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206: Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
Mar 1, 2002
Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier that was stationed in the Arabian Sea and supported bombing missions over Afghanistan. Only a few dozen people on board actually fly jets. It takes the rest of the crew — over 5,000 people — to keep them in the air. This American Life producers visited the Stennis in 2002, about six weeks into its deployment. The hour is devoted to this one story.
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- Wendy and Ira interview members of a squadron called the World Famous Screwbirds. As the pilots head to their planes for a mission, they explain how difficult it is to land a plane on an aircraft carrier. Alex Blumberg interviews members the Blue Diamond Squadron, who talk about difficult landings, what Afghanistan looks like from the air, and what it feels like to drop bombs.


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get it fresh at weekly Monday morning market
What a great way to start off the week: Pinellas Park's Monday morning market features fresh produce, gourmet foods, handcrafted items and food concessions as well as live entertainment. Admission is free.
When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays
Where: Town Square Plaza Park, 5120 80th Ave. N.
Info: Contact the city special events coordinator at 541-0895. Interested vendors may call the market manager, Jason Webb, at 488-5649.
Storytellers Guild to host 'Tellabration'
The Tampa Bay Storytellers' Guild will host an evening of old-fashioned storytelling Saturday at the Pinellas Park Public Library.
"Tellabration" is an annual celebration of storytelling observed worldwide. Guild members will donate their time and talent for the free event, open to the public.
The Tampa guild supports the art of storytelling with regular meetings, workshops and scholarships for the annual Florida Storytelling Association's Story Camp.
When: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday
Where: Pinellas Park Library, 7770 52nd St.
Info: Call 541-0718
Outdoor family movies back again Saturday
The Movies in the Park outdoor film series continues Saturday evening. Live entertainment at 6 p.m., and a family-friendly movie after dark. Concession sales benefit the Pinellas Park Firefighters Benevolence Fund.
When: 6 p.m. Saturday
Where: Town Square Plaza Park, 5010 81st Ave. N
Annual rummage sale coming this Saturday
The Lowe's City mobile home community will hold its annual rummage sale Saturday at the community clubhouse. It's open to the public and will be held rain or shine.
Where: 5200 28th St. N
When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
Info: Call 521-2023
Social club changes its name, reach
The Kenneth City Social Club, formerly known as the Kenneth City Homeowners Association, will hold annual membership dues to last year's fee of $5 per household.
The name of the group recently changed. Organizers hope to expand membership to people in Kenneth City as well as the surrounding areas.
Meetings are second Tuesday of the month at the Kenneth City Auditorium, 4610 58th St. N, from September through June.
For more information, call Dick Laneau at 345-4323 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Volunteers needed to mentor parents
Volunteers interested in mentoring parents are sought by Help a Child Inc. Parent aides help to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect by working with parents who need support and coaching.
Contact Pat Measel, volunteer recruiter, at 544-3900, ext. 169.
Neighborhood Notebook is compiled by Times correspondent Lorrie Lykins. E-mail news for Pinellas Park, Seminole, Lealman and Kenneth City to email@example.com or snail-mail it to Lorrie Lykins, Neighborhood Notebook, P.O. Box 4954, Seminole, FL 33775. Deadline for inclusion in the Wednesday Neighborhood Times is 5 p.m. the previous Friday.

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In "Carte Blanche," a James Bond thriller from Jeffery Deaver, the author has transported the super spy into the twentieth century. This Bond is a veteran of Afghanistan and is working for a super secret agency. There are still beautiful woman with unlikely names (Felicity Willing) and fast cars (a Bentley Continental GT coupe). There are still bad guys and detailed instructions to bartenders on how to contruct a drink. But hey, it's not the fifties anymore. See if you like this new Bond better.
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TODD KERNS To Open For UNDERGROUND REBELS; Invites Fans To Create Lyric Video
October 3, 2013, 3 years ago
TODD KERNS from SLASH and SIN CITY SINNERS has booked another solo gig. He will open for THE UNDERGROUND REBELS in a free show, October 13th at Count's Vamp'd in Las Vegas, NV.
In other news, Todd is currently running a contest for fans to create a lyric video for his song 'The Devil In Me':"With the touring and promoting, we here at the TK Camp have forgotten one important thing, the music video.
With the constant busy schedule, we just don't have time to schedule a video. So we want you to make one for us, but we are being picky. We want your best lyric video. Google that shiz, it is real!
Upload your video to YouTube and send the link to firstname.lastname@example.com by October 25th. The winner will be announced on November 1st, 2013.
Other than the song and lyrics, it must contain your original content (we don't want to break copy write here). Be creative!"
Winner will receive the following:
Their submission will be posted on the Todd Kerns Official Website, YouTube and Social Media
TK Hoodie
TK Custom charm Bracelet, earring and necklace
Autographed Todd Kerns Borrowing Trouble/Near Life Experience Vinyl
Todd Kerns CD Trio (Near Life Experience/Borrowing Trouble/Go Time)
Borrowing Trouble T-shirt
Autographed 8x10
Pin Set
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Overview: Chaotic Patterns Aren't Random, Just Nonlinear
Chaos theory is a system of mathematical modeling used for a number of systems found in mathematics, physics, biology, the social sciences, art, and philosophy. The mathematics involved is a simple way to describe relatively complex events. A small change on one variable can set off large oscillations that are not predictable to any degree.
The "Butterfly Effect" and Weather
The weather in a given location can only be predicted a week in advance, because so many small changes in air temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, and other things can cause changes in the weather. That is why there is only a chance of snow or a chance of rain. The predicted blizzard may miss the area entirely, or may hit even harder than was first thought. Scientists call that "the butterfly effect". In a chaotic system, according to Lorenz, a butterfly's wings flapping one part of the world could or could not set off a storm in another part of the world.
Convergence Points Form Strange Attractors
Some behaviors of people, animals, and systems when they are graphed, converge around two or three separate points, called "strange attractors", and these curves are followed the more points are plotted. For example, convection currents in air follow an attractor pattern, as does the movement of a weight attached to a spring. Many concepts in areas as diverse as economics, psychology, mathematics, and physics will show attraction around separate points.
Chaos in Biology and Landscapes
Many natural objects follow the properties of chaos theory, such as clouds, coastlines, and earthquakes. Relatively simple calculations, repeated over and over with different values (called "iteration") when graphed together will form many different and beautiful patterns, that differ only in scale. Some look like snowflakes, and others like swirling paisley prints. The Mandelbrot set, named after the mathematician who discovered it, shows a fractal image. Many of these images look like fine art.
Chaos in Medicine
Some of the most interesting applications of chaos theory have been in medicine. For example, an irregular heartbeat follows a chaotic pattern rather than the more typical pattern. Doctors can analyze the irregular pattern and find ways to introduce small changes to make the heartbeat more regular. Blood vessels follow fractal patterns, as they branch out into smaller and smaller capillaries. The EEG follows a chaotic pattern, as the underlying processes that occur in nerve cells converge in chaotic ways.
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Since 1990, when Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time® burst on the world with its first book, The Eye of the World, readers have been anticipating the final scenes of this extraordinary saga, which has sold over forty million copies in over thirty languages.
When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, both of which were # 1 New York Times hardcover bestsellers, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.
Edited by Jordans widow, who edited all of Jordans books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordans legions of readers.
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The 2013 Campaign; Lt. Gov. Candidate Ralph Northam; The Rollout of Health Reform; Redskins Name Debate
Reporter Jeff Goldberg and columnist Robert McCartney talked about the final days of the Virginia campaign.
Was the President right when he said "If you like your insurance, you can keep it"? We asked Politico's Jason Millman.
And Sirius/XM's Joe Madison talked about the debate over the name "Redskins."
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An organization which brings leading performing arts groups, and lecturers to the South Coast announced receiving more than a million dollars in new donations this week.
UCSB Arts & Lectures received a $750,000 gift from local philanthropists Michael and Ann Towbes, and a $500,000 gift from Timothy and Audrey Fisher.
The organization has now raised more than $12 million dollars in a $20 million dollar campaign to support, and endow the organization's educational, and cultural programs at UCSB, and in the Santa Barbara community.


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The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach's premiere visual-arts institution, lost three full-time employees last week, a serious blow to an ailing organization. Says museum director Diane Camber: "We only have about eighteen full-time employees, so other staff people will have to pick up the slack."
The personnel cuts are just the latest in a long string of setbacks linked to the infamous Curse of the Bass -- a renovation and expansion project from hell that has plagued the museum for the past five years. How hellish has it been? Well, problems arising from the renovation were severe enough to cause the museum to shut its doors on July 20. (It's not expected to reopen before mid-November.) But that's hardly the whole story. This is the fifth time the project has closed down the museum. In fact, as a direct result of the Curse, the Bass has been fully functional only eight of the last thirty-six months.
The Coral Gables-based engineering firm Spillis Candela DMJM has been responsible for the project. Playing a supervisory role has been the City of Miami Beach, which owns the museum building and splits operating costs with Bass support groups. Among the myriad screwups: a collapsed ceiling, broken floor beams, flooding, and a leaking new roof that still hasn't been fixed (administrators cover their desks with plastic tarps at the end of each workday). The climate-control system -- essential for any art museum, especially in South Florida -- has also caused its share of headaches. That troublesome system, in fact, forced the current closure.
Camber's head is splitting. And no wonder. For the second year running her museum is scrambling to open in time to host the opening party for Art Basel, which has quickly become one of the most important art events in the nation. "It's a race against time again," Camber frets.
The expensive but balky climate-control system was installed in 1998, but only two years ago Camber made a shocking discovery: It wasn't the equipment she'd requested. One vital component was never included, and its absence has threatened to damage the museum's permanent collection of paintings. That revelation, and the ensuing arguments over responsibility and solutions, caused last month's abrupt shuttering of the museum.
For more than 60 years the Bass building (originally a library) sat peacefully in its Collins Park home between 21st and 22nd streets just west of Collins Avenue. Its current troubles can be traced to 1993, when ambitious plans to expand and renovate the facility were unveiled. Renowned architect Arata Isozaki was commissioned to design the new space. Work began in early 1998 and was supposed to conclude by the end of 1999. While the museum has opened in fits and starts since then, the eight-million-dollar construction project has never really ended.
The major work now under way involves a climate-control system that was supposed to monitor both temperature and humidity. A state-of-the-art dehumidifier worked reasonably well, though it needed a serious tune-up not long after installation. But missing was its counterpart: a humidifier for Miami's winter dry spells.
Camber says systems that maintain humidity levels between 45 and 55 percent are an industry standard among accredited art museums. In addition to protecting a facility's own collection, proper humidity control is expected by high-end art lenders, from individuals to institutions. Which is why she requested and expected that the Bass's new system would meet those standards. Camber notes that had she been aware the equipment would be installed without a humidifier, "I would have screamed bloody murder. I was on the building committee, but that committee wasn't apprised of any shortcuts of that nature." The result: On some days during the winter months, humidity inside the Bass could drop to as low as 30 percent, according to Camber. Dry spells with low humidity could be damaging, she says, especially to centuries-old Renaissance and Baroque paintings in the Bass's permanent collection.
City staffers who have overseen the renovation and expansion project did not respond to interview requests, but Spillis Candela spokeswoman Alexandra Spencer says all plans, including the climate-control system, were submitted to Bass Museum staff, city staff, and Isozaki's firm, and that no one voiced objections.
The construction nightmares have taken a toll on the Bass. Over the past five years, Camber estimates that two million dollars have been lost in revenues, grant money, deposits on canceled exhibits, and publicity costs for all the reopenings that never took place.
Then there are the missed exhibits -- more a loss in stature than finances, but a topic that brings out the melancholy in the normally staid Camber. "Our starting show was to have been this major Latin American blockbuster, the Costantini collection," she recalls. "There was a window of opportunity because the collector was building a museum for his collection." But the Bass was still closed by the time the Costantini collection, including works by Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, and Roberto Matta, went on permanent display in Buenos Aires. "We would have been the only place in the U.S. to have shown it," Camber laments.
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And so, having wasted roughly $100,000 on announcements, press releases, and unused invitations, Camber finds herself desperately in need of some good PR as word of extended delays and questions about iffy climate control spread throughout the art world. "The specter of this sort of lurks out there," she says.
The humidity problems, which will cost the city $350,000 to fix, seem to have been emblematic of the entire renovation. "The engineering firm wanted to do a wet-pipe system for fire control," Camber recounts, referring to the kind of extinguishers seen in schools and offices everywhere -- exposed sprinklers that spray as soon as a smoke alarm is activated. "Art museums can't have that!" (Spillis Candela's Spencer says the proposed fire-control system -- inappropriate or not -- was approved months before Camber and others took issue, after construction had already begun.)
If past reopenings are any guide, the Bass will be welcomed by the public and the art world as soon as exhibits are mounted and the Art Basel festivities commence. Eventually the foibles of the last decade will recede into memory. Until then, Camber continues to deal with a most unpleasant aspect of the Curse of the Bass. "It's embarrassing," she confesses.


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to Face: An Interview
with Drew Conway
Drew Crew
Walk Solomon writer
Baker photographer
writer sits down with
Drew Conway, Wellesley
resident, philanthropist,
and entrepreneur extraordinaire.
Hi, Drew…I've
heard quite a bit
about you. You've
started two successful
companies, and you're
about to launch a
third. You have five
kids, ages 13 to
25. How hard is it
to balance work and
family life here
in suburbia?
Conway: Well, I was
the first one in my
family to go to college.
I came from a long
line of cops and priests.
In fact, my father
was a New York City
cop. He's
gone now, but he was
and still is my role
model. No matter how
hard he worked, he
miss out on any part
of our childhoods.
He coached, he went
to all our games...and
I do the same. I don't
want to miss a thing
that my kids and their
friends are doing.
How is that possible?
the CEO; don't
you have to be on
top of all things
corporate, all the
DC: I do most of my work
right here, from Wellesley.
And let's
just say I'm
an efficient traveler.
I like to keep my
trips short, two nights
or less, and I make
sure that I don't
travel every week.
I like to maximize
family time.
back up a little bit.
started two—well,
companies, whose
corporate headquarters
were or are right
here in Wellesley.
Tell us about those
companies, and then
let us in on what
the new one is about.
DC: The first company
I started [Registry
Incorporated, later
renamed Renaissance
Incorporated] specialized
in business and technology
consulting. It was
a great organization.
We believed in treating
our employees as if
they were customers.
As a company, we gave
to over one hundred
and fifty charities.
We had a program called "touching
people where we live." There
were 42 US offices,
and through this program,
each office could
choose a number of
small, community organizations
to support. Then the
company would follow
up, and further support
those organizations.
What happened to Renaissance?
Sounds like a great
place to work.
DC: At our peak, we had
over six thousand
employees worldwide,
and it was a great
place to work. That
was very important
to me. Once it went
public though, running
the company just wasn't
as much fun. The company
that bought it broke
it up into pieces,
and the corporate
culture, which had
been focused on respect,
empowerment, and philanthropy,
was lost.
What was your secret
to creating and nurturing
that kind of corporate
DC: The secret is simple:
you consistently hire
great people. And
you do have to grow
a corporate culture
from the ground up;
I don't
think it's
something that you
can retrofit into
an existing company.
The company and the
culture need a stable,
strong foundation,
just as a building
does. You can't
try to do it all on
your own. You've
got to have a motivated
group that shares
your vision and takes
pride in making the
company better, as
opposed to simply 'doing
their jobs' and
then just leaving.
got to hire great
managers who share
your vision and concept
of how the company
should work. A great
company comprises
great people. Really,
there aren't
any shortcuts. There's
no formula. Different
CEOs have different
personalities, different
approaches. Mine was:
you foster an ethical
culture, you keep
key employees—talking
about it, and that
culture gets preserved
and passed on. You
end up with a place
where every employee
can stand up and
be proud of what the
company is doing.
Why don't
more companies
seem to get that
DC: I think a lot of companies
are more focused on
short-term goals.
Fast growth is what
people want, so they
spend enough time
and resources on the
cultural foundation.
You make it sound
easy, but we know
better. Can you also
tell us another secret?
How do you make those
consistently great
DC: We had a multi-phase
interviewing process
for every employee,
not just those at
the top. The candidate
would meet with a
variety of groups
and individuals a
total of six times,
and none of us would
share our thoughts
[about the candidate's
suitability for hire]
until the end of the
After Renaissance
was taken apart, you
started another company
called Sagent Healthstaff,
also headquartered
in Wellesley. So,
are you a serial company-starter?
DC: Well, the baby boomers
are aging, and they
need more health services.
There are fewer nurses,
but demand for them
remains high. I do
think that it's
a good idea to start
a company while that
industry is in a growth
phase. Two years ago,
I started another
company that's
part of the Sagent
group as well: Sagent
Partners, which provides
IT [Information Technology]
consulting to the
federal government
and government contractors.
That company now has
sales offices in L.A.,
Austin, and Virginia,
but its corporate
offices are here in
Wellesley, too.
Why do you choose
Wellesley both as
your home, and a place
to do business?
DC: Wellesley's
a beautiful town with
a very good school
system. I think the
people here are interesting
and friendly, and
Wellesley has a nice,
close-knit business
community. Having
my office here allows
me to have flexibility
when it comes to attending
the kids' sporting
events and other activities
at school. Frankly,
never been a big fan
of a long commute
and spending all that
time in traffic. It's
very unproductive.
Tell us about your
newest Wellesley-based
venture. It's
not quite so corporate,
DC: Right, it's
an exciting change
for me; my first retail
company. It's
called Island Issue.
We make men's
and women's
sportswear "for
those who enjoy life." It's
geared toward travelers,
especially those who
go to resort areas.
The clothes are easy
to pack, and made
of luxury fabrics
like 100 percent organic
cotton and merino
wool. It's
a fresh, new, versatile
brand with a good
value-to-price point.
what about your theory
that it's
best to start a company
when the industry
is in a growth phase?
DC: Well, it's
true that starting
a clothing company
right now, while we're
in the teeth of a
recession, might not
be the best idea!
But everyone needs
a challenge and sometimes,
starting up in a recession
can be good. Customers
may reassess their
current suppliers.
A new company has
no market share to
lose. During a recession,
shoppers need a compelling
reason to buy. Our
clothing is made to
be self-wicking, temperature
controlling, and natural.
of great appeal right
that, our goal
is to build a fun,
interesting company
that people will
really want to work
for. We're
going to be a young,
innovative company.
going to feature our
own, limited-edition
prints on the clothing
and as artwork, to
give away as gifts
to retailers, rewarding
them for trying our
products in their
stores. Our goal is
to distribute Island
Issue clothing through
specialty retail shops,
over the Internet,
and by building partnerships
with resorts. We want
to use existing retail
channels, not create
new ones.
How did you come
up with the Island
Issue concept?
so different
the Renaissance
and Sagent Healthstaff
models that you
worked on before.
DC: All of us…my
wife, my kids, were
on our boat in Martha's
Vineyard, and we were
thinking how neat
it would be to start
a clothing line just
for times like that,
featuring comfortable
natural fabrics in
soft island-y colors.
Starting this company
has been a great way
for me to engage my
kids. They're
a wonderful resource—the
boys and the girls—for
trends in clothing.
And we can employ
them and their friends,
and provide internships.
be there for them
when they graduate;
maybe they'll
still want to be involved.
Community service
is important to us
as a family, and it's
an important component
of every company that
been involved with.
So as we go forward,
Island Issue will
have that social give-back
component, as well.
Who are your target
DC: Every guy who has
a favorite sweatshirt
that he loves. Every
woman who wants a
stylish, comfortable
wrap that can go everywhere
she does. We want
Island Issue clothes
to be those pieces
they reach for again
and again. We want
our customers to feel
like they're
on vacation when they're
wearing our clothes.
And what about the
corporate culture?
Will Island Issue
have one similar to
DC: We definitely want
to find ways to use
the company in a positive
way, getting kids
involved, sponsoring
events, and donating
to good causes.
Where can our readers
find Island Issue?
DC: Locally, we're
going to be available
at E.A. Davis. It's
a well-established
store, very well run,
has an innovative
and creative high-end
selection, it's
and at the same time,
really community-oriented.
We think E.A. Davis
is a great fit for
Island Issue clothing.
We premier the spring
line there on February
Any more tips for
those who might be
starting their own
company anytime soon?
DC: I don't
like hierarchies.
They create barriers
and walls. In these
companies, we don't
have titles or cards.
That inspires loyalty,
nurtures people, and
reinforces what's
important. One of
the great responsibilities
of running a company
is offering opportunities
for personal and professional
growth to all of the
I always like to
ask about what people
are reading, or
to suggest some
relevant books.
Since we've
been talking about
business, what
books can you recommend
on the subject?
DC: I can think of three
that stand out. One
of my favorites is
The Art of War by
Sun Tzu; it's
an interesting approach-to-management
book. Another one
that we used in the
early years at Renaissance
is Jack Welch and
the GE Way by Robert
Slater. And here's
one that's
a must for any sales
organization: Strategic
Selling by Robert
Miller and Stephen
WWM: Thanks Drew, it was
great to have met
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Brazil shows why the United States should not ignore the benefits of having cheap devices built in Asia.
Beware of Unintended Costs
Carlos Pio is a professor of international political economy at the Universidade de Brasilia and at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Updated June 19, 2013, 1:05 PM
In tough economic times, politicians press to find ways to increase production and employment at any cost. But when choosing options to alleviate hardship in the short run, they should consider the long-term impact.
Providing incentives for Apple and other tech companies to manufacture products in the United States can have unintended consequences.
Brazil's experience shows that he United States should be cautious. It benefits enormously from having access to gadgets like iPhones and iPads that are relatively cheap because they are manufactured in Asia. Buoyed by millions of smartphone owners, the apps industry employs about 300,000 people in the United States, according to The Economist, more than in all other countries combined. Exports in this field, even to China, are booming.
Last year, Brazil attracted some of that Asian manufacturing. It granted Foxconn — a major Taiwanese supplier and assembler of iPhone components in China -- subsidized credit, and protection from imports, in exchange for its manufacturing in Brazil.
A few months after the deal was signed, though, the government realized that the country didn't have enough engineers and other properly trained workers to run the factories. And while pay scales were at a historic high, the government did not show a particular resolve to attract skilled immigrants.
As a result, Foxconn's production costs were higher. Brazilian-made iPhones and iPads are the most expensive sold by Apple.
A few lucky Brazilian engineers have benefited, but fewer people can afford to buy smartphones, and neither "app" firms nor tech jobs are booming.
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TODAY'S SPECIAL: Acts 14:8-20
TO CHEW ON: "Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead." Acts 14:19
Have you ever been to a sports game where the hometown team starts making mistakes? Very quickly a cheering crowd turns into a hissing, booing one.
Paul and Barnabas found this out. When they came to Lystra, Paul healed a man who had never walked.
We can't measure our success by how we're treated by the crowd. We may be popular with the crowd one day, and persecuted the next. Instead we live to please only one person. Who is that?
- Our parent?
- Our friend?
- Ourselves?
- Jesus?
PRAYER: Dear Jesus, help me to stay loyal to You, no matter what the crowd around me does. Amen.
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Draw the rest of Paul's journey and the return trip on your map.
1. From Iconium to –> Lystra to –> Derbe.
2. The return trip: Lystra –> Iconium –> Antioch –> through Pisidia –> Pamphylia –> Perga –> Attalia –> sailed back to Antioch
3. Bible teachers think Paul and Barnabas were away on their mission trip for a year and a half (18 months). In that time they covered about 1250 miles. They traveled most of the land miles by foot – walking!
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Zalewski v. T.P. Builders, Inc.
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- For Plaintiff: For The Plaintiffs: Lee Palmateer, Esq., of Counsel, Lee Palmateer Law Office LLC, Albany, NY.
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QVC Pays $7.5 Million for False Claims
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Home shopping channel QVC agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) charges that it made false claims for health products, reports TVweek.com . The FTC says that QVC made deceptive claims about some dietary supplements, even after the channel promised not to do so in 2000.
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"QVC aired ads that weren't true and violated an FTC order," says Eileen Harrington, acting director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection. "Simply put, we aren't going to let QVC get away with this. The company is responsible for the product claims made on its programs, and we expect that going forward, QVC will do a better job for its audience and make sure that its programs are truthful and deceptive."
QVC's senior vice president-general counsel, Larry Hayes, said the company decided to enter into the settlement to end further legal expenses. "When the vendors offered these products on-air, QVC firmly believed, and still believes, there was no deception in the way they were presented," he says.
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NEW YORK — Enfatico, a 16-month-old agency with 1,000 employees created by WPP to serve Dell's marketing needs, was folded into the Young & Rubicam (Y&R) Brands ad firm, WPP announced in mid-April. Y&R will work on the Dell account and Enfatico's CEO, Torrence Boone, will report to Y&R Brands chief executive, Peter Stringham.
According to an official statement by Enfatico, the move was in response to the current economic environment and that, "Enfatico remains a standalone brand alongside Young & Rubicam Brand's other companies, including Y&R, Wunderman, Burson-Marsteller, Landor and others. Dell and WPP have reinforced their commitment to the Enfatico model of integration across marketing disciplines."
Enfatico was started as Project Da Vinci in December 2007 by Casey Jones, former vice president of global marketing for Dell. The company originally laid off about 8 percent of its workforce in February. It also recently attracted its first non-Dell client, Progress Software. One of the biggest obstacles for Enfatico from the beginning was having only one client, and the fear that marketing cutbacks would kill the company entirely.
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SPRING HILL — The Florida State Bowling Championships are coming to Hernando County for 10 consecutive weekends beginning April 25.
As many as 900 teams of five members each from all over the state will bowl every Saturday and Sunday at Mariner Lanes on Mariner Boulevard and Spring Hill Lanes on Commercial Way.
Ron Ditt, manager of the Hernando County Bowling Association, has plenty of bowlers. But he has another need: volunteers.
The volunteers will help put on what promises to be one of the biggest events ever to boost tourism in Hernando County.
Ditt estimates the economic impact at some $4 million.
County tourism director Sue Rupe said the bowlers will have "a huge impact."
To help make it all a satisfying experience for the bowlers and visitors, local volunteers are needed "badly," Ditt said. "The host association has to provide all the manpower."
On his list, Ditt notes the need for four sign-in clerks each day who will verify a bowler's application and averages, likely from more than one league. Three volunteers at each site are necessary to oversee bracket games, "a little game bowlers play among themselves," Ditt explained.
Storm Bowling Balls, manufacturing sponsor of the tourney, mandates the raffling of a bowling bowl for each squad. "We need two people at each site to handle that," Ditt said.
There also will be a 50-50 raffle, an opportunity for bowlers to recoup some of their travel outlays. Two people at each bowling center are necessary to run that effort each day.
Over the 10 Saturdays and Sundays, running through early July, if volunteers sign up only for one shift — morning and afternoon sessions at each bowling alley — a total of 360 people would be needed, Ditt said. But some of the volunteers likely will take more than one shift.
"We knew going into this we were going to have a (staffing) problem," he said. "This is the first time we've done this."
To entice public participation, the Hernando association has put together a package of incentives for those who agree to give of their time.
"For each time that they work, they will get a basket meal, nonalcoholic beverages and five free games of bowling," Ditt said.
Team competition will be at Mariner Lanes while the doubles and singles contests will be at Spring Hill Lanes.
The Hernando County Tourism Bureau has assisted by obtaining discounts for the visitors at local motels, lining up coupons for area restaurants and printing a map of supporting businesses, Rupe said.
The local bowling association beat out Tampa to host the 2009 tournament. The group worked on its presentation over a year's time.
Taking part in the pitch to the state organization were Ditt, Rupe, Mariner Lanes owner Rafael Hernandez, Spring Hill Lanes co-owner George Martin and Holiday Inn Express manager Jenny Burdett.
"We're going to make some money from this if we can get the volunteers," Ditt said of the bowling association. "All the money we make will go to a special account to cover the expected increase in national (bowling association) membership. Every senior will get $2 more off the regular membership fee of $16 annually.
"That's why we'd like the bowlers to come out and help because they'll get money back."
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Book Review: 'Turning the Page' by Michael Bluemling
Published 10:00 pm, Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Michael Bluemling, Jr., an abuse survivor, has written a heartfelt and practical book about how people who have experienced abuse can move beyond it, healing their pasts so they can go on to experience fulfilled and purposeful lives.
While a lot of books about abuse and recovery exist, Turning the Page: Overcoming Abuse to Reach Life's Fulfillment really stands out. Michael tells his own story in these pages, but this is far from another abuse memoir filled with one shocking and heartbreaking abuse story after another. Nor is it a clinical book about the effects of abuse upon a person's psychology, digging deeply into dysfunctional behaviors, their causes, and their repercussions. Yes, Michael does tell his own abuse story, but he does it briefly to make it clear he knows what he's talking about and can relate to what the reader may have experienced. There is also a foreword by Dr. James E. Sellman offering a clinical perspective, but it is relatively brief. Instead, the book's real focus is on how to recover and begin to live a life free of abuse and filled with self-confidence and purpose. Perhaps most surprising of all is that Michael does not rely on any previous books or programs for his discussion. Instead, he states that he did not have a lot of resources available to him when he was trying to move past his own abuse experiences so he created his own recovery program to get him through that difficult time. Now he offers to his readers the steps that worked for him so they can also begin to move past pain and discover the good things in life.
Turning the Page is divided into three sections: "Facing Your Feelings and Fears," "Moving Forward," and "Fulfillment." Individual chapters cover topics like "Getting Over Self-Blame," "Letting Go," "Breaking the Cycle," and "Building Trust with Others." The book is further broken down into short and effective discussions, each chapter containing seven steps for its individual recovery topic and then a discussion for how to work through each step. Finally, an exercise ends each chapter to help the reader focus on the steps he or she needs to take to move past a particular aspect of abuse.
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In addition, the foreword by Dr. James E. Sellman outlines the more clinical view of abuse, offering eye-opening information about its effects on victims and steps to overcome the past and move from victim to survivor. Dr. Sellman discusses his own experiences working with abuse survivors, and he reveals, based on clinical experience and research, how the brain copes with the chronic stress and trauma of abuse and the symptoms that result from it, especially depression and anxiety. Finally, he concludes by explaining the four cornerstones necessary to live a healthy life and have a successful recovery. This information will be priceless for readers beginning their recovery journeys.
Perhaps my favorite part of Turning the Page is that Michael gets to the heart of why many people don't seek help to recover. He makes it clear that people do not have to feel ashamed or like they are less than others just because they were abused. They can move past those feelings and learn to enjoy all life has to offer. As Michael explains:
There are no eternal winners in life because at some point, we all lose. What this world is filled with is survivors - people who refuse to be beaten up, literally, without getting up to fight back. This survival is the core of who we are as humans who strive for greatness and also fail on many levels daily. It is okay to fail. It is okay to lose. It is okay to get back up and try again. Life is all about beating the odds and having the energy to give it all we've got. As a survivor of abuse, you have all you will ever need inside yourself to adapt and overcome. Now it is time to turn the page and open the windows of opportunity that await you.
If you're a survivor of abuse, I hope you'll take up Michael's invitation to turn the page. If you know someone who has been through abuse, I hope you'll read this book so you better understand what that person has experienced and then pass this book on to him or her as a source of hope. You deserve all the happiness life has to offer.
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Come mid-March, the winter-use planners at Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks plan to hold two open houses -- one in Bozeman, Montana, the other in Jackson, Wyoming -- to outline their thoughts about the upcoming environmental impact statement delving into that wonderfully thorny topic of snowmobiling in Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway.
During these sessions, the planners are expected to roll out their array of "scenarios" that could wind up being the winter-use alternatives that the EIS will examine. A set of the scenarios I've seen ranges all the way from no snowmobile use to unlimited snowmobile use.
I guess once you start playing this game you have to finish it, for the main reason the government is going through this increasingly monotonous, repetitive, and costly study of snowmobiles is because a few years ago it believed the snowmobile industry could make a snowmobile that was pretty darn clean, emissions-wise.
And yet, back in early December, when the parks' winter-use planners trotted out their 49-page PowerPoint presentation with pretty, and not so pretty, pictures, charts and graphs detailing this odyssey, they included a slide that quite matter-of-factly pointed out that "there have been no improvements in snowmobile air or sound emissions since 4-strokes were introduced in 2001."
At the bottom of that slide's page, the planners asked the obvious: "How can we encourage snowmobile manufacturers to produce even cleaner and quieter sleds?"
That is a pretty good question, particularly when there are manufacturers out there who have been working on hybrid snowmobile engines that are cleaner and quieter than the "best available technology" 4-strokes and yet supposedly just as powerful as the old, dirty 2-strokes. Why hasn't the industry tracked down Raser Technologies to see what it would take to make these puppies run in commercial circles? There could be a perfectly good explanation, but I have yet to hear it. When I mentioned Raser Technologies to John Sacklin, Yellowstone's winter-use planner, last fall he said he'd love to see how they've improved their prototype.
And if you can have college students building operational electric snowmobiles that would seem to be just the thing for Yellowstone, why can't the pros? Maybe they should hire some of these kids.
Of course the planners' question about what will it take to get the manufacturers to build cleaner and quieter sleds begs another question: Why is the government waiting for that to happen? Why doesn't it just live up to the National Park Organic Act, focus on preservation, and say snowmobiles are simply too polluting to enter the parks?
Now, as for some of the "scenarios" the planners have been mulling for the upcoming EIS, one calls for things to revert to 1983, when there essentially were no restrictions. Another calls for roads leading from the West Entrance into the park to be plowed, with over-the-snow traffic allowed only through the South Entrance and on east-side roads.
An intriguing possibility calls for no grooming of the roads, except for the one that leads from the South Entrance to Old Faithful, with snowmobiles and snowcoaches having to stick to that one. Of course, the current plan, which caps snowmobile use in Yellowstone to 720 machines a day, all commercially guided, would be another option, as would the no-snowmobile, only-snowcoach option.
Keep in mind that these "scenarios" were developed earlier this winter and could change substantially by the time the open houses are held. But they give you an idea of what the planners have been mulling.
So there you have it. Let the fun begin. The Bozeman meeting will be at the Best Western GranTree Inn while the Jackson meeting will be at the Snow King Resort. Both start at 3 p.m. and run until 7 p.m.


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Michael Gowin, President – Michael is a husband of one wife and a father to nine children, six of whom have been adopted from Ethiopia. Michael and his wife Suzanne are Empowered to Connect trainers, helping parents learn how to raise "kids from hard places." When he is not attending a child's extracurricular activity, Michael works at Lincoln Christian University where he serves as Professor of Business Administration and owns Michael Gowin Photography and Illinois Home Photography as well.
Tara C. Samples, Secretary – Tara is a grateful disciple of Jesus, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a scholar. Tara is a wife, a mother, and foster-parent. In her professional life, Tara speaks and writes on the psychological treatments of traumatic grief and trauma-spectrum disorders. Tara is as an advocate against injustice, violence, oppression, and exploitation in the church and in the world.
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The first community meeting about proposed water rate increases shifted to a public backlash against so-called "overdevelopment" in Glendale's downtown on Wednesday at the Sparr Heights Senior Center.
After city officials laid out their plan to hike rates by a compounded 21.8% systemwide over four years, residents complained about the roughly two dozen apartment buildings in the works, voicing fears that new tenants in the more than 3,800 units will put additional pressure on the city's already tight water supply and aging pipes.
The criticisms prompted City Manager Scott Ochoa to take center stage and counter the development condemnation. When he said he didn't believe there was overdevelopment, a loud "whoa" swept the crowd of about 20 people.
"I've never heard so many lies in my life — that there's no overdevelopment, that everything's good," resident Ron MacNair said after the meeting. "Ask Mr. Ochoa and there are no problems. We're here in paradise."
Glendale Water & Power General Manager Steve Zurn tried to comfort the crowd when he noted that the city's water infrastructure can handle the new apartment complexes, and if a new pipe or meters need to be installed because of new construction, developers have to pay for that.
City officials are reviewing a new development-impact fee to build up water-infrastructure funding, Zurn added. The city already charges developers parks and library fees. Those were recently more than doubled from $7,000 per unit to $18,000 per unit to end a years-long subsidy to encourage downtown development.
Some Glendale pipes may be old, Zurn said, but they are not "crumbling" as described by residents, some of whom said they felt duped because utility officials for years have been describing the pipes as deteriorated when they've asked City Council to approve past water rate increases and bond issuances.
The utility put so much money into improving its storage capacity — including revamping the Chevy Chase and Diederich reservoirs — without the council greenlighting funding sources that the water side ended up $21 million in the red in 2012. It is now $10.2 million in the hole, according to a city report.
"That's where we let you down," Ochoa said.
Officials also said the new tenants won't impact Glendale's water supply, most of which is purchased from an independent supplier that provides water to many Southern California cities.
Residents said after the meeting that they also felt disappointed when officials described why the water-rate increases are needed just two years after the council upped rates. Officials are proposing four years of water-rate bumps to fix mistakes made by a consultant when designing the 2012 rates, which undercharge some customers and overcharge others.
"The consultant that we had made a boneheaded mistake," Ochoa said.
The consultant, Willdan Financial Services, used monthly instead of bimonthly data and underestimated the number of fire lines.
While residents were pleased to hear that city officials are exploring legal remedies to the rate mess, some questioned why officials didn't oversee the consultant's work and catch the problem before the rates were implemented.
In addition to the general increases — which will differ depending on water use, customer type and meter size — residents also were upset about a proposed drought charge, which would add between 76 cents and $3.07 to monthly bills depending on drought severity in order to buoy Glendale Water & Power's revenues as more customers conserve.
Under the proposed plan, monthly water bills for average single-family residences, five-unit multifamily complexes and commercial customers could increase by $17.98, $46.04 and $16.67, respectively, by fiscal year 2017-18.
"I'm bare budget now," said resident Ron Allen. "If you're bare budget now, how much more can they squeeze out of us?"
Additional community meetings are scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m. on June 18, at the Pacific Edison Community Room, 501 S. Pacific Ave. and from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on June 19, at the Boy Scouts of America, 1325 Grandview Ave.
The council is slated to vote on the proposed rates July 22.
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NEW College coach Matt Cosnett says that he has been pleased with how his new look squad is developing this summer.
The South Martson-based side have been back in for pre-season training for a week now and the Hellenic League squad have already claimed their first friendly win against Longwell Green, who play in the Western League Premier Division, with Josh Croucher's strike the only goal of the game.
While the majority of the players that featured were from the college's third year set-up, several members - Ryan Morgan, Ollie Hunt, Kai Robinson and Antonio Gerrish - from the Under 18s side also featured.
"The first year players that we have got this year are doing really well," Cosnett said. "They have been back a week now and we are already stepping it up.
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"So it was a very good performance and we are happy with how it all went."
New College are also preparing their Under 18s for their first venture into the FA Youth Cup.
The side, who playing the South West Counties League, will travel to either Bristol Rovers or Gloucester City on the week commencing September 22.
"It is great that we are in the FA Youth Cup, but it is a very tough tie for us," Cosnett said.
Meanwhile, Cirencester Town continued their preparations for the life in Southern League Premier Division with a 3-0 success at Hellenic League newcomers Longlevens.
Mark Pritchett gave the Centurions the lead in the 22nd minute before Aidan Bennett doubled the advantage early in the second period and then Liam O'Brien rounded off the scoring late on.
Fairford Town bounced back from their 8-2 defeat to Binfield with a goalless draw with Wroughton, while Purton fell to a 5-2 lose against Western League side Devizes Town.


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Looked after by teacher Vicki Bell and assistants Rachael Daynes (morning), Elaine Tuffield (morning) and Andrea Mackie (afternoon), the class went on a trip to the Dinosaur Adventure Park, paid for by the Friends of Hapton Committee. The class have learnt the names and diets of dinosaurs, and have been reading lots of the Harry and the Dinosaurs Books. Recently, Class 1 went up against Class 2, baking biscuits for the school fair and trying to make the most money, while they also learnt about measuring accurately, and the importance of hygiene.


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In Case You Needed Proof Jelena Reuniting Is A Bad Idea, Chris Brown Is Involved
In case you were wondering, I'm not having any difficulty coming up with reasons that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez getting back together is a bad idea. In fact, I can name five right off the top of my head — my two eyes, two ears, and one brain. They all provide me with information on a daily basis suggesting that Justin is imploding and with Jelena reunited, it looks like now he's fixin' to take Selena with him.
But just when I thought that my list of objections to this star-crossed on-again-off-again couple was complete and that nothing could get added to it, something did — apparently Chris Brown is involved. GREAT. Because anything that he endorses is always such a good idea. What a terrifying thought, that he's playing mentor to these kids. I guess the main hand that he had in their reuniting was providing them with his RV in which to stay on a recent camping trip they took on January 4th. Because I guess we're still calling staying in a $2 million RV 'camping'.
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But thanks a million from all of us, Chris, for helping to bring one of the most befuddling relationships of 2013 into 2014. I'm sure Selena appreciates it, too, right in the middle of her 'me time'. UGH.
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August 1774: Priestley isolates a new "air," leading to discovery of oxygen
Born in 1733 in a small town near Leeds, Joseph Priestley was the eldest of six children born to Jonas Priestley, a "dresser and finisher of cloth," and Mary, the daughter of a local farmer. His mother died when he was nine, and he was adopted by his father's sister, where he was exposed to the theological and political discussions of "Dissenters," a group of believers who did not strictly adhere to the doctrines of the official Church of England, and were often discriminated against for their unorthodox beliefs.
Priestley attended local schools, but a bout with tuberculosis in his teenaged years forced him to drop out. He had learned Greek, Latin, and a bit of Hebrew, and taught himself French, Italian, German, Chaldean, Syrian, and Arabic, as well as the basics of geometry and algebra. Once recovered, he enrolled at Daventry Academy with the aim of becoming a minister, and it was here he first became interested in natural and experimental philosophy.
He became a minister, nonetheless, despite alienating some members of his first rural congregation in Needham Market, Suffolk, with his strong Unitarian leanings. He was much happier in his second post at Nantwich, Cheshire, where he helped establish a school.
In 1761, he was transferred to Warrington to become a tutor of modern languages and rhetoric at the local Dissenting Academy. This was an excellent environment for Priestley's growing interest in scientific experimentation. During a trip to London, he met Benjamin Franklin, who encouraged him to investigate electricity. Priestley soon found himself designing his own experiments. He published A History and Present State of Electricity, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
We owe the artificial carbonation process to Priestley. In 1767, Priestley was living next to a brewery in Leeds and started experimenting with the brewery gas using candles and burning pieces of wood. In one such experiment, he placed a bowl of water above the surface of a liquor in the process of fermenting, and found it quickly took on a sweetly acidic taste akin to the famed mineral water of Niederseltsers. The result was the 1772 publication of Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
Priestley was working at a time when most scientists still adhered to the principles of Aristotle–namely, that there was only one kind of "air." This was an era dominated by the "phlogiston theory," in which it was believed that burning or oxidizing a given substance corresponded to the release of another material substance. It was used to explain things like combustion, smelting, calcination, and similar chemical processes.
In an experiment conducted on August 1, 1774, Priestley focused sunlight through a lens, thereby heating a sample of mercuric oxide using a pneumatic trough, resulting in a gas that allowed a candle to burn brightly, and also enabled a mouse to live for a long period while under glass. "I have discovered an air five or six times as good as common air," he wrote. Over the next 12 years, he compiled Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, replacing Aristotle's outdated theory of four elements with his own variation of phlogiston theory. He called his discovery "dephlogisticated air."
While traveling in Paris later that year, Priestley met Antoine Lavoisier and replicated his experiment for the French chemist. It was Lavoisier who determined that Priestley had discovered purified air ("without alteration"), an observation that led to the eventual abandonment of phlogiston theory by the scientific community. The new chemistry embraced the concepts of elements and compounds, and the notion of conservation of mass.
Priestley rejected the Lavoisier school of thought, including conservation of mass. Even though he successfully isolated carbon monoxide, he never realized it was a different kind of "air." French naturalist George Cuvier, writing in the 19th century, lamented Priestley's uncharacteristic stubbornness in clinging to the phlogiston theory, describing him as "the father of modern chemistry [who] never acknowledged his daughter."
Priestley's religious convictions cost him dearly, both personally and professionally. While serving as a minister in Birmingham, he earned considerable public enmity for some of his pamphlets, particularly those attacking the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. He was branded an agent of the devil and denounced in the House of Commons. On July 14, 1791, a drunken mob sacked and burned both Dissenting meeting houses. Warned that a mob was after him, Priestley fled "with nothing more than the clothes we happened to have on." His house burned to the ground, destroying his laboratory and many unpublished manuscripts.
The hostility followed them to London. Poor Priestley was burned in effigy, once again denounced in the House of Commons, as well as from Church of England pulpits, and was even forced by scientific colleagues to resign his membership in the Royal Society.
Priestley emigrated to America with his family in 1794, when he was 61. He was offered a chair in chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, but opted instead to settle 150 miles north, in the town of Northumberland. He continued his experiments, but found himself spending winters in Philadelphia to stave off the isolation.
Unfortunately, Priestley's physical health wasn't as robust as his mind. He nearly died in 1801 during a trip to Philadelphia, and never fully recovered. By February 1804, he could no longer shave or dress himself, and was bedridden. After bidding farewell to his children, he reviewed some unfinished manuscripts, finally nodding and saying, "That is right. I have now done." He died 30 minutes later.
In 1833, on the 100th anniversary of Priestley's birth, Michael Faraday praised his forebear's "freedom of mind" and "independence of dogma and of preconceived notions, by which men are so often bowed down and carried forward from fallacy to fallacy." Faraday exhorted his listeners to follow Priestley's example, fostering "a mind which could be easily moved from what it had held to the reception of new thoughts and notions."
Further Reading:
Holt, A. A Life of Joseph Priestley. London, England: Oxford University Press, 1931.
Priestley, Joseph. Autobiography of Joseph Priestley. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1970.
Rhees, D.J. Joseph Priestley, Enlightened Chemist. American Chemical Society, Center for History of Chemistry, Publication No. 1, 1983.
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RTÉ News and Current Affairs: One to One
Proinsias de Rossa was born in 1940 in Dublin's North inner city. He was President of the Worker's Party and subsequently leader of Democratic Left. He was Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997 and an MEP for Dublin twice, once between 1989 till 1992 and again from 1999 until his resignation in January of this year.
During the extensive interview with Aine Lawlor on his political life, he discusses the split in the Workers' Party in 1982 and says that he regretted very much that he "never spoke one word to the late Tomas MacGiolla after I walked out of a Workers' Party meeting in 1992 - which is a great regret to me. It still hurts because we were very close."
He believes that: "It was a mistake to drop the water charges and property taxes during the Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left Rainbow Coalition of 1994 - 1997 and a mistake to overnight drop Third Level fees which were introduced by Niamh Breannach."
Regarding the EU, he says that "The problem with the European Community is that there is an over-emphasises on a single market as distinct from creating a European Union of people."
One to One, Monday 24th September, 11.40pm, RTÉ One and repeated on Sunday 30th September at 10.30am, RTÉ One.