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(Participants included 1st Lt. Richard C. Phillips, rifle platoon leader, Spc. Jeffery E. Reen, team leader, Staff Sgt. Kevin A. Schiedeck, squad leader, Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. Introductions by Sgt. Maj. Larry Stephens, 10th Mountain Division.
Staff: This morning we have three members of the 10th Mountain Division that were involved in Operation Anaconda -- and you should have a press advisory with their names and hometowns -- that will be speaking to you from Bagram, Afghanistan.
And to start us out, Sergeant Major Larry Stephens from the 10th Mountain is going to introduce these individuals. They'll make a few comments and then just open it up for your questions. When you want to ask a question, just catch my attention, and we'll use this microphone right here. Okay?
Staff: Can you hear me?
Stephens: Yes, I sure can.
Staff: Go ahead, Sergeant Major.
Stephens: All right.
Again, we have three infantrymen from Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment. I will be giving it first to 1st Lieutenant Richard Phillips, who will then in turn pass it to Staff Sergeant Kevin Schiedeck, who then will pass the phone to Specialist Jeffery Reen, and then Specialist Reen will give the phone back to 1st Lieutenant Phillips, and at which time they'll start taking your questions.
Here is 1st Lieutenant Richard Phillips.
Phillips: This is Lieutenant Phillips, a platoon leader deployed with Alpha Company 4-31 at Bagram Airfield. We've been involved in Operation Anaconda and Operation Harpoon. I took my platoon out there with three squads and we've done what's been asked.
Schiedeck: It's Staff Sergeant Schiedeck. I am a first squad leader in 1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 4-31 Infantry. I've also participated in the same operations as Lieutenant Phillips, who is my platoon leader.
Reen: This is Specialist Jeffery Reen. I'm Bravo team leader in 1st Squad, 1st Platoon. Kenneth Phillips is my platoon leader. I've also participated in all the operations that were mentioned.
Phillips: This is Lieutenant Phillips again. We're ready for your questions.
Q: Yeah, hi. Brian Hartman, ABC News. I'm wondering if you could talk a little bit about the weather and the challenges of fighting in the cold climate and the high altitudes down there.
Phillips: The weather -- when we went at the tail end of Anaconda, it wasn't that bad. It got cold at night, but we had our Bivy Sacks with us. And it just got hot during the day.
The high altitude -- we were at about 800 meters and just a steep incline. It'll get to you. You just have to pace yourself and not overdo it.
Q: Do you feel like your training adequately prepared you for what you encountered over there?
Phillips: Oh, definitely. Definitely. We're well trained. Everything that we did, some of it, it was pretty realistic, but it seems like sometimes it was just a live-fire exercise.
Q: This is Mike Mount, with CNN. Question for Lieutenant Phillips. If you could give us a kind of quick rundown on what your platoon saw in terms of action during Anaconda.
Phillips: Yes. My platoon was part of Alpha Company. We -- with some of the missions we did, where we were looking for caves, and which -- they turned out to be a bunker position, which were -- used the natural terrain to their advantage. There would be a rock face, and there be a hole in the rocks, and then they'd have a built-up bunker around it. And mostly we cleared caves, which, unfortunately for us, didn't have any enemy personnel in them. And mostly we just blew up enemy equipment.
Q: Staff Sergeant Schiedeck, this is Linda Kaserne from American Forces Information Service. Could you tell us a little bit about what Operation Harpoon meant for you? And also, could all three of you guys mention your hometowns at some point? Thank you.
Staff: Staff Sergeant Schiedeck, I think that's the first of your questions.
Schiedeck: Okay. (Off mike) -- first part of the question. I'm sorry.
Q: Could you tell us a little bit about Operation Harpoon? What did that mean for you guys?
Schiedeck: Operation Harpoon was up on the -- what we called the whale back, which is one ridge line. And we were up there. Basically, we had a zone that we had to clear, and what we were looking for was caves, mortar positions, caches of ammunition, and what we considered al Qaeda or Taliban forces still in the area. And what we were doing is going in, basically on a search and attack, and to basically clear the positions as we went along and destroy any enemy forces that posed a threat to us.
Q: Sergeant, this is George Edensen from Cox Newspapers. Is this the first mission you were out on? Were there others? And to echo the previous questions, could you talk a little bit about your hometown and your service experience?
Schiedeck: Yeah, not a problem. Been in the Army six and a half years. Hometown's Cottage Grove, Oregon. We did two actual combat missions, which are -- the first one was Operation Harpoon and then the tail end of Anaconda, which was Polar Harpoon. I already talked about the first one. The second mission, once again, we were sent in to clear a zone, and this was a little more in-depth, because once we actually hit the ground, got off the birds, we started rolling through the ravine, and there was fighter positions everywhere. But the night prior, they had came in and bombed them pretty good, to where we were pretty much just coming in and cleaning out all the ammunition and equipment that they had left behind and destroyed as we went along clearing the zone.
Q: Lieutenant, this is Richard Sisk from the New York Daily News. Can you tell you us, did you encounter any of the enemy? And what kind of equipment -- what did you find in these protected positions that you were coming across?
Phillips: Could you repeat the first part of your question again?
Q: Did you encounter any of the enemy, Lieutenant, and if not, what did you find in the positions that you were clearing? What kind of equipment was the enemy carrying?
Phillips: Yes. My platoon did not encounter any of the enemy, but one of the other second -- I'm sorry -- the third platoon did encounter the enemy in the Ginger Valley. And they went into an actual cave site, and there was a -- some of the equipment from the Rangers and the Seal that had been -- that died in Operation Anaconda. Some of their equipment was in the cave, and we recovered a flawed automatic weapon and some commercial Global Positioning Systems. And we also recovered some Kevlar helmets that had a Ranger's name on them. And it's a pretty good feeling to return that equipment to some of the units here.
We also encountered just some bunkers, well-built bunkers that were abandoned but had recoilless rifle rounds in them and the recoilless rifles -- different types of ammunition for small arms and machine-guns, and those we blew in place.
Q: Sergeant, could you tell us anything about the equipment that you carried? What kind of gear were you using -- boots, whatever -- to protect yourselves against the cold that you're running into at night? And did you have to take pills to counter the high altitude?
Schiedeck: Well some of the equipment we wore up there was just basic -- we have the desert camouflage uniforms and we also have our -- what we call our "rocky boots," which are just basic cold weather boots.
To be honest with you, we didn't have to take any pills for high altitude, although they did look out for us and made sure that no one came down with the sickness. They usually could encounter it within 24 hours.
The cold weather for basically the night was the only part, and we pretty much stopped movement at night because the terrain was -- it was really difficult to maneuver through. And we'd set up a basic patrol base and a base -- (inaudible) -- security throughout the night. Once morning came around, we'd come up and continue operations. But the cold wasn't really a factor. It didn't really hurt us, hinder us or anything. It didn't really phase most of us.
Q: Yeah, my name is Dennis Ryan from Army Newspaper at the Pentagon here in Washington. Could I -- Specialist Reen, did you guys feel the earthquake the other day? And were you close enough to it? And anything you can say about that, any effects of it.
Reen: The earthquake that was felt heavily Kabul, we only got little tremors. There really wasn't much of anything.
Q: The Rangers' helmets that you mentioned, were these Rangers who were in Anaconda? And were you able to return them to them personally?
Phillips: Could you repeat that question again, please?
Q: Yes. The helmets that you mentioned that you found that had Rangers' names on them, were they Rangers who were involved in Anaconda, and were you able to return them to them personally?
Phillips: Yes, they were Rangers that were involved in Operation Anaconda. And the helmet that we found, we were not able to return to the Ranger personally. He died in combat. We gave it to his company commander, and I believe his company commander said he was going to give it to that Ranger's family.
Q: Can you tell us who that was?
Phillips: Honestly, I don't -- I feel bad, but I don't remember the name. I did not personally recover the helmet. But it was one of the rangers that had died on top of -- (inaudible word) -- mountain where the Seal fell out of the helicopter and they were called in to go and recover him.
Q: When did you find this equipment? How recently? (Pause.) Can you hear me? Hello?
Phillips: Yes. Could you repeat the question again?
Q: Okay. I'm with Cox Newspapers also. When did you find the equipment from the Rangers?
Phillips: Yes. We found that equipment on 18 March.
Q: What are some of the greatest challenges? You said the weather is not. What are some of the greatest challenges you're facing right now in your operation, would you say?
Phillips: When we're out there, if everything runs smooth and calm, people are focused, they know their job and what they have to do, but one of the biggest challenges is the terrain itself, the steep inclines. It's very easy to -- we've had -- some of the other units that we've been associated with have had badly broken ankles, just twisting their knees. So the terrain can be difficult. You just have to maintain the old Army saying, three points of contact, when you're moving up the steep inclines that we go up sometimes.
Q: It's Mike Mount again with CNN. Two questions. One, when you came up on some of these sites that were bombed by the Americans, can you describe what those sites look like in terms of damage and possibly bodies? And two, when you're doing your cave searches, did you come across any booby traps or land mines or any anti-personnel devices that seemed to be left behind for you-all?
Phillips: Yes. Some of the bunkers that we came across that had been bombed out, some were completely destroyed but the bomb had landed practically directly on them and it was just a big crater with scorched earth, and some of the contents of the bunkers would normally be battered, thrown about in a mortar round. We saw mortar rounds with rockets, still in their cases. Mostly just -- when the bomb hit directly on, it would destroy it. In some cases, we encountered the one bunker that sticks out of my mind, a bomb had landed near it, and we went in to clear the bunker to ensure there were no enemy personnel in it. And there were none, but there was some equipment there. But the I-beams, the support beams for the roof of it were severely -- were weakened, and we detonated that bunker from the inside and destroyed it. We never found any enemy booby traps or mines that were left behind, because I believe most of the enemy fled and were in such a hurry they didn't -- to save their life, they didn't have time to place any traps behind for us.
Q: Richard Sisk, New York Daily News again. Staff sergeant, can you tell us what altitude you were operating at? How high up were you?
Schiedeck: The height approximately was like about 8,000 feet, and it ranged according to the higher you climbed the mountain. But it was approximately about 8,000 feet.
Q: All three of you -- first of all, can you give us your ages? And can you say whether you trained at the Mountain Warfare School in Vermont?
Stephens: Staff Sargeant Schiedeck is 24. Specialist Reen's age is 21. Lieutenant Phillips' age is 27, and no, none of us have trained at the Northern -- Mountain Warfare Center.
Q: Yeah, Dennis Ryan, Pentagram. Have you guys found evidence that al Qaeda or Taliban were well fed? Or what type of food do you think they were eating? Do you have any examples of provisions? Were they well supplied, or can you tell that?
Schiedeck: Well, we're rolling -- maneuvering through the canyon, through the ravine or what not -- there was bags of flour that was pretty much thrown all over the mountainside after the bombs hit. But I tell you, once we rolled in there, there wasn't much left -- I mean, like we said, mangled metals and vehicles and just ordnance everywhere. But for the eating -- we know they had stoves, because some of the bunker cave complexes, they had two stoves we encountered.
Q: Staff Sergeant, I hope I'm right about this, but I think last week you all got some very good news that you're coming home. How long have you been there? And what do you -- how do you feel coming home now?
Schiedeck: We've actually only been in Afghanistan for three weeks. We were deployed back in October time frame and we spent -- (brief audio break) -- October was in Kuwait. But I'll tell you what; I'm ready to come home.
Q: Lieutenant Phillips, Barbara Starr with CNN. Could I ask you to go back over one detail? When you spoke earlier about finding the helmets and the equipment from the men who died, was that your platoon, your group of men that found that equipment? Was it another group? And regardless, what's the assessment by you guys; do you think that the al Qaeda basically looted the gear from the men who died? How did the al Qaeda get their hands on it and -- you know, that can't be a very pleasant thing for you guys to contemplate, if they did loot the equipment of the men who died.
Phillips: It wasn't my platoon, it was 3rd Platoon that found the U.S. equipment in a cave. And it wasn't a good feeling because one of the enemy personnel, the enemy personnel that they destroyed was reaching for a U.S. light machine-gun to assault. And fortunately, the 3rd Platoon was able to kill him before he could use it, use that weapon on them. And it wasn't a good feeling. But they died in a -- they died in a -- those men died in a combat zone, and the enemy was trying to use our own equipment against us.
Q: I'm sorry, sir, could I just make sure I understood what you were saying. In other words, when the platoon came across this cave with the equipment, there were enemy forces there at the time, and they tried to -- are you telling us they tried to use one of the U.S. Ranger's light machine-guns and turn it against U.S. forces? Is that what you were saying?
Phillips: Yes. It was one enemy personnel, and 3rd Platoon was able to destroy him before he was able to use that machine gun on them.
Q: Thank you.
Q: Hi. Do any of you have any messages for family or friends back home? I know you'll be home soon, but want to give you a chance to say anything.
Reen: Could you repeat the question real quickly?
Q: Do you guys have any messages for family or friends back home? I know you'll be home soon, but this is the opportunity to --
Reen: Yeah. I mean, I'd like to tell my parents and my family that I love them and, you know, say hello to my friend's back home.
Schiedeck: Hey. Staff Sergeant Schiedeck. Tell my wife I love her and my family that I'll be home soon.
Phillips: This is Lieutenant Phillips. I'd just like to tell my family that I miss them and think about them, and I can't wait to get home.
Q: Excuse me. What sort of contact have you had with Afghans there, either Afghan military or civilians? And what kind of reception have you gotten?
Phillips: Yes, we've had contact with the Afghan military forces at Bagram Airfield, and they -- (off mike) -- capable soldiers, friendly, and they know what they're doing.
Q: If I understood you before, you were saying you came directly into Anaconda from Kuwait. I would think that would be a very tough physical adjustment going from a hot, low-altitude place to a very cold, high-altitude place. Were you acclimated in any way? Was that a problem when you got there?
Schiedeck: It wasn't a problem. The biggest problem was dealing with -- dealing with the terrain. Acclimating to the weather and the height wasn't a problem because the company was in excellent physical shape when we deployed from Kuwait to Afghanistan. It was just being on a flat desert for 5-1/2 months, then going to a steep incline and this terrain.
Q: This is Jerry Bodlander from AP Radio. Could you describe for us the complexity, if you will, of the caves? Was there anything in there that surprised you in the way things were structured?
Phillips: Yes, what really surprised me is -- we went on a -- our last mission we went on was cave clearance, and we were looking for caves, and we mostly found holes or natural ravines that had been built over into a larger bunker. One of the bunkers that we destroyed was 14 feet long and you could only see about five feet of it, but it was about 10 feet deep; it had been built into a natural hole in the rock and it was well camouflaged so that it would appear to look like a cave from a passing helicopter. And the bunkers were not just set up randomly, they were interlocked. Whoever designed the scheme for their defensive positions, they knew what they were doing and they were well in place.
Staff: Okay, it looks like we're about out of questions here. On behalf of everybody in the room here in the Pentagon, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to share some of your experiences with us today, and we all wish you the best in the future.
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The Chiwaukum Creek Fire started about three miles south of Coles Corner on the valley floor west of Highway 2, and spread up heavily forested slopes on U.S. Forest Service and Weyerhauser lands.
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The structural and electronic properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSnSe4 are studied using first-principles calculations. We find that the low energy crystal structure obeys the octet rule and is the kesterite (KS) structure. However, the stannite or partially disordered KS structures can also exist in synthesized samples due to the small energy cost. We find that the dependence of the band structure on the (Cu,Zn) cation ordering is weak and predict that the band gap of Cu2ZnSnSe4 should be on the order of 1.0 eV and not 1.5 eV as was reported in previous absorption measurements.
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Even after the most dangerous financial crises ever seen, the finance industry's lobbyists are still arguing that the sector should not be too heavily regulated on the grounds that it would be counterproductive.
This is nonsense. Money is rules. It is impossible to deregulate rules, as it is impossible to take the wetness out of water.
The rules of money are principally about value and obligation. When a bank lends money for a mortgage, the borrower is obliged to repay the value of the loan within a certain period. When investors buy shares, they purchase ownership of a certain value, which the company is obliged to give to them.
Money is not a commodity with a value in its own right; in the English-speaking world, not since Henry VIII diluted the value of coinage in the 16th century. The wooden stocks (sticks) of medieval times that were used to record debts were just sticks, of little value in themselves.
These days, money mostly exists as blips on a computer screen. The amount of physical cash is very small. Such electronic transactions are based on agreement about how the rules operate.
Since finance cannot be 'deregulated,' what actually occurred was a shift from government setting the rules, to traders setting the rules. Far from reducing the number of rules, the number of rules has soared. According to Andrew Haldane, a senior official for the Bank of England, speaking at the economists' talkfest in Jackson Hole:
"Since 1978, the Federal Reserve has required quarterly reporting by bank holding companies. In 1986, this covered 547 columns in Excel, by 1999, 1,208 columns, by 2011 … 2,271 columns. Fortunately, over this period the column capacity of Excel had expanded sufficiently to capture the increase."
This is only the reporting side. The creation of massive amounts of derivatives (transactions derived from conventional monetary exchanges such as bank debt, shares, and currency swapping) is an instance where traders make up rules—money made from money made from money. The total number of derivatives is over $700 trillion—more than twice all the bank debt, shares, land, and bonds in the world.
Derivatives remain the main cause of instability in the global financial system as they amplify crises, such as the euro crisis in the latest iteration.
Deregulation has descended into a rule-creation debauch, a financial Tower of Babel. And the tower is a threat to itself. According to Paul Kanjorski, former chairman of the subcommittee on capital markets, on a Thursday in September 2008 $550 billion was drawn out of money market accounts in one morning in the United States:
"The Treasury … pumped $105 billion into the system and quickly realized they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts, and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn't be further panic …
"If they had not done that their estimation was that by 2 p.m., $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the United States, [collapsing the national economy] and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our political and economic systems …"
What Kanjorski describes is the ultimate price of allowing traders to make up their own rules, and of governments failing to notice the logical cul-de-sacs in the arguments proffered for deregulation. The global monetary system was almost destroyed.
Nothing has been learned. There is still a failure to realize that money is rules. The discussion in the wake of the financial crisis centers on how much to regulate banks and financial traders. Derivatives remain the main cause of instability in the global financial system as they amplify crises, such as the euro crisis in the latest iteration.
The emergence of high-frequency trading is another dangerous rule-creation absurdity. This is the application of computer algorithms to financial markets that involves trading at high speed—trades are done in nanoseconds.
High-frequency trading can apply to any market and takes no account of the value of the underlying asset or security. Its proliferation—it is growing fast in the Australian stock market and is about 70 percent of the turnover in the American stock market—results in increasing incidences of volatility and collapses.
The algorithms can only be constructed because there is an underlying set of rules about the markets, whatever they are. So the explosion of rules continues unabated.
So what is needed? First, to recognize that money is rules, and that the question is not how many rules you have but who should set the rules and what kind of rules should they be.
Second, governments need to govern, not hand things over to mythical market forces. Governments can change the rules to stop the debauch, by returning to only allowing derivatives to apply to physical commodities, or putting a small (Tobin) tax on cross border monetary flows to put the speculators out of business.
But governments have become so supine, and so desperate to save the existing system from the traders' greed and mathematics, that they seem incapable of standing back and asking some basic questions about how the system should be constructed.
Haldane noted that if a "once-in-a-lifetime crisis cannot deliver change it is not clear what will." One of the consequences of governments' abrogation of their responsibility is that the job is passed to regulators. But regulators work from within the system; they cannot stand back and change it.
As Haldane observes, "To ask today's regulators to save us from tomorrow's crisis using yesterday's toolbox is to ask a border collie to catch a Frisbee using Newton's Law of Gravity."
David James has been a business journalist for 25 years and is the author of "Managing for the Twenty First Century and The Business Devil's Dictionary." He has a doctorate in English literature from Monash University. This article was originally published on Eureka Street, www.eurekastreet.com.au.
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Be careful what you trust God for. Otherwise, you will conclude that God is not trustworthy.
This is the season when the merchants of God tell tall tales about him. They tell us to trust God for all kinds of things this New Year. They tell us God will buy us cars; he will build us houses; he will even buy our pastors jets so they can evangelise and save the world. But these motivational preachers, who often require down-payments for God's promises in their bank accounts, are snake-oil salesmen and women. What they conveniently fail to tell us is the truth that God cannot be trusted to fulfil our vanities.
Be careful what you trust God for. Otherwise, you will conclude that God is not trustworthy. God is often not inclined to do what we want. His thoughts are not amenable to our vainglories. His ways are not conducive to our pride of life.
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"As for me," says the psalmist, "I trust in you, O LORD; I say, 'You are my God. My times are in your hand." (Psalm 31:14-15).
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As a new believer, I was misled by a King James Bible translation that reads: "Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker, 'Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.'" (Isaiah 45:11). I went round barking commands at God in the altar of prayer. It took me a while to realise that the correct translation means the exact oppose of that KJV version: "The LORD, the holy God of Israel, the one who shapes the future, says: 'You have no right to question me about my children or to tell me what I ought to do!'"
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Think this through with me. Can you really trust someone who kills off Ezekiel's wife just in order to make a point to Israel? Can you trust someone who did nothing to prevent Herod from chopping off John the Baptist's head? Can you trust a doctor who stays back when told his friend is sick and finally arrives four days' late after the man had died? Can you trust a physician who could heal you immediately but decides instead to nurse you back to health? Can you trust someone who would shut his face from his son when he is dying on the cross? Can you trust the bosom friend who invited the devil into Job's situation and allowed him to kill his children, destroy his business and affect his health?
Job himself provides the implausible answer. He persists in trusting God in spite of his ordeal. He did not succumb to the entreaties of his wife to curse God. Instead, he declares: "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." (Job 13:15).
Trusting God does not always mean we will understand what he is doing or why he is doing it. The wise man counsels: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes." (Proverbs 3:5-7).
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What we are called to do is to stand on the word of God, irrespective of whatever situation we find ourselves. We are not to trust God for things. We are to trust God in all things. God is not only good when the going is good. He is the same yesterday and today and forever when the going is bad. We mouth vain platitudes that "God is good all the time." But then we nevertheless feel betrayed when times are bad. Peter trusted Jesus to walk on water. But when the waves turned, he doubted and began to sink. The disciples trusted Jesus to cross over to the other side. But when the storm arose, they doubted and complained that he did not care if they perished.
Trust in God is not inherited: it is learnt. It does not come as a result of a fictitious "completed work of Christ on the cross." We learn to trust God by trusting him. For us to learn to trust God, he has to put us through some hair-raising situations. If God did everything when we want the way and when we want them; we would never develop real trust in him.
How much work do we have to do when we are trusting God? James says: "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." (James 2:26). What then is the nature of the work of faith? Sometimes it is not doing what we would normally do. When we put our trust in the Lord, we don't have to scheme to get a husband. We don't have to backstab to get promoted. We don't need to be evil to get ahead. We don't need to hoard in order to keep. God gives his beloved sleep.
God is trustworthy
Don't believe the lie: Jesus did not become poor that we, through his poverty, might become rich. (2 Corinthians 8:9). We don't need Jesus to become rich: we need him to become poor. God cannot be trusted to make us rich. He can be trusted to meet our needs. He will, indeed, give us the desires of our hearts. (Psalm 37:4). But that means he will determine what those desires should be. God cannot be trusted to give us another man's husband. He can be trusted to give us ours. He cannot be trusted to give us the world. He can be trusted to give us his kingdom. God can be trusted to meet and exceed only our righteous expectations.
As long as our prayer this year is "Father, thy will be done," we will not be disappointed. As we carry our crosses in 2014, we should be mindful of Jesus' example at Gethsemane where he prayed: "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." (Luke 22:42).


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Decent Deal2/27/2013
This was a great price for this item . . . I can't tell you the number of times when I've needed a surge protector and an extra outlet while traveling. This is actually my second order and I would recommend this to anyone looking for one.
Good product to protect a laptop1/21/2013
can't go wrong to purchase this and the price is fair.
Great/quick service11/16/2012
Hope I never have to use lifetime $75,000 warranty - nice to know it's there - compact unit - instructions seem clear - haven't used it yet.
great for travel11/8/2012
I use it for travel...good price too
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I have not yet tried out this item, but it looks sturdy and useful. I do wish that it worked with 220/240 volts also.
Easy to transport surge protection11/1/2012
Convenient size surge protector you can take with you anywhere your computer goes.
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This unit is roughly same size and many other 'travel' protectors, but with the folding plug spades and 2, not just 1, plugs, this is best I've come across. With spades folded in, they do not poke into sides of laptop bag. Excellent value!
Great design11/25/2011
I purchased this surge protector to replace a lost Belkin surge protector. Honestly, I didn't expect to receive a quality and nice looking product due to the low price that I paid for it. To all of my surprises, the surge protector works very well, and it fits nicely in my back bag. I really like the retractable prongs design because it can be folded back when not in use. Thus far, I haven't encountered any problem while using this SP. In all, the compact size, the retractable prongs, and the low price are the few factors that allow me to give this product a five stars.
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I needed a plug-in surge protector with phone line protection to fit in a tight space in our kitchen, and this is perfect! For those interested in traveling with it, it is a little chunky. The picture makes it look a little smaller than it is. As an adult male with average sized hands, I can grasp this comfortably in one hand, but my fingers don't come close to touching one another. It's a "large handful." I like Belkin products, and I assume this is working as it should. It has a great warranty, too. Folding the prongs in and out is difficult, but unless one is traveling, that's not an issue.
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Got it to carry with my laptop for plug-in. Convenient size. Plug folds for storage. Lights on face indicate it's working. If lights fail Belkin states that it will replace it. Nice value.
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ARTICLE X. Guidelines for Awarding Honorary Degrees*
An honorary degree is a means of recognizing excellence in any valued aspect of human endeavor, including the realm of scholarship, public service, and the performing arts. The conferring of an honorary degree is the University's way of recognizing those persons who have exemplified in their work the highest ideals and standards. By awarding such degrees to persons outside the University, an interest in and connection with the larger community is maintained.
Nominations are to be submitted to a faculty committee appointed by the president after consultation with the Nominating Committee of the Faculty Senate. The faculty committee, chaired by the provost of the University, will have representation from each constituent faculty and will include the University Marshal, ex officio**. Between five and ten nominations will be recommended by the faculty committee to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. Those approved by the Executive Committee, acting for the University Faculty, will be transmitted to the president for submission to the Board of Trustees. The candidates approved by the Board of Trustees will be invited by the president to come to Case Western Reserve University to receive an honorary degree.
The faculty committee will begin its work early and will be ready to receive nominations from individuals by October 1. The recommendations will be submitted to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate no later than November 20.
A nomination should include a brief statement detailing accomplishments of the candidate that are especially worthy of recognition and giving reasons why the University should confer the degree.
Although not always possible, if the Commencement Speaker is to be awarded an honorary degree, it is hoped that selection of the speaker will occur early enough to allow the process to proceed on schedule.
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- An honorary degree will not be conferred on a person who is currently a member of the faculty, the staff, or the Board of Trustees.
- An honorary degree will be awarded only at the commencement or other major university convocation.
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Murdoch: Google's dominance is a danger for media owners
November 6, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
"They keep employing people, testing new ideas, trying things, putting out new free applications, relying on advertising for income. Which makes them unbelievably, unbelievably competitive with what Microsoft would charge for the same thing." Read more
The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
September 10, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · Leave a Comment
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg explains why the web is so much more than "better TV" and looks back at history of emerging media and technology.
Polish Newspaper Wins World Young Reader Prize
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The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has won the annual World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year award, the World Association of Newspapers announced. Read more
US Odyssey of the Guardian's blogger
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Armed with a laptop and a mobile phone with built-in GPS and a photo camera, Kevin Anderson, the Blogs Editor for the UK Guardian newspaper goes to the United States to understand presidential elections and start a debate. Read more
Get your personal and user-generated paper
August 29, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · 1 Comment
A project now under way at The US Bakersfield Californian could give newspapers the ability to let readers easily create their own niche publications.
Portable e-papers instead of print: are we ready?
August 29, 2008 by grzegorz.piechota · 1 Comment
One day millions of electronic archives will begin to illegally circulate on the Internet and the publishing industry will collapse within a few years, writes Emilio Barberán Casanova. Read more
How photography connects us
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
News site from scratch
What would you do with a blank tablet? What would you do without the legacy business? What do you think would be most important in launching not just a news website but a digital news service with no baggage?
Frustrated by online services
Customers go back offline. It is a complete turnaround of what has been happening in this business for the last decade, says eMarketer, an online research company.
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W.I.P Dragon Illustration - having problems
Hi everyone, this is an illustration Ive been working on showing a dragon being hunted and brought down. I've been struggling mainly with the colour. I've chosen to have the scene largely backlit (but not totally silhouetted) at sundown. I would greatly appreciate any advice concerning the colour scheme, since Im having really difficulty finding the right combination.
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Hmm well to be perfectly honest, this pic is pretty close to it's lighting scheme, as for tweaks maybe just start tightening up some edges. I was going to suggest some reflective light but it looks pretty good. Definitley add some rubble to were the dragon's head is crashing down. like the soldiers are bringing him down but there is also the ground breaking like chaos. lighting wise i dont think you need much though (maybe go get some picks at sundown jsut to doublecheck.)
well then Cheers! good luck with the rest of the painting!
April 1st, 2008 #3
Looks good so far. I think your colour scheme is decent. Seems like you're going for a yellow-analogous, so you should consider dropping some red-violets or blue-violets into the shadows.
One thing though: for such a dynamic piece, the dragon's pose stiff and unnatural. all its legs are doing the same thing. like it was an injection-molded toy that fell over. think about what it was doing before it hit the ground.
good luck
April 1st, 2008 #4
Color-wise, it looks pretty much perfect. But you should make the dragon's pose be a bit more dynamic and add some rubble.
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Yeah, this is a pretty great image. I think only the most important edges need to be crisped up, but also the texture of the ground plane and the mountains is pretty photoshop-mushy. Might want to reference them.
Also, reference a galloping horse for the front horse, it's a little wonky in the legs and the tail looks like it is made of wood.
good luck and nice job
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April 1st, 2008 #6
the thing i would darken the side of the dragon on the left, give it a bit more contrast..but other than that, everything has pretty much been said, nice work
April 1st, 2008 #7
The colors and the way the sunlight passes through the dragon's wing really pop for me and I think where I'd be picky is the way the dragon itself is falling. It's not totally clear to me whether the impact has broken its neck or if part of its head has buried itself in the ground so make that more clear. Also the foreground rider is aiming his bow at the man behind him which seems odd. His target is the dragon so maybe his arrow should be shown imbedded in the dragon's neck and the rider running to get out of the way of the falling dragon while still clutching his recently fired weapon.
April 2nd, 2008 #8
the bow of the guy closest to us is in a weird conflict with the dragon. The tangent created from the bow and the back of the dragon's neck close to his head is bothering me, the string and bow also appear to be framing the light area on his back, creating a confusion between the highlight value on the back, string, and bow areas.
nice piece. your colors held up well, since that seemed to be one of your concerns. It's pretty damn dynamic as well.
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the sky makes no sence to me, hers is a little paintover showing what i mean.
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April 2nd, 2008 #10
Besides what was said so far, I think a small detail would be the forearm of the bowman next to us. I think its too straight in its shape and the knuckle at his lower hand is too much lit so it appears a little flat. ... If you wanna be picky.
Otherwise this is a truely impressive work - great job!
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Both way will work fine, but if it was my drawing I would extend the wing a bit closer to the neck, just so it looks more wing size to support his size.
April 3rd, 2008 #12
This is looking pretty darn good. As previously mentioned, a pass to take care of some detail would really create areas of focus, helping to lead the eye around. The veins look great! I was also thinking that a little dust pass on the ground in front of the horses feet might be cool.
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Editorial: Sea monsters' irresistible attraction
EACH summer, a team from the University of Oslo in Norway go hunting for monsters on the island of Spitsbergen. They carry guns in case they get menaced by the world's largest living land carnivore, the polar bear. But it is not bears they are after. They are searching for much bigger quarry, the most formidable predators that ever lived.
Step back 150 million years and Spitsbergen was covered by a cool, shallow sea swarming with marine reptiles. The creatures died out and their fossils became part of an island stuffed full of bones. Nowhere else in the world are so many marine reptiles found in one place.
For a few short weeks the sun never sets and temperatures soar to just above freezing. Knowing that before long the ground will be frozen solid, the researchers dig like crazy. "It's like a gold rush, there are so many fossils waiting to be found," says team leader Jørn Hurum. "The site is densely packed with skeletons. As we speak there are probably more than 1000 skeletons weathering out."
Hurum's Arctic discoveries are part of a remarkable renaissance in interest in the marine reptiles of the Mesozoic era, 251 to 65 million years ago – including this week's announcement of a colossal new marine reptile from the "Jurassic coast" of Dorset in southern England. We now know more about this group of creatures than ever before.
Marine reptiles were among the first vertebrate fossils known to science and were key to the development of the theory of evolution. In the late 18th century the massive jaws of a lizard-like beast were found in a mine in Maastricht in the Netherlands. Later named Mosasaurus, the creature helped convince scientists that animals could become extinct, a radical concept in its day. In the early 19th century, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs discovered by legendary fossil hunter Mary Anning around Lyme Bay in south-west England helped establish the science of palaeontology. Marine reptiles were among the best-understood extinct creatures of the first half of the 19th century and played a major role in the intellectual debate nurturing Darwin's theory of evolution.
Yet they faded from view as their terrestrial relatives moved to centre stage. It took nearly a century for marine reptile research to emerge from the shadow cast by the dinosaurs. "Scientists thought they knew all there was to know," says plesiosaur expert Leslie Noè of the Thinktank museum in Birmingham, UK. "The idea was that they weren't worth studying. Nobody would say that now. Our understanding of marine reptiles is phenomenally greater now than it was even 10 years ago."
In the modern world, marine reptiles are few and far between: saltwater crocodiles, turtles and sea snakes are rarities of coastal waters. However, in the ice-free greenhouse of the Mesozoic, reptiles cruised the oceans from pole to pole, occupying the ecological roles now largely filled by whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and even sharks.
Much like today's marine mammals, marine reptiles evolved from land-living ancestors and were air-breathing. For them, it was a true return to the water. Reptiles evolved around 300 million years ago from amphibian-like ancestors that needed to lay their eggs in water. Reptiles, in contrast, thrive in hot, dry environments.
Among the first to go back were the mesosaurs around 280 million years ago. They were fully aquatic with long, thin bodies, webbed feet and jaws bristling with teeth. They disappeared just a few million years later leaving no known descendants.
Only after the Permian mass extinction 251 million years ago did a full-scale reptilian invasion begin. The extinction was the greatest clear-out of life the world has ever seen and marine life was hit particularly hard: 19 out of every 20 marine species became extinct.
The empty seas were ripe for colonisation and reptiles were well placed to take advantage. Temperatures were several degrees warmer than today, which suited cold-blooded reptiles very well. Being air-breathing meant they could thrive in the low-oxygen waters of the post-Permian world where fish struggled to survive. Large predatory fish were also few and far between.
Many types of marine reptile evolved during the Mesozoic, but four stand out owing to their abundance, dominance and global distribution: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs and mosasaurs. All four groups were predatory and included the top marine predators of their time. Some species reached truly enormous sizes.
One key to their success was the evolution of live birth, or vivipary. It has been known for decades that ichthyosaurs reproduced in this way, thanks to well-preserved fossils found at Holzmaden quarry in Germany. One exquisite specimen, now in the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, captures an ichthyosaur in the process of giving birth (see photo, above).
Vivipary was probably seen in all large marine reptiles. In 2001, Mike Caldwell of the University of Alberta, Canada, was examining a mosasaur fossil in the Museum of Natural History in Trieste, Italy. "As soon as I popped open that drawer I knew we had an important discovery. In front of me was a mosasaur with embryos – it had tiny little versions of the adults lined up in its belly," he says.
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