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A church group's sponsored walk has raised money for BMS work in Thailand
A BMS video about a project for disabled children in Thailand was the inspiration for a recent sponsored walk by a West Sussex church's parent and toddler group.
Children, parents and grandparents from the group at Green Fields Baptist Church in Tilgate, Crawley, raised £171.50 on their autumn 'toddle' for BMS work in Chiang Mai.
People were so moved when they watched BMS' Birthday Scheme video, Inspiring Smiles, which features Hope Home, that they decided to raise money for BMS.
Sue Elliott, mission representative at the church, says, "We did two 'toddles' – one for our Tuesday group, the other for Wednesday's session – and in total some 30 families took part, dragging, carrying and pushing children ranging from three-week-old babies to three-year-olds.
"The walks took place around the park which backs onto our church. Fortunately there is a playground about halfway round for a well-earned break!
"The weather was very kind to us and, being autumn, there were plenty of leaves to collect – much to the delight of the cleaning team!"
"Sponsors were mainly family members and friends, although one mum has a relative who is a pub landlord, and they passed the sponsor form round the pub on a Saturday evening, boosting the funds considerably!"
Green Fields Parents and Toddlers group started some ten years or more and runs on two mornings, serving the local communities of Tilgate and Furnace Green.
Sessions are led by members of the church, together with volunteer helpers and a lot of support from children's parents and grandparents.
The sponsored toddles for selected charities happen twice every year and have been running for three years now. On this occasion, half the total raised was allocated to BMS, with the other half benefiting a UK-based hospital trust.


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Franciscan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California
Winemaker's Notes
The fruit-laden 2007 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon offers a luscious bouquet of dark fruit including blackcurrant, black cherry, and blackberry layered over aromas of sweet vanilla and baking spices. Approachable cherry and cocoa notes lead to a wine of intense concentration, with flavors of dried plums and cola laced with hints of tobacco. Generous weight and mouth-filling velvet tannins frame a finish that lingers with flavors of dark cherry and cassis.
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Wine Enthusiast - "A terrific wine that proves you don't have to spend a fortune for a top-flight Napa Valley Cabernet. It's a deeply flavored, brooding young wine, filled with exciting blackberry, cassis and mineral flavors. Big in tannins, yet with a very refined, classy mouthfeel, it should begin to hit its stride after 2014."
Franciscan Estate Winery
Franciscan is one of Napa Valley's most venerable wineries, reaching back more than three decades. Franciscan wines take their signature style - rich, vibrant flavors framed by supple tannins - from the ideal climate offered by Napa Valley's cool, southern half and from the time-honored tradition of small-lot winemaking, blending from hundreds of barrels to craft fine wines that fully express the classic Bordeaux varieties.
Franciscan was founded in 1972 by a group of lawyers and doctors from San Francisco who decided to try turning their passion for wine into a business. In 1985, Agustin Huneeus, a Chilean exile who had built Concha y Toro in his native country, took over the helm at Franciscan. Huneeus refocused the winery on using the superlative grapes growing in its own vineyards, rather than sourcing from outside.
Today, Franciscan's wines are crafted under the exacting eye of Janet Myers, who came to Franciscan in August 2003 as associate winemaker after working in the Margaret River region and Beaulieu Vineyard, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and Louis Martini. The winery remains committed to its tradition of small-lot winemaking, with small batches averaging just 150 to 1,500 cases. The image of a hand-operated wine press on Franciscan's logo and wine labels reflects this small lot approach to winemaking. View all Franciscan Estate Wines
About Napa ValleyView a map of Napa Valley wineries
It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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Great Napa Valley wine. One of the best cabernets I've had especially for the price! Very smooth. Highly recommended.111ImNumber1 - Cambridge, MA34/30/2011
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2007 is one of the best vintages of Napa. This wine is clearly has some potential. However, it is not time yet to drink it. This is one of the wines that you would lay down for 4 to 7 years from now. It is still very tight and is not offering its atmosphere yet. It has a nice good color. On the nose, black fruits are dominating. Blueberry, blackberry, cassis, and dark chocolate. Also there is a little hint of licorice. On the palate, very dry, big, bold, very tannic, a bit bitter finish, a lot of dark chocolate going on, balanced. It is still tight and has not a lot of things to offer right now! This is no way a 94 bottle of wine. Yes, this wine will evolve in the next 4 to 7 years, but I just cannot see how this wine has been given such a very high score! By the way, people will be either 1 or 0 on this wine. It is either you like it or not, nothing will be in between. I am 87 on this effort.Sparky G - Simsbury, CT57/11/2011Well aerated this is a terrific Cab, especially at this special offer price. I am putting a few away for certain improvement.Fonz - Miami, FL35/24/2011Fonz note = 3/5 Good deal for a Cabernetdrakegrad - Urbandale, IA37/10/2011
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Great value for a big Napa cab. Fruit forward now, promising to get even better in a few years.35/7/2011Maybe good in 5 years, but I doubt it. Great to serve with guests/steak, because it tastes like a substantial wine. But not that big a deal. I'd have rated 89.Linda J Brockriede - Long Branch, NJ55/6/201145/3/2011Lydia P Barker - El Paso, TX35/2/201145/2/2011Sir Richmond Giles - Meadville, PA44/28/2011Woohoo - New York, NY54/26/2011Stuwardo - Corsicana, TX44/18/2011Vocalbrush - Norton, MA34/7/2011
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PUC, council cool to idea of eliminating superintendent post
Most Brainerd City Council and Brainerd Public Utilities Commission members who met Monday at a rare joint session voiced concerns about an idea floated by Brainerd Council President Mary Koep.
Koep, who called the special meeting, said the recent resignation of PUC Superintendent Tom Phelps represented a "golden opportunity" to restructure the position and place administrative responsibilities with the existing city administrator.
The council president said it shouldn't be a case where city officials adopt the attitude that "we've always done it that way."
"It seemed to me that it might be workable," she said.
She said the two governmental bodies could theoretically reach mutual agreement on the restructuring. She hoped the restructuring could "narrow the amount of chiefs we have."
On a second point she asked PUC and council members to consider more cross training between PUC and non-PUC city employees.
After the meeting Koep said that if such a restructuring was done the PUC may choose to hire a person with technical expertise who would not have to assume administrative responsibilities. She also said that her idea was not a criticism of the current operation of Brainerd Public Utilities.
Bill Wroolie, a PUC member, said the superintendent's job requires technical expertise.
Bonnie Cumberland, a council member who spent five years on the PUC, agreed there is a great deal of specialized experience needed in the superintendent's job. She said she thought such a change would require a change in the charter and attempts to change the charter in the past have often been defeated. She also said she would be reluctant to add to the already "full plate" of the city administrator.
Don Samuelson of the PUC said the people who have applied for Phelps' position have tremendous qualifications. He said that many of the public utilities jobs involve working with high voltage electricity.
"To try to hire somebody (a superintendent replacement) at half the price, to my mind, just wouldn't work," he said.
Don Stang of the PUC agreed.
"It takes a very talented individual to do that," he said. "It would be difficult for me to imagine that happening."
"If it's not broken, don't fix it," was the advice offered by Brainerd Mayor James Wallin.
Koep said she hoped that the officials' minds could stay open on the topic.
"Let's not be the graveyard (where) ideas go to die," Koep said.
Mark O'Day, chair of the PUC and a former council member, said the commission would look what Koep had suggested. However, he said the commission had to go forward with hiring a superintendent.
About 30 resumes had already been received for the advertised superintendent position, PUC officials said.
Monday's meeting was conducted at the public utilities office in Baxter.
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We do hope that you will enjoy this website. If you are not already a member, do consider joining us to enjoy the Arts in York, and perhaps contribute directly to the ongoing development of the Friends. It is a voluntary organisation which relies on its members to fulfill the charity's objectives.
Founded 69 years ago, the main purpose of the Friends is to support York Art Gallery to achieve its works of art acquisition objectives, and to help the Gallery to meet the cost of conserving their outstanding collection.
Fund raising is through subscription, occasional art sales, luncheons, tours and talks, and significantly, bequests left to the Friends of York Art Gallery by Friends and those who want to help ensure the future of the York Art Gallery.
The Friends contribute to education with an annual grant to sponsor MA Scholars (History of Art) at the University of York. They also contribute financially to local school initiatives in partnership with the gallery such as 'The L.S. Lowry Challenge', and arts activities programmes an example being, 'Family Saturdays', to introduce children to ceramics, painting and the appreciation of the fine arts.
There is a broad arts-interest program of public talks led by Friends, Curators from the Gallery and invited speakers. Most of these talks are free to members, and the schedule is changing monthly and seasonally. A regular highlight is 'The Gallery Dines Out' luncheons held at the 14th century Bedern Hall in York. Visit the 'Events' page for more information about talks.
Very popular are the visits to other galleries, to artists' studios, and farther afield to major exhibitions. Examples are: Walpole's Old Master at Houghton Hall; the Parliamentary Art Collection in London; Ruskins home in the Lake District; Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Going abroad, members have recently been on an art and history tour of Berlin!
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Well, folks, today is my last day of work at the Antlers. It has been a great six years for me, and I hope for them as well. I feel very fortunate to have been a part of the Antlers family and that our family relationship will only grow from here. I have learned more from Rob and Ratz than any other bosses I've ever had and I'm so very grateful to them for all the good advise and lessons. Beginning Monday I will be the new Administrator of the Vail Valley Surgery Center at the Vail Hospital. I'll basically have the same job as here but instead of checking people in and out of luxury hotel suites, I'll be checking people in and out of luxury surgical suites. Who knows, maybe I'll even go back to school eventually and finally make my Nana proud!
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I personally run 11.5:1 compression on 94 premium in a "small" block 412 chevy. This is with a holley carb- no fuel injection. It has a big cam (264/ 270 duration at 0.050"), aluminum heads, big universal fit griffin Al radiator, stewart water pump, coolant hoses from pump to center of heads, etc..
The big cam bleeds off cylinder pressure, and the cooling system has to be up to snuff.
I checked the bottom end over the winter, no hint of detonation.
I have gone as fast as 10.91 @ 122 MPH with this combo in a 3500 lb street car on 94 pump gas alone. When the weather gets cooler and denser, I chicken out and mix in some race gas for "peace of mind."
It has about 210 lbs of cranking pressure. I _have_ run into detonation at 200 lbs of cranking pressure in a totally different (much milder) combo with iron heads.
Static compression ratio and camshaft profile (intake closing, etc...) go hand in hand to determine the dynamic compression ratio.
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MOTORSPORT: Toyota wins the 23 Hours, 55 Minutes of Le Mans
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IT'S fair to say Mazda has a lot riding on the success of its new CX5 compact crossover.
To date, Mazda's SUV efforts have been greeted with massive public indifference. Of course, it probably didn't help that the CX7 launched in Europe without a diesel. By the time that massive omission was rectified the parade had moved on.
Mazda won't be making the same mistake with the CX5 which gets the full benefit of the company's new Skyactiv fuel efficiency technology.
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With Skyactiv Mazda is striking out in a bold new direction. As the tiddler among Japan's big car manufacturers it was caught on the hop by the public whirlwind love affair with petrol-electric hybrid technology. I suppose it could have licensed a hybrid power train from another manufacturer but that would have been costly and Mazda would never have owned the technology used in its cars.
Instead, Skyactiv is an exhaustive effort to substantially improve the fuel consumption and lower the emissions of Mazda cars by running the rule over every aspect of a car from the chassis to the bodywork, the transmission and, of course, the engine.
Mazda's goal is a 30 per cent improvement in fuel efficiency. That's a far cry from the 100 per cent promise of a hybrid but still a big ask to find from "mature" technology like an internal combustion engine.
Mazda has done this by substantially increasing the combustion ratio of its petrol engine to a record-breaking (for a production engine) 14:1 and lowering the combustion ratio of its diesels (again to 14:1). They are also lighter and smoother for lower friction. The company claims its Skyactiv 2.0-litre petrol delivers fuel consumption comparable with a 2.2-litre diesel.
Depending on the model, the CX5 has fuel economy up to 61.4mpg and emissions as low as 119g/km.
Four petrols and six diesels will be offered. Eight diesel models will be available with four-wheel drive, the rest will be strictly 2WD.
Prices for the 2.0-litre petrol start at £21,395 while the 2.2 diesel (the likely highlight of the range) begins at £22,995.
Standard kit will include alloys, front fogs, climate, brake support and privacy glass, plus parking sensors front and back. Sport models gain 19-inch alloys (and a commensurately poorer ride), bi-xenon headlights, leather, heated front seats and a reversing camera.
The CX5 will be pitched into the market that's currently dominated by Nissan's Qashqai and the Skoda Yeti. That's a tough segment to break but if the Mazda can retain some of the company's famous "zoom, zoom" spirit while still returning class-leading economy it could just be the new class leader.


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Family: Crisis or Change?
by John Scanzoni
Dr. Scanzoni is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. This article appeared in the Christian Century, August 12-19, 1981, pp. 794-799. Copyright by The Christian Century Foundation; used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found atwww.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
From pulpit and newsmagazine alike comes the message that the family is in crisis. Concerned clergy and laity are asking, "What can we do to solve its problems?" But to solve a problem, one must first ask the right question. "How many miles can I sail before my ship falls off the end of the world?" was a terrifying question to ancient seafarers, and one that puzzled people until the time of Columbus. But Columbus asked instead, "How far must I sail from my western coast before I arrive at my eastern coast?" And the discoveries that followed made the old question about "falling off the earth" irrelevant.
During the 14th century, millions of Europeans died from the "black plague." "Why is God displeased with us?" they asked. The answer they got was "our sin." The authorities ordered "that everything that could anger God, such as gambling, cursing, and drinking, must be stopped" (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara W. Tuchman [Random House, 1978], p. 103). But to ask why God was displeased was the wrong question. Five hundred years passed before Louis Pasteur asked the right question: "What are the tiny organisms that carry the black plague?" That question led him to the right answer -- an organism that traveled in the stomach of the flea and the bloodstream of the rat. And that answer brought an end to the black plague.
Similarly, to inquire "Why is the family falling apart?" or "Whats wrong with the family?" is as pointless as asking "How far till I fall off the ocean?" or "Why is God sending us the plague?" The question to ask if we want to improve the quality of family life is this: "Why are families changing?"
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Historians observe that every generation idealizes the one preceding it -- we magnify the good things and forget the bad. And that sort of image-making is prevalent when it comes to the family. Take divorce, for instance. We like to think that in the "good old days," there was little or no divorce -- marriages were stable. But were they? It is true that there were relatively few legal divorces prior to the Civil War. Its also true that the frequency of divorce has been growing ever since.
But historians are uncovering increasing evidence for the "poor mans [or "poor womans"] divorce," namely desertion (Marital Incompatibility and Social Change in Early America, by Herman R. Lantz [Sage, 1976]). Throughout colonial times and the 19th century expansion of the western frontier, it was exceedingly simple for men especially -- but also for women -- to slip away from their families undetected and never return. And it was almost impossible to trace them. There were no social security numbers, no FBI, no computers, no effective way to track down someone who left a family in Cincinnati and took off for Walla Walla. While the actual numbers of annual desertions are unknown, they are thought to be substantial. And since no one knew you once you arrived in Walla Walla, you could claim to be unmarried, and then remarry without anyones ever being able to trace your former family connections.
In this century, there have been many more legal divorces for a number of reasons, but one factor is that its harder to "drop out" and resurface without being detected. In short, when we look longingly to the past and say, "My, wasnt it grand when marriages were stable." we have to face the hard fact that they werent as stable as we once thought.
We like to think also that our ancestors had harmonious and happy families, and that the violence characteristic of contemporary families didnt exist. However, social historians are becoming increasingly aware of just how much violence went on in pre-20th-century families (A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women, edited by N. F. Cott and E. H. Pleck [Simon & Schuster, 1979], pp. 107-135). While a great deal of violence occurs today, there was probably more of it during earlier times because there was then greater community support for it. A "good" husband routinely beat his wife to keep her in subjection; "good" parents often beat their children in order to "get the devil" or the "sin-nature" out of them.
In a study of 18th century family life, one historian tells us that walls were paper-thin and houses crowded. One source quotes a woman who said of her neighbors, "We lived next door, where only a thin partition divided us and have often heard him beat his wife and heard her scream in consequence of the beating" (ibid.. p. 111). In short, family violence was not invented during the 1970s -- its been around for a long time.
A third "problem area" has to do with children. Certain observers argue that our ancestors cared more for children than do todays parents. Critics complain that modern mothers go to work and leave their kids with sitters or in nursery schools; and when theyre home, parents plunk kids down in front of the TV. The charge is that parents dont "relate" to their children the way they used to. Observers also worry about the familys helplessness to protect young children from exposure to sex and violence.
Here again, historians are helping us sort fact from fiction. Take, for example, the idea of working mothers. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most women were married to farmers or shopkeepers. They worked with their men from dawn to dusk and simply had no time for "full-time motherhood" as it came to be defined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Women and Men: Changing Roles, Relationships and Perceptions, edited by L. A. Cater and A. F. Scott [Praeger, 1977], pp. 93-118). But who took care of children while mothers and fathers -- and all other able-bodied adults -- struggled to survive economically? The truth is that no one gave the matter much thought. Any available adult, or older brother or sister, who happened to be around when the child needed something, did what had to be done for the child.
But the idea that the child is a "special" person requiring extraordinary attention, nurture and care never entered their minds. Only in relatively recent times has there been concern about "child development" and "quality children." One historian describes the experiences of most children during that pre-industrial era as a "nightmare" (Cott and Fleck, op. cit., p. 118). Clearly, many of todays children suffer a great deal. But along with that suffering is a societal concern to alleviate childhood suffering -- a concern that did not exist years ago.
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And then theres the matter of the childs exposure to sex. Historians are discovering that because houses were small and crowded, adults could not conceal their sexual activities from children. There were no "private bedrooms," and children understood sexual details at a very early age from watching adults (ibid.). They also watched farm animals have intercourse and give birth. But no one thought that such "sexual exposure" would harm a tender childs innocence.
A fourth "problem area" has to do with sex itself. Many people -- especially those under 30 -- seem to have the idea that sex came in with the space age: that people didnt have sexual "highs" before then, that married people didnt really enjoy the sex they had with their own spouses, that unmarried people werent having sex or that married people didnt have sex with persons to whom they werent married -- that somehow all of this sexual behavior is new. Our difficulty in understanding todays sexual patterns is that we compare them with the 19th century Victorian middle class and stop there. The prevailing idea during the 19th century was that women were passionless. As one writer puts it, women "were [thought to be] less carnal and lustful than men" (ibid., pp. 162-181).
But historians tell us that prior to the 19th century, female sexuality had not been "suppressed," and it never occurred to anyone that women were less sexual beings than men. In fact, precisely the opposite was true. A 15th century "witch-hunters guide" warned that "carnal lust in women is insatiable" (ibid.). After analyzing 18th century Massachusetts divorce court records, one historian concludes that the prevailing wisdom was that "if women made advances they were irresistible" (ibid., p.125).
In short, prior to the 19th century women as well as men thought of themselves, and of each other, as passionate sexual beings, and often their passion led them to deviate from existing community norms. Studies comparing marriage and birth records during colonial times show, for instance, that Elijah and Hannah married on January 1, and on June 1, Hannah gave birth to an eight-pound, six-ounce baby girl! That kind of historical evidence has emerged often enough to suggest that rather than having enormous premature babies, ordinary people like Hannah and Elijah were having premarital sex (Family Life and Illicit Love in Earlier Generations, by P. Laslett [Cambridge University Press, 1977]).
So when critics today say that premarital and extramarital sex are destroying. the family, what they may have in mind is the 19th century middle-class family, in which women were supposed to be passionless. But before the Victorian era, sex was much less suppressed, and yet families somehow persisted.
The Erosion of Traditions
Therefore, when we consider all four of these areas -- divorce and marital stability, family violence, the unique needs of children, and sexuality -- and then compare yesterdays with todays families, the contrast is not so striking as some would have us believe. To be sure, there have been and continue to be significant changes in the family. But the "problems" that observers perceive are simply the surface manifestations -- the symptoms of the underlying changes. Therefore, rather than focus primarily on symptoms -- or family problems -- it makes more sense to focus on the changes themselves. Why is the family changing?
As we think of the four problem areas we have considered, one central theme emerges: a developing concern for the rights, privileges and, well-being of the individual as over against the maintenance of traditions. That development is brilliantly illustrated in Fiddler on the Roof. Tevye, the village milkman, struggles with tradition versus freedom. "On the one hand," he says, "parents should arrange their childrens marriages." But on the other hand, he sympathizes with the freedom sought by his daughters to choose their own husbands -- to marry the men they love. He experiences enormous dissonance coping with the erosion of tradition; he sees the whole of family and society collapsing around him, culminating finally in the decision of his youngest daughter to marry a gentile rather than a Jew.
If we probe for the why of family change and the symptoms that inevitably accompany it, we discover that the changes result from the erosion of ancient traditions -- traditions that favored the family as an institution over its individual members. During past eras, the institution had priority over the individual; and for the sake of the institution the individual was called upon to sacrifice. Even today some observers continue to perceive family as being larger than life -- larger than people. They see the family as a pattern into which people are fitted. Its like getting on a bed in a cheap motel -- if your legs are longer than the bed, trim your legs; if your legs are shorter, stretch them. But while some people believe in trimming the person, others believe in trimming the bed.
Something similar has been happening to the family for the past 200 years. Weve been trimming here, adding there, modifying that, elaborating this, and so forth. If there was any sort of unconscious intention through all of this, it was to make family the servant of people, rather than to have people serve family.
Marriage and Divorce
In the 17th century, John Milton insisted that God did not create human beings for marriage; rather, God created marriage for human benefit. Therefore, said Milton, how much sense does it make to assert that a loving God forces people to suffer in an arrangement that God originally designed for their happiness? "No sense at all," he concluded, arguing that the churches and government of his day should allow divorce on the grounds of what we now call "mutual incompatibility."
In fact, it took more than 200 years for Miltons ideas to permeate the thinking and behavior of ordinary people. It wasnt until the late 19th century that divorce became relatively common in America; and immediately, certain critics began to predict the extinction of family and society. Interestingly enough, many critics connected the rising divorce rate with feminism and its goal of suffrage (Divorce in the Progressive Era, by W. L. ONeill [Yale University Press, 1967]). But, of course, feminism was and is much more than that: it is the right to be an autonomous person -- one who acts out of self-determination and for self-actualization. Milton says that marriage should serve the person; the feminist argues that marriage has ill served women (as well as men) and that marriage must change to better serve the needs of women (as well as men). The logical outcome of the argument is that if a particular marriage doesnt change, it becomes legitimate to leave rather than to endure it.
As marriage has changed to accommodate individual rather than traditional interests, Miltons ideas have become increasingly acceptable. During prior decades, for instance, men married for sex, but they also wanted their familys life style to be a showcase proving to themselves and to the world that they were worthy providers. Women, on the other hand, married mostly for companionship and to have a provider. But since World War II, certain demands have been added to marriage. Women want satisfying sex out of marriage, and they want intimacy -- deep friendship. Some men are beginning to want intimacy as well.
Furthermore, increasing numbers of women want their marriages to facilitate their occupational efforts in the same way that marriages have made it possible for men to pursue their occupations. Many women see occupational involvement as the only sure means to guarantee their autonomy. Given this enlarging range of significant demands placed upon marriage, its no puzzle that there are so many divorces. Perhaps we should ask why there arent more.
But plainly, divorce is a symptom of underlying changes. It is a painful symptom that no one welcomes.
Patterns of Violence
The same basic reasoning that explains changes in divorce patterns also explains changes in patterns of family violence. Recent research has shown that next to the police, the family is the most violent institution in American society. Most murders are committed by people who know their victims personally, and a great proportion of these involve the killing of a family member. Besides guns, those who engage in family violence use an assortment of other weapons, including knives, boiling water, and just plain old fists. But since men are generally stronger than women, they almost never lose a fist fight. Hence, the term "battered wife" has entered the English language during the past decade. While the term is new, battered wives have been around for a long time.
But why is the term so new, if the behavior is so ancient? The answer has to do with a change in traditions, with the individual coming to be valued as much as, or more than, the institution. While wife-beating has apparently always been common, it was in earlier times accepted as being a "normal" part of family life. As long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused women. But that tradition is being eroded. It is being replaced with the idea that protecting a womans body is more important than holding a family together, that violence need not be tolerated for the sake of perpetuating a marriage.
Today virtually every city in America has a shelter where battered women can go to flee their husbands. In many cases the husband pursues his wife and wants her back -- not that he intends to stop beating her, but chiefly because he insists on holding his family together. Consequently, because women are rejecting the idea that family itself is more important than ones own physical well-being, the violence that has been hidden for centuries is finally being talked about, and emerging into public view, And thats the very sore "problem" called "family violence" of which were becoming increasingly aware. But the emergence of the "problem" is symptomatic of underlying changes -- changes away from traditions that made the family pre-eminent over the individual, and gave the man unquestioned authority over his wife -- all in the name of family stability. And in place of those former traditions, the care of the womans body and of her human dignity have come to be regarded as more significant than the institution itself.
That same shift -- from institutional pre-eminence to individual rights -- also applies to sexuality. Just as family violence was tacitly accepted during former times, so was violation of community sexual standards -- especially by men. While they had the privilege of discreetly looking for sex both before and after marriage, women were not supposed to have that privilege. That "double standard," along with the Victorian idea that women were passionless, placed 20th century men at a substantial advantage over women. But why did men have these freedoms while women did not? There were many reasons, but the idea that "nice virtuous women" were the foundation of the family and of society had much to do with womens sexual limitations. These limitations were defended in the name of the family as an institution.
But throughout the past 25 years weve seen that tradition being replaced by the idea that women have the same sexual rights as men, Moreover, if sexual liberties are indeed a threat to the family, as some critics maintain, the current idea is that men are as responsible for the situation as women. Increasingly, women refuse to be the sole moral guardians of family -- insisting instead that if the family requires "moral guardianship," then men have to become co-partners with women in that enterprise.
Perhaps the most troubling byproduct of this increasing sexual freedom is the steep rise in the numbers of unmarried adolescent mothers. More and more teen-age females are having intercourse at an increasingly younger age. Yet the males with whom theyre having sex seem to feel little responsibility to protect their partners from pregnancy. These teen-age males seem to be the last bastion in the long history of the sexual exploitation of women. Adolescent women have accepted the idea that they have the right to enjoy sex. Unfortunately, they dont have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own life-chances (as well as those of their as-yet-unborn children) are in danger of being damaged by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.
Among adults, a troubling byproduct of increasing sexual liberty is the discovery that sex does not equal intimacy. Gay Taleses recent best seller Thy Neighbors Wife, filled with page after page of extramarital affairs, including his own, missed the distinction completely. While in years gone by the kinds of marriages held together solely by the tradition that "stability is the best policy" often lacked intimacy, relationships held together solely by sex may be equally devoid of intimacy. And yet, as part of the pursuit of individual rights that is changing the American family, intimacy is coming to be valued as highly as sex.
Childrens Interests
The difficulty of balancing differing interests also emerges in the last of the four "problem areas." Critics worry that while adults are busy pursuing their own rights, children get left in the backwash. There are, for example, the alleged negative effects on children of divorce and of working mothers. More recently, the question of childrens own rights has come into sharper focus. What demands can children legitimately make on their parents? Some children in their 20s have gone to court to sue their parents, alleging that they were not raised properly, were mistreated as children, and as a result suffer from poor self-esteem. Recently we have read of the case of Walter Polovchak, the 12-year-old son of Russian immigrants who in 1980 refused to leave America when his parents decided to return to the Soviet Union. The U.S. government granted the boy temporary asylum, but some critics disagreed with that decision. As one put it, "I think its a bad precedent to let a 12-year-old boy tell his parents what he wants to do."
Clearly, the question of how to do right by todays children is an unsettled one. Nevertheless, it seems to me that the basic trend of changing relationships between adult men and women can simultaneously be enormously beneficial to the rights and well-being of children. The desire of growing numbers of women to seek autonomy through activities outside the household can be a great boon to children if, alongside this trend, there occurs a corresponding move to bring men into the household -- to involve them as fully as women in child care and child nurture. Films such as Kramer vs. Kramer help to impress the public with the fact that some men want to be deeply involved in parenting; moreover, they can be just as good at it as women.
The tradition that every male must be a successful achiever dies hard. Nevertheless, some men are coming to realize that for decades theyve been cheated by being cut off from child nurture. It was thought that the family as an institution would suffer if men gave up their work roles for parenting roles. But once again we observe the force of individual rights changing the family. As men come to believe that they personally will be better off if they get more involved in child nurture, and that the children will be better off as well, we can expect greater numbers of men to begin pursuing those kinds of benefits. And if men actually do change their parenting patterns, while women change their occupational behaviors, the positive consequences of that kind of parental symmetry could be profoundly beneficial for the family.
Balancing the Individual With the Family
"But," responds the critic, "with all this talk about individuals having their rights and doing their thing, is there any place for the family as an institution? Is there any sense in which family traditions and family obligations remain important in todays world?" Of course there is, and the trick is to balance the well-being of the institution with the wellbeing of the individuals that make it up.
But how can that be done? Freud said many things that today we totally reject. But now and again, he made statements that remain simple yet timeless. One of these classic insights was his assertion that more than anything else, adults need to work and to love (Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood, by N. J. Smelser and E. Erikson [Harvard University Press]). And we might add that children need to love and they need to learn to work. Therefore, to identify the optimal conditions under which the family can be a prosperous and robust institution, and to establish the kinds of traditions that will best meet the needs of its members during the decades ahead, we need to consider Freuds insights. The ideal family institution is one that provides maximum opportunities for all its members to love and to work to the fullest extent possible.
Traditional family structures have prohibited most women from enjoying meaningful work experiences. Their labors were generally limited to the home, even if their talents would have permitted them to enjoy the rewards of paid employment. And those same family structures have prohibited men from enjoying meaningful love experiences. They were too busy making money to learn to love and to share themselves, and to participate fully in the nurturing of family relationships. And who suffered from these limitations on both sexes? Women suffered, not only because they lacked meaningful work, but also because they didnt get the kind of love from their men that they needed and deserved. Men suffered because they couldnt enjoy the release from financial anxiety that comes from having a co-provider in the household, and also because they were unable to receive and participate fully in the love their wives and children held out to them. And children suffered because they grew up repeating the same dreadful patterns.
Those patterns sprang from traditions in which the whole assumed more importance than its parts. We are heading now toward new traditions that balance individual with institutional well-being. That balance comes about through the total involvement of all family members in meaningful work and intense love and caring.
What can our churches do to help achieve that balance? First, they must resist the temptation to doomsaying: "Never ask Oh, why were things so much better in the old days? Its not an intelligent question" (Eccl. 7: 10, TEV). Second, they should encourage married persons to analyze their own marriages and consider whether they are governed either by traditionalism or by some form of individualism. In either case, couples should then ask themselves whether theirs is a satisfactory arrangement, or whether a richer marriage might be possible through a greater balance of the two poles. For those seeking greater balance, the challenge is to provide practical suggestions for involving all family members in meaningful work and love opportunities.
It is also vital that the local church become a support group -- a caring community -- for persons struggling with these sorts of difficult but not insuperable tasks. Often churches are faulted for following instead of leading society. In this case, however, the church may be the one institution in our society uniquely suited to raise aspirations aimed at new family traditions, and to provide a framework for their attainment.


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Algerian PM claims Canadian took leading role as terrorist leader warns of more attacks.
Canada is investigating a claim by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens co-ordinated the terrorist raid at the Saharan gas plant in which dozens of hostages were killed.
Westerners, including a man with blond hair and blue eyes, are believed to have been among the Islamist militants who launched last week's attack on the Tigantourine complex near Algeria's border with Libya.
A French jihadist, previously unknown to authorities, and two Canadians are suspected of being involved in the hostage-taking, and reports also claim that a man with a Western accent was among the extremists who lured terrified gas workers from hiding.
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said a man, judged "by his English accent" to have been Canadian, was among the 32 Islamists whose raid on the Algerian refinery prompted a global crisis.
One of the Canadians, identified only as "Shaddad", is alleged to have played a leading role in the attack which left 58 hostages - including 37 Westerners - dead after a four-day battle with Algerian forces.
Five other Western workers are still unaccounted for. "A Canadian was among the militants," Sellal said. "He was co-ordinating the attack."
The militants also included men from Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania and Niger, he said. At least 29 Islamists from eight nations were killed in the operation to end the siege, with the other three taken alive.
The makeup of the attacking group - an al-Qaeda splinter brigade who call themselves "Those Who Signed in Blood" - will be carefully examined as security experts try to assess the scale of the threat across North and West Africa.
Concern at the international composition of the Algerian kidnap brigade will be compounded by reports from residents in Diabaly, Mali, that Islamists who overran the town last week included English-speakers and men who looked European.
Speaking to the Independent yesterday after French and Malian forces retook the town, student Amadu Dumbia said: "I definitely heard them and there's no chance that I made a mistake with another language. They spoke like they were from England, but had darker skins."
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of the group who is suspected of masterminding the gas plant raid from outside Algeria, warned yesterday that there would be more attacks on those participating in the military campaign in neighbouring Mali.
He also insisted the attacking brigade was not local, saying "only five Algerians" took part and "none of them were locals from the city".
- Independent
Bloody standoffs
Tehran, Iran 1980: A US special forces bid to rescue 53 American hostages from a bunker ended in failure and the deaths of eight soldiers. The mission had already been aborted due to bad weather and mechanical problems when a helicopter hit a transport plane.
Waco, US 1993: A 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Texas ended with a fire destroying buildings after federal agents began smashing their way in. Nearly 80 people died, including sect leader David Koresh.
Moscow, Russia 2002: Forces stormed a Moscow theatre where Chechen guerrillas were holding hundreds hostage. About 130 died.
Beslan, Russia 2004: A hostage standoff in the southern town ended in a bloodbath as Russian commandos stormed a school seized by Chechen militants. More than 330 people were killed, about half of them children.


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That'll make you think twice before you donate to this cause, huh?
It was revealed today that Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin, was paid $262,000 by The Candie's Foundation in 2009, when Bristol was 18 and had just given birth to her baby, Tripp. According to tax documents, Bristol was paid as an "ambassador." Wow, being a teen mom really pays off….if you're Sarah Palin's daughter!
The foundation says that Bristol is still working for them and that she "plays an important role by helping other teens understand the incredible challenges teen parents face." What a pile of horse manure!


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Around age 3, it has been recommended that children with Down syndrome get a c-spine x-ray to check for AAI and AOI. Some children with Down syndrome have this done younger than age 3 because they're going to have surgery and it's a standard precaution. So what is AAI and AOI? In laymen's terms, it's a separation between the vertebrae of the spine. AAI occurs between the C1 and C2 vertebrae. A normal separation would be under 5mm. AOI occurs between the occipital lobe and C1 vertebrae. A normal separation there would be 1mm.
AAI occurs in about 10% of kids with Ds. Most times it does not require surgery, but the child may be put on precautions such as no somersaults, no trampolines, no bounce houses or horseback riding... nothing that can further jar the neck. Sometimes though the gap is so large that it causes impingement on the spine. If not surgically corrected, this can eventually lead to paralysis or death. Many children with AAI have no symptoms of spine issues and therefore that pre-surgical x-ray or the routine x-ray done around age three is crucial.
AOI works very much the same, though it is more rare than AAI. When we had Kennedy's x-rays done at almost age 4 (she was busy with chemo at age 3), we were already at the hospital for a check up with her oncologist and I asked for orders for her x-ray on a whim. I had no reason to worry, no reason to think anything was wrong with Kennedy's neck, I just wanted to get it out of the way. Turns out that instead of the typical 1mm gap that most people have, Kennedy had a 12mm gap. She had severe AOI. Through a friend we were quickly put in touch with doctors at Shriner's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia who confirmed her AOI and recommended spine fusion surgery. In the meantime she was put immediately into a neck brace to stay safe. Any car accident, any bad fall, any wrong move would have been a "catastrophic event" for Kennedy. It could have killed her immediately. She had 16 surgeries before this time where she was intubated... any one of those intubations could have snapped her spine and she'd be gone. Just like that.
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From today's gospel reading
"You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
Are we supposed to take this passage literally? If we aren't supposed to take it literally, how exactly are we supposed to take it? These are the kinds of questions one asks one's self listening to a sermon.
What did you preach about in church today? What did you hear? Feel free to share links to your sermon in the comments.
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I'm having a garage sale next Saturday. Come on down.
Are we supposed to take this passage literally?
If so, I am done in.
June Butler
I take it as addressing a symptom of a deeper spiritual malady. The heart of what I preached can be found here: abbaruah.blogspot.com
Sounds more like a Buddha than a Rabbi. Hardly any place for this in his culture, but in India this sort of thing happened often enough to make lots of Buddhist and "Hindu" (whatever that means!) stories. Something fishy is going on, methinks the Lord didn't learn everything just from his local run of the mill synagogue personnel. Silk Road, anyone?
The passage needs to be interpreted in the light of its contexts: a) literary –it appears in a section in Mark dealing with the cost of discipleship, warning would be followers of Jesus that it takes your all to do so. b) in its social context around 70 AD, with roots in the Gallilean experience of a community meeting weekly for a pot luck in an area where many farmers had been disposessed of their lands by the Romans to give them as prizes to their noveau riche sycophants. c) in our own context, meaning that being a disciple involves taking the plight of the poor and starving seriously, seriously enough to give it your all, at whatever station of life you are in. It is hard to read passages like this and think Christianity is about a vague feeling of being spiritual.
It´s not. It´s about the soioeconomic order, and its transformation into the Kingdgom of God, a society characterized by truth telling, justice-doing, shalom, and love. Working for THAT can get you dispossessed –even tortured and killed.
"The young man went away grieving, because he could not find it in his heart to give up trusting in what he had and go out on a limb to follow Jesus instead. And Jesus loved him anyway, and grieved for him.
At its most basic, the challenge of this gospel is to identify what we are trusting instead of God, what we cannot let go of, even to help others, even to save ourselves. What are we relying on to save us instead of God? Because while the challenge to us of this gospel might be to give away more money – it might be – for many of us, the challenge is probably something else; …The challenge to all of us, whatever percentile of wealth we fall into, is to place our trust in the right place, in God, who alone is good and who alone makes us good enough." The full sermon is here: http://rosalindhughes.com/2012/10/14/year-b-proper-23-sermon/
If we take this as a blanket commandment I think we miss the point. Jesus picks riches for this young man because he is possessed by them, not they by him. They live in a place in his life where God should be, even though he lives out the law.
What should be scary for us is to consider what we might be holding onto so tightly that Jesus might ask us to forgo it. The answer is likely different for everyone.
"It is hard to read passages like this and think Christianity is about a vague feeling of being spiritual. It´s not. It´s about the socioeconomic order, and its transformation into the Kingdom of God, a society characterized by truth telling, justice-doing, shalom, and love. Working for THAT can get you dispossessed –even tortured and killed."
YES, YES, and YES. A lot of people reinterpret this scripture into something less literal, without ever having actually *tried* it — that is, given everything they have to the poor. To actually follow this suggestion — as difficult as it is particularly if you have dependents — is one of the few great acts of self-liberation. Nowadays, nobody models this more beautifully than the consecrated religious who take vows of poverty.
And kudos to you Juan for pointing out that living up to what Christ calls us to do can get us tortured and killed. True Christian martyrdom is something we rarely see (or at least, is rarely documented) in America today. But you don't have to go far back — to MLK — to bear witness to what risking your life for the truth really means.
Mark 10:21 is a really radical challenge, and yes, prima facie socioeconomic. Bringing about the Kingdom of God will have to be a collective act of equalization of access to resources, and physical courage.
Erik Campano
Jesus is calling the rich man to die. Someone must die for inheritance to happen. That someone is the rich man. That someone is us. http://interruptingthesilence.com/2012/10/14/dont-confuse-wealth-with-life/
Mike Marsh
I think Michael Russell hit the nail squarely on the head. It's not a universal commandment.
Bill Dilworth
As long you treat money as something you can use to buy God's approval––by tithing a certain percentage of your income, for example, by dutifully donating to the poor, by fulfilling a fair-trade contract of charitable giving––then your relationship to money remains idolatrous, no matter how much of it you give away.
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Yo guys, just been wondering whats best to use concerning magic/relics/items/ for Hades don't wanna waste all my coins on things that are completely useless, i will try things on my own, any suggestions?
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My suggestion would be to use:
(hope I'm saying some names/describing some items correctly without looking in-game)
Relic: The one that reduces cooldown on abilities
Item: Kiss of Persephone/Charm of Persephone
Magic: The one that leechs life, it's pretty handy in my opinion.
Considering weapon usage, I'd recommend the lvl 9 sword because it's special abilities can be very devestating when they're being put to good use
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Thanks a lot but which magic are you talking about there is two that leech health Hades Torrent and Life Steal, although ive heard sacrifical soul is really good too. Thanks.
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Magic - Life Steal (1st one) or Sacrificial Soul (2nd one)
Item - Persephone's Charm (Cooldown) or Wraith (Escaping + Leeching)
Relic - Dodging + air maneuvers or brutal kill relic


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In this game, you have to hit the running looser with the white ball. You have ten shots per one looser. If you lose all these shootings, i think you are a fool.
You can move the white ball by pulling out of it the black rubber. When you release your finger, the ball will go in the opposite to rubbers direction.
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Innovation Depression Strikesby
I'm getting innovation depression. The new list of 25 Most Innovative Companies by BusinessWeek and BCG is out and spending on innovation is down. Despite all the evidence showing that companies that invest in innovation in economic downturns gain competitive advantage in economic recoveries, most corporations are cutting back on R&D and other innovation investments for short-term cost-cutting gains. It's sad.
Even sadder is the same list of companies year-in-and-year-out on the list. Apple, Google, Toyota, Microsoft, Nintendo at the top, IBM (up to #6 from #12 in 2008), HP (up to #7 from #15 last year), RIM, Nokia, Wal-Mart, Amazon, P&G, etc. Tata, Sony, Vodafone, Honda, Samsung, VW, Reliance Industries are in the Top 25.
Any new names you haven't heard of? There are thousands of public companies in the US, Europe and Asia—where are they are on this list? There few new-comers.
Mike Mandel, chief economist of Business Week, gave an insightful speech on the failure of innovation at my Design-At-The-Edge class at Parsons School of Design last week.
Mike showed that aside from financial innovation, most industries have not innovated very much over the past decade. We are blinded by the success stories of the same dozen or two dozen companies and forget about the failures of the thousands of others. Whole promising markets, such as genomic medicine have proven terribly disappointing. Alternative energy also disappointing. Nuclear energy, disappointing, according to Mike.
This failure of innovation in the US has undermined long-term economic growth and led to the current financial and economic crisis. The wealth of the past decade has been faux--borrowed. Except for the wealth generated in the financial sector, which doubled in size as a percentage of GDP, there really hasn't been much at all.
Wow. We need to think about this. If Mike is right, if there has been very little aggregate innovation over the past decade, then--WHY? Have the obvious innovations in social media, iPhone platform, etc., not spread throughout the economy and remained narrowly limited in age cohorts? Is innovation diffusion too slow because designers focus on their own friends and not others? Is innovation too hard for most companies--or are CEOs and managers just too untrained and inflexible to change their conventional behaviors--and the cultures of their organizations?
Which is it?


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I spent the summer of 1965 on Oahu with my scout troop & got to see her pull into pearl harbor. Also we laid a wreath on the almost new Arizona memorial. Pretty emotional stuff.
Still had bullet holes in the mess hall walls at Wheeler field where we camped out & bomb craters alongside runways. I would never buy a Jap car.


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NEW YORK -- The New York Home Textiles Show honored best new product award winners and finalists in five categories, along with a best of show at the Jacob Javits Center.
Best of Show: Prairiedog Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) for its tasty guest towels: the café towel and the cake towel. (Booth 1127)
Bed: Hudson Industries, Inc. (Richmond, Va.) for its Sleep Wedge, for control of acid reflux and snoring. (Booth 1201)
Bath: Forza & Company (Berkeley, Calif.) for its 100 percent cotton, organic Turkish Tradition towel. (Booth 908)
Kitchen/Table: The Dutch Lady (Arlington, Va.) for its Christmas tablecloth. (Booth 1035)
Home Accessories: Alpha Corp. (Ludhiana, India) for its Galaxy hand-woven, embroidered, mohair blend bouclé throw. (Booth 1500)
Home Apparel: Dream Designs Co., Ltd. (Vancouver, BC) for its organic pajamas and facecloth. (Booth 1234)
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"Wimbledon to Pay Men and Women Equally" was the link on washingtonpost.com that caught my eye this morning. What's this? A throwback story from the 1970 archives? An interesting precursor to Women's History Month? A quaint reminder that there once was a time when it was socially quite acceptable to pay women less than men for doing the same thing?
No. This is 2007, and the story is TODAY. The much-vaunted Wimbledon (think Super Bowl of Tennis) bit its stiff upper lip and leapt over the net into modernity. The All England Club announced yesterday that it would pay male and female Wimbledon winners the same, the last of the major tennis tournaments to do so.
Wimbledon may be far from our own experiences and concerns, but let's not underestimate the impact of this decision on other opportunities for girls and women. 20-time Wimbledon Champion and Women's Sports Legend Billie Jean King aptly summarized the importance of this decision in today's New York Times: "But remember, it's not about the money, it's about the message it sends to women and girls around the world….Every time we can change a benchmark like this, it helps people ask in their daily life, 'Are we insisting on equality for our sons and daughters?' So that makes it a very important moment in history."
I've heard Billie Jean speak on numerous occasions about the blatant discrimination she faced during her playing years as she won tournament after tournament, but taking home remarkably small paychecks compared to her male counterparts. She founded the Women's Sports Foundation as an educational and advocacy organization to improve conditions for girls and women in all sports. Thanks to her unrelenting advocacy and the great work of the Foundation (one of Trinity's most valuable partners in helping us to establish the Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports!), the opportunities for girls and women to play sports in schools and universities, and to pursue professional opportunities in sports have never been greater. In particular, the Women's Sports Foundation has successfully sustained Title IX, the law that protects equal rights for girls and women throughout all levels of education, including in sports opportunities.
Just last night at dinner, a friend asked our table if we thought there would ever come a time when we did not have to be concerned about gender equality, or equality among people of different races and ethnic backgrounds. One colleague, citing the recent advances of women like Nancy Pelosi and Drew Faust at Harvard, said she thought in her daughter's lifetime there would be broader acceptance of equal opportunity, less emphasis on difference. I'm not so sure, given the profound fissures across race and social class, in particular, that traverse our landscape.
But it's true that we are in an extraordinary era for women's rights and advancement, with old barriers shattered and new advances for women appearing almost daily. Let's always remember that this progress has not occurred by happenstance; change occurs on when the courageous voices of women like Billie Jean King and her colleagues on the Women's Tennis circuit, and in the Women's Sports Foundation, raised in sustained advocacy over a long period of time, are finally heard in the club rooms and board rooms where the power resides to ensure equal opportunity for all.


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Parched English fields now reveal ancient crop circle sites due to the early dry summer and that has allowed experts to take advantage to file new pictures of 'cropmark sites.'
Aerial photos are abundant of the ancient crop circles as hundreds of archaeological sites left buried for centuries were revealed this summer thanks to weeks of dry weather conditions early in the summer season.
Britain's dry early summer has made 2010 a "vintage year for archaeology" with crop marks revealing several hundred new sites, according to English Heritage.
Dave MacLeod, an English Heritage senior investigator based in York, said: ''It's hard to remember a better year."
The UK Telegraph has more details and notes that MacLeod added: "Cropmarks are always at their best in dry weather, but the last few summers have been a disappointment."
This summer is obviously different. The Daily Mail reveals researchers hope to discover new sites after examining the photographs taken this summer.
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bought a bunch for my group of buddies for our fishing trip to canada! worked great to track the number of fish we caught each day. Did have a couple times where one stuck a little but was remedied with a quick swiss army knife adjustment. for the price it was what I expected!
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Like many other Australians my age, I have been working for over 30 years. During this time I paid off my house, raised and educated my children, paid my taxes and accumulated savings that will support me during my retirement.
On those occasions when I have earned three to four times the average wage of $80,000, I have paid 4.5 to 6.5 times the tax that the average wage earner pays. This has offset the value of any tax concessions I have received on super contributions by a very large margin.
Since it was elected to government in 2007, Labor has been on an egotistical spending spree. They employed people they could not afford to employ and paid entitlements to people they could not afford to fund from tax revenue.
They have spent far more than the huge amount of tax revenue they received and racked up a debt of $150 billion on the national credit card.
They refuse to retrench the employees they should never have hired and reduce the entitlements they could never afford.
Instead, they are looking for an easy way out. Their eyes have settled on my super. They are going to steal the money I worked hard for over 30 years to pay for their five-year joyride.
What is attractive for them in this policy is that they personally will not have to share the pain they will inflict on the rest of us because their exceedingly generous superannuation pensions have been paid with taxpayer funds.
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Serranos Apartment in the City Center
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גודל85 מטר רבוע
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Located in a small and quiet street next to the famous Torres de Serranos, natural gateway to the ancient walled city, near the gardens of the old river Turia. A special apartment for those who want to enjoy Valencia and living in a home with a unique charm.
The apartment has a capacity to accommodate 7 people comfortably, with three double bedrooms, one bathroom and a large sofa-bed in the dining room. It´s fully equipped with services, tools and furniture that can see below on the "Services" section, such as towels, bedding, furniture, kitchen, WI-FI, air conditioning and heating throughout the house etc. .. it also offers the possibility of a laundry service, luggage storage, bicycle hire and car parking for 15 € / night. All supplies of electricity and water are included in the price.
Because of its location in the Barrio del Carmen, the heart of the city, is ideal for shopping, enjoy the cuisine that we provide the varied local restaurants, shopping at the central market, the cathedral, or just a drink "horchata" in one of the historical "horchaterías". The proximity to the central market is a good opportunity to take advantage of the apartment's kitchen and experiment with the Valencian food.
Enjoy Valencia renting a fully equipped apartment with us for days, weeks or months.
The apartment is located in the Barrio del Carmen, which corresponds to the ancient old town of the city of Valencia, where people of all ages and cultures share culture, retail, leisure, drinks and fun among stately buildings, palaces with centuries of history and bohemian atmosphere, ideal for walking or touring cycling.
The location in this neighborhood provides a walking tour of the main sights of the city such as the Cathedral, the Lonja and the Central Market, which are a few minutes walking. 10 minute walking from the gardens of the River Turia, excellent place to rest and walk away from the noise of the city.
There is no problem if you want to visit other farthest attractions such as the City of Arts and Sciences or enjoy the beach, we have a bike rental service. There is also the option of traveling by public transport from nearby bus and subway to the apartment.
כללי הביתArrivals after 8pm have a 30€ supplement.
Please wash the dishes and let the trash in the containers of the street when you leave the apartment the last day.
Parties not allowed.
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We had a very nice time in Valencia. The host was very helpful and answered all our questions! Although there are some differences between the photos and reality, the appartment is still really nice and close to the city. Some points to improvement: We didn't know we had to pay 200€ deposit, it would be nice to know it in advance. Another improvements: Maybe some spices like salt and pepper and towels to clean the dishes in the kitchen. All in all, we enjoyed our time very much and wished we could have stayed longer!
We loved the apartment. It was at the centre of the city, so everything was very close. We enjoyed it very much and Jose was a very good anfitrion. He helped us and explained us everything. I would definety recommend it and I hope I go there again. Gracias, Jose!
We had a great time in this appartment. The people from Like are very nice. We had enough space and we were with 8 guests. It had a surprising amount of things we were very pleased with like an orange juice press, an oven and three small balconies. The beds were comfortable. One shower wasn't so great because the water spat everywhere, but the other was amazing. All in all, it's a great place to stay. Close to the metro and one bridge away from the city centre.
Really nice apartment! Beautiful area.
Jose was very kind and also the bike rental was fun.
Would like to come back sometime!
Die Unterkunft ist neu renoviert und leise, obwohl sie Mitten in der Stadt liegt. Lediglich bei offenen Fenstern zu den nach innen liegenden Höfen kann es vorkommen, dass man die Gespräche der Mitbewohner hört.
Die Wohnung war darüber hinaus sehr sauber. Die Schlüsselübergabe war extrem einfach, da das "Like" Büro nur 30 Meter entfernt ist.
Hier gibt es eigentlich nichts zu bemängeln !
Voldeed helemaal aan onze verwachtingen. Wel een piepklein liftje waar ik als rolstoelgebruiker maar héél nipt en met enig wringen in kon. Mooi centraal gelegen. Alles wat we nodig hadden was voorhanden. Vriendelijke service en ontvangst van de mensen van Like Apartments die hun kantoor in hetzelfde gebouw hebben.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
Ci sono stati i miei genitori..io avevo scelto l appartamento in base alle foto e alla posiziome..confermo e tutto come specificato....centrale,e spazioso,con ascensore.
Localización excelente. El piso era correcto pese a que la Televisión no funciona y las camas son muy incómodas.
Hat alles bestens geklappt. Die Zimmer waren sehr sauber und ordentlich. Check-In und Check-Out hat alles super funktioniert. Sehr freundlicher Kontakt. Die Lage war auch super, 10 Fussminuten vom Hauptbahnhof entfernt. Supermarkt gibt es gerade um die Ecke. Sehr empfehlenswert.
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