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Anne Bradstreet's and Johnathan Edward's View of God Comparison Essay by TomDak
Anne Bradstreet's and Johnathan Edward's View of God
A short paper outlining the differences and similarities of 'God' as imposed by Johnathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet.
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Published on Feb 07, 2003 in Literature (American) , English (Comparison) , Religion and Theology (General)
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The following paper discusses views of 'God' with reference to Anne Bradstreet's 'Upon the Burning of our House', and Jonathon Edward's 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'. This paper compares their views and tries to interpret what each author means by a particular sentence.
From the Paper:"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God conveys an extraordinarily unique viewpoint of God. According to Edwards, we are all sinners by nature; it is our most forth standing trait, despite our ongoing efforts to counter it. Throughout his sermon, he goes on endlessly about how God is so merciful to us, and without his mercy we would be thrown to the deepest depths of hell by the very earth itself. What was so deplorable to the people when they first heard it, was that Edwards alleged that all this time that they had thought they had been good Christians, they were in fact sinning against God; all the while they thought they were going to Heaven, they were actually destined for Hell, and there was naught they could do to stop it. ("You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing that you have done, nothing you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment." Edwards, 121.) So, essentially, they were screwed, and it was too late to do anything, you are all going to hell in a hand basket, have a nice Sunday. Edwards wanted to make religion almost a physical experience, and with reports of people fainting and weeping openly without abandon, I would have to say it seems as if he accomplished his task. I only wonder if perhaps a few of his followers turned to Agnosticism or Atheism after such an oration."
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South Africa's Gold Fields is interested in making another large acquisition but would most likely target the developing world, with Australian prices becoming "challenging".
The chief executive of the world's fourth-largest gold producer, Ian Cockerill, said he was pleased with the progress of Gold Fields' St Ives and Agnew goldmines in Western Australia, bought from WMC in 2001 for $521 million. But he said the rise of the Australian dollar made the argument for buying more assets harder to justify.
"We go where we see value, but, obviously, the current rise in the Aussie dollar makes valuations a lot more challenging," Mr Cockerill told the Melbourne Mining Club yesterday.
"We're very happy with our Australian assets and if we could find more assets in Australia, I'd love it . . . but at the moment valuations, I would admit, are challenging."
Asked if he was interested in the assets of Newcrest Mining, Mr Cockerill said it had been "challenging for some time".
He said Gold Fields was more likely to buy in a country whose economy was dominated by the US dollar, such as parts of Asia or Africa.
Mr Cockerill remained bullish on the outlook for the gold price.
He said he had already predicted that the price of gold would surpass $US400 per ounce by the end of 2003, and he maintained that forecast.
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Mr Cockerill said the higher gold price would largely be driven by the falling value of the US dollar. But the gold price could also get a push from Asian banks diversifying out of US dollars into gold.
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Regional Reviews: San Francisco
Ross Valley Players Presents an Audience Friendly Sly Fox
Also see Richard's review of The Mystery Plays
Television comedy writer Larry Gelbart revised the classic for the Broadway stage, updating it to end-of-the-nineteenth-century San Francisco. This marks the fourth time I have seen this fast-paced, bawdy farce and the first time I have seen a mounting by a semi-professional company. I have seen George C. Scott, Richard Dreyfuss and Jackie Gleason play the voracious "invalid." The farce is rarely performed by regional or community theatre companies since it needs the firm hand of a good director who can keep the yuks coming fast and furious. Director Phoebe Moyer has succeeded, and has made the comedy an audience friendly farce.
Foxwell J. Sly (David Alan Moss), a devious miser in our fair city, exploits humanity's bottomless thirst for money to gratify his own neverending greed. He devises a plan with the help of his loyal servant Simon Able (Wendell H. Wilson) to pretend that he is dying so he can bilk a series of wealthy friends to obtain further tributes of jewels and gold with a promise to leave his fortune to each of them. Foxwell's greed has no bounds; he even gets one of his dearest friends, Abner Truckle (Bruce Vieira), to turn over his virtuous wife for a little fun in the sack. Also he gets the old even more miserly Jethro Crouch (Alex Ross) to disinherit his son Captain Crouch (Thom Calandra) and put Foxwell's name as the heir to his fortune.
Sly Fox contains several hilarious scenes, including one with Abner Truckle's righteous wife Mrs. Truckle (Jennifer Reimer) attempting to give a rise in "spirits" to the fake death bed scene of Foxwell. Both actors play this very funny scene to the hilt. All of the actors cut loose in the raucous scene in the courtroom in the second act when Sly is brought up on charges of lechery by the son of Jethro Crouch. In prior productions I have seen, the judge in the scene is played by the same headliner who plays Sly. However, in this case Phoebe Moyer has Christopher Hammond playing the judge. It's a scene straight out of a Marx Brothers comedy with Hammond doing a fine portrayal of a hanging judge.
David Alan Ross plays Foxwell J. Sly as a subtler character than typically presented. However, he has a devilish rakishness about him as he plays the role a little like Groucho Marx. He also has some of the most philosophical lines, such as "Never think too little of people. There's always a less to be thought," or, "There's nothing like dying," as he says to his loyal servant.
Wendell H. Wilson makes a good straight man as the scheming indebted servant. He is able to keep the action moving with his very good theatrical voice. Outstanding is Alex Ross playing the dotty, decrepit Jethro Crouch. His movements and voice dominate every scene in which he appears. His walk reminds me of Tim Conway playing the doddering man in the old "Carol Burnett Show." Bruce Vieira tends to be a little too robust as Abner Truckle. He has a tendency to yell in the scene involving his wife prior to visiting the "ailing" Shy. However, in the second act, he gets more into the character. Alan Bruce as the lawyer Craven is often amusing although he has not been able to flesh out the character of a shifty lawyer. Perhaps as the production continues he will be able to make more of the role.
There is little for the female characters to do in this fast-paced, farcical comedy. Adrianna Dinihanian as the prostitute who wants to marry Sly is good and has the figure to play the role. She is especially fine in a scene in which she shows a diamond pennant that is lodged between two very big breasts to feeble Crouch - it is straight out of an old time burlesque act. Jennifer Reimer as Mrs. Truckle is wonderful in the naughty scene with Sly. The two bring down the house in raucous laughter.
Norman A. Hall nearly steals the scenes as the Chief of Police who loves to hear the impish words of sexual acts. Mr. Hall's expression is priceless as he hears about naughty doings going on. Christopher Hammond makes the most of his role as the hanging judge and is straight out of the old comedy series "Laugh In."
Tom Calandra making his first stage appearance as Captain Crouch needs to tone down his farcical performance. As he gets more into the role, he probably will simmer down and not be so exuberant in the role. Maureen O'Donogue and Victoria Lee Williams have the small roles of Sly's servants and do what they can with these characters. Their giddiness could be toned down just a mite. Victoria Lee Williams is very good as the slow-minded court reporter. Her timing is perfect in that small role.
Steve Coleman has designed an excellent detailed set on the very long stage. Center stage, he has appointed the bedroom of Sly with a lot of great nick knacks of the period, and uses extreme stage right and left for smaller scenes showing the parlors of Crouch and Truckle. In the second act, stage right becomes a bar in San Francisco doubling as a court room. Costumes by Alison Morris are spot on; however, the "naval" costume worn by Tom Calandra looks a little too much like something out of a Victor Herbert operetta. Director Phoebe Moyer has kept the two and half hour production moving at a fast pace.
Sly Fox continues at the Ross Valley Playhouse located at the Marin Garden Center just off Sir Francis Drake Blvd in Ross through February 19th. The company's next production will be Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy running from March 17 through April 23rd. For tickets to this production please call 415-456-9555 .


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Friday, December 14, 2012
Insights and Opinions: The Art of Appreciation
Story by Laura Beck
Something really bad has been going around Austin for a few years now, an approach by local start ups to "get as much as you can for free as long as you can." Even worse, this recommendation, advice has been given to new entrepreneurs by seasoned ones. Now, it's just fine to "take" time from someone who's offered it, and has successfully created and exited a few companies. Odds are they aren't focused on each paycheck. But for the rest of us vendors in town, one hour given to someone, of our time and talent, is one less paid hour we have available to earn. This "get what you can" mentality is damaging, completely one-sided, and honestly, just plain disrespectful to many, so please, let's make it stop.
Further, it seems in the rush of life, we often forget too the Art of Appreciation, and the little things that can make someone quite happy to have given you their time, whether gratis or paid. We forget the little things, the simplest acts that can leave such a positive and lasting impression. So, especially at this time of year, I'm here to remind.
When I left full time agency life to start stripedshirt and spend more time with my daughters, I netted out to a reality of 4 hours of available "work time" a day. That's precious little time and I run out of it every darn day. This time is greatly in demand, and I have clients very willing to pay for it. That payment is quite helpful considering the tens of thousands of savings (sadly I'm serious) I've put into starting my own company. And yet, I break my back to make time for others, to pay it forward, to keep contributing to this amazing tech ecosystem that is Austin, and unique to Austin: people who care, who help each other out, who share their time and talents widely.
Over the past 2.5 years, in literally countless meetings, coffees and brainstorms, I've seen the Art of Appreciation in the easiest, simplest ways that might be helpful reminders for us all:
- Larry Chiang, one of my favorites from Silicon Valley, left me with a gift certificate for dinner at an Austin restaurant after I helped him out at SXSW.
- Ken and Scott from Spredfast have referred me to several people needing PR help after I, as part of a Porter Novelli team, helped launch their business, at a steep discount
- Isaac Barchas has publicly commented on my work and value to ATI and their portfolio companies
- After helping Revision 3 with meeting space at SXSW (from my friends at Spredfast), two nice bottles of wine arrived at my doorstep from dear Jim Louderback.
But its not just material gifts or business leads, it could be something much smaller, but equally impressive:
- Val Cason, after I connected her to Julie Huls and ATC, sent me a handwritten thank you card. Handwritten, stamped, and mailed to the right address. How often does this happen any more?
- After I declined payment they offered for my time (which in, and of itself, is impressive, to acknowledge an hour of my time was worth payment), the great guys at Flashback Data (if you don't know them, look them up, they are really impressive), found my mailing address and sent a personal thank you note. Russell, thank YOU. That, obviously, had an impact.
- Mary Firme made something big happen herself, but remembered, and included me and a few very small things I did, as contributing to the end result. She hand delivered a thank you note.
- And the other day, warm cookies from Tiff's Treats arrived at my house. I wondered who, of a number of people I'd recently helped, they might be from. Rather than from several companies with grown up executives, the cookies were a thank you from a young woman, just out of college, who I brainstormed with about job opportunities. Emily Alfred thinks one step ahead, and with a grace, respect and appreciation that will surely show through in her work performance. She's worth hiring!
All these are awesome, but the easiest, for anyone to do, to thank me after I've helped their business is to support mine. That's the simplest, most logical AND most appreciated appreciation of all:
- After a great discussion about the new company (still in stealth, but keep watch!) he and Kent Savage are up to, Matt Hovis ordered a stripedshirt for his wife and son.
- And after coffee at Mozarts, I had a new order online from Gina Manassero, a fantastic Bay Area tech PR pro we now have with us in Austin.
This one, so obviously, is so rarely done. You meet with someone and they help you with your business. Of course you know about their business, what they focus most of their day on.
Support it.
Buy something from them, engage with them, give them a positive review, send an email to your network recommending them.
Again, I reiterate: when someone helps you with your business, the easiest and best way to show appreciation is to help them with theirs.
Now, I'm not saying an email thank you isn't fine, or there isn't value in the new LinkedIn recommendations. A thank you of some kind, typically via email, is absolutely the right move, and an expected one. But it's also kind of table stakes these days. If you want to set yourself apart and make your approach in business – and in life – remembered, master the Art of Appreciation, in your own unique – memorable! – way.
And whatever you do, please please don't be so disrespectful of the rest of us as to expect to "get as much as you can for free for as long as you can." Remember the stripedshirt lady: with one simple purchase on my website, I would feel the time I gave you was well worth it, for US BOTH.
Laura Beck is a Boston-to-Austin girl, 12+ years doing high tech PR here making her almost a native. With a passion for start ups, she has now embarked on her own, stripedshirt, but continues doing marketing consulting for a host of Austin area companies and organizations. This was originally posted on AustinStartup.com.


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According to a suvey by SugarDaddyForMe.com -- catering to women looking for a rich man -- more than half of women would be willing to date a guy who is 30 years older than them.
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Twenty-seven percent said that dating a guy 40 years older than them was fine, 13% would go 50 years older, and 7% said they would be willing to date a guy 60 years older than them.


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Jerusalem (AFP) May 05, 2013
Israel carried out a pre-dawn air strike near Damascus on Sunday, targeting Iranian missiles destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah in the second such raid on Syrian soil in three days, a senior Israeli source said.
"The target was Iranian missiles which were destined for Hezbollah," he told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The attack targeted a facility just northwest of the Syrian capital, very close to the site of a similar attack late January which was implicitly confirmed by Israel, the source said.
He also confirmed Israel was behind an earlier strike on a target very close to Damascus airport which took place early on Friday, which also struck Iranian arms destined for the Lebanese Shiite movement.
"Any time Israel learns about the transfer of weapons from Syria to Lebanon, it will attack," he warned.
According to Syria's official SANA news agency, Sunday morning's attack targeted the Jamraya military research centre near Damascus, in the Eastern Ghouta region.
Following the strike, the Israeli air force went on high alert, although the Jewish state was not anticipating a significant response from Damascus, the source said.
"The air force is now on high alert, the highest in recent years," he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to leave later on Sunday for a five-day visit to China, and the fact that he had not cancelled the trip suggested Israel was not expecting a major response from Syria, he added.
The official Syrian news agency SANA accused Israel of being behind the attack as a show of support for the rebel forces fighting a two-year insurgency against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
"This new Israeli aggression is a clear attempt to alleviate the pressure on the armed terrorist groups after our army beat them back in several regions and after the army's victories on the road to recovering security and stability in Syria," said SANA.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said residents reported seeing aircraft when powerful blasts rocked the area, indicating the strike had caused casualties.
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I was looking at our backlink profile and noticed a few instances of backlinks from newspapers sites going to some kind of local directory then to our site. for example, on nydailynews.com there is a link like http://localdirectory.nydailynews.com/atlantic-beach-fl/xxxxx.html. are these considered spammy? btw,we are in florida, not new york.
Links from newspapers are some of the best you can find. Many of our link building campaigns are focused on enticing reporters to write articles relating to our site.
Are you saying that the newspaper has a web directory and that is where the link is coming from? If so, these are much less valuable than content based links. I would still not consider it to be a bad link though if it is on a reputable website.
If the main domain is not considered as a bad domain from google then there will be no problem I agree. The link itself though looks to be valid and there is no reason to worry, the worst case is that google does not give you any value for the link but you will not get penalty
As already said, links from newspapers are fantastic, especially if they are national newspapers. During my time at a travel company, it was suggested that the company get in contact with some freelance writers regarding the service the company offers, and after they tried it out the company had two reviews on The Guardian and The Independent newspapers; two main newspapers in the UK. After a few weeks we noticed a noticeable increase in traffic, and the site was ranking near the top on numerous region-specific searches.
links from good newspapers and magazines are best to get
also u will expect some traffic from the subscribers of that newspapers
they are considered high authority backlinks
Check the pagerank too on these sites. If their site is a higher PR than yours it's even better.
Links from news site may not always be great, it could become spammy when a site caught in selling link. Several of UK news site has been drop trust as authority site.
I would recommend you to get backlinks from websites belonging to your niche. As far as getting backlinks from a newspaper site is concerned, it's not considered spammy.
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EXCLUSIVE: American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is taking on a new role for Fox — a matchmaker. I've learned that the network has quietly greenlighted Dream Date, a dating competition series from Ryan Seacrest Prods. Details about the top–secret project — now shooting on location — are scarce, but I hear it revolves around a group of women looking for love and features a celebrity element. There is no airdate yet but a late fall/midseason bow is a possibility. While Seacrest is best known for his stint on a reality competition series, Fox's Idol, the new show marks a rare competition series for Ryan Seacrest Prods. which has built its unscripted brand on docu-reality series like the Keeping Up With The Kardashians franchise and Shahs Of Sunset. On screen, Seacrest next is hosting NBC's live competition series Million Second Quiz.
Fox Greenlights Dating Competition Series Produced By Ryan Seacrest
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Didn't he also play a part in Mommas Boys, the short lived dating series on NBC?
terrific- tv needs more crap-ID THE NETWORKSLEARN ANYTHING FROM THE EMMY NOMS??????????
Wasn't a show similar to this that failed miserably called Ready for Love on NBC? This new Dweebcrest show is going to meet the same fate as that one did, cancellation and real quick at that.
When is enough enough with these types of shows already?!
… Her?
Seacrest has had a lot of success, clearly, but is he shallow or what? You'd think that between reality and dating shows, he'd take a shot at producing something a little more substantial.
I wonder if this will be as humiliating as the bachelor/bachelorette? On a side note,I'm glad Ryan continues branching out.Lord knows(tongue firmly in cheek) he suffers from such under-exposure.The guy needs all the publicity/exposure he can get.Seriously though,what a media whore this guy is.
"a group of women looking for love" or as the rest of us would call them: "a group of attractive women with low self-esteem, who think being on TV for 5 minutes and exploited by a reality show somehow makes their lives worthwhile".
Will he ever produce anything of quality? That buzzing sound you hear is his mentor Merv Griffin spinning in his grave.
Some "heir" to Dick Clark with the friggin TRASH he puts out there.
Seacrest needs to be taken down a few pegs, actually a LOT of pegs.
Bring back More to Love instead….
Everything that is wrong with reality TV today, especially on a broadcast network. What is this, the 20th dating competition show, and the 19th that will fail?
Do they ever learn anything?
Where's the imagination?
I'm sure he's making a shitload of money but all these various shows (television and radio) have just made him overexposed to the point he's become nothing short of repulsive. He's no better than Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton in that regard. Another plastic overexposed no-talent who feels obliged to ram their face down everyone's throats 24/7. Just for inflicting the Kardashian family onto the populace is more than enough of a reason for him to go into hiding and hang his head in shame.
Keep going, doing, creating, hosting and succeeding Ryan, while the ambition-challenged harp on blog sites with their crooked fingers and fixed sneers.
Dude, other than being male, I'm sure you're not his type. You can stop trying to suck up to him on a blog site yourself.
I can't speak for others but it's not a "Ryan" thing. The public is worn out on dating shows. I just don't think you can create a dating show right now that anyone will like. Been there and done that.
Judging by the comment above by "burrrbank," it's clear that Seacrest reads Deadline.con.
The bleached monkey is a snake.
Reality TV needs to die. What a wasteland it has Turned TV into. The success of it continue to prove we are a nation of Fuctards with no lives, that live through the escapades of watching whores like the Kardashians, to contrived marriage proposals on the bachelor and its fair share of whores, watching lesson in fat redneck child abuse on Honey Boo Boo (no doubt this kid will be a worse mess than Britney and Lohan Combined) … Yes if TV is a reflection of our society, we are all fcked, and of course we have another dating show… that's creative, LMFAO. Network Executives, What a bunch of Lazy accountants.. The only thing they know how to do that is creative is hide their money and their networks money in Offshore bank accounts.. I can only imagine the pitch session. """Hey I got a dating show like the bachelor, and we are going to have a bunch of guys and girls on it like the bachelor, and get this they are going to pitch each other like shark tank, and then, this is so great, they will step into a room like a boardroom, like on Apprentice and they this guy will decide if they're dating pitch was good enough for the date, if not they get kicked off the show, Just like Trump does, I mean its so original"""
I still don"t get his appeal?
He appeals to the lowest common denominator in television viewership.
With all these shows running, how does Ryan find the time to attend to his love affair with himself?
Hmmm, another Seacrest production? No, I'd rather sit in a room watching a ceiling fan then watch it. I hold Seacrest totally responsible for unleashing the unholy hell known as Kardashians on the world. Here's a thought for a new show, have Seacrest date a 300 pound tiger, and let the tiger snack on him–I'd watch that……. repeatedly.


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"I believe that we each have a responsibility to serve. We must work together as part of a larger community and care for one another." – Robert L.A. Keeley, M.D.
Carilion Clinic establishes the annual "Dr. Robert L.A. Keeley Award"
ROANOKE, Va. (June 15, 2012) Robert L.A. Keeley, M.D., a leader, innovator and community servant with a medical career approaching 60 years was honored last night by the Carilion Clinic Foundation with the inaugural "Dr. Robert L.A. Keeley Award". The award will be presented annually to a health care professional in recognition of significant service that affects the health and well-being of the Roanoke region.
Dr. Keeley, 91, is a board certified thoracic surgeon and one of the founders of Jefferson Surgical Clinic, which was established in Roanoke in 1956.
Following his graduation in 1944 from the UVa Medical School, Keeley completed his internship at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va., and his residency at the Duke University Medical School. As a member of the United States Navy, he served World War II and Korea.
During his medical career, Dr. Keeley has served as Chief of Surgery for Jefferson Hospital, Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital and Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He has served on the Board of Directors for Community Hospital and Carilion Health System. He currently services as Medical Director for Nursing Services at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, a position he has held since 1996.
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"I believe that we each have a responsibility to serve," Keeley said upon accepting the award. "We must work together as part of a larger community and care for one another."
The Carilion Clinic Foundation also announced that it will name a new "healing arts" program after Dr. Keeley. The Dr. Robert L. A. Keeley Healing Arts Program will integrate the creative arts into the healing process and feature literary, performing and visual art experiences.
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What does a Disability Denial Letter from Social Security say?
Denial letters from the social security administration on Social Security Disability and SSI disability claims tend to be fairly generic. If you have filed a disability application in either program and the claim is denied, then you will receive what is known as a notice of disapproved claim.
The letter will typically begin by stating you are not disabled according to the rules of Social Security Disability and SSI. Following this statement will be the following:
1. A listing of the medical treatment sources that were used to make the decision. This list will usually mirror the list that you supplied to the social security office at the time of application. However, it may also include medical treatment providers that you did not list that were discovered when the disability examiner reviewed the claim. It may also omit certain sources that you listed.
Note: if some of your sources are not on this list, it does not necessarily mean that they were not used in the evaluation of your claim. It may simply mean that they were inadvertently left off when the list was typed in.
Howevever, later if your case goes to a disability hearing, you and your disability attorney will, at some point, review your social security file to determine which records were obtained by social security and if some records were not. Hearings always present an opportunity to add documentation to the file for the judge to review and this constitutes a large part of what attorneys do for their clients.
Of course, if you are concerned during the processing of a disability application or request for reconsideration appeal that not all your records are being reviewed, you can always contact the disability examiner who is handling your claim.
To do this, you can get the number for the disability determination services agency (DDS) from the social security office where you filed your claim. And when you call DDS, you can supply your social security number so they may look up your case and put you in contact with the examiner handling your claim.
2. A listing of the conditions for which your claim was evaluated (e.g. depression, degenerative disc disease).
3. A statement regarding your limitations and how it affects your ability to work. For example, on many notices of disapproved claim, the statement will indicate that while you are not capable of performing your past work, you are still capable of performing some type of other work (this is known, of course, as an "other work denial" and it is extremely common). This same paragraph will usually state that, in addition to your medical records, your age, education, and job training were used to make the decision on your claim.
4. The next section of the denial letter will state that "Doctors and other trained staff" looked at your case and made the decision. This means basically that a disability examiner (who has no medical training) did all the evaluation on your claim and before the final decision was made, a unit medical consultant--a doctor who works in the same case-processing unit as the disability examiner) briefly reviewed the disability examiner's writeup and assessment of the case before "signing off on it".
All in all, the denial letters sent to claimants by SSA are, for the most part, composed of boiler plate language. If you lined up 100 such notices of denial from 100 different claimants, the chances are good that most of them would look fairly identical. For this reason, analyzing a denial letter is not particularly productive.
The true significance of receiving a notice of disapproved claim is simply that it signals to the claimant that they should immediately file an appeal. If they have been denied after filing an application for disability, then this will be the time to file a request for reconsideration appeal. If they have been denied after a reconsideration has been completed, then they should file a request for a disability hearing.
In either instance, it may be time to consider finding a disability representative, either a disability attorney, or a non-attorney disability representative.
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Fox host Gretchen Carlson appeared perplexed that the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) addressed reporters at a press conference, though the CEA chairman spoke to the press on multiple occasions during George W. Bush's presidency.
On February 4, CEA Chairman Jason Furman briefed the press on a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the Affordable Care Act. On her show The Real Story, Gretchen Carlson covered the news conference, saying several times that Furman's briefing was an "unusual" occurrence:
CARLSON: Very unusual to have this right now, an explainer going on to reporters, no doubt to try to get out in front of the bad news about what Obamacare apparently does for jobs right here in America.
Despite Carlson's claim, it's not uncommon for the CEA chairman to address the press. During President George W. Bush's administration, CEA Chairman Edward Lazear held six press briefings in the official White House press room:
November 21, 2006: "CEA Chairman Edward Lazear Discusses the Administration's Latest Economic Forecast."
November 29, 2007: "Press Briefing on the Administration's Latest Economic Forecast by CEA Chairman Edward Lazear."
January 18, 2008: "Press Briefing by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chaiman of the Council of Economic Advisors Ed Lazear."
February 11, 2008: "Press Briefing by Edward Lazear, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers on the Economic Report of the President."
March 7, 2008: "Press Briefing by Dana Perino and Edward Lazear, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and Keith Hennessey, Director of the National Economic Council."
October 30, 2008: "Press Briefing by Press Secretary Dana Perino and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Ed Lazear."
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Socio-Economics of Pearl Culture: Industry Changes and Comparisons focusing on Australia and French Polynesia
Concentrates on comparing socio-economic aspects of pearl culture in Australia, which mostly relies on the culture of the South Sea pearl oyster P. maxima, with that in French Polynesia which depends on the culture of the black-lipped pearl oyster P. margaritifera. Australian culture of pearl oysters dates from the 1950s whereas culture of black pearls in French Polynesia dates from the second half of the 1970s. After briefly outlining the history of pearl culture in Australia and Tahiti, this paper provides an overview of the industry, comparative structure of the industry in Australia and French Polynesia and its technologies. Socio-economic impacts, especially regional impacts, of the industry are considered. Market characteristics (such as prices of pearls and the marketing and promotion of Tahitian pearls) are given attention and observations are made about Australian export markets for pearls. There appears to be some positive correlation between the price received on average for Tahitian pearls and that obtained for Australian pearl exports, but more control is exerted over Australian supply of pearls to the market so enabling declines in the price for Australian pearls to be counteracted quickly
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When Carolyn Taylor finally told her partner of 15 years about her decision to pursue theological studies, she blurted it out like a confession of infidelity. "I said to him, 'I have been having these clandestine dates with God,'" she recalls with a laugh.
In her late 40s at the time, she was acting on a religious impulse that "for the longest time felt like a dirty little secret," explains the former cultural programmer who is now an ordained interfaith minister. A masters student in the Elliott Allen Institute of Ecology and Theology at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Taylor runs a consultancy in Toronto called Rev'd Up, offering "an agile approach" to spiritual development with workshops, ceremonies and seminars that explore the interconnections between ecology, social change and diverse religious faiths.
Midlife can bring surprising changes, and not just in your waistline. A psychic shifting of weight that one religious leader described as "a desire to exchange money for meaning" has caused many in the boomer generation to seek a "second-act career in morality-based spiritual pursuits." In fact, 23 per cent of all students in theological schools in North America are 50 or older according to the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), an organization that collects data on religious studies in the United States and Canada. And with leadership opportunities available for women across all denominations (with the exception of the Catholic Church) since the 1970s, the number of women in theological schools has been increasing steadily over the past three decades, reaching a peak of 30 to 35 per cent of the student body in the early 2000s.
Interestingly, many women's reasons for making the choice of a spiritual life are intertwined with the expectations, hardships and joys of traditional female roles.
"There are two key times in adult spiritual development, when people are searching for the meaning of life and feel a longing for God. One is in the late teens, early 20s, and another is in the 40s," says Sister Constance Joanna Gefvert, an ordained Anglican priest and a member of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, the only Canadian Anglican female monastic community. "At a certain age, people feel they have nothing to prove any more, and that leads to a feeling of 'I want to do more and contribute more.'"
After centuries of exclusion from church leadership positions, the trend is "part of the pent-up possibility with women," says Rev. Dorcas Gordon, principal and associate professor of biblical interpretation and preaching at Knox College, University of Toronto. In their younger years, many women "find themselves as wives and mothers, and it is only later that they begin to see themselves in these [church leadership] positions," she says. In fact, for midlife women, the call to spiritual work is often an outcome of their desire to nurture and care for others, either due to their experience of having raised families or because they never had the opportunity to have children.
Now 72, Sister Constance came to theological school at 43 after a 15-year career as a university professor. "I always wanted to be a mother, but for whatever reason, the relationships I had didn't result in children and grandchildren, and that left me open to other ways to fulfill that longing for purpose in life."
For Shauna Cairns Gundy, the decision to enter seminary in her mid-50s came because of her experience of being a mother to five and of having cared for her mother, who had suffered a stroke. "I was the sandwich generation, pushing my mother in a wheelchair and holding a baby on my hip," she says. "In the last years of my mother's life, I became close to the clergy, and I learned a lot about aging and spiritual care." A pastoral assistant at St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto, she will graduate with a master of divinity from Trinity College, University of Toronto, next spring. "For me, it was an actualization of coming to the realization that I had been doing this kind of work all my life."
For other women, the investigation into the possibility of a religious life comes as a way to process emotional hardships, which have been swept under the carpet. "We are playing things back. We are taking a measure in midlife," explains Jane Christmas, author of the new book And Then There Were Nuns, Adventures in a Cloistered Life. "I had two failed marriages. You learn from them. My children were launched. All these things coalesce." She had also suffered the trauma of a rape 30 years ago, which she had never fully addressed. "I had this feeling of being battered by life and I wanted to reconnect with God in a deeper way and rediscover my essence and also deal with everything."
Like all the women interviewed for this story, Christmas had a spiritual yearning in her youth, which she pushed aside to take up other interests. "I was scared to voice that part of me," says the 59-year-old. "I didn't have the self-confidence." She spent a year and a half visiting different monastic communities – she is an associate at the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine in Toronto – but eventually decided against a formalized cloistered life.
But there are several lessons from her religious investigation, which she has brought forward into her everyday life: the power of prayer, not to be afraid of silence and the beauty of living simply. "The experience turned things upside down in my life," she says on the phone from a small village in Devon, England, where she now lives. "I don't have the stresses. I live simply. I was in the cycle of buying stuff to pacify myself, because I needed to feel good about myself."
The world is a loud, busy place, which doesn't promote healing, she says. "Silence scares people. Everyone has headphones. People don't like to be alone with their thoughts. But in the silence, I found great solace. It was very profound. There is such power and insight that comes from listening with an open heart."
Carolyn Taylor, now 51, has found a similar peace in her new career. "I needed a spiritual literacy around deeply held beliefs that could stand on their own in secular society as value-based," she explains, adding that her partner is fully supportive of her work. "It matters how we treat one another – far more than it matters how much we earn. I think that many of us get sidetracked by meaninglessness."Report Typo/Error
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The Institute for Local Government and the Statewide Energy Efficiency Collaborative has honored Rancho Cucamonga with the Beacon Award for its participation and achievements in a state environmental program.
The city was recognized for its leadership in sustainable community development, mainly its Green Business Recognition Program that spotlights local businesses that have incorporated sustainable practices into their operations.
The Green Business Recognition Program is part of the city's Healthy RC Program which promotes sustainable environmental practices within the community and city operations.
Participating businesses can usually be spotted by the Healthy RC "Green Business" decals displayed in their windows. They receive free recommendations to further improve efficiency, energy and water conservation and waste reduction measures that help contribute to the city's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (March 5, 2003) -- Five students in the University at Albany School of Public Health received epidemiology research awards at the American Public Health Associations (APHA) 130th Annual Meeting and Exposition, held recently in Philadelphia.
For five of our students to be honored at such a prestigious national meeting reflects well on the level of preparedness our students have, said Peter Levin, dean of the School of Public Health.There are 32 schools of public health nationwide.
Ping Du, a Ph.D. student, received an award for his paper, Comparability on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors between STD clinic clients and high-risk individuals in community. Ph.D. student Eve M. Waltermaurer was honored for her paper, Issues in estimating the prevalence of intimate partner violence: the association between abuse status and participation in research conducted in the home.
Gary Brooks, a Dr.P.H. student won the James Zimmer New Investigator Research award for Impact of diabetes on activities of daily living in long-term care. Motao Zhu, a Ph.D. student, received an award for Impact of maternal birthplace on major congenital malformations in New York Hispanics, and Trang Nguyen, won in the Medical Care section for Variation in hospital death rates: A surprising finding.
Dr. Robert McKeown, chair of the APHA epidemiology section, said The public health challenges of the 21st century are wide ranging, including enhancing well-being across the life span in an aging population, responding to newly emerging infectious diseases, and preparing for disasters and terrorist attacks. Epidemiologists are an essential part of the core public health workforce that will enable us to address these challenges. The epidemiology section is the second largest section of the organization.
For more information about the School of Public Health please visit their web site at http://www.albany.edu/sph/.
Established in 1844 and designated a center of the State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research and public service engages 17,000 diverse students in eight degree-granting schools and colleges.
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The publishing industry has taken a battering in recent times with the close of two major women's titles but that has not stopped one creative Canberra publisher from launching her own magazine.
Hitched is Australia's newest guide for brides produced and published by Canberra-based wedding stylist and interior designer Renee Douros.
The quarterly publication is now available at more than 6000 newsagencies around Australia and New Zealand and is exciting readers with its hand-drawn illustrations, love stories, recipes and locally styled and photographed fashion shoots.
''I felt there was a real hole in the market for a guide for those couples who are seeking an event rather than just the traditional ceremony-and-reception-type wedding,'' Ms Douros said.
''The glossy bridal magazines that are on the market are really fluffy, so with Hitched we want to focus on what the 'non-bride bride' and couples want out of their big day. It's definitely for the type of person who appreciates a beautifully styled, unique event.''
While a walk down the aisle is considered to be one of the most stressful events in anyone's life, Hitched could be used as a soothing agent for pre-wedding jitters. The magazine contains light-hearted reads about first dates, striking images of bespoke floral garlands, coloured wedding gowns and suggests poses and places for wedding photo shoots. Handy hints and tips from local wedding vendors also grace the pages.
''What do you call a list of great songs that doesn't include a track from Johnny Cash? Worthless,'' states an article written by a wedding DJ as he lists the ultimate wedding soundtrack.
While the vintage vibe that emanates from the magazine may excite hipsters, Ms Douros said the title also was a testament to the creative energy and talents that Canberra had produced.
For now, she is happy with the reception the first issue has received and is looking forward to issue two and expanding the title into Asia, the UAE, Lebanon and the US.
The 25-year-old creative director said her happily ever after would involve her introducing a brother publication to the Hitched family. ''I would love to do a men's magazine, a hipster version of Hitched aimed at men and grooms-to-be,'' she said.


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An Interview with Best-selling Fantasy Author R.A. Salvatore: Finding the Personal in the Epic, the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
On the occasion of the recent publication of R.A. Salvatore's latest novel, Omnivoracious invited Jeremy L. C. Jones to share his thoughts about the book—and to interview the author. Jones, an expert on Salvatore's fiction, is a freelance writer, editor, and teacher. Along with Jeff VanderMeer, he co-directs Shared Worlds, a SF/Fantasy creative writing and world-building camp for teenagers partially funded by an Amazon.com grant.
Even though Neverwinter by R. A. Salvatore falls late in his heroic fantasy Forgotten Realms series about the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden, it is an ideal place to start reading—or re-reading—Salvatore's fiction. Neverwinter finds the veteran fantasist pushing himself (and his characters) harder than ever before—asking bigger questions, meeting bigger challenges, and conquering bigger personal demons.
Though known for writing vivid combat scenes, Salvatore is very much a character writer. His Forgotten Realms novels are "buddy fantasy" in the mode of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories and heroic fantasy in the mode David Gemmell's Legend. Iconic characters like Drizzt Do'Urden, Bruenor Battlehammer, Wulfgar, Regis, and Cattie-brie are, as Salvatore says, "friends to walk down the road of adventure beside."
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In February of this year in Maryland, a young pregnant woman lost her baby, and her life. She was thirty-three weeks along. Some quick math will translate that to eight months and a quarter - mere weeks from birth.
Late-term abortion doctor LeRoy Carhart told Jennifer Morbelli that there was something wrong with her baby - a fetal abnormality - and that an abortion was her way out. He portrayed his procedure as a solution, but he wound up fatally injuring Jennifer instead. And it's not the first time something like this has happened under Carhart.
With Carhart's Germantown Reproductive Health Services under investigation by the Maryland Board of Physicians, some notable details are becoming public. Chief among them is the fact that GRHS was not being regularly inspected at the time prior to Jennifer's and Madison's deaths. In fact, GRHS got its license without ever having been inspected at all.
Such circumstances are not rare in the abortion industry. In January of this year, city officials forced the closure of Women's Medical Services, an abortion clinic in Muskegon, Michigan, due to "a considerable amount of fire safety and health issues," according to the Muskegon's fire marshal.(The local reporter covering the story described the conditions as "downright disgusting.") "No state or local health agency routinely inspected" the clinic, leaving many to wonder: how can surgical centers like this one not qualify for regulation?
Last year, the Huffington Post revealed that "some [abortion] facilities" in Illinois "had gone up to 15 years without inspections" - with one clinic owner complaining of feeling "victimized" by the "surprise inspection." (State regulators wound up closing two clinics.)
Of course, doctors, restaurateurs, and funeral directors never bat an eye at such scrutiny. In these industries and many others, where the lives and health of human beings are of primary concern, there's no such thing as a "surprise" inspection. So why is the abortion industry different?
But, more alarming than any of this is Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist now on trial for the eight counts of murder, who used scissors to snip the spinal cords of newborn babies. It was Gosnell who prompted the long-dormant inspections in Illinois: he left a trail of violations, including counts too gruesome to detail here, all the way back to 1989 - with no punishment or regulation by state authorities. Even when the Philadelphia Department of Health was notified that a woman in Gosnell's clinic had suffered a torn uterus and an emergency hysterectomy, state officials did nothing.
Then there is 24-year-old Tonya Reaves. Last July, a Chicago Planned Parenthood perforated Tonya's uterus, putting her in immediate mortal danger. But, they waited five hours to call the hospital, during which time Tonya bled to death.
In Germantown, Jennifer Morbelli underwent a dangerous late-term abortion, and when life-threatening complications arose, neither she nor her family - nor, for that matter, the doctors who received her in the emergency room - could reach LeRoy Carhart.
We have here an enterprise that regularly performs dangerous surgical procedures, with no meaningful regulation whatsoever. Even when there are inspections, violations go unaddressed.
According to the American Action Forum, the cost of regulations under President Obama was up to $488 billion back in September of last year. There were 6,705 regulations to track in 2011, and over 4,700 in 2012. The Obama administration has written regulations for the Affordable Care Act alone (with hundreds more on the way). Regulations are clearly increasing, yet the abortion industry is left completely to its own devices. How can this be?
Live Action's investigations have shown that abortion clinics across the country often mislead and misinform patients about how dangerous the procedure is. But, our government still compels taxpayer funding of this unregulated industry - Planned Parenthood alone got $542 million in taxpayer money in 2011, up $60 million from 2010. That's a 12% increase despite a struggling economy.
Planned Parenthood is the largest seller of abortions in America, with over 700 clinics nationwide. It also came out of 2012 with $87 million in excess revenue and net assets of over $1.2 billion. This organization casts itself as a women's health care provider, even advertising services it doesn't actually provide, such as mammograms (it refers all patients), while terminating hundreds of thousands of pre-born babies every year and counseling an untold number of trusting women, like Tonya Reaves, that the abortion procedure is safe.
How can an industry involved in these types of surgical procedures remain largely unregulated, or serve a compelling enough state interest to get almost half its budget from American taxpayers, regardless of their moral objections to abortion - and qualify as a tax-exempt non-profit?
LeRoy Carhart was given free rein by our government, and he ended a woman's life, along with her baby's. No hospital - in fact, no tattoo parlor - enjoys the "looking the other way" privileges abortion clinics across the United States take advantage of.
An industry with such a reckless track record, involved in terminating human lives, and putting women in harm's way during the process, should be highly regulated. And it should not be receiving taxpayer funding for these "services."
This is not only a defense of life issue; it is a defense of women issue.
It is time for federal and state authorities to take a more in-depth look at what is happening inside America's abortion clinics. Regardless of where one may stand on abortion, we all need to rethink whether Americans should be forced to fund it.