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I trust that this site will be a resource for studies that confirm God's reality and the validity of the Bible; and help in explaining some of the gnatty little questions concerning God, the Bible and Christianity. Straight Talk about God is a non-threatening, friendly place to confirm God and build the confidence to act in trust of His word. Straight Talk is not affiliated with any denomination and generally shuns traditional Christian practices and doctrine. Straight Talk is founded on the teachings of Paul, along with those of Dr. Gene Scott. And MUCH independent study. Straight Talk about God is fulfilling Ephesians 4:12, which says that "the work of the ministry" is "the edifying of the body of Christ." In other words, as C S Lewis says, we're supposed to "show off God to each other." That's what this web site aims to do. Jesus told us that no one can come to God unless the Father "draws" him. If you're reading this, then you were "drawn" here and will most likely find the answer to a question that you have about God.
Faith is a verb.
Here's what I believe: Through the evidence of God's hand on the stage of history, His irrefutable creations and His working in my personal life, I gain the strength I need to overcome daily adversity, know His Word is forever settled in heaven, and that He will stand by me.
Be sure to see Fifty Pieces, a book of essays on the practical side of the faith walk.
I thought it might be convenient to have a central place where additions to Straight Talk could be easily accessed. These pages are also in their respective categories, but this way you won't miss a new page because it's "buried" in a different place on the site. There's a lot of stuff on this site. I hope this "staging area" has been helpful. Thanks for trying it out. I'll rotate in any new pages as they fall out. And I guess the new links will stay for a few months, at least.
Mind Reading Not Allowed
Let me ask, Who was it that God delegated to create the "heavens and the earth?" The Logos, Jesus before his earthly incarnation. How likely is it that the Logos would not have also been delegated to breathe a soul into Adam? One thing God doesn't delegate. The reading of thoughts.
The Trinity Explained
I haven't read all the scholars on the Trinity, but my teacher, Dr. Gene Scott used to say that it couldn't be rationally explained. He said he believed in it, but couldn't really say what it was. By combining what we know as commonly proved science and information from the Bible, I think I can come pretty close to an explanation. But it'll take a bit to lay it out in a logical argument.
Spare Tire
Salvation is NOT about you. Salvation is a spare tire for the trip to God. Main stream Christianity thinks that God is in the business of saving people, that is, when they aren't usurping that task.
Who Was Melchizedek?
The encounter by Abram with Melchizedek is obviously the first type of Communion in the Bible. What about the tithes that Abram paid to Melchizedek? It would definitely imply that Melchizidek was Abram's teacher in God things. It would also imply that this was not their first meeting. This conclusion can be reached by only applying these three Principles of God's Walk. God is real, faithing and pay the teacher.
God's Name is the Gospel
This is an amazing little study that I "stumbled" onto as a result of an email question. Through gematria, I found that the four letters of God's name tell the complete story of God's grace to man through the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. That's God, people.
God is a spirit. The devil is a spirit. The Angels are spirits. And You are a spirit. If You are a spirit, what is your body?
Your Self, your Spirit, You, manipulate energy to form a tool that allows You to experience the physical reality. That tool is your physical body. Your physical body is not You. This idea is nothing new. It's been taught since there were people. The point is not that your body, your brain, your mind is not You. The point is why we have bodies at all. Extending outward, the point is, why is there a physical reality?
With the help of two Angels, this section of Straight Talk is up and running strong with some 80 transcriptions ready to read. There are ten programs in the Lost Tribes Series, twenty on the Illumninati and programs of various other subjects. The most rcent transcriptions are listed below in the Archive section.
Nine transcriptions of New World Order programs. These were broadcast as long ago as 1997. Interesting how the stuff we talked about is now in place.
Fifty Pieces Audio and PDF
Also now available is an audio version of Fifty Pieces, A Personal Walk of Faith. This version is held on one CD and is formatted in MP3. The individual pieces are separated into their own tracks. If your MP3 player lacks Fast Forward and Reverse, you won't have to start at the beginning of the book each time. There are 56 tracks altogether.
I have also transferred Fifty Pieces into PDF format. This is convenient for searching the text and for printing individual pieces.
I've added a new section to the Archive. It's called Recent. It will contain the last ten to twenty programs. These programs will eventually rotate into the appropriate categories, but I will always leave the ten most recent programs in the section.
The last few were:
Christmas and Why Christians Give
Tammuz birthday is coming up, so I thought I'd let you see where Christmas really came from. I also want to give you the complete run down on Christian giving. You can read while you listen.
The Trinity, Mind Rreading and Salvation
I want to talk about three things today, the Trinity, Mind reading and salvation. A lot of controversy about the Trinity. It does or doesn't exist. I believe that the only thing God does not delegate is mind reading. And I want to put salvation in its proper place; in the trunk with the spare tire. You can read while you listen.
Setup For Armageddon
I want to show how the world events of the past two years have related to endtimes prophecy. The Bible prophesied today's conditions. WW3, as being talked about in the news, will be the end of everything. It will devastate the planet; nuclear bombs, EMPs, 6 billion people dead. WW3 is being described like the Bible describes Armageddon. But Armageddon doesn't happen until the end of a 7 year peace treaty between Israel and the Arab states, brokered by the man who will become the Anti-Christ. The present buildup will have to wait for the Anti-Christ peace plus 7 years; at least eight years from now.
What's God Doing?
I want to start off the new year by investigating what God is doing. What is God doing? There's a long list of things that most Believers think that God is or should be doing. But, He's not. They would be quick to tell you that God is in the business of saving people. That's like saying the baker is a janitor because he cleans out his oven. That's not the baker's main objective.


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FLORIDA, November 24, 2012 — For over half a century, Dionne Warwick has been one of the world's most notable and celebrated singers.
Fifty-six of her singles made the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1962 and 1998, a feat surpassed only by Aretha Franklin. Five Grammy Awards have been awarded to her, as well as seven nominations. Nonetheless, Warwick, who holds a doctorate in music education, has built a career around far more than singing alone
She has been an actress, the host of Solid Gold, and currently serves as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Despite the myriad of fads and trends, which the music industry is so famous for, Warwick managed to build a legacy that transcends these. Walk on By, I Say A Little Prayer, Heartbreaker, and too many other songs to mention captivate listeners today just as they did decades ago.
Taking all of this into consideration, it is not at all surprising that retirement does not seem to be Warwick's style. She maintains a rigorous concert schedule, and her fiftieth anniversary album was released earlier this year.
"I took a poll of my friends, my peers, neighbors, people in the street and asked if they had a favorite recording of mine," Warwick explains. "The poll of these people are the songs represented on the new album, NOW."
In a candid discussion, she tells us about why she thinks her songs have found enduring appeal, what inspired her to become a singer, whether or not she holds one of her songs in particularly high regard, and much more.
Joseph F. Cotto: Becoming established in the music industry is one of the most difficult feats imaginable. In your opinion, why have your songs found such enduring appeal?
Dionne Warwick: I have been blessed with some incredible compositions to record and perform and all of my songs have had the ability to grow as I and those who have supported this career of mine for these 50 yrs. have.
Cotto: What inspired you to become a singer?
Warwick: I come from a singing family and as is said, "the apple does not fall far from the tree".
Cotto: How did you get your start in the music industry?
Warwick: I started doing background work on recordings and doing demonstration records written by many composers, which is how I met Burt and Hal.
Cotto: After being discovered by Burt Bacharach, your career took off. Why do you believe that you found success so quickly?
Warwick: It really was not as fast as you might think. It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
Cotto: During the 1960s, you were an international superstar. However, in the 1970s, with the exception of Then Came You, your career slowed a bit. Do you think that there was any specific reason for this?
Warwick: During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.
Cotto: Throughout the 1980s, you experienced a dramatic comeback. Why would you say that this was?
Warwick: Simply GREAT SONGS!
Cotto: Do you hold any one of your songs in particularly high regard?
Warwick: I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.
Cotto: In 2002, you were nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. How have you found humanitarian work to be?
Warwick: I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.
Cotto: What has been the greatest challenge of your career? What has been its best reward?
Warwick: I've never found anything that I considered a challenge, which in itself is the reward.
Cotto: Now that our discussion is at its end, do you have any advice for the aspiring singers who might be reading this?
Warwick: I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this. Some might consider this to be advice I guess.
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Will big growers of pot dominate the field?
Some are fearing that "Big Bud" could own Washington's legal pot-growing industry? Some fear that, since the state's initial rules do not cap the size of growing operations.
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In initial rules for a legal marijuana system, state officials did not cap the number of growing licenses they would issue later this year, trying to give small growers a chance to get a toehold in the emerging industry.
They didn't cap the size of growing operations, either. That might set the stage, some say, for big growers to dominate.
Already former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively has announced his plans to "go big" with a national brand of pot launched in Colorado and Washington, the two states to legalize recreational marijuana.
"The resources Big Marijuana would have open the door for rapid industrialization, which brings with it parallel challenges for advertising and marketing to kids," said Derek Franklin of the Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention.
Franklin and others worry that what's known as "Big Bud" would promote products to young users and lobby to dilute regulations, as they say the alcohol and tobacco industries have.
The state's top pot consultant, Mark Kleiman, has expressed concerns about a big pot industry "devoted to creating and sustaining as much addiction as possible — including among minors — because addiction is where the money is."
And a coalition of public-health advocates urged state regulators "to begin with smaller-scale operations that will have more limited capacity to advertise heavily."
Based on what they say they've heard from the Washington State Liquor Control Board, the Seattle City Council is considering new zoning to allow indoor farms the size of a football field, or 50,000 square feet, to help production costs and retail prices compete with the black market.
Jeff Gilmore, who grows pot in his garage in Thurston County, acknowledges that some small farmers might have problems competing with large operations.
But like many, including Shively, Gilmore believes there will be room in the market for both big and small, the Budweisers and the microbrews of weed.
Gilmore, 60, says he's never had a real job outside the pot business. The care he lavishes on his Blackberry Kush marijuana plants couldn't be matched by Big Bud, he said.
"The hours people put into 100-square-foot grows are astronomical and the quality is fantastic," he said. "Can you do that on a large scale and turn out a quality product? Can you produce a Stradivarius when you're banging out 70 a day? I don't think so."
Alison Holcomb, primary author of the state's recreational-pot law, agreed that the market likely will have diverse tastes.
"Somehow, artisanal cheese makers and craft distilleries manage to make a living despite the fact we have Kraft macaroni-and-cheese and Seagram's," Holcomb said.
It would be easier for the Liquor Control Board to allow only large growers because they'd be fewer and easier to regulate, said agency spokesman Brian Smith. But it's the board's intention to allow all types of business models to get into the industry, he said, and he believes "there's room for everybody."
There may be another powerful force that keeps Big Bud at bay. The federal government's prohibition of marijuana makes it a risky business for big investors or corporations.
"As long as this remains a federal crime I don't see them coming in because they have to answer to shareholders," said Hilary Bricken, a lawyer specializing in the marijuana business.
And, under state law, Holcomb notes, every investor and part-owner in a legal marijuana business must be a Washington resident for at least three months to get licensed. That includes all shareholders. So big tobacco and pharmaceutical companies will not be growing legal pot in Washington unless the law changes or they figure out a way around it.
Holcomb believes the board eventually will cap farm sizes. The board recently issued initial rules to get feedback from stakeholders before writing final rules. It's also waiting on a consultant's projection of pot use in Washington, which should guide officials as to how much supply they need to meet overall demand.
"Just because they haven't set caps in this version [of the rules] doesn't mean they're not going to," she said.
The law requires the Liquor Control Board, at some point, to set the maximum amount of pot a grower can have on premises, she noted. Once they know demand, state officials could apportion licenses among different classes of growers, based on size.
Or, the board could cap the share of the growing market for individual producers, Kleiman said. Or, the board could cap total grams of the psychoactive ingredient THC each grower can produce, rather than the size of an operation by square footage or number of plants.
Kleiman said he did not advise the board to set any particular limits, noting that his team's job is to answer questions about likely consequences of different actions, rather than arguing for one course over another.
"As to what the board will do," Kleiman said, "your guess is as good as mine."
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The use of overtime, whether mandatory or voluntary, to cope with staffing shortages is quite common in hospital and nursing home settings. Interviews with staff members who worked at 17 nursing homes studied by Louwe and Kramer (2001) revealed that in 13 of the 17 facilities, at least one nursing staff member, and usually more, had worked between one and three double (16-hour) shifts during the previous 7 days. In 5 of the facilities, at least one staff member had worked four to seven double shifts in the last seven days. And in one facility, more than one-third of the nursing staff had worked between eight and eleven double shifts in the past 14 days. Although all direct-care nursing staff (RNs, licensed practical nurses [LPNs]/ licensed vocational nurses [LVNs] and nursing assistants) worked extra hours, the majority of double shifts were worked by nursing assistants.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that hospital nurses are also working large amounts of overtime because of short staffing. Nurses continue to report working over 13 hours with only a 20-minute break (Northcott, 1995), and working "four eight hour shifts in two days—32 hours during a 40-hour stretch, leaving the hospital only once for an eight-hour break" (CNA, 2001a). A recent poll conducted by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACCN) indicated that the use of mandatory overtime is also quite common in the United States (AACCN, 2001). Only 40 percent of 2,125 respondents had never been required to work mandatory overtime. Approximately one-third (31 percent) reported working mandatory overtime at least once a month, another 22 percent at least once every 2 weeks, and 7 percent (n = 149) at least once a week. Another poll conducted by the American Nurses Association showed similar results: approximately 60 percent of respondents (n = 4,258) reported being forced to work voluntary overtime (ANA, 2001).
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn, (WVLT)- The government shutdown is slowing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it can't stop the flu season.
Without the CDC helping track the virus, it could run rampant.
This year it's more important than ever to get your vaccine.
Without the CDC's monitoring system, keeping the virus from spreading is going to be up to you.
Tara Moore is the Director for Patient Care at Belew Drugs she says they're ready for flu season with or without the CDC.
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And the FluView, a weekly report of outbreaks when and where they happen.
Moore says there's no shortage of vaccines.
"Making the flu vaccine available, making immunizes like ourselves available on a walk in basis. To be able to walk in and get a flu shot when you want it, that's the most important thing locally," she says.
Vaccines provided by the government were ordered months ago, but one worry is that a new strain of the bug will pop up during the shutdown.
Luckily, the peak flu season isn't until after the first of the year and Moore says they're doing their part now, reminding people to get vaccinated.
"The Influenza and Pneumococcal Pneumonia combined are still the eight leading cause of death in this country, still, this is 2013. Still the 8eighth leading cause of the death in this country. Both are vaccine preventable illnesses so, it is so important."
It's up to everyone to do their part.
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Okay, serious yum factor going on here. The funny this is, tonight I had sloppy joes and potato salad and I thought to myself "I should make a sloppy joe potato salad." HaHa I guess my idea wasn't too crazy because this is right up there and it looks delicious.ReplyDelete
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Oh My Goodness I am so making this soon! This sounds Heavenly and genius! I have never had a bbq pasta salad before. Bookmarked :)ReplyDelete
We love pasta salad. I have tried many different recipes but never thought to add bbq sauce to the dressing. This looks fantastic, Kathleen, and your photo is mouthwatering.ReplyDelete
I love pasta salad too, but I've never made it with BBQ sauce... sounds so delicious! And the picture is gorgeous too! Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
Very interesting.....:)ReplyDelete
Wow. The title got to me right away. Amazing idea, Kathleen. I'm going to have to try this. The color is fabulous and I bet the flavor is too.ReplyDelete
Great side dish for bbq chicken which we are having tonight and I have most of these ingredients. Thanks for sharing, I might have to make this tonight.ReplyDelete
Um, I'm totally pinning this on pinterest! I need to have this asap. Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
I'm having pasta salad for lunch right now!ReplyDelete
the color here really draws me inReplyDelete
Holy yum! I love BBQ and pasta so this seems perfect. Must make!ReplyDelete
you can never have to much BBQ sauce in my opinion. I can't believe I never thought to make something like this. Thanks! GaryReplyDelete
I have never seen pasta look any better!!!ReplyDelete
Now THIS is a unique pasta!! this is a must try!ReplyDelete
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Wow...that looks amazing! I bbq all the time and I bet my husband would love this!ReplyDelete
wow...barbecue pasta salad, what a great idea, now of course my wife wont like it, she doesn't like barbecue sauce, but I would just devour that bowl of pasta salad!ReplyDelete
That's a fantastic pasta salad! Love its summer colour.ReplyDelete
I had bbq pasta salad for the first time last month and loved it. That recipe was also from Cook's Country (I think) but yours has more goodies in it than mind did - this recipe looks even better. Now that I had pasta salad with bbq sauce in it, I don't want it any other way. Yum!ReplyDelete
This is different...I love the color...never had pasta Saldana with BBQ sauce.ReplyDelete
I love pasta salad too. This must be delicious with that list of ingredients like barbecue sauce and peppers...wow...yum!ReplyDelete
Oh yum! This pasta is right up my alley! Bookmarked!!ReplyDelete
Yum! I also like pasta salad too! But I never thought of using BBQ sauce for the salad! I can already see this can be very addicting! ;-) Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
What a brilliant side dish!ReplyDelete
This does look like a great pasta salad to me. I love bbq, and I never would have thought to use it as the foundation of a pasta recipe. So good! Thank you for sharing with me today. Visiting your blog is an inspiring way to start my weekend. I hope you have a blessed time with family and friends.ReplyDelete
Yum! I thought the same thing as you... I hadn't thought of adding the bbq sauce before, but cannot wait to try it.ReplyDelete
Sounds so good! It's so fun playing with classic recipes.ReplyDelete
My family loves pasta salad! This bbq one sounds amazing! I can't wait to give it a try! :)ReplyDelete
That looks terrific. What a fun side dish!ReplyDelete
What a great idea! I always enjoy pasta salad with my BBQ, why not combine the two?ReplyDelete
This really looks delicious, Kathleen. We picnic a lot and this would be wonderful for an alfresco meal. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...MaryReplyDelete
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Oh my! All that yumminess in one pasta salad!? Shut the front door! Looks delish!ReplyDelete
Delicious ! I love pasta salad and this looks fantastic :-)ReplyDelete
This is a perfect summer cookout dish, love it! My husband would kill for this, he is a BBQ lover! I'm new to your blog but I'll be back, thanks for stopping by mine!ReplyDelete
what a fun take on pasta salad!ReplyDelete
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holy awesomeness! i have never seen anything even remotely like this, but as someone who loves both bbq + pasta salad, i have to give it a try. thanks for the awesome recipe!ReplyDelete
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Marvin (named after the robot of the same name from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) stands for Mobile Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Indoor Navigation, and it has the ability to carry on simple conversations replying with verbal and physical cues, using its shape and voice to display a variety of emotions including happiness and anger. It patrols the halls of the engineering school, powered by an old electric
chair wheelchair motor. Sometimes Marvin gets stuck and, instead of waiting for assistance, will get noticeably irritated and force its way out of the jam. They probably don't have trophy cases at the university.
Talking with the robot is a frequent occurrence for the students, who have to ask Marvin's permission to get into the labs, at which point Marvin will also politely see if they require any assistance with whatever they're doing. If someone isn't authorized to enter Marvin's lab, the 'bot lets them know. Its eyes start to glow red, a flashlight on its face turns on, and it curtly tells the intruder that they aren't allowed in that part of the university. Oddly, if Marvin itself is scared of the situation, it may also wheel away, head tucked between its shoulders.
Marvin does have a few limitations, though, and it's aware of them. The 'bot sometimes quips, "I don't like steps. I wish the world was flat."
Stuff.co.nz, via Blogging the Singularity
CORRECTION: As SFDex pointed out, I meant wheelchair. Thanks for the catch!


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Park rangers' jobs increasingly dangerous
On any given day, a national park ranger may help fight a wildfire, set up signs at a snowshoe area, help rescue a stranded climber or teach her colleagues emergency medicine. But she also may assist a fellow cop who is chasing a heavily armed suspect up a remote icy road in one of the nation's 397 national parks.
Seattle Times environment reporter
National Park Service slayingsMargaret Anderson is the ninth national park law-enforcement officer slain in the line of duty since the service was established in 1916. The others:
1927: James Alexander Cary, ambushed by bootleggers at Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas.
1932: Milo John Kennedy, a U.S. Park Police officer beaten by a mob in Washington, D.C.
1940: Ivan "Ike" Thompson, a U.S. Park Police officer shot while trying to make a traffic-stop arrest.
1973: Ken Patrick, found shot to death near his car at California's Point Reyes National Seashore while investigating deer poachers.
1990: Roger McGhee, shot by a Florida prison escapee who fled to the Gulf Island National Seashore in Mississippi.
1999: Joe Kolodoski, killed outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park while responding to report of tourists being threatened by a gunman.
1999: Steve Makuakane-Jarrell, killed by a transient at Kaloko-Honokohau National Park in Hawaii.
2002: Kris Eggle, killed by Mexican drug-cartel hit men who fled into Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Sources: National Park Service, southeasternoutdoors.com
It's a job unlike almost any other: part smiling host for vacationing visitors, part interpretive officer for the country's wild and historic treasures.
Yet, of the 4,000 or so National Park Service rangers, 1,500 of them are all cop. They just have to cover more ground.
On any given day, a ranger such as Margaret Anderson, the 34-year-old mother of two who was shot to death Sunday at Mount Rainier National Park, may help fight a wildfire, set up signs at a snowshoe area, help rescue a stranded climber or teach colleagues emergency medicine. But a ranger also may assist a fellow law-enforcement officer who is chasing a heavily armed suspect up a remote icy road in one of the nation's 397 national parks.
"Many people still think of us as the people who clean toilets or go on walks or respond to hiking accidents," retired park ranger and special agent Ken Johnson said. "That's just not the case anymore."
Or, as Duane Buck, a law-enforcement ranger with 3,500-acre Valley Forge National Historic Park in Pennsylvania, said, "I can't tell you how many times I've gone to a situation and had people say, 'No, I need the police.' And I have to say, I am the police."
The 1,500 rangers who are commissioned law-enforcement officers attend the same law-enforcement academy in Glynco, Ga., as most federal agents. They arrest drug dealers and rapists and deal with armed suspects, often while working alone in parks where backup may be a 20-minute drive away — if not more.
"In California and along the border between us and Mexico, we still fight drug cartels growing marijuana," said David Barna, chief spokesman for the National Park Service in Washington, D.C.
The job, like many in federal law enforcement, has become more complex in recent years. With 22 parks along international borders, there are more homeland-security issues. Meanwhile, reports of threats and assaults against park rangers are on the rise in the wake of the recession and increasing anti-government fervor, according to a 2010 report from Land Letter, a Washington, D.C.-based natural resource-policy newsletter.
Barna noted the violence also is aimed at other resource agencies, such as the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, and in part may reflect more hypervigilant surveillance and recording.
"In general, crime in parks is down," Barna said. "Parks are still some of the safest places you can go — safer, usually, than the place you left to come visit."
But many law-enforcement rangers also share additional duties as interpreters of a park's wildlife and vegetation or in some other administrative post. They also are trying to stop poachers or prevent people from camping or fishing in the wrong place.
The potential all that creates for a kind of occupational whiplash has been a concern among rangers for years.
"If you're a county deputy sheriff, you're dealing with drunks and domestic violence and other issues on a daily basis," said Scot McElveen, who retired in 2007 after serving as chief ranger in parks from Death Valley in California to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. "But we get pulled in so many directions, I still hear concerns that we might not always follow all the steps necessary to keep ourselves safe."
Before the weekend, eight Park Service rangers had been slain in the line of duty since the National Park Service was established in 1916. But Johnson noted that five of those have been killed since 1990. Eight FBI agents have been murdered in that 22-year time frame, even though they outnumber park rangers nearly 10 to one.
"I find that worrisome," Johnson said.
Still, with a law-enforcement agency so small and each incident so different, it's almost impossible to draw meaningful conclusions from the senseless killings, experts said.
"There is not what you would call a rising trend," said Steve Shackelton, the Park Service's associate director for visitor and resource protection. "When one of our people is killed, you get thrown into an emotional state where if someone asks you whether there is an alarming trend ... emotionally there is. But statistically? It happens only once in awhile."
But for Anderson's family, her colleagues or the agency, that doesn't make this weekend's reality easier to bear, said an obviously shaken Shackelton.
Material from The Associated Press and Seattle Times archives is included in this report. Staff reporter Lynda V. Mapes also contributed.
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ESQ: How big is Game 2?
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Strange though it may seem, having the first wholesale club in Cayman open up has been a real enhancement to quality of life for those of us living on this small island and dealing with (import duty and shipping) enhanced pricing every day.
The newly opened "Priced Right" store has been opened by the Foster family and is next to Foster's Food Fair by the airport. Now, if only I lived in a house rather than a condo I could store stuff in a chest freezer in the garage… oh well, can't have everything !


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Apple passed Microsoft last week in market capitalization. This is big news, something that would be absolutely unthinkable even a few years ago pre-iPhone.
Apple was a niche product. It was for designers and the Starbucks crowd and that was it. Now, if I go to a Ruby meeting - everyone is running on a Macbook. It's ubiquitous. Everyone has an iPhone.
The question is, do we welcome our new sleek, futuristic-dancing-silhouetted overlords with open arms or do we need to be a little careful lest we lose something as Apple becomes the market leader?
Well, I think the name Apple is incredibly fitting if we reverse the myth of the Garden of Eden (Heck, the Apple Logo even has a bite out of it) We are being tempted to take a bite of their succulent technology, but the danger is not that we are going to be thrown out of paradise, rather that we'll be let back in. Back in to a walled garden where we no longer have the free will to use bad technology (Flash) but also will have a gatekeeper that controls what gets let in and what doesn't.
I believe Linux users and users of free software should be afraid (Yes, I'm liberally sowing FUD right now, but I think a little caution is in order) I never liked liked Microsoft, but I was never scared they would be dominant to a point where they would be able to affect my personal freedom. Why? Because people used Microsoft products, but they were never really happy about it. Even the MS Fanboys were pretty tame, sort of like they accepted their position as evangelizers of the platform, but secretly plugged black headphones into their iPods so no one would know.
Apple users are different. They believe.
To use a Firefly reference, who scares you more:
On the left you have a sociopathic killer who will electrocute and flay you upside down if a job goes wrong
On the right you have the idealistic operative who wholly believes they are guiding you to a better world
I'd take the sociopath every time over the idealist who is willing to destroy every right you have along the way just to get you to a better world. [ This is a just a metaphor, I don't really think either company has killed anyone - Chen's still alive, isn't he? ]
Steve Jobs thinks he's building a better world. They are refusing political satire Apps into the app store to protect the children. They are wiping years of developer hours off the face of the earth because they don't want apps that create "Desktops" in the app store (See MyFrame story). But he wholly believes: "We always saw ourselves as building the best computers we could build for people"
Do you think Steve would think twice about enabling objective-c scripting in the iPad browser because of Web standards if he thought it would be better for iPad users or Apple? I don't think so. A future of the Web that has a gatekeeper scares the hell out of me (I'm a web-developer, so clearly I have a selfish vested interest). Update: See this great example of how Apple treats the "open" web.
Now don't get me wrong, I love apple products. In fact after I poured wine over my Macbook and got angry that they wouldn't fix it for me at any price (once a unit is water damaged they won't touch it - even though everything works on the machine except the backlight), I'm going back with my tail between my legs today to get another Macbook. It's the best laptop out there.
But I'm holding off on the iPad as long as I possibly can because I don't want to fade away into the walled paradise just yet.
At least I hope you are. If you aren't you're going to be at an undeniable disadvantage to those who are.
My wife and I recently went to see Josh Ritter at the Orpheum. When he came out on the stage it was odd because he was smiling. I mean really smiling. I had assumed that he was of the angsty alt-country mold I was used to (along the lines of Ryan Adams pre-marital bliss) so it was unexpected that the guy on the stage belting out soulful, intricately-worded Midwestern gems was grinning ear-to-ear.
"Oh wow," I thought "Josh Ritter is a real dork."
After being startled by this fact for a few songs, it sank in that this wasn't an act and he was genuinely excited to be there on stage singing. His excitement and enthusiasm overwhelmed the audience and we quickly became dorks right along with him. When the lights turned off and he sang a song, minus microphone or any amplification, just him with an acoustic guitar strumming and belting out to the hushed crowd, we ate it up. When mid-concert one of his bandmates mothers came out and recited the poem 'Annabelle Lee' on stage, none of us jaded Boston yuppies in the crowd batted an eye.
Passion is intoxicating. Watching someone do something well that they are passionate about is an enthralling experience.
And passion is Dorkiness. It's the kid back in high school who was a little too excited about model trains and took a lot of abuse for that fact. But no matter how many times he got made fun of for responding seriously to a question asked in jest he continued to answer in earnest when someone asked him about his newest locomotive.
While that passion might get you a wedgie in high school, it's a recipe for success in real life.
Jesse Schell has a section in his "The Art of Game Design" called "The Secret of the Gifted" that speaks to this:
Well, here is a little secret about gifts. There are two kinds. First, there is the innate gift of a given skill. This the minor gift. If you have this gift, a skill such as game design, mathematics, or playing the piano comes naturally to you. You can do it easily, almost without thinking. But you don't necessarily enjoy doing it. There are millions of people with minor gifts of all kinds, who, though skilled, never do anything great with their gifted skill, and this is because they lack the major gift.
The major gift is love of the work.[ Pg.6 ]
Being across the table actually interviewing people, I finally understand why interviewers always say they look for candidates with passion. When I first heard this, I called shenanigans. Passion above IQ, Resume and Schooling? But now speaking from personal experience, passion is really is what you look for as a prospective employer. Most important is whether the candidate would be overall be a good fit in the office. The next most important thing by far is what gets them fired up, what makes their pre-interview nerves melt away as they go-off on slightly too long of a tangent regarding something work-related they love. Someone with a limited skillset but a passion to learn your business beats a learned automaton every time.
Me, I'm a Web dork. If you want to get into an uncomfortably animated discussion, ask me about anything related to current web technologies (I'll get extra excited if you mention the word "Rails") and you'll be in for at least a 1/2 hour discussion for how HTML5 is going to cure cancer and bring about world peace. Make the mistake of asking our designer (and my wife) Martha about typography, you'll learn far more than you ever wanted to about Kerning and Serifs.
So like "Nerd" and "Geek" have morphed themselves from insults to badges of pride, we're reclaiming "Dork" too. In fact I wouldn't ever imagine hiring someone who didn't give me a "Wow, they are a dork" moment.
Oh, and go buy Josh Ritter's Albums. We need more dorks like him in the music business.
Not on the little things - like failing in your current project, or having your home town team lose the world series. But in the big things that you have no control over - like whether your entire career and everything you've fought for over the past 10 years will be able to continue unhindered or whether you'll be ground underfoot by an IP troll or a member of the competition via some legal machinations.
I hate software patents. I hate them with a passion normally reserved for big screen villains. I hate them because they have absolutely nothing to do with what we do, but could nonetheless completely derail years of work and make it impossible to continue doing what we do.
Software patents keep me up at night.
The primary crime they commit is that they add no value whatsoever - I've never read a software patent and directly gained any value from a single one - yet they sit around like ticking time bombs waiting explode - but only against most vulnerable small business, large business have a lock-box of their own patents cross-license each other into submission.
They subvert the primary reason for the existence of patents in the first place - to promote innovation through disclosure of an invention. As they are written in a legal speak that is a completely separate language designed only to be read by judges and lawyers, how could any engineer possibly gain value from them? As they are written to be as broad as humanly possible how could anyone gain any insight into building anything concrete?
But it gets worse, because at least he had an implementation. Many times patents either start or end up in the hands of companies that have no intention of ever implementing any of the ideas obtusely described in their IP portfolios.
The closest analogy I can think of is that filling a software patent without implementing it yourself is like betting on a horse race, except the horse doesn't know it's involved in the race. It's just moving forward at full speed trying to get the finish. As the winner arrives exhausted to the finish line, the IP Troll looks down at their stack of patents and says, "Hey look at that! I bet on the winner." They didn't actually do any of the work, they weren't riding a horse in the race, they just had a few generic ideas and bought themselves a couple of patents counting on one to come in. But the IP Troll doesn't walk over to the ticket window to cash their winnings. They walk up to the winner and extract their winnings from the horse itself (in whatever gruesome manner you want to imagine)
Anyway, enough of the hyperbole. Just wanted to put down some of the thoughts going through my head as the Supreme Court heard Oral Arguments in the Bilski case yesterday. Early returns look promising - like maybe the scope of what can be patented might be reduced, but who knows? It's now in the hands of 9 black-robed individuals to decide their fate.
As a developer in any non-web language (Read: anything but HTML and CSS) there's pretty much only 1 hard and fast rule: it's not the compiler/interpreters fault. It's yours. One of the differences between a good programmer and a bad programmer is knowing that you can't blame to the tools for something that you did.
When I was just starting out in C, I remember being convinced on numerous occasions that the Turbo C compiler had a bug because my code **had** to be right - I'd double checked it a number of times - and there **had** to be a bug in the compiler. But there never was - it's pretty close to 100% of the time not compiler/interpreter/debugger's fault.
Except with CSS and IE/Opera/Safari/Firefox/Epiphany/Konquerer (insert your least-favorite browser here - I'm guessing IE, but that's just me.)
Browsers wouldn't just randomly double margins or change list items whitespace or not position objects correctly? Would they? Things are getting better as IE6 finally phases out, but that's also part of the problem - my memory of all the necessary IE6 hacks is starting to fade.
But it's still not perfect (is your browser 100/100 on the Acid3 - Firefox 3.5.5pre Ubuntu is still 93/100?) Since browsers still render things differently and react to the same code differently (and often all incorrectly according to the standard) - you have a situation where fairly often it's the language's fault. And since us programmer's are generally egotistical types, give me an inch of believing that it's not my fault and that will be my first conclusion half the time. Even if it turns out that it's just a darn missing semicolon; again.


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Title: Toxic ShockAuthor: Quai-Dian (Isilme)Fandom: Pacifier RPSPairing: Phil Knight/Jon ToogoodRating: PGSummary: Jon is intoxicated.Archive Permissions: Archive anywhere as long as my email address is on it (firstname.lastname@example.com)Series/Sequel: NoDisclaimer: I don't know these guys, but I saw them in concert once! Still, I'm making all of this up. Really. Not true.Warnings: None.Notes: For the contrelamontre drunk/tired challenge. 19:40 (I got a stopwatch, can you tell?). I apologise for the gratitious use of this song title. Pacifier, by the way, is a band from New Zealand that up until several months ago was called Shihad. They are groovy, baby. Check them out. Jon and Phil.Toxic ShockJon had been at the party long enough to slip into blurriness. The lights bounced off his eyes and colors blurred and air felt soft, sliding over the bare skin of his arms. The music seemed to embrace him, float around him and melt into his head, a gentle thudding inside his skull. Not so much as it did when he played it, but enough to be comforting and familiar.He was slumped on the sofa, ratty material scraping his skin where his shirt rode up in the back. His head rolled back and his eyes were closed, a heavier dizziness spilling through his body like warm liquid sinking into his blood through every pore. Every sound in room was background noise, one soft whirling, ebbing thing that was almost tangible. Voices indistinguishable, bass and guitar and drums just a beat, each echoing into the other seamlessly. Floating. Warm.He wasn't sure why he heard the knock on the door. Maybe because it was a new sound, sharp and conflicting with the rhythm of the rest of the atmosphere. He lifted his head slowly, sure it weighed twice as much as usual, and cast his gaze toward the entrance, eyes sliding into focus several seconds later.Phil. Impossible not to tell even through the haze in his brain and the smokiness of the air. His hair was wilder than usual, humidity Jon mused, whiteblond spirals falling crazily around his eyes. Jon was walking, even though he couldn't remember standing. Or even how he got himself that way. But he was moving and Phil was turning to hang his jacket on a peg next to the door.When he turned back around Phil found himself face to face with Jon, so close they shared the same intake of breath. And Jon smiled, goofy and tipsy and wobbly, his forehead banging into Phil's once, twice before he rested them together. Dark brown eyes scrawled with the wisps of intoxication locked pale blue ones in place and Phil was stumbling backwards, their skulls knocking together again as his back collided with the door frame. Jon thought about laughing, but the notion died somewhere in the back of his mind and he was rubbing his nose against Phil's so softly it was barely a touch.Phil's lips were moist, not from the weather but from the slide of his tongue some seconds before that Jon didn't remember. And they were warm and pliant and even though Jon couldn't be sure, they may have even pressed back. At least a little. But he lost that thought when he realized another point of contact at his center, their pelvises connected squarely, flush against each other. Jon hoped Phil didn't mind and he licked into Phil's mouth to distract him as he wrapped his hands around Phil's biceps.Then Phil's greyblue eyes again, wider, little points of light reflecting off his irises and the gloss of saliva over pink lips. But there was a little crease between his brows, confusion or curiosity or something. Jon swooned and took a step back, pulling Phil away from the wall. And suddenly he was back on the sofa, his temple resting against the sharp bone of Phil's shoulder as the guitarist downed a shot of something clear and licked the excess liquor off his thumb. Karl poured again and Jon licked the spillage off Phil's fingers this time. Then off his lips.
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