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From October 2013 to November 2013, the International Child Health Group (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) supported a 4-week thematic discussion on the subject: Protecting children from child abuse. A summary of the discussion was presented at the International Child Health Group Meeting, London, 4th November 2013. …more information


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Donald vs. Facts: Make America Great Again
What does it mean to make America great again?
As much as anything else in Donald Trump's campaign, his supporters seem to glom onto this one big idea, or parts thereof. So it's worth looking at. And if you look at it hard enough, you realize each word raises questions, such as:
Which vision of America are we talking about? Listening to Trump supporters, I think many of them are focusing on the America that, once upon a time, held out the promise of a secure, prosperous life. As the story goes, you could get out of high school, get a job at the plant, work there for 40 years, and save enough to provide a great life for your family—a nuclear family, in a neighborhood, where everyone knew everyone else and lent a hand in times of need. That's a compelling story. No wonder people want to get it back again.
But there are other Americas. There's the America in which success came only to white people of European origin. There's the America whose interventions in global affairs have wreaked havoc as much as they've borne fruit. There's also the America I cherish: the America of vast natural beauty, a bedrock belief in liberty, and the inspiring (if sometimes annoying) can-do spirit. Which are we talking about?
Great? Again?
What on earth do we mean by great? Look again at the visions of America described above (and add your own). Which were great? Was there ever a time when America was nothing but great (as the slogan seems to imply)?
Meanwhile, the word again implies that America was great at one time; which era would that have been? Would it be the America of the 1950s: a massive engine of economic opportunity and systemic racism? Do we mean the America of the 1940s, with its spirit of self-sacrifice and horrifying (though necessary) world war? What about the 1920s, with its sunny optimism and Prohibition?
Of all the words in this slogan, I see this one as the most seductive—and the most dangerous. Make implies that we can return to a great America (however the hell you're defining it) simply by force of will. That ignores the global, impersonal mega-forces that have changed the world beyond recognition: the massive flight to cities, which changes social norms; the yawning gap between the skills of many U.S. workers and the skills demanded by the fast-changing marketplace; the constant drive for businesses to streamline workforces and cut costs; the continuing impact of automation and the rise of artificial intelligence, which eliminates jobs; etc. Etc.
Notice something about this. None of these trends is anyone's fault. All of these trends are far beyond the ability of one person, or group, or even nation to change. Seen in this light, make looks like a mirage.
As a siren song, make America great again is compelling: many Americans have lost a lot amid the world's changes. But as a prescription for action, it sputters. I would rather we seek a way forward in the world as it is than try—and fail—to return to what was.
Donald vs. Facts: Undocumented Mexican Criminals
Last week we started evaluating Donald Trump's stated positions in light of facts and sober analysis (at least the best I could find). As it turns out, his immigration policy is way too big for one post, so for the time being, let's look at one of its cornerstones: building a wall on the Mexican border—in part to stop all those dangerous Mexican criminals from entering the U.S.
(Warning: there is math involved, and math is not my strong suit. If it's yours, and you spot a flaw in my calculations below, please speak up.)
Trump's statement claims that "for many years, Mexico's leaders have been taking advantage of the United States by using illegal immigration to export the crime and poverty in their own country." He supports his claim with this statement:
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office found that there were a shocking 3 million arrests attached to the incarcerated alien population, including tens of thousands of violent beatings, rapes and murders.
The Math
For starters, the figure is wrong. The GAO study estimates 1.7 million arrests for 2.9 million offenses (apparently you can be arrested for multiple offenses at the same time, a fact I have no intention of verifying firsthand). It also attributes these offenses to 249,000 alleged offenders—or, as the GAO calls them, "criminal aliens"—for an average of about 7 arrests per offender.
Sounds like a bad lot, and it probably is. But wait. The "incarcerated alien population" doesn't include just Mexicans. Neither does it say anything about the behavior of undocumented Mexican immigrants in general. We need more "facts and sober analysis."
As it turns out, data on Mexican criminal aliens are hard to come by, but we can make some educated guesses. Start by assuming, just for the moment, that all 249,000 alleged offenders in the above paragraph are undocumented Mexicans. The Pew Research Center estimates that 6.2 million undocumented Mexicans lived in the U.S. during 2011. That would put the number of all "criminal aliens" at 4% of all undocumented Mexicans in the U.S. If Mexicans make up half of all undocumented immigrants, and we apply that to our percentage, we're down to 2%.
By comparison the total number of U.S. residents arrested in 2011, according to the FBI, was about 9.5 million—or 1% of the U.S. population. Not exactly a significant difference.
The Lessons We Might Draw from This
Everyone would agree that keeping criminals from other countries out of the U.S. is a good thing. But in terms of crime, at least, Trump's solution sounds like massive overkill.
More troubling is this: Trump hangs essentially his whole case on this statistic—and it clearly doesn't say what he says it does. Worse, the fallacy of his "shocking 3 million" claim, together with his wild profusion of other claims, lend weight to the charge that Trump just makes it up as he goes along, pulling statistics out of the air, without heed for accuracy.
Yes, I know. Candidates have used isolated statistics to prove dubious points since…well, probably since there have been candidates and statistics. But Trump has raised this game to another level, apparently citing random statistics as support for extreme, even dangerous, positions. That means he deserves special scrutiny.
Put another way, we have to find out to what extent the emperor has no clothes. Do all his positions rest on erroneous or obsolete facts? We'll see.
Donald vs. Facts: China
Today we bring you a public service courtesy of The Dialogue Venture.
The most disturbing aspect of the U.S. presidential campaign, for me, is how unhinged from reality it has become. Truth and nuance are casualties of most campaigns, but this year I see a widespread assumption that opinions matter and truth does not. The obligation to back up one's rhetoric with facts and sober analysis is gone.
When things get unhinged, you fix the hinge. So let's try.
For starters, I strolled over to the website of the man most blamed for unhinging the campaign, one Donald J. Trump—specifically, to his Positions page. The first thing that struck me was the number of issues on which he's articulated positions here: five. Just five. All of them are issues worth exploring: immigration, the Second Amendment, others. But the gaps are, well, huge: nothing on the economy in general, foreign policy, race….
Putting that aside, I dove into his China policy. As a cornerstone of that policy, he promises that "on day one of the Trump administration the U.S. Treasury Department will designate China as a currency manipulator" (underlining in the original). This action, says the policy statement, will "force China to the negotiating table and open the door to a fair—and far better—trading relationship."
How much of that makes sense? Let's look at some facts and sober analysis to find out.
I turned to such sources as Foreign Policy, Econ Focus (published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), and The Washington Post, mainly. Here's what I found out:
- We've done this before, and it didn't work. The U.S. Treasury slapped China (as well as Japan and Taiwan) with the currency manipulator tag in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As Foreign Policy's Joshua A. Keating reported, all three shaped up: they "made 'substantial reforms to their foreign exchange regimes' after the negotiations, and were removed from the list after their 'currencies appreciated and external trade balances declined significantly.' However, the U.S. trade deficit with China…has increased every year since 1988. Evidently, the labeling in the early 1990s didn't do the trick."
- It's not clear whether China is still manipulating its currency. You manipulate currency to keep its exchange rate But from 2005 to 2013, China's currency (the renminbi) rose 35 percent. No one really knows whether the renminbi is still undervalued. Even if it is, that's not entirely bad: it allows U.S. consumers to buy Chinese goods at cheap prices, among other things.
- Mitt Romney made the same promise in 2012. Trump may think himself forceful and leader-like by making this pledge, but he's not original.
Based on all this, it seems Trump aims to provoke China—perhaps the world's second-greatest military and economic power—over an issue that may have gone away some years ago.
Why did I do this research? Because it's nearly impossible to dialogue, let alone collaborate on policymaking, without a common understanding of the facts. When we disagree on facts, we do well to dig deeper and sort them out. When we ignore facts entirely, we can move in directions that may be not only irrelevant, but catastrophic.
I'm going to try doing this with his other positions. Perhaps I'll find that some of them are solid and thoughtful. I hope so. Based on Trump's public record so far, I doubt it. But let's see.
How Much News Do We Need?
Last night, BBC's World News America led with yet another story on the suffering in Syria. I was reluctant to watch it—not because I don't care about that horrendous conflict, but because it was yet another story.
How much news from Syria, or from anywhere, do we need? How much can we take? Is there a point at which we "get the point" and can skip the following stories with impunity? How many of the "following stories"?
Let's start with basic attitudes toward news. For me, the news is required reading/viewing. I try to write with nuance about some difficult and complex issues, and there's no way to do that without a great deal of input, both hard news and diverse analysis. For others, news might guide them in how to vote, which charities to support, or where to roll up their sleeves and help out.
My understanding of my faith also plays a role. It tells me that every human being bears the image of God, and that God cares deeply, massively, for those who suffer. So I'm called to care deeply for them too. The way I can connect with their stories, their situations, is (in part) through the news.
News is everywhere these days. We have 24/7 news stations. A myriad of websites are always available, always telling stories. Some of us throwbacks still get the newspaper every day.
The problem is, the macro-level stories and issues take time to develop—usually months or years. So these news media, needing something to fill the space, tell slight variations of the same story from one day to the next.
It's a barrage.
And with each day's news, the decision comes up again—especially in stories that involve suffering. Watch too many of these, and we risk becoming desensitized. There's a limit to how much we can take. It's why a lot of people either check out entirely or (as I've done) go on news fasts.
On the other hand, maybe the next story provides an insight I never had before. Or the story on suffering in Syria tells (as it often does) of this mother in that city who has lost x children in the conflict. If I miss the story, I lose the insight, or I fail to connect with this particular divine image bearer.
Of course, this isn't just true of news from faraway lands. How many stories about our local homeless folks do we need to hear before the same difficult decision—to watch or not to watch this segment, on this night—faces us?
Ultimately, we make the decision story by story, day by day. And I don't think it gets easier. Have you found a good way to absorb news stories without going to overload? How much news do you need?
Guns, Changes of Mind, and the Cost of Dialogue
My opinion on government gun policy is starting to shift. That shift fills me with dread—and the reason, I think, may say a lot about why dialogue is such a hard sell.
Let's start with my own biases. Temperamentally, I am as close to pacifist as you can get without actually being pacifist. Guns hold no appeal for me whatever (beyond the curiosity I have about pretty much everything). I grew up on Bambi. For most of my life, then, my thoughts on gun control were pretty much a default on the pro side.
But recent events have nudged me into more reflection. My experiments with gun dialogue (last month and in 2012) put me in contact with gun owners and their stories about why they value their guns, the enjoyment of pursuits associated with guns, the security they feel in owning a gun and knowing how to use it. Moreover, after pondering the Second Amendment, I can see how the standard gun owner's interpretation may have some merit.
Bottom line: I can still support commonsense measures like background checks and waiting periods. But now, whenever cries to reduce gun ownership permeate the public square, I can't quite join in—as much as my Bambi instinct still wants me to.
But this post is not about guns. It's about why the shift scares me.
There are several reasons, but one towers above them all: some of the most important people in my social network—dear friends, immediate relatives, colleagues who might influence the course of my career—are vociferously anti-gun. I can think of a family member whose wisdom and love I would not do without…a colleague whose family has suffered several murders due to gun violence…a Catholic writer who shares many of my sensibilities but whose wrath grows with each mass shooting.
Will they abandon me now that I'm expressing a different opinion, even if just slightly different?
You might argue that it's unlikely, and you'd probably be right. But in our current culture, friends and colleagues do part ways over disagreements like this. Consider the "harmonious" traditional family that fractures when a daughter comes out as gay, or good neighbors who find themselves on opposing sides when a casino comes to town. The notion that "if they abandon you over this, they weren't real friends (or colleagues, or loved ones) anyway" is far too simplistic.
Now consider that I feel this dread strongly enough to hold my tongue around certain people—and I'm a dialogue person. How can I expect folks who are unfamiliar with dialogue to enter in when the risk is so high: when they might lose not only their basic convictions, but even their friends? How can those of us who care deeply about dialogue demonstrate that, in fact, the reward is worth the risk?
How Do You Come to Your Opinions?
Think of a controversial issue in the news. More likely than not, you've already formed opinions about it.
How did you come to those opinions?
The question keeps arising for me this month, thanks to conversations about the complex of issues surrounding violence, guns, terrorism, and Islam. Several of my "conversation partners" are people with whom I vehemently disagree; in a couple of cases their opinions are repugnant to me. If I had encountered their thoughts in passing—in a river of Facebook comments, in a tweet, in a casual remark—I might have dismissed them out of hand.
With one fellow in particular, however—an ardent anti-immigrationist who even questions the value of diversity for human community—the conversation has taken a different turn. The more he explains about his belief, the more I see how much thought he has put into it. He makes connections I never would have considered. (Who sees rigid controls on immigration as a justice issue for low-income people? He does.) He cites research. Some of his language implies that personal circumstances might fuel his ideas.
By instinct, I am a complete fruitcake on immigration. I think we should let 'em all in. Everybody. Carte blanche. No exceptions. Or at least that should be our starting point. In that context, the conversation we've had has had a substantial effect. No, I am not persuaded to convert to this fellow's opinions. But the dialogue with him has persuaded me that my conviction needs work. Perhaps a lot of work.
Seeing how he came to his opinions made the difference.
So what's the takeaway here? Allow me to come at it in a roundabout way. It has to do, in a sense, with the power of stories.
The dialogue field is big on storytelling. When people tell their stories, we see their humanity. We can empathize with them. Storytelling takes dialogue away from the abstractions that dominate our media landscape and pushes it into context and nuance. We can start to see, in many cases, how a reasonable person might just arrive at the opinion that gives us the shivers.
What I'm wondering is whether how did you come to your opinions?—which is an invitation to tell another type of story—may also allow us to filter out the media noise.
Here's what I mean. If I express an opinion that sounds ripped from the media headlines, and you ask how did you come to your opinion? it challenges me to probe deeper, to form and own an opinion that is more authentically mine. If I express an opinion with greater depth, your question how did you come to your opinion? encourages me to reveal that depth and (I hope) inspire you to reflect on it and respond in kind. If I've based my opinions on sources you find questionable, and you ask how did you come to your opinion? it allows us to go well beyond the issue at hand and into deeper questions of media and knowledge and trust.
Whatever the case, we begin to enter a dialogue and reflection that exposes our opinions to the thinking of our dialogue partner. That in turn can shape our opinions and, hopefully, bring them closer to the truth, or the heart of the matter. At the same time, we forge the type of connections that dialogue is famous for making.
Best of all, that simple question opens a door for us to leave those scripted catchphrases and simplistic media headlines far behind. We're liberated from the "box" of those sound bites, which so often set the parameters of debate in the public square. Instead, the question moves us outside the box, and we van hear and think and feel for ourselves.
It might even be a good question for self-reflection. How do you come to your opinions? And how might this question help you make progress with that person who makes your blood boil?
Last Weekend's Gun Dialogue
Several days after our latest experiment in gun dialogue, I find myself both more hopeful and less hopeful. Fortunately, more hopeful is winning.
Last week I posed a few basic ideas that, just maybe, every person on every side of the gun debate could agree on. If we could agree, we'd have some common ground, which often inspires at least the tolerance—and sometimes the empathy—required to explore thornier issues.
The ensuing dialogue (mostly on my Facebook feed) was robust, rarely on topic, and wildly fruitful. Here are some things that I heard, thought, was surprised by, etc.:
People listened to each other. There was some "Yes I hear you but [more of my position here]" going on—which doesn't qualify as listening—but many folks at least tried to take in the views from commenters on the other side.
The resulting exchanges were enlightening. At one point, two folks debated the definition of militia (a key word in the Second Amendment) and what relevance it might have for today's United States. I honestly had never considered that issue in any depth.
At another point, a gun owner objected to last week's attempts at legislation (defeated in the Senate) to inhibit sales of guns to people on government terrorist watch lists. Her objection was that the criteria for inclusion on these watch lists is not transparent. Another commenter, who favored the legislation, suggested adding a paragraph to make the criteria transparent. If these two folks could figure out a solution across their very significant divides, why couldn't the Senate?
There is a deep, widespread sense of fear among many people in the U.S. Millions of Americans believe that their government wants to confiscate their guns. Millions of Americans are now afraid of Muslims. It is very tempting, for those of us who gravitate toward the center or left of the political spectrum, to dismiss these leanings out of hand. I suggest we sit with them a while, listen to them more intently, see how we might address them.
This is not—not—to condone xenophobia. In the midst of the Facebook dialogue, I actually had to delete a post that advocated "banning Muslims" instead of "banning guns." I will not have my Facebook feed associated with hatred.
But maybe there's a distinction between fear and hatred that's worth examining. I wonder if we can make space for people to explore and express their fears, groundless or not, while confronting the all-too-easy transition from fear to hostility to hatred. I wonder if that space might actually prevent the transition from occurring.
The problem of mass violence is much, much deeper than I'd thought. The more I read on this issue, the more I wonder whether any serious approach to reducing the number of mass shootings has to involve rethinking our society on a profound level. Maybe we have to, for instance, look at our very American propensity to violence. Maybe we have to consider how our long history of individualism has eroded the very community that might deter prospective shooters. Perhaps we have to ask why so many people feel so deeply alienated. And while I hate to sound grim, I don't think U.S. society—or any society—is up to the task. Still…
Maybe we can take steps anyway. God bless my friends: when I expressed my despair in the above paragraph, they were quick to remind me of some very basic truths. We can't change society, but we can change ourselves. Love is the answer. (Sound simplistic? If you've ever tried to live it, you know it's not.) Maybe our task now is to imagine the baby steps we can take toward a more peaceful world.
This was, of course, one conversation on one blog/Facebook feed at one point in time. But if our little agglomeration of people can have this conversation, why not others? Why not people with the power to take the baby steps, and larger ones too? Why not?
Looking for Common Ground on the Gun Debate
When it comes to guns, what can we all agree on?
You may think this a fool's question, especially if you've spent any time with the media (print, broadcast, social, or otherwise) in the past 48 hours. We have relived, yet again, a pattern that is not only tragic but disheartening. A horrific shooting takes place. Law enforcement tries to parse out exactly what happened. In the meantime, partisans on both ends of the gun debate begin to broadcast—loudly, in take-no-prisoners language—their well-worn arguments.
Many of us stay off Facebook for a few days.
Back in 2012, after the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, we ran a little experiment about the gun issue in this space as well as on Facebook. I asked people to respond to some honest, open questions in order to explore and express their own beliefs about guns. (If you weren't part of the original conversation, take a look at the questions and see how you'd answer them.)
The stories we shared and heard were remarkable. One person wrote about the relatives she has lost to gun violence. Another spoke in almost spiritual terms about the joy of hunting.
Oddly, we came close to agreement on a couple of things. Background checks were good. Waiting periods were good. Best of all, we left the clichés behind and actually started to talk with one another.
Today, in the wake of what happened in San Bernardino, I want to try another little experiment. Let's see if we can lay out a few things on which we all agree. It's not as foolish as it looks; it just means we have to go back to basics. Waaaay back. Can we, for instance, agree to the following:
- These shootings are horrible. Obvious? Of course. But stay with it awhile. Allow yourself to feel that sense of horror and sadness that comes with each news flash. Then, when you've done that, know this: the person on the other side of the gun debate feels it too.
- We should keep weapons away from people who plan to use them in mass shootings. This makes yesterday's Senate votes nearly incomprehensible. Whatever the reason for those votes, however, is this statement as self-evident as I think it is?
- It can be difficult—sometimes impossible—to tell a future mass shooter from anyone else. Taken together, these folks do what they do from a dizzying array of motives. Workplace dissatisfaction. Mental illness. A deep sense of exclusion from society's benefits. Terrorism. No one-size-fits-all solution will fit all.
- It takes time to figure out what happened. How often, after a tragedy like the shooting in San Bernardino, do we hear a police chief answer questions with "that is still under investigation"? It can take days, even weeks, to nail down the whats and whys. That makes jumping to conclusions—and, more important, acting on those conclusions—perilous.
What do you think? Can we agree on all these?
If we can, several good things can happen. Our common reactions to the horror can foster empathy: they remind us that our adversaries are, first and foremost, human. Common ground inspires hope that maybe we can work together to find more common ground—or at least places where we can compromise. If people in power take these steps, they might just find enough space to collaborate on solutions and take action.
And action to prevent another shooting is what we so desperately need. I'm betting we can all agree on that.
Why Does Immigration Matter TO YOU?
I asked myself this question while journaling last week. I did not expect the wild ride through my unconscious that followed.
The question has become central for me because I find myself enraged at people on the other side of the debate: the folks who want to build a wall on the Mexican border, or block Syrian refugees from entering the U.S., or press for English-only policies. That persistent rage feels corrosive to my soul, like something I need to work through.
The odd thing is that immigration issues don't really make an impact on my daily life, at least not on a visceral level. My list of friends is rather thin on people from other countries, and none of them plan on immigrating. My part of the U.S. is not really a magnet for immigrants, as (for instance) California and the Southwest are.
In short, my rage is all out of proportion to the thing that's triggering it. Over the years, I've learned to see that and ask, "What's going on here?"
Asking that question led me to the question in the title. Why does immigration matter to me?
I started exploring the question in my journal, and it didn't take long for all hell to break loose. My stance on immigration quickly led to my passion for welcoming everyone carte blanche into my life. That, in turn, pulled me into a whole multitude of issues around loss and grief that I have yet to fully understand. Trust me, they are large issues.
I haven't come close to revisiting them at this point, one week later. I am not surprised, however, to discover that my iron grip on my beliefs—and the rage that accompanies it—have relaxed a bit.
Next, I imagined putting the same question to a relative who is particularly strident about immigration. I reviewed what I knew of her life situation, talked it over with my wife, and tried to gain an "empathic glimpse." Sure enough, the answers to "why is immigration important to her?" came quickly: the healthcare benefits that her neighborhood's immigrants can access and she can't; the language barriers that make her life difficult because she doesn't speak Spanish; the economic insecurity she lives with day by day.
Suddenly she seemed more, well, human. Her situation deserved some sympathy (while taking nothing away from the situation of the immigrants themselves). I had a chance, at least, of not letting this issue damage our relationship.
So now I'm wondering: what if we asked that "to you" question regularly, not only of others but, much more important, of ourselves? What if, instead of snapping off a superficial, abstract answer, we slowed down our lives and our hearts enough to consider the question in greater depth? How might the insights we uncover soften the way we approach our adversaries? Might we glimpse the humanity and perhaps the suffering behind their positions?
Is this sufficient for policymaking on an organizational level? Of course not. But I would submit that it is necessary. Asking this question, and listening for the answers, enable us to bring our whole selves to the issue at hand: not just our cerebral sides but our hearts, our shadow sides, everything that might inform a wise (not just a rational) decision.
Have you asked this question of yourself—on any issue? What happened? Feel free to share here.
Dialogue, Marriage Equality, and an Ancient Text
Note: Occasionally I write a post for this blog, set it aside to attend to something else, and forget about it. The post below came into being shortly after the landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality. The time references, therefore, are off, but I think the basic points still hold, so I'm offering it now.
Every now and then, a text written centuries ago speaks almost eerily to an issue right here and now.
Take this week's Collect of the Day from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer—a brief, structured prayer that connects with the Bible readings assigned for that day. (In case you need to use the word in conversation, it's pronounced KAHL-lekt.)
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together
in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a
holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Beneath the euphoria I've felt over last Friday's Supreme Court decision (yes, I favor marriage equality), a line of questioning has lingered in the back of my mind. What now? What happens to our dialogue? More important, how do we—all of us, on all sides of this issue—continue to hold our "adversaries"?
This quandary has a lot of moving parts. In the present, supporters of marriage equality want to celebrate, and well they should. Opponents may want to grieve or express anger, and well they should. Doing either in the presence of one's "adversary" is difficult at best: it could too easily lead to gloating from one side and churlishness from the other.
But maybe people don't care that much whether their reactions come off that way, because they don't plan to associate with the other side any longer. Maybe they read this Court decision as the permission they have long sought to ignore the other side—a fulfillment of the wish that the disagreers would just "go away."
I wrote about this wish in a recent article. As tempting as it might be, it's dangerous. Our Collect of the Day, read expansively (i.e., beyond the specifically Christian), gives some hints as to why.
- Ultimately, there is no other side. Note the verb tense in the first sentence: "you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets." Cast more universally, nothing we can say or do or argue mitigates the truth that we are all humans and will all share this planet for as long as it lasts. Yes, within our species lie significant differences and dynamics that we must address. But the other side can't go away; ultimately, there is no place for them to go
- We are called to live that reality. That's the essence of "grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit."
- We need help. This is, after all, a prayer—not a declaration or a promise or a resolve, but an admission that we just can't do this "one human family" thing on our own. Christians believe that help can only come from God. However you parse it, though, the fact that we need help remains.
So what do we do? I think, in the short term, we celebrate or rail against the Court decision with our allies. It is good and right to do so. And then we keep on going with our "adversaries." Maybe we continue the dialogue over LGBTQIA issues; maybe we don't. But we do keep the lines open. Who knows whether, somewhere down the road, on a different issue entirely, that adversary may become your most important ally?


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Main square location
Overlooking Victoria Square and close to Adelaide's business, theatre, and dining districts, Hilton Adelaide is located next to the Adelaide Central Market - the largest fresh food and gourmet produce market in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Guests can relax in the outdoor heated swimming pool, in the spa tub and sauna, or work out in the gym. Hilton Adelaide also offers comprehensive business facilities as well as the popular Coal Cellar + Grill restaurant, featuring specialty cuisine.
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An outdoor heated swimming pool, a spa pools, and a saunas, as well as a fitness center and tennis court with a jogging track, provide recreation. The Hilton Adelaide also has a hair salon, and small souvenir and jewelry stores.
The Coal Cellar + Grill restaurants menu highlights the best of South Australia's produce using a variety of cooking methods including the feature charcoal grill and rotisserie. After a long day guests can retire to the cozy Lobby Lounge or The Collins Bar to unwind with a favorite beverage.
Valet parking is available at a secure undercover public car park reserved for the Hilton Adelaide (surcharge). One of the largest conference and meeting venues in South Australia is situated on Level One of the Hilton Adelaide, with more than 2,200 square meters of space, 19 meeting rooms of varying dimensions, a ballroom, an exhibit space, and a business center with laptop computers, and a range of business services. Guests enjoy wireless Internet in all public spaces.
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Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( AUD 9.95 per 24-hour period ), Wired internet access ( AUD 9.95 per 24-hour period )
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The Collins Bar - A popular cocktail destination in Adelaide; guests visiting, meeting or sleeping at Hilton Adelaide will not need to leave to have a fun night out!
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An outdoor swimming pool overlooking Victoria Square has an adjacent sitting area with barbecue for functions. There are two spa pools as well as hot and cold plunge pools, plus a fitness centre with windows providing natural light. An outdoor tennis court of artificial grass, surrounded by a short jogging track, complete the Hilton Adelaide's recreational facilities.
Adelaide offers a good range of sport and recreation within the city boundaries – even a small indoor artificial ski hill known as Mt Thebarton. The 18-hole Adelaide Golf Course lies directly adjacent to the central business district. Ellis Park, suitable for walking and jogging, is just 500 metres away. The Adelaide Hills on the city fringes (about a 20-minute drive) offer further opportunities such as horseback riding, hiking, and mountain biking. Within an hour's drive, Victor Harbour offers sailing, scuba diving, snorkelling, water skiing, and whale watching.
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My favorite is The Hobbit Motel, inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, located in Waitomo, New Zealand (shown in Image 2). Image 1 is The Museum of Innocence, inspired by Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence. Image 3 is El Castell, inspired by Franz Kafka's The Castle.
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Pelosi visited a Denver clinic for the homeless on Thursday, and was greeted by about 200 protesters crammed on four corners of a city intersection. The crowd was mixed, about half in favor of the overhaul and half against it.
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Wed, 24 August 2016
Finnish Curator Jenni Nurmenniemi and Caroline Picard rock it out with a wide ranging conversation about specialized residencies, Animism, copper, mining, systems of belief, magical thinking, ecological residencies, and the green Earth trilogy.
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Jeremy Bolen, Emily Eliza Scott, and Andy Yang take on Sensing and the Anthropocene at the HKW in Berlin!
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Tue, 2 August 2016
Michael Rakowitz is a Chicago based artist whos works have appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, and Transmediale 05. He has had solo exhibitions at Tate Modern in London, Lombard Freid Gallery in New York, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea in Torino, and Kunstraum Innsbruck.
The works find their roots across history, architecture, and cultural exchange. They ask us to play remote witness to atrocity and triumph as we are made complicit in the challenges and trials of a globalized world.
Check out his current exhibitions at the Graham Foundation and Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
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Mon, 25 July 2016
This week: The amazing stupendous Michael Rakowitz!!
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Tue, 19 July 2016
This week Dana Bassett and Duncan Mackenzie catch up with the artist Ben Stone. We are joined thanks to Artadia by special guest host (whose name Duncan has been mispronouncing for years and to his shame this continues here) Elysia Borowy-Reeder Executive Director of MOCAD ( Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit).
We catch up with Ben during the intense run up to his solo show at Western exhibitions which is up now through September 16, 2016. In a rich conversation we chat about things work, humor and contemporary art, violence, sports, and the magic of therapy.
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This week's episode produced in conjunction with Chicago's Lake FX Summit. We join Dana Bassett and Allison Glenn as they unpack the unusual public art exhibition "Messages in the Street." The conversation ranges broadly from the context of public art, institutional and non-institutional modes of being, money and our collective frustration with it, a surprising suggestion that Wittgenstein is a father, and they delve deep into hash tagging, and Beyoncé versus Bell Hooks.
Check out Dana Bassett's wrap up post here.
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Wed, 22 June 2016
This week sees the return of the once thought lost Mark Staff Brandl!
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Chris Dennis grew up in, England. He studied natural history illustration at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and this classical training is evident in his current therianthropic work. After completing his BA (Hons) at the University of Wolverhampton he relocated to the United States, and in 2000 earned his MFA from the University of Art in San Francisco. In 2010 after a period in Berlin, Chris made Auckland his home. He has exhibited in New Zealand, Europe and across the United States.
My paintings are perhaps best described as 'Narrative expressionism' or 'internalized portraiture'. The stories behind these 'Therianthropic' pieces have been carefully obfuscated and invite the viewer to create their own narrative, bringing to mind facets or emotions that maybe more difficult to confront if not disguised behind a mask.
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Mon, 13 June 2016
Tim Kinsella!
Yes that Tim Kinsella. The visionary musician behind Joan of Arc, Owls, and Mid-Western indie rock world changers, Cap n' Jazz. He joined Duncan in his class "The Late Late Afternoon Show" to discuss all things indie rock, writing books, and now being a publisher at Featherproof Press.
Minds will be shredded.
While your listening to the show, why not head over to the Elastic Arts Space and check out Joan of Arcs many Artist/Musicians work and if you hit it on a Tuesday on or after the 21st you'll catch one of their many tied in bands...
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Wed, 1 June 2016
This week we check in with Zachary Dodson about all things Scandinavian, Featherproof Press, and BATS OF THE REPUBLIC.
From his website...
Zach Dodson is a book designer particularly interested in visual narrative. He has designed books for many independent presses, most notably featherproof books, which he founded in Chicago in 2005. Contact him about freelance book design projects by putting "@gmail.com" after his name.
Texan Zachary Thomas is the author and illustrator of Bats of the Republic, an illuminated novel published by Doubleday in 2015. Zach Plague wrote and designed the hybrid image/text boring boring boring boring boring boring boring in 2008. Neither should be contacted, as they exist only speculatively.
Professor Zachary Dodson teaches courses on hybrid narrative and storytelling at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. He is available for guest lectures or workshops on book design, visual narrative or publishing.
Other names dropped... Tim Kinsella, Anna Kunz, Columbia College Chicago
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Tue, 24 May 2016
Low and behold, in conjunction with Rhona Hoffman and on the eve of the 2015 Chicago Architectural Biennial we had a once in a life time opportunity to sit down and speak with James Wines of SITE. An architect so radical his buildings have a power quite unlike most contemporary architects, they don't bend us with spectacle, physicality, or industry, they delight us with wit and whimsy. They open our eyes to a magic in the everyday or in the second glance you have to give to a building telling you the story of its demise.
Some days this is the best job.
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1 Laboratório de Virologia Humana, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, CCS, Bloco A, sala A2-120, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, 21949-570, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Programa de Genética, Instituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Three species of Boccardia (B. polybranchia, B. pseudonatrix and B. proboscidea) were associated with mollusc shells on the south and south-east coasts of South Africa. Boccardia polybranchia was widely distributed along the coast and falls within the known distribution range of this species. Comparisons with material from other, international, locations showed that some specimens have been misidentified. No characters could be found to characterize distinct species for different regions within the range of B. polybranchia, as currently recognized. Boccardia pseudonatrix was found only at the most eastern site, increasing its known distribution range. Boccardia proboscidea, a non-indigenous species, was found only on abalone farms and was most abundant in the west.
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Comments are not allowed in json fixtures
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When there are javascript comments in a json fixture Django cannot install them, it complains about:
Problem installing fixture '.../fixtures/initial_data.json': Expecting object: line 2 column 2 (char 3)
line 2 column 2 (char3) is the beginning of the comment (either /* ... */ or ... )
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by jwickers@…
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Ok there is a quick workaround, in django/utils/simplejson/decoder.py
In the decode method i filter the javascript comments before treating them:
comment_rx = re.compile(r""" /\* .*? \*/ | // [^\n\r]* """,re.S|re.X) s = comment_rx.sub('',s)
This is just a workaround for now, since it doesn't address comments in strings, and it will mess the error message line/column indications.
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by anonymous
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comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by mboersma
JSON does not define any comment notation (see http://www.json.org/), so what you're describing may be legal JavaScript, but not JSON. I tried parsing a simple JSON file with and without a comment, and both simplejson and turbojson refused when the comment was present.
I think this should be "wontfix."
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by ubernostrum
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Agreed. JSON is deliberately a subset of JavaScript notation, not the entirety of JavaScript notation, and comments are not part of it.
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by jwickers@…
Fair enough, although comments are useful in a big JSON file.
So perhaps i should switch to another fixture format, but meanwhile i will keep my hack since it does the job anyway.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by hobsonlane@…
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You could implement an ignore of any "comment" object attribute names (at the level of "pk") to make Django fixtures comment-friendly without violating the "strict subset of json" rule.
comment:7 Changed 9 months ago by fraserharris
Douglas Crockford has commented on cases like this:
"Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser."
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Fellow forward Tom Hopper has returned to parent club Leicester.
Deadline day signing Carl Regan made his first appearance at right-back against Doncaster, while fellow full-back Euan Holden is chasing his debut having joined on non-contract terms.
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Alberta W. Adams and Michael Newsome exchanged vows Sept. 14, 2013 at 4 p.m. The wedding took place at the University Parkway Church of God and was officiated by the Rev. Henry Shaffer.
The bride was given in marriage by her son, Scott Adams.
Sharon Guffix of Aiken, friend of the bride, was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Kimberly Widener of Williston, niece of the bride; Hannah Widener of Aiken, niece of the bride; and Rabie Weishaupt of Graniteville, goddaughter of the bride.
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You would need to call 1-800-860-2255. Secondly, Have you tried to make a long distance call...and does it go through? If so, you still have service. I just didn't understand if your service wasn't working from this post.
A change of phone number may of changed the account number. I don't work for "out-of-region" services as that's the department you need to call, but I know it does change account number when you change the phone number with Qwest "in-region"
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If the Niners Drafted Pierre Garcon and Austin Collie, they probably would be considered busts. They would be sitting on the bench behind Arnaz battle and Michael Robinson would still be returning kicks.
My point is a great qb makes the WR. When Montana went to KC, the WR's said if they had Montana, they would have had pro bowl careers.
Austin Collie and Garcon would never have developed in the niners system in my opinion.
I also am convinced that jason Hill in a colts uniform would have produced as much as the aforementioned receivers.
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Thanks to your generosity, we have reached our target of £56,000 and the funds in place to make the planned server upgrades a reality. A big Thank You to the huge number of people and companies who contributed, and especially to our launch partners Mapbox and Mapzen!
It's upgrade time! OpenStreetMap is growing, servers are projected to hit capacity by mid 2015. OpenStreetMap is a global community of dedicated and resourceful people, giving their time to make the best map of the world. Those mappers' contributions are the largest part of the project. However, contributors need infrastructure such as a repository to share their contributions and services that help them make the map and talk to each other. We are raising funds to keep these services running and improve them, so that everyone else can continue making an amazing map.
The OpenStreetMap project is a global community of dedicated and resourceful people, giving their time to make the best map of the world. Those mappers' contributions are the largest part of the project. However, OpenStreetMap.org is inching towards capacity. Our last funding drive was exactly designed to bring us to this point based on growth projections. We are now raising funds for an infrastructure upgrade that will sustain OpenStreetMap.org into 2016.
The secondary database server, until recently the primary, has filled up almost all of its available disk space — which is great, because it's filling up with awesome mapping data generated by the many thousands of dedicated contributors world-wide. We want to be able to continue to store that growing set of data, and run the website and API on it.
At the moment, the disks on that machine are configured in a high performance setup and we will try to make some space available by reconfiguring in a slightly lower perfomance setup. This may mean slower queries to the secondary machine, and worse API performance. This would be even worse, should the primary server fail and all the website and API database queries move to the secondary. We don't want the site and API to be slower — we want a great experience for those dedicated contributors.
To avoid this, it would be better to have a machine closer in specification and performance to the primary database server in case it is necessary to fail over to it.
The primary tile rendering machine is also quickly filling up the disk space available to it — which is also great, as it's filling with the detailed geometries produced all the time by the global community.
We want to be able to continue to serve up minutely-updated tiles to everyone who is helping make OpenStreetMap more complete and more detailed — or even just looking around. Unfortunately, this machine is already stuffed full of high performance, high capacity disks, which means we need to look at replacing it with something more modern and larger.
The secondary machine is going flat-out and the bottleneck is the transfer of data to and from the disks. The machine could keep the tiles more up-to-date if we removed that bottleneck, which means upgrading the RAID controller and adding a mirror disk for the main database.
We know that out-of-copyright (OOC) maps and aerial imagery are both very useful sources for mapping activities, and we're not happy that the machine which used to serve this data is currently down. The reason is that the large external disk arrays used to store the imagery are very old and consume too much power for the home they are in while our friends at UCL re-build the building which used to be their home.
To fix this, we can get a smaller, more modern and more power efficient server to serve that data, and get this service back online where it's useful to everyone.
The "services" machine currently runs a mix of stuff, including the planet download site, backups and the internal configuration server. All of these are also backed-up remotely, for safety. However, it would take some time to recover those files from a remote backup, simply due to the greater bandwidth within the server room. We would like to have a "live" backup of this machine to minimise any downtime when the primary machine, or the site it's hosted at, aren't available.
Sadly, nothing lasts forever. And hard disks, SSDs, RAID controller batteries, PSUs, fans, cables and many other computer components don't even come close! Every year, we replace many of these items which have failed or come to the end of their lives. Many are replaced under warranty, but we still have to spend money on replacing or fixing those which are out of warranty or not covered.
The Operations Working Group has scaled OpenStreetMap since 2009. We're here to maintain servers day-to-day from applying security patches to fine tuning the stack. From time to time we apply larger upgrades, here are some of the more notable ones.
For a recent, detailed history of OWG activity, please see the OWG log.
The defining characteristic of a database server, for a database which doesn't fit entirely within RAM, is I/O performance. For that reason, we choose a chassis which is able to accomodate a very large number of disks — in this case, a whopping 72 2.5" 10K disks. Although we don't need all 72 (yet) we do need 25 900GB disks and it's good to know that the capacity is there for future expansion.
To keep as much of the data accessible as quickly as possible, we also want lots of RAM to use as system cache. 256GB seems to be the largest that it's reasonable to get.
Finally, we add on a couple of good quality, enterprise grade SSDs. For reliability and especially under hard power-off conditions, you still want enterprise grade despite improvements in the pro-sumer market.
Tile serving is about really good disk read performance, lots of memory and a good CPU. It's possible to fit almost all of a rendering database in memory, if you buy enough. The optimal spot at the moment seems to be getting about 128GB RAM and a couple of pro-sumer SSDs for the most often accessed disk data. The amount of data being read requires a good RAID controller, too. In this case, we're looking at 8 600GB 15k SAS disks with a couple of 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSDs.
It's all about the I/O — the secondary tile server can't handle it at the moment, but the addition of a good RAID controller and a pair of 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSDs will soon sort that out.
Serving aerial imagery is also about good disk performance, same as serving tiles but the aerial imagery tiles tend to be quite large and not rendered as often. Reprojecting and slicing up aerial imagery can be CPU intensive though, so the specification for an aerial imagery server looks a lot like that of a tile server but with more, slower disk — 128GB RAM, a couple of low-voltage E5-2650Ls and 6 4TB SAS3 disks.
The services machine does a lot of odd jobs; it serves GPS traces to the website machines, it serves the planet, stores backups, aggregates log files, runs the Chef configuration server and serves internal DNS requests. All of this means it needs to be a general-purpose machine, with quite a lot of RAM, decent CPUs and a lot of space for storing all those GPS traces, dumps and planets. A suitable spec is a couple of decent CPUs (E5-2650LV2s) with 256GB RAM and 9 4TB SAS2 disks.
Parts on hardware fail with alarming regularity, especially the mechanical parts. Usually these are covered by the standard warranty we get on all new machines, but some machines aren't covered — either because they're donated or we buy them out of warranty to get a good deal. The failures themselves are random, and therefore pretty hard to predict, but a good rule of thumb is about 10% of the overall budget as a contingency, so that's about what we've estimated here.
£ 4,500
All numbers approximates based on market prices.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation's Operations Working Group. Read more about the Operations Working Group over here.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is the non-profit organisation which supports the OpenStreetMap project by maintaining its servers, providing a legal structure around the project's database, by organizing an annual conference and more. Learn more about the OpenStreetMap Foundation on osmfoundation.org.
We plan our hardware funding drives based on 6 to 12 month projections of scaling the current platform. We've determined that at current growth, we'd see first significant downgrades in performance by mid-2015 and now's the time for building ahead.
The funding drive is an iniative by the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Operations Working Group (OWG) - all funds are collected by the OpenStreetMap Foundation and made available to the Operations Working Group.
No. The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a UK-registered not-for-profit organisation that supports the OpenStreetMap Project. It is not a 501(c)(3) in the sense of the Internal Revenue Code of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
We have designed this funding drive to allow for investments that will let us scale OpenStreetMap's infrastructure into 2016.
Everything else would be overbuilding. We also don't usually scale the same components. For example, while we're upgrading the secondary database server this time, we'll probably not need to touch it the next time around.
There will be another funding drive for hardware :) Seriously, the model of focused funding drives is working very well. It allows for a very clear value for money and it's what made it possible to scale OpenStreetMap from a server under a desk to supporting over 90 million edited objects each month.
Join us! Aside from funds to upgrade our hardware what we need most are people. Whatever your background - technical or not - you can help OpenStreetMap. Here are just a few of the many possible ways to get more involved:
If you have contributed data to OpenStreetMap, or time to helping organise mapping activities: thank you for everything you've already done!
OpenStreetMap only survives because of the work put in by thousands of hard-working and selfless volunteer contributors. If you are one of these people, then you are already doing a great thing for the project.
If you would like to do more, then you can:
Whether you use OpenStreetMap data in your products and services, or are just interested in helping, corporate sponsorship of OpenStreetMap events and hardware helps the project to keep going and be inclusive.
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Complaint Review: Beach Ready LLC
Beach Ready LLCPO Box 3540 Silver Springs, Nevada Silver Springs, Nevada United States of America
Beach Ready LLC They sent me unauthroized products and billed my credit card without permission. Silver Springs, Nevada
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Before my 30 day trial was up I recieved another shipment of this product, and was billed the full price on my credit card. I had contacted them and they gave me a confirmation for a return credit, and I also contacted my bank to update them.
I sent the product back with a letter stating I was not interested in their product and to not send me anymore. This issue happened in April 2011 and it is now January 2012 and I still have recieved no credit to my account.
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Seager Homers, But Gets Picked Off In Mariners' Loss To KCSeager connected for a three-run homer in the fourth. His one-out single in the eighth put runners at the corners. That's when Perez trapped him.
Seager, Lee Power Mariners To 5-2 Win Over OriolesKyle Seager and Dae-Ho Lee hit two-run homers to power the second straight victory over the American League East-leading Orioles.
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Lee's 2 Home Runs Lead M's Past Rangers 7-5Dae-Ho Lee handed out silver-colored necklaces from his native South Korea before Friday night's game against the Texas Rangers.
Cruz, Seager Go Deep To Power Mariners Past Orioles, 10-0Nelson Cruz homered and drove in five runs, Kyle Seager hit a three-run drive and Seattle cruised past the Baltimore Orioles 10-0 Tuesday night.
Mariners Hit 3 Home Runs To Power Past The AthleticsHisashi Iwakuma felt the game was on the line when he faced a bases loaded situation in the second inning. After getting through it unscathed, the offense came alive to give him some breathing room.
Montero Homer Leads Mariners Past AngelsJesus Montero provided the big blow for Seattle, continuing to get the best of Jered Weaver.
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Complaint Review: New World Media - John Commuta
New World Media - John Commuta6245 West Howard Niles, Illinois U.S.A.
New World Media - John Commuta Bait and Switch sales tactics and rude and non-cooperative customer service dept. Niles Illinois
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*Consumer Comment: John Commuta's course is a total scam
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What Paul Suffolk wrote is what happened to me.Giving them my credit card number for the small shipping & handling charge was like handing over $400.00. I also cancelled my credit card after I figuring out what just happened to me.Their main purpose to this was not to help out the individual but to scam you into a $400.00 added expense. I am not going into this any deeper, because it is the same as what Paul wrote. Just stay away from John Commuta an his gang of thieves !
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John Commuta's course is a total scam
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Press 1!! Press 1!!! Sorry man, great vid.. but 1. the potions didnt work cause all you did was put them into the quic slot, you then use them from there once the cooldown is done XD. And as for the monsters, combining specials is just as important as jumping over the monster to dodge it. But great review :D
The First Look to Elsword was good, but this Closer Look is even better. Keep these awesome videos coming, they're amazing!
lol the glowing this is a def and attack boost you can use manually by pressing ctrl when you have an orb . also your level is right above your green exp bar and you didnt use the health item XD
Yes indeed :) Between you, Kudaranai, and three random visitors I figured I may as well go ahead and record a closer look that leverages the skills haha!
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A Yahoo! User Nov 13, 2008 05:44 Flag
4-2 The dream goes on......
WEMBLEY HERE WE COME!!!!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Nov 13, 2008 05:46 Flag
apart from gomez we all played verywell
Bloody hell...I bet sort out that plane ticket for a trip back home!!
A gooner mate predicted the win (said the "fix" was in...I said yeah, the fix was that we showed up!).
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Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Nov 13, 2008 06:27 Flag
Hold off on spending those dollars Rambr0 until we get to Wembley. Then it'll be worth the trip :-))
From an LFC fan a hearty congratulations.
The better team won, simple as that.
Have been watching the Spurs saga with great interest, actually.
I couldn't believe a side with the talents of Huddlestone, O'Hara, Lennon, Bale, Bent etc etc could actually stay at the bottom of EPL. Then add Pav and Frazier and you have yourselves a pretty potent combination.
Harry never ceases to amaze and I am sure you will upset many more teams before the season is through.
Well played.
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A Yahoo! User Nov 13, 2008 16:00 Flag
Thanks for your kind words Ajay,
We have had over the past few months or since the season began people coming onto this message board saying how bad we were - so its good to hear that we're finally getting appreciation from all quarters - these detractors or doom-merchants never seem to leave and like a bad infection always turn up when their comments are least wanted.
As for Spurs, this is a resurgent Spurs team that everyone is witnessing at the moment - Harry Redknapp has worked miracles since he came to the club almost 3 weeks ago.
Long may it continue!!!
Good luck to Liverpool in your European ventures and in the EPL!
Just our luck - we look like we can get to Wembley again, and the b****dy place is falling down.
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825 million well spent! ;-)
think the same character said in the same voice and manner, 'the crack isn't that bad, it's down to natural ground settlement, the stadium is still in full use'.
apparently the titanic was unsinkable as well! ;-)


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