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By: David Napier
All Quotes in italics are taken from 'Health and Wealth' by Andrew Brandon (1987), published by Kingsway Publishers.
Every so often rumours of new ideas on the religious scene come to our notice. But what do we do about them? There is no point in saying "I won't fall for that one" when so many of us do!
For example, nearly 60% of all American Christians have 'fallen for' the movement which boasts of health, wealth and prosperity for those who ask for it. Now, as with many other ideas that start in the USA, this 'movement' has filtered through to the UK and today many are very serious about it.
This is a pity, for those who this writer has talked to generally uphold all the major teachings of scripture. Although the matters raised by the movement are secondary to salvation, its thinking can affect life and witness. It can also place more emphasis on riches than on salvation itself. Some argue that it does not matter how people become Christians....but coming to the Lord expecting money, perpetual health, healing when health has broken and personal interviews with Christ Himself, has many drawbacks!
Andrew Brandon's first experience of this movement was when he met one well-meaning Christian who "placed a bulk of glossy magazines into my hand with the comment 'for your edification, brother' ". One article offered the following advice:
"lay your hand on this page (under which was a life-size picture of a hand) and then write your prayer request on the palm. Return this with your monetary donation to 'Hotline to Heaven' and our team of specially trained intercessors will pray for you. If your request and gift are among the first fifty to arrive, we'll send you an olive-wood figurine of a Jerusalem beggar." (pg. 10)
Other gifts were also offered in exchange for money. Now it does not take the average person long to discover how deplorable this is. Whilst this writer will take a sympathetic view of misinformed people, some of the movement's proponents are abusive toward others:
"Kenneth Hagin, one of the leading prosperity teachers, refers to his antagonists as 'stupid' while the disagreement of well-qualified theologians is attributed to their 'peanut-brain'. 'Hoodwinked by the Devil' the Church refuses to accept the prosperity message, and in so doing, jeopardises her chance of effective evangelism. Only when the Church is wealthy, it is argued, can she truly fulfil the commission to make disciples of all nations... this contention runs counter to all the evidence of Church history and recent Church growth research." (pg.13)
"The poor Christians of the first generation became the educated middle-class Christians of the next. When this happens, Church growth slows significantly. Prosperity and affluence tend to lead to atrophy rather than give impetus to growth." (pg.14)
(As you read this article ask yourself why all the great preachers and Christians of the past never mentioned this teaching. Or, would they ever call people 'stupid' and 'peanut-brain' because they did not join the bandwagon?)
The main thrust of this teaching seems to be: whatever you say is what will happen. As in all stories there is the 'good' and the 'bad' (or 'positive' and 'negative' confession).
Negative Confession
"Whilst talking to a (car) mechanic - 'I admire you' I said to the DIY mechanic...'I'm no good at mechanics myself.' My words shook him. 'That's negative confession' he cried, 'you must never say that again. You can do all things through Christ Who gives you strength.' " (pg.16)
Wow! Think of the fun you could have in life by never using 'negative confession'! You could go for any interview you like, regardless of the job or qualifications required and get it, because you can do all things through Christ! If you would like to try your hand at brain surgery, just say you can do it. Go on!
This is just one of many instances in which scripture is misquoted. This seems to be a pastime of health and wealth followers. God does help us, but He also expects us to work at it too. So, to become a good mechanic you will need many years training and experience on all kinds of vehicles. The same applies to any skilled job or profession. Merely saying "I am a good mechanic" does not enable you to tear off your shirt and shout "This is a job for SuperMechanic!"
Positive Confession
Shortly after his meeting with the mechanic, Andrew Brandon
"Heard a sermon on positive confession. The teaching content was reduced to a simple rhyme...'see it dry, see it wet, what you say is what you get.' " (pg.17)
What, then, went wrong
"when (Elijah) asked God to take his life (1 Kings 19:4). God didn't - his (Elijah's) words were powerless." (pg.28)
Surely his negative confession should have cost him his life?
"Positive confession is the magic door to a make-believe world. Negative words are evil spells that bring disaster, but positive words are good magic that bring about the desired results. The similarity between this teaching and witchcraft is striking." (pg.30)
This is more apparent when we consider Kenneth Hagin's 'personal encounters' with Jesus. It is too naive to say we must not doubt the word of the man. This writer would! It is convenient to have visions to support your ideas, as when Hagin was "Instructed (by Jesus) to teach positive confession. There is no evidence in scripture to support such a notion." (pg.41)
"Prosperity teaching subscribes to a novel and highly original concept of faith... Hagin is adamant that there can be no faith without confession: confession is the trigger that releases the force of faith." (pg.33)
We are here assuming that 'confession' does not have to be audible. If it must be, then there are millions who cannot confess because they are dumb! Surely this teaching is not so cruel as to make people confess audibly? But, if you can confess inaudibly, the confession is through the mind. If this is true, then it must be extremely difficult to control our thoughts so that we do not inadvertently confess something negatively. We could go further and ask what happens to semi- or sub-conscious thoughts that are negative? How do mentally handicapped or mentally ill people manage with confessing? How would some even get to know about the teaching, if their minds cannot take in everyday instructions, let alone new religious concepts?
In this light it is a terrible thing for Hobart Freeman to say that medicine is a "sign of unbelief" (pg.38). Are doctors and other medical staff making a lot of money out of people's disbelief? If positive confession really worked then a vast number of doctors, nurses, etc., would be out of a job, because all Christian patients would confess their way out of hospital!
So, before we continue it can be seen that the main idea in this teaching is 'whatever you say is what you receive'. The two main areas we can now examine are health and wealth. Before we do so, ask yourself once again why this teaching has been missing until now. If the teaching is true, then even major illnesses and death could be avoided.
It should be stressed that Andrew Brandon's
"intention...is not to join forces with those who reject the ministry of healing, but to expose some of the unscriptural ideas that could bring discredit on this valuable and compassionate ministry. An over-emphasis on any aspect of the truth is unscriptural and dangerous. In my view, prosperity teaching is guilty of an over-emphasis on healing and a dubious theology which has already resulted in a number of deaths. A theology that kills cannot be of God." (pg.47)
Some examples of these dangers are reported in Brandon's book and they are extremely disturbing. One case is where a man was dying of an heart attack and his wife refused the help of a doctor, because she believed he would be healed if she asked God in a positive way to heal him. The man died. So, what happened to her positive confession? As the teaching claims:
" 'No Christian ever living in victory should be sick. Divine health was a covenant right of every child of God, and to acknowledge sickness was considered to be negative confession and therefore of the Devil'...but people keep dying, the teaching is a lie." (pg. 48)
As the author rightly says:
"Such stories are never printed in books on prosperity teaching. Instead, they contain glorious and triumphalistic accounts of sick and crippled people who, on receiving the message of health and prosperity, are instantaneously healed, but they never mention the pain and guilt of those for whom the theology does not work." (pg.47)
It is appropriate at this point to insert a quote by Kenneth Copeland (another prosperity teacher), published in the Calvary Contender (Nov. 1st., 1987):
The moment I woke up in the morning, before I did anything else, I'd take Communion. I'd say 'I take Jesus' pure blood shed for me'. Then I'd (rebuke) the devil...Then, all day long, I'd thank God for my healing...Then, in the afternoon, I'd praise God and receive Communion again. Why? To remind myself that the blood of Jesus is in my veins... That night before bed, I'd receive Communion again. And I'd say 'Well, I'm going to bed tonight with the taste of His blood and His body in my mouth'... If I woke up in the night, I'd reach over and get my Bible and read all the healing scriptures again...(and) praise myself back to sleep. (...By the way, this will work to rid your body of any sickness if ANYONE will do it). Is God responsible for AIDS? No!...The news is going to get out that God is healing people of AIDS." (Voice of Victory, Oct. 1987)
(Are readers as repulsed as I am by Copeland's view of Communion in this quote? The rest of the quote is the very sad testimony of a deluded man. Ed.)
Copeland says:
"You can absolutely believe God for anything in the world and get it." (The Discerner, Nov. 1987)
Charismatics who believe and use these unscriptural, magical formulae are deceiving others and are themselves being deceived. Be warned, be wise and beware!
Why, then, doesn't this cure-all teaching always work? Could it be that the time it does work is when it is the will of God anyway for that person? (Note: there can be no other healing, for everything is predetermined by God. Ed.). If the teaching is as simple as 'ask for healing and you will get it', how can it possibly fail? And how could we differentiate between the results of confession and the normal course of events (even deadly cancers can disappear of their own accord)? These questions do not detract from God's true healings.
And as for men being resurrected from the dead - how does that fit in with the scriptural statement that man dies but once and after that, receives a new body? The case of Lazarus cannot be cited - Jesus Christ is Lord and is God and He can do whatever He wishes.
Also of interest here is the time of such occurrences. That is, how long after the supposed 'death' does the 'resurrection' take place? If it is only moments or hours, or even a few days, it could be that these people were not really dead in the first place. No - the medical evidence is lacking, as is credibility.
If some think such talk is silly - ask yourself why you think it is so. Think carefully...wherever we go between death and heaven (Christ told the thief that he and the thief would go to 'Paradise' - which is NOT heaven), we know that it has to be a supernatural place. Thus, if people are being resurrected, they are being recalled from a supernatural state, ON DEMAND. This, and Copeland's repulsive ideas on Communion, are identical to both spiritualistic and Roman Catholic teachings.
Without wishing to mock such teachers... have they ever attempted to 'resurrect' someone who has been crushed flat by a steam-roller? Or, one who has been decapitated? Or, burned beyond recognition? Or, has suffered some other irreversible change? If they have not - then the whole thing is suspect (as it is, anyway).
Let us ignore these severe cases. What about people who have not died, but who are nevertheless very ill. How far can they take 'positive confession'? For example, what if they had medical proof that an unborn child was deformed or had some terrible disease? Can it be healed within the womb? Or, if a person's face has been eaten away by cancer, can the flesh be returned to normal? And how long after the illness or injury can healing take place? What about, say, a man who lost his leg during the Second World War...can he have a new leg just by asking for it? After all, according to the theory time holds no meaning, for it is God who heals.
The reader must forgive my scepticism, but every time I have been in a meeting where healing is supposed to be taking place, I have never witnessed another leg growing where one has been taken away or has never existed. Nor have I seen a deformity healed back to normal. In other words, where proof could not be debated, there has been no proof! The only 'healings' I have witnessed are those which could not be argued against - back-aches, poor eyesight made a little better, something vague and internal, etc. But, like many others, I have heard of miraculous healings - but they seem to be rare. But, why should they be rare if health teaching is correct? (My own mother was miraculously healed of one chronic, medically-attested condition, but she was not healed of another. Therefore, the existence of God's healing is not questioned. Here we are discussing the man-made theory of healing-on-demand).
Some prosperity teachers go too far in their ideas. Thus Kenneth Copeland equates all sickness with sin. In his book, 'Our Covenant with God', he writes:
"You need to fight the temptation to be sick just as you would fight the temptation to lie or to steal. Satan will tempt you with the sickness, but you don't have to give in. You can resist him with the word of God as Jesus did."
"For those who are sick, deformed or mentally handicapped this message has little comfort." (pg.51)
If the teaching were true, then every Christian in the world could be healed if they wanted to be healed (rather than if God wants them to be healed). And if we take the theory to its logical conclusion, we can demand that our future children be born perfect or, that we should not die at all.
It seems to this writer that the proponents of this teaching spend all their time on it and on nothing else - a dangerous imbalance. Even if the teaching is true, it must not supersede other doctrinal issues. It is an error to emphasise one doctrinal claim over another.
"To attribute all sickness to Satan is a simple and convenient solution to the problem of suffering, but it is within this frame that prosperity teaching places its picture of reality. Unfortunately the picture bears little resemblance to the true nature of things. A highly complex problem is reduced to a simple formula: sickness is from the devil; health is from God." (pg.54)
One of the problems with the teachers and followers of this movement is that they think they know their scripture when, in fact, they are consistently misquoting the Bible. A major example is noted by Andrew Brandon:
"Prosperity teaching frequently refers to the phrase 'By His wounds we are healed' (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24) as an indication that perfect health is part of the Believer's inheritance in Jesus." (pg.58)
"This verse is very much misquoted - the context determines that we interpret this metaphorically." (pg.10)
(Something not mentioned in the book, but which I have heard from other 'health' sources connected with this teaching, is that the 39 stripes Christ is supposed to have received are supposed to represent 39 categories of illness. Therefore, His suffering and death 'cover' all categories of illness! I find this so theologically interesting, that I will not mention it again!).
The tale continues...
"Healing belongs to us...By confessing that we are healed through the death of Jesus healing will be manifest in our bodies. The symptoms of our sickness must be ignored, andconfession of perfect health must be maintained. Any symptom that contradicts the confession of prefect health is of Satan." (pg.59)
Easy, isn't it? But...
"The scriptures do not promise perfect health. Nowhere in the New Testament are we told that health is an automatic right of the child of God." (pg.60)
Returning to what Copeland said about sickness, Brandon says:
"If sickness was a sin our hospitals would be prisons. Consequently, to postulate that Christ died to atone for our sicknesses is theological nonsense." (pg.62)
This writer heard someone (who claimed to have the power to heal) say that he did not believe he could heal everybody. Rather, the holy Spirit guides him in deciding who should be healed. This is confirmed by Brandon who says:
"Jesus definitely heals today, but both scripture and human experience show that He doesn't heal everyone." (pg.65)
Even Kathryn Kuhlman a 'healing evangelist', toward the end of her life, said this of healing: "Twenty years ago I believed that... it was God's will for everybody without exception, to be healed...Now I see that we can't demand or command that God do anything. In general, I definitely believe that it's God's will to heal. But I can't say absolutely what is or is not His will in a particular case. There are some things I've learned just not to touch." (pg.67)
(Note: Kathryn Kuhlman had a notorious reputation and her name has been linked with occult techniques. Yet she agrees with Brandon on this matter).
A final word on this topic, although it is not exhausted:
"To reduce healing to the simple formula 'faith equals healing'is to do incalculable damage to those who never recover from sickness or disablement." (pg.68)
In this section sufficient evidence will be given to show that the concept of wealth is just as misconstrued as that of the concept of health.
It is easy to see why many people become interested in this kind of movement, when wealth is offered on a plate...why, it is even easier than entering a State lottery! Imagine someone is in a desperate financial position or, someone who wants to benefit from extra income. Or, he wants sufficient to pay his bills. He would jump at the chance to try out the ideas put forward by this movement.
"The rich young ruler was told to go and sell all that he possessed and give the proceeds to the poor (Mark 10:21), and Jesus' own disciples were sent on their first missionary journey with the instruction: 'Do not take along any gold or silver or copper in your belts, take no bag for the journey, or extra tunic, or sandals or a staff, for the worker is worthy of his keep.'
(Matthew 10:9-10) "
How does this scripture fit into what has been discussed? Quite easily. If we are doing something that is in God's will, then He will make sure that we have sufficient to carry out the task appointed. So, whether we talk of a visiting preacher being given a meal by a church member or, a a cash gift of many thousands, there is no difference - God will supply if it is in His will.
Of course, as often happens, there are man-made events that are nothing to do with God's will. Thus, big campaigns could be funded by people with vested interests who have no real interest in God's word. Yet, they 'believe' it is God's will to give the money. The leaders of the campaign also 'believe' (because they want to) that the campaign is of God and that the funds provided are proof of this. This fact is magnified by those American 'evangelists' who own several Rolls Royce cars, mansions and massive bank balances. I find it hard to see God's will in the midst of such glamour.
Thus, when Christians (who we all know) talk of how much they have got, where they have been on one of their many exotic holidays and how much they have in the bank, it is not unreasonable to say that they owe their prosperity to God's will, even though this is dubious. I have heard whole prosperous churches claim that their comfort is due to God's will... yet their spirits are dead.
All this is due to the human factor - where we can either do what is actually God's will or, we do things because we think they are God's will. For example: A young man believes it is God's will to become a doctor, so he goes through college. He is successful in every examination but a month before he is due to qualify, 'something' tells him to pack it all in and to go and drive for a Christian organisation, transporting food parcels in India. An extreme example? No - a real one, known to me.
It would seem 'natural' to complete the training, which had taken many years and a lot of money. His parents, too, had sacrificed a lot to put him through college. What about India? Well 'maybe some day'...and this, I suspect, would be the reaction of most Christians to a call of God that appears to contradict their own wills.
What we are saying is this: 'Surely God would not take a man through all that training and then, a month before qualifying, tell him to drop everything to drive a van in India?' But, why not? Just because we 'believe' we are right, does not prove it is God's will. Just because everything is 'going right' and everything 'slots into place', it is not proof that it is necessarily God's will. Quite often it is not. Many of the disciples dropped everything - business, profession, etc., and followed Jesus immediately. So, why can't we do the same?
Today's Christians find it hard, if not impossible, to believe that God may want us to do what we ourselves do not expect. But, He can do or want anything He wishes! Often, unbelieving Christians pass the buck and say "Oh, God must mean this for someone else!" when God wants them to do something they don't want to do.
It is very simple to engineer things to fit into our own ideas, and then to claim that it is God's will (self-fulfilling prophecy). We cannot accept that maybe God wants us to retain a disability or an illness. He may want us to live near the poverty line. He may want us to work in an intolerable situation. Who are we to turn to God and say "But I don't want to live in poverty anymore! I want money and a better lifestyle!"? What utter arrogance to demand that God, Creator and King of kings, should bow down to our personal whims! Paul was content to be in whatever state he was in. God did not take away the 'thorn in his flesh', but He gave Paul times of relative wealth and comfort amidst times of poverty and hardship. Paul was content whatever happened. So, why should Christians today expect preferential treatment? (It is also true to say that Christians who live like Paul often have their human problems alleviated unexpectedly by God, probably because they do not make demands on Him).
"The theology of wealth can be reduced to a simple formula: serve God and become rich; disobey God and become poor. Prosperity teaching has (also) made the mistake of confusing the Old and the New covenants. The blessings listed in Deuteronomy 28 - health, wealth, victory in war, fertility – are all considered part of the Christian's inheritance in Christ. But this teaching ignores the fact that the Old covenant has been abrogated and replaced by the New covenant. The contras between them both can be clearly seen here:
* What does the Bible say about building up treasures in heaven rather than on earth? Biblical teaching on 'wealth' mainly (but not always) refers to spiritual wealth. How can a Believer feel comfortable having earthly wealth when there are so many Believers in poverty and in need? Even when a Believer has earthly wealth (and there is nothing wrong with that), his wealth is of God and for God. It is not his to use as he wishes and only for his own benefit. If the teachings of this movement involved the helping of others with one's own (God's!) wealth, then perhaps it could be more acceptable.
"In all the passages of the New Testament relating to the New covenant, wealth is never mentioned...surely if wealth was a part of the New covenant it would have been mentioned. The 'God wants you to be wealthy' theology is a modern addition to the Gospel." (pg.84)
But (in yet another personal interview with Jesus!) Kenneth Hagin says he was told by Jesus that:
"If my children will listen to me, I will make them wealthy." (pg.84)
Doesn't it sound rather strange that the Jesus we all know of, Who did not collect wealth for Himself or seek high living standards, should suddenly change His mind about wealth? There is something terribly wrong when we rely on dubious 'personal encounters' rather than on proven scripture. The Bible as we have it today (directly and indirectly) contains everything we need in order to live on this earth, in any society, in any era. So why accept an alien theology not found in scripture?
"Wherever the believer's riches are mentioned they are always spiritual (Ephesians 1:7,18; 2:7; 3:8,16; Colossians 1:27, 2:2; 3:16; Hebrews 11:26). One exception is found in Philippians 4:19 where Paul assures the Church that God will provide their needs 'according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus'. It must be emphasised that the Lord does not promise wealth, but the provision of the needs of His children." (pg.85)
I am sure that the Christians who live in former Communist and similar countries would NOT agree with 'wealth' teaching, despite their many hardships and trials.
"To be a disciple of Christ in a number of communist countries necessitates the abandoning of hope of immediate prosperity and advance in career. To be a Christian is to be poor. The suggestion that poverty is the consequence of ignorance and unbelief is to insult both Christ and His suffering people." (pg.87)
Another thing that seems to be missing from this new theology is sacrifice:
"In the theology of Paul, sacrifice and giving are inextricably linked. In fact, it is the sacrificial principle that Paul is illustrating when he refers to Jesus becoming poorer to make us rich. The Bible promises to reward the generosity of the Believer, but not necessarily in financial terms." (pg.89)
Yet, how many Christians give in order to receive? What a terrible witness.
"Research into church growth has unearthed a very interesting fact. The most rapidly growing churches are those where the congregations have learned to give sacrificially - they are often blessed with converts rather than money." (pg.100)
If Christians were given a choice - more money or more converts - I am not sure which way they would choose, such is today's love of money! Another interesting fact is that the average Christian in the UK (1987 figures) gives about £1.50 a week to the work of God...not much of a sacrifice, is it? British churches have an unenviable reputation for not giving much:
"So before we remove the splinter from the eyes of the prosperity teachers let us make sure that we have removed the beam from our own eye." (pg.100)
One of the ways in which Kenneth Hagin is wrong is "in his teaching that God only answers 'yes' to our prayers. Yet how can he explain Paul's prayer being denied three times (2 Corinthians 12:8-10)? He also says that God is legally bound to answer prayer - Man cannot hold God to ransom!" (pg.111)
Kenneth Copeland is also wrong, by confusing the Abrahamic covenant with the Old covenant, but this is too big a matter to be dealt with here...it is mentioned to underpin the fact that health and wealth teachers insist on misinterpreting scripture.
As an aside, the 'vision' of Kenneth Hagin mentioned in his book 'I Believe in Visions', is unscriptural in context as is therefore dubious. In this meeting, Christ is supposed to have said that He had delegated all His authority to the Church and so He was therefore unable to intervene in any matter. This is deception (P.130). The thinking Christian can surely see that
"The Jesus of prosperity teaching is another Jesus. He bears little resemblance to the Jesus of the New Testament." (pg.131)
God can and does intervene anytime, anywhere, as often as He wishes. We dare not presume otherwise.
Andrew Brandon has identified seven reasons for the popularity of this new theology (pg 133 - 139):
Respond, or Not?
What should be our response to all this? There are two possible responses the Church can have to prosperity teaching. The first is peaceful co-existence and the second, exclusion.
Peaceful Co-Existence
"This approach is usually adopted by a leadership who are either theologically uninformed or who believe we can derive benefit from all aspects of 'Christian' teaching, even those which are heretical and dangerous." (pg.140)
(In other words, a 'softly-softly, don't rock the boat or status-quo' approach!)
The author (Brandon) and this writer, agree with this approach and would mention that a minister who took this action "spared the church from a severe period of turmoil and disunity".
"Paul didn't take the soft approach when confronted by false teaching. To argue and divide over peripheral doctrinal issues is not to be encouraged, but to exercise discipline when the cardinal truths of the Gospel are challenged is imperative...Failure to discipline as a leader is an abuse of one's calling. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it (Titus 1:9). " (pg.141)
Is it a Cult?
"This is difficult to answer. Unlike modern cults, it has no outstanding leader but a diversified fellowship... The most influential teachers in the movement, however, have a theology which bears all the characteristics of a cult. Much of its teaching is based on visions, revelations and first-hand encounters with Christ." (pg.142)
The main points of this teaching are as follows (pg 143-144):
So, it this teaching a cult? The list above shows some of the major discrepancies. The movement certainly contains the seeds of major heresies. This writer would certainly refer to it as a cult.
"To adopt a 'head in the sand' approach to the question and hope it will go away is irresponsible. It is the duty of informed leadership to make a decision." (pg.144)
So - what will YOU, as a Christian, do about it? What about you who are pastors and preachers? Do not ignore it, for it will not go away.
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Yeah, we all get tons of SPAM in our Inbox folders. I, for one, and definitely numb to the constant offers for medical assistance with my naughty tingly parts, offers to refinance my mortgage, and work from home and make millions in my spare time. I definitely am convinced that apricots and magic herbs from the Brazilian rain forests hold the keys to stopping aging, fixing my sore and aching joints, and removing those laugh lines and wrinkles that are appearing as I age. Numerous bankers in foreign lands would love to have my help in extricating some funds orphaned in their troubled country by a western national's untimely demise with no apparent heirs. I am flypaper for all of this helpful information.
This one, however, made me laugh, and coffee squirted out of my nose. Someone should tell "scruffy", oops, Mr. William Gill that using a gmail account for the "Reply-to", and having a sender address of "email@example.com" makes me doubt the value to me, as a consumer, of this offer from "Barclays Wealth Home". Perhaps someone should also suggest a spell checker and/or grammar checker. I think that "United Kingdom" is spelled with a capital "K".
I needed a good laugh today. Thanks Scruffy.

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BMC is a private, not-for-profit, 496 bed, academic medical center with a community-based focus. The primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center has approximately 4,500 employees, 1,200 physicians and an annual operating budget of roughly $1.0 billion. BMC is a founder of Boston HealthNet, a network affiliation of the Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine and 13 community health centers. Boston HealthNet is an integrated health care delivery system whose partners provide outreach, prevention, primary care, specialty care and dental services at sites throughout Boston's neighborhoods and Quincy.
In addition to the Medical Center and its affiliated community health centers, BMC owns and operates the BMC HealthNet Plan, a statewide Medicaid Managed Care Organization with more than 260,000 members across the Commonwealth.
Prior to her appointment at Boston Medical Center, Ms. Walsh served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women's Hospital for five years. She served previously as the chief operating officer for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
Ms. Walsh began her career in health care as a summer intern at Brookside Health Center in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Upon finishing graduate school, she held positions in a number of New York City hospitals including Montefiore, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Saint Luke's – Roosevelt Hospital Center and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. She relocated to Boston and joined Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as an assistant general director in medical services and was promoted to vice president of medical services and primary care and then to senior vice president of medical services and the MGH Cancer Center.
Ms. Walsh received her bachelor's of arts degree and a master's degree in public health from Yale University. She is a member of the Boards of Trustees of Emmanuel College, the YMCA of Greater Boston, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the Council of Teaching Hospitals, and the Yale University School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, the Health Care Institute and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission.
Ms. Walsh, a native of Brookline, is married and has two children.
David Beck
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel
David Beck has been with BMC since 2007, when he was appointed Deputy General Counsel. He was promoted to Vice President and General Counsel in 2011. Immediately prior to joining BMC, David served as Deputy Chief of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Public Protection Bureau. He received a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, an M.P.P. degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. degree from the Harvard Law School. David oversees BMC's legal matters, corporate compliance, and captive insurance company.
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Dr. Alastair Bell is the Chief Operating Officer at Boston Medical Center and in that role he oversees inpatient and outpatient clinical operations, clinical support departments, facilities and environmental services, marketing, and strategic planning. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Bell served as BMC's Vice President for Strategy Implementation where he worked closely with the senior management team to oversee implementation of the ambitious agenda of initiatives that form BMC's Be Exceptional strategic plan.
Dr. Bell joined BMC from McKinsey and Company in 2012, where he was a leader in the North American Payor and Provider practice. In his 5 years at McKinsey he advised a range of national and international healthcare organizations and while his work spanned strategy, operational and organizational issues, he developed particular expertise in leading large scale transformation programs similar to that being undertaken at BMC. He received his medical degree from the University of Oxford in England and completed his internal medicine training in Oxford and Edinburgh. Dr. Bell also holds a MA degree in Physiology from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
William Creevy, MD, MS
President and CEO of the Faculty Practice Foundation
Prior to his appointment to the Faculty Practice Foundation in 2013, Dr. Creevy served as Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at BMC and BUSM for 15 years. Dr. Creevy received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Boston University. He completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Boston Medical Center, serving as chief resident, in 1992. This was followed by a fellowship in sports medicine at the Graduate Hospital, University of Pennsylvania before joining the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine in 1994. In 2001, Dr. Creevy received a Master of Science in Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Working in collaboration with department chairs and senior leadership of BMC and BUSM, Dr. Creevy is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the FPF, providing fiscal and operational oversight of the physician organization. He is also Assistant Dean for Faculty Practice at Boston University School of Medicine.
Ravin Davidoff, MBBCh
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Dr. Ravin Davidoff was named Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer in 2011. Dr. Davidoff previously served as Vice President of Medical Affairs and CMO at BMC since 2008. Dr. Davidoff received his MBBCh from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and fellowship in cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Davidoff is a Professor of Medicine at BU School of Medicine and is responsible for Network Development, Graduate Medical Education, Medical Affairs, the Medical Executive Committee and Clinical Affiliations including Community Health Centers, Cancer Care, Radiation Oncology and Anesthesia.
Nancy Gaden, DNP, RN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Nancy Gaden joined BMC in early 2014. Nancy comes to BMC from Hallmark Health System, where she served as System Vice President, Patient Care Services/Chief Nursing Officer. In this role, she was a key member of Hallmark's executive team and directly oversaw patient care services. Under her leadership, Hallmark Health received Magnet Designation from the ANCC. Prior to her tenure at Hallmark, Nancy served in senior Patient Care Services/Chief Nursing Officer roles at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, South Shore Hospital and Milton Hospital. She received her BS from the University of Rochester, her MS from Boston College and graduated with her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Regis College.
Stanley Hochberg, MD
Senior Vice President for Quality, Safety and Technology and Chief Quality Officer
Stanley Hochberg joined BMC in 2011. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Medical Officer for the BMC HealthNet Plan. Dr. Hochberg received his medical degree from the University of Rochester, where he also completed his residency.
Dr. Hochberg oversees Information Technology Services, Quality Improvement and Risk Management, Patient Experience and Infection Control.
Lisa Kelly-Croswell
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Lisa Kelly-Croswell joined Boston Medical Center in 2013 and is responsible for leading all Human Resources functions as well as BMC's Occupational Health Clinic and Volunteer Services Department. Lisa brings more than 25 years of experience in a wide range of global HR leadership roles including: Senior Vice President, HR and Corporate Services at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, VP, HR at Nitromed, Inc., SVP, HR for Healthcare and Service Operations at CIGNA, and a series of progressive HR leadership roles at Monsanto and Frito-Lay. While at Monsanto, Lisa also held an expatriate assignment based in Singapore, leading HR responsibilities for Southeast Asia.
Lisa received a B.S. in Finance and an M.A. in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Corporation.
Richard Silveria, MBA
Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Richard Silveria joined BMC in 2010. He previously served as Corporate Director of Revenue Finance for the Partners Healthcare System for more than 12 years, and served VP of Managed Care Finance for the Lawrence General Health System for 10 years. He received his BS degree in education from the University of Massachusetts and his MBA degree from Northeastern University.
Richard Silveria is responsible for oversight of the system financial framework and for finance functions including Treasury, Financial Planning and Budgets, Payment Systems, Managed Care, Supply Chain, Patient Financial Services, Patient Access, Revenue Integrity and Coding.
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Prior to joining BMC, Norman was Associate Director of Development and Director of Leadership Gifts for the Museum of Fine Arts and built the development program in support of the Nobel Peace Prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Norman is a graduate of Boston College with dual Masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Public Policy and Energy Resources.


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If U leave her now
Ur never gonna 2 c her again - Never
Now she's gonna need a shoulder 2 cry on
She's gonna need a friend
She's gonna need a pillow case - something 2 put those tears on
And Eye've got some purple satin lacys
1 second later than the second U gone
She' gonna miss U at first
But then she's gonna buy me things
That's when Eye'm gonna lay her
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That U were the marrying kind
A faithful 1-man-woman
The best he would ever find
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So there ain't nothing left 2 say
Eye tried 2 tell him if U run 2 me
Eye won't run away
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Eye'm going 2 lace her with enough ice to recap the polls
There might b another solar eclipse
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But then she'll get used 2 me
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At this point, the Toronto Blue Jays are playing exactly how their record says: Average
The Jays are treading water at the moment at just a game over .500 (40-39) and 5-5 in their last 10 games.
The good (and somewhat surprising) news is that their not really losing any distance in the AL East. Sure the Yankees are running away with the division, but I don't think anyone really expected Toronto to win the division anyway. Baltimore and Tampa are stifling right now and Boston is still close. All-in-all the Blue Jays find themselves only two wins behind the second-place Orioles.
Chances were lost in their four-game split with the Los Angeles Angels. It felt like the series was theirs for the taking. But again, bad pitching was their undoing.
Toronto will head into the Kansas City Royals series feeling like they can, and should, win it. Here are some things to keep an eye on in this four game set.


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My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
by Emily Dickinson
Analysis: Tough-O-Meter
(8) Snow Line
Most of Dickinson's poems are in the 7-9 range on the Tough-O-Meter for their length, so she's not a beginner's poet. This poem falls about dead center, by our estimation. Its confusing syntax, numerous dashes, and strange language all make it hard to even get going. Yet the themes in this poem aren't as hard to wrap your mind around as those in some of her other poems. Several of her famous ones, like "There's a certain Slant of light," or "I started early – took my dog," are incredibly mysterious, whereas this one starts with a relatively neat comparison to a loaded gun. This image isn't too difficult because we can picture it in our minds.


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New York, March 21st (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of Avon Products Inc. (NYSE:AVP) closed the session at $18.86 with its price action in a very tight range, given that calculated support is set at $18.09 and the calculated resistance is set at $19.05
Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE:AVP) manufactures and direct sells beauty and related products. The Company markets its products to consumers worldwide through independent sales representatives.
Avon's stock price action indicates that both sellers and buyers are materializing very close to each other, which is indicative to a momentum building area, as the stock can resolve by breaking out of the tight range that is developing.
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NFL fans looking for some place to stay this weekend can rent out Kevin Jonas' Denville mansion for a mere $20,000 a night. He is also offering four tickets to see the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
The home of the former Jonas Brothers star is available through the holiday rental website Airbnb.com.
Jonas shared the six-bedroom property in Denville — which appeared on the E! reality television series, "Married to Jonas" — with his pregnant wife, Danielle. The couple's first child is due in February. They put the property, which is less than an hour's drive from MetLife Stadium, up for sale in October, with an asking price of $2.2 million.
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The earliest prosthetic limbs were essentially just wooden legs. From there, science has made them more comfortable, more functional, and lighter. The next phase of prosthetic legs is here and it's giving people the confidence to do activities they never thought possible.
Fifteen years ago, Chris Culross met his wife, Andrea, and found a new hobby.
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THE combination of multiple basal-cell carcinomas, cysts of the jaw, and skeletal deformities forms an uncommon disorder often referred to as the basal-cell nevus syndrome. The condition can be recognized in early childhood and is thought to be inherited as a highly penetrant, autosomal dominant gene with multiple and variable effects.1 Cases have been described with scoliosis, prominent frontal bosses, short metacarpal bones, nasal deformity, agenesis of the corpus callosum, calcification of the falx cerebri, medulloblastoma, mental changes, hypertelorism, gonadal dysplasia, milia, and dyskeratosis of the palms and soles.2-10 It has recently been suggested that this syndrome may be a variant of pseudohypoparathyroidism because of (1) certain gross similarities, including body habitus, short metacarpal bones, ectopic calcification, and mental abnormalities, and (2) the failure to respond to infusions of parathyroid hormone with a phosphorus diuresis.8,9
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by Andrew Kirell
5:21 pm, December 14th, 2012
Appearing on Fox News' Your World this afternoon to discuss the tragic massacre in Newtown, Conn., former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
said that we shouldn't be surprised that schools have become a place of
carnage after Americans have rejected teaching about life and
responsibility by "removing God from our schools."
Host Neil Cavuto,
trying to make sense of the horrific events that have transpired, asked
the religious commentator what he believes many will now wonder: "How
could God let this happen?"
"It's an interesting thing," Huckabee said. "We ask why there's
violence in our schools but we've systematically removed God from our
schools. Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of
carnage? Because we've made it a place where we do not want to talk
about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability. That
we're not just going to have to be accountable to the police, if they
catch us, but we stand one day before a holy God in judgment."
He continued: "If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that.
When people say, 'Why did god let it happen?' You know, God wasn't
armed. He didn't go to the school. But God will be there in the form of a
lot people with hugs and therapy and a lot of ways in which he will be
involved in the aftermath."
"Maybe we ought to let him in on the front end and we would not have
to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end," he
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You open it to find personal letters to your great grandfather from his children--letters asking him difficult questions, commenting on his importance in history, asking his advice, begging for his help, and gratefully acknowledging his love and faithfulness.
If you wanted to learn more about this family patriarch, you'd study these letters.
For the same reason, we study the Psalms--letters, songs and poems written to One far greater than a righteous relative. Divinely inspired, they give us a look into our Heavenly Father's heart through the eyes of his children who pleased Him, disappointed Him, suffered for Him, shared His glory, and asked Him difficult questions about life.
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Georgia took a long time to get dry in the day (she was nearly 4 half) and night time has only been about 2 months now (she was 5 in june) but she still has bad spells. HV told me it can take up to when they are 8 yrs old to get the hang of it.
I know how frustrating it is changing sheets every night. I think I would put her back in nappies for a while. I've just trained Theo in the day this week (he is just 3) and he done it in 2 days. I was dreading doing it after Georgia. Not tried at night yet might try after xmas. xx
It's never easy second time round is it! We're the same, Logan was dry day & night just after his third birthday but we still haven't managed to get Callum out of nappies even during the day yet. So I'm now changing big toddler size nappies as well as newborn! We thought that when the new baby came it would make him want to do it but he just doesn't seem to understand!
my niece is just 8 and has only been dry at night for about 6 months, she ended up seeing a nurse at the local childrens centre with regards to bed wetting etc basically she wasn't drinking enough in the day so she was just emptying what was in her bladder during the night. Not sure if this might help with Poppy and upping her fluids??? good luck lovely x
Give her time and she will get there hon, Finn was like your Ruby, he was dry at night as soon as he was dry in day at 2yr 6mnth but I know friends little ones have taken longer.
Is it because she's drinking more in the hot weather perhaps!
She'll get there and your doing all the right things! X
Freddie is still not dry at night, he's been dry i the day since 2 3/4 but hes wet every night still. he drinks gallons during the day, so don't think its that. have tried lifting etc, but didnt really work for us, it was very hard to wake him & even if he went on the loo, he was still wet the following morning. not too worried at the moment, but might see the Dr once he's turned 6.
Hi Jewel
I know this an old thread but as I have only just joined I thought I would tell you what I do with my daughter. I am just as baffled about all this staying dry at night stuff too. My daughter was potty trained at 2 and a half and has never looked back, at about 3 she asked to not have a nappy to sleep in and she was brilliant, she would even wake me at night if she needed the toilet. However, since we have moved house she has regressed a little and now the only way to ensure a dry bed is that I get her to go to the toilet immediately before going to bed and then about 2 hours after she has gone to bed (around the time I'm off to bed) I wake her up and take her to the toilet, she always goes and then she's dry until the morning.
I don't know if this is a good routine to keep to or for how long it will be before she learns to wake up herself but for now it gives her confidence with having a dry bed and me a break from all that washing and cleaning!!
Hope this can help you or perhaps if anyone else has any tips on how to get children to learn to wake themselves, any advice welcomed.
Freddie is still not dry at night & never has been, he's 6 1/2 now. we have attended the dry night clinic with the HV & he has a schedule now for drinks & wees. have been doing it for a month, but no improvement at all. its called PNE. he is a heavy sleeper so doesn't even know hes going or needs to go. seeing hv again in amonth to discuss next course of action, maybe an alarm that alerts them to wee, or possibly some meds to help concentrate the wee at night (this is what is not happening). dr/hv wont give any treatment until they are at least 6 as in some kids the brain/bladder takes longer to develop the skill/capacity to reduce wee production at night time. there is a good website called ERIC that has lots of advice etc.
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> Has *any* OS been uninstalled more times than Vista?
Not in terms of gross unit volumes. In terms of percentage of units
deployed, I think the winner would still be NT 3.1 and the "Upgrade
version" NT 3.51.
Those were so bad that Merril Lynch after spending what they estimated
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back to Windows 3.1.
Microsoft was saved from economic disaster in 1993 by the vaporware
announcement of "Chicago" - and when CIOs and OEMs started seriously
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late 1994, Bill started referring to Chicago as Windows 95 -
attempting to convince these key decision makers that the new version
of Windows would be out in early 1995. Several delays later,
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thing anyone wanted to hear from Microsoft was that they would have to
purchase upgrades to their upgrades.
Microsoft has burned as much credibility as Sarah Palin. And Steve
Ballmer doesn't seem to be near as good at the bald-face lie as Bill
Gates was. Ballmer has tried to claim that "Windows 7 will fix
Vista", but the level of skepticism is probably the highest it has
ever been. The only to remaining US manufacturers - HP and Dell, are
already putting out Linux powered sub-notebooks. Acer, ASUS, and
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everywhere BUT the United States, and it's likely that, with the
change in administration, they are likely to be MUCH more aggressive
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It's been a while since we have seen an American astronaut in an American spacecraft, even if it is just for testing.
"Feels good in there. It is good to get in a new vehicle," said Serita Aunon, one of the new class of NASA Astronauts.
The CST-100 is Boeing's entry into the new space race, commercial companies head-to-head for just one contract to fly.
Former NASA Astronaut Chris Ferguson is now heading up the Boeing Company's effort.
"We have a strategy to win and I would like to think next summer we will come out ahead," he said.
It is called the CST-100, a capsule that will ride on top of any number of rockets but first a Atlas-5.
Boeing is competing with Space X and Orbital Sciences to be the one returning Americans to space.
"Two years? It is not on the front page anymore, but that does not mean that we do not have people hard at work doing things," Ferguson said.
Like any spacecraft just getting in can be an exercise and it is a tight fit, but bigger than the current ride to the International Space Station.
The Russian Soyuz can only hold three flyers, not comfortably, and Boeing says the CST-100 could hold much more.
Boeing says the idea will be room for five astronauts and cargo in the CST-100 which would be able to fly on top of a number of different types of rockets.
The astronauts getting in first are positive.
"The fact that it will be an American vehicle and that it will be launching from American soil. That is what I like about it," he said.
So who has the edge? Serita Aunon isn't sure.
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|Resident Alien: Gaddafi's Son and Our Friends in Africa
Robert Hanks, Independent (London)
Sunday June 1, 2003
The thing to keep in mind about Saif El Islam Alqadhafi is that he doesn't play football - that's his brother, Al-Saadi. Saif's interests are painting, architecture, charitable works - he's the head of the Gaddafi Foundation, Libya's largest charity - and world peace. This last is what brought him to London House on Mecklenburgh Square, a hostel for overseas students, to talk on the subject "Reforming the UN Charter".
I had hoped to corner Saif before dinner for a brief informal interview, but since he didn't turn up until moments before dinner was served, I ended up talking to Hamish Wilson instead - which in all honesty was probably more interesting. You may have seen Hamish on a superb BBC2 documentary three years ago, about following Richard Burton's footsteps to the forbidden city of Harrar, in Somalia. His family's connections with that country go back to the Second World War when his father, Eric Wilson, was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for his action during the Italian invasion of what was then British Somaliland. Uniquely, more than 60 years after winning a posthumous VC, Mr. Wilson is still alive and well, there having been something of a foul-up in communications. After the war, Mr. Wilson resumed contact with the family of one of his Somali comrades, and Hamish has kept up the connection, spending much of the last 17 years living there. In the early 1990s he was involved in the war against the dictator Siad Barre which led to the establishment of the independent Republic of Somaliland - a nation of perhaps three million people, mostly leading a nomadic pastoral life. These days, Hamish lives in a house at the end of a track in the Welsh borders, three miles from the nearest village, and makes his living by writing in the morning - he has a contract for a book about Somalia - and working as a shepherd for a local farmer in the afternoon; he has the raw-boned, healthy air of somebody who spends a lot of his time outside in the weather.
On the side he does some work for a "risk consultancy" business, advising on conditions in Somalia. Most people's ideas of the country are shaped by the Black Hawk Down incident, the ambush of American troops in Mogadishu in 1993; but according to Hamish, the country outside Mogadishu is pretty safe, especially Somaliland itself. He is particularly keen to scotch the suggestion that Somalia could be a haven for al-Qa'ida: while the country is Muslim and has its share of fundamentalist groups, most Somalis resent what they see as Arab attempts to colonize Islam.
On visits to London, Hamish spends his time cycling about, visiting the Somali communities in Whitechapel, Bethnal Green and elsewhere. Somalis have been in London for more than a century (many came over as stokers on ships, being about the only people who could stand the heat in the engine-rooms) but they maintain strong links with Somalia. Contact has become easier in recent years thanks to the large number of independent Somali airlines that have sprung up. Most began in the early 1990s, when defecting pilots from new Soviet republics flew to Mogadishu, creating a small pool of cheap aircraft.
But to Saif Alqadhafi, who was giving a "port talk" - London House does quite a plausible imitation of an Oxbridge college, and this is a very Oxbridge idea: instead of a formal speech, somebody leads the conversation, while port is passed round in the background. In fact, far too many people had turned up for informality to work, and only a minority managed to get their hands on the port.
I don't know quite what I expected from a dictator's son and, supposedly, heir apparent: I was certainly unprepared for a sweet, almost cripplingly shy idealist. He mumbled a bit, stumbled over his English, shuffled and tapped his feet under the lectern, and had difficulty looking the audience in the eyes. The contrast with his father, famous for speeches that can drag on for days, could not be starker. The physical resemblance is remote, too: instead of that distinctive mop, he has a shaved head. In contrast to Colonel Gaddafi's favored combat dress, he wears small, oval, wire- rimmed glasses, a blazer with white handkerchief neatly tucked into its breast pocket, a wide silk tie, and pressed jeans.
On to the speech: Saif's big idea (he stressed it was his, not his father's) is that the UN should be completely recast, giving a voice not just to national governments but to corporations and the "third sector" - NGOs, which he believes can be more responsive than governments to people's wishes. This new structure would be ratified through a global "e-referendum", which would give it a legitimacy the old UN lacks.
At question-time it was apparent that nobody thought this plan was remotely practical. Still, this commitment to democracy was as welcome as it was startling. The one wrong note was struck by his PhD supervisor (he is studying at the LSE) who, introducing Saif, drew the audience's attention to his impressive CV, and the fact that, at 30, he has already had a successful career as an architect, with three major projects built in Libya. Oh, and I wonder what the bidding process was like for those?
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Aerosmith fans are crying foul over last-minute discounts to boost ticket sales for tomorrow's show at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.
It was confirmed yesterday fewer than 17,000 tickets had so far sold, dashing hopes of a sell-out, 40,000-strong crowd touted when details of the US rock band's show were announced in February.
Concert organisers now hope for a crowd of 18,000 to 20,000, but insist the event will be profitable.
However, the show's promoters have responded by releasing discounted tickets online, prompting some fans who earlier purchased full-price tickets to vent their frustrations.
Upset fans on the stadium's Facebook page warned they would no longer support events at the stadium, or would wait longer before buying tickets, but others defended the discounts.
The deals included half-price restricted view tickets for $49 and access to the "silver" section of the pitch, together with an offer of some free food and drinks, for $99, down from $149.
Dunedin Venues Management chief executive Darren Burden distanced himself from the discounts yesterday, saying in a statement they were "an initiative of the promoter and not supported by Dunedin Venues".
DVML asked the promoter to withdraw the discount offers yesterday.
The Aerosmith concert was announced by Australian promoter McManus Entertainment, but was being organised by the company's New Zealand agent, Jacman Entertainment.
Jackie Sanders, the owner of Jacman Entertainment, said the discounts aimed to fill gaps in "cheaper" areas that were difficult to sell.


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The message to legislators will be very simple and clear. What our customers want is a reliable supply of high-quality sugar that meets their unique specifications, stored at our cost in the producer's warehouse facilities, delivered when and where they want it — and at the lowest possible price. In order to meet those needs, they need a geographically dispersed industry, multiple supply sources and multiple competitors who battle in the marketplace over the opportunity to take care of the user's needs.
But the industrial sugar users want the low prices they had before this farm bill. All they have to do is look back at history to see that from 1985 through today, low prices have caused the closure of 53 beet and cane factories, mills and refineries. Only 48 beet and cane processing facilities remain. Along with consolidation, the industry has transitioned to be the last owners of the factories. Because of high risk and low returns, it has driven third-party factory owners out of our business, forcing growers to buy the companies — not out of want, but out of necessity. Further industry consolidation is not in the industrial or end-consumer's interest. It is a threat to the food security of our nation.
Sugar users will argue that the current policy is an outdated system of command and control government, and they will raise all of the old tired arguments we have heard for years. The fact of the matter is that we have the best story to tell in agriculture:
• We have run a no-cost sugar policy for the past 11 years, and it is scheduled to be no-cost for the next 10 years.
• 142,000 jobs are related to our industry.
• We pump almost $20 billion into the economy.
• Our policy is a proper response to the unfair foreign trade practices of dumping surplus sugar on the world market at prices below anyone's cost of production.
• The beet sugar industry is one of the lowest-cost sugar producers in the world; yet we can't survive against unfair foreign trade practices. If all federal policies were as fiscally responsible and effective as U.S. sugar policy, we would have huge budget surpluses instead of staggering deficits and debt.
• Our policy works, and it should be left alone.
The path of the 2012 farm bill is still very uncertain. With major structural changes coming in the policies of other crops, uncertainty of the funding for those policies, alignment with the agriculture community, politics/elections and the lack of time to consider a farm bill this year, a one-year extension of current policy is certainly in the mix.
The next critical policy decision by the Obama Administration is whether additional imports will be allowed after April 1. Individual companies will be providing their input to USDA so it can make accurate decisions.
It should also be noted that if we have an early spring, we could see larger crops in 2012, given the lack of snowfall in many areas. If that occurs, more sugar from the crop going into the ground this year would be processed in late August and September, which would add supplies to the current marketing year.
ASGA Annual Meeting -- We had a fantastic annual meeting this year in Orlando, with great speakers on a number of topics key to our industry's future. Next year we will be meeting in beautiful San Diego from February 3-5 to once again learn about issues impacting our future.
New ASGA Leadership -- Many thanks to former President Russ Mauch (Minn-Dak) for two great years (the maximum term) of excellent leadership. He served the nation's beet growers well and was an outstanding representative for your interests.
The gavel has now been passed to Kelly Erickson (Red River Valley/ American Crystal); Vice President John Snyder (Washakie Beet Growers/Wyoming Sugar); and Treasurer Don Steinbeisser Jr. (Montana-Dakota Beet Growers/Sidney Sugars). These gentlemen are seasoned and proven industry leaders who are prepared to take on the challenges that lie ahead.


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Fracking Our National Parks: America's Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Ben Jervey | April 27, 2013
By Ben Jervey • Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 08:00
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories of conservation, is at risk of being despoiled by fracking.
Now sitting in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, you'd assume that Roosevelt's "home ranch" (as he called it) was protected from fossil fuel development. But the view from Elkhorn could soon be dominated by a new gas well staked just 100 feet from the site, a new bridge over the river and a new road to service nearby fracking fields. "Astronomers at Theodore Roosevelt National Park – which once offered some of the nation's darkest, most pristine night skies – also see a new constellation of flares from nearby fracking wells," writes the National Parks Conservation Association.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is not alone. Around the country – from Big Sky Country to the water gaps and rivers of the East – National Parks and recreation areas are being threatened by rampant, fracking-driven oil and gas development.


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BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Verizon Wireless today announced that its Board of Representatives has declared a distribution to its owners, payable on June 25, 2013, in proportion to their partnership interests on that date, in the aggregate amount of $7.0 billion.
Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc., which owns 55 percent of the partnership, and Vodafone Group Plc, which owns 45 percent of the partnership.
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