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Helpful Truth in Past Places: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Counseling
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Publication Date: 2010
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Helpful Truth in Past Places examines the teachings of leading Puritan writers-theologians who were masters at understanding the nature of human beings and applying Scripture in practical ways to help people with their struggles and problems. Looking to Scripture as the final authority, the Puritans grounded their own counselling practices in a proper view of the sovereignty of God and the underlying heart issues of people. By understanding why people struggle and the provision God makes for our struggles, counsellors today will be better equipped to guide those they counsel toward God-appointed solutions.
"Despite our modern prejudices," Deckard explains, the problems of the Puritans' time "were not all that different than our own." These men and women, like us, fought issues of fear, depression and sense of purpose. Their world was, like ours, clouded by poverty, loss of children, abuse and alcoholism. Guided by a biblical view of God and self, they found their answers in unchanging doctrinal truth. Each chapter in Helpful Truth in Past Places guides readers through a particular issue and points to the applicable teachings of a Puritan writer on that topic. Jonathan Edwards explores our emotional frailties. Jeremiah Burroughs deals with anxiety and dissatisfaction. And John Flavel takes on the age-old question of "why?" A welcome infusion of sound biblical understanding.
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"...it combines the timeless truth of historical theology with solid application for life and ministry today."
""Much is to be learned from them and Mark Deckard guides us in a most helpful fashion by drawing on seven of these 'physicians of the soul'. He directs us to the relevance of the subject by choosing chapter titles that remind us how up-to-date these pastoral concerns are...It should certainly encourage us to read the Puritans more extensively in these practical areas of Christian living."
"He does not offer ready-made schemes that counsellors can apply without first absorbing the biblical insights themselves, but thoughtful consideration of the material presented here will enrich Christian living and counselling practice."
"Before there was a discipline called psychology, many Puritan authors were outstanding biblical psychologists possessed of clear insight to the human frame. Mark Deckard ably distills the essence of 17th century wisdom for 21st century counselors in areas such as God's providence, personal contentment, repentance and depression. I already wonder about a sequel volume, lending this kind of accessibility to more of the existing Puritan treasure trove of practical guidance for Christian living."
"It was J I Packer who likened the Puritans to the Giant Redwoods, now Mark Deckard shows us why. With the skillful hands of a gifted counselor and the inquisitive mind of a pilgrim, Deckard brings us into conversation with these Puritan greats and artfully displays for us their insights into life and relationships. Every Christian counselor, professional or otherwise, ought to pull up a chair and listen in and learn from this conversation."
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kimlizabethflorioDenver, PAAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5This book is deep, relevant and practical.February 6, 2013kimlizabethflorioDenver, PAAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5If a Christian helper thoughtfully reads this book, she will better realize the assurances and character of God to share with others. Mark Deckard summarizes the scholarly studies of the Puritans and gives us themes for compassionate, understanding and very intelligent counseling. It is a reference book for Christian counseling. It demonstrates how our personal God knows our hurting hearts.
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Hanson Beats Canizares in Playoff to Win Golf's Iberdrola Open
Sweden's Peter Hanson beat Alejandro Canizares of Spain in a playoff to win golf's Iberdrola Open in Mallorca for a first European Tour success since August 2008.
Hanson, 32, who claimed his victory at the first extra hole, had tied with Canizares on 6-under-par 274 after both hit final rounds of 4-under today.
The Swede picks up a check for 133,300 euros ($164,800), with Canizares taking prize money of 88,880 euros. James Kingston of South Africa was third, four shots back.
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Today marks the anniversary of the last state to join the union, as Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. But in three months, Puerto Rico faces a similar vote to become the 51st state.
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This month, a group of residents of Pima County, Arizona, launched a campaign to break away from Arizona and become the fifty-first state. What are the odds it succeeds?
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Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore are the first women to join the Augusta National Golf Club, as the home of the Masters has ended its controversial policy on female members. But there is also a considerable political back story to the news.
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The increasingly uncivil tone of the current presidential race is shocking even grizzled media types, prompting one prominent Republican to ask the candidates to consider a time out.
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@GSElevator Gets a New Book Deal
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The man behind the Twitter handle @GSElevator, who lost a book deal two weeks ago after his identity was outed, has agreed to new deal with a different publisher that will sell his book "STRAIGHT TO HELL: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals."
John LeFevre, an ex-Citigroup banker who never worked at Goldman Sachs Group, reached a book deal with Grove Atlantic, the independent publishing house said Wednesday. In the proposal, Mr. LeFevre said he will give unique insights into Wall Street and behind the scenes accounts from his 15 years as a banker in New York, London, and Hong Kong.
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We all have noticed there are these remastered HD collections of our favorite games coming out like hot cakes recently which I'm all for but it got me thinking.. Will there ever be patches made to older games before trophies were installed??? Good example: MGS 4 now has trophies!! So I wanted to ask what everyone on PSU thought about this.. Would you want those old PS3 games to have those shinning trophies we all love so much to give them reply value and bragging rights... I definitely would!!!!!
Here's my list of games I'd like to see get trophy patches: (with Platinums of course )
- Heavenly Sword
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I know there is more to list but just looking at my library of games those are the only ones without trophies on them
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Thomas Graham Morris, 23, of Brevard went home to be with Lord on June 6, 2009, at St. Josephs Hospital in Asheville.
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May 1, 2009 Swine Flu Update: The Epi-Porcine-Center?
Epidemiological eyes turn toward Granjas Carroll in Veracruz
By Aran Shetterly May 1, 2009 - 13:55
As I posted this update, an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal possibly linking A/H1N1 to California.
In Veracruz´s Perote Valley, only a few kilometers from the state capital Xalapa, an industrial pig farm turns nearly a million hogs a year into tocino and carnitas and provides work for the residents of a town called La Gloria.
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Until two weeks ago, this tucked-away valley was far beyond the gaze of the international press. Now, news crews from around the world are headed there to get a look at¨patient zero¨ and the pig farm where some think this A/H1N1 swine flu may have originated.
¨Patientzero¨ is ÉdgarHernández, a five-year old boy who lives in Perote. He suffered and then survived, the swine flu virus. The Governor of the state of Veracruz, FidelHerrera, and other state and local authorities claim that Edgar is the only A/H1N1victim in his town. However, it turns out that during March and early April, hundreds of people in the area were sick, though local officials say they suffered from something other than swine flu.
This pig farm in Perote is a joint venture between Smithfield Farms, the world´slargest producer of pork, based in Virginia, and Agroindustrias de Mexico, a Mexican multinational that produces and distributes coffee, cacao, cotton, cornand pigs. Agroindustrias de Mexico even has an agro-finance business that lends money to its providers. The name of the joint venture pig farm is Granjas Carroll (Carroll Farms).
As journalists have begun to focus on La Gloria in the hunt for this swine flu´sorigin, Governor Herrera and other Mexican officials are pointing fingers at Asia and the US as the source. Mexico´s Health Secretary, Jose Angel Cordovaalso has rejected the spotlight cast on the Perote Valley.
It is no surprise to experts like Mike Davis (interviewed here on Democracy Now), the author of TheMonster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, that a virulent flu strain would spring from an industrial pig farm. In his recent article in The Guardian, Davis writes about what he calls ¨the planetary catastrophe of industrialized and ecologically unhinged livestock production¨ and speculates about the powerful viruses that can spring from poultry and livestock farms.
A virus doesn´t leap from a pig or other animal to humans without sustained contact between the species. Therefore, the most likely place for a ¨swine flu¨ epidemic is on or close to a pig farm. That's to say, taking a closer look at Granjas Carroll isn't unreasonable, especially since there were a lot of sick people in the surrounding area.
According to some recent online articles, the first question to ask might not be so much¨where¨ precisely the flu originated, but ¨how.¨ The ¨where¨ follows as amatter of course.
Al Giordano, founder of the website narconews.com, suggests that Smithfield Farms, after being fined under the Clean Water Act in the US and running into other regulatory problems, moved some operations to a place where oversight might be less stringent once the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was enacted. Following this logic, Giordano proposes that this virus not be called ¨swine flu¨ at all, but ¨NAFTA flu.¨
Giordano cites an article published about Granjas Carroll in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada describing the Carroll farm in the most squalid terms. According to the article, " Clouds of flies emanate from the rusty lagoons where the Carroll Ranches business tosses the fecal wastes of its pigfarms."
Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program of the International Relations Center (IRC), an organization that fosters citizen action and does policy research, makes a similar argument, writing that ¨NAFTA unleashed the spread of industrial livestock farms in Mexico by creating investment incentives for transnational companies to relocate operations there. The ´race to the bottom´ -where companies move production to areas where environmental and health restrictions and enforcement are low, is exemplified in livestock farming.¨
Industrial scale pig farming anywhere is a dirty business. If you want to stick your nose into the fecal and antibiotic details of pig farming in the US, read the 2006 article published in Rolling Stone magazine about Smithfield Farms. In that article, Jeff Tietz argues that if Smithfield and other industrial pig farmers disposed of the pig waste in an environmentally safe and responsible way, they would't be profitable. In other words, making a big mess is part of the business.
In a recent opinion piece published by El Universal, Carlos Macias Richard, a researcher at theMexico City-based Centro de Investigacionesy Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS), offers a more detailed look at what may have happed in the Perote Valley that goes beyond the more standard, structuralist critiques of NAFTA presented by Giordano and Carlsen.
In his article, Macias Richard claims that health authorities in Veracruz acted quickly to eradicate the illness that appeared there in the first months of the year, but have not revealed the medicines they used to treat the local population. That medicine, he says, would give us clues as to what infected the residents of La Gloria.
In addition, he claims that Granjas Carroll invited a consultant, working for the American risk management company Veratect, to visit the farm in March. The consultant, James Wilson, has confirmed this. Macias Richard goes on to suggest that Wilson informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the burgeoning epidemic in La Gloria, but that perhaps he did not tell the Mexican government. If this is true, then why didn't Wilson inform the government? asks MaciasRichard. If it's not true, why did the Mexican government wait three weeks to take action against A/H1N1?
And why, he asks, was a ¨sanitary fence¨ placed around La Gloria for a few days?
According to a Mexican media professional who is coordinating journalists in the Perote Valley area, some reporters doing research in La Gloria during the past few days say townspeople are scared to talk to the press and have been intimidated into silence.
The search for what happened in rural Veracruz is shaping up to be a pot boiler. Did swine flu really begin there? Or did the people in the town of La Gloria suffer a massive attack of some other ailment? Have transnational businesses exploited the people and environment of Veracruz to the point where they could have put the world at risk?
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Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been/i>
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Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined.
Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He suggests, by example as well as by theory, a way of understanding contemporary economies that is both more realistic and more revealing of hidden possibilities for transformation than are the established forms of economics.
One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization; we can have a different globalization. Traditional free trade doctrine rests on shaky empirical and theoretical ground. Unger takes a new approach to show when international trade is likely to be useful or harmful to the socially inclusive economic growth that every nation wants. Another message is that the movement of people and ideas is more important than the movement of things and money, and that freedom to change the institutions defining a market economy is just as important as freedom to exchange goods on the basis of those institutions.
Free Trade Reimagined ranges broadly within and outside economics. Presenting technical issues in plain language, it appeals to the general reader. It puts a disciplined imagination in the service of rebellion against the dictatorship of no alternatives that characterizes life and thought today.
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"Overall, the book is an exceptional contribution, providing an original and innovative perspective to the rethinking of globalization and free trade. The simplicity of the approach chosen for the analysis, which discusses technical issues in plain language, the diversity, and the breadth of new ideas so clearly exposed, are undoubtedly the book's primary strength. . . . To sum up, I think the main audience for Unger's book will be academic researchers, students, or policymakers in search of new ideas about the concept of free trade, or anyone interested in the subject of globalization and international trade from a unique perspective."Natalie Chen, Journal of Regional Science
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By ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Chapter One Troubles: The Enigmas of Free Trade
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Familiar Problems, Disturbing Solutions
I begin by enumerating some familiar problems in the doctrine of free trade conducted on the basis of specialized lines of production within an international division of labor, particularly when such national specializations are motivated by comparative advantage. These problems-and the solutions that have been proposed for them-have not been thought to discredit either the central insight of the doctrine or its programmatic consequence, the beneficence of free trade. Indeed, they do not. They nevertheless pose a challenge that contemporary thinking about trade and free trade has yet adequately to meet. How, why, and with what result the force of this challenge has continued to be evaded is a matter requiring further reflection. Consider a brief, nonexhaustive list of these long-recognized objections and complications. 1. The assumption of a uniquely efficient assignment of productive specializations among countries in an international division of labor: who is to produce what. Even if we assume that comparative advantage is a given rather than a construction (see the next proposition onthis list), it is more realistic to suppose that there are alternative sets of efficient assignments of advantage among economies, just as there are multiple ways any economy can be in equilibrium, each with different consequences for national welfare and growth. The less that advantage is determined by nature, the greater is likely to be the significance of the problem of multiple efficient solutions to the allocation of specialized national roles in world trade. Each such allocation will have distinct results for both welfare and growth.
2. The assumption that advantage is given rather than made. This assumption becomes less tenable as we move away from natural advantage. The most tangible example of made advantage is the development of economies of scale and scope, as well as of concentrations of skill, in a line of business in which a country may have had no natural advantage. However, once the principle is admitted that advantage can be deliberately created by governmental initiative and collective action, it applies to every reason for a country's practical success or failure, including its institutions and practices, social and political as well as economic. Trade theory has had difficulty coming to terms with how the construction of advantage occurs, for the same reason that economics in general has had trouble dealing with how the institutional and psychological assumptions of maximizing behavior in a market economy are established and modified.
3. The assumption that it is tenable to foreclose the two previous sets of concerns by saying that either advantage, when not given by nature, will be generated by market activity itself or that it will be produced by governmental intervention, with all its attendant risks (playing favorites, riding hobbyhorses). In fact, advantage has always been shaped by a combination of private enterprise and public action. As soon as we acknowledge this fact, however, we realize that there is no closed set of possible institutional forms of such a combination. Indeed, there is no single and uncontroversial institutional achievement of worldwide free trade.
The concept of a market economy is institutionally indeterminate. That is to say, it is capable of being realized in different legal and institutional directions, each with dramatic consequences for every aspect of social life, including the class structure of society and the distribution of wealth and power. The idea of a universal regime of free trade is institutionally indeterminate in the same sense and for the same reasons. Which of its institutional realizations prevails has immense importance for the future of humanity. These debates cannot be captured within the categories of longstanding controversies about free trade and protection.
4. The assumption that so long as we correct market imperfections (according to the formula of first, fix them; if not, compensate for them by a domestic initiative; only as a final resort, impose a restraint on trade), we can move from the static efficiency of free trade to its intertemporal efficiency and from its intertemporal efficiency to its beneficial effect on economic growth. In fact, the first link holds only if intertemporal efficiency is defined so narrowly as to deprive it of theoretical or practical interest, and the second link (as the later observations about historical experience confirm) is nonexistent.
Moreover, the language of market imperfections, as applied to the "infant industry" and "monopoly power in trade" arguments for protection, trivializes the central point: not how to reestablish the market or what to do when the market fails, but what kind of market-on the basis of what institutions and practices-to establish in the first place. We cannot reach this point by focusing solely on advantage, whether given or made; on the contrary, the analysis of advantage presupposes that we have already disposed of this issue to our satisfaction. We have not.
5. The assumption that a country's trade policy should not be influenced by the willingness of its trading partners to abolish or to diminish restraints on trade. The traditional view (against which strategic trade theory staged a limited revolt) has been that although real-world departures from this assumption may justify circumstantial resort to reciprocity and retaliation, they do not compromise the case for a trade regime that is as universal and as free as possible.
6. If, however, the whole system of world trade and all the institutions and practices by which it is realized in any given historical circumstance are both particular and contingent, if they are incapable of being inferred by pure analysis from the idea of free trade, if they are the products of shifting conflicts of interest and vision on the world stage, if they therefore deeply bear the imprint of everyone's strategies, and if the strategies of a few preponderant economic powers are likely to be decisive in determining their content, then the assumption that a country's trade policy should be independent of the trade concessions it wins from the countries with which it trades makes little sense. Strategic trade theory failed to go far enough in resisting it.
A puzzle will occur to any reader of this book who has studied the history of debates about free trade and protection. Everything in this short list of ambiguities and flaws in the traditional doctrine of free trade based on comparative or absolute advantage is well known. The interest of the list lies in combining the ideas that constitute the list, in deepening and generalizing them, and in grasping their unrecognized implications. The student of the controversy about free trade, however, will object that the history of this debate has been largely preoccupied with beliefs of an entirely different order. To these beliefs the propositions in the short list bear no self-evident relation.
Traditional objections to free trade can be broadly placed into two categories. In one category are the arguments concerning the special instances in which restraints on trade may be justified because of the failure to solve what today we would describe as a collective-action problem in the development of a regime of universal free trade. If markets are not universally open, it may not, under certain conditions, be in the interest of every trading party to act as if they were; that is, it may not be in its interest to offer its trading partners a unilateral and unreciprocated abolition of restraints on trade. This claim was the nub of Robert Torrens's "terms of trade" argument.
It is an argument that has always invited a twofold response from the defenders of free trade as it is conventionally understood. One response emphasizes how special are the conditions under which restraint may be more advantageous than unreciprocated protection. The other response insists that the actual practice of protection is likely to squander its theoretical benefits by lending itself to the service of powerful interests and fashionable dogmas.
In a second category are the arguments dealing with the perverse distributive effects of free trade in a particular situation, including both distribution among sectors of the economy and distribution among classes of society. In this second category fall Frank Graham's "increasing returns argument" (according to which if manufacturing is subject to increasing returns to scale and agriculture to decreasing returns to scale, a country importing manufactured goods and specializing in agriculture may have reason to impose a tariff on manufactures in order to encourage a shift to the higher-productivity sector, with its increasing returns to scale), Mihail Manoïlescu's related "wage differential argument" (according to which developing countries might be justified in imposing restraints on trade to encourage the movement of labor from low-wage, low-productivity agriculture to high-wage, high-productivity industry), James Bristock Bridgen's so-called Australian argument (according to which restraints on trade might be justified for countries whose factor endowments were such that, although facing diminishing returns in agriculture, they continued to specialize in the world economy as agricultural exporters), and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem (according to which an import tariff may raise the real income of labor and reduce the real income of capital when the import-substituting sector produces a labor-intensive good).
The common element in these arguments of the second category is the claim that, under the special conditions each of them stipulates, free trade may produce a redistribution of gains among sectors of production or among classes of society that is economically inconvenient as well as socially undesirable because it inhibits a national economy from climbing the ladder of productivity more quickly.
Both sets of arguments address circumstances in which, for particular reasons, the case for free trade may fail to persuade. They provide no basis for resisting trade beyond those circumstances or for revising our view of its benefits. They thus reinforce John Stuart Mill's contention that "the protectionist doctrine finds support in some particular cases"-and only in such cases.
The result is to provoke from the defenders of the doctrine of free trade a response that has succeeded in robbing these objections from the competitive assumptions or the distributive effects of freer trade of much of their theoretical and practical force. The response comes in two parts. The first part is to interpret each of the arguments as the description of a low-productivity trap. The way out of the trap, the votaries of free trade say, is not to restrict openness in the global market; it is to radicalize openness-competition, flexibility, and capability through education, training, and benchmarking-in the domestic market. The second part is to suggest that so long as market failure persists, the short-term antidote to its perverse distributive consequences should be a corrective or compensatory transfer of resources. Restraint on trade should be a last resort; it is likely to be the most costly solution, and its costs are likely to be magnified by the foothold it provides for the ravages of favoritism and dogmatism.
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Chapter 1 Troubles: The Enigmas of Free Trade....................7
Familiar Problems, Disturbing Solutions....................7
The History of Free Trade and Protection: Subversive Lessons....................15
The Authority of Free Trade Doctrine: Reasons Amounting to Objections....................20
Chapter 2 Troubles: The Incompleteness of Comparative Advantage....................25
The Doctrine of Comparative Advantage....................25
Incompleteness: Indeterminacy Resulting from Failure to Justify Unique Assignments of Comparative Advantage....................28
Incompleteness: Confusion Resulting from Uncertainty about the Limits of Our Power Collectively to Shape Comparative Advantage....................36
Incompleteness: Embarrassment Resulting from the Assumption that the World Is Divided into Sovereign States....................44
Beyond Incompleteness: The Sham Similarity between Postmarginalist Economics and Physics....................51
Condemned to Eternal Infancy: Implications of the Method Inaugurated by Marginalism....................56
A Note Relating Ideas in this Book to the Dominant Tradition of Thinking about Comparative Advantage....................65
Chapter 3 Ideas....................77
In Search of a Point of View....................77
Specialization and Discovery: When Competition Inhibits Self-Transformation....................78
Politics over Economics: When Restraints on Trade Imply No Surrender to Special Interests or Costly Dogmas....................81
Order and Revision: When Free Trade Strengthens the Capacity for Self-Transformation....................87
Alternative Free Trade, Alternative Globalizations: The Market Liberated from Doctrine of the Market....................90
The Division of Labor Reimagined and Remade: From the Pin Factory to the Factory of Innovation....................95
A Central Conception: Mind against Context....................100
Chapter 4 Theses....................110
Nature of These Theses....................110
The Thesis of Relative Advantage....................110
The Thesis of Politics over Economics....................138
The Thesis of Self-Revision....................150
Chapter 5 Proposals....................166
From an Analysis to a Program....................166
The World Trade Regime and Its Reconstruction....................167
Free Trade Reformed: The Reconciliation of Alternatives....................179
Free Trade Reformed: Experimenting with the Form of the Market Economy....................185
Free Trade Reformed: Free Movement of Things and Money Chastened, Free Movement of People and Ideas Enhanced....................193
Free Trade Reformed: From Wage Slavery to Free Labor....................198
The Troubles of Free Trade and the Possibilities of Economics....................213
Name Index....................223
Subject Index....................225
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HOUMA — Last year, Brent Neil took on a hairy challenge for a good cause.
This year the 25-year-old manager of PetCo's Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard store is looking for another challenge that will help raise money for the company's Tree of Hope Foundation, which aids local animal rescue groups.
The company, with more than 1,000 stores in all 50 states, says in its promotional materials that supporting local humane societies and shelters is an important part of its corporate philosophy. Founded in LaMesa, Calif., PetCo established a separate foundation to handle its charitable work.
"The company looks for programs that help encourage people to make donations," said Neil, a Chauvin native who has worked at the store for five years. At one store a manager suffered having pies thrown in his face in return for donations.
Last year's Houma project was for Neil to have his head shaved by a dog groomer if the store raised $3,000 for the cause. For a few dollars more the company's name was to be left in hair on the back of his head. And for a little more money he would paint his head red and blue, the company's colors.
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Frankly, of the 47 games played at this tournament so far,
this would not even rank in the top 40 as a spectacle.
There were few line breaks, both teams kicked with little
accuracy and intelligence, and the attacking vision from
players was terrible at times.
People questioned the need for this game and their argument
got plenty of backing last night.
Wales seemed content to bash away all night and those lauding
the rebirth of Welsh rugby might have been a tad premature.
Australia badly missed fullback Kurtley Beale, who injured
his hamstring again after 10 minutes. Chief playmaker Quade
Cooper then left the field shortly afterwards with a wonky
That left Australia with plenty of bashers in its backline
but few creators and it told.
Both backlines cancelled each other out most of the night and
the forward packs bashed each other to a standstill.
Just to add to matters, referee Wayne Barnes was at his
baffling best. He missed obvious offsides and had a
forgettable night at the breakdown.
The Australians should have clinched the match with seven
minutes left but outside back Adam Ashley-Cooper had the ball
knocked out of his hands as he dived for the line. It did not
matter as No 8 Ben McCalman went over two minutes later to
seal the victory.
Welsh fullback Leigh Halfpenny scored a consolation try right
at the end.
Best for the Wallabies was Berrick Barnes, who showed he
should have played for the side all tournament, while lock
Nathan Sharpe was also useful in his 100th test. Halfback
Will Genia stamped his class on the game.
Shane Williams was lively on the wing for the Welsh and No 8
Ryan Jones got through plenty of work.
The Welsh had taken the lead after 10 minutes of the second
half. They forced a turnover in a ruck and halfback Mike
Phillips put a grubber kick though.
It was picked up by midfielder Jamie Roberts and he threw a
pass to the unmarked Williams. He showed the soccer skills of
countryman Ryan Giggs and toed the ball on 20m to score with
not an Australian in sight.
James O'Connor though quickly replied with two penalties and
Australia never looked back.
The Wallabies scored the only try of the first half after
just 10 minutes. They won a 5m scrum after the Welsh could
not control a clever Cooper kick and knocked the ball on.
The ball went to Cooper straight from the scrum and he put
Barnes into a gap. The second five-eighth scored under the
posts without a hand being laid on him. O'Connor knocked over
the easy conversion.
But Wales eventually swung on to attack and, after a series
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Last Friday, I shared a list of five things I can't stand, but everyone else seems to love. Curious as to whether or not I was the only one that runs into this issue, I put the question to you on Facebook. A few of you took my side on some of the items on my list, while others didn't like things I previously thought was impossible not to like.
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Even if you aren't in the mood for buying, you must stop at the historic Cameron Trading Post at least for a break on that long drive to the Grand Canyon (the east entrance is much more scenic)
The main shop has thousands of items ranging from authentic native jewellrey and pottery to Grand Canyon pot holders. It is a bit of a tourist trap, but fun.
Don't miss out on the other shop that has authentic native antiques, such as navajo rugs and baskets, and other unique artifacts. Sure, you probably won't drop $10,000 on a beautiful vintage Navajo rug, but it's sure fun to look. The staff are extremely knowledgeable and happy to answer any questions.
What to buy: Native jewellery and pottery, plus Hopi Kachinas. Navajo rugs if you have deep pockets! If you want to buy native jewellery, you may want to buy here, as I found a majority of the authentic native jewellery at the Grand Canyon overpriced.
What to pay: My husband purchased a Navajo torquoise and silver bracelet for me. We found they are willing to bargain on jewellery, so don't be afraid to ask if that is the best price they can give you.
Directions: The Cameron Trading Post is located 1 mile north of the Highway 64 turn off if you are on Highway 89 going towards the Grand Canyon. There will be a large billboard at Cameron (which consists literally of a gas station)
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I bought some Indian pottery from the Cameron Trading Post. I had stopped at 6 or 7 other locations to find what I was looking for. (road stand vendors)
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This recipe also came from my cousin who took an online cooking class. It is best if you put a layer of salsa in it to give it more zing!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, uncooked, trimmed of fat and cubed
- 1 cup nonfat sour cream
- 1 (19 ounce) can green enchilada sauce
- 12 corn tortillas
- 1⁄2 cup finely shredded reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
- 1⁄2 cup finely shredded extra- sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 cup salsa
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine chicken and sour cream. Pour ½ cup enchilada sauce into the bottom of the 10x8 inch casserole dish. Place four tortillas on top of sauce. Layer 1/2 of the chicken mixture on top of tortillas. Sprinkle with ¼ cup of cheese. Layer a cup of salsa. Place 4 tortillas on top of this. Layer remaining chicken mixture and cheese on top of tortillas. Cover with remaining tortillas. Pour remaining enchilada sauce over tortillas. Cover the casserole with foil and bake for 35 min, or until hot and bubbly. Before serving, let casserole rest 5 minutes after removing from oven.
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I like how simple this recipe is! I substituted half of the sour cream for cream cheese to make a richer sauce. I also added a quarter of an onion (it was what I had left over and wanted to use it) and a clove of garlic since I'm a garlic nut :)
Easy! I added fat-free refried beans, extra fiber and protein and throught it turned out well. I did have to cook it longer though to cook the chicken all the way. Very good.
I made this casserole for the first time last night. The only changes I will make for next time will be to use red enchilada sauce instead of green. You were correct about the salsa- it's a great addition! Thanks for sharing.


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Vitamin C Kills Drug-resistant TB Bacteria — 21 May: In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine determined that Vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria. The venerable workhorse supplement first championed widely by two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, could be the magic bullet where hi-tech antibiotics fail. To their credit, some conventional docs are realizing natural solutions may trump our bold science.
Millions Against Monsanto — 25 May: The "March Against Monsanto" wasn't exactly a flash mob but grew like a slow-burning one. Tami Canal launched a Facebook page on February 28. Less…
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Happy Cazimi New Moon in lovable Gemini, around 11 a.m. on Saturday. Picture what you seek, or hang loose and see what the universe has — or will manifest — for thee. It's in Gemini, so it could go either way. This be the truth from Miguel Jose.
c GEMINI (5.20-6.19) You are all about your home center and the expen$e it take$ to maintain it, as your ruler Mercury has entered (your 2nd Hou$e of) Cancer 'til August. It's a longer transit than usual, 'cuz Mercury moves retrograde on June 26th for 3 weeks. It'll be time to rework your current work, re-groove, review, and then facet the gem you're working on. $ound$ like…
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Book Review: Future Esoteric: The Unseen Realms by Brad Olsen, 413 pages, CCC Publishing, San Francisco.
The internet didn't invent the conspiracy genre. But nothing has given more life to it. Long before there were websites and URLs, people were poking holes in the established perception of our world. For his part, few have done a better job than Brad Olsen of capturing the gestalt of what the entirety of conspiracy theories mean. Why are there conspiracy theories in the first place? The answer is really quite simple and is a truism in itself: the world we see with our eyes is not what it seems to be.
Olsen doesn't consider his book a compendium of conspiracy…
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Sorry about last week's repeat of the previous week's article. My record with the "Reader" so far — in 16 1/2 glorious years, encompassing 858 issues — is 7 mistakes for the "Reader" and 5 for myself. Now, to speak on behalf of our current "Reader" crew, 3 of their tally dated from the short-lived (oh my GOD, forgive me for my pun!) Alan Baer buyout (oh, by the way, Timothy S., still think I'm a "homophobe"?). Not bad, over all… Over a 99% success ratio! Fortunately, both the "Planet Power" and the "Reader" websites featured last week's lost holy epistles, verbatim. Whenever in doubt — check it out, for there are no mistakes (when you do what you…
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Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. Well, let's just start with the bees. They're in trouble. Deep trouble. And if bees are in trouble, humans are in trouble. Bees are vital to our existence and we're losing them by about 50 percent a year. They need our help.
Bees are part of the natural order. Or as Mustafa would call it, "the Circle of Life." In nature and in human-driven agriculture, bees are essential, especially for a specific function: they are the most efficient pollinators on the planet.
In order to produce food, most plants need to pollinate. And being non-motile, plants must rely on other forces to get that done. Wind, human…
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Happy Full Moon in early Sagittarius just before midnight on Friday, kickin' off the wildest weekend this spring! It's time to talk, talk, talk about it! You'll see. Have fun, 'cuz if it's not fun — it's not done.
c GEMINI (5.20-6.19) One more month of Jupiter (the planet of luck and expansion) in your sign, especially affecting those Geminis born in mid-June. This weekend initiates the denouement with a BANG! The Full Moon on Friday (the 24th) night is in your opposite sign (which is ruled by the aforesaid Jupiter); the nefarious, outrageous, contagious, "contrariest" sign of Sagittarius. Dare I mention voraciously loquacious? Start talkin' lucky! Use it before you lose it on June…
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There's no escaping it on this planet. We are incessantly governed by our relationship with gravity. The most mysterious of the four fundamental forces, gravity tugs and pulls at our body continually. Every movement we make, every breath we take, it's always there. Our body swims in it and like swimming, the more efficiently we move and align, the longer we'll stay afloat, so to speak.
Each day is filled with subconscious actions. We drive cars, eat lunch, talk on phones — all with little intellectual awareness. Mousing, sitting, walking, scanning a price, standing; all done with little conscious awareness. Repetition is our daily routine. Our mind may not be fully aware of our movements but our body…
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Obama Ignores Potential DHS Fixes In Immigration Pep Talk To Congress
Published on Fri, Apr 23, 2010
President Obama urged Congress today to pass "comprehensive immigration reform," warning that a lack of federal action would encourage "misguided efforts" such as those in Arizona.
But Mary Giovagnoli of the Immigration Policy Center says there's a lot the administration could do if it wanted to create a stronger immigration policy. And she said the work would start with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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