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What is the best way of propagating the dreams of a warrior for peace? This question has always intrigued me. How to make one's own the battles for a better world and for lasting peace in a region disturbed by so many decades of conflict?
In this age when digitalization is universally accessible, the response to this is to spread the dreams of a man who dedicated his life to freedom and to peace throughout the world and throughout the Afghan population.
Everything begins one day in May 1985 with an encounter in Panjshir Valley. I see him. He has the presence of a herald, the warmth of an ordinary man: "I know what you have undergone to get here. I apologize for having kept you waiting," he said to me while giving me a hug. Massoud is surrounded by his men who simultaneously fulfil multiple roles as advisers, bodyguards, and assistants, dedicated to the cause of independence for their nation. A relationship of trust is quickly established between him, his family, and myself—one that was to last right up to the time of his assassination on the 9th of September 2001.
Following the publication of 27 books and the achievement of creating several documentaries and multimedia pieces, and as a photojournalist for over thirty years, I hope, with your support, to achieve my first interactive book, concerned with Commander Massoud. I am imagining an intimate and down-to-earth portrait of the man himself and of his fight for the liberty of his nation that he led for more than 20 years. Designed as a authentic web doc in four languages and available in all media, this beautiful interactive book will combine photos, videos and animations offering total immersion in the world and the destiny of this iconic figure of the Afghan resistance.
In 2014, on the thirteenth anniversary of the death of Commander Massoud, I look forward to publishing my first digital & interactive book. Thanks to your contributions, this beautiful interactive book provides a unique perspective of those war years, of hope and of friendship, during which Afghanistan was activated by the optimistic words of just one man against the largest army in the world.
Published in English, French, Dari and Pashto this interactive book is exclusively offered at a desirable rate of €3 for all those who contribute to the financing of the project through this special cooperation with KissKissBankBank. Upon its release in September 2014, it will have a suggested retail price of €9.90. Each French or English copy purchased will enable the free distribution of one copy in Dari or Pashto (the two official languages spoken in Afghanistan and in the region).
It will bring together the iconic and previously unpublished images, videos and interviews that I have produced during nearly two decades and that have been unknown until now, together with a certain number of multimedia items that will offer an intimate, comprehensive and exclusive picture of the leader of the Afghan Resistance. Implemented for use with every kind of reading device (PC and Mac computers, eBook readers, smartphones and iOS/Android digital tablets), I seek in this manner to offer interactive testimony, up-to-date and accessible to all, of this great political visionary of the twentieth century.
A freedom fighter since 1979, Massoud resisted for twenty years the Russian invaders and then the Taliban, carrying the torch of freedom and attempting to impose peace in Afghanistan. From 1985 I was to become a privileged witness of that resistance and a friend of the one whom they nicknamed "The Lion of Pandjshir". In 1991, I joined National Geographic Magazine and, amongst other territories, I have also continued to cover this region.
In 2001, forty-eight hours prior to the 11th of September attack that was to plunge the world into terror, Massoud was assassinated. This precipitated the grief of thousands of Afghan men and women and of the entire nation, who, since 1996, had looked on him as the principal opponent of the Taliban.
During the weeks that followed, in homage to the hopes of Massoud for his people, I initiated the new generation NGO Aina, prioritising in offering communication tools and information to Afghani women and children. In conjunction with this, I published the book, Massoud, from the Russians to the Taliban, 20 years of Afghan resistance.
Raising the funds will take 45 days. The collected amount will be sufficient for creating and developing the interactive book, for reproducing the necessary photographic material from the archives for a retrospective of the years of resistance of "The Lion of Panjshir", as well as for the translation of the texts in order that a wide public should be able to access them.
Thanks to you, this book application will recount in pictures that a man may be killed, his body broken, but his thoughts will always survive him. Massoud is that noble soul who dreamed for his country, for the world:
"I see an Afghanistan that is free, independent. A land whose people will chose a 'Council of Sages' - a Loya Jirga - comprising hundreds of representatives. A land in which the government will be elected, where weapons will be put aside. I see the Mujahidin, the combatants, creating an 'army for reconstruction' and an 'army for education.' I see the girls going to school, just like the boys. I see traditional systems of agriculture digging into our ancestral soils being revived. I see our cultural, historic patrimony, preserved and valued; this represents our memories. Finally, I see all the children of Abraham living in peace on our earth." Ahmad Shah MASSOUD
To learn more about me, here is my biography:
Philanthropist, idealist, humanist, trained architect and celebrated photojournalist, Reza has travelled the world for the last 30 years as a witness of wars and of moments of peace. More than simply a photographer, Reza is a human being engaged with the world, who puts the visual training of young people and women at the service of the world to become a better place. In this capacity, in 2001 he founded the NGO Aina in Afghanistan, and also conducts training activities around the world, while continuing his reporting for the international media.
Reza has exhibited his work all over the world, including: Destins Croisés (Crossed Destinies), Entre Guerres et Paix (Between Wars and Peace), Une terre une famille (One World One Tribe), Espoir (Hope), Fenêtres de l'âme (Windows of the Soul), Chants de café (Songs of coffee) and Âme de café (Soul of coffee). He lives in Paris and is the author of 27 books.
Fellow of the National Geographic Society, Senior Fellow of the Fondation Ashoka (The Ashoka Foundation), a frequent award-winner, Reza has received the World Press Photo Award and the Infinity Award. He has also received a number of distinctions from American universities, including the award of Doctor Honoris Causa from The American University of Paris, and a medal of honour from the University of Missouri. France awarded him the medal of the Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite.


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Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British movie based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. The film following the experiences of Lawrence in Arabia during World War I. The film is often considered one of the greatest films of all time, and won seven Academy Awards.
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Shola Ameobi has urged his team-mates to remember the heroics of last season as they attempt to fight their way up the Barclays Premier League table.
The Magpies proved more than a match for all but the very best during the 2011-12 campaign to mount a charge which took them into fifth place and secured a surprise return to European football.
This time around, injuries, suspensions and a general lack of from have made for a difficult start, and despite last week's 3-0 victory over Wigan, Alan Pardew's men head for Fulham this evening just four points better off than neighbours Sunderland, who slipped into the relegation zone as a result of Saturday's 3-1 home defeat by Chelsea.
However, Ameobi is confident that the quality is still there and with reinforcements emerging from the treatment room to bolster the youthful side which lost 2-0 in Bordeaux on Thursday evening, he is confident they can bounce back.
Ameobi said: "When you lose games like that in a row, which hasn't happened during the manager's tenure here, it's going to be very difficult and confidence can be low.
"But we have got a belief - we finished fifth last year and we have got to take that belief into this season.
"When you are losing games, you have got to understand that the only way you can get yourself out of it is by working hard and hoping the quality you know you have got comes through.
"Thankfully, it did the other night [against Wigan] and hopefully that confidence can flow into Monday's game.
"That's the great thing about having all these games, you can put a bad defeat right behind you with a game three days later.
"We are looking forward to that and hopefully we can get back to winning ways."
The victory over Wigan ended a run of four successive league defeats and could hardly have come at a better time for Pardew and his players.
That, coupled with the impending returns of Davide Santon, Cheick Tiote, Hatem Ben Arfa, Jonas Gutierrez, Gabriel Obertan and Demba Ba from injury, will send them to Fulham in high spirits.
However, Newcastle's Premier League record at Craven Cottage is ordinary to say the least - they have lost five of their last six visits and were thrashed 5-2 there last season.
Ameobi said: "It's been a tough place for us to go in recent seasons. We are scrapping for our lives and we know we have got to put everything into it.
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Plaintiff e360Insight, LLC is a marketer. It refers to itself as an Internet marketing company. Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call it a spammer.
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He goes through and point by point decides that E360 is wrong and Comcast is right. Comcast has a right under the CDA to block E360's mail, because it considers that mail objectionable, regardless of whether E360's mail complies with CAN SPAM. He disposes of a footnote of E360's denial of service claim, and in another footnote of the tortious interference claim, the fraud and abuse claim, and the First Amendment claim. In the last paragraph, he grants judgment under CDA immunity, and just in case, he dismisses the remainder of the claims.
The order is only seven pages long, and his contempt for E360 drips from every paragraph. It's a fun read.
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All these perks don't come free for entrepreneurs. Board members have considerable responsibilities and are granted rights, specifically, a fiduciary duty to the company and voting rights. These duties give them influence over long-term decisions about the company. For all of these reasons, it's important to choose board members carefully.
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Understand how a board of directors works. A board of directors is elected by the stockholders of the enterprise and its fundamental duty is to oversee the management of the company. In most cases the day-to-day functioning of the business is entrusted to a group of executive officers that are recruited and retained by the board. Almost all material decisions affecting a business (i.e. those outside the ordinary course of business) are decided at the board level. Members also are generally compensated.
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Journal of Aging Research
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 438537, 2 pages
Successful Aging
1School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
2Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
3Nutrition, Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
4Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Institute of Pathogenesis and Disease Prevention, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan
Received 20 November 2012; Accepted 20 November 2012
Copyright © 2012 Loretta DiPietro et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Advances in public health and in health care are keeping people alive longer, and consequently, the proportion of older people in the global population is increasing rapidly. In the United States, persons aged 65 years and older comprise about 13% of the population, and their numbers are projected to reach 72.1 million (19% of the total) by the year 2030—a twofold increase over the older adult population in 2000 [1]. Perhaps of greatest interest in aging research is the rise in the "oldest old" segment of the population—those persons aged 85 years and older. Since 1930, this demographic subgroup has doubled in number every 30 years and is projected to be the fastest growing sector of the older population well into the 21st century [1]. This shifting demographic trend has substantial political, social, medical, and economic implications for most of the world.
Physiological function declines with aging, even among the most robust sectors of the older population. The degree to which this decline is attributable to true biological aging and the degree to which it is attributable to social or lifestyle factors that accompany older age is not entirely clear. Evidence suggests, however, that there is substantial heterogeneity in patterns of aging [2]. That is, while many older people continue to show expected patterns of decline in health and functional ability, others appear more resilient to various physiological (e.g., infection), emotional (e.g., bereavement), or environmental challenges. Thus, resiliency to various challenges or perturbations can be considered an underlying hallmark of "successful aging," which is the focus of this special issue.
Rowe and Kahn [3] first developed a model to characterize those very robust and independent older persons according to three domains: (1) disease risk; (2) physical or cognitive capacity; (3) engagement with life. Most newer models of successful aging now expand these domains to include additional measures of physical (e.g., self-rated health; days in bed; extremity strength; timed 15 ft walk; report of ADL or IADL limitations), cognitive (e.g., Minnesota Mini-Mental Status score), and psychosocial (e.g., Life Satisfaction score, CES-D score; Life View score; perceived economic status) function. Three of the papers in this special issue describe the prevalence of successful aging among various old and very old study populations according to one or more of these models. First, J. Cho et al. compared Rowe and Kahn's original model of successful aging with an alternative psychosocial model comprising aspects of subjective health, perceived economic status, and happiness. The authors observed a significantly greater proportion of octogenarians and centenarians to be characterized as "successful" according to the alternative model and argue that as people succeed into advanced older age (i.e., >80 years), additional criteria are necessary in order to capture the multidimensional aspects defining successful aging. Investigators on the Finnish vitality 90+ study (L. Nosraty et al.) observed that the prevalence of successful aging was greater in men than in women and was associated with being married and with higher level of educational attainment. Indeed, these findings also suggest that models emphasizing simply the absence of disease or disability may not be sensitive enough to capture more important attributes of very old age, such as autonomy, adaptation, or sense of purpose. Finally, using data from older participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study, S. Thielke and P. Diehr examined sex and age differences in the probability of remaining on a successful aging trajectory according to 12 different domains of successful aging. Not surprisingly, the probability of remaining "successful" in most of the domains studied declined significantly as participants aged, and similar to the findings among older Finns, men were more (not less) likely to remain "successful" on the majority of domains compared with women of the same age. Moreover, these same men were more likely than women to transition from "successful" to death, without transitioning to a state of sickness first. This latter finding reflects the "rectangularization" of the survival curve (i.e., compression of morbidity [4]) in successful aging and suggests that its prevalence is greater in men in advanced older age. A fourth study in this volume by G. K. Randall and colleagues is methodological in nature and proposes a shortened and valid version of the Duke Older Americans Resources and Services procedures (OARS) functional assessment tool, thereby reducing the respondent burden among the oldest old. In sum, these descriptive studies continue to challenge and expand our preconceptions of successful aging and, at the same time, provide even more evidence of the elusive and heterogeneous nature of growing really old.
The challenges of describing successful aging, notwithstanding those who study the oldest old, have to contend with the enormous methodological issue of selective survival. That is, those people most susceptible to putative risk factors for chronic disease and disability have not survived into their 8th decade, leaving only the most robust older people available to be studied. This issue becomes even more pronounced when performing research on those living past the age of 100 years—especially if they are men. Consequently, investigators often observe smaller effect sizes than what might be observed in younger people. The only experimental study in this issue, by L. DiPietro et al., examined the relation between stress reactivity and 24 h glycemic control in sedentary, but healthy older people. Peak cortisol responses to the stress challenge were significantly different compared with the control condition; however, the magnitude of response appeared blunted compared with what might be observed in middle-aged populations studied under the same conditions. Also, stress-related disruptions in glycemic control were minimal in this healthy older study sample. Continuous glucose monitoring over 24 h provided evidence that any subtle metabolic disruption (apparent only up to 6 h following the stress challenge) had completely dissipated by 24 h. Interestingly, the issue's only epidemiologic study, which analyzed data from the Canadian Community Health Survey-Healthy Aging supplement (S. Dogra and L. Stathokostas), is among the first to report a significantly elevated and potentially graded odds of successful aging among the least sedentary respondents compared with the most sedentary, independent of level of physical activity. These elevated odds were similar for men and women, and (contrary to several epidemiologic studies of aging in which estimates of relative risk attenuate as people age) the odds of successful aging due to lower amounts of sitting and higher amounts of physical activity were similar between middle-aged (45–65 years) and older (65+ years) respondents.
Finally, results from a systematic literature review on the use of robotics in geriatric care (A. J. Pearce et al.) provide ample evidence of the availability of robotic devices in allowing healthy older people and those with disabilities to remain independent, safe, and socially connected in their community setting. These findings have enormous public health implications as the Aging-in-Place movement gains momentum and as naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) continue to grow in the United States and globally. Again, as smart technology evolves and becomes accessible to growing numbers of very old people, our models to describe successful aging will need to evolve as well.
In sum, the papers included in this special volume on successful aging represent an exciting, insightful, and challenging view of this important interdisciplinary field. We hope that this special issue will attract readers with the same scientific and practice interests.
We would like to express our appreciation to all the authors, reviewers, and to the editorial board for the support that made this special issue possible. This material is based upon the work supported by the USDA, under agreement No. 58-1950-0-014. Any opinions, findings, conclusion, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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- Administration on Aging and US Department of Health and Human Services, A Profile of Older Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, USA, 2008.
- J. W. Rowe and R. L. Kahn, "Human aging: usual and successful," Science, vol. 237, no. 4811, pp. 143–149, 1987. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- J. W. Rowe and R. L. Kahn, "Successful aging," Gerontologist, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 433–440, 1997. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Three top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating Cambodia's "killing fields" went on trial today before a U.N.-backed tribunal more than three decades after some of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
Judge Nil Nonn declared the trial open today and read the names of the three senior Khmer Rouge leaders who are defendants in the tribunal in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.
The charges against the surviving inner circle of the communist movement – all now in their 80s – include crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture stemming from their 1975-'79 reign of terror.
An estimated 1.7 million people died of execution, starvation, exhaustion or lack of medical care as a result of the Khmer Rouge's radical policies, which essentially turned all of Cambodia into a forced labor camp as the movement attempted to create a pure agrarian socialist society. Intellectuals, entrepreneurs and anyone considered a threat were imprisoned, tortured and often executed.
Tribunal spokesman Huy Vannak called the proceedings beginning today "the most important trial in the world" because of the seniority of those involved. "It sends a message that the trial, which survivors have been waiting more then three decades for, finally begins," he said.
The defendants, who sat side by side with their lawyers, are 85-year-old Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and the No. 2 leader behind the late Pol Pot; 80-year-old Khieu Samphan, an ex-head of state; and 86-year-old Ieng Sary, the former foreign minister.
A fourth defendant, 79-year-old Ieng Thirith, was ruled unfit to stand trial last week because she has Alzheimer's disease. She is Ieng Sary's wife and served as the regime's minister for social affairs.
The Khmer Rouge's supreme leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998 in Cambodia's jungles while a prisoner of his own comrades, who after being toppled from power fought a guerrilla war that did not fully end until the late 1990s.
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Bone marrow progenitor cells, macrophages, natural killer cells, immature thymocytes and T cells, and B cells are all involved.
The relatively recent identification of opioid-related receptors on immune cells makes it even more likely that opioids have direct effects on your immune system."
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And, as for LDNs anti-cancer mechanism, Dr. Bernard Bihari – who discovered LDN as a therapeutic agent for AIDS in 1985 -- believes it is likely due to an increase in:
the number and density of opiate receptors on the tumor cell membranes, making them more responsive to the growth-inhibiting effects of the already present levels of endorphins, which in turn induces apoptosis (cell death) in the cancer cells the absolute numbers of circulating cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells, as well as killer cell activity
Recent Clinical Studies on Safety and Benefits of LDN for Autoimmune Diseases
In addition to Dr. Berkson's own research, several other studies have been conducted on the benefits of LDN, and others are in the pipeline.
For a more complete list of past and current research, please see the lowdosenaltrexone.org website, but here are a couple of highlights.
LDN for Multiple Sclerosis – Dr. Maira Gironi, an Italian neurological researcher, treated 40 patients affected with Primary Progressive MS (PPMS) with LDN for six months, concluding that LDN was not only safe and well-tolerated, but halted the progression of the disease in all but one patient. The results from this pilot study were published in the journal Multiple Sclerosis in September 2008.
LDN for Crohn's Disease – The first clinical study of LDN published by a U.S. medical journal was Dr. Jill Smith's article, Low-Dose Naltrexone Therapy Improves Active Crohn's Disease, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in 2007.
An impressive two-thirds of the patients in her pilot study went into remission, and 89 percent responded to LDN treatment to some degree. She concluded that "LDN therapy appears effective and safe in subjects with active Crohn's disease."
Other studies currently underway in various parts of the world, include:
A Phase II placebo-controlled clinical trial on the efficacy of LDN for children and adolescents with Crohn's disease at Penn State. A clinical trial of LDN in HIV-infected citizens of Mali—the first scientific study of LDN for HIV/AIDS in Africa—implemented in October 2007. A study of LDN in the treatment of MS at the University of California, San Francisco, implemented in early 2007. A clinical trial of LDN in the treatment of fibromyalgia at Stanford Medical Center implemented in October 2007. A study by the MindBrain Consortium in Akron, Ohio of, especially, the affective changes in MS treated with LDN, begun late 2007. An animal research study at Penn State of naltrexone in a model of a disease that mimics MS.
For more information about low-dose naltrexone, I recommend you check out the lowdosenaltrexone.org website. LDNers.org is another good resource.
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Stewart first joined Carnegie Council as program director and senior fellow in 2006. Since then he has also been named a Truman Security Fellow and Next Generation Fellow, and an adjunct assistant professor in international affairs at Columbia University and New York University. From 2012 to 2015, Stewart ran Carnegie Council's Centennial projects, including a global fellows program and a community dialogue program on five continents chaired by Michael Ignatieff.
From 2010 to 2012, Stewart was senior director of business and policy programs at Japan Society in New York where he coordinated the organization's response to the Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis. From 2006 to 2010, he directed Carnegie Council's globalization and young professionals programs and led research projects and delegations in Asia. In 2004, he was appointed assistant director of studies and then Japan Studies fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC and was affiliated with CSIS until 2010.
From 2000 to 2004, Stewart was a researcher and writer in Tokyo, Japan, based at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI) and then at the Daily Yomiuri (Japan News) where he covered economic and foreign policy issues. He also chaired the Korea-Japan Study Group in Tokyo and in Washington. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher and editor at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in New York City and served on the staffs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski in Washington, D.C.
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"US Election Is a Referendum on American Values" Medium, July 30, 2016."In Search of a Global Ethic" Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, April 18, 2016.
"Tokyo's Ambition Generation: Entrepreneurs and Japan's New Business Culture" Foreign Affairs, Feb. 4, 2016.
"Abenomics Meets Womenomics: Transforming the Japanese Workplace" Foreign Affairs, Jan. 29, 2015.
"The Participation Gap" Foreign Policy, June 25, 2014.
"Japan's Change Generation: Letter from Tokyo" Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2014.
"Globalization Is Unsung Champion of the Protests Happening Around the World" Quartz, July 11, 2013.
"The Asian Century Crumbles" E-International Relations, Dec. 22, 2012.
"Slowing Japan's Galapagos Syndrome" The Huffington Post, June 12, 2010.
"Toyota Is A Symptom of Japan's Decline" Newsweek, March 4, 2010.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Hoot's Baptism
Sunday was a very big day for The Lambert family. Last fall Hoot started talking about becoming a Christian and what it meant to be a follower of Jesus Christ. He would ask a few questions and then drop it for a while. He once compared Jesus to Superman... they both could fly when they wanted to... we decided he was still a little immature to comprehend salvation and decided not to push the conversations. In October he started asking again. He was persistent that we tell him what it meant and how he could become a follower of Jesus. The very first prayer I prayed over my son was that God would call him to himself and that Hoot would indeed ask Christ into his heart and follow him whole heartedly. I prayed that he would be sold out for Christ and that he would be unashamed of his relationship with Christ. I prayed this over him when the nurse placed him in my arms after he was released from a short stay in the NICU. (I also prayed for the woman he would someday marry) This was not a decision we as parents could make for our son. We committed to raise him in a christian home and teach him Godly principles, but the ultimate decision to accept what Christ did on the cross and choose to make him Lord of his life was his... We still weren't sure he was ready to make this commitment. He is only 7 years old. We still have a lot discipling to do with him, but he understands that he is indeed a sinner and that the only way to God is through Jesus.
John 14: 6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
We were very proud parents as we watched our son acknowledge his salvation in baptism. This was a very important step of obedience in his spiritual walk. After churhc we took him out for lunch and presented him with his very own big boy bible.
The tears were flowing... I was trying to hold back, but they just kept coming.
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I cry at everyone's baptism, and I cry when they pray to accept Jesus. When my oldest went down front way back in 1999 to say he had asked Jesus into his heart, I was a squalling basket case. I have since tried to hold back the heavy tears when each of my children have made that decision in front of the church, but it's hard. It's LIKE whoo hoo...you've got JESUS...it's such a happy cry! I've got one more kid to go, and I am praying that she will find HIM at an early age. I will be squalling big tears then I am sure, when I think that she might not have had that opportunity had she stayed in China.
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If I were to name one plant that no northern New Mexico garden should be without, it would be creeping thyme.
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I use it in my garden paths, and as a ground cover between other plants. Although it spreads eagerly, it is easily removed from areas where it is not wanted (you can simply cut off a portion of the mat with a trowel and transplant it to a better location); it does not come back from the roots like grasses and more aggressive ground covers do.
Although a thyme lawn can not hold up under really heavy wear (like playing sports, or trampling all day long), it is perfectly durable under light foot traffic. Like kitchen thyme, it is aromatic, and releases a pleasant spicy fragrance when touched or broken. It blooms in the spring, with each kind having a slightly different blooming season. Flowers range from pure white, through pink and lavender to purple, and even to crimson red.
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(Offstage, deep voice): Know. Ow. Kow. Now. No. Wonk. Monk....
Announcer: (Steps in from stage left and walks up to microphone. clears throat.) Ahem. About a year ago we started looking for a place. a space. a bunch of walls that we could pay someone to be in between, so that we could flop around in there and let other people flop around in there too. Seems a simple enough task, right? But no, it took a long time to find just the right set of walls, and ceiling, for that matter, and floor (though we could have lived with dirt) too. We finally, and oddly enough, suddenly, did. At least it seems right.
All of us have had experience with this sort of thing before. Not exactly the same experiences, but we're all old enough that you probably shouldn't trust us. Except the guy with the pony tail. He's okay. Apparently, so I'm told, there was time when you knew that every guy with a pony tail was on the right side. Now you can't be too sure. That's why I cut mine. I think.
Anyway, there's a group of us doing this, and we come from a variety of backgrounds. Some of us are carpenters. some are computer geeks. Some are filmmakers (well, actually just about all of us). Some are musicians. Semioticians. Linguists. Jaded hipsters. bathroom-tile-layers. zinesters. cynics, innocents, playwrights, poets, engineers and chauffeurs.
(rips off mask and clothes. smaller man steps out of wreckage and begins talking in a slightly higher, less affected voice)
Smaller Announcer: (stretching neck to reach microphone) I can't do this anymore. What a useless, meaningless exercise! Standing here talking about poetry and film when children are getting their limbs blown off in a desert we'll never even see except on television, while old men in suits drink shot glasses of human blood and count their money? Adorno was right about Auschwitz. what the fuck am I doing here?
(walks off stage in a huff. sound of face being slapped, a yelp. small man is propelled back on stage by some unseen force, very rapidly. one cheek is red)
Okay, okay, I'll do it. jeez. (clears throat, smiles sheepishly at audience). Uh, hi. (coughs.) Umm, yeah, so, we got this brand new space, this place, called, uh (coughs again), it's called "The Know", and uh, it's going to be a cool place, it's got a theater, where we'll have films, and performance, and music, and stuff.... and, and the other room, which is like a computer lab, and a gathering space, to hang out in, and drink tea and eat a bagel and meet people, and (coughs), uh, and stuff. Yeah. It'll be really cool. So, yeah, so there's a calendar and other information in this here booklet (waves small bundle of paper. droplets of sweat begin running down his forehead), and also on the, uh, the cyberwebintermall, at Aych-Tee-Tee-Pee, Colon, Slash, Slash, TheKnow-dot-(coughs violently, droplets of sweat flying off his head)...dot...info. So, yeah, that's that and, uh.... Did anybody here know that the U.S. Military is planning to switch from depleted uranium to tungsten in a few years? Isn't that just grand? (large hook appears from stage right and drags him offstage)
(taller man walks on from stage left. He is not quite as tall as the announcer originally was, but taller than the announcer eventually became. Smiles, a bit too sincerely)
Ah, Good evening. What my colleague was trying to say just now is that we here at Space Development Kit Corporation are here for YOU. We've created this amazing new space, The Know, as an alternate reality to this modern, spectacular society of consumerist fantasy entertainment and purchased life. Have you ever wondered why everything costs so much? Why everything at least always costs SOMETHING? Have you ever wanted something truly diff-- (hook drags him off also. curtain lowers suddenly. On the curtain, in glittering sequins, are the words "The Know." They glitter in the footlights for a moment. Lights out. Applause. Fade out)
(credits roll):
What I think I know about The Know
Can one be told what The Know is? (is it more easily explainable than The Matrix?) I thought so, but then I sat down to write something. I guess I just have expectations that are too high.
The Know has nothing to do with the War on Iraq. The Know has nothing to do with my respiratory illness. The Know has nothing to do with making a living. The Know has nothing to do with making a killing. The know has nothing to do with Homeland Security. The Know has nothing to do with the War on Terror. The Know has nothing to do with the War on Drugs. The Know has nothing to do with the stock market.
The Know is not your father's Oldsmobile. The Know is not even your Oldsmobile. you yuppie fuck.
The Know has nothing to do with your checking account. The Know has nothing to do with your credit card, debit card, Safeway card, coffee-club card, or new Homeland Security Federal Smartchip-encrusted National Identity Card.
What is the Know? That's for us all to find out.
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