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- Website: worldmarket.com
World Market isn't a secret source by any means, but it's one we've used ourselves many times. It's the kind of place you go when you're stocking the kitchen in your first apartment…
…or you're having a party for 50 people and you need boxes of wine glasses on the cheap. Cost Plus originated on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco in the 1950s. (The name came from the store's policy of selling goods at a 10 percent markup over cost.) Today, it's a national chain with 260 stores and a big e-commerce site.
The quality is somewhere between IKEA and CB2 (depending on the item), but the style is much more traditional and they carry food and drink as well as decor. They stock a few large brands like Mrs. Meyers cleaning products and Boddington's beer, as well as their own World Market label. In addition to kitchenware, they're a good resource for inexpensive outdoor furniture, curtains, rugs, and pillows.
- Multi-Color Stacking Mugs, $10 for a set of 6
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Hogs: Tuesday, we were excited about the 436,000 head run. Wednesday's 438,000 head mark is quite a feat. For those of you asking, we found a 439,941 in September of 2012 and a 442,502 run for Dec. 21, 2009. If it weren't for the still-low Saturday slaughter that is currently planned, we would happily say "huge weekly kills" are here. Yes, cash hog prices have fallen in the past week and a half. Yes, slaughters will be "moderately big" this week and post a "slightly bigger" kill next week for the year's peak.
However, we have to wonder if prices are nearing the worst of it. The lean hog index, the measure of cash hog prices that the CME uses, will be 87.03 tomorrow. That applies to cash hog trading through Tuesday. Typically, this index posts the winter bottom in the days just before Thanksgiving. December futures settled Wednesday at 87.35. If we had a crystal ball we would say another week of lower cash hog prices and slightly lower futures could be seen. After that though, prices are on the slow rebound.
December futures are not trying to guess where cash hogs will be in November or where they will bottom out during November. December futures are trying to guess how high cash hogs will be on Dec. 13. Trading December futures, off the short-term November fundamentals, is a tough issue. This whole issue, of trying to estimate December cash hog prices, is ridiculously tough given the tremendous rumors of PED. The full wrath of PED will be theoretically seen as we get into December.
Cattle: News was a little quiet on the beef end Wednesday. Packers are still saber rattling over their +$30 per head losses. They have dropped this week's kill in an effort to prop up the wholesale beef/live cattle margin. At this point, all they are doing is stabilizing cash cattle and posting only mixed results for beef (through today's AM meat report). They could be hard bargainers again when negotiations get more serious Thursday. While the short-term picture is still a little sloppy for cattle pricing, it is hard to get seriously bearish this market given the long-term fundamentals.

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Professor Jaafar Kassem-Ali became a member of the faculty a semester after the department's inception. He was hired to teach Kiswahili while completing his graduate degree at Columbia University. His areas of research and writing is in Swahili Language, Literature and society. His teaching includes courses in African Literature and Politics.
In addition to his teaching duties, Professor Kassem-Ali has served the department's administration in the category of an undergraduate advisor and director of the Africana Sequence. He is currently the department's representative to the Hunter Faculty Delegate Assembly and Review commission on the Distribution Requirement.
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Longtime president and CEO of Pioneer Clubs, CIU Alumna, with the Lord
Virginia Catherine Patterson, who served for 27 years as the president and chief executive officer of Pioneer Clubs, an international Christian ministry to children, died Sept. 12 at the age of 81. Patterson was a 1956 graduate of Columbia International University where she earned her master's degree in Biblical Studies.
Before heading Pioneer Clubs, Patterson served in Nigeria where she taught English grammar and literature to children of American and German missionaries. She was also a longtime adjunct professor of Christian studies at Wheaton College and several other Christian colleges.
"She was a strong, smart woman, whose legacy is the positive and profound influence she had on the lives of countless children," said close friend and former colleague Judy Bryson, the current president and CEO of Pioneer Clubs. "When children were around her, they felt affirmed."
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Tim Floyd insists he is not heading back to Southern California.
Floyd, who now coaches at UTEP, spoke following the Miners' 56-54 loss to No. 25 Memphis on Tuesday night and said his meeting with USC athletic director Pat Haden was not about the men's basketball opening.
"They did not offer me a job nor was I looking for a job," said Floyd. "We had a great three-hour conversation and that's all I'm going to say."
UTEP athletic director Bob Stull had said earlier that Floyd and Haden met to discuss the coaching job. Stull said Haden contacted him six weeks ago about discussing the vacancy with Floyd.
"Coach Floyd has always indicated to me that he is happy working at UTEP, and until he tells me otherwise he is our coach," Stull said.
Floyd resigned from USC under accusations that he improperly recruited star O.J. Mayo. His successor, Kevin O'Neill, was fired in January after three mostly disappointing seasons.
"I've been called on for a few jobs since I've been here at UTEP and the immediate response and answer was, 'Not interested,'" said Floyd. "In this particular case, the relationships I had at (USC), the way we left the school, was not comfortable for me and my family, my former players and my coaches. We chose to take a high road when we left."
Floyd's contract with UTEP runs through 2015 and pays at least $600,000 a year, according to the El Paso Times. He owes no financial penalty under the contract if he leaves UTEP.
While USC self-imposed sanctions on its basketball program over Mayo's recruitment, the NCAA did not find any violations committed by Floyd. When he became UTEP's coach in 2010, Floyd said he wanted it to be clear that his resignation from USC was "not an admission of guilt."
"We are coaching here because we had no NCAA violations. Sometimes people around the country, maybe the media, may not understand that," said Floyd.
"I haven't said much about any subject but when (USC) called, I felt like I owed it to our former players, our former coaches and our current coaches, guys that may be on this team that may want to coach someday, to go speak with them because the obvious answer is that (USC) did their homework. They weren't going to hire anybody who broke any NCAA rules."
Haden replaced Mike Garrett, the athletic director who originally hired Floyd at USC. Floyd had success turning an also-ran program at a school known mostly for football into a winner. He went 85-50 in four seasons, with three trips to the NCAA tournament and one Sweet 16 berth.
After the 2009 season, allegations surfaced that Floyd paid a Los Angeles event promoter $1,000 in cash to steer Mayo to USC. Floyd resigned in June 2009 and the school barred the team from the postseason for one year.
Floyd was hired the following year in El Paso, three decades after he got his first coaching job under Hall of Fame Miners coach Don Haskins. He has a 56-39 record with the Miners in three seasons.
USC spokesman Tim Tessalone said in an email that Haden would not comment on the search until a coach is hired.


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On March 11, 2009, we posted our first image on Facebook, a spectacular view of ash billowing from Mount Etna (below). At the time, we had just a handful of friends on Facebook, and just a few of them shared it with theirs.
Fast forward three years…and tens of thousands of you have joined our Facebook community. We routinely receive dozens of comments and hundreds of you share nearly every image we post. On January 12, 2013, thanks to all of you, we hit a milestone we've been eying for months: 100,000 fans. The friends of these 100,000 fans, Facebook tells us, number over 34 million.
That's an extraordinary number, but what's even more notable is how much we've learned from all of you since that first post. You've told us what you like, what you don't, and why. You've given us countless story ideas, and you have pushed us to keep digging and learning about images long after we hit the publish button. You've taught us—and each other—more than we could have imagined when we posted that first image.
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March 18. 2013 10:50AM
LINCOLN - When Erika Brown talks about fishing, she could be talking about her passion for writing as well.
"It's relaxing, it gives you time to think. It gives you a different outlook on life and the world," she explained Friday. Usually not much of an outdoors person, she drew inspiration in the quiet of nature while fishing with her sister and an adult relative at Moore Dam last year.
This fall, when she saw the notice of the New England Outdoor Writers Association's 2013 Youth Writing Contest posted on her classroom wall, she reached back to the day, remembering details and how she felt fishing and imagined how the fish felt being caught.
After writing the best essay in the senior (grades 9-12) division for the state, Brown, a freshman at Lin-Wood High School in Lincoln, went on to win first place overall for New England.
Alysse Cleasby, who is a sixth-grader at Chichester Central School, wrote the winning essay in the junior (grades 6-8) division for New Hampshire, and first place overall for New England.
Students were asked to write an essay of not more than 500 words on an outdoor activity that increased enjoyment and knowledge of nature and natural resources.
Dr. Harold Lyon, board member of NEOWA and chair of the contest, said he is very proud of the young writers and the English teachers who encouraged them - Kate Dockham of Chichester Central School and Heather Krill of Lin-Wood High School. Lyon visited the two schools and presented the winners certificates for the New Hampshire and New England contests, and two checks each, $50 each for the New Hampshire contest, and $100 each for the New England contest. He also gave each teacher a red rose "to acknowledge their inspiring influence behind the scenes."
"As a long-time educator, teacher, outdoorsman and writer," Lyon said, "I am very excited about acknowledging excellence in writing as well as motivating our students to spend time in New England's lesson-rich outdoors. You may have heard the term 'nature deprivation,' as coined by Richard Louv in his book, 'The Last Child in the Woods.' A growing and alarming percentage of today's younger parents are not outdoors people and often view nature as a dangerous place for their children. Too many children are now spending most of their time indoors watching TV or on computers, missing both the health and educational benefits of time outdoors. The NEOWA Youth Writing Contest both acknowledges excellence in writing and fosters meaningful outdoor recreation for our youth."
Randy Julius, president of the association, said, "This is the first year for the competition and we hope, as the word gets out, to attract more New England students to write about their outdoor experiences."
Both Brown and Cleasby will have their essays published in a future issue of North Woods Sporting Journal (sportingjournal.com) as part of the prize package for winning the contest.


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Giffen goods are exceptions to the Law of Demand ... if Giffen goods really exist! Many, including your teacher, are skeptical that there really is such a thing as a Giffen good.
Giffen goods are exceptions to the Law of Demand ... if Giffen goods really exist! Many, including your teacher, are skeptical that there really is such a thing as a Giffen good.
Economist Veblen suggested that a "status symbol," like a fancy car or diamond, can have an increase in demand when its price goes up. While "status symbols" certainly do exist, it is questionable whether the demand for them ever increases due to an increase in price. If it does occur, then it is a "Veblen good."
==Utility and Diminishing Marginal Utility==
==Utility and Diminishing Marginal Utility==
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Economics Lectures - [1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14]
In Lectures Two and Three we discussed how a government price control, or price ceiling, results in shortages. For example, government controls on the cost of medical services will cause a shortage of medical services, and rationing of medical care becomes necessary to manage the shortage.
Consider this question: why doesn't the government simply order people to provide more of the medical services, so there is no shortage? If government is powerful enough to limit and control the price, which causes a shortage, then why doesn't the government increase the supply by ordering people to provide more of the services at the lower price?
Think about that for a while. The answer is in this footnote.[1]
In this course we have already learned about the supply and demand curves, and examined the economic concept of "elasticity". Recall that elasticity measures the sensitivity of the quantity demanded to a change in price, as we discussed in the last lecture.
This time, we are going to focus on other aspects of "demand".
Example: the NBA Draft
Let's begin with an example. Every year the National Basketball Association (NBA) holds a "draft" for each team to pick a college (or even a high school) player who wants to compete in the NBA. The worst NBA teams are allowed to pick first (that is, pick the best incoming players) in order to even out the quality of the NBA teams. That way the best new players go to the worst NBA teams, and hopefully improve them so that there is better competition in the NBA and the same teams (like Los Angeles) do not win the championship every year.
There is a dilemma that often arises when a team is making its selection of a particular player: should the team pick (draft) the very best player available, regardless of the team's own needs for a player at a particular position, or should the team draft someone who fills a particular need on the team. For example, if the basketball team has good players at the position of guard but needs a good center, should it draft someone who plays the position of center even though the best player available for that draft selection is a guard?
That dilemma presented itself to the Portland Trailblazers at a time when it had good guards, but needed a center. The best player available at the time of its selection was Michael Jordan, a guard, but the team felt it needed to pick a center to fill the bigger need of the team. It decided not to pick Michael Jordan and selected a center/power forward named Sam Bowie instead. The next team in the draft, the Chicago Bulls, then selected Michael Jordan and he eventually led it to six NBA championships. Sam Bowie struggled in the NBA and never attained the level of success of Michael Jordan, who many feel was the greatest NBA player ever.
What does economics teach us about the decision by the Portland Trailblazers? At the time of its decision, the team knew that there was a greater "market" demand for Michael Jordan than for Sam Bowie. Had the team used economic analysis, it would have realized that Michael Jordan's "value" was higher due to the greater market demand for him, regardless of what the Portland Trailblazers' specific needs were. Portland could have picked Michael Jordan and traded him for Sam Bowie plus another good player, or Portland could have "traded down" in the draft and obtained value in addition to still drafting Sam Bowie later in the draft (because he would still likely have been available). But the Portland team leaders did not view the selection in terms of the "market", but rather in terms of the team's own particular needs. This choice became what some call "the single most colossal blunder in the history of basketball."[2]
The moral of this story: learn to look beyond your own situation when making buying and selling decisions. You may think a particular house is the best thing in the world, but if the market values that house less than you do, then you'll lose money if you buy it based on your personal preferences rather than market demand.
Postscript: Sam Bowie himself displays a free market attitude without regrets. "If I had known that Michael was going to become the greatest player of all-time, I'd have chosen Michael over myself, too. That's hindsight. ... I have a wife of 21 years and children ages 17, 11 and 8 ..., and to say that every day's a holiday is an understatement."[3] Meanwhile, Michael Jordan has had problems caused by his stardom, and he was unsuccessful himself after he switched teams late in his career.
The Income and Substitution Effects
Recall that the "Law of Demand" is this: when the price of a good increases, its demand decreases. When the price of a good decreases, its demand increases. This is one of the most fundamental rules of Economics.
The question we ask and answer now is this: why is the Law of Demand true? We have discussed in class two reasons.
First, the more expensive something becomes, the less people can afford to buy it. Someone with access to a maximum of $10,000 (in wealth or loans) cannot purchase a good costing $20,000. He cannot afford it. Actually, this person probably cannot afford anything more expensive than about $5,000, because he needs to use his other money for food and shelter and clothing and transportation.
The second reason for the Law of Demand is that even people who can afford something may prefer, as the price of a good increases, to spend their money on an alternative instead. People who can afford to spend $20,000 on a luxury cruise may look at that price and decide to spend that money in a more enjoyable manner, such as renting house at the Jersey shore one week each summer for the next 20 years.
These two reasons, or effects, have been given names in economics. They are called the income and substitution effects. They cause the important "Law of Demand." Let's examine each effect now.
The "income effect" is the effect that a change in price of a good has on a buyer's overall income. When the price of a good decreases, a buyer of the good saves money. This is the same as if he earned more money. "A penny saved is a penny earned." When the price of a good decreases by a penny, the "income effect" is as though the buyer earned an extra penny in income. For example, if you drink a gallon of milk each week and the price of that gallon decreases by 25 cents, then you have 25 cents extra to spend on something else. It is as though your income went up by 25 cents.
Remember how we discussed that an increase in income usually causes people to buy more of a good? Now that you have more income, you may want to buy more milk. Instead of drinking a gallon a week, perhaps you can now afford to drink a gallon and a quart a week. The decrease in price of milk created an income effect (increase in income), which encourages you to buy more milk.
To summarize: the income effect of a decrease in price is to allow the buyer to save more money, and some buyers will use that savings to purchase more of the good. If you went to the store to buy a new pair of socks for $5, and found they were on sale for only $2.50, then you may use that savings to buy two pairs of socks. This "income effect" of a decrease in price causes demand to increase for the good.
The second reason that the Law of Demand is true is because a decrease in price of a good also causes a "substitution effect". Think of what happens when the price of a good increases. People start to buy substitutes instead, and so the demand for the good with the higher price decreases. Similarly, when the price of a good decreases, people want to buy more of the less expensive good instead of something else. In other words, a decrease in price of a good makes you more willing to buy it as a "substitute" for a similar good. In the milk example, its cheaper price makes it more attractive to purchase. You may want to substitute milk for the fruit juice you used to drink.
Both the "income effect" and the "substitution effect" give you an incentive to buy more of the good that decreased in price. The overall increase in quantity demanded for a good that cut its price is the sum of the income effect and the substitution effect. For a normal good, a decrease in its price causes an increase in real income (the income effect) and an increase in substitution for other goods (the substitution effect), which add together to cause an overall increase in demand. This is typical.
Learn these two important concepts well -- the income effect and substitution effect. In understanding concepts, it helps to restate them slightly differently until there is a full appreciation of them. The "income effect" is the change in your wealth (income) due to a change in price of something you buy, AND how that change effects what you buy. If the price of milk decreases, then the "income effect" is to make you feel like you have more income AND enable you to buy more milk. If the price of milk increases, then the "income effect" is to make you feel like you have less income because you had to spend more on buying the milk, leaving you less money to spend on other things. Understand this? Reread it again if necessary, and think about how a change in the price of milk affects your decisions about how much milk and other things you can buy.
The "substitution effect" is the change in substitution (one good for another) due to the change in price of one of the two goods. If the price of a good decreases, then that price change makes it more attractive to be used as a substitute for another good. If, for example, chicken sandwiches are on sale at half-price at McDonalds, then more customers are going to choose chicken sandwiches as a substitute for hamburgers. The decrease in price of chicken sandwiches has a "substitution effect" of causing more people to buy them as they move from eating hamburgers to eating the cheaper chicken sandwiches.
For Honors Students Only: Giffen Goods
Last class, we mentioned an odd type of good known as an "inferior" good. You may recall that the demand for an "inferior" good actually increases when income decreases. Examples are margarine (because people with declining income can less afford butter). Bankruptcy services are "inferior", because the greater the decline in income, the more people who file for bankruptcy, and the greater the demand for those services.
Question: If a good is inferior, does a decrease in its price cause an increase in quantity demanded?
Think about it. From the prior section, the overall change in quantity demanded is a sum of the "income effect" and the "substitution effect." Let's look at the income effect first. Ordinarily, the "income effect" when the price decreases is that real income goes up. But for an "inferior" good, an increase in income means a decrease in demand! That's strange. Thus for an inferior good, when the price decreases, the income effect is a decrease in demand.
However, the "substitution effect" goes up when the price falls, even for an inferior good. Because the income effect and substitution effect move in opposite directions, it is difficult to predict what will happen to their sum, which is the overall demand. A "Giffen good" is an inferior good for which the income effect dominates, and thus it has the unusual characteristic that a fall in price of the good causes a fall in demand. A Giffen good violates the Law of Demand. It is difficult to think of an example.
It is worth defining a "Giffen good" again, this time in terms of a price increase: A "Giffen good" is a good which has an increase in demand when its price increases. Raise the price of a Giffen good, and the demand for this good increases. (All other goods have a decrease in demand when the price of the good increases.)
A Giffen good could be an "inferior" good that responds so negatively to an increase in income that the income effect outweighs the substitution effect. In the 1895 edition of the classic "Principles of Economics," Alfred Marshall wrote: "As Mr. Giffen has pointed out, a rise in the price of bread makes so large a drain on the resources of the poorer labouring [British spelling] families and raises so much the marginal utility of money to them, that they are forced to curtail their consumption of meat and the more expensive farinaceous foods: and, bread being still the cheapest food which they can get and will take, they consume more, and not less of it."
Another textbook example of a "Giffen good" is the potato during the terrible Irish famine of 1846-1849. This famine caused nearly a million Irish to die of starvation, and forced nearly another million to emigrate to the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia. Economists say that the potato during the famine was Giffen good. The potato crops failed and there was less supply of potatoes, which caused its price to increase. But the poor Irish, after paying the higher price for potatoes, had less money left to buy more expensive foods. So they had no choice but to buy even more potatoes to fill their stomachs! In other words, the increase in the price of the potato wiped out the savings of the Irish, who then bought even more potatoes despite its increase in price. Note that the potato could have been a Giffen good only if it was also an "inferior" good that saw a surge in demand when people had less income (less money to spend).
Other economists suggest that tortillas are a Giffen good in Mexico today. But further investigation shows that neither potatoes in Ireland nor tortillas in Mexico actually qualify as Giffen goods.[4]
Rice and noodles are now described as Giffen goods among the poor in China. Do you believe it?
Giffen goods are exceptions to the Law of Demand ... if Giffen goods really exist! Many, including your teacher, are skeptical that there really is such a thing as a Giffen good.
Economist Thorstein Veblen suggested that a "status symbol," like a fancy car or diamond, can have an increase in demand when its price goes up. While "status symbols" certainly do exist, it is questionable whether the demand for them ever increases due to an increase in price. If it does occur, then it is a "Veblen good." Notice that a "Giffen good" is not a status symbol as a Veblen good would be.
Utility and Diminishing Marginal Utility
Money isn't everything. We have many expressions for this concept. "There's more to life than money." "It's only money." "What's your job satisfaction?" The basic point is that dollars and cents do not capture our overall happiness or satisfaction as a consumer. You may buy the most expensive music CD on the market, or watch the most popular movie, or buy the fanciest clothes, but that does not mean you will like those items the best. Often our favorite goods are not the most expensive ones.
"Utility" is concept in economics created to include non-monetary satisfaction. "Total utility" is defined as a consumer's overall satisfaction. "Marginal utility" is defined as the additional satisfaction of a consumer in buying an additional unit of a good.
As we discussed in Lecture One, Economics is not only about money. The economic concept of "utility" encompasses everything worthwhile whether it has to do with money or not. Helping someone has "utility", for example, even though it is voluntary and not for money. Charity has utility even though nothing is obtained in return.
Let's take an example. Suppose you are on a family road trip by car out West. You left your campsite near Phoenix just after you woke up, and you're driving through the desert to Los Angeles. You have not eaten all day. Hour by hour goes by and you do not see any place to eat.
Finally, at 4 in the afternoon, you see the golden arches of McDonalds appear on the horizon. You drive closer and the arches appear bigger. It's not a mirage!
When you arrive, you run in and order its famous french fries. You're famished. When the food arrives, you take your first handful of french fries. Wow, it is really satisfying to to eat that first bunch of french fries with an empty stomach. Your marginal utility is extremely high. You might have even been willing to pay $5 for that first mouthful of french fries because you are so hungry. Then you eat your second handful of french fries. Your marginal utility is still high, but not quite as high as the first one. You wouldn't have paid as much for the second handful either. By the time you finish all the french fries, the last few bites were not so satisfying. In fact, you've gotten sick to your stomach. The marginal utility of that last french fry was very low. Perhaps even less than zero!
You have just experienced the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility: the marginal utility of each additional unit (e.g., french fry) always declines (in a given period). This is similar to the "Diminishing Returns" experienced by a producer of goods.
In general, the rational consumer will always try to maximize his or her total utility. How is this done? The consumer always purchases the good with the highest marginal utility in order to maximize the total utility.
Suppose you go to a shopping mall with $80. You can buy food or clothes or anything else you find in a mall. Would you spend it all on food? Of course not. The marginal utility of your food purchases declines as you eat more. Ideally, you wouldn't even buy enough food to fill your stomach, because you can always eat more cheaply at home. To maximize your utility, you would spend every dollar in a way that has the most marginal utility. Your first purchase would be what you want most, and then your next purchase would be your second choice, and so on. If you really want something that happens to cost $80, then you may spend all your money on that one item.
The rational consumer maximizes utility by spending each dollar in a way to maximize marginal utility for that dollar. For such a consumer, the marginal utility of every good divided by that good's price must be equal. MUx/Px = MUy/Py=MUz/Pz, where MUx is the marginal utility of good "x" and Px is the price of good "x". This is known as the Law of Equiproportion Marginal Benefit.
It is impossible for anyone else to measure your utility, or for you to try to compare your total utility to that of other consumers, because it is based on personal likes and dislikes that vary greatly from individual to the next. What you can do is decide for yourself which goods and prices give you the greatest utility, and then buy accordingly. That may include political and religious issues in addition to pure dollars and cents. For example, some conservatives boycott companies that fund abortion, regardless of how inexpensively those companies sell their goods. Such a boycott maximizes the participants' utility, but not necessarily their savings. Many other boycotts have occurred in American history based on principles rather than price ("principle, not principal!").
Lack of Utility
You might notice that you, like most people, waste many hours each day on thoughts or activities that have no utility at all. Once you recognize this, you can minimize the wasted utility and start to focus on maximizing your utility.
"Alarmism" and "anxiety" are examples of wasted time, and loss utility. Time spent worrying can be much better spent maximizing utility, either by earning money or doing something else (such as charity) that increases your utility. Jesus may have been making the same point when He said, "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"[5] If something is not done for God and has no utility for you either, then why are you wasting time on it?
The economic concept of utility is helpful in combating distractions and minimizing time wasted on alarmism and anxiety. Occasionally ask yourself, what utility was achieved in the last hour of my time? Did I maximize my utility during that hour?
Indifference Curves
Now that we understand the important concept of utility, we can graph it by using an "indifference curve." In a simple case, consider having separate utilities for two different goods. The goods could be food (like two types of candy), or they could be websites (like Conservapedia and Facebook), or they could be modes of transportation (like a car or a bicycle). The point is that there is a trade-off in utility when you substitute one good for the other. Your overall utility will increase, remain the same, or decrease, when you give up some of one of the good in exchange for more of the other good.
When the quantity for one of these two goods is graphed on the x-axis, and the quantity for the other good is graphed on the y-axis, then we can draw a line that represents constant utility as we substitute one good for the other.
The indifference curve is a graph of utilities such that every point along a curve has the same amount of total utility. A person should be "indifferent" to where he is along the curve, because it shows where his total utility is constant.
Let's take a simple example. Suppose you like chocolate and peanut butter equally well, and you are "indifferent" between receiving one chocolate bar and one peanut butter candy bar. Plotting the good for a chocolate bar on the x-axis and the good for a peanut butter candy bar on the y-axis, the indifference curve will be a straight line with a negative slope of 1. Give up a chocolate bar but receive a peanut butter bar, and you're on the same indifference curve: your overall utility has not changed. But give up a chocolate bar and receive TWO peanut butter bars, and you've increased your overall utility and you've left that original indifference curve. You're better off with that deal and are not "indifferent" to it. You want the improvement in utility in the 2-for-1 deal.
Let's take another example that illustrates the usefulness of an indifference curve. Suppose you are working on the homework for this course with three friends - Chris, Stephanie and Kevin. Someone says they are hungry and go to look for snacks. You see a half-eaten bag of potato chips and you pop a bag of popcorn. However, there is not enough food for everyone, so have to ration who receives what.
You count 24 potato chips and 40 kernels of popcorn. Uh oh. There are four of you. On average, that's only 6 potato chips and 10 kernels of popcorn per person. You tell everyone that.
But Chris likes potato chips more than corn; Stephanie prefers the opposite. To decide how to allocate the food, you ask Chris and Stephanie to draw their "indifference curves" with potato chips on the y-axis and corn on the x-axis. You learn from the curve that Chris is just as happy with 9 potato chips and 2 kernels of popcorn as he would be if he received 6 potato chips and 10 kernels of corn. Chris's overall utility (or satisfaction) is the same in both cases. Meanwhile, Stephanie is just as happy receiving 18 kernels of popcorn and 1 chip. Fine, you give Chris 9 chips and 2 kernels and Stephanie 18 kernels and 1 chip.
Was this worth it? Yes: now you have two extra potato chips that you would not have had by splitting everything equally. Chris and Stephanie are just as happy, and you can share the additional chips with Kevin.
The graph below is for a typical set of three indifference curves (I1, I2 and I3) for someone for two goods X and Y. Note that this graph does not compare Price and Quantity, but compares the Quantity of good X (on the x-axis) with the Quantity of good Y (on the y-axis). As one goes down a specific curve, the person is "indifferent" with giving up Quantity of good Y in exchange for more of good X. The person becomes more satisfied or happier when he shifts to an entirely new curve, as in moving from I1 to I2.
The next graph below is for two goods X and Y that are perfect substitutes for each other (like our example above of a chocolate bar and a peanut butter candy bar). In the case of perfect substitutes, the person is happy to substitute one good for the other on a one-for-one basis, and hence the slope of the curves is a perfect negative one.
Consumer Surplus
"Consumer surplus" is a concept that illustrates the power of the free market as it drives down the price of goods. When we buy goods and services, most of us would pay at a higher price if we had to. For example, our families would pay twice the cost of milk because we would still want to drink milk even if the price were higher. We may not buy as much milk at a higher price, but we would still buy some. We get extra value when we can buy milk at a price lower than what we would really pay if we had to.
The "consumer surplus" is the net benefit (in dollars) a consumer obtains from buying a good. Thus (consumer surplus) = (total benefit) - (total cost). The "consumer surplus" is never negative, because people would not purchase goods or services if their total benefit is less than their total cost. They would be better off keeping their money and not making the purchase.
To illustrate how powerful the concept of the "consumer surplus" is, let's define another term: "demand price." That is the most someone is willing to pay for something. When you go to see a movie, there is a maximum amount you are willing to pay for a ticket. It varies for different consumers. It also depends on what the movie is.
A consumer's demand price is his marginal benefit from obtaining the good or service (not including what he had to pay for it). You may walk out of a movie theater after seeing a movie you really liked, and conclude that it gave you $25 worth of benefit. Your marginal benefit is thus $25 from the movie (not subtracting what you paid to see it). The total benefit in the market is thus the sum of all the demand prices, which is the area under the demand curve.
The consumer surplus is the demand price (the most a consumer would pay) minus the price paid (the amount the consumer actually has to pay). Suppose you were effusive (i.e., very enthusiastic) about a particular movie, and wanted very much to see it. You were so excited that you were willing to pay $20 to see that movie. But if the theater charges you only $8, then your consumer surplus is $20 - $8 = $12.
Consumers stop buying a good when the demand price falls slightly below the price paid. For movies, the demand price falls the longer it keeps playing in a theater. After you've seen the movie once or twice, you're not willing to pay so much to see it again. Over time people stop paying to see the same movie, and the theater stops playing it and begins showing a new movie instead.
Almost every time someone buys something, he benefits from the consumer surplus of that transaction because he would probably pay a little more than he did. If you value a chocolate candy bar at $1.05 but can buy it for $1, then you acquired extra wealth of 5 cents as your consumer surplus. You would have paid $1.05 for it, but paid only $1 and then had both the candy bar and the 5 cents. You became wealthier from the transaction by an amount equal to your consumer surplus. And you became fatter too!
A force perhaps even stronger than the "invisible hand," or perhaps a variation of the invisible hand, is charity. The desire to give something of benefit to others, without demanding as much in return, is enormous. "Give and ye shall receive" is advice from the Bible. The giving may be in one form (money), and the receiving may be in another form (heavenly reward, which could be described as part of an overall "utility"). Look around, and you will notice numerous important charitable acts by others and yourself.
An immense advantage of charity is that it has no transaction costs. One person simply gives money, or goods, or services, to someone else (or to a church), and the recipient of the donation then uses it in the best way possible. A person giving $10 in a collection basket at church does not fill out any paperwork or require any commitments on how the church uses the donation. It is assumed that the church will use the money as best it can, perhaps even in an unexpected way during the following year. Pure charity is often purely efficient, with little waste in terms of transaction costs. Charitable transfers are not taxed either, so none of it goes to support the government.
America's health care system, by far the greatest in the world, was built on a foundation of charity. People and religious organizations giving time, money and expertise to care for individuals who could never afford to pay all the costs. Education, too, was developed in this country largely through charity. In recent years, both health care and education have lost their charitable identities and been taken over in significant ways by the government, and the results of government involvement have not been positive. Costs have gone up and quality has gone down.
Most economics courses avoid charity entirely. When charity is mentioned, it is described as a minor add-on to the invisible hand of self-interest. But is this backwards? Is the invisible hand of self-interest actually a wrapper around a basic foundation of charity? These are thoughts to consider throughout this course.
The size and importance of charitable institutions in the world is immense. All religious institutions are charitable, as are nearly all private schools. Many hospitals are still charitable, including the Seventh-Day Adventist hospital in Hackettstown, New Jersey. On a trip to Orlando, I saw another Seventh-Day Adventist hospital there. Many religious organizations operate hospitals through the United States, just as they built most of our leading universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia, for example, were all built by charitable religious organizations.
The renowned Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was built with the generosity of Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering. They acquired wealth as senior executives of General Motors and ultimately donated their money to the cause of medicine. It has operated on a non-profit basis to this day.
The first private medical clinic in the United States was the Mayo Clinic, established by the Mayo family of physicians in 1889. Their sponsor was the Sisters of St. Francis, which built St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.
Likewise, the successful American colonies were initially more religious and charitable than commercial. Pennsylvania was founded on religious principles by the Quaker William Penn, who in turn established Philadelphia as the City of Brotherly Love. Within merely a few decades it grew to become the second most populated city in the British Empire, after London.
It was only on the solid foundation of the brick houses of hardy Quakers and their strict moral rules that the flower of free enterprise blossomed there. The same could be said for Boston, where Puritans served as the anchor.
The Virginia colony was purely commercial at first, but it only survived by turning to tobacco and slavery. It suffered so many problems that King James revoked its charter and took control less than two decades after its founding.
The colony of Georgia was subsidized by the British Parliament but was essentially charitable in nature. General James Oglethorpe established it as a haven for impoverished Brits languishing in debtors' prison. It was, in a sense, an antithesis to a capitalistic venture, featuring nothing but those who had failed in the free market. It barred liquor and slavery, reflecting its idealism.
Over 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that "despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. ... How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed?" Perhaps charity is the economic manifestation of that "moral tie," upon which economic liberty and free enterprise rely.
Read and, if necessary, reread the above lecture. Complete the homework assignments through the level in which you choose to enroll in this course:
1. A consumer's overall satisfaction is expressed in economics as his _________________.
2. Suppose you see a sleek-looking used sports car and you immediately want to buy it. You think to yourself, "I can paint that car and fix it up so it looks brand new!" You like it so much that you would very work hard for a year and save up $10,000 to buy it. You ask the owner how much he'd sell the car for, and he says $9,000. If you buy it for $9,000, then what is your "consumer surplus"? What does that concept mean?
3. Suppose your favorite hobbies are reading books and hiking, and imagine that they have the following values for marginal utility. The first hour that you hike gives you lots of utility: 10 units. But as you start to tire, you enjoy and benefit from it less. The next hour of hiking is worth only 8 units of utility (in other words, it has a marginal utility of 8 units rather than 10), and the next hour of hiking is worth only 5 units, and then 3, then 1, and then zero for the next hours, in that order. Your marginal utility for reading books does not decline so quickly. In the first hour, reading a book gives you utility of 6 units; the next hour is worth 5 units; the next hour is worth 4 units; and then 3, 2, 1 and 0. Suppose that you have 5 extra hours today. How should you spend those hours on hiking and reading in order to maximize your utility, and what will be your total utility for those 5 hours? Explain your answer.
4. Suppose you plan to buy a brand new car for $25,000. When you do to the car dealership to make your purchase, you notice that there is a car on the lot that looks brand new but not longer has the sticker price on it. The dealer says it was returned by someone after driving it only 100 miles. You like the color and ask if you can buy it. The dealer, seeing that you're so interested, says he'll sell it to you for the same price as a brand new car that has never been sold. You're willing to buy it at full price, and do not mind one bit that someone else used it briefly and returned it. But you notice that other people (the "market") would not pay full price for a returned car. Relying on the "market" rather than your personal preferences, what should you tell the dealer in order to maximize your benefits from your purchase?
5. Explain why the shape of an indifference curve for two goods that are perfect substitutes is a straight line going from the upper left down to the lower right. Extra credit: why must its slope be negative 1?
6. Describe either the "income effect" or the "substitution effect." Take your pick.
7. Charity is based on the foundation of a successful free market. Or is a successful free market based on a foundation of charity? Describe and explain which is the cart, and which is the horse (in other words, which comes first or is most important, charity or the free market).
Write in about 300 of your own words on one or more of the following topics:
8. "A penny saved is a penny earned!" In fact, once taxation is taken into account, "a penny saved is almost two pennies earned!" Discuss one or both of these quotations.
9. Do you think a Giffen good really exists? Can you see any possible political bias in the claim that Giffen goods exist? Your views, please.
10. Prove the Law of Demand as simply as you can, perhaps using the assumption that the consumer always tries to maximize marginal utility.
11. Discuss the Irish Potato Famine between 1846 and 1849, and whether you think potatoes were an "inferior good" then.
Extra Credit for Anyone
12. Explain whether goods X or Y are perfect substitutes or complements or something else for the indifference curves below, and why:
- ↑ The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was passed to ban slavery, generally prohibits compelling people to work.
- ↑ http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/bowie.html
- ↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=3019727
- ↑ "There is no way to buy more potatoes when there are fewer potatoes. Thus, the Giffen legend concerning the great potato famine appears at best to be a misinterpretation of some observed but misunderstood phenomenon, and at worst a kind of hoax."[1]
- ↑ Luke 12:25 (NIV).


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Galaxy series are Android powered mobile computing devices by Samsung. Samsung is branding itself with innovative phones by adding unique features. For Android lovers Galaxy S series is high-end smart phones with outstanding features. Samsung also added Galaxy A series to grasp more market share. Galaxy Alpha, A3, A5 and A7 are successful devices by Samsung.
Samsung is expected to release 2nd Generation Galaxy A7 (2016) with model number of SM-A7100 in January 2016. When the innovative Galaxy A series made its official unveiling, it increased lots of attention because the Samsung exodus from plastic designs to finest metal construct.
The moment of unveiling 2nd Gen. Galaxy A7 is arriving soon. Recently, Chinese publication Anzhuo leaked some images of Galaxy A7 (2016) and gave few clues concerning design of it. It is expected that New Smartphone will come with mid range specifications and premium design. According to recently leaked photos, Samsung has made some changes in newest version of Galaxy A7.
The above image shows that New A7 got a glass rear panel just like Galaxy S6. Galaxy A7 (2016) has a premium design with the finest finishing which is going to boost sales, definitely. Chinese publication Anzhuo also gave some information about the specification of the Smartphone. The mobile is powered by an Octa-core 1.7GHz CPU, GPU ARM-Mail-T720, and like SAMOLED, Galaxy A7 will have a bigger screen with 5.5 inches, and same resolution. Under the lid this Smartphone must be coming with Adreno 405 graphics, 1.5 GHz Snapdragon 615 processor, and 3 GB of RAM. Color options of the device are black and golden.
In addition, other specifications include a 13 megapixel primary camera and 5 megapixel secondary camera, 16GB expandable memory, and Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. It is also expected that next Galaxy A7 will come with a fingerprint scanner. In Samsung's S and A series, S5, S6, and A8 have fingerprint sensor so it is best for the company to extend this feature in new releases.
When it comes to release date of New Galaxy A7, it is said that the device is in benchmark testing phase and expected to be launched in January 2016. But, official information is not on hand at this end.


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Reviewed by Ceilidh C. (age 6)
My favorite part is when the chick went to the pond. This is my favorite part because she had never been there before. The pictures are pretty. They are colorful. They are neat. This is because they have green, yellow, and blue. This story reminds me of my grandma's and my grandpa's house because they used to live on a farm.
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Wandalee Bonnewell, Age 90
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In late December, after a long day at work, I decided to take a cab home. During the ride, my driver, who appeared to be in his 20s, burst into song.
I took my headphones out of my ears and asked him why he was singing. He replied that he had just received his accounting degree from Queens College and could now pursue a career in accounting. I then inquired where he was from; he informed me that he was from Bangladesh.
After he described the compelling story of how he got here, I asked him if he was familiar with the Concert for Bangladesh.
He responded that even though he was born in 1984, thirteen years after the concert, he knew about it because every year a documentary about the concert was shown in his country, and he knew that the concert had been organized by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison.
I then informed him that I had been at the concert and had slept outside Madison Square Garden overnight with my friends in order to get tickets. He seemed very moved by this, and at the end of the ride extended his hand and thanked me for going to the show.
Imagine that. He thanked me for attending one of the most amazing concerts I have ever seen.
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The parish is moving forward with plans to extend zoning to include the Village East Subdivision in an effort to combat some of the rural sprawl residents say is unwelcome in their neighborhood.
The parish is moving forward with plans to extend zoning to include the Village East Subdivision in an effort to combat some of the rural sprawl residents say is unwelcome in their neighborhood.
There have been numerous complaints from residents about home auto repairs, welding and other services offered in driveways without business permits, council members said.
There was a mechanic shop operating without a permit on Westwood Drive for months, said Virginia Martin, who lives on the street.
She said it was a shop "with a lot of noise and ugly cars they were repairing and racing down the street."
On any given day, dozens of cars were parked in the yard, she said, making it look like a car lot.
Martin said she wants zoning regulations in place to make sure other businesses operating without permits don't pop up again in the neighborhood.
"The subdivision is going to the slums if that happens," she said. "It's uncalled for in Houma because it makes your property value go down, and if it keeps on like that our house won't be worth anything."
Resident Sarah Joseph said a 50-foot limestone driveway from East Park Avenue to the Intracoastal Canal that leads to Lowland Construction Co. leaves behind dust and debris that make being outside intolerable.
The driveway is privately owned by Village East Realty, over which the parish has no authority.
Joseph said she hopes zoning will require that the driveway is paved or at least ensure that similar driveways aren't built.
Councilman John Navy said zoning needs to be enforced because it's "causing all kinds of chaos."
"You've got to separate that commercial and residential land use," Navy said. "It's growing too much back there, and it's going to continue to grow and we can't have these types of things happening."
The Parish Council ratified a motion Wednesday to allow the Planning and Zoning Department to get the ball rolling on outlying zoning boundaries.
Parish Planning Director Pat Gordon said the department will be putting a proposal together to submit to the council and getting public hearing dates.
The parish will contact the property owners to make them aware of the changes, Gordon said. "It should be fairly simple to put a zoning map for the area."
With zoning in place, Gordon said, it will protect homeowners from in-home businesses that may pose dangers such as fire hazards, reckless traffic flow or pollution.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Bethel Church – Your kingdom come... on earth as in heaven
In the conferences thay have workshops which endeavor "to teach on and activate in what it looks like to connect with what the Holy Spirit is saying in the moment and express it through dance." They advertise "You will discover how to use your talent and ability to make prophetic declarations and transform your surroundings." And they ask "What does it mean to dance prophetically or deliver a word through dance?"
OK, boys and girls, if this is prophetic, then we are instructed to judge it. This presentation was done on the last day of an Arts conference at Bethel in 2010. Have at it.
Extra points for the first reader to supply the name of the song which starts at about 1:40 in the video.
Again, just to keep things civil, I'm going to delete any responses that use the terms such as heretic, blasphemer, antichrist, Sadducee, Pharisee, or scoffer. And responses such as "I know this is right because of the burning in my bosum" are not especially helpfull. You may post as Anonymous, but listing your name (or screen name) in the post will help others to direct their responses.
Adding on 11/11/11 - another video by popular request. If the first one made you laugh, this one will sober you up real quick.
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This looks much more like some sort of pagan rite than anything that could have originated with the Holy Spirit. How appropriate that the song that started around 1:40 is entitled, "Witch Doctor."ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/9/11, 7:10 PM
The song "Witch Doctor," which starts at 1:40 seems to be somewhat appropriate. From a purely observational perspective, I thought, "it looks like they're trying to do some sort of channeling dance." This would be more proper to someone trying to manufacture an experience or even open themselves up to an experience from an unwelcome spirit. Being one who is involved in various circles of healing prayer and one who has followed great teachers like Francis and Judith MacNutt and Leanne Payne for a while, I know the dangers that can lurk behind these types of practices. This just doesn't resonate with any experiences that I've had of a real and true descent of God's Holy Spirit into a place where He communicates His gifts to people and to the Church for ministry. That would be my discernment here.ReplyDelete
- Rayna11/9/11, 9:09 PM
Uh, no way...they're using the song "Witch Doctor" @ the 1.40 mark. Okay, that's just crazy.ReplyDelete
Maybe they should do a version of Santana's Soul Sacrifice? Or, going back further, how about Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' The Sacrifice which begins with an authentic Swahili chant. They could put the album cover on an easel to add to the experience:ReplyDelete
- cherylu11/10/11, 2:01 PM
So does anyone have the foggiest idea of what this is supposed to be "prophesying"? Beyond the coming of the Witch Doctor, that is??ReplyDelete
On a personal note, I remember one service I was in back in my "charismania" days. Dance wasn't involved, but incessant drumming that went on and on was. At the start of the worship time, there was a sense of God's presence with us. But I disctinctly remember as those drums went on and on, sensing His holy presence leave the room and another spirit take His place. That was something I don't think I will ever forget and I never want to have repeated again.
Even though I don't get into the spritual warfare stuff, at least it would have made more sense if the singer had been singing "We pull down every stronghold..." instead of "Witch Doctor."ReplyDelete
And this was not a children's presentation, it was the culmination of a prophetic arts conference. Wowsers.
- Anonymous11/10/11, 4:25 PM
Yep, I sat in many a prophetic worship conference and heard the drums do their "battle" beats and "war" sounds.ReplyDelete
Sometimes even sounded a bit African style beating as well.
Pathetic...ops - prophetic?
Say Bill,ReplyDelete
Have you ever seen the video (on YT) from Joyner's MorningStar church, with the shrieking woman and the maddening voodoo drums? What in the world do you call that anyway? These look like they have nothing to do with Christ whatsoever...(and quite lame I might add). Oh wait, this is somewhere in the Old Testament right? Reminds me of those voodoo dances from the original b/w King Kong movie. Thank you, Scott
Yes I have seen that. What would I call it? Disturbing!ReplyDelete
I've posted that video with the article as the two do seem to tie in with the Voodoo theme.
Andrew Strom (the Kundalini video guy) mentioned this kind of thing in his journey out of the Prophetic Movement. I believe he was saying how he was at a conference, and at one point there was a big dance taking place on the stage, replete with loud pulsating pounding African style drumming. With many of the leaders dancing around the stage like loons. And this was like one of the final straws for him I guess. Glad I could contribute to your blog today, hehehe. Ya just had to do it! ScottReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/12/11, 3:30 PM
You guys. You remind me of Garrison Keilor and the Lutheran parents from Minnesota who sit on their hands and sweat while the black kids dance at the Lake Woebegone High School assembly. I saw Alvin Ailey's modern dance company, (the black Choreographer from New York, one of America's treasures) perform Revelations, which was a 45 minute presentation of the gospel from a historical black perspective. It sent chills up my spine. These are just a bunch of tallented dance kids loosening up, improvising and having fun. The guy who sings the Alvin and the Chipmunks song "Ooh eee oo ahh ahh ting tang walla walla bing bang" is hilarious and everyone laughs. After I got saved in 1970 I brought home an Andrae Crouch and the Disciples LP (Licorice Pizza) and put it on. My Conservative Baptist dad was horrified and said "those african jungle beats are of the devil". You are funny.ReplyDelete
Rick. Ting tang walla walla bing bang. Quiet Alvin.
- Anonymous11/12/11, 4:22 PM
On to the other video of the sobbing girl.ReplyDelete
"When you arrive at Gibeah of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is located, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the place of worship. They will be playing a harp, a tambourine, a flute, and a lyre, and they will be prophesying. At that time the Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon you, and you will prophesy with them. You will be changed into a different person. 1 Sam 10:5
Aren't you glad you guys William doesn't have that on video? Enthusiastic middle easterners pounding on drums, tambourine, guitar, all prophesying. Saul gets near and the Spirit falls on Him too and he begins prophesying. Then a few years later it happens again. "But on the way to Naioth in Ramah the Spirit of God came even upon Saul, and he, too, began to prophesy all the way to Naioth! He tore off his clothes and lay naked on the ground all day and all night, prophesying in the presence of Samuel. The people who were watching exclaimed, "What? Is even Saul a prophet?" Ah, a Youtube moment if ever there was. The people just assumed, from his actions, that he was a prophet. What would you guys do if you saw a bunch of young prophets prophesying loudly, beating drums, shaking tambourines, people overcome, laying on the ground babbling for 24 hours straight.
The girl says, I just had a vision of Jesus. Then she says she felt deep calling unto deep, her heart longing for Jesus heart, her deep crying out for Jesus deep. She is lucky she can stand. Daniel shook uncontrollably then passed out when he caught sight of Jesus. Isaiah cried out Woe is me, I am undone. When John had a revelation of Jesus he "fell at his feet as if dead". The woman at dinner with Jesus wouldn't stop sobbing and crying, weeping so much that it says she "began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." Of course the unemotional Pharisees, always looking for fault, muttered to themselves," "If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She's a sinner!"
Oh yeah Rick Joyner. Self-appointed, self-annointed, self-aggrandizing "Apostle". Why does there seem to be a common thread among this river bunch of stripping away the work that was completed on the Cross, returning to the Old Testament era? Rick Joyner, the guy who denies the rapture. Lovely. Umm, no thanks.ReplyDelete
The though occured to me that this was just a fun skit. Fun, like playing with a Ouija board during lunch break. Yeah, we've all got liberty, why not?
But seriously, this was a presentation at the last day of a prophetic arts conference. I suppose they spent a few days rehersing this. And from the initial reaction of the crowd, I'm supposing that THEY thought that something spiritually significant was taking place.
Maybe something was. This sort of reminded me of the scene from "The Ten Commandments" when Moses came down from the mount and the children of Israel were dancing around the golden calf. Hey, that story involved God dust as well, didn't it?
As to the Morningstar video, the application of deep calling unto deep is interesting. It certainly was not a groaning, so perhaps it was not *that* deep.ReplyDelete
Beyond the rather strange ululation, the voodoo drum beat was rather disturbing. I do not have a problem with most conteporary Christian music and tempo, although I find many lyrics to be shallow.
But the question to be asked - and I've asked this before when someone stated a certain drum beat was "prophetic," is "what is it saying to the church?"
Somewhat out of context, I would want to apply 1 Cor 14 to the ululation (and the drums):
4 One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church. 5 Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
I did not see much edification in the ululation, and the fact that it was permitted and even encouraged causes me to question its source.
- Anonymous11/14/11, 1:13 AM
So, Bill, you are comparing divination with a plectum, spirit guide and alphabet and Ouija board to a bunch of kids praising the Lord in spontaneous dance. Hmmm. Did you see the Youtube video of David, stripping down to his underwear and dancing spontaneously to the Lord? I know when His wife saw the video she felt he was disgraceful and embarrassing, unworthy of a Christian. Checkout the video of King Saul falling in the Spirit, stripping off his clothes and babbling for 24 hours. Now there is a video. There is such a focus on criticizing appearances here. Take the woman ululating. The Jewish culture, the Arab Culture, African culture all ululate when they have inexpressible grief or inexpressible joy. Listen to the sound of their funerals or their victories. It is probably related to speaking in tongues. She was having a private moment that was captured on a mic. As I say, check out how the saints in the Bible reacted to theophanies and visions.ReplyDelete
Voodoo drum beat. You sound like my 84 year old father criticizing rock and roll or music he didn't understand. Haven't you heard Tito Puente or latin drumming?
To be precise, a bunch of kids praising the "lord" in spontaneous dance while someone was singing a song about a witch doctor. That's just wrong.ReplyDelete
And the "private moment" at Monringstar was not private, they brought her up to the platform to perform, and video taped it for the world to see.
For the record, I've been a musician all my life and play on a worship band on Sundays.
You wrote, "The Jewish culture, the Arab Culture, African culture all ululate when they have inexpressible grief or inexpressible joy. Listen to the sound of their funerals or their victories. It is probably related to speaking in tongues...Haven't you heard Tito Puente or latin drumming?"
It depends on what spirit is behind this stuff. Yes, I've heard Tito Puente as I'm very well versed in all sorts of music as music used to be a HUGE idol in my life especially in my BC days. Just like the Art Blakey I reference above which is based on African witch doctor rituals, I used to have percussion-heavy music with a belief in Santeria as a backdrop. Here are two examples:
Going back to the post itself: what exactly is being 'prophesied'? Where is the REAL Jesus in all this?
- Anonymous11/14/11, 2:32 PM
Craig, you asked what was prophetic about this dance. Dance as an art form is non-verbal. Perhaps that disqualifies it as prophesy. However, actions can be prophetic as well. For example, Elisha instructed Jehoash to pound the ground with arrows. The number of times he struck the ground signified the number of his victories over Aram. I see a lot of the warfare and victory motifs in this student dance. David did a non-verbal, improvised dance in praise of God when the Ark of the Covenant was being moved. His dance was certainly more wild and scandalizing than this as his wife noted. Psalm 149 says "Let them praise his name in the dance and Psalm 150 urges God's people to "Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs." Exodus 15:20 says that "Miriam the prophet, Aaron's sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing."ReplyDelete
Thanks, Rick
You wrote, I see a lot of the warfare and victory motifs in this student dance.
I don't disagree with you on that. However, Who, in your opinion, are/will be the victims of this 'prophetic' "warfare" of whom these students are/will be victors? What war is this speaking of?
- Anonymous11/14/11, 10:16 PM
Craig, Guess. I give you 3 chances. These are saved, spirit filled kids who love the Jesus, who believe they are praising Jesus as does everyone in the audience. Jesus is the victor, He won the war, He is coming back on a white horse carrying a sword. The point of dance is that it is non-verbal, symbolic communication. What was David saying in his dance? I've got a bug in my linen ephod? You are exhausting.ReplyDelete
I suppose that's one interpretation...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/15/11, 10:30 AM
I taught "prophetic worship" for years and it is all based on false scripure interpretation out of context.ReplyDelete
The idea of this dance was that it was warring against the demons with the "sounds" of the heavy drum beat and waring sound.
unfortunately this dance has nothing to do with "prophecy". I spent too many years myself in this "junk".
@RickD... Sorry brother, you can come up with all of the intelectual support and scriptures you want. You are wrong!Period!
- Anonymous11/15/11, 12:33 PM
TJH, scripture don't matter? My life is deeply rooted in the word of God as it has been for the last 40 years. You'll notice that anything I say here makes reference to the word of God. Intellectual support doesn't matter? The mind doesn't matter either? be like the Bereans who searched the scriptures daily to see if these things be true. I don't accept what some of these leaders teach uncritically if it doesn't line up with scripture. For example I believe the Bible teaches a pre-trib rapture which puts me at odds with Rick Joyner and many others. But, by gosh, defend your positions scripturally and with your intellect.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/15/11, 2:48 PM
Yep I can use that too, I have been steep in the word for 40+ years myself. But apparently that didn't mean much since I was deceived.
So @RickD, I am going to apologize to you for making that statement that you are wrong, period!
I have seen many a scripture posted here, single verse taken out of context to support the video, I have also seen many a post adding words to others when that was not said at all by the poster. Makes me think if the person does this to scripture as well then how can I trust that they are telling the truth and interpreting Gods word properly. Frankly, I could make any verse fit and grid a theological belief or manifestation.
So I sit here, getting really angry that this ---- stuff goes on and it is defended because of some "new revelation" from God when I don't believe that God gives new revelation outside of the boundries he set.
Sooo... RickD, you and Craig, Bill and the other discuss. I will sit out because I am still getting worked up and all that does is make me respond out of "emotions" and my bad "experiences" with this manifestation stuff that became lies in the end.
Sorry..... go for it....
- Anonymous1/8/12, 12:39 PM
I'm a dancer and dance teacher, and I've been involved in encouraging dance in the church for many years. It really grieves me that dancing is becoming linked to dodgy churches.ReplyDelete
I do believe that God can inspire people to dance, just as He can inspire them to write songs or books, and He can speak through all these art forms. So, in principle, I don't have a problem with dance being labelled as prophetic (and no, before anyone picks up on this, it is not in the same league as biblical prophecy).
However, this video from Bethel (probably the dodgiest church in the world right now) doesn't really seem to communicate anything and I can understand people's concerns. I don't really want to defend it, but it is worth mentioning that we don't know the context in which it occured.
But, just as we don't write off all music because it is abused by some, please don't dismiss dance for the same reason.
- Anonymous1/22/13, 8:33 AM
I completly regret and have repented of all involvement with this church and all its connections.I use to dance wildly and with total abandon during worship.I was totally uninhibited by anything or anyone around me I truly believed I was worshiping God with all my heart.The problem was it took me some time to realize this movement was aligned with freemasonry and pulled its teachings from ancient practices used by druids and egyptian sorcery and then cleverly packaged with biblical wrappings.Many professional dancers especially in flamenco style describe a moment in dance called the "Dunde".This is a moment when the dancer is no longer orchestrating the dance but the spirit.All though God knew my true heart for worshiping Him only I was truly taken over by demonic spirits in my dance due to my ignorance of the true false move of these false teachers and false so called prophets.My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge.I thank God daily He woke me up like many others from this unholy mystical dimesion of lies and ancient occult practices.I have learned my lesson to guard my heart and test everything.ReplyDelete
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Ambitious plans for a fast track linking Los Angeles and San Francisco at speeds of up to 220mph in just over two-and-a-half hours were slimly approved by 53 per cent in a statewide ballot in 2008. That allowed the state to raise $10 billion from bonds and secured an injection of $3.5 billion in stimulus money from the Obama administration. There is currently no direct train route between the two.
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Amid disillusion over the cost and handling of the project, voters have now turned against what was supposed to become a symbol of state pride.
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