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Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, may have just put out a budget proposal that never reaches balance and that projects more than $7 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years due in part to the GOP tax cuts passed last year. But he still calls himself a deficit hawk. "I will always be a deficit hawk," Mulvaney said Monday. "I am today, I was yesterday, I will be tomorrow."
The Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip suggests Mulvaney might be mixing up his birds. "Mr. Mulvaney is not really a deficit hawk," Ip writes. "He is a spending hawk, motivated less by an abhorrence of debt than of big government. Small government is a longstanding and principled goal of Republicans. But big government is not why deficits are about to explode. Republicans have already shrunk government quite a lot. And much of the remainder is now off limits: defense, homeland security, veterans, the elderly."
Ip notes that, even with Congress' new spending deal, domestic discretionary spending next year — everything besides defense and entitlements — will be 2.8 percent of GDP, matching the lowest level in at least five decades. At the same time, the Republican tax cuts will reduce federal revenue to 16.3 percent of GDP for fiscal 2019 — "a figure normally seen only around recessions."
Ip also points out that the big growth in government spending comes from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, in large part as the result of an aging population. But if taxes can't rise and the bulk of federal spending can't be touched, Mulvaney's claim to be a deficit hawk doesn't really fly.


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"Answers to My Questions," New Era, May 2014, 12–15
Answers to My Questions
Why aren't women ordained to the priesthood?
"The divine nature of the limitations put upon the exercise of priesthood keys explains an essential contrast between decisions on matters of Church administration and decisions affecting the priesthood. The First Presidency and the Council of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve, who preside over the Church, are empowered to make many decisions affecting Church policies and procedures—matters such as the location of Church buildings and the ages for missionary service. But even though these presiding authorities hold and exercise all of the keys delegated to men in this dispensation, they are not free to alter the divinely decreed pattern that only men will hold offices in the priesthood. …
"The Lord has directed that only men will be ordained to offices in the priesthood. But, as various Church leaders have emphasized, men are not 'the priesthood.' Men hold the priesthood, with a sacred duty to use it for the blessing of all of the children of God."
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Why keep trying when I can't change certain things because it's just the way I am?
"Once any of us conclude … 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change. We might as well raise the white flag, put down our weapons, concede the battle, and just surrender—any prospect of winning is lost. While some of us may think that does not describe us, perhaps every one of us demonstrates by at least one or two bad habits, 'That's just the way I am.'
"… Who we are is not who we can become. … [Christ's] Atonement gives every one of us—no matter our weaknesses, our frailties, our addictions—the ability to change. We meet with the hope that our future, no matter our history, can be better.
"When we participate in this meeting with the 'real intent' to change (Moroni 10:4), the Spirit has full access to our hearts and minds."
Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy
Why do Church leaders keep talking about supporting traditional marriage?
"While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not. In the very beginning, God initiated marriage between a man and a woman—Adam and Eve. He designated the purposes of marriage to go far beyond the personal satisfaction and fulfillment of adults to, more importantly, advancing the ideal setting for children to be born, reared, and nurtured. Families are the treasure of heaven.
"Why do we continue to talk about this? As Paul said, 'We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen' [2 Corinthians 4:18]. As Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have the responsibility to teach our Creator's plan for His children and to warn of the consequences of disregarding His commandments."
Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
How can I avoid pornography?
"Filters are useful tools, but the greatest filter in the world, the only one that will ultimately work, is the personal internal filter that comes from a deep and abiding testimony of our Heavenly Father's love and our Savior's atoning sacrifice for each one of us."
Linda S. Reeves, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency
How can we know the truth?
"First, we can know the truth by observing its fruits. …
"Second, we can find truth by experimenting on the word ourselves. …
"… There is yet a third way to know the truth, and that is by personal revelation."
Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis of the Seventy
How can I get really good at sharing the gospel?
"How can each of us become such a significant influence? We must be sure to sincerely love those we want to help in righteousness so they can begin to develop confidence in God's love. For so many in the world, the first challenge in accepting the gospel is to develop faith in a Father in Heaven, who loves them perfectly. It is easier to develop that faith when they have friends or family members who love them in a similar way.
"Giving them confidence in your love can help them develop faith in God's love. Then through your loving, thoughtful communication, their lives will be blessed by your sharing lessons you have learned, experiences you have had, and principles you have followed to find solutions to your own struggles. Show your sincere interest in their well-being; then share your testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Why are feelings of attraction so strong?
"One reason we are here on earth is to learn to manage the passions and feelings of our mortal bodies. These God-given feelings help us want to marry and have children. The intimate marriage relationship between a man and a woman that brings children into mortality is also meant to be a beautiful, loving experience that binds together two devoted hearts, unites both spirit and body, and brings a fulness of joy and happiness as we learn to put each other first."
Linda S. Reeves, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency
What does it mean to be perfect?
"The word perfect in this account was translated from a Greek word that means 'complete.' As we try our best to move forward along the covenant path, we become more complete and perfect in this life."
Linda K. Burton, Relief Society general president
Nobody knows what I'm going through. How can I find help?
"There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, 'No one knows what it is like. No one understands.' But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens. And because of His infinite and eternal sacrifice (see Alma 34:14), He has perfect empathy and can extend to us His arm of mercy. He can reach out, touch, succor, heal, and strengthen us to be more than we could ever be and help us to do that which we could never do relying only upon our own power. Indeed, His yoke is easy and His burden is light."
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
If loving others is the great commandment, then why can't we just let people live their lives?
"At the zenith of His mortal ministry, Jesus said, 'Love one another, as I have loved you' [John 15:12]. To make certain they understood exactly what kind of love that was, He said, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments' [John 14:15], and 'whosoever … shall break one of [the] least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be … the least in the kingdom of heaven' [Matthew 5:19; emphasis added]. Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. So if love is to be our watchword, as it must be, then by the word of Him who is love personified, we must forsake transgression and any hint of advocacy for it in others. Jesus clearly understood what many in our modern culture seem to forget: that there is a crucial difference between the commandment to forgive sin (which He had an infinite capacity to do) and the warning against condoning it (which He never ever did even once)."
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
How can I overcome an addiction?
"Please know, first of all, that there is hope. Seek help from loved ones, Church leaders, and trained counselors. The Church provides addiction recovery help through local Church leaders, the Internet [see, for example, lds.org/topics/addiction], and in some areas, LDS Family Services.
"Always remember, with the Savior's help, you can break free from addiction. It may be a long, difficult path, but the Lord will not give up on you. He loves you. Jesus Christ suffered the Atonement to help you change, to free you from the captivity of sin.
"The most important thing is to keep trying—sometimes it takes several attempts before people find success. So don't give up. Don't lose faith. Keep your heart close to the Lord, and He will give you the power of deliverance. He will make you free."
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency


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Where is change coming to the job market? Where can you go where they're starting to really hire? Go south, young man (or woman). This fall eight cities in the American South have top-notch employment prospects, according to a new employment study.
Manpower, an employment services firm, asked more than 18,000 employers in 50 states and 100 metropolitan areas, "How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of December 2010 as compared to the current quarter?" Using the resulting data, Manpower completed a quarterly assessment of employment outlooks across the U.S. Whereas in 2009 employers expressed pessimistic hiring sentiments across the board, 2010 has brought four straight quarters of a generally positive hiring outlook.
Forbes.com slideshow: The best cities for jobs this fall
The Raleigh area of North Carolina does the best of all this quarter, with a 15 percent net employment outlook, meaning the percentage of employers who expect to add employees minus the percentage who expect to have fewer of them. Harvey Schmitt, president of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, said several large companies, including John Deere and Garmin, have announced expansion or relocation plans in the area. The area pulls in businesses, he said, because its population of graduates from Duke University and University of Carolina at Chapel Hill provides "great talent in the market."
"It's encouraging," Schmitt said. "We're seeing existing industry growth and new companies moving to the area. This has been an environment where you have this combination of business, education and government all working together."
The Washington, D.C., area also has a strong showing this quarter, thanks to government expansion and job creation at federal agencies. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., does very well too. Charles North, president and CEO of the Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce, attributed the growth in hiring there to expansion at area universities and hospitals. Vassar College and Marist College are both in Poughkeepsie and are both growing, which helps the local construction industry. The Culinary Institute of America also recently expanded, and Poughkeepsie has built a new marina, boosting tourism and hospitality along its reinvigorated waterfront. Several hospitals in the area have also grown, North added.
"Poughkeepsie is a very user-friendly city," says North, a 31-year-resident of the area who undoubtedly is not impartial. "New York is a tough place to do business, but Poughkeepsie has all of the elements that attract business and tourism."
The list of the worst cities in terms of hiring outlook has shifted significantly from summer. Florida rebounded. Last quarter four of its cities gathered near the bottom on the barrel; this time only one, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, makes the list.
Des Moines is projected to lose the most jobs of all, a turnaround from its relative health through the recession. Sin City makes the list for the third straight quarter: "Las Vegas is getting hit in two areas: hospitality and call centers," said Jeff Joerres, Manpower's chairman and chief executive.
The U.S. as a whole has a 4 percent net employment outlook. Nationwide the majority of companies, 71 percent, said they didn't plan to change their staffing levels at all in the fourth quarter. Some 15 percent anticipated increasing their staffs, while 11 percent expected a drop in payrolls. Seasonally adjusted, the outlook bumps to 5 percent. That's not terribly comforting news, but at least hiring has an edge over firing.


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ISAIAH J. Vernon McGee
PROPHETIC BOOKS Beginning with Isaiah, and continuing through the Old Testament, there is a section of Scripture called the prophetic portion of the Bible. Although the predictive element bulks large in this section, the prophets were more than fortune-tellers. Actually, they were men raised up of God in a decadent day when both priest and king were no longer worthy channels through whom the expressions of God might flow. These men not only spoke of events in the far-off future but also spoke of local events in the immediate future. They had to speak in this manner in order to qualify for this office under God, according to the Mosaic code: But the prophet, who shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him. kjv@Deuteronomy:18:20-22) If the local event did not transpire just as the prophet predicted, he was labeled a false prophet and was so treated. You may be sure that the message of the false prophet is not in the library of inspired Scripture. The prophetic books are filled with events that are local and fulfilled. A sharp distinction needs to be drawn between this portion and that which is yet to be fulfilled. One of the greatest evidences of the fact that these men were speaking the words of God is revealed in the hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled literally. Man cannot guess the future. Even the meteorologists have difficulty in prognosticating the weather twenty-four hours in advance, although they have the advantage of all sorts of scientific and mechanical devices to assist them. No modern weather forecaster could have been an accepted
prophet in Israel! The law of compound probability forbids man from consistently foretelling the future. Each uncertain element added decreases the chance of accuracy by fifty percent. The example of hundreds of prophecies literally fulfilled has a genuine appeal to the honest mind and sincere seeker after the truth. Fulfilled prophecy is one of the infallible proofs of plenary, verbal inspiration of Scripture. The predictive element is the peculiar and particular contribution of these men of God. This does not mean there was not this element before them or after them. The last book of the Bible closes the message of God for the future. The prophets were extremely nationalistic. They rebuked sin in high as well as low places. They warned the nation. They pleaded with a proud people to humble themselves and return to God. Fire and tears were mingled in their message, which was not one of doom and gloom alone, for they saw the Day of the Lord and the glory to follow. All of them looked through the darkness to the dawn of a new day. In the night of sin they saw the light of a coming Savior and Sovereign; they saw the millennial kingdom coming in all its fullness. Their message must be interpreted before an appreciation of the kingdom in the New Testament can be attained. The correct perspective of the kingdom must be gained through the eye of the Old Testament prophets. The prophets were not supermen — they were men of like passions as we are, but having spoken for God, their message is still the infallible and inspired Word of God: Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them did signify, when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. ( kjv@1Peter:1:10-11) We have also a more sure word of prophecy, unto which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth
in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not at any time by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. ( kjv@2Peter:1:19-21) Sweet is the harp of prophecy; too sweet not to be wronged by a mere mortal touch. — William Cowper
ISAIAH WRITER: Isaiah (1:1) Most of the prophets moved in an orbit of obscurity and anonymity. They did not project their personalities into the prophecies they proclaimed. Jeremiah and Hosea are the exceptions to this, of course. Isaiah gives us very little of an historical character concerning himself. There are a few scant references to his life and ministry. In kjv@Isaiah:1:1 he gives "the days" in which his lot was cast. It was during the reigns of "Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah." These were not the darkest days in Judah internally. Uzziah and Hezekiah were enlightened rulers who sought to serve God. But the days were extremely dark because of the menace of the formidable kingdom of Assyria in the north. The northern kingdom of Israel was carried away into captivity during this period. kjv@Isaiah:6 records the personal call and commission of Isaiah. This chapter should come first in the prophecy — logically if not chronologically. kjv@Isaiah:36 — 39 is the historical section, which records the ministry of Isaiah during the crisis when the Assyrian host encompassed Jerusalem. Beyond these few personal sections, Isaiah stands in the shadow as he points to another Person who is coming. It is stated by some that Isaiah belonged to the royal family of David. This cannot be positively affirmed. Likewise, it has been stated that he is referred to in kjv@Hebrews:11:37 as the one "sawn asunder." This may or may not be true. The liberal critic has sawn him asunder in forging the fake fabric of the Deutero-Isaiah hypothesis. Some have gone so far as to fabricate a Trito-Isaiah. There is not a scrap of documentary evidence beyond the skepticism of the destructive critic. They have cut Isaiah up like a railroad restaurant pie. History presents only one Isaiah, not two or three. This method of the destructive critic could be applied one thousand years hence to prove just as easily
that there were three Dwight Eisenhowers: 1st — General Eisenhower, the military leader of the victorious forces of World War II — European theatre. 2nd — President Eisenhower of the United States, elected in 1952 and 1956. 3rd — Dwight D. Eisenhower, the invalid man and victim of a heart attack and a serious operation for ileitis. We know that only one man by the name of Eisenhower fulfilled all those requirements. Likewise, only one man by the name of Isaiah can easily fulfill all the requirements as the sole author of the Book of Isaiah. THEME: As the New Testament presents the Lord Jesus Christ as its theme, so Isaiah presents the Lord Jesus Christ as his theme. Isaiah has been called the 5th evangelist; the Book of Isaiah has been called the 5th Gospel. Christ's virgin birth, His character, His life, His death, His resurrection, and His second coming are all presented in Isaiah with definiteness and clarity. (See kjv@1Peter:1:10-11; cp. kjv@Luke:4:16-22 with kjv@Isaiah:61:1-4.) STYLE AND CONTENT: The prophecy of Isaiah is strikingly similar to the entire Bible, which can be seen in the following comparison:
Bible 66 Books 39 Books in Old Testament 27 Books in New Testament Book of kjv@Isaiah:66 Chapters 39 Chapters on LAW, the Government of God 27 Chapters on GRACE, Salvation of God
Also, there are some 66 direct quotations from Isaiah in the New Testament. Some people have found 85 quotations and allu-
sions to Isaiah in the New Testament. 20 of the 27 books of the New Testament refer to Isaiah; 12 books of the New Testament have direct quotations. ISAIAH is woven into the New Testament as a brightly colored thread woven into a beautiful pattern. ISAIAH is discernible and conspicuous in the New Testament. ISAIAH is chiseled into the rock of the New Testament with the power tool of the Holy Spirit. ISAIAH is often used to enforce and enlarge upon those passages that speak of Christ. The historic interlude (chapters 36—39) leaves the high plateau of prophecy and drops down to the record of history. Even the form of language is different. It is couched in the form of prose rather than poetry. Why are these four chapters of an historical character wedged in between the two major divisions of the book? This is a reasonable question that requires investigation and rewards the honest inquirer. There are several significant factors worthy of mention: 1. Sacred and secular history are not the same. Dr. Jennings states, "Divine history is never merely history, never simply a true account of past events." There are great spiritual truths couched in sacred history that are seen only by the eye of faith. The Holy Spirit must teach us the divine purpose in recording scriptural history. Let us note several suggestive reasons: a. These incidents might seem trite to the average historian who records great world movements; but events concerning God's people were important according to the standards of heaven. b. Actually these chapters note the transfer of power from Assyria to Babylon. Babylon was the real menace to God's people and was to begin the period designated by our Lord as "the times of the Gentiles" kjv@Luke:21:24). c. This section is a record of a son of David who was beset by enemies and who went down to the verge of death but
was delivered and continued to reign. In this he foreshadows the great Son of David who was beset by enemies, delivered to death, raised from the dead, and who is coming again to reign. Hezekiah was only a man who walked in the ways of David, another weak man. Hezekiah lived to play the fool. Our Lord was greater than David and, as the crucified and risen Son of God, is made unto us "wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" ( kjv@1Corinthians:1:30). There are other great spiritual truths which we will note in the chapter outlines. 2. The second significant factor in this historic section is that these particular events are recorded three times in the Scriptures — kjv@2Kings:18-19; kjv@2Chronicles:29-30; and here in Isaiah. The fact that the Holy Spirit saw fit to record them three times is in itself a matter of great importance. These records are not identical but similar. Some scholars think Isaiah is the author of all three or at least the one in Kings. Surely the Spirit of God has some special truth for us here that should cause us not to hurry over these events as if they were of no great moment. 3. Three significant and stupendous miracles are recorded in this brief section: a. The death angel slays 185,000 Assyrians (37:36-38). b. God heals Hezekiah and extends his life fifteen years (38:1-5). c. The sun retreats ten degrees on the sun dial of Ahaz (38:7-8). 4. This section opens with Assyria and closes with Babylon. There are two important letters that Hezekiah received: a. The first was from Assyria, which Hezekiah took directly to God in prayer (37:14); and God delivered His people. b. The second letter was from the king of Babylon which flattered Hezekiah and which he did not take to the Lord in prayer. As a result, it led to the undoing of Judah (39:1-8).
The third and last major division (chapters 40 — 66) returns to the poetic form but is in contrast to the first major section. There we had judgment and the righteous government of God; here we have the grace of God, the suffering, and glory to follow. Here all is grace and glory. The opening "comfort ye" sets the mood and tempo. It is this section that has caused the liberal critics to postulate the Deutero-Isaiah hypothesis. A change of subject matter does not necessitate a change of authorship. It is interesting that for 1900 years there was not a word about a second Isaiah. John refers to this section as authored by Isaiah kjv@John:1:23). Our Lord likewise referred to this section as written by Isaiah kjv@Luke:4:1721). There are numerous other references that similarly confirm the authorship of Isaiah. Philip used a chapter from this section to win an Ethiopian to Christ kjv@Acts:8). The prophecy of Isaiah presents another important aspect of prophecy. This has to do with the plenary, verbal inspiration of Scripture. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. ( kjv@2Timothy:3:16-17) One of the most solid proofs of the plenary, verbal inspiration of Scripture is fulfilled prophecy. Isaiah contains many prophecies that have been fulfilled since he wrote them. There were many false prophets in Israel, as the Scriptures reveal. Read the entire record in kjv@2Chronicles:18. Note especially 18:22 — "Now, therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these, thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee." The prophet had to speak into a local situation and in respect to contemporary events of his day. If his prophecy failed to materi-
alize, then he was declared a false prophet kjv@Deuteronomy:18:2022). If the matter came to pass, he was declared a true prophet. Isaiah prophesied into many local events. When Jerusalem was surrounded by the Assyrian army, Isaiah made a very daring prophecy — Therefore, thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. kjv@Isaiah:37:33) Also see his prophecy concerning the sickness of Hezekiah in kjv@Isaiah:38. There are other prophecies that were not fulfilled in his lifetime, but today they stand fulfilled. See, for instance, his prophecies concerning the city of Babylon: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and ostriches shall dwell there, and he-goats shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the coastlands shall cry in their desolate houses, and jackals in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. kjv@Isaiah:13:19-22) Further fulfillments relative to Babylon are recorded in kjv@Isaiah:47. Excavations at Babylon have revealed the accuracy of these prophecies. More than fifty miles of the walls of Babylon have been excavated. The culture of this great civilization is still impressive but lies in dust and debris today according to the written word of Isaiah. This is one of many examples that could be given. Others will come before us in this study as we proceed through the book.
OUTLINE: I. Judgment (poetry), Chapters 1 — 35 Revelation of the Sovereign on the throne. (The Crown, chapter 6. The government of God.) A. Solemn call to the universe to come into the courtroom to hear God's charge against the nation Israel, Chapter 1 B. Preview of the future for Judah and Jerusalem, Chapter 2 C. Present view of Judah and Jerusalem, Chapter 3 D. Another preview of the future, Chapter 4 E. Parable of the vineyard and woes predicted on Israel, Chapter 5 F. Isaiah's personal call and commission as prophet, Chapter 6 G. Prediction of local and far events, Chapters 7 — 10 (Hope of future in coming Child) H. Millennial kingdom, Chapters 11, 12 I. Burdens of surrounding nations (largely fulfilled), Chapters 13 — 23 1. Burden of Babylon, Chapters 13, 14 2. Burden of Moab, Chapters 15, 16 3. Burden of Damascas, Chapter 17 4. Burden of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, Chapter 18 5. Burden of Egypt, Chapters 19, 20 6. Burden of Babylon, Edom, Arabia, Chapter 21 7. Burden of the Valley of Vision, Chapter 22 8. Burden of Tyre, Chapter 23 J. Kingdom, process and program by which the throne is established on earth, Chapters 24 — 34 K. Kingdom, mundane blessings of the Millennium, Chapter 35 II. Historic interlude (prose), Chapters 36 — 39 (This section is probably a prophetic picture of how God will deliver His people in the Great Tribulation [see kjv@2Kings:18-19 and kjv@2Chronicles:29-30].)
A. King Hezekiah and the invasion of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, Chapter 36 B. King Hezekiah's prayer and the destruction of the Assyrian hosts, Chapter 37 C. King Hezekiah's sickness, prayer and healing, Chapter 38 D. King Hezekiah plays the fool, Chapter 39 III. Salvation (poetry), Chapters 40 — 66 Revelation of the Savior in the place of suffering. (The Cross, chapter 53. The grace of God. There is a threefold division marked by the concluding thought in each division, "There is no peace to the wicked.") A. Comfort of Jehovah which comes through the Servant, Chapters 40 — 48 (Polemic against idolatry — help and hope come only through the Servant.) B. Salvation of Jehovah which comes through the suffering Servant, Chapters 49 — 57 1. Redeemer of the whole world, who is God's Servant, Chapters 49:1— 52:12 2. Redemption wrought by the suffering Servant, who is God's Sheep (Lamb), Chapters 52:13 — 53:12 3. Results of the redemption wrought by the Redeemer, who is God's only Savior, Chapters 54 — 57 C. Glory of Jehovah which comes through the suffering Servant, Chapters 58 — 66 1. Sin hinders the manifestation of the glory of God, Chapters 58, 59 2. Redeemer is coming to Zion, Chapters 60 — 66 (Nothing can hinder God's progress — He will judge sin.)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS: Criswell, W. A. Isaiah. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1977. Gaebelein, Arno C. The Annotated Bible. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1917. Ironside, H. A. Expository Notes on Isaiah. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1952. Jennings, F. C. Studies in Isaiah. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, n.d. Jensen, Irving L. Isaiah and Jeremiah. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, n.d. (A self-study guide.) Kelly, William. An Exposition of Isaiah. Addison, Illinois: Bible Truth Publishers, 1896. Martin, Alfred. Isaiah: The Salvation of Jehovah. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1956. (A fine, inexpensive survey.) Unger, Merrill F. Unger's Bible Handbook. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1966. Unger, Merrill F. Unger's Commentary on the Old Testament. Vol. 2. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1982. (Highly recommended.) Vine, W. E. Isaiah. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1946.
HELPFUL BOOKS ON BIBLE PROPHECY: Hoyt, Herman A. The End Times. Chicago, Illinois: Moody Press, 1969. Pentecost, J. Dwight. Prophecy for Today. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1961. Pentecost, J. Dwight. Things to Come. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958. Ryrie, Charles C. The Basis of the Premillennial Faith. Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers, 1953. Sauer, Erich. From Eternity to Eternity. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1954. Walvoord, John F. Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1974. Walvoord, John F. The Millennial Kingdom. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1959. Walvoord, John F. The Rapture Question. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1957. Wood, Leon J. The Bible and Future Events. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1973.
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Fiscal Bunny Slope UpdatesPosted: December 27, 2012 Filed under: Federal Budget, Federal Budget and Budget deficit | Tags: do nothing congress, fiscal cliff, republican purity pledges, Tea party crazies 7 Comments
I'm trying to get through a serious patch of the dread lazies. All the rain and cold and glum has me in nap mode. But, I thought I'd follow up a bit to BB's morning post that had some more stupid congressional maneuvers on things that shouldn't be happening with our fiscal situation. I'm really getting tired of having Social Security tied in with deficit discussions for one since they are completely unrelated. Second, it's amazing to me that the Speaker of the House can be this close to letting chaos hit the markets and the economy over what is undoubtedly his concerns about holding on to the speakership. So, here's some this and that on the few things that are bad about the fiscal bunny slope and hooplah surrounding the rest.
The worst thing is the ending to extended unemployment benefits and the uncertainty surrounding the tax cuts for people that really need them. My guess is that some of this will be renewed but only after the Republicans play the game of letting the rates go up so they can say the brought them down. It's inane, I know, but I've come to expect that of the party of jerks that have overtaken the Republicans. Here's an article from Salon by Steve Kornacki on the Tea Party Mindset and the destruction of our congressional functionality called the Triumph of the Tea Party Mind Set.
The problem, of course, is that the Tea Party's power resides in Republican primaries, where conservative purists wreaked considerable havoc in the past two election cycles. This included, famously, McConnell's home state of Kentucky, where the minority leader's protégé was crushed in a 2010 GOP Senate primary by Rand Paul. Now McConnell has to worry about suffering a similar fate in two years, especially if his handling of the current fiscal impasse evokes cries of treason from the base. How could this square with claims of fading clout for the Tea Party?
Actually, there's a way. It just depends on how you understand the Tea Party.
Defined as a literal movement, with an active membership pressing a specific set of demands, the Tea Party absolutely is in decline. Tea Party events have become less crowded, less visible and less relevant to the national political conversation. As the Times story notes, the movement's die-hards are embracing increasingly niche pet issues. The term "Tea Party" has come to feel very 2010.
But if you think of the Tea Party less as a movement and more as a mindset, it's as strong and relevant as ever. As I wrote back in '10, the Tea Party essentially gave a name to a phenomenon we've seen before in American politics – fierce, over-the-top resentment of and resistance to Democratic presidents by the right. It happened when Bill Clinton was president, it happened when Lyndon Johnson was president, it happened when John F. Kennedy was president. When a Democrat claims the White House, conservatives invariably convince themselves that he is a dangerous radical intent on destroying the country they know and love and mobilize to thwart him.
The twist in the Obama-era is that some of the conservative backlash has been directed inward. This is because the right needed a way to explain how a far-left anti-American ideologue like Obama could have won 53 percent of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes in 2008. What they settled on was an indictment of George W. Bush's big government conservatism; the idea, basically, was that Bush had given their movement a bad name with his big spending and massive deficits, angering the masses and rendering them vulnerable to Obama's deceptive charms. And the problem hadn't just been Bush – it had been every Republican in office who'd abided his expansion of government, his deals with Democrats, his Wall Street bailout and all the rest.
Thus did the Tea Party movement represent a two-front war – one a conventional one against the Democratic president, and the other a new one against any "impure" Republicans. Besides a far-right ideology, the trait shared by most of the Tea Party candidates who have won high-profile primaries these past few years has been distance from what is perceived as the GOP establishment. Whether they identify with the Tea Party or not, conservative leaders, activists and voters have placed a real premium on ideological rigidity and outsider status; there's no bigger sin than going to Washington and giving ground, even just an inch, to the Democrats.
These folks appear to be ready to bring down the economy and the country if they don't get their way and frankly, I think it's scary. The danger in doing nothing about the slope doesn't come immediately. It will come from the compounding impact of doing nothing over time which is what characterizes this congress. As an example, the IRS may not immediately change the withholding tables so the tax changes may not be felt immediately but it eventually will mean $100-200 a month to families already living on the edge. Boehner is calling the House back into Session on Sunday. I'm really not sure if he can actually knock some sense in to these folks or what he's up to but I guess we'll see. Here's information on that from NBC.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, notified lawmakers that the House would come to order at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday in hopes of averting the end-of-year combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that constitute the fiscal cliff.
An anonymous source had this to say:
The lawmaker on Thursday's call told NBC News that any Senate plan Boehner puts on the House floor (of which there is no guarantee) would only receive as few as 40 Republican votes, making Democratic help necessary.
"If the Senate will not approve these bills and send them to the president to be signed into law in their current form, they must be amended and returned to the House," Boehner told Republicans Thursday, according to a source on the call. "Once this has occurred, the House will then consider whether to accept the bills as amended, or to send them back to the Senate with additional amendments. The House will take this action on whatever the Senate can pass — but the Senate must act."
Democrats are using some pretty harsh metaphors to describe Republican intransigence. Steny Hoyer compared their behavior to a hostage taker threatening to shoot a child.
Less than two weeks after one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, the No.2 Democrat in the U.S. House, Steny Hoyer, compared Republican tactics for dealing with the nation's debt limit to someone threatening to shoot a child hostage. "It's somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, 'I'm going to shoot my child if you don't do what I want done.' You don't want to shoot your child. There's no Republican leader that wants to default on our debt, that I've talked to," Hoyer said at a Capitol Hill press conference.
Hoyer's comments came in response to a question about the Treasury Department's notice that the nation was approaching its debt limit. He criticized Republicans for previous resistance to raising the debt ceiling and used the gun analogy to argue that the issue should not be part of the negotiations involving the fiscal cliff.
Meanwhile, Reid called Boehner's speakership a "dictatorship" on the floor of the senate. His statement sent the markets down. The Republicans have spent the last year playing the confidence fairy card so it's really odd to find them trying to assassinate said confidence fairy right now.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this morning that it "looks like" Congress will fail to come to a deal to avert the year-end fiscal cliff, blaming the failure on House Speaker John Boehner's "dictatorship" running the lower chamber.
"It looks like that's where we're headed," Reid said. "I don't know, time-wise, how it can happen now."
It's not exactly a surprise — leaders left Washington last week without any imminent signs of a deal in the making. But it's a grim warning just days before tax hikes and automatic spending cuts begin to take effect.
Markets tanked immediately in the aftermath of Reid's floor speech, with the Dow off more than 110 shortly after noon.
Reid opened the Senate session by launching into a lengthy criticism of the House and Boehner, saying he "seems to care more about his Speakership" than making a deal on the cliff.
The House is being run "by a dictatorship of the Speaker," Reid said. He accused Boehner of waiting until the election of the Speaker on Jan. 3 to get involved with negotiations. And he urged the lower chamber to pass the Middle Class Tax Cut Act, which the Senate narrowly passed in July. The bill made permanent all of the Bush-era tax cuts on incomes of less than $250,000 for couples and $200,000 for individuals.
Reid also slammed the House for not being in session on Thursday. He said that instead of being in Washington, Republicans are "out watching movies."
Yglesias–writing at Salon–chided the media for falling for Boehner's "process games". Boehner keeps asking for more details and a plan when there are at least two different offers with details out there.
This is a transparent and silly negotiating ploy. Right now, Democrats have two different offers on the table. One is a narrow bill that's already passed the Senate that would fully extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone with an AGI under $250,000 while letting the Bush rates expire for wealthier households. House Republicans could pass that bill, thus reducing taxes on rich and middle class Americans alike relative to current law. With that done, congress and the White House could start discussing other aspects of the fiscal cliff if they care to. Alternatively, the president has put an offer on the table that involves a more tax increases than that but also a 1:1 ratio of tax increases relative to current policy and spending cuts relative to current law. If John Boehner is willing and able to deliver even a relatively small number of House Republican votes for that plan, then it will clearly pass the Senate.
But Boehner doesn't want to do either of those things. So fair enough.
But the thing that Boehner does want to do—his "Plan B" bill to extend Bush era rates for everyone earning under $1 million—doesn't even have the votes to pass the House of Representatives. Given that reality, if Boehner wants an alternative to the Senate Democrats offer or the White House offer the onus on him is to abandon the (pointless) quest for 218 Republican votes and try to come up with something that he'll agree to and that will attract enough votes from House Democrats to pass over the objections of the right wing of his caucus. If he doesn't want to pass the senate bill and he doesn't want to pass the White House bill and he doesn't want to try to bargain with House Democrats, then going "over the cliff" is inevitable.
That's fine if that's what he wants. Personally, I think there's a lot to be said in favor of negotiating from the 2013 baseline rather than the 2012 baseline. But the holdup is Boehner and Boehner's caucus. Anything that both the White House and John Boehner agree to can pass the senate. Everyone knows that.
Anyway, if you're not jaded about our political process, parties, and elected officials by now, I doubt that you'll ever be be. Is it to much to ask Republicans to put away their purity pledges, quit feigning ignorance and denying economic reality and get on with being a minority party in a governance crisis they created? I don't recall it being this bad since maybe the slavery debates back in the day. Odd to see how the parties of switched sides however. It's hard to see how we're going to rid ourselves of the teabot crazies however, given the gerrymandering. This brings me to one more suggested read and it's a wonky one by Nate Silver. Silver inkles a hypothesis and backs it up with tons of graphs and numbers at his FiveThirtyEight Blog in a post called: As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand?
In 1992, there were 103 members of the House of Representatives elected from what might be called swing districts: those in which the margin in the presidential race was within five percentage points of the national result. But based on an analysis of this year's presidential returns, I estimate that there are only 35 such Congressional districts remaining, barely a third of the total 20 years ago.
Instead, the number of landslide districts — those in which the presidential vote margin deviated by at least 20 percentage points from the national result — has roughly doubled. In 1992, there were 123 such districts (65 of them strongly Democratic and 58 strongly Republican). Today, there are 242 of them (of these, 117 favor Democrats and 125 Republicans).
So why is compromise so hard in the House? Some commentators, especially liberals, attribute it to what they say is the irrationality of Republican members of Congress.
But the answer could be this instead: individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives. Most members of the House now come from hyperpartisan districts where they face essentially no threat of losing their seat to the other party. Instead, primary challenges, especially for Republicans, may be the more serious risk.
His analysis is based on some really great numbers so be sure to check it out. Robert Reich put this on his face book status today about the nature of the real fiscal cliff.
Robert Reich
Here's what really worries me. We're heading off the cliff, but I don't mean the fiscal one. I'm talking about the family one. According to the Center for Responsible Lending's newest report, the typical household has just $100 left each month after paying for basic expenses and debt payments. After controlling for inflation, the typical household has less annual income now than it did at the beginning of the decade. And starting next week, with the beginning of 2013 — assuming there's no deal on the fiscal cliff, because Republicans are unwilling to raise taxes on the richest in the land — payroll taxes and income taxes increase on the typical family. In other words, the typical American family is about to go off its own financial cliff, and no one seems to be paying any attention.
I couldn't agree more.


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Copyright: December 2011 (Berkley) 320 pgs
Series: 1st in Summer Westin Mysteries
Sensuality: n/a
Mystery Sub-genre: Suspense
Main Characters: Summer Westin, Wildlife biologist for Save the Wilderness Fund
Setting: Modern day, Utah's Heritage National Monument
Obtained Through: Publisher for honest review
Summer (Sam) Westin, aka Wilderness Westin to her "Save the Wilderness Fund" website followers, is in Utah's Heritage National Monument to do a follow-up on a previous story. A cougar had been shot and SWF had rescued the cougar and her cubs, treated the wounds and released them back to the park. Sam is hoping to get some photos of the cougars now to report their progress to SWF website. She had worked at the park in the past and still knows some of the park rangers. She is about to set off from the Ranger HQ to hike into the off-trail back country when she sees a little blond haired boy who wandered away from his camp. Sam can hear the mother calling for Zack and she is about to take the boy to his mother when Zack goes toddling off to a man approaching. Everything appears as though this is Zack's father and she thinks nothing of it until she has set up camp hours later and calls into her park ranger friend Kent to find out everyone is searching for Zack. Sam treks back into the Ranger HQ to join the search, feeling responsible not ensuring the little boy was really with his father. It seems like a simple premise, but this book grabs the reader and won't let go until the last page.
There are several elements at play in this story. Sam and the SWF are getting stabbed in the back by an opportunist reporter who turns Zack's disappearance into a sensationalized tale of Cougars versus unsuspecting campers. It doesn't help that Sam was dating said reporter. This begins a chain reaction of "kill the cougars" frenzy spurred on by a local who resents not getting to hunt in the park. Then the FBI join the mix which brings more exposure to the situation when it sorely needed less distractions from the search efforts. There is a clock ticking to find Zack before the autumn temperatures get too cold at night, or a human slips out of the park with him, and before the cougars get hunters using helicopters to hunt and kill them.
Sam is a great character with a good mix of independent outdoors woman who is vulnerable yet daring and smart but headstrong. She is passionate about the wilderness and animals while she dials her satellite phone to upload her story from a laptop complete with digital photos. She is a modern woman who is very capable in the wilderness by herself but not afraid to show her softer side. Chase (Starchaser) Perez, half Lakota FBI agent is a fascinating character too. His cool FBI demeanor only hints at much deeper waters occasionally. He enlists Sam to be his guide for checking spots in the park that are prime for hiding Zack and finds himself trying to keep up. Repelling for the first time down slot canyons is but one challenge that Sam throws his way. These two characters play well off each other in a natural believable way.
The setting of Utah's wilderness and wildlife becomes a character in itself. The author brings the coyotes yipping at night, the crisp autumn air, the wonder of ancient Anasazi ruins, and the magnificence of slot canyons vividly to the readers mind. The cougars that Sam is following up on become a part of the story as you want the mother and her grown cubs to be innocent of any involvement with Zack's disappearance and ultimately left to live their lives. I felt like I had been trekking the trails experiencing the sights and sounds with Sam.
The plot is very believable and gripping as it unfolds. The pacing keeps the reader turning pages always wanting to read just a little further to find out the next thing. This book is hard to put down even to eat a meal. I warn you now.
The climax is white knuckle-edge-of-your-seat ride that has me holding my breath. The wrap up is a resounding success that ensured my checking to see when the next book would be released. Bear Bait is the next book and it is "coming soon" - not soon enough for me.
If it seems like I am gushing, I just can't help it. This was a fantastic suspense story with a plausible plot filled with suspense, characters who are compelling and exciting in their mission, with a luscious setting and a gripping climax.


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TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott wants to hold public school funding steady next year, expand charter schools, put a hold on new testing requirements for students and promises no "war on teachers."
The Republican governor has crafted a set of education proposals to send to the Legislature in the spring with the goal of better preparing students for college and jobs. His plan comes as he nears the midway point of his first term and Florida moves toward a post-FCAT model of measuring student achievement.
"Every year we make a bunch of changes. You can't do that," Scott said Monday. "The system is tired of change, just constant change."
The Times/Herald obtained a draft of a five-page summary of Scott's ideas, entitled "College and Careers 1st." Scott's proposals will be made public Thursday at an education forum in Fort Myers.
Most recommendations track previous Scott positions, such as opposing spending cuts or supporting charter school expansion. But the paper offers the most detail yet of his priorities, such as:
• Holding per-pupil public school spending "at least steady" next year. Early projections indicate modest growth in state revenues, lessening the need for deep cuts in government programs.
• Suspending new testing requirements that don't correlate to the Common Core State Standards to be implemented statewide in 2014. Most schools have begun pivoting toward new standards in reading and math.
• Increasing competition by creating new options for schools and students, such as deregulating school districts and giving schools flexibility in buying textbooks and classroom materials.
• Steering public money to mentoring programs with the highest success rates at helping struggling students. That proposal fizzled last year amid political opposition, and programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and Take Stock in Children enjoy political support among lawmakers.
• Lifting enrollment caps on charter schools, removing barriers to choice options in low-performing areas and letting school districts operate their own "charter innovation schools."
"Our local school districts are going to keep getting better if we give them the authority to do it," Scott said.
Charter schools and other for-profit education firms have become much bigger political players this cycle, lavishing more than $1.8 million on candidates and committees, according to a Miami Herald analysis. But the review found that teacher unions still contribute much more money.
Miami-Dade superintendent Alberto Carvalho said it's not enough to stabilize school funding, spending must increase. That's an idea shared by Florida PTA activist Mindy Gould.
"Bring us back to the levels where we were five or six years ago," Gould said.
Colleen Wood of the education advocacy group 50th No More questioned Scott's timing, noting that a group of superintendents hasn't yet finalized recommendations on reducing teacher paperwork.
"This governor makes it impossible to trust him," Wood said.
State Board of Education member Roberto Martinez praised Scott for wanting to expand charter schools in low-income areas, and Miami-Dade School Board member Raquel Regalado said Scott is still learning that schools are what people care about most.
"At least he recognizes that education is the one thing all Floridians are concerned about," Regalado said.
Scott is nearing the midway point of his four-year term and says he will run for a second term in 2014. His plan reflects an ongoing effort to focus on education, which he ranks as equal in importance with creating jobs, the signature issue that got him elected in 2010.
"We're not (having) a war on teachers," Scott said. "We're not going to teach to the test."
Polls show Scott's popularity remains low in Florida, especially with women. He has traveled widely throughout the state in the past year, often highlighting education.
Scott alienated voters in 2011 when he cut $1.3 billion from public schools, and insisted that $1 billion be restored in the current year's budget.
Incoming Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, endorsed Scott's plans.
"We need a break from more changes and more testing," said Gaetz, a former Okaloosa County school superintendent. He said Florida should promote digital learning and rely less on "1950s style textbooks" in classrooms.
The state's major teachers union, the Florida Education Association, said it had not seen Scott's proposals and could not comment.
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As part of German Space Day activities, ESA is organising a 'gala' night on 17 September in the KölnArena in Cologne (Germany). All the members of the European Astronaut Corps and their colleagues from Russia and the USA will be on hand to guide the public through a fantastic journey into space. This journey will bring the dream of space to the heart of this historic city.
Hosted by German TV presenter Evi Seibert and ESA astronaut Ulf Merbold, the public can see all stages of a journey into space, from training, to the launch, from docking to landing. Highlights include an uplink to the ISS, images and videos from recent astronaut missions and from Mars Express, live 3D camera and laser show, and most important the chance to meet the astronauts and hear at first hand about their remarkable adventures.
The programme
Laser show and appearance of the astronauts
- Survival training in Star City, Moscow, with Frank De Winne
- Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) training in JSC, Houston with Christer Fuglesang and Claude Nicollier
- Advanced training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), Cologne with Paolo Nespoli
Pre-flight activities
- Gerhard Thiele & Roberto Vittori outline the differences between Russian and American pre-flight activities followed by personal remarks
Lift off and reaching orbit
- "Houston we are ready for lift off…"
- Based on video material, Michel Tognini, head of the European Astronaut Corps, explains the differences between flying on the Soyuz and on the shuttle
- Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts reflect on their experiences and feelings during liftoff and on reaching orbit
Voyage to ISS & docking
Andre Kuipers gives his personal impression of the recent DELTA mission and comments on his perception of weightlessness. The audience can share his experience in a 3D video of a parabolic flight.
Life on board the ISS
- Ernst Messerschmid, head of the European Astronaut Centre describes the purpose of the ISS
- Experience the ISS with a 3D film
- Reinhold Ewald talks about risk management during a mission (fire in the Mir station)
- Pedro Duque's visit to the ISS with video and 3-D photographs
- Gennadi Padalka & Mike Fincke uplink with the ISS (may be pre-recorded)
The future of the ISS
- Thomas Reiter gives his views on the future outlook for the ISS
- New insights into the ESA-Aurora programme and new results from Mars Express
- Live 3-D camera documenting the discussion on ESA's future missions
- Mars Exploration session
Final view of Earth and landing
Jean-François Clervoy reflects on the beauty of seeing Earth for the last time before landing and then gives an account of the landing procedure, illustrated by video clips
The astronauts Gerhard Thiele, Claude Nicollier and Roberto Vittori sum up the event by talking about their most memorable experiences in space accompanied by video footage
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The Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST), Archaeology Field School for Kids has been held annually since 2004 at the Farwell House site in Storrs, CT, USA on the campus of the University of Connecticut. Children between the ages of 9 & 15 are able to learn the scientific methods of archaeology by excavating a real archaeological site.
The Farwell House was built in the mid-18th century and occupied by the Farwell family until 1908. The house was sold in the early 20th century, and shortly thereafter the University acquired the House. The House served as a dormitory until the University determined maintenance costs were too high. The House was burned down in a fire training exercise in 1976. At that time the house was the oldest in town. The foundation was filled in, and the only research conducted on the site has been by children participating in the KAST dig.
Each summer new units are excavated in what once was the front, back, or side yards of the House. Much of what the students discover in the upper layers relates to the burning episode. Below the burn layer are artifacts dating to the occupation of the House and date to the 18th-19th centuries.
All excavations are overseen by a professional archaeologist, and reports are filed with the State Historic Preservation Office. Now that the program is in its 8th year with its 5th staff archaeologist, questions about excavation strategy, professionalism, and the future of the site and the KAST program are coming to the fore. This year has been especially introspective and self-critical. As we move forward we want to insure not only an enjoyable experience for the students, but a professional investigation of an historic archaeological site that answers real research questions and makes a contribution to not only the archaeological community, but to the larger community.
The KAST Field School has run for the last week and concluded Friday the 29th of July 2011. After 4 days of excavation the students spent a day in the "lab" at the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History. Activities included washing and identifying artifacts and creating a display of their finds that will remain on exhibit at the Museum.
The program has been well received by not only the students, but also their parents and local media. A local news program visited the site and interviewed students for a short interest piece on the evening news. It is my personal hope that programs and publicity like this will reinforce the importance of historic preservation and archaeology even in a precarious economic climate.


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Last Education: Bachelor Graphic Design & Multimedia at MartinCollege, Advanced Diploma in BusinessHospitality at Sidney College
Career Sinetron: Andezz Video Clip, Video Clip DJ Romy
Favorite Musician: Cold Play, James Blunt, Paul Van Dyk
Favorite Movie Star: Angelina Jollie, David Beckham
Favorite Author: Kahlil Gibran
2008, It was time for a new look and under the big label of 1945MF Indonesia, having confidence in the style of her music, but acknowledging the need for continuous change, rather than finding one style and sticking to it, DD likes to keep her sets as varied as possible, playing right across the board, from electro to dirty house and everything in between tech house with her sassy and sexy style. This "sultry sage" has developed an immense and devoted fan base. Now, after being at the top of her game behind the decks, Delizious Devina is proving she is much more than just a DJ.
In addition to Devina's passion for music she is a regular guest star for television shows, also she has been featured on most popular magazines and newspaper. Since DD loved to work together with Indonesia's famous fashion designer and label for her special costume like Oscar Lawalata, Barli Asmara, House Of Elga, Foreplay and Soho, it's giving a lots of opportunity for DD to play along in several fashion show.
Endorsed by Magma and Slappa Indonesia, DD is set to be a promising force and undeniable talent in the contemporary music scene.
Delizious Devina has seductively carved her name onto the fast growing list of elite DJs all over Indonesia starting from the year of 2005. Revolutionizing the face of the common male/female DJ icons we had become accustomed to, by creating a new phenomenon; the "Electric Barbarellas" (The first female duo in Indonesia). This provocative partnership impressed all music lovers with their uncanny ability to dish up ready-made dance floor fusion, creating a unique party atmosphere that so many other labels lacked. Dance music just got kinky.
Born from Dutch and Indonesian parents and raised in Sydney, this beauty was fascinated by art and music and graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia. She started her career in the hospitality industry and took up a hobby in collecting vinyl's and painting. Her affection for art and music is what pushed her to become a DJ.
DD consistent commitment to excellence has been internationally recognized and nowadays DD starts to play in Asia countries like Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Australia regularly.
2008 brings a lot of chance for DD to explore more and more, together with some colleagues DD becoming a part time tutor for Studio 212 DJ School and many students have their chance to learn from their favorite DJ itself.
Having collaborated on numerous occasions with the cream of Indonesia's musical talent, among others, Maia Estianty and Cynhtiara Alona as her pose Duo DJ, Slank, Acha Septriasa, and Mala & The Bandit as vocalist, John Paul Ivan as guitarist, Andra & The Backbone, Iwa K, DD has proven her claims as the most multi talented idea bombshell the industry has seen in the recent years.
Known for her collaboration with the foremost talents with a choice of creativity, DD created 'Rock Star Glam". Rock Star Glam is a serial event that combined the perfect match from the DJ with Live Guitar, Live Vocal and the Live MC to complete the idea of freshness for art, music and soul.
- 2008: Single "State Of Spiritual Bliss Feat Delizious Devina" with DJ Romy-1945MF (worldwide released)
- 2008: Single "State Of Spiritual Bliss Feat. Delizious Devina" remixed by DJ Echa (worldwide released)
- 2008: Single "Sexy Me" with DJ Echa (unreleased)
- 2008: Single "Natural Herbs" with DJ Echa (unreleased)
- 2006: Single "Do You" Electric Barbarellas (unreleased)
Best Female DJ Redma Awards 2009
Nominee Best Remix Track Redma Awards 2009 (the state of spiritual bliss)
Nominee DJ of The Year Paranoia Awards 2008
Best Female DJ Redma Awards Nominee 2008
Best Female DJ Redma Awards 2007
Best Junior DJ Redma Awards 2007
Best Rookie DJ Paranoia Awards 2006
Best Local DJ Performance Beat Magazine 2006


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McElwee's march: Through Carolina, tobacco still rules
A documentary filmmaker who does his own narration, speaks in something close to a whisper, and searches for his own family history is celluloid Ambien, right? Wrong.
Filmmaker Ross McElwee is one of the most celebrated documentary filmmakers in America– the thinking man's Michael Moore. And he's coming to Charlottesville to screen his latest picture, Bright Leaves.
The title is borrowed from a 1950 Gary Cooper/Patricia Neal melodrama called Bright Leaf that appears to explain McElwee's own family fortune (and loss thereof). It seems that McElwee's great grandfather created the Durham Bull brand before his rival, the eventual benefactor of Duke University, grabbed the name and reversed it– and as he monopolized the dangerous leaf, reversed McElwee's family fortune.
Because the subject is tobacco and the setting is North Carolina, McElwee turns what could have been an exercise in self-indulgence into an understated exploration of the power tobacco still holds over those it touches. There are quirky relatives, hilarious juxtapositions such as the nearly barren McElwee Park vs. the Duke mansion– and chilling scenes of friends who think they can quit. And woven through it all is Gary Cooper and the lovely but toxic fields of green.
McElwee screens Bright Leaves April 15 at 7pm at Vinegar Hill Theatre, which will run the film until April 21. $8. McElwee will also screen his well-known 1986 picture, Sherman's March, winner of Best Documentary in the 1986 Sundance Film Festival at UVA's Newcomb Hall Theater. $7.50. 924-7900
McElwee finds a cousin who has his own 16mm copy of Bright Leaf.
[Clarification: the fellow in the photo above is a film critic and not McElwee's film-collecting cousin. Here's the cousin below– editor.]
McElwee finds a cousin who has his own 16mm copy of Bright Leaf.


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It's only garbage. But wafting among those wretched fumes is also the irresistible aroma of money.
Big money. In fact, as Metro Vancouver inches forward with implementation of a solid-waste management plan that will shape the region for decades to come, the financial stakes couldn't be higher.
What began with the B.C. government's ultimate rejection in 2011 of Metro Vancouver's proposal to create a landfill at Ashcroft Ranch in the Interior to handle regional garbage far into the future has taken some unexpected twists.
High-profile lobbyists with close ties to Premier Christy Clark are working the hallways of the B.C. legislature in an attempt to sway the outcome — with a chance the whole debate could wind up in court.
Today, Metro Vancouver asserts landfills are a last resort and is poised to spend $470 million on one or more waste-to-energy facilities by 2018 to handle 370,000 tonnes of garbage annually — one-third more than the 25-year-old Burnaby incinerator. Nine companies with 10 proposals for various facilities — among them incineration, refuse-derived fuel and gasification — have been shortlisted, but a location has yet to be chosen.
In doing so, the region has drawn the ire of heavy hitters in the private waste sector — Belkorp Environmental Services, Northwest Waste Solutions, BFI Canada — which say Metro Vancouver is creating a garbage monopoly that can only restrain private enterprise.
These companies, already heavily involved in various aspects of waste management from hauling to landfilling, argue that future opportunities will be forgone under a regional plan certain to fuel increased incineration and higher tipping fees.
The debate reached a fever pitch over Bylaw 280, which was endorsed Friday by the Metro Vancouver board.
The new law would ensure that garbage generated in Metro Vancouver is processed at regional facilities — not transported to areas such as Abbotsford to avoid waste prohibitions and exploit lower dumping charges, and to ultimately be shipped south to a private landfill in the arid Columbia River region of Washington state.
The focus now turns to the B.C. government, which must ultimately approve the bylaw.
If the province approves it, Metro Vancouver will allow a period of time to educate haulers about the change before taking enforcement action, which could include a maximum $200,000 court fine under the Environmental Management Act, explained Paul Henderson, general manager of solid waste for Metro Vancouver.
The region is also seeking provincial permission to levy $1,000 out-of-court tickets as an alternative penalty.
While some larger private operators in the waste sector are pressuring the province to reject the bylaw or at least table the matter for further study, a coalition of 11 smaller companies involved in recycling supports the regional initiative.
Metro officials say the region's $107-a-tonne tipping fee is being undercut by fees in the order of $70 per tonne in Abbotsford, where the waste is exported to a private landfill in southern Washington state near the Columbia River.
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metro's zero waste committee, argued in an interview the trend will erode the philosophical and financial underpinnings of the solid-waste plan approved by the board in 2010 and endorsed by the province in 2011.
"It's been escalating," he said of waste going outside the region. "They put it on rail cars and whoosh — down to southern Washington. We have to do something about this."
The region expects 70,000 tonnes of multi-family and commercial waste to leave the region in 2013, up from 50,000 tonnes in 2012.
Metro's goal is to increase the rate of recycling regional trash from the current 58 per cent to 80 per cent by 2020.
Critics charge that Bylaw 280 is designed to ensure there is enough trash to feed a second waste-to-energy facility and threatens to strangle private industry's own waste ambitions.
At issue are "mixed waste material recovery facilities" — known as MRFs — to process waste from multi-family residential buildings as well as the industrial/commercial/institutional sector.
At least two companies, Belkorp and Northwest Waste Solutions, want to expand their waste operations into this emerging field.
The idea behind MRFs is to take bags or bins of garbage and use sophisticated new robotic technology to siphon out the recyclables such as paper, plastic and glass.
"We think they're a great option," said Russ Black, Belkorp's vice-president of corporate development.
Belkorp, through its subsidiary, Wastech, has a $35-million contract with Metro Vancouver to handle 210,000 tonnes of garbage at its Cache Creek landfill and to operate four waste-transfer stations — North Vancouver, Surrey, Coquitlam, and Matsqui.
The contract expires in 2016 and, as Black tells it, the company wants to seize the winds of change and "move into the material recovery business."
Belkorp is interested in building as many as three MRFs at an estimated cost of up to $100 million, said Black.
Metro Vancouver says it is prepared to allow MRFs into the market, with conditions that preserve the region's overall waste-management plan and the goal of increased source separation of recyclables and compostables.
"We cannot simply throw open the gates for the industry to determine the limits of their activities … to do anything they see fit," Brodie said.
Russ Black, Belkorp's vice-president of corporate development, argues that bylaw 280 unduly controls the waste flow and does not provide enough economic return for companies interested in building MRFs.
Bylaw 280 would treat MRFs like disposal sites and not recycling facilities, he argued. It would mean trucks delivering waste to an MRF could contain no more than five per cent prohibited recyclable materials, including paper, paperboard, plastics and metals — which would kill their business because the valuables would have been removed.
"That section right there is full stop for the private sector," Black asserted.
Companies involved in the diversion of recyclables before putting out the garbage, such as residential blue box programs — say that unrestricted MRFs would kill any impetus for consumers to do the right thing.
"Society, as the generator of this material, can be engaged to minimize waste because ultimately that's what this game is about, trying to create less waste and create a more thoughtful world," said Nicole Stefenelli, CEO of Urban Impact and spokeswoman for Recycle First Coalition.
The coalition says it represents 11 like-minded companies, which together have 825 employees and invested $135 million in recycling technology and infrastructure over the past five years.
They view MRFs as not only reversing years of consumer education on recycling, but posing a threat to their members' livelihood. "It is critical to our investments," Stefenelli said. "Source separation is the right way to deliver a clean product to an end market."
Someone who has also made a sizable investment — in favour of MRFs — is Ralph McRae, chair of Northwest Waste Solutions.
His company has spent close to $15 million of an anticipated $30 million building an industrial plant to house the region's first MRF "without one cent of public financing or one commitment of a government contract," he said.
But the 70,000-square-foot building sits empty on about three hectares on Kent Avenue in southeast Vancouver because Metro Vancouver refuses to licence it. "It's as pretty as anything you could ever walk in to because nothing is going on there," he says.
McRae notes he has visited recently constructed MRFs in the San Jose, Calif., area and is confident that modern technology is capable of extracting 80 per cent of garbage in the form of compostable/recyclables and could be profitable based on a tipping fee of about $100 a tonne.
But that would remove critical garbage needed to fire another incinerator, he said. "With the evolution of recycling technology it has become a fight for incineration against recycling. They had to stop it because it made their incinerator useless."
Brodie isn't sold on the industry's promises. "I am yet to be convinced. I have real concerns."
The current system of separating out recyclables first is better than "one big stream of garbage," he said.
McRae has a message for Environment Minister Mary Polak — the provincial politician who must approve the regional bylaw.
"The minister should call a time out and appoint someone objective to assess the whole situation," he said.
The alternative, McRae warns, is almost certain court action.
"Bylaw 280 … is so bad I don't think industry will stand by and let it go without some kind of a court challenge. If the Minister of Environment doesn't see fit to stop it, ultimately it will go to judicial review."
Polak declined to comment on the issue. Her office said in a statement: "It would be inappropriate for the minister to publicly comment on this given her role as a statutory decision maker."
Meanwhile, other industry players have hired some high-profile lobbyists to press their case in Victoria and express their opposition to Bylaw 280 and another incinerator.
"It puts the province in a difficult position," confirmed Belkorp's Black. "They ultimately have to approve this bylaw."
According to B.C.'s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Belkorp has hired John Les, the former MLA for Chilliwack for 12 years. The Fraser Valley Regional District in which Les resides opposes another incinerator due to air-quality concerns.
Les, who deferred comment on the issue to Black, served as solicitor general and, more recently, as parliamentary secretary to Premier Clark before retiring prior to last May's election.
BFI has hired lobbyist Dimitri Pantazopoulos, whose high-profile postings from 2011 to 2012 included Clark's principal secretary and assistant deputy minister of intergovernmental relations. He served as the Liberals' chief pollster during the 2013 provincial election.
Since 2010, Belkorp and its related companies have donated $34,790 to the B.C. Liberals, while BFI has donated $33, 250, including $10,000 last May 14 — the same day as the last B.C. election.
Of the lobbying, BFI district manager Grant Hankins, said: "We want to talk to all levels of government."
Much of the estimated 70,000 tonnes of Metro Vancouver garbage exiting the region winds up at BFI Canada's transfer station in south Abbotsford, near the Huntingdon border crossing, where it is sent south to the Roosevelt landfill in Washington state.
Hankins would only say: "That's a business decision. This is a competitive market. Bottom line, we do what makes sense."
He noted that Metro Vancouver operates a transfer station in Abbotsford, sends garbage to Cache Creek, ships some of the "toxic ash" from its Burnaby incinerator to Alberta, and could very well build a waste-to-energy facility outside the region, even on Vancouver Island. "It's really not about geography," he said.
The Roosevelt landfill, owned by Robanco, sits on 800 hectares, has an operating capacity of five million tonnes per year, and generates up to 37 megawatts of electricity from landfill gases. In addition to BFI's Abbotsford transfer station, Whistler, Powell River and B.C. coastal First Nations are among those who ship south to the landfill.
Hankins argued that to create Bylaw 280 in response to a relatively small amount of garbage is like "killing a fly with an elephant gun." He added that with tipping fees expected to increase dramatically, the bylaw "will stifle innovation and new ways of dealing with the waste stream."
The $107-per-tonne Metro Vancouver tipping fee is expected to increase to $157 by 2017, reflecting operating and capital costs such as a new waste-to-energy facility but also a reduction in waste volumes.
"Technology is advancing so much, even in the last five years," Hankins asserted. "Once it's burned, it's gone, it's up the smoke stacks into our air and environment."
The alternative argument is that landfills continue to pollute for generations to come — at considerable economic and environmental costs — whereas incineration deals with waste immediately.
Under the next phase of the process, Metro Vancouver has issued a request for proposals from individuals, corporations, First Nations and local governments for properties that could accommodate one or more waste-to-energy facilities. The deadline is Nov. 15.
With assistance from Vancouver Sun library staff


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Determines which historical variant of the gethostbyname_r() call (taking three, five, or six arguments) is available on the system and defines one of the following macros accordingly:
as well as
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Beloved broadcaster Simmons celebrates 90th birthday
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants devoted a pregame moment Friday to honoring an individual who has meant as much to the organization as any of their Hall of Fame ballplayers: Former broadcaster Lon Simmons, who turned 90 on Friday.
Simmons received a standing ovation from early-arriving patrons at AT&T Park after his call of the final out of the Giants-Dodgers 1962 playoff was replayed over the public-address system and the corresponding video appeared on the Diamond Vision screen.
Recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence in 2004, Simmons flashed his characteristic, self-deprecating sense of humor in a chat with reporters.
"Fans of a certain age tell me that they used to take their transistor radios to bed and fall asleep listening to me," said Simmons, who was at the microphone for the Giants' debuts at Seals Stadium (1958), Candlestick Park (1960) and Pacific Bell Park (2000). "I tell them that I used to put people to sleep all the time."
Simmons also threw the ceremonial first pitch. Formerly a Minor League pitching prospect in the Phillies organization, Simmons stood a few feet in front of the mound and one-hopped Sergio Romo with his toss.