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The general consensus among the fashion insiders is that Paul Ryan has terrible style. Style "experts" everywhere are clicking their tongues and lamenting the fact that Mitt Romney's VP pick forgoes tailored suits for his "Dad's suit", that he never wears a tie, and that his square-toed shoes are, well, square-toed. But is his style truly that bad, or are they just too critical?
Esquire's style and grooming editor Kurt Soller has many strong feelings about Ryan's wardrobe. He says Ryan wears "trash-bag black suit[s]" and that there's "something linebacker-like about those shoulders", which is not a good thing unless you really are a linebacker. Soller is even offended by Ryan's lack of a tie, which the rep seems determined not to wear. He likes to leave a button or two open, and air out his neck.
Cathy Horyn of The New York Times says Ryan appeared to be "swimming in his coat" when he was announced as Romney's veep candidate this past weekend. She went straight to her buddy Bruce Pask at T magazine, who posits:
"Like many American suit wearers, I think he suffers from the misconception that the size a guy wears directly correlates with his masculinity. In their minds, being a 42 is more manly than a 40. And yet what actually happens when a guy wears something too big is the obvious: he looks smaller, dwarfed by shoulders that are too big, a shirt collar that is too roomy, lapels that are too wide. A suit should properly contain the body. It's a very empowering thing to wear a jacket that hugs the torso, a shape that you fill completely and appropriately."
Who knew there was so much psychology behind a single suit? But we are in complete agreement with Pask in that a suit should fit the man. Especially now that TMZ has uncovered this shirtless photo of the cut politico — why hide those abs under all that extra fabric?. Some more figure-flattering clothes would definitely be welcomed.
And that's not all. The sharp eyes over at Women's Wear Daily dissected Ryan's attire in their "Man of the Week" article, and graded him a big, fat "C". The reasons are similar to what Soller, Horyn, and Pask have said — Ryan's suits need tailoring, his pants are baggy, and his square-toed shoes are "one of the most grievous mistakes a man can make". Ouch.
But The Washington Post's Katherine Boyle thinks Ryan's style offsets Romney's. It's quite the backhanded compliment, but one that can't be ruled out in the game of politics:
"Perhaps his raw, slightly unkempt suit balances out Romney's snazzier, controlled appearance. Ryan's Midwestern sensibilities and baggy pants may appeal to swing voters who think cuff links are wasteful expenditures. The man believes in trimming budgets, not pant legs."
We completely agree that he could use a tailor, but so could most other wonks. (Have you been to D.C. lately?) As ill-fitting and baggy as Ryan's shirts and suits are, it could also be read a savvy move on his part to seem one with the average American man's style — which is sadly subpar. But will his clothes actually come into play when it comes down to crunch time? That's to be seen. In the meantime, checked shirts with oversized jeans certainly aren't doing him any favors.
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11 Essential Elements Of A Basic Marketing Plan
If you are going to sell products and/or services, you should have a marketing plan. You could just "wing it" like most people do, but you are likely to have better results if you do some planning up front. You don't need to go crazy and come up with a 100-page marketing plan, but just as with everything, if you have some idea where you're trying to go, it's likely going to be easier to get there.
So, here's an overview of the elements of a basic marketing plan, as well as a few tips about how to look at them and how to optimize your results. Note: marketing plans come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of sophistication. The elements covered here are the fundamentals. You can and should go far more in depth, if you are so inclined.
Marketing Plan Element #1: Brief Description Of Problem You're Solving For Customers
I like to see marketing plans start with a "problem statement". That immediately forces the entrepreneur to think about and articulate what they are selling in terms of the customers' needs. As you know, customers buy benefits, not features, so it's key to consider what problem your product and/or service is solving for your prospective customer. That's what they're buying. For example, to use the old marketing adage (paraphrasing), customers don't buy a drill; they buy the ability to make a hole.
Marketing Plan Element #2: Description of Your Products and Services
In this section, provide a description of the products and services you offer, or plan to offer. Nothing fancy here and you don't have to go into scientific or technical detail regarding every aspect of your offerings. Rather, this is where you describe your offerings and how they solve the customer problems you identified in Element #1.
Marketing Plan Element #3: Overview of The Market Opportunity
Here you cover the overall size of the market, in terms of units and dollar value. If you are coming out with a new, innovative product, there may not be sales of that specific product, as yet. However, that is not an excuse for not trying to estimate the overall size of the market for what you're offering. Having an overall market size estimate is important, particularly in order to "sanity check" your sales goals and projections. Depending how far and wide you will distribute your product or provide your service, make sure that you break the market size estimates into relevant geographic sub-totals.
Marketing Plan Element #4: Competitor and Substitute Analysis
This section will include a matrix of your competitors that sell the same product or services, and of substitutes, which may not be exactly the same, but may solve some, or all, of the problem that your prospective customers care about. As discussed, your prospects don't particularly care how the problem is solved; they just want it done as quickly, easily, and economically as possible. Another important point here is: don't commit the cardinal sin of saying "we have no competitors," or "we have no direct competitors". While that may be true, it's probably not. Even if it is, you still need to understand and articulate how prospective customers are currently dealing with the problem you've identified. That is, after all, the basis of the opportunity you're going after. Without that problem and resulting need, no one would buy what you have to offer.
Marketing Plan Element #5: Discussion of The Segments (Niches) You Will Target
You described the overall market above, in Element #3. It's now time to dig deeper and identify the relevant segments of the market. This is a place where big companies and other sophisticated marketers spend a lot of time and money on analysis. The better you identify and understand the needs of the various segments of the market, the better you are able to market and sell to them effectively. Don't think simply, "we'll just get one percent of the overall market and that will be a big sales number". It does not work that way. You must determine, based on a variety of factors, which segments are most attractive and focus on selling to those segments. Those factors include: the composition of the market in the geography you are targeting, the products/services you are capable of providing, your marketing budget, etc. As a small company, you simply do not have the resources to sell and market to the market as whole. You must pick your segments and focus, focus, focus. Obviously, you can course-adjust as you learn from your research and results, but you must be very focused, especially at the beginning.
Marketing Plan Element #6: Your Marketing and Sales Objectives
How will you know if you succeed with your marketing plan? You need to have goals to measure your results against. Those goals should include overall revenue targets, as well as objectives broken down by product, service, geography, etc. The more specific you can be with these goals, the easier it will be to communicate them to your team and have commensurate rewards and accountability. Even if you don't hit your goals, you at least will have a benchmark and you can then adjust for future periods. Whatever you do, don't put together a marketing plan without including goals. That would be like setting out to sea without a particular destination in mind. It would be hard to know if you arrived. It would also be hard to plan other important aspect of the journey, like how much fuel ("marketing budget") and provisions ("other resources") you would need along the way to your target destination.
Marketing Plan Element #7: Review and Analysis of Pricing
Pricing is one of the trickiest elements of marketing and probably the one I get the most questions on. At the end of the day, you want to set your price right at the point where you'll maximize your profits. Good luck with that, particularly as a small business without a massive amount of historical price and demand data. As an entrepreneur, you need to look at price in terms of what the market (competitors) is charging and what it is costing you to provide your product or service. The last thing you want to do is set the price too low, lose money on every sale, and try to "make it up in volume". Conversely, you don't want to set your price so high that no one buys from you. There is a happy medium. You will need to test various price levels to find that happy medium. As you do so, bear in mind that the more "commoditized" your market is, the less potential you will have for deciding the price you can charge. In a fully commoditized market, the price will be set by the market and you will either have to be able to make profit at that level, or get out. In other non-commoditized markets, there may be a very wide range of prices for essentially the same product or service, with the pricing difference largely based on good marketing, positioning and differentiation. Test, test, test, in order to find the optimal pricing for your products and services.
Marketing Plan Element #8: Description of Sales Plan and Distribution Approach
Here you will describe in detail the approach you will take to selling and distributing your products and services. Will you have a direct sales force? Will you sell through partners? Will you sell online? There are many possibilities and usually you will use a combination of approaches. It will depend heavily on what you're selling, how complex the sales process is, the scale and scope of the markets you are going after, etc. Make sure you take into account how your margins will be affected by which sales approaches and channels you are employing. As with all aspects of your plan, you will need to keep testing, so you can find the optimal mix over time.
Marketing Plan Element #9: Advertising Approach and Budget
How will you advertise your products and services? Will you use print, television, radio, internet, etc? How much will you focus on each? It will depend to a large extent on what you are selling, how large your ad budget is and how wide a geography you are targeting. You will want to set up a line-item budget for each advertising medium you will employ. In the next step, you will track the effectiveness of your advertising and marketing in each medium, which will help you determine where you should spend more, and where you may want to cut back. Again, this is an area where you will want to test and course-correct constantly.
Marketing Plan Element #10: Metrics To Be Tracked
Depending on your market and the products and services you are offering, certain marketing metrics will be more important than others. The ultimate goals is to track "touches" (impressions, views, other interactions, etc.) on clients that then convert to inquiries, leads, prospects, and ultimately, sales. Not all prospects that see your advertising and marketing materials will buy, of course. Your objective is to figure out which of your advertising and marketing approaches are providing the most "bang for the buck" and do more of those. You will find that what "works" will vary by market segment and geography. You must steadily test and "tune" the approaches you are using. The more detailed the metrics you track, the more precisely you will be able to do this "tuning.
Marketing Plan Element #11: Marketing Strategy Feedback Loop
It is critically important that in all steps above, you are constantly testing and course-adjusting according to the results that you achieve. If you are going to put money, time and other resources into marketing and sales, you owe it to yourself (and your investors, if you have any) to keep close track of the results and make sure that you are optimizing your "spend" as much as possible. Also, don't get complacent and think that what's working today will continue to work the same way in the future. In the dynamic world in which we live, where change always seems to be accelerating based on technological advances, it's important to remain vigilant and make sure that your approaches are "changing with the times".
There you have the elements of a basic marketing plan. Have you put together such a plan? What elements did you include? Which parts do you think are most important? Are there others that you'd add to the list of "basic elements"?
I look forward to your thoughts and questions. Please leave a comment ("response") below or in the upper right corner of this post.
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Clear and to the point. Thank you, Paul. = )
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Paul, this is great information that I can actually use with my new online business. This really helps me to focus on a niche rather than trying to be something for everyone. I believe I will have much more success with a simple, but effective marketing plan in hand. Thanks again!
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Great post, what is particularly good about it is the sequencing. After I first read it, I thought you had missed out the budget, which I automatically looked for at the beginning. But that's not where the budget should be, it should be exactly where it is in your sequence, otherwise it would be, "we've got this amount, how can we spend it ?" That would be the wrong approach !
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I am David A. Duke, of Texas. I am the founder of Quiet Heart Press.
For more than 10 years, Quiet Heart Press has provided a free online reading room. Each year we are visited by people from all over the world. Quiet Heart Press is neither a "real" business nor a hobby. It is a place of peace and rest. We dare to search dark corners of hurting hearts and weary souls, and speak of hope and trust and faith.
Over a period of 30 years, I taught 7 Single Adult Bible study classes in 5 different churches, and 3 married couples classes, as well as others. I also served in many offices and roles in churches, including Church Training Director.
PLEASE NOTE: Just like almost everyone, I have a name, and other people have the same, or very similar, name. I am me. I AM NOT the David Duke from Louisiana that was a part of the KKK. I have never been in or aspired to political office. I have never been in prison. I am not a doctor. I have never been on television. ALL the books I have written are presented or published by Quiet Heart Press, and I always use my middle initial in all my work: David A. Duke. Anything else you find or read that does not match all these facts is not by me.


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Last summer I had the pleasure of acting in my friends Chris and Emily White's film CINEMA PURGATORIO. I portrayed a possibly fictional European expatriate living in the southeast U.S. named Dos Midler. I had WAY too much fun, met … Continue reading


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Back in the early 1990s, the shark cartilage craze was in full bloom. Inspired by a best-selling 1992 book "Sharks Don't Get Cancer," both healthy people and those stricken with cancer were popping pills of pulverized shark cartilage with hopes of staying healthy or even completely curing themselves of malignant tumors.
The logic, according to author William Lane, was that sharks rarely get cancer compared with most other animals, and the defining feature of their biology, aside from a healthy diet of fish, was a skeletal system made of cartilage rather than bone.
Mass hysteria ensued as holistic enthusiasts sought over-the-counter quick preventatives at the expense of the shark population. Unfortunately, shark cartilage did not live up to its reputation. Contrary to the book's bold title, sharks do sometimes get cancer. Up to 42 different types of cancer have been documented so far, including cartilage cancer.
Yet all animal cartilage does have anticancer properties. While the use of cartilage as medicine has not yet proven fruitful, NIH intramural scientists have identified unique characteristics in cartilage that someday could be exploited to slow or stop cancer growth. The research hopes to bring out the shark in all of us.
From the Ashes of Clinical Trials
Researchers have known for decades that cartilage has therapeutic properties. Studies from the late 1960s revealed that bovine cartilage reduced inflammation. Building on this, research from the 1970s found that bovine cartilage contains a substance that blocks angiogenesis and thus could check tumor growth.
The 1980s brought laboratory and animal studies and the first clinical trials testing bovine cartilage as a treatment for cancer. Gradually the research turned to shark cartilage, because pound for pound, sharks have more cartilage than cows. Also, researchers thought that shark cartilage might be more active than bovine cartilage in preventing new blood vessels from being formed.
To date over a dozen clinical trials have been conducted on shark cartilage as a cancer treatment. Seven of these studies have been published. Even though preliminary experiments in cell culture showed reduced cancer cell growth, none of the trials have yielded positive results.
The most recent clinical trials, sponsored by the NCI and the Mayo Clinic, involved a liquid extract of shark cartilage called Neovastat, administered orally. These, too, failed to produce positive results in cancer patients and have since been halted.
But the research isn't dead. Research at NIH demonstrates how following up on the anticancer properties found in cartilage or other tissues has led to new types of therapeutics. Labs are focusing on identifying specific candidates in tissues, rather than using whole slurries of dead animals, and they are showing much more promising results.
Enter the Matrix
Cartilage is composed of sparsely distributed chondrocytes and an extracellular matrix (ECM). The ECM is a web of structural proteins—such as fibronectins, collagens, laminins and proteoglycans—that provides a scaffold that holds the tissue together. Because this tissue needs to be mechanically strong, there are fewer cells and blood vessels than in other tissues.
Cartilage's unique and imposing structure makes it nearly immune to cancer growth. It is difficult for cells to penetrate through the network of ECM, thus thwarting metastasis.
"Sharks may be less likely to get cancer than humans because of their abundance of ECM, which just so happens to be a major component of cartilage," said David Hall, group leader of the NIAMS Cartilage Biology and Orthopaedics Branch, who had studied the cartilage-anticancer connection for several years before turning more of his attention to osteoporosis and arthritis.
For cancerous cells to thrive and spread, they need an abundance of nutrients to aid in growth and ways to escape to new tissues. Many cancers secrete high levels of matrix metalloproteases, or MMPs, which essentially chop up the ECM, allowing the cancer cells unhindered movement to invade other tissues. Cancers also secrete angiogenesis factors to create new blood vessels so that nutrients and oxygen can be brought to the tumor.
Cartilage and the ECM have protection mechanisms in place to ensure that their environments limit the movement of invading cells, MMP activity and blood vessels formation. In addition to its structural components, ECM contains regulatory proteins that control how cells behave.
"It's the normal ECM that is a physical and biochemical barrier that has to be overcome in order for metastasis to occur," said William Stetler-Stevenson, a senior investigator in NCI's Cell and Cancer Biology Branch. "There are components of the ECM that function to suppress the process and the events associated with growth, invasion and metastasis."
Stetler-Stevenson's group's studies of the anticancer properties of ECM have lead to promising new therapies and may reveal the initial anticancer effects that were observed using shark cartilage in cell-culture studies.
There Will be Blood, Or Not
David Roberts, head of the Biochemical Pathology Section in NCI's Laboratory of Pathology, has focused on two angiogenesis-inhibiting thrombospondin proteins that are released in the ECM, TSP1 and TSP2. These proteins bind to the components of the ECM and activate receptors that tell the cell not to grow or migrate. In many cancers found in animals and humans, levels are thrombospondin are reduced, which allows new blood vessels to form and deliver a supply of fresh nutrients to the tumor.
Therapeutics have been designed to block the angiogenesis pathway based on research from Roberts' lab and others. Although they have been proven somewhat effective, they are flawed. "They extend life by several months, but there is a problem because these patients get hypertension," he said.
Roberts' lab has shown that TSP1 is a potent antagonist to nitric oxide. The lab first observed that TSP1 was 100 times less effective in cell culture assays than it was when circulating in the bloodstream. They discovered if they added back nitric oxide to the cells, TSP1 increased in potency.
It is through inhibition of nitric oxide signaling that TSP1 is responsible for preventing angiogenesis. But "nitric oxide wears different hats in the vascular system," Roberts said. Nitric oxide is responsible, for example, for normal homeostasis of blood vessels by causing them to relax. When nitric oxide signaling is repressed, the blood vessels contract, which leads to high blood pressure.
Roberts' research has undoubtedly demonstrated that specific angiogenesis inhibitors will have to be selected more carefully to not interfere with blood pressure homeostasis.
The Matrix: Reloaded
Stetler-Stevenson works on a very different ECM protein that is a major soluble component of cartilage, called TIMP2, for tissue inhibitor of metalloproteases. As the name suggests, TIMP2 can bind and directly inhibit MMPs. MMPs are responsible for inducing cell proliferation in response to growth factors, signaling proteins that promote cell growth. Adding TIMP2 to cells inhibits MMPs, causing a reduction in growth even in the presence of growth factors.
As a result of the TIMP experiments, MMP inhibitors seemed like a great potential cancer therapy. "Drug companies invested hundreds of millions in MMP inhibitors that worked great in mouse models but had no effect in human cancers," said Stetler-Stevenson. Naively, it was not realized that MMPs are both positive and negative enhancers of growth and migration.
Stetler-Stevenson's lab created a version of TIMP2 with an extra alanine at the beginning of the protein that prevented TIMP2 from binding and inhibiting the MMPs. Surprisingly enough, this variation of TIMP2 was still able to prevent cell growth, demonstrating that TIMP2 had a function aside from MMP inhibitor. The lab soon determined that TIMP2 also binds to a cell receptor known as α3β1 integrin, which sends signals to inhibit growth responses. This integrin response regulates normal homeostasis in the cartilage.
"Tumor cells make such a large and diverse spectrum of MMPs that acts as a sink, and the TIMP gets bound to all those and there is none left to act with the α3β1 integrin," Stetler-Stevenson said. His group injected a small protein version of the TIMP2 with the extra alanine into tumors, which did not bind the MMPs, but bound α3β1 integrin. The integrin then sent signals telling the tumors to not grow or migrate. These studies have been done successfully in cell culture and now the lab is moving on to mouse models.
"[TIMP2] is a good potential cancer therapeutic because it's an endogenous protein, and we're trying to use what the body already makes," Stetler-Stevenson said.
"People used to think that matrix proteins were just the glue that holds cells together," said Roberts. Sharks may have clued us in that there is something special about cartilage, and by focusing on cartilage and ECM biology, we may find cancer therapeutics right in our own bodies.


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But U.S. intervention may be needed to save the village of Aboud, which according to local tradition received the Christian faith from Jesus himself. Christ is said to have preached at the place in Aboud where the ruins of the Messiah Church stand. Jesus and the Holy Family would have traveled the Roman Road, near Aboud, on the route between Jerusalem and Galilee. The village's Orthodox church was built in the 4th Century under the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine.
Religious tradition, however, does not deter Israeli policy. The new barrier will confiscate 39 percent of the village's olive fields and take over the aquifer that supplies one-fifth of the West Bank's total water supply. In October, construction uprooted 500 grapevines in Aboud. Twelve kilometers of the barrier will be built on Aboud's land, and the villages of Al-Lubban and Rantis also will lose more territory.
All this is justified as protection against terrorists, but the Holy Land Christian Society rejects that. "It is clear that the security barrier is not about security but the annexation of land for the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Israeli control over the water supply," argues a society paper. Israeli settlements Beit Arye and Ofarim were built on land taken from residents of Aboud.
The problems of the Catholic and Orthodox Christians of Aboud do not resonate in American politics. The evangelicals have signed a blank check to Israel in the interests of security in the Middle East. Of the many Roman Catholic members of Congress, only the venerable Rep. Henry Hyde (in the last year of his long career) has shown much interest in the subject.
That is why Cardinal McCarrick's involvement is encouraging for the champions of Holy Land Christians. He will visit the West Bank next month and may meet with Karen Hughes, under secretary of state for Public Diplomacy, for the sake of a few Christians in an ancient city.
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As a consequence of this a posteriori judgment, the Palestinians have a seemingly inexorable reason to regard themselves as Israel's Jews. The comedy, in a very cruel sense, is that Sand argues, with conviction, that the Palestinians are at least as likely to be the descendants of the "original" Judeans as the Jews who have come from, for instance, the ex-Soviet Union, of whom more than a few are almost certainly without any ancestral link with the Holy Land, since they are descended from, in particular, the Khazars whose king converted voluntarily to Judaism in the seventh century C.E. The Khazars, however, are not an admitted topic in Israeli historiography. Facts are not the friends of ideologues. In logic, Wittgenstein observed, "there are no surprises"; in life, however, there always are. One of my favorite little-known books is Raymond Boudon's "La place du desordre" (1984), in which he argues, with solemn brilliance, for the systematic lack of reliable system in all theories of social change, i.e. in all ideological prescriptions.
A 1992 law, passed by the Knesset, decreed that any party which denied the existence (propriety?) of Israel as a Jewish state was barred from elections. Sand concludes that this, in effect, precludes the creation of an Israeli democracy in the full sense: There is no freedom of speech, no right to heterodoxy. Israel is, he says, no better than an "ethnic democracy," since its non-Jewish inhabitants are denied full rights. Behind the Zionists' judicial reasoning lies the willful assumption that "the Jews" are all descended from a single exiled people, for centuries dispersed and despised, whose return to their ancient land is an entitlement guaranteed by God and the only means by which they can recover their honor and their dignity.
Sand begins with an account of his own tangled roots and how, by chance, he emerged as an Israeli. The role of contingency in his origins is meant to alert us to the inescapable element of chance that makes us, whoever we may be, who we are. The notion of some innate, unalterable and unalloyed belonging to the same race of which the majority left Palestine, if it did, 2,000 years ago runs counter to all human probability and is, literally, without precedent. There are no "pure" races, nor does the notion of "race" have much scientific utility.
Science, in the wide sense, was one of the ways in which Jews, by devotion to impersonal objectivity, sought to make their own subjectivity irrelevant to their professional lives. This did not, of course, prevent the Nazis from speaking of "Jewish science." According to Sand, some Israeli scientists' attempts to isolate a "Jewish gene" appear, alas, to be a sad—because ideologically driven and almost certainly fanciful—deviation from that passion for "disinterested speculation" on which D.H. Lawrence deigned to congratulate "the Jews."
The obsession with "purity of blood" (and the presumption that it existed in nature) began, in Western Europe at least, in post-reconquista Spain. The expulsion of the Jews and the "Moors" was supposed to have purged Iberia of inferior inhabitants and to have left an untainted Iberian race. The Inquisition was the symptom of the uneasy vanity of Christian Spain. Iberia remained home not only to the converted Jews but also to countless hybrids of various kinds, legitimate or not, and its blood irredeemably enriched, or tainted, by alien transfusions. Who any longer dares to argue that for a Spaniard, or anyone else, to claim to possess "pura sangre" is anything but a fatuous delusion? Blood, one might say, is inherently tolerant: Mongrels are us. Sand argues for the Spanish Jews themselves to be, in some considerable percentage, descended from Berber proselytes who crossed from North Africa with the Moroccan Arabs who made El-Andalus the well-watered place it was until the Christians purged it.
Yet for doctrinaire Zionism to sustain its ideological myth, it remains necessary, if never plausible, for its advocates to argue that all the Jews of the world have a common claim on, and source in, the territory of ancient Palestine and even that their ultimate allegiance is therefore to the state which now occupies most of it. In an inverted syllogism, the consequence is the generator of its alleged cause.
The Right of Return implies, in some minds, the obligation to do so. For this logic to hold, it has to be argued that the whole of the Diaspora can trace its lineage, pretty well directly, back to the population which is said to have been expelled, and certainly dispersed, after the double disasters of 70 C.E., when Jerusalem fell to the besieging Romans, under Titus, and that of some 60 years later, when Bar-Kokhba's rebellion was savagely repressed by Hadrian. One of Sand's claims is that, despite many massacres and the ban on circumcised men entering the renamed Jerusalem (it became Aelia Capitolina), there was no mass deportation of Jews from Palestine.
Among the unwanted truths of the past is that, at least by the time of Hadrian's vindictive war against the rebellious Judeans, Palestine was by no means the home of most Jews. Since 10 percent of the population of the Roman Empire was said to be Jewish in the first century C.E., many of them were surely proselytes and most of them, including converted slaves, lived outside Judea. There is a strand of Jewish thought (seconded by the great Sephardic poet Yehuda Halevi) which argues for the superiority of "biological Jews," but this is unworthy of intelligent endorsement. Moses Maimonides was the first to argue against such divine nonsense, but he was vilified for his humane philosophy. A great many Jews had, of course, been reluctant to return even from Babylon, where, as Jeremiah himself had recommended, they had prospered and multiplied. Baghdad remained a great center of Jewish life and scholarly wisdom for many centuries. Only in 1941 did the British garrison stand aside while insurgent Arabs massacred most of the Jews still living there.
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David Mohler, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Office of Duke Energy said, "JP Vasseur and Adam Dunkels have written an important and timely guide to the rapidly developing field of smart technologies and the Internet. This book provides a clear picture of key technical issues that areuseful to both the expert and layman. As we continue to build out the smart grid, the'electric internet,' I predict this book will become required reading for electric utility smart grid teams." ((("Gee, why do we have a power blackout today?" "I'd be chalking that up to the ETF 6LoWPAN adaptation layer.")))
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Six weeks ago, Todd debated Wakefield when he came to an event in Boulder. Boulder happens to be one of three Colorado areas where figures have shown that parents are more hesitant to vaccinate their children. The other two areas are Highlands Ranch and Durango, according to the Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition.
This week, the British Medical Journal continued a three-part investigative series discrediting the study, saying Wakefield was paid by lawyers who intended to sue a vaccine company. His study has been retracted by the journal that originally published it. But Wakefield stands by his research.
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Still, some parents worry about the effects of vaccines. One mother posted her concerns on www.momslikeme.com saying:
"How can safety by sworn by in a vaccine when there aren't long-term studies on its side effects?"
Todd answered, in part, by saying "vaccines have been incredibly safe and effective in Colorado."
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I do not like to argue this way, you know, vociferous. Even if your ideas may have a very good resounding ring of truth to them, they never seem as such if you are shouting over your opponent to express them, and most of the times you end up sounding like the village idiot anyhow. And such it was the other night.
It was a quiet night and my coworker and I were sitting in the lunchroom just doing some idle chitchat - maybe that was an omen, who knows. But all of a sudden, I found myself raising my voice and getting all red in the face, which isn�t much of a leap for a redhead like myself; it just adds a bit of dramatics to a heated situation �sort of like a Puffer fish when threaten, but I digress.
Anyway, it�s not real important on how my coworker and I ended up on the subject other than to say I wouldn�t let go of a statement that was made, perhaps made in jest by my co-worker � he does have the spirit of provokness about himself, or perhaps it was made to reveal something about him that�s actually a true statement, but whatever was the reason for my friend in saying what he said, I couldn�t let go of it after I felt I made a valid point.
The original discussion had to deal with some theological issues. When discussing the different aspects of theology, somewhere along the conversation some one may touch upon the challenge that God, if one exists, isn�t a good and gracious deity, but one who is full of venom and vinegar and really doesn�t know what He is doing. The statement that got us going was this: �Surely, you are not saying that a god who has the power to stop anything, like a child who has been raped, sodomized, and then had their life come to an abrupt halt by way of strangulation is a good and gracious god?�
You will need to be careful here because an attack has just been made on you belief system through a highly emotion situation, regardless if the event is real or presumptuous, and if not heeding to the wind of caution you might end up feeling like a cornered cat with nothing but fangs and claws showing as your ego goes into protect mode. All manner of calm speech goes out the window, and the next thing that comes out of your mouth is � �GOD STILL LOVES YOU ANYWAY, YOU PINHEAD!� Yeah, that�s the way to express the love of God; bludgeon your opponent with it. (I didn�t call him names, although�)
I was cornered. My God was just attacked and by not answering, it made me appear weak, ignorant and other unflattering things to the male ego. That�s what can happen when pride dictates and the Spirit of Truth gets kicked to the backseat Maybe I should have listened to that little voice that told me, �walk away, Jim�, I mean, it wouldn�t have changed God any if I had, and my coworker�s view definitely wouldn�t have change any either, but the gauntlet was thrown down; I had to say something, but I didn�t know how to express the words to defend my position after the opening volley, I had nothing left except ardent reverberation.
What do you do? By not answering the charge, your silence may be seen as a concession to the argument. However, if you do give an answer that you haven�t quite thought out, you may open up a can of proverbial worms and get into stuff that is way over your head so that five minutes into the debate, you start to resemble the southern exposure of a horse. Yet there is another possibility that may apply here; it�s what my Dad uses to say when he didn�t quite agree with your opinion � �whatever floats your boat,� which could become a convenient way of skirting the controversy all together.
I realize now that it�s quite all right to use the response, �I don�t know, but I will find out,� but then I have a duty not only to the person who raised the point, but to myself as well. Although I may never see this person again, I will have an answer for the next time. The rest of this essay could be considered my homework.
No one wants to appear foolish before his or her colleagues or the person that they are in contention with. And if you don�t know how to handle these points of discussion, you too may appear to look like a village idiot. The best way I have found to avoid looking ridiculous while at the same time answering your opponents� enquiries is to break down the argument.
This is best heard on a tape that I have from the late Doctor Walter Martin, founder of Christian Research Institute and author of many books dealing with the cults of Christianity and the occult as well. Dr. Martin would break down an argument into its components where it was easier to deal with.
On the tape, Dr. Martin hypothetically placed the person with whom he was debating with in the Lord�s shoes, so to speak. He told them at a given moment they would have omniscience bestowed to them, and then he had the person make a decree that all evil in the world will not exist. What happened next was very interesting. Martin explained this is what would happen: at the given time of the announcement, all human life on planet Earth would cease. And it goes without saying that all future human life would not happen either, because the only way to deal with evil if you are a just God is to obliterate evil in the present and stop it�s future.
So taking a page from the mind of Walter, one of the ways to deal with an attack like the one I had is to go to the issue of God�s omniscience. Several questions will certainly arise such as: Does God know about the horrid event that took place? Most definitely. Then why didn�t he stop it? This leads into the second part of the solution, God�s sovereignty.
Bill Gates has made oodles of money by doing what he does best, making computers. You might even say, that when it comes to computers, Mr. Gates is sovereign. Mr. Gates is also a very generous man. He has declared that before he dies, he would want to give away most of his fortune, if that could be at all possible: it is estimated that he is worth 100 billion dollars. For all that he is worth, and is willing to part with, in his graciousness, nowhere is it written that he is obligated to give it away. Ultimately, it�s his rule and finances to do whatever he wants with it.
The same can be said about an omniscient God. Just because He knows something is going to happen, doesn�t mean He has to stop it. Sometime in the past eons, this deity set up rules that He has to follow because His character must stay true to who He is: God. I think we forget about this aspect of the Lord; once again, He has rules that He has to follow, set up by Himself�apart from our consultation.
But we think - �How dare you do these things to us, how arrogant, how selfish you are God - IT�S OUR LIFE!� ...Is it? I swear sometimes, I think we are nothing more than impatient, self-absorbed bores, with little to no sense when it comes to the matters of the Lord. We are the ones who are being selfish and small-minded when we take on this attitude. We are responsible for the actions that take place in our lives however, that does not equate to us being responsible for sustaining it. That�s God�s job and His job only, for it is written � �that man does not live on bread alone, but by every thing that comes from the mouth of God� (Deut. 8:3). *
God is responsible for sustaining our lives from the moment we are conceived to the moment we enter into His presence and thereafter. I realize that this is very hard to understand, because we breathe and eat and basically enjoy the life we are given without thought of who�s really paying for all of this, even those of us who believes in a sovereign Lord at times forget this all too important fact of life. Nevertheless, it is not we sustaining ourselves but the very word of God and the very breath He breathes into us. In other words, our permanence and existence is based on the sole fact that without God, we are nothing; in fact we are nonexistence.
Another thing to consider about God�s sovereignty, is the image we were made in, specifically speaking � the image of God. When He did make the human race, He declared us good. Then the woman talked to the serpent, the man ate of the fruit, and the next thing you know, Adam and Eve lost Eden. But yet, God didn�t rush in and punish the evildoers, who would have been every one on the planet, by totally destroying His creation and starting over again. What He did do was to provide a way to extend His grace to a people that so desperately needed it.
So the question arises; what is the appropriate way to serve justice? Total annihilation? Not doing anything in hopes of the person will see the errors of their ways? How does God dish out justice?
One way is found in the story of creation: God deals with evil by bringing justice in the form of a curse - �because you did this� (to the serpent) you will crawl on the ground � (to the woman) you will have great pain in childbirth �(to the man) cursed is the ground.� In spite of all of these curses, all of this retribution, which He was justified in doing, there is grace extended to us as well: �I will (talking to the serpent) put open hostility between you and the woman. Between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.� (Gen. 3:15) In case you missed it, justice is served and grace is extended. I return to the original point- how do I know God is good and gracious? Simultaneously, justice is met while saving us from our fate, death.
But dollars to donuts, there are some impassionate people who would want total destruction to the souls who do evil in the sight of the Lord, but it�s not up to them to take upon themselves being the tool of God�s judgment for the simple reason that God says �all vengeance is mine; I will repay� And the sad news is that God will bestow His justice in ways that we may not like and shed mercy and grace to those we don�t like. We must remember that He is sovereign and we may not like every decision that He makes. But He must stay true to who He is - a holy and just God.
To sum up: After all of this evidence revealed about God�s character, and taking into affect the original thought based on a horrific event taking place, regardless if it were pretend or not, how can we logically and legally hold God accountable for the acts of an individual? We can�t.
We can�t get around the fact that we are a fallen creation, caused by our own devices, responsible for the actions we take. We are not cars that are subject to recalls from our manufacturer who lives far away. Nor are we innocent babes lost in the woods without a lick of sense let loose to wonder about all because of a careless act from an aloof father.
I guess what this all boils down to is this: Men, not God, have made some incredulous decisions when it has come to dealing with the reality of God that has led us to this point so far. It is far better to line up our will with God�s will, because at that point, all who follow benefit from it. It is utterly foolish on our part to go our separate ways, which lead us further away from the one who can save us and has, God.
*(Other scriptures that support this idea are: Genesis 2:7 �the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.� Job 12:10 �In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.� Job 27:3 �as long as I have life within me, the breath of God in my nostrils� Job 33:4 �The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.� Ezekiel 37:5 �This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.� And Revelation 11:11 �But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.�)
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