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"Reform" is a common concept in government. My experience has been that whenever government reforms something, it will inevitably be worse. The nine-letter word "reforming" coincides with the nine-letter result: Imscrewed. Big government statists cannot resist increasing government size or power. That is one stark illustration of why the so-called "War on Drugs" has been a forty-year failure. Government and its political enablers have an addiction problem that is much more harmful for the nation than any individual's reliance on an illicit substance. The only government program that has succeeded at any measurable level is the "War on Liberty" that was begun with little fanfare one century ago.
You may recall the "Tax Reform Act of 1986." That overhaul was a result of an agreement between President Reagan and Speaker O'Neill. The President agreed to some tax increases in the "reform" bill in exchange for sizable spending cuts in subsequent budgets. As usual the spending cuts never materialized and a radical transform of the tax code went forward. Prior to the 1986 tax bill interest expenses were deductible, but after passage, credit card and non-mortgage, non-business interest payments were no longer allowed as tax deductions. Personally, interest deductions are not important for me. I would rather eliminate the income tax altogether and eliminate the incessant tinkering and tweaking that costs taxpayers more money while Congress rewards its favored groups or companies.
So, as a brief summary of the prologue, reform generally represents more of the same though worse. As an example, please join me in a "quickie' review of Ohio Sub. HB 194…of the 129th General Assembly.
This so-called election administrative reform bill is similar to many other bills under consideration by our legislative bodies. Its provisions resemble tentacles as they weave and wind around so many facets of Ohio election law, and yet….this purportedly comprehensive overhaul ignores a gorilla in the room…a gaping intentional oversight in violation of a court order. The aspect of ballot access for minor parties was never addressed, thus allowing the existing law to stand which had earlier been declared unfair by the court. Similar to Obamacare and so many legislative initiatives, Sub. HB 194 addresses several areas of concern that could result in some unanticipated problems because of the breadth of the bill.
The Ohio bill must have some merit because President Obama's campaign is opposed to it because of its stricter provisions regarding voter identification…..could possibly limit cheating, and thus, is not Obama-friendly. The legislation covers a broad scale of issues affecting Ohio elections such as we "cannot assume that poll workers erred." Proof must be submitted before allegations or assumptions are allowed. Clearly the Voter I.D. provision is the lightning rod of the bill as liberals, progressives, Marxists and cheaters are fearful that a photo I.D. would minimize their opportunities for stealing elections.
An omnibus bill that purports to reform a broad swath of law is inherently doomed. Unintended consequences will cling to the legislation like flies to road kill. Opponents will target one or more aspects of the legislation and may seek judicial intervention. Forecasting what some judges would do is similar to predicting when and where a first raindrop may land. Broad based initiatives allow the dedicated public servants to crow about their major accomplishments, and at the same time, condense the heavy lifting of formulating meaningful legislation. This in turn generates more free time for lobbyist-funded meals and adult beverages.
Admittedly I am a skeptic and a cynic, but I do suspect that some omnibus bills are staff-created legislative shortcuts for elected officials. If there is a sincere intent to dramatically change the status quo, the omnibus bill does provide some cover in the sense that changes that may inspire opposition could perhaps, maybe, theoretically, possibly get lost in the weeds of a broad undertaking. In addition, a huge bill that deals with various facets of state law (elections for example) has many sponsors, co-sponsors and amendment sponsors so that disgruntled citizens or groups may find it difficult to place blame for what they believe to be an egregious legislative result. While the omnibus bill may provide a cloak of anonymity for its advocates, it may also lead to glaring oversights….legislators and staff members become so enamored with the forest that individual trees lose their identities.
As the kind trusting person that I am, I will assume that the "too-broad, glaring-omission" explanation is the logical one for the failure of Sub. HB 194 to address the issue of minor party ballot access. Clearly, the elected members of the Ohio General Assembly believe in the Republic and the rights of citizens to freely elect their representatives. Obviously the members of the Ohio House and Ohio Senate would do nothing that intentionally enables a continuing duopoly of power, thought and avarice. After all, the two old parties have shared power, meals and drinks for more than 150 years so it cannot be possible that third-party competition would be seriously challenging to them. Right?
Intentional self-serving denial of opportunity in a republic is just as loathsome as a poll tax or a literacy test. When two parties hold absolute control of the election apparatus, logical reasoning would lead one to believe that power will be misapplied. Because the two old parties have controlled the election apparatus across the nation for so long, they have not been seriously challenged to account for their malfeasance, misfeasance and misdeeds. We have all been losers because of the lack of electoral accountability. Reform? Yeah, right.
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I reread this novel before teaching it again in my 10th grade class. I love this unit, as it allows for discussions on the problem of evil and the nature of God. Here's my past review.
In a satire against the optimism of Leibniz, Candide has its young philosopher traveling the world searching for his love and attempting to see if his tutor Pangloss is correct in that this world is the best of all possible worlds that God could have created.
The story begins as Candide is expelled from the Edenic castle in Westphalia for his scandalous kiss to the baroness, the fair Cunegonde. He travels across continents meeting a variety of common people and royalty; priests and sinners; wealthy and poor. Candide continues to struggle with the question of whether Pangloss (and ultimately Leibniz) is correct that this world, the one filled with greed and murder and hypocrisy and cruelty, is the best possible one out of the mind of God. He fights with what he believes and what he sees, and cannot justify the two. Candide is left to "cultivate his garden" rather than waste any more time thinking through these issues.
For the Christian, this book explores one of the key objections to a theistic faith: how can a good God allow suffering in this world? While that question is not specifically addressed, is it at the heart of Candide's uneasiness. What happens when our world is filled with pain, disappointment, and horror? Can we reconcile a God with our life experience? This is a topic that Christians must not only address to those around who question the claims of Christianity, but we must also have an answer for ourselves when the horrors come.
It would be the height of hubris to state a simple answer to this issue, but we must begin our search for one in the gospel itself. We must remember that God the Father knows suffering and murder, as his Son hung on the cross to die for the sins of the world. He watched as Jesus was tortured and killed to become the payment for sins that we not his own. When we are trying to justify a good God with suffering, our question must begin with God himself. Candide met a cast of characters spewed from the bowels of humanity, but never discussed sin.
Christian doctrine teaches that Adam's sin brought this world from perfection to the wastelands with people corrupted in the downward spiral. Leibniz's optimism is wrong: this world is depraved and men have the capability to act like animals to one another. Candide's observations should bring us back to the God who has provided his Son as a sacrifice to restore humanity to our true image-bearer state. The murderers, the rapists, the thieves in Candide's journey point us back to a God, one who is perfect because we see that man is not. Corrupt men in the world show a moral structure beyond us that defines what corrupt men act like.
Candide's decision to focus only on his own garden shows a hopelessness that Christians ought not have. Even in the light of pain and difficulty, we should see our "gardens" in light of the larger garden, the only that has the Tree of Life swaying. Because of this, we can have hope in that other world that is the best of all possible worlds.


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So I've built a pedal with two slightly different Germanium boosters in it.
One is a Rangemaster style treble booster that's a bit smoother and boosts some mids too,
the other is a straight full boost that gets into slightly fuzzy territory when cranked.
Breadboarded them both up to sort out part values etc, then built up vero board versions.
When built they tested fine in my test board unit, everything worked.
As soon as I built them into the pedal with switching etc, all of a sudden I'm getting no sound.
Sound works when bypassed, but when either effect is engaged the signal goes dead.
The circuits are still working because audio probing at the input and output of each board shows that they are indeed boosting.
I've built 2in1 boxes before fine and built many pedals, I've double checked my true bypass wiring (as I assumed it was just an issue there) and everything is testing fine on the multimeter, so I'm not sure what's going on.
The pedals are in series, so I'm thinking perhaps there's some voltage issue going on?
Might try putting them in parallel to see if they're working then


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Jelly Bean Store at Skyline Rotorua
New Zealand's first Jelly Bean Concept Store and Art Gallery opens at Skyline Rotorua.
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Skyline Rotorua has teamed up with the world famous Jelly Belly gourmet jelly bean company to open a fantastic new store at the top of the Gondola, which will excite the sweet tooth in all of us.
The store sells around 100 different scrumptious flavours of jelly beans and has a massive variety of gift packs to choose from. With the Bean Boozled winning wheel and a jelly bean gallery featuring artworks made from thousands of jelly beans, this new store is sure to impress.
From the Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' recreated using over 17,000 jelly beans to Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' boasting over 11,500 beans, the large scale artworks on show in the jelly bean art gallery wall are just incredible.
The taste buds are sure to be ignited by the sight of all those beans, so guests can take some away via the unique 'PicknMix' box or in gift boxes.
And then it is on to the game of chance called Bean Boozled. This involves spinning a large 'winning' wheel for a jelly bean taster, but there is a catch. Whatever coloured jelly bean the player lands on there are 2 different flavours to try – one good flavour and one bad flavour, but the player can't tell which is good or bad!
The game consists of 8 good flavours to taste, like Chocolate Pudding and Peach, and 8 bad flavours from Dog Food through to Rotten Egg flavoured jelly beans. That's right – take your chances if you dare!
Then once you done with all the Jelly Bean fun, enjoy a Luge ride or two and take in the stunning views overlooking Lake Rotorua.


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Ducted reverse cycle air conditioning
How to buy ducted reverse cycle air conditioning
Looking for the complete cooling and heating solution?
Warm in winter, cool in summer
Turning your whole house into an integrated cooling and heating machine is the ultimate in weather-defying comfort – cool air for the kids playing video games in the TV room, something a little milder for after-dinner yarns in the living area, and a cosy warmth welcoming you to bed.
But the cost and disruption involved means ducted AC installation is not to be taken on lightly. It pays to do your research.
- Want to know how we get our review results? Check out air conditioners.
Is it worth the cash?
Before you spend thousands of dollars to have a system installed (and several hundred dollars a year to run it), consider other cooling and heating options to make sure it's worth it. Even if you decide on a central system, you may only need a cooling-only or heating-only model (depending on the climate where you live).
And, as with all our heating and cooling guides, we strongly advise you to optimise your home's energy efficiency before diving into this process. For info on ways to do this, including tips on insulation and draught-proofing, check out our comprehensive guide.
Where's the CHOICE test of ducted systems?
If you decide to install a central system, the right size and design depend on several factors and the installer needs to assess what's appropriate for your home. The overall design of the system and the quality of the ducting work are in many ways as important as the air conditioner unit itself.
This is the main reason why we don't review ducted systems.
Setting up suitable test rooms for this review would be very expensive, and the results would only be valid for the tested scenario, which could be very different from your house. A model that performs well in a test situation could still disappoint you if the overall system hasn't been properly designed and installed in your home. Ideally, we'd want to test a few scenarios with different room sizes and layouts to get a good idea of performance, which would make the test even more expensive. And for similar reasons we can't just do a comparison of the energy efficiency registration data (as we can for split systems) as those don't factor in the installation variables mentioned above.
On top of that, ducted central systems are a comparatively small part of the market compared to split systems. Put all those factors together and you'll see why we focus instead on split system reviews.
So what does 'reverse cycle' actually mean?
Air conditioners work on the heat pump principle. As the name suggests, they pump heat from one place to another. Allow us to get a little scientific here, as we explain how heat pumps work
- A fan draws hot air from your home over a cold liquid, called a refrigerant. Heat is absorbed from the air, cooling it. The air then flows back into your home.
- The refrigerant, warmed from the hot air, evaporates and flows into a compressor, which creates a high-pressure, high temperature gas.
- The gas is pumped through a heat exchanger outside your home, which allows heat to escape and the refrigerant to cool and liquefy again.
- The refrigerant flows through an expansion device that lowers its pressure, cooling it further, so it can absorb heat again.
- Reverse-cycle air conditioners, as the name suggests, can reverse this process and be used for both cooling and heating.
Selecting a system
If you're looking to put a brand new ducted system in an existing house (as opposed to incorporating it into a new build), you'll need to take into account a whole lot of details about the structure, inside and out. You should have all of the following info before you start shopping around for quotes or designs:
- Your home's floor plan: How many levels are there? What are the dimensions of the rooms (including ceiling height)? Which direction do the rooms face?
- The size, position and orientation of windows and doors.
- The type of construction (for example, weatherboard or full brick).
- The level of insulation.
- The number of people living in your home.
- The main use of each area (for example, sleeping, living, cooking).
- The ceiling cavity space - slimline systems are available for homes with small ceiling spaces.
- The limitations of your outdoor spaces - just as with split system air conditioners, the outdoor compressor unit(s) needs to be installed somewhere where noise won't be an issue (for you or your neighbours!).
- Large systems may require a three-phase power supply, which will be an extra installation cost if you don't already have it.
There are several design features to consider. A supplier may be able to offer a range of options, depending on the design and requirements of your home.
- Vents come in a variety of designs and can be installed in the ceiling or walls.
- Controls are usually hard-wired and mounted on a wall, unlike the remote controls used for single split-systems. You may have one controller for the entire system, but in a large house you might opt for extra controllers in other parts of the house for more convenience.
- Sensors are used by the controller to keep the room at the targeted temperature. Large open-plan areas may need multiple sensors.
- Most systems allow for a home to be divided into zones for convenience and economy, so that you can turn on the air-con for only the part of the house you want cooled or heated (for example, living areas during the day and bedrooms after 10pm, or different floors) rather than the whole house. Or, you can set different climate levels for different areas as required.
Duct and cover
The ducting is a key component of the system. Ducts need to be thermally efficient so that valuable cooling or heating isn't lost travelling between the air conditioner unit and the target room. The ducting industry association, ADMA, is concerned that some suppliers are installing inferior ducting, and recommends that consumers check with their installer that the ducting meets the Australian standard for ductwork, AS 4254. Check the labels on the ducts or get a written statement of compliance to make sure you get the right quality of ducting.
Are they energy efficient?
Modern air conditioners are very efficient - for every kW of electricity consumed, three or more kW of heating or cooling capacity can be produced. Window and split-system models must carry an energy rating label (the star-rating system). Ducted systems have to meet minimum energy performance requirements, but don't carry the energy rating label. See the government's energy rating website for more info.
How much will it cost to buy and run?You'll be hard-pressed to purchase a ducted reverse-cycle air conditioning system for less than $5000 (including installation). That's the entry level cost for a small home such as an apartment. For a typical freestanding house, the cost can easily reach $10,000 or more, depending on the size and type of system you choose. For a large or multi-floor home you're probably looking at $15,000 or more.
The installer should inspect your property thoroughly before giving you a quote. A ducted system is a huge investment. References from existing customers, word-of-mouth referrals, or online forums can also be good sources of recommendations.
The running costs mainly depend on:
- The type and size of your system
- The energy efficiency of your system
- The time you're operating the system for
- The construction of your home (floor plan, level of insulation, size of windows, etc.)
- The electricity tariff you're paying
- The temperature you choose on the thermostat: each degree Celsius lower/cooler you set it to in summer, and each degree higher/warmer in winter, will increase the running costs by 10-15%. We know it's tempting to fight Mother Nature by blasting it, especially when you've just come in from outside feeling fried or frostbitten, but the best thing to do is to find the temperature you're just comfortable with – try 25 degrees in summer, and 20 degrees in winter.
Reducing your costs
By following some easy rules in day-to-day operation, you can further reduce running costs:
- Close all external windows and doors when your system is running.
- Shade your windows during hot summer days (to keep the heat out) and during cold nights (to keep the heat in).
- When you expect a hot day, turn on the air conditioner early, rather than waiting until your home is hot. Similarly, start heating early when expecting a cold day.
We'd like to thank Sustainability Victoria who supplied much of the information for this article.


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Abu Dhabi to host first racemeeting of 2012
The Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club is the main sponsors at their own meeting this Sunday, the first UAE racing fixture of 2012 and a seven race card awaits racegoers.
The official highlight is the penultimate race, a 2200m Purebred Arabian handicap for which 13 have been declared.
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum owns four of these, all trained by Gill Duffield and of which Richard Hills has chosen to ride Takaamul.
He will be having his second start of the season, having already won over 2400m on the Abu Dhabi turf this season.
Hills said: "It was not an easy choice with four nice horses to opt from but Takaamul has a great record at Abu Dhabi and is hopefully still improving."
The owner`s second jockey, Tadhg O`Shea, chooses stable companion Ejaabi with the quartet completed by top-weight Adjinn D`Aroco and local debutant Antar Vege, to be ridden by Ted Durcan and Richard Mullen respectively.
His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is also well represented with three runners all saddled by Ernst Oertel.
Frysk Me Now, the mount of Pat Cosgrave may prove best of the trio with Elmalak Elwaheed having been well beaten by Takaamul on their seasonal returns and Forgehill Cezanne yet to show his best form since transferring from Europe.
Bareq split Takaamul and Elmalak Elwaheed in second when they clashed in November, while Baher, sporting the colours of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, looks best of the rest.
The only Thoroughbred race is the concluding 1400m maiden and trainers Satish Seemar and Ali Rashid Al Raihe are both responsible for four of the 14 runners.
Seemar`s stable jockey Richard Mullen chooses to ride On War, while Royston Ffrench picks Garbah of the Al Raihe quartet.
Explaining his choice, Mullen said: "There probably is not an awful lot between our four but On War has only had four starts in France and seems to be showing aplenty of ability at home. In due course he will probably want further but it is a nice race in which to start him off."
Of Garbah, who turns four on the morning of the race, Ffrench said: "She ran very well first time at Meydan over 1200m at Meydan and then again there stepped up to 1400m second time. Those runs were on [the All-Weather] before she struggled on the dirt at Sharjah.
"Her only UK start was a good one, on turf, and hopefully she can bounce back in which case she must have a good chance."
Energia Eroi is very hard to assess on only his second career start and turf debut. He only ran once as a juvenile in 2011, when second in Sweden on dirt but connections must hold him in some regard to bring him to the UAE.
The seven race card opens, at 4.30pm, with a rare treat for the Abu Dhabi patrons and their first race on sand in many years.
The maximum field of 10 have been declared in a race that is not included in Pick Six.


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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
Value Line's Petroleum (Producing) industry consists of companies that explore for and produce oil and natural gas, primarily in the United States, with most of their projects being land-based. Our grouping predominantly consists of mature companies, although there are a few growth vehicles. The profits and, consequently, stock prices of petroleum producers depend on internal and external factors, as discussed below.
First and foremost, the performance of companies in this industry is dictated by the prevailing price of oil and gas. In turn, these prices depend on demand, which is influenced by economic health and activity. Only if a company can sell oil or gas at a price above extraction costs, can a profit be made.
Geopolitical risk is another factor. Most of the companies in this industry aren't affected by this risk, since they operate in the U.S. Those entities exposed to foreign government intervention, public unrest and/or insurgency are vulnerable to having their holdings confiscated, disrupted, destroyed, regulated or limited in their drilling activity.
A driller's geological prospects are another external element. It's important to know how well a company can locate oil and gas reserves, how much is potentially recoverable and at what cost they can be extracted.
Reserves are highly significant. Companies must know how much raw fuel is in the ground to produce. This figure can and does vary tremendously. The quality of the buried commodity is also a key factor. Before extraction, refining costs for particular end-uses should be determined.
Production is one other major internal variable. Daily production goals need to be set and met. A producer has to have agile enough operations to quickly and easily change its output rate when oil and gas prices change.
Another influence is proximity to ultimate markets. How close an oil or gas field is to a large urban area, with high demand, is important. A good example of this is the extensive presence of two large independent producers in the Appalachian Basin's Marcellus shale fields, which are near the heavily populated northeastern states.
Infrastructure is another noteworthy consideration. If refining capacity and pipelines are not readily available to process and transport a raw commodity from the point of origin, they have to be built at huge cost. This is why so many companies drill in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the climatological and geological hazards, it is much easier to deliver crude oil and natural gas by water-borne tankers than by land transportation.
A company's balance sheet is also important to review. Investors should be aware of a producer's financial strengths, any capital constraints, and how much funding is available for planned drilling projects. More and more, these days, managements are hedging operations with ample up-front capital for use when needed.
Investors also need to know managements' primary focus. Earning a high near-term return on investment may be the priority, or the strategy could be to invest for long-term rewards. The risk/reward position needs to be defined. Some companies will emphasize 'wildcatting' (i.e., drilling ad hoc and hoping for a big discovery), and others will drill conservatively (with a number of holes around a known reserve).
Costs and expenses are obviously important, and they may be classified as both internal and external. As the pace of drilling picks up, on higher demand, operating costs will climb noticeably. Unconventional gas-well sites around shale, tight gas and coal-bed methane formations, for example, require extra drilling and stimulation technology to maximize flow rates, which lifts spending. Too, when the prices of acquisitions rise, funding expense and depreciation & depletion charges can increase-a consideration for nearly all the companies in the industry.
So, what kind of investor would be interested in this industry? Well, certainly not an income-oriented one, since the dividends paid, if at all, are meager due to the capital-intensive nature of this industry. Those attracted to this industry are investors looking for a cyclical play, which could last for as little as a few months, or as much as a few years.
How should one value these stocks? Not on a conventional Price/Earnings basis, since this industry's ratio is always well below market averages due to the high volatility of oil and gas prices. Price/Cash Flow is more useful, since depreciation and amortization expenses are more stable than earnings. Mature companies generally have a P/CF of 5 to 6, whereas growth entities sell at a multiple of 7 or greater. Price/Asset Value is another useful measure. If the pretax present value of reserves is greater than its market cap, a company will risk drilling in unproven areas. If this is not the case, such activity probably won't occur.


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|wild larkspur
is all
a bloom
at radnor lake
in brentwood , tn!!
|a magical woodland
of the
purple kind.
i sure did!
|even tom was there!
struttin his stuff, as only a boy can do.
|wild larkspur
is all
a bloom
at radnor lake
in brentwood , tn!!
|a magical woodland
of the
purple kind.
i sure did!
|even tom was there!
struttin his stuff, as only a boy can do.
|you just never know
what gorgeousness
you will find...
unless you take the time to look.
i had know idea,
that the larkspur was blooming right now,
as i headed for my walk yesterday...
my instincts told me to take my camera with me...
and i am so happy i did!
~nature paints pictures of infinite beauty~
I've been purpleized! (In a good way)
How gorgeous! I can hardly imagine seeing such a thing. That must have been a lovely walk...it's so picturesque.
So magical...It feels like fairies could live there....hugs to you.
EXTREMELY jealous : (
God paints the beautiful pictures, but you sure do know how to photograph them! GORGEOUS, Erin.
Wow, that really is an enchanting woodland, what a marvellous place for a spring walk.
So beautiful !!...enjoy a happy day darling....love Ria...xxx...
Spring will do that to you, won't it?
I'd love to transport myself there for a morning walk. It's so beautiful and next to a lake, too!
It is the most divine colour. I do love woodland flowers. Lovely photos Erin.
Fabulous pictures today. Love all the trillium in the woods too. Hey, that's a great new header. Love the lace look to the border. Please share that find.....
Erin what heavenly and magical photos. The lakspur is just gorgeous and the woods is like out of a fairy tale. I am so glad that you got to enjoy them and thank you for sharing.
Gee I did not know there was wild larkspur....sure is purty......
So pretty - thanks for sharing your walk.
Enjoy your weekend.
Always a peaceful , yet spectacular posting by you Blondie. thanks !
That must be what purple looks like in heaven with a turkey.
Erin, I'm in Prescott & your brother & father told me about your blog. Wonderful! purple is my favorite flower. When I get home, I'll send you some photos of our Wisteria in bloom, except I don't find any contact info on your page. Happy Spring! Susan F.
Absolutely gorgeous! And such a bonus that it just grows wild, on its own. So fun to see that turkey right there in the middle of it all. He sure is a handsome fellow. best wishes to you, Tammy
Thank goodness you took your camera that is amazing.
What a treat to see so many in one place. I've never seen anything like that. I thought those wild flowers at our old dump was something but this is magical.
Finally saw the last episode of the Bronson project...Love him!
I've never seen so much larkspur!! Thank you for the dreamy and delightful tour, dear Erin. So very glad you took your camera so you could bring us this fairyland.
xo – g
Gorgeous photos! What a beautiful place to walk. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your week!
The larkspur is gorgeous and I love all your pics! I am glad you took your camera too.
Your new header is delightful with the cloches!
LOVE these photos. All that gorgeous purple!!!
I wish these were growing wild here in East Tennessee, but I have never seen them. Wouldn't they be beautiful growing alongside the oxeye daisies! I have a terrible time growing Larkspur from seed, I will keep my eyes open for some wild ones to transplant,
dear erin,
you have a wonderful eye for color and beauty. i love the steps leading up through the flowered wood, and the enchanting may-apples, and...oh, all of them! how lovely.


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Leslie Nielsen of Airplane! and Naked Gun Fame Dies at 84
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In addition to completing the requirements of the liberal arts core and the requirements for a major in another area, the following courses must be taken to qualify as an English minor. There can be no duplication of course work in this minor. If any of the following courses are required by one's major, additional courses will need to be taken for a total of 18 hours of credit for the minor. A grade of "C-" or higher in each course is required.
One 200-level Literature course: 3 hrs.
One of the following language courses: 3 hrs.
EN 360 (Advanced Grammar)
EN 370 (Advanced Composition)
EN 302 (Technical Writing)
EN 380 (History of the English Language)
Four upper level English courses* 12 hrs.
TOTAL 18 hrs.
*The student taking the English minor is strongly encouraged to select a course in Western World Literature if he/she does not include a course in world history (HY 110/111) in fulfillment of the liberal arts core.


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If you're worried about the environment but still need to blow people up, a new class of nitrogen-based bomb materials is for you. Popular explosives like TNT and HMX react to form nitrogen oxides when detonated, the major culprits behind smog and acid rain. This is a big no-no if you're the type of warmonger who drives a hybrid tank, obviously, so weapons experts at the University of Munich devised an alternatives that are cleaner, more stable, and even more powerful than those other explosives.
Irony aside, the new compounds — dubbed HBT and G2ZT — reportedly only produce ammonia as their byproduct when they go boom. This is a good thing because many long-term health problems related to air pollution come from the formation of nitrogen oxides.
Of course if you make lots of super-powerful bombs out of HBT or G2ZT, many people probably won't be around to enjoy the cleaner air. But the researchers say another application would be cleaner rocket fuels, which we're going to need as flights into space become more and more common.
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While most cover singers in opera may never get on stage unless a member of the main cast is unable to perform, with the Opera Company of Middlebury covers are guaranteed one show per run. The cover cast of the OCM's recent run of Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers performed Friday, June 6, to a full house.
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In Commons Health Questions this afternoon Tory MP David Tredinnick was disgusted by the suggestion of one of his Liberal Democrat colleagues that homeopathy should not receive NHS funding.
Tredinnick, who has a loony reputation in a most appropriate sense, decried the criticism of his beloved homeopathy as "illiberal". Despite what the cynics claim there was plenty of annecdotal evidence that homeopathy works, he declared. In other words, damn those scientists and their pesky science!
The complementary-enthusiastic Conservative then pointed out that no-one was forcing anyone else to use homeopathic medicine so why not just leave it alone. But Tredinnick is of course in favour of forcing us taxpayers to pay for this nonsense as part of the NHS budget. As with hospital chaplains, I spy some sensible public expenditure cuts!
In a two fingered defiance to sanity and reason Conservative MPs recently put both Tredinnick and Nadine Dorries on the Health Select Committee. Yes, that's the same Nadine Dorries who, as part of her anti-abortion crusade, allied herself to Andrea Williams of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship, an evangelical who believes that the world is only 4000 years old.
Would it not be more sensible to establish a harmless All Party Parliamentary Flat Earth Society and then let Tredinnick and Dorries help run that?


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Britain's Mo Farah has won his second gold medal of London 2012 with a thrilling victory in the 5,000 metres on the final night of athletics action.
Seven days after claiming Britain's third gold in the space of 45 minutes on 'Super Saturday' in the 10,000m, Farah produced another brilliant performance to complete the long-distance double.
Roared on by a capacity 80,000-strong crowd, Farah hit the front with 700m remaining and was never headed, covering the last lap in under 53 seconds to hold off Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel to win in 13 minutes and 41.66 seconds. Thomas Longosiwa of Kenya claimed bronze.
Just six men in Olympic history had previously taken the 5,000m and 10,000m titles at the same Games - Hannes Kolehmainen of Finland in 1912, Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia in 1952, Vladimir Kuts of the USSR in 1956, Finland's Lasse Viren in 1972 and 1976, Miruts Yifter of Ethiopia in 1980 and countryman Kenenisa Bekele at Beijing four years ago.
Farah had looked understandably tired in the heats on Wednesday, after which Gebremeskel acknowledged that running a fast race might be the only way to deny Farah victory.
However, if that was the plan it was curiously ignored as the 15-strong field set out at an incredibly slow pace - with more than one lap taking 73 seconds - 20 more than Farah's closing lap to win the 10,000m.
It took until the midway point of the race for the pace to be wound up and Farah moved up to second behind Gebremeskel with three laps to go. With 700m remaining the 29-year-old hit the front and still led at the bell, at which point he crucially refused to give up his prime position on the inside and accelerated again to stay ahead of the pack.
Gebremeskel, the fastest man in the world this year, briefly closed on Farah down the home straight, but the home favourite was not to be denied a fabulous triumph - and even had the energy to celebrate with a few sit-ups on the track.
Farah said on BBC1: "It's just unbelievable. The American guy (Galen Rupp) tried to come past me, but I knew I just had to hold on to it.
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There is a camera which takes photos continuously (either on a timer or by a person who pushes a remote button). I would like to make a collage (akin to the auto collage feature in Picasa) out of the photos that the camera takes. So I would have the camera take the photos and automatically put them into a folder on the computer to which it is connected, have the program automatically create the collage (either on a timer or with every new photo taken), and project the photos onto a screen connected to the computer. The idea is that as time passes, more photos are taken, and the collage gets more and more filled with photos.
I suspect the task is far too complicated for a single, consumer program, but I wanted to ask and see if anyone had any ideas.


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Verbum Eccles. (Online) vol.35 no.3 Pretoria 2014
The local South African worshipping community as a site for spiritual formation towards transformation
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Department of Practical Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa
The article focuses on the local worshipping community as a site for the spiritual formation of citizens to become agents of transformation in public life. How are citizens spiritually formed so that, through their witness and praxis, they become instruments of transformation, thereby challenging the dominant discourses by offering, through their collective witness and praxis, redeeming alternatives? To answer this question, the article focuses not on a methodology but rather offers suggestions as to how to nurture a radical spirituality towards the formation of agents of transformation. The specific South African context with its numerous socioeconomic and political challenges as well as the plurality of voices and values need to be taken into consideration. Therefore the challenge is to develop an inclusive spirituality.
The article is based on a paper presented at a conference hosted by the centre of public theology at the University of Pretoria with the theme 'Spirituality for social cohesion and democracy'. It is a daunting prospect to write on such a challenging theme as social cohesion and democracy, as each of these terms - public theology, spirituality, social cohesion and democracy - are contested by the plurality of meanings harboured in these terms. Furthermore, they are haunted by future meanings seeking to come to these terms. Because of the plurality of conflicting meanings, any interpretation on any of these key terms immediately positions the speaker. Taking into consideration the context of the speaker and the fact that labelling or categorisation is part and parcel of this context, it is inevitable: you stand categorised and labelled. I am not complaining as I was reading with the same labelling, categorising the other papers because that is what one does, believing that this is how one gets a 'grip' on reality. One gets a grip on reality by labelling, naming, classifying and categorising, and these classifications are institutionalised and legitimised by authorities (the names of authors quoted and referenced) and then reified through interpreted experiences that are offered as proofs. Yet, it is not a grip on reality that one gets but rather the proverbial, what one deserves, as it is the reality that one's language composed, thereby creating both the subjects of that specific linguistic chain of referents as well as all the different classified and categorised objects.
The spirituality that I am seeking - maybe because of my context, the history of which so readily classified and categorised people and the future of which still seems to be haunted by that same desire to classify and categorise, is to move beyond such classification and categorisations. In moving beyond such classifications and categorisations there is a move towards social cohesion and democracy, that is, if such things are possible. Thus, I shall not seek to offer a definition of public theology, spirituality, social cohesion and democracy. As some might say, I shall play it safe by playing with the various meanings harboured in these terms which are capitalised so differently in different language games. I might be accused of sitting on the fence by not committing to any particular interpretation of these terms. This would, on the one hand, not be an incorrect label as, yes, I might be playing it safe. The reason for playing it safe is that I have no intention of getting involved in the war of meanings where each of the warring factions has good reasons, values, proofs (maybe) and means to argue for their particular veridiction and thus offer felicitous speech on the theme of democracy, social cohesion and spirituality. On the other hand, fence-sitting would also be an incorrect label because, although my allegiance is not to any of the current disputing factions, my allegiance is to the meanings still to come. There is a messianic expectancy created by future meanings that haunts these terms but without any clue as to what those future meanings might entail. In my messianic expectation, with or without a particular messiah, I am inspired by the potential future meanings of these key terms, but I am not guided by such future meanings as I have no clue as to what they might be. Therefore, I am rather guided by the victims and survivors of past and present meanings. In other words, I am guided to dance this dance of meaning with a certain bias, to dance particularly with those who have been excluded from the dance floor as their meanings and understandings of these noble terms were deemed inappropriate by some or other power group that gave itself the authority to determine the norms by which to judge and decide who is acceptable and therefore invited to the dance floor and who is unacceptable and therefore refused. Although there is a particular bias in listening to the excluded, their particularity or the particular meanings they give to these terms is not the new Meaning or the new Truth but just one more meaning with its own means, values and proofs for veridiction. Thus, they have their own felicitous and infelicitous speech. I am not their spokesperson. What arrogance to even seek to offer felicitous speech in the name of someone else. Thus, there is no particular group in whose name I seek to speak, but if I must speak in a name, and in a name I must speak, then in the name of a fragile universal truth: that in all speech there are always exclusions and marginalisation and therefore all speech is cracked, broken language as in Marianne Faithfull's beautiful song 'broken English'.
Broken English
That is all I can offer: broken English or broken, wounded language. This wounded language, wounded text, I offer as a kind of spirituality or perhaps even a kind of public theology. Thus, playing it utterly unsafe as I do not know of what I speak, I do not have the protection of great institutions nor am I licensed or legitimised to speak in the name of indisputable authors. I also do not have the backing of megabytes of empirically collected data of experiences to reify my findings, and I do not have a majority or minority on my side in whose name I speak. All I offer is my broken English. Without trying to hide its brokenness with powerful institutions or powerful anti-institutions with their respective legitimising names and reifying majority of minority experiences, I offer you wounds - a broken body of language, English in this particular case. I am sharing this with you as if gathered around the Eucharist table. I offer this broken language as a spirituality or theology for the agora.
In what follows, I might drop a name or two, authoritative names maybe for some. Am I thereby lending legitimacy to what I say? Maybe, or maybe I mention these names as a cloud of witnesses as I witness and testify of a faith and a hope that comes with broken language, journeying towards offering a spirituality of a worshipping faith community yearning for transformations or reformations:
Could have come through anytime,
Cold lonely, puritan
What are you fighting for ?
It's not my security.
It's just an old war,
Not even a cold war,
Don't say it in Russian,
Don't say it in German.
Say it in broken English,
Say it in broken English.
Marianne Faithfull's (1979) 'Broken English' will guide this section as it perhaps captures something of the battle that wages in capitalised terms just as the battle that waged in Europe or the West during the cold-war years. There is a war that wages in terms like democracy, social cohesion, spirituality and public theology as one can say these capitalised names or nouns in neo-liberal language, in post-colonial language, black theological language, contextual theological language and many other languages. Faithfull's plea, in a voice characterised by a struggle on the streets of drug addiction, is: Do not say it in these powerful languages, but say it in a broken language. Why?:
Lose your father, your husband,
Your mother, your children.
What are you dying for?
It's not my reality.
Because there have been so many casualties in the name of these powerful Names, Names that thought that they had captured the essence by capitalising these terms in their language. What are they dying for? It is not my security, it is not my reality! Maybe, Faithfull should rather have said: it is not reality. But it is! It is exactly that: my, your, their reality! If she argued that it is not the Reality, it would have made sense in the sense that none of these languages captures the Reality of democracy or social cohesion completely and absolutely, but together they would maybe come closer to the truth of these terms. In that sense, it would make sense to speak of a broken language as each individual language is limited, and because of their limitations, one needs the different languages. If that was the case, one could have come up with a proposition that only together, in transversal or inter-lingual conversations, these different languages could bring one closer to the essence or the Reality of democracy and social cohesion. Thus, one would again be creating a duality between the pure essence (Reality) of these terms, one could say the infinity of these terms, and then humbly realising the finiteness of our languages and their inability to capture the greatness of these noble ideas. In that sense, one could speak of broken language, seeking to get a grip on ideas that cannot be captured by single languages. Such an interpretation would be highly democratic and offer a way towards social cohesion, and therefore, it could be understood as a spirituality of humility and dependence on the other languages. A noble thought indeed, but that is not the road I seek to travel in this article.
Marianne Faithfull does not argue in her song that it is not the Reality, but she says that it is not my reality, and because it is not my reality, she pleads for broken English.
She is not arguing that Russian, German or English does not by themselves capture the essence of reality, and therefore we need to dream of a time when the different languages realise their lack and seek to speak in harmony to get closer to the Reality. She is not arguing that we need a harmonious symphony of various languages to approach elusive Reality. What would be the point of that? It would be replacing differing powerful languages with one mega-powerful language, or, one could maybe argue, a global-meta-language. Maybe that is what we currently have in the so-called (so-named) global village.
She is crying, weeping, as she says that what you are talking about is not my reality, and yet it is determining my reality as it is taking from me my family. Therefore, these powerful languages are excluding her and her reality whilst determining so much of her day-to-day experiences and forcing her to interpret her experiences in their languages. One is forced to interpret the experiences of democracy or the experiences of the lack of democracy in neo-liberal or post-colonial terms. She is knocking on a locked door with her broken English, which has excluded her and her reality. She is pleading for broken English, pleading for a language that is not so absolute and exclusive but has room for her reality.
She does not want the doors to be flung open so that she can have the dance floor all to herself where her reality wins the dance or the day. No, what would be the point of that? That would just replace one language with another language, which has happened so often in the history of revolutions where one language replaced another without anything really changing, except for who is included and who is excluded.
There is always a song pleading for broken English at every conference, symposium, in every institution and in every epoch of history! Not because our languages miss the target, for what target would they be missing - the one they created in the first place? The solution is not to seek to speak more inclusively or democratically to one another in order to argue that the more one is socially cohesive or inclusive, the closer one gets, together with others, to the elusive target or Reality. No, languages individually or in harmonious democratic and socially cohesive transversal togetherness remain exactly what they are individually: composed. Because they are composed, they will always exclude, and therefore, there will always be somebody pleading: This is not my reality, not my security, please speak broken English! Thus, social cohesion and democracy are always of the future coming towards one, calling, beckoning and thus haunting whatever is currently understood and interpreted as democracy, social cohesion. These terms are haunted by these voices, begging for broken language. A broken language is a language that creates room for hospitality and allows itself to be broken even more by what it welcomes. It does not seek to be pure and exclusive.
This has nothing to do with the gap between language and reality, thought and things, or the gap between human rationality and the Ding-an-sich. It has nothing to do with the duality: language and world, thought and reality, subject and object. It does have to do with the worlds or realities we live in. It has to do with the habits and habitats that are created by our language. Each of these worlds or habitats or realities has its own thoughts and reality, subjects and objects, language and world and therefore its own habits. Language is the house of Being.1It is not the tool that one uses to access reality, it is not the tool one uses to socially construct reality, it is the house of Dasein: as such it includes the thinking (constructing) subjects as well as the things thought. It is what creates both subjects and objects, thoughts and things thought. Therefore, bringing more languages to the table does not bring one closer to the truth or Reality. The multi-lingual transversal, inter-disciplinary does not bring anyone closer to Reality or Truth, but it creates a new language and world, maybe a global village, where the values of democracy, inclusiveness and social cohesion are high on the priority list, interpreted in the language that best serves the security and the subsistence of the powerful in the global village. Together with the composition of such a global village, there will however be somebody weeping, pleading: Do not speak democracy, social cohesion. Speak broken languages as this is not my reality.
I am not making a value judgement on democracy and social cohesion as I could have chosen any other value of a specific language game. What I am trying to come to terms with, to come to language with, is exactly that: to come to language, yet whilst in language, and discover the grammar of that which I cannot escape and of which I am part. Is it possible to discover the grammar of that in which one is and through which one discovers whatever one discovers? One comes to language with language, and one cannot escape those language worlds, habitats, spheres.2
Public theology as worshipping community for spiritual formation and transformation
It is always daunting to use the term public theology or even just the term theology - the logos of God, wherelogy can be understood in so many different ways just as God is interpreted in so many different religions and even non-religions. There is a battle that rages in the word or name 'God'. It is a battle between various religions, various forms of theism and between theism and atheism. I do not want to get involved in that holy war just as I did not want to get involved in the warring meanings harboured in the terms like democracy. I would rather focus very literally (in language and through language) on the word (logos) of theos (God), not the science (logos) or theory of God but just the word 'God' and in that sense offer a theology for the agora: a public theology.
Derrida (1995:56) believes that the word 'God' can be saved and thereby also save God, if that word is understood as the infinite desertification of language. Language deserts us infinitely like the sand in the desert. It cannot be used to come to terms, to name, understand, comprehend with the wholly Other, but as Derrida says, that is also true for every other (tout autre est tout ature, Derrida 1995:76). Therefore, language deserts us, but it is all we have. It is a pharmakon (Derrida 1981:99) - both remedy as it creates a world and poison as the created world is a textual world, fictional if you like, and thus deserts us with regards to Reality. Reality runs through the fingers of language like the fine desert sand and cannot be captured.
Or as Latour argues, the two modes of representation and re-production are often confused, and because of this confusion, we end up in the subject and object vise '… and we would have to believe in the existence of an "external material world known by the human mind''' (Latour 2013:124). One can take something like democracy as an example: there is a whole network of things that need to be in place for a 'real' democracy to exist, and many of those things that are in place in real existing democracies have absolutely nothing to do with democracy, yet we still refer to it as democracy. For democracy to exist as such, it needs to subsist, and to subsist, it needs a whole network of things - political, economic, social, cultural, demographic, et cetera. Between all these things there are numerous discontinuities. Yet, some value or means allows the discontinuities to be bridged so as to produce itself again and again as democracy so that it can be presented as democracy. In this re-production of democracy, this network of discontinuities is not taken into account and each of the actors that 'make democracy possible' is, in turn, made up of a whole network of discontinuities. The representation of democracy is also only possible by leaping over traces and traces of discontinuities that are bridged by some means or value. I here refer to the kind of discontinuities or traces that Derrida (1982:11ff.) speaks of, that characterise representation in language.
In the previous section, I tried to come to terms, come to language from within language, by trying to understand or rather describe the grammar of language as the house of Being. If God is a good name to save for this grammar of language, which is the house of our Being, then one is in God and God is certainly omnipresent and omniscience. Now, the story of Christ tells the story of this God or, according to the Gospel of John, this word of God (theology) became flesh. The Word became flesh, became reality. The Word became world or into the world. This sounds like an exemplary narrative for what was discussed above: the grammar of language. What if this story is not the telling of a metaphysical truth? What if this story is exactly that: the creation of the creation of what if? What if it is the metaphor of metaphor, not the truth of metaphor or the truth beyond metaphor but the grammar of metaphor as metaphor? Language creates text, word that becomes composes, creates, poiesis realities. It is as if the story of Christ is perhaps the story of language, and as the story of language, it is perhaps the story of worlds or realities. I invite you to go along with this trajectory. What kind of habit could the story of Christ instil with regards to both the grammar of language and Christians, as his followers or disciples, living in these worlds but called to be in but not of these worlds? Of what are Christians if Christians are not a creation of the dominant languages that they use in their daily lives? Are they the creation of another language? Or are they those who gather around the table of broken language, receiving the broken word through broken word and sacrament? What else are they then - redeemed sinners worshipping together? Redeemed of their language-world and yet inescapably created by their language worlds. As such, they are always sinners, simul justus et peccator, always justified and sinners at the same time.
There might be those who will accuse me of playing with words, and I would be inclined to respond: Could I play with words, could I be their master? To do that, I would have to be beyond words in a transcendent place from where I could control, manipulate and play with the words as if they were tools at my disposal. Could it not be, perhaps, that words play with me, and I am their creation and they my master? Or maybe all there is is a play with words or a word-play, a drama, a narrative that creates subjects within a world, who are in turn created in the image of that creative word and who therefore in their turn create words and worlds.
How does one respond by such playful playing of words? One would need to arrest this disruptive play, keep these playing unserious children away from the master and teacher of truth. And yet the way, the truth and the life responds and says: let the children come to me, for theirs is the kingdom of God (Mt 19:14).
My 'natural' desire is to arrest the play, to discipline the child. To discipline the child in the name of the Father, in the name of the law (nomos) in true Lacanian style. That is exactly what they did to Christ: they arrested the disruptive one who played with children, prostitutes and all the other outcasts who were not invited to dine at the exclusive table of the King. They did it in the name of the seriousness of the law and in all seriousness crucified him in the name of the law of God and Emperor because he threatened their security. This one associated with the outcasts, those who had no place in the orderly kingdom that has ontologically been categorised into what is and what should not or cannot be. He associated and gathered around him those who should not be, who had no place in a world controlled by and conformed to the law of the dominant language game. For that, he was crucified as the ultimate criminal because he threatened the stability and sanity of their world. And yet, the followers of this crucified one believe that he rose again on the third day. A testimony, of course, most unreliable, as it was women who were the first witnesses, and who could possibly take them seriously?
This whole faith is foolishness to those seeking logic, philosophy and a world clearly and securely controlled by laws and norms. It is also a stumbling block to those seeking certain and secure signs that do not play but conform and, more importantly, represent what truly is. Thus it is a faith, a spirituality that is childish foolery, asking questions about things that grown-ups have long ago established as certain and true, right and wrong, things about which grown-ups have clearly established and institutionalised the laws and norms that go with that certainty. Faith is a stumbling block to a certainty about what is and is not, what is right and wrong, truth and lie, story and fact, and the list of dualisms goes on in the world of the un-foolish grown-ups.
Yet, this childish foolery is rather persistent as it comes again and again from the margins of all our certainties, questioning and opening them for what is to come. And there, from the margins, as the norms and laws seek to crucify it, it or they crucify the dominant language games and dominant language worlds with their persistent deconstructing questions or deconstructing non-being (or not-supposed-to-be). It is a crucifixion, questioning or deconstruction with a request: speak broken English because your worlds and games are not my world and game. It is knocking on the doors of all secure and serious institutions of knowledge and truth that have the renowned ability to classify, categorise and label and thereby give ontological status to all that is and that is not within a given world. These institutions of knowledge are legitimised by the names of the great fathers and founders of the sciences and reified again and again by long traditions of (interpreted) experience. In the name of these fathers and founders of worlds and language games, in the name of the law, these children are told to grow up and leave their childish ways and accept and conform to the no, the law (nomos) of the father or else get out. Yet, he came to show us a different father. A father in whose house there are many rooms, a father in whose kingdom children can play, a father in whose house the prodigal son is given the ring of inheritance, a father in whose house the outcasts are invited and given place at the head of the table. He shows us a father on whose farm weeding is not allowed as there is no knowledge of good and evil institutionalised, legitimised and reified. No wonder Karl Barth3 said that the kingdom to come will bring all our knowledge to naught.
It is in the name of that Father, revealed by his only begotten Son, that I worship Sunday after Sunday a broken Word made flesh. I worship a broken crucified body, waiting to hear a broken crucified word that can only be received through grace and faith alone.4 I worship a word disrupted not by Reality or Truth but disrupted by love for the enemy or those excluded. I worship a word disrupted by a love for those crying and weeping, pleading with me not to speak my certain and secure language but pleading to speak a broken language of mercy because my secure certain and absolute language creates a world or a game that excludes. My secure and certain language, institutionalised, legitimised and reified, creates a certain secure world that has no room for the word of God made flesh, as the Christmas story tells on every Christmas Eve to the children who must eventually grow up.
That word that has no room in my world, that word that gathers to it all others that have no room, I seek to worship, knowing full well that I cannot as it is a disruptive word - knowing that I shall need to crucify it as it is a terrorist word threatening the homeland security of my world. Yet, that disruptive terrorist word died for me and my world that legally (in accordance with the law) crucified it. It died for my sin. It died for my relentless sin of not only creating a God but also a world in my image, believing myself master of my words and world and thereby also master of others, judging them and condemning them to neat heaps of corn and weeds. He died so that I, through faith and grace alone, could speak broken English and gather around a table to receive broken language, broken word made flesh, thereby including a wretch like me in the democratic and social cohesive kingdom always still to come where there is neither Jew or Greek, slave or free, man or woman.
A local community that worships such broken language5 and receives such broken language as a gift can become a site where citizens are spiritually formed or continually reformed through their witness and praxis of receiving broken language to become agents of transformation. They can become agents, not in the sense of acting in the name of a or even the Truth or in the name of a particular world or language game, but in the name of the word that had no home, no place to lay its head in our worlds. The local worshipping community is a confessional community (see Smit 2008) that does not confess a particular language or world but confesses the story of a word. They confess the story of a word made flesh, who found no home, a light in the darkness that was not understood. They confess a word made flesh and crucified, a word crucified and resurrected, a broken word given to all as forgiveness for sins.
If such a broken word is worshiped and received through grace and faith alone and if that story is confessed Sunday after Sunday, that story creates a community with a particular spirituality of broken language. It creates a community where believers receive broken language, allowing their language worlds to be opened by love and hospitality offered to the stranger who pleads: Speak broken English for your world is not my world. These confessing and worshipping communities become communities of transformation or should I rather say reformation as there is always room for one more reality. They are communities haunted by the spectre of democracy still to come, haunted by the spectre of social cohesion still to come, and the way they deal with that haunting is to receive as gift: broken English, a broken, crucified word made flesh through broken word and sacrament.
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The author declares that he has no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced him in writing this article.
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1.'To reflect on language means - to reach the speaking of language in such a way that this speaking takes place as that which grants an abode for the being of mortals' (Heidegger 1971:192).
2.See Peter Sloterdijk's (2011) trilogy on spheres, specifically the first volume, Bubbles.
3.'God is not hidden to us; He is revealed. But what and how we shall be in Christ, and what and how the World will be in Christ at the end of God's road, at the breaking in of redemption and completion, that is not revealed to us; that is hidden. Let us be honest: we do not know what we are saying when we speak of Jesus Christ's coming again in judgement, and of the resurrection of the dead, of eternal life and eternal death. That with all these there will be bound up a piercing revelation - a seeing, compared to which all our present vision will have been blindness - is too often testified in Scripture for us to feel we ought to prepare ourselves for it. For we do not know what will be revealed when the last covering is removed from our eyes, from all eyes: how we shall behold one another and what we shall be to one another - men of today and men of the past centuries and millennia, ancestors and descendants, husbands and wives, wise and foolish, oppressors and oppressed, traitors and betrayed, murderers and murdered, West and East, Germans and others, Christians, Jews, and heathen, orthodox and heretics, Catholics and Protestants, Lutherans and Reformed; upon what divisions and unions, what confrontations and cross-connections the seals of all books will be opened; how much will only then appear great and important; for what surprises of all kinds we must prepare ourselves. We also do not know what nature, as the cosmos in which we have lived and still live here and now, will be for us then; what the constellations, the sea, the broad valleys and heights, which we see and know now, will say and mean then' (Barth 2003:45-46).
4.For further exploration of public theology as liturgical space where the sacraments play an important role in shaping people, see Smit (2003).
5.See Koopman's (2008) article on the vulnerable church.


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Big East M5: 10.23.13 EditionPosted by Dan Lyons on October 23rd, 2013
- Just weeks before the start of the 2013-14 season, Marquette forward Jameel McKay has decided to leave the Golden Eagles to pursue his college basketball career elsewhere. Marquette Tribune writer Patrick Leary was especially taken aback by the announcement, based on a conversation he had with McKay just days earlier, when he "raved about how excited he was to play for Buzz and the Golden Eagles." McKay, a junior college transfer who did not log any time for Marquette last season, was expected to be behind forwards Davante Gardner, Chris Otule, and Jamil Wilson at the forward spots. Leary speculates that playing time may have been a concern for the junior, although time would have opened up next season when all three of those players will have graduated. There do not seem to be any hard feelings between McKay and the program, at least based on his Twitter feed where he stated: ""I appreciate the coaching staff and fans no hard feeling at all GoodLuck to them this year!" shortly after announcing the transfer.
- Another day,another transfer player is being held up in the vortex that is the office where the NCAA clears up these matters. Today, Georgetown awaits the fate of UCLA transfer Josh Smith. Coach John Thompson III acknowledges that waiting is, in fact, the hardest part: "It's the nature of the beast. It's the nature of the system. Would I prefer it not be this way? Probably. But at the same time, I understand it takes time." Smith would be a big addition to a Hoyas frontcourt that is already without forward Greg Whittington, who tore his ACL this spring after missing most of last season with academic concerns. Like Smith, Thompson doesn't have a substantive update on Whittington's status: "Only God knows when Greg's going to be able to play. I have no idea when he will be able to get back on the court."
- Even within a largely new conference, DePaul's status remains the same. The Blue Demons have once again been voted to finish last in the league, but the players are excited for what the future holds in the Windy City. The team returns two stalwart seniors who have averaged double figure points in each of their first three years in forward Cleveland Melvin and guard Brandon Young, and adds an exciting freshman class highlighted by guard Billy Garrett Jr. To his credit, Garrett looks forward to playing on the big stage: "Playing with expectations is something I've gotten used to. It's something I don't pay that much attention to because you have to go out there and perform." While many bemoan the loss of former conference rivals to the AAC and ACC, DePaul and other members of the Big East who struggled against the UConns and Syracuses of the world may welcome the change simply because it makes things a bit more manageable. The new league, combined with a roster that features both stars of years past and new players who are not used to all the losing years that DePaul has experienced, could make for a fresh start for a once proud program.
- A new league means a new court for Providence, who is set to unveil Dave Gavitt Court this season. The Friars' new hardwood moves away from the old design, which heavily featured black, with a cleaner silver and gray look around the perimeter, and is adorned by former Providence coach, athletic director, and first Big East commissioner Dave Gavitt's name at center court. With so many other programs installing crazy court designs in recent years, this sleek, streamlined design is much appreciated. Now if they can just do something about the total nightmare-fuel giant inflated Friar near the tunnel at the Dunkin' Donuts Center…
- As a Syracuse fan, it was hard to get excited about Hilby the German Juggle Boy as the main source of extracurricular entertainment at this year's Midnight Madness in the Carrier Dome. Take note, Syracuse, as Seton Hall has this Midnight Madness entertainment thing figured out. During this Friday night's event in South Orange, head men's coach Kevin Willard and women's coach Tony Bozzella will participate in a hot dog eating contest against the infamous Kobayashi. If you're a Seton Hall fan, you too can compete by entering an Instagram contest describing why you should be given a shot against Willard, Bozzella, and Kobayashi. So good luck to you, intrepid Pirates fans. I am incredibly jealous that Jim Boeheim is not participating in this one.


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Sarah Cary of British Land, Architype's Jon Ackroyd, Judit Kimpian of Aedas, Fionn Stevenson from Sheffield University and FCBStudio's Ian Taylor looked at ways to move the post occupancy agenda forward at the event on 18 April.
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Click on each of the "Choose a Filter" buttons
to see how galaxy NGC 1512 looks in seven different wavelength
Hubble's many filters allow it to record images in a variety
of wavelengths of light. Since the cameras can detect light outside
the visible light spectrum, the use of filters allows scientists
to study "invisible" features of objects those
only visible in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.
In the example to the left, galaxy NGC 1512 is represented in
several different wavelengths. Hubble isolates these specific
wavelengths using special filters. Choosing a particular filter
reveals an image of the galaxy taken through that filter
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Number crunchers can sharpen their pencils and put the Vox on speed dial. Beaufort County has posted its 2012 fiscal year budget online.
The operations budget - all 227 pages of it - can be found at the county website, www.bcgov.net
Select the option for "Departments" on the home page, then click on "Administration" then "Finance" and "Budgets" to access the document.
"I'm very grateful that our staff has been able to make it possible for the residents of Beaufort County to review the budget online," said County Administrator Gary Kubic.
"It's all about transparency and we want to continue to make progress toward being a totally open government," Kubic said.
The county staff is working toward more video-on-demand meetings, search engines and documents available electronically "that people have for their review or comment at their convenience," he said.
"They don't have to come down here to make a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request," Kubic said. "It's a positive thing."
The $96.3 million budget was approved June 27 by the Beaufort County Council and the fiscal year began on July 1.
The council opted not to raise taxes to fund the 2012 budget, though revenue is expected to decrease by about 7.6 percent, or about $8 million, from anticipated revenues for the 2011 fiscal year.
The 2011 county operations budget was $104 million; however, revenues totaled only about $98 million.
Revenues for the 2012 fiscal year are expected to total even less, about $96 million.
Chairman Weston Newton said the County Council committed to frugal government.
"In these difficult economic times, it would be a bad decision to expect people to pay more for services. We are continually reviewing all other options for keeping operational costs down," Newton said Tuesday in a press release.
So far, the county administration has eliminated more than 90 positions, which is expected to save about $3.8 million in the 2012 fiscal year.
Remaining county employees also were furloughed for five days in June to balance the budget for the 2011 fiscal year.
Reductions in agency allocations for 2011 total about
$1.5 million and include: $643,000 to Beaufort Memorial Hospital, $358,150 each to the University of South Carolina Beaufort and the Technical College of the Lowcountry, $125,000 to economic development, $54,000 to the Solicitor's Office, $40,000 to Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services and $7,000 to the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority.
The administration also has reduced proposed country purchased services by about $2 million for 2012.


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