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Men come to faith in many ways. Some have dramatic experiences that fill them with certainty. Some cling to their parents' God from childhood. Others live through gut-wrenching cycles of doubt and belief until the latter triumphs.
Still others arrive at faith through a long process, as though a temple of the heart is being readied for a destined moment. This is how faith came for George W. Bush.
By the time he turned 40, Bush had been churched. He was baptized in an Episcopal church in Connecticut, trained for a decade in the First Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas, and made to feel stirrings of faith in St. Martin's Episcopal Church of Houston.
During his high school years at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, he was required to be in a Congregationalist-style chapel five times a week, which meant he spent as much time in church in those three years as a regular attender does in 10.
After he got to Yale, he began taking religion in smaller doses. Perhaps he needed a break.
It was his wife, Laura, who drew him in again and made him a Methodist. Not long after their marriage, he was teaching Sunday school at First Methodist in Midland, taking up offerings and sitting on committees. Whether his heart was engaged by it or not, he had known since childhood that a good man stays connected to his faith.
A friend once remarked that if Bush had stopped going to church at the age of 40 he would still have attended more than most people do in a lifetime.
But, again, Bush was bored by the time he arrived at midlife. Laura took him to a James Dobson seminar in hopes of seeing him deepen spiritually.
It didn't take. George got up from his seat and moved next to a friend. The quips began. "What kind of pants did the Levites wear?" he whispered.
Another time, a pastor asked, "What is a prophet?" Bush sang out: "That is when revenues exceed expenditures. No one's seen that out here in years."
Bush relished being the bad boy. He once set the timer on his watch to go off in the middle of a pastor's talk to a men's class. Everyone but the pastor thought it was hilarious, and the next week all the men set their watches to go off at the same time.
By 1984, though, events conspired to help him concentrate. Oil prices started collapsing. Life in Midland changed dramatically.
The big-spending came to a neck-snapping halt, and the town in which 1 in every 45 citizens had been a millionaire began to see foreclosures, bankruptcy and fear. Bush's small firm lost more than $400,000, and there were more hits to come.
The economy was but one force driving Bush into confrontation with himself. To top it all off, he had never shaken his chief demon: the aimlessness, the lack of purpose, the boredom that had plagued him all his life.
He had no sense of destiny. He could party and do business and love his family, but he did not have the inner fire that makes men happy and great. He was a lightweight in almost every sense.
The story of Bush's spiritual transformation has usually centered upon his famous walk on a Maine beach with Billy Graham. Bush has said that Graham "planted a mustard seed in my soul," but if this is so, it happened only after a year of deep plowing by others.
An Encounter With the Cross
In 1984, the spiritual leaders of Midland were trying to tend the souls of a troubled community. To bring the needed healing, the city's religious leaders invited the people of Midland-Odessa to gather at the Chaparral Center during the first week of April to hear famed evangelist Arthur Blessitt--the man who had carried a 12-foot cross some 38,800 miles in 284 nations.
Billed as Decision '84, Blessitt's meetings in Midland were widely advertised on radio and television. Several days into the meetings, on April 3, Blessitt received a call from Jim Sale, an oilman, Baptist church member and one of the organizers of the crusade. Sale told Blessitt that there was another local oilman who had heard the radio advertising and wanted to meet him.
But this was no ordinary oilman, Sale explained. This was George W. Bush, son of the vice president of the United States.
Blessitt agreed to see him, and the three met that day in the coffee shop of Midland's Holiday Inn. After a brief exchange of greetings, Bush looked at Blessitt and said, "Arthur, I did not feel comfortable attending the meeting, but I want to talk to you about how to know Jesus Christ and how to follow Him."
The evangelist reflected for a moment and asked, "What is your relationship with Jesus?"
"I'm not sure," Bush replied.
Blessitt probed. "If you died this moment do you have the assurance you would go to heaven?"
Bush did not hesitate. "No," he answered.
The evangelist then began to explain what it meant to know and follow Jesus. He quoted the Bible, verse after verse, commenting as he went, and making application to Bush's life. After he had outlined the Christian message, he said: "The call of Jesus is for us to repent and believe. The choice is like this: Would you rather live with Jesus in your life or live without Him?"
"With Him," Bush replied.
"Jesus changes us from the inside out," Blessitt continued. "The world tries to change us from the outside in. Jesus is not condemning you. He wants to save you and cleanse your heart and change your desires. He wants to write your name in the Book of Life and welcome you into His family, now and forever."
Blessitt then asked Sale to share his testimony, believing that Bush would relate to the story of a fellow oilman. When Sale was done, Blessitt said: "Mr. Bush, I would like to pray a prayer for you and then lead you in a prayer of commitment and salvation. You can become a follower of Jesus now."
Bush had some questions, though, and the two men took time to answer each one until he seemed satisfied.
The evangelist pressed again: "I want to pray with you now."
"I'd like that," Bush said.
Blessitt then prayed, asking Bush to repeat each phrase after him. When the prayer ended, Bush was smiling, and Blessitt began rejoicing. It was an "an awesome and glorious moment," the evangelist recalls.
Blessitt read Luke 15:10 to Bush, which says there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents. He then gave Bush a pamphlet titled The New Life, which explained how to grow as a young Christian. After a few more pleasantries, the two shook hands and parted.
Over the next two years, they spoke by phone several times, but Blessitt's long seasons of travel abroad caused them to lose contact.
Sale and Blessitt kept silent about the meeting for 17 years. They assumed it was private and not for them to speak publicly of Bush's spiritual life. When A Charge to Keep was published in 2001, with Bush so strongly writing about his faith in its pages, Blessitt decided it was appropriate for him to begin telling of the meeting in Midland. He published his recollection on his Web site and has often spoken in his sermons of the prayer with Bush.
Sale, the only eyewitness, confirms that "what happened is precisely as recorded in Blessitt's testimony." Indeed, Sale adds that given the 17 years Blessitt went without "saying a word, there is real humility and integrity here that bears witness to the authenticity of the testimony."
Deeper Conviction
For Bush, the encounter with Blessitt was but one in a series of events in those years that pressed the message he had known since childhood even more deeply into his heart. More revealing is how intensely Bush was searching out matters of the Spirit.
He obviously felt so uncomfortable with evangelistic meetings that he couldn't bring himself to attend the one in Midland. He was so moved by what he heard Blessitt say on the radio that he sought a meeting with the man to ask him how to follow Jesus. Clearly Bush was hungry for something he had yet to find in all of his religious experience.
Yet the meeting with Blessitt did not bring Bush's search to an end. When Billy Graham asked him a year later if he was right with God, he answered, "No."
If Bush was hungry, the conversion of his friend Don Jones, the president of Midland's fastest-growing bank, was about to make him hungrier.
Bush knew Jones well. He was on the board of Jones' bank, and the two often drank together. Jones had often joked that he was "raised Episcopalian, and where you find four Episcopalians you'll usually find a fifth."
They also attended First Methodist Church together. For Jones the Episcopalian, the choice of a Methodist church was a compromise with his Southern Baptist wife.
Not unlike his friends at the time, Jones had a low opinion of the "born again" variety of Christians. He thought of them as flashy televangelists with overdone jewelry and side-showman suits: "I sure didn't want to be one," he laughs.
But a sense of moral neediness and some of the spiritual happenings in Midland led Jones in 1985 to make a New Year's resolution to give up drinking and start reading the Bible. It was while home alone on January 10 that he was reading the Gospel of John and came upon the words, "'Unless a man is born again, he shall not see the kingdom of God.'"
Immediately, an overwhelming sense of conviction and need for God's grace came over him. There were tears and a crushing sense of his sinfulness. He prayed and cried and prayed some more. By evening, he felt peace, a sense that "the burden of his sins had been lifted from his soul."
His wife came home to find a different man. Jones developed a virtual addiction to the Bible. He got even more involved in his church and, in November, he started attending Community Bible Study, the Midland branch of a Bible-study movement started in Washington, D.C. The change in him was immediately evident to everyone who knew him, including Bush.
Jones gave his testimony wherever he was invited, and soon nearly all of Midland knew that the prominent banker had been "born again." That Jones was a respected businessman and that he had such a pleasant way of talking about his faith made him easy for men like George Bush to relate to. Still cautious, however, they watched Jones closely over the months and in time decided that the change in his life was real.
It was just as Bush was marveling at Jones' transformation that the famous walk on the beach with Billy Graham took place. In the summer of 1985, the Bush clan vacationed together at Kennebunkport in Maine. Graham joined them for a weekend and preached at the small summer church, St. Ann's by the Sea.
Bush remembers that his father asked Graham to answer questions from a big group of family gathered for the weekend. As Bush told Skip Hollingsworth of Texas Monthly: "It was this beautiful Maine night and Billy just sat there and talked to us, and we asked him questions and shared our thoughts. He and I had a visit afterwardit was just a real personal religious visitand I started reading the Bible."
The "visit afterward" was a walk that Graham and Bush took at Walker's Point the next day. During the conversation, Graham turned to Bush and said, "Are you right with God?"
"No," Bush replied, "but I want to be."
It is typical of Bush that he remembers how he felt being with Graham rather than much of what he said. "I knew I was in the presence of a great man," he recalled in his biography, A Charge to Keep. "Billy Graham didn't make you feel guilty; he made you feel loved."
The weekend changed him. "Reverend Graham planted a mustard seed in my soul," Bush later wrote of those few days, "a seed that grew over the next year. I had always been a religious person, had regularly attended church, even taught Sunday school and served as an altar boy.
"But that weekend my faith took on new meaning. It was the beginning of a new walk where I would recommit my heart to Jesus Christ. I was humbled to learn that God sent His Son to die for a sinner like me."
He must have shared something of his experience with his family because sometime later he overhead his mother, Barbara, talking to someone on the phone and saying: "I've got some exciting news. George has been born again."
New Convictions
When he returned to Midland, he found himself possessed by a new hunger for the Bible. His friend Don Evans gave him a Bible with daily readings from both Testaments, Psalms and Proverbs, organized for every day of the year.
He also joined the Community Bible Study that Jones was part of. The group had begun meeting the year before, around the time of the Blessitt meetings. By the time Bush joined, in the fall of 1985, almost 120 men were gathering to study the New Testament writings of Luke.
It is possible that Bush did not fully understand the enormity of what he had joined. The Community Bible Study (CBS) ministry began in 1975 with a group of women who wanted to see "effective" Bible studies serving the Washington, D.C., area. The first class began at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, with more than 500 women gathering to study the Gospel of John.
The leader was Lee Campbell, who had been deeply influenced in her faith by Christian theologian-historian Francis Schaeffer. The curriculum involved a verse-by-verse study of each book of the Bible. Students were required to spend several hours outside of class, answering questions, meditating on the verses and even turning the words to prayer.
CBS became wildly popular. Within four years, there were classes in 10 states and London. Eventually, there were 19 classes in the Washington area alone. But it wasn't just growth that distinguished CBS. It was influence. Early participants included Jack Kemp's wife, Joanne; Jim Baker's wife, Donna; and Elizabeth Dole.
As the movement's own literature explains, "The studies had an impact in shaping the thinking of key players in the Reagan Revolution of the eighties." Though nonpolitical and nondenominational, CBS often provided the biblical content that educational programs of local churches lacked.
This was certainly the case for Bush, who found himself now challenged to explore Scripture in a manner he never had before. Every week Jones would drive Bush to the Bible study and marvel at his growth. The truths he was learning and pressing into his heart through prayer and meditation were clearly changing him.
There was a new gravity and maturity in Bush. George the lightweight was becoming a man of serious faith.
Christian theology teaches that salvation is instant, but sanctification--the process of cleaning up a believer's conduct and thinking--takes time. For Bush, a man of habit and routine, the renewing of his life wasn't going to be easy.
"It was like a long struggle up a steep hill for George," Jones says. It would take years for some habits to go. His tendency to strong language, for example, would die hard. Yet, his famed struggle with alcohol ended quickly, and it says much about the man he was becoming.
Bush has joked that he is so cheap he only stopped drinking when he saw the bar bill. The truth is that his moral compass and sense of values were being reconfigured by his deepening faith. He knew of Jones' decision to stop drinking and the good that it had done in his life. Still, getting drunk was the sin, not drinking alcohol, and he saw no reason to stop completely.
The change in his thinking came just after his 40th birthday. The Bushes joined their friends the O'Neills and the Evanses for a trip to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
After the night of drinking at the Broadmoor, he went for a run, assuming exercise would help overcome the effects of alcohol. It didn't.
Bush wrote: "For the past fourteen years, I had run at least three miles almost every day. This run was different. I felt worse than usual, and about halfway through, I decided I would drink no more. I came back to the hotel room and told Laura I was through."
The decision to quit alcohol is a major turn in Bush's life. It reveals more than what he felt about his health or his father's campaign. It reveals the kind of man that faith was making him. Whether he quit because he found it something he couldn't control or so he wouldn't embarrass his father, the all-important point is that he disciplined himself to serve a cause greater than himself.
He had been arrested for drunkenness, and it hadn't stopped him. His wife had asked him to stop, and he hadn't. He even had made a fool of himself socially on more than one occasion. That hadn't worked either.
But after he had come to faith, he found both the purpose and the discipline to do something that nothing else in his life could induce him to do: sacrifice pleasure on the altar of a greater cause. This new discipline, fueled by a growing sense of purpose, was beginning to make him an exceptional man.
It is also important to note the way Bush stopped drinking. The New York Times said he did it in "a characteristic way: decisively, impulsively and without much evident introspection." This would increasingly become a theme of both his personal life and his brand of leadership. When he recovered his inner moral compass and understood its signals, he obeyed it by doing what he thought was "the right thing."
Certainly he was flawed and would at times choose unwisely. Still, Bush the man without purpose was passing from the scene. In timeand it would take torturous steps over the course of yearshe would become Bush the man with a charge to keep.
Saturated in Prayer
More than any other president in American history, George W. Bush is prayed for daily by thousands of Christians.
An estimated 2.8 million Americans pray for President Bush, and that number is growing. Many of these prayer warriors are members of the Presidential Prayer Team (PPT), an initiative organized in Phoenix seven days after 9/11. Using the Internet, PPT is able to alert Christians of time-sensitive requests about the president's travel, family needs and even current military operations.
"He is in the midst of making crucial decisions on our behalf," PPT President John Lind told Charisma. "We think it is very important to pray for him."
Lind stresses that the prayer team is not focused on Bush's re-election. "We are nonpartisan and nonprofit. We pray for him, his presidential team and our military so that our nation, our people, will have peaceful lives in an unpeaceful world," he says.
PPT members log on at www.presidential prayerteam.org to read specific points for daily petition. Membership is free and open to anyone.
The prayer team has now blanketed the United States and touches 125 countries where Americans live. This summer it launched a partnership with publishers of Christian books, music and gifts to produce a prayer devotional and journal, as well as a framed inspirational artwork titled Prayer Over the White House.
Other Web sites--smaller, slower, but as steady and fervent as PPT's--were built before 9/11. Pray for Our President (www.pray forourpresident.com) is a site that receives as many as 70,000 daily visitors. Founded by Terry Posey, a Baptist writer from Greenville, South Carolina, it offers prayer reminders about Bush and his decisions that affect Iraq.
Dennis Pisani, pastor of the Glory Tabernacle in Washington, D.C., actively recruits intercessors for the president as he represents the Strategic Prayer Network (SPN), which is led by Cindy Jacobs and Chuck Pierce. SPN can be reached at www.globalharvest.org.
In Richmond, Virginia, Bob Sjogren sustains a daily prayer watch for Bush at www.heart light.org/fast. A Presbyterian, Sjogren says he hopes prayers for the president will "keep him accountable when the evil one seeks to sidetrack him from his commitment to the Lord."
Other Internet-driven presidential prayer vigils include PrayforBush.com, a site built two days before Bush was elected. Its organizers believe that "God used the 2000 election and will continue to use George W. Bush as a catalyst for spiritual awakening in the church and ... in the world."
"The many calls to prayer for the president are serving to awaken us to our responsibility," says Dutch Sheets, a pastor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who organized a huge prayer effort for Bush during the 2000 election recount. These prayer efforts, Sheets told Charisma, "are also bringing an awareness to the church that we indeed have the power to make a difference through prayer."
"We have a long way to go but progress is being made," he says.
In October 2002, Sheets sent out through his Web site, www.dutchsheets.org, a prayer alert for the U.S. Senate. In June he issued a prayer alert for the nation's judiciary.
"I am called to governmental intercession and will certainly call for prayer regardless of the person or party in office," Sheets adds.
Bush, who has stated publicly that he prays every day, is aware that massive numbers of people intercede for him. During a White House press conference in March, after the collapse of diplomatic efforts to get the United Nations to support a regime change in Iraq, a reporter asked Bush about how faith guides him.
Bush responded: "One thing that's really great about our country is there are thousands of people who pray for me that I'll never see and be able to thank. It's a humbling experience to think that people I will never have met have lifted me and my family up in prayer. And for that I'm grateful."
Thunder on the Right
Although conservative Christians helped elect George W. Bush, many of them today dislike his political views.
President Bush envisions a "road to peace" in the Middle East. But that road got bumpier when conservative Christians who helped put Bush in office began to criticize his foreign policy decisions.
Although evangelical Christians often refer to Bush as "our friend and brother in Christ," they have vocally opposed his position on Israel, his soft response to the Islamic faith and his decision to invade Iraq.
Opinion polls show that Bush still enjoys strong support among white evangelicals, but African Americans who are born-again believers don't share that sentiment. Polls have indicated at various times that Bush would barely squeak by in a general election.
Will his strongest base of support continue to erode? Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals says Bush could lose the Christian vote if his advisers ignore the core concerns of conservatives. "But I don't think conservative critics will desert him," Cizik adds. "I doubt that his popularity among Christians will be eroded."
Most evangelicals supported Bush and not Al Gore for the White House in 2000. They have been praying for him all during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yet in American politics, they staunchly oppose efforts to take land from Israel for a Palestinian state.
Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has characterized Bush's Israeli peace plan as futile. "Land for peace has never worked yet, and I don't think it's going to work now," Robertson says.
Gary Bauer of the conservative American Values think tank has warned that Bush is making a mistake by ignoring the Christian Right's position on Israel. Evangelicals will avoid the polls if they see any pressure put on Israel, he says.
Two dozen prominent Christians including Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, James Kennedy, Richard Land and Elwood McQuaid have further criticized Bush's Middle East peace plan as a formula for disaster.
Land, a Bush ally and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, has called the "road map to peace" distressing to American Christians because it would "entangle" America with the United Nations.
There's no question that Bush walks a tightrope when it comes to pleasing religious leaders. He angered some conservatives last year when he called Islam a peaceful religion. Then, liberals affiliated with the National Council of Churches called on him to rebuke "religious leaders who demonize the faiths of others"--a reference to Franklin Graham, who called Islam "evil and wicked" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Yet anti-war liberals are not the only religious leaders who opposed the war in Iraq. Christopher Alam, a former Muslim who is now a Pentecostal evangelist based in Pennsylvania, has been critical of what he calls "Bush's rush to war."
Alam told Charisma: "The Bush campaign to rid the world of Saddam seems to me a foundational hypocrisy and duplicity in American dealings with other countries. Christians should have no human enemies because the enemy today can be our brother in Christ tomorrow."
In the midst of all this tension, Colorado pastor Dutch Sheets--who mobilized a massive prayer campaign for the president in 2000--says he hopes Christians will do less criticizing and more praying.
Says Sheets: "I don't believe we have the right to criticize Bush if we are not consistently fulfilling the mandate of 1 Timothy 2:1-2 to 'first of all' pray for him and government leaders. If he makes a mistake, shouldn't the nonpraying Christian share the blame?"
Mixing God and Government
President Bush's critics have blasted his plan to give government funds to church-based relief programs. But the program is still very much alive.
When George W. Bush first proposed his plan for "faith-based initiatives" during his presidential campaign, liberal politicians criticized him for mixing religion and politics. But with his characteristic tenacity, Bush has not backed down from his plan--and it is slowly gaining acceptance among lawmakers.
After being stalled in the Senate, a modified version of the CARE Act (for Charity, Aid, Recovery and Empowerment) passed in the Senate April 9 in a 95-5 vote. Nixed were provisions that would have prohibited government agencies from discriminating against groups because they had religious names or displayed religious icons.
Christian leaders say the plan has been part of Bush's public agenda since his second week in office. That's because the president believes that churches and religious groups can help people much more effectively than government bureaucracies.
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., who along with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., introduced the bill in the Senate, says the legislation will help some of the nation's most troubled neighborhoods.
"We're going to be getting those resources that are much needed to those grass-roots organizations," the senator told the Associated Press.
Bush's efforts have uncovered a deep-seated bias against religious organizations in grant awards, says Dave Donaldson, head of We Care America, a Washington, D.C.-based group that helps Christian organizations access federal funds. A 2001 White House study found that a fraction of grant funding was distributed to faith- and community-based organizations--about one-third of 1 percent of the Justice Department's grant funding--while such groups are widely viewed as playing "large and vital roles," the study said. In a statement released after the vote in April, Bush said he hoped to improve the legislation.
"America's charities face tough times, and we can do more to support their efforts," Bush said. "I look forward to continuing to work with Congress to improve the CARE Act legislation, and I continue to urge Congress to take additional steps to end discrimination against faith-based organizations that have a proven record of helping people in need realize a better life."
In the meantime, Donaldson is urging Christians to reach out more assertively to their communities--with or without federal funding.
"Ultimately this is not about money," he told Charisma. "It's about people. Secular groups are providing treatment to socially broken people. The government has been trying to provide hope without faith."
Both Donaldson and Bishop Harold Ray, who founded the National Center for Faith-Based Initiatives to help funnel federal funds into urban church and parachurch groups, spend much of their time teaching Christian organizations how to apply for grants.
Ray believes the $65 billion the White House says is available for religious groups to compete for could serve as "at least a foot in the door of access for those who have been looking to make their dreams and visions a reality."
Both men speak as if the Christian community may miss an unprecedented window of opportunity. Donaldson, admittedly, hopes to incite a "revolution of compassion," which is also the title of his recently released book.
For Ray, "faith-based initiative" has become synonymous with what he believes is a prophetic transfer of wealth in the spirit of Acts 4:34-37. He travels across the country, to 40 cities so far, offering free training mostly to urban ministries, showing them how to access government money in an initiative funded by a grant of his own from the president's Compassion Capital Fund.
Ron Sider, chair of Christians for Faith-Based Initiatives and the Evangelicals for Social Action, said Christians face a historic opportunity. "The larger society is begging Christians to get involved," he told Charisma. "There obviously is some risk, but I believe the risk is not as great as the opportunity."
Donaldson agrees.
"The CARE Act is just one piece of legislation," Donaldson says. "We're at the beginning of the beginning. Christians must understand what's at stake. It's not billions of dollars; it's millions of souls."
Adrienne S. Gaines
His Faith Isn't Hidden
A new book uncovers the president's evangelical beliefs.
For those who might question whether our current president has genuine faith, the new book The Faith of George W. Bush will be full of surprises. Author Stephen Mansfield and his team of researchers uncovered some fascinating and little-known information about Bush's conversion, his sense of divine calling and how faith helped him kick his drinking habit.
"People are very interested in the president's faith, but they also have a lot of questions that need to be answered," says Mansfield, a former senior pastor at the charismatic Belmont Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Among the intriguing facts included in the book:
* Bush first heard "the call" to run for president during a sermon by the Rev. Mark Craig at Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas. Craig was describing Moses' reluctance to lead God's people, and Bush's mother, Barbara, turned to him and said, "He was talking to you."
* Before Bush announced his candidacy, he invited Texas-based evangelist James Robison to meet with him. Bush told Robison that he had given his life to Christ and that he felt God wanted him to be president. He also confided in Robison that he felt "something was going to happen" and that the country would need his leadership in a time of crisis. The 9/11 tragedy struck just nine months after Bush's inauguration.
* Bush is close friends with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, also an acknowledged Christian. The two have shared Scripture and prayed together.
* On Palm Sunday 2002, the president's cabinet organized an impromptu worship service aboard Air Force One. National security adviser Condoleeza Rice led worship and close Bush aide Karen Hughes, who is an elder in her church, gave the Bible lesson.
* As a partial fast, Bush refused to eat sweets while American troops were engaged in war in Iraq.
The Faith of George W. Bush, which will be released November 11, is a unique publishing co-venture between Charisma House and Penguin Group (USA) Inc., the world's largest publishing empire. That means it not only will be available in Christian bookstores but also in most general market stores, including B. Dalton, Waldenbooks and Borders.
The book releases a year before the 2004 elections, and Mansfield believes it could convince some skeptics that Bush should remain in office four more years.
Says Mansfield:"Whatever else George W. Bush is remembered for, his attempt to apply faith to presidential leadership will form a major part of his legacy. It is important for people to understand his faith, then, and to do so before the next election."
He expects interest in the book to be widespread, due primarily to Bush's strategic importance in world affairs. "He is the most powerful man in the most powerful nation on earth and he says he is guided by his faith. Surely, understanding what that faith means to him will be of interest to many."
And, Mansfield adds: "It is also the story of how faith answers the empty heart and provides a sense of purpose. I think many will find this to be an inspiration in their
Stephen Mansfield grew up primarily in Europe as the son of a U.S. Army officer, an experience that gave him an early love for history and international affairs. He is the author of numerous books on history and leadership, including Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill (Cumberland House). He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and directs the Mansfield Group, a publishing and research firm.
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Annabella was one of my adolescent obsessions, and her very existence seemed to promise some mythological pirate/fantasy world, filled with spunky, precocious kids who were flouting all the old rules. In those magical months, I felt like she was singing these songs to me (and if you're familiar with BWW lyrics, you'll know what a kick that was). All of these bands seemed like living comic books, and the cross-pollination of strange new sounds, colorful visuals and cutting edge graphics burned itself into the deepest recesses of my brain.
Then there were bands that seemed like they had pulled their music straight out of my dreams. This started for me in 1979, when I first heard songs like "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" by the Buzzcocks and "I Should Have Known Better" by Wire. It may well have reached its apogee with "Sister Europe" by the Psychedelic Furs, but then there is also "From the Flagstones" a few years later.
It's stunning to think how quickly all of this happened, how mind-numbingly awful what the rest of the world seemed to be listening to was (Juice Newton, anyone?) and how the power of the inner world this music invoked seemed so fragile and fleeting in the outer one.
I was a guest on the Jordan Rich show on WBZ-AM last night and it felt like a homecoming. WBZ-FM was my initiation point for Punk and New Wave, and I felt a little shiver of an echo, calling to me across all of the years in-between. Boston is a place where you can find yourself frozen in others' definition of yourself forever, which is why so many people leave to reinvent themselves (I've met a lot of them down here, in fact). But there's an awful lot of power back there as well. Boston makes you work to impress it. Sinatra had it wrong- New York is so big and open, anyone can make it there. Boston, on the other hand...
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The High Court has handed down a record number of unanimous decisions for the second year running, pointing to a trend towards more consensual decision-making under Chief Justice
Half the court's decisions last year were unanimous, University of NSW academics Andrew Lynch and George Williams found in a study to be presented today at UNSW's 2011 Constitutional Law Conference in Sydney. The 2010 results suggested the previous year's high of 44 per cent was not an "aberration" as originally suspected, they said.
"Some of the success in achieving agreement . . . must presumably be attributed to the leadership and management style of the new chief justice," Dr Lynch and Professor Williams wrote in their report.
"We're just simply saying that we don't think the office of chief justice is without influence. Clearly the change in leadership at the top of the court coincides with a change of directions," Dr Lynch said.
Formerly a judge of the Federal Court, Robert French was appointed chief justice of the High Court in September 2008. As they did in the previous year's report, Dr Lynch and Professor Williams denied the high degree of unanimity could be attributed solely to the "Kirby effect" – the departure of the High Court's "greatest ever dissenter" judge Michael Kirby in February 2009. Three of the matters decided unanimously in 2010 were "major" constitutional law cases, they said, adding that the unanimous expression of judicial reasons in such cases was not easy to achieve.
"When it occurs it is never simply an accident, and certainly something that would not be expected to have occurred three times in one year without this also reflecting the broader decision-making processes of the court," they said. Dissent remained generally low, with judge John Dyson Heydon the most frequent dissenter, "a role that has fallen to him ever since the departure of Kirby J".
Justice Heydon dissented in six of the 41 cases he decided last year. Chief Justice French did not dissent in any of the 45 cases he heard.
The number of majority decisions delivered via multiple judgments also decreased, the study found, helping to eliminate the "old bugbear" among members of the profession caused by "false differences" (where the court hands down multiple judgments that say substantially the same thing). This made it "highly probable" the French court was already discussing after hearings whether separate judgments were necessary or not; a recommendation of the National Judicial College of Australia in a report released last June.
In no case last year did the High Court issue as many separate opinions as there were judges. The changed composition in the court in 2010 resulted in a "more complex picture" of joint judgment pairings, Dr Lynch and Professor Williams said. The long-standing partnership between judges William Gummow and Kenneth Hayne was "supplanted for the first time ever in the total set of cases decided in a year", they said.
Dr Lynch said this "very dominant partnership" had "dissolved into a more general sense of collaboration within the court".
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Bottega Venete added Alex Prager to its range of exceptional talents and star photographers, who produced the fashion label's campaigns. The photographer shot the spring/summer 2011 ready to wear collection, menswear and women's fashion and made sure that her cinematic style, which we love, influenced the results. GoSee already featured her in January and October last year.
This year's colour range of the label is neutral and cool, the silhouettes are accented with sharp tailoring. The collection absorbs soft materials, technically advanced, always focussing on an easy and comfy to wear approach.
Following in the footsteps of such greats as Nan Goldin, Steven Meisel and Anniel Leibovitz, Alex Prager continues the long tradition. Bottega Veneta's creative director Tomas Maier chose her quite deliberately: "I thought that the juxtaposition of Alex's intense colours and surreal imagery with the cool palette and real-world focus of the collection would be interesting".
Self-taught photographer Alex was born in 1979, Los Angeles. Her style reminds us of films by Alfred Hitchcock or David Lynch, her eye is playful, thoughtful, equally provocative and non-sentimental. Her works are exhibited in renowned museums in New York, London, LA and Toyko.
The Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer collection 2011 will be published for the first time in a few exclusive magazines in February.


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People Suck!I enjoy being alone. Today is my birthday and I spent most of it alone in my bedroom. I don't care what the world thinks of me, i will not change . i just prefer being alone. People are so self absorbed its sick lol I don't care for people all they do is use and abuse you. That's all I have to say right now
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Better Late than Never - Happy Birthday.
I shall gift you lots of small animals, some spy cameras, etc ..............
I understand the feelings you've expressed. Belated happy birthday.
I understand you.
That just pierced me right through the heart, man.
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NOWNESS continues to reset the online world with its very forward and exclusive content plays; touching everything from fashion to spirits. Their latest is a profile on Japan's first distillery, Yamazaki. "Tourists to Japan expect to drink two things: sake and green tea (preferably as part of the traditional, meticulous tea ceremony). But the land of the rising sun, which since the mid 20th century has displayed a knack for taking Western inventions and doing them much better than we ever did, is also a haven for whisky lovers—rivaling even Scotland for the production of single malts. One of the oldest of Japanese whiskies and the first to be distilled in the country, Yamazaki Whisky is produced just south-west of Kyoto, at a spot where the Katsura, Uji and Kizu tributaries join the Yodo River."
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WESTBURY'S season ended with a second defeat in nine days to Barnstaple Town.
As with the result in Devon, they certainly didn't deserve to lose and it was only a moment of magic by Barnstaple's Billy Tucker that gave the visitors some breathing space.
On a very warm afternoon United had the first chance on 10 minutes when Charlie Walton battled past Kieron Jewell and forced Jimmy Thorne into a fine save.
Town got on top of the play for a large part of the half without creating many opportunities.
Tucker fired a 30 yarder over the bar before trying another long-range half-volley which dipped onto the roof of the net.
Their opening goal came on 26 minutes when a rapid move led to Jed Harper-Penman shooting from the edge of the box which forced Rob Brown into a good low save but Tucker was on hand to tap in the rebound.
Tucker continued his excellent display with a wonder goal just after half time. Receiving the ball fully 50 yards from goal he hit a stunning effort that flew into the net to make it 2-0.
Westbury's best spell of the afternoon led to them pulling a goal back from the penalty spot on 68 minutes.
Ally Bradley burst forward from defence and sent Mark Young running into the box where he was fouled by Jewell.
The penalty was awarded, Jewell was shown a straight red card and Alex Shaftoe powered the kick past Thorne.
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For those of you not in the know, Noel Gallagher is best known for his former membership of UK rock band Oasis. Now he's going solo. He has a new album coming out. And it's not f*****g Guitar Hero.
Those are Noel's words, not ours. In Britain we're used to Noel and his potty mouth. We barely even notice it when he swears now. And if you think Noel's bad, you should see his brother in action.
Anyhow, his new album – High Flying Birds – is out on October 17th. And according to Holy Moly, this is what Noel had to say about it.
"There isn't a guitar solo on it till the sixth track. It's not f*****g guitar hero. Some of it's vaudeville, some if it's space jazz, some of it's kraut rock. And that's just the first track."
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A lot has happened in EastEnders' iconic Queen Victoria pub since it opened its doors all those years ago, but it looks as though the residents will have to find a new place to have a fight or celebrate a wedding following the reports that the public house will close it's doors this summer.
However, it won't be because current landlord and landlady Alfie and Kat Moon have left, the doors of the Queen Vic will be close due to a flea infestation.
According to The Sun, the storyline will see Alfie, who is played by Shane Richie being forced to close the pub in order for the place to be fumigated, which will cause a further strain on the couple who have been seen drifting apart in recent scenes.
Speaking of the storyline, an insider said: "This is a huge blow for Kat and Alfie. They've been struggling to make ends meet and lose thousands while the pub is shut.
"They have no idea who brought the fleas in and are determined to get to the bottom of it. Kat and Alfie's relationship has been strained for months and this only adds to their problems."
Oh dear! The scenes will reportedly be broadcast next month.
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Why a Personal Fitness Trainer Is Important
Investing in a personal fitness trainer is well worth the cost. Not only do you have someone right by your side acting as your own personal coach and motivator, your trainer can help limit the amount of injuries you experience and help you get the most out of your time at the gym or other exercise venue.
Preventing Injury
Even though just about every piece of equipment at the gym has step-by-step guidelines for usage posted right on them, that doesn't make them foolproof. Some types of gear, like bands, weights and balls, don't even come with any sort of instructions. If your grip is off, your hips are tilted slightly to the side or if your feet are too close together, you could be using the machine -- or piece of equipment -- incorrectly, leaving yourself open to injury. But when you have your personal fitness trainer right there, he'll stand nearby and watch you do your reps, ensuring that you are in proper form from start to finish. This way you'll be less likely to experience pulled muscles, rolled ankles and other workout injuries.
Maximizing Results
You surely work out because you want to stay fit and keep yourself toned. If you're putting together your own exercise regimen though, you might not be working out to your full potential. Your personal fitness trainer will analyze your body size, assess any longstanding injuries that you need to work around, help you set goals and develop a workout routine that is specific to you. He (or she) willl get you on your feet, back, rear end, stomach, and hands and knees, so you're working to your full potential while you're at the gym or other training venue. You'll be maximizing the results you'll see and feel, while your personal trainer is there to give you that extra push that you wouldn't experience if you were working out on your own.
Being Held Accountable
When you join a gym and you decide to snooze through your morning alarm, no one notices that you weren't there to pump through that cardio class. But when you miss your scheduled appointment with your personal trainer, you'll surely get a phone call wondering where you are. You might even have already paid for the session. When you have a set schedule with a single person who expects you to be on time to work out, you'll be more likely to show up. You'll surely hold yourself accountable -- not wanting to let yourself or your trainer down -- and be there for your designated exercise time slot.
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Personal fitness trainers must stay up-to-date on their certifications, meaning that they're required to be continuously learning. Your trainer is surely "in the know" of all the latest fitness trends, new workout routines and nutrition tips. So if you're working out on your own and just not seeing the results, book yourself an appointment with a trainer. He can give you personalized exercise guidelines, as well as a few nutritional tips to help you achieve those maximum results.


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$4.84 Million Initiative to Help Students Connect with Income Supports, Earn Credentials
WASHINGTON, DC -- With backing from the nation's leading foundations, seven community and technical colleges announced today they will pilot an initiative testing innovative approaches to increase the number of students who earn postsecondary credentials. Benefits Access for College Completion (BACC) is a three-year, $4.84 million initiative funded by the Ford Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, Lumina Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations, and managed by the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The Annie E. Casey Foundation is also contributing to the initiative.
BACC will help low-income students connect to coordinated income supports including child care subsidies and food assistance. The initiative will be evaluated to see if low-income students who receive coordinated income supports stay in school longer and complete their studies more quickly. Public supports and refundable tax credits can help low-income students, who now make-up 40 percent of the student population, fill the gap between financial aid and the resources needed to attend college. The initiative's aim is to help students complete their studies swiftly and successfully and move into jobs earning family-sustaining wages so they will be less likely to need such supports in the future.
According to the College Board, the average full-time community college student had more than $6,000 in unmet need in 2011-2012 The result is that 66 percent of young community college students work more than 20 hours per week to help pay for school and their home and family obligations, and 58 percent attend college part-time to accommodate work.
"In today's economy, it's more important than ever that students have the supports to earn a higher education so they can land better jobs and support their families," said Evelyn Ganzglass, Director of Workforce Development at CLASP. "Rising college costs mean an education is increasingly out of reach for millions. By combining traditional student financial aid with public supports, students are better positioned to get by and complete their education. And when more students earn credentials, more employers have the skilled workers they need, and the labor market is able to stay competitive."
During the project's planning phase, each college created its own plan to integrate screening and application assistance for public benefits with the services and supports that colleges already provide, like financial aid counseling. The colleges are partnering with local human services agencies to better provide these integrated services. Each one took into account local resources and policy contexts to develop strategies that will substantially assist students. By the end of the grant period, the initiative will serve low-income students through these innovative plans, which include:
"We applaud these colleges for taking an informed and proactive look at how they can help those students most in need of financial and public support to pursue their college and career goals while dealing with work and family pressures," AACC President Walter G. Bumphus said. "These benefits, including health insurance, food, and child care, as well as financial aid, can help them to complete credentials and get into well-paying jobs.."
The colleges participating in the implementation phase of the project are: Cuyahoga Community College (OH), Gateway Community and Technical College (KY), LaGuardia Community College (NY), Lake Michigan College and Macomb Community College (MI), Northampton Community College (PA), and Skyline College (CA).
"These institutions have stepped up with new and creative ideas to meet the financial needs of low-income college students," said Ford Foundation Program Officer Chauncy Lennon. "This initiative will offer a space for experimentation to test whether delivering these supports on campus will ultimately increase the number of students who complete credentials, become skilled workers and succeed in our economy."
The pilot period for this initiative will last from the fall 2012 semester through 2014, after which BACC will share the most successful strategies and lessons learned with policymakers and other community colleges nationwide to improve retention and credential completion.
CLASP develops and advocates for policies at the federal, state and local levels that improve the lives of low-income people. We focus on policies that strengthen families and create pathways to education and work. Through careful research and analysis and effective advocacy, we develop and promote new ideas, mobilize others, and directly assist governments and advocates to put in place successful strategies that deliver results that matter to people across America. www.clasp.org.
The American Association of Community Colleges is the leading national association representing the nation's close to 1,200 community, junior and technical colleges and their more than 13 million students. Community colleges are the largest and fastest growing sector of higher education, currently enrolling almost half of all U.S. undergraduates.
The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For 75 years it has worked with courageous people on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. For more information, visit www.fordfoundation.org.
Based in metropolitan Detroit, The Kresge Foundation is a $3 billion private foundation that seeks to influence the quality of life for future generations through its support of nonprofit organizations working in its seven program areas: Arts and Culture, Community Development, Detroit, Education, the Environment, Health, and Human Services. Fostering greater access to and success in postsecondary education for low-income, minority and first-generation college students is the focus of Kresge's Education grantmaking. In 2011, Kresge awarded more than $22 million in grants to support higher education in the United States and South Africa, with half benefiting U.S. community colleges. For more information, please visit www.kresge.org or follow @kresgedu.
Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis-based private foundation, is committed to enrolling and graduating more students from college—especially 21st century students: low-income students, students of color, first-generation students and adult learners. Lumina's goal is to increase the percentage of Americans who hold high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina pursues this goal in three ways: by identifying and supporting effective practice, through public policy advocacy, and by using our communications and convening power to build public will for change. For more information, log on to www.luminafoundation.org.
Active in more than 70 countries, the Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Working with local communities, the Open Society Foundations support justice and human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education. For more information, visit www.soros.org.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, whose primary mission is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. For more information, visit www.aecf.org.


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The organizer of a January event, "Return to Rosewood," was told to come back with some answers about plans for an invitation-only reconciliation event that includes providing parking and access for emergency vehicles if necessary.
Marvin Dunn of Miami, executive director of Roots in the City, is hosting the Jan. 2 event on Southwest 96th Court on 5.69 acres he owns in Rosewood.
A group seeking the Levy County Commission's blessings to study the organization and equipping of the county's fire districts and departments got a surprising response: Begin again.
Chiefland Vice Mayor Teresa Barron and Chiefland Fire Chief James Harris asked the commission on Tuesday to approve the work of a subcommittee of the county Fire Advisory Board that is looking into a report done several years ago on the county's fire efforts and eventually presenting information and recommendations to the full board.
The Tri-County Toys for Tots distribution will be Dec. 14 for Levy County, Dec. 15 for Gilchrist County and Dec. 17 for Dixie County.
The program sponsored by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve with the help of area residents distributed thousands of toys annually to families who would not otherwise have gifts for their children.
Applications have been taken this fall and anyone with an application is asked to turn it in at the Toys for Tots booth between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday., Dec. 11, at the Fanning Springs Festival of Lights at Fort Fanning State Park.
Pamela Williams Blair's trial on a federal charge of lying to an FBI agent during an interview ended with a hung jury on Wednesday breaking a string of convictions for federal prosecutors.
Blair was arrested in December 2008 in connection with an FBI investigation into public corruption in Dixie and Levy counties. An undercover FBI agent posed as a New Jersey-based developer looking to bribe officials in return for favorable treatment of his projects.
Native Plant Society to meet
The Levy Soil and Water Conservation District Board has cancelled the monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the USDA Service Center in Bronson, due to a conflicting meeting. The board will resume monthly meetings on Jan. 4, 2011.
The Suwannee Valley Players present "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," by Jamie Gorski on two weekends — Dec. 3-5 and Dec. 10-12 at the Chief Theater.
The Friends of the Luther Callaway Public Library (FLCPL), will hold the monthly meeting at the Library, 104 N.E. 3rd St., Chiefland (a block behind City Hall), at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9. This month's brief business meeting will be followed by an informal social. Prospective members and guests are invited.
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Chiefland based WLQH-AM, 940 on the dial has a change in format this week as the programming is being merged with WZCC in Cross City.
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Attention-Starved Taylor Momsen: "My Best Friend Is A Vibrator"
After three seasons of looking like a panda-faced whore, Taylor Momsen and her ratty-ass hair extensions slunk off to the sidelines of Gossip Girl this year. But, guys, guys, she's got, like, a record now, and you will just be shocked, shocked! by her sexy, scandalous non-thoughts.
Speaking to Disorder Magazine, hot mess Momsen declared her that her new album, "is a life record and it confronts issues and goes, here's what f*cking sucks about everything and I don't really know how to fix it but I'm f*cking dying and I'll sing about it."
Taylor! Two quarters to swear jar! But, sensing that perhaps talking about what "f*cking sucks about everything" wasn't escandoloso enough, Taylor saucily decided to talk about her vagina, with the magazine reporting "that she's not into guys, waits a beat, then adds she's not gay but just bored of men and her best friend is her vibrator."
Oh my word! Some one fetch me my smelling salts! A woman, talking about sex? And vibrators! Why, it's so shocking. . .provided this was 1971. Better luck next publicity stunt, Tay-Tay!
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Ministry of Information Technology was the introduced National ICT Scholarship undergraduate program in 2006 and this program is successfully progress until now 2012. It is 4 year undergraduate degree scholarships in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Information and Communication Technology is increasing the value of the related top Universities of Pakistan in its field. Its major role to increase our Information and Communication Technology Educational Institutes and Universities. National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the compulsory to speed up the progress of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for development, research and educational purposes. It was offering fully funded scholarship for the brilliant Students of the rural and town areas of Pakistan. Its will be happens main roll in the National and International Communication and Development of our Country. It will be develop human resources in the Pakistan. National (ICT) graduate program 2011 is extended to spring 2012. There will be no National (ICT) undergraduate program scholarship award test in this year therefore it is the candidates own responsibility that they get admission in those Universities and Institutes they are participating in it.
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The handles do not touch. The problem is that I am not very good at applying the same force every time when I hold the molds closed.
Some may say, "You should not have to hold the molds closed."
But I have found this to be the case in every mold I have, be they Lyman, Ideal or Lee.
Some of you may recall a post about two years ago in which I described spring loaded mold handle for my Lyman and Ideal molds. Using these spring loaded handles I cut standard deviation of round ball diameters by more than half. I can easily beat the consistency of Hornady balls.
So when I detected inconsistency in the RNFPs I was casting I naturally looked for a way to hold the molds tightly together with the same force every time. Because of the way Lee molds are put together it is hard to get them apart to change mold handles. And because of the way they close, my spring loaded handle design won't work on them.
So I just use the hand spring clamp (kind of like an oversized clothespin) to hold them closed. The effect is the same as the spring loaded handles on the steel molds. The mold line virtually disappears. And the bullets come out closer to round. Also they are more consistent from slug to slug.
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Presents an erudite yet accessible study of Wolfgang Paalen, an important artist and theorist in the Modernist movements of the 20th century.
November 2002
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Both critic and artist, Wolfgang Paalen was a highly influential figure in the culture of the Modernist movements of the 20th century. His work significantly informed Abstract Expressionism, especially with his periodical ^IDYN^R, published from 1942-1944, which became a seminal work for painters of that time. This is the first book-length work to demonstrate his importance and bring together the contexts—philosophical, scientific, anthropological, political, and cultural—in which he worked. Thus it provides a study not only of Paalen himself, but of the relationships between modernist art movements of Europe and America, including Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism—and the cultural, social, and political histories in which they developed.Carefully and thoroughly detailing the events of Paalen's life and the formation of his thinking, author Amy Winter shows how his biography, art, and thought come together in the six issues of ^IDYN^R, which continued an exploration initiated by the Surrealists and other avant-gardes, and which delved into many problems which have preoccupied art in the last two decades. Utilizing material gathered for the first time, including personal interviews and archives never before consulted, Winter offers a vivid portrayal of a painter, philosopher, critic, collector, journalist, editor, historian, and ethnographer—in short, a 20th-century renaissance man.
PrefaceIntroductionTheoretical and Political Origins in Austria and GermanyÀ Paris: 1928-1935Through a Glass Darkly: 1936-1939Surrealism in Mexico/Mexico in Surrealism: Prelude to ExileThe New WorldNew York School DaysDYN 1 (April-May 1942), DYN 2 (July 1942), DYN 3 (Fall 1942): The First Three IssuesTotem Lessons: The Northwest Coast and the "Amerindian" Number of DYN 4-5 (December 1943), and DYN 6 (November 1944)Cosmic CreationThe New Man in Barnett NewmanChaotic MagnificenceBibliographyAppendices
...presents a thoroughly researched and closely written account of Paalen's life and practice....makes a valuable addition to the literature....General readers; graduate students; faculty.—Choice
[A]chieved bothb through theory and through practice, Paalen should count today as much as he did during his lifetime.—American Boook Review
[W]inter should be counted among the long list of talented women detectives....Whether we look from inside or outside the bubble, and however we describe or define that bubble,the incontrovertible evidence is in: Paalen deserves the mantle of the DYNamist, the man who devoted his life to the belief that the totemic object and the junction of art and science could reveal the untapped energy of the possible.—College Art Association
[This] is an impressive work of scholarship that will have tremendous appeal to anyone interested in 20th-century art, Surrealism in Paris and Mexico, and the development of Abstract Expressionism. Winter's study of the charismatic ^D'emigr^D'e artist, critic, and dealer spotlights his life and career and describes artistic and intellectual currents in Europe and the Americas, especially between the two world wars. Exhaustively researched, it is an immensely readable and well-illustrated book that restores Paalen as a major artist of the period and an influential scholar of modern and ethnographic art.—Eloise Qui^D~nones Keber^LProfessor of Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art^LThe Graduate Center and Baruch College^LCity University of New York
A wonderful contribution to surrealist scholarship that clearly situates Paalen at the vanguard of surrealist thought and innovation within essential biographical, historical, and philosophical contexts. Relying on new, previously unpublished sources, Winter gives an eloquent portrayal of an artist who revised European surrealism according to a New World aesthetic vision that significantly influenced the New York School.—Katharine Conley^LAssociate Professor of French and Italian^LDartmouth College
Through her study of Paalen, Winter has produced an impressive intellectual and cultural history, one that goes beyond the usual reach of art historical investigation. And such an approach is not only appropriate but also essential for an artist who must rank as one of the more sophisticated and original thinkers of his day. . . . The book is nothing less than a seminar in many of the issues that challenged the best minds of the twentieth century.—Paul J. Karlstrom^LWest Coast Regional Director^LSmithsonian Institute Archives of American Art
Wolfgang Paalen a painter who successfully practiced various styles also published strongly documented philosophical essays. With scientific and ethnographic reflections, he often ventured into virgin territory. He edited the broad cultural journal ^IDyn^R in Mexico where he lived for 20 years. He also lived in the US, France, Germany, and Austria. This study, the first on Paalen in English provides probing insights into his versatile career. This highly stimulating volume which covers so much new ground should appeal to a wide audience.—Ren^D'ee Hubert^LProfessor Emerita^LUniversity of California, Irvine
The art and life of Wolfgang Paalen have long awaited a scholar who would do them justice. Amy Winter's book elucidates the multifaceted achievements of this seminal figure in Modern Art and does so with an intellectual incisiveness that matches Paalen's own brilliant mind. A full understanding of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism cannot be had without reading this book.—Stephen Robeson Miller^LMugar Memorial Library,^LBoston University
Amy Winter has written the definitive book on Wolfgang Paalen. Grounded in years of extensive archival work and interviews, Winter's superb study reconstructs Paalen's career, illuminating his art and theory as well as providing invaluable insights into the various artistic milieus in which he operated--from 1920s Berlin to Surrealism in Paris and Mexico in the 1930s and his subsequent impact on young American artists in New York in the 1940s. This book is a vital resource for any scholar of the period and a major addition to the literature on modernism in general.—Linda Dalrymple Henderson^LDavid Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History and Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
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Said without a trace of irony or humor – leftists clamoring for "Big Data" on gun owners.
The comments are even scarier. These people want this. They desire full state control over every aspect of your life and they don't see a thing wrong with it.
As someone who worked for a company that held one of the largest consumer data warehouses in the world, I can tell you that the idea won't work. It's easy to generate shopping habit patterns. Some of the commenters honed in on how Target can tell a woman is pregnant by what she purchases (and Target isn't who's doing that, it is the company I worked for for 11 1/2 years) and thus since you can tell a pattern it must be that you can tell anti-patterns as well. This isn't the case.
A woman who purchases an item generally associated with pregnancy such as a breast pump or a piece of maternity wear doesn't get flagged as an oddity since people purchase gifts all the time. The number of false positives is too great to track although the aggregate data is very useful, but only for helping a store or manufacturer determine the best places & prices to set certain items at.
An example of this is paper products. 99% of Americans buy toilet paper (surprisingly, there's a lot of people who make or simply use 'other' rectal wiping devices). Grocery stores don't tend to sell as much toilet paper as retail stores and there's a lot of valuable information in the aggregate of who does buy from them but practically no value of the individual people who do.
Bringing this back to the gun data these people are fantasizing about, think about the purchasing habits of gun owners.
- Those who purchase a gun for self defense, a box or two of ammo, and call it a day
- Those who own a gun or two and infrequently shoot (I'd posit this is the majority of gun owners)
- People like me who might buy a gun or two a year and do a lot of shooting
- Gun enthusiasts who purchase firearms regularly, trade at gun shows, collect, but might not actually shoot (kind of like a stamp collector who doesn't do a lot of letters)
- Professional shooters who burn through 1000's of rounds a month
What pattern does a spree shooter normally fit into? Bullet points #1 & #2, I'd say. Again, the lack of a pattern doesn't indicate a pattern. It's noise. Most people don't buy firearms on a regular basis, nor do they buy ammo in any quantities other than what they will need for a range trip. New gun owners will show up as a blip since they won't fit a pattern, their initial purchases will flag as outside the norm and because this is a normal situation, it won't be possible to scan through the millions of new gun owners for the one crazy guy.
Technically, given 100% accurate information and people with 100% perfect ability to write the algorithms, you'd be able to pick out someone who isn't right with some (not much, but some) accuracy.
And every last tiny bit of that possibility goes out the window when the killer steals his tools rather than purchases them.
Add in the fact that you can't track lead and that making your own bullets is trivial and that tracking individual rounds has been proven to be impossible, even with such unicorn dung powered fantasies as microstamping, added in with the fact that there are hundreds of millions of guns in circulation that cannot be tracked (I own several unpapered firearms via person to person sales or gifts and have sold firearms that have no tracking capability) and the data you could collect would be useless.
Big Data is an affront to liberty. The stores that do this do so voluntarily. I don't pay with debit or credit cards nor do I use loyalty cards and thus I am no longer in the system, but I do this because cash is a better limiter to my spending than the benefit I receive to getting tailored coupons (which can still be triggered based on your purchase and have nothing to do with your identity).
However, this isn't about stopping spree killers. It's about shaming gun owners and making their lives so impossible to live without tripping a thousand new laws that they just give up (see suppressor, Why I don't own one). It's about gaining control over a subset of the populace these people disdain. It's no different than the Klan supporting tracking of blacks and immigrants, but we're well aware of the KKK's bigotry.
That is a bigger threat to you and me than anything else that could be dreamed up by Feinstein or McShoulderThingThatGoes up. And if enough people like those scream loud enough, I guarantee you someone in DC will start trying.
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Remember Senator Kennedy on the No Fly list?
Sadly, your conclusion is that this is Yet Another encumbrance on lawful gun owners is hard to argue against.
How is some dumb computer program written by a person who has never experienced the "new shooter grin" (and just doesn't understand) going to be able to tell a enthusiastic new shooter from some malcontent who has gone off his rocker?
I submit that there would be a lot larger number of false positives in a program like this than the author would guess. Money and manpower would need to be spent checking each one of these or the whole thing is useless. All of this to catch what really amounts to a statistical anomaly. In spite of the fact that they feature so prominently on the news, spree killers are exceedingly rare.
I hate to be a hardhearted asshole, but the cost-benefit analysis on this one just doesn't add up.
You can bet they will hire some sellout Ph.D. - excuse me: expert witness - to testify it's possible to extract what they want if the database is handled properly. Both you and Borepatch have the technical stones to demonstrate it just won't work. You may need to.
First, they figure that they will forever be the ones with their hands on the lever of state power. Second, as a corollary to my first point, it's our lives upon which they want to unleash the power of the armed and fully operational Leviathan State; they don't expect to have the AAFOLS target their lofty selves....


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Have you tried to tether a D4 or D800 to Lightroom? If so, you've learned that neither program can actually recognize these cameras. Apparently Nikon has yet to release the developer kit necessary to make this happen. Erica Barker points out that you can use Nikon's software "Camera Control Pro 2" to tether your camera to a computer, and then simply point Lightroom to that folder. It's an acceptable fix while we wait for Nikon to release the dev kit.
UPDATED: Erica Barker reached out to us, stating that her original video has some information in the tutorial that was inaccurate, and unfair to Nikon. We have changed the video out with the updated one. Thank you to all our readers who informed her of the inaccuracies.
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I'm using Aperture with both cameras and it works perfectly fine. By fine I mean it recognizes both cameras and I've used it on multiple commercial shoots.
Aww, thank you Lee! :D
I can't speak for Lightroom 4.1 but Aperture works great. I made the switch to Aperture when neither camera worked with Lightroom 3 and I heard there was no support still in 4.
Hi James. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Yikes. It looks like my source from Adobe was inaccurate, and that is good enough reason for me to redo this tutorial. My apologies to Nikon and you guys for releasing the inaccurate information. New video should be posted shortly. :)
No worries, Erika! I do think LR 4.1 supports the cameras but I've gotten so used to using Aperture over the past couple months I haven't taken the time to try. Nothing worse than fumbling through software in front of clients!
Capture One Pros latest release also supports tethered shooting with the D4 and D800, and though I use Lightroom, the C1 Pro interface is clean and fast.
Thank you so much for the great tip Gary. I included this information in the updated version of the tutorial. :)
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Hey James and Gary. That's good to know. I personally have not heard anything yet about Capture One or Aperture working with the cameras yet. I know Nikon has yet to release an SDK, so I wonder how they got around that. :)
The SDK's for the D800 and D4 are listed on Nikon's website: https://sdk.nikonimaging.com/apply/
Tethering works very well with Aperture and the D800. I am personally surprised at the low uptake of Aperture - must be really poor marketing on Apple's part.
Using the free onOne software works with the D800 & Lightroom 4, you don't even need to purchase the iPhone app. Simply download the server & after a 5 min setup you are ready to rock & roll!
Thank you for the great tip Chris. I included this info in the updated version of the tutorial. :)
Didnt know this was an issue. i would have posted this 6 weeks ago since ive been doing this for a while now :(
Aww, sorry David. There are however a lot of photographers who don't know how to do this yet. I would love to see what method you use to get around this. :)
Well perhaps I'll make a video of my own to aid yours in the fight against tethering :P
You also missed Sofortbild, freeware for Mac only.
http://www.sofortbildapp.com/ I've used it with the D800 and MacBook Pro and it works well enough.
This was driving me crazy until I spent some time testing it last night. Here's what I get, independently if I use a long or short cable, desktop or laptop:
Using Aperture and shooting RAW: Camera alternates between connected and disconnected on Aperture, it just doesn't work
Using Aperture and shooting JPEG: Everything works flawless.
Using Lightroom 4 (installed just to test things out) and shooting RAW: Everything works flawless.
I updated the Camera Firmware prior to this and I'm using the latest release of Aperture.
I'd appreciate any input.
Has anyone used Controlmynikon http://controlmynikon.com/index.html
The website seems very detailed and looks like it has the ablity to allow you to write to your card and your pc at the same time.


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It happens to just about everyone who has a driver's license in the state of Texas. At one time or another, you will probably get that summons to appear in court for jury duty and each county can set its own rules for having someone appear. They also have their own way of dealing with potential jurors who don't bother showing up at their pre-destined time and place.
In Randall county, District Clerk Jo Carter says they start with trying to notify a missing juror by mail.
"We send a summons to appear before the judge, and (let them know), they can be held in contempt of court."
The summons is sent out and the juror is asked to appear and explain why he or she didn't bother to show up. State law allows monetary fines for failure to answer a summons, of not less than $100.00 and not more than $1000.00. Carter says it depends on the situation and if they choose to, they could send out deputies to round up unexcused jurors, but haven't had to do that.
In Potter county, Anna Ratliff, Jury room supervisor, says they also send out a letter notifying people they've missed their court date as a potential juror. Those people are not required to stand before a judge, but must give an explanation as to why they missed, and they too, can face the same state fines as imposed in Randall county.
In the past though, deputies have been sent out to find those missing jurors, but in only in extreme situations, like murder cases.
In most events, extra jurors are almost always summoned to make sure the jury pool is large enough, but Ratliff wanted to stress the need for jurors to show up when they are called.
"Most people show up to do their duty, but when they don't it puts stress on the system, and if they were in some other countries, they wouldn't even have the chance to be a juror."
So be forewarned, if you're summoned to appear for jury duty and don't make it, you'll receive another summons that may carry a fine, or in extreme cases, the long arm of the law may be knocking on your door looking for you.


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