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Did you know 90% of the choices you make as a Christian involve areas where Scripture says surprisingly little? What you wear, where you go, how you spend your free time—you won't find many explicit instructions in the Bible. But you can find plenty of rules and strictures in the various spheres of evangelicalism, many of them unhelpful and even harmful (and not only in the fundamentalist camp).
Of course Scripture forbids all clear-cut sins such as lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, or committing adultery. The Bible also clearly calls us to pursue Christ and grow in our faith. No Christian seriously questions whether he should read the Bible, pray, or tell others about Christ. Scripture is unambiguous about those things.
There is, however, one class of questions that seems to fall somewhere in the middle. These are the issues dealing with Christian freedom—things that fall between what God prohibits and what He commands. What entertainment is acceptable? What kind of music is okay? What can a Christian do or not do on Sunday? What about what you wear, what you eat and drink, or how you spend your free time—does the Bible address those things?
Some would say, "No, the Bible doesn't address those things. Those are gray areas, so do what you want to do—you're free in Christ!" While it is true that the Bible doesn't specifically list every possible decision you'll face in life, it does address all choices with principles that govern Christian freedom. When you run your choices through the following grid of principles from God's Word, you'll find both clarity and true freedom to live your life to God's glory.
Will it benefit me spiritually?
All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify (1 Corinthians 10:23).
A "profitable" thing is useful, helpful, or to your advantage to do; and the idea behind "edify" is to build up spiritually. So based on this verse, ask yourself, "Will doing this enhance my spiritual life? Will it cultivate godliness? Will it build me up spiritually?" If not, you should seriously question whether that behavior is the best choice.Will it bring bondage?
All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything (1 Corinthians 6:12).
In the second part of this verse, Paul is saying, "I will not be brought under the power of anything." If what you are considering can be habit-forming, why pursue it? Don't allow yourself to be in bondage to anything or anyone. You are a bond-servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Him alone.
Will it defile God's temple?
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Don't do anything that you know will harm your body or bring shame—it is the only instrument you have to glorify God. Romans 6:13 says, "Present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God." How you choose to use your body should always reflect your concern to honor Jesus Christ.
Will it cause anyone to stumble?
Food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat. But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become a stumbling block to the weak (1 Corinthians 8:8-9).
This is the principle of love. As Romans 13:10 says: "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; love therefore is the fulfillment of the law." If you know that your choice—what you consider "in bounds" and approved—causes another Christian to stumble and sin, love that brother or sister enough to restrict your own freedom. That is not very popular in our self-absorbed society, but it is biblical. To continue to indulge in a legitimate freedom that causes problems for another Christian is a sin. For "by sinning against the brethren and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. Therefore," Paul said, "if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, that I might not cause my brother to stumble" (1 Corinthians 8:12-13).
Will it further the cause of evangelism?
Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God; just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved (1 Corinthians 10:32-33).
Whether you are aware of it, what you allow or disallow in your behavior affects your witness for Christ, and the world is watching. It's an issue of testimony—what your life says about God. Your testimony either tells the truth about God, or it tells a lie. The choices you make in areas where Scripture speaks principally rather than specifically should reflect your concern not to bring offense to God's reputation but to bring Him praise instead.
Will it violate my conscience?
He who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin (Romans 14:23).
First Corinthians 10:25-29 contains three references to abstaining from a certain practice "for conscience sake." Never train yourself to violate your conscience. If your conscience is troubled by what you consider, don't do it. If you aren't sure about it, don't do it. It is hard to overstate the value of a clean conscience, but it is worth keeping your conscience clear so that your relationship to God will not be hindered. If you'll keep yourself in prayer and the study of God's Word, you will inform your conscience so you can "walk as children of light . . . finding out what is acceptable to the Lord" (Ephesians 5:8, 10).
Will it bring glory to God?
Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
That verse is clearly both the summary and the goal of all the principles listed above. Isn't our heart's cry to glorify our Lord and Savior with our lives? Think about your decision—Will He be glorified, honored, and praised through it? May we say along with Jesus, "I glorified You on the earth" (John 17:4).
So the next time you face a decision where Scripture is less than specific or overt, run it through the principles above and enjoy your freedom in Christ. Happy New Year from Grace to You!
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I went to the store today. I saw a young man outside of it. He may
be homeless. He was wearing 60's clothing, long hair, smoking pot and had a cat. He had a box with a New Age wording. On his shirt was a name Hippie. I thought it was a act but it wasn't. He was trying to get people to donate to New Age. I walk by and felt he was a lost soul.
What do we choose? God or the world. Receive Jesus as Savior and live for God from this moment to the rest of our life. One must keep growing to learn the scriptures, pray more, etc.
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What do you do when everthing seems weakened? Church is like landing on normandy to get their even tho I love it? I love and cherish Gods word and it is so difficult to get into it!
"I walk by and felt he was a lost soul." Dear Dan after reading your blogg it saddened me of your response to a "lost soul". i guess it hits home with me, you see I too was a hippie, smoking pot and doing more drugs for eighteens years. My life was drugs and alcohol. I don't want to judge. You don't say that you stoped and talked to this hippie but it appears you kept on walking? This blogg brings to mind the story told by Jesus about the good samaritan. those that passed by and one that stoped to help. Luke 10:30-37. When I said "this its home" I too had many people walk by me not speaking. Long haired hippie my apperance probably frieghtened them, the stench of smoke and alcohol would cause anyone to walk the other way. There were those who tried to convert me to thier form of doctrine but to no avail. Then one day God had enough of my sin He sent His Son's Spirit to resue me from my darkness and inprisonment. My shame, pride, lust, greed,and filth of the worlds pleasures. His light and life entered into my soul. I became a new creature in Christ Jesus. By grace I have saved! I began to go back onto the streets where I lived to tell my fellow lost hippies they needed Jesus. I started going to church and now twenty two years later I guess I'm like you to I to walk by my fellow hippies and say nothing. It does appear that my mentioning church had something to do with my appathetic lethargic mentallity towards my fellow man and it might. We can become so comfortable in "our" church, pew, or class that we forget what really is on the outside of those holly doors. In closing I will say that I'm thankfull for your blog because it has open my eyes again to the truth that I need to stop and speak or help my fellow man even if that person reeks of drugs and alcohol or the most expensive perfume. Lost is lost hell is hell and there be many that are going. Let me this new year begin again to rescue the perishing by God's grace go I.
Finally Dan at the end of the story about the good Samaritan Jesus asked this simple question.Verse 36 "Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?" Verse 37 And he said, "The one who showed mercy toward him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same." I plan on it how about you Dan?
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Wanted to but I wasn't prepared
and I felt bad that I didn't do it. I think some christians get caught
up with pleasures of the world and not do what Jesus wants us to do.
Thanks for sharing your post. I don't have a problem with people with
what they wear or how they look. I look in the heart. I didn't hear God say go to that man. But, you are right, I should have a tract in hand, so I can put it in the box.
Thanks for straighten me up. I appreciate it. I will try harder to be
bold give out tracts and speak to people about Jesus, even I am hearing impaired. It's that I read lips. It hard when one speaks and
it's garble at times. If one has a beard and I can't read their lips.
When I ask one to write it down, some make a fuss and sometimes refuse to do so. That is annoying and hard.
I wasn't offended. I said I was saddened. Big differance! As far as not being prepared I believe you are if you are walking in the spirit and not in the flesh. I find many verses in 2 Timothy that would help your dilemna. 2 Timothy, 1:8,9, 2:1, 2:7, 4:2. As far as needing a tract in your hand how about the word of God in your heart. Psalm 119:11, Your word I have treasured in my heart, That I may not sin against You. 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accuratley handling the word of truth. Trying harder isn't the answer either allow Gods grace and mercy to work through you and to you. By grace you are saved not by works (yours) but by His. I too have a tendancy to perform. How high do you set the hurdle usually to high just high enough to fail. Speak truth in love and walk by faith you'll be amazed at how the Holy Spirit will work through us when we yield to His power and strength and not our own for when we are weak He will be strong. I pray and hope that tomorrow you will find a hippie and share the love of Christ just by faith, and love that sinner into the kingdom of light. "Lord lay some soul upon my heart and love that soul through me that I may humbly do my part to win that soul for thee." Happy New Year Dan. I love ya brother Judges 6:12
I want thank you Pastor MacArthur and your ministry immensely for the timely, no nonsense, and dead bang devotional on "Decision Making To The Glory Of God". This article had the effect of God performing laser surgery on the tumors of sin that needed to be removed from my life. As scripture states, the Holy Spirit is the one who convicts the sinner and leads one to Christ. This devotional also had the added effect of compelling me to take inventory of my Christian maturation. I found that I needed growth in key areas such as "time", "talent", and "treasure". The three aforementioned items I desire to bring in conformity to our awesome Lord and his eternal work. At the same time it revealed what true liberty and the abundant life entails -living freely to glorify our Holy God! It is my sincere prayer for this minstry, and the church at large that these principles are given serious thought and application for the edification of the church, a stronger testimony to the world, and most important greater glory be given to our great and awesome Lord Jesus Christ!
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This memorandum to President Jimmy Carter recommends Federal assistance to relocate about 750 families from Love Canal, New York, near Niagara Falls, where a school and hundreds of houses had been built on top of 21,000 tons of toxic material. The next day, President Jimmy Carter declared Love Canal the first man-made national emergency.
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MARINETTE, Wis. – A two-day jury trial has been scheduled for a Niagara, Wis. man accused of shooting vehicles.
Cody J. Rose, 23, will go to trial in Marinette County Court on Sept. 24 and 25. He also has a motion hearing scheduled for July 29, and a pre-trial scheduled for Aug. 26.
Rose faces one felony count of discharge a firearm at a vehicle, one felony count of burglary to a building or dwelling, one felony count of recklessly endangering safety-second degree, two misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property, and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
If convicted on the felony counts, Rose could spend up to 35 years in prison.
The charges against Rose stem from a Jan. 18 incident in Niagara.
According to the criminal complaint in the case, witnesses claimed that Rose was angry at another man for stealing from him.
Rose is accused of driving to the man's vehicle, which was parked on the 700 block of Vine Street in Niagara, and using a rifle to shoot the windows and the passenger side of the vehicle.
Another vehicle that was parked next to the man's vehicle sustained gunshot damage to its front passenger side window.
The vehicle owners were not present when the shooting occurred. The complaint also alleges that around the same time, Rose entered the man's residence in the town of Niagara and threatened the man's girlfriend with the rifle.
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Childhood onset and duration of obesity are significant risk factors for type 2 diabetes in mid-adulthood
- Rhode Island Hospital and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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■ The increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in obese children and adults is well-established, but it is not clear if the age of onset or the duration of obesity is an independent risk factor for T2DM in adults.
■ Adults with obesity since childhood or young adulthood had the highest body mass index (BMIs) and the greatest risk of T2DM.
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Newly published Global Footprint Network data show that high-income countries' average demands on nature dropped sharply at the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. In 2010 the per person Footprint started to grow again only in a few high-income countries as governments began spending billions of dollars to stimulate their economies.
During the global financial crisis, middle- and low-income nations' per capita Ecological Footprint remained largely unchanged, according to the 2014 National Footprint Accounts.
Changes in the Ecological Footprint per person in high-, middle- and low-income countries between 1961 and 2010. China (a middle-income country) is shown separately. The green line represents world biocapacity per person. Biocapacity per person has been declining because the world population has grown more quickly than biocapacity productivity (Global Footprint Network, 2014 NFA edition).
Globally, humanity's per person Ecological Footprint decreased 3 percent between 2008 and 2009, due mostly to a decline in demand for fossil fuel and hence a decreasing carbon Footprint. Low-income countries, typically characterized by less elasticity in their standard of living, contributed little to the decrease in humanity's per person Footprint.
Every year, Global Footprint Network updates its National Footprint Accounts, which compare more than 220 nations' demands for ecological resources and services (their Footprints) against the amount available within their borders (biocapacity). Each country's performance varies year to year, but one overarching trend has persisted for decades: Global ecological overshoot continues to grow. Ecological overshoot now stands at 54 percent above the planet's biocapacity. Humanity demands more than 1.5 times more biocapacity than what our planet can renew.
This year's National Footprint Accounts cover five decades. They track nations' Ecological Footprints and biocapacity from 1961 to 2010, the most recent year for which complete data sets are available. With the latest data, Global Footprint Network can now show the resource implications of the recent global financial crisis.
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William P. Gordon Institute and United Way Partner to Host IRS-Endorsed Tax Assistance Program for Kosciusko County
WINONA LAKE, IND. – The William P. Gordon Institute for Enterprise Development through the School of Business at Grace College and the United Way of Kosciusko County will partner again this year to host an IRS-endorsed "Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)" program in Kosciusko County during the months of February and March 2016.
VITA offers free tax assistance to qualifying taxpayers (individual or family income under $57,000) who require assistance in preparing their own tax returns. In order to provide this service, the William P. Gordon Institute and the United Way are seeking volunteers who are willing to help serve the Kosciusko community. Volunteers will undergo certification training, though professional tax preparers may opt out of training and complete a test online for certification.
VITA aims to help working families take advantage of all tax credits for which they are eligible, including earned income tax credit, child tax credits and education credits. This not only assists the individual family, but also increases tax dollars in the county.
William P. Gordon Institute's VITA representative, Al Grossnickle, said the program is a synergistic opportunity for everyone in our community. "The Gordon Institute in collaboration with the United Way of Kosciusko County is excited to use VITA as a platform to serve the community. We hope to see Grace students and community friends get involved in the VITA program. Volunteers will get a unique hands-on learning experience, and the community recipients will benefit from free tax assistance," he said.
Anyone interested in volunteering as a tax preparer, screener/greeter or quality control person should contact Al Grossnickle at the Gordon Institute office, (574) 372-5100, ext. 6091. Those interested in finding out more about how the VITA program might help them can schedule an appointment by calling the 211 scheduling service. Appointments will begin February 1 and will be available every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Grace College Manahan Orthopaedic Capital Center and selected Saturdays at Ivy Tech during February. There will be dates also available in March.
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LOS ANGELES — After a handful of expensive summer flops, lower-cost movies such as the $50 million Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues are lighting up the screen for studio executives, who are cautiously predicting a second straight record year.
Ticket sales at theaters in the United States and Canada started slowly at the beginning of 2013. Even with the summer hits Iron Man 3 and Despicable Me 2, revenue for the year was running 0.3 percent lower than last year through July 26, according to data from Rentrak, after bombs such as The Lone Ranger.
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"The poster child is Gravity," said Gerardo Lopez, CEO of the theater chain AMC Entertainment.
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$50 million to $70 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters but defied projections to rake in $253 million.
Gravity, which cost about $100 million to make, ranks sixth on this year's list of highest-grossing movies at domestic theaters — ahead of big-budget action hits such as Fast & Furious 6 and Star Trek Into Darkness, which cost at least $160 million apiece to make.
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Second federal 'kill-switch' bill introduced targeting smartphone theft
A second federal bill that proposes "kill-switch" technology be made mandatory in smartphones as a means to reduce theft of the devices was introduced Monday.
A second federal bill that proposes "kill-switch" technology be made mandatory in smartphones as a means to reduce theft of the devices was introduced Monday.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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Ginger Square Cookies (Bite This)
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The oven at my BF house sucks. I think I have expressed this unfortunately dilemma before. So when it comes to baking, I cross my fingers and hope it comes out alright due to the uneven heat distribution. That said, these cookies came out of the oven completely flat…blended all together like one big pancake. I almost tossed them…that is until I tasted them…Mmmm. So if the same thing should happen to you, don't fret. They are still very tasty and the pics came out so good I may have accidentally created the new flat square cookie craze… :)
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Northern New York Firm Awarded Contract by New York Power Authority in Support of Statewide Operations
Paul DeMichele
December 16, 2010
WHITE PLAINS—New York Power Authority (NYPA) President Richard M. Kessel today announced that NYPA has approved several new contracts with New York State companies for carrying out various essential services undertaken by the statewide public power.
"One of the Power Authority's key missions is to support economic development and job creation throughout the State of New York," Kessel said. "NYPA does hundreds of millions of dollars a year in business with New York companies and we plan to continue that practice for years to come."
The contracts, which will become effective on or about Jan. 1, 2011, result from competitive processes for obtaining the lowest-priced bids from qualified companies, in response to Requests for Proposals posted on the Authority's Procurement Web site and/or notices in the New York State Contract Reporter.
The Power Authority Trustees recently authorized contracts with a number of companies, including the following New York-based firms:
- Brockway Sanitation Service, Moira. The company, in Franklin County, will provide for sewage removal and disposal services for the St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Project. The up-to-three-year $85,000 contract includes annual pumping of septic tanks and other holding tanks, transportation, and sewage disposal, as needed.
- Applied Energy Group, Islandia. The company, in Suffolk County, will provide for consulting services to conduct a program impact and process evaluation of the Power Authority's energy efficiency program, focusing on NYPA's governmental customer projects in New York City and Westchester County. The intent of the evaluation is to measure and verify program and portfolio impacts and, where needed, to identify program design and process or implementation improvements. The up-to-two-year $446,000 contract reinforces the Power Authority's commitment to support the New York State Energy Plan, which seeks to reduce energy consumption, as well as to participate in the continuing development of the New York State Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards, which seeks to ensure the transparent and consistent reporting of program savings.
- BIDCO Marine Group, Grand Island, and McLaren Engineering Group, West Nyack. The two firms will provide for underwater inspection services to support the operation and maintenance of Authority facilities located throughout New York State. Such services include routine outage underwater inspections, debris management and minor underwater equipment and structural repairs. The contracts will last up-to-five-years and total a maximum of $2 million.
- E-J Electric Installation, Long Island City. The firm will provide for general electrical maintenance services for NYPA's 500-Megawatt Combined-Cycle Plant. The up-to-three-year contract has a ceiling of $300,000.
- Fox Fence, Niagara Falls. The firm will provide for on-call emergency repair services for security gates and fences at the Niagara Power Project. The up-to-four-year $100,000 contract includes all labor, supervision, equipment, materials and technical support.
- Lucius Pitkin, New York City. The firm will provide failure analysis and metallurgical examination and testing services in support of the Power Authority's plants, projects, facilities and transmission lines. Technical services include providing all engineering, supervision, labor, materials and equipment required to sample, test and analyze metallic and other elements used in power plant equipment and components. The work will be performed, as needed, at NYPA's facilities, construction sites, manufacturer's plants, or in the consultant's laboratory. The up-to-five-year contract has a ceiling of $550,000.
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quoteA ninja can't touch you if you have enough evasion. EVASION is enough to rend a ninja useless!!!! Orlandu can wield the exacalibur(haste) and can has 100% chance of hitting your ninja's. So assuming that Orlandu has blades grasp or abandon + vanish mantle of even feather mantle and that you have 3 ninja's ( witihn attacking range),don't you think that your theory of not being able to make the best swordsman in the game is kinda rertarded? And i can't believe you guys are still posting on this board.am3930
Yes, you get the point.
And Rue, one question: Orlandu vs 3 ninjas;
Assuming that they start within attacking range; the ninjas speed and duel wielding abilities would allow them to strike 6 times before Orlandu can even move. Dosn't this mean by your logic the best swoardsman in the game sucks?
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London Marathon 22nd April 2012
Some of you will be aware of this recurring thread and may even have been waiting for it - the lurvely Bouncing Barlist usually organises it but is up to his very tall eyeballs at the moment so yours truly and Tickled Pink have said we'll pick up the baton!Every year members of the forum arrange a support area at Mudchute, Docklands which is at about 17 miles.Usually we have about 50+ supporters and well over 200 runners, the idea is runners are split between pairs of supporters that can give you that extra special cheer and provide any special needs such as gels, even cans of beer have been requested in the past. After the race we all meet up at a pub near Trafalgar Square.Anyone is welcome to come along, help us support the race and join in the fun, its just one big party and a fantastic day out.
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Add your name to the appropriate list please!
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Yay, go seren!!!
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Denny lovey I'll put you in my group (am now really really hoping you're who I think you are!!!! Hee hee)
And Barlos, you have seen me by the end of the day the last 2 years haven't you?!!!! Dribbling mess just about sums it up lol mwah!
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Your wish is my commaned Shmaggle (people need to make the most of this, I'm off this week so going to be online a lot, from next week I won't be around to add peeps lol!)
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Oh whatevah!!! I have absolutely no doubt me and TP will need your expertise, see what's happened already cos I cross posted with Minni!! lol!!
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Can't wait to see you Frodo! Make sure that calendar is clear I've already told Brother BH he's not to have any gigs that day after he let me go on my own last year lol
Well I'm not after your list job Schmunks. My knowledge of the alphabet is rudimentary in the extreme.
Looking forward to seeing everyone and waving those pom poms whilst looking cool and glamorous ... yeah right .....
I can totally recommend the supporting bit. It's the best fun you can have with your clothes on ....
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Backpacking's Svelte Sister
Consider backpacking, the activity in which you pile one or more night's worth of camping gear, food and clothing into a pack and carry it with you into the wilds. While there are as many backpacking philosophies as there are folks who heave packs into the mountains, backpacks are often quite heavy. A 50-pound load for a three to four-day trip is average, while the same trip done in fastpacking style might only require a 15-pound pack and will likely take half the time.
"A heavy pack for anything except a multi-week expedition, I don't get it. It's unpleasant; it limits your movement; and you'll never use all that you bring," says 37-year-old, Anchorage, Alaska, resident Jill Missal. The founder of Geargals.com, a women's-gear website, Missal spends her free time fastpacking the Alaskan wilds. Derrick Spafford, 45, of Yarker, Ontario, is another fastpacking fan. "At the end of the day, I'd rather see more than carry more," says Spafford. "Fastpacking allows me to enjoy nature in a deeper, purer way."
These two fastpacking proponents get to the heart of the sport's theoretical intent: to trade things for wilderness distance. In actuality, most "fastpacks" are roughly half the volume and weight of a backpack. Bryce Thatcher, 48, of Saint George, Utah, founder of Elite Creators, a company that produces various kinds of carrying devices, including UltrAspire hydration packs, knows fastpacking. He and his friend Jim Knight invented the sport in Wyoming's Wind River Range during the late 1980s because, "We couldn't take a week off of work," says Thatcher, laughing. "We got this idea that if we could go light, we'd be able to go farther without expending additional energy."
I descended from a backpacking lineage, having spent my late teens and early 20s carrying packs that weighed almost half as much as I. A workhorse by nature, I didn't mind the difficulty. What I didn't care for, however, was that I worked hard and still saw little wilderness.
By sheer instinct, my friends and I did the same thing as Thatcher and Knight, only 15 years later. We lightened our loads with the intent of seeing more. About the same time, I discovered trail running as another means to wild-place ends and left behind my road-running history. Fastpacking married all this together into a sweet recreation package.
Go Light or Go Home
While some couples bicker over bank statements and political preferences (OK, we do that, too), Bryon and I are bantering about whose fastpack will be the sleekest. At the moment, we're selecting gear from the contents of our car's trunk, which has vomited itself onto a picnic table at the Canyonlands National Park visitor center.
We're packing for three days in the Utah desert. This November morning is yielding ideal fastpacking weather: chilly air and bright sunshine. Typically, water is a limiting factor in an extended desert outing, but the park ranger who writes our backcountry permit solves the issue, "I know of one running spring. Treat that water and you're good to go."
In the process of resolving one problem, she invents another when she says, "Bad weather—lots of rain—is on the way." The ranger recommends two courses of action, to shorten our trip by a day to avoid the bad weather or to camp on the near side of a drainage about four miles from the trailhead. "That gully turns into an impassible stream for several days during big storms. Don't get stranded on the other side." We decide on her latter recommendation, to return each night to the safe side of the drainage.


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I'd like for everything to cascading delete when I delete a section, however, if I have :dependent set to :delete_all, only the volumes associated with it will be destroyed and I will be left with orphaned chapter records. I have experimented with some things and if I set :dependent to :destroy for the Section model then everything gets destroyed properly except I have an extremely heavy before_destroy that I do not want to run.
Is there anyway I can have it work with :delete_all? or is there a way to check if I'm deleting all in my before_destroy so I can skip my clean up (that way I can just use :destroy on the Volume model)?
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In May 2012, North Carolina was granted flexibility waivers from many of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) provisions. This flexibility, granted by the U.S. Department of Education, makes significant changes to North Carolina's implementation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act's requirements especially in the areas of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), parent notifications, public school choice and Supplemental Educational Services (SES). These waivers will allow North Carolina's public school system to move forward with strengthened College- and Career-Ready expectations for all students, new ways to hold Title I schools accountable for students' academic proficiency, and new initiatives to support effective instruction and leadership.
Many of the former strict federal requirements regarding AYP and sanctions for schools that do not make AYP are no longer required statewide and are now local school district decisions. Beginning with the 2012-13 school year, districts are no longer required to identify Title I schools for improvement, corrective action, and restructuring. The waivers also remove the requirements that districts must use federal Title I funds to offer public school choice and supplemental educational services (SES). Instead, districts will be able to use Title I funds to improve student learning and increase the quality of instruction in all Title I schools.
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Fort Dodge police are searching for the driver of a truck that was involved in a hit-and-run accident Tuesday morning that injured a child.
Police Chief Tim Carmody said at 7:45 a.m., an 11-year-old child was riding his bike near the intersection of Second Avenue North and North 12th Street when he was hit by a red truck.
Officers found the child, who was not identified by police, laying on the grass near the sidewalk.
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The boy was taken to Trinity Regional Medical Center by ambulance, where he was treated and released. Carmody said the child's injuries were not life-threatening.
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Margaret K. Ferguson
Margaret K. Ferguson, 98, formerly of 37 Columbia Ave., West Ellicott, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in the home of her daughter in West Ellicott.
She was born March 1, 1914, in Johnsonburg, Pa., a daughter of the late John and Isabelle Gladis.
Following graduation from high school in Johnsonburg, she moved to Jamestown and graduated from Jamestown Business College.
She was a self-employed home care provider for several years, and was a longtime communicant of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
She was a devoted mother and grandmother, who will be remembered as a good neighbor and friend willing to help whoever needed a hand. She loved gardening and was known for having an immaculate lawn and beautiful flower gardens.
Surviving are a daughter Susan Rohlin, with whom she made her home; two sons: Donald and Richard Ferguson, both of Lakewood; two grandchildren: Bryan Rohlin of Jacksonville, Fla., and Wendy Rohlin of West Ellicott; and three great-grandchildren: Debi, Kevin and Patrick Rohlin.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Ferguson, Dec. 24, 1964; five sisters; and three brothers.
The funeral will be held at 10:30 p.m. Monday in the Lind Funeral Home. Monsignor Joseph M. Dowdell will officiate.
Burial will be in Sunset Hill Cemetery.
Friends will be received from 2-5 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home.
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This announcement is to let everyone know MACCA-Chat is back online on a new server. Using FlashChat was an experiment that didn't turn out as good as I hoped.
Now we are back on a standard irc server and I have java clients on both main pages of macca-central and maccaradio. For those who like to irc clients like mirc here is the info you will need:
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Wireless networks have made a revolution in the world of computers, but they will also make a revolution in the world of consumer electronics (CE) thanks to new high-definition TV-sets, mandatory support for networking in Blu-ray 2.0 players and so on. According to market analysts from In-Stat, by 2012 there will be one billion of CE devices featuring Wi-Fi shipped per annum.
"Digital TV will be the second largest category of CE stationary devices shipping with Wi-Fi. The sheer volume of digital TV shipments will make it a strong market, despite a relatively low Wi-Fi attach rate," said Victoria Fodale, an In-Stat analyst.
In addition, a recent research by In-Stat found that more than 294 million CE devices with Wi-Fi shipped in 2007. Moreover, compound annual growth rate for CE Wi-Fi devices through 2012 will be 26%, which quite a significant face.
In-Stat also believes that by 2011, cellular/Wi-Fi handsets will surpass mobile PCs as the large category of Wi-Fi devices, which is very important. In developing countries, such as China or India, a lot of people have mobile phones, but considerably less have personal computers. With one billion of Wi-Fi supporting devices shipped yearly, people in those markets will be able to get Internet access even without a PC provided that there are Wi-Fi networks nearby.
The growth in the number of Wi-Fi-enabled devices is a good news. But since wireless networks do not cover large areas and therefore cannot provide certain services, it may be more important for Wimax-powered CE devices to emerge widely on developing markets.


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Clutch -- Fayetteville, AR -- July 11th, 2012
What an amazing evening. I was so stoked to see that Fayetteville was able to get one of the few dates on this mini Clutch/Prong tour. 2 of my 3 favorite bands, a shorter drive than KC (sorry Manky, no Lawrence for this guy). Stupid place wouldn't allow cameras. What shit. I think the last place that didn't allow it was when I saw Tool at the Sprint Center 2 years ago. Pisses me off, could have had killer pictures. Oh well…
Opening band was Lionize. I didn't really seem to enjoy them as much as I did when they opened up for Clutch back in '09 in KC. Might have just been an off night. Maybe a sound issue. I don't know but they weren't as fun as I remember them being a few years ago.
Prong was my #1 reason for being so excited about this show. Sadly, they don't seem to tour all that much, although I know that will be changing with Carved Into Stone just being released a few months back (that I would say is the best thing since Cleansing, not as big of a Rude Awakening fan). Of course I was right up against the rail, dead center. Figured I'd be right in front of Tommy. Didn't take into consideration the tiny ass stage as Tommy was stage right. Kind of a fail on my part. Got to see the setlist and I figured it would be a lot of their hits which I still won't complain about. Crappy thing is I think they were having bass issues as they were 5 minutes or so late and because of that Unconditional was on the set but not played yet Power of the Damager was not on the set but was played. Tommy absolutely killed it. He was getting the crowd hyped up. Jumped up in the air several times. It's been 3 years, I guess I forgot how energetic of a front man he was. Crowd was going pretty well for Prong, lot of headbanging. Pit was finally started and lasted for Snap Your Fingers & Power of the Damager. One thing I was confused about was no Tony at bass. I know he was playing for Soulfly but I didn't know if he was out playing with them or not. Not sure the name of their bass player there last night. Easily the best opener I've seen Clutch take on the road w/ them in the 7-8x I've seen Clutch. Such a great time, but dear god was it ungodly hot. After Prong I went to grab some (free!!!!) water and cool off. Set is correct and in order.
For Dear life
Beg To Differ
Unconditional (Not Played But On Setlist)
Cut Rate
Rude Awakening
Revenge Best Served Cold
Who's Fist Is This Anyway?
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Power Of The Damager (Played, Not On Setlist)
I was sitting up in the area with the reserved tables cooling off. I heard a guy say that Tommy Victor was hanging out by the bar. I hauled ass to the bar and there he was standing talking with a couple in front of the merch table. I had sent Tommy a tweet earlier in the day asking if they were playing Keep On Living In Pain off the new album in the set and he tweeted me back saying that they weren't. I shook his hand and told him I was the guy who he tweeted and we ended up talking for almost a half hour and he was just the best. The best part was when he asked where I was from and I told him Joplin, MO and instantly he had this look on his face because he actually knew about the F5 tornado that hit us last May and he sent his condolences and he asked if I was hurt and I told him my parent's house was demolished and we talked for a few minutes about that. It meant the absolute world to me that he actually knew about this and cared enough to ask me if I was affected. That meant more than what I can even put into words. Then of course the conversation switched back to music. I asked him about what Page from Helmet told me last year and it was true that Prong & Helmet were trying to do a tour together but apparently it was when Tommy was trying to finish the new album but he said he hopes that could still happen. He said he's good friends w/ Page and that's one of his favorite guitar players. I told him about seeing him in '07 when they headlined the Riot Room & when they were at The Midland w/ Soulfly in '09. Then we talked about the size of the crowds they seem to get. He said that lately they've had to play support to bigger bands because they just don't draw the bigger crowds as a headliner. He wondered if it's because they aren't sexy enough. (I had no comment for this, I was unsure what an appropriate answer would have been.) He talked about how shitty the tour w/ Crowbar was. Apparently it didn't draw worth a shit either which is a shame. That would have been a killer show to see. I told him how absolutely great the new album is and he said it meant a lot because he spent a ton of time working on it. I also asked why Power of the Damager didn't go over bigger, boy this opened up a whole new conversation. I just got this look from him. He said "Al Jorgensen is an asshole". I think I also heard him say that he was evil. He apparently didn't do shit for the album. Then the kicker… he said Al hasn't paid him a goddamn thing in royalties. He's done 3 albums with Al with several songwriting credits and he has got ZERO from Al. I asked him if Al's wife does the financial part and Tommy said she's an asshole too. Apparently Al asked him if he wanted to go out with him on Ministry's brief tour. Tommy said his lawyer basically said "No, he hasn't paid you shit." Apparently it's something ongoing that is in the hands of lawyers. I got a lot more than what I was expecting in this conversation. I could see Al doing something like that. He seems like someone who would do that. He was telling me about other tours, like them doing 4 shows w/ C.O.C. and doing a lot of dates w/ Static X. We both kinda made the face like "yea it's kind of sad we are supporting Static X" although he said Wayne was a friend of his. I asked him when/if they planned on doing headlining shows. He said next year they hoped to do so and then he said he was wanting to play the whole Cleansing album and that definitely would be amazing. Those were pretty much the highlights of our conversation but it was really great getting to talk to him for so long. I've wanted to meet him for I don't know how many years. Out of all that I almost forgot to have him sign something so I bought a small poster for $2. Clutch was already about 4 songs into their set but this was a tradeoff I was willing to take.
Even loving Clutch like I do, everything seemed to pale in comparison after getting to talk to Tommy. Crowd seemed like they got even bigger. I was ok with finding a platform that was raised up and still had a good view of the stage. I got in just as 50K Unstoppable Watts was finishing. I don't know of any other words to use to describe Clutch that I haven't used tons of times before. Neil still had his rockin old school Def Jam Records shirt that he was wearing back when they opened for Hellyeah. Amazing I can see a band this many times and still hear songs that I've never heard before. I'm a little bummed for missing Promoter at the beginning. This was quite Blast Tyrant heavy and since that's the first Clutch album I heard that is quite good news for me. Best part of the show was them doing Regulator (which got a huge response) and then Cypress Grove ("I'm not a sports fan very much but I will say that this next song has a Razorback in it". Huge cheer from the Razorback crowd.) I'm a little disappointed in myself but I did actually leave a little early. I left after Big News I. I read the set from the soundboard that was right behind me. I thought it looked short. Apparently they did 3 for encore but still nothing I can't live w/ Soapmakers which I'm not a fan of & Burning Beard which I like but not worth staying and getting home 30 minutes later than what I did. I'm unsure of the 3rd song. I looked on the Clutch board and the person didn't know the 3rd song. Barring it being Rock & Roll Outlaw, Tight Like That, El Jefe or a couple others I'm sure it's nothing I can't live without.
Mob Goes Wild
Pure Rock Fury
50 K Unstoppable Watts
Crucial (New Song)
Gravel Road
Earth Rocker
Cypress Grove
Big News I
BN Jam
Big News II
A Shogun Named Marcus
Electric Worry
One Eyed Dollar
Soap Makers
Burning Beard
I also got Alexi from Prong to sign my poster as well on my way out. Tommy was by the bar and I thanked him again for coming down here and thanked me and he still called me by my name which I really appreciated as well. I almost walked out the door and then I thought screw it. I hate being one of those people who take shitty iPhone pictures but it's all I had so I went and got a pic w/ Tommy as well and then I headed home. Thanks for reading and putting up w/ my excitement over meeting Tommy.
3/5 - Dope
6/6 - Morbid Angel
7/11 - Iron Maiden
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Not coming into Lawrence for the show?
1/26 - Inquisition w/ Truckfighters
1/29 - Alcest w/ The Body
2/11 - Marduk w/ Incantation
2/16 - Pain of Salvation
You got A Shogun Named Marcus? Now that's a real treat, congrats dude! But that's a pretty short set for Clutch, probably only 90 minutes if not even less. They're the one reason that living on the west coast sucks, they hardly ever headline here.
Edit: Never mind about the set length, I posted this before you put up the encore. That's fucking godlike encore though, I wanna see The Soapmakers so bad
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God I love Clutch. They always deliver such a solid set list.
9/24 Beirut
10/18 Opeth
10/19 The Tallest Man on Earth
11/5 Titus Andronicus
11/22 The Vaccines
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I went to this show in Indy Friday night.Prong nailed it,best since clensing tour imo...not sure who the drummer was but he was highly energentic and powerful youngster.Would love to see a headlining show once again from the best power trio ever!! We didnt stick around for clutch
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text: LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE CURRICULAR GUIDE Computer Graphics, Multimedia Associate in Applied Arts Degree Curriculum Code: 0194 (Effective Fall 2000 - Summer 2005) A multimedia designer is a computer artist who uses many electronic tools to create interactive art. Multimedia designers must have creative abilities and design, drawing, problem-solving, production, communication, and presentation skills. Multimedia is a cooperative process. The multimedia designer should expect to work as part of a team which may include animators, graphic designers, photographers, audio and video producers, writers and others. Employment can be with advertising agencies, on-line magazines and newspapers, in-house training in the public and private sector, and the education/ entertainment industry. PREREQUISITES Students should see the "Course Descriptions" section of this catalog or the Course Schedule for course prerequisite information. Basic skills assessment and advising information may be found on page 8 of this catalog. GENERAL EDUCATION General education is an important part of this program and includes a mathematics competency requirement. To fulfill the mathematics competency requirement, students may need to complete specific course work in mathematics. For information on how to fulfill all general education requirements, see page 23. INFORMATION Contact the Art, Design and Multimedia Program, Academic and Office Facility, Room 314, telephone number (517) 483-1476. REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 50 CREDITS CODE TITLE CREDIT HOURS ARTS 131 Drawing I 3 ARTS 151 Computer Graphics/Illustration 3 ARTS 162 Typography 3 ARTS 171 Computer Graphics/Photography 3 ARTS 173 Computer Graphics/Web Design 2 ARTS 228 Advanced Digital Imaging 3 ARTS 232 Comp Graphics/2-D Animation 4 ARTS 233 Comp Graphics/2-D Interactive 4 ARTS 234 Comp Graphics/3-D Animation I 4 ARTS 235 Comp Graphics/3-D Animation II 3 ARTS 236 Computer Graphics/Production 3 ARTS 269 The Portfolio (See Note 1) 2 ARTS 281 Art Internship 3 CISB 102 Internet Literacy 3 CISB 200 Info Sys Tech/Problem Solving 3 FILM 118 Film Production I 4 LIMITED CHOICE REQUIREMENTS TOTAL: 20-22 CREDITS Complete the indicated number of credits from each CHOICE listed below. CHOICE 1: General Education Core Areas 9 Credits (See the "GENERAL EDUCATION" section above) Writing Core Area 3 Speech Communication Core Area 3 Science/Technology Core Area (See Note 2) 0 Global Perspectives and Diversity Core Area 3 Mathematics Competency (See page 23 for information on how to fulfill this requirement. Course work may be needed.) CHOICE 2: Specialty (Choose one subchoice) 11-13 Credits Subchoice 2A: Art Specialty ARTS 102 2-Dimensional Design 3 ARTS 132 Life Drawing 3 ARTS 216 Humorous Illustration I 3 IMAG 101 Basic Photog for Non-Majors 2 Subchoice 2B: Photography Specialty IMAG 111 Intro to Photographic Tech I 4 IMAG 112 Design for Imaging Tech 3 IMAG 113 Lighting Concepts/Applications 3 IMAG 114 Intro Photographic Color Tech 3 MINIMUM TOTAL 70 NOTES: 1. The Portfolio is considered to be the final course in this curriculum. All other courses must already be completed or be taken concurrently with ARTS 269. 2. Students completing "REQUIREMENTS" have fulfilled the requirements for this Core area. 3. It is recommended that all students entering this curriculum have computer experience in both Windows NT and Macintosh Operating Systems. This experience may come from life or work experience, or other studies, as well as CABS 100 Seminars - Introduction to Windows NT and Introduction to the Macintosh. Students should consult with an advisor in the Arts, Design and Multimedia Program if they are not sure about their computer skill level. 4. For graduation, a student must have earned a minimum grade point of 2.0 in all courses with an ARTS and IMAG prefix. SUGGESTED COURSE SEQUENCE Students should see course descriptions to find out when departments plan to offer courses. Students who for any reason are unable to follow the course sequence suggested below (for example, those who are part-time, have transferred in courses from another school, or have prerequisites to fulfill) should contact an academic advisor or counselor for help with adjustments. Subchoice 2A: Art Specialty I II III IV ARTS 102 ARTS 132 ARTS 173 ARTS 228 ARTS 131 ARTS 151 ARTS 232 ARTS 233 CISB 102 ARTS 162 ARTS 234 ARTS 235 CISB 200 ARTS 171 IMAG 101 Lim.Ch.1 FILM 118 ARTS 216 Lim.Ch.1 V ARTS 236 ARTS 269 ARTS 281 Lim.Ch.1 Subchoice 2B: Photography Specialty I II III IV ARTS 131 ARTS 151 ARTS 162 ARTS 228 CISB 102 ARTS 171 ARTS 173 ARTS 233 IMAG 111 CISB 200 ARTS 232 ARTS 235 IMAG 112 FILM 118 ARTS 234 Lim.Ch.1 IMAG 113 IMAG 114 Lim.Ch.1 V ARTS 236 ARTS 269 ARTS 281 Lim.Ch.1


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Learners will explore aspects of the Sun and solar activity by modeling them as solar cupcakes. Information and imagery are supplied to learn about the Sun, solar activity, eclipses, transits, observing the Sun, and the color of the Sun at different... (View More) times of the day. Links to resources are also provided that highlight NASA's solar missions and where to learn more about the Sun. (View Less)
Carl Sagan once claimed that the most important lesson we learn from studying the stars is perspective. To address this concept, this activity offers a scale model of the solar system to be evaluated. There are many versions of solar system scale... (View More) models available; this one is unique for its large scale chosen, the quality of the scaled objects, and the supplementary materials and information provided. The model is extended to include interaction and discovery on the part of learners, and suggested extensions. The set of materials includes a book about the solar system, developed from NASA's "From Earth to the Solar System" (FETTSS) imagery, and appropriate for use with the model. (View Less)
This online repository includes captioned images designed to tell a story about the science of light. Developed for the United Nation's International Year of Light 2015 (IYL2015), the images showcase the incredible variety of light-based science... (View More) being researched today across the electromagnetic spectrum, across scientific disciplines, and across technological platforms. (View Less)
In this activity, children use common craft materials and ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive beads to construct a person (or dog or imaginary creature). They use sunscreen, foil, paper, and more to test materials that might protect UV Kid from being exposed... (View More) to too much UV radiation. Includes background for facilitators. This activity is part of the "Explore!" series of activities designed to engage children in space and planetary science in libraries and informal learning environments. (View Less)
Images from NASA satellites showing atmospheric phenomena such as cyclones, hurricanes, high/low pressures, clouds and the jet stream are featured in this 10-minute planetarium show.
Learners will create a flip book that shows solar flares erupting from the Sun. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 7 and up.
Learners will use hot and cold water to see how fluids at different temperature move around in convection currents. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 10 and up.
Learners will build a magnetometer, an instrument that can measure slight changes in Earth's magnetic field that are caused by solar storms. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 13 and up.
Learners will build a solar oven and use it to bake s'mores. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 10 and up. It requires a bright sunny day.
If you've ever seen a picture of a solar eclipse, you may have noticed that the Moon comes very close to covering the entire Sun. Learners will use a coin and a plate to investigate why the Sun and Moon look like they're the same size, though... (View More) the Sun is much bigger. This activity is from the DIY Sun Science app and is for ages 7 and up. (View Less)


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About the Author: Ambassador Glyn T. Davies serves as the Permanent Representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Office in Vienna.
On Thursday, May 13, 2010, Ambassador Susan Burk, the President's Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and I joined Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dr. Warren "Pete" Miller and Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Dr. Gregory Jaczko in a discussion on the sidelines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) about U.S. support for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, one of the three "pillars" of the NPT. We were proud to highlight U.S. leadership in support of making peaceful uses of nuclear energy available, particularly in the developing world; to showcase some highlights of past and present civil nuclear cooperation; and to touch on some of our plans for the future. Our most recent initiative in this area was highlighted during Secretary Clinton's May 3 speech at the NPT General Debate. She announced a Presidential-led campaign to raise $100 million by the next NPT RevCon in 2015 for activities related to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, including health, cancer treatment, food and water security, and nuclear power infrastructure. The United States is pledging $50 million in new funding for this campaign and will work with international partners to match that amount. The United States has been, and remains, the largest single contributor to the IAEA's technical cooperation program and to the peaceful application of nuclear technologies. This year, the United States has contributed $21 million to the IAEA through the Technical Cooperation Fund.
Ambassador Susan Burk set the stage at Thursday's event. She explained that the U.S. commitment to peaceful uses of nuclear energy began with President Eisenhower's 1953 "Atoms for Peace" speech to the UN General Assembly. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which encouraged international nuclear cooperation and set U.S. standards for nuclear cooperation agreements, allowed the United States to implement the new "Atoms for Peace" policy. Today, the United States has cooperation agreements covering nearly 50 countries, and is engaged in more than 40 bilateral programs in safety, security, and safeguards around the world. Current International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) projections suggest that global nuclear power capacity could more than double by 2030.
Ambassador Burk also emphasized President Obama's commitment to expanding peaceful uses of nuclear energy, as made clear during his 2009 speech in Prague, during which he called for a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation that would allow countries to "access peaceful power without increasing the risks of proliferation" and highlighted the role of nuclear energy in combating climate change and advancing peace and opportunity for all.
The U.S. Government is leading the way, be it with cutting-edge technology development or by setting global standards in safety. Through our actions, the United States can assist other nations in harnessing the potential benefits of peaceful nuclear energy. Assistant Secretary Pete Miller, speaking second, highlighted the assistance that the multilateral Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) provides to nations that seek to develop the infrastructure necessary to host a nuclear power program. He also discussed the role that the U.S. Next Generation Safeguards Initiative (NGSI) will play in ensuring that the nonproliferation goals of NPT members remain a top priority.
Chairman Jaczko of the NRC focused on the importance of nuclear safety and discussing how the NRC is strengthening the regulatory regimes of our partners with emerging civil nuclear programs. The Chairman highlighted all the work that the NRC has done to reach out to developing nations and provide them with the assistance they need to ensure the safety of their future nuclear power plants. As nuclear power programs have evolved over the past few decades, the sharing of safety and security principles has generated global interest in those principles, and benefits the nuclear sector worldwide.
In my remarks, I explained the U.S. role in supporting the IAEA and its Technical Cooperation mission. First and foremost, the U.S. State Department is the source for the U.S. voluntary contribution to the IAEA, through which we provide more than 25 percent of all voluntary contributions to both the regular budget and the agency's Technical Cooperation Fund. Additionally, the Department of State's Office of Nuclear Energy, Safety, and Security leads negotiations of nuclear cooperation agreements and serves as the overall coordinator for our civil nuclear infrastructure outreach programs. Through support like this, we can demonstrate our commitment to peaceful use of nuclear power to both the IAEA and the world.
Under the grand bargain of the NPT, states agreed to give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons in exchange for access to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy under safeguards, and the United States has been an active and generous partner in cooperation with more than 100 NPT parties in this effort. As the President said in Prague, nuclear energy is the right of every nation that renounces nuclear weapons, and "we must harness the power of nuclear energy on behalf of our efforts to combat climate change, and to advance peace and opportunity for all people."Want to learn more?
Visit the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy Webpage
Visit the NRC's International Programs Webpage
Visit the IAEA's Technical Cooperation Webpage
Visit the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna Webpage
Watch Secretary Clinton's Opening Review Conference Statement
Read President Obama's Statement on the start of the Review Conference
Read remarks by President Obama in Prague
Visit our NPT Homepage
Visit the UN's Review Conference Website
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Dear Ambassador Davies,
With respect to article 4 in the text of the agreement signed by Iran, Turkey, and Brasil, in context with the merits of aproval by the "Vienna group" and impending UN sec. Council sanctions;
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4. Based on this point, the nuclear fuel exchange is a starting point to begin co-operation and a positive constructive move forward among nations. Such a move should lead to positive interaction and co-operation in the field of peaceful nuclear activities replacing and avoiding all kinds of confrontation through refraining from measures, actions and rhetorical statements that would jeopardise Iran's rights and obligations under the NPT.
Specificly the measures included in the following;
"..replacing and avoiding all kinds of confrontation through refraining from measures, actions and rhetorical statements that would jeopardise Iran's rights and obligations under the NPT."
It is my opinion sir that by being the leading state sponsor of terror in the world today, Iran has voided all soverign right to any and all nuclear technology or international cooperation on any level to assist them in furthering their nuclear agenda.
Until such time as they renounce such actions and rhetoric, and make ammends for their crimes against humanity.
If my government cannot bring this aspect into perspective and incorperate the reality presented by Iran's terrorist activities into it's policy and into the international fora in context with nuclear non-proliferation and with respect to the goals outlined in the NPT, then we will have failed to protect populations at risk, on an international level.
Nor can Iran claim to be abiding by the will of the international community or profess to be abiding by its obligations under the NPT until it ceases all terrorist support and activity globally.
You cannot keep these issues separate and hope to achieve success in building a more peaceful world to live in.
If the logic of this is not self evident to all nations at this point, and to everyone concerned with these matters sir, then we're begging for an education by tragic example to prove it to ourselves.
For the failure to act effectively now will make such example inevitable.
To make this work sir, Iran must give up any and all capabilities, dismantle all sites, transfer all nuclear materials out of country and then and only then should they be supplied with fuel for a research reactor, and only after the above conditions have been met with regards to their non-peaceful activities.
This may present a start in the right direction, even a "change of behavior", but there is only one thing that will prove it, and I just stated it.
The bar must be set according to the norms of international civilized behavior, and for Iran that bar has to be set very solidly in the mindset of the internationmal community in context with the war on terror.
We will see if they are capable of making that leap to join the family of nations.
But don't hold your breath sir.
Best regards,
Richard S. in California writes:
When is the United States going to demand that Israel open up it's Dimona facility for access to the IAEA? It would be a fairly simple matter to make US "aid" to Israel contingent upon Israel following the same rules they are demanding Iran follow and accuse Iran of not following.
After all, Israel only has about 6.5 million citizens, not including the 4 million Palestinian refugees that they have under their absolute control in refugee camps and they receive 3 billion dollars of military aid and flat out money. This would be a pretty big stick if the United States is actually interested in peaceful uses of nuclear power.
If the US is actually interested in this, this is exactly what the US would do. It's curious that the United States makes little or no effort to get a rogue state like Israel to agree to treaties that the United States itself is part of and promotes while hypocritically doing everything in their power to protect Israel from abiding with the same rules everybody else in the world follows, with notable exceptions like North Korea.
O.C. in U.S.A. writes:
Be careful. You, like me might be visited upon by a FEDEX imposter
Eric in Mexico writes:
@ O.C. in USA: Is the FEDEX guy better than having the "men in black" knock on your door? (chuckle). I'm kind of hoping you'll give us all a comparitive analysis...just for grins and giggles.
Back at the ranch...I think Israel will get on the NPT bus eventually, but you can't force her to ride, only her people can do that effectively. Same is true with all nations that call themselves democracies. The concequences are different because intent is different. IE; If they were looking to wipe Iran "off the Map" for example, one would have reasonably expected them to do so by now, right?
What can we reasonably expect Iran to do with a few A-bombs? A lot hinges on the answer to this. India isn't a member yet, but we have a nuclear agreement with them. Why? Because it's possible to among reasonable people, and democracies don't go to war with each other as a general rule. It's not a one-size fits-all world we live in. Remember it's a treaty, one is only bound by it as law when a nation signs it. However, I tend to agree with the logic of this
-Quote of the Day; "The policy of nuclear ambiguity, by which we fool only ourselves and nobody else, is not good for us any more."--Tel Aviv University chemistry professor Uzi Even, on Israel's decades-old policy of neither confirming nor denying the existence of its nuclear deterrent.
Source: gsn.nti.org/gsn/
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Glad to see folks decided now is the time...
I'm sure Brazil and Turkey were fully aware of what Iran had to agree to in order to prevent sanctions from moving forward. Gotta give credit where credit is due for trying, but the agreement they came away with doesn't meet the requirements for approval, in that Iran is still commited to enrichment, and that violates UN resolutions. As we say here in America, "Close, but no cigar."
It was a worthy effort and it took political guts to go for the long shot to try and resolve these issues with Iran given the long odds. I thought the Russian President was being a true optimist in giving it a one in three chance, I wouldn't have given it one chance in ten, and still considered that to be optimistic. That it didn't produce cessation of Iran's enrichment activities is no reflection on the credibility of those who made the attempt to seek a diplomatic solution. So now we proceed with the diplomacy of sanctions. I think Aminidijad will have a temper tantrum, but that is the nature of ethical infants.
(@ UN press stakeout yesterday)
Ambassador Rice:
"Good evening everybody. The United States has just tabled, in consultations, a draft resolution that would impose strong and broad-based sanctions on Iran. It is a text that reflects the discussion and agreement among the P5+1, and we just had a useful meeting interrupted by some technological gliches, in which every member of the Council had the opportunity to speak. The goal of this resolution is twofold: first to increase the cost to Iran's leadership for their continued defiance of the international community, and second to persuade Iran that it is in its interest to peacefully resolve concerns about its nuclear program. This draft seeks to support, and not replace, our efforts to engage Iran diplomatically. We have said throughout this process that the door remains open to Iran to live up to its obligations and achieve a better relationship with the international community."
Flavius in Virginia writes:
Not curious, Richard. I think U.S. policy in this area is very much based on domestic political considerations.
After all, a certain intelligence agency has made multiple attempts (some of them successful) to acquire our most precious strategic information (the schedules and deployments of our "banger boomer" force) without any public response from our government. I sometimes wonder if there was even a private response.
At least we didn't pardon one of the spies like the government in question wanted us to after he'd been tried and convicted.
Richard W. writes:
How odd, my last initial showed up as 'S' last time, I wonder what it will do this time?
I'm only being cynical by saying I'm curious.
I know the actual state of affairs. We have a bunch of Neocon cowards in power under the Democratic label. Iran is not in violation of any of it's obligations under the NNPT and as far as the IAEA knows or has states, they are in full compliance.
We have swapped out one group of dirtbags for another. Nothing has changed with Obama. We still are at war in 2 countries. Our Federal government is still unconstitutionally wiretapping American citizens using American citizen's tax money to do it. Guantanamo is still open. The bailouts to the financial sector is still ongoing instead of widespread prosecution for corporate malfeasance and fraud.
What intelligent American isn't sick of this?
This site serves only one purpose - that purpose is to given citizens the false believe that the Federal government values input of the people they rule over from which they take money.
There is no legitimacy to the power of the US Federal government today. My saying that I'm sure puts me in the category of being seditious.
We have an obviously dishonest and hypocritical government, and a media that just goes along with it, and I'm tired of it. The only thing most politicians are interested in, is staying in power and collecting a fat paycheck.
I'm disgusted with Obama and his entire administration, including Hillary Clinton who cowardly voted to allow Bush to use force in Iran.
This website is censored, I wonder if this will show up? I've long known that it doesn't matter what people say, government does whatever it wants and comes up with any ludicrous superficial reason for doing what it wants. If they were in the moral right or even believed they were, they wouldn't hae to tell these transparent lies and make up these phony excuses all the time.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ Richard, you are new here and hardly one to judge the merits of this blog. Seems like you came in with a chip on your shoulder. I suggest when you read this, take some advice... you aren't being seditious, but you are sounding a lot like an idiot. Stick around...I'll ease your burden.