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Brian McLaren recently published an article addressing the question, "Is God Violent?" In it he makes a case for God's nonviolent nature that merits a response—both internal and external—from those of us who desire to follow Jesus.
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I've wanted to respond to McLaren's essay for a while.
So when the March 2011 issue of Sojourners showed up in my mailbox, I determined it was time to slow down and reflect on his propositions and the nature of God as I understand it.
McLaren frames his essay in response to the notion that God is violent, as is reflected in the Old Testament narrative and which culminates in Christ's crucifixion at Calvary.
It's an idea that many Christians (and Jews, and Muslims) hold true, but McLaren identifies how this profoundly impacts how we interact with one another on multiple levels.
He references 9/11, Israel's oppression of Palestinians, and Christian preachers calling for war on Islam—just to name a few (I'm sure we could quickly name a few more, both on the macro-scale—think Afghanistan, northern Ireland, the Sudan—and on a much smaller, interpersonal level).
It makes sense, doesn't it?
Throughout the Old Testament, we journey through stories of homicide, infanticide, genocide…the narrative is, at times, a horrific bloodbath. Observed is a God who doesn't just stand by and watch violence occur; we encounter a God that often actually enacts this violence.
So if we espouse to follow this God, it's only logical that we would justify violence by our faith in a God that utilizes these actions and occurrences to achieve his will.
McLaren confesses that he long held this assumption.
Me too.
But there is another lens through which we can see God. McLaren cites the "plethora of verses that present God as kind, reconciling, and compassionate, and against favoritism and violence." He suggests that we can observe a God who causes the lion to lay with the lamb, who sets the captives free, who turns the other cheek.
And this is where the dilemma comes in:
Do we follow a God who is violent, justifying violent means by the end—in this case, salvation, or redemption, or victory? Or, in response to this other lens, do we follow a God who is wholly opposed to violence?
I appreciate McLaren's reply, and I think this is how many of us who call ourselves Anabaptist Christians would wish to respond:
[I]f I see a tension in scripture, rather than appealing to Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Scofield, or the pope to resolve it, I should first turn to Jesus. If Jesus truly was the highest and fullest revelation of God, if Jesus was truly the logos, the radiance of God's glory, the exact representation of God's nature, the fullness of the godhead in bodily form, and in very nature God, then his life and teaching mattered in tensions like this. And if the Bible was intended, as Jesus said, to bear witness to Christ, or as Martin Luther said, to be the manger on which Christ was presented to the world, then "when in doubt, consult Jesus" seemed like good advice.
In Jesus we find the way, the truth, and the life. We find a messiah that calls us out of darkness and into the light. We find a savior whose reign was not established by violence or force but rather by love and through humble service. We find a friend who forgives and does not condemn, who turns the other cheek, walks the extra mile, gives away the tunic.
As I continue turning from my long-held assumptions about God and violence to embrace the Anabaptist way of living, I recognize that I do so largely as a result of Jesus' life and teaching, all of which seem to witness to peacemaking.
Jesus embodies the love and non-violent nature of God. And if we are to truly follow Christ, we must find creative ways to go and do likewise.
I realize this isn't the way all followers of Jesus will live. And I do not wish to condemn those who reject this proposition (or place myself above them for my accepting it).
I don't think McLaren would, either.
But the challenge for us as Christians is to view God—in McLaren's words—as "first and foremost present with the Crucified one" rather than with the authorities and crowds on Good Friday. Because this radically changes our orientation toward the world, toward our enemies, toward those in need.
Then—and only then—are we able to participate fully in the Resurrection.
May it be so.
Brian Paff is Director of Communications at Laurelville Mennonite Church Center. This post originally appeared at BeyondLaurelville.org; Brian will be presenting an intergenerational workshop entitled "Confessions of a Converted Mennonite" addressing this and other ideas at Pittsburgh 2011, the Mennonite Church USA convention.
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I appreciate the desire to have a theology that is consistently Anabaptist and non-violent. I want to do the same thing. However, I think this is the wrong approach.
a. The Bible DOES present God as being violent. Not just people being violent in God's name but God Himself enacting violence. Thus, to deny God's violence is to say that there are different gods presented in Scripture, and to chose one over the other is to affirm that. I believe that God is one.
b. I affirm that God's violence is part of what allows me to be non-violent. Human "justice" is filled with unjust violence. This does not mean that all violence is wrong, but that humans cannot correctly dispense justice when violence is involved (surgery is an exception to this). Thus, I refuse to participate in violence, because I will use that judgment wrongly. However, God can use violence and knows how to use violence correctly, whether that be in the plagues against Egypt or the death of Ananias or punishing the rich man in flames.
c. Jesus affirmed God's violence as the result of the cross. In the parable of the vineyard, those who killed the owner's son are violently killed as a just punishment. Even so, God punished the priests and temple system by destroying it in 70AD. Non violent martyrdom results in God's taking firm and often violent action due to our nonviolent surrender.
d. We are to be like God in all his qualities of mercy, but not in His judgment. We are to be slow to anger, compassionate, merciful,forgiveness, full of lovingkindness, but we are not to take vengeance for "vengeance is mine" says the Lord (Rom 12). Thus, vengeance/judgment is a quality of the Lord, but the only one we are not to imitate.
Many people won't agree with my position, but I believe that it does less damage to the text of Scripture while still insisting upon seeking peace.
Steve, thanks for your engagement in this conversation.
I understand where you're coming from in your reading of the OT narrative. We do read about a God that appears extremely violent. But I recognize that we're likely reading scripture from different perspectives…
My one question for you about Jesus is this: if he is indeed God's son, and he knows full well how to exact violence, why does he refuse to use force and violence?
I have to believe that he was doing more than modeling the way. He was the embodiment of God in flesh. The vineyard parable and his statement about coming bearing a sword don't line up with the life he lived here on earth (and, as a result, the life to which I believe God calls us).
Jesus is the representation of the will and nature of God. But God's will is also judgment, or karma (complete justice) and violence is a reflection of that. Jesus' way isn't necessarily the way of non-violence, but of opportunity and long-suffering. Jesus, more than anyone else in Scripture, speaks of hell in violent terms. Thus, he is modeling the human life of faith, the perfect example of living out God's will as a human being. This does not mean that God the Father isn't violent, but God the Son, in modeling human perfection, hands all judgment and violence over to the Father.
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When I was pregnant, one of the things my friend whose daughter was 2 at the time told me was to never keep the house quiet. Even with an infant. She stressed how I shouldn't tip-toe around and worry about every little noise. We live in NYC, so noise is an issue. There are sirens and buses and traffic and people outside (or upstairs or downstairs) making a whole lot of noise. If baby can only sleep in extreme quiet, well, you should think about moving out to the country. Of course, that's not always a possibility so you can get those white noise machines or ... let your baby get used to living and being soothed even when there is noise.
And what better way to do it than to introduce your child to music, even during those quieter times. Turns out, there are brain benefits to it as well.
I've exposed my kids to music since ... well, conception. My children' father is a musician and we both really enjoy listening to many different kinds of music. Every night from when my children were first born, we'd go to bed listening to classical music. And during the day we've listened to just about everything -- even metal. My twins are 4 now and they are both very musical kids -- love have made up songs, love to dance, and strum a guitar every chance they get. My son also loves to play drums though has only done so when we're at people's homes who have drums. (Brave parents.)
I can't help but feel that because we've listened to music so often and were never the tip-toe, hush hush kind of parents, they were able to sleep well even if an ambulance was so loud it felt like it drove through the house and even in wicked thunderstorms. My babies even slept through me vacuuming. I never went around banging pots and pans, and there were moments we had silence in the home, but generally speaking, we weren't afraid of noise.
A recent study looked into children who were exposed to music before the age of 7 and found that it was linked to the brain maturing faster in terms of language and function -- and this benefit was seen even as the child matured through the age of 21. It even helped with self-awareness. Brain maturation peaks at age 7, so exposing kids to music before then is especially helpful.
Ph.D. candidate Yunxin Wang, of Beijing Normal University in China and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, was one of the study's leads and she says that music by composers like Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schubert, had a great impact on kids when they listened before the age of 7, particularly if they trained to learn the music of these musicians. I don't know about you, but I think I want to sign my kids up for a music class. At the very least, their father can teach them guitar, and we can all continue to have dance and sing parties.
Quiet? With kids? Not a chance.
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We love music and my toddler has been surrounded by it since conception. We have quite a few musicians in the family.
Even outside of music though, I try to make noise. I want my daughter to be able to sleep more soundly than I can. I wake at the drop of a pin and sleeping is miserable for me because of it
We generally don't play music in the house, but there is quite a bit of noise, constantly. My youngest was woken from her nap just about every day for the first 3 years of her life- often very, very early in the nap. Never did go back to sleep or adjust like they said she would, but at least we tried the noise thing. (to be honest, all 3 kids have always woken easily). Even did the music thing, back then, hoping it would help to have friendly noise to cover the other kid/TV/etc noise. Ha ha, I was hoping, but no dice. So glad they're growing up despite my failures.


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Very good...I had some plain yogurt to use up and added this in place of the buttermilk. I don't generally keep dark brown sugar on-hand so I used 1/4 c. each sucanat (which is quite strong) and granulated honey. I also used white whole-wheat flour (same weight) and had to supplement half the wheat germ with wheat bran, but these still turned out tender and moist. I agree that the chopping step is the most time-consuming, but otherwise the batter comes together quickly. For once I left these their intended size - which was actually decent - so that I could have two. :) These are fine on their own or would make a good side to scrambled eggs, and I would make these again.
Cherry-Wheat Germ Muffins
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Total: 27 Minutes
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- Calories: 202
- Fat: 5.9g
- Saturated fat: 0.7g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.3g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.8g
- Protein: 4.5g
- Carbohydrate: 32.4g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Cholesterol: 16mg
- Iron: 1.5mg
- Sodium: 268mg
- Calcium: 68mg
- 6.75 ounces all-purpose flour (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 3/4 cup dried cherries, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup toasted wheat germ
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
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- 3. Place 12 muffin-cup liners in muffin cups, and coat liners with cooking spray. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in pan on a wire rack.
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Cricket helmet
In the sport of cricket, batsmen often wear a helmet to protect themselves from injury or concussion by the cricket ball, which is very hard and can be bowled to them at speeds over 90 miles per hour (140 km/h).
There are recorded instances of cricketers using towels, scarves and padded caps to protect themselves throughout cricket history. Patsy Hendren was one of the first to use a self designed protective hat in the 1930s. Helmets were not in common use until the 1970s. The first helmets were seen in World Series Cricket, with Dennis Amiss being the first player to consistently wear a helmet.[1]
Mike Brearley was another player who wore his own design. Tony Greig was of the opinion that they would make cricket more dangerous by encouraging bowlers to bounce the batsmen. Graham Yallop of Australia was the first to wear a protective helmet to a test match on 17 March, 1978, when playing against West Indies at Bridgetown.[2] Later Dennis Amiss of England popularized it in test cricket.
Helmets began to be widely worn thereafter. Nowadays it is almost unheard of for a professional cricketer to face a fast bowler without a helmet. Some batsmen prefer not to wear a helmet when facing spin bowling. In under-19 cricket they are compulsory for all batsmen and any fielder within 15 yards (14 m) of the bat.
Cricket helmets cover the whole of the skull, and have a grill or perspex visor to protect the face.
In 2008, Ayrtek released a new design of helmet that featured in the Standford T20 tournament with Middlesex County Cricket Club players Tim Murtagh and Stephen Finn. This helmet design is widely regarded[according to whom?] as the safest and lightest on the market due to its 100% carbon fibre and Kevlar shell. The shell is design to deflect cricket balls as well as shield the wearer from impact, and its liner includes an inflatable element to tightly fit the helmet to its wearer's head.[2] This failed in 2014 when Stuart Broad suffered a cut to his nose after being hit in the head by a ball from India's Varun Aaron. The ball went through the gap between the grill and the helmet, forcing Broad to retire hurt and miss the rest of the test match.
Fielders who are positioned very close to the batsman (e.g. silly point or short leg) often wear a helmet and shin guards.
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- Batting helmet for baseball or softball
- ^ Briggs, Simon. "Amiss unearths helmet that changed the game". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ a b "England opener Michael Carberry's space-age helmet turns heads". The Daily Telegraph (Australia) (News Corp Australia). 22 November 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.


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1. Get fuse. 3mm fuse works best for me.
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3. Widen the hole with a knife you don't care about. It will dull the knife.
4. Cut the fuse so you have a lot of 3/4th inch lengths of fuse.
5. Keep putting them in the co2 tank until it wont accept anymore.
6. Stick a long fuse in the CO2 tank(this is how you will light it)
7. Have some fun and be careful.
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One of my fondest memories associated with international business was me, as a young boy, seeing my father off at the airport. I vividly recall the amazing sights and sounds and how the energy and excitement in the terminals was nearly palpable. Air travel then was truly a special event, and it showed. For instance, I'll never forget how the passengers dressed — my father in his best double-breasted suit, the women in dresses complete with hats and gloves — and the flight crews in their sharp suits and uniforms. It was an incredible experience just to accompany him to his gate.
Fast-forward to today's commercial air travel experience and you'll find little distinction from that of taking a bus, as passengers' manners, courtesy and even appropriate dress codes seem to have diminished in direct proportion to falling ticket prices. Aside from first-class amenities, value-added differentiators are nonexistent or presented in ludicrous offerings such as fee-based "upgrades" to get normal leg room, thus reducing airlines to largely compete on pricing alone.
As a result, air travel is widely viewed to be a victim of "commoditization," where a good or service loses differentiation across its market base and is no longer able to generate premium margins for market participants.
One trade-related service I feel has moved precariously close to the commoditization cliff is the customs brokerage industry, where I began my trade career more than 30 years ago. It was a time when customs brokers were typically "pure plays" that offered a narrow band of services but with strong value-added differentiators that generally equated to being highly specialized within a specific product line or industry, and having strategic connections to key Customs officials or logistics-related service providers.
I remember the new-client meetings I sat in on and the excruciating amount of time and level of detail our company's officers would require to ensure all product costs were identified and properly accounted for, or to carefully understand all of the materials and production steps involved in a new garment a client soon would be importing. A company officer reviewed entry declarations, hand-signing each "CF7501." That's not to say these attributes can't be found today, but I've nonetheless seen a change that I feel has been influenced largely by two key events.
The first was the start of the new outsourcing trend called "third-party logistics," where traditional transportation, warehousing and other logistics companies began adding multiple services, including customs brokerage, as a means of creating a competitive one-stop-shopping solution to prospective customers.
While a Swiss army knife approach can offer a number of conveniences to a customer, the downside can be a company strong in certain core services but glaringly weak in others. With regard to brokerage, I've experienced some 3PL operations that were so poorly staffed and managed that I could only think of them as being a liability to the company, not an asset.
The second influencer has been the steady rise of enabling technology. Dating back to Customs Commissioner William Von Raab's famous "automate or perish" ultimatum to the brokerage industry in the 1980s, today's sophisticated filing systems are capable of processing an unprecedented number of transactions.
But the danger is that this level of automation can turn traditional brokerage into little more than a clerical data-input function where value-added revenue is replaced by transactional volume, and employee performance metrics are no longer compliance-based but tied to the number of entries that he or she can push through the pipeline. With the absence of any added value, accepting importers can demand pricing based on lower clerical rates — and so begins the downward spiral.
Volume-related compliance concerns run especially high within the express package industry, where placing a shipment on hold for any reason runs inherently counter to the very essence of the express business. Unacceptable error rates have prompted some importers to make their express carriers implement strict compliance-related operating procedures in addition to acting as the importer of record as an additional risk mitigation measure.
At the end of the day, every broker should continuously evaluate the value proposition they project onto the market and ask themselves basic questions: If every broker can file an entry, what makes me different? Do I know what added value I bring to my customer (have I ever even asked)? How do I measure my value as a competitive differentiator?
Jerry Peck is a licensed customs broker and Global Trade Management expert with more than 30 years experience in regulatory compliance and GTM optimization solutions. Contact him at 469-235-5229, or at email@example.com.


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A plane flying in support of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race flipped while taking off from a checkpoint, but the pilot and passenger were able to walk away from the crash, according to Alaska State Troopers.
It's the second Iditarod-related plane crash in two days.
Alaska Wildlife Troopers flying from Aniak on Tuesday to the ghost town of Iditarod, which comes alive as a checkpoint during the race, spotted a Cessna 185 upside down near a landing strip, troopers said in a written statement posted online Wednesday. They soon found out that 57-year-old Chugiak resident Diana Moroney, an Iditarod veteran, and a passenger was flying as part of the Iditarod Air Force and had dropped off supplies before trying to take off, troopers said.
The troopers found Moroney and her passenger in McGrath and learned that the plane suddenly lost altitude during the takeoff attempt. It hit the frozen surface of the Iditarod River, flipped over and was "severely damaged," troopers said.
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Is more merrier? Or has Savannah had enough of massive St. Patrick's Day crowds for a while?
It was another big one for the 189th parade Saturday, people over the Historic District. But back-to-back Saturday parades seem to have gotten some people's attention.
The bigger crowds on Saturday create challenges for parking, finding a place along the parade route to place chairs and also moving around the parade route can be more difficult.
St. Patrick's Day doesn't fall on a Saturday again until 2018, so local folks will have the next five years to enjoy a tamer parade, if that's what they want.
"I think it will be good,'' Savannah's Steve Willis said of the parade moving to Monday next year. "It will probably encourage local people to come out more. I think you could probably get fewer people overall, but maybe that wouldn't be an altogether bad thing.''
"Well, the kids will be happy because they'll be out of school,'' added Megan Miller, also of Savannah. "They weren't too happy because they had to go to school today.''
Because of a leap year in 2016, it will be 2021 until there is another Wednesday parade, which people seem to agree are the tamest and in some ways most local.
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In addition, proponents and land managers should refer to the Recovery Plan (where available) or the Conservation Advice (where available) for recovery, mitigation and conservation information.
|EPBC Act Listing Status
|Listed as Critically Endangered as Pterostylis wapstrarum
|Listing and Conservation Advices
Commonwealth Listing Advice on Pterostylis wapstrarum (Fleshy Greenhood) (Threatened Species Scientific Committee, 2001bn) [Listing Advice].
|Recovery Plan Decision
Recovery Plan required, this species had a recovery plan in force at the time the legislation provided for the Minister to decide whether or not to have a recovery plan (19/2/2007).
|Adopted/Made Recovery Plans
Flora Recovery Plan: Tasmanian Threatened Orchids 2006-2010 (Threatened Species Section (TSS), 2006a) [Recovery Plan] as Pterostylis wapstrarum.
|Policy Statements and Guidelines
Draft survey guidelines for Australia's threatened orchids (Department of the Environment, 2013b) [Admin Guideline].
Federal Register of
Legislative Instruments
Declaration under s178, s181, and s183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - List of threatened species, List of threatened ecological communities and List of threatening processes (Commonwealth of Australia, 2000) [Legislative Instrument] as Pterostylis wapstreorum.
Inclusion of species in the list of threatened species under section 178 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (05/10/2001) (Commonwealth of Australia, 2001c) [Legislative Instrument] as Pterostylis wapstrarum.
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|State Listing Status
|Scientific name
|Pterostylis wapstrarum [66694]
|Species author
|Infraspecies author
|Austral. Orchid Res. 3: 156 (1998), as 'wapstreorum'
|Other names
|Pterostylis wapstreorum [64970]
|Distribution map
This is an indicative distribution map of the present distribution of the species based on best available knowledge. See map caveat for more information.
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A taxonomic review of Greenhoods has split Pterostylis into several new genera. The Fleshy Greenhood has been renamed Hymenochilus wapstrarum, however the change is not yet widely accepted and the species is still treated as belonging to to the Pterostylis genera (Tas DIPWE 2000m).
The Fleshy Greenhood belongs to a group of orchids characterised by the dorsal sepals and petals being united to form a green, hood-like structure that dominates the flower. The labellum has the interesting property that when triggered by touch it flips inwards towards the column. This traps any insect inside the flower and any struggle to escape aids pollination. Greenhoods are also deciduous terrestrials that have fleshy tubers, which are replaced annually. The tubers hold water, which assists the species during times of drought. During the life cycle all greenhoods produce a rosette of leaves (Jones et al. 1999). The rosette of the Fleshy Greenhood encircles the base of the flower stem and has 47 rosette leaves (Tas DIPWE 2000m). The leaves are thick textured, fleshy, dark green, crowded, oblong elliptical to almost arrow shaped and tapered to each end. They are 1527 mm long and 820 mm wide. The Fleshy Greenhood flowers in October and early November. In flower the plants are 822 cm tall and have 515 densely crowded green flowers with darker green veins. The hood apex curves down abruptly. The two lateral sepals hang down and are fused to form a deep pouch below the labellum leaving a gap of about 1 mm at its tips. The labellum also hangs down and is thin textured, elliptical to oblong with a notched tip. The labellum also has an oblong appendage that curves back slightly with dark green, thickened edges and a narrow central ridge raised above the margins. The flowers are 910.5 mm long and 5 mm wide (Tas DIPWE 2000m).
The Fleshy Greenhood is endemic to Tasmania and the only recent record is from Pontville, north of Hobart. At this location there are 120 plants covering an area of 1 ha. Populations, now extinct, were located at the following sites (Tas DIPWE 2000m):
- Glen Leith (last seen 1840)
- Cambridge (last seen 1890)
- Lewisham (last seen 1925)
- Mt Nelson (last seen 1955)
- Penstock (last seen 1929).
The Fleshy Greenhood occurs in native grassland and grassy woodland. At Pontville it occurs on basalt soils (Tas DIPWE 2000m).
The only population of the Fleshy Greenhood occurs on Commonwealth land subject to protection under the EPBC Act 1999. The single colony of the species is extremely vulnerable to stochastic processes. Damages to the population in years of good emergence, flowering and seedset, would have serious long term effects by reducing the recruitment from seed. Investigation of potentially suitable land in the Pontville region has revealed most of the suitable habitat has been converted to low density housing or been altered by fertilising and ploughing. As such it is unlikely the species will be found or relocated anywhere else in the district (Tas DIPWE 2000m).
Research has revealed the Redlegged Earth-mite, Halotydeus destructor, feeding on the leaves of the Fleshy Greenhood (Norris 2007).
The Flora Recovery Plan: Tasmanian Threatened Orchids 2006-2010 (TSS 2006a) was developed to address the threats facing 68 threatened orchid species in Tasmania. The overall objective of recovery is to minimise the probability of extinction in the wild of threatened orchid species listed on the Tasmanian TSP Act and the Commonwealth EPBC Act and to increase the probability of each taxon becoming self-sustaining in the long-term.
Within the life span of the plan (five years), the specific objectives for recovery for Tasmania's threatened orchids are:
- Acquire accurate information for sound management decisions and conservation status assessments.
- Ensure priority populations are managed appropriately and are securely protected.
- Increase the number of known populations of threatened orchid taxa.
- Raise public awareness of orchid conservation issues and develop mechanisms to encourage and coordinate community participation in orchid recovery programs.
- Establish a network of government and non-government organisations and individuals that can provide input into recovery programs and undertake recovery actions.
- Develop a better understanding of the life history and ecological requirements of threatened orchids in Tasmania.
- Increase the size of priority populations in the wild.
- Identify critical and potential habitat.
- Establish a genetically representative ex situ collection of orchid taxa facing imminent extinction in the wild.
The following table lists known and perceived threats to this species. Threats are based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) threat classification version 1.1.
|Threat Class
|Threatening Species
|Agriculture and Aquaculture:Livestock Farming and Grazing:Grazing pressures and associated habitat changes
|Commonwealth Listing Advice on Pterostylis wapstrarum (Fleshy Greenhood) (Threatened Species Scientific Committee, 2001bn) [Listing Advice].
|Ecosystem/Community Stresses:Indirect Ecosystem Effects:Restricted geographical distribution (area of occupancy and extent of occurrence)
|Commonwealth Listing Advice on Pterostylis wapstrarum (Fleshy Greenhood) (Threatened Species Scientific Committee, 2001bn) [Listing Advice].
|Species Stresses:Indirect Species Effects:Low numbers of individuals
The Orchids of Tasmania (Jones, D.L., H. Wapstra, P. Tonelli & S. Harris, 1999) [Book].
Commonwealth Listing Advice on Pterostylis wapstrarum (Fleshy Greenhood) (Threatened Species Scientific Committee, 2001bn) [Listing Advice].
Jones, D.L., H. Wapstra, P. Tonelli & S. Harris (1999). The Orchids of Tasmania. Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
Norris, P. (2007). Observations of a new threat to one of Tasmania's threatened orchids: The story of the mite versus the Greenhood. The Tasmanian Naturalist. 129:16-22.
Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (TAS DIPWE) (2000m). Threatened Species Listing Statement-Fleshy greenhood Pterostylis wapstrarum D. L. Jones 1998. [Online]. Available from: http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/SROS-6VJ8MQ/$FILE/Pterostylis%20wapstrarum%20listing%20statement.pdf.
Threatened Species Section (TSS) (2006a). Flora Recovery Plan: Tasmanian Threatened Orchids 2006-2010. [Online]. Hobart, Tasmania: DPIWE. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/tasmanian-orchid.html.
EPBC Act email updates can be received via the Communities for Communities newsletter and the EPBC Act newsletter.
This database is designed to provide statutory, biological and ecological information on species and ecological communities, migratory species, marine species, and species and species products subject to international trade and commercial use protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act). It has been compiled from a range of sources including listing advice, recovery plans, published literature and individual experts. While reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information, no guarantee is given, nor responsibility taken, by the Commonwealth for its accuracy, currency or completeness. The Commonwealth does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage that may be occasioned directly or indirectly through the use of, or reliance on, the information contained in this database. The information contained in this database does not necessarily represent the views of the Commonwealth. This database is not intended to be a complete source of information on the matters it deals with. Individuals and organisations should consider all the available information, including that available from other sources, in deciding whether there is a need to make a referral or apply for a permit or exemption under the EPBC Act.
Citation: Department of the Environment (2014). Pterostylis wapstrarum in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat. Accessed Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:13:28 +1000.


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If you're the type who only drinks light, crisp, refreshing lagers, you might be advised to stop reading at this point because things are about to get very dark indeed… July is Dark Beer Month at Murray's and they'll be taking us deep into the black by releasing three Imperial Stouts. That's three. Drei. Tres. Trois. It doesn't matter what language you say it in, it still translates as rather impressive.
And what's perhaps even more exciting is that they'll all be available in bottles, meaning drinkers across the country will have a chance to get in on the action. Considering that most breweries don't make Imperial Stout, much less bottle them, this is a huge bonus for fans of the dark arts.
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"Basically, because last year we did two!" says brewer Shawn Sherlock. "We held a dark beer event last year when the Manly venue first opened and released two Imperial Stouts. It was well received so those beers became the prototypes and we always planned to add more."
This year's triple trouble will come in the form of some new releases of past favourites, 'Wild Thing' and 'Heart of Darkness', plus their new bigger brother: 'Seasons In The Abyss'. The description for this one reads as being 'dry, dark and roasty with a wicked earthy yeast character'. But you'll need to be careful because, at 11.3%, you may wake up the next morning with the stark realisation that an abyss is meant for venturing into, but not spending the night in.
The official beginning of Dark Beer Month will coincide with a dinner at Murray's at Manly on July 5. Brewers Sherlock and Ian Watson, along with owner Murray Howe, will guide guests through seven shades of dark beer and some top-notch food to match. The three Imperials will be on the menu with this being the first public opportunity to try Seasons In The Abyss.
In what is an additional drawcard, particularly for fans of Murray's annual Anniversary Ale, there will also be two versions of Anniversary Ale 6 pouring on draught. Both have been aged in oak – one in French and the other in American – and this will be the one and only opportunity to try them side by side.
If you can't make the opening night event, there will be Dark Beer Masterclasses held at both the Manly venue and the brewery at Bob's Farm (details in the Events diary). These will be run by the brewers and you could scarcely have better people to guide you into how dark beers are made.
As Shawn says: ""For the last few months leading up to these releases, the brewery has been a pretty dark and dirty place. But we're really happy with all the beers. Even though they're all Imperial Stouts, all three beers are noticeably different and in both draught and in the bottle they're all developing really well."
And if you can't make it to any of those events, the beers will be available in draught from July 6 at both Murray's venues, likely to be followed by good craft beer bars near you. For those further afield, bottles will be available from July to help provide you with comfort through the coldest winter months.
As is the case with most of the Murray's range, there's usually a good story behind the naming of their beer. Shawn had naming rights to 'Heart of Darkness' so this time it was fellow brewer Ian Watson's turn. The origin of 'Seasons In The Abyss' is more or less explained here. Be warned: it might get loud…
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IF we stop listening to songs then we will reduce the Attention Disorder.
Attention Disorder: that a big problem we are in but a few know about it, when humans have Attention Disorder what happen to him:
1- Bad school grades.
2- Bad ability to creativity.
3- Bad time management.
4- Increased Distraction.
So what we will gain if we listening to songs?
Topics: Songs attention deficite
Dec 30 2011: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a very well known disorder here in the United States.
But I had never heard anyone blame music for it. Early exposure to rapid eye movement caused by video games, excessive sugary meals at all hours of the day, and even excessive t.v. watching have been held as culprits in this disorder.
Here in the U.S. many children are under medication. I think that there are many levels of this disorder.
In my experience, I have never seen a parent who gives his child healthy food, and quality wholesome games, other than video games, who have had children with ADD. Of course I don't know for sure.
Anyways, are many persons involved in the music industry diagnosed with ADD??
Dec 30 2011: I'm not sure music causes long-term attention disorder, maybe, but it's clear that it really distracts us when we do several actions, one of which is listening to it. It's so common to have some music playing at background...
I absolutely agree there's too much music everywhere nowadays.
Sometimes I experience something like a little addiction to it. I see, long hours of listening to music gets some mess to my mind, and I realize it would be so useful and relaxing to switch it off, but I can't.
Well, music brings us emotions, rest, good atmosphere, so we like it...
But I really would love to start experiencing more silence.
Dec 30 2011: Music can aid in studying or even meditation. It can either distract us or improve our focus depending on the type of music. You are not addicted to the music but to the habit. No one can be addicted to music. If you want to not listen to music, just avoid situations that involve you listening to music.
Dec 31 2011: Music is music. It is not that complicated. Some are soft spoken and others are just plain loud. Either way, you can not be addicted to music and cannot suffer from ADD by listening to it. ADD is in genetic codes and it is classified as a developmental problem. The only known addicts to music are ones that suffer from the placebo effect. These addicts get high by thinking the music is making them get high when in fact, it does not. All in all, the action of listening to music is the only thing you can get addicted to, but it is the same thing as eating dinner at a specific time.
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Jan 3 2012: HI everyone, what i'm saying Don't listen to Songs not musics, in music cool tool to help us to memories and fast learning and prefect flow of music can make up superman! but (((((Songs))))) with lyrics that lyrics use the benefit of music to change our brain thinking, When you listen to the some songs can revive the retailed memories make cells in your brain from past state and that is wasting your brain cells. i'm just say be ware what you are listen to that is it, thanks all.
Jan 3 2012: OMG.
Please close your eyes and listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4.
We are all wired differently, and while some can focus more with music, others get distracted.
But ADD is a diagnoses, and if we are going to talk about it I'd like to see evidence, data, research.
Empirically, music is currently used for its brain benefits both as therapy in the health profession, and as a teaching supporting tool in classrooms everywhere. Music is widely associated with brain plasticity, it has been budded the Mozart effect.
It is proven to increase thought flow, focus, spacial perception, abstract thinking, language development, concrete memory, overall ability to learn and retain, and of course, outcomes. Some of my best trainings have been on this.
Fort starters, go to http://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-music-enchances-learning-neuroplasticity/
Jan 1 2012: Music can be an incredible tool for both helping and hurting for a wide array of topics, subjects, actions, etc.
However, music and the rise of social media outlets/devices/ ipads, etc have absolutely no correlation with development of ADD. It's a disorder affecting a broader than ever range of children due, as Zared says, to more efficient and effective ways of diagnosing it. Testing for it has become easier, teaching about it is better, psychiatrists and psychologists are learning more about it every day and doing more research/journal write-ups than ever before.
I think, Bilal, that your original statement may not be about attention *deficit* disorder; perhaps you mean people don't pay as much attention to things when they have their earbuds in, head-banging to their new favorite band? Yeah, I'd be distracted if I were in a lecture hall and listening to music at the same time, but if I were painting and listening to my favorite artist, I might be inspired instead.
Verble, with your statement, "I am coming to believe that symptoms that indicate ADD have actually increased along with the rise of social media devices and outlets.", I think you've come to a spurious conclusion, and with that I go back to Zared's point that it's a genetic disorder in which better awareness of the disease and better methods for testing and helping managing it in childhood. Just because those have both increased in the same few decades does not mean they are cause and effect with each other - I think instead it is better testing and awareness, and in a lot of cases it's been "over-diagnosed" because doctors here don't spend as much time with their patients and are quick to prescribe medications rather than explore other options.
And yes, Bilal, please clarify your question if we haven't covered it?
Dec 31 2011: If complex problems had such simple solutions, it would be obvious. This is yet another plug for a culture which you will only be able to make sense of if you get everyone to adhere to it. No thanks. I am truly truly sorry for you if you do not let music into your life, you are missing out. Even reggae is better than no music.
Dec 31 2011: Absolutely. It depends on your own preferences though. When I study, I find classical music (but no Operas at all!) really helps reinforce what I'm learning. When my husband writes, he finds that music which reflects his subject is more helpful.
So it's something you must experiment with on your own, and find out how it helps you the most. But in order to do that, one way would be to start a project, then test yourself with different music types as you go along.
Dec 30 2011: I agree with Zared: there is little evidence that music contributes to ADD. In fact, I would propose the contrary to be true, that music directly affects mood, and that a moderated mood actually increases the ability to concentrate.
Based solely on observations of contemporary American culture, I am coming to believe that symptoms that indicate ADD have actually increased along with the rise of social media devices and outlets. To be specific, my employees can't concentrate when they have to check their Facebook evey minute. Children cannot hold a polite conversation, or any conversation, when their fingers are constantly scrolls across the screens of their iPads.
This has even affected me! I just veered wildly off topic while typing this on my iPad. I am evidence of my own point.
But as Zared asked, yes, please can you clarify your original point, please?
Dec 31 2011: Please forgive me, but perhaps I do not understand your question. Now you say that ADD is a result of more efficient tests for ADD, but your primary point was that if we stop listening to songs then we will reduce ADD. That implies that listening to music increases ADD.
OK, then. I would say that I disagree. I think music actually increases concentration. Historically music has been a method of communication (songs were used to convey news). Music has also celebrated culture and history, and has been used as an ambassador of goodwill. Music has also been used in conjunction with medicine for healing the sick.
So, in answer to your original question: I think that stopping listening to songs would be detrimental to mental health, and thus increase disorders such as ADD.


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How do you manage your relationship with your coworkers?
We have to collaborate with our coworkers, their personality varies. Could you provide your experiences with this issue,have you ever successfully managed your relationship with some thorny and apathetic guys? How did you do that,give us your tricks?
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Aug 19 2013: you have gotten great advice and that advice will work for 90% of the cases,especially where the teams are close to normal. Let me apologize now because I will probably be politically incorrect (some would say normal for me)
Suppose you are working with someone really nasty but they are doing their job and are very knowledgeable.. You need to get a working relationship with this individual. It may be during a 1-1 mtg or a team mtg. I had a case where we agreed to only talk about work and if there was an argument, we had a designated mediator who was a member of the team.
Hopefully, you will never have to work with this individual. This individual is irresponsible, dishonest, prejudiced. He/She hates you for race, gender, your youth, your future, etc. They will claim none the problems are theirs but all the solutions and ideas are theirs. They will put down everyone else.
Some of the tricks they will do is setup a mtg and forget to invite you or send out important information and forget to put you on the distribution list. They will allow the project to take a hit to blame you for it and claim success when it is fixed. I have seen them put the project in danger just to hurt an individual.
All you can do is:
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2. document everything and keep it
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Though often thought of as separate works, these two monuments of man's ingenuity and engineering ability are part of an overall plan to harness the power of a great river and reclaim a desert wasteland. Neither the dam nor the irrigation features of the project can be considered separatelythey are interrelated in too many ways. Benefits to the economy of the Pacific Northwest, the increase in population, increased production of foodstuffs and manufactured articles, the increase in trade and commerce with Eastern States, all are joint products of the dam, powerplant, and the irrigation development of the project.
Information gained through the planning, building, and operation of Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project irrigation works is another product of this vast development and still serves as source material for students in many fields, since building a dam and irrigation works of this size went beyond existing experience and information. The Columbia Basin Project constantly posed new problems in its building and operation.
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Retrieval and reuse of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (pacemakers, defibrillators)
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Caregiver stress in the use of destination therapy left ventricular assist devices
Advance directives and advanced therapies in cardiovascular medicine
Echocardiographic measures of hemodynamics
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Selected PublicationsKirkpatrick JN, Beasley KD, Caplan AL: Death is just not what it used to be. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19(1): 7-16, Winter 2010.
Kirkpatrick JN, Fields AV, Ferrari VA: Medical Ethics and the Art of Cardiovascular Medicine. Lancet 376(9740): 508-9, Aug 2010.
Farmer SA, Kirkpatrick JN, Heidenreich PA, Curtis JP, Wang YF, Groeneveld PW: Ethnic and racial disparities in cardiac resynchronization therapy. Heart Rhythm 6(3): 325-331, Mar 2009.
Kirkpatrick JN, Ky B, Rahmouni HW, Chirinos JA, Farmer SA, Fields AV, Ogbara J, Eberman KM, Ferrari VA, Silvestry FE, Keane MG, Opotowsky AR, St John Sutton M, Wiegers SE: Application of Appropriateness Criteria in Outpatient Transthoracic Echocardiography. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 22(1): 53-59, Jan 2009 Notes: Presented at the American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Sessions, 2008.
Kirkpatrick JN, Guger CJ, Arnsdorf MF, Fedson SE: Advance directives in the cardiac care unit. American Heart Journal 154(3): 477-481, Sep 2007.
Kirkpatrick JN, Ghani SN, Burke MC, Knight BP: Postmortem interrogation and retrieval of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators: A Survey of Morticians and Patients. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 18(5): 478-482, May 2007 Notes: Epub 2007 FEB 21.
Kirkpatrick JN, Nash K, Duffy TP: Well rounded. Archives of Internal Medicine 165(6): 613-616, Mar 2005.
Kirkpatrick JN, Davis A, DeCara JM, Hong AE, Kurtz PL, Balasia B, Spencer KT.: Hand-carried cardiac ultrasound as a tool to screen for important cardiovascular disease in an underserved minority health care clinic. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 17(5): 399-403, May 2004.
Kirkpatrick JN, Mahowald MB.: Golden rule reasoning in clinical medicine: Theoretical and empirical aspects. Journal of Clinical Ethics 15(3): 250-260, Fall 2004.
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Baked Ham with Bourbon Glaze
- Honey
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- Juice
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- Microwave honey and molasses in a 1-quart glass dish at HIGH 1 minute. Whisk to blend. Whisk in bourbon, juice, and mustard.
- Remove skin and fat from ham; place ham in a lightly greased 13- x 9-inch pan. Make 1/4-inch-deep cuts in ham in a diamond pattern. Pour glaze over ham.
- Bake on lower oven rack at 350° for 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 140°, basting every 15 minutes with glaze.
- Remove from pan, reserving drippings. Cover ham, and chill, if desired. Chill reserved drippings.
- Remove and discard fat from drippings. Bring drippings to a boil in a small saucepan. Serve warm with ham.
- * 1/2 cup orange juice may be substituted for bourbon.
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slipper limpetSaltos de línea: slip|per lim¦pet
A mollusc which has an oval shell with an internal ledge, giving the empty shell a slipper-like appearance.
- Genus Crepidula, family Crepidulidae, class Gastropoda: many species, especially the North American C. fornicata, which has become a serious pest of oyster beds in Europe
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- An alien aquatic snail species, the arched slipper limpet, has made its way to the sound from its native habitat on the East Coast.
- Females of the humble-looking slipper limpet secrete a substance into the water that maintains the masculinity of nearby males.
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Palabra del día bouffant
Pronunciación: ˈbuːfɒ̃
styled to stand out in a rounded shape...