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Camera traps yield rare footage of Sumatran tiger with cubs
Conservationists concerned about fragile, fast-disappearing tiger landscape
- Date: January 06, 2010
Video cameras installed in the Sumatran jungle have captured close-up footage of a tiger and two cubs, the first time that WWF has recorded evidence of tiger breeding in central Sumatra in what should be prime tiger habitat. The images have led to renewed calls for stronger measures against poaching and the rapid deforestation of tiger landscapes on the Indonesian island.
The film, captured within just one month of deploying specially designed video cameras deep inside tiger habitat, shows all three tigers approaching the camera, sniffing it and walking away.
"This footage of a mother with two cubs that seem to be healthy is cause for celebration. But the challenge is to ensure a future for these cubs – and the rest of the world's remaining wild tigers," said Dr. Barney Long, WWF tiger scientist. "There may be only as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild and this is the year that we can begin to truly change the trajectory for tigers."
In 2010, WWF is stepping up conservation efforts through a year-long campaign to coincide with the Chinese lunar calendar Year of the Tiger. The goal is not only to stop the disappearance of tigers across Asia, but to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger.
"When these cubs are old enough to leave their mother, which will be soon, they will have to find their own territory," Long said. "Where will they go? With so much deforestation and poaching in Sumatra, tigers have a very hard time avoiding encounters with people."
There are as few as 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia and they are under relentless pressure from poaching and clearing of their habitat. After five years of studying tigers using wildlife-activated still camera traps, these are the first images of a tiger with offspring and were recorded after WWF-Indonesia's Sumatran tiger research team set up new video camera traps along a wildlife "corridor" known to be used by tigers.
"We are very concerned because the territory of this tiger and its cubs is being rapidly cleared by two global paper companies, palm oil plantations, encroachers and illegal loggers. Will the cubs survive to adulthood in this environment?" said Karmila Parakkasi, the leader of WWF-Indonesia's tiger team.
Infrared-triggered camera traps, which are activated upon sensing body heat in their path, have become an important tool to identify which areas of the forest are used by tigers, and to identify individual animals to monitor the population.
Photos from the Camera Trap
In Sumatra, WWF is urging the international paper companies operating in the area – Sinar Mas/APP and APRIL – and palm oil plantations to help protect all high conservation value forests under their control that are home to tigers and other endangered species.
As part of its Year of the Tiger efforts, WWF is also working to improve U.S. regulations of tigers in private hands. The United States holds one of world's largest captive tiger populations and WWF is calling on state and federal officials to tighten regulations so that American tigers are not used to fill the illegal demand for tiger parts, which will further endanger wild tiger populations.
Internationally, WWF is part of a global effort, with tiger range states and partners like the World Bank's Global Tiger Initiative, to secure the highest level of political commitment for tiger conservation at a Tiger Summit in autumn 2010.
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Rapids, 'Quakes meet at Buck Shaw
Santa Clara, CA – After a slow start, the Colorado Rapids appear to have righted the ship and will go for their third straight victory on Saturday against the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Colorado struggled through the first month of the season, going 0-3-2 through their first five matches this campaign. But a 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake on April 6 gave the Rapids their first victory and they have won four of their last six matches to rise to fourth place in the Western Conference with 15 points.
Last time out, the Rapids earned a hard-fought 2-0 victory against the Columbus Crew at Crew Stadium. The visitors opened the scoring after just eight minutes when Edson Buddle took a lay-off pass from Atiba Harris, brought the ball down in the middle of the area and fired it past goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum.
Colorado hit for a second in the 69th minute resulting from a free kick in the right corner as the restart pinged out to the top of the box, where Dillon Powers struck the ball low and hard back toward goal which took a dramatic ricochet off defender Josh Williams that left Gruenebaum wrong footed for the 2-0 advantage.
"The boys were very disciplined. We were very concentrated on the job. Defensively was a huge performance. Solid. I saw the team growing a lot," said Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja. "Now we managed the game very well. We took advantage of the opportunities we had. And we played against a good team as well. So everything came well for us."
San Jose, meanwhile, is coming off a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of the Seattle Sounders, their worst defeat since falling to Real Salt Lake by the same score on July 23, 2011.
While the 'Quakes lost for just the first time since a 1-0 setback against the Portland Timbers on April 14, they also have won just once in their last eight outings.
It's been a far cry from last year's version of the Quakes, but goalkeeper Jon Busch believes that a little adversity is good for the team.
"To be honest, this is a good test for us. Adversity is a great thing. You find out the strength of a man through adversity, not when things are good, when things are tough. And that's where we are right now. We're going to be fine. We've just got to tighten some things up."
In 51 all-time meetings between the sides, San Jose has claimed 24 wins, Colorado has 18 and the clubs have drawn nine times. Last season, San Jose won all three meetings, including a 4-1 triumph at Dick's Sporting Goods Park on Oct. 6. The visiting team has also won three of the last five matches in this series.


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Difficult PCR containing triplet repeats and Frt sites - (Jul/13/2013 )
Hi all.
I'm having a HUGE problem since I can't PCR a product no matter how hard I tried, and this has been driving me nuts for the past 2 months.
I'm trying to do gene targeting in human stem cells for a knockout mice. My gene of interest contains of triplet repeats (GAA) but the length of the repeats are different in both alleles. It's about 300 repeats in one allele and 450 repeats in another alleles. Therefore, a PCR that amplifies the GAA region would give 2 bands, one band containing the 300 repeats and the other the 450 repeats.
My goal is to target either band, using electroporation as a method, to replace one allele with a shortened GAA repeat length (around 10). my "targeting template"contains of a neomycin cassette that is flanked by Frt sites. so my template looks like this,
-----Frt----Neo-----Frt----short GAA repeats.
If the template correctly replaces the long GAA repeat allele, I should expect to see 2 bands, either
1. the 450 repeat band and the Neomycin/short GAA band
2. the 300 repeat band and the neomycin/short GAA band.
Here's the wierd thing. After antibiotic selection, I have 2 clones left, and when I do the PCR,
one only shows 1 band, the 450 repeat band
the other only shows 1 band, the 300 repeat band.
No matter how hard I try , the PCR result is always the same. I've tried 3 different polymerases (NEB Onetaq, Phusion, Takara) and they all show the same thing--only one band.
By doing RT-PCR to look for mRNA from this gene, the gene expression changes, and it is compatible with the assumption that the neomycin/short GAA band is inserted in that area. (a short GAA length will have a different gene expression with a long GAA length) However, I simply can't prove that by PCR.
My theory is the Frt-Neo-Frt cassette is a hard template to PCR, since Frt is palindromic by itself, it might have secondary structures. Also, the GC content for the Frt-Neo-Frt-short GAA is significantly higher than the long GAA band (57% versus 30%). Our PCR conditions were optimized for the long GAA band (It itself is already pretty hard to amplify and will only work under specific conditons). So it might not be optimal for amplifying the Frt-Neo-Frt band.
I've tried changing DMSO content (up to 3%), increasing melting time, etc. to no avail. Gradient PCR and changing template amount didnt work either.
Let me list a cndition that works for the long GAA band
(NEB Phusion polymerase)
98 degrees 5 mins
98 degrees 5 secs
70 degrees 15sec
72 degree 90 sec
72 degree 5 min
35 cycles
primer Tm: 68
Thanks for reading this very long narrative and I would be entirely grateful for any suggestions
I assume you have the Frt - neo - Frt short GAA cassette available as a plasmid or PCR product. You should check that it can be successfully amplified by your primers. Where do the primers bind? Have you tried lowering the annealing temperature? 70 is quite high, and I would definitely investigate lowering this to 60 or so.


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Ok, my organizational skills need help.
Well... my "putting it back" skills need help!
So these little beauties were left out in the elements too long. I still liked how they worked, but did not like the splinters in my palm. (insert frowny face here). What to do? FIX IT!
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...get a little paint.
...let it do a little bit of drying.
Tada.... these tools are ready for some real work.
Now, if I can just figure out how to get it to rain every other day or so, I would not have to invest in a sprinkler system.
(I know, all ya all are laughing because Arizona is the land of perpetual sunshine and rain is once every 90 days or so. That equals withered, parched plants. But gardening tools are so cute... I keep trying to grow a garden anyway!)


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Having completed our study of Titus about to launch our study of 2 Corinthians when I return from Russia and the Ukraine, we find ourselves in a little respite here, not studying a specific book but rather gathering some glimpses of the sufficiency of Christ. We live in such a troubled world. Here we are at the pinnacle of technological advancement, here we are at the pinnacle of educational achievement and the world is more troubled maybe than it has ever been. It almost seems as if we are cycling back to some kind of primitive paganism where we wind up killing and maiming each other. It seems as though we are able to take all of these tremendous inventions that we have that can make us comfortable and none of them has any application to the heart and the soul and the mind so that there is dissatisfaction, unfulfillment, pain and sorrow at a level of life that certainly I've never seen.
All of this kind of discontent and dissatisfaction and unfulfillment, disillusionment has a way of even spilling into the church. And we pick up the kind of jaded emptiness of the world around us and we too try to fill our life with passing things and creature comforts. And when we do reach those inevitable hours of life that are filled with pain and hurt and confusion and trouble, we listen to the siren calls of the world and pursue solutions that have been concocted by men, somehow losing focus on the one who alone is the source of all of our sufficiency, namely Jesus Christ. And so we've tried in these few messages to call ourselves back to that relationship with Jesus Christ which is at the heart of everything. We don't want to be Ephesian Christians who have left our first love. We don't want to be more concerned about our theology or more concerned about our style or more concerned about our formulas then we do about our Savior. And so, we try to just draw your attention to the fact that everything you need, everything I need for every issue of life is found in Jesus Christ. And if the relationship with Christ that He wants in your life is cultivated properly, you will find in Him the resource for everything.
Sure it's a troubled world, sure it's difficult. There is tremendous amount of pain in human relationships. Marriages are being systematically devastated and the things that devastate worldly marriages crowd their way into the church and devastate Christian ones. There is tremendous tension and difficulty in the parenting process as parents try to control children who are exposed to a kind of peer pressure that not only is not well understood by parents but certainly is the antithesis of what parents would desire their children to follow. Break down within the home is all around us. There is a tolerance for wickedness and sin and evil and normalization of the grossest kind of sin that we're all shocked by. And the troubled world leaves us with deep pain and we could wish for a simpler life and we all want to run away to some postcard place, find ourselves in some picket-fenced cottage in a tranquil environment where we don't have to face what we have to face. But it isn't that way in our world and there isn't any way out. But we don't need to be troubled and we don't need to be distressed and we don't need to lose the joy of life if we cultivate the relationship provided for us in Christ. He is not just the one who saved us in the past, He longs to be that resource and that sufficient friend for all our life.
Coming to grips with that over the last couple of times I've preached, we looked at Ephesians. This morning I want to come back to the same theme only I invite you to turn in your Bible to the fourth chapter of Hebrews. Turn to Hebrews chapter 4.
There are three verses that I would call to your attention at the end of the chapter that will just help us this morning refocus in the brief time that we have to refocus on the essential benefit that is ours in an intimate relationship with Christ. Hebrews 4:14, "Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need."
This...this is a statement that is so rich with truth I hope if the Lord is gracious to me this morning to just plant a portion of it in our hearts. The writer of the book of Hebrews is saying in Christ you find everything you need. He is calling here to some Jews who apparently are convinced in their mind that Jesus is the Messiah and is the very source of God's grace and provision. At least they have made some confession of that indicated at the end of verse 14. And he says to them, whatever confession of the truthfulness of Christ, whatever profession you have made of understanding the sacrifice of Christ, whatever affirmation you have made of your faith, hold on to it. Don't let go of it because it is a right thing. It is putting you in the place you need to be because we do have a great High Priest. Don't go back. Don't let go. Don't be like those people described as rocky ground in Matthew chapter 13 who have a little apparent life for a little while but when tribulation comes they wither and die because there was no real root. Don't be like those people described by the weedy soil who seem to respond and there is a profession of some kind and a confession of some kind but the love of riches, the deceitfulness of it and the cares of this world have choked out that original confession. He says don't do that. Don't get all the way up to Christ, don't understand the gospel and affirm the reality of who Christ is and then let go.
And his urging here is from the positive side, not the negative side. He's been dealing with the negative side. And earlier in the chapter he was telling them you better hold on to Christ for the sake of forgiveness, you better hold on to Christ for the sake of avoiding the wrath of God, avoiding the judgment of God, escaping hell. There is a negative side. You better hold on to Christ because if you don't you will perish for God is a judge and verse 13, there is no creature hidden from His sight. And everything is laid bare before Him. He is going to judge righteously. He has even mentioned God's wrath in this chapter.
So there is that reason to hold on to Christ, the fact that you will avoid wrath and you will avoid judgment and hell, destruction. But the tone starting in verse 14 moves to a positive side...hold fast that profession because of what is yours in Christ. In fact, he says down in verse 16, "Let's draw near." Keep coming closer...keep coming closer.
You know, the Apostle Paul said an amazing thing in Philippians 3. He said, "This one thing I do," that's amazing. Could you say that your life is reduced to one single irreducible minimum? If somebody approached you and said, "What's the most important thing in your life? What is your life all about?" Could you answer, "This one thing I do," or would you have to say, "Well I've got 15 deals on my list here I work my way through?" I mean, it's pretty astounding to be able to say, "In my life there is just one thing, that is the profundity and the simplicity of Christian experience...this one thing I do." What is it? I've got to know. If you're telling me that you can reduce Christian living to one thing, what is it? "I press toward the mark or the goal for the prize of the high calling of God which is in Christ Jesus." Forgetting everything else. What are you talking about? "I press toward the goal which is to be like Christ." He defines it there. "I pursue Christ's likeness, that's what I do..that's all I do. Forgetting everything else I do that." I mean, I find in Him everything. And to be like Him I must know Him. So the writer of Hebrews is saying, "Look, if you've come this far and you've some kind of a confession, you've made some kind of a profession, keep coming...keep coming because this is a great High Priest. He will give you what it is your heart craves and longs for and desperately needs."
In fact, this is the main point of this whole epistle, to show what a great High Priest Jesus is. Go back to chapter 2 for a moment and look at verse 16, this is quite a statement. Hebrews 2:16 says, "Assuredly...speaking of Christ...He does not give help to angels but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham," and that would be the descendant of Abraham by faith, namely one who believes. He doesn't help angels, He helps believers. You say, "Why so?" Because holy angels don't sin, they aren't tempted, they aren't tested. They don't go through personal trial. So He doesn't have to help them, they're confirmed in eternal holiness. They don't grow in grace, they don't grow in holiness. They're already perfectly holy. And fallen angels are totally unholy and there is no redemption for them. So He doesn't help angels but He gives help to believers. He had to be made like His brethren, says verse 17, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of His people.
And then verse 18, "For since He Himself was tempted in that which He suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted." So verse 16 says He helps believers, verse 18 says He comes to their aid. He's a great High Priest who helps His people.
Now what is a high priest's job? What is the task of a priest? Well simply it is to usher people into the presence of God, it is to lift up people to the throne room of God. It is to bring us to the knowledge of God. That's the priest's task, that's the priest's role. And Christ does that perfectly. He is a perfect priest. The Jew would perfectly understand the concept of priesthood. He knows that a priest is to take men to God, is to bring men into God's presence to provide some means of access to God through sacrifice. But there's never been a priest like this one, not like Jesus. There's never been anyone this great. He is called in chapter 3 a faithful High Priest. Here He is seen as a merciful High Priest. He is really a perfect High Priest because He perfectly brings together man and God.
So, he's saying, "Look, Christ is so perfect as a High Priest, He alone is able to bring you into God's presence and therein lies all the resources for everything. If you have made a confession of Christ, keep coming. If you've come to this point, keep moving, keep advancing." And I think we can extrapolate that into our Christian experience. Wherever you are in your Christian experience, keep coming...keep moving closer and closer to Christ. Whatever the dissatisfactions of life, the pain, the trauma, the difficulty, the misunderstandings, the confusion, the chaos, whatever those things that deeply disappoint you in life, where you're going to go to find the answer is not in a human resource or a human formula or human system but to Him.
The other night when I was in Montreal, a young man came to me at the beginning of the evening and he stayed on my shoulder most of the evening. And he kept pleading with me to help him with a sin in his life. First of all, it was a veiled reference to a sin and then it was a more direct mention of a sin and then it was a specific mention of a sin and then it was the mention obviously of the sin in the first person and then it was a desperation of "What am I going to do about this thing and I don't have any power over this thing and where do I go from here?" And as the evening progressed I had only one thing that I could do for him, I couldn't help him with his sin. I had to lead him to one who could. My responsibility was to be a priest, as it were, in a humble human way to try to lift him up into the presence of the one who was there to help. But somehow in his Christian experience he had been under the allusion that if you have needs that are deep and searching and unrelenting and unresolvable, you've got to find a very strong person. And he saw me as that person and I was anxious to tell him that I was far too weak to accomplish what he needed, he needed to go directly to Christ. And I bring that up only to mention how many Christians don't understand what is available to them in the cultivation of that relationship.
Now let's see how it unfolds here. First of all, he says we have a High Priest like no other because this High Priest has passed through the heavens, or into the heavens, if you will. You say, "Well what's the importance of that?" Well, the Old Testament priest would go through three areas to get into the Holy of Holies, the presence of God. He would go through the outer court, through the holy place into the Holy of Holies. He would ultimately end up in the Holy of Holies which is the place where the symbol of the presence of God was, the Ark of the Covenant and once a year on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, after having gone through ritual cleansing and after having examined his own heart to make sure he was pure so God didn't kill him when he got in there, he would take the blood that had been taken from the sacrifice for the sins of the people and he would go from the courtyard, the outer court, through the outer court through the holy place into the Holy of Holies and he would take the blood and he would sprinkle the blood on the Mercy Seat to atone for the sins of Israel. Before he could do that he had to do it for himself because he was a sinner. And when he got in there there was no place to sit. He stood in there, did his duty and got out of there before God killed him because no sinner really has any right in the presence of God. God was only allowing this to accomplish the sacrificial ceremony. They used to put little bells on the high priest's robes because as long as the bells were tinkling they knew he was alive. If the bells stopped, they knew he was dead, they'd have to throw a rope underneath the tent and pull him out. He got on there and he did what he was going to do and he got out.
If any high priest had said, "Look, folks, it's very nice in there, I'm taking a chair, I'm going to stay there," it would have been the epitome of blasphemy and self-confidence beyond imagination. He went in and he went out.
This high priest is different. He passed through the heavens and sat down. He stayed there. He went through three heavens. You know, 2 Corinthians 12:2 talks about the third heaven. The first heaven is the atmospheric heaven, that's the clouds of heaven, that's the atmosphere around the earth. The second heaven is the stellar heaven, the stars of heaven, that part of heaven. And the third heaven is the abode of God, the heaven of heavens. So our High Priest went in His ascension through the atmosphere, through the stellar heavens and into the heaven of heavens which is the abode of God symbolically carrying with Him the satisfactory atonement that He had made and pouring it out on the heavenly Mercy Seat when He arrived. The wonder of wonders is that Jesus passed through the heavens and stayed there. So we have a High Priest like no other high priest. We have a source that is there seated permanently at the right hand of the throne of God interceding for us on the basis of a sufficient atonement.
Such ongoing intercession for us is what yields eternal life. He ever lives to make that ongoing intercession for us, says chapter 7 and verse 25. He has entered into heaven and there He is ever living, seated at the right hand of the throne making this ongoing intercession on our behalf. Chapter 8 verse 1 says, "He has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. He is now, verse 2 says, in the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man. This is the real abode of God, the heaven of heavens and He's there and He doesn't have to come out quickly, He can stay there, He is sinless, He is perfect, He has accomplished a perfect redemption. And He does stay there and He stays there at the right hand of God to make intercession for us so that never ever ever do we fall out of favor with God, do we forfeit eternal life. This is our High Priest.
If you have trials in life, and you do, struggles in life, difficulty, pain, where are you going to go? If you want direct access to God, you go to the one who sits at His right hand interceding on your behalf, the one who makes ceaseless intercession for you, the one who knows God perfectly, who knows God's will exactly, the one who knows you, the one who knows you perfectly, who knows what is best for you. You can come to me and I may know you but I don't know you like Christ knows you, you can come to me and I may have an idea about what God's will is but I'm not as sure as Christ is about it. You can come to me and I'll do my best to make your case clear to God, the best that I can render is try to articulate it, not to solve it because He and He alone has the power.
There is no earthly priesthood. There wasn't one in Israel and there isn't one in the church that can accomplish for the believer what the great high priest can accomplish. You say, "Well...but...but Jesus is God, isn't He? Yes, it says He is, look at verse 14 again, "Jesus the Son of God." "So, you know, it's nice to go to Him but after all, I'd certainly like to go to somebody who maybe kind of understands me a little. I mean going to the Son of God with my problems, I may find a bit of indifference or a lack of understanding, personal experience." Not so, look at verse 15. "We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses but one who has been tempted in all things as we are yet without sin." He says, "Look, He is your High Priest, He is the one you want to go to, cultivate that relationship. You've made that confession, you've made that profession, now keep drawing near because He is the source, He is your Priest, He does bring you to God. No human can do what He did. No human has that constant access. No human carries on his heart your needs like Jesus does. Go to Him."
But does He understand? Yes. Verse 15, He can sympathize with our weakness because He's been tempted in all things as we are yet without sin. That is a remarkable, remarkable statement.
Now, we have a High Priest in heaven, follow this thinking, interceding for us all the time who has an unequalled capacity for understanding us and sympathizing with us in every danger, every sorrow, every trial that human life could inflict. Why? Because He was exposed to all of them. And He endured triumphantly every form of testing that a man could possibly endure. In fact, you might think His battle was easier, it wasn't. It was more intense than ours. And here's why, I'll give you an illustration. We saw some power lines on this recent trip and the man who was describing these power lines said they carry 200,000 volts so you don't want to touch them or get near them. They were suspended over a river...200,000 volts. One hundred and ten volts will shock me. Two-twenty will even give me a bigger shock. I don't need 200,000. I'll feel pain at 110. Jesus didn't give in at 110, He didn't give in at 220, so He inevitably felt 200,000. So when you think about Jesus being tempted, Jesus being attacked and jolted by Satan, you have to understand that because He never gave in, the full blast and the full expression of Satanic power ran to its limit, a level of temptation we don't experience because we give in sooner.
There's a degree of pain which we can stand, right? I mean, there's a certain amount of pain I can stand and then it gets to a point where I say...that is all the pain that I can stand. I have said that several times in a dentist's chair...do something, give me another shot. There's a certain amount of pain that I can stand physically and then I stop, I exert myself only so far or if I'm in some kind of a medical situation or having some kind of doctor do something to me or cut me somewhere, there's only so much pain that I can stand. In terms of accidents, I was talking to Patricia after her accident and I said, "Did you feel any pain?" She said, "I felt no pain, no pain at all," and yet her facial bones were all fractured, her jaw was separated and fractured, her shoulder was broken, her hand was broken, her neck was broken at C2 and C3 shattered and chips and pieces all the way down her back, her head was split wide open and she had a severe concussion. She felt nothing. Why? The body only takes so much pain and it shuts down and the concept is known as shock. You go into shock which is a mechanism that says that's all you can take. And we cave in.
In the area of temptation there's a point at which we crumble. If we don't get out of the situation immediately, it's going to crush us. But Jesus had no such crumbling point, no such shock system so that whatever Satan gave him he gave Him with full blast all the way to the limit. So when it says that He can sympathize with our weaknesses because He's been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin, what it means to say is there's no level of temptation that you have felt that He hasn't felt more. And because He never caved in He ran it all to its limit. There are agonies of pain that you don't even know that He felt. You know what it is to be lonely but you don't know what it is to be God and be separated from God. You know what it is to feel guilt but you don't know what it is to be the sinless holy Son of God and feel all the guilt of all the sins of the all the world. We collapse long before we get to the level of temptation that Jesus experienced. So when we go to Him we not only find someone sitting at the right hand of the throne of God interceding on our behalf but somebody who knows every single conceivable pain, every single possible human experience of difficulty and way beyond...way beyond.
This is new to the Jews, by the way, that God cares this much. To the Jews God was holy and God was separate and God was different and somewhat diffident. He belonged to a completely different sphere of life and being that man did. And in their minds there was no real sense in which God shared their experience. He was, in fact, incapable of it because He was God. And there were things about God and the way He operated that reinforced that like when He came down on Mount Sinai and sent fire and smoke and earthquakes in ever direction and said, "Stay away from Me." And to the Greeks the gods were also indifferent. The Stoics said the primary attribute of deity is apathea(?), apathy, inability to feel anything...joy, sorrow, gladness, grief. And the Epicureans said the gods live in Intermundia(?) that is between the worlds. There is the spiritual world here, there's the physical world here and the gods live in the apathea and the indifference of the Intermundia, completely detached from either reality, physical or spiritual. Into that world comes Christianity and Christianity says that's not true, God is not indifferent. God is not in some intermittent place where He experiences nothing. God, in fact, has come into the human world in a human body and undergone every human experience short of sin. That was the truth of Christ. God has been here and God has suffered anything and everything you will ever suffer, and He knows and understands the pain of it. So when you go to the Lord Jesus Christ you not only have someone at the right hand of God interceding on your behalf but someone who fully understands.
A lot of folks try to understand. Nobody understands like Jesus, right? That's why the guy wrote the song, "No one understands like Jesus. He's a friend beyond compare. Meet Him at the throne of mercy, you will find Him waiting there."
Now there's only one other question to ask. Well I'm glad He's there for me, I'm glad He has me on His heart unceasingly before God, I'm glad He's there understanding me sympathetically but there's just one more question, I appreciate His presence and I appreciate His sympathy, but what about His resources? Can He do anything about my problem? I might say to you, "My dear friend, I know you're in debt for five million dollars and I'm going to pray for you." And I might say to you, "My friend, I know you're in debt for five million dollars and once I was in debt for a little bit of money and I know what you feel and, my friend, I'm going to pray for you and I'm going to sympathize with you but don't ask me to write a check. I don't have that." You see, I can...I can be your friend before God and I can sympathize a little bit, not like Christ, but that's where I'm done. I don't have the resource, even from a spiritual standpoint. You can come to me and say, "Pastor, would you pray for me?" And I can do that. "And do you understand what I'm going through?" And because I'm a man and because I'm human I can say yes I understand and I sympathize with your pain but I don't have in me the power or the resource to change that. But He does, look at verse 16. "Keep coming, keep coming boldly with confidence to the throne of grace." By the way, the throne to the Jew was always a throne of judgment, a throne of fear and Christ transformed it into a throne of grace. "Come to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need." He has the resources, absolutely utterly and completely He has the resources.
A wonderful story showing the sympathy of our great High Priest and His resources was related by Dr. John Wilson about Booth Tucker who was involved years ago with the Salvation Army. Wilson tells the story that Booth Tucker was preaching in Chicago and a man came up to him after his sermon and was really upset about his sermon. He was extolling the virtues of Christ. And he said to him, "You talk like that about this Jesus Christ and He's dear to you and you say He helps you and He provides the needs of your life, but if your wife was dead like mine and your little babies were crying for their mother like mine, a mother who would never come back you wouldn't be standing up here saying what you're saying." A few days after that Booth Tucker lost his wife in a wreck. And her body was brought to Chicago for a funeral. Booth Tucker stood up after the funeral service and looked down into the silent face of his wife and the mother of his little babies. This is what he said, I quote, "The other day when I was here a man said I couldn't say Christ was sufficient if my wife were dead and my children were crying for their mother. If that man is here I tell him that Christ is sufficient. My heart is bleeding, it is crushed, it is broken but it has a song and Christ put it there. And if that man is here I tell him that though my wife is gone and my children are motherless, Christ speaks comfort to me today." And Wilson said the man was there. And down the aisle he came, knelt by the casket and gave his life to Christ. It's not just sympathy, it's resource we need, isn't it? Power to overcome our trails and He can provide it.
Look at verse 16, "Grace, it is a throne of grace, it is a place of mercy." Mercy looks at our misery, grace becomes the supply to overcome that misery. We hurriedly, boldly, eagerly, anxiously come to the throne because we know we'll not be spurned and won't be for us a throne of judgment because Christ is interceding on our behalf having made atonement for our sins. It won't be a throne of indifference because Christ is a sympathetic High Priest who knows exactly what we feel. And it will be a throne of grace because there He will dispense the grace we need for every issue of life.
Why is it we go so many places but to the throne? I just simply would say to you, my friend, cultivate your relationship with Jesus Christ. Whatever you may be doing in your life somehow find your way back to the words of the Apostle Paul who said, "This one thing I do, and pursue knowing Christ deeply that you may be made like Him." That you might come to experience all of His grace and His supply. He is ever ready to strengthen you. He is ever ready to comfort you, to restore you. He is prepared to receive the sin-stained heart that you bring Him and to clean it. He is ever ready to dry your tears, weeping bitterly. He is ever ready to meet that deeply-felt thorn in the flesh with the words that He gave to Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you." Now you've come this far, you've made your profession, you've made your confession, keep coming and keep pursuing Christ. And again I say, the best that any minister can do is to lead you to the great High Priest who is the source of all provision.
Father, thank You for this wonderful text of Scripture we have just touched so lightly this morning. Thank You for all that is ours in Christ. Lord, help us to realize that when we are devastated by life's trials and when we find our when we find ourselves in the doldrums and in times of depression, it is because we have somehow lost touch with You, we have lost our hold on Your hand, we have left our place at the throne. Help us to know that You're there and all of life is to pursue You. May we spend our whole life before the throne pleading for mercy and grace from a resourceful sympathetic ever-living intercessor who makes all the richness of God's treasure available to His children. And may we remember the words of James who said, "You have not because you ask not." Renew in us that first love for Christ and may we pursue Him through prayer, through the Word. We pray in His name. Amen.
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Welcome to the Parent page of the Defiance College website. Whether you are the parent of a current DC student or a prospective student considering joining our campus family, I encourage you to take advantage of the information and resources available at the links on the left side of this page.
The Defiance College campus culture is strongly shaped by the characteristics of friendliness and mutual support. We really do think of ourselves as "one big family." We understand that as parents you entrust us with your most valued possession: your children. We take that responsibility very seriously, and we are proud of the supportive environment that we can foster on this small, residential, liberal arts campus. Parents are key partners for us as we strive to foster the learning and growth of students.
Do not hesitate to let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you or your student in this great adventure we call "college." On behalf of our entire student life team and athletic department, let me extend our heartiest welcome to you and your student. Do not hesitate to contact me directly with any questions or concerns.
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There are some things you just can't see in your own backyard, or even at the Museum — so our entertaining and informative curators David Temple and Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout are bringing a group to Tanzania in November 2013.
The unique eco-system of the Ngorongoro Crater, the vast savannahs of the Serengeti, the forest and grassland near the shores of Lake Manyara, and the renowned anthropological and geological sites at Olduvai Gorge are must-see wonders of east Africa included in this HMNS-exclusive trip.
This two-week trip includes safaris to superb areas for seeing giraffe, zebra, elephant, hippo, tree-climbing and black-maned lion, black rhino, wildebeest, impala, flamingo, warthog, baboon, and many other species of African wildlife. All are guaranteed a window seat for wildlife viewing in a 4×4 with photo roof. You will also visit the site where the roots of modern man were unearthed by Mary Leakey and a Maasai village.
Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout, HMNS curator of anthropology, curated the human evolution section of the new Hall of Paleontology along with numerous special exhibitions, including Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia. He has a special interest in this trip as Africa is the cradle of humanity. Tanzania's Rift Valley has yielded important early human fossils, landmarks in the evolution of mankind. "We are all descendants of these early Africans. Visiting Tanzania will be a return home for all of us," Dr. Tuerenhout says.
David Temple, HMNS associate curator of paleontology, curated the Museum's new Morian Hall of Paleontology and possesses a wide knowledge base of the evolution of mammals and modern African wildlife. "Tanzania is a perfect destination to learn of the great creatures of the past and witness the great creatures of the present," he adds. Temple also holds a special interest African history, culture and economic development.
Space is very limited. For complete itinerary, pricing and registration, click here and mark your calendar for our informational session March 19.


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Gurock Software announced an offer to provide free licenses of their web-based test management software TestRail to open source projects and teams.
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Gurock Software decided to make free licenses of their test management software available to open source teams as a way to give back to the community. The company is using various open source projects to run their infrastructure and development process. Interested open source teams can contact Gurock Software or learn more about the offer on the company's dedicated web page.


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Bill & Ted 3 Facebook Timeline Cover Contest 2
Heres my second contribution to the Bill & Ted 3 Facebook Timeline Cover Contest. This one isn't my best work by far, but it was fun to work on for a few minutes.
I've been a Bill & Ted fan for year, and years now. And I jumped to make a couple of Fan art covers for Bill & Ted 3. I seriously cannot wait for this movie… It's Ridiculous.
So heres my bodaciously awesome Bill & Ted 3 Facebook Timeline Cover Art #2
Click here to see the the first one I made. http://jolearon.com/bill-ted-3-facebook-timeline-cover-contest/
Heres the Contest info and link. Try it out, I'd love to see what everyone comes up with!
The Bill & Ted 3 Facebook Timeline Cover Contest – http://www.facebook.com/events/366314080069389/
The Bill & Ted 3 page has to upgrade to the timeline format by March 30th.
As the script for the movie is finished, and Alex and Keanu are both verbally on board, it's time to get the fans involved as we all await the possibility of the film being green lit to start production.
We know that Bill & Ted fans are talented – now is your chance to show that talent off. So here's the contest information, dudes:
1. Design a most excellent Bill & Ted inspired Facebook Timeline Cover – it must be 851 pixels wide, by 315 pixels high.
2. Post Your Design on our page, on or before March 25th.
We'll put your design in a new photo album on our page for the contest, and encourage fans to vote for the one they like best, from now until then.
*The most excellent design (calculated by the most "Likes") by March 30th, will be our very first Facebook timeline cover, and we'll credit you for your work, for thousands of people to non-heinously admire.*
All submissions must be received by March 25th. You can certainly ask your friends to "Like" your design.
Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!


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4 quit over review of Benghazi attack security failures
An independent review board is criticizing the State Department for leadership and management failures connected to the Benghazi, Libya, attack. The board is not recommending disciplinary action. (Dec. 19)
An unclassified report slams the State Department and puts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the hot seat to answer for the department.
WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of a committee investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks said Wednesday that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to explain failures of security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya, and one senator suggested a coverup was taking place.
An independent panel issued a report late Tuesday blaming systematic failures in State Department leadership for "grossly inadequate" security at the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in a Sept. 11 attack.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs a House committee that in October held hearings on the attacks, said the report confirms failures pointed out by security professionals in Libya at the time of the attack. He said he is concerned that State Department officials who also testified deliberately tried "to mislead the American people."
The unclassified version of the independent panel's report omits details about the perpetrators of the attack and how the State Department decided how much security the consulate in Benghazi would get.
Clinton "will need to personally address the remaining issues," Issa said.
Four State Department officials resigned Wednesday, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. She said they included Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of State for diplomatic security, as well as two others in the bureau of diplomatic security and one in the bureau of Near East Affairs. She would not name the others.
Obama administration officials told the Associated Press that in addition to Boswell; the resignations included Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security, and Raymond Maxwell, the deputy assistant secretary of State who oversees Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss personnel matters.
The panel was led by retired ambassador Thomas Pickering and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, both of whom testified before the Senate and House foreign affairs committees in closed sessions.
"What happened on Sept. 11 and 12 in Benghazi was a series of attacks in multiple locations by unknown assailants that ebbed and flowed over a period of almost eight hours," Pickering said Wednesday.
U.S. security personnel defended the mission heroically with what they had, "but what they had was not enough, either for the general threat environment in Benghazi and most certainly against the overwhelming numbers of attackers and the weapons which they faced," Pickering said. "Frankly, the State Department had not given Benghazi the security, both physical and personnel resources, it needed."
Senators of both parties expressed frustration at the findings of the Accountability Review Board. Emerging from a closed, 75-minute briefing with leaders of the panel, lawmakers said the harshly critical report identified problems that the State Department was moving to address.
State Department bureaucracy failed U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, said House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich.
"The report makes clear the massive failure of the State Department at all levels, including senior leadership, to take action to protect our government employees abroad," he said.
Rogers said he was dissatisfied with the Obama administration's efforts to catch the terrorists who committed the attacks.
"We must pursue the terrorists with vigor and demonstrate the strength of American resolve to hunt down those who have done us harm," he said.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the board found no "willful misconduct," which is the standard for judgment, "but it is also clear that there was a failure when it came to the management of security in Benghazi," he said. "As a consequence, some internal administrative action is being taken in the State Department."
Clinton was to appear at a hearing today but said she had to cancel because of a concussion she incurred when a stomach virus caused her to faint. Clinton said, by letter, that the report offers "a clear-eyed look at serious, systemic challenges that we have already begun to fix."
Clinton said she created a new position within the diplomatic security bureau to focus on "high-threat posts," though there will always be risks for diplomats.
"We will never prevent every act of terrorism or achieve perfect security," she wrote.
Senate Republicans and Democrats said they hoped Clinton would testify on the Hill even though she is planning to step down from her post.
Despite the "systematic" deficiencies, the board determined that no individual officials ignored or violated their duties and recommended no disciplinary action. But it also said poor performance by senior managers should be grounds for disciplinary recommendations in the future.
The report singled out the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the Bureau of Near East Affairs for criticism, saying there appeared to be a lack of cooperation and confusion over protection at the mission in Benghazi, a city in eastern Libya that was relatively lawless after the revolution that toppled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.
It did not explain why the Obama administration insisted for days that the attack emerged from spontaneous protests outside the embassy against an anti-Islam video. Clinton blamed the video the following day, as did President Obama in a speech before the United Nations and in subsequent appearances on television talk shows.
Former CIA director David Petraeus testified last month that he and his staff in Libya knew immediately that the attack was an organized terrorist assault by gunmen linked to al-Qaeda and not from a protest. Petraeus said he said as much in a CIA report sent to the White House.
Killed in the assault were Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information specialist Sean Smith and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
The board determined that there had been no immediate, specific tactical warning of a potential attack on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. However, the report said there had been several worrisome incidents in the run-up to the attack that should have set off warning bells. It confirmed that there was no protest outside the consulate as the White House had insisted and that the murders were the work of terrorists.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice appeared on five TV talk shows the Sunday after the attacks and used the administration talking points linking it to the film in which she said the Sept. 11 attack was not a terrorust attack. Last week, she withdrew her name from consideration to replace Clinton as secretary of State in President Obama's second term.
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., emerging from the Senate briefing on the report, kept up the congressional criticism of Rice.
"Now we all know she had knowledge. She knew what the truth was. It was a coverup," he said.
While criticizing State Department management in Washington, the report said U.S. personnel on the ground in Benghazi "performed with courage and readiness to risk their lives to protect their colleagues in a near-impossible situation."
It said the response by diplomatic security agents on the scene and CIA operatives at a nearby compound that later came under attack itself had been "timely and appropriate" and absolved the military from any blame. "There was simply not enough time for armed U.S. military assets to have made a difference," it said.
The report discounted speculation that officials in Washington had refused appeals for additional help after the attack had begun.
"The Board found no evidence of any undue delays in decision-making or denial of support from Washington or from the military combatant commanders," it said.
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So, in the Circulatory System album booklet, it says this: "tell us your dreams, send audio details of dreams and environments (real or otherwise) for a future project. send this and any other correspondence to: [po box for cloud recordings]"
Does anyone have any news about this 'future project'? It's very intriguing.
(forgive me if there's already a thread about this, I couldn't find anything though)


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Mike Parker shares why he think the "recent flap over the IRS" may be only the beginning.
My dad once shared an observation revealing one of his concerns: �The only group that ever got Al Capone was the IRS,� he told me in a near whisper.
He grew up in the days of G-men and mob violence. He knew that Capone had skated time after time when he was brought to trial. In the end Capone was imprisoned from 1931 until 1939, including a stint at the new federal prison, Alcatraz.
Capone went to prison for income tax evasion. The IRS finally got him.
The recent flap over the IRS reminds us of the power both of taxation and of enforcement of the tax code.
I watched a little of the bipartisan grilling acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller underwent. Even Charlie Rangel, whose has his own history of tax problems, called the behavior of the IRS an �overreach.�
�I mean, this is wrong to abuse the tax system,� Rangel said.
At issue is a documented paper trail that shows the IRS delayed issuing tax-exempt status to conservative groups, such as the Tea Party. Miller admitted that partisanship has no place in IRS considerations. Miller then said he did not believe partisanship had played a role in the decisions to grant tax-exempt status to certain groups, mostly liberal or progress, while withholding it from other groups, mostly conservative, for nearly three times as long.
Miller told the House Ways and Means Committee that �foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection.� Part of that attempt at efficiency seemed to include using certain key words as a selection criteria for greater scrutiny, words such as �Tea Party,� �patriot,� and �conservative.�
�Foolish mistakes� would seem to imply a few instances in a compact period of time that delayed the approval process.
In fact, when USA Today reviewed data from the IRS, investigators found that while Tea Party groups had been awaiting word on tax-exempt status for 27 months, groups with the words �progress� or �progressive� in their names had applications for non-profit status approved in roughly nine months.
Such a pattern argues against �foolish mistakes.�
Even U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, no friend of conservative groups, called the behavior of the IRS personnel involved �outrageous and unacceptable.� Part of that unacceptable behavior involved posing intrusive questions about associations and even religious matters. Holder has promised to investigate whether IRS personnel committed any crimes.
The hearings around the behavior of some IRS personnel raise two more important questions:
First, why do any groups, either on the right or the left, receive non-profit, tax-exempt status to promote their essentially political messages? Why should taxpayers be forced to subsidize political views? Surely, if I believe in a cause, I do not need a promise that my gifts are potential tax write-offs in order for me to give to that cause.
If the message is importance, I am willing to put my money where that message is.
But even more important is the realization that the IRS will be in charge of administering a large part of the Affordable Health Care Act, aka Obamacare. In fact, Sarah Hall Ingram, who headed the IRS tax-exempt division when this �outrageous and unacceptable� behavior began, is now in charge of the IRS division administering the IRS side of Obamacare.
I shudder to think what the impact of more �foolish mistakes� could have in the healthcare field. Just how much information will Ingram and her associates seek as they make tax determinations under the provisions of Obamacare?
Does anyone else see a problem with involving the IRS in the healthcare field?
I fear even more that congressional �investigators� will spend more time trying to affix blame than fixing the problems. If the high-handed tactics of some of the IRS personnel in the division of tax-exempt status ends up mirrored in the administration of Obamacare, we may end up with a more crippled healthcare system than we believed possible.
Mike Parker is a columnist for The Free Press. You can reach him at email@example.com or in care of this newspaper.


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Suspect in Yankton Killing Awaits Psych Evaluation
YANKTON - A man accused of assaulting and killing another man is waiting for a psychiatric evaluation before his case proceeds.
The Yankton Press & Dakotan reports that 57-year-old Darwin Abel Jans has been charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in the death of Larry D. Goodman. Police say James assaulted Goodman in September and Goodman died weeks later in a hospital.
Jans' attorney told a judge on Friday that her client is scheduled to begin his psychiatric evaluation next week. She asked for a continuance in the case, which the state did not object to. The next hearing is scheduled for April 12.
Jans is being held on a $100,000 cash-only bond.
A second-degree murder charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
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In my last update, Kasich had a 3-0 lead:
Congratulations, Obama fans! He finally scored on the Barbarian's tally! He proposed legislation to ban military-style assault rifles, limit the size of magazines, and expand background checks to close the notorious gun show loophole. He might even be serious. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Well done, Mr President. Push hard, and some of this will actually be enacted, even by this Congress, into law.
Then, today, Republican Governor John Kasich of Ohio came out with his proposed budget. He scored with me by proposing the following:
1. A real small business income tax cut. Half of the first $750, 000 of business income, or $375,000 is exempt from the state income tax. As a Socialist, I'm not totally in favor of this, but it is progressive in its way. It clearly helps out local merchants and start ups, green grocers and farmer's markets and repair shops and bookstores and the like. And it definitely does not give away the store to large corporations.
2. The state sales tax is lowered from 5.5% to 5%. Sales taxes are inherently regressive. Any reduction is welcome. To make up the revenue, Kasich proposes imposing the sales tax on previously exempt businesses, including law firms and lobbyists. You gotta love that.
3. Medicaid expansion. Families making up to 138% of the federal poverty line, or about $32,000 a year for a family of four, will qualify for Medicaid. Contrary to many expectations, especially in the progressive blogosphere, Kasich went for it. Yes, I realize this was part of Obamacare, but that was before the 2012 election. This scorecard is only about what has happened since.
4. An excise tax on oil and gas companies extracting oil and gas from Ohio lands. It's not much, only 1.5% the first year and 4% thereafter, but a lot better than the current rate of nothing. Kasich originally wanted 10%, but I figure he figured he'd never get it through the Republican legislature.
5. No cuts to state funding for K-12 education as a whole. His budget actually increases state funding for poorer districts and lowers it for the very wealthiest. Hence the score.
6. Refusal to privatize the Ohio Turnpike. In fact, revenues from the state-run road will finance $1.5 billion in desperately needed revenue to improvements in roads throughout northeastern Ohio. This is a complete reversal from one of Kasich's original campaign promises, and a good one, IMHO.
For a nice, short article on the budget, go here:
9-1. One would think a Democratic President could do better. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. I'm not optimistic, for reasons very well-known to the reader if he or she has read my previous posts, but we shall see.
will look at this in more detail, thanks for the information
Kasich has been a pleasant surprise, to me, since the...
Issue 2 debacle when Ohio voters soundly rejected the attempt to destroy public sector unions. He did refuse to back plans to attack the unions one by one afterwards, and has acted far more like an Eisenhower Republican than a Tea Party Republican after his first year in office. The Chamber of Commerce, the Oil lobby, and the more extreme social issue R's are quite upset with him.
He is the son of a postman, and grew up lower middle class at best in western Pennsylvania. The point is that even somebody with an 'R' after his name can be more progressive in his actions than the man in the White House Republicans like to mis-label as a socialist, and all for solid conservative, in the original sense of the word, reasons.
Most Republicans these days are not conservative. On the contrary, they are quite radical. Whatever he is, Kasich is no radical. The Democrats really don't know who they will run against him in 2014. As things stand now, he'll be re-elected because he seems reasonable, especially when compared to most Republicans in Congress and the likes of Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
It seems a lot of this is ...
... a case of screwing Ohio so very hard in his first biennial budget to lay the foundation for rolling back some but not all of it and make the second biennial budget look like a step in the right direction.
That is, the small business tax cut and sales tax cut is coming two years after a big business tax cut. The increase in Gas and Oil royalties are coming after the tax cut for Gas and Oil companies two years ago, which remain in effect. "No Cuts" and some modest increases to public education is, of course, still a net cut when added to the massive cuts of two years ago, and public education funding is still in violation of the state constitution.
The only reason that the future of the Turnpike was in doubt was because he started the push for privatization. Not carrying through his threat is not a net win for Kasich, its a win OVER Kasich. We beat him on the Turnpike.
And as far as "Yes, I realize this was part of Obamacare, but that was before the 2012 election. This scorecard is only about what has happened since." ~ the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare is HAPPENING after the 2012 election. You can't score Kasich 1-0 against the President because he couldn't resist the bribe to expand Medicare built into the President's conservative health care reform.
Indeed, it is double counting, because the Medicaid expansion represents a net saving for the state, so its part of what's funding the rest.
Saying, "I'm going to ignore half of Kasich's term and only looking at the biennial budget when he is running for re-election" is OF COURSE going to make him look better compared to a more moderate Republican like Obama.
You are an Ohioan. You're here. You saw all of this. I see...
things a little differently. WE didn't beat Kasich on the Turnpike. He could have done a Scott Walker and rammed it through; he chose not to do so after actually studying the debacle that happened in Indiana, and decided it was a stupid idea. I see nothing wrong with a politician changing his mind after actually looking at the facts.
As for Medicaid expansion, Kasich could have refused it; the fact that he didn't just showed some common sense to me. As for Obama, he could have gotten the public option through--it had already passed in the House--but he didn't even try. Besides, what's wrong with bribes if they help people? And it's my admittedly opinionated scorecard; I can score it any way I wish, though of course you are free to disagree.
Finally, it's not even half of Kasich's term; the Issue 2 debacle happened in the first year, so I'm looking at what he has actually done, or tried to do, or not done, since then. And Obama's no moderate Republican, he's a pure Fascist by Mussolini's definition. It's Kasich who turns out to be the moderate Republican, and I'll take that any day over a Fascist, no matter what letter is after their name on TV.
One more thing. Issue 2 provides a valuable lesson for..
My impression of Kasich
My initial impression of Kasich was that he was a creature..
of Wall Street, specifically Lehman Brothers. I thought we were well and truly screwed when he barely won in 2010. I thought the same when he pushed for Issue 2.
Since then, however, he's given me lots of pleasant surprises. He's no Scott Walker and no Barack Obama, for that matter. Credit where credit's due and all that.
I've been waiting a long time for a certain thing to happen
and maybe this is an example of it. I've been wating for former co-conspirators in all things politically evil, the ones who are actually in some way decent people, I've been waiting for some of them to take a look around and say, "Whoa," this is getting out of hand. One dreams.
I didn't understand this essay when I first read it. I needed to read the comments to get the significance of this. Very interesting.
Yes, stand up.


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The fall of the Roman Empire: a reappraisal
Annenberg School Press, 1976 - History - 336 pages
A reinterpretation of the events leading up to and comprising the Roman Empire's collapse in 476, presented in the light of information and knowledge acquired since Gibbon and of present-day events and tendancies
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