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Andrew Sullivan's latest editorial for Time Magazine entitled "My Problem with Christianism" takes a few shots at the conservative believers in the Christian church who's views are given some semblance of respect in the Republican party but not much in the Democratic party in the United States. Mr. Sullivan notes:
The number of Christians misrepresented by the Christian right is many. There are evangelical Protestants who believe strongly that Christianity should not get too close to the corrupting allure of government power. There are lay Catholics who, while personally devout, are socially liberal on issues like contraception, gay rights, women's equality and a multi-faith society. There are very orthodox believers who nonetheless respect the freedom and conscience of others as part of their core understanding of what being a Christian is. They have no problem living next to an atheist or a gay couple or a single mother or people whose views on the meaning of life are utterly alien to them--and respecting their neighbors' choices. That doesn't threaten their faith. Sometimes the contrast helps them understand their own faith better.
Now, I happily accept my identification as a member of the "Christian right" as Mr. Sullivan calls it. I don't agree with everything that some of the leaders of the Christian right claim (some of the statements by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell coming readily to mind), but I no more reject the identification on that basis than I reject identification as an American on the basis that we have had some pretty bad people saying and doing stupid things in the name of America. So, I take it as a personal affront when he says "There are very orthodox believers who nonetheless respect the freedom and conscience of others as part of their core understanding of what being a Christian is." Exactly who is it in the religious right who doesn't "respect the freedom and conscience of others"? I may hang out with a rather different group of Christians than others, but I don't personally know any Christians in my group who don't respect the freedom and conscience of others.
He says that these other Christians "have no problem living next to an atheist or a gay couple or a single mother or people whose views on the meaning of life are utterly alien to them--and respecting their neighbors' choices." Again, who is he talking about? I have atheists living on either side of me, and I don't have any problem with that. I have worked with people who are gay, and a gay couple used to live down the street from me -- no problems. The godparent of one of my children was a single mother! And I am not setting myself up as some paragon of virtue -- no one I know of in my conservative church would have any different feelings about any of these things! So, who is it that Mr. Sullivan is addressing?
You see, Mr. Sullivan, who seems to claim to be a Christian -- and I will accept him at his word even though I suspect he is what many would call a Country-club Christian given that his faith does not seem to be reflected in anything he writes unless it is to set up a defense to claims that he hates Christians ("How can I hate Christians, I'm one of them!") -- appears to be demonizing Christians. He is claiming that Christians -- at least those on the right -- are hate-filled fascists who want to control everyone's thoughts. But that is a straw-man argument since the types of conservative Christians he describes, if they exist at all, are a infinitesimally small segment of the Christian community that claims to be conservative.
Talk show commentator Hugh Hewitt pulled no punches in evaluating what Mr. Sullivan had to say. In a post entitled "Sullivan Hits A New Low: Hate Speech As A Substitute for Argument" he states:
Like others on the left, Sullivan is a serial destroyer of straw men, especially as he declaims about the "Christianist view that religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda. It is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike."
Who, exactly, believes such a thing? Sullivan names no names. He mentions Delay and Limbaugh, but far enough removed from this description as to have deniability. When Sullivan gives us a definition of Christinism backed up by a list of say, 25 prominent Christianists and data to prove it, then he will have made an argument. Until then he's just spitting out venom.
Unfortunately, Mr. Sullivan is not alone. His views that Christians ought to be demonized if they hold to conservative views (which are, in my opinion, often in line with Biblical teaching) are held by many, many other writers on the skeptical left.
Today, for example, Counter-Punch, "America's Best Political Newsletter" according to Out of Bounds Magazine (whatever that is), published an incredibly silly article entitled "Meet the Shock Troops of the Christian Youth: Battle Cry for Theocracy!" While I think that the title is self-explanatory, the content shows the singularly ridiculous claims of this newsletter.
If you've been waiting until the Christian fascist movement started filling stadiums with young people and hyping them up to do battle in "God's army" to get alarmed, wait no longer.
In recent weeks, Battle Cry, a Christian fundamentalist youth movement, has attracted more than 25,000 to mega-rally rock concerts in San Francisco and Detroit and this weekend they plan to fill Wachovia Stadium in Philadelphia.
They claim their religion and values are under attack but, amidst spectacular lightshows, hummers, Navy Seals, and military imagery on stage, it is Battle Cry that has declared war on everyone else! Their leader, Ron Luce, insists: "This is war. And Jesus invites us to get into the action, telling us that the violent--the 'forceful' ones--will lay hold of the kingdom."
A glimpse at Battle Cry's Honor Academy, which trains 500 youth each year and preaches that homosexuality and masturbation are sins, reveals a lot about what kind of society they are fighting for. Interns are forbidden to listen to secular music, watch R-rated movies or date. Men can't use the internet unsupervised and the length of women's skirts is regulated. The logic behind this, that men must be protected from the sin of sexual temptation, is what drives Islamic fundamentalists to shroud women in burkhas!
No one is suggesting, to my knowledge, that we become a theocracy, and if there is some fringe character in the religious right actually saying such a thing, then I personally denounce them and their position. But here is some more of the over-the-top statements by people who hate conservative Christians -- we are fascists. We are fundamentalists. We are like Islamic extemists because in a voluntary campus-type setting we regulate dress and Internet access. (Incidentally, note how its probably the view of this writer that people should be able to get together and live in any type of lifestyle they want -- unless you happen to want to live a lifestyle that adopts traditional Christian views of morality, then it is wrong and fascist.) And by the way, it is not some extreme religious viewpoint that says masturbation and homosexuality are sins. Until 20 years ago, these were views that virtually all of Christianity accepted although some -- like Mr. Sullivan, apparently -- have fallen away from these very orthodox Christian teachings.
Really, people need to recognize that the present view about Christians is largely demonization without much substance. But it doesn't surprise me, since Jesus himself warned almost 2,000 years ago in John 15: 18-23:
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates Me hates My Father also.


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Russia: Everything Old is New Again… Again
I've blogged previously about Russia's flirtation with fascism, the rise in authoritarianism and nationalism, and the increased aggression in its near abroad. I don't need to rehash the propaganda campaigns, the lies, and the efforts to destabilize eastern European nations. Seems Russia is in the news a lot ever since the 2016 election.
Lately, something else seems to be on the rise, but isn't getting as much attention as the cyber intrusions: corruption and murder which looks very much to be linked to the Kremlin.
You remember the murder of Boris Nemtsov, don't you? No?
Boris Nemtsov was a leading Russian opposition politician and former Deputy Prime Minister who was murdered in Moscow in February 2015. BBC reported at the time that an unidentified attacker shot Nemtsov four times in the back as he crossed a bridge in view of the Kremlin.
In a recent interview, Mr Nemtsov had said he feared Mr Putin would have him killed because of his opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Mr Nemtsov, 55, served as first deputy prime minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.
He had earned a reputation as an economic reformer while governor of one of Russia's biggest cities, Nizhny Novgorod.
Falling out of favour with Yeltsin's successor, Mr Putin, he became an outspoken opposition politician.
Five ethnic Chechens were tried for the murder, and Chechen
leader thug Ramzan Kadyrov quickly proclaimed the defendants not guilty and blamed the United States.
It's only a coincidence that the accused thugs were Chechen, and it's only a coincidence that Nemtsov was fearless in his public accusations against Putin and his ally Kadyrov of misappropriating government funds, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and torture. And it's only a coincidence that Kadyrov is a close ally and cousin of Duma Deputy and Adam Delimkhanov.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
A British inquiry into the death of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko found that Putin had likely approved the polonium tea that killed the spy who fled to Britain after becoming an outspoken Putin critic.
But nothing to see there either.
Another Putin critic recently wound up in the hospital. Intrepid journalist Michael Totten posted this article on his Facebook page yesterday about Russian reform advocate Vladimir Kara-Murza who wound up in the hospital for the second time in less than two years.
Vladimir is perhaps the most authentic, articulate, informed, reasoned, effective, and persistent advocate for reform and decency in Russia. He has carried his message to audiences in Washington, and across Europe and his own country. He played a key role in the passage of the Magnitsky Act which restricts travel to the US and freezes the assets of designated Russians whose violations of human rights standards have been especially pronounced. Vladimir is also courageous beyond words. After his friend and colleague Boris Nemtsov was murdered outside the Kremlin almost exactly two years ago, Vladimir chose to return to Moscow to advocate for reform in Russia. He did so at considerable personal risk and sacrifice.
Kara-Murza worked for Open Russia, founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was tossed into the Russian clink for daring to stand up to Putin.
Khodorkovsky was arrested on what appeared to be pretty spurious charges of tax evasion and fraud. He spent the next 10 years in prison, with new charges added on to his sentence, including the accusation that he stole 350 million tons of oil… from himself. His trials were, by all accounts, kangaroo tribunals. It took months just to read the initial charges against Khodorkovsky in a notoriously corrupt judicial system, in which his defense attorney now faces the Russian equivalent of disbarment for failure to defend her client effectively.
He was released in late 2013 and later started Open Russia to promote civil reforms in Russia, and Kara-Murza worked for the NGO and was a good friend of the late Boris Nemtsov. Open Russia – restarted by Khodorkovsky after being harassed by the Russian authorities, and its accounts frozen in 2006 – continued to experience… um… incidental problems, as Kara-Murza wrote in 2014.
Open Russia was revived eight years after being forcibly shut down by the Russian authorities. Its relaunch and the opening videoconference that linked civil society activists in ten cities across Russia—from Kaliningrad to Tomsk—were greeted with the typical official response. Almost all regional locations experienced difficulties with the Internet, which was mysteriously cut off minutes before the conference. In Moscow, conference participants were confronted by "journalists" from the notorious NTV channel, which specializes in slandering civil society and opposition activists (incidentally, the location of the event was never publicly announced). In Yaroslavl, someone sabotaged the door lock the night before the conference, leaving activists unable to enter, and the technical equipment blocked inside. In Nizhny Novgorod, members of a pro-Kremlin group headed by United Russia deputy Yevgeny Fedorov stormed the hall where conference participants were assembled.
But move along. Nothing to see here. Russia is innocent. It's just a coincidence that those critical of the Kremlin and Putin's policies are either dying or being imprisoned. Magnitsky, Navalny, Litvinenko, Nemtsov, Khodorkovsky, and Kara-Murza. And that's just the top of the iceberg. If I wanted to go on, I'd mention the list of journalists and freelancers who were murdered, and who were reporting on corruption and human rights abuses, including Anna Politkovskaya, Anastasia Baburova, and Igor Domnikov.
Is it any wonder that the United States late last year passed the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act? The legislation augmented the Magnitsky Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2012, and ensures human rights abusers from anywhere in the world were denied entry into the United States and barred from using our financial institutions. It was signed into law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
The indomitable Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) last year uncovered an army of Russian trolls attempting to influence U.S. foreign policy by using the White House's online petition tool to demand that the Magnitsky Act be repealed.
Don't count on it, motherfuckers.
The freedoms we so take for granted and even condemn others for exercising can have real and tragic consequences in places other than the United States. And the truth reported by journalists elsewhere, which media outlets so take for granted here in the United States, can result in violence, suppression, arrest, and murder.
Interesting aside, however. Kara-Murza in January sent a letter to Bob Corker and Ben Cardin – both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – asking them to carefully consider the situation in Russia before voting on Rex Tillerson's nomination.
It is also important to remember that, according to the statues [sic.] of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – of which both the United States and Russia are full members – "issues relating to human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy, and the rule of law… are matters of direct and legitimate concern to all participating States and do not belong exclusively to the internal affairs of the State concerned."
I trust that you will take these issues into account as you consider the nomination for Secretary of State and the next steps in U.S.-Russia relations.
Here's wishing Vladimir Kara-Murza a quick recovery and a safe escape from Moscow. Being deathly ill in a Russian hospital is no joke under the best of circumstances (see my description of my tonsil surgery when I was a kid). But when you challenge the Kremlin, survival becomes a whole different challenge.
You want to grow the surveillance state?
If you haven't heard already, in light of Mexican president Pina Nieto's big middle finger to Trump's grandiose plan to make his country pay for a "big, beautiful wall" on the border with the United States, 45 has made another proposal: let's levy a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico!
Some of the Republicans I know, who normally oppose more taxation, were doing a happy dance. "YEAH! Mexico will pay for the wall one way or another!"
Ummmmm… no. YOU morons will. You will buy more expensive Mexican products, and by the way, since Mexico is one of our top five sources of oil, you'll likely be paying more to fill up your big, ole truck too! It's a tax on U.S. consumers, not on Mexico, and I won't even mention what that's doing to U.S.-Mexico relations, even as Mexico becomes one of our most important partners in fighting cartels, stopping illicit funds from crossing the border, and working to freeze and block the assets of illicit financiers.
Some, who realize that a 20 percent tariff on Mexican goods =\= Mexico paying for a wall, have developed other "bright" ideas.
"Oh, I know! Let's tax all remittances going to Mexico! That'll be GREAT! Most of them are illegals sending money home anyway! YEAH!"
I've detailed previously why this is a bad idea when Trump tried to threaten Mexico with seizing remittances.
Immigrants both legal and illegal send money back home to Mexico. How the hell does one separate the "good" money from the "bad?"
Seizure of private property without due process in order to threaten Mexico with reducing the country's GDP by an estimated less than two percent? Good plan, there, Sparky!
Stop all financial transactions from banks here to Mexico? You've just pissed off the financial sector and empowered bulk cash smugglers, who make billions of dollars per year carting monetary instruments across the Mexican border.
But beyond that, even if you don't stop the remittances, you would have to examine each one to see if it would be subject to this tariff. This idiot plan would drive up compliance costs for money service businesses (MSB), such as Western Union and MoneyGram, and grow the surveillance state.
Right now, under the Bank Secrecy Act, financial institutions, including MSBs, must file a currency transaction report (CTR) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for each transaction in currency of more than $10,000. If you think the average remittance to Mexico exceeds this amount, you're an idiot. The average remittance amount to Mexico in 2003 was $321, according to World Bank data. Even if it's doubled or trebled in the last 15 years, it will still be far below the threshold.
So, we'd have to decrease the CTR amount. No big deal, right?
Except that MSBs and other financial institutions would have to hire extra compliance staffs to fill out the CTRs and subsequent suspicious activity reports (SAR) when a customer inevitably decides that it's not worth having his $400 examined and probed by numerous people and declines to complete the transaction. Extra compliance personnel cost money – not just in salaries, but benefits as well. There skyrocket your costs of sending a couple of hundred bucks to your mom in Mexico! And there plunges your volume. Because, really… who the hell would want to pay an extra $10-$20 just to have mom pick up the cash in Coahila?
And then there are the compliance costs on the government side. Guess who gets to pay for those! How many new feds do you think would have to be hired to comb through the volumes of CTRs and SARs generated by the new thresholds? Considering just how many Mexicans we have sending money back home, lowering the transaction threshold would mean that thousands more feds will be combing through thousands more reports that are generated. The feds already have a lot of access to transactional data. You really want to give them more?
Additionally, as Larry Correia mentioned yesterday, "you start regulating something, the shadow economy will grow."
I mentioned bulk cash smugglers above. Cartels already have hawala-like networks of trusted associates to conduct mirror transactions. That's a market, I'm sure they couldn't wait to tap, especially if there's a mass exodus from regular MSBs! You start increasing regulations on hawalas, and aside from causing dilatory second and third order effects in countries without developed financial sectors that rely on hawala networks to move money, you're also going to once again increase the compliance personnel required for said increased regulatory environment.
Wanna pay for more feds to snoop into everyone's finances? Most Republicans, before 45 took office, would have screamed a vigorous "NO!" Now… not so much.
And by the way, if you think there aren't ways to avoid the formal financial system, I encourage you to purchase a gift card. For a fee of $5.00 and a couple of stamps, you too can send a $400 Visa gift card to your mom in Mexico, which she can use to buy groceries or anything else she needs! You want to regulate that? You'll need extra post office personnel to go through all the mail, identify the letters going to Mexico, and track the remittances that way.
Or, just start charging an extra fee for every gift card purchased, which will go directly to the feds to build that wall. In which case, once again, YOU are the ones paying for it!
That's how you build a police state, Republicans. Enjoy!


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Ben gets the lead here for calling Harris and Maher racist. Steele and Kristof do a good job trying to inject the 'reasonable persons' argument.
My problem is this – Affleck is right. Harris is also right. Islam is not a blind spot for liberals, how we approach intolerance of Muslims while maintaining an anti-authoritarian, anti-theocratic point of view is a confluence of ideological imperatives that takes more than a soundbite to parse and understand.
As a person who feels strongly that religious ideology is poisonous to all reasonable debate (and dangerous when mixed with military or police powers), I also recognize that the 'liberal values' that Maher is adopting as his shield evolved from Protestant Christian thought during the Renaissance and Reformation. Without the enlightenment, led by many Christian and former Christian/Deist and Jewish philosophers, Maher would have no universal rights of man to point to.
Likewise, we Americans give a pass to ourselves and choose to ignore the religious ideation of many of our own value systems when we look at our actions, political or otherwise. Atheist liberals look at the civil rights movement as a victory of humanist ideals, when really it was led by black ministers. When our own terrorists like Timothy McVeigh and Robert Bales kill hundreds no one calls the pope or Rick Warren to account. This is because white Americans see their own foundational beliefs and power structures as natural and progressing toward a positive end, for us and everyone, while we regard foreign concepts as suspect and ill-wrought. Islam has had enlightenments before, where religious pluralism, the arts and sciences flourish. This is not because of Islam, it is because of people. Likewise with violence and intolerance, from all cultures.
Sam Harris has indeed made a career of criticism of religious thought, and the fact is, he's lightyears ahead of most folks on the subject intellectually. But he's also made a lot of money in the post 9/11 world, cashing in on Islamophobia when he can do so with a bit of professorial distance. Affleck is a hero of mine, and Harris is one of my faves as well. This argument speaks to the core of what it means to be a liberal in the United States. But it isn't necessary to pick a side. Because the bottom line is that good people are good no matter what they believe, and as long as the good people in any culture can ignore the ugly parts of their people's ideologies – and actively decry them in public spaces, an all too difficult thing to do in moderate Muslim countries, in Communist countries, in America (if you're black) – and treat each other like human beings, then we can thrive together.
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The cats and dogs of Levy County got a big boost Saturday as country chart-topper Chris Cagle headlined the Bark-N-Purr Benefit in Bronson. The event, a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Levy County's planned spay, neuter and adoption facility, attracted more than 2,700 festivalgoers, according to organizers' first estimates.
Cagle rocked the soccer field at Bronson Youth League as his stamping, chanting fans sang along to such hits as "What Kinda Gone" and "My Love Goes On and On and On" as well as a sleeper from the new album, "Change Me."
Just before the show got under way, 97.3 K-Country d.j. Big Red introduced Humane Society volunteer James Garcia and Garcia's girlfriend Christy Arnau to the crowd. Arnau looked first confused, then astonished as Garcia knelt before her and asked her to marry him.
"Yes!" she shouted.
Alongside the stage, Garcia's mother, HSLC volunteer Sylvia Schenk, threw her hands in the air.
"Aaaah! She's beautiful!" Schenk said, amid a flurry of congratulations.
The surprise betrothal set the scene for Cagle's electrifying, fan-friendly stage show that, in spite of all the heartbreak songs, celebrated the joys of young love. During the slow songs, the boys and girls stood ankle-deep in the mud and swayed together.
Cagle opened with "Good To Be Back," striding onto the stage to whoops and screams.
A girl perched on a barricade 20 feet from the stage shrieked to her friend, "I stood in the mud for him!"
He repaid her devotion by blasting into such favorites as "The Love Between A Woman And A Man," "Wal-Mart Parking Lot" and "Hey Y'all," then reached back to the parking lot parties of his own childhood with a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special."
In the middle of the song, the band vamped for several minutes as Cagle worked his way across the first row of fans, signing every object pushed into his hands. T-shirts, hats, can coolers - even a pink Vera Bradley tote and a muddy Fat Baby riding boot got the Sharpie treatment.
Stopping every few songs to mop his streaming face with a t-shirt provided by front row fans, Cagle thanked the crowd for their part in his success and the success of the Bark-N-Purr benefit.
"This is a wonderful event for your county, and I want to thank you all for thinking of us," he said. He goofed on the name of the event and beneficiary ("I know, something about dogs."), but was quite sincere in his appeal on the Humane Society's behalf.
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Nim is now living as a teenage girl in Germany. She is forced to live with her grandfather - a German solider in the Nazi - she doesn't like her grandfather at all.When Nim was four she moved in with her grandfather after her mother died. Both Nim and her grandfather disagree on how each other live. Her grandfather has been taking in Jews to a concentration camp for two years now and every Jew in those stripped clothes ,she sees not only a person but courage, having to live in those harsh condit
" Nim I'm going out into town now."I nodded and looked away.My grandfather drove off onto the newly paved road. I watched him leave until I could no longer could see him. I could feel the freedom building up inside . I always loved to explore and now I finally could. I searched for someplace to go, to hide, to think. I never got to do anything around my grandfather. I looked and looked , but it seems as if I have been in every room of this building.
I walked into the family room and looked out the window into the backyard. It was a beautiful area. Flowers and trees surrounded by a wooden fence. One thing stood out, a shack, it was dirty and rusted . The shack didn't look like it belonged. I finally knew what my next adventure would lead to. I slowly took the chain off the back door and slipped outside without the workers or soldiers knowing. I calmly walked over to the shack, it started to smell and reek of decay. I walked a bit closer, only to see darkness inside. I walked even closer and opened the door to be greeted by an elderly man in stripped clothes.
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" I'm not here to hurt you. I want to help." I stepped forward and the man looked at me. I helped the man up. I knew he hasn't eaten in maybe days or weeks. " Hold on two seconds I'll be back I promise."
I ran inside, into the kitchen and grabbed leftover food from dinner, then ran back out. " Here," I handed him food but he didn't take it. " Go on take it. C'mon you need to eat." This time he took the food and ate it, licked it clean.
" What's your name young lady?" He whispered trying not to be heard by the soldiers.
" Nim, and your's."
" Oris..."
" Why are you back here?' Oris looked at me and silence fell upon us.
" The crematorium. That word, it means a lot. it means death and lost, but torture is the one things it represents." Oris spoke softly and so did I.
" The crematorium?" I was afraid to ask, but it seems that Oris has an interesting history.
" Well it's a chamber. They lock hundreds of Jews in there, put some type of gas in, I could never figure out what. After a while you would stop breathing and then they burned you. It would be a slow tortured death." Oris' words were were like no other. He went on describing the camp.
" How did you get out?" I was interested in his experiences, but wanted to know how. How did he get out? How did he know he was going to die? How does he survive?
" A fence on the opposite side of the camp."
" The camp is surrounded by fences. Isn't it?"
" Yes but this fence, this fence was different. It was wooden." We both heard engines.
" My grandfather is back. I will bring you more food tomorrow. Goodnight Oris."
" God bless you child." Oris went back into hiding and I slipped back inside, put the chain on the door and waited for my grandfather.
" Nim, your still up? I thought you would be in bed already." I nodded and went upstairs into my bedroom. I only thought about the fence, the one that saved Oris' life. I now knew where my next adventure would bring me.
I awoke in discomfort, discovering a group of soldiers would now be staying in our house, only to be able to take a closer look into the camp.
There was a knock at my door. I stood up and opened it. My grandfather stood there with a smile on his face. He never smiles. Something must be happening. I'm not sure what to except.
" Get ready for breakfast and come down stairs. I laid out some clothes on the chair. I must introduce you to some guests." He walked back down stairs and I closed the door and got dressed. I wore an ivory, nylon dress with a seam going straight down the side. There was a scarf, knee socks, black shoes and a button down jacket to match the dress. I put on the socks, pulling them up to the top of my knee, then I slipped on the shoes, wrapped the scarf around of head and buttoned the jacket. This clothing is so different from the dresses that I'm used to wearing.
Once I got downstairs my grandfather sat at a table next to three other men dressed in full uniform.
" Nim, these men are going to be staying with us for a while." He pointed to both of the men. " This is Peter and Hans."
" Its nice to meet both of you." I took a seat in between Peter and Hans and we all ate in silence. Hans seemed like a man that follows the rules and Peter he was much different. I caught his eye a few times ,but it seems as if he doesn't belong here he seems not much older than me and Hans seems to be in his late twenties. Soon after breakfast Hans and my grandfather left into an office and I took some food and left out the back door.
" Oris." I whispered until I got to the old shed. I saw Oris crawling out of the shed. " Here, it's fresh." I handed him the food. Afterwards I snuck under the garden fence and ran into the small valley following a deep forest. I ran and ran until I saw something. I was looking for freedom, but I found much more. I ran until I got to a ditch following a fence that went twenty feet up into the air.
I could see people - Jews. I couldn't believe my eyes, but to see that place. It wasn't something you could just forget about. There was one guy there. Not much older than me, he looked weak and skinny. I feel bad for these people being trapped into this gated area excluded from the world. They don't deserve this.
The guy caught my eye because he seemed different- even though he was still every skinny and weak - he was stronger than many others. Soon later our eyes met and I went into to panic mode. He started walking over to the fence then jogging. I backed up and stood behind a tree. He saw me anyways.
" Hey, come out now." His voice was deep as he whispered. I slide out from behind the tree and stood there in complete silence, with only a fence and a ditch separating us we felt connected. " Why are you over here?" He seemed like he felt like I was being stupid for coming there .
" I just needed space. Don't tell please. I'm not supposed to be here." I wasn't scared. I was nervous.
" I'm not gonna tell.. Who are you?"
" Nim. Yours?"
" Elijah." I looked at his hand. It was bleeding a lot. He moved his hand behind his back.
" Come here." I jumped over the ditch and walked up to the fence. I held out a container of water and put my hand in between the gaps of the electric barbed wire. " Give me your hand." He walked a bit closer and put his hand on mine. I washed off the blood and gave him the rest of the water.
" You wanna walk, you know like around the gates?"
" Sure I guess." We walked and talked for hours until the sun started to go down and everyone went inside. " There's a gate."
" What?"
" A gate on the other side of the camp. Rumor has it that there is a wooden gate."
" Seriously? Like really?"
" Yeah, Oris told me."
" Wait, you know Oris. I thought he died."
" Well he's hardly living. He is hiding out in a shack. I bring him left overs all the time though."
" NIM!" My grandfather called out.
" I gotta go."
" Thanks." I ran back home through the trees, through the valley and finally I met my grandfather.
" Nim, where were you?"
" I was trying to find Peter. We were supposed to work on," I hesitated.
" The car. " There was Peter, standing behind my grandfather. " I was just getting started."
" Okay then. Go on." My grandfather still seemed confused. I walked over to Peter and went on following him. I tried to stay quiet and look down the entire time.
" Really Nim." Peter looked at me with confusion. " Why were you out there?"
I was silent I didn't say anything. I knew they would hurt Oris and Elijah.
" Come on," Peter grabbed my hand with a tight grip and dragged my into the back garden. We then both ran through the forest. " You see those 'people' well if you keep going over there you will get yourself and everyone else killed."
He seemed serious I wanted to ask why he cared so much about me, that seemed too mean. I pulled my arm out of his grip and ran home. He ran after me, but couldn't catch me. Once i got to the house I went into my room, locked the door and layed on my bed.
After a few minutes there was a knock at my door.
" Nim. Hey Nim I'm sorry, just open the door. Nim?" I knew the right thing to do would be to open the door and talk, but I wasn't willing to do that. I flipped over and pulled the blanket over my head. Soon after I heard a key going into the door . The door opened and I stayed there. I didn't move a bit.
" Nim," Peter sat next to me on the bed and put his hand on my back. " I'm sorry about the way I acted can you just come to dinner."
" I'm not hungry." I sat up and looked at him still sitting there in his uniform.
" What can I do to make it up to you?"
" Be yourself."
" I think I am myself, Nim." I took the hat off of his head.
" No your not." I started to unbutton his uniform jacket. " This guy right here in this uniform isn't you. This is what every solider and general wants you to be." By time I finished his jacket was off and all that was left was a whiten- green tinted T- shirt and his uniform pants. He then grabbed my hand.
" Your right. I'll try a bit more to be myself." He stood up.
" Can I ask you something?"
" Uh yeah."
" When you said that I would get them and myself killed why didn't you punish me like any other solider would?"
" That's just part of the real me." He kissed my forehead and left. I guess I don't know everything about everyone, but I think Peter is a better person then some people might think.


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The definition of aesthetics drafted for 2014 ROOTS Week seems to have stood up usefully: "aesthetics are means by which art and art-making respond to and stimulate sensory and emotional experience, and how such sensory and emotional experiences contribute to meaning. Understood this way, we believe the term can be applied affirmatively and effectively to community-based arts practice for social justice."
This statement was crafted as a positive strategy to counter the common assumption that aesthetics is way of thinking devoted to the establishment of standards of excellence or criteria of evaluation, all too often predicated on the dominant culture. The strategy seemed to work at ROOTS, where the conversation has advanced past defensive posturing to a pretty vital engagement with learning how to talk about the actual sensory and emotional experience of conceiving, making, and receiving art, especially in the context of ROOTS's artistic commitment to working for social, economic, and environmental justice.
The statement itself has come out of a multi-year inquiry into Herbert Marcuse's final work, The Aesthetic Dimension, (1978, 2003) through a class I teach in the MFA program at Virginia Tech. Marcuse wrote his book as a radical, progressive challenge to Marxist aesthetics, which sometimes seems to date the work and make for slow reading. But it is well worth the effort, for he locates art in the realm of human experience through individual sensory perception and emotional life. His now highly acclaimed student Carol Becker writes a helpful review and assessment of his thinking in her essay "Herbert Marcuse and the Subversive Potential of Art," a chapter in her book The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility. (1994)
The idea that every authentic work of art offers public access to a new and perhaps even unique way of seeing, feeling, knowing the world invites the possibility (Marcuse calls it "the chance") of personal transformation, at the experiential level – the only level where real change is possible. In this sense, art offers the opportunity to practice change, to flex the imagination beyond personal habit and life experience. No act can be more subversive, more revolutionary than for citizens to exercise, to expand and, ultimately, to come to own their own imaginations, outside the dictates of social constructs of any kind. This chance for change has within it the strength of the transformation required of the art maker to give form to her/his own experience. To me this is a powerful, even sacred relationship between the maker and the receiver, the storyteller and the story listener. It also locates the chance for change within the individual, the personal, the only starting place for social change, as well as personal.
This matter of giving form to experience and thereby becoming content lies at the crux of art making. It is also where critical thinking is most called on to balance, to provide the response to the call, to complete the circle of art, for art is inevitably connected to community, those who see, hear, receive the art. This inevitability is crucial to acknowledge, in that art is only actualized in the completing of the circle. (I say this in reference to the notion that some art is becoming more "socially engaged." I believe all art is socially engaged. Art cannot occur outside of the social.) This may be more apparent in the ephemeral nature of performance but it is just as true when considering more permanent objects of art, whether literary or material.
In all cases, art calls for response and is thereby connected to community. Of course, the response could be the complacent "ahhhh" of recognition of a status quo, as much as it could be the thrilled "ohhhhh" of surprise and discovery. The challenge to evaluate, to assess, I would like to suggest, lies in finding expressive, responsive language that is predicated on the art itself, on the sensory and emotional form and content of the art, and on the sensory and emotional experience of the receiver, and on the cultural, social, political (community, things of the polis) context of the exchange between the two. Categories, historic movements, aesthetic frames are helpful as they may assist in comprehending the immediate experience. They can easily be misused to apply standards or criteria that are alien to the experience. Response in the oral tradition of call and response is as organically, passionately, empathically constructed as the call itself. So it must be with the expression of response to art.


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Wordless Wednesday #165
>> Wednesday, December 12, 2012
February 2012
Okay, I'm wordless too. Stunning -- the lines, textures, colors ....
That is such a beautiful photo. I love the colors.
Stunning colours and such a serene feel to this photo.
Absolutely stunning!
I love the scenery! the pictures looks pretty good and superb! :)
I'm so glad I didn't open this until today. It's just beautiful, and I was too harried yesterday to have appreciated it!
what a stunning shot you've got! :).. i'm really loving it!
Happy Wordless Wednesday! My entry is here , thank you. - Rebecca -
Thanks everyone - I decided to dive back into old photo files and found this gem. One of those lucky shots.
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Re > that's BAD when you kill off mint.
I've been watching a battle between English Ivy and Chocolate Mint for
several years now. The Ivy has won.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela J. Evans" <email@example.com>
To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] strange gardening year
> Been an odd year here too y'all. We're usually starting to get some rain
> by now. Ha. Just got a 130 dollar water bill for September. Never had
> one that high this time of year. Except for that reprieve on Labor Day,
> we've had nothing measurable since Spring. Good news is got all my
> salvias planted and the lavenders and alliums will be here this week.
> None of this stuff needs much water.
> Been so dry here even some of the mint and lemon balms are dying. Not
> that's BAD when you kill off mint. Oh well. Hopefully the fall rains
> aren't too far off. If it does this next year, give my regards to St
> Louis!
> Pam
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: email@example.com
> Reply-To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:47:03 EDT
> >Donna, it's been a very strange year here, too. I, too, feel as if I am
> >still waiting for summer to start - and others I talk to have said the
same thing.
> >
> > We had one very hot day - 90+ degrees - in April, of all times,
followed by
> >several frosts. That was the hottest day of the so-called summer. I
> >it may have hit 90 one day in early August. The rest of the season it
has been
> >in the low 80s or just the 70s. That is not usual weather for this
area -
> >can't remember another such cool summer. The worst part was that most of
> >time was very cloudy, overcast and humid but not much rain fell. I know
> >others in the area had lots of rain, but we seem to be in a dry pocket of
> >sort - our pond is down about a foot.
> > As for the growing part - my early garden was great. Daffodils were
> >than in many years - the planned succession of bloom really worked so
that I
> >had daffs for nearly two months. Some years they all bloom in one or two
> >weeks. The early perennials were good too, but I've never had a worse
year with
> >seed-starting. Many of the seeds I planted just never came up, and slugs
> >out a lot more. (Even if we didn't get rain, it was so humid that we had
> >awful slug year.) For instance I had to plant beans about three times
before I
> >ever got a good row, and I planted six packets of sunflower seeds and
> >have three pitiful plants. Sunflowers were planted in pots in my
> >garden, in the vegetable garden, and finally I tried starting them
indoors. Even
> >those didn't come up. Can't understand it. I usually have great
> > By midsummer I had given up and bought annuals. Most of these were
> >promptly eaten by deer, which have been much more numerous than usual. I
found a
> >handsome four-point buck breakfasting on my phlox just as they were
looking good.
> > Later they demolished the plantings on my front stoop - impatiens,
> >roses, zonal geraniums, and a couple of large hibiscus plants. About the
> >only thing that survived the various onslaughts and looked great were the
> >cap lilies growing in a large container. They were pretty spectacular
for a
> >few weeks, but of course didn't last after they bloomed.
> > The vegetable garden was also a disaster. Onions, which I usually do
> >with, didn't mature - just browned off at less than an inch in diameter.
> >Others in the area have had the same experience. I think it was lack of
> >- onions are day-length sensitive, I know. After numerous plantings I
> >have had beans, but not a really good crop. Early peas didn't do
> >Many of the squash I planted never came up - after numerous plantings I
> >had a few squash, but not nearly the abundance I usually have. I could
go on
> >and on with the litany of what didn't live up to expectations this year.
> >I was unable to work in the garden as much as I would have liked early in
> >season, but I can't imagine how that would have caused the failures I
> >had.
> > As for weeds - I can't really say they are worse than usual. Just the
> >slugs and the deer and the lack of sunshine.
> >
> > Signs of fall. We are seeing patches of color in the maples, and the
> >dogwoods are beginning to turn. Goldenrod is full and fall asters are
starting. I
> >noticed yesterday that my Colchicums are blooming (I only have a few.)
> >had nights down into the low 50s but this week it has only been the high
> >at night - pretty warm - even though it didn't get out of the 70s during
> >day. Today it is raining - a good, steady rain. We haven't had a rain
> >this before this summer.
> >
> > All in all, a pretty disappointing year - maybe next year will be
> >Of course at my age, who knows what next year will bring.
> >Auralie - NY Z5
> >
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> Kemp TX/zone 8A
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I turned around in my seat, leaning against the one beside me for a better view into the back. I snagged one each of the water bottles off the floor and boxes of snack bars, ripping the latter open and dropping it back down.
Back forward again, I had myself a quick and easy breakfast, watching the sun come up and light the landscape below me.
It was beautiful and all, but it wasn't really my world. As much as I had dreamed of a life in a time before the industrial era, when man had only barely begun to threaten the great beast that was nature, and when there was still as much of a hope and fear of magic in the world, I rightly belonged among computers and technology. Unless...
There was that nagging feeling again. I didn't like admitting to myself the possibility of a higher power, playing dice--or worse, marbles--with the world, and intervening when something wasn't going the way it should. But between my dreams and inability to "wake up," maybe this was where I was supposed to be...
I shook my head, swallowing the rest of the snack bar, washing it down with another swallow of water, before leaning back around.
Twelve bottles of water, including this one, barely started; four six-packs of snack bars, all almond; five lined, spiral notebooks, still shrink-wrapped; two spare pairs of shoes; two boxes of water purifying tablets; a week's worth of clothes; a spare sleep bag and pad; and a walking stick with plenty of memories attached along for the ride. And that was just the backseat.
I cleaned up the passenger's side seat some, whittling the time away for lack of anything to do, procrastinating going anywhere, avoiding admitting this world might be real by refusing to go out and touch it. My CDs went back into their case, more or less in order; my food wrappers, tossed aside while driving, shoved into a garbage bag; and both dropped to the back-seat floor. I climbed over the center consol, grabbed one of the well-read books that remainded on the floor, leaned back the seat, turned to a random page, and started to read.
If I picked up a book involving virtual reality, GoTo 100
If I picked up a book involving multiple worlds, GoTo 200
If I picked up a book involving natural disasters, GoTo 300


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3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
About the Listing
Rare 1-story with 5 bedrooms and large 3 car garage. Totally updated throughout. Gleaming hardwood floors on first level. Beautifully remodeled kitchen with white cabinets and new stainless steel appliances. Finished lower level with family room, 2 egress windows, and new carpet throughout. Lower level master bedroom with large walk-in closet and walk-thru 3/4 bath. Near shopping, schools, and 1/2 block from playground. Convenient commute to downtown with easy access to public transportation.
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Property Details for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 1 Full | 1 Three-Qtr
Lot Size: 0.22 Acres
Lot Dimensions: 75x130
Year Built: 1956
Garage Dimensions: 3 car
Garage: Detached Garage, Driveway - Asphalt, Garage Door Opener
Style: (SF) One Story
Water: City Water/Connected
Sewer: City Sewer/Connected
Square Feet: 2336
Above Ground Sq Ft: 1296
Below Ground Sq Ft: 1040 (approx)
Room Information for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Main Floor
Living Room: 23 x 13
Dining Room: 12 x 09
Kitchen: 17 x 09
Bedroom 3: 13 x 12
Bedroom 4: 12 x 10
Fifth (5th) Bedroom: 12 x 09
Lower Floor
Family Room: 20 x 12
Bedroom 1: 14 x 12
Bedroom 2: 12 x 10
Laundry: 32 x 08
Dining Room Description: Informal Dining Room
Family Room Characteristics: Lower Level, Family Room
School Information for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
School District: Osseo
School District Phone: 763-391-7000
Interior Features for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Appliances: Range, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator, Washer, Dryer
Air Cond: Central
Heating: Forced Air
Fireplaces: No
Basement: (1040 sq Finished) Full, Finished (Livable), Egress Windows, Concrete Block
Exterior Features for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Lot Description: City Bus (w/in 6 blks)
Lot Dimensions: 75x130
Roof: Asphalt Shingles
Zoning: Residential-Single
Financial Considerations for 3907 Janet Lane, Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
Tax Amount: $2,607
Taxes w/Assessments: $2,607
Tax/Property ID: 3411921340030
Tax Year: 2016
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UPDATE 1-Total profit falls on lower oil prices, output
* Q1 adjusted net profit falls 7 percent year-on-year
* Net profit falls 58 percent, hit by one-off Canadian loss
* Sees refining outages in Q2, outlook improving in sector
PARIS, April 26 (Reuters) - French oil firm Total posted a fall in first-quarter profit due to lower oil prices and a drop in oil and gas output, partly offset by a rise in its refining and chemicals business.
Brent crude oil prices have been on a downward trend since February and fell 5 percent over the first quarter versus the year before. They last traded near $102 a barrel.
Total's oil and gas output was down 2 percent in the first quarter versus the year before at 2.323 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, mainly because of the shutdown of the Elgin gas field at the end of March last year after a huge gas leak.
Elgin restarted production at the beginning of March this year and has so far reached half of its pre-accident output.
Total is counting on the start-up of its Angolan liquefied natural gas (LNG) project and Kashagan in Kazakhstan to meet its production growth target of 2 to 3 percent in 2013.
"Total continues to progress with confidence toward achieving its goals," Chief Executive Christophe de Margerie said in a statement. Continued...


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St Paul's cathedral viewed from the
Tate Modern.
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA
It's a criticism often hurled at the Baltic contemporary art gallery in Gateshead that many visitors come only to ride the glass lifts and revel the extraordinary panorama visible from the viewing platform at the top of the building. If you are so minded, you can really feast on the view, even cutting out the pesky art if you so wish, by eating in the (rather posh and expensive) rooftop restaurant. And if you're a woman, you get an extra bonus - the sinks in the ladies' loos are parked right in front of a floor-to-ceiling plate glass window.
It's not the only place where the views compete with the art. Tate Modern in London, for instance, is a fine spot from which to gaze over St Paul's Cathedral. From the sixth-floor roof terrace of the members' room you can have a sunny drink overlooking the Thames; it too has a restaurant on the top of its building, with splendid views.
There's clearly something about museums and rooftop eating opportunities, because I can also think of the Restaurant Georges at the Centre Pompidou, with 360 degree views; the very flash Tower Restaurant atop the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; and the pleasant watering hole at the National Portrait Gallery, which gives over Nelson's Column and the Palace of Westminster.
Funkier than all these, however, is above the temporary premises of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where I was recently for a little weekend jaunt. It's called Restaurant Bar Elf, and it's on the 11th floor of a brutalist former post-office building. Apart from incredible river views from the restaurant itself, from the ladies' toilets you can also see right over the impressive architecture of the new concert hall, the Musiekgebouw. And, like the Baltic ladies' loos, there's a surprise - there's a pair of stalls without a dividing wall, so you can chat intimately with a girlfriend on the lav. If you like that sort of thing.


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Christmas Baubles
On December 25, 2007 by Donncha With 0 Comments - Candid, Canon 20D, Christmas, Cork, Ireland, Lights, Night, People, Photos, Reflections, Sigma 18-200, St Patrick's Street, Street, Urban
Christmas Baubles hang in Porter's newsagent, Cork. Christmas decoration is everywhere but reflective surfaces present an opportunity to take a self portrait. Yes, that's me reflected! 🙂
Hope you had a great Christmas Day. We went travelling and I must say it was the best Christmas Day in a long time. I think I must invest in a WII next year…


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In recognition of physical activity's value as a cornerstone of a more prevention-centered way of caring for the health and wellness of our nation's people ( 1 ), ACE seeks public policies that position well-qualified health and fitness professionals as members of the patient-centered healthcare team, particularly for the prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other lifestyle-related diseases.
ACE calls for public policies that recognize well-qualified health and fitness professionals as part of the healthcare continuum who are equipped to deliver programs and interventions for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle diseases.
There is increasing recognition that physicians simply instructing patients to "eat better" and "get more exercise" isn't working ( 2 ). Patients lack the support and ability to turn that basic guidance into meaningful, long-term behavior change ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ). The U.S. population lacks literacy in the quantity and types of physical activity recommended in the U.S. National Physical Activity Guidelines ( 2 ).
Our healthcare system has begun to evolve to reflect this reality. Preventive and wellness services are among "10 Essential Health Benefits" extended by the Affordable Care Act ( 5 ). Experts broadly recognize that effective prevention could facilitate vast cost savings ( 6 ), but the system has yet to establish how "prevention" occurs ( 7 ).
While physicians and nurses report that they want to help their patients adopt healthier lifestyles, most agree they are not ideally trained, properly situated, nor available in numbers needed to deliver preventive care and wellness interventions on the scale required ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) ( 7 ). What is needed is well-qualified health and fitness experts imbedded in the community—professionals who are culturally competent, affordable and highly accessible—to help individuals establish and maintain sustainable behavioral change long before they become at risk of disease.
Those health and fitness professionals are in communities today, but they remain marginal to the healthcare system. They are not regulated nor particularly recognized as health providers, so there is no construct in which their expertise may be systematically utilized ( 8 ). Their capacity to extend needed interventions into our nation's neighborhoods and communities remains untapped.
ACE calls for public policies that recognize well-qualified health and fitness professionals as part of the healthcare continuum who are equipped to deliver programs and interventions for the treatment of lifestyle diseases. Specifically, ACE advocates for policies that:
The State of Obesity Report: Better Policies for a Healthier America
The Affordable Care Act
CREP Website: www.usreps.org
Time to Act: Investing in the Health of Our Children and Communities
See what policy priorities ACE calls for as the 115th Congress convenes through our 2017 Open Letter to Congress.
The American Council on Exercise has been actively supporting an interesting federal bill, the Personal Health Investment Today (PHIT) Act, throughout the current Congress. Not only is this the first time PHIT has been introduced in both the Senate and the House, but it has reached a new and important milestone in its path toward becoming law—the combined Senate and House bills received sponsorship from their 100th Congressional member on July 17, 2016.
A new volunteer task force comprised of national experts and thought leaders, and supported by a grant from ACE, will examine what it would take for a significant number of healthcare consumers in the U.S. to be prescribed or incentivized to pursue physical activity-based behavior change interventions.
The American Council on Exercise (ACE) put another stake in the ground in its efforts to make physical activity–based behavior-change interventions more integral to the healthcare system. At an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., ACE announced that it is officially joining the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) initiative begun eight years ago by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). This move is one more manifestation of ACE's mission to get people moving.
Effort Highlights Health Benefits of Walking While Addressing Barriers to Access
Scott Goudeseune, CEO and President for American Council on Exercise, Shares Insight on U.S. Supreme Court Decision in King v. Burrell
See what policy priorities ACE calls for as the 114th Congress convenes through our 2015 Open Letter to Congress.
The 2014 "State of Obesity" report that was recently released recommended obesity prevention services be delivered by "a broader array of health providers and entities" in the community setting. It's a significant recognition that will play an important role in bringing well-qualified health and fitness professionals into the healthcare team. Read on for ACE's take.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force released a recommendation that, for the first time, names exercise professionals as providers of behavior change programming -- which includes structured, supervised physical activity -- as part of the healthcare system.
There's been talk lately about what role fitness professionals can play in the healthcare arena, and policymakers in several states have introduced bills that would regulate how fitness professionals could work alongside other allied health professions. ACE working on your behalf to ensure that any legislation that would regulate the profession will protect consumers without creating unnecessary burden or expense for fitness professionals. Here's a look at the current state of these efforts.
1. Institute of Medicine. Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation. May 2012. Retrieved from: ww.iom.edu
2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. May 2010. Accessed January 2014. Accessed from: www.health.gov
3. Pagoto, Sherry L. & Appelhans, Bradley M. A Call for an End to the Diet Debates. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013; 310(7): 687-688.
4. Prevention Institute. Community-Centered Health Homes: Bridging the Gap Between Health Services and Community Prevention. February 2011. Accessed January 2014. Accessed from: www.preventioninstitute.org
5. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Building Healthier Communities by Investing in Prevention. February 2011. Accessed from: www.health.gov
6. Brill, Alex. The Long-Term Returns of Obesity Prevention Policies. April 2013. Retrieved from: www.rwjf.org
7. Partnership for Prevention. Preventive Care: A National Profile on Use, Disparities, and Health Benefits. 2007. Accessed February 2014. Accessed from: www.prevent.org
8. U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook: Fitness Trainers and Instructors. January 2014. Accessed from: www.bls.gov


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