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The news article at hand seems to be derived from a longer and better written one in Time Magazine a while back. A flaw that arose in Time's try has been carried over into the present article too--namely, the term "neo-Calvinist." This term came into prominence in the Netherlands in the 1800s around the work especially of Abraham Kuyper, a genius who started a university free of state administration, the Free University in Amsterdam; but also a daily newspaper, support for a Christian Labor Union (CNV), a Christian political party (ARP), a withdrawal from the State Church (Hervormd Kerk) and a founding of a new Reformed denomination that was joined by an earlier secession from the Hervormd Kerk.
This movement Kuyper and his friends, as well as his critics, called their new ensemble of institutions, movements, and publications "neo-Calvinism." So the term has a precise historical and sociological meaning marked by its pervasive religious basis. From the outset, outside the new Reformed Churches, the organizations included and embraced people of numerous different Christian denominations -- Lutherans, Baptists, Salvation Army, and on and on. In other words, neo-Calvinism indicated a way of life, "all of life redeemed" and not a TULIP-typification.
Thousands of adherents living this way of life thru WWII and after it was over, began immigrating to North America, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and other countries. In Canada, the larger part of this emigration from the Netherlands arrived, setting up immediately immigrant churches and Christian organizations to bring the Gospel appropriately into each sphere of life thru expertise in every sphere possible, including businesses and a labor union -- Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) and a movement to launch a free university of neo-calvinist commitment in Toronto.
The new Calvinist Baptists are not neo-Calvinists in any historical sense. They are a new wave of old Calvinism in its Baptist inflection (like the Strict and Particular Baptists long active in the UK). There are some Baptist neo-Calvinists, more charismatic neo-Calvinists, numerous Anglican neo-Calvinists, many of whom don't even call themselves by this term at all. "Reformational" is a popular variant in North America. So, the Southern Baptist phenomenon can easily be termed "new Calvinism" but only as a new wave of a view that can be regarded as stagnant Calvinism by the authentic bearers of the Kuyperian ideas -- even if that doesn't properly take into account the vitality of many pastors, theologians, and congregations adhering to the Calvinist stream in Baptist life.
Neo-Calvinism is something else, and it calls for the inner reformation of the various societal spheres thru Christian organization and witness in each. Hence, neo-Calvinism is reformational; and, as to labels, will probably find new words in the future with which to help identify itself, as the movement grows and spreads. Altho very different, the reformational movement in North America welcomes Baptists who join the ranks and leadership of the various communal organizations, finding a place to thrive, witness, and flourish communally within the entire range of Christianly-motivated organizations in the various spheres of contemporary life.
As a matter of fact, you don't have to be a Calvinist to be a neo-Calvinist in this sense. The ecumenical quality of the movement makes all sorts of crossovers and hybridizations possible, each person and family determining its own specifics in how it relates to the fostered institutions of the faithful in all societal spheres possible. The important thing is witness to Jesus Christ appropriately to each sphere where this kind of Christian organization takes place.
As a now elder senior, very much in step with what is going on in our political and other arenas, I find the article on Calvinism disturbing. I was reared a strict Southern Baptist, no dancing, no drinking, no movies on Sunday (actually it was a great time to grow up) until I got out into the world and discovered life. I later became a member of the Associate Reform Presbyterian Church which adheres to Calvinistic traditions but all this makes me wonder if Rev. Billy Graham's preaching has been in vain. I still believe that if you accept John 3:16 as the gospel truth and make every effort to live a GODLY life, you have given it your best and only heaven itself knows the end result!
I was most pleased to find this article on the Economist. Plagued as I am with a running commentary in the course of a book I am writing, on the effects of the importation of both Calvinism and Lutherism to the then American colonies from Europe. So I have already dug deep - ever so deep - into the histories and stories of both these reformers, leaders of the Reformation and the Protestant movement. So I had hoped for some clarification in this article. Alas, I found nothing of use. neither from the many comments that followed the piece. While I applaud the committed arguments, it rather seems that the various schisms that have sprung from the works of both Calvin and Luther result in disagreement and argument. Is there not a case here for some attempt at unity?
Brought up as an Anglican I regret the loss of ritual in other Protestant churches which, with certain exceptions, is immensely comforting (Luther was aware of this) to be replaced, I respectfully suggest by church leaders who, purporting to have a hot line to God and can justify turning preaching into ranting. I am well prepared to be disabused of my views!
I am not a Calvinist, but agree with what Calvin taught 95% of the time. The reason I am not a Calvinist is the same reason I am not a Baptist, Prebstyrian, Church of God, etc... or any demonination. I choose to go to a Baptist church at this point in my life because the pastor teaches the word of God and the church leaders are committed to doing that also. But, Jesus did not tell us to go be a "Religion", He gave a clear and precise message that alot of people have forgotten right before He ascended into Heaven. He said "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Nowhere does that say to become some religion. He was very clear with the disciples when He said to come with Him and be "Fishers of men"! So, what am I? I am a believer in the Risen Jesus Christ who sits on the throne and I share this with all I meet, who will let me. Anything past that, I think we are overstepping what He said in the great commission! I realize alot of people are very uncomfortable with this idea, but I believe in the unfallable Word of God and we cannot add or take away from it, or as it warns us there will be dire consequences if we do so. Much love to all brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus and to those who read this and see the truth, Praise ABBA!!
Mark Driscoll is hardly "flamboyant"; he's "Mantastic!"
"I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? 14I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power." - 1 Corinthians 1:10-17. Isn't it amazing that we allow Satan to get us tied up over stupid things like this just like he has since the Fall? Brothers and sisters, stop claiming a name other than Christ Himself. None save us but Him. Calvin and Arminius are both sitting in the grave still, Christ is risen! Paul would straight up slap us for being so stupid, conduct yourselves in a worthy manner of the calling of Christ and save arguments for face to face consultation like our Script tells us. What is the goal of arguing with some secular newspaper? It is apparently not the salvation of souls and reconciliation to our God and Father. Theologians for the case of Christ eh? Put your history books down and start sharing the Gospel.
I generally like The Economist quite a lot, but I must say this article is one of the most poorly written and researched ones I've seen in ages. I won't rehash what others have already said, except to say that if you're going to write a piece that involves religion, it might help to have a writer who actually knows something about the religion they're writing about. Maybe we need a theological version of "factcheck" for journalists so that they won't be embarrassed by their religious ignorance.
Wow. Renewed interest in Reformed theology is causing friction in the SBC. And this is news in what way? The Economist is really on top of things. These "tensions" have been going on for at least ten years now. Someone commented earlier that The Economist does not just deal with economics, and this article is proof positive that the writers and editors of this publication need to reconsider the breadth of their knowledge before publishing an article. Experts on religion they are clearly not.
The last paragraph was totally hilarious. "The Baptists have missed out on other trends..." I suppose the writer thought that we were all binging on fried chicken and casseroles while the rest of Christianity was speaking in tongues. By the way, the Charismatic movement did affect the SBC as well, though perhaps not to the extent that it affected other denominations. "They now have to decide whether neo-Calvinism is a movement they can safely ignore—or whether it may take over their church." Come on, is it kudzu? Seriously, I was actually laughing after I read this paragraph.
For what it is worth, I personally hate the "Calvinist" moniker. The Reformed movement is much bigger than the man credited with creating the TULIP acrostic (I wondered how long it would take before someone threw down the Servetus card). To take his name would imply that I agree with everything that he did or said, and there is only one Name that I wear-that of Christ Jesus.
At the risk of over simplifying the subject, maybe some clarity on the 'prime directive' is in order..
1 Corinthians 1:12-17 (New International Version)
12What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas[a]"; still another, "I follow Christ."
13Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into[b] the name of Paul? 14I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, 15so no one can say that you were baptized into my name. 16(Yes, I also baptized the household of Stephanas; beyond that, I don't remember if I baptized anyone else.) 17For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
First of all, the reason these "young turks" (which seems to be a slight on their character) are looking back to the Baptist of the past is because of the Liberalism that has started coming into the SBC churches. This Liberalism is being allowed in to our churches due to an idolatry of numbers, i.e.: give man what he wants and he will come to church.
Yes, Calvinism is on the rise in the SBC, but how do you say that Calvinists believe one thing and Baptists believe another? There have ALWAYS been Calvinists in the SBC. The first 4 presidents of the SBC were Calvinists. P. H. Mell, a Calvinist, had the longest tenure of any SBC President, 15 years. The historic statements of faith of the SBC were Calvinistic as well. Baptist Calvinists DO NOT believe babies should be baptized, you must be confusing Presbyterianism with Calvinism. Calvinists do not believe God selected anyone for damnation, they believe we were all damned but God, in mercy, chose to save some.
There are some gross misrepresentations here. The SBC has ALWAYS had churches with Calvinist statements of faith. The reason we have a "Free-Will Baptist" denomination is because that was NOT the predominant SBC view at one time. Consider Baptists like: Roger Williams, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan, J. C. Philpot, John Gill, W. B. Johnson, R. B. C. Howell, Richard Fuller (pastor to Annie Armstrong), P. H. Mell, Charlotte "Lottie" Moon, William Carey, Adoniram Judson, Andrew Fuller, Basil Manley Sr., Basil Manley Jr., James Petigru Boyce, B. H. Carroll, John Dagg, John A. Broadus, Issac Backus, Benjamin Keach, A. W. Pink, Richard Furman, A. T. Robertson, A. H. Strong, Vance Havner, and Luther Rice. All Baptists. All Calvinists.
The Calvinist shift in the SBC seems to be a more inward-turning movement to a faith that is already very exclusionary. It seems far more likely to lift the spirits of (and purge heretical elements from) those on the inside than to attract the adherence of those on the outside. The Old Guard is eager to exploit the new energy but not at all sure they can control it. All in all, it's not terribly dissimilar to the Tea Party rebellion currently shaking the American Republican Party.
And why no mention of those admirable Arminians> Or Quakers?
Calvin, like Marx, will never die, Go figger
@Paul Marks You asked why Calvinists would evangelize. Of course, it is obvious that we do. In fact, I am a Southern Baptist Calvinist preparing to go on overseas missions, and I am aware of dozens of others and know that an extremely large percentage of the 5000 IMB missionaries are Calvinists. However, this is not an argument made from determinism. Determinisim/fatalism is based on impersonal chance. You should read Calvin on providence from Book I of the Institutes. Calvinists don't deny human freedom but merely realize that all things that happen are ultimately under God's providence. No one ever wants to come to Christ against his own will, and no one wills to come to Christ who doesn't come to Him. This is far different from the caricatures of Calvin and his followers that is brought up. In short, Calvinists evangelize for the same reason that they became Calvinists, they believe that both are the clear teachings of the Bible. They don't evangelize because Whitefield did, although he certainly also had a lot of admirable qualities. But many of the great evangelists of all time have been Calvinists. They've had no problem reconciling God's total sovereignty with human freedom and preaching. If you don't like Whitefield, consider the first modern missionary, William Carey. Or the first American missionary, Adoniram Judson. Or the greatest theologian/revivalist in American history, Jonathan Edwards. There is only a problem between Calvinism and evangelism when people misunderstand Calvinism and make it the motor that drives the whole car. The best Calvinists preachers, evangelists, and theologians have avoided that faulty reasoning. For a further resource, you should check out J.I. Packer's Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God where he tries to reconcile difficult issues.
I have to disagree with some of my brothers above. While reformed baptist pastors would never practice infant baptism, the majority of pastors in the SBC practice a form of infant baptism all the time. Children too young to enunciate even the most basic form of the gospel are baptized all the time.
After all, if we don't baptize all the children we can get our hands on, how else would we keep those baptism numbers from slipping? (that's sarcasm, if you didn't catch it.)
I see that Servetus has once again reared his head in this discussion. I suppose when you can't refute the arguments of your opponents, why not do your best to slander them with the errors of those who went before. I wonder, does "SouthernBaptist" likewise choose to reject all of King David's writings? I mean, after all, he committed adultery and then had her husband murdered to cover up his sin. That man didn't even do anything *wrong*.
Whitfield was likewise an imperfect sinner, just like the rest of us. What amazing arrogance people have, apparently believing that they themselves have no blind spots that future generations will judge them for. Despite his mistakes, Whitfield at least tried to educate and improve the lot of slaves - which is far more than many southern baptist pastors of his time did.
Southern Baptists separated from the Triennial Convention in 1844 What was the doctrinal Statement used by almost all of the founding churches? How does its Articles match up with the tenants of Dort or the Five points of Calvinism. Boom SBC history done write me for my consulting fee :-)
By the way (because an old error has appeared), many of the Founders did NOT own slaves, and none of the main Founders approved of slavery (they thought it would die out - that was their sin, they let it go thinking it would go soon without them having to do much).
As for killing indians - the relations of the various Indian tribes (often at war with each other) with the Europeans in the Founding era were very complex. "They massacred Indians" is crass. The words (and the deeds) of the Founders do not fit that one sided view at all.
By the way before anyone brings up the "trail of tears" - that was not done by the Founders, Andrew Jackson and co were the next generation (they were also the generation who stopped saying that slavery would die out soon - the sins of omission of the Founders, the failure to grasp the nettle of slavery and to work out a clear policy towards the Indian tribes, were turned into far greater sins by the next generation).
I have never understood why Calvinists bother preaching. After all if God predetermined who is saved ("the elect") what is the point of preaching to people? There is no way to save anyone - because who is saved is predetermined.
Unless, of course, there is no choice about the preaching - because that is predetermined also (we are getting into the standard absurdities of determinism here - with its denial of the existance of humans as beings, i.e. as moral agents who choose their conduct).
"But the greatest preacher of American history was George Whitefield - and he was a predestination man".
"Argument from authority" i.e. Mr X did it so it must be right (a fallacy). But this authority does not stand up anyway - any man who preaches against the wickedness of owning Wedgewood china, but does not think that owing slaves is wicked, indeed worked to overturn James Oglethorpe's legal documents - so that slaves could be imported into Georgia, had a moral code so warped that God would have serious words with him (not that there are any of us who live up tottally to what God would wish, no matter how hard we try).
It has just hit me - this is the first time I have been on the same side as the Economist's (unspoken - but clearly present) editorial line. However, much though I dislike being on the same side as the Economist (on anything), religious matters trump politics.
I may be on the same side as most Calivinists politically - but I do not hold with their view of predestination, and I am not going to pretend that I do.
Christians Gone to Hell
All of the Christian sects have drifted away from their religious dogmas; to deteriment of their followers. The commandment they all share, for example, "Thou shalt not kill" is no longer regarded as a "moral sin" - with the biological result that the females routinely murder their own children.
@SouthernBaptist Following that line of reasoning would mean that for you to use anyone's ideas would mean for you to buy in to their entire theological, philosophical, and ethical systems wholeheartedly. If your definition of Calvinism is that one must buy into all of Calvin's ideas, then there is not a living Calvinist. I don't know of anyone in history who has been of the opinion that to follow someone's teaching means to buy into every bit of their system. I doubt that you do that with your influences. Besides, there are numerous places where scholarship has shown significant deviation of Calvinism from Calvin (I actually favor Calvinism getting more like Calvin). In fact, Calvin is following Augustine and even Luther on the big issue of predestination. Common usage of the word "Calvinist" has more to do with a set of beliefs held in common with many Protestant Christians today and others who follow in Calvin's (and Augustine's) footsteps. There is absolutely no need to link one dreadful action with millions of Christians who have disapproved of that action. Frankly, your logic baffles me.
Consider this: I really do buy into American Democracy. Yet I know that the founders of that system owned slaves and massacred Indians. Can I believe in American Democracy and disapprove of those actions. I think I can. I assume by your name that you, like myself, are Southern Baptist. Being fully aware that our denomination was founded over slavery and largely endorsed segregation, is it possible for me to glean from the vast amounts of good that has been done over the past 165 years? Or, in calling myself Southern Baptist, am I forced to buy wholesale into a system which would allow black people to be bought, sold, forced into servitude, beaten and killed? That is the end of your logic.
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NUTTER BUTTER Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, divided
2 tablespoons
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1 (8 ounce) package
PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 cup
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2 teaspoons
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I've made this recipe a few time now and given it out to many people. It's always and hit. Very easy to assemble and looks impressive like you've gone to a great deal of trouble. Great taste!
It was quick but not so good, very messy and melts to fast.
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Excellent dessert. I made a few minor changes since my family LOVES the chocolate... I used Peanut Butter Oreos...YUM!! for the crust. And I used Smuckers Hot fudge sauce instead of the Bakers chocolate... This recipe is sooooooooo easy and best of all DELICIOUS!!!!!
This is such a delicious combination of flavors for a dessert. It looks pretty, its pretty easy to put together. It's a little time consuming, but it is so worth it. I get raves from everyone who tries it.
I TOO would give this dish 10 stars if I could. I'm a HUGE p'nut butter chocolate fan and this was such a fun new way to combine the two flavors. EXCELLENT. HUGE hit.
Wonderful recipe. I have made this many times now. Love the texture. Tried nutty bars as a substitution for the cookies, accidentally of course, and my husband liked it better, but I prefer the cookies. Either way, it was great.
In a word "awesome". This dessert is a hit anytime you serve it, who doesn't like chocolate and peanut butter together!
This was so yummy! I made it for a holiday sock exchange at work and everyone loved it. I don't think I'd change one thing about this recipe.
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plant id pls
they poster has this mislabeled as green dragon, im not sure its even an aroid, although it may be, those do look like aroid leaves and those "blooms" could be aroid Inflorescence. Its certainly not anything im familiar with, and the pic was taken a few hundred mils from me, same usda zone and similar climate.
any ideas?
Here is a link that might be useful: mislabeled plant on flickr
its labeled right there similar to a jack in the pulpit and other types of cobra lillys things like that. they grow alot further north than us. There was some for sale at a greenhouse in sandusky OH I went to over the summer. they can get very large and are very hardy. there are 3 or 4 colors of them if I remember right
hmm...Im not sure you looked well enough, green dragons just have one compound leave sitting atop a single petiole, the plant is question has multiple leaves arranged in whorls.
I think the flower looks like an under developed milk weed seed pod of some sort, i dont think this is an aroid at all now...
Here is a link that might be useful: a nice lookin green dragon
I looked at it again its the same plant..and the one you posted last is also a green dragon. and If I had to bet theres 10 more plants out there labeled green dragon LOL. you know how many differant plants I have been told are "cigar plants" I think its an overuse of common names really. we may never know what it is, unless you feel like driving to sandusky OH to ask
mmk so replace all instances of green dragon in my posts with Arisaema dracontium... certainly you cant mean that its a arisaema?
i think ill repost this in a more active forum, prolly name that plant, seems pointless for 2 guys who clearly have no idea what they looking at to sit and fight about it... :D


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the uk pool heater
Yes I bought one of those uk pool heaters the O'blue 5 kw . I am in the US and need to know how to run the wires. The O'blue has three wires yet all the 240 vac i see have four wires. So do you just leave the the neutral off?
Thanks in advance guys/gals
All the 240V circuits I see have three wires -- two hots and an equipment ground. OTOH, all the 120/240V circuits I see have four wires (same as above, plus a neutral).
The difference has to do with whether the appliance or equipment uses both 120V and 240V. If you take a common range/oven, for example, it uses 240V for the heating elements and 120V for stuff like the clock, timer, light, etc. Thus, it needs a 120/240V circuit -- four wires including a neutral for the 120V stuff. Ditto with a clothes dryer. The heating element is 240V but the light and sometimes the motor run on 120V.
OTOH, a pure 240V load -- stuff like a heater (that is, a heater that doesn't need 120V for control circuitry), a 240V motor, a welder -- only needs a three-wire circuit.
So yeah, if it's a pure 240V piece of equipment, no neutral is needed.
It depends if the UK heater has one of the hots connected to ground.
That's nonsensical. The UK heater will have three wires: hot, grounded conductor (neutral), and equipment ground. This would be the same as a 120V US circuit except at 220V.
Note this heater specifically claims it requires 50HZ (though I can't imagine why, it's almost certainly purely resistive inside). Tehcnically, a 30A two pole GFCI breaker feeding this thing ought to work (or at least trip the GFCI), but it's unclear why you would want to put this chinese piece of non-listed crap in between a high voltage, high amperage power source and a body of water in which you are immersing yourself and your loved ones.
It is a violation of the US electrical codes and most likely local law to use this.
It's not nonsensical. Because a UK 240 device could have one of the hots connected to ground, just as neutral is grounded in US. That's a problem if you connect it to 240 in US.
No. You are talking drivel. You don't ground (or EARTH as they say) hots in the UK any more than you do in the US. That device has only one live (what we call hot), one neutral (they say neutral there), and one earth (what we call ground). They have 240 between line and neutral where we have 120V.
The issue is, short of putting in a transformer, an average home has no 240-to-grounded conductor connection. Therefore, he might place it across two hots, to get 240.
A GFCI can probably detect any failures he may have with that, but it remains that this is a chineese piece of junk, barely legal in the UK, and completely against any sense of legality or good sense in the US.
well thanks guys for the input, as far as I know there is not a mass electrocution going on in the UK with these devices, so with that information I think they might be safe to use. As far as why , well it come to economics, $120.00 delivered from the UK to my door or $2,000.00 for one here in the states . This is for one of those self setting pools Intex makes, and normally I would just tell the kids to suck it up and go swimming, as most of us did when we were small. However my son has special needs, and he has a very low body fat, thus he gets cold very very quickly. This is the only reason I am doing it.
So let me get this right The three pole that comes from the UK one is hot one is nuetral and one is ground. So i would hook one hot (us) to one hot (uk) , the Other Hot(us) to the Neutral (uk) and then ground (us) to ground (uk) ?
thanks inadvance
I already answered this. You want a 240V 30A GFCI breaker and 10g (two legs plus an insulated ground). Again, if you don't know the code and Article 680 specifically well enough to figure this out, you've probably got no business hooking up pool stuff. This is one area that DIY has very serious implications.
This issue is designed for UK use, on UK power. It's instructions specifically mandate 50Hz power and the UK (240 live to neutral) voltage configurations. There it's probably safe. Yes the GFCI probably will protect you here but it's still ILLEGAL and penny foolish.
Buy the way, I didn't think I paid $2K even for my 10KW pool heater and I was right. You can easily get one that size legal for the US ones for right around $500 (including shipping).
Of course, you're not willing to listen, so go ahead and do what you want.
"The issue is, short of putting in a transformer, an average home has no 240-to-grounded conductor connection."
That does not matter either.
No European equipment connects neutral to ground.
You can use a US 240 V feed on it just fine, no transformer required.
One hot goes to the equipment hot, the other to the equipment neutral (now a hot in the Edison US system) and ground is ground.
The US made a decision a long time ago to use 120/240 V to limit voltage to ground for safety reasons.
Europe preferred the wire savings of 240 V for all loads (not a lot of copper mines in Europe).
Folks seem to loose sight of the fat that voltage is measured between two pints,
Many things operate just fine as long as the input voltage is correct without regard to how it appears on the wires.
The equipment does not care if the 240 V is between a single wire and a neutral (grounded) conductors or two conductors 180 degrees out (Edison circuit).
Older equipment with a neutral hooked to the chassis will result in a 'hot' chassis and may not operate, or short out one leg and trip the breaker.
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I thought that reporters had finally learned that monthly wage data are erratic and best ignored, but noooooooo, they apparently still believe that they give us real information about the rate of growth of wages. The immediate cause for complaint is a Morning Edition State of the Union fact check segment in which Scott Horsley told listeners that wages rose in November, but then fell in December.
As I tried to explain after the big wage jump in November was reported, the monthly changes are dominated by noise in the data. The 0.4 percent nominal wage rise reported in the month followed a month where the wage reportedly rose by just 0.1 percent and a prior month where it did not rise at all. Employer pay patterns in the economy as a whole do not change that much from month to month, it should have been obvious this was just noise in the data.
The wage drop reported in December should have further confirmed this. Horsley tried to explain the drop as a composition story, that we hired more people in lower paying industries. This is hard for two reasons. First, we added 48,000 jobs in the high-paying construction industry in December, compared to just 20,000 in November. We added only 7,700 jobs in the low-paying retail sector in December, compared to 55,700 jobs in November. In other words, the mix story seems to go the wrong way.
The other reason is the mix from month to month can only make a marginal difference in average wages. To see this, let's take an extreme case. The gap in pay between the construction sector and the overall average is just over $2 an hour. By contrast, pay in the leisure and hospitality sector is about $10 an hour less than the average. Suppose that we saw 100,000 new jobs in construction and no other jobs in any other sector. This is equal to approximately 0.07 percent of total employment. This means this jump in construction employment would raise wages by less that 0.2 cents an hour. By contrast, the surge in restaurant employment would lower the average hourly wage by 1.0 cent.
In other words, even these extraordinary shifts in composition would have no measurable effect on the pace of wage growth. Anyone looking to explain month to month changes in wages by job mix is looking in the wrong place. The only responsible way to report on the wage data is to take averages over longer periods, the monthly changes simply don't mean anything.
Other news sources just told us what the Republicans said in reaction to President Obama's State of the Union Address, National Public Radio told us what they really thought. Its top of the hours news summary on Morning Edition (sorry, no link) told listeners that Republicans "see it as more tax and spend."
Denmark has long cold rainy winters where the sun only shows up briefly. It is understandable that someone can get pretty sour living in these conditions. But that is no reason for the Washington Post to run scurrilous screeds from Scandinavia that inaccurately impugn the region.
That is a reasonable description of Michael Booth's Sunday Outlook piece, which managed to get most of the important points wrong in a piece titled, "Stop the Scandimania: Nordic nations are not the utopia they are made out to be."
Going in order of importance, Booth somehow thinks that the McDonald's workers in Denmark getting paid $20 an hour pay 75 percent of their income in taxes. He better try to explain that one to the OECD. It puts the tax rate for the average worker at 26.7 percent. Booth is apparently adding in the 25 percent valued added tax, which would still leave us just over 45 percent (the 25 percent tax is applied on 73.3 percent of income left over after-tax). That's pretty far from 75 percent.
Booth then turns to mocking the employment record of the Scandinavian countries:
"last month the Times assured us that 'A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist. Just Ask Scandinavia.' (*Cough* unemployment is 5.6 percent in the United States, vs. 8.1 percent in Sweden, 8.9 percent in Finland and 6.4 percent in Denmark.)"
According to the European Commission, the employment rate for people between the ages 20 and 64 is 73.3 percent in Finland, 79.8 percent in Sweden, and 75.6 percent in Denmark. All of which are above the 71.1 percent rate in the United States.
He then goes to Sweden, which he rightly attacks for its strong anti-immigrant movement, but then adds:
"This has distracted from the slowing economy, increasing state and household debt levels, and one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Europe."
Again, he'll have to explain his calculations to the folks who do this stuff for a living. The European Commission has a category for young people who are not working or in school or a training program. The share of young people in Sweden in this category about 7.5 percent, near the bottom of the European Union. As far as state indebtedness, the I.M.F. tells us the government has a deficit of about 2.0 of GDP and total debt equal to 42 percent of GDP, that less than 70 percent of the level in the United States.
Usually when a country takes steps to "defend" its currency, the problem is that the value of its currency is falling in world currency markets. This is most often due to higher inflation in the country in question, although the situation can be worsened by speculative attacks. Raising interest rates is a standard form of defense, since it makes it more desirable to hold assets denominated in that currency.
Against this normal pattern, the NYT told readers that Denmark was "defending" its currency by cutting interest rates. Apparently the problem is that the krone, Denmark's currency, was rising against the euro. The krone has been pegged against the euro since its inception. The recent upswing in its value threatened to push the krone above its designated range.
So in this case, the "defense" is intended to reduce the value of the currency, not to raise it.
The NYT ran an article headlined, "China's Economy Expands at Slowest Rate in Quarter Century." People who read the piece discovered that China's growth rate for 2014 was estimated at 7.4 percent, which is more than three times the growth rate projected for the United States. More strikingly, this is not much of a slowdown from the last two years.
The I.M.F. reports growth in both of these years was 7.7 percent. Measured as a share of growth, a drop from 7.7 percent to 7.4 percent in China would be equivalent to a drop from 2.0 percent to 1.92 percent in the United States. It's not clear that this sort of slowdown would draw headlines.
There are questions about the accuracy of China's growth data, but this article refers only to the reported numbers. These do not provide much a basis for talk of a major slowing of China's economy.
Paul Krugman is still upset over the decision by Switzerland's central bank to end its peg to the euro and allow the value of the Swiss franc to rise. Since some of us non-hyper-inflation worriers don't share his anger, perhaps it worth explaining the difference in views.
Krugman sees the peg as a sort of quantitative easing. He argues it was working (Switzerland's economy has largely recovered), so there was no reason to abandon it. He sees the basis for abandonment as a needless fear over inflation and possibly a concern about central bank losses. (The Swiss central bank is partly private. Sound familiar?)
Krugman may well be right about the reasons that Switzerland's central bank abandoned its peg, but that doesn't mean that it was wrong to do so.
Switzerland's peg was designed to promote its growth at the expense of its neighbors. The under-valued currency boosts the economy by making Swiss exports cheaper relative to the goods and services of its trading partners and making imports into Switzerland more expensive. In this story, Switzerland's growth is a direct subtraction from the growth of its trading partners.
This is not a big deal with a relatively small country like Switzerland, but imagine that Germany left the euro (hold the applause) and adopted the same policy of deliberately under-valuing the new mark against the euro. Germany would then run large trade surpluses and the other euro zone countries would run large deficits, draining away demand. Should we applaud this policy as a form of quantitative easing that needs to be supported?
Krugman's argument rests largely on the idea that we need to promote central bank credibility. I'm a bit more skeptical on this one. Central bank credibility is a two-edged sword. One of the main reasons that we are not supposed to pursue QE-type policies is the risk of inflation, which could undermine central bank credibility.
I would agree with Krugman that the risk of any serious outburst of inflation in the current economic situation is near zero, but of course it is not zero. And the risk of inflation in an economy with less demand and higher unemployment is lower than the risk in an economy with more demand and lower unemployment. This means that we do face more of a risk of inflation and damaging central bank credibility on keeping inflation low with QE than without.
For me, this is a no-brainer. How many parents of children should be unemployed so that everyone knows the Fed won't let the inflation rate get above 2.0? The answer would be very few, but if central bank credibility is some great good of enormous value, then the QE-foes may have a point.
I would keep credibility on the back burner here. Switzerland has a budget surplus and extremely low government debt. It should be running budget deficits to boost its economy and those of its neighbors. There is no reason we should be applauding its efforts to sustain demand in its economy at the expense of its neighbors.
A Washington Post article on President Obama's new willingness to push an economic agenda contrasted U.S. economic performance with "the anemic economies of Europe and Japan." It's not clear on what basis Japan's economy is supposed to be anemic compared with the U.S.
Its unemployment rate stood at 3.5 percent in November, the most recent month for which data are available. Its employment rate has risen by two full percentage points since the end of 2012 when its new government shifted towards Keynesian expansionary policies. By comparison, the employment rate has risen by just 0.8 percentage points over the same period in the United States (it did rise by another 0.3 percentage points in the fourth quarter). The 1.2 percentage point difference for the period for which we have data from both countries would correspond to another 3 million people being employed in the United States.
It is also worth noting that the employment rate in Japan is 1.7 percentage points above its pre-recession level. In the United States it is more than 3.0 percentage points below its pre-recession level.
It isn't often that I think Paul Krugman gets one wrong, but I think he wrongly attacks those chocolate loving cuckoo clock making Swiss in his column today. His complaint is that the Swiss central bank abandoned its commitment to keep down the value of the Swiss franc against the euro. Krugman sees this a failure of will, with the central bank giving up a commitment to pursue an inflationary policy. This is part of a larger saga of feckless central banks that continue to obsess about inflation when the real problem facing world economies is an inflation rate that is too low.
While the general point is right, it is hard to see how this story applies to Switzerland. Switzerland did not see the same sort of downturn as the rest of the OECD in 2008. Furthermore, it has fully recovered from its downturn with a GDP that is 8 percent above its pre-recession level and an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent.
In this context, it is actually doing what we should want Switzerland to do as a good world citizen. By allowing its currency to rise, it will make its goods and services less competitive internationally. This means it will import more from its trading partners and export less, effectively providing them with an economic boost. This is what we should want to see. The countries that are at or near full employment should be running larger trade deficits or smaller surpluses.
So give the Swiss a gold star. They called this one right. (Now if we can get them to talk to China ....)
It's more than a bit bizarre that patent protection doesn't get a single mention in a NYT column on "why drugs cost so much." Of course without government granted patent monopolies the vast majority of drugs would sell for $5-$10 per prescription. And, drug companies would not have incentive to mislead the public about the safety and effectiveness of their drugs.
The NYT has somehow decided that Japan needs budget discipline. It's not clear what the basis for this determination is, but the fourth paragraph of an article on Japan's latest budget proposal told readers:
"With the budget proposal, Japan is trying to balance its need for growth and discipline."
The markets apparently do not see the same need as the NYT. The current interest rate on 10-year government bonds is 0.25 percent.
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Good morning and Happy Wednesday!
We've made it to the middle of the first full week of the year. Does time already seem like it's going so fast? I mean, I feel like we just celebrated New Year's Eve! How has an entire week gone by already!? This being old and having time fly thing just isn't working for me.
So, yesterday, I talked about my goal to really step up my game with my workouts. I love to vary what I do and I find it to be so much easier to do that in the summer. I'm always outside and can find a million different things to do! The winter, however? No, thank you. Don't get me wrong…I absolutely love the season but I do not like to be cold. Therefore, most outside activities are out for me. I like to, occasionally, get on the the ski slopes but that's just not something that is possible to do on a daily basis…unless you live somewhere cool with a ski resort in your back yard. I definitely do not so that's out for me! We have a full gym in our garage but there is one tiny problem…the garage is not attached to our house and it has no heat. Sometimes I swear it's colder in there than it is outside…so that's definitely out for me, too! I do belong to our local Y but there are times that my work schedule doesn't allow me to go early in the morning (which I prefer) and it is pretty difficult for me to get there at night. So…where exactly am I going with all this blabbering? I'm just thinking out loud about the reasons why I am concentrating most of my winter workouts in my living room. That's all. That's where I was going with all of that.
(this is what happens when I workout in my living room)
Monday night, I practiced some new Jazzercise routines and, while I did break a sweat, I don't feel like I reach the full intensity that I do when I'm teaching or practicing in the garage due to lack of space. Oh, and my Christmas tree is still up. It will, most likely, be up until this weekend. My hubs is actually off so I'll make him help me. By help, I mean that I'll take off all the ornaments, remove the hooks, and place them every so gingerly in their original boxes. Then, I'll take off each set of lights and wrap it up and place it in its designated bag. Then, comes his part…he'll drag the tree outside. I will, then, vacuum up all the pine needles left it its wake. That's our routine every year and I don't see it ever changing.
Anywayyyy…long story short, my Christmas tree is taking up important workout space. So, last night, I switching it up a bit. Lee has been dabbling back into P90X and I figured I would get back into it, too. I grabbed the Yoga X DVD and popped it in. O.M.G. I hardly ever do yoga as I am a cardio girl. I do like to relax and stretch but I really like to jump and sweat. Well…let me tell you…there was no jumping but there was sweating. That workout is hard…especially for someone like me who never does yoga. While I am pretty flexible, I still struggled with some of the poses. I tried to keep up without modifying but there were some times that I just had to bring it down a few notches. Yoga is not all about relaxation and stretching! My muscles were screaming! However, I absolutely loved it and think that I'll be adding more yoga into my life! I know so many people who practice and love it and I think I want to become one of those people, too! Thumbs up for loving new workouts!
Afterwards, I did some extra ab work (crunches, leg raises, and planks) and called it a night by putting on my pjs and cuddling up with my pups. I'm not sure what I have on the agenda for tomorrow but maybe more yoga? We shall see!
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About the ManufacturerA.A. Importing Company, Inc. was founded in 1934 by A.A. Gralnick in the Gas Light Square area in St. Louis, MO. It began as a distributor for kerosene lamp parts and accessories. Prior to and after World War II, A.A. Importing was heavily involved in the importation of fine crystal and art glass, as well as fine porcelain from Europe. The company became famous for its fine selection of art glass and accessories for the antique trader as well as replacement parts. That was the beginning of building a strong foundation for A.A. Importing in the antique reproduction business. As the nation developed an even greater interest in decorating with an antique theme, A.A. Importing was again at the forefront. Today their sources of antique reproductions have expanded worldwide.
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king candys dessert toppings
Alice's wonderland
tangled background
cinderellas coach
nemo's seascape
mikes new car
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sugar rush sky
dumbo's ride
buzz lightyear
abu as elephant
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According to a judicial ruling Tuesday, state prison officials can begin conversion of the Valley State Prison for Women into a men's facility.
"We are moving forward with the conversion," said Dana Toyama, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections. "While I don't have an exact timeline, it should be soon."
Under a previous ruling, a stay of conversion was granted pending a legal challenge to the project brought by the city of Chowchilla.
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"We were hoping for a better decision," said Chowchilla City Manager Mark Lewis. "But the city did the right thing by the community, and we'll do the best we can going forward. It's pretty clear in the court's mind that there are bigger issues at play."
Since the Department of Corrections announced the conversion plan late last year, city officials and local residents have voiced concerns about relocating male inmates to the prison.
The city argued that prison officials hadn't properly evaluated the impact families relocating to live near male inmates would have on the area.
The conversion likely will result in an increased burden on local and regional public services, said Madera County Supervisor David Rogers, who represents District 2, which includes Chowchilla.
"I've been told by prison guards that I've interviewed that some of these gentlemen have three or four women that they've had children with that will follow them here," he said. "It's a problem that we're going to have to deal with financially at a time when we have no resources to deal with it."
Prison officials attempted to reassure the city that the impacts would be no more significant that those associated with female prisoners.
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The hearing date to determine whether the department must conduct an environmental review is scheduled for Dec. 7.
"This is a quiet rural community with a history of being a quiet, peace-loving community with a low crime rate," Rogers said. "I'm afraid with the change in the situation that that's going to change."
The 1,738 inmates at Valley State Prison for Women will be relocated to one of the two other California women's prisons, and possibly a soon-to-be-reopened 400-capacity, low-security women's prison in Folsom, according to prison officials.
The converted Valley State Prison for Women will continue to employ about 1,000 people, and likely will house about 2,000 male inmates, according to state officials.
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