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and War in The Eastern Orthodox Church Part 2 of 2 Part 1 From the January 2003 "Messenger" How can these seemingly opposite emphases co-exist in the
Orthodox Christian tradition? Perhaps it can be best understood by the
unique applications of "akrievia" and "economia" in
Orthodox ethics and canon law. "Akrievia" represents the
strict application of the gospel principles embodied in canon law. "Economia" is
a dispensation from this strict requirement in view of human weakness
and the compromising circumstances of life in a fallen world. Perhaps
divorce provides a good example. According to "akrievia," the
norm is one marriage for life, and divorce and remarriage constitutes
adultery. This is a direct word of the Lord. Nonetheless, the Orthodox
Church blesses the remarriage of divorced persons in various circumstances
as an act of mercy, knowing the frailties of our fallen nature and the
difficult situations of life. Simultaneously, the norm is upheld and
there is an accommodation to the realities of fallen world - a concept
and practice that may seem contradictory to Western Christians. Orthodox Christians do indeed undertake warfare in such situations, but purely as a "necessary evil." It is necessary because the innocent and good must be protected; it is evil because such protection involves the taking of human life, which by all accounts, is among the most terrible of crimes. The Orthodox Church therefore is not pacifistic, although it in practices encourages governments always to pursue the "preferential option for peace." Nonetheless, the Church recognizes that this world is fallen and is not yet equivalent to the kingdom of God. For this reason, governments in general cannot be held to the strict requirements of the gospel. Although under God's authority, they belong to the fallen world. At times statesmanship fails, and Christians are called by their governments to defend their commonwealth by means of war, for to fail to do so would result in an increase in the measure of evil in the world. This does not mean that war can be "just." It may serve a just cause, but war itself is unjust by nature. The Orthodox Church therefore has never elaborated a theory of "just war." For Orthodox Christians, "just war" is a contradiction in terms. |
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The term "drug interaction" is used to describe a situation in which the way a medication would normally act in the body is altered because of another substance. Interactions can occur with food or other drugs, and can adversely affect other medical conditions.
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2) Use one pharmacy so all your medication records are kept in one place. Pharmacists always review each patient's profile, and pharmacy computer systems alert them to potential interactions. Each pharmacist then uses his or her professional judgment to determine what interactions a patient might encounter. If potential red flags pop up, your pharmacist will consult with your doctor. Solving the problem may be as simple as changing the time of day you take the medication (for example, between meals so it doesn't interact with food), or it may require an alternative prescription medication.
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The main thing to remember is that good communication with all your health professionals is key. Patients shouldn't be expected to identify these things themselves, but they should always feel comfortable asking questions.
For more tips on drug interactions, including drug and over-the-counter medications, see the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Pub. L. 95-109; 91 Stat. 874, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1692 –1692p, approved on September 20, 1977 (and as subsequently amended) is a consumer protection amendment, establishing legal protection from abusive debt collection practices, to the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as Title VIII of that Act. The statute's stated purposes are: to eliminate abusive practices in the collection of consumer debts, to promote fair debt collection, and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy.[1] The Act creates guidelines under which debt collectors may conduct business, defines rights of consumers involved with debt collectors, and prescribes penalties and remedies for violations of the Act. It is sometimes used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
The FDCPA broadly defines a debt collector as "any person who uses any instrumentality of interstate commerce or the mails in any business the principal purpose of which is the collection of any debts, or who regularly collects or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly, debts owed or due or asserted to be owed or due another."[2] While the FDCPA generally applies only to third party debt collectors—not internal collectors for an "original creditor"—some states, such as California, have similar state consumer protection laws which mirror the FDCPA, and regulate original creditors. In addition, some federal courts have ruled that a collector of debt is not a "creditor" but is rather a "debt collector" under the FDCPA where the collector of debt buys defaulted debt from an original creditor for the purpose of debt collection.[3][4][5] The definitions and coverage have changed over time. The FDCPA itself contains numerous exceptions to the definition of a "debt collector," particularly after the October 13, 2006, passage of the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006. Attorneys, originally explicitly exempted from the definition of a debt collector, have been included (to the extent that they otherwise meet the definition) since 1986.
The FDCPA's definitions of "consumers" and "debt" specifically restricts the coverage of the act to personal, family or household transactions. Thus, debts owed by businesses (or by individuals for business purposes) are not subject to the FDCPA.
In the federal tax case of Smith v. United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stated that the taxpayer's: ". . . . invocation of the Fair Debt Collection Act is entirely without merit, as the statute expressly excludes 'any officer or employee of the United States . . . to the extent that collecting or attempting to collect any debt is in the performance of his official duties' from the definition of 'debt collector.' 15 U.S.C. section 1692a(6)(C)."[6] In 1998, however, Congress amended the Internal Revenue Code by adding a new section 6304, "Fair Tax Collection Practices," which refers to and includes certain rules that are similar to some provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.[7]
The Act prohibits certain types of "abusive and deceptive" conduct when attempting to collect debts, including the following:
The Act requires debt collectors to do the following (among other requirements):
The Federal Trade Commission has the authority to administratively enforce the FDCPA using its powers under the Federal Trade Commission Act.[28] But under sweeping financial regulation reforms, a recent proposal by the U.S. Treasury Department would call for the FDCPA to be administered by a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[29]
Aggrieved consumers may also file a private lawsuit in a state or federal court to collect damages (actual, statutory, attorney's fees, and court costs) from third-party debt collectors. The FDCPA is a strict liability law, which means that a consumer need not prove actual damages in order to claim statutory damages of up to $1,000 plus reasonable attorney fees if a debt collector is proven to have violated the FDCPA.[30] The collector may, however, escape penalty if it shows that the violation (or violations) was unintentional and the result of a "bona fide error" that occurred despite procedures designed to avoid the error at issue.[31][32]
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The accounts receivable management industry has also raised concerns that the FDCPA contains contradictions that often lead to liability on the part of collection agencies in civil cases, especially when dealing with technology that did not exist when the law was written. For example, the FDCPA requires a collection agency to identify itself as such in any communication with a consumer. At the same time, a collection agency cannot disclose the debt of a consumer to anyone else. These two requirements are at odds when a collector leaves a message on an answering machine or voicemail system. If the collector identifies himself and his company, a third party could hear the message, thus resulting in a third party disclosure violation. Case law has tackled this issue but has not yet resolved it.[36]
For its part, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) produces an annual report to Congress of its findings with respect to its FDCPA enforcement activities. This report details consumer complaints to the FTC about alleged debt collector violations of the FDCPA. The 2013 report indicated that the FTC received 125,136 consumer complaints about third party debt collectors in 2012, which is an decrease from the 144,451 received in 2011. The FTC receives more complaints about debt collectors than about any other specific industry, though the number of complaints represents a small percentage of the overall number of contacts by debt collectors with consumers.[37]
The FTC has authority to issue formal opinions regarding debt collectors' conduct under the FDCPA,[38] but the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act transfers authority for rule making to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) effective between January 21, 2011 and July 21, 2011. The FTC will retain FDCPA enforcement authority, but the CFPB will take over the FTC's advisory opinion function. Good faith conformity with a formal opinion of the FTC constitutes a second statutory defense under the FDCPA.[39] The FTC has only rarely exercised its authority to issue advisory opinions, however.[40] Prior to 2000, the FTC had not issued any advisory opinions regarding the FDCPA, it has issued only four such opinions through 2009.[40]


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Here is a very recent video of weightlifter Ilya Ilyin, the most recent 94kg Olympic gold medalist, doing an easy looking 140kg (308lbs) snatch off the blocks. To give you a quick back round on Ilya, since winning the Olympics he has not trained for about a year. So to come off of no training for almost a year and to still be able to make that kind of weight look that routine is very impressive. Be sure to look out for him at WWC 2014 and Rio Olympics 2016.
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by Janel Ovrut Funk in The Veggie Table, January 9, 2012We're teaming up with fellow food bloggers and healthy eating advocates to host a Healthy Every Week Challenge, a month-long initiative to develop healthy eating habits. The plan an is to develop a manageable healthy habit each week that will carry through the new year. Join us here and share what you're eating on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #gethealthy.
If you're following a vegetarian or vegan diet, chances are a good portion of your plate is already made up of grains. But the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that at least half of all the grains you eat are whole grains. What's so special about whole grains? They're naturally packed with high amounts of fiber, and micro-nutrients like folic acid, magnesium, and vitamin E. All grains are low in fat and cholesterol free, and they typically have between 5-10 grams of protein per cup, which is great new for those of us following a plant-based diet. All that fiber and protein in whole grains helps to fill us up and keep us satisfied, making them great for weight management. Better yet, they've been linked to a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.
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Lead mining was once the main industry in parts of the Dales, including Wharfedale. From the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth it employed hundreds of men and boys, exploiting the veins in the limestone at Greenhow, Hebden, Grassington, Linton and Conistone, Appletreewick and elsewhere. The smelting of the ore had a dramatic effect on the countryside. Writing in 1885, of the Grassington mines, Joseph Lucas said: "Formerly the hill-side, for hundreds of acres around, was destitute of verdure, as every green thing was killed by the poisonous vapours. No sheep or cattle could be safely pastured on the adjoining hill-sides, as the wind frequently carried the smoke long distances and affected everything on which it fell." Later the introduction of long flues, reaching up the hillsides, within which the vapour could condense and from which pure lead could be recovered, improved matters: "The hill-side is green again" The heaps of mining waste remain, contaminated with lead, and on which little will grow. The few plants that will are known as 'lead plants' - spring sandwort and alpine penny-cress. Spring sandwort is characteristic of limestone areas, where it grows on scree, pavements and grassland as well as old lead mines. It requires reduced competition, and the bare spoil heaps suit it well. Its British distribution centres on northern England, on the limestone, but it is also found in north Wales, the Peak District, the west of Ireland and scattered areas of Scotland and England. Unlike the commoner spring sandwort, alpine penny-cress is almost entirely restricted to rocks or soils enriched with lead or zinc. It is found on the lead spoil heaps and also river gravels, and, rarely, on outcrops of rocks which contain metals. Again, its main centre of distribution is in the northern Pennines. It can be fairly easily distinguished from other penny-cresses by its violet anthers. It does not actually require lead to grow - lead is normally toxic to plants, reducing root cell division, for example - but has developed an ability to grow there and to enjoy the reduced competition from other plants. Some other plants have developed 'ecotypes' which can tolerate heavy metals, among them thrift and wavy-hair grass. At Hawkswick Wood alpine penny-cress can be found on old mine spoil at the western end of the site. The numerous small-scale workings on Malham and Kilnsey Moors support both alpine penny-cress and spring sandwort. Spring sandwort is also to be found on the old lead spoil heaps around Greenhow and Hebden. With thanks to : Wharfedale Brewery I think I should make it my mission in life to visit hallowed ground at least once a year, and so my pilgrimage this time was to the Wharfdale Brewery, tucked away between Rylstone and Hetton. I spoke to Adam Witek, who is Head Brewer there, and he kindly talked me through the brewing process in great detail... Brewing Process We take in malt, which is essentially barley that's been grown...well you remember those school experiments where you had a kidney bean and you dropped it on blotting paper and it started to shoot? Well that's what you do to make malt. They take barley from the field, it's dried, then they grow it very slightly, so you get a very short shoot and a couple of rootlets. Just a couple of millimetres and when that happens they then dry it off and kiln it. In other words they heat it in an oven. That produces the darker colours and the different types which you can get. The reason why they malt it, is that barley's very hard, it's like small stones, so when you malt it, it then becomes what's called the endosperm where the starch reserves are for the plant to grow, they actually become sugars. And that's what's important to us, sugar - remember that as we'll come back to that later. So we get malt in, malted barley, and it's been ground, it's been crushed for us - we haven't got a milll here - and it arrives here in bags. We have pale ale malt, which is our basic malt that we use, then we have a variety of other type of malts and materials to add to that to make our recipe. There's amber malt in there, there's crystal malt, (crystal malt tastes of toffee, caramel type of taste) chocolate malt, (actually does taste of chocolate) amber malt (tastes of coffee, essentially, but with a dry nose.) So by having a different amount of each type, you can alter the flavour you get at the end of your beermaking process. So that's the malt side. We have hops also, crushed flowerheads from the hop plant, but hops don't have flowers they have what's called green cones. Inflorescence bracta it's actually called, and if you imagine this is like a cone, very much like a pine cone but it's been compressed down, dried and pressed. The important part to us is not all the green material, but right in the centre, this yellowy material. Have a sniff of that...This is actually, Northdown hops, and we use Goldings for later on when we want to get the flavour. Now, when you rub hops, now have a smell... it's intense isn't it? It's that intense oil and resin that we want to get out of it. So this green material is largely pointless to us. This yellow stuff called the lupin gland, that's what we need to extract. The other very important raw material we have is water. It comes from a deep bore hole just to the side of the brewery here. It's approximately 54 metres deep, the water table is between 21 and 26 metres down. It's very deep. It goes right beyond the shale into the bedrock here, and it's obviously been there for thousands, perhaps millions of years. It's naturally filtered through the limestone. We could not have better water. It's untreated, the only other thing we do, it's not really a filter, we take the water up as it is, but we have what's called a particle bug just in case anything does come up with the water. So thats it. Lets go into the brewing process itself. This is the first part of the brewing process. In here, what looks like a hot tub, the copper clad vessel called the mash tun, very much like mashing tea, we're going to be adding the crushed malt to water. We empty the bags of crushed malt into this hopper, then there's a tube fitted with a pipe, like so, and hot water comes from a tank which is the bore-hole water, heated up. We let the malt fall down the chute, and within the pipe is a smaller pipe which squirts and sprays the hot water onto the malt as it falls down, so that as it enters the mash tun its a kind of porridge consistency. The water has to be warm for the enzymes in the malt to actually break down the sugars and starches into more sugars. By malting the barley we've only gone so far down the process. We want to extract as much sugar as possible later on for the yeast to make it into alcohol. So we've mashed it all in we've mixed the barley and the water together, we've allowed it to stand for between an hour and an hour and a half. Then we drain it off and pump it into the vessel over in the corner, called the copper. Here we collect all the extracted sugary solution from the mash tun and, using these heating elements inside, we boil it for about 90 minutes. At three different stages we add hops, charges of hops, to add the bitterness, and the hop aroma to our beers. Hops are an interesting plant variety, very closely related to cannabis. It's part of the same family, so you have resins, and the resins give you the bitterness, and the hop oil gives you the aroma. But hops aren't addictive. Hops were originally used as a preservative. They allowed brewers to brew beer in the autumn and the spring, .... and it would help the beer keep over that summer period. Hops have a natural antibiotic action to them too. After boiling, we then pass it through a cooler, and you can see there's a sequence of plates all pressed together there, if you can imagine that hot liquid comes down one side of the plate and cold water from the bore hole will go up another side, so every alternate plate has got hot water in it, and every other has got cold water. What we're doing is, as cold water's coming up from the borehole, its cooling down the hot liquid from there to go into the fermenter. But we're heating up the cold water for the next days brew, too. Providing we're brewing on a routine basis, we actually generate our own hot water for the next days brews. From there, the liquid goes into one of our fermenters. The reason why we have to cool it down first is...obviously yeast is a living organism, it won't tolerate high temperatures. So we cool the sugary solution down to 20 degress C, then we allow a full 7 days fermentation, where the yeast is added to the sweetwort, and we allow it to ferment. The yeast first grows, it multiplies, then it starts to convert the sugars into alcohol. We do it nice and slowly, over 7 days, 3 to5 for the main fermentation, then another 2 or 3 to get it cool and allow the yeast to settle out. Once it's finished fermenting, we then transfer it to one of our conditioning tanks outside, where it stays for 1 or 2 days, again, for the flavours to modify, before we rack it or .... clean cask. 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Then Jesus said to him, 'What do you want me to do for you?'" The blind man said to him, "My teacher, let me see again." Jesus said to him, "Go; your faith has made you well." Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the way. (Mark 10) From Sacred Space, the prayer book of 2011
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Wonder if he had termites? And how would he choose one male and one female? Look under the wings?
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch; Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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For me, it's a copy of 1956's Elvis, the King's second LP. Aside from the music being timeless, the record was one of several that my grandmother brought over from Cuba when she moved to the U.S. in 1959. It was also one of the first records I remember listening to as a child.
Fact is, records rock. If you're over the age of 25, vinyl records probably played a role in your life.
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Downtown Concert Series. With Los Amigos Invisibles and Elastic Bond. Friday, April 13 at 6 p.m., Bayfront Park (301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami). Free. Venezuela's favorite acid disco-funk group brings their jazzy sound to Miami, and it's completely gratis.
Kiki Sanchez Trio. Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m., Alliance Française (618 SW 8th St, Miami). Free. Class it up with some jazz standards and red, red wine at the South Florida French Language and Cultural Center.
Orbweaver, Slashpine, The Tunnel, and Organic Machines. Friday, April 13 at 10 p.m., Beelzebub's Cave (164 NW 20th St, Miami) $5. DIY metal shows. It doesn't get any gnarlier than that, Miami.
Xperimento. Friday, April 13 at 10 p.m., Cabaret Stage at Tobacco Road (626 S Miami Ave, Miami). $5. How often do you get to see a Grammy-nominated act for the price of really cheap cigarettes? Exactly. This is your chance, people.
Hunx and his Punx. Friday, April 13 at 9 p.m., Churchill's Pub (5501 NE 2nd Ave, Miami). $8. Seth Bogart's back in Miami, eye-fucking cute boys and golden showering anyone who'd let him.
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Okay, I was probably a little behind since I put seed in the ground in late May and only transplanted tomatoes and jalapenos from seeds I started, but how are everyone's crops doing? It seemed like I was nursing young seedlings before I was out of town for a few weeks. I applied some extra SBM to the garden that was left over from the lawn, and added a day to the watering schedule to make sure everything was watered on the 4th, and I returned to a jungle!
Okay, it was mostly the pumpkins growing out of control, there are a few double softball size. We also went from no tomatoes to quite a few with new blossoms too. Still all green though.
A "volunteer" sunflower has over 10 flowers on it that did a good job at attracting bees. Some of the lettuce should probably be harvested. We debated last year whether to remove outside leaves and keep it growing, but it just bolted to seed in the heat. The celery does better with this approach - pick outside stalks as needed, doesn't have the problem of going to seed.
I sort of forgot/should have started earlier the peas, there are only a couple of pods, probably due to the heat. Also should have started the broccoli earlier since it is a colder weather crop, but the one that germinated is still growing.
The yellow squash is developing a couple that are close to harvest. The green beans are very bushy and blossoming. I finally broke down and thinned out the tomatillos to remove probably 20 plants, since I had spilled the seeds and had incredible germination rates. Jalapenos are making a comeback - one broke off at ground level in the wind but has just about caught up with the other. Peppers are slowly but surely getting more mature. Onions look a little better than last year, we'll have to remember to use the tops as chives. I put some kitchen waste in one spot (including the bottom of an onion) and an onion started from it!
I probably should have started another round of cilantro to make sure it was available when the tomatoes are ready, it looks as though it has gone to seed.
The melon crop is showing vigorous growth, and all are blossoming (honeydew and cantelope) except the watermelon.
Corn is probably between three and four feet tall, although it looks like birds had raided those rows since there aren't nearly as many as I planted.
A couple of new things this year - in addition to the pumpkins - are also doing well, wax beans (planted later) acorn and butternut squash (but still no blossoms). One of the eggplants is getting much larger, but still no blossoms. We also threw in some pinto beans that we got from a random mailer, and they look almost identical to the green and wax beans (so far).
I read an article recently that talked about how children who grow up with gardens are more likely to eat their vegetables and prefer them to other foods. How's that for motivation to get your kids to eat their veggies? Here's a similar article, although the first one I read was on msn or something, but this sounded like the same study.
Here is a link that might be useful: Children eat more fruits and vegetables if homegrown
I haven't gotten much fruit set on my tomatoes. I think that will be the case until we get a couple of cooler days. Nothing ripe yet. I'll be picking a golden zucchini and a striped one in the next couple of days. My beans are blossoming, but no beans yet. I planted golden wax, royal burgundy, and roma. I got a few snap peas in May---but then the guys that put in our sprinklers demolished the peas when they trenched. Oh, well I guess I'll have to try for a fall crop. My peppers where pretty small when I planted them out, and they have some kind of insect damage. I need to spray with something. There is some kind of aphid or little black fly on my tomatoes too. Many of my tomato plants have curling leaves. It seems to affect the potato leaf varieties more. I'm hoping it is due to stress from the heat, and not something more serious. I think I have had a little bit of blight on some of the plants too. I just pick off the leaves and hope for the best. My cucumber hasn't blossomed yet. I've heard good things about the variety, Diva, so I am excited to try it. I have around 28 different kind of tomatoes growing, so I'm excited to try them all. Only a few are repeats, the rest are new. My raspberries are done for this season. I got a pretty good crop, but I'm having problems with cholorosis. We had a little three year old apple tree that had quite a bit of fruit on it. It blew over during a wind storm we had last week---it was very sad for the kids. I'm wondering if there was some kind of insect damage or disease in the trunk for it to have blown over the way it did. I guess I'll be on the look out for a new apple tree along with cherry, peach, apricot and pear. I hope to plant a bunch of fruit trees in the spring and one or two shade trees. I hope I will have something more to report in the coming months.
So far we have frozen 22 quart bags of peas. We put 2 cups of peas in each bag. Also I dug up 120 garlic bulbs. That is it so far. I have four 35' rows of red onions that are doing well, 3 rows of beans that have blossoms but no beans yet, 8 rows of Yukon Golds that are doing great, and 8 half rows of a fingerling potatoes. I call them half rows because the potatoe guy substituted and gave me these fingerlings instead of the ones that I wanted and only half of them came up. We also have 12 rows of corn that are about 5' tall with the crowns on top but no tassles yet. We have 3 rows of winter squash and pumpkins with tons of blossoms but only 1 pumpkin so far. I lost one squash plant to squash bugs. My squash are the only thing that I spray. If I didn't, I would not get any squash at all.
The thing that I am most proud of this year is my married daughter with her 2 sons. She planted a garden for the first time and it is doing great. She lives in layton and you have to drive down Gentile road to get to her house. That little drive is enough to inspire anyone to grow something. The last 2 days of rain have helped a lot.
I only have two 4' x 8' raised beds. Just moved here but this is the best garden I've had. I have two pumpkin mounds with a pumpkin each around 12" diameter so far. We have picked around 10 zucchini of 3 varieties with many developing. We have gotten rooted about 2 gallon bags of beets so far. I have picked a couple sweet peppers with about 10 ready soon. I have developing about 10 little honey dew and about 5 watermelon and 4 asian melon so far. I have picked 2 head of lettice No squash yet but flowering well. I have about 50 tomatoes so far on 5 plants developing. I also have 3 omatillo plants with plenty of husks developing. I also have in the corners of each bed Huckleberries that are starting to turn black. I have a few other cuke and eggplant in the beds that are small from being shaded out which I'm not suer if they will do anything. I'm pretty happy with how it is coming.


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by Carl E. Frahme, Ph.D.
When you are faced with a problem, or an opportunity, try running a Fishbone session with your staff. We have found it to be a very powerful yet simple way to generate innovative solutions, and we use it a lot. It is also important because it really gets your people involved in solutions in which they have a stake and a sense of ownership. Sometimes it is called a cause and effect session, but fishbone visually describes the diagram used.
Gather your troops at a blackboard and draw the diagram below:
This is the basic fishbone diagram using the Man-Method-Material-Machine format, which is only one possibility. It is probably best used for problem solving.
There are a number of steps and rules you should try to follow.
1. Define the problem or opportunity in a brief statement that all can agree upon.
2. It is often useful to use the Man-Method-Material-Machine format shown above to help organize possible solutions into categories. However, you may want to devise your own basic organizational scheme. These outgrowths become the main fishbones in your diagram. You will add smaller branches to some or all of these as you proceed.
3. The next stage is an open brainstorming session in which any idea (a cause for the defined problem, for example), no matter how far-fetched, is allowed and is added to the diagram as another fishbone "leg" on one of the appropriate major categories. The idea is to generate as many ideas as possible that would explain why the problem exists or how the opportunity might be seized. No discussion as to the merits of the idea and especially no negative comments are allowed. This absolutely must be strictly enforced! The only discussion might concern under which branch to place the idea, and the moderator should quickly step in to make a placement in case of disagreement, even if the placement is arbitrary.
4. After your group has exhausted its ideas, discussion is allowed. It is most helpful if this takes the form of an explanation of the concept or thinking behind each idea by the one who proposed it, and even expansions on the idea. Try to keep things positive, and don't drag it out!
5. Number or letter each idea on the fishbone diagram and provide each person with a piece of paper. Each person is to select the five ideas he or she thinks have the most merit in defining the problem, causes, or opportunity and is to rank these five from most important to least important. The most important is given a numerical value of five, the next four, and so forth.
6. Now go around your group one by one and ask them for their rankings. Put a "5" on the board next to each person's highest ranked item, a "4" next to the second highest ranked item, and so forth until all five are on the board. Repeat this process with each person in the group.
7. Total the values next to each item on the fishbone diagram. The item with the highest total is the one the group has selected as having the most potential for defining or solving the problem or opportunity. It does not, of course, guarantee that this idea, or any of them for that matter, will actually work. It is instead a powerful tool for prioritizing problem or opportunity solving, for generating novel or innovative solutions, and for involving people intimately in the process. It is surprising how often this simple process generates good solutions and ideas.
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Evolution and the Personification of the Universe - Thoughts by Teilhard de Chardin and Ken Wilber
These last years, the field of evolutionary studies of religiosity and religions has thrived due to the impact of a growing number of scientists and projects such as the Explaining Religion network or those dynamic Biology-of-Religion-conferences at Delmenhorst (2007) and Bristol (2010). After my doctorate thesis on religion & brain sciences, I have been happy to concentrate on the empirical study of religious demography - the peculiar fact that the religious tend to have far more children and to pass on their genes more successfully (on average) than their non-religious peers.
All fascination with these and other findings notwithstanding, I have been reluctant to interpret them in philosophical or theological terms. The first and (to me) most important reason is that I am devoted to empirical studies and do not want to jump into premature conclusions maybe blurring my perspectives on the data. And the second reason is that I feel that we have just begun to tap into a deeper understanding of the evolution of religion - a topic started by Charles Darwin himself but nearly forgotten for more than a century.
But then, a key finding has come up so constantly and repeatedly in the field, that I think it could and should be discussed. Let's call it the motivational power of personification.
Religious traditions seem to derive their motivational, cooperative and then reproductive potentials from the belief in superempirical agents - ranging from deceased ancestors to various spirits, angels and demons to gods, bodhisatvas and alien visitors from outer space to God. (Here is a slide from my presentation in Bristol.)
In fact, non-personal systems such as early Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism (etc.) had to adopt superempirical agents (such as bodhisatvas, khami, tirthankaras, the Lord Tao and many more) in order to survive demographically. The underlying logic is rooted into evolutionary theory itself: As human beings, we might be ready to accept commandments from supreme "personalities"- but not from abstract and non-living objects or principles.
As Friedrich August von Hayek rightfully observed: A theistic commandment such as "Be fruiftul and multiply" (Genesis 1, 28) may be accepted by religious believers as authoritative and even beneficial, although it cannot be verified empirically. By personification, religion is able to attribute value to forming families and having children.
In contrast, to accept empirically tested hypotheses as "teaching" normative commandments would constitute a natural fallacy contradicting our evolved feelings as well as philosophical lore. Although modern definitions of Darwinian or Evolutionary Fitness agree on the importance of reproductive success in evolutionary processes, we are simply not ready to accept any "commandments" thereof.
The second factor of religious potential is the belief that the superempirical agents are watching our behaviors - beliefs affecting our behaviors as shown by numerous contemporary experiments. Therefore, shared beliefs in superempirical agents as watching and judging personalities tend to bring about higher levels of in-group-cooperation.
Evolution towards Assuming Personal Agency Shaping the Universe
As all empirical and especially evolutionary studies are working on historical data, I am reluctant to accept "prophecies" concerning any kind of "evolutionary progress". Nevertheless, I think that philosophies and theologies should start to debate the importance of the ongoing convergence towards "personification" in the evolution of our species mental traits. And I was intrigued to find thriving networks doing just that, such as the collaborative blog "Evolutionary Landscapes" discussing related topics. And YouTube-User "the pathlesspath" did a nice job in presenting the evolutionary ("integral") philosophy of Ken Wilber and the evolutionary ("Point Omega") theology of Teilhard de Chardin in a well-done clip.
As a Protestant voice, Michael Dowd's "Thank God for Evolution" could also be mentioned - and I am interested in finding more. Although I will stick to the empirical work of evolutionary studies in my work, I am intrigued by the philosophical and theological implications of evolutionary studies increasingly discovered and discussed abroad.


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"Santo Versace has had the courage to come back here and help us out," says Vittorio Caminiti, an entrepreneur and president of the region's hotel association, at a rally last week for the Versace campaign for Parliament.
All eyes are on Versace, the chairman of the family-owned fashion company who has been greeting well-wishers and is sitting center stage, thinner than usual and impeccable in a pin-striped suit and cerulean sweater. "I came back because I think it can be done," says Versace, who has been constantly traveling around Calabria for the campaign.
Energetic and passionate, Versace is running for Italy's Parliament as a candidate in Silvio Berlusconi's party, Partito delle Libertà (Freedom Party), for the city of Reggio Calabria, in southern Calabria, from which the Versaces hail.
The elections will take place Sunday and Monday. Versace's election doesn't depend on whether Berlusconi wins, but rather on the number of votes the Freedom Party scores in Reggio. Because of the rules, Versace probably will take a seat in Parliament because his name is at the top of the list in his region.
The glamorous world of fashion appears aeons away from Calabria and its struggles, including everything from high unemployment to a stranglehold on key sectors by criminal organizations, which stall the area's development. But Versace is undaunted and has high hopes for the future.
"I want to revolutionize politics," he says.
He dislikes the use of the word 'Ndrangheta, which is Calabria's equivalent of the Sicilian Mafia or the Neapolitan Camorra, and would rather speak of malapolitica or "bad politics." "Good politics lead to well-being and prosperity," says Versace, whose mantra is to work in the interests of the people. "If you don't, you are not a politician."
Versace is deeply committed to Calabria, the "toe" of Italy's boot-shaped peninsula, because he and his siblings, Gianni and Donatella, were formed here. "Gianni was culturally from Calabria — he left when he was 25 and the message he sent out to the world was shaped here," said Versace, who still spends much of his time in the family's house in Reggio Calabria, next to the first boutique that sold his brother's designs. Versace's fame is undoubtedly attracting the media to Calabria, which, located across from Sicily, has always lagged behind in terms of tourism and entertainment.


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The Monroe Street Bridge will be closed for about two weeks starting on Monday, June 3. Motorists will be detoured over the Spokane River via the Washington Street Bridge, and delays should be anticipated. Motorists also can use the Maple Street Bridge.
The closure will accommodate utility work needed for a project that will manage stormwater from some City streets and from streets and other hard surfaces within the Kendall Yards development. The project requires significant excavation work at the north end of the bridge.
The $1.6 million joint City of Spokane-Kendall Yards project catches stormwater that is currently flowing, untreated, into the Spokane River. It will now direct runoff to a retention tank, then pump it to a treatment area in a new park being built to the west on the Kendall Yards site, called Olmsted Green.
The park will include grass-lined swales that store and filter the stormwater, then percolate it into the ground. This green solution shares stormwater treatment and disposal with a recreational site use. Only the biggest events get much of the park wet for a brief time.
The project is consistent with a new Integrated Clean Water Plan the City is developing to manage stormwater and wastewater that impacts the Spokane River. The plan will prioritize projects based on their positive environmental impact to the river. It will include projects to reduce untreated discharges to the river from both separated storm sewers and combined sanitary and stormwater sewers.
One of the goals of the plan is to incorporate new cost-effective, "green" technologies for managing stormwater on site and reduce the amount flowing into pipes that discharge directly to the river. The Kendall Yards project is a good example of such innovative work.
Others include storm gardens that were built on Lincoln Street on the South Hill and a project on Broadway Avenue near the courthouse that include pervious pavement and stormwater planters.
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I love circles. I find them the perfect shape, architecturally, and I'm continually attracted to them: in clocks, tables, mirrors... anywhere, really. What is more beautiful than a bubble floating on the breeze, catching the light on a sunny day?
The trouble is:
I think in circles. No matter the subject, I will consider every aspect of a topic all the way around and through to the other side, often right back to the beginning. While in general this might sound good, and it can be (see what I mean?), this usually just makes it very tough to have enough of a decided opinion that I take a stand. I keep seeing different points of view.
Mentally, I swim more than I stand, I drift more than I stride. My thoughts swirl in an eddy, surge on the currents. Emotionally? A different story. I'll take a stand... (Possibly another flaw there.)
Circular thought can also use up too much of my creative energy, that necessary thrust of manifesting my idea from the ether to the page. Or to the fabric. Or the painting. Too much stays thought....all tangled together and connected. Where is that beginning, middle, and end?
I talk in circles....complete with "on the other hand" punctuated throughout, some days. My poor children have never heard a short, concise point of direction, or encouragement. No mini-lectures here! Husband has perfected his looking-interested-while-paying-no-attention face. That is partly why writing is so satisfying, there is time for editing the voluminous material.
I walk in circles as well....yes, I am an absent-minded-circular-thinker-talker-walker. I clean that way, I "organize" that way. Every day that I clean house, a random four dozen items from anywhere in the house are put away tidily, and several chores, again randomly noticed, are (usually) completed to exacting standards.
Unfortunately, it's hard to feel satisfied about how spotless the coat closet is, how perfectly aligned the silverware drawer is, when the living room floor hasn't been picked up very well.
Some (most) of my friends and family wonder how I get from one end of the day to another...
...in circles of course...
...but I do like how they look in a room.
My problem is I wander off in the middle of thinking and have a hard time finishing things.
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
Welcome to OS, Joni. ;>D
...the menu tonight is pancakes with a side of peas, grapes for dessert.
Oh just kidding.
Thanks for your comments! You are much appreciated....
vanessa: wandering off and walking in circles are the same thing in different shapes, no?
I have family members who resemble these flaws...it's genetic. You know who you are...
"You see, all my life's a circle
I can't tell you why
Seasons spinning round again
The years keep rolling by...."
-- Harry Chapin ("All My Life's a Circle")
"We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game"
-- Joni Mitchell ("The Circle Game")
Now ... pass that bottle on the right, 'K?
Every word began with a sound.
Origin starts with a circle, that lovely letter, the O.
O Thank O You O Just O Thinking O, and here are a couple of XXs for good measure!
...we have a kid with a broken arm who needs extra help in the mornings, but thanks again!
Blue was more my husband's turn in color choice...I'm plotting a rebellion soon, I like warmth!
How's your ring these days?
How safe's your ring these days?
Nice to see you around here again...


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