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For awhile now, Crossroads Christian Communications has been using a David Jang website for it's news feed at Crossroads 360.
Ever since the Christianity Today investigative articles on Jang came out in August of last year, serious questions have been raised about Jang's theology and his business practices.
And with the purchase of Newsweek by a Jang company called IBT Media, interest has spread far past US evangelical circles.
The New York Times did a piece on David Jang and Olivet University in October, the last few days have seen two important investigative pieces. The Guardian looked at IBT Media, Olivet University and other Jang media holdings on Friday: Faith and a media icon: Newsweek's unconventional new owners
A Mother Jones investigative article which came out yesterday titled Who's Behind Newsweek? , not only confirms the work done by Christianity Today and The Guardian, but goes far deeper than anyone associated with Jang or defending him is going to be, or should be comfortable with.
But the connections between IBT and Jang's Community, a Mother Jones investigation has found, go much further than Davis and Uzac have acknowledged. Thousands of pages of public records and internal documents—ranging from emails to budgets and strategic plans—and interviews with more than a dozen former IBT employees and members of Jang's inner circle make clear that:
- Olivet and IBT are linked to a web of dozens of churches, nonprofits, and corporations around the world that Jang has founded, influenced, or controlled, with money from Community members and profitable ministries helping to cover the costs of money-losing ministries and Jang's expenses. Money from other Community-affiliated organizations also helped fund IBT's early growth.
- Olivet students in the United States on international student visas say they worked for IBT and other Community media entities, sometimes for as little as $125 a week. Both Olivet and IBT described these positions as internships, and said no-one was allowed to work illegally. Several students I spoke with say they were not told they were interns, and documents from Olivet and the businesses list students as reporters, editors, and salespeople.
- According to the Times, Uzac and Davis "said Jang had no financial stake in IBT or influence on the business." But the pair acknowledged to Mother Jones that Jang has provided "advice" to IBT. And while there's no evidence Jang controlled editorial matters, internal documents show him routinely weighing in on a wide range of business decisions, from personnel and business strategy to typography.
- Jang sees Community-affiliated media organizations, including IBT, as an essential part of his mission to build the kingdom of God on Earth. He has said that media companies affiliated with the Community are part of a new Noah's ark designed to save the world from a biblical flood of information.
When Christianity Today began to poke at the shadows of Jang's interests in North America, The Christian Post struck back with some of the most base and ugly smears I have ever seen and with legal threats, which is a documented Jang tactic. As bad as the Post articles were, the comment sections were flooded with Jang supporters toeing what seemed to be the community line. It makes more sense now given what Mother Jones has uncovered with the use of Olivet students and spouses as cheap help, contravening US labour laws. It makes sense given an IBT Media no-talk rule.
As The Guardian and Mother Jones articles have been picked up (example: The Business Insider: Newsweek Backers Tied To Program Seeking To 'Propagate The Gospel' Through Journalism) Jangs people at Olivet University and IBT Media are suddenly clamming up.
The questions are not going to go away, I hope more media outlets investigate and I hope that more frightened Jang followers and Olivet University students find the courage to tell their stories. Jang can't sue everyone investigating his theology and his business practices.
Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. initially provided The Christian Post with a video news report filmed in Burlington. fitting into the neo-conservative political slant of The Christian Post. That news report got dumped by The Christian Post around the time Crossroads 360 came out, Christine Williams who hosted the video, left Crossroads not long after. Now Crossroads is running a content feed from The Christian Post.
To call what The Christian Post puts out news, is stretching credulity. I would have thought after the debacle of the pieces striking at Christianity Today, ethics would have been considered by Crossroads. I was wrong.
Cultural and language barriers aside, I strongly urge every Crossroads employee, every Crossroads 360 reader and every Crossroads donor to to read the linked articles and ask themselves if the Jang tactics are something they can support in good conscience. Hopefully US Immigration officials and other US government departments will investigate Olivet University, IBT Media and other holdings. Just 16 hours ago, The Christian Post put up a puff piece on one of 100 Huntley Street US hosts.
I'm stating my objections publicly. I urge BDBO readers to do due diligence and ask Crossroads to cut ties with The Christian Post.
While media attention over IBT Media will die down quickly, troubling practices and beliefs have been going on with Jang, his followers and around his holdings for some time and despite protestations to the contrary. Given Jang's stated beliefs, the penchant of attacking critics and whistle-blowers, and the scrubbing, hiding, and the skirting of damaging information, it is prudent to be skeptical that changes will be forthcoming.
Bells can't be unrung, the media reports are piling up and Crossroads has a decision to make.


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Updated On: Oct 14 2013 03:47:17 PM EDT
A body found in off the Round Pond Trail Head in Keene, N.Y. is that of a Massachusetts man reported missing in late August.
New York State Police said hikers discovered the body Saturday afternoon and evidence at the scene suggested the remains were 46-year-old Scott Haworth, of Chicopee, Saturday afternoon.
Haworth was last seen at the Valley Grocery in Keene on September 5. His car was found five days later at the Round Pound Trail head.
An autopsy confirmed Haworth's identity and that he died of asphyxiation due to hanging. His death has been ruled a suicide.
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Well, that was weird. Red Wings wearing gray unis at Frontier Field. Batting first. Playing before announced crowds of about 1,500 (and consideraly less in reality). The first of two four-game series between the Red Wings and Empire State Yankees – with the Yankees as the "home" team – is over. And it was a draw. Rochester won the first two, the Yankees took the second two.
The Wings are proving to be a streaky team in the early going. They are 7-8, and I think they are a little better than that. Lehigh Valley comes to town for three games beginning Friday night. The Wings are off Monday, and then the much-anticipated visit of top prospect Bryce Harper and Syracuse starts Tuesday.
I stopped Wings manager Gene Glynn before the game and asked him why a team that managed two hits the night before didn't have batting practice. He explained that he wanted the Wings to work on fundamental drills. They then went out and committed three errors. They also made one on the basepaths as J.R. Towles tried to steal second in the ninth inning – down 5-2 – and was nailed. Glynn said afterward that Towles had the green light but admitted he should have put the hold sign on.
"We're still learning to work together," he said.
Michael Hollimon followed with what turned out to be a solo homer, making it 5-3.
It's an energetic coaching staff, and I think the team has much more energy than the previous two years. Whether or not that translates into a winning club remains to be seen.
WHAT ON EARTH WILL the Empire State Yankees draw against the Norfolk Tides on Friday night? With the Red Wings playing just 33 miles away? I'll predict an announced crowd of 800 but considerably less.
HAD A CHANCE TO INTERVIEW FORMER NY YANKEES CATCHER Francisco Cervelli after the game. Nice guy. He admits he was hurt by the Yankees' surprise demotion two weeks ago but says he is moving forward and doesn't think about what's going on in the big leagues. He'll have a rude awakening Friday as he goes from Yankee Stadium to Dwyer Stadium. Talk about a culture shock.
INTERESTING STAT: Fourteen of the Wings' 15 games have been decided by three runs or less.
THE SILLIEST "PROMOTION" at Frontier has to be "Guess the attendance." It's one thing to do it on a Friday in July when there are thousands in the stands. But Wednesday there were only a few hundred baseball diehards, yet the "correct" answer was 1,500-plus. What's the point?


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I'm with this guy who is so into himself. I found it amusing at first: the way he looks at himself in the mirror; his passion for buying designer clothes and accessories; how he loves to spend time applying nice-smelling lotions to his skin. Now his behavior has grown annoying. I don't think I spend half as much time on myself as he does on himself. Moreover, he doesn't bother to take me out to dinner or buy me flowers anymore (we've been together for over a year). I'm not demanding, but sometimes it would be nice to receive such things just to feel like I'm loved. I'm wondering if this is normal behavior for guys. I love my boyfriend, but I'm concerned. I don't know if I can put up with his egotistical ways forever. --iVillager lisaznevQuestion:
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The good news is that you don't have another woman to contend with. The bad news is that that's all the good news. Being in love with a guy who is in love with himself first and foremost is not satisfying, as you are discovering. The saddest line of your letter was "I'm not demanding, but sometimes it would be nice to receive such things just to feel like I'm loved." Honey, a man who puts no effort into making his beloved feel beloved should be left alone with his mirror.
Since you've invested over a year in this relationship, don't bail without first having a diplomatic but honest talk with Mr. Narcissist about everything you've voiced in your letter. If he recognizes the validity of your feelings and makes a sincere effort to change, great. If he gives you lip service and continues paying homage to himself, you can exit knowing you gave the relationship your best shot.
Don't worry about hurting his feelings. In his case, one is not the loneliest number.
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I seem to be surrounded by them – well three to be exact.
Two are co-workers, one is family.
It's not like I can totally avoid them because my situation means I'll see at least one of them on a daily basis – yawn.
They're not nasty in any way I just wish I didn't have to be lumbered with their speeches.
I have to sit next to one, who likes to hear the sound of his own voice. The other, I can't go for a tea-break – or even walk to s separate establishment without him turning up.
I'd like to at least have my breaks away from these people. I have to spend enough time with them in the office anyways! Isn't that the point of having a break?
They all share the same traits – they're all wanting attention, and they all maintain too much eye-contact. I can't stand that dominating gaze. It just isn't comfortable.
One of them, I'm unable to sit down in a group of people without him constantly talking separately at me – even when it's obvious I'm trying to listen to the others – AAARGHH!
Sometimes I want to talk to other people – is that too much to ask?!
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How I did it: I planned a Mad Hatters Tea Party, I bought loads of summer plastic crockery. set up a table outside with teapot and cups and saucers. I set up another table indoors holding all the food that I made on the day, and the night before. Read how I did it…
I seem to be surrounded by them – well three to be exact.
10/10/2012 (Wednesday) 7:30pm
Dry, still, not too cold
Warm-up: Fast walk 0.6 mile
Jog: 2 mile
Fast jog (keeping up with some other runners out on their training!):
0.5 mile
Jog: 0.7 mile
During: Good. Was focusing on maintaining a comfortable pace and getting a steady comfortable jog. Until I got competitive and decided to chase the runners! That got me to maximum effort – but I kept going and slowed down my pace until I'd fully recovered.
After: My legs were like jelly for a bit – although I kept walking until I'd cooled down. Then I did stretches before getting in the car. I got a stitch in my upper-right side (ribcage) during the warm-down walk.
My legs were pretty stiff and sore (at the top near the hips) on the second day after running.
As part of the beginnings of my running training for the 10k in 7 weeks, I did a preliminary run of 3.2 miles (wow – I just calculated it!) – that's more than I thought!
Plus as a warm-up / warm-down I did a 1.2 mile fast/slow walk (wow that's more than I thought too!)
I haven't done any running for months. But I have been going to circuits and swimming every week – which has probably helped my fitness. I've done hardly any walking recently though. I'm really happy with this.
I drank a small cappuccino before heading out. Perhaps the caffeine helped?!
The run along the prom has notable headwind. Getting stronger once on the new prom.
Hmm that was a fair bit of mileage. The race course is apparently 10k – which is 6.5. miles? The course seems a lot longer than advertised. I'm going to check it out on google maps!


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sub-appellation of the Willamette Valley AVA. Located 35 miles
southwest of Portland and 40 miles east of the Pacific Ocean, the
area includes the towns of Carlton and Yamhill.
Wine history: Once primarily known for
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Even though I would like to get married someday, God is the one who I want more than anything. If God called me to give up a husband or family for the sake of the Kingdom, I would.
When there are days that I begin to idolize marriage as the ultimate fulfillment of this life, I remind myself of my God-directed priorities.
If I died tomorrow, would I be happy? Of course! I would be so excited to be with the One whom my heart loves (especially after an excruciatingly purifying time in purgatory, I'm sure).
Obviously, I am not perfect and am still learning how to navigate my way through single life, figuring out how to date properly, wanting the best for others (even if it means being rejected), and practicing what I preach — all the while trying to draw closer to the heart of God in the busyness of everyday life.
My hope for single people who are discerning is that they seek holiness before seeking a spouse, knowing that Jesus the Bridegroom gives a peace and joy that no person on this earth could ever give.
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Seek Holiness Before Seeking Marriage
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- Katy Anders said...
I agree. I've known a lot of people who think that if only they could find someone, all their problems would magically be solved!
I try to clue them into the fact that, if your head isn't on straight, trying for a relationship with another person is only going to make things worse.
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35th anniversary DVD will be released. A $4000 Scholarship will be awarded to a high school Senior.
Final competition of "Aadarsha Dampathigalu" which was initiated on picnic day will be conducted.
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Directions: From 400 N. Take exit 8 Mansell onto the left (will see oldRoswell Road on the right but the road is closed for construction)Continue on Mansell Road. Right on Alpharetta Highway HWY 9. Right on Hembree Road. Right on Old Roswell Road, Continue on it (even theough sign says Road is closed) Open to Local Traffic. Moksha is on the right. (almost at the deadend)
Becuse of cold weather and to have time for outdoor(pavilion) activities time is moved to 4:00 PM.
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In the Montagu-Bath correspondence, there is a note from Elizabeth Montagu that reads as follows:
"of what elements can your Lordship be composed that neither pain nor my troublesome enquiries about that pain can disturb the harmony of your temper! I am rejoiced that some of your enemy's forces are fled but till all are dislodged one cannot be at ease about you. Thank God your Lordship took the opiate last night . . . The opiates operate towards a perfect cure as well as give a temporary relief" (MO 4504).
I have mused on this note, considering and reconsidering a familiar word in an unfamiliar context: "opiate." Opioids have been much in the news here, of late, with Purdue Pharma stopping the production of OxyContin, and provincial governments reacting with suspicion and caution to its replacement, OxyNeo. But Oxy is only one of a number of opiates and opioids used for pain control in our society, and our society is only one small piece of a long and poppy-coloured history. Opium has been around for a very long time—Paracelsus is credited with spreading its medicinal magic through Europe during the Renaissance; and in 1680 Thomas Sydenham apparently commented: "among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium."1 During the eighteenth century, opium was available as a powder and a tincture; it could be smoked, and it could be suspended in ethanol to create laudanum. In the nineteenth century, the poppy extract was further refined, and isolates like morphine and codeine became available.
Although I have long known in theory that opium was available in England in the mid-eighteenth century, this colourful drug has never really been associated with that period of time in my imagination. In my imagination, conditioned by the canon of English literature, opium magically appears—in all its exotic eastern glory and mysticism—with the Romantic writers: its odour clings to Xanadu and wafts around St. Agnes's Eve. Later, it becomes associated with frustrated women who desperately dull the anguish of their boredom with discreet sips from beautiful glass vials hidden in their bosoms. Opium, like absinthe, swirls in Pre-Raphaelite colour; and I escaped its seductive power when I moved back through time to the enlightenment.2
Opium is, for the most part, conspicuously absent from the bluestocking letters,3 and I have, while reading, occasionally wished for its presence. For, while the letters lack the comfort of opium, they repeatedly evoke the spectre of pain. Though long, the lives of Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, and Lord Bath (all of whom surpassed 80 years) were punctuated by accidents and illness, and by uncomfortable physical conditions–both chronic and acute. Elizabeth Carter, for example, suffered life-long, often debilitating headaches (Lord Bath opined that if she drank less green tea, took less snuff, and studied less, she would suffer less!) and Montagu was plagued by digestive complaints. While some illnesses and conditions seem to have responded to various remedies, others required that the pain be patiently endured: "I am sorry," wrote Montagu to her cousin Gilbert West, "that the gout, by the frequency and length of his visits, behaves with the familiarity of an intimate acquaintance, though he was never introduced to you by his proper introductor, intemperance; however, you have therefore to oppose to him the great conquerors of pain, Patience and Fortitude" (1755; 3:333).
And patience seems to have been required even in matters of acute agony. Toothaches appear, from the letters, to have been fairly routine, and patient suffering was required while one waited for the tooth to loosen enough to be pulled. Elizabeth Carter commiserated with Montagu: "I grieve to think of the pain you have suffered and most heartily congratulate you on the removal of the cause. There are few animal comforts I think higher than seeing an aching tooth fairly out of one's head" (1773; 3:48). Her comment is rather matter of fact, and there is no description of the pain Montagu suffered; but anyone who has experienced an aching tooth can gloss that passage with a visceral memory, shuddering at how long Montagu's increasing pain must have been borne. Montagu herself described another painful occasion, when her maids, in attempting to revive her from a faint,
"let the eau de luce4 fall into my eye, nostril and mouth, my eyes were inflamed and nostril, the mouth and uvula of the throat excoriated. . . Dr. Askew unhappily lay at Durham that night, so had no assistance till 2 at noon, then I was blooded, which abated the inflammation so far I could articulate. The Doctor told me my safety depended on frequent gargling and drinking, so for four days, I was never a quarter of an hour without doing so, the spitting was more violent than from a mercurial salivation . . . When I came out of my fit, to see blood running from eye, nose and mouth drove Mr. Montagu almost distracted, and I knew not which way my agonies would end" (Climenson, 2:144).
I like to believe that when Askew finally arrived, he kindly and efficiently knocked Montagu out with opium—in the same way I like to believe that the "cordial" administered to Frances Burney during her graphically-described mastectomy was laudanum.
But neither writer says this. In Lord Bath's case, though, opium is fact. Montagu's "opium" note to Bath seems to be a response to this one, from him: "To tell you the truth Madam . . . I was in a great deal of pain last night, when I took leave of you, and so I continued for some time, whilst the remainder of the enemy's trenches were levelling, but at present as almost all the gravell is brought away, matters go on with much less pain and trouble, and I am almost totally at ease" (MO 4295). The military metaphor, echoed by Montagu, seems to gesture towards the consuming pain Bath must have experienced before taking the opium. If "gravell" denotes, as it usually does, "kidney stones," then we can only imagine the blinding, searing nature of the "great deal of pain" mentioned by Bath himself.
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry asserts that real pain resists linguistic description and cannot adequately be conveyed in language: "Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language" (4). And it seems that we witness this linguistic unsharability in the bluestocking letters, which evoke the spectre of pain–it haunts the edges of the text–without concrete manifestation or graphic description. There were no words for Montagu's agony following the spilling of the eau de luce; and Bath's gravel pain could only be hinted at, figuratively. As readers, then, we tend to imagine the pain, to fill in the gaps between the words by extrapolating from our own somatic experience—however limited that might be.
But what if our imagination, drawing on our own experience, is misleading? What if the pain experienced by these writers could be neither conveyed in language nor accurately understood by comparison to our own bodies? What if "pain" was quite a different experience for Montagu, Bath, and Carter than it is for many of us? My questions remind me that in her provocative scholarship on female patients in eighteenth-century Germany, Barbara Duden cautioned us—over 20 years ago—not to assume that we could meet the bodies of the past through our own corporeal senses. Duden explained:
"To grasp this 'body' of Eisenach, I went in two complementary directions. I tried to understand my own body as a modern woman and—in contrast—to look at theirs. I knew that I could only listen to the women if I was able to bracket the certainties about the body I 'have.' My body and theirs are woven out of different thematic strands. I am housed in a body in which blood circulates. All my blood is equally precious, it does not divide into bad and good blood. I cannot have too much blood, an 'excess' of blood. Nor does my blood ebb and flow; I cannot feel my blood clotting, stopping, trying to find its way out. My blood cannot be lazy and it cannot erroneously go astray. Yet this is what Eisenach's women consistently report, and I cannot but take them at my word. In my investigation I formalized two distinct procedures by which I hoped to come close to these women, without succumbing to the danger of indiscriminately using my sense of body to interpret theirs" (185-6).
But it is easy to forget Duden's caution, and tempting to assume a kinship between bodies (apparent biological facts) across space and time. However, if I try to "bracket" my body, I begin to more clearly see it: "pain" for me is unusual, wrong, and at odds with my understanding of "health" and "wellness." Pain is an anomaly to which I am extremely sensitized and of which I am always eager to rid myself. To "bracket" my body is also to begin to more clearly see the implications of the body Elizabeth Carter describes in a letter to Elizabeth Vesey: "within this week my strength, I thank God, has returned amazingly, and I have quite recovered my appetite, and the power of reading. Moreover my own natural head-ache is returned after five weeks absence, and very glad I was to receive it, in the room of that most outrageous pain which had taken its place" (1788; 3:294). Carter's sense of herself as strong and healthy (unlike mine) includes a headache—a constant "pain" that she describes as "natural." And, sitting here, in my bracketed body, I muse about the possible readings and meanings of this representation. Is it possible that Carter's "natural" headache made her less sensitive to other physical pain of all kinds than I am? Is it possible that she had a higher tolerance or pain threshold than I do? And, in what way might this constant pain have affected Carter's experience not just of her body, but also of her mind, her self, her world?
In Sensing Changes, Joy Parr draws on Pierre Bourdieu's "embodied history" as she explores and theorizes "the body as a way of knowing" (9). Quoting Katherine Hayles, Parr explains:
"What humans know and how they organize and reason with that knowledge is 'marked by the particularities of our circumstances as embodied human creatures.' What are these particularities? Some of these we can assume persist over long stretches of history and across cultures. Humans stand upright and are a certain distance above the ground when they crouch to sit or rest. . . . Some of these change with the lifecycle and over time. A child's sense of 'too high' is different from an adult's . . . Some are altered by contemporary technologies . . . . Much of the bodily knowledge that comes from interactions with the world is not readily captured in words" (9).
Like Elaine Scarry, Parr interrogates the limits of language, and she focuses specifically on the intersection of technologies and bodies, giving as an example the invention of moveable type—which she suggests made people more dependent on their eyes, less on their ears—and thus affected humanity in numerous subtle and nuanced ways.
It seems to me that pain might function as one of Parr's "particularities." And if it does, it is likely that the chronic pain experienced by some of my friends and colleagues does not merely add to or detract from an embodiment similar to my own, but fundamentally constructs that embodiment in ways that are foreign to me, difficult to articulate, and thus difficult for me to apprehend. A similar "particularity" might exist in the remote northern communities I've visited,5 where a dentist flies in once or twice a year, and where people–like Montagu–must live a long time with the pain of a toothache; and in places and countries where medical assistance can be impossible to access, and where vast numbers of people live, like Elizabeth Carter, with constant pain as a "natural" condition. If the concerns (like health, illness, pain) in the bluestocking letters are representative of the concerns of their time, then it seems that–unlike me–most eighteenth-century folk lived with some kind of constant or intermittent pain–a "natural" sensation that only became an anomalous signifier if it appeared in an unfamiliar body part or with unfamiliar intensity. Thus, we might consider how this individual experience of "natural" pain may have nuanced ways of knowing; and then we might consider how that individual experience, shared by the majority of bodies in a generation or a century, affected history and also obscures our ability to clearly appreciate that history–a past that comes to us in language, a partial and at times erratic emissary.
1Additional Trivia: During my winding quest for information about opium, I encountered "theriac"—a panacea of mythic proportions—containing a high percentage of opium. "Theriac was an ancient multi-ingredient preparation; originating as a cure for the bites of serpents, mad dogs and wild beasts, it later became an antidote to all known poisons. The name theriac (treacle), (Greek theriake, Latin theriaca, French thériaque) was derived from the Greek for wild beast – theriakos. The first formula was created by Mithridates Vl, King of Pontus, a skillful ruler but a monster of cruelty, who, living in such a fear of being poisoned, took a great interest in toxicology. In the 1st century AD, Nero's personal physician Andromachus improved the formula of Antidotum Mithridatium by adding flesh of vipers, which was commonly believed to be the best antidote against snakebite, and by increasing the proportion of opium. It became known as Theriac of Andromachus, and contained 64 ingredients including various minerals, herbals, poisons and animal flesh and blood, all combined with honey in the form of electuarium. Later it became the cure-all medicine which, accumulating all the simples into one form, was supposed to be a universal panacea against all diseases. In the Middle Ages this famous electuarium become a patent medicine and entered official dispensaries and pharmacopoeias. The most famous and expensive Theriac in Europe was that of Venice. It was not until the l8th century that it was excluded from medical use." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15125416
2However, Thomas Shadwell was apparently addicted to opium, and died from an overdose—hail MacFlecknoe
3while "opiate" does appear several times in the published letters of Montagu, Carter, and Talbot, it does so in a figurative sense–a long letter, for example, as an opiate—except on three occasions: a letter from Gilbert West, who reports to Montagu that doctors have dosed Mr. William Pitt with opiates (2:174) and two letters describing Catherine Talbot's untimely decline and painful death.
4Eau de Luce: "Take spirit of wine one ounce, spirit of sal ammoniacum four ounces, oil of amber one scruple, white castile soap ten grains. Digest the soap and oil in the spirits of wine, add the ammoniacum, and shake well together" (Gentleman's Magazine, August 1806, V 100).
- Duden, Barbara. "History Beneath the Skin" Michigan Quarterly Review. 30.1: (Winter 1991): 185-6.
- Parr, Joy. Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.
- Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: OUP, 1987.


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Telemarketing violations? Court ruling suggests distance, not assistance
The Telemarketing Sales Rule outlaws a variety of deceptive practices. But liability isn't limited just to the companies that place the calls or the marketers that hire them. It's also illegal to "provide substantial assistance or support" to a seller or telemarketer when you know or consciously avoid knowing they're violating the Rule. A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit unpacks that portion of the TSR and upholds a district court decision in favor of the FTC, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Illinois — and consumers.
A bit of background: A group of Kansas-based defendants advertised grant-related services to consumers across the country. There were three stages to the telemarketing scheme. First, they sent out postcards offering a "guaranteed" $25,000 government grant. Consumers who called the toll-free number on the postcard were induced to buy a book, Professional Grant Writer, co-authored by Meggie Chapman. (More about her in a minute.) According to the Court, the postcards, the recorded message on the toll-free number, and the book contained misrepresentations about the likelihood that people would actually get government grant money.
One notable claim: "historically the grant writers have been able to produce a 70% success rate in receiving grant funding." Ms. Chapman said that's what the person who wrote that portion of the book achieved in her personal work with schools and non-profits, but the evidence showed no one ever tracked customers who bought the defendants' books and services to see how they fared.
People who called were then contacted by telemarketers selling grant research services for between $800 and $1100. What did they get for their money? Lists of potential funding sources, many of which were prepared by Ms. Chapman. The problem was that the lists included groups that didn't fund individuals, didn't provide financial grants — or didn't even exist.
Step three of the scheme: People who bought the services then got telemarketing calls pitching grant writing and coaching services, including a workshop with Ms. Chapman. But that's not all she did. According to the Court, she researched payment processors, collected consumer testimonials, edited web content and provided material for a sample newsletter, trained telemarketers, helped formulate responses to consumer complaints, and brainstormed ways to expand the business. She also helped the companies respond to inquiries from state AGs who raised concerns about the operation. She got $1,682,950 for her services. (More about that later, too.)
After the FTC and AGs sued the Kansas companies, Ms. Chapman teamed up with Utah-based telemarketers, but didn't bother to see if their marketing materials or telemarketing scripts had the same problems. When asked under oath if she wanted to know what the company was sending out to consumers, she responded, "You know, I really hadn't thought about it."
The FTC ultimately amended its complaint to name Ms. Chapman. The claims against the other defendants were settled or decided by summary judgment or default judgment, but she went to trial. Her defense: that she didn't provide substantial assistance to the Kansas defendants and didn't know of their misrepresentations to consumers. The trial judge wasn't persuaded and ordered her to pay $1,682,950 — every penny she made from the operation.
On appeal, the Tenth Circuit first focused on the "substantial assistance" part of the TSR. In response to Ms. Chapman's claim that she wasn't involved in the marketing efforts and thus wasn't directly connected to the misrepresentations made to consumers, the Court noted that that kind of direct connection isn't required to establish liability. Sure, "casual or incidental" help won't be enough (for example, cleaning telemarketers' offices or delivering lunch), but the Court concluded that her assistance was much more than casual or incidental: "She coauthored the book that was sold in the first stage of the scheme, she provided the research results — often flawed — that were marketed in the second stage of the scheme, and she wrote grant applications and developed the workshop marketed in the third stage of the scheme. She also assisted the Kansas defendants in numerous other ways . . . ."
What about the "knew or consciously avoided knowing" part of the test? Despite Ms. Chapman's protestations that she didn't know what was in the direct mail materials or telemarketing scripts, the Court ruled that actual knowledge isn't required under the "conscious avoidance" standard. "Ms. Chapman could easily have reviewed the defendants' marketing materials to see what representations they were making to consumers." Citing ten factual findings from the trial judge, the Tenth Circuit found ample evidence to support the conclusion that Ms. Chapman at least consciously avoided knowing of the misrepresentations. The Court upheld the ruling in favor of the FTC and the States, including the financial remedy.
The decision includes a detailed analysis of 16 C.F.R. § 310.3(b), but it can serve another useful purpose for businesses that want to stay on the right side of the law. At some point, many entrepreneurs will be faced with facts suggesting that a colleague or client is engaged in conduct best described as, well, iffy. It can be tough to be the one to show the yellow card. But to the extent telemarketing is involved, the Tenth Circuit's decision offers all the support you need that turning a blind eye can be a costly mistake.
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Now is the time to go after the mortgage brokers and the mortgage finance brokers, who knowingly knew or chose not to know that many of the loans they provided could not be serviced by the potential and real home owners they approved for financing. Not heard of brokers being hauled to court over this. In many cases, they are passed as passive victims of te companies they represented. This was a serious consumer protection failure that also negatvely impacted other potential home buyers who were locked out of the housing market that had run amok.
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I must say I find myself in a very similar situation with the story mode dungeons and the fractals. I wanted to finish my fractal and dungeon runs in order to get my monthly complete, but like you I skipped a bunch of the story dungeons and did not quickly pursue the fractal curve. As a result I ended up repeatedly PUGing level 1 & 2 fractals in the hopes of expanding the playerbase who could move up with me. Then I went and did the SM at CM three times because I had pity on groups of people who had never done it and needed bodies. Luckily the SM counts towards your monthly dungeon runs, so it was not a complete waste of time.
I agree that Anet needs to give some incentive to get the lvl 80s back into the general population. I am an alt-a-holic and as I have been leveling an elementalist it is really shocking how few people are in the lower level areas as compared to the relatively active areas like the Cursed Shore. It's not just the dungeons that need the playerbase to spread out. As a whole the server populations have become severely tilted to the level 75+ areas where karma farming and the hopes of a rare or exotic drop keep people entertained.


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Private family services were held.
Remembrances may be sent to the United Way of Portage County.
Pisarski/Dzikoski Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.
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She worked for a number of years as an electronic technician for Tektronics in Portland, Ore.
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Is there anyone else out there who is currently studying for the CCRN exam and would like to start a thread as perhaps a study and support group? I have just applied for the exam and have not yet set a date, but about in 3... Read More
- 0Jul 1, '07 by ElizabethJRNI'm surprised there aren't more people out there currently studying! Maybe some will find this thread and be encouraged to take it!
I also only have just over a year of ICU experience. I'm trying to break the mold on my unit where everyone thinks you need 20+ years of ICU experience to take this test.
And that PM would be great! Back to studying!
- 0Jul 2, '07 by deeDawnteeHello!!
Hope studying is going well! I sent you that PM. One thing I forgot to tell you is there is another area where AACN has done a lot of research and that is Intra-abdominal hypertension, so that will likely be on the test. Apparently one can transduce a foley catheter!! I am going to have to ask around about that, I hadn't even heard about it before!!
I don't think we need to know the Cranial Nerves, I sent an email to David Woodruff about that. I'm concerned about having to figure out drip rates as well. For crying out loud, that's what IV pumps are for!! I know it's not that hard, but I still hate having to do it.
What hours do you work? I'm 12 hour night shift person. So, I basically work 3 nights a week and am almost full time (0.9).
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- 0Jul 2, '07 by ElizabethJRNYes, our unit has the set-up to do IAH monitoring through the pts foley catheter. It's interesting. We don't do it very often, but from the research I've read, we should be doing it more.
Ok, good luck to all studying!
- 0Jul 2, '07 by FireStarterRNI admire your confidence and ethusiasm, Dee Dee, but I wouldn't write off 20 years of ICU experience so eagerly. And also, they've paid their dues and maybe they don't feel the need to pass this exam since they have so much hands on experience. Also, they probably already are immersed in life and raising kids, spending time with grandkids and don't feel the need for this.Last edit by sirI on Jul 3, '07 : Reason: TOS
- 4Jul 2, '07 by deeDawnteeQuote from jlsRNTaking the CCRN exam is my way of becoming MORE confident. I'm doing it to be a better nurse. This thread is intended as a supportive place for others studying for the CCRN exam whether they have one or twenty years of experience. It is also a place for us to talk about the resistance and the issues we have to deal with in preparing for the exam.I admire your confidence and ethusiasm, Dee Dee, but I wouldn't write off 20 years of ICU experience so eagerly. And also, they've paid their dues and maybe they don't feel the need to pass this exam since they have so much hands on experience. Also, they probably already are immersed in life and raising kids, spending time with grandkids and don't feel the need for this.
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- 0Jul 3, '07 by roo-tangQuote from deeDawnteei am studying for it! my manager has been on my ass to take it for months, let me know of any ideas you have to increase my liklihood of success, one suggestion i have is look up patty graham, she has a great online course for it through ucsd and is probably the smartest nurse in san diego, she scares Dr."s!Is there anyone else out there who is currently studying for the CCRN exam and would like to start a thread as perhaps a study and support group? I have just applied for the exam and have not yet set a date, but about in 3 months is when I will be taking it. I would love to be in communication with others in the same boat! I hope there is at least one other nurse out there! Thanks!
- 0Jul 3, '07 by deeDawnteeYaaaaayyyy!!!! That makes 3 of us currently studying for the exam!!! Do you have a date set? I hadn't heard of the website or nurse you are talking about, but I think it is awesome that she scares Doctors!!!
I am studying David Woodruff's materials and he has over a 98% pass rate on the CCRN. I will send you the same personal message that I sent to ElizabethJRN regarding some of the tips I have received. Also, Linda Gasparis Vonfrolio has a highly recommended DVD course that I haven't received yet, but ordered because of all the great feedback there is out there about her course.
I certainly hope that there is even more nurses out there who would like to band together through this process!! Maybe it will inspire a few to get on board and go for it!!
Thanks for responding!!:chuckle
- 0Jul 3, '07 by ElizabethJRNI agree, Linda Gasparis Vonfrolio has some great stuff...I have her book full of multiple choice questions that I am mostly studying from. A co-worker who is CCRN certified said the book questions are harder than the test questions, so as long as I can do the book I think I am alright! Good luck!
- 1Jul 4, '07 by deeDawnteeI have received Linda Gaspari Vonfronlio's DVD on CCRN review and it is an awesome course!! She has done some amazing stuff in her nursing career, organizing a huge march on Washington DC for nurses, is widely published, has appeared on Nightline and other TV shows speaking out on the issues facing nurses. She is so pro-nurse, she apparently still practices at the bedside (ER and ICU) and does not like nursing administrators!! Her stories are hilarious and educational. She teaches in a way that her points really are retained and she reviews those points so they are reinforced. The woman has a thick New York accent and could be a hit stand up comedian!
David Woodruff's course is good, but in comparison all the accolades for Vonfrolio's course is very well-deserved. Woodruff's course is a lot more expensive. But he does have that guarantee that you will pass. But I have found that his follow-up is lacking and the "support and study groups" he has on his website are dead. I posted a question weeks ago and there has been no response, not even from him. He also emailed me to see how studying was going, and I emailed the same question back to him and there is no response.
So from my perspective and one person's opinion, Vonfrolio's course is definitely the one I would recommend, along with her CCRN book full of review questions and their rationale. That is all you would need.
Her presentation is definitely more complete which gave me a better understanding of the material.
Anyone else out there ready to take the plunge? Jump on board, sign up for the exam!!! We can do it together.


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