually enforce the thing.
It appears that the Canadian government has done a bait-and-switch on the Canadian people. Perhaps they need a three day session with the folks at the FTC to learn how it's actually done.
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I'm seriously thinking Canada is trying to attract scammers and to become something of an offshore zone for them. This is bad because it affects not only Canadians but because of the transnational nature of the Internet, it will also affect millions of people worldwide, including individuals from countries where there is real antispam protection.
As Armstrong once said, "One step for man, one giant leap for mankind." We still have to see anyone getting jailed for a long time because of spamming, so persecuting 29 people may be a very tough thing to do. Some of them may even be working for some large businesses that have the power to lobby for them. But at least we're getting news such as these. These should hopefully instill doubt, apprehension, or, better yet, fear on spammers out there, obnoxious e-mail marketers included.
This is a big step in the fight against spammers! The 29 culprits may represent just a small number of the many (thousands, perhaps) who scam their way into the lives of countless innocent people, but it's a good start. It is a sign that the FTC is not just sitting down; that it is finally going into battle….As for Canada, well, maybe they do need a little coaching and a little educating from the FTC. Perhaps a little explaining can help? Maybe then they would see what mess they will create if they take the side of the spammers.


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J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg join forces in this extraordinary tale of youth, mystery and adventure. Super 8 tells the story of six friends who witness a train wreck while making a super 8 movie, only to learn that something unimaginable escaped during the crash. They soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is what it wants. Experience the film that critics rave is "filled with unstoppable imagination and visual effects to spare. It will put a spell on you." – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.
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When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope. But soon he decides to fight back under the guise of a DIY superhero called Crimson Bolt. With a hand-made suit, a wrench and a crazed sidekick named Boltie (Ellen Page), the Crimson Bolt beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes of saving his wife. The rules were written a long time ago: You are not supposed to molest children, cut lines or key cars; if you do, prepare to face the wrath of the Crimson Bolt!
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Question: What was the name of the sports-based sitcom that starred Farrah Fawcett? It probably aired in the late '80s or early '90s. Thanks for your help.Answer: No problem, Greg. The show was called Good Sports. It launched on CBS in January 1991 and featured Fawcett as a supermodel-turned-sportscaster on a ESPN-like cable network. Fawcett's character, Gayle Roberts, was paired with Bobby Tannen, a dim but charming ex-football star played by Ryan O'Neal.
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I actually laughed at this show this week, but it was mostly at the fact that the entire cast of Battle knew touch-football judge William Katt and serenaded him with the theme song to The Greatest American Hero. It figures that these children of the '70s and '80s had fun with the classic show. Personally, I'm digging all the clips of the old-school fashions, like Scott Baio with a shaggy 'do and headband and the patented Farrah hair flip. Those classic moments are more genuine and entertaining than this current dreck. The reality folks are mostly unlikable, plus you have to deal with things like the outspoken Coral justifying her decision to have her teammate Gervase run the 100-yard dash by making the silly comment, "Considering that we have a Kenyan on our team, I guess we'll pick him." It's a pretty sad state when that is the only memorable thing in an episode, besides The Amazing's Jonathan being a total jer
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Speaking of A-list celebrities: William Katt of The Greatest American Hero fame will make a cameo appearance as a touch-football referee on the Aug. 31 edition of Bravo's Battle of the Network Reality Stars. To be fair, I hear he came thisclose to getting Charlize's Arrested Development gig.
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Question: Just wondering. Did William Katt star in anything before The Greatest American Hero
Answer: His big break in the pre-Hero years was as doomed prom king Tommy in 1976's Carrie, Kyle. His first true starring role was as the young Sundance Kid, playing opposite Tom Berenger's Butch Cassidy, in 1979's Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. I'm betting, however, that you missed that one since most people did.
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Elinor Goldschmied and Sonia Jackson coined the term heuristic play to describe providing children with the opportunity to find out about objects and what can be done with them.
Heuristic play is a way of offering a group of children a range of objects to explore freely with little adult intervention. This type of activity is particularly useful in encouraging young children to engage in an activity for more than a few minutes! The term heuristic is derived from the Greek word 'eurisko' which means 'serves to discover or gain an understanding of.'
It provides children with opportunities to explore objects thoroughly.
Examples of some items used include everyday objects and usual favourites such as pots and pans, spoons, metal jam jar lids,wooden spoons, bracelets, cardboard wooden boxes and tubes, Ribbon, plastic bottles and various pieces of material from scarf's to leather purses.
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It's better to introduce this activity after baby has been feed and has had a sleep otherwise a hungry and tired baby will only become frustrated and uninterested. Move other toys away out of sight as not to cause a distraction. Treasure baskets which are used twice or three times a week have more affect and promote more interest than a basket which is used continuously.
To keep the treasure basket exciting and fresh move around objects regularly you can also take away and add new appropriate objects when required. As your child gets older you could replace the basket with a bag or box or simply just leave the items out on the floor for them to explore.
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In the latest installment of "SexEd: Planned Parenthood's Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids," an Oregon Planned Parenthood counselor is shown telling a 15-year-old girl, who's under the legal age of consent, to watch porn, go to a sex shop, and experiment with bondage and hitting with her boyfriend.
Live Action released its fourth undercover video last week, with others soon to follow, that shows a Planned Parenthood counselor and nurse giving BDSM (bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism) or "torture sex" advice to a girl whom she believes is only 15.
"The workers are not only telling the underage girls to practice sadomasochism, bondage and discipline — violent and destructive sexual practices — but also to access sex shops and porn websites when there's a question of consent there," Lila Rose president of the pro-life group Live Action, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly earlier this week. "I think the other bigger question is that some of these relationships are adult-child relationships, statutory rape — we've been investigating that at Planned Parenthood for years. Planned Parenthood doesn't report sexual abuse, so that's another dimension to this." more >>
The Rev. Franklin Graham recently reiterated his remarks from earlier this year, calling on Christians in America to stand for biblical values despite social opposition.
In a column published in the July-August edition of Decision magazine, the head of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, declared that "Heaven is not for cowards!"
"Christians cannot ignore parts of God's Word because they are unpopular or cause division. Our commission is to proclaim Christ and all He stands for," wrote Graham. more >>
An associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara has pleaded no contest to criminal charges related to her assault on a group of pro-life students in March, which was partially captured on video.
The Santa Barbara Independent reported on Thursday that Dr. Mireille Miller-Young, who had been accused of stealing and destroying an anti-abortion posted during an event, as well as pushing and scratching the activist, is pleading no contest to the charges of grand theft, vandalism, and battery.
"Today's plea brings us one step closer to seeing justice done in this case," said Katie Short, mother of the 16-year-old activist that Miller-Young is accused of assaulting. "Pro-life advocates should not be subjected to intimidation and violence for lawfully exercising their right to free speech, and we are happy to see that Ms. Miller-Young is being held accountable for her actions." more >>
Local residents of New Orleans, Louisiana are circulating a petition to have the town's mayor formally rescind a proclamation he awarded to Operation Rescue America, a conservative anti-abortion group that has staged multiple protests around town.
In a July 20 certificate, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's office issued a proclamation to Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue America. Since receiving the proclamation, the group has held multiple controversial protests throughout the southern city, including interrupting a service at the First Unitarian Universalist Church and holding a protest in a residential neighborhood.
The certificate, posted to the Operation Save America's Facebook page, thanked the pro-life group for its "outstanding service to the city of New Orleans." Such ceremonial certificates are usually distributed by the city to groups or conventions. According to Best of New Orleans, such certificates may also be distributed to groups with "organizational honors; church anniversaries and pastoral anniversaries; retirements; heroic deeds; a 100th birthday; or outstanding community service by an individual, group, or organization." more >>
Recent debate about access to women's birth control could not be more deceptive or ironic because it's based on the false presupposition that reproductive rights is solely a woman's issue. The universally known biological fact is that no woman can become pregnant without a man's sperm.
Yet, "family planning" initiatives have always targeted women, not men. None involve a systematic implementation of vasectomies or chemical castration. None address the reality that no female birth control method prevents STD/HIV/AIDS transmission.
Promoting female birth control is profoundly sexist. Targeting women reinforces widespread, long-held cultural and legal norms that ignore male sexual responsibility and culpability, and actually creates tangible, authentic gender inequality. more >>
WASHINGTON — The unifying tone of Sen. Marco Rubio's, R-Florida, Wednesday speech at the Catholic University of America contrasted sharply with President Barack Obama's divisiveness, Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, told The Christian Post in an interview after the event.
Rubio "took a unifying stance that talked about the importance of marriage in America," Nance said. She also praised Rubio for offering "concrete policy ideas."
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Ministry with the Poor--Looking Poverty in the Face
New York, NY, February 17, 2009--Listen to the poor ... accept the poor ... serve the poor: These are three necessary steps in the United Methodist focus on ministry with the poor, says the Rev. Edward W. Paup, general secretary of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Rev. Paup gave a major plenary address on ministry with the poor in late January 2009. United Methodist annual conference leaders gathered in Jacksonville, Florida, for a quadrennial training session.
Numerous persons have asked for copies of the speech that covered one of four current focus areas of the denomination. The text is provided below.
The other three focus areas are new church starts, leadership development, and global health. Rev. Paup drew particular parallels between concern for health and ministry with the poor.
The text provided here is taken from Rev. Paup's original working draft and does not include all of the elaborations he made in the Jacksonville presentation. It does contain the heart of the address.
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Ministry with the Poor: Looking Poverty in the Face
By Edward W. Paup
(Delivered at the quadrennial training event for annual conference leaders, Jacksonville , Florida , January 31, 2009.)
Late last April while many of us were at the 2008 United Methodist General Conference, a near disaster hovered over the poor of the world. The prices of global food commodities, especially grain, reached all time highs, spiking at a 150 percent jump in a few months' time. While conference delegates and visitors were inconvenienced by the crowded restaurants in downtown Fort Worth, millions around the globe faced starvation. Did most of us at General Conference know about the crisis? Did we say a prayer, make offerings? No, we went about "business as usual," debating legislation and passing resolutions, including some on hunger and poverty.
It cannot be "business as usual" if we of The United Methodist Church intend to make ministry with the poor a central and serious part of our 21st century mission to "Make Disciples of Jesus Christ for the Transformation of the World." Through one of our new focus areas, we have courageously announced to the world that the United Methodists are renewing and extending our covenant with the poor--for, indeed, a priority focus on the poor is strong in our Wesleyan heritage and strongly identifiable now in our contemporary global outreach. How do we propose to accomplish our strengthened commitment, and how may an expansion of ministry with the poor affect the church itself and its leadership--that is, those of us in this room? These are the hinge questions in my remarks today. Following my somewhat informal comments I hope we will have time for dialogue.
Poverty, says theologian Victorio Araya-Guillen, "is not a subjective, individual phenomenon; it is not a product of chance; it does not fall from heaven as God's will or God's punishment. Nor is it the result of insufficient technology or natural resources. Poverty is not a neutral phenomenon or cold economic fact ... . [P]overty has a human face and that face confronts us every day with the theological and ethical dilemma of the death of millions of innocent human beings." 1
Our focus area on ministry with the poor calls us to look boldly at the face of poverty. It calls us to let the faces of poverty boldly look back at us; indeed, in many parts of the world, including some communities in the United States, United Methodists are among the poor. Truth be told, our denomination's roots are among the poor of 18 th century England.
By and large, those of us gathered here for quadrennial training in church leadership are not poor. We reflect the economically privileged. More than 80 percent of humanity lives on less than $10.00 per day, and the averages for more than a billion is only slightly more than one dollar, according to new World Bank figures.2 What might the average dollar count be in each of our wallets? United Nations reports indicate that the poorest 40 percent of the global population accounts for five percent of global income, while the richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters.3 Most of us in this room are from that 20 percent that has 75 percent of the earth's income.4
Allow me to repeat by basic, interrelated questions: 1) How do we as United Methodists seriously go about ministry with the poor today, that is, how do we look poverty in the face and respond with the love of Jesus Christ? 2) How ready are we to be re-formed by the encounter with the economically least of these--within and beyond our own fold?
I. Getting Serious About Ministry with the Poor
A. Looking Poverty in the Face
To look at poverty is to see the faces of:
The recitation of the statistics of poverty could go on and on. For reliable data on the scourge of poverty, I urge you to visit an excellent website where a great deal of information from multiple sources is categorized, explained, and linked to primary sources. The site is the "Poverty Around the World" section of Global Issues that Affect Everyone ( www.globalissues.org ).
Poverty today is a highly complex reality that requires new ways of thinking about not only the use of resources but also our interactions as disciples of Jesus Christ with the systems that control and move food supplies, the systems that shape the policies and procedures that distribute health services. To consider these issues is to question ourselves about our attitudes toward the poor. To look at the face of poverty is to question how we experience and express Christian love, mercy, and justice.
B. Scriptural, Wesleyan Foundations
Several years ago, Victorio Araya-Guillen, a theologian from Costa Rica (already quoted), gave a paper that has become an important benchmark in Methodist thinking on the church and the poor. Speaking at Oxford University, the professor helpfully outlined three church responses to poverty, responses salient to the overall topic of ministry with the poor. The three are:
These responses reflect both scriptural and Wesleyan precedents.
We hardly need to argue that the poor had a central place in the teachings and action ministries of Jesus. Jesus inherited from his Hebrew ancestors a strong sense of God's solidarity with the poor and a strong commitment to both mercy and justice for those lacking in material goods and social position. This theme is often sounded by the prophets Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and it is also found in the Psalms and other ancient Jewish literature. Proverbs 31 offers a stirring summary:
Throughout the four gospels, Jesus hears, accepts, and serves the poor. He feeds the hungry, heals the sick, pauses to comfort the marginalized, and castigates the rich for their neglect of the poor. "Blessed are the poor," he says in the Lukan version of the Beatitudes, but in Luke 6:24 the word is, "woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation."
Jesus identified himself as the messenger of good tidings to the poor in his first reading in the synagogue in Nazareth:
Further, Jesus provides an ethic for confronting poverty in Matthew 25 in the account of the judgment of nations. He places himself among the poor and outcasts and boldly said to the righteous: when you provided food, water, and clothing for the needy, cared for the sick, and visited prisons you did these things to me.
John Wesley also heard, accepted, and served the poor in ways powerful and controversial for his day. Wesley both heard and saw the plight of the poor at a time of social and economic transition in English life. His career spanned the birth and growth of the "industrial revolution." People were leaving farms and villages for factory jobs in towns. They worked for low pay in deplorable conditions and received no benefits. Frail children were put to work in jobs unfit for the heartiest adults.
Wesley's experience of hearing, accepting, and serving the poor suggests four themes that can instruct the church as we go about ministry with the poor on a global basis today. They are:
Let me point out three excellent resource books dealing with Wesley and our Wesleyan tradition in relation to the poor. These books (all published by our own Abingdon Press or its subsidiary, Kingwood Books) explore many dimensions of Wesley's thoughts and actions in response to poverty. The essays (two of the books are anthologies) also look at the contemporary church's response and responsibility to the poor. They are:
I recommend these works to you. The General Board of Global Ministries deeply appreciates the insights of all three as we equip the agency for a strong role in the focus area on ministry with the poor.
C. Embracing the Poor
Wesley was suspicious of riches and those who had them. He once told a colleague, "The poor are the Christians."11 However, we must never reduce his concern for the poor or his discomfort with wealth to mere economic and social terms. Wesley was concerned for the physical welfare of persons but he was even more interested in spiritual vitality--in knowing and loving God--in salvation. Those on the path to perfection and sanctification would out of their love of God engage in acts of mercy, including not only service to the poor but association with the poor who are also candidates for salvation.
In a fine essay in the volume entitled The Poor and the People Called Methodists, Professor Randy L. Maddox of Duke Divinity School reminds us that works of mercy are indispensable in the Wesleyan understanding of salvation.12 Maddox offers a charming summary of Wesley's long-running correspondence with one Miss J.C. March, a young woman of means who found it difficult to either visit the poor and even more difficult to try to make friends among them. Miss March insisted that a Christian should associate only with persons of good taste and good character. Wesley responded to her:
I have found some of the uneducated poor who have exquisite taste and sentiment; and many, very many of the rich who have scarcely any at all ... . I want you to converse more, abundantly more, with the poorest of the people, who if they have not taste, have souls, which you may forward in their way to heaven. And they have (many of them) faith and the love of God in larger measure than any persons I know.
He said in another letter to her: "I find time to visit the sick and poor; and I must do it, if I believe the bible, if I believe these are the marks whereby the Shepherd of Israel will know and judge His sheep at the great day. I am concerned for you; I am sorry that you should be content with lower degrees of usefulness and holiness than you are called to."
Wesley's admonitions are strong reminders to the church of the 21 st century that the value of souls and depths of faith are determined neither by economic status nor by a sense of good taste. Embracing the poor is the necessary first step in ministry with the poor.
D. Comprehending and Confronting the Economic System
Wesley was a keen student of the emerging industrial economy of England in the 18 th century. He studied industrial operation and its impact on individuals and families. He watched and complained as grain was diverted from bread to the production of alcohol. He and his brother Charles complained to public authorities about inadequate wages, insufficient economic "safety nets," and the contamination of water, air, and soil. Wesley would likely be an advocate for the "green revolution" were he around today. He railed against exploitation and dispossession of the poor by industrialists, merchants, doctors, and lawyers. He lambasted colonialism and the slave trade. Concern for the poor became a sort of litmus test for Methodist social witness in his day, and he complained so long and long that his protests were one reason he was denied permission to preach in Anglican pulpits.
Do we have the same passion today to understand the operation of economic systems far more complex than those of Wesley's time? We need to comprehend, and at times, challenge those systems if we will engage effectively in ministry with the poor.
Admittedly, the current international economic system is so complex, as the present economic recession indicates, that it is almost impossible to understand or explain. That very fact challenges the church to become more adept at monitoring those forces that shape economic possibilities and perpetuate poverty.
In an ironic twist, the sky-high commodity prices registered during General Conference last spring declined somewhat in proportion to the worsening economic conditions that have us so worried over our pension plans and airline ticket costs. However, according to several articles, economists are hard pressed to explain why food prices soared so high just when they did. One explanation holds that the selling down of government-held food reserves in recent years would encourage private investors to move into agriculture, boosting production. Something seems to have gone down in the global "marketization" of agriculture. For various reasons, including weather, production declined or remained level in times of expanding need, and former reserves were low or gone. Prices spiked, according to that theory.
Another, related explanation is that food and fuel prices rose and the stock markets hit the skids because the deregulated, free-trade system simply broke down and must be replaced.13
Which of these or other theories are right I cannot tell you, but I am convinced that the church today has an obligation to find its economic voice and to equip leaders who can vigorously engage in economic dialogue from the perspective of justice. I was heartened last December to read of the launching in Manila of a global ecumenical movement for economic and ecological justice. A statement from the group asserted that the time has come to put economic justice and ecological sustainability at the heart of faith. 14 Amen!
To engage in the public economic forum, we need more and better trained men and women who can both comprehend the complex contemporary systems and convincingly speak for justice. We have the opportunity to identify such persons at Global Ministries through our leadership development scholarships. For example, the World Communion Scholarships provide support for graduate studies to persons whose professions will foster the goals of the gospel. Young men and women who grasp economic theory and practice and also understand the Christian demand for justice are great assets to mission and ministry.
Campus ministries, UMYFs, Sunday school classes, and Volunteers in Mission groups are all venues in which we can increase education for economic justice. The various youth-based initiatives in hunger alleviation provide excellent opportunities for training in how economic systems work--work well for some people and to the disadvantage of others.
E. Going Beyond Charity
Early Methodist services for the poor consisted primarily of alms, some raised by begging in the streets. As the movement grew, Wesley organized the "Strangers' Society," for the relief of the "poor, sick, and friendless" beyond the Methodist bounds.15
It did not take long for the Methodists to realize that more than acts of charity were necessary to provide for the needs of the poor among themselves and in the larger society. More beneficial efforts include:
Any of this sound familiar? Wesley became increasingly committed to long-term solutions not dependent on financial handouts. Basic literacy was often a gift both to adults through the class meetings and to the Sunday schools that the Methodists would organize for children who could not attend regular schools because they worked six days a week.
The global United Methodist Church already has in place outstanding examples that can be expanded and adapted for use in other areas. These are empowerment ministries, helping people to find their vocational interests and talents and develop them. Three types of these ministries are: business and job creation, credit unions and loan funds, and board-based community economic and housing development.
F. Understanding the Links between Poverty and Health
John Wesley clearly grasped the linkage between poverty and the lack of access to health services. Of course medicine in his day was, as the title of one of his books noted, "primitive" in comparison to the situation today. Knowledge of bacteria or of antibiotics did not exist. Surgery was dangerous.
Wesley was not ahead of his time in the health arena, but he knew that the poor had no access to the admittedly limited health services available to the rich. In response, he organized a book of home remedies called Primitive Physick that went through multiple expanded editions and became the best-selling English-language self-help book of the 18 th century. Methodist circuit riders carried this health resource in their saddle bags and shared its information as needed.20
You and I would not want to self-treat from Primitive Physick but we can benefit from his insistence that clean water and air and uncontaminated food are essential for good health, and that alcohol and tobacco are harmful. We should also listen to his insistence that the poor should have access to the best health services available.
One of our four new focus areas is that of "combating the diseases of poverty by improving health globally." Many diseases are linked to poverty but, generally speaking, this focus area points to preventable diseases, including but not limited to HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. There is, quite naturally, a close affinity between the health focus-area and ministry with the poor.
Again, this emphasis on health is a matter of the degree of emphasis. One must doubt that Methodism has even been disengaged from health ministries--in England, the United States, and in the multiple mission areas. Methodists in America set up scores of hospitals and clinics in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, many of which continue with ties to our denomination. Missionaries set up health facilities formal and informal and launched medical education in multiple regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Based on our experience, we are today attempting to advance our health ministries with the poor in keeping with the current health standards and possibilities, a goal that has been in place for at least two decades at Global Ministries. This means updating existing facilities in Asia and Africa, organizing more health education, and turning where appropriate toward community-based health initiatives that stress prevention. As a denomination at large, we also need to build closer ties to international governmental and nonprofit health programs and to take our place at the tables where health policies and programs are considered. We need to remember that United Methodists constitute only .002 percent of the world's population.
UMCOR includes massive health components in post-disaster situations, often remaining for years after other relief organizations have left. UMCOR Health also provides health education scholarships for ethnic and racial ministry students in the US. We have a new group of Global Health Missionaries--10 to date--at work in sub-Saharan Africa. In the US, we also have a new program that helps equip congregations to address health issues among their memberships and among the poor in local or nearby areas.
The recent United Methodist responses to both AIDS and malaria are good examples of how we can cooperate within and beyond the church to combat diseases of poverty. Our work with HIV/AIDS patients and their families began shortly after the epidemic was identified in the United States. We set up a network, operating primarily online, aimed at encouraging families and congregations to accept those suffering with AIDS as children of God. This network was enormously helpful in a pastoral sense and was phased-out only within the last month, having become little used because of changing attitudes. Later, work was started primarily through UMCOR in areas in Africa with high HIV incidents. This involved education and, especially, the care of children left parentless by the disease. In 2004, the General Conference set up the World AIDS Fund which continues to provide assistance to a variety of HIV/AIDS-related ministries on a global basis.
The malaria initiative, including the highly successful Nothing But Nets fundraising campaign, originated around the middle of the last quadrennium from two centers of energy: a community-based prevention and treatment program started by UMCOR and the creative link between United Methodist Communications and the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets. In one of the largest distributions of malaria nets--in Côte d'Ivoire, with nets provided by the Texas Annual Conference, UMCOR organized the community-based training in how to use and care for the nets, while Nothing But Nets provided and distributed the product.
My report is more than enough to show the essential linkage between ministry with the poor and global health needs. They go hand-in-hand, and I am sure the United Methodist agencies and members will go hand-in-hand in addressing them.
II. A Church Re-formed through Ministry with the Poor?
How will The United Methodist Church be changed--re-formed--by taking ministry with the poor with great seriousness? I am assuming that many parts of the church intend to take this focus area seriously. Five likely results come to mind and, of course, these will be influenced by location and cultural context. My descriptions will be brief because I still hope we will have time for dialogue on the subject.
First: Study
We will go to the Bible more intently on the reality of poverty and the place of the poor in God's plan of salvation. Various study guides along these lines will be available during the quadrennium, but each congregation can start now by organizing introductory courses using a New Testament Gospel as the text. There is also a five-session course called "Global Poverty Bible Study" on the website of the West Ohio Annual Conference. It may be available elsewhere, but West Ohio's site is where I saw it. The author is the Rev. Alexis Coleman, a pastor in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. The web address is: www.westohioumc.org/page.asp?PKValue=1584.
Bible study on the poor will lead to greater study of the Wesleyan and early Methodist experience and teaching. I have already shared with you the names of three books that directly consider these matters.
Second: Actions, to Hear, Accept, and Serve
Study often leads to action, a point well demonstrated by the annual mission studies prepared by Women's Division and used extensively by United Methodist Women. Study of public education has led to much greater involvement of local churches and United Methodist Women's units in local action for high-quality schools. Or study of interfaith issues leads to more actual contact across religious lines. Study of poverty and the conditions of the poor will motivate us to greater listening, acceptance, and service among the poor.
Another type of action will be the development of more congregations within poor communities or, in some places, greater outreach to bring the poor into existing local churches. This can be especially important in the US where we usually think of church development as confined to the suburbs, and church revitalization in neighborhoods of changing demographics. As I have said, many members of our church outside the US, and some in this country, are poor, but when in the US have you seen a publication on "How to Start United Methodist Churches among the Poor" or "Bringing the Poor into our Congregations?" I hope we will see them.
Third: Greater Social and Economic Diversity
Serious ministry with the poor will result in our church's membership looking more like the diverse human family, with persons of many nationalities, races, ethnic cultures, and economic conditions working together to glorify God and to make disciples for the transformation of the world. Many of the poor today are from racial and ethnic groups that have not been well represented in the denomination. We are called to make sure that our doors are truly open to persons of all sorts.
Fourth: Greater Care in the Use of Resources
How much do we of the church today spend on non-necessities that we should use to serve the poor? That is a question that every individual, every congregation, every annual conference, every bishop, and every general agency should ponder in deep prayer. To hear, accept, and serve the poor will likely mean the change of at least some economic habits. Could those of us who are adults stop the practice of giving our siblings and friends Christmas gifts they may neither need nor want, and give the money to UMCOR for poverty ministries? Several people I know did that this past Christmas, and their families were deeply appreciative.
At Global Ministries, we are rigorously combing our budgets to maximize the gospel-value of each expenditure, to find the means to put substance in ministries that serve the poor. To keep the poor clearly in our sights--and here I mean the entire church--is never easy and becomes especially difficult in a time of global economic downturn, as we are now experiencing. However, God does not tell us to visit the prisoner and feed the hungry only when convenient or when the bank account is flush.
Fifth: A Sense of Being Closer to God
We need not doubt that both Jesus and John Wesley understood that the poor have a preferential place in God's grace, and that the community of faith regardless of its economic means has a duty to incorporate and assist the poor. Enthusiastic ministry with the poor in the 21 st century will strengthen our United Methodist sense of fulfilling God's will on earth. As Richard Heitzenrater reminds us, we see Christ when we look at the faces of the poor, and John Wesley believed that the Methodist movement had a special responsibility to the poor as God's beloved.
As we hear, accept, and serve those whom God in Christ loves, we express our love for God.
For small-group discussions linked to the contents of this address:
Hearing and Accepting the Poor
UNICEF reports that 26,500-30,000 children under age five die each day as a result of poverty. They "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death." Discuss this in light of Jesus' admonition, "'Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.'" (Luke 18:16).
The Use of Money
The phrase, "Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can," sums up John Wesley's view of money, with the critical emphasis on the third point. He did not believe Christians should accumulate surplus wealth while some do not have necessities and others are in "extremities." Wesley found the message hard to sell. How would it be received in your congregation in 2009?
1. Victorio Araya-Guillen, "The 500 th Anniversary of the European Invasion of Abya-Yala: An Ethical and Pastoral Reflection from the Third World," in Meeks, Douglas M., ed., The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition, Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995, 138. (Paper originally given at the Oxford Institute on Wesleyan Studies, 1992).
2. Shah, Anup, "Poverty Facts and Statistics," Global Issues, www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats#src2 , citing World Bank adjusted figures.
3. 2007 Human Development Report (HDR), United Nations Development Program, November 27, 2007, p. 25.
5. Anup, op.cit. www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats, citing the UNICEF 2000 Progress of Nations Report.
6. Millennium Develop Goals Report, 2007, cited by Anup, op.cit.
8. United Nations Human Development Report, 2006, pp. 6, 7, 35, hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2006.
9. "Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries," Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, www.oecd.org/document/53/0,3343,en_2649_33933_41460917_1_1_1_1,00.html.
10. Victorio Araya-Guillen , op cit., 144-145.
11. Letters of John Wesley, September 30, 1786.
12. All of the information and quotes dealing with Miss March from Maddox, Randy L., "'Visit the Poor': John Wesley, the Poor, and the Sanctification of Believers," in Heitzenrater, Richard P., The Poor and the People Called Methodists, Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2002, pp. 76-79.
13. A great deal of literature exists on both the causes of the food spike and the future of free trade. For a brief discussion of the first, see Surowiecki, James, "The Perils of Efficiency, The New Yorker, November 24, 2008, p. 46; a synopsis of thinking on free trade, see Skidelsky, Robert, "The Remedist," the New York Times Magazine, December 14, 2008, pp. 21-22.
14. Ecumenical News Service, "Christian Leaders Say Justice Must be at Heart of Global Economy," December 12, 2008.
15. John Wesley's Journal, March 14, 1790. (Works of Wesley IV: 481)
16. Summarized by Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., in Good News to the Poor: John Wesley's Evangelical Economics. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990, 60-64.
17. Information on examples of business and job creation is from the news files of the General Board of Global Ministries.
18. Information on the banks and micro-credit institutions from the Global Ministries' is from the news files and mission publications.
19. Information on ABCD Corp. comes from the Community and Institutional Development Program Area of Global Ministries and the organization's website at www.abcdinc.net/Home.html.
20. The text of the 1747 edition of Primitive Physick can be read online at the Global Ministries website, new.gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/primitive-physick/
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**Affirm your August Aspirations with Another Astonishing Achievement**
August is here! Post your thoughts, feelings, frustrations, accomplishments here!!!!
Ah August.....I have a lot of goals. More than ever I'm focused and determined. I meet last month goal and that has me pumped for this month ;)
I've signed up to do tough mudder in November and my friends and family think I've lost my mind. But I need and want to challenge myself. This month is all about weightlifting, get tone and endurance. I've also joined a meet-up group to do some extra training.
On a side note, my cousin is visiting from florida and his first words out of his mouth was 'wow cous you look great! you lost so much weight!' He had not seen me in a year and it felt so good. I have to post some pics of the before and after. A lot of people think I weigh about 150 to 160 because of my height and body shape and are surprise to hear that I still want to lose 50 lbs.
Any way good luck to everyone on this month's goal! Remember stay focused and determined!
I am SO looking forward to August! Today was week 1, day 1 of being recommitted to Medi, (after my skirmish with shingles....and feeling like crap for the past few weeks) I'm hoping that the silver lining to all of this is that I've mixed things up enough that my metabolism MAY have kicked in again, and I'll lose not only the few pounds I gained, but some of the "new" pounds I've been trying to take off. I weighed, measured, and wrote down EVERYTHING I put in my mouth today......Back to the Basics!
Tomorrow I find out IF I have to do Jury Duty (AGAIN.....3rd time) on Wednesday. That would mean I'd have to miss the gym once again, AND change 2 appointments I have :annoyed:
Yay it's August!! That means I can get my kids back to school and back on a schedule. Their "boredom" is about to drive me insane!!
I'm in maintenance and have managed to stay away from the diet pills for 2 weeks. I'm staying steady at 140lb and think I'll just stay here for awhile. My original goal was 130, but I'm feeling good and exercising. I am now fearing looking "old" with some excess skin showing wrinkles that the fat had filled in before. Oh well... I earned them, I guess!
I've been playing around with the Walden Farms stuff and I have read all of the negative comments, but I truly love them. With a passion, I love them. I cook with them, eat them plain, add it in foods... all kinds of unique ways! I'll share the ones that worked with anyone who might be interested....or that might have found a love for them like I have. (I hope I'm not the ONLY one!) LOL
First week weight in!
I just had my first week weight in and lost 9.5 pounds! Whoo Hoo! So excited. Now I must admit that the week prior to starting, the hubby and I took a vacation to Boston, and we were NOT good. I mean...you have to have a cannolli and Boston cream pie in Boston...and we did indeed. I am very happy with my results but definitely don't expect nearly as much next week. I've got a goal of 35 total to lose, so this makes me feel pretty motivated! :p
Thank you for getting another month started for us, Rachel! Has anyone heard from Jo lately? Jo, are you checking in here? Who else is checking in? Lea? Charlene? Ann K.? Nance? We miss you all!
Congratulations Determined Gemini! But what's a mudder?
Congratulations JBoJenn and Lisajaye--stick with it! MWL works and they give you great tools! Maintenance can be tricky (I know from experience)---so commit to do it and you will succeed!
Mary - When you were working (as a nurse) did you have to work on a jury? Hope you find out soon if you need to keep going and that you make the right decision in the case. Thank you for serving as a nurse, and for serving in the jury. Still, I hope you get your schedule back soon!! I'm glad you're healing up from your shingles.
Just found out that I have jury duty tomorrow :annoyed: I'm hoping to be excused because they have selected the full jury for a murder case! This is either the 3rd or 4th time I've been called for jury duty in 9 yrs, and DH has NEVER been called. I'll have to be at the courthouse at 7:30, and will have to pack food, so I won't be tempted by the vending machines.......think I'll leave my change at home (the instructions said to bring change for the machines :eek:)
I've signed up to do tough mudder in November and my friends and family think I've lost my mind. But I need and want to challenge myself.
I had never heard of this so I had to look it up. OMG am I impressed!! And I thought doing a marathon was hard! What kind of training are you doing? Good luck and keep us posted on your success.
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Hey guys.. I had posted this on the July thread.. don't know if anyone read it.. looking for some insight...
Catching up on reading all of the replies that my post illicited. I agree whole heartedly. Since losing so much weight I feel like a new woman. I feel more attractive, more energetic, and happier! I have been "cheating" here and there. My cheats consists of too much protein, a bite here and there of watermelon/cantelope/ or in my case today bing cherries.
I now have the added thought process of starting a family? How do I incorporate this WOE into getting pregnant? Should I return to the clinic, if I'm not able to take injections/fat burners/ app supressants? I have an appointment today, which I plan to keep so that I can talk to the Nurse Practitioner about my concers.... I'm really terrified to gain weight, I don't want to rewind to January 1/2011. I don't want to be that same fat, miserable, stressed out person again. I'm happy now, and I'm scared of falling into bad habits during a pregnancy......
I currently weigh 333 lbs. When I started I was 370. About a year ago, I went to Best Buy and bought the Nintendo Wii with the Wii Fit, a few controllers etc... Overall, set me back about $400+ (more expensive than the Medi Weight Loss consultation fee). I was fooling myself into thinking that I'd lose weight the fun way with the Nintendo Wii.
Well, long story short, I found out the hard way that the Wii Fit has a weight limited of 335 lbs! I was too fat! This was very depressing. I even went on the internet and found youtube videos of other fat people with the wii and how to make it work, how to fool it into thinking you weighed less.
Well, I plan on going home tonight and trying out my wasted purchase (no I couldn't return it. Best Buy said it was open and used and their policy was that it had to be defective or unopened) for the first time. No, I don't plan on using this to replace my exercising, but I'm looking at it as a small triumph. One more thing I can enjoy in my life now that I'm losing weight.
Tough Mudder is a 1 to 12 mile obstacle course, it's insane! here's the link: Tough Mudder - Probably the Toughest Event on the Planet
Hi Losing in ftm,
I joined a meet-up training session to focus on core workouts, endurance and weightlifting. Been increasing my physical activities and praying!
Hello to Everyone,
I have not been on the plan for 3days:annoyed:. I plan on doing week one, Thursday. Iam looking for imput on going back to week one after being off for 3 days:confused:. Iam not sure if that is the way to go or just keep it at 550 cals of protein or what. Would love to hear from you. I will not let this get me down but, I want to make sure go back the right way. Remember I do Medi without the clinic. Thanks in advance to you all!
Hey everyone.
it looks like everyone is doing great. I went for my weigh in yesterday and was down 2.4lbs overall. I had lost 6.2lbs fat and gained 2.8 water and 1.2 in muscle. I hate when I retain water. I am down a total of 82.8lbs. I got a call yesterday to do a newspaper story about my weightloss. I am so excited. It definitely helps with motivation and wanting to stay away from the cookies the kids and I are baking now. Have a great night and stay on track.
Ferrarimomof3 - So awesome!! You have done incredibly well since you started! I'm so happy for you!!! You deserve the adolation...and a new outfit too! :high5: I hope you post photos of yourself so we can all be motivated and cheer you along to goal!
repost from july to aug
Hi Everyone!
Restarting here as of July 26. I woke up and decided I couldn't do this on my own and called the clinic on my way to work and I am so glad I did. My Week 1 weigh-in is Tuesday and I am hoping for a big loss. I have gone back on 2 separate occasions since joining MWL in Feb '10 but for some reason 3rd time was the charm as far as my motivation and committment goes. I did get to within 10 pounds of my original goal then but now I want to go a bit further. I think I am doing better this Week 1 vs. my original Week 1. I've decided to start fresh with regards to my stats and look at this phase as though I had never joined before. May sound odd but hey, whatever works from a psychological standpoint....LOL. I have been lurking around LCF all this time, have read other books and programs but I honestly feel like this really IS the one that works!!! Will keep you posted on my progress! Also, I am using the Lose-It app for tracking and it seems to be working fine for me.
Had my week 1 weigh in on Tuesday and lost 9 pounds!! :kicking:
I'm pretty excited to be going through this again with such committment and focus, unlike previous attempts at restarts. And everyone here is so inspirational. I know life is good when I'm craving veggies!!! LOL
Yes....I am still lurking about the forum. But...I have been working so much OT that I have very little me time lately. Still walking my 6 miles a day...and maintaining...still with a pound or two of my goal weight...on one side or the other...never more.....
You are all doing splendidly!
Just finished day 2 of a new workout program I started. It's a 12 week fat burning weigh lifting program. It's Lee Labrada's 12 week Lean Body Challenge. I'm so sore right now that I can't sleep but I don't care, I feel great.
One of the things that deterred me from lifting weights for the first 6 weeks of the program is that I'm a scale junkie and lifting always puts on a few lbs of water weight / swelling weight / or whatever weight that makes no logical sense because our bodies are weird like that. I've finally said, I don't care what the scale says, I'm going to do the healthy thing and the right thing for losing weight. Worst case scenario, I have a gain during week 1 of lifting and then amazing weight loss the next 12 weeks.
Just thought I'd share.
Deb- thank you and I will try to figure out how to put the pics up. You are doing a great job. Keep it up.
Susan- Congratulations on your rejoin and what a great loss. You can do this keep up the hard work. Like someone on here's quote says "...pick your hard". You have and you are going to do great.
Jo- keep up the work and I love your quote.
Guitarjg- keep up the hard work. You are doing great.
Everyone else that I missed have a great day and keep up the work. I am going to try and enjoy the last couple of days that school is out with my kiddos.
I'll fill you guys in!!
Ok, I'll give all of my helpful hints on Walden Farms but I need your advice as to where to post it! Do I need to separate them out by dinner/lunch/breakfast? Is there a general recipe idea board or something I'm missing?
For example: I made cabbage last night... shredded with onion and turkey bacon... I use the Scampi sauce to cook the onion instead of butter and add more when that cooks down before adding the shredded cabbage and precooked turkey bacon ripped up pieces... then add salt, pepper and drizzle the WF syrup to add a little sweet and kick the bitterness out of the cabbage. Cover and let simmer.... it was amazing and even the kids loved it! They are my best critics! :p
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The 2010 Human Development Report is introduced in Turkey
UNDP's 2010 Human Development Report titled The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development was introduced at a seminar organized in the scope of the UN, World Bank and Middle East Technical University joint initiative Human Development Dialogue on 4 November 2010 at Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
New Horizons - Human development expert Dr. Seyhan Aydınlıgil analyzed the findings of the report presented by UNDP Resident Representative Shahid Najam. Najam and World Bank country director Ulrich Zachau answered student questions at the end of the seminar.
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