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It appears Marketing Pilgrim and Yahoo are on the same page…we both think MyBlogLog is a pretty cool company!
The social network for bloggers and blog readers has seen great growth in the past few months with lots of blogs installing their tracking code and building their MyBlogLog community. Once again proving it's in touch with social media, Yahoo has snapped up the company for a reported $10-12 million.
Judging by the official MyBlogLog blog, the guys appear to be excited about the acquisition and explain what backing from Yahoo will mean to them.
Yahoo! is going to put loads of resources into MyBlogLog and help us roll out a ton of new features. Plus, we're moving to their infrastructure, which should help with those occasional slowdowns.
And Mashable explains Yahoo's strategy for keeping MyBlogLog a separate entity while still mashing it up with other Yahoo web properties.
Bradley Horowitz, VP of product strategy at Yahoo, said that MyBlogLog would remain a separate entity (much like their other social acquisitions) , but you'll be able to register with your Yahoo ID. The MyBlogLog communities will also be integrated with Flickr and Yahoo Answers
Om Malik has more background details on MyBlogLog and suggests that even at $10 million, it's a handsome reward for their efforts.
Whatever the amount might be, it is clear that five-employee company (including Rafer) have done well, primarily because the company was completely boot strapped and raised zero dollars in angel or venture capital investment.
Curiously missing from the news is the thanks to MP for bringing MyBlogLog into the limelight with our free zune contest.
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Shareholders of both personal care appliance maker The Gillette Company and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have approved the proposed merge of the two companies.
The companies held a meeting with shareholders, who then approved the merger. According to P&G, the merger was approved by 96.5 percent of the votes cast, equivalent of 70.3 percent of the issued and outstanding shares.
"We're extremely pleased to see shareholders recognize the value in combining our two companies," A. G. Lafley, P&G chairman, president, and CEO, said. "The combination will enable us to leverage each company's strengths to drive more consistent and stronger consumer and shareholder value over the long term."
Announced Jan. 28, 2005, the transaction is valued at U.S. $57 billion. Gillette shareholders will receive .975 shares of P&G common stock for each share of Gillette common stock. P&G shareholders will continue to own their existing P&G shares.
Once the merger is completed, P&G shareholders will own approximately 71 percent of the combined company, and Gillette shareholders will own approximately 29 percent of the combined company on a fully diluted basis.
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Len Goodman can tell Louie Vito how to dance, but he can't tell him how to wear his hair. "Some people like it and some people don't, but I'm not going to change it," the Dancing with the Stars contestant tells TVGuide.com. "I'm not going to cut my hair and have everyone see how bad it looks short! I'm going to save these luscious locks." After impressing the crowd with a respectable foxtrot on Monday's season premiere, the snowboarding Olympic hopeful got an earful from the head judge about his shaggy mop of hair and its lack of ballroom-appropriateness. For the record, Vito, who will perform the jive this week, just had it "trimmed." And if you ask his partner, Chelsie Hightower, he's not supposed to have ballroom hair. News: Kathy Ireland ready to work her hips "It's not normal ballroom hair, but this isn't a normal ballroom competition," she says. "Louie is Louie. He doesn't want to change who he is. He just wants to add ballroom to who he is. I want Louie to be comfortable because he'll dance much better if he's comfortable." Vito, 21, who had never seen Dancing before and has zero dancing experience, is still trying to find his footing and more importantly, his posture on the hardwood since snowboarding calls for bending over, not standing tall. "Ultimately, as long as you've never danced before, you're not building bad habits. Unfortunately for us, he already built a bad habit with snowboarding!" Hightower says. "Luckily, there wasn't anything more than that, so that was good." One advantage from snowboarding? Balance, which will pay dividends on the floor, Hightower says. But mostly, she's impressed by Vito's work ethic. "You may not think of a very disciplined athlete, but snowboarders are athletes. They know what it takes to be good at something and how much work they have to put into it," she says. "I was definitely surprised by his work ethic and with his determination. He improves very quickly, which shows he really does want this. He's doing great and I'm really proud of him." News: Tom DeLay: I get to shake my booty "I know a lot of people were wondering how I was going to be, like, 'Is he going to try? Is he cool? Is he going to be focused?'" Vito says. "That's why I wanted to get out there and work hard and turn a lot of heads, which I think I did, and hopefully people continue to ride with me on this and continue to support me." No doubt competing on Dancing will give his once "rebellious" sport greater mainstream exposure ahead of the Vancouver Olympics, for which Vito hopes to qualify during the Grand Prix series in December and January with his arsenal of double-cork 1080s. Some people — non-snowboarding fans — don't understand why he's doing Dancing so close to the Games, thinking it would compromise his training. "Snowboarding, you just go out and have fun and do whatever you want. I'm not going into the gym for seven hours a day and lifting weights and doing my routine," he says. "It's more of a lifestyle than a sport. If I wasn't doing the show, I'd just be chilling. I've been snowboarding all summer and if you snowboard too much, you could kind of lose the drive by the time trials come around. You could get burnt out." Catch up on Dancing with our recaps Besides, doing Dancing doesn't mean there's no time for snowboarding either. Vito, who was originally approached to do the show last year but wasn't cast, hopes to hit the slopes in Colorado with Hightower one weekend, and wants to get his buddies out to attend a show or two. "They're all watching. I got texts from Scotty Lago, Jack Mitrani, Luke Mitrani. They're excited. I'm just going to be myself on here and see what happens." That means same hair, brushing off judge Bruno Tonioli's "dancing hobbit" comment ("I've been called worse," says the 5-foot-6 Vito, who, incidentally, had returned from New Zealand last month) and only a few dates with the spray-tan booth. "Some guys love that stuff. I'm not really a spray-tan kind of guy. I'm always covered up in my sport," he says. "I'm just trying to get an overall tan so I'm not glowing on TV. I don't want to be albino!"
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Turkish police have begun questioning about 50 military officers detained on Monday over an alleged plot to destabilise the country and trigger a coup to topple the government.
Retired commanders of the air force and navy and the former deputy armed forces chief were among those being interrogated by police following raids in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
All the detainees were reported to have been brought to Istanbul, with some being questioned at the city's police headquarters and others having been brought to an Istanbul court on Tuesday morning.
The dawn swoop has fuelled political strains and unsettled financial markets in the country, adding to tensions generated by a clash between the ruling AK Party and the secularist army and judiciary.
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General Ilker Basbug, the head of Turkey's armed forces, has postponed a trip to Egypt as a result of the investigation.
The AFP news agency reported that seventeen retired generals, including Ibrahim Firtina, the former head of the airforce and Ozden Ornek, a former navy chief, as well as four active-duty admirals were among those detained.The operation has brought condemnation by opposition figures.
"This is not a legal process. This is apparently a sheer process of political showdown," said Deniz Baykal, head of the main opposition Republican People's Party.
Devlet Bahceli, another opposition leader and head of the Nationalist Action Party, accused the government of carrying out a "political vendetta" and urged the sides to refrain from making inflammatory statements that could further fuel the tensions.
The arrests are believed to be linked to a purported 2003 plot to discredit the AKP government, a plan revealed by the Taraf newspaper in January.
The plan, codenamed Sledgehammer, involved bombing two Istanbul mosques and escalating tensions with Greece by forcing Greek jets to down a Turkish plane over the Aegean Sea.
The act would have been an attempt to show the Turkish government as inept, according to documents obtained by Taraf.Army denial
The Turkish army said the documents were discussed in a seminar on war-time contingency plans, but denied they represented a coup plot.Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Istanbul, said: "When the head of the military last spoke to the public on the subject he appealed to their common sense.
"He said how could army that chants 'Allah' when it orders its troops into battle be the same army that could possibly conceive of bombing a mosque and injuring Muslims at prayer.
"But it seems that those allegations may have foundations and that's what the investigations are about. "And we're expecting some of them [those detained] to come to some sort of court hearing this week."
The armed forces have ousted four governments since 1960 and such an operation against them would have been unimaginable until recent years.Under EU pressure, however, Erdogan has dramatically curtailed the military's power and reinforced its place under civilian rule.Other senior military officers have been indicted on charges of planning a separate plot by a far-right group known as "Ergenekon" to overthrow the government.
That trial is ongoing. Critics of the government say the Ergenekon case has been used to target political opponents.
The Turkish lira and shares weakened in early trading as the investigation hurt investor sentiment.
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Straddling the Divide
Parliament in the UK is currently considering a government proposal to legalize same sex marriage. You may have read some of the debate coming from members of the Church of England. What you may not realize is the debate by the bishops is just not banter back and forth among clergy. They are actually members of Parliament. Here's how the CoE describes their duties:
Their presence in the Lords is an extension of their general vocation as bishops to preach God's word and to lead people in prayer. Bishops provide an important independent voice and spiritual insight to the work of the Upper House and, while they make no claims to direct representation, they seek to be a voice for all people of faith, not just Christians.[ Emphasis added]
The newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury recently gave a speech on the proposed legislation. Here is an excerpt from his speech:
It is clearly essential that stable and faithful same sex relationships should, where those involved want it, be recognised and supported with as much dignity and the same legal effect as marriage. Although the majority of Bishops who voted during the whole passage of the Civil Partnerships Act through your Lordships' House were in favour of civil partnerships a few years ago, it is also absolutely true that the church has often not served the LGBT communities in the way it should. I must express my sadness and sorrow for that considerable failure. There have been notable exceptions, such as my predecessor Archbishop Ramsey who vigorously supported decriminalisation in the 1960s. [Emphasis added.]
My struggle begins with the concept of the ABC declaring it as essential for same sex relationships to be recognized and supported. He is not arguing against same sex marriage simply that it needs be have its own path. Equal yet separate. The ABC did not say, "Despite the fact that non-celibate same sex relationships are contrary to Scripture, the secular world has elected to embrace them and we must therefore find a way to protect traditional marriage." Instead, he called them worthy of recognition and support. Possibly he means this in a secular context but that is not what he said or ardently advocated.
We on the orthodox side of this argument are not here because we like being called ugly names or because we have some deep seated dislike of homosexuals. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are here solely because we believe that Scripture is our foundation. Scripture is the sole basis for our Christology. If it fails, all fails. We have begged for years for theology to support the position that same sex relationships are blessed by God. None has been forthcoming although many liberal theologians have done mighty acts of verbal gymnastics to wish away the words of Scripture. When pressed, most of the pro-LGBT crowd will admit that it was emotions that brought them to support the change in their thinking. Human feelings. The oh so fallible and changing emotions of mankind.
Supporters of the ABC are adamant that his words are being misconstrued. We are urged to read carefully and not project into what he is saying. Unfortunately, the only way his statements can be construed to fall within the orthodox position is if one misconstrues them. The ABC is clearly arguing that same sex relationships are (1) good (2) something worthy of recognition and support and (3) the church was in error in its handling of non-celibate same sex relationships in the past. Even if he meant this as only in a secular context, how can the church declare a relationship as good and worthy of recognition and support in the secular world and still be outside the acceptance of the church?
Peter Ould (twin brother of our very own David Ould) recently defended the ABC's comments in a friendly debate over at T19. Peter is someone I respect and find myself in agreement with most of the time. Unfortunately, we do not agree on this issue. He seems to sum up the issue as Gay relationships are here - deal with it. Minimize the damage and work toward a solution that doesn't "marry" it to traditional marriage. That's a great argument from a secular point of view. Unfortunately, this is not a secular debate. It is one that will impact not just the Anglican Church but the Church Universal. The primary duty of bishops is to be shepherds of the flock of God - not mediators brought in to reconcile God's Word to the secular world.
Peter Ould defended the ABC's position by positing that good can come of same sex relationships because the parties within them are capable of doing good things. His example was the sacrificial caring for a dying partner. Does that make the relationship good and worthy? Does an act or a million good acts of kindness redeem a relationship that falls outside the parameters of God's laws? No, it means that even the most debased among us are capable of decent acts. An axe murderer can pull an elderly woman from in front of a bus. A thief can donate money to the poor. All decent acts - even worthy acts. Does it, however, have anything to do with the core issue? If all pedophiles suddenly ban together and open shelters that provide warm beds, nourishing food and good education for children, do we then consider it essential to consider the practice of their sexual preference as worthy of recognition and support?
You seem to both be living in a fantasy world where with a snap of our fingers we can turn back time to the point where homosexuality was illegal and we could just all tell derogatory jokes about "poofs". Life isn't that simple - we live with the complexities of the modern world and the best way to defend traditional marriage isn't to wish away the assault on it but rather to establish Civil Partnerships and then to address why they are fundamentally different to marriage.
Peter's perspective is quite understandable. He wants to limit the damage to marriage. Don't we all? The problem is that the
Communion chose to avoid taking the necessary steps of discipline when its liberal counterparts in the US and Canada encouraged the secular world to move the line and embrace that which God did not. They chose Anglican Fudge instead and we are all paying the price. Archbishop Welby cannot now think that he can straddle the divide and all will be well. We cannot "undo" this failure by further fudging If the CoE and the Anglican Communion are interested in saving traditional marriage, they need to do what should have been done a long time ago. We need to lovingly remind the world that Scripture is not made of modeling clay and is, in fact, our firm foundation. The Anglican Communion cannot continue to lay claim to holding Scripture as its foundation while ignoring it.
A second speech given by the Bishop of Leicester contained some excellent points that reiterated reasons why same sex marriage can never be the same as traditional marriage. Here he discusses complementarism:
I could not help noticing in the debate in this House on International Women's Day the underlying assumption that women bring a special quality to the public square and that the complementarity of men and women is what enriches and stabilises society. Yet, in the realm of public discourse, assertion of sexual difference in relation to marriage has become practically unspeakable, in spite of the fact that it is implicitly assumed by most people in the course of everyday life. Equal marriage will bring to an end the one major social institution that enshrines that complementarity.
An excellent argument but it fails without the full theology behind it. It is only one aspect of why the bible is specific that non-celibate same sex relationships are not blessed. Piecemealing the theology is a trap waiting to spring. Where will the good bishop go when the issue of blessing incest comes to the forefront? It is a good analogy for this discussion because one of Peter's questions was to ask if we want to go back to the days of making a relationship illegal. Just for the record Incest is illegal in the UK. Enforcement includes incarceration.
If the goal is "equality" based on sexual preference, why would the church seek to punish certain groups? Is it because the secular world is lagging behind in recognizing certain sexual preferences? How long do you think that will last?
Using human reasoning, it is difficult to defend discriminating against certain relationships. Aren't the people in relationships like the ones linked above capable of doing good deeds and exhibiting good qualities? Does that make their sexual relationship good and worthy of recognition and support? It makes one wonder if advocates have really thought through the slippery slope argument. Nothing good ever comes of substituting man's judgment for God's. Worst yet, what damage is being done to those who are being given pat answers and encouraged to continue in a relationship that Scripture does not condone? What advice are these clergy giving to those who come to them for issues involving other, currently taboo, sexual relationships?
The time for debate is over. The last General Convention for the American branch made this a huge issue for us in the states. We are already seeing bishops who gave lip service to their dioceses now implement these ceremonies. The Diocese of Upper South Carolina immediately comes to mind. How long will these bishops protect the orthodox within their dioceses? Reliable sources in the Diocese of Louisiana have confided that the meeting the bishop called to discuss same sex blessings had little to do with discussion and a lot to do with shut up, sit down and listen to how it is going to be. Now that they have the draconian Title IV disciplinary procedures, exactly how long do you give orthodox clergy?
It is really not complicated. The Archbishop of Canterbury needs to quit acting like a politician. Speak clearly and plainly. If he believes Scripture allows non-celibate same sex relationships, he needs to clearly say so. There should be no doubt in the minds of the membership as to where he, the Anglican Communion and the Church of England stand on the issue. There is no Solomonic decision to be made here. The ABC cannot straddle the divide. He needs to let his yes be yes and his no be no. And so do we Anglicans as well as the leadership in the Communion. We must not stand silently by or condone prevarication or sidestepping as we did with his predecessor. Should we choose that path, then the Anglican Communion will soon join the Episcopal Church on its way to total insignificance.
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Why are the pointy hats so afraid of supporting the Word in public? I know that the parts about adultery, marriage, divorce, sex, sex, and sex offend the current worldview, but get with the program guys!
I don't think that the Gospel was ever intended to be spoken out of both sides of the mouth.
The argument from social, or legal, approval is no argument. Capital punishment for sodomy was at one time the law. And yes, you could get away with crude "poof" jokes, but c'mon, were they really right? The scripture tells us to be kind to one another and control our tongues because we to easily run cruelly at the mouth.
Personally, I'm against any recognition of same-sex relationships, including civil partnerships, for the simple reason that the end-game is not the legal benefits of secular marriage, but a complete acknowledgment that same-sex relationships are as normal as ... normal relationships.
1. 17 passages of Holy Scripture in both the Old and New Testaments make it very clear having sex outside of marriage, which is defined as between one man and one woman, is a sin.
Despite all the physical and religious evidence agains them, the homosexual agenda marches on…obviously this behavior isn't good for society…which is why it has been illegal for years.
But in our PC society we throw common sense right out the window…and we will watch society crumble right before our very eyes. Very sad for our children and grandchildren.
I think I would have to agree with Peter on this one. I do not think the ABC is trying to fudge. There is a difference between what we can do in civil government, and what we can do in the church, especially when you are in a European state with it's anti-discrimination laws. The fact that sodomy was once a capital offence does not help any.
The ABC does seem to say that marriage and same sex unions are of a different category.
And the end of the matter is:
This is not fudge. It is the realistic recognition of what can be done in a pluralistic civil society. If he gave this same speech in the House of Bishops about same sex unions in the church, I would say it was tragic. In the civil parliament, I would say its realistic and not at all bad.
All of this is why I thank God for the establishment clause (when it is rightly interpreted) that keeps us from having to try to reconcile the church and state in a pluralistic society.
B. Hunter [3]—while I agree with your assessment, you make the mistake of thinking that it can be legislated away. The problem is not with legislation, the problem is that the church has not been doing much to evangelize. We've done a pretty good job of making sure that the world knows that the church does not approve of homosexuality, well, most of the church anyway. The problem is that we have done a pretty poor job of introducing people to the love of God in Christ Jesus. We haven't really done much to convert our own children to the gospel of Christ. It is the love of God through the power of the Holy Spirit that will set people free, not anti-sodomy laws. We can brandish our fists at the nominal Christians in our governments (most of our elected officials, and most of the British MPs claim Christianity, but show little sign of it in behavior) or we can work toward the conversion of men and women to the gospel of Christ.
If we care about our children and grandchildren, I would suggest that we set to work evangelizing them and their generation, and doing so in a way that does not turn them off to the gospel completely.
One of the worst things that we can do is to throw around statistical misstatements that are easily researched like 85% of aids cases in the US are from homosexual behavior. In 2010 63% of new HIV cases involved men who have sex with men. 56% of the total cases in the US involve men who have sex with men. The transmission between lesbian women is a statistical 0%, though not impossible. For the statistics that I did not just throw out without any research, look here If you have a valid source for your stats, please share, and I will offer a suitably humble apology. If you don't have the source, please remember, when you quote it to a young person, they will know how to use Google, and walk away saying, "Now I know those Christians like to make stuff up."
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I just spent a couple of hours looking at the House of Lord debates concerning decriminalization of homosexual offences in 1965 and 1967. Archbishop Ramsey repeatedly supported decriminalization of homosexual offenses (crudely, that men over 21 shouldn't be prosecuted for what they did in private) in part as he said in 1965 to make "a greater possibility for some to find their way from wrong uses of sex and to be helped towards better uses of their energies. In the moral state of our country we need all the forces available to combat evils, of which homosexual practices are one."
But - and this marks the distance traveled in 50 years - he was able to state without qualification the church's traditional teaching. Here is speaking in a debate on 12 May 1965:
and on 21 June 1965
BTW just in case anyone wonders, I do think that decriminalization was and is right for exactly the sorts of reasons that persuaded Archbishop Ramsey. However, reading the debates, not just the bishops but almost every speaker seems extraordinarily naive. The anxieties of the crusty opponents of the change were in fact better predictors of what has come to be than the gentle confidence of the bishops.
Driver [10] That is not in the Archbishop's speech. That is from Barna research in the book unChristian in which the research shows that the majority of the Mosaic generation assumes that the church is anti-homosexual. I was speaking of the church as a whole, and not of the ABC in that statement.
My point is that taking the stand against homosexuality in the public square has done little to turn anyone toward Jesus. I think there is a difference between what we should try to legislate in the public square, and what we should expect of those within the Christian Church. I have no expectation that an atheist or an agnostic will behave in line with Christian morals. I do expect that members of the church will try to order their lives according to the standard of scripture.
I think that is the distinction we have to keep in mind when the ABC addresses the Parliament.
Hi Driver8,
You are absolutely correct…there is no sense from the ABC's speech or from the words of the bishops that there is anything morally wrong with homosexual behavior or that the impulse is in any way disordered. He said civil partnerships are beneficial to society and that these relationships are valuable and deserving of equal dignity though not the same institution. This, mind you, describing the legal structures surrounding relationships God says will lead to hell.
They bishops had the opportunity to explain the Christian view and speak the truth instead they decided to compromise. The ABC's speech was especially repugnant…a subChristian effort.
1. Right, and I think the post is about the Archbishop's speech.
2. There are churches that are determinedly positive about homosexuality. I'm part of one. Our national membership declined by something like a quarter over the last decade. In other words, there are some indications that tracking the mobile views of the population hasn't performed very well as an evangelistic strategy, though it will get you a temporary reprieve from the Guardian's ridicule.
3. I agree that the church ought not to legislate Christian morality for an increasingly non-Christian nation. In fact, the bishops often seem to agree at least concerning what we call personal morality, less so on economic, foreign and other social policy, and have said so in the Lords since at least the 30s. However until they are ejected from the Lords they ought to at least politely and clearly to say what the church believes. When the ABC delivers a major speech on gay marriage, I don't object to him pointing out clearly the church's shortcomings, I do object to think not once mentioning the church's teaching.
RE: "a friendly debate over at T19"
Actually it stopped being "friendly" when Peter decided that those who don't accept that gay non-celibate civil unions are a valued institution from a societal point of view, and that—though individuals within a same-sex relationship may exhibit virtue—the actual relationship does not exhibit virtue were "homophobic" and wanting to "tell derogatory jokes about "poofs"."
Then it just became your standard boilerplate that one hears from revisionist activists in TEC, though Peter is no such thing.
I attributed the reasons for that rhetorical descent to the same reasons that revisionist activists so descend.
Sarah, it is unfortunate that the conversation took the direction it did. I think that we, in the church, need to find a way to engage in the discussion without compromising our Christian worldview, while allowing for the fact that we are increasingly a minority in western culture.
The Episcopal Church has failed in that it has simply adopted the culture. Many evangelicals have failed in that they have allowed themselves to be defined by what they are against rather than what they are for, and gone home feeling good about being rejected on the basis of what they oppose.
We need to be defined for being for Christ. If rejected for that, well and good.
50+ years ago, the Church of England taught that homosexual acts were immoral. Such views were shared by the great majority of the population. (In the Lord's debates from 1965 and 1967 on decriminalizing homosexual offences no one I read argued that homosexual acts were not immoral or sinful). I presume that such a view was argued to be consonant both with revelation and reason.
In the half century since the COE's teaching has muddied somewhat - non celibate same sex unions are permitted for the laity but formally forbidden to the clergy - but the views of the surrounding society has undergone a sea change, unimaginable to all but the crusty old nay-sayers of 65 and 67.
The church, in England at least, has potentially found itself in an oppositional role, not because they have come to feel good about being rejected (one only has to read the ABC's speech to see how much he wants not to be rejected), but because the cultures around them - and in particular the cultures of the more educated and more youthful - have dramatically come to reject the traditional teaching of the church.
What ought one to do? Here are three thoughts, very boldly stated - there are surely others:
1. The Episcopal Church offers one model (change the teaching of the church).
3. Another is simply to uphold the traditional teaching, try to persuade people of its truthfulness and so face the ire of a culture that largely deeply disagrees with it.
Let me add some stats. To get a view of the sea change in British culture just since the early 80s look here.
And though one would never guess it, something around a third of adult Brits (that is around 15 million folks) contumaciously continue to think that sex between adults of the same sex is always or mostly wrong. Of course they tend to be more regular worshipers, and/or older, poorer or less well educated. Of course these are the precisely the sorts of folks who almost never get to set the communicative agenda but the exist all the same. The CofE might try to encourage their communication and enable their action (it is possible, as the French have shown) but it does not, apparently, desire to do so.
RE: "I think that we, in the church, need to find a way to engage in the discussion without compromising our Christian worldview, while allowing for the fact that we are increasingly a minority in western culture."
You know—I think most of the church is doing a good job, Observer, regarding All-Things-Gay, though not on other matters. I'm not in the least disturbed over what the culture thinks of us, and I'm comfortable sticking to our guns, even in defeat. I'm not *happy* to be defeated—nobody is—but I won't be changing my articulation of truth for the likes of the Susan Russells of the world. It's good to make the right enemies and revisionist activists are definitely the right enemies. ; > )
As far as being defined by what we are against—that's necessary reality since the revisionist activists will *always* be about defining those who oppose their ideology by "what they are against"—after all, they wish to get what they are for enacted and forced upon others! Others in the culture, though, I think are quite calm about it all. I have many pagan and seeker friends who fancy themselves "pro-gay" and they don't spend a minute of time defining me or the church by our beliefs about same sex unions or marriage.
I think the church has a lot more to worry about then worrying about being defined by what they are against—after all, the church in Rome was so "defined" [idolatry, the Emperor, children left out to die, etc.].
I look to Welby for absolutely nothing. I do not read what he writes in general [unless it's something people are pointing to] and I'm indifferent to his thoughts about whatever he wishes to share. Far more serious, to me, than his random, wandering, disorganized capitulative comments on same sex marriage, though, are his underlying foundational views on "reconciliation" [sic] which are dangerous in their utter bumbling incoherence and vacuity. He lacks rigor and precision of both mind and speech, and the only thing that faithful Christians in the COE need to think about is how they can work around him, just as they attempted to do [most of them, except the clueless wonders] with Rowan Williams, in order to achieve any elements of reform and renewal that God sees fit to call them to.
When I think about the saintly sacrifice of Bishops like Sts. Thomas Becket and John Fisher in relation to some of their 21st Century successors, one cannot help but cringe and weep at the current state of affairs in the Church. Perhaps it is only hindsight perspective, but it seems that Bishops, and clergy in general, in an earlier time were more willing to stand up to the state when it was acting in ways contrary to their given mission. It would seems that a truly florishing society will foster religious bodies, not even just amongst Christians, that willing to assert their position on questions of morality when they interfere or frustrate the practice of their given tradition, especially when those traditions have been for so long in concert, not in conflict, with the state's practice. July 6th in coming up shortly. Let remember saints like John Fisher and Thomas More and pray that we may have and possibly demonstrate such a willingness to stand up to the state when its acts contrary to the divine law.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In "The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says," Fortune's Adam Lashinsky nicely summarizes what makes many of us uneasy about Apple (AAPL):
It is a strange sight to see the CEO of Apple, a company known for its brilliance and vision, decline over and over to discuss just about anything in any detail. It was the second year in a row Cook opened the prestigious AllthingsD conference and the second year in a row he divulged precious little about what is going on at Apple.
But then, Lashinsky takes a step back:
What frustrates about Tim Cook is that while Steve Jobs was every bit as persnickety about revealing Apple's product plans -- hell, Jobs was downright untruthful about Apple's plans -- Jobs would say darn interesting things in the process. Cook, on the other hand, is completely confident in his ability to out-wait his inquisitors because he, after all, presumably knows what's coming. He also seems perfectly content with the knowledge that this isn't about him, despite the world's great desire to make it so.
While I will always maintain that Lashinsky wrote the book on Apple, we part ways when he chalks Cook's "misdirection or perhaps delusion" up to the notion that the CEO doesn't want to make it all about himself. By using something other than imprecise language, Cook doesn't make himself the spectacle; he just might, speaking as Apple, inspire confidence. You do remember when Apple used to do this on a regular basis, right?
But wait ...I really don't want Tim Cook to be exactly like Steve Jobs. That said, I don't want the opposite. A CEO who more closely resembles the one-time leader of the artist formerly known as RIM -- that's BlackBerry (BBRY) -- James Balsillie. Cook sounded a lot like Balsillie Tuesday night.
Contrary to popular meme, most of us really don't care to know the details about what's actually going on at Apple. I don't need specifics. I didn't require them when Jobs was in charge; they're not necessary now. I just want some type of reassurance -- even if it's intangible -- that something really is actually indeed up. I made the same comparison in January 2013 after Apple reported Q42012 earnings:
... tucked into the specifics was a Balsillie-like vagueness from Cook we never would have received from Steve Jobs.
I remember listening to RIM calls where Balsillie imprecisely quantified Blackberry Playbook demand. With fifth grade comprehension skills you could have sniffed out the trouble at RIM. It was apparent. Nobody cared about the Playbook, Balsillie knew it and he was floating overly optimistic and wholly random numbers.
While Apple, as usual, delivered plenty of specifics, Cook's contention that the product pipeline is "chock full" of "incredible stuff" concerns me. I wasn't expecting a product announcement, but I wanted something that inspires confidence. It was great to hear that Apple will not slap its logo on some random product just to generate revenue, but why bring up the "product pipeline" at all if this is all you have to say about it?Now, four months later, at All Things D, we get the same non-speech from Cook. Something's just not right. Convince yourself otherwise all you want, but even if Cook thinks he has something special coming, the odds of it measuring up, given what came before it, are slim. Follow @rocco_thestreet -- Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Two Mecklenburg lawmakers say there's a move afoot to give teachers more time to finish master's degrees and get the 10 percent pay hike they expected when they enrolled in graduate school.
This year's budget eliminates the pay for advanced degrees for anyone who hasn't earned it in the 2013-14 school year. That means teachers who don't get their degree by the end of the first semester are likely to be shut out, though state education officials are discussing whether the deadline can be extended to include the second semester.
State Reps. Bill Brawley and Ruth Samuelson, both members of the Republican majority, said Thursday they never meant to cut off additional pay for teachers who had already enrolled in graduate school.
"If you start a program based on a promise that was made, that promise has got to be kept," Brawley said. "When I have made a mistake, I can own it."
Samuelson said she and several other legislators agree and are trying to rally votes to revise the law in the 2014 session. The goal would be to announce that intention early so teachers could plan their course work accordingly.
"At this point, it's an idea that has a fair amount of support but it's not a done deal," she said.
In North Carolina and across the country, there's a move afoot to shift from the current model of teacher pay, based on experience and credentials, to one that is based on results in the classroom. The challenges are figuring out how to measure teacher effectiveness and finding money to reward top performers.
The budget bill passed this summer creates a task force to study performance pay but offers only limited rewards: As tenure is phased out, districts can offer four-year contracts with a $500 annual raise to 25 percent of their teachers.
Brawley said he supports the shift to performance pay but didn't grasp that the plan to phase out pay for advanced degrees would hit teachers who were working on those degrees.
UNC Charlotte's College of Education, for instance, has been working with about 400 teachers currently enrolled in graduate programs to figure out if it's possible to meet the deadline. Elizabeth Cranfill, a 25-year-old who teaches children with autism at W.M. Irvin Elementary in Cabarrus County, is taking five courses this semester, including her thesis, to qualify for the pay she expected when she signed up.
"I love school. I like being a student as much as I like being a teacher," she said. But she said she's frustrated by seeing a pay hike that was promised taken away, with little to replace it. "It's not a good time to be a public school teacher right now."
For others, though, there's no way to finish in time, especially while continuing to work in classrooms.
Those are the teachers Brawley and Samuelson said deserve an extension. While nothing has been agreed on, they say they'd support a plan that gives teachers who were enrolled when the 2013-14 budget passed more time, perhaps two years, to finish their degree and qualify for the current pay scale.
"My intention was to tell people not to start now," Brawley said. "We are going to change the compensation plan in the future."
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- Slave to Lender
- Proverbs 22:7, "The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender's slave."
- Surety for debts of others
- Proverbs 6:1-5, "My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, Have given a pledge for a stranger, 2 If you have been snared with the words of your mouth, Have been caught with the words of your mouth, 3 Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself; Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor, Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor. 4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids; 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler."
- Proverbs 11:15, "He who is surety for a stranger will surely suffer for it, but he who hates going surety is safe."
- Proverbs 17:18, "A man lacking in sense pledges, and becomes surety in the presence of his neighbor."
- Proverbs 22:26-27, "Do not be among those who give pledges, among those who become sureties for debts. 27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should he take your bed from under you?"
- Root of all sorts of evil
- Timothy 6:9-11, "But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang."
- Slave to Lender
- Gaining Wealth
- Proverbs 23:4-5, "Do not weary yourself to gain wealth. Cease from your consideration of it. 5 When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward the heavens."
- Matthew 6:19-21, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 "But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
- Colossians 3:23, "Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men."
- Inheritance
- Proverbs 13:22, "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous."
- Investing
- Ecclesiastes 11:1-2, "Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2 Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth."
- Miscellaneous
- Deuteronomy 25:4, "You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing."
- Matthew 6:24-25, "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
- Philippians 4:19, "And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
- 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
- Pay your debts
- Leviticus 19:13, "You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired man are not to remain with you all night until morning."
- Ecclesiastes 5:5, "It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay."
- Psalm 37:21, "The wicked borrows and does not pay back, but the righteous is gracious and gives."
- Romans 13:8, "Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law."
- Plan Ahead
- Genesis 41:34-36, "Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. 35 "Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh's authority, and let them guard it. 36 "And let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish during the famine."
- Luke 14:28, "For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?"
- Tithing
- Genesis 28:22, ""And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house; and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."
- Deuteronomy 14:22, "You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year."
- 1 Chronicles 29:14, "But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given to You."
- Malachi 3:8, ""Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, 'How have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings."
- Using your money
- Help Others
- 1 John 3:17, "But whoever has the world's goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?"
- Honesty required
- Proverbs 11:1, "A False balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight."
- Proverbs 13:11, "Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it."
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PERTH, AUSTRALIA -- Chevron Australia's proposal to increase the footprint of its Gorgon Gas Development has been recommended for conditional approval by the Environmental Protection Authority.
The proposal aims to undertake clearing and earthworks of an additional 32 hectares on Barrow Island for additional construction laydown and operations support to the existing Gorgon Gas Development.
EPA Chairman Paul Vogel said the proposal was assessed to determine if the existing conditions on the development could be applied to the revised footprint.
"The EPA's assessment was an opportunity to re-examine the established management plans and the measures the proponent has taken to avoid, minimize and rectify impacts to flora, vegetation and fauna including selecting a site that avoided Boodie warrens and raptor nests," Dr. Vogel said.
"The EPA concluded that the conditions set out in the original approval are effective in managing impacts and should be implemented for the additional development."
However, the EPA also recommended an additional condition to offset the significant residual impacts of clearing 32 hectares of a Class A Nature Reserve including habitat for specially protected fauna.
The EPA has recommended the proponent offset the impact to the area by extending the established Threatened Species Translocation and Reintroduction Program for a further two years.
"The Threatened Species Translocation and Reintroduction Program will be extended from 12 years to 14 years," Dr. Vogel said.
"This offset represents a 10 per cent increase in the contribution, which is equal to the approximately 10 per cent increase in the project footprint from 300 hectares to 332 hectares."
Dr. Vogel said the proponent had also committed to rehabilitate land within the development envelope when no longer required to support construction and operation of the Gorgon Gas Development.
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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word shill
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(n.)a person who poses as a customer in order to decoy others into participating, as at a gambling house.
a person whose praises, endorsements, etc., are motivated by self-interest.
Category: Common Vocabulary
(v.i.)to work as a shill:
to shill for a large casino.
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Princeton's WordNet
a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
act as a shill
"The shill bid for the expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up"
A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.
To put under cover; to sheal.
Origin: ; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916.\ Perhaps an abbreviation of , attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.
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to shell
to put under cover; to sheal
A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. "Shill" typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that they are an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller for whom they are secretly working. The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services. Shills are often employed by professional marketing campaigns. "Plant" and "stooge" more commonly refer to any person who is secretly in league with another person or organization while pretending to be neutral or actually a part of the organization he is planted in, such as a magician's audience, a political party, or an intelligence organization. Shilling is illegal in many circumstances and in many jurisdictions because of the potential for fraud and damage, however if a shill does not place uninformed parties at a risk of loss, but merely generates "buzz," the shill's actions may be legal. For example, a person planted in an audience to laugh and applaud when desired, or to participate in on-stage activities as a "random member of the audience," is a type of legal shill.
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We started with a list of stocks expected to report earnings next week. We then screened for bullish short trends, with significant decreases in shares shorted month-over-month. We were left with the 3 stocks listed below.
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A carabiner (/kærəˈbiːnər/) or karabiner is a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate[1] used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems. The word is a shortened form of Karabinerhaken, a German phrase for a "spring hook"[2] used by a carbine rifleman, or carabinier, to attach items to a belt or bandolier.
Otto Herzog in 1911 was the first climber to have used the carabiner device based on the "pear" used by the firemen of Munich. Use of the climbing carabiner was actually a logical consequence of the use of piton invented by Hans Fiechtl and tested by Hans Dülfer, although climbers as prestigious as Paul Preuss or Eugen Guido Lammer were opposed to any artificial process. Still, Dülfer, Fiechtl and Herzog commonly employed carabiners on the eve of the World War I and from 1921 a model of a unit weight of 130 grammes for climbers, was made in Munich. The carabiner has been improved several times over the decades, making it more lightweight, reliable and durable.
Carabiners are widely used in rope-intensive activities such as climbing, arboriculture, caving, sailing, rope rescue, construction, industrial rope work, window cleaning, whitewater rescue and acrobatics. They are predominantly made from both steel and aluminium. Those used in sports tend to be of a lighter weight than those used in commercial applications and rope rescue. Often referred to as carabiner-style, carabiner keyrings and other light-use clips of similar style and design have also become popular. Most are stamped with a "Not For Climbing" or similar warning due to a common lack of load-testing and safety standards in manufacturing. While from an etymological perspective any metal attaching link with a spring gate is technically a carabiner, the strict usage among the climbing community specifically refers only to those devices manufactured and tested for load-bearing in safety-critical systems like rock and mountain climbing.
Physical properties[edit]
Carabiners come in four characteristic shapes:
- Oval: Symmetric. Most basic and utilitarian. Smooth regular curves are gentle on equipment and allow easy repositioning of loads. Their greatest disadvantage is that a load is shared equally on both the strong solid spine and the weaker gated axis.
- D: Asymmetric shape transfers the majority of their load onto the spine, the carabiner's strongest axis.
- Offset-D: Variant of a D with a greater asymmetry, allowing for a wider gate opening.
- Pear/HMS: Specialized oversized offset-D's used in belaying. These are usually the heaviest carabiners.
Locking mechanisms[edit]
There are three broad categories of carabiner: auto locking, manual locking, and non-locking.
Non-locking carabiners have a sprung swinging gate that accepts a rope, webbing sling, or other hardware. Rock climbers frequently connect two non-locking carabiners with a short length of nylon web to create a quickdraw.
Three gate types are common:
- Straight gate: The most utilitarian, and hence most popular.
- Bent gate: Curved gates allow for easier clipping in and out in special situations, such as connecting a rope to a quickdraw. Gate strength remains on a par with straight-gate carabiners.
- Wire gate: The lightest type, with a strength roughly equal to the others, allowing more to be carried for a given weight. Wire gates are less prone to icing up than solid gates, an advantage in Alpine mountaineering and ice climbing. The reduced gate mass makes their wire bales less prone to 'gate flutter,' a dangerous condition created by irregular impact forces generated by the climbing rope or contact with hard surfaces in a fall which momentarily opens the gate (and both lowers the breaking strength of the carabiner when open and potentially allows the rope to escape).
Locking carabiners have the same general shape as non-locking carabiners but have an additional mechanism securing the gate. These mechanisms may be either threaded sleeves ("screw-lock"), spring-loaded sleeves ("twist-lock") or magnetic levers ("Magnetron").
- Screw-lock: Have a threaded sleeve over the gate which must be engaged and disengaged manually. They have fewer moving parts than spring-loaded mechanisms, are less prone to malfunctioning due to contamination or component fatigue, easier to employ one-handed. They, however, require more total effort and are more time-consuming than twist-lock.
- Twist-lock: Have a security sleeve which must be manually rotated to disengage, but which springs closed automatically upon release. They offer the advantage of re-engaging without additional user input, but being spring-loaded are prone to both spring fatigue and their more complex mechanisms becoming balky from dirt, ice, or other contamination. They are also difficult to engage one-handed and with gloves on.
- Magnetic: Have two small levers with embedded magnets on either side of the locking gate which must be pushed or pinched simultaneously to disengage. Upon release the levers pull shut and into the locked position against a small steel insert in the carabiner nose. With the gate open the magnets in the two levers repel each other so they do not lock or stick together, which might prevent the gate from closing properly. Advantages are very easy one-handed operation, re-engaging without additional user input and few mechanical parts that can fail.
- Recreation: Carabiners sold for use in climbing in Europe must conform to standard EN 12275:1998 "Mountaineering equipment – Connectors – Safety requirements and test methods", which governs testing protocols, rated strengths, and markings. A breaking stress of at least 20 kN (20,000 newtons = approximately 4,500 pounds of force which is significantly more than the weight of a small car) with the gate closed and 7 kN with the gate open is the standard for most climbing applications, although requirements vary depending on the activity.[1]
Carabiners are marked on the side with single letters showing their intended area of use, for example, K (via ferrata), B (base), and H (for belaying with an Italian or Munter hitch).
- Industry: Carabiners used for access in commercial and industrial environments within Europe must comply with EN 362:2004 "Personal protective equipment against falls from a height. Connectors." The minimum gate closed breaking strain of a carabiner conforming with EN 362:2004 is nominally the same as that of EN 12275:1998 at around 20 kN. Carabiners complying with both EN 12275:1998 and EN 362:2004 are available.
United States[edit]
- Fall protection: Carabiners used for fall protection in US industry are classified as "connectors" and are required to meet Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard 1910.66 App C Personal Fall Arrest System which specifies "drop forged, pressed or formed steel, or made of equivalent materials" and a minimum breaking strength of 5,000 lbf (22 kN).
American National Standards Institute/American Society of Safety Engineers standard ANSI Z359.1-2007 Safety Requirement for Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Subsystems and Components, section 126.96.36.199 (for snap hooks and carabiners) is a voluntary consensus standard. This standard requires that all connectors/ carabiners support a minimum breaking strength (MBS) of 5,000 lbf (22 kN) and feature an auto-locking gate mechanism which supports a minimum breaking strength (MBS) of 3,600 lbf (16 kN).
- Rescue: Minimum breaking strength requirements and calculations for rescue carabiners are set out in National Fire Protection Association standard 1983 Fire Service Life Safety Rope and Equipment. The standard defines two classes of rescue carabiners. Light use rescue carabiners are required to have minimum breaking strengths of 27 kN gate closed, 7 kN gate open and 7 kN minor axis. General use rescue carabiners are required to have minimum breaking strengths of 40 kN gate closed, 11 kN gate open and 11 kN minor axis. Testing procedures for rescue carabiners are set out in ASTM International standard F 1956 Standard Specification of Rescue Carabiners.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Climbing Dictionary & Glossary". MountainDays.net. Retrieved 2006-12-05.
- ^ http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Karabiner


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