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New Living Translation (NLT) | New International Version (NIV) |
4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. | 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. |
Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. (New Living Translation - The Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Andy Hughes has joined Charlton Athletic on a free transfer after his contract at Scunthorpe was terminated.
The versatile 33-year-old, who can play in midfield or at full-back, has put pen to paper on a two-year deal at The Valley.
Hughes enjoyed promotion from League One with Leeds two seasons ago and is hoping for similar success with the Addicks.
He told Charlton's official website: "It's a fantastic move for me.
"The plan at this club is to try and get out of this league as quickly as possible, and I'm delighted the manager wants me to be a part of that."
Hughes began his career with Oldham back in 1996 and has also spent time at Notts County, Reading and Norwich.
The experienced player becomes the Addicks' 15th signing this summer.


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By Ariana Anderson in Feminism on Jul 28, 2011
Despite a break from the heat wave, my Monday evening was still super hot and steamy thanks to Planned Parenthood of NYC's 7th annual benefit, Summer, Sex & Spirits, of which BUST was a proud sponsor. The event, hosted by PPNYC Activist Council, raised over $20,000 for the organization's healthcare services, educational programs, and legislative work.
Guests enjoyed the all night open bar with refreshing beer provided by Brooklyn Brewery:
The fabulous silent auction featured oodles of goodies like this beautiful necklace donated by Wendy Mink Jewelry:
Happy party-goers taking a break from dancing to the cool tunes played by Justine D and DJ Ayres:
Unfortunately my only picture of Mistress B doing her crazy/sexy balloon art is terrible, so this mediocre image of one of her creations must suffice: (Penis hat!)
Perhaps the most titillating moments of the evening were during the delightful burlesque performances by Calamity Chang, Darlinda Just Darlinda, and Ginger Brown:
Many thanks to the PPNYC Activist Council and all of those who participated in the event!
[First and last images of Calamity Chang]
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U m.A.A.D.? See Cassie Lift Kendrick Lamar for Breathy 'I Know What You Want'
Bad Boy singer takes on Top Dawg star's "m.A.A.d city" standout
For a half-decade now, Cassie's zero gravity R&B of yore has been powering the music of dance producers and fellow singers looking to emulate her barely-there sensuality. Meanwhile, present-day Cassie has been incorporating a harder edge, most notably on April's rap heavy mixtape RockaByeBaby, which featured guest spots from Rick Ross, Meek Mill, French Montana, Pusha T, and Too $hort.
It also sported "I Know What You Want," which lifts the beat from Kendrick Lamar's "m.A.A.d city," the classic West Coast throwback on his ponderous debut LP. Cassie assumes the aggression of Lamar's track, but directs it toward the bedroom: "You want everything / So let's do everything." The video, directed by Chris Latouche and Jay-Ohh, applies colorful graphics to an otherwise slate mise en scéne, as if it intended to bridge two eras — the So Me-era and Grecian, respectively — of Kanye West aesthetics.


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45 "Any person with a serious skin disease must wear torn clothes, leave his hair loose and unbrushed, cover his upper lip, and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!' | 45 "The person with such an infectious disease must wear torn clothes, let his hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of his face and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!' |
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Blog Post: Panda 4.1 Google Leaked Dos and Don'ts - Whiteboard Friday
Hi Josh
Thanks for giving meaningful tips in simplified manner. You have shared updated version helpful for all SEOs.
- Disturbance of ads in between of user process should avoid
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Article on the Golden Age Black Cat's appearances, illustrated with panels and small cover reprints.
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Article on the Golden Age Blonde Phantom, illustrated with many panel reprints and includes full-sized cover reprints from Blonde Phantom #12 & #14 and Marvel Mystery Comics #84.
Bill Black's search for the elusive appearances of the character Yankee Girl. Illustrated with panel and cover reprints.
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A great tasting and healthy alternative to fries. Submitted by LIZZS2NDCHANCE Carbs: 18.1g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 1.1g | Calories: 80.7
4 ingredients, 20 minutes and dinner is served! If you're looking for the perfect boneless pork chops recipe, this is it! Submitted by LINJEN Carbs: 18.4g | Fat: 5.7g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 19.9g | Calories: 204.3
Chef Meg lightened up a picnic and potluck favorite! Her secret ingredient (shh, don't tell!) is pickle juice. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 1.8g | Fat: 5.5g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 6.4g | Calories: 85.3
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A wonderful soup to warm up those chilly winter nights and it is packed with Vitamin A. Submitted by COURTNEYBECKETT Carbs: 23.6g | Fat: 2.6g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 2.1g | Calories: 115.5
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Low Sodium, satisfying autumn or winter dish. Submitted by 60SIXTY Carbs: 45.9g | Fat: 2.4g | Fiber: 6.9g | Protein: 2g | Calories: 191.6


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CDM shows the high sequential speed very well and how the RevoDrive 350 dominates consumer 2.5-inch SSD products. If you work with 4k video, a single SSD just isn't fast enough. The same can be said about high bit rate 1080P video with several audio channels.
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Its latest venture, "Doing Good," which debuted Sunday in San Francisco's Dolores Park, will visit Mill Valley's Community Center on Thursday, and the Bolinas Community Center on Aug. 11. If you're a Mime Troupe groupie, you're in for a treat because this is one of the collective's best shows in years. If you've never attended, be prepared for an enlightening, possibly confusing, almost certainly entertaining experience.
Like political street theater all over the world, the Mime Troupe's mission is to get its message across. Instead of the usual theatrical values - carefully constructed scripts by leading writers, nuanced acting, artfully designed sets and costumes - it offers a free-wheeling, semi-improvised presentational style that is in keeping with its informal outdoor performance spaces. That approach also meets the needs of audiences who are more interested in the message's content, and impressed by the messenger's energy and passion, than in any aesthetic refinements.
And yet, the danger is always present that if production elements are too vestigial, content too muddled or too didactic, performances too sloppy, or - horrors! - an inadequate sound system breaks down, that all-important message can be lost. It's a conundrum the Mime Troupe has faced since it began operations under that name in 1961. Since then, the record has been decidedly uneven, with some years being strong enough to warrant the company's pride in receiving a Tony Award for Excellence in Regional Theater, while others came close to being an embarrassment.
Helped along by a reasonably coherent script that was stitched together by a quartet of writers (Kiki Shimosato, Jeffrey Morris, Ellen Callas and Erin Blackwell) from a scenario by Don Chumley and longtime resident playwright Joan Holden, a trio of excellent songs in the Brechtian style (lyrics by Bruce Barthol and Amos Glick), and a riveting dance sequence staged by I Made Moja, "Doing Good" is among the group's more effective recent outings. Though still far from what it could be (and may become as the versatile ensemble gains confidence over the next few months), the production is already strong enough to fully engage anyone who is concerned about the direction of American foreign policy and willing to discard conventional preconceptions about what theater ought to look like.
Instead of following the Mime Troupe's normal practice of developing a completely original script, Chumley and Holden have given the project welcome structure by basing their concept on John Perkins' memoir, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man." The book describes the author's progression from altruistic young Peace Corpsman to cynical huckster for projects benefiting America's multinational corporations. In the process of adapting it for the stage, characters' names were changed and narrative sequences altered, but the general outline remains intact.
Fresh out of college in 1968, James (Noah James Butler) and his girlfriend Molly (Lisa Hori-Garcia) are at loose ends about what to do with their lives. At the suggestion of her Uncle Ray (Michael Gene Sullivan) and to avoid being sent to Vietnam, James marries Molly and the two enlist in the Peace Corps. Their first posting is in Ecuador, where they immediately are introduced to the plight of dirt poor farmers whose small plots are being taken over by wealthy elites competing to cash in on the gathering scramble for oil rights. To get these potential troublemakers out of the way, they are transferred to Indonesia, just in time to participate in the events that led to Gen. Suharto's military coup. Molly helps coordinate a breast-feeding initiative sponsored by UNICEF but, becoming increasingly jaded, she soon abandons both job and marriage for a series of cushy jobs in the States.
Meanwhile, James considerably upgrades his pay packet by joining an economic development company called Games Corp. (think Bechtel), which teams with the American-sponsored World Bank and IMF to convince Third World countries like Iran and Afghanistan that they should incur massive debt for infrastructure projects they don't need, but which create immense profits for American multinationals. He quickly learns the tricks of the trade, from bribery to arm-twisting, until the inevitable payback occurs.
While most well-informed people who attend "Doing Good" won't find this account of international capitalism's shameless exploitation of poor countries surprising, its depiction of how easily youthful idealism can be corrupted - a process that is then rationalized by rhetoric about assisting people to be self-reliant - may prove disturbing. Which is, of course, exactly the Mime Troupe's intent.


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Immunomedics Reports Multiple Objective Responses In Solid Cancers With IMMU-132
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BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Immunomedics, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMMU), a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune and other serious diseases, today announced that its newest antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), IMMU-132, has produced durable partial responses in three different cancer types in early phase of clinical evaluation.
Results from the multicenter, dose-escalation Phase I trial were presented by Dr. Alexander N. Starodub of the Indiana University Health Goshen Center for Cancer Care, Goshen, IN, at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to the 3 partial responses observed by computed tomography (CT) using RECIST criteria, 15 patients also reported stable disease as their best response for an overall disease control rate of 86% in 21 patients with at least 1 CT assessment reported at the Conference. In terms of CT-confirmed tumor shrinkage, about half of the patients showed this result. "We, as well as our clinical investigators, are very encouraged by these early promising results with IMMU-132 in this refractory, advanced cancer patient population with difficult-to-treat tumors that failed multiple prior therapies," commented Cynthia L. Sullivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Immunomedics. "This is the first time these results have been presented at a scientific meeting after peer-review of the submitted abstract. The study has now transitioned to Phase II for additional safety and efficacy data in patients with certain tumor types using doses that were found active and tolerable in Phase I," Ms. Sullivan added. At the time of reporting, a total of 25 patients with 12 different types of epithelial cancers have been enrolled into the Phase I trial. These patients had failed a median of 3 (range 1-6) prior standard therapies for their tumor types and were enrolled with disease progression. IMMU-132 was administered weekly for 2 consecutive weeks, followed by one week off, in 3-week cycles. Treatments may continue for up to 8 cycles until unacceptable toxicity or progression of disease. Currently, 10 patients are continuing treatments.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Church Services - Eastwick, Gilston and High Wych
1. On this page you will find the details of Church contacts.
2. Church services for the month within the Benefice.
3. The Priest in Charge monthly news letter.
Rev Anthony Giles 01279 726476
Joy Galliers-Burridge 01279 444870
Roger Burridge 01279 444870
June Denton 01279 723714
Rick George 01279 721875
Sarah Bagnall 01279 441644
Lois Smith 01279 431123
Hazel Scorah 01279 418061
1st February | Presentation of Crhist | 8.00am | St James, High Wych | Parish Eucharist - Readings - Malachi 3: 1-5, Hebrews 2: 14-18, Luke 2: 22-40 | |
9.30am | St James, High Wych | Family Service | |||
8th February | 2 Lent | 9.30am | St James, High Wych | Parish Eucharist - Readings : Hosea 2: 14-20, 2 Corinthians 3: 1b-6, Mark 2: 13-22 | |
11.15am | St Mary. Gilston | Parish Eucharist - Readings - Hosea 2: 14-20, 2 Corinthians 3: 1b-6, Mark 2:13-22 | |||
3.00pm | St James, High Wych | Healing Service | |||
15th February | Next before Lent | 9.30am | St James, High Wych | Parish Eucharist - Readings: Deuteromony 5: 12-15, 2 Corinthians 4: 5-12, Mark 2: 23-3:6 | |
18th February | Ash Wednesday | 8.00pm | St James, High Wych | Ash Wednesday Service | |
22nd February | Lent 1 | 9.30am | St James, High Wych | Parish Eucharist - Readings - Genesis 9: 8-17, 1 Peter 3: 18-22, Mark 1:9-15 | |
11.15am | St Botlph, Eastwick | Parish Eucharist - Readings: Genesis 9: 8-17, 1 Peter 3: 18-22, Mark 1: 9-15 |
3.00pm | St James, High Wych | Baptism of Daisy Dean | ||
24th February |
Tuesday | 10.00am | 6 Falcon Close | Lent Group 1 |
25th February | Wednesday | 7.30pm | The Rectory | Lent Group 1 |
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Wednesday |
9.00am | St James, High Wych | Morning Prayer |
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Thursday Not 12th |
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Still eating Christmas Cake?!!
Well, yes I am actually, but I have finished the gin. I now have to decide what to finish off before I go on the wagon for Lent. We Christians do drag Christmas out longer than most, but it is our festival. We really don't stop celebrating until Candlemas or the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. That is on 2nd February but we celebrate it on Sunday 1st. It commemorates the time when Jesus was six weeks old and his parents took him to the Temple in Jerusalem and buy him back from God. Since the time of the Exodus God had claimed the first-born male of every animal including humans. In modern terms that would have cost Joseph about £250. No wonder they had to go for the poor folk's option of two doves for the sacrifice. This event is recorded in Luke chapter 2 and includes the prayer of the old faithful man Simeon, The Nunc Dimitis, which we still use in the service of Evening Prayer.
According to Luke's Gospel, Joseph, Mary and Jesus then returned to Nazareth where Jesus was brought up. The only information we get about Jesus from then on until he started his public ministry occurs when he is twelve. He had probably had his Bar mitzvah in Nazareth and this was his first trip to Jerusalem as an adult (as far as Jewish law was concerned). Jesus got so engrossed talking to the learned men there that forgot to go home and Mary and Joseph had to spend three days searching for him. When they remonstrated with him he told them that they should have known that he had to be about his "father's business." Even then he had a clear sense that he had a special mission in life.
It's about another eighteen years before we hear of Jesus again. His cousin, John the Baptist, had been preaching that people had to get ready for the coming King and he baptised to show their sincerity in turning away from sin. Jesus came to John and was baptised by him. All the gospels record that the Holy Spirit came on him in the form of a dove and God spoke from heaven saying, "This is my beloved son with whom I am pleased." John and the voice from heaven announced that Jesus was the coming Messiah and the Holy Spirit gave Jesus the power to teach God's message do his healing and other miracles.
Jesus then went out in to the Judean wilderness where he fasted for forty days and nights and suffered his temptations. We mark this by the season of Lent starting on Ash Wednesday, 18th February, this year. Traditionally the day before, Shrove Tuesday, was the day to use up any luxury food, hence pancakes, and to be shriven, to confess ones sins to the priest and be forgiven ready for the start of Lent. Our Ash Wednesday Communion Service includes marking people on the forehead with ash as a sign of their sorrow for sin and their resolve to use Lent as a time of reflection and preparation for Easter.
Many Christians give up some luxury such as chocolate or alcohol to remind themselves of Jesus fasting in the desert. Many also use it as a time of extra study and prayer. We will be running two Lent Study Groups each week during Lent. Please see details below.
What will you do to prepare for Easter?
Anthony Giles
Lent Study Groups
Starting Tuesday 24th February at 10.00 am at 6 Falcon Close (723557) or
Wednesday 25th February at 7.30 pm at the Rectory, 1 Dovedale (726476)
"A Step Closer –Discover how much God loves you."
Recorded talks by Bishop Jack Nicholls.
What! Not another January ???
Christmas is over. The freezer is full of leftover turkey. I am searching the internet for soup recipes to use up the stock I made with the bones. The boys have left me a pile of mince pies and other food and drink to use up and gone back to their ordinary lives elsewhere in the county and winter has set in. I think it is time to hibernate until Easter.
But I'm the vicar so I'm supposed to look on the bright side of life. The first thing to remember is that Christmas isn't over yet. The season ends with the celebration of the visit of the Wise Men at Epiphany – 6th January. The Wise Men described in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 represent the non-Jewish world and their visit speaks of Jesus being revealed as the Saviour of the whole of humanity not just the Jewish nation. It took a long time for that message to sink in to even his closest followers The gifts the Wise Men brought speak of what they saw in that helpless baby in Bethlehem. Gold speaks of wealth and kingly power, the child was destined to rule a kingdom, but not one of this world. Frankincense speaks of prayer and worship. This child would become a priest bringing God to his people and the people to God. Myrrh was a perfume used in funerary rites and speaks of the suffering that Jesus would have to undergo to achieve his kingdom.
Then, on January 11th we celebration of the Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan by John the Baptism. Here Jesus was publicly proclaimed as "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the World." The lamb imagery refers to the Jewish sacrificial rites where animals were killed to cover the sins and offences of the people. For Christians, Jesus offered himself as the complete sacrifices to cover all the wrongs that we have done so that we can come back into full fellowship with God. It was at Jesus' baptism that the Holy Spirit descended on him in the form of a dove to empower him for his public ministry. A voice from heaven announced, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." Later in the year we will celebrate Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came on the whole church. The Holy Spirit is given to all who are followers of Jesus and enables us to live lives that are pleasing to God and to show God's love to others.
So perhaps January is a time to look forward in hope to a New Year of God's grace and not just a collective Christmas Hangover.
Whatever the New Year bring for you, have a good one.
Anthony Giles.
What Christmas Again – Already!!
Yes it's Christmas again. It does happen once every year at about this time. By the end of November we will be in Advent when we prepare for the coming of Jesus at Christmas. It is also a time when, traditionally, Christians also look forward to the Second Coming of Christ and think about whether they will be ready to receive Jesus when returns to judge all of humanity. Whether we take this literally or metaphorically, Advent is a time of sober reflection about our relationship with God, hence our altars and clergy dress in purple, the traditional colour of mourning. Maintaining a period of sombre reflection while preparing for the festivities that follow is a bit of a struggle but it will do us good.
During our Advent services we celebrate the people in the Bible who helped to prepare the world for the coming of Jesus and we light the candles each week on our Advent Wreath. On Advent Sunday, 30th November, we celebrate the Old Testament Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses who founded the nation of the Jews from which Jesus came. On the Second Sunday in Advent we celebrate the Old Testament prophets like Isaiah who looked forward to the coming of a Saviour. Then we celebrate John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus who announced his arrival to the people of Palestine. On the fourth Sunday we celebrate the Virgin Mary, Jesus' mother who brought the Son of God into the world. Finally at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day we light the central candle on the Advent Wreath to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
I hope that among all the preparations you will find time to join us in one of our services particularly the Community Carol Services on 21st December, The Christingle Crib Services or Mid-Night Mass on Christmas Eve (see details elsewhere).
Do have a very Happy Christmas.
Anthony Giles
The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month.
That is how we remember when the First World War ended. This year we are remembering the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the war. In August we held as service that, as far as we could tell, reproduced the service that would have taken place in St James High Wych on that fateful Sunday in 1914 between the war starting and Britain declaring war on Germany. These remembrances will find their focus in Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at War Memorial throughout the country.
November brings a more person time of remembrance for many people on All Soul's Day, Sunday 2nd November. We will be celebrating All Saints Sunday in the morning when we look back and give thanks to God for all the people throughout the ages who been faithful witnesses to faith. In the evening we will hold our annual All Soul's Service at 6.30 pm at St James' Church, High Wych. We invite people to come and remember love ones they have lost in recent years. A list of the departed is read out and this includes people for whom we have had the privilege of conducting funerals for over the past eighteen months or so as well as folk remembered by others from longer ago. Everyone is very welcome to attend and if you would like to add a name to the list to be read out please contact me. (01279 726476)
On Remembrance Sunday, 9th November we will be marking the centenary of the war by holding Remembrance Ceremonies at each of the War Memorials in the benefice. These will take place at 10.45 am in St James' churchyard, at Pye Corner and at Eastwick. We are adjusting the times of our services that day to accommodate the ceremonies. The service at High Wych will be at 9.45 am and at Gilston at 11.30 am, for this Sunday only.
The saga of the rejuvenation of St James church continues but we are hoping to finalise the plans for the interior in the next month or so and then we can get on with completing the work. We are all looking forward to enjoying and using the new facilities.
Anthony Giles
All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above,
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord, for all his love.
We are all very familiar with the refrain from one our best known Harvest hymns, "We plough the fields and scatter." Late September and early October is when we as a church celebrate the harvest that has just been brought in. We started on 28th September with a Harvest Festival service at St Mary's Church, Gilston. We continue into the October with our harvest celebrations at High Wych. Please see the details elsewhere in this magazine.
The ancient Israelites, the people of the Old Testament, had some very strict laws about how to conduct the harvest so that the poor people in the community were looked after. Whether you were reaping wheat or barley, picking grapes or harvesting figs, you could only go through your field or vineyard once. You could not go back to see if you had missed any of the crop. Anything left was for the poor, the widows, orphans or landless aliens. That was their answer to the welfare state. As the harvesters worked across a field or vineyard they would be followed at a respectful distance by those less fortunate than themselves gleaning what was left. The Book of Ruth tells the lovely story a foreign widow, Ruth, gleaning in the fields of her mother in law's relative Boaz. He instructed his workers to deliberately leave some of the harvest behind for people like Ruth. The story ends with Boaz marrying Ruth. She became the great-grandmother of King David, the iconic king of the ancient Jews.
Today there may not be much left to glean after a field of wheat has been vacuumed up by a combine harvester but the world is still full of people who need our help. There are refugees who have had to leave everything behind to escape war or persecution. There are children in developing countries in desperate need the bare essential of life, wholesome food, clean water and sewage facilities, education and the hope of employment. As citizens of the world we have a duty to end poverty and destitution where ever it occurs. We may feel that we are poorer than we used to be but compared with most of the world's population we are unbelievably rich.
During our harvest celebrations any non-perishable gift brought to our churches will be sent to help women in this country who have had to seek refuge from domestic violence. Any money donated will go to the Bishop of St Alban's Harvest Appeal which this years is working with the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church to bring literacy skills to the 40% of women in Egypt who cannot read or write. Literacy brings employability and economic self-sufficiency. It can open doors to new prosperity for the whole family.
We look forward to welcoming you to one of our Harvest Services.
Anthony Giles
September – a Time of New Beginnings
It was good to see the turn out on 3rd August for our Commemorative Service to mark the start of World War 1. Many appreciated the Book of Common Prayer Evensong which is not a service we do very often. If there is sufficient interest we could make it a regular feature of our programme on, say one Sunday evening each month. Let us know what you think – email addresses and phone numbers are given elsewhere in the Link.
Our commemoration of the war will be highlighted in November when we will hold a Remembrance Ceremony at each of the War Memorials in the Benefice. We do not normally have ceremony at the Gilston memorial because it is on such a busy road. We will see how it goes this year and review for future years. We will also be changing the times of our services at High Wych and Gilston on that Sunday – more details next month.
September is a month of new starts for many of our young people, new schools, new classes and teacher or new colleges. It is a lot to take in when you are young and all our children of whatever age need our help and support at this time, and our prayers. I will be taking up a new role as Rural Dean of Bishop's Stortford. I have been doing the job on an interim basis for several months but I will be formally commissioned in September. I will give me a wider perspective on what is going on in the churches and communities in the area and maybe I will be able to find some useful ideas to bring back to High Wych, Gilston and Eastwick.
Our House Groups will be restarting after their summer break. Up to now we have concentrated on developing our understanding of the Christian Faith. We are now going to take a look at some of the wider ethical and religious issues that confront all of us today. We look forward to welcoming you to join us on Tuesday 9th September at 10.00 am at 6 Falcon Close or on Wednesday 10th at 7.30 pm at the Rectory.
At the end of the month we start our harvest celebration at St Mary's Gilston with our Harvest Festival on Sunday 28th September at 6.00 pm, followed by refreshments. The following week we have the school Harvest Service on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am. On Saturday 4th October we have our Harvest Supper in the High Wych Memorial Hall and on Sunday 5th our Harvest Services at St James. Please see the separate advert for details. We look forward to welcoming you to any of these events.
Anthony Giles.
War is Declared!!
What would it have been like on that first weekend of August 1914? The European powers were shaping up for a fight but not much had happened except for the anti-Serb riots in Bosnia. War had been declared between Austro-Hungary and Serbia and between Germany and Russia. Germany had attacked Luxembourg but, as yet, Britain was not involved and would not be until Tuesday 4th August. What would it have been like on that Sunday, 2nd August, perhaps sitting in church for the evening service and wondering how it would all end.
I haven't managed to prove that there was an evening service at St James' Church on Sunday 2nd August 1914 but this year on Sunday 3rd August we will be holding a World War I Commemorative Service of Evensong at the church in High Wych. The aim will be to reproduce the service that might have taken place that first weekend of August 1914. The order of service will be Evensong according the Book of Common Prayer with Bible readings from the Authorised Version (King James Version as we tend to call it now). The readings, psalm and some of the prayers will be those set for the eighth Sunday after Trinity which is where that Sunday in 1914 fell in the church's calendar. The hymns will be taken from a contemporaneous edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern, the traditional C of E hymnbook although the words in our modern books may vary slightly. I look forward to seeing you there.
People of my generation will probably remember relatives who served in the First World War. My grandfather volunteered at the start of the war but was refused because he had lost the end of his trigger finger in a farming accident and couldn't therefore fire a rifle (they thought). He was actually a very good shot and a bit of a poacher. He joined up later and being a farm horseman spent the rest of the war touring northern England requisitioning hay stacks to feed the thousands of horses in France. He was promoted to sergeant for saving a horse which the veterinary officers had condemned. The details of the remedy do not bear repetition in an article like this but he used the knowledge he had gained from contact with travellers when he was younger.
There seems to be something in human nature that makes us far too willing to go to war without thinking through the consequences. We assume that it can be done at nominal cost and be got over quickly – always by Christmas – but then war after war after war we are proved wrong. For me, there may be times when in this sinful world we have no choice but to take up arms to defend ourselves and others from unlawful oppression and violence. Some people joke that marriage is like war. I don't agree but war does match the description given of Marriage Service in the Book of Common Prayer, "not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God;"
Have a good summer!
Anthony Giles
To err is human, but to really make a mess you need a computer!
Apologies to those who read the recent Parish News Letter and found the non-deliberate mistakes in the table of Services and Activities on the back. As you probably worked out all of July comes in July, not June, and Lent Groups only occur in Lent. At other times, particularly 11th June, we call them House Groups. I am very sorry and ask for your forgiveness. I must try harder next time.
The heading is, of course, a misquotation. It should read, "To err is human, to forgive, divine." We are all very good at fouling up from time to time. That is why in Church we start almost all our services by saying sorry to God for the wrongs we have committed or the thing we should have done and haven't. We do so in the belief that if we are truly sorry then God will forgive us because Jesus died for our sins. The Bible tells us that when God forgives he chooses to "remember no more" all the sins we have committed. He restarts our relationship with him as if nothing bad had happened. He gives us a clean sheet. We know we will make a mess of it again but God treats us as if we won't, until we do. Then if we "repent", as the Bible calls it, he gives us a new clean sheet, again and again and again. God's forgiveness allows us to move on from our mistakes, to learn from them and to grow as people and as Christians.
For us to forgive each other like that is almost impossible. We can probably manage a level of forgiveness, which says, "I will not seek revenge", but to carry on as if nothing had happened is very much harder. We all have memories, particularly about hurt feelings. We cannot often "forgive and forget" however sincere an apology might be. Forgiving someone who has hurt or offended us is very hard but it is the only way for relationships to develop and grow. It is the only way that both sides can move on and grow. Forgiveness is a fundamental part of any meaningful relationship. It is something we must all try to do.
Most of us will know the lines from the Lord's Pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. If God forgives us he expects us to forgive others. Perhaps it is only when we have felt the full power of God's forgiveness that we can begin to forgive others in a way that approaches how He forgives.
Have a good July.
Anthony Giles
Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweth sed, and bloweth med,
And springeth the wude nu –
Sing cuccu! (anon c 1226)
I used this poem to start my letter in July last year. Let's hope that summer has come a little earlier this year. If you haven't seen St James church recently come and have a look. The scaffolding has gone and the church is resplendent in its new roof. The vestry and west doors have been refurbished and apart from a few minor details all the work is finished. We are now just sorting out the last details of the internal modification with the diocese. We hope to put on a display of the plans in the church in due course. I have given up trying to predict dates. We will just have to wait and see. Better to get it right than do it quickly. We are also beginning to see house building activity at the Terlings Park site in Gilston. The churches there are beginning to think about how to welcome new residents when they move in.
June brings with it the Feast of Pentecost. We seem to have given up on the English name of Whitsun, White Sunday because of the tradition of wearing white robes on this day. When I was young the summer half term was at Whitsun regardless of the date. Now it is always on the late May bank holiday. Pentecost was originally a Jewish harvest festival celebrated fifty days after the Passover so it has now become a Christian festival fifty days after Easter. In New Testament times it was a festival where many Jews from all over the world would travel to Jerusalem to celebrate. The book of Acts records that on this day the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity, descended on the disciples of Jesus with the sound of gale force winds and the appearance of flames on their heads. That is why bishops wear those pointed hats. Pentecost marks the start of the Christian Church. After it the disciples went out peaching about Jesus and many thousands of the people became Christians and were baptised in a very short time. They took the message back home so that when people like St Paul were travelling round the Mediterranean they often found groups of believers already established and keen to join in the work.
Please remember and pray for all the children who are getting ready to either start school in September or to move to a new school. It can be a very scary experience and they need our support.
God bless you all.
Anthony Giles
May! Queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling Flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hour?
(May by Edward Thurlow)
I started my article last May with the same poem and looking back what I write this month is very similar to what I wrote then. The work on the roof of St James' Church is all but finished and the scaffolding is fast disappearing to reveal the beauty of the new tiles. The detailed negotiations about the interior changes are well advanced and we hope to see that work started in the next few months.
For most, Easter will be a memory but for Christians the season of Easter goes on into June this year. This is the time when we remember the gospel stories of Jesus' appearances to his disciples after his Resurrection, his coming back from the dead on Easter Sunday. They include the story of his meeting two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke ch 24) when people who had known him well did not recognise him until he broke bread with them, reminding them of the Last Supper. They also include his meeting with Peter and six other disciples by the Sea of Galilee (John ch 21). This was the incident where Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him, to match the three time Peter had denied knowing Jesus during his trial (John ch 18). Peter is forgiven and given the task of feeding Jesus' sheep, that is, caring for the infant church. There are many characters in the Bible who had to learn what failure felt like before they were allowed to succeed.
Despite his failings Peter went on to be one of the principle leaders of the early Christian Church and eventually gave his life for following Jesus in Rome in about AD 70. Many of us sometimes feel like the Peter of the gospel stories, an impetuous man who led with this mouth and then had difficulty in dealing with the consequences. If Jesus could forgive and restore him to a position of leadership in the Church after he had publicly denied knowing Jesus then that same Jesus can forgive us for anything wrong we have done and restore to a full living relationship with God.
That is the message of Easter. Because of Jesus life, death, resurrection and his Ascension back into heaven, which we will be celebrating on Thursday 29th May, we can all be received back by God into a new relationship through faith in Jesus. This is what the Bible calls Eternal Life, a life that starts now in partnership with the risen Jesus and takes us through the rest of our lives into his loving presence after we die. It is my prayer that we will all come to share in that life so that we can travel through it together.
Anthony Giles
Are we nearly there?
I hope so. By the time you read this I hope we will all be looking wondrously at St James' new roof. As I write the scaffolding has been removed from the tower to reveal the newly gilded weathercock and the new cedar shingles on the spire. Peering through the plastic cocoon we can see the new tiles waiting to be exposed to the elements once all the work has been completed.
There is something of a picture here of what we will be celebrating in the middle of the month, Easter. The church with its worn out roof was entombed in scaffolding and plastic and now six months later is resurrected to a new life, for another 150 years or more. With Jesus that change only took 36 hours from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. (Re-roofing a church in that time would really be a miracle.)
The death and resurrection of Jesus is THE central distinctive belief of Christianity yet it is the one, which causes most problems. How could a dead person come back to life? Was he really dead? Did the disciples make up the story or just imagine that they saw him after he was buried? Christians have always asserted that Jesus was really dead, after all the Roman soldiers who crucified him knew their business. His body was placed in a tomb, which was sealed by the authorities. Then at some point between Saturday night and Sunday morning he was restored to life again, but not just the same life. The Gospel accounts describe a person who could pass through locked doors, appear and disappear at will and travel distances instantaneously. After 40 days Jesus was taken up into heaven from where he had come and he is now present with us by the Holy Spirit. We celebrate Jesus Ascension at the end of April and the coming of the Holy Spirit in early June.
Did Jesus rise from the dead? If God is God then a resurrection is no problem at all. The real miracle was that the Son of God died. Christian theologians from St Paul onwards have pondered the meaning and the effect of the death of Jesus and libraries of books have been written about it. By dyeing, or allowing himself to be killed, Jesus took on to himself all that was wrong with the world of human beings. Now by faith in him we can know that all the wrong we have done has been forgiven by God and we will spent eternity with him.
Please look for details of our Easter services in the magazine and we look forward to welcoming you at one or more of them.
Happy Easter
Anthony Giles.
We've been here before!!
A week or so ago I was in St James' church when one our roofing contractors approached me. He presented me with something they had found while removing the tiles. The package consisted of part of a copy of the Daily Telegraph dated Wednesday 6th November 1963. Inside was a copy of the High Wych Parishioner, the parish magazine, dated March 1966. Amid the notices about parish activities including details of the Lent Study Groups was an article on Church Repairs which I have reproduced below. It appears that the work involved was the internal panelling of the nave ceiling done to deduce the draughts. Note the size of the cheque they had to hand over – if only! The print in the magazine is too feint to photocopy but I hope to have it transcribed with a view to selling souvenir copies to anyone interested. Why the magazine was wrapped in a three year old newspaper is unknown but perhaps the crossword, which was incomplete, had proved particularly difficult. We hope that the current roofing repairs will be completed during March and I hope to place a copy of this magazine back in the roof space for future generations to find.
March brings with it the start of the season of Lent. For many centuries Christians have observed the six weeks or so before Easter as a period of self-denial and reflection. Originally any luxury food was banned. This included meat, eggs and dairy produce. This was to help them remember the forty days and nights that Jesus spent fasting the Wilderness and being tempted before he began his public ministry (see Luke 4: 1-13). Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent when one was shriven – confessed ones sins to the priest and received absolution in preparation for Lent – was also the day to use up all banned food. That is the origin of the pan cakes which we enjoy on Shrove Tuesday. Today many Christians give up some luxury item of food as an act of self discipline to identify with Jesus' fasting. They also use Lent as a time to study and deepen their faith. We will be running at least two Lent Group where we will be considering how to share our faith with others. If you would like to attend either of these please see details elsewhere in this magazine or contact me for information.
Anthony Giles
We can see Daylight!
There are several places now in St James' church where you can look up and see daylight. That means that work on the roof is accelerating. Of course we are protected by the false roof above and the plastic sheeting so we shouldn't see any water dripping in. The old original tiles are being removed and soon the roof with be covered with felt and insulation (bats permitting) and then re-tiled. We still hope that the work will be completed on time. Then we hope to start work on the interior including installing a kitchen and toilet.
With Easter being so late this year nothing much happens in February as far as the Christian Year is concerned. The one high light is Sunday 2nd when we celebrate the Presentation of Christ in the Temple also known as Candlemas. Jesus was six weeks old when his parents took him to the Temple in Jerusalem. The ceremony did two things. Firstly, Jesus, as a first born son, was being redeemed or bought back from God. This tradition goes back to when the ancient Israelites escaped from slavery in Egypt after the ten plagues, the last of which was the death of all the Egyptian first-born males (Exodus ch 7-15). God, through Moses made a law that all first born males belonged to him. If they were animals which could be sacrificed, that was their fate. Other animals and first born sons had to be bought back. That would have cost Joseph something like two week's wages.
The other part of the ceremony was to purify Mary after giving birth. For that they had to make a sacrifice of a pair of turtle doves. This ceremony has survived into the Book of Common Prayer as the Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth or the Churching of Women. This fell into dis-use in the last century and has been replaced in our modern liturgy by a Thanksgiving for the Birth of a Child. The Feast of Presentation was also the time in the medieval church when the candles were dedicated for the next year, hence the alternative name of Candlemas.
All this talk of buying back children and purifying mothers seems worlds away from modern Christianity but the story in Luke chapter 2 also tells us about an old man named Simeon who saw the baby Jesus and recognised him as the coming Saviour, Messiah or Christ. He spoke the words of what we call the Nunc Dimitis which we still use in Evening Prayer or sometimes at Funerals. Simeon also foresaw that that Jesus would have to suffer and this would bring pain to Mary.
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple is one of a number of incidents we celebrate at this time of year when Jesus was proclaimed as the Saviour of the whole world. In January we celebrated Epiphany (6th), the coming of the Wise Men when Jesus was proclaimed by their gifts to be the King and Priest for the whole world who would suffer for it. The Baptism of Christ (12th) was when a voice from heaven declared Jesus to be the Son of God with whom he was pleased.
I'll finish with Simeon's prayer about Jesus, the Nunc Dimitis, for us all to think about.
'Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles (non-Jews) and for glory to your people Israel.' (Luke 2. 29-32)
Happy New Year!
This is the one you were expecting, the start of the Gregorian year 2014 instead of the start of the Christian year last month. January find St James' Church shrouded in scaffolding and plastic. We survived the high winds of early December but fell prey to a small number of brown long-eared bats who caused a delay while we arranged alternative accommodation for them. We still hope that the roofing work will be finished by the end of March.
We are progressing reasonably well with our plans to re-order the inside of the church which will involve installing toilet and kitchen facilities. This will give us a much more flexible space for community activities such as the very successful harp concert on the 9th December.
From the beginning of this month we are going move some of our services around. This is so that we can hold our Family Praise Service on the first Sunday of each month. This a family friendly service of worship without Holy Communion and is a very easy place to start attending church if you are unfamiliar with it. We look forward to welcoming you to worship with us on these occasions. In order to do this we need to move the 11.15 a.m. services at Gilston and Eastwick back a week so that the Gilston service will now be on the second Sunday and Eastwick on the fourth.
A new year is traditionally a time to reassess our live and perhaps make New Year's resolution to do better in some way. The first Sunday of the year is when we will be celebrating Epiphany. The Greek word means "to show" or "to reveal" and it commemorates the coming of the Wise Men to worship the baby Jesus and to give gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh. They saw some sort of arrangement of stars or planets in the sky, realised that this indicated the arrival of someone significant and spent the next two years working out where they had to travel to and then getting there. What they saw and what they did about it changed their lives. If we have heard the message of the baby at Bethlehem, what lessons are we going to apply to our lives and our relationships in the coming year? What resolutions do we need to put in place and ask God's help to carry through?
A very happy and prosperous New Year to all.
Anthony Giles


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AFGHANISTAN/SOUTH ASIA-British PMHails Uk-Us Relationship
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"British PMHails Uk-Us Relationship" -- KUNA Headline - KUNA Online
Monday May 23, 2011 19:33:05 GMT
(KUWAIT NEWS AGENCY) - (Embargoed to 2200 GMT Monday May 23) LONDON, May
23 (KUNA) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron hailed the "essential
relationship" between Britain and the US this evening as he prepared for
US President Barack Obama's state visit.The Prime Minister said there was
"an incredible alignment of views" between his administration and the
White House on key global issues.And he paid lavish tribute to Obama's
style, saying that as well as being "courageous" over issues such as Osama
bin Laden, he was also "thoughtful, measured and serious".His analysis
came during a meeting at 10 Downing Street with American journalists as it
emerged tha t the president was arriving early to avoid the Icelandic
volcanic ash cloud."I am very much looking forward to this visit,
personally. I have an excellent working relationship with Barack Obama."
Cameron told the gathering, "I think that on all the key issues in our
world at the moment, there is an incredible alignment of views and
understanding and interest between Britain and America." Those included
the military mission to prevent Muammar Gaddafi's brutal repression in
Libya, the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings, Afghanistan and Pakistan, he
said."I was particularly struck, watching the president's Andrew Marr
interview, about how we see both the military and the political tracks in
a similar way," he went on."I said last year that we shouldn't spend our
entire time taking the health of the relationship. We should spend most of
our time thinking about what we are going to achieve together."But I think
it is in a very, ve ry strong position because when you look at what
Britain and America believe, and what we do together and what we achieve
together, I would describe it not just as a special relationship but an
essential relationship." As well as co-operation on national security, the
visit would look at "the work we are going to do making sure that we look
after our veterans properly, where I think we have got a lot to learn from
each other, particularly because of what we have experienced in Iraq and
Afghanistan", he said."But I think, above all, it is a time just to
discuss and think together about the next steps forward in Libya and
Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the defeat of al Qaida and in developing our
strong and common interests." Talking about Obama's personal style, he
said: "I very much admire the president and the way he does his work. the
way he is extremely thoughtful - it is a mixture of being very courageous,
as we saw with Osama bin Laden, but a lso very thoughtful and measured and
serious about making sure we get our response to these extraordinary
events in north Africa and the Arab world right." Earlier, the Prime
Minister told the BBC that the other main item on the agenda for their
talks would be "making sure there are more jobs for our people, so getting
trade going, making sure the economy's moving, dealing with our debts and
deficits".He joked about a Downing Street barbecue being prepared for the
presidential visit - saying his daughter had named it the Obama-cue.He
said there was a "wet weather plan" in place as he joked that he would be
"there with the matches - 'don't worry, Barack, it'll all be OK in a
minute'."(Description of Source: Kuwait KUNA Online in English -- Official
news agency of the Kuwaiti Government; URL: http://www.kuna.net.kw)
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By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER
It might be hard to picture New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, who has flirted with a presidential campaign twice before but opted not to run, sitting down in Iowa and New Hampshire living rooms and, as one of Trump's aides put it, having "a little apple pie" with voters.
But as Trump told ABC News' Ashleigh Banfield in an interview on "Good Morning America," today: "I have never been so serious as I am now." And he's willing to put his money where his mouth is.
Trump said that if he runs, a decision he plans to announce in June, and if he's doing well, he would spend as much as $600 million of his own fortune on the race. Does he have that much to spare?
"I have much more than that," Trump said. "That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage." http://abcn.ws/e6IXIr
What's more, Trump told Banfield that if he doesn't win the GOP nomination, he would consider running as an independent. Oh, and by the way, he "loves the Tea Party" too.
Trump is sending other signals too that this might be the year he is finally going to take the presidential plunge. Earlier this week he agreed to speak at a "Politics and Eggs" forum in New Hampshire in June — the same month that he intends to announce whether he's going to officially launch a bid for the GOP nomination.
He's already got some pointed things to say about his potential rivals. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Trump says, "doesn't seem to resonate" while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty isn't "going to captivate the voters." Ambassador John Huntsman — he's "very disloyal" — and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum: "I don't think he has a chance." Trump said he likes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich because "he just joined my club in Washington" but calls Sarah Palin's decision to quit as governor of Alaska "a tragic mistake." http://abcn.ws/e6IXIr
And whether it's Trump or any other potential GOP hopeful, the money factor is going to be more important in 2012 than ever before with President Obama's re-election operation eyeing an unprecedented $1 billion goal.
As ABC News' Matthew Mosk reports today, Obama met the nearly 500 supporters who will form the core of his fundraising team at a Washington hotel last night. Mosk writes, "As the incumbent president, and someone with a proven record of raising $750 million in his last election, experts agree Obama is well positioned for what's ahead. But they also tell ABC News there will be new obstacles to his fundraising effort that precipitated this early start." http://abcn.ws/ibcgmI
"For starters, Obama put some of his most proven fundraisers out of commission by turning them into top advisors and overseas ambassadors, making it illegal for them to engage in campaign activity," Mosk notes. "Among them are big slice of his top-tier bundlers — those who raised more than $500,000. They include more than 50 ambassadors, from California bundler Jeff Bleich in Australia to Boston fundraiser Alan Solomont in Spain to Chicago moneyman Louis B. Susman in the United Kingdom — prized hand-outs to those who brought in large sums at critical points in his campaign."
But Team Obama has key advantages too. They have been actively recruiting Democratic donors who supported Hillary Clinton during the last presidential cycle, are able to draw on the massive rolodex of e-mail addresses and phone numbers they amassed during the 2008 campaign and have found new backing from the high-tech community, including high-profile names like Google's Eric Schmidt. More from Mosk's report: http://abcn.ws/ibcgmI
THE BUDGET BATTLE. Just how successful will either Democrats or Republicans be at selling the "tough choices" needed to rein in the budget deficit? The latest polling data from ABC News and the Washington Post, not surprisingly, shows it's going to be really tough. But, as pollster Gary Langer writes: "Perhaps surprisingly, there may be a little more wiggle room for lawmakers in Washington eyeing Social Security. Despite the system's 'touch it and die' reputation, one option gets narrow majority support — lifting the cap on the amount of income that's taxed to fund benefits. And two others, reducing early retirement benefits and slowing the rate of growth in benefits, approach a split decision."
Even as many Democrats dismiss the idea that Social Security is in serious danger, 81 percent of Americans believe it's "headed for a crisis" — up 10 points since 2005. Of course, "headed for a crisis" is a long-term concept and winning the next election is short-term reality. And, while some options may be getting less unpopular, they still don't garner majority support. http://abcn.ws/eLPG4y
One senator ABC News recently interviewed, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, said when it comes to balancing the budget, you better not touch Social Security. "I believe that we should not be balancing the budget on the backs of people who are most vulnerable and who need government assistance most," Blumenthal told ABC News. "I think that we will need to address Social Security if the current trends continue sometime after the next ten years or so but not as part of dealing with the deficit." In the latest installment of ABC News' "Subway Series" with Senior Political Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Sen. Blumenthal said balancing could be as easy as eliminating waste and fraud. (h/t ABC News' Gregory Simmons) More from ABC's interview with Sen. Blumenthal: http://abcn.ws/fQhHiy
WHITE HOUSE WATCH. As crises plague the Middle East and North Africa, the White House is facing questions about whether President Obama should take a trip to Latin America with so much instability elsewhere. And then there's this: In the Washington Post today, Robert Malley, the International Crisis Group's program director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the White House has found it difficult to develop a coherent set of principles regarding democracy and freedom that it can apply consistently across the Arab world. "A lot of people say this is an opportunity for us to match our values with our policies, but there are cases where the U.S. is finding it hard to reconcile the two," Malley, a State Department official during the Clinton administration, told the Post. "But at some point, if our treatment of similar cases is seen as different by people in the region, we'll undermine our moral case everywhere." http://bit.ly/gH3cAD
ON TODAY'S "TOP LINE." ABC's Karen Travers and Amy Walter interview Sen.Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who requested the Government Accountability Office to publish report about government waste and misspending. Also on the show: Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., a Tea Party freshman who voted with Democrats to keep the government running. Watch "Top Line" LIVE at 12:00 p.m. Eastern. http://bit.ly/ABCTopLine
TOP LINE REPLAY: HENRY WAXMAN. The California Democrat and ranking member of the House Energy Committee told "Top Line" yesterday he doesn't believe industry assurances that U.S . nuclear facilities are safe and secure. Learning from Japan's disaster, Waxman said, "I don't know whether there needs to be a moratorium, because that could stop some that are almost ready to go online. But we need to make sure that all of them have all the failsafe to deal with whatever emergency may come about." On "Top Line" we also sat down with ESPN's Andy Katz who weighed in on Obama's "March Madness" college hoops bracket: "There were no Belmont picks, there were no Woffords," Katz said of some potential lower-seeded teams Obama could have picked as upset winners. "Nothing sort of crazy. It was all very conservative." http://abcn.ws/fSZSqf
JAPAN UPDATE. "Japanese officials suspended helicopter flights spraying water over Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant due to high radiation levels, the latest foiled attempt to contain the nuclear crisis," ABC News' David Muir, Jessica Hopper, Leezel Tanglao and Ben Forer report. "The two helicopters had dropped about 30 tons of water on the plant overnight. In addition, 11 water cannon trucks arrived at the Fukushima Daiichi plant though they were too far from the plant to be effective. 'It's like a squirt gun, using a squirt gun against a raging forest fire. They're overwhelmed, they're floundering, they don't know what to do' Dr. Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist, said. The water trucks and helicopters were used in part because radiation levels are dangerously high for workers to be directly in the plant for extended periods." Full coverage of the ongoing crisis in Japan from ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pacific_Disaster/
PALIN HEADS TO ISRAEL. "Potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin is expected to arrive in Israel for a visit next week," The Jerusalem Post's Lahav Harkov writes. " Palin plans to visit Israel for two days, and will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other members of Israel's right-wing, including Likud MK Danny Danon , a Danon aide told The Jerusalem Post. She was also expected to visit the Western Wall and Nazareth during her short stay, according to Army Radio. Palin, an outspoken supporter of Israel, has often criticized the Obama administration for what she believes to be its unfair treatment of the Jewish State. 'The Obama Administration needs to open its eyes and recognize that it is only Iran and her terrorist allies that benefit from this manufactured Israeli controversy,' Palin said in a Facebook post last year." Palin is on her way to India now to attend the India Today Conclave 2011. http://bit.ly/gH3cAD
NOTED: The Los Angeles Times' Robin Abcarian profiles one of Palin's top advisers, Rebecca Mansour, who one Palin confidant described as a "jack of all trades." From the piece: "Unlike other key Palin players, Mansour is neither a rough-hewn Alaskan nor a seasoned Washington operative. She is a political neophyte, a Republican daughter of Democrat-friendly Detroit, a onetime film student who lives in Hollywood, and a longtime fundraiser for Harvard University, an institution known for churning out the very "elites" so often derided by Palin. The erudite Mansour, who calls herself a member of 'the great unwashed,' doesn't mind sounding elite; her vocabulary includes real words like 'hebetudinous' (mentally lethargic) and made-up ones like 'anti-dentite' (a dentist hater, from "Seinfeld"). She loves Victorian poetry, William Faulkner and David Lean films. She is especially fond of "Why I Am a Liberal," Robert Browning's 1886 sonnet on liberty." http://lat.ms/fUvKB6
WHITE HOUSE WANTS SHIFT IN BUDGET TALKS. "White House budget director Jacob Lew said the administration wants to shift the focus of budget talks from spending cuts to long-term deficit reduction, which will force Republicans to discuss raising government revenue," Bloomberg's Julianna Goldman reports. "Shrinking the budget shortfall from a projected record $1.6 trillion this year over the longer term will require going beyond slashing programs to addressing entitlement programs such as Social Security and taxes, Lew said during a Bloomberg Breakfast yesterday in Washington. 'One cannot solve our deficit problem by simply cutting away at it,' Lew said. 'There is going to have to be a serious conversation with everything on the table in terms of revenues and mandatory spending, and that's hard.'" http://bloom.bg/fzcWKb
HOUSE GOP KEEPS FOCUS ON JOBS. "As the debate over keeping the federal government funded continues to dominate the agenda on Capitol Hill, House Republicans are redoubling their efforts to make sure that the issue of job creation — which largely fueled their triumph in November — does not get lost in the mix," the Washington Post's Felicia Sonmez notes. "One day after they released a report making the case that less federal spending will boost the national economy, House Republican leaders hosted an hour-long forum on job creation Wednesday in the Capitol Visitors Center. Attending were several business owners, including the chief executive of a West Virginia construction company and the president of a bank in Laredo, Tex. In an interview, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) cast the event as an opportunity for business owners to tell Congress what should be done to improve private-sector hiring — as well as for House Republicans to drive home the message that the ultimate goal of their proposed spending cuts is more jobs." http://wapo.st/hOUeIL
K STREET CASHING IN? "For all his anti-lobbyist rhetoric, President Barack Obama has done more than almost anyone to help K Street fatten its wallet," Politico's Chris Frates writes. "First came his push to pass health care and Wall Street reforms, an epic two-year stretch of bruising legislative battles that saw lobbying revenues skyrocket. But the boom didn't end when the legislation became law. Now, regulators are writing hundreds of new rules required by the twin reforms, creating a bonanza of new business for Washington lobbyists positioned to help companies influence and comply with the new regulations. … 'A lot of people did very well in the lobby community off the Recovery Act,' said Democratic lobbyist Rich Gold. 'Regulatory work is the new Recovery Act for lawyers and lobbyists in Washington.' Indeed, firms across the city are staffing up and touting their expertise in the regulatory arena as they compete for lucrative regulatory clients, which can bring in two to three times the fees of a more traditional lobbying contract." http://politi.co/eKA9lk
QUAYLE STICKS UP FOR OBAMA'S GOLF HABIT. "Republicans should leave President Obama alone about his golfing habit, former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle said Wednesday evening," the Hill's Michael O'Brien notes. "Quayle, who served as vice president from 1989-1993, said it was unreasonable for Republicans to expect Obama to be constantly monitoring every issue in the world. 'I'm glad he's out playing golf. I happen to be a golfer,' Quayle said on the Fox Business Network. 'I think presidents deserve down time. And believe me, he is in constant communication with what's going on.'" http://bit.ly/f7vAPr
WHITE HOUSE TODAY — ST. PATRICK'S DAY EDITION. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Obamas have once again dyed the water green in a fountain on the South Lawn, ABC's Sunlen Miller and Ann Compton report. The President and the Vice President will meet with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in the Oval Office, then the two leaders will deliver statements to the press. Afterward, the President, the Vice President and Prime Minister Kenny will attend the annual St. Patrick's Day lunch at the United States Capitol. In the evening the President and the First Lady will host a St. Patrick's Day reception in the East Room of the White House.
@markknoller: US standing by its recommendation that Americans evacuate an area within 50 miles of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors.
@thegarance: RT @NickKristof Washington missed its window of opportunity. A no fly zone wld have been very effective 3 wks ago. Now, maybe too late.
@GOP12: This is a biggie — Jim DeMint defends Romney's efforts on RomneyCare, says MA Dems made it worse http://bit.ly/eJPXqe
@DavidMDrucker: Ex-Sen Bayh (D-IN) on FNC:'I think budget will get done right around time of debt ceiling vote, and Obama will step in then'
@pwgavin: David Wu totaled a parked car last year http://politi.co/dQYBJy
* New Gingrich is attending the Wild Irish Breakfast for PLUS Co. charity as a special guest in Nashua, New Hampshire
* Sarah Palin travels to India to attend the India Today Conclave 2011.
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Wood bat stories bring back memories
"Coach, do you remember wood bats?" "Did they have wooden bats when you played?" Those questions came regularly back during Editor Don Whitten's days coaching youth baseball and he was reminded of some of those memories and of his days playing with wood bats after reading a couple of recent stories in the sports section. (June 21, 2010, Page 4)
Honor for 'Preacher' Lovelady very fitting
Family members are putting together a very fitting tribute to Morris "Preacher" Lovelady, who's contributed so much to the Lafayette-Oxford-University community through his work on campus, with the summer baseball programs and with Boy Scouts. The "Preacher" Lovelady Silver Beaver Golf Scramble, set for July 17 at the University Golf Course, will honor Lovelady and benefit one of his favorite causes. (June 18, 2010, Page 4A)
Dealing with heat is serious business
Editor Don Whitten has gotten a lot of feedback about a recent column where he suggested we're too accustomed to air conditioning, and he takes a look at some of those comments as he talks about dealing with the unusually hot June days we're experiencing. (June 16, 2010, Page 4)
Learning more about The EAGLE's e-edition
It's taken a little help from some readers, but Editor Don Whitten has learned about some interesting features of the newspaper's new e-edition. He writes about some of them, including a "reader" for stories and being able to translate stories into different languages. (June 11, 2010, Page 4A)
Is it hotter now, or do we just need it cooler?
Is it global warming or just getting accustomed to 72-75 degree machine-cooled air over the years that makes it so difficult to go outside or to places with the AC set on 78 or 80? Editor Don Whitten recalls days when air conditioners were not part of life and wonders if we've just hurt ourselves by getting too comfortable. (June 9, 2010, Page 4)
Grisham hits home run with latest book
To borrow a prhase from one of bestselling author John Grisham's favorite sports, he has hit a home run with his latest book, "Theodore Boone – Kid Lawyer." Editor Don Whitten takes a look at the first in what appears to be a series aimed at a new audience for Grisham – readers in the 8 to 14 age group. (June 7, 2010, Page 4A)
Best of Oxford winners section out Friday
The annual Best of Oxford winners' section published by The Oxford EAGLE is scheduled to be in Friday's paper. Editor Don Whitten writes about some of the trends and highlights of this year's voting as he thanks readers for taking part in the annual survey/poll that's very popular with advertisers and readers. (June 3, 2010, Page 4)
Jimmy Arrington leaves gifts to so many
Editor Don Whitten recalls his first encounter with longtime Lafayette High football coach Jimmy Arrington and uses it to show how Arrington, who passed away Friday, affected all of those he met. (June 1, 2010, Page 4A)
When collecting items goes a bit too far
There's a new "dirty" word floating around; this one isn't a four-letter word, but rather a seven-letter one. How about you – are you a hoarder? Editor Don Whitten takes a look at the disorder that's sparked a TV show and has him wondering about his pack-rat tendencies. (May 26, 2010, Page 4A)
Bringing back a TV blast from the past
Remake, sequels and spinoffs work from time to time in movies and television. TV viewers, like Editor Don Whitten, who remember the glory days of crime-oriented dramas from the 1960s and 1970s, will see how well one of those shows does 30 years later with CBS bringing back "Hawaii Five-O" this fall. (May 24, 2010, Page 4A)


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By Catie Colliton in Feminism on Jun 25, 2010
There's a new column on Salon dedicated to Lady Business. No not your 'lady business' but actual women in business! Any questions you have related to the workplace can be directed at the very funny Julie Klausner. Her advice column is dedicated to ladies navigating the workplace and includes topics ranging from determining appropriate skirt length to being a commanding authority as a female boss. The column isn't only for women though, so fire away too men! Today's column is about asking for a raise, and Julie's witty response is both hilarious and very practical. Looking forward to future posts, lady!
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