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"Cleave Unto The Lord"
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- Versions: KJV
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"[Barnabas] exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord" (Acts 11:23,24).
This is what the Christian is to do: cleave unto the Lord—abide faithfully with Him—with purpose of heart! Depend on Him. There is power and sufficiency in Christ for all He would have you do or be. Some are allowed a long season of joy on first believing; but God knows our hearts and how soon we begin to depend on our joy instead of Christ. Forget not that Christ, and not our joy, is to be our object.
Sin no longer remains upon you—God has blotted out your sins; but the flesh is in you to the end, and to avoid reaping its bitter fruits we must learn to nip off the buds which the flesh will put forth. No good fruit can come out of the old nature; it is only the new nature that bears fruit unto God. But though the flesh is in you, do not be occupied with its presence; rather, think of Christ, and seek His grace to turn away from the flesh.
As you grow in the knowledge of Christ, a joy comes which is deeper than the first joy. I have known Christ for more than forty years and I can truly say I have a thousand times more joy in Him now than I had at first. It is a deeper, calmer joy. The water rushing down a hill is beautiful to look at and makes more noise, but you will find the water in the plain is deeper, calmer, and more fruitful.
Cleave to the Lord. A distracted or divided heart is the bane of Christians. When we are after something not according to Christ we are away from the source of strength. When the soul is filled with Christ, we have no heart or eye for the trash of this world. If we are living by faith, our guidance will not be: "What harm is there in this and in that?" But rather, "Am I doing this with the approval of my Lord? Can He go along with me in this?"
Do not let the world get into your heart and distract your thoughts. I speak especially to you young ones. They who are older have had more experience of what the world is and know better its true worth. But dear young ones, it all lies shining before you, endeavoring to attract you. Its smiles are deceitful—still it smiles. It makes promises which it cannot keep—still it makes them. Your hearts cannot be satisfied by the world; it cannot fill them. Yet they are too little for Christ; He fills heaven with joy and He will fill your heart to overflowing.
Cleave to the Lord with purpose of heart. He knows how treacherous the heart is and how soon it puts anything in His place. You will indeed have to learn what is in your own heart. But abide with God and you will learn it with Him, with the realization of His grace. If you do not, you will learn it—with bitter sorrow—through the devil's successful temptation.
If you have been getting away from God and other things have come in and formed a crust over your heart, you will not get the joy back all at once. God will have you deal with this crust in true self-judgment as you return to Him. Remember that Christ bought you with His own blood so you are His, not the world's.
Do not let Satan get between you and God's grace. However careless you may have been in getting away from Him, count on His love in turning back to Him. It is His joy to see you back again. Look at the sin with horror, but never wrong Him by distrusting His love. Do not mistrust His grace; do not mistrust His love. He has loved you, loves you now, and will love you to the end.
Talk much with Jesus, your Saviour. Never be content without being able to walk and talk with Him as a dear friend. Be not satisfied with anything short of close communication of soul with Him who has loved you and washed you from your sins by His own blood. Think of what He has suffered—the judgment of sin upon the cross—to make you His own!
—J.N. Darby
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Part of the new "mystery group" bidding on the franchise to operated Thoroughbred racing in New York was revealed March 8.
Officials confirmed it is a joint venture that will include Steve Wynn, a major Las Vegas casino developer who last year expressed interest in the franchise but never submitted a formal bid. He is being joined by Vornado Realty chief Steve Roth, a billionaire, and California real estate developer Richard Bronson, who runs Bronson Cos. The connections were confirmed by Sid Davidoff, a New York City lawyer and lobbyist who is representing the group.
Despite the state's insistence on making this a transparent bidding process, the joint venture added that its partners also includes "a major track operator with substantial experience in running thoroughbred racing facilities.'' Officials with the group declined to identify that operator.
The previous day, the Spitzer administration released the names of six groups – four that previously bid on the franchise and two new companies – that will be part of the next phase of the ongoing battle among some of the industry's elite players to become the new operator of Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga racetracks.
The other new company interested in the franchise is Catskill Off-Track Betting Corp., which is considered a long-shot by industry insiders but could merge with one of the other bidding groups. The other group was not identified except as Thoroughbred Racing NY.
New York Gov. Eliot Spinzer recently said he did not feel obligated to follow a non-binding recommendation by a state panel created before he became governor. That panel recently tapped Excelsior Racing Associates as its choice to run racing in the state. The group's partners include New York Yankees executive Steve Swindal and casino developer Richard Fields.
Also vying is Empire Racing Associates, which placed second behind Excelsior in the recent bidding competition. Empire is a consortium of New York horsemen, Magna Entertainment, Churchill Downs, Delaware North, Woodbine and others. NYRA, which has had numerous run-ins with Spitzer over the years when he was the state attorney general, will also be taking part in the new process. Another company, Capital Play, an Australian firm, originally submitted a bid that was rejected for technical reasons by the state panel. It, too, said it wants Spitzer to consider it as a potential franchise holder.
The Spitzer administration expects a decision before lawmakers end their 2007 session, which is scheduled for the end of June.
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- 1022 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA
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- Cuisine: Vietnamese
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Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malaysian Restaurants and Food in Philadelphia
In Philly, Southeast Asian flavors are the gift that keeps on giving. In Point Breeze, South Philly and Chinatown, along Washington Avenue and even out in the 'burbs, there are enclaves whose composition and abstract representation of geopolitical borders are constantly shifting and changing. This means Thai and Laotian food on traditionally Vietnamese-heavy blocks, and awe-inspiring Malaysian food in Chinatown. It also means a deepening and broadening of available flavors, so if you're looking to explore the subtle differences between Malaysian and Indonesian food, Vietnamese that goes beyond a bowl of pho, or Thai more complicated (and delicious) than a simple plate of pad Thai, there are many options.
So Anthony Bourdain, who is in town filming The Layover tweeted this morning that he was working off his hangover at Pho 75. Joining him for his Vietnamese breakfast was Michael Solomonov.
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We intend to be the first food/travel show to do a cheesesteak-free Philly show. #lettheotherguydoit and no steps
For lunch Bourdain ate lunch at the Old City location of Sichuan hot spot, Han Dynasty. We saw this one coming as Bourdain hung out with Han Chiang last night at Dirty Frank's.
Since then he's gone dark but we expect he's showing up at a Solomonov spot tonight, but which one, Zahav, Percy Street BBQ or Federal Donuts?
We won't have the Arrow Swim Club to kick around anymore. HughE Dillon reports the Northern Liberties swim club is being taken over Brian Nagele who runs the Philly2Night web site and King's Oak on the Piazza. The new concept will be more affordable than the $1,000 memberships sold last summer. Chenango, the restaurant will be rebranded Yellow Fin Grill. [Philly Chit Chat]
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Benny Lai has opened Grill Fish Cafe next to his Vietnam Cafe in West Philadelphia. [Meal Ticket]
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Welcome to the July edition of the 'Computer & Printer Tips' newsletter.
This month, we've got a great feature article covering some handy and useful computer tips and good practices that everyone should know.
We hope your summer is going well so far. Things have been a little smokey out here in California.
We just went through a pretty nasty series of wildfires. I heard that at one point, there was over 1400 different fires going on. Of course a bunch of those were spot fires that were broken off of a larger one, but for about 3 weeks -- the air has been really bad.
My best description is to think of how the sky colors look with a really cool sunset (orange glow), but it's been like that all day, every day for about 3 weeks.
It's been pretty crazy. I've never seen anything like it.
But, things are looking up now and the last couple of days have been beautiful.
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FEATURE ARTICLE: 10 Handy Computer Tips Everyone Should Know
1. Cleaning your LCD monitor
With so many people now having LCD computer monitors, I thinking it's high time we shared how you should clean them.
LCD screens are usually not glass and are much softer than old CRT screens, so they required extra care. Do NOT use household cleaners like Windex or anything else that may contain ammonia, which can damage your display's panel. Use a moist (with only water), lint-free cloth. Napkins or paper towels can leave streaks so fair warning! There is also a special LCD panelcleaner available if you have something tough to get off your screen.
2. Defrag Your Hard Disk
Disk Defragmenter helps Windows arrange your computer files on your Hard Disk more efficiently so they are easier and faster to locate by your computer.
From the Start menu, click on Programs > Accessories > SystemTools > Disk Defragmenter
Defragmenting can take just a few minutes to many hours but you will need 15% or more of free space on the hard disk.
To start the defragmentation process, click the volume that you want to defragment, and then click Defragment.
3. Set a news alert on Google
Are you waiting for the latest information available on something? Did you know that you can receive automatic email updates from Google on any given topic? It's pretty nifty, just go to google.com, and then click on the "news" tab and then "news alerts" in the left-hand column.
After you enter your email address and "Search term", Google will send you relevant news, videos, blogs and more, as it happens or just once a week.
4. Turn your computer monitor into a photo slide show
If you use Windows, you can easily create a slide show screen saver with the photos from your computer in seconds.
Just go to "settings" then "control panel". Next you would click on either "appearance or themes" or "display"
Then, click on "Screen saver" and select "my pictures slideshow" then click "apply".
There are some settings you can play with on this screen but that is basically how you can ooh and ah friends and family as they walk past your idle computer.
5. Changing Text Size on your web browser
If you're like me and have not had laser correction surgery on your eyes that enables you to see a flea at 50 feet (exaggeration), I find increasing the size of text on web sites to be very helpful.
To do this, simply go to your internet browser menu by clicking on "view" then "Text Size", and select a larger size of the text. This tip will help you at many sites but not all.
To change the size of text temporarily, simply hold down the "CTRL" key while you roll the mouse wheel. You can quickly and easily change the font size of what you are reading.
6. Create shortcuts to favorite sites
While working in Internet Explorer, you may want to create a shortcut to a website. To do this, just right-click on the mouse while on the website. Then, click "create shortcut". A shortcut to the website will be created on your desktop.
7. Save as you go
One of the hardest lessons I've learned is the sting of not saving your work in progress. I was once working for hours on a spreadsheet when Excel unexpectedly crashed, which just about never happens. All of the information was lost because I had not saved the progress I had made throughout the day. That's one thing I will never do again.
Get into the habit of clicking the save button every 15 to 20 minutes and you will never have to experience the heartache of lost hours of work.
8. Create custom wallpaper for your computer
Did you know you could have virtually any wallpaper (background on your monitor) on your computer screen?
It's easy, just go to "settings" then "control panel". Next you would click on either "appearance or themes" or "display".
Next, select a background from the ones provided or "browse" to any saved image or photo and click "Apply". There are some other features you can toggle with on the page but that's basically it!
9. Password protect folders in Windows XP
If you share a computer with other users and would like some extra security for your folders, you can create a password to protect it if you use Windows XP.
This is how to do it.
Right-click the folder you wish to protect, then click "Properties". Go to the "Sharing" tab and check the "Make this folder private" box, then click "apply".
10. Back Up your important files regularly
Although computers are more reliable than they used to be, a virus or hardware failure can be a horrible ordeal. Be diligent in saving important documents onto a separate hard drive or flash drive. Family photos are not something to gamble with on a single hard drive. Always have a back up, ideally in a separate location or online.
One of the best ways to keep your photos safe is to have an account with an online company like shutterfly (rated #1 on the net). Then you won't have to worry about your computer failing, getting stolen or catching on fire since your photos are stored in a different location and it's free.
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Get ready for a boogie wonderland when Dave "Joey Negro" Lee hits the decks at the Razor-N-Tape throwdown.
London's disco-loving Dave Lee is a man of many monikers: there's his main nom de musiqueJoey Negro, of course, but there's also Jakatta, Doug Willis, Raven Maize, Agora, Akabu, Plastic Ian and probably about 30 more that we can't think of right now. He has almost as many talents: He's a musicologist, assembling compilations covering the worlds of go-go, garage, No Wave-tinged dance sounds, electrofunk and more; he's the brains behind the hot-to-trot Sunburst Band; he's a supremely adept (not to mention prolific) producer and remixer; and he runs the venerable Z Records, among about a million other things. Oh, he's an absolutely brilliant DJ as well—and he'll be playing one of his infrequent Gotham sets on Friday, April 4, when he joins Brooklyn's own JKriv and Aaron Dae at Le Bain for the Razor-N-Tape soiree. To get the party started early, hit the play button on this exquisite mix of house, boogie and disco, recorded live at Sydney, Australia's Goldfish.
Razor-N-Tape Night with Joey Negro is at Le Bain Friday, April 4.
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Please ignore the fact that this video is from Fox News. The point of the video is the same.
And this is not an isolated incident. I spoke to a man in the city the other day who told me that while he was on unemployment (two years) he was able to fund 7 cruises to the Caribbean. If it doesn't anger you that people can fund vacations, drug habits and bail with you and your families hard earned money then I lost all hope for the US.


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Absolutely, the sense of accomplishment when it all finally comes together is what its all about. I don't know if your like me or not, but now that I've killed a gobbler with my bow, gettin after them with a gun just doesn't hold the same appeal for me anymore. There's no doubt that its the most challenging way to hunt turkeys, but the reward is well worth the effort.
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There's no way on Earth we're going to let this one slide by unnoticed so, please, get your chuckles out of the way: yes, these headphones are really from a company called Fanny Wang, and are assuredly called the On-Ear Wang Headphones. Got it out of your system? Good, because while the name might be a bit of a joke (whether on us or them we're unsure) the On-Ear Wang headphones definitely aren't.
Those familiar with the Monster Beats range of headphones (reviews coming soon) will notice a striking familiarity between the On-Ear Wangs and the Monster Beats Solos, and that's no co-incidence. The Wangs are, to put it mildly, somewhat inspired by the Beats, launched with the same claim of bringing quality audio to the fashion headphone market. However, despite the aesthetic similarities the Wangs aren't that much alike the Beats, and are redesigned both internal and externally to produce a significantly different product.
The outer casing is made from solid plastic, and feels very durable, but the glossy, wavy finish is perhaps not as classy-looking as the matt coating on the Beats. Contrarily, the headband is a little better than that of the Beats, its larger surface area distributing weight over your head more. The choice of red, white or black means that if you are looking at the Wangs as a fashion accessory, you'll be able to match them to your outfit - always an important consideration, we find.
Also 'inspired' by the Beats is the earcups' mounting mechanism, which rocks in a ball and socket-like arrangement, giving good adjustability.The metal ratcheting mechanism for adjusting the headband isn't our preferred option - we'd rather see a self-adjusting system such as that of the Philips The Stretch or AKG Q701 headphones (among others). The Wangs' headband sports hinges, which allow them to fold into a more compact space for transport. These lock into place securely, and their metal construction feels strong enough not to break in normal use. A soft bag is provided for transporting the Wangs about, although we started using a more childishly amusing word for the Wangs' protective sheath.
We like the use of a removable cable, especially this thick and durable-feeling one, as quite frequently they can break well before your headphones, and it's obviously much cheaper to buy a new stretch of wire than a new pair of £160 headphones. One interesting quirk of the supplied cable is its Duo Jack, which provides a headphone jack about a third of the way from the 3.5mm connector, letting you share your music with another person (or more, if you chain a few of these - we hooked up six sets to one iPod nano without any blindingly obvious loss of quality). Having spent our fair share of time on busses 'enjoying' music blasted out of some ruffian's mobile phone it's an addition we can't encourage the proliferation of enough
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Noooooo way I'm beeing haunted by the stuupid name of these 'phones regardless of quality or price. Can you imagine the ( lack of) street cred when asked who makes them!
One fears for the day they launch an in-ear version... "In-ear Wang"
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I reckon a good test would be using the On-Ear Wang to listen to Chorley "Coming in Your Ears" FM. But maybe that's just me.
Perhaps you guys have forgotten about Wang Computers and their good ol' 14 inch Wang monitors.
Greatest headphones name ever!
My headphones cable stopped working 3 months after I bought this from Yogi Computers at amazon. I found out the phone number for warranty service but that number is not valid. Fanny Wang's web site has the same number and says this "please contact Fanny Wang Support at 877-845-4425 toll free".
I finally got their email address and contacted the company for a replacement cable. Fanny Wang said this seller was not an authorized seller and therefore your headphone is not covered under warranty. Seller is accusing Fanny Wang for not honoring their warranty.
I strongly suggest you do not buy this product as warranty coverage will be a hassle.
Mine broke within 3 days. The slider broke. There was enough tension that I could still use them. But the internal wiring frayed after about a year of use. Now I only get sound out of one channel. These phones look great but they're too much money for such made in china low quality. Sorry. Don't pay $150 for phones that will only last you a year.
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4 Things Christians Need to Remember About Gun Control
January 17, 2013
Brian Kammerzelt is an assistant professor and chair of the communications department at the Moody Bible Institute. For more information, visit www.critiquebycreating.com or follow him on Twitter ... Read More
Editor's Note: In light of the Senate's decision to strike down a bipartisan proposal to extend background checks on gun purchases—a proposal that had the support of 54 senators, 80% of the American public and President Obama—we've decided to rerun an article published in January on the complex issue of guns, the regulation of them and how Christians should wrestle with this issue.
January 19 is the controversial "first national gun appreciation day."
As a lifelong gun owner from northern Wisconsin, I appreciate my guns. They hold a lot of personal value to me as a part of our family traditions of hunting and marksmanship. I'm proud of the legacy of responsible gun ownership that has been passed down to me.
For the past five years, I have also lived in downtown Chicago, working alongside others who are combating the epidemic of gun violence in this city—men and women with stray bullet holes in their homes and car doors who regularly lose children in their ministry care to violence. I have stood in candlelight vigils with mothers who have lost children and have listened to their pain.
I know something has to be done.
Despite gun-related violence and deaths being down overall, in a city with some of the toughest gun laws in the country, gun violence is up 25 percent, with over 450 school-aged children having been shot (63 fatally) last year.
This is not some rare catastrophe. Senseless gun related violence is a present reality here in my city and others.
This past Wednesday, President Obama unveiled a comprehensive gun-safety plan aimed at reducing gun violence. The rhetoric is heated, and sides are being chosen.
I do not want to debate. I want to stop the murder of innocents from ever happening. Regardless of your view on guns, I know you do too. Where do we begin?
1. Love God.
Clearly, God in His holiness abhors killing. This means engaging the issue with an extreme bias toward the preservation of all life and the reduction of violence by any means.
Are we being "careful that the exercise of [our] rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak"?
Now, I have made no mention of the implications of those questions to the issue of guns, but if you feel a twinge of defensiveness or pride already, I would challenge you to pray about that.
2. Seek first the Kingdom.
Christians are to be about the work of announcing, building and representing an entirely new kind of reality here and now, on earth as it is in heaven. Our view is to be extraordinarily invested in the immediate concerns of this present reality.
Matthew 6:33-34: "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Concern about the future of America must not prevent us from addressing the brokenness of today.
3. Love others.
The Church should be so invested in the lives of others, especially the "least of these" in society, that when someone exhibits unstable behavior or are threatened by violence, they are surrounded with biblical love and ensured the help they need.
Do we love our "rights" more than we love our neighbor? Are we willing to become neighbors to those surrounded by violence?
Do not doubt for a second that if more of us left our bubbles, abandoned culture wars, locked up our guns safe behind our legal right to own them and brought the physical presence of Christ into the communities stricken by violence, we would see dramatically less devastation—by gun or otherwise. Not a single new law would need to be passed, and the 2nd Amendment would be safer than ever.
4. Love your enemy.
Loving others also means seeing your neighbor the way Jesus instructs—including those you might vehemently disagree with or even despise.
It means patience with that friend in your social media feed who has strong opinions but seemingly little understanding, or hearing out organizational leaders calling for dramatic solutions that ignite your ire, or praying for the perpetrators of mass shootings. This even includes the "enemy" of gangs doing much of the killing and literally persecuting communities.
So, where does all this leave us?
I can get behind controlling a certain level of lethal technology, extensive background checks and waiting periods—including private sales. I am for all federal efforts to remove as many illegal weapons from circulation as possible. I will not oppose laws to restrict with fierce prejudice the sale of firearms or ammunition to criminals or the mentally ill. I'll advocate to reduce the glorification of gun violence in video games and movies if criminals or the mentally ill are using those images to validate violence. I welcome the day when media outlets stop turning killers into "celebrities" for the deranged through sensational coverage.
Honestly, whether these laws change or not does not trouble me. Would I be willing to give up my guns in northern Wisconsin if it would save a life in downtown Chicago? Yes. If it came to it. A thousand times over.
It would be a shame to give up rights for measures that don't ultimately make a difference. What would be an even greater shame is if we allowed legal ends to satisfy our regained consciousness that something must be done. We mustn't allow legal debates to defer our personal responsibility to combat the issue of violence.
I'm not kept up at night by whether or not I'll be able to own any rifle I want. "Love God, seek first the Kingdom, love your neighbor ..."
That keeps me up at night.
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loving others does not mean not defending ones self. By this logic we should not, as a nation, maintain a standing army as this would not be loving others. But nowhere is Israel commanded to lay down arms, nor does Christ state that we are to never be capable of self defense. Almost noone who is not a criminal is against gun control. we all want guns controlled away from criminals, the mentally ill, terrorists, and children. But increasing paper work does NONE of that. No proposed legislation has had any measures to keep guns out of the hands of those who would use them to kill and terrify. Criminals dont obey laws. They dont sign up for background checks. Background checks that do not disclose anything about mental illness or any crime committed before the age of 18 btw. Christ doesnt want us to be gun toting whackos.. he also disnt stand up and command that swords be turned in, or that soldiers couldnt be believers. I love my neighbors and I own a gun. the two are in no way related. There is a big difference between murder and putting a hole in someone who invades my home intent on raping or killing me or my loved ones.
The utopian ideal from the last paragraph of point #3 will not come about by our own doing. No amount of Christians living out the Kingdom will redeem the world and make for less violence and less laws needed. The whole point of the gospel is that we need a savior because we can't do it on our own. So sure, shoot for that utopia but you will always fall short no matter what political side you reside. It's this imperfection in us and ourselves that drive us to scream "Lord come soon!" And no matter what side of the issue you are on, ask yourself, If I see someone in danger, am I going to pray and lock up my gun, or am I going to do something to save that person? Are we not also to be protectors of the beaten as well as our families?
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I think this article has a lot of problems, and I won't get anywhere near to addressing all of them, but some of this cannot go uncommented.
Let's start with the "LOVE GOD" section. If God simply "abhors killing" then He would not have instituted the death penalty for murder in the Torah and then reaffirmed the right of governments to apply it in the Apostle Paul's letters. Rather, what God clearly abhors is murder. The accurate translations of the 10 Commandments include "thou shalt not murder", not "thou shalt not kill". Our God also commanded quite a lot of killing in the Torah and historical books for a God Who "abhors killing". So I suspect that you started reasoning from a profound misconception about the God that you discuss.
Next, under "Love Others", there's a question demanding to be asked: Why can't I love my neighbor enough to want to prevent him from being murdered? What justification is there for disarming myself, so that I am unable to stop that injustice? No, just as God does not simply "abhor murder", He also does not want His people powerless to oppose oppression. There is a time when surrounding the broken person with Christ's love is the appropriate response, and there is a time when the only moral response is to choose to love your neighbor enough to protect him from the brokenness of others.
Now, your conclusion assumes much that is not evident. Would giving up your guns in Wisconsin save a life in Chicago? No, I suggest it would not. Chicago, having some of the strongest gun restriction laws in the nation, also has one of the highest rates of gun violence. That relationship is observable in every city in America that has strong anti-gun laws. Disarming you because criminals in Chicago possess guns is pointless, because it never works.
Most Americans have been taught to put the locus of evil in the weapon instead of in the person using it, so this response of calling for more gun control laws has become commonplace. But on any rational grounds, it's a non-starter. Further, you have to understand the underlying purpose behind that teaching: once people believe that evil does not lie in the heart of the murderer but in the weapon that enabled his crime, then it is no longer a large step for them to deny that he, or they themselves, need that evil rooted out by the transforming power of Jesus. What I'm saying is that the common response to gun control is closely linked to a social conditioning that prepares people to evade the most important relationship they could have: at it's root is a doctrine designed to keep them separated from God. Allowing Christ to clear away those veils puts everything, gun control included, in a very different light.
In the darkness to come, God's people must pray, and they must love with Christ's love, a love which is also wise, and the wise ones will arm themselves.
http://www.freethought.mbdojo.com/guns.html has a thoughtful discussion of the topic. Personally, I have difficulty imagining Jesus returning fire - no matter what the circumstances.
A few random thoughts:
1. As Christians, we are to respect our authorities. This is first, the Constitution of the United States; then that of our States; then our local county, municipality, community, etc. All of the above are under the Authority of the Constitution if you are a Citizen of the USA. That stated, the issue of gun control is that of Constitutional authority/recognition. 2nd ammendment has been clear from inception; but is muddied by our distance and increased firepower. Until we have legislative action that is upheld by the Supreme Court, we have the right to bear arms.
2. Also, a prior comment or two pointed out that an increase in laws controlling guns has no effect on diminishing firearm related deaths. Where the laws are the strictest, the rate of murder per capita is highest. The folks doing the murdering are not going to be impacted by laws that restrict firearms. The impact will be upon the law abiding citizen that will end up unable to defend himself and his family.
3. The problem of the heart of man is central. Since we have a constitutional system that allowed the proliferation of firearms, they are everywhere and readily available to the evil-doer and the mentally unstable.
Conclusion? In submission to the ruling authority God has placed over me, I will "cling" to my guns in order to defend my home and family from those who would do harm. Full disclosure: I cannot claim a heritage of gun ownership (Suburban/City Northeasterner by heritage) and I am not a hunter. I do have a concealed carry license. I will not use my firearms to protect my property, as it is replaceable; Life is not.
Thank you for this view. It gives me some points to chew on.
Well stated brother Brian. The operating principle for Christians is not the 2nd amendment but rather The Kingdom of God. IN my blog I raised the question Where are the disciples of Christ in the gun debate. I'm glad to see that you are present proclaiming your "thus saith the Lord" .


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I'd love to try the Lexus IC given my very positive experience with the Lexus speaker cables. In the meantime I think I'll experiment with a minimalist DIY copper IC and see if I like the results.
In a sense, Crimson is minimalist copper. Lexus has 50 strands (!) of copper. Lexus is the warmest, richest sounding Audio Note cable. If you find Vx clinical in the least, you will likely love Lexus. The sonic difference between Lexus and Crimson is that the former sounds thicker, fuller, richer, less informative. That said, it is very good stuff that makes many folks very happy. It is especially good at taming bright, lean systems if that's what you want or feel you need to do. But it does hold a good deal of what's on recordings back. It has a tendency to do the blending that some of us prefer to do with our own ears. That's its trade-off. It's a comparison worth making.
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DMV to Open April 29 in Georgetown; New IDs Coming
Mayor Vincent Gray and other D.C. officials cut the ribbon April 14 for the soon-to-reopen Georgetown service office of the Department of Motor Vehicles after its nearly two-year absence. As it was previously, the office is located in the Georgetown Park retail complex at 3222 M St., NW. Entry for the DMV center is the one at the western M Street entrance of the retail complex for DSW and Washington Sports Club.
The Georgetown DMV will open for business April 29: hours are 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The new 12,000-square-foot space has 150 seats and is twice the area as the old center; it is on the lower level. On average, the Georgetown DMV has handled 500 persons per day; the new center will be able to handle at least 600 per day.
Speaking at the morning press conference were Gray, council members Jack Evans of Ward 2 (where the DMV office is located) Mary Cheh and advisory neighborhood commissioner Bill Starrels -- along with Brian Hanlon, director of the D.C. Department of General Services, and Lucinda Babers, DMV director -- and representatives of landlord Vornado Realty Trust and contractor Davis Construction.
Babers said she was grateful for all the teamwork to make the DMV office return to Georgetown after its May 2012 closing. Declaring it "a beautiful at the DMV," Babers said, "It takes a village." Meanwhile, she noted DMV workers were undergoing employee training.
Also coming are new requirements for DMV-issued identification cards. There are already newly designed driver IDs. On Oct. 1, updated federal IDs will be required for entry into federal buildings -- a particularly acute need for those who work and live in D.C. The REAL ID Act will require revalidation of all driver's licenses in the years ahead. By April 1, 2016, old IDs regardless of expiration date will not be acknowledged for air travel by the Transportation Security Adminstration.
DMV will notify those whose IDs will become obsolete, Babers said, and assign appointment times to come into the DMV center to revalidate. Baber said DMV has issued 541,000 driver or non-driver IDs.


text: VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lori McClenahan, President, Intigold Mines Ltd. and St. Elias Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SLI) (PINKSHEETS: SELSF) (US Clearing Symbol: SELSF) (FRANKFURT: EKL) (collectively the "Companies"), announces today the following update and overview with respect to the Cueva Blanca Gold Property (the "Property") located in northwest Peru. The Property is owned 100% by St. Elias Mines Ltd. Intigold Mines Ltd. has an option to acquire a 60% interest in the Property. The Companies have initiated field studies in the Cueva Blanca area in preparation for diamond drilling. At this time, it is anticipated that very little field work will be required prior to mobilizing drilling equipment and crews to the site. The initial drilling targets include the Cruz vein, the Cruz breccia bodies as well as the Bi-Hg quartz manto zone. The economic targets at the property are gold and silver. The Companies have recently been approached by Compania de Minas Buenaventura to conduct a review of the property. The Companies are taking this into consideration. Cueva Blanca Property Agreement Intigold acquired an option to earn a 60% carried interest in the Property, subject to a 1.5% net smelter return royalty ("NSR"), from St. Elias in consideration of Intigold making cash payments of $200,000 to St. Elias over a two-year period, issuing 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of Intigold to St. Elias and incurring $1.5-million in exploration expenditures on the Property over a three-year period. In addition, Intigold has the right to purchase one-half of the 1.5% NSR from St. Elias for the sum of $1,500,000, thereby reducing the NSR payable from 1.5% to 0.75%. Cueva Blanca Property The Property covers approximately 5,000 hectares (50km2), and is located in the Lambayeque department in northwestern Peru, within the Northern Peru Miocene metallogenic belt. This belt is defined by a large number of world-class gold and copper-gold deposits of similar age (5-25 million years). Giant gold deposits within this belt include Yanacocha, Lagunas Norte, and Pierina. Also of great importance are world-class Cu+/-Au porphyry deposits such as Rio Blanco, Canariaco, La Granja, Cerro Corona, Minas Conga-Galeno-Michiqillay, Magistral, and Antamina. The giant gold deposits and the Cu-Au porphyries often occur in clusters (e.g. Yanacocha-Conga-Galeno-Michiqillay). Discrete vein and breccia-hosted deposits of gold and polymetallic mineralization occur adjacent to some Cu porphyry deposits. The Cueva Blanca property is bordered to the south and southeast by mineral concessions of Vale S.A. Barrick Gold holds extensive mineral concessions four kilometres to the north. The Property lies within the northern member of a pair of profound east-west tectonic warps that cross northern Peru. These flexures are marked by an abrupt change in the direction of the regional geological trend from northwest to east-west. Within the southernmost of these tectonic features is the multi-million ounce Yanacocha gold mine and numerous Cu-Au porphyry deposits. Both the northern and southern structures are on the order of 60-80 km wide; they extend right across the Andes from the Pacific Ocean to the Amazon River Basin.


text: CHICAGO, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cars.com, the leading online automotive marketplace, today announced a strategic investment in RepairPal, the leading online source for auto repair. The investment positions Cars.com to further develop the service category with solutions for consumers seeking help and advice when it comes to maintaining their vehicles, and for dealerships looking to boost their service business. "Cars.com has always been a trusted and credible source of information in the shopping process. Consumers rely on us at all stages of buying for research, advice and reviews to guide their vehicle and dealership selection," said Cars.com president, Mitch Golub. "But when it comes to maintaining a vehicle, there is a lot of confusion among consumers. We see an opportunity to transform the repair category and provide vehicle owners the same credible advice they have come to depend on us for when it comes time to service or repair their car." "More than 86 percent of cars on the road today are past warranty. At a time when vehicle owners are holding onto their cars longer than ever, it's critical that they have access to high quality independent information about repairs, maintenance advice and associated costs," said RepairPal CEO, Art Shaw. "We are excited to deepen our relationship with Cars.com and work together to bring their audience new solutions for managing vehicle ownership." Cars.com also intends to develop new offerings to help its local dealer partners reach vehicle owners in need of service and repair and to more effectively compete for their business. "We already see a high level of interest in service and repair from our visitors. In fact, more than a quarter of dealership reviews on our site are about a service and repair experience," said Golub. "By providing our large audience access to even more credible information about service and repair providers, we can help drive additional value to our advertisers' business, driving results for their fixed operations, in addition to new and used car sales," Golub added.


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Mastodon's Sixth Studio Album Nears Completion
We broke the news not too long ago that Mastodon had finished recording their sixth studio album. The hugely anticipated record is expected for a summer release, but the entire process isn't done yet. In a message posted on Mastodon's Facebook page, the band reveals the record is now in the mastering process.


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Lionel No. 1024 Two Hand Controlled Switches 1 right and 1 left made 1946 - 1952
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This is for 2 Lionel No. 1024 Hand Operated Switches 1 right hand and 1 left hand. Both are missing the directional flags but those are always missing and are easy enough to replace. These 2 switches were made from 1946 to 1952 then the N0. 1022 switch took over in 1953. These 2 switches are in great condition, very little to no rust. Both switches work great look at the pictures and you can see that I have moved the switch handle to several different locations to show freedom of movement. You can look at the pictures and judge for yourself. I have included a lot of pictures in very high resolution so that you can see all of the identifying marks that are talked about on several of the search sites. I am basing my conclusions on ( ) they have more information that any of the others. This car came with several other Lionel items that have been in a climate controlled storage unit for over 35 years until I bought it at auction a while back. I will be listing all of what I have remaining over the next few weeks.


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Top Ten Alternative Love Songs
It's hard out there for an indie in love. On one hand, you want to put on a love song in the background while you make your other half your speciality (spaghetti bolognese, obv), but on the other hand, if you have to put on Whitney Houston or Chris de Burgh you may stick your head in the oven a lá yer wan from An Triail.
Well, fear not, because the indie, rock, electro and rock n roll worlds are jammed with beautiful love songs that would defiantly face off with 'Bleeding Love' any day of the week. Here is Ramp.ie's pick of the bunch.
15. 'Tim, I Wish You Were Born a Girl' – Of Montreal
To kick things off, an ode to bromance. Lads, have you ever looked at your mate and just wished that there was a girl that encompassed all the qualities that he holds? That would sit around all day with you and make you food and sleep in late with you? Well, this is the song for you.
Key lyric: 'I'm not saying you can't be all these things for me / But it's just not the same because you're a man and so am I.'
14. 'I Will Follow You Into the Dark' – Death Cab for Cutie
The indie band championed by TV's most perfect 'geek' Seth Cohen, Death Cab for Cutie have always been a dab hand at the aul' love songs, although usually with a healthy dose of teen angst. However, 'I Will Follow You Into The Dark' is a more straightforward ditty, with Ben Gibbard promising his love that he will follow her through everything, even into death. Simple and sweet.
Key lyric: 'Love of mine some day you will die / But I'll be close behind'
13. 'Such Great Heights' – The Postal Service
Who says songs have to be slow with a piano solo to be romantic? Electropop duo The Postal Service (and that's Death Cab's Ben Gibbard on vocals) gained cult exposure with this tune, which is the essence of young love. Who cares if you're a million miles away from each other? Obviously God hand-crafted the pair of you for each other. Preach, Ben (we'll ignore your failed marriage to Zooey Deschanel).
Key lyric: 'I'm thinking it's a sign / That the freckles in our eyes are mirror images / And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned'
12. 'Fade Into You' – Mazzy Star
This '90s classic is an ode to that universal feeling of falling in love with an imperfect person. Hope Sandoval's vocals inject a rawness into the song that perfectly depicts the heartache of being head over heels for someone that doesn't understand how you are feeling.
Key lyric: 'I think it's strange you never knew'
11. 'Do You Realize?' – Flaming Lips
Clarity truly comes after a massive hallucinogenic trip. We'd have never thought of Wayne Coyne as a romantic, but 'Do You Realize?' is actually a proper love song, with compliments and touching sentiment. But then he tells his loved one that everyone she knows is going to die, and we're right back in Flaming Lips territory.
Key lyric: 'Do you realize / that you have the most beautiful face'
10. 'Heartbeats' – The Knife
Many may prefer the acoustic José Gonzalez version off the Sony ad, but the original electropop version is miles better. A modern depiction of young love, where the two stars of the show are caught up in the highs of a drug-fuelled, brief, passionate affair.
Key lyric: 'We had a promise made / We were in love'
9. 'The Book of Love' – The Magnetic Fields
Ignore the Peter Gabriel version, and appreciate this truly beautiful song. The best song off their 1999 album of love songs that have nothing to do with love, 69 Love Songs, 'The Book of Love' explains how stupid and boring and confusing the concept of love actually is, but how wonderful it is to be in love with somebody all the same.
Key lyric: 'I love it when you give me things / And you, you ought to give me wedding rings'
8. 'No One's Gonna Love You' – Band of Horses
Not all love songs are happy and joyous. Band of Horses' beautiful 'No One's Gonna Love You' is the essence of being hopelessly in love in a problematic relationship. Even though the relationship is tough, Benjamin Bridwell sings that his feelings for his love will never be exceeded by anyone.
Key lyric: 'And anything to make you smile / It is my better side of you to admire'
7. 'Home' – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
But then there are the love songs that are so happy that you can't sit down when listening to them. This monster summer hit from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, as well as being a foot-stomper, has some of the loveliest lyrics to serenade your other half with. It's not mushy or sentimental, but the chorus ('Home is wherever I'm with you') is a beautiful statement of love.
Key lyric: 'Alabama Arkansas / I do love my ma and pa / Not the way that I do love you'
6. 'Tender' – Blur
Amongst the 'woo-hoo's and the Cockney raps, Blur have come out with a fair deal of romance. 'Tender' is the most obvious of the bunch. One of the only songs on our lists that doubles as a festival anthem.
Key lyric: 'Love is the greatest thing'
5. 'Everlong' – Foo Fighters
This is probably the other one that doubles a festival anthem. Everyone loves a love song that you can headbang to.
Key lyric: 'I wonder / When I sing along with you / If everything could ever feel this real forever / If anything could ever be this good again'
4. 'Lovesong' – The Cure
The Goths are the best at feeling emotion, so it's obvious that Robert Smith has come up with some of the finest love songs in the alt genre. Smith's distinctive vocal and the melancholy music may make you think that there is a negative underside to the song, but when you read the lyrics, this is a pretty straightforward love song – just with a touch of eyeliner.
Key lyric: 'Whatever words I say / I will always love you'
3. 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' – The Smiths
A less straightforward narrative comes from that romantic divil himself, Morrissey and co. Only The Smiths can provide us with a love song that features death by articulated lorry.
Key lyric: 'And if a double-decker bus / Crashes into us / To die by your side / Is such a heavenly way to die'
2. 'Maps' – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Another emotionally-fuelled depiction of a crumbling relationship, but one that has become the quintessential indie love anthem. Lead singer Karen O has said that the tears she sheds in the video were actually real, and were a result of her boyfriend turning up late to the video shoot. Love hurts.
Key lyrics: 'They don't love you like I love you'
1. 'God Only Knows' – Beach Boys
And finally, one of the best love songs ever written, and it comes from one of the most innovative and influential rock bands of all time. Sweet, frank, to the point and utterly charming – a love song that you can adore and still hang onto your musical street cred. The perfect love story, really.
Key lyric: 'If you should ever leave me / Though life would still go on, believe me / The world could show nothing to me / So what good would livin' do me / God only knows what I'd be without you'


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Becoming a victim is a devastating and baffling experience, because it does not make SENSE.
It generally implies NOT to have the money to instruct a solicitor.
And solicitors may have been part of the problem in the first place.
The only way to 'fight back' may therefore be as a Litigant in Person (LIP). This is a harrowing experience for many different reasons.
This blog is the result of victim experiences first hand.
Related articles
- WANTED: Good Barristers for Victims of White Collar Crimes (bestbarristers.wordpress.com)
- Family Courts without a Lawyer: A Handbook for Litigants in Person [Paperback] (alisonsgypt.wordpress.com)
- Pure Public Interest Cases – without benefit from the litigation – don't deserve legal aid funding (victims-unite.net)


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Microsoft Patent Would Automatically Silence Phones In Movie Theaters
The company's idea would dim the phone's screen and make alerts less distracting when GPS signals and certain lighting or sound factors were met.
Microsoft has filed a patent that would cause a phone to automatically silence itself, dim the screen, and make alerts and notifications less distracting. This would trigger when GPS signals and certain lighting or sound factors were met, in areas like movie theaters or concerts. This technology is different from other approaches, like special seats for people addicted to their phone.
The patent for an 'Inconspicuous mode for mobile devices', spotted by InfoWorld, states that the device's features are modified to better suit an environment where individuals don't want to be disturbed.
While in the inconspicuous mode, specific features may be disabled such as sound, and the appearance of the display may be changed. For instance, the brightness may be decreased, the contrast may be increased, and all information and notifications may be removed from the homescreen except for a limited number of items (like the time) that could be user-selectable.
A device could enter the inconspicuous mode upon user request or by detecting at least one environmental condition (like ambient light or sound) using the device's sensors. This may reflect that the user is in a darkened theater or is about to go to bed. It could then return to the normal mode of operation again by user request or when the environmental condition is no longer present.
Other conditions could also be used to determine when the phone enters (and possibly exits) the inconspicuous mode, such as GPS signals that reveal it is in a theater or a calendar app that shows the user will be attending the theater at a certain date and time.


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Thursday, January 3, 2013
The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off by Erik Hollnagel
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- Ben WhitmerJanuary 5, 2013 at 5:06 PM
OK, I'm 0 for 3 on favorite theorists. Who do you suggest I read on decision making?ReplyDelete
You're not 0 for 3, all these writers have something to offer to the soup of knowledge; it's your responsibility to identify the bits that make sense and integrate them into your worldview. You might check out Henry Mintzberg, a more traditional management theorist, who talks about the art, craft and science of decision making. He has an overview video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvXu3lSSG0). For more info, look for his paper "Decision Making: It's Not What You Think."ReplyDelete
- Bill MullinsJanuary 7, 2013 at 2:04 PM
I haven't read Henry Mintzberg since the 90's then he made a vivid and positive impression(trust those Canadians to be down to Earth).
As for Hollnagel (and his friends Woods and Leveson: cf. "Joint Cognitive Systems" (2005) and Resilience Engineering (2006)) I think your comment on "peripatetic academic" may be a little harsh but not entirely faulty.
My difficulty in these Hollnagel offerings is that we have a psychologist (presumably knowledgeable about the neural network learning character of mammal brains) trying to make peace with the typical peripatetic engineer's (meaning PhD's in academic settings and in professional society leadership)demand for linear-sequential simplicity (i.e. Dekker's Newtonian/Cartesian analytic paradigm).
Hollnagel should know that the marvelous linear reductionism of the slide-rule is useful only in the least complex decision-making challenges. It seems unlikely he's read Drift into Failure.
The more I think about Hollnagel's stance, the more I'm aware of a paradox; by any neuroscience basis, decision-making is a process on-going continually in every mobile sentient species from slime-molds to Superbowl winners - why does it get so much attention?
What is unique with humans is the added capacity we have for Sense-Making. Its character as imperfect process seems, from the complexity perspective, to be an integral feature. Without the diversity of views and the contingent (i.e. provisional) character Sense-Making we'd seeming lack self-awareness and capacity for directed agency.
One way of describing the Slide-Rule Simplification Theorem of the Engineering profession is that it provides the basis for a presumption: that well-validated standards, found in books and gained by training and experience, obviate the need to spend much time on Sense-Making.
Up to a some degree of complication the progression: recognizable problem-statement, to handbook, to solution, does allow the practitioner to focus on outcomes. We can see that minimal original thought need be given to the "as found" condition. And most of engineering practice would seem to be safely conducted within these boundary conditions.
But the TMI's, Chernobyl's, Challenger's, Columbia's, Deepwater Horizon's and Fukushima's demonstrate that the Slide Rule Simplification Theorem is not fully scalable over the range of circumstances we humans routinely encounter. From that realization, the very notion of "resilience engineering" is painfully inept.
Acquiring added resilience through scenario modeling and response rehearsal I readily accept. The notion, that the practice of engineering governs such scenario building is a false as it is ubiquitous. It is neurologically nonsense.
This observation is not of course to underestimate the breadth and virulence of assertions to the contrary. But I think that John Kay's observation on the first page of "Obliquity" should be a more widely sobering one:
"The answer I realized was that our customers didn't really use [our] models for their decision making either. They used them internally or externally to justify decisions that they had already made."
I would make one quibble with Kay - using models as an aid to Sense-Making does support understanding about what our nefarious mind had settled upon as "my answer." Even when we "decided with confidence" there is typically lots of detail work to be done. And only in the nuclear industry is such detail scripted to the Nth degree!
Still, if we were to focus more on Simon's "satisficing" as the measure of enough sense-making in advance of testing our hypothesis, we might be less hung up about trying to standardize "decision-making" to conform with the Slide-Rule Simplification Theorem.
- Ben WhitmerJanuary 7, 2013 at 6:06 PM
Let me weigh in as a practitioner. First, the quote from Kay reflects my experience of twelve years as "the human performance guy", trying to get managers to understand their role and adjust their own behaviors to counter drift away from safety. I had only limited success - a few maintenance managers and one engineering boss - as the reflexive response to any new data, theory, technique, role-play, etc. was to try and apply the 'learning' to other, not-manager people. Second, regarding Hollnagel and the 'bits that make sense', it makes compelling sense to me that one probably can identify a lexicon of typical responses to the pulsing, unruly work environment. Hollnagel calls it "local optimization", and it is as good as any map that I have seen of the ground-level catalog of responses to mismatches among goals and resouces within the context of the leader-constructed culture (Schein's underlying assumptions). Recall the mapping of the ETTO model on the well-documented Herald of Free Enterprise event. Knowledge of these 'typical' behavioral responses, plus grounding in the effects of a negative reporting culture I found to be like a waterhole in the desert of practical role modeling for nuclear managers. Hollnagel's suggestion to apply thoroughness mandates at key points in processes as a remedy is another gift. Extending the model to organizational behavior is more tenuous, granted. But as a short list of traits for senior leaders to avoid, his ain't bad. Finally, I personally don't see a conflict with Dekker, especially with his evocation of control theory. One might serve to actualize the other at the line level. I humbly subscribe to the idea that there is often something to be gleaned from a theorist who has not found the Sorcerer's Stone, and time will spent to take it up and use it.ReplyDelete
Sounds alot like satisficing to me.ReplyDelete
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Director Ron Howard is thankful the Internet wasn't around when he was rising through the ranks as a young actor in Hollywood.
"Let me just say, every so often something pops on the Internet and I am saying, 'I'm glad it wasn't around when I was 19 years old,'" he laughed as he hit Access Hollywood Live on Friday to promote the Project Imaginat10n Film Festival with Canon U.S.A.
PLAY IT NOW: Ron Howard Champions Project Imaginat10n
While speaking with Access Hollywood Live's Kit Hoover and guest co-host Donny Deutsch, the "Happy Days" and "Andy Griffith Show" legend said he marvels at how tough it is for young, rising stars these days.
"It is intense and I think that you must be aware of it," he said of scrutiny placed on new talent, when Donny asked him about Jodie Foster's recent essay about Kristen Stewart and the price of fame. (Click HERE to read more about Jodie's essay.)
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Behind The Lens: Hollywood's Directors
"Politics, professional sports, all of it," Ron continued of the groups that can have trouble in the spotlight. "If you're not sort of willing to understand that should I actually gain the profile that I'm dreaming of, along with it is going to come this other level of scrutiny.
"It's a kind of funny thing of what technology has done. We didn't need big brother to have '1984,'" he said. "We invited it into our lives because of all the other great things that come with it. And to me, there's a tremendous irony that all of us face a measure, a level of scrutiny that we never had before."
And Ron will be part of the journey for a new crop of rising stars who are coming into the limelight as part of the Project Imaginat10n film festival.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Young Hollywood: Then & Now
Earlier this week, Canon announced that with Ron, they have a partnership with directors Eva Longoria, Jamie Foxx, Biz Stone, Georgina Chapman and James Murphy.
The celebs will take inspiration from consumer submitted photos and head behind the camera to direct short films. Those films will then be unveiled at the upcoming film festival.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Hollywood Redheads
For more information about submitting photos, visit imagination.usa.canon.com.
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Prime Minister Recep Erdogan defended the actions of his Justice and Development Party(AKP in the present conflict with the Constitutional Court of Turkey. He told women delegates to the AKP that his party is not the one responsible for the current crisis over threats by the Constitutional Court to declare the AKP leaders as violating the constitution by their efforts to impose Muslim laws upon the secular nation. Erdogan sharply denied there was any such attempt, and he emphasized his belief in separation of powers and his respect for the "principle of the supremacy of law which applies to everyone."
A court statement released last week charged the Erdogan government of attempting to stack the court system with judges who support their points of view. It also charged his administration is endeavoring to influence the current closure case dealing which seeks to close down the AKP. A spokesperson had responded to the court statement by claiming the behavior of the courts was "eroding the public trust in the judiciary."
President Gul, who is a member of the AKP, is trying to bring together representatives of various political parties in an effort to end the constitutional crisis. The Chief Prosecutor is asking the Constituional Court to impose a five year ban on 71 politicians, including 33 AKP members as well as Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul.


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EJ Manuel Cleared To Return To The Bills
Buffalo N.Y.-Word today from the Buffalo Bills that Quarterback EJ Manuel has been cleared to return to the team.
It will be up to Head Coach Doug Marrone to decide whether to use Manuel this Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The team on the road.
Manuel has been sidelined for the last several weeks after suffering a knee injury during a game in Cleveland.