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Attorney General Derek Schmidt has dispatched Kansas Solicitor General Stephen McAllister to Washington, D.C., to help prepare the attorneys representing Kansas and 25 other states in their challenge of the federal health reform law.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled hear oral arguments in the case next week.
McAllister, a former law clerk for two Supreme Court justices, will spend this week helping prepare former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to present the states' case. Clement, who served in the most recent Bush administration, will present the states' oral arguments to the court.
McAllister has served as state solicitor general for the past five years but has assisted the state on constitutional cases since 1996. He also is a law professor at the University of Kansas.
Neither McAllister nor Schmidt will help argue the case, but Schmidt is scheduled to travel to Washington to sit in on the proceedings.
The states are challenging the Affordable Care Act provision that requires virtually all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014 or pay a tax penalty and the ACA's expansion of the Medicaid program. Schmidt has called the law an "unprecedented federal power grab."
"This is the first time in the history of the United States that a majority of the states have joined together in a legal challenge to the authority of the federal government," Schmidt said. "It's a big deal."
Schmidt and the attorneys general in the other states represented in the case argue that the mandate requiring Americans to purchase health coverage exceeds the federal government's constitutional authority to regulate commerce. And they contend that the scale of the Medicaid expansion is beyond what the courts have traditionally allowed the federal government to require of states in exchange for funding.
Attorneys general for 12 other states recently filed a friend of the court brief in the case that argues the Medicaid expansion, which is scheduled to start Jan. 1, 2014, "is entirely consistent with the history of the program."
Because many states have different Medicaid eligibility standards, the health reform law would affect some more than others. Kansas would be among the most affected because its eligibility limits for adults are among the most restrictive in the nation. The new rules are expected to increase Medicaid enrollment in Kansas by at least 130,000.
The federal government has promised to initially pay 100 percent of the cost of the expansion. After the first few years, the federal share of the cost of serving those made eligible for Medicaid by the Affordable Care Act would shrink to 90 percent, where it would remain indefinitely.
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Writer's block is alive and well, here in the upstairs office of my home. I'm not sure why, now, it seems to have settled around me . . . maybe it's the fall weather and all those parenting, school-like obligations, those minuscule distractions leaving me feeling attention deficit and dithered to a ditz (did I ever send along that second box of tissues on my son's school supply list? Was that scissor too dull and babyish, how sharp and pointed is appropriate for a sixth grader?). Maybe it's the reality of no one in this house landing a job, leaving me open to endless uninterrupted hours of writer's block, or, depending on the day, endless interrupted hours in the kitchen with my husband. But whatever the reason, it's here . . . it's steadfast, it's relentless, and it's smirking right now in my face.
So I decide to face it, to get even and ignore it. "Just write," Natalie Goldberg offers in her book, Writing Down the Bones. It's worth a try, but first a shortbread snack from last weekend's Valley Shepherd Creamery Festival, which reminds me of that great shortbread pan I snagged on Sunday in the ten-dollar-bag sale at the VNA Rummage sale. Hmm, I wonder how hard it could be to make a shortbread. I mean, how much different from a tart could it be. Although this snack is tasting like way too much butter. Not that my tarts aren't full of butter. Wasn't it ten tablespoons in my last pie crust for God's sake? Writing, writing.I see people at our local Starbucks, writing, studying, typing away on their computers, seemingly oblivious to all those chatty latte-freelancers, the just-stopped-by-to-say-hello neighbors. For the life of me, I can't do it. I need absolute quiet, doors closed, no-radio-on silence to even begin to form a sentence. But I wonder, maybe they know something I don't know. Maybe the diversion is the thing. To actually step out of the house, and begin to look like you're creating something and voilà, a few hours later, you've created something, as in, a 500-word essay.
I remember a day in college, my friends Betsy and Fran wrestling on the floor in my dorm room, giggling, fits of squealing at my feet, while I forced myself to write an essay on Richard Wright's Native Son. Somehow I managed to finagle a poem, and with not too much effort, completed the thing from start to finish in under an hour. And sure enough, as the universe would have it, my teacher asked me to read it aloud to the class that next week. Still, I figured it was just a fluke and continued my millstone study habits with little abatement for the next three decades.
It's a few days later, and I'm sitting in the Daily Treat Restaurant, pen in hand, looking like some middle-aged Harriet the Spy. I feel ridiculous, though I remember feeling just as ridiculous when I'd attempt any cafe writing in my twenties in Cambridge, Mass. It all feels a bit self-important, smacks of some freelance, get-a-real-life vibe, here among the mothers who lunch, older women with rolled-up yoga mats, hard-working boutique staff finally off their feet. But I'm writing, even if it is about a salt shaker and a high-rise building. The chatter around me eventually softens and I settle into a bit of stream-of-consciousness writing. Not so bad, maybe I'll try this again in, like, a year.
"I don't understand this . . . how does this happen?" My husband is standing behind me, beseeching me to figure out why the HP printer is acting up. "This is the fourth time I'm printing this thing."
"Shush, I'm working. . . . Can't you see I'm writing?"
Blessedly, he fixes it on his own, but while he's standing here, there's a shopping list to go over and although I think the family might need my butter, he thinks not, but either way we agree he needs his butter. I glance out the window and notice my son is outside hammering at a combination lock which really is not the best thing to be doing around dusk on the curb and I can't help from continually staring out the window.
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IT TAKES just 24 hours to change the balance of power in your gut.
Switching to a diet based exclusively on animals or plants triggers rapid changes to the microbes that rule your gut. This knowledge could help fine-tune diets to improve health, as well as reduce the risk of illnesses like inflammatory bowel disease.
The human body contains a community of other organisms known as a microbiome. These microbial cells outnumber our own by 10 to 1, with most of them colonising the gut. Changing diet can rapidly alter these microbes in mice.
To investigate whether the same was true for humans, Peter Turnbaugh at Harvard University and his colleagues asked 10 volunteers, including one vegetarian, to switch from their normal diet to either a diet based on meat, eggs and cheese, or one rich in grains, fruit and vegetables for five days. Each day the team sequenced the microbial RNA in the volunteers' faeces to identify which gut microbes were present.
"Particularly in the case of the animal-based diet, we saw quite dramatic changes in the abundance of different microbes – even over the course of a single day," says Turnbaugh. For example, numbers of the bacterium Bilophila wadsworthia increased when people ate the animal-based diet. This organism feeds on bile acids, which aid the digestion of saturated fats in milk. An increase in B. wadsworthia has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease in mice.
Switching to a plant-based diet prompted a hike in the numbers of bacteria that produce a fatty acid called butyrate, which seems to reduce inflammation.
During the plant-based diet, microbes got more of their energy from fermenting carbohydrates, whereas during the animal-based diet the gut inhabitants got more of their energy from breaking down proteins. This ability to switch probably helps the human hosts break down food after a dietary transition (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature12820).
Although the results suggest that the animal-based diet may shape gut microbes for the worse, it's too soon to say which particular diets are optimal for health, says Turnbaugh.
However, it seems likely that changes in our gut microbiota and their metabolic products are important in explaining the influence of diet on many aspects of health, says Harry Flint at the University of Aberdeen, UK. For example, butyrate is thought to reduce colorectal cancer risk by boosting the health of cells lining the intestines and prompting cancerous cells to self-destruct.
Despite the upheaval, the changes to the gut microbiomes were short-lived – they reverted to their original structure about two days after people went back to their normal diets.
"It's interesting to think about whether this flexibility may have been adaptive over the course of evolution," says Turnbaugh. "If you're exposed to a new set of foods, it would be advantageous to have a microbiome that can rapidly change and allow us to increase our energy from that food."
This article appeared in print under the headline "Dietary change sparks rapid gut bug revolution"
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Lord Acton's maxim has been proven throughout human history.
In the Old Testament, King David was called a man after God's heart. Despite being an exemplary human being, absolute power corrupted King David leading him to commit adultery and murder.
Roman leaders first declared themselves to be emperors, and then they declared themselves to be gods.
George Washington understood the dangers of too much power. That is why he refused to hear any talk of him being crowned King and also why he refused to accept more than two terms as president.
Members of the United States congress seem to have forgotten the hazards of too much power.
Barack Obama obviously has no idea that too much power in the hands of a president, especially him, can be dangerous.
The following quotes are from liberal icon Nat Hentoff.
"Apparently he doesn't give one damn about the separation of powers. Never before in our history has a president done these things."
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The red tinge of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, could be caused by frozen bits of bacteria. Their presence would also help explain Europa's mysterious infrared signal.
Europa is mostly frozen water, but it absorbs infrared radiation differently to how normal ice does. Researchers think this is because something is binding the water molecules together. Salts of magnesium sulphate frozen within the ice, for example, would make the molecules vibrate at different frequencies. But no one has managed to come up with the perfect mix of salts to explain all of Europa's spectrum.
Astrogeophysicist Brad Dalton of NASA's Ames Resarch Center wondered if something else was bound up with the water molecules. "Just on a lark, I asked a colleague of mine at Yellowstone if he had any IR spectra of extremophile bacteria," he says, and he was shocked by how well they matched Europa's mysterious spectrum.
Then he analysed three kinds of bacteria under the same sort of conditions as Europa: its temperature is about -170 °C and at 0.01 millibars it has virtually no atmosphere.
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Preliminary results show that all three species, the ordinary gut bacteria Escherichia coli, and extremophiles Deinococcus radiodurans and Sulfolobus shibatae, are just as good at explaining Europa's IR spectrum as the salts. However Dalton says the two species that thrive under extreme conditions are obviously more likely candidates for life on the icy moon. They also happen to be pink and brown, which would help explain the red patches on the moon's face.
Bacteria couldn't survive on Europa's surface, but there might be liquid water inside Europa's icy crust capable of supporting life. "They could be blasted out to the surface in some kind of eruption and flash frozen," says Dalton. He plans to present his results at the Lunar and Planetary Science conference next spring.
Glenn Teeter from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state says bacteria aren't the simplest explanation for Europa's spectrum. "It does strike me as a bit far fetched," he says. But it can't be ruled out until we go there to see.
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The performances during the 2013 inauguration ceremony aren't the only ones getting people talking: Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Brad Paisley and Stevie Wonder all performed during the night's inaugural balls. While Hudson performed Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," Wonder sang "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" and Paisley crooned "American Saturday Night," it was Keys' take on her hit "Girl on Fire" that got the most attention.
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This isn't the first time a performer has played around with his or her lyrics for the sake of President Barack Obama. Jay-Z attended an Obama rally prior to election day and changed its words so he sang, "I got 99 problems but a Mitt [Romney] ain't one." Whose twist on their own music did you like best?


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Alaska Born Ducatisti
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D2D, Dust 2 Dawson '08, Solstice In The Yukon
Yeppers, that time of year again! Solstice in the North country.
This was my second D2D and I was looking forward to it with great anticipation.
How 'bout we start off with a photo of this year's tee? Awesome totemic design by ADV'r ArcticFlyer. Notice the "DIID" at the top and the opposed Beemer cylinders on the sides. I hope you can read the words around the outer perimeter as they most aptly describe the "flavor" of this far north gathering (it AIN'T no rally!). They were penned by the most lyric of advr's, the great 'legion'.
Parting shot outside the house Wed morning. Like me, I think a few more D2D'ers were leaving a day earlier to spend the night in Tok before heading into Dawson. No, Comet didn't go. I think he probably enjoyed hangin with the folks more than hangin on for dear life for more than a thousand miles. And yeah, I do tend to travel kinda light.
Met up with ADV'r Beezer, aka Tom, before heading up to Wasilla to hook up with ADV'r Wheeldog, aka Roger. Tom is a big player in all our tech days up here. He's also an Airframe & Power plant instructor and that's his homebuilt airboat in the background. Yeah, he tends to travel a bit "heavier" with tools to lend anyone a hand.
So after picking up Roger we head north on the Glenn Hwy.
Right into the construction about 100mi north of Anchorage. For those of you traveling the Glenn, be forewarned, it's closed between midnight and 6am Mon-Fri. And remeber, motorcyclists are encouraged to go to the front of the line.
It's good to be at the front. You may notice Wheeldog, like Beezer, likes to travel a bit "heavy."
More and more straightening going on. What's left of some of my favorite 'ol sportbike twisties paralleling the Matanuska River.
Lion's Head on the left and Matanuska Glacier in the distance on the right.
A bit farther north lies Sheep Mtn. I've always loved the colors in these rocks.
"Rest Area." I like to remind visitors to the North that there are many dirt roads leading to areas like this or gravel pits that make nice secluded places to camp. This is just north of Gakona on the Tok cut-off of the Glenn Hwy. That's the Copper River on the other side of us.
We caught up with a group of Goldwing riders who were headed to a big rally in Whitehorse.
Some of them were towing a trailer and really slowed down for the gravel patches in the road. Being the silly dual-sport riders we are we couldn't have any of that and passed them in pretty short order.
Then, low and behold, WE were caught by a couple of my REI Co-op workmates, ADV'r BlueRider, aka Dan, on his wee-Strom and my new next door neighbor John on his 1150GS. After this weekend I'm pretty sure John will probably be joining Advrider.
I hadn't made any definite plans on where I was going to stay in either Tok OR Dawson. I thought I'd probably go ahead and just camp so as to be able to do even MORE socializing.
Many of us ended up in the relatively new Thompson's Eagle's Claw "motorcycle only" campground a mile south of Tok. GREAT place!
Last year only a few people stayed at the Eagle's Claw. THIS year the place ended up being totally packed with tents overflowing into the soft moss surrounding prepared the gravel pads. The place is owned by an older Harley couple who were so excited to have so many riders staying there that they let all us late comers stay for free! Not that it was that much anyway at only $10 a night per site which can normally be shared by two. Many of us donated $ anyway. Riders kept trickling in till the wee (but still light) hours of the morning. I think the last of the crowd around the campfire finally hit the hay shortly after 3am or so.
There isn't any running water but plenty of supplied good tasting potable well-water. The owners have their own mill and are building bunkhouses, sheds, tipi's, and the like, which makes for PLENTY of free firewood! There's also a free group sauna/steam they built. I imagine the gathering here of D2D riders will become part of the annual highly anticipated good times! Great place, great people: http://www.thompsonseaglesclaw.com/
I'm glad I woke up at around 6am to answer "nature's call" so I could get this shot of all the bikes lining the driveway. Awesome.
More soon, Mark H.
AKDuc screwed with this post 07-06-2008 at 01:58 PM
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Looks like a helluva good time, Mark.
Keep the pics coming.
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The Next Day
Alrighty then, after a wonderful night in the Eagle's Claw Campground I was looking forward to more good food at Fast Eddy's!
Joining me for a late breakfast were ADV'rs Pastieman (Brian), Whitney, and Jim Spies all from Anchorage. Jim and Whitney are on their way down to NY and points farther south after Dawson before heading back up.
Since it's only about 170mi between Tok and Dawson, albeit a lot of it dirt, we could afford a very leisurely breakfast.
Between Tok and Dawson lies the little community of Chicken, AK. Supposedly named Chicken because back in the day someone thought it too much trouble to spell Ptarmigan, our State bird. No photos of this stretch because it was intermittent showers complete with a little hail mixed in up in the higher elevations. Got a few nice photos of the area on the return trip tho so read on.
Waiting for some of the better known LONGTIME Alaskan D2D'ers was none other than Dick Van Nostrand, the owner of the Dawson Downtown Hotel. He had come over the Border the night before just to tend bar for a fun filled night in Chicken. He's holding up one of those finger mounted squeegies for added visibility when riding thru the dampness surrounding us. FYI Chicken is the last U.S. gas stop and this "slightly less fanciful" establishment charges 40 cents less per gallon than the much newer place down the hill. Tho truth be told tho, the lower one does have some very nice amenities and such, IF one desires or is in need of such pleasantries.
Now what's that warning sign about? "BEWARE OF ATTACK CHICKEN?!?"
Heading out of Chicken begins the more serious dirt. It was on this stretch that I caught up with my good bud and ADV'r Jim and his 10yo son Mason. It was Mason's first trip ever to Dawson. Jim on the other hand did D2D last year and has been on many of the snowmachine rides/tours between Tok and Dawson in the winter.
Jim is the ADV'r with whom I got reacquainted with last year after 20+yrs when he joined Advrider and pm'd me saying he was buying a GS Adventurer. Here's the ride report on our reacquainting and first ride together last year: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222366
I've heard of some pillions having trouble staying awake on longer trips like this one but Jim told me how MUCH Mason really was enjoying the trip and kept up quite the commentary thru their in-helmet communications.
Jim also made mention numerous times about how glad he was that he'd put a pair of TKC 80's on for this trip. Yep, pretty much the tire of choice up here for those traveling many dirt roads especially if it gets muddy. I'm sure the added traction really helped make for a much more relaxed trip for Jim, especially hauling such valuable cargo.
Here they are in the even smaller Boundary just a few miles before the Border.
Notice how isolated the showers were in the background.
Three amigos on the Top Of The World Highway.
This year's Top of the World pose.
Down to the Border we go. Hope we get through.
Next: Dawson. Mark H.
AKDuc screwed with this post 06-23-2008 at 01:12 AM
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YAY, just look at that blue sky! The weather improved greatly as we came down out of the mountains. You can just see Dawson down below along side the mighty Yukon River.
Since I'd hooked up with Jim and enjoy his company so much, I took him up on an offer to share their room in the Downtown Hotel again this year. So there we were, back on Main Street again. Mingling with the masses.
See the gal in the red seeming to be demonstrating her prowess at one legged balance? That's Voni, up from Texas. She's the holder of MANY BMW mileage awards over the years. I was very glad to meet Voni because we're both over on http://www.yearroundriders.com/ as well. The June issue of 'Rider' magazine even has a wonderful article written by one of the founders of the 'rounders site. And much to my glee, the article contains 4 photos of me riding my KLR with studded tires around our lovely winter wonderland in the "Great White North!" So if you'd like to see even MORE photos of my little KLR, but this time surrounded by pristine but kinda cold white stuff, take a look at this thread: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showt...73#post6897373
Had to get a photo of me and Voni! She probably hugged more people than anyone else there that weekend! Voni and her husband Paul had already been touring AK and were now making their way back south.
I really shoulda carried a notebook around with me and taken a photo of every ADV'r I met on this trip! There were many! Over 150 riders this year. Pretty cool. Of course I think it's nice to meet people but I got really excited whenever I met someone with and ADV "handle" I recognized and maybe even posted in one of their threads!
Of course getting together at eating establishments is also a fun activity at these functions and there are a lot of good places to "grub up" around Dawson. One of our favorites is Klondike Kate's. It was at Kate's last year that Jim and I had the first of many pieces of their Bumble Berry Pie. Both of us exclaiming "best pie we'd ever had." Dang it, now I'm hungry again just talking about it!
Here we are sitting around sharing that delectable delight with ADV'rs curty aka Curtis, from Atlanta, GA on the right in the foreground next to Mason and Jim with fellow ADV'r and Anchorage'ite Reverend Don Deitz behind me.
I met Curtis when started a thread in the Alaska forum titled 'May Need A Place To Stay'. Eric, also of Atlanta, one of Curtis' 5 other travel mates had crashed on the way into AK. Luckily Eric was unhurt but they had to wait a few days for parts to arrive. I enjoyed putting them up and showing them around the Anchorage area for a few days. Curtis used to work for REI and Eric still does. I mention this because including the 3 of us from the Anchorage store, it makes for a total of at least 5 REI employees attending this motorcycle function. Not bad for such a supposed "green" bunch, eh?
Coming up: Bike Games in downtown Dawson. Fun, fun, fun, Mark H.
AKDuc screwed with this post 06-25-2008 at 06:33 PM
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I love your reports, Mark ! Keep 'em coming... PLEASE !
After a comment like that I'm going to have to buy a new hat.
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Nice report Mark- thanks for the call today- I will post my report later in the week, once I shrink down the 300 pics!
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Yes good stuff, it's fun to read about something, that I also did. And now that I know most of these people it's great.
Keep it commin, stay up later than your normal time. Let Comet type for a while.
Thanks again.
we are in Dawson Creek tonight headed for Jasper BC.
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Thank you, all. I'm glad to be able to share it with you.
Another fun filled D2D activity is the Poker Run that takes you up and around many of the active mining claims in the area as well as up to the top of some surrounding mountains for some amazing vistas. I did the Poker Run last year and had a great time but this year I really wanted to spend more time taking in the rich history found around town.
Seems others had a similar idea in that there were many riders just wandering around town taking in the sights. Nearly a dozen of us met up by chance up at the old cabin of Robert Service just in time to hear an informative but yet very entertaining Park Service employee do his 30min presentation on the literary great. And remember, compared to today's population of about 1,800, back in 1898 there were upwards of 40,000 people in Dawson during the gold rush! I would imagine that would make for a lot of material for people like Robert Service to put to pen.
Here's the sod roof cabin of Robert Service.
About a block farther down the street was the cabin of Jack London with a slightly more modern Park Service building just beyond. Hey, look who's on the boardwalk. It's Barb, Mason, and Jim B.
Want a slightly more modern log cabin? How about this one located between the cabins of Service and London?
Being on the banks of the Yukon, travel by the area's waterways played an important part thru history. Sternwheelers like this one were common back in the day.
And here's a paddlewheeler that takes people out on daily tours.
Had enough history? Okay then it's on to the Games!
Well to start off with, I think I was anticipating the bike games a bit TOO much this year as I was fraught with excitement and was very shaky and bombed out of almost every event straight away! I meant to practice the less than common maneuvers after last year's competition. But even bombing out didn't keep me, and everybody else for that matter, from having an absolutely GREAT time!
So just what are these "games" of which I speak? How about a slow bike race, a cone slalom, ball drop, and BLINDFOLD riding for solo riders! And for 2up we have the balloon toss and weenie bite contests.
And here's some photographic evidence of just some of the silly riding done up in the land of the "midnight sun." Of course my photos of the solo competition is a bit limited as I was a very trying and active participant.
ADV'r LostAussie took this one of me in the Blindfold Competition. Silly fun!
I got a few more of the 2up competition.
Here in the foreground are ADV'r Ace aka Jim H. and his pillion Alida (from Eagle!) and Jim B. and his son Mason beside them.
Let's start with the balloon toss. As you might imagine, if the balloons aren't caught, there's a pretty good chance of bike and riders getting a bit wet which can of course be very entertaining.
Hey, who's this?!? Why it's the great ADV'r Katoomer, aka Larry, and a lovely pillion who rode her own motorcycle up from California. Nice form! And would ya take a look at that photog getting himself right there into the action! That's ADV'r warp7, aka Will Rindom, who probably has about a million photos to go thru before his presentation.
Now what's this about a "weenie bite?" Well, here's how it's done by the award winning husband and wife team consisting of the renowned Hackymoto, aka Chad, and the beloved MotoMamma, aka Jeanne. They're at the end of a 9,000mi trip around the States and on their way home in Anchorage, AK.
The games are a lot of fun and I look forward to next year's. MAYBE I'll even give the 2up a try.
Coming up: An awesome Solstice sunset up on the Dome then the trip home.
AKDuc screwed with this post 06-26-2008 at 04:08 AM
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Great event, great ride, and great report!
Pretty soon I knew the tune,
And we sat and sang under the Moon
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I strongly encourage anyone interest in seeing more about D2D and the surrounding area to check out some other ride reports and some of the threads and posts in the 'Alaska' Forum. I've already seen some WAY awesome photos that others got.
Following the games this year's D2D stickers were passed out by ADV'r GlacierCraft aka Scott. They have the same awesome design as the t-shirts.
By now it was a little after midnight and the sun was just beginning to set. This is what it looked like in town.
Many of us got the idea of running up to the top of the Dome behind town for what we were sure was going to be a very spectacular Solstice sunset.
It was still pretty light when we got up there. That's Dawson and the Yukon River down below.
As it grew darker we were treated to one of the most impressive sunsets I've ever see. Awesome! Know that these photos are totally unretouched in any way other than being resized.
Next: Homeward bound.
AKDuc screwed with this post 06-25-2008 at 03:06 AM
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thanks mark!
Awesome pics Mark- I was kicking myself for leaving my camera down in town. Amazing sunset and great personalities to spend it with, so thanks for posting these and hope everyone made it home safe.
PS They'll be great to show friends in the Lower 48 why they call it the "land of the midnight sun".
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Thanks for the compliments, Jamie. We'll have to try to hook up so you can see the other shots I got too, if you'd like copies.
That's junebugak and her ADV dad John standing in front of the orange 'Motorcycle Friendly' sign. This photo was taken when ADV'r Jammin aka Jay had just arrived into Dawson from Chicago!
'Alaskan Indian meets East Indian'.
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THE hottest new material in town is light, strong and conducts electricity. What's more, it's been around a long, long time.
Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by processing wood pulp, is being hailed as the latest wonder material. Japan-based Pioneer Electronics is applying it to the next generation of flexible electronic displays. IBM is using it to create components for computers. Even the US army is getting in on the act, using it to make lightweight body armour and ballistic glass.
To ramp up production, the US opened its first NCC factory in Madison, Wisconsin, on 26 July, marking the rise of what the US National Science Foundation predicts will become a $600 billion industry by 2020.
So why all the fuss? Well, not only is NCC transparent but it is made from a tightly packed array of needle-like crystals which have a strength-to-weight ratio that is eight times better than stainless steel. Even better, it's incredibly cheap.
"It is the natural, renewable version of a carbon nanotube at a fraction of the price," says Jeff Youngblood of Purdue University's NanoForestry Institute in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The $1.7 million factory, which is owned by the US Forest Service, will produce two types of NCC: crystals and fibrils.
Production of NCC starts with "purified" wood, which has had compounds such as lignin and hemicellulose removed. It is then milled into a pulp and hydrolysed in acid to remove impurities before being separated and concentrated as crystals into a thick paste that can be applied to surfaces as a laminate or processed into strands, forming nanofibrils. These are hard, dense and tough, and can be forced into different shapes and sizes. When freeze-dried, the material is lightweight, absorbent and good at insulating.
"The beauty of this material is that it is so abundant we don't have to make it," says Youngblood. "We don't even have to use entire trees; nanocellulose is only 200 nanometres long. If we wanted we could use twigs and branches or even sawdust. We are turning waste into gold."
The US facility is the second pilot production plant for cellulose-based nanomaterials in the world. The much larger CelluForce facility opened in Montreal, Canada, in November 2011 and is now producing a tonne of NCC a day.
Theodore Wegner, assistant director of the US factory, says it will be producing NCC on a large scale. It will be sold at just several dollars a kilogram within a couple of years. He says it has taken this long to unlock the potential of NCC because the technology to explore its properties, such as electron scanning microscopes, only emerged in the last decade or so.
NCC will replace metal and plastic car parts and could make nonorganic plastics obsolete in the not-too-distant future, says Phil Jones, director of new ventures and disruptive technologies at the French mineral processing company IMERYS. "Anyone who makes a car or a plastic bag will want to get in on this," he says.
In addition, the human body can deal with cellulose safely, says Jones, so NCC is less dangerous to process than inorganic composites. "The worst thing that could happen is a paper cut," he says.
When this article was first posted, Jeff Youngblood was incorrectly quoted as saying that nanocellulose is 2 nanometres long. It also incorrectly stated that NCC material has eight times the tensile strength of stainless steel – this has now been corrected.
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There aren't many occasions in Parliament where you will look back and say 'I was there', but yesterday for Tony Blair's final PMQs would be one of them.
One of the little known quirks of the House of Commons is that if you want a guaranteed seat for a big occasion you have to turn up at 8am and put in a 'prayer card' in the seat you want. You then turn up at the start of business (1130 on a Wednesday) and attend the three minutes of prayers that starts each day, and then the seat is yours for the day.
Suffice it to say that there was a lot of prayer went on yesterday!
The occasion itself was a bit anticlimactic at first. Virtually every week the PM starts by saluting the British service personnel who have died in the previous week, and this always sets a sombre tone. Early on the Tory leader gets his 6 questions, and he chose to play it very low key, finding common ground and then just wishing TB well. Ming Campbell raised issues about how our injured service personnel are being treated and then also wished TB well.
Things got more lively later on - a Tory Eurosceptic accused TB of selling out at the recent Summit and TB finished off his reply with "Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehn & Arrivederci", a Lib Dem colleague asked about disestablishing the Church of England and TB said he really "wasn't bovvered", and then Ian Paisley gave a long testimonial which was suprisingly generous. Finally the 'father of the house' (ie the longest serving MP) paid a prepared tribute, and TB left to a standing ovation on all sides. His final comment was that although politics gets a bad press, most of the time it is the pursuit of noble causes - and on that, at least, I agree with him.
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Blair's farewell
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I didn't understand the "not bovvered" thing. Unseemly flippancy. Otherwise TB bowed out very well indeed.
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Vote yes to Free Europe Constitution at www.FreeEurope.info - a constitution deserving its name: limiting the powers of politics.
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Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1989
M.R.E Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary, 1982
B.S. in History and Education, North Dakota State University, 1982
B.A. in New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago, 1974.
Research Associate at the Jonathan Edwards Centre Africa, University of the Free State, South Africa. Appointed 2013
Fellow, Institute for Theological Inquiry, Efrat, Israel. Appointed 2010.
Nominated for Exemplary Teaching Award, 2009.
Appointed as Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion, July 2008
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. Appointed as Fellow 2006. Co-Directors: Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson. Varying grants to support scholarly work.
Copenhaver Visiting Scholar Grant, to bring Hungarian literary critic Tibor Fabiny to Roanoke College for the fall of 2006, $15, 500.
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Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, Mednick Fellowship, 1995, $800, for research trip to Yale's Beinecke Library.
Presbyterian Historical Society, 1993 Woodrow Wilson Award for outstanding scholarly article: "Jonathan Edwards, the City on a Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal," $100.
Selected by Roanoke College student body to give the "Last Lecture" December 1993 (first professor selected)
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Fellowship for Young Scholars in American Religion, 1992-93, $1000 plus expenses for four trips to Indianapolis to work with Catherine Albanese and William Hutchison.
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University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts, Ada Louise Ballard Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1988-89, $7000.
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(with Michael McClymond) The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford University Press, 2012). First-ever comprehensive survey (46 chapters) of the religious thought of America's theologian. Winner of Christianity Today's Book Award in Theology/Ethics for 2103.
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The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology (Oxford University Press, October 2010). I edited this collection of 32 essays by the world's top evangelical thinkers.
Understanding Jonathan Edwards: Introducing America's Theologian (Oxford University Press, 2008). A collection of essays by Edwards scholars, and responses to each by European scholars from a variety of disciplines, pitched at a level that is accessible to the general reader.
Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths (Oxford University Press, 2000). Study of Edwards's battles with deism over reason, revelation and the religions. One of the "Top 100 Books from 2000 - 2007," in cover story, World magazine, June 30/July 7, 2007.
World Religions: An Indispensable Introduction (Thomas Nelson, 2011). A concise overview of how most of the people in the world think about what is most important to them. (new, adapted version of The Baker Pocket Guide to World Religions)
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God's Rivals: Why God Allows Different Religions-Insights from the Bible and the Early Church (InterVarsity Academic, January 2007). Explorations of the Bible and early Greek theologians on the meaning of religious pluralism.
Can Evangelicals Learn from Non-Christian Religions? Jesus, Revelation and the Religions. (InterVarsity Press, 2000). First book-length evangelical reflection on the possibility of revelation in non-Christian religions.
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One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Penn State Press, 1992). The first comprehensive study of Edwards's socio-political theory.
Seeing God: Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Discernment (Regent College Publishing, 2000; first edition. InterVarsity Press, 1995). A rewriting of Edwards's Religious Affections, drawing on the masters of Christian spirituality and lessons from church history.
(with William A. Fintel, M.D.) Cancer: A Medical and Theological Guide for Patients and Their Families (Baker Books, June 2004). Contains updated medical chapters and new chapters on alternative medicine and the mind-body connection.
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"The Real Differences Between Mormons and Orthodox Christians," Christianity Today Online (Oct. 12, 2012) http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/october-web-only/differences-between-mormonism-christianity.html
"The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ," in Carl Braaten, ed., No Other Name: Salvation Through Christ Alone (Delhi, NY: American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 2012), 19-37.
"Mormonism and the Christian Tradition," in Carl Mosser and Richard Sherlock, eds., The Mormon World (Oxford: Routledge, forthcoming).
"Jesus, Paul, and Israel's Covenant: What Can Christians and Jews Learn from One Another?" in Robert Jenson and Eugene Korn, eds., Covenant and Hope: Christian and Jewish Reflections (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 19-40.
"Nathanael Emmons and the Decline of Edwardsean Theology," in Doug Sweeney and Oliver Crisp, eds., After Jonathan Edwards: The Courses of the New England Theology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 118-29.
"Evangelicals Divided," First Things 212 (April 2011), 45-50.
"Revelation as Divine Communication Through Reason, Scripture and Tradition," in Don Schweitzer, ed., Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary: Essays in Honor of Sang Hyun Lee (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), 187-206.
"God, the Devil, and the King's Speech," First Things Online, March 15, 2011 http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/03/god-the-devil-and-the-kingrsquos-speech
"Israel and the Vatican," First Things Online, November 11, 2010, http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/11/catholics-and-israel58-reversing-the-momentum
"From the Ancient to the Contemporary: What We Can Learn from the Church's Earliest Theologians About Responding to New Religious Movements," in Michael T. Cooper, ed., Perspectives on Post-Christendom Spiritualities: Reflections on New Religious Movements and Western Spiritualities (Macquarie Park, Australia: Morling Press, 2010), 39-56.
"Is Sola Scriptura Really Sola? Edwards, Newman, Bultmann and Wright on the Bible as Religious Authority," in Robert Millet, ed., By What Authority? The Vital Place of Religious Authority in American Christianity (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2010), 66-95.
"On the Jesus Trail: What we learned from Jews, Muslims and Arab Christians as we traveled the footsteps of Christ in Galilee," Christianity Today (April 2010), 30-35.
"The Emerging Divide in Evangelical Theology," in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (March 2013).
"Jonathan Edwards and the Christian Life," Journal of Lutheran Ethics (November 2009), http://www.elca.org/JLE/Articles/350
"The Global Pursuit of God," in Map: A Travel Lifestyle Magazine (July 2008, online)
"Is Mormonism Christian?" First Things 18 (October 2008), 38-41.
"Gerald R. McDermott replies," First Things 19 (February 2009), 7-9.
"'Wir lieben ihn alle!': Auch unter Anglikanern und Baptisten gibt es viele, die dem Besucher aus Rom freundlich und aufmerksam zuhören werden," RheinischerMerkur (10 April 2008), 9.
(with Carol Swain), "The Abortion Industry: Planned Parenthood and the machine of death," Washington Times (26 March 2008), Op-Ed page.
"Did Romney's Speech Reach Evangelicals?" Roanoke Times (December 16, 2007), Horizon 3.
"The Great Divider: Jonathan Edwards and American Culture," Books and Culture 16:1 (January/February 2010), 19-23.
"Jonathan Edwards and Justification-More Protestant or Catholic?" Pro Ecclesia 17:1 (Winter 2007), 92-111.
"Who Are These Evangelicals?" Roanoke Times (October 25, 2007), Virginia 9.
"A Coming Abortion Earthquake?" Roanoke Times (June 26, 2007), Virginia 9.
"Mitt Romney and Evangelicals," Christianity Today Online (May 23, 2007).
"Three Myths About Israel," Roanoke Times (May 20, 2007), Horizon 3.
"Persuasion and Indoctrination in Lutheran Colleges," in Michael Shahan, ed., A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology-A Festshrift in honor of Robert Benne (Eerdmans, 2009), 120-40.
"Suffering, Courage and Theological Conflict: Learning from the Cappadocians," Theology Matters (November 2006), 6-7.
"Evangelicals and Israel," in Alan Mittelman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman, eds., Uneasy Allies? Evangelical and Jewish Relations (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 127-54.
"Testing Stark's Thesis: Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?" in John W. Welch, ed., The Worlds of Joseph Smith (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2006), 271-92.
"Reviving Disputation: Right and Wrong Ways to Think About Other Religions," Pro Ecclesia XIV:4 (Fall 2005), 487-93
"Will Mormonism Become the Next Great World Religion?" Books and Culture 12:1 (Jan-Feb 2006), 9-11, 42-46.
"The Eighteenth-Century Culture War: Thomas Jefferson and Jonathan Edwards on Religion and the Religions," Litteraria Pragensia 15:29 (2005), 48-63.
"Kein primitiver Glaube: Evangelikale widerlegen ein Vor-urteil und warden einflussreicher," Confessio Augustana I (2005), 48-51.
"Jesus and the Religions: My Response to Leicester Longden," in Reformation and Revival 15:2 (2006), 147-51.
"Homosexuality: A Theological Analysis," in Reformation and Revival 15:2 (2006), 67-80.
"Does Doctrine Matter?" The Anglican Digest 47:1 (Lent 2005), 47-48.
"Missions, and Native Americans," in Sang Hyun Lee, ed.,The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, January 2005), 258-73.
"Jonathan Edwards on Justification: Closer to Luther or Aquinas?" Reformation and Revival Journal 14:1 (2005), 119-38.
"Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions," in Kenneth Minkema and Harry Stout, eds., Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth (Lanham, Md., University Press of America, 2005), 65-85.
"The Tension Between Land and Peace: Evangelical Christians, Israel, and the Jews," in Center Conversations 25 (Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, November 2003), 1-13.
"Jonathan Edwards Responds to Deism," Theology Matters 9:6 (Nov/Dec 2003), 9-12.
"Jonathan Edwards, Theologian for the Church," Reformation and Revival 12:3 (Summer 2003), 11-23.
"Which Palestine? Whose Land? A Response to Doug Howard," Fides et Historia XXXV:2 (Summer/Fall 2003), 79-84.
"Jesus and the Religions: A New Paradigm for Christian Engagement?" Books and Culture (Jan./Feb. 2004), 9-11.
"Jonathan Edwards, The American Mind," The Weekly Standard (Oct. 20, 2003), 37-41.
"Holy Pagans," Christian History XXII:1 (February 2003), 38-39.
"Poverty, Patriotism, and National Covenant: Jonathan Edwards and Public Life," Journal of Religious Ethics 31:2 (Summer 2003), 229-51, 316-18.
"Jonathan Edwards and the National Covenant: Was He Right?" in D.G. Hart et al, eds., The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: American Religion and the Evangelical Tradition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, June 2003), 147-57.
"Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, and Non-Christian Religions," in Oliver Crisp and Paul Helm, eds., Jonathan Edwards, Philosophical Theologian (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), 127-37.
"Christ vs. Many Gods," in Uwe Siemon-Netto, ed., One Incarnate Truth: Christianity's Answer to Spiritual Chaos (St. Louis: Concordia, 2002), 57-62.
"The Land: Evangelicals and Israel," Books and Culture 9:3 (March/April 2003), 8-9,40-42.
"What Is Fear of God?" The Anglican Digest 44:4 (Transfiguration 2002), 8-10.
"Response to Gilbert: 'The Nations Will Worship: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of the Heathen,'" Trinity Journal 23NS (2002), 77-80.
"What If Paul Had Been From China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in Non-Christian Religions," in John G. Stackhouse, ed., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001), 17-35.
**This book won Christianity Today's 2002 Book Award for Missions and Global Affairs.
"Jesus Christ, Postmodern Pluralism and World Religions," part of United Press International's on-line "Christ and Postmodernity" series, January 2001, http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upisearch.cfm
"Deism" (5000 words) in Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed., The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (New York: Routledge, 2004), 568-74.
"What if Paul Had Gone to China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in the Religions" in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., No Other Gods Before Me? Evangelicals and the Challenge of World Religions (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001).
"A Possibility of Reconciliation: Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non-Christians," in Sang Lee and Alan Guelzo, eds. Edwards in our Time: Jonathan Edwards and Contemporary Theological Issues (Eerdmans, 1999), 173-202.
"Jonathan Edwards and American Indians: 'The Devil Sucks Their Blood,'" in The New England Quarterly 72:4 (Dec. 1999), 539-57.
"The Tongue is a Witch: Speech and Power," in Books and Culture 7:4 (July/August 2001), 37-8.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Salvation of Non-Christians," in Pro Ecclesia IX:2 (Spring 2000), 208-27.
"Jonathan Edwards, Deism, and the Mystery of Revelation," Journal of Presbyterian History 77:4(Winter 1999), 211-24.
"Jonathan Edwards," "Charles Chauncy, "John Clarke," and "John Cotton" in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed.), forthcoming.
"Jonathan Edwards on Revival, Spiritual Discernment, and God's Beauty," in Reformation and Revival 6:1 (Winter 1997), 103-14.
Syllabus and rationale for "Religion in America" published in Course Outlines: Young Scholars in American Religion. Indianapolis: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, February 1993.
"Edwards and Islam: The Deist Connection," in Jonathan Edwards's Writings: Text, Context, Interpretation, ed. Stephen J. Stein (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996), 39-51.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Culture Wars: A New Resource for Public Theology and Philosophy, in "Pro Ecclesia IV: 3 (Summer 1995), 268-80.
"A Deeply Concealed Kinship: Heidegger and Zen," in Journal of Religious Studies 18, nos. 1&2 (1992), 114-24.
"Jonathan Edwards, the City on a Hill, and the Redeemer Nation: A Reappraisal," in American Presbyterians/Journal of Presbyterian History 69: 1 (Spring 1991), 33-47.
"Karma and Rebirth as Christian Pedagogy: Geddes MacGregor's Attempt to Synthesize Reincarnation and Christianity," in Journal of Religious Studies 16: 1-2 (1990), 157-73.
"Civil Religion in the American Revolution: An Historiographic Analysis," in Christian Scholar's Review XVIII: 4(June 1989), 346-62.
"What Jonathan Edwards Can Teach Us About Politics," Christianity Today 38: 8 (July 18, 1994), 32-35.
(with William Fintel, MD.) "Cancer: This threatening word can teach us a great deal about life," Today's Better Life 3:1 (Fall 1993), 88-91.
"Esther Burr," "William Robinson," and "John Smalley" in Donald Lewis, ed., A Dictionary of Evangelical Biography (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
"The Eighteenth-Century Awakening: A Reminder to Evangelicals in the 1990s," National and International Religion Report 6: 26 Special Supplement (Dec. 14, 1992), 1-4.
Selected Reviews
Carl Braaten, Because of Christ, in Themelios 36:1 (April 2011), 146-47.
Philip Johnson and Gus diZerega, Pagans and Christians in Dialogue, in Sacred Tribes Journal 3.2 (2008):188-193.
William Danaher, The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards, in Journal of Religion 86:3 (July 2006), 483-84.
Philip F. Gura, Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical, in History: Reviews of New Books 34:2 (Winter 2006), 45-46.
Massimo Serretti, ed., The Uniqueness and Universality of Jesus Christ, in Dialogue and Alliance 18:2 (Fall/Winter 2005), 125-27.
George R. Sumner, The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions in The Cresset LXVIII: 4 (Easter 2005), 51-54.
E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War in Pro Ecclesia XIII (Summer 2004), 359-61.
Jacques Dupuis, Christianity and the Religions: From Confrontation to Dialogue, in Monastic Interreligious Studies Bulletin 70 (March 2003), 13-15.
Minou Reeves, Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Myth-Making, in The Sixteenth-Century Journal 35:4 (Winter 2004), 1197-99.
Timothy Tennent, Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, in Studies in World Christianity (2002), 8:2, 320-22.
Robert E. Brown, Jonathan Edwards and the Bible, in Catholic Historical Review (April 2003), 336-37.
Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism, and Secor, Sermons of Richard Hooker: The Power of Faith, The Mystery of Grace in The Sixteenth-Century Journal XXXIII/3 (fall 2002), 827-29.
"True Pluralism," review essay of S. Mark Heim, The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends in The Cresset (Christmas/Epiphany 2001-02), 28-31.
David Noel Freedman and Michael J. McClymond, eds., The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad as Religious Founders in Princeton Seminary Bulletin XXIII:2 (July 2002), 248-51.
Stephen R. Holmes, God of Grace & God of Glory: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards in Pro Ecclesia XI:3 (Summer 2002), 369-71.
Wilson H. Kimnach, Kenneth P. Minkema, & Douglas A. Sweeney, eds. The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader in American Religious Experience (on-line journal at http://are.as.wvu.edu), Dec. 1999.
Leon Chai, Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy in Cross Currents 49:2 (Summer 1999), 270-74.
Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards in William and Mary Quarterly 53:3 (July 1996), 658-60.
Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards Religious Tradition., and American Culture in Cross-Currents 46, no. 3 (Fall 1996), 426-27.
Lawrence Foster, Women Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers. The Oneida Community. and the Mormons in Critical Review of Books in Religion 54 (1994), 537-39.
Francis J. Eremer, ed. Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Faith in American Historical Review (Dec. 1995), 1663-64.
Mason Lowance and Wallace Anderson, eds, Works of Jonathan. Edwards Vol. 11: Typological Writings in Church History 65: 1 (March 1996), 109-110.
Knud Haakonssen. ed. Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-century Britain in Fides et Historia 29: 2 (Summer 1997): 115-16.
Allen C. Guelzo's Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate in American Presbyterians/Journal of Presbyterian History 70:3 (Fall 1992), 195-200.
Anri Morimoto, Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation in Theology Today 53:2 July 1996), 278.
Conference Papers and Public Lectures"Drawn by Beauty: Jonathan Edwards and the Vision of God," Feb. 17, 2013, lecture for Christian Scholars Network, Blacksburg, Va.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity," lecture at Karoli Gaspar University in Budapest, Hungary, March 9, 2012.
"Pluralism and truth," lecture for students at the Martin Bible School, Martin, Slovakia, and later that day on the same subject to an open gathering of students and people from the community in Presov, Slovakia, March 7, 2012.
"A Theology of experience and its implications for dogmatics and ethics"; "Pluralism and truth"-two lectures at the University of Zilina, Slovakia, March 6, 2012.
"Christianity and the world religions: The uniqueness and universality of Jesus Christ," lecture to Lutheran pastors at the Martin Bible School in Martin, Slovakia, March 5, 2012.
Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity," Berry College, February 15, 2012.
"Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening, and the Future of Global Christianity," invited lecture at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, February 14, 2012.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity," keynote address to Jonathan Edwards conference in Wroclaw, Poland, 31 May 2011.
"The affections and the human person: Edwards on religious experience," paper at Edwards conference in Wroclaw, Poland, 1 June 2011.
"Sorting out the genuine from the counterfeit-Edwards and the spirits," concluding session at Edwards conference in Wroclaw, Poland, 1 June 2011.
"Literary Artistry in Edwards's Preaching," lecture to American Studies Department at the University of Krakow, 2 June 2011.
"Jonathan Edwards and Spiritual Discernment," May 27-29, 2011 three days of lecturing to 200 Protestant pastors from fourteen denominations in Camaguey, Cuba.
"Jesus, Paul, and Israel's Covenant: What can Christians and Jews learn from one another?" at the International Conference on, Conversion, Covenant, and Hope in the Human Future," Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem, 13 February 2011.
"The Great Theologians," featured speaker for Anglican Missional Pastor program, Chapel Hill, NC, January 21, 2011.
"The emerging divide in evangelical theology," invited lecture at Covenant Seminary in St. Louis, 17 November 2010
"Jonathan Edwards as pivotal theologian for the 21st century," lecture to graduate seminar at St. Louis University, 17 November 2010.
"Covenant, Mission, and the Other," invited paper at Yale conference on Jewish-Christian Dialogue, October 26, 2010.
"Jonathan Edwards and Justification: A New Approach" at "Jonathan Edwards for the New Millennium" conference in Northampton, MA, Oct 1-2, 2010.
"Faith and Pluralism: Christianity Among Other Religions," 2009 Faith and Life Lecture, Plymouth, MN, November 20, 2009.
"Jesus and the Religions," featured speaker for Anglican Missional Pastor program, Chapel Hill, NC, November 13, 2009.
"Covenant, Mission, and Relating to the Other," delivered for the Institute for Theological Inquiry at the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efat, Israel, July 2009.
"Jonathan Edwards and World Religions," keynote address at Joint Initiation Ceremonies of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Honor Societies at James Madison University, 23 April, 2007.
"Gods, Principalities and Powers in the Bible, and Their Implications for Christian Theology of the Religions," paper delivered to the Special Topics Forum on Christian Theology of the Religions at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC, 19 November, 2006.
"Rival Gods in the Old Testament, and Their Implications for an Evangelical Theology of the Religions," Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization's ongoing issue group on postmodern and alternative spiritualities, Hong Kong, September 30 - October 6, 2006.
"Is Sola Scriptura Really Sola? Edwards, Newman, Bultmann and Wright on the Bible as Religious Authority," conference on "Religious Authority in Christianity" at Brigham Young University, April 8, 2006.
"Edwards on the Trinity," Evangelical Theological Society, Philadelphia, PA, 18 November 2005.
"Yahweh and the Gods: The Old Testament's Surprising Approaches to Other Religions,"Baylor University's 2005 Pruit Memorial Symposium: "Global Christianity: Challenging Modernity and the West," 12 November 2005.
"Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions," at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 4 November 2005.
"Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Jefferson on Religion and the Religions," lecture sponsored by the English and American Studies Departments, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), 25 May 2005.
"Jonathan Edwards and the World Religions," lecture co-sponsored by the Protestant Missionary Center and the Center for Hermeneutical Research, Budapest (Hungary), 30 May 2005.
"Testing the Stark Thesis: Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?" "The Worlds of Joseph Smith" Conference, Library of Congress, 7 May 2005.
"Evangelicals and the State of Israel," Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., 15 April 2005. I was one of two featured speakers, addressing congressional staffers.
"An Analysis of the Evangelical Left," Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, DC, 4 April 2005.
"Psychic Abandonment, and How to Deal With It," five lectures delivered at the 2005 HPR III Training Institute, conference for behavioral healthcare employees and practitioners, 14 March 2005, Roanoke, VA.
"Jonathan Edwards, the Prisca Theologia and Spiritual Discernment," three days of lectures for faculty at Brigham Young University, sponsored by the Richard Evans Chair for Religious Understanding.
"The Bible and Gay Marriage," at an "Interfaith Conference: Defending Marriage and Family," Family Action Council International, Washington, DC, 28 February 2004.
"Franklin, Jefferson and Edwards on Religion and the Religions," for"Edwards at 300: A National Symposium on Jonathan Edwards"
Library of Congress, 3-4 October 2003.
"Jonathan Edwards, Missions, and Native Americans," at "Jonathan Edwards the Theologian," international conference sponsored by Princeton Seminary, 12 April 2003.
"Why Did the Triune God Permit the Rise and Flourishing of the Great Non-Christian Religions?" public lecture at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, 12 December 2002.
"A Conversation with Gerald McDermott: Jonathan Edwards and World Religions," annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Toronto, Canada, 22 October 2002. Three theologians responded to my paper.Delivered the 2002 Miller Lecture at Valparaiso University, "Beauty, Mysticism and Damnation: Jonathan Edwards as America's Theologian," February 11, 2002.
"Evangelicals and Israel," at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC, 21 November 2002. I was the featured speaker at a conference for twenty evangelical leaders from around the country, plus representatives from the White House, State and Defense Departments.
"The Tension Between Land and Peace: Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians, Israel and the Jews," at the The Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in the World Religions, Jerusalem, 24 July 2002.
"Persuasion in the Lutheran Academy," at the Lutheran Academy of Scholars in Higher Education conference at Midland College in Nebraska, 1 August 2000"Spiritual Discernment in an Age of Deception: Wisdom from America's Greatest Theologian (Jonathan Edwards)," series of addresses at conference sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Institute, Washington, D.C.:, November 3-5, 2000.
"What if Paul Had Gone to China? Reflections on the Possibility of Revelation in the Religions," at Regent College's Fall Theology Conference, Vancouver, B.C., 13 October 2000.
Chaired session and responded to two papers on political economy at the International Jonathan Edwards Conference, Miami, March 10, 2000.
"Jonathan Edwards and Non-Christian Religions: Using the Ancient Theology to Recast the History of Religions," at the American Society of Church History meeting in San Diego, April 23, 1999."Jonathan Edwards and the Deists" at the American Society of Church History meeting in Nashville, TN, April 26, 1998.
"Hope for the Heathen: Jonathan Edwards on the Eschatological Destiny of Non-Christians" at the national conference, "Jonathan Edwards and Current Theological Issues," Philadelphia, PA, October 3-5, 1996.
"Why Doth Jonathan Rage? Understanding Edwards's Hostility to Islam," presented to the national Edwards conference at University of Indiana, June 4, 1994.
"The Privileges and Duties of Subjects: Jonathan Edwards's Theology of Patriotism," presented to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meetings, April 14-17, 1994, Atlanta.
"Jonathan Edwards and the Culture Wars: A New Resource for Public Theology and Philosophy," presented at "Jonathan Edwards in Historical Perspective" conference at the Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 31, 1993.
"Why Doth Edwards Rage? Understanding Eighteenth-century Orthodox Hostility to Islam," presented to the June 1993 meetings of Young Scholars in American Religion, Institute for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indianapolis.
"The Public Theology of Nathanael Emmons: Continuing the Edwardsean Tradition of Dissent," given at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, March 14, 1992, Atlanta, GA.
Other Scholarly and Professional Service
I co-taught a week-long seminar on church and state in early America at Princeton University in August for professors from around the country, under the auspices of the Witherspoon Institute. My fellow teachers were Harry Stout (Yale University) and Mark Noll (Notre Dame).
I Serve as a director of the Messianic Theology working group, hosted each year by the SMU Theology Department.
On May 29, 2012, I was interviewed by Mars Hill Audio, Charlottesville, hosted by Ken Myers, on my new book, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards
In April 2012, on behalf of the Alliance Defense Fund, I prepared a 20-page report as an expert witness in Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education 01-CV-08598-LAP.
Co-produced 4-part TV series on Religion in America for WBRA, the public television station in Roanoke. The four one-hour shows (religious experience, alternative religions, religion and politics, religion and science) aired in October 2000.
Delivered plenary lecture, "Do We Really Need to Be Healthy?" at the "Faith, Health and Community Life" symposium sponsored by Carilion Health System at Roanoke College October 13, 1999.
Served as Acting Director of Center for Church and Society, Roanoke College, 1999-2000.
Consulted with the George H. Gallup International Institute on an instrument to measure spiritual maturity in American congregations, 1996-1999.
Served as expert witness in "cult" case in San Francisco May 4-8, 1998.
Served on panel of four to plan a conference on religion and the arts sponsored by the Luce Foundation, Boston, June 11-13, 1993.
Served on the Brewer Prize Committee for the American Society of Church History, March-April 1998.
Lectured on Edwards and aesthetics at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, PA, on April 23, 1997.
Spoke on Edwards and spiritual discernment at a staff training retreat outside of Pittsburgh for the Coalition for Christian Outreach, April 24-25, 1997.
Lectured on Jonathan Edwards and non-Christian religions at Princeton Theological Seminary April 8, 1996, and at Robert Wuthnow's seminar for the history and sociology departments at Princeton University, April 26, 1996.
Lectured as the Ronald Nelson Visiting Scholar at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, Oct. 11-13, 1995. Lectured on faith and medicine at Wartburg College, Oct. 19, 1995. Lectured on American religion at Pazmany Peter University and the Karoli Reformed University in Budapest, Hungary, May 2-12, 1995. Lectured on the affections and the world religions at Malone College, Canton, OH, Feb. 19-20, 2001.
Served as outside reader for masters theses at Virginia Episcopal Seminary (1994) and Liberty University (1995)
Reviewed book manuscripts for Penn State Press, 1992 and 1993, book proposal for Oxford University Press, 1999, and manuscript for Yale University Press, 2001.
Reviewed textbook manuscript for St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Lectured on Jonathan Edwards at the Brazilian Baptist Seminary in Sao Paulo, August 1992
Refereed 70 proposals for NEH Summer Stipend in November 1991
Served as editor for National and International Religion Report 1992-93.
Refereed articles for Church History and William and Mary Quarterly
Served as Acting Director of Center for Church and Society, Roanoke College, 1992-93, 1999-2000
Gave seminars (with William A. Fintel, M.D.) on faith and medicine at Roanoke Memorial Hospital (spring 1993), Chicago chapter of the Christian Medical and Dental Society (October 1993), the national conference of the ACTS cable-TV network in Jacksonville, FL (November 1993), and Allegheny Regional Hospital in Clifton Forge, VA, Oct. 8, 1994
Lectured on faith and palliative care at the Ethics Conference sponsored by Carilion Health Systems (Roanoke, Sept. 24, 1998) and at the Virginia Breast Cancer Education Conference sponsored by the Virginia Department of Health (Richmond, October 5, 1998), on faith and health at the Faith, Health and Community Symposium co-sponsored by Carilion Health Systems and Roanoke College (October 13, 1999), and on interdisciplinary knowledge with oncologist William Fintel for the graduate student chapter of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at the University of Virginia (Feb. 4, 2000).
Was featured speaker at the Graham Gilmer Memorial Bible Conference at Rivermont Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, Sept. 20-22, 2003.
Current service:
I am an editor of the online journal, Jonathan Edwards Studies.
I am a board member of the Evangelical Chapter of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy.
I serve on the Board of Advisors of The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC), located in Efrat Israel.
I am on the editorial board of the online journal Sacred Tribes.
I am a research fellow of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies.
I was invited by the George H. Gallup International Institute to serve as a consultant for its "Spiritual Health of the Nation" project. Headed by John DiIulio and Byron Johnson, it offers a "State of Spiritual Health of the Nation" report each year at the same time as the President's "State of the Union" address, measuring the inner resources of the populace needed to move the nation ahead in a positive direction.
I am an Anglican priest who now serves as Teaching Pastor at St John Lutheran Church in Roanoke, Virginia.
Roanoke College, Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion, 2008-
Roanoke College, Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 2002-2008
Roanoke College, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 1996-2002.
Roanoke College, Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy, 1989-95.
University of Iowa, Teaching Assistant, 1985-87.
Jonathan Edwards Sermons Project, Yale University, Transcriber,
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Theology of Jonathan Edwards; Christian Theology of World Religions; History of World Christianity I and II; Introduction to Islam; (with Paul Hinlicky) Born Again? Catholic and Protestant Perspectives on Baptism and New Birth; Religion in America (history and current manifestations of; focused primarily on history of theology); New Religions in America (non-traditional religious communities); Living Religions of the World; (co-taught) Religions and Philosophies of China; Religions of the Middle East (on site in Turkey, Egypt and Israel); Values and the Responsible Life (introduction to religious and philosophical ethics); the Reformation; the Development of Christianity (early church from the close of the canon to the dawn of the Reformation); New Testament; Introduction to Christianity; Religious Pluralism (exploration of the issues of truth and revelation); The Self in Autobiography.


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Scarce Choice Fine 1793 Chain Cent1793 Chain 1C Periods Fine 15 NGC. S-4, B-5, High R.3. The Chain cent with periods following the date and LIBERTY is a separate Guide Book type that is represented by only one variety. As a result, it is in extreme demand from both variety specialists and Guide Book type collectors. The Chain cents were the first of the three major design groups struck in 1793, as the Philadelphia Mint began producing our nation's coinage. Five different die varieties of the 1793 Chain cents are known, although one of the five is extremely rare, with only two known specimens.
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This piece has deep gray-brown surfaces with moderate granularity, occasional subtle spots, and a couple of minor rim dings, typical for surviving 1793 Chain cents. EAC 8.(Registry values: P5) (PCGS# 91341)
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Rasmussen Special Edition Catalog
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