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Her House
When Niko and Roman are driving around after their apartment burns down, doesn't Roman ring Mallorie and ask if her Cousin has any houses thay can stay in? Biggest gta fan ever 07:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
- Yes. HuangLee 02:41, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
Mallorie Pregnant?
Mallorie is pregnant? is there any picture for proof? If not, it does'nt matter whether she mentioned this or not. This article will NOT be true without images. Captain Seven-Twenty 21:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- From what I understand she reveals, or it is revealed, that she is pregnant in the final mission. Also, this article WILL be true with or without a picture of her pregnant, especially as she might not yet be showing, as she may have only just become pregnant. A reference is a much better option and as I am not a particular fan of GTA IV, I can't find an in-game reference. Maybe someone who has played through can verify this. A-Dust 22:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- There is reference of exactly who reveals it:
- She is also revealed to be pregnant at the end of the "Revenge" storyline. Roman calls Niko and comforts him telling him not to blame himself for Kate's death, Roman reveals Mallorie is pregnant and if it is a girl, they will name it Kate. At the end of the 'Deal' storyline where Roman is killed, Mallorie reveals that she is pregnant and that the child will struggle without a father.
- I will rewrite it to not only follow propper English rules, but to say exactly when it is revealed. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 22:30, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- There is reference of exactly who reveals it:
- In that case I can't help. It has been a long time since I played it, and any referencing I did would be a memory-based guess, and not actual fact. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:09, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I think I have a better picture than the inaccurate artwork we currently have.Can we use my picture instead? HuangLee 02:41, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
- It's a wiki! Upload it, add it to the page. If it gets reverted, OK. If not, we keep it. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 09:48, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Gotcha.But we've got another picture now.Not mine,but it's good. HuangLee 23:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Is it ever explained why Mallorie sleeps with Vlad and cheats on Roman? (Stebner603 02:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC))
Mallorie is so pretty... just putting it out there. Bun um bum bom!--TheLost~JohnnyKlebitz 03:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


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Unfortunately I could never get this published but it is a pretty good article. It has been sitting in my drafts for a few weeks but I though I would share it, Enjoy.
In 2008 readers watched the financial markets correct via the start of the Great Recession. Instead of letting the correction run its course, the government decided trying to inflate its way out of the recession via spending rather than facing true problems.
Fast forward to today and the problems are far from resolved. Let's review the financial problems in the world to emphasize hedging bets by putting a portion of your investments in gold and silver.
Methods to Invest in Gold and Silver
We would recommend that you hold (at the very least) 10% of your investment assets in physical silver and gold. The only downside to holding gold and silver is that you have to store the metals in a secure location, and they can be illiquid compared to holding a stock or an ETF. If this is a problem for you, you may consider investing in a Gold ETF like the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:GLD) or ProShares Ultra Gold (NYSEARCA:UGL) Another option for investors would be the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEARCA:SLV) or Physical Silver Shares (NYSEARCA:SIVR) Both would be a good choice to capitalize on silver while maintaining liquidity through the stock market. Now let's look at some reasons to invest in gold and silver.
National Debt Is Growing Exponentially!
In our previous silver article (October 2012), the national debt was 16.1 trillion dollars. According to Usdebtclock.org the national debt now stands at 16.46 trillion. That is over a .02% increase in just 100 days. Like a credit card addict charging unheeded, eventually the interest will eat you alive. If our government cannot cut spending, this will lead to further inflation and further devaluation of the dollar. We can only hope that our government will find the will to cut spending and break the vicious cycle. However the question at hand is, do you want to commit your finances to such hope?
Printing Money & Inflation
If only we could operate like the Federal Reserve and the Treasury: "Need more money? Print it up!" The line in red is the official government CPI (Consumer Price Index). Why the CPI is useless is because of this:
"Core inflation is most often calculated by taking the Consumer Price Index (NYSEARCA:CPI) and excluding certain items from the index, usually energy and food products. Other methods of calculation include the "outliers" method, which removes the products that have had the largest price changes. Core inflation is thought to be an indicator of underlying long-term inflation."
To look at a better measure of inflation we need look no further than Shadowstats.com, represented by the blue line. Looking at "true" inflation we can see quite a discrepancy. Just to hold your current purchasing power you have to make quite a gain per year on your investments.
(Per Visualcapitalist.com)
Yet Another Fiscal Cliff
Another fiscal cliff is just right around the corner according to the Washington Post:
"The U.S. government may default on its debt as soon as Feb. 15, (half a month earlier than widely expected), according to a new analysis adding urgency to the debate over how to raise the federal debt ceiling."
"The analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center reports that the U.S. government will be unable to pay all its bills starting sometime between Feb. 15 and March 1."
Of course both sides will wait to the absolute last second to come to any sort of deal, but what it ultimately means for Americans is an increase in the debt ceiling. This will help silver out in the long run because the worse things get financially, the more people will flock to the safety of the metals market.
RBC is predicting that if the looming fiscal cliff is not resolved, another downgrade against America's credit rating might occur, much like the downgrade in 2011:
"RBC Capital Markets is calling it: the U.S. is going to lose its triple-A rating from another rating agency. This one may matter more because it would affect how investors have to look at the government's debt."
"In the absence of a grand bargain in the next two months, it is likely that the U.S. is downgraded," analysts led by Tom Porcelli, RBC's chief U.S. economist, wrote in a note Thursday.
"This downgrade is likely to have a more significant market impact than the S&P downgrade" in 2011, he said."
European Unemployment Problems
How will the economy in Europe affect the price of metals? The world economy is very interconnected and the unemployment situation in Europe is growing worse day by day. If any one of these nations were to default, it could spread throughout Europe and then jump the Atlantic Ocean to affect America. As the situation in Europe deteriorates, this will affect the global economy and fear and uncertainty will increase; with this will come a rise in the price of gold and silver.
The map below shows unemployment in the 15-24 year old range. The darkest areas have greater than 40% unemployment, followed by the 30%-40% range, and then the 20%-30% range and so on. Clearly Spain, Italy, and Greece are suffering from extreme amounts of unemployment among the 15-24 year old age group.
Looking at the unemployment and factoring in the national debt problems of each of these nations, we can see that Europe has some serious challenges ahead of it. As the situation worsens, the residents of these countries will naturally flock to the protection that gold and silver offers. As demand for the metals increases -- so will the price of the metals.
Supply of Silver is Constrained
We could expand upon the supply issues of silver, but honestly -- fellow author Katchum has written an excellent article that covers exactly what we would point out.
"First, the most important indicator for the physical market are silver sales at the U.S. Mint. In mid-December 2012, they shut down the sales of American Eagles for about 3 weeks. Then they started selling silver coins again on the 7th of January 2013. Investors started with a buying frenzy of 4 million silver coins in just one day. As of yesterday, the U.S. Mint had sold 6 million ounces of silver coins. That's already equal to the amount of silver that has been sold the entire month of January 2012. But the U.S. Mint announced several days ago that they are again suspending the sale of silver coins. That's how crowded the physical silver market is."
Take the time to read his article as it is very informative.
Germany to Take Gold Back
In other news, Germany has announced that it is going to take all of its deposits of gold from foreign banks. Metals broker Blanchard reports:
"In what could be a watershed moment for the price, provenance, and future of physical gold, not to mention the "stability" of the entire monetary regime based on rock solid, undisputed "faith and credit" in paper money, German Handelsblatt reports in an exclusive that the long suffering German gold, all official 3,396 tons of it, is about to be moved."
"Specifically, it is about to be partially moved out of the New York Fed, where the majority, or 45% of it is currently stored, as well as the entirety of the 11% of German gold held with the Banque de France, and repatriated back home to Buba in Frankfurt, where just 31% of it is held as of this moment. And while it is one thing for a "crazy, lunatic" dictator such as Hugo Chavez to pull his gold out of the Bank of England, it is something entirely different, and far less dismissible, when the bank with the second most official gold reserves in the world proceeds to formally pull some of its gold from the bank with the most."
This shows the Germany lacks faith in the U.S. and it could cause other foreign governments to pull their gold from the Fed as well. Now the real question is does the Fed actually have enough gold on hand to 'pay' everyone off or have they been playing games?
Zerohedge.com reports:
"What is news is that courtesy of the supplied calendar of events in the Buba statement, it will take the Fed some seven years to procure Germany's 300 tons of gold. This is the same Fed that, in its own words, holds some "216 million troy ounces of gold" or some 6720 tons, in its vault 80 feet below ground level."
"Putting the above in perspective, the amount of gold that Germany will have to wait 7 years for is shown in red. The amount of gold the Fed supposedly holds, is shown in yellow with a shade of tungsten. Why it will take the Fed 7 years to part with an amount of gold that is less than 5% of its total holdings is anyone's guess...
Unless of course, the bulk of the gold in the column on the right has been rehypothecated numerous times to serve as collateral for countless counter parties, and it is no longer clear just who own what to anyone."
Counter Arguments
World governments could magically start acting with financial responsibility but this is rather unlikely. Politicians have a long history of spending, printing up money, and defaulting that goes back centuries.
As a nation, we face many challenges: Out of control spending, high national debt, an already weak dollar, inflation, and unemployment. These factors can easily lead to great demand for gold and silver. Gold and Silver is also a no brainer investment. Buy them in physical form and just forget about them. They will appreciate in price given time. Rest assured the politicians are working 24/7 to keep the printing presses going and help out your investment.
Owning the metals results in an anchor for your investment holdings. As things get worse gold and silver typically appreciate in price. Gold and silver are the ultimate hedge play against hard times, and they provide you with a solid night's sleep due to the safety they bestow.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Maybe if I post something I've written before, I'll be more open with sharing my writing.
I know I'm not great.
Be gentle.
I usually write prose, and poetry-esque stuff.
This was the first thing I've ever written with some what of a "plot". I wrote this quickly, for me.. not intending on anyone to read it. I know there are probably some grammatical errors and some tense errors. I just felt it was necessary to post something one day. Re-Reading this I find it very cluttered and..I think at times I describe things too much at that takes away from..everything.
I dunno.
*takes a deep breath in*
Exhales this out:
Beautiful city, beautiful day.
Black birds swoop and dive into the branches of snow covered trees.
The gray clouds form an alliance in the war torn sky, blocking out the blue.
The gray sky swirls mockingly over our heads, all while the ground helplessly mirrors the sinister smile of the skies.
The wind pushes it's breath through broken sticks and dead brown leaves. They twirl and dance, as if the wind was attempting to resuscitate them, as if he was trying to play God.
A dried up lake lay in the distance. A place where creatures used to call home and old men would spend the weekends casting lines, fishing.
It is no more.
Hills in the background were once lush green and majestic, they are now brown and dead, if not on fire and burning billows of smoke to the gray above.
The places where the snow has melted, used to be blades of grass and flowers, it is now nothing but mud. There is no sign of animals, besides the occasional blackbirds, and the refugees rioting in the villages in the distance.
All that I own now, is this furious silence that has seemingly hushed the entire earth.
And you and I lay making snow angels under dead tree limbs. We used to joke that the nuclear winter and global warming would cancel each other out, jokes like that held our sanity together.
Your mind never had lines of order, nor were they confined to finity. The arts that you used to lay your eyes upon were always from the most abstract of designs, where intellect bisects the senses. You live on your own plane, and that was your aesthetic.
You turn to me, and brush my face, we don't care about the blankets of ice that lay like glass underneath us.
As I rest my forehead against yours I start to re-collect.
I find comfort that I was with you when the bombs hit. Even the pictures in my mind, a mere recollection, are far too real.
The most prominent thing was the sounds. I remember the screeching that sounded like a thousand violins coming closer and closer to the earth in which our feet were planted. Next the windows shattering, the walls shaking, and I could hear and feel a rumble from underneath us.
I then grabbed your hand and we ran, we ran and didn't look back as we felt immense heat on our backs and we heard buildings crash and fall, deafening our ears, deafening our senses.. one last crashing noise and I couldn't hear a thing, and my vision began to blur as we ran side by side with hundreds of other frantic, confused people.
We were all running to no where, but to some non existent place called "safety".
But despite my blurred vision and my temporary deafness, I knew my sense of touch was intact, because your fingers never untwined with mine.
I also find comfort in knowing the last image those beautiful blue eyes would ever see.
As we ran we hopped the train tracks, scurried down a hill, never looking back..
We then both turned and looked forward. We saw birch trees creating beautiful white stakes in the ground, and nameless yellow flowers carpeting the field. The sky was a red and brown and the field was a field of gold, with trees of white flowers.
We both stopped, you turned to me. No one else was around. Tears in our eyes, you smile. I smile. We sigh.
Then it all flashed red, it flashed orange, it flashed blue.
It was as if the world itself was melting, like sidewalk chalk in the rain, like an oil painting on fire. My body felt as if it was burning.
All of it then faded to black.
I awoke first. Burnt out gray buildings littered the horizon. The air smelt of harsh smoke.
Our yellow flowers were wilted, and our trees were burnt down, two of which, still on fire.
You were next to me, I cradled you in my arms. I didn't want you to see this scene, I wanted you to rest, then we would find out answers to this mayhem, this bombing, this attack.
You awoke rubbing your eyes, then sitting up, again rubbing your eyes but this time harder, you gasp, you scream..you were feeling out for me, I grab your hand.
That was the first day that you found out that you had gone blind. Tears welled up behind those beautiful, but now useless, blue eyes.
I held you till the sun came up.
So now, some time later, we sit under destroyed and dead tree branches, in vacant spaces that snow angels once lay.
As I rested my forehead against yours you whisper to me, "So..explain what everything looks like again".
I sit up and cradle you close to me:
"The sky is the bluest you can imagine, a shade just like your eyes, the white clouds make shapes and dance in the neon blue. The tree leaves are bright green and orange, and every now and then the wind will blow, and the leaves twirl and dance to the ground, and fall by our feet. There are hills far ahead, and underneath the snow you can see bits of red and purple, those are the flowers peeking their way out, trying to see the sun.
There is also a lake a mile or so ahead of us, it's frozen, it looks like a mirror and birds slip and fall as they try to scurry across it. To the west of us the snow is melting away, and the grass underneath is thick and green, if we are really quiet deer and foxes come out to find food.
To the east if you look really closely in the sky, you can see red kites with long white tails being flown in the distance, by the children in a village near by.. "
You sigh, and look up at me, smiling...
"That sounds so beautiful." You reply.
"It is, baby." I say as I hold you tight.
It is..


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Television and Religion: The Shaping of Faith, Values and Culture by William F. Fore
William F. Fore received a B.D. from Yale Divinity School and Ph.D. from Columbia University. A minister in the United Methodist Church , he was Director of Visual Education for the United Methodist Board of Missions, then Executive Director of the Communication Commission of the National Council of Churches in New York City. From 1989 to 1995 he was Visiting Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at Yale Divinity School.. His publications include Image and Impact (Friendship Press 1970), Television and Religion: the Shaping of Faith, Values and Culture (Augsburg 1987, currently reprinted by SBS Press, 409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511), and Mythmakers: Gospel Culture and the Media (Friendship Press 1990).Published in 1987 by Augsburg Publishing House. Used by permission of the author and copyright holder.
Chapter Seven: Strategies for Mainline Churches
To communicate the Gospel means putting it before the people
In Chapter 2 we saw how religious groups with differing theologies respond in different ways to the challenge of television. In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a "Christ of culture" response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique ("whatever works is good") over human values.
There is within the Christian tradition a response which rejects the accommodation of religion to the worldview of the media, but also refuses to reject the media altogether. It is a response which calls for a multiple relationship to the media, sometimes dealing with it as partner, occasionally as the enemy, often as antagonist, certainly always as one to be befriended wherever possible. This alternative can be discerned in both the Niebuhrian models of "Christ transforming culture" and "Christ and culture in paradox." It is a response of creative transformation.
Creative Transformation of the Mass Media
Creative transformation rejects both the "Christ against culture" and the "Christ of culture" stances, because the first entails renouncing all meaningful relationships with the world and the second uncritically embraces the world. The essence of the Christian ethic is to be in the world but not of it -- to recognize the vitality and goodness in the world while at the same time maintaining sufficient critical distance to seek its transformation or, in theological terms, its redemption from sin. Such a position deals both with the ultimate worth of individuals and the reality of sin in individuals and their institutions and political and economic structures. It understands that the kingdom of God is not something (or someplace) which we can expect to "bring in" at a particular time or place, but rather something both within our midst (Luke 17:22), and at the same time to be sought (Matt.6:33), to be seen (Mk. 9:1), to be entered into (Mk. 10:23).
This orientation means that a distinctly religious contribution to programming in television is one in which people are helped to grow toward a deeper and more mature understanding of themselves, their society, and their world. It rejects the message of the electronic church, because it proclaims that the old Shibboleths, the old authorities, and the old system in which people waited for the church to tell them what to do, are no longer valid and are indeed dangerous in our society. It implies helping men and women, in Bonhoeffer`s phrase, to come of age. At the same time, it means proclaiming that God commits to the poor, the downtrodden, the unfree, and that service in today`s world requires whatever is necessary to help humanize those who are denied a full human life.
Programming Strategies
Creative transformation approaches television at two levels. One level is programming, where the objective is to develop programs on TV which, within the very midst of TV`s expressions of secular worldview and power, nevertheless attempt to illuminate the human condition, to ask meaningful religious questions, to rediscover religious truths, and to find new religious vocabulary which can have meaning and power for multitudes of men and women today. The story-telling in our culture no longer takes place in the home but on television. Formal education with its logic and its categories is losing its audience to vivid stories told by the moving image. Fortunately, religious education has a long and rich tradition of story-telling, and a religious values and worldview can readily be communicated through the elements of song and dance, of biography and history, of narrative and drama.
Such productions may have very little success in "worldly" terms, that is, in relation to audience size, income for stations and networks, or the creation of national celebrities and media events which can be merchandized. The financial constraints of television as presently structured simply reject programming which is too costly, complicated, or disturbing.
Thus such programming must be thought of as a kind of subversive activity, seeking out points of vulnerability within the mass media`s powerful and virtually monolithic structure, and insinuating itself in ways that are sufficiently in line with the media`s own expectations that it will not be readily rejected. This subversive activity employs a kind of media jujitsu which turns the media`s own massive weight and ponderous structure to the advantage of small, poor, but creative and liberating programming.
For example, it is encouraging to recognize that there are literally hundreds of people within the mass-media industries who are frustrated with the limitations imposed upon them. Men and women in the secular media often are more sensitive to the needs and the issues of the world than are church leaders. Within limits, they can write and direct and produce programs which reflect their own consciences rather than the demands of the system. They are potential colleagues in our attempts at media jujitsu. And even where common ground cannot be found, our theology calls us to deal with the secular media as the place to which Christ sent his disciples. To date the churches have not been very successful at working in this area. Except for a brief period during the 1960`s when the United Methodist Church had an office in Hollywood, no denomination has maintained a ministry specifically for the media community. Christian evangelism must become considerably more sophisticated and creative in working with and encouraging the workers in the secular media, if it wishes significantly to effect their products.
A few examples of the moral jujitsu or subversive approach may help clarify what can be -- and is being -- done. For years the Paulist Fathers in Los Angeles have given the lucrative Humanitas Award -- a $25,000 prize for the best long-form scripts, $15,000 for one-hour scripts, $10,000 for half-hour scripts, $10,000 for those in the children`s category. Such substantial amounts encourage television writers, in effect, to spend more time than they could normally afford, in order to write a quality script. The simple fact is that it takes more time and effort to write a scene which deals sensitively with human beings than it does to write a scene describing a car chase. The Humanitas Award and others such as the National Council of Churches` annual Film Awards, the Christopher awards to productions "affirming the highest value of the human spirit," and the Southern Baptist Abe Lincoln Awards, encourage producers, directors, and writers to devote time to their craft which the media industry itself, because of its profit considerations, simply does not reward.
Another point of vulnerability in the system is the industry`s own defensiveness and sense of guilt which sometimes is expressed in management`s desire to produce a few quality programs even at the expense of achieving maximum profits, in order to project a "quality" or public-service image to the populace. Many stations, groups or networks regularly purchase expensive full-page ads in Broadcasting magazine, the industry`s Bible, in order to trumpet the most trivial award. Broadcasters even create their own spots to tell the public how public-minded they are. In an industry making such large profits by using a public resource, the industry`s attempts to prove how public-spirited they are provide excellent leverage for moral jujitsu on the part of public-interest groups, including the churches.
Another example is the programs which all three commercial networks have provided to the major faith groups since the beginning of television, based on their historical commitment to providing an opportunity for religious expression in the society. Unfortunately, these programs have never had the real funding and promotion they deserved, again because of the commercial base of the networks. Nevertheless, they have garnered considerable audiences. During the 12 year period from l970 to l981, the NBC-TV series of religious specials had an average Nielsen rating of 2.31 or an average audience of slightly more than 3 million persons for each program. This is an impressive audience, considering the fact that the programs were never shown at prime time but only on Sunday afternoons, were preempted or abruptly moved when sports programs took precedence, were rarely advertised, and were shown on only about one-half of the NBC stations. While the networks want to be seen and known to have religious programs on the air, their economic demands can not allow such programs to become competitive to their profit-making shows.
The faith-group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who cannot live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries. Such programs as these have brought to the American people ethical questions about American support of repressive regimes in the Philippines, South Korea, Chile, and South Africa, long before they became "news" to the commercial media.
These programs have been produced by the networks for a variety of reasons. The FCC has occasionally raised an eyebrow in the direction of network public-service accountability, although beginning in 1980 support from that direction almost ceased. The press sometimes raises questions about the broadcasters` program quality and public-service, and from time to time has praised a particular network program. The leadership of the churches has maintained a modest presence, and the network executives have preferred to avoid a confrontation with such a large institution in society. Also, within the networks themselves, dedicated staff in the religion departments have fought valiantly for the survival and the quality of their programs.
Another example of creative subversion occurs where local church groups are able to get a religious perspective on the news originating from their local stations. Unfortunately, what most stations understand as "religious news" is limited to what is being discussed about institutional religion in the national news at the moment -- abortion, politicized ministers, and so on -- rather than a discussion of all the news from various religious perspectives. Nevertheless, a number of local councils of churches and other broad-based religious groups have managed to get a significant airing of news from a religious perspective on their local stations. For example, a TV station in San Antonio asked a local Episcopal clergy to provide, each Saturday on the evening news, a religious perspective on some event during the preceding week. The objective of this approach is not to present the religious view on a particular subject, but to generate public discussion and debate about significant issues of the day from many different religious perspectives and viewpoints.
Reform Strategies
The second level of relationship to television occurs where religious groups work toward reform of the media, dealing with the political and social institutions as well, to bring about conditions which allow the media to achieve their highest potential. The objective here is to humanize the structures which govern the mass media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to "do well by doing good," and by insisting that the social and economic powers of the media must be counterbalanced by other kinds of power which express the concerns of citizens for the general welfare.
Meeting this objective requires generating countervailing power, which usually takes one of two forms: political and economic. The political approach was used in the struggles of public-interest groups, with church organizations in the lead, to achieve media reform during the l960s and 1970s. In many cases these struggles were successful. Laws or regulations were established which set the rules by which the entire media industry had to abide.
For example, as the result of law suits instituted by public-interest groups, the courts held that whenever broadcasters present a particular point of view on a matter of public importance, they also must provide opportunities for opposing viewpoints to be presented. This "Fairness Doctrine" has become the foundation of free speech on radio and television, and it has prevented many of the more blatant attempts by some broadcasters to use the public airwaves as nothing more than a sounding board for their own special views and interests. Political action requires considerable expertise on the part of church groups. It also requires money and time. But in the complex society in which we live, such intervention often is the only way for citizens to make their moral and ethical concerns matter.
The economic approach is even more complex and difficult, but it is also even more fundamental. As long as economic gain is the sole consideration among broadcasters, we cannot expect to have television which approaches communication in terms of meeting the needs of the citizens for information and expression. Changes in the present system are possible, although they are exceedingly difficult because of the political power wielded by the broadcasting industry itself. For example, one of the central economic factors encouraging the excessive power of broadcasters is the tax structure which allow businesses to write off advertising as a business expenditure. This single provision in effect subsidizes the media industries by hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Also, while the broadcast industry is provided with a government-protected monopoly over the use of a particular frequency, it is taxed as if it were an ordinary business, subject to all of the risks other businesses face through genuine competition. If citizen action could reform the tax laws so that broadcasters would be required to pay a reasonable and modest fee for their licenses, the livense revenues could provide a well-funded public broadcasting system, and citizens would begin to benefit from the special advantages they have accorded the broadcasters.
Another kind of economic intervention can come through direct citizen action. Since the advertising base is the foundation on which television is based, citizen action directed toward the advertiser tends to have considerable leverage.
For example, stockholder action is a strategy in which owners of stock in a company which advertises on TV seek to get the company to adopt a policy not to place advertising on violent programs. Or the action could be directed at instructing company officers to support public broadcasting or a particular kind of children`s program. Such action is consistent with the free enterprise system from which the broadcasters derive their profits. If corporations profit from what people decide to buy, and if they adjust their production and advertising policies according to buyers` preferences and the interests of stockholders, then they also are amenable to what the public refuses to buy or what their stockholders establish as policy, and should be expected to adjust their production and advertising plans to take into account buyer and stockholder preferences.
This dual approach to the mass media -- production and reform, cooperation and citizen action -- exemplifies the concept of creative transformation. It recognizes the ambiguities and paradoxical nature of the church`s role within a system that is full of powers which potentially corrupt everything they touch, including the church. At the same time it acts in the belief that testifying to the principles of freedom and justice is a mandate that cannot be avoided, and that -- potentially -- action based on these liberating principles can indeed transform structures built upon human selfishness.
Using Television as Preparation for the Gospel
H. Richard Niebuhr described the nature of the church and the world in words which have remarkable relevance to the current situation facing religion in its uneasy and ambivalent relationship to the world of television:
The Church lives and defines itself in action vis-a-vis the world. World, however, is not object of Church as God is. World, rather, is companion of the Church, a community something like itself with which it lives before God. . . .
The world is the community of those before God who feel rejected by God and reject him; again, it is the community of those who do not know God and seem not to be known by him; or, it is the community of those who, knowing God, do not worship him. In all cases it is the community to which the Church addresses itself with the gospel, to which it gives an account of what it has seen and heard in divine revelation, which it invites the world to come and see and hear.
The world is the community to which Christ comes and to which he sends his disciples. On the other hand, the world is the community of those who are occupied with temporal things. When, in its sense of rejection, it is preoccupied with these temporal matters it is the world of idolatry and becomes foe of the Church. When it is occupied with them as gifts of God -- whether or not the consciousness of grace becomes explicit -- it is the partner of the Church, doing what the Church, concerned with the nontemporal, cannot do; knowing what Church as such cannot know.1.
One implication of this complex and dynamic relationship is that the message of the gospel cannot today be a direct proclamation of religious truths as they are given in the Bible and in Christian tradition. The thoughtful person today has profound doubts precisely about the authority of the Bible, the Christian tradition, and the church itself. For these reasons, if we were asked whether TV can be "used for mission" today, the answer would be "no." But at another level, if we were asked whether TV can be expected to confront people with serious religious questions, the answer would be "yes." TV -- commercial, not "religious" TV -- can confront a President with Watergate, confront Congress with Nicaragua, confront the nation with South Africa. TV can sensitize, enlarge our vision, make us aware, ask the moral questions -- and doing this is a form of mission.
But because of television`s inherent characteristics as a mass medium -- one-way, resistant to feedback, incapable of dialog -- and its acquired social characteristic as society`s sales agent -- simplistic, gratifying, trivial -- it is best suited to the role of preparation for the gospel, or pre-evangelism. This means we cannot expect it to be the gospel, but we can expect it to help prepare people to ask the right questions, to understand more fully who they are, and to accept the Christian worldview.
Preparation for the gospel involves three steps. First it requires us to find and describe what Tillich called the "boundary situations," that is, those points where modern men and women reach the limits of their human existence, where they sense they are alienated from society and other people, or feel a lack of personal meaning, or fear being useless and having no worth.2. These symptoms are described by psychologists as the root of the disorientation many people face today in their lives, although people manage to cover over and obscure them as a part of their elaborate defense mechanisms. The first task of authentic Christian communication is to help people face the reality of these self-doubts and to enable them to ask serious questions about the meaning of their existence.
Paulo Friere`s applied this concept to basic education. His approach seeks first of all to get people to accept the fact that something is wrong. Friere was successful in reaching the peasants of Latin America because he insisted that, first of all, they explore what is wrong in their lives and why they tolerate it. When people are able to examine those "boundaries" which they had always accepted without question, they are then both motivated and equipped to move on to anlysis and action.3.
The second step is then possible -- to affirm those men and women who have been able to take these "boundary-situations" seriously, facing them and dealing with them creatively and with faith. It is only when people are able to face the fact that they have no permanent, guaranteed security that the claim of the gospel can be made -- and our communication must state this unequivocally. As Tillich says, "Protestantism must proclaim the judgment that brings assurance by depriving us of all security; the judgment that declares us whole in the disintegration and cleavage of soul and community; the judgment that affirms our having truth in the very absence of truth; the judgment that reveals the meaning of our life in the situation in which all the meaning of life has disappeared."4.
On television, affirmation can come through the news (Selma, Manila, South Africa), through biography (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, C.S. Lewis,), through drama ("A Man For All Seasons," "Who`s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" "The Burning Bed"), or through documentaries (Dr. Kubler-Ross on children facing death, the sanctuary movement, anti-nuclear protests, Archbishop Tutu). The purpose of all of these religious messages is to make the spiritual assertion that our lives are devoid of security, truth, and meaning unless and until we become a part of God -- in other words, until we become part of that which is really real.
Third, Christian communication must finally witness to the power of the Christian faith in Jesus Christ. This means witnessing that the Christian faith is effective both in the lives of individuals and in the life of the total community. Christian communication needs to find its rootage, its raw stuff, from within the experiences of daily life, and then attempt to show in what way this ordinary, day-by-day existence has ultimate meaning. Again, Tillich suggests the way:
It is not so important to produce new liturgies as it is to penetrate into the depths of what happens day by day, in labor and industry, in marriage and friendship, in social regions and recreation, in meditation and tranquility, in the unconscious and the conscious life. To elevate all this into the light of the eternal is the great task of (church communication), and not to reshape a tradition traditionally.5.
On television this is best done by telling stories -- stories which reveal what the gospel means for Christians (rather than for "everyone"). These stories should be "models of hope," that is, examples of real people and their real responses in faith to the challenges to meaning and worth in their lives. They become particularly revelatory when they tell the story of someone and what the gospel means to that person.
To repeat, this communication, as creative and as relevant as we hope it may be, cannot actually give people the gospel. It can only prepare people to receive the gospel. It can prepare people by exposing them to the ultimate questions about what is "really real", and by giving them insights which will help them live in their daily lives in such a way that those lives will have meaning, truth, and security.
But if television can only help people ask the right questions, where do people go to find the right answers? Once again we return to the place where people come face-to-face with other people who have the same questions, who have been working on the answers, who have discovered answers only to lose them and who need to rediscover them once again. We return to the church.
It is within the environment of the church that people can discover and rediscover the answers, where they can assist others to do so, where they can together celebrate the fact that these answers make sense to them. The function of the the mass media is to become a sign, as it were, an arrow pointing in the direction of the church. This signing is important, because often people do not know that they have lost their way, or, if they know, they do not know where to find the way again. The Christian message in the mass media is that "We are all lost, and here is where you can find the way."
When we work at this creative programming in the media, we must do it in ways that are particular rather than universal, specific rather than general, real rather than ideal, and personal-in-the-mass rather than mass-appealing. It is important to remember that there literally is no such thing as a mass audience; there are only ways of looking at individuals in the mass. When mass communication is employed in the sense we are talking about here, there is no mass; there are only massive numbers of individuals. And it is to these individuals -- as individuals, or perhaps small groups of two or three - that we speak.
Therefore, our communication must tell what the gospel means for Christians rather than what it means for all men and women, everywhere, for all time. We must tell what we -- or, really, what I -- think it means for me, and can mean for you. It pursues its inquiry by recalling the story of the Christian life and by analyzing what Christians see from their point of view of history and of faith. Russ Reid, a Christian deeply involved in media, puts it this way:
You see, when I say "Christ is the answer" I really don`t have to own that. I can say it, but it doesn`t say anything about what Christ has done for me. And it doesn`t really tell you how He`s the answer, because if you are intelligent at all, you`ll say, Well, what is the question? The only way you can communicate what Jesus Christ can do in a man`s life is by saying "once I was blind, now I see." Now, there is something that happened to me, and others can identify with that.6.
To repeat, commercial television by its very nature and structure tends to reject most -- though not all -- of this kind of programming, which means that the church`s involvement in the mass media is necessarily limited both by the natural strictures of the medium itself and by the artificially imposed rejection of the message which is inherent in its a profit-motivated structure. Rather than debase the essential gospel message to the point of caricature, the option for the church is to continue to be the church so that its message will remain clear and distinctive, and to use the mass media where it can (including the subversive and jujitsu approaches). But Christians ought not feel that they have to "be on television" simply because television is a powerful communication environment, any more than Christians felt they had to be cheering in the stands of the Circus Maximus during Caesar`s day simply because it was where the rich and powerful were in the first century.
There is one additional production strategy for mainline churches -- to employ the newer "narrowcast" media for religious education and the encouragement of the faithful already in the church.
The local church has far greater opportunity to use the new communication media to reach relatively small, segmented, and specialized audiences than it has to use truly mass media which have such inherent bias against its message. The narrowcast media include cable TV, videocassettes, videodiscs, local point-to-point broadcasting, low-power TV stations, subcarrier frequencies of FM radio and TV, and direct mail. These media are relatively efficient and effective, and while they are limited in their scope, they permit the churches to use them in ways which are in keeping with religious values rather than simply meeting the utilitarian demands of the new technology.
A significant opportunity awaits those churches which develop a cooperative plan to provide educational materials on these narrowcast media. For example, a master teacher can help every fourth grade volunteer church-school teacher in the entire community, each week, as they prepare their teaching lesson. And, via satellite, this same service could be made available nationwide for almost the same cost as in a single community. However, this kind of media usage requires both local and national churches to cooperate in their religious education programs to a degree they have not yet been willing to do. For churches to use media nationwide on a truly cost-effective basis, they must become "denomination-blind" to an extent not yet manifest. One value of the mass media in the society is that they may force churches to recognize that they have much more in common than they think. Cooperation in the use of media can be a valuable start in engendering true ecumenism.
The potential for using narrowcast media for education in the churches is large, and to date almost completely unexplored. Courses for ministers and lay leaders in Bible study, church history, Christian doctrine, ethics, and other subjects, are simply awaiting the creativity of the right seminary or school of religion to develop them. Until now only the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board has pioneered in providing their church schools with materials via a leased satellite which feeds local cable systems throughout the country, and, in some cases, is picked up directly by local churches.
Cable is an excellent way to provide very low cost, simple production coverage of worship services for the elderly, the shut-ins, the hospital patients, and people who are "shopping" for a church. Hundreds of churches have found they can purchase a line to their local cable head-end and, with almost no equipment other than a single camera, feed the morning worship service over their local cable channel. Often this can be done without charge. If the local cable company is not cooperative, a consortium of churches should seek to get the city to require at least some "public access," and this should be done at the time of the cable company`s franchise renewal. Unfortunately, the FCC`s deregulation of cable has made it increasingly difficult for community groups to secure access to their local channels.
The objective of local cable programming should be to provide a service to those not otherwise able to attend church. The objective ought not to be "broadcasting" the church to the community. Once a church becomes engaged in competition with commercial channels for audience it immediately becomes caught up in high costs, slick production, and the need to please an audience "out there." While there is a place for high quality worship services broadcast on true mass media, such programs require a great amount of careful planning and considerable cost, and are tailored to meeting the need for a kind of national worship experience in which those not in church can participate. Such programs as "The National Radio Pulpit" and "The Protestant Hour" on radio, and Robert Schuller`s "Hour of Power" on television are purposely designed to reach a national audience with a worship experience. A local church is in competition with these national programs and the whole panoply of secular programming when it attempts to "broadcast" to a "mass" audience. Unless the church is prepared to engage in a costly, massive, and time consuming activity, it should limit its TV ministry to reaching church members not able to attend the worship service, and cable is a cost effective way to do this.
Several alternative media can achieve the same objective, but at additional cost. Videocassettes can be made of the worship service and taken to individuals in their homes, hospitals, nursing facilities, and so on. The program can be placed on a low-power television station, if one is available in their viewing area, or point-to-point broadcast services can be purchased for feeding to hospitals and other institutions. Some local public broadcasting stations have a low-cost "broadcast" to points which have special antennas, and they might make this available as a public-service. Also, a simple audiotape recorder can be used to tape the service, with church visitors taking the "service" with them to shut-ins. Finally, some FM stations make available their subcarrier to public groups, for broadcast tapes of the worship service or other program especially designed for the shut-in.
Direct mail is a medium which the mainline churches have ignored at their peril. The slick and cynical "personalized" mail of the electronic church has tended to discourage others from using the technique. However, direct mail, using computer technology, has great potential for allowing local churches to reach parishioners who have special interests in missions, or religious education, or evangelism, or a Bible-study course. Computers are assisting many churches in handling their mailing lists and in compiling lists of small interest groups which can be given resources from a national base.
Computers, while not a narrowcast medium, strictly speaking, nevertheless must be considered by local churches for use as a helpful tool in allowing special interests groups to aggregate around topics of interest, for news and information, and for financial accounting and transfer. Already there are numerous experimental computer networks within various denominations, including Presbynet, UMCOMM Teletalk, the UCChristNet, the Lutheran RELIGION-ONLINE, and the United Church of Canada`s UCHUG (United CHurch`s User`s Group).
Creating Community
The purpose of narrowcasting is to create and to maintain community within cities and towns but also within the local churches themselves. The rebuilding of community is essential in a time of media-induced isolation and fragmentation, and in this effort the churches will of necessity find common cause with other community agencies.
For example, local point-to-point communication is beginning to develop as a communication tool for maintaining local community. At least one public broadcasting station, WITF-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, maintains a community-development process which helps people throughout the area to discuss issues of common interest, and, in effect, to re-create community. This station has put together a consortium of businesses, schools and colleges, churches, hospitals, and community agencies, which already is helping reeducate people when they are displaced by "technology," finding them find new jobs, training leaders in the areas of community services, and facilitating the discussion of common community projects. The objective is to humanize the community. The churches have a similar objective, and they should be leading the way in the innovation of such community development programs which can involve both the mass media and the narrowcast media.
Media Education
Fred Friendly, originator and producer of Edward R. Murrow`s See It Now and a former president of CBS News, once said: "We live today in a world today where its what you don`t know that can kill you."7.
More people depend on television than any other medium for their news and information about what is going on in the world. And television has become our prime story-teller, the creator of the images and narratives which, taken altogether, provide us with a worldview which seriously competes with the real world of direct experience. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly critical what we decide to pay attention to.
One of the new facts of our time is the enormous information overload. Thousands of persons devote their entire professional lives simply to getting our attention, inventing shorter TV spots, more urgent-looking direct mail, songs with built-in commercials, movies with built-in songs, and TV graphics that move, turn, and dance. And for every new trick devised to get us to look, we develop new internal mechanisms to switch off the overload in order to protect our sanity. But in learning to tune out the intrusive and the blatant, we tend at the same time to ignore some of the still small voices, those hints and nuances of news and relationships and information that can tell us what really is going on. Thus our defenses threaten to make us insensitive. Learning what to pay attention to has become essential not only to survival but also to human growth and nurture.
For these reasons, media education is now an essential tool. It now must become central to the curriculum in our kindergartens, schools and colleges, if we hope to live in a society where the average citizens can cope with the barrage of images which daily comes into their lives, and where what they do know will help them survive.
In the churches, a major role of the Christian educator (and that includes the minister and lay teacher), is to help people understand what the media are really saying and doing to them - and how they can avoid being taken in by its worldview. The churches must plan systematically to expose every parishoner to the biases and distorted values systems of our culture in the light of the prophetic visions of the Old Testament and the harsh demands of the New.
Some successful first steps already are in place. The Television Awareness Training program, pioneered by the Media Action Research Center in New York City, and funded by a coalition of Protestant denominations, has certified hundreds of trainers across the nation over the past decade. An interdenominational curriculum series, called "Growing With Television," also is available from the half-dozen Protestant publishing houses which helped print it. This thirteen-week unit has separate curriculum for early and late primaries, junior and senior highs, and adults.
However, church leaders, both nationally and locally, still tend to view television as if it were merely an entertaining diversion which sometimes keeps people away from their churches, rather than as an alternative religion which is wooing people into a whole new way of thinking about, and living in, our world. Real media education will not become effective in the churches until it has penetrated the thinking of every theologian, pastor and parishoner -- and this calls for a change in orientation in every theological school.
Media education does not stop at the teaching of visual grammar and an analysis of imagery, although these are fundamental. Media education also needs to help people ask key questions about the way television functions as an institution in society. How do the media change the ways we think, make decisions, vote, spend money, treat others? How can we reform the media so that they will meet the genuine human needs of the society? The answer to these questions can be understood more clearly if we investigate three of the most significant ethical issues involving television: violence; censorship and regulation; and the international implications of American media policies. It is to these issues that we now turn.
1. Niebuhr, H. Richard, The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry (New York: Harper, l956), p. 26.
2. Tillich, Paul. The Protestant Era (Chicago: University of Chicago, l948).
3. Paulo Freire, The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation (South Hadley, MA:: Bergin and Gervey, l985).
4. Tillich, The Protestant Era, p. 204.
5. Ibid., p. 219.
6. Reed, Russ. "The Church and the Media: A Strategy for Outreach," in Church Growth: America, March-April, l978.
7. Fred Friendly, in a speech delivered to the International Radio and Television Society, New York, NY, 1967.


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The El Dorado Hills Community Services District Board didn't flinch Thursday night when union representative Phil Stamborsky delivered an uncomfortable and unprecedented vote of no confidence on behalf of district employees for "the past two years of inappropriate actions by the board" and, more specifically, their potential dismissal of popular CSD General Manager John Skeel.
Last week Village Life reported that the board encouraged their new GM — he's only been on the job since January — to take an unplanned leave of absence. Board President Guy Gertsch held an "all hands" employee meeting to inform the district of the scant details and later swore them to media silence.
Skeel moved his wife and three children from Evergreen, Colo., to El Dorado Hills in December 2010. The board chose him from 70 candidates for the position, offering an annual salary of $125,000. Skeel also received $9,380 in relocation expenses.
The district used its in-house Human Resources manager to find Skeel. "The district did not track the amount of time she spent on the process so cost is unknown," according to Sandy Kukkola, the CSD's newly named interim general manager.
At the time Skeel was hired board President Noelle Mattock said, "John stood out due to his experiences that directly relate to the challenges facing the district today and challenges we foresee in the future."
Skeel's wife Paula attended the June 30 board meeting and confirmed that the couple loved the community and hoped to call El Dorado Hills home, but had yet to purchase a house.
Stromborsky distributed a written statement to the board bemoaning the "apparent decision by the board to let Mr. Skeel go" as the new general mananger was "beginning to put the district on a clearer course." It concludes "Now we are afraid that we will return to a policy of endless reorganization with no apparent goal in sight."
The letter chastises the board for "over reaching," "setting goals or policies that are out of reach of the current structure of the CSD" and "demanding disruptive reorganizations" rather than "examining the fundamental reasons goals are not achieved."
The resulting distrust between the board and the employees has created an unhealthy atmosphere that "undermines the district's goals to its general public," it states.
Stromborsky's letter also charges the board has micromanaging its last two general managers, hampering their effectiveness.
The prior board opted not to extend former General Manager Wayne Lowery's contract in 2010, after 20 years on the job. He retired, took a similar position in Rio Linda, then won a position on the El Dorado Hills board.
The letter claims Skeel delivered several viable management options that the board either rejected or made difficult to implement.
It criticizes the board for leaving several key department head positions vacant over the last two-plus years, leaving the board without the advice of a professional management team to oversee its $8 million operating and capital improvement budgets. Current vacancies include recreation director, parks director and finance director, with Kukkola filling in at GM for much of the last few years time, including the present.
After the meeting Stamborsky said the current union contract doesn't expire for two more years and the no-confidence vote had nothing to do with labor negotiations.
"We've been floating on a breeze without leadership here for the last two years," he said. "This guy's got a lot of integrity and we don't think they gave him a chance."
Earlier in the evening Evelyn Weick, the CSD's senior support council vice president, read a similarly supportive statement to the board, asking them to reinstate Skeel, citing his support of "all things senior-related."
"John Skeel is an intelligent, experienced, personable and confident leader," she said. "He should be back at work filling critical management vacancies and actively managing the district.
"You spent a lot of time and money selecting, hiring and relocating him and his family. At the very least, the board has a responsibility to be transparent about the situation and explain it to those who are affected. We have a right to know the facts."
Gertsch responded to Village Life's request for comment with an e-mail confirming Skeel's personal leave of absence as of June 20, but not much else.
"We understand and are listening to the concerns of employees and residents. Under the current circumstances and out of respect for John and his family, we cannot go into details at this time," Gertsch wrote.
The e-mail also asks employees and residents to respect "his decision as he works through this situation," and promises to "share information with the public at the appropriate time."
Gertsch had no comment on the no-confidence vote.
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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will make a working tour to the city of Mirny, Arkhangelsk Region, and visit the Plesetsk space launch center.
A government press service official said that at the cosmodrome proper, the Preier would inspect facilities designed for preparing and launching spacecraft.
The Head of Government will also hold a conference on the development of the space rocket system Angara and discuss readiness for the testing of the new multifunctional carrier rocket.
Vice-Premier Dmitry Rogozin, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Vladimir Bulavin, plenipotentiary presidential representative in the North-Western Federal District, representatives of Federal executive government bodies and space industry officials will take part in the conference.
The creation of the space rocket system Angara is one of priorities in the development of the cosmodrome Plestsk as part of a national system of launch services fully based on the use of exclusively Russia's research and industrial potential.
In November 2013, the fully functional mockup of the light-class carrier rocket Angara was put on the launch pad of the northern cosmodrome for the first time. The mockup constitutes a working rocket desigined for ground testing, not for launching. In particular, the mockup was used to drill the priming of the carrier rocket with fuel on the lauch pad.
Work to develop ground infrastructure facilities, prepare and launch the Angara is being done under the Federal purpose-oriented programme "The Development of Russian Cosmodromes in the 2006-2015 Period" while efforts to develop and manufacture space rockets are made under the State programme for Armament, and under the Federal Space Programme of Russia for 2006-2015.
The Angara is a new-generation carrier rocket based on a universal rocket module with oxygen-and-kerosene engines. The rocket family includes carrier rockets of light and heavy-duty classes within a range of payload lifting from 1.5 to 25 tonnes. Work on the Angara has been under way since 1995. The Khrunichev state space research and production center is the leading developer and manufacturer of the rockets of this family.
The first launch of the light-class carrier rocket Angara and the start of testing of the space rocket system are scheduled for the second quarter of 2014 from Plesetsk cosmodrome. In 2015 the rocket is to lift off from the cosmodrome Vostochny (eastern) which is under construction in Amur Region.
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Chalet Arve - Superb Apartment In The Swiss Alps
Ski apartment with 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms in Klosters-Serneus, Switzerland
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From £935 per week
Apartment to rent in Klosters-Serneus, Switzerland
Apartment overview - owner's description
Centrally located in Klosters within 5 minutes' walk of the cable car and shops. Very large south/west facing balcony with superb views. Sleep 4-6.
The property is almost directly opposite the Hotel Walserhof frequented by Prince Charles and his family when they come to visit Klosters. Klosters is the much more sedate version of its larger and somewhat racier neighbour, Davos, with which it shares very extensive ski slopes.
The shops, restaurants, cable car and sports centre are all in the immediate vicinity - a mere 3-5 minutes walk away. The neighbouring Hotels Steinbock and Walserhof also offer splendid dining facilities.
Luxurious Apartment
The apartment comprises two very decently sized bedrooms each with its own door opening on to the balcony. The master double bedroom is ensuite and the twin bedroom has easy access to its adjoining shower room.
The sitting room also leads on to the balcony and has comfortable seating for all guests. HD widescreen television with U.K. satellite stations, DVD player and numerous DVDs in many languages. One of two sofas opens up to become a comfortable double bed. The kitchen is modern, well appointed and equipped with everything you should need. Equipped as well with a coffee machine, sandwich maker, raclette and fondue.
Downstairs, you will find the superb sauna and jacuzzi centre together with plunge pool, shower room and WC. There are also loungers to relax in. There is even a ski room and ample space to store all the outdoor kit you would probably prefer not to bring into the apartment. The underground garage for your car is fully secure. There is also outdoor private parking.
Free wireless internet access throughout the apartment, ethernet connection also available!
So much to do!
Klosters itself is spoilt for the range of activities it can offer, but when you combine it with its neighbour Davos, just a few minutes up the valley, the scope for things to do becomes almost endless. For a start there are two golf courses, 54 ski lifts, 300km of ski pistes, 3 giant sledge runs, 100km of winter walking trails (and many more summer ones), ice hockey, ice skating, curling, horse-drawn sleighs, horse riding, tennis, 9 hole golf course (Klosters), 18 hole golf course (Davos), mini-golf, mountain biking, downhill cycling, horse riding, fishing, water sports, indoor/outdoor tennis, summer tobogganing at Schatzalp, rollerblading, clay pigeon shooting, mountain railways.
Tip! Get a guest card and receive a discount on many activities, entrance fees, green fees and free public transport (local trains and buses). Also there is half price admission to the tennis courts and outdoor swimming pools. In the summer, a guest card gives you access to all the mountain cable cars and railways completely free of charge!
Special rental dates for the World Economic Forum week - please enquire.
This apartment has 14 verified reviews.
14 out of 14 people recommend staying here
We found the location excellent and the accommodation ideal for our needs.
Absolutely love this chalet. The owners are so helpful and supportive. This is my second time here and it is the only place we will stay in Klosters. So convenient to everything. Great views, full kitchen and all the facilities you need to have a successful vacation. Very well maintained and welcoming. Cannot recommend any higher. Sam
We had a great week at " Chalet Arve". We had such a warm welcome from the owners. They are doing everything to make things easier before and the day of your arrival. The flat is quiet, well furnished,has a nice view on the mountains and has a sauna and jacuzzi in the building. You have everything you need from the coffee machine to the raclette and fondue set. You can walk to the village or the ski lift ( 10-15mn) We liked it so much we have already rented for next year !
The apartment was excellant, nicely furnished, clean, modern, lovely views of Gotschna and a genuine 5 minute walk to the cable car, rail/bus station and the main street in the village. As regular visitors to Klosters, we had high expectations and we were not disappointed. Will definately visit again.
Spacious, well equipped (a.o. great coffee maker!) and ideally situated apartment. Really wonderful sauna, located on separate floor with cold water tub, whirlpool and relax chairs. Wifi connection, satellite tv and dvd player with large collection of movies and tv series. Can strongly recommend
Beautiful spacious apartment ideally located for Klosters train station and main Gotschna lift and just across the road from the Heidlift where children's skischool meets. Just 5mns walk to main Co-op supermarket. Fabulous mountain views from the living room, and wide balcony where you can lounge in the sun (even in February!) and make the most of the views. Very cosy kitchen/ living room area with satellite TV and a collection of DVDs - ideal for keeping kids occupied after a hard day's skiing while mum rustles up some dinner. Alternatively restaurant in Hotel Steinbock, immediately next door to apartment, highly recommended. This was our second visit to Haus Arve and it is the probably the nicest self-catering apartment we have ever stayed in. English owners charming and extremely helpful. We would love to try it in the summer and one day we will!
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Outside this apartment in Klosters-Serneus, SwitzerlandThis apartment is in a village near the mountains. It has a balcony and a garage. Car hire is not necessary as the apartment is less than a 15 minute walk to a large selection of shops, bars, restaurants; however parking is available if required.
Prices and availability
Updated 1 July 2017
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Changeover days and minimum stays
- 2 July 2017 - 13 January 2018: the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 29 January - 24 February 2018: changeover day is Saturday and the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 4 March 2018 - 13 January 2019: the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 29 January - 24 February 2019: changeover day is Saturday and the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 4 March 2019 - 13 January 2020: the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 29 January - 24 February 2020: changeover day is Saturday and the minimum stay is 7 nights.
- 4 March - 1 July 2020: the minimum stay is 7 nights.
Long stay discounts
- Receive 10% off if the booking is for 21 days or more.
If more than one discount matches your arrival date, please be aware that only one discount of the highest amount will be applied to your booking.
2 bedrooms, Sleeps 6:
- 1 double bed and en suite
- 2 single beds
There is also 1 double sofa bed in In the sitting room, 2 cots
2 bathrooms, 1 en suite bathroom, 2 Separate WC's
CD player, DVD/Blu-ray player, Internet, Radio, TV Languages in Local, Satellite / cable
Living area seats 6, Dining area seats 6, Central heating, Clothes drier, Hair dryer, Iron / board, Towels / linen, Washing machine, Car hire optional
Cooker, Crockery, Cutlery, Dishwasher, Fridge, Freezer, Glassware, Kettle, Oven, Pots / pans, Toaster
Balcony or terrace, Garage, Parking
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The property comes equipped with a superb sauna and jacuzzi centre together with plunge pool and shower/WC facilities - all at your free disposal. The very large balcony has a south and west facing perspective panning round to magnificent views to the south west. Despite its fairly central location the property is remarkably tranquil. From the balcony, there are lovely views of the surrounding mountains.
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Be motivated! Be inspired! The newest book in the series All I Want Is Everything is due out in September!
Noted Self-Help Book Author and Speaker Releasing Second Book in Highly Regarded Series
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A bolt of lightning struck Harper Connelly when she was 15, leaving her with a strange spider web of red on her torso and right leg, episodes of weakness, shakes and headaches - and an ability to find dead people.Harper is summoned to Memphis to demonstrate her unique talent, but there are still plenty of sceptics, even as Harper stands atop a grave and announces there are two bodies buried there. The police are convinced there's something fishy going on when the grave is opened to reveal the centuries-dead remains of a man, which they'd expected (that being his grave, after all) and a dead girl, which no one expected - except Harper, of course. And suspicions are raised even further because Harper had failed to find eleven-year-old Tabitha Morgenstern when she was abducted two years before.Harper and Tolliver need to find the real killer to prove Harper's innocence, especially after their nocturnal visit to the cemetery in hopes that Harper can sense something more is followed by the discovery, the following morning, of a third dead body in the grave . . .
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Bestselling writer Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi on November 25, 1951. She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Harris wrote poetry and plays before beginning to publish mysteries set in the American South. The first book in her Aurora Teagarden series, "Real Murders," was nominated in 1990 for an Agatha Award for Best Novel. Harris's Southern Vampire series features as its main character Sookie Stackhouse, a psychic Louisiana barmaid who has romantic relationships with supernatural beings. In 2001, the first book in the series, "Dead until Dark," won an Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. The series is now a very popular TV show on HBO called "True Blood." Harris also writes the Lily Bard series, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, and the Harper Connelly series, which describes the adventures of a woman who after being struck by lightning can locate dead bodies. Harris is a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and a past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.
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Dear all,
Alan, I've tried putting the same CN when I create the 'cacert.pem' into
the 'HTTPS Server Name' field. The 'HTTPS Server Name' field's value is
the m0n0wall LAN IP but no go. Below are the values I set into the
'HTTPS Server Name', 'HTTPS Certificate' and 'HTTPS Private Key'
HTTPS login : Checked
HTTPS Server name: 10.1.1.1 # same as certificate & LAN IP
HTTPS certificate: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
< cert. content >
HTTPS private key: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,3B65E8FC4DC39109
< private key content >
When my client launch the web browser for the first time, here is what
the title displays:
https://10.1.1.1:8001/?redirurl=< the url typed in > -- Microsoft IE
and the page didn't redirect me to login page which I have uploaded at
the 'Portal page contents' field but displays only a blank white page.
The web browser status bar below stating:
Connecting to site 10.1.1.1 [|||||||| ]
It just hang...
Anyone have clues about my misconfiguration?
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Date: Friday, July 29, 2005 6:13 pm
Subject: [BULK] Re: [m0n0wall] Captive Portal->Radius->HTTPS
> Hi,
> > I've read the description, so I created my own Certificate and
> RSA using
> > openssl and I set the Common Name to 10.1.1.1 (which is m0n0wall LAN
> > IP), thus, I set 10.1.1.1 on 'HTTPS Server name' field, but it
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> > Please enlighten me on 'HTTPS Server name'
> enable HTTPS login, then put the CN common name , into the HTTP
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> ie the name which you used for certifcate generation for the
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> make sure the right certs are in the correct windows. then it works
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India on parade
The Indian film industry is rapidly expanding its worldwide reach. On the eve of Cannes, Liz Shackleton looks at how the territory's leading producers and distributors are making their films more attractive to an international audience.
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Viewpoints with
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Will nuclear power continue to be a force in the future? Bruce Lacy speaks for Iowa's only nuclear facility.
Transcript: How Nuclear Works We take the uranium ore out of the ground just like we would mine any other kind of material. It's purified. We go through a concentration process to increase the concentration of the desirable lighter weight uranium atoms. Put that together in a ceramic oxide pellet. Put those pellets in rods. Put it in our reactor vessel, designed to foster the nuclear reaction where neutrons break the uranium atoms into pieces. After that fuel has been in the reactor for its useable life, we take the fuel out. Let the radioactivity, the radiant energy, decay over time storing it on an interim basis on our reactor site. And long term, we'll put this in a well designed long term permanent disposal facility.
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The Two Towers (idea)
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In May of 2002 an online [petition] was written by Kevin Klerck and posted in the name of Those affected by September 11. The petition was titled "Rename 'The Two Towers' to Something Less Offensive Petition" and was addressed to [Peter Jackson] and [New Line Cinema]. It read:
Although I really don't think it is necessary I will offer a bit of a rebuttal. The two prominent buildings destroyed on [September 11, 2001] at the World Trade Center were commonly known as [the Twin Towers], the construction of which was completed in 1973. In the book The Two Towers, which was published in 1957, the towers referred to are the [Barad-dur|tower] of the Dark Lord [Sauron] at [Mordor] and the [Orthanc|tower] of [Saruman] the White at [Isengard]. Peter Jackson, who co-wrote the [screenplay] and directed the movie, used this name because it was the name of the book. It is preposterous to assume the name is a marketing ploy to profit off the "hype" that revolved around the attacks on September 11.
Most people don't take online petitions seriously. Quite a few of the petitions on this same site are equally laughable. However, this particular petition made international news. Why is this? The name of the group under which this was posted was those affected by September 11. In the aftermath of this tragedy, that phrase was used in the media to refer to the people of [New York City], [Washington D.C.] and [United Airlines Flight 93|Shanksville, Pennsylvania] whose lives were truly devastated by the attack. The media reported that some 1,200 people had signed this online petition, which led to the conclusion that [The Three Men I Admired Most: Manhattan, 9/11/01|the families and friends of those who died] were in opposition to naming the movie The Two Towers.
The fact of the matter is that this petition was a [troll], and perhaps one of the most successful trolls to date. Kevin Klerck has even admitted this. He boasts bring thousands of people into the [flame war], including several fairly "reputable" news agencies. There is even a website, apparently unaffiliated with Klerck, devoted to keeping this troll alive, which is ran by the Two Towers Protest Organization. On one of their pages they claim, "that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema's actions are in fact [hate speech]. The movie is intentionally being named The Two Towers in order to capitalize on the tragedy of September 11. Clearly, you cannot deny the fact that this falls under hate speech. We believe that if they will not willingly change the name, the government should step in to stop the movie's production or to force a name change."
Obviously they were unsuccessful. Although I don't know the true intent of The Two Towers Protest Organization, Klerck's intention was never to get the name changed. Though pretty tasteless, as most trolls are, he meant it as satirical commentary on how movies like [Spider-man] or [The Sum of All Fears] were altered or delayed in the name of sensitivity. "It's my way of pointing out how ridiculous people have gotten post-9/11."


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From: (John Chandler)
Subject: Re: [DNA] irish origins and myths
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:25:40 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <email@example.com> (messagefrom ellen Levy on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:31:29 -0700 (PDT))
Ellen wrote:
> All the factors you discribed = high frequency of
> certain haplogroups, haplotypes, and blood groups -
> can be highly effected by drift, natural selection and
> endogamy.
That's not the whole picture, by any means. You left out the
important part, which is the fact that the genetic oddities
are at the centers of broad geographic *trends*. Of the
factors you cite, only natural selection could possibly
give this pattern, and I would really like to hear the basis
for your belief that the dominace of R1b is due to natural
> the mtDNA genetic evidence from the ancient and modern
> Basque populations makes it very clear...
You're getting circular here. I have criticized the tests
of ancient DNA, and you're citing them to defend themselves.
> All the ancient Basque studies deal with this
> authentication issue because it is a big concern with
> aDNA studies.
I am suggesting that it's a bigger concern and that the authentication
efforts, however thorough, dealt only with a subset of the possible
problems. As you pointed out, these studies all seem to show that
there is no continuity anywhere. Maybe that's telling us something
about fossil DNA rather than about populations.
John Chandler
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