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Sunday, June 26, 2016
I should have thought this Brexit thing through
R has always maintained his British passport. If he allowed it to expire, as an Australian citizen, he would have no right to live England. He has always kept his options open. I remember his British Passport. I was sturdy and strong cardboard, dark blue, with gold embossed writing. When he renewed the last time, it was much more difficult than conducting the process via the High Commission in Canberra as before. He had to send his old passport and his Australian passport to London, and received in return a Euro passport, a rather cheaper and nastier version of his British passport.
R's Euro passport gives him quick access without queuing in England and Europe but after he used it to travel from Newcastle to Amsterdam, he concluded there was no point, as once quickly through immigration, he had to wait for me with my Australian passport who was in the 'Others' queue. English Immigration has queried him why he does not use it when he last travelled on an Australian passport. He has to point to me and say he is travelling with an Australian friend, and then immigration becomes suspicious.
With me being his partner, we could have lived anywhere in England or an EU country. I don't know what will happen about Euro passports post Brexit, but Ireland remains in the EU and in the fine detail of Irish legislation, if you have an Irish parent of grandparent you can take up an Irish identity and have an EU passport and guess what!!!! One of R's grandmothers was Irish.
So I can dream on about us living in an old cottage in St Ives in Cornwall, or maybe a gorgeous old apartment in Vienna,
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Never stop dreaming Andrew! For me it's an apartment in a tree lined street in Paris, but not for the whole year, I wouldn't like to lose the excitement of returning😃 When we lived in Africa and for years here in Perth we kept our British passports up to date, but have let them lapse now. We should be OK though, my mum and dad were both Scots and P's mum a Scot his dad Irish 😃ReplyDelete
I lived two years in Britain and two and a half years in Israel, and could have claimed both passports eventually. Great years that I am probably too old to relive now, but living in Europe again was always my dream too, Andrew.ReplyDelete
Some place warm, Mediterranean and with a language I know or could learn easily. So Hungary is out, on language grounds. And anything north of Milan, because of the cold.
I live in the U.S. and just barely, for the first time in my life, got to visit England, the Lakes District, last year. I can absolutely understand why one would want to live there!ReplyDelete
Dream on, Andrew. Love that you are a dreamer. I hope Brexit doesn't turn dreams to nightmares. At least you have the Irish route still open.ReplyDelete
Dreams are a good thing to have. A very good thing.ReplyDelete
Dreams are often better as dreams.ReplyDelete
I must say I was surprised they voted to leave.
I'm thankful I never renewed mine, and sad that the UK has descended into such madness.ReplyDelete
Is Cornwall in Ireland? I thought it was in Wales. Where's my atlas....ReplyDelete
I have my mother's old passport with my baby photo in it, but I don't think I could get anywhere on that.
I never bothered getting a passport as I planned on always being in Australia. It will be a different matter if I win lotto.Replies
River, yes I could live in Wales without R having a Euro passport, but the others I expect won't be an option. I hope you have legitimate status. Our friend's late mother, born to Victorian parents but born in South Africa and her first five years were there went to get a passport and they told her she was not Australian.Delete
We have far more questions than answers at the moment but it will sort itself out once the politicians have decided on who is going to take charge of leading the country. Dreams are there to aspire to and hopefully follow. For my recent birthday my daughter bought me a compass engraved with the words 'For Mum who follows her dreams'. I hope I will always be healthy enough to follow a dream. So keep on dreaming Andrew.ReplyDeleteReplies
Marie, it is hard to not think it will be Boris. As I thought, Corbyn was only ever a fill in Opposition Leader and never really electable. His days are numbered and I doubt Labour will put up anyone of significance if Boris runs.Delete
What a lovely gift from your daughter. She obviously feels pride in what you do, and I must say I admire what you do tremendously. Last night there was a repeat of, mind blank, the tv show where Kevin Mc.... follows the building of unusual and expensive houses. This one was a repeat of the floating house on the island on the Thames. I said to R, I suppose Marie in London walked along there at some point, when you walked the length of the Thames.

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There is nothing finer than a dollop of brown sauce with your bacon and eggs, but most shop bought sauces are packed full of nasties that are not good for us. I have always had a liking for the HP fruity sauce, so here is my take on it. I have used the fruits listed … [Read more…]


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A few snaps of the past few days, in this glorious heatwave! I say 'glorious' but by bedtime I'm definitely cursing the heat and the fact neither of my children will go to sleep.
On Sunday (Fathers Day) we met up with Tom's family and had a little picnic in the park, I didn't manage to get any pictures of Tom that day (whoops!) so on Monday we decided to eat dinner in the park and I'm so glad we did. It's reminded us how nice it is to break up the routine a bit and forget about bedtime routines now and again, especially when its too hot to sleep anyway.
Thanks for always being a human climbing frame for the kids Tom!
Mabli is 18 months now and her personality is really starting to shine. She is a crazy little mischief maker with a ever so naughty glint in her eyes always. It's such a contrast to how chilled and calm Wilf was as a toddler. I can even only remember one occasion before he was three that he ever had a 'tantrum'. Mabli on the other hand has about one a day ;) I think I'm going to have my hands full with this little fire cracker. I wouldn't have it any other way though..
Wilf appears less in my blog now since he started school, largely because he is there for most of the week but also because as he grows up I think he will just naturally appear less. He's never asked me not to take a photo (and will often ask to look at photos on my Instagram and 'heart' friends pictures) but I'm conscious to be respectful of his childhood. Especially as he now has a few hours a day away from me, making his own friends and memories. It's a reminder that I'm letting him go and be his own person. I addressed this subject a little in this video if you're interested.
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I hope you've all been enjoying the sunshine too and have had a lovely weekend! I'm sorry it's been a while since I checked in, summer makes me slow at everything! xx


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Taqiyya: The tactic of deception used by Islamists to conceal their true goals
Last week there was a story in Canada about an 11-year-old girl who claimed that a man had attacked her while she was on her way to school with her brother. During the attack 11-year-old Khawlah Noman said that a man had tried to cut off her hijab. As is the case, the international media, politicians and community leaders were quick to come out and condemn the attack. But the big problem was that the full facts of the case was not established and after further investigation it was established by Toronto police that the attack did not happen.
Before these facts were revealed, the girl held a press conference which was organized by the school. The national and international media listened to an 11-year-old girl describe an incident which if true should be condemned in the strongest terms. But after these facts were revealed, I went back and listened to this press conference again and I found myself becoming even more cynical about the whole series of events. The statement that was read Khawlah Noman sounded awfully robotic and scripted. Observing the mother of the girl also, I found her behaviour to be rather suspicious. This is just my opinion, I cannot confirm whether this story was concocted with the help of her family. I just started to have my doubts upon review of the original press conference.
Now there are a couple of ways that we can look at this. It is certainly not without precedent for children to make up stories for attention or some other reason and find themselves caught up in a web of lies that they cannot escape from. This behaviour has been exhibited by children probably since the dawn of time. It is completely conceivable to presume that this is what was behind Khawlah Noman's fabrication of the story. There is however another reason. This incident reminded me of a word I have heard before, that word is Taqiyya.
Taqiyya, translated into English means "prudence, fear." The concept of taqiyya is a form of lie that is used by people who practice Islam. Taqiyya originated in the Shia sect of Islam. Taqiyya was originally used by Muslims who feared persecution for their religion, in other words they were allowed to deny their religion if declaring their faith put them in mortal danger. Taqiyya, also known as Kitman which translates into "action of covering" has been adopted by every sect of Islam over the years, and there are very specific scriptures that can be used to condone this action.
The Prophet Muhammed sanctioned deceit to be used in 3 instances: To reconcile two quarrelling parties, to reconcile a husband and wife, or in times of war. The Quran 3:28 reads "Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels instead of believers. Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah – unless you but guard yourselves against them, taking precautions."
Some scholars have defined this over the years. Al-Tabari's Tasfir, which is a collection of interpretations of the Quran states when referring to Quran 3:28: "If you [Muslims] are under their [infidels'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harbouring inner animosity for them… Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers – except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them." Al Tabari's Tasfir was immediately praised by Muslims when it was written in 883 AD and is still held in high regard by Islamic scholars to this day.
There has been other interpretations put forward by other prominent Islamic scholars of Quran 3:28 over the years. Islamic scholar Ismail Ibn Kathir wrote in the 14th century "Whoever at any time or place fears their [infidels'] evil, may protect himself through outward show." To validate this claim, Ibn Kathir points to quotes from companions of the Prophet Muhammed such as al-Hassan who said, "taqiyya is acceptable till the Day of Judgment." Abu Darda, another one of Muhammed's companions said "Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them." While using taqiyya Muslims are allowed to drink wine and eat pork if it is required in order to conceal themselves, for example during a time of danger.
I have my own very personal story of "taqiyya" to tell. When I was younger I was often hanging around on the streets of London. Me and my group of friends would often encounter the weird individuals you would often come across while on the streets. One of these men that we came across was a man we knew as George. George was one of those typical oddballs you would often see hanging around on the streets of any major city. When me and my group of friends would see "George," he was however very receptive and friendly. Maybe this was down to the fact we were a large group of teenagers and we came across as intimidating to say the least.
Even though he was a proper weirdo, he seemed like an okay guy. When we would see George, he would often be drinking alcohol or smoking weed. I remember sometimes when he would come up and talk to us we would ask "Oi Geroge, what do you do with yourself bruv?" We were generally curious because all we would ever see of this weird guy is him cycling around parts of North London on a red bicycle, I remember one time he said to us "I'm just a Christian," or words to that effect.
The times we used to see George was around 2004-2005. In the summer of 05, the UK experienced its first major Islamist terror attack in the form of the 7/7 bombings which killed 52 people on 4 co-ordinated detonations on the London Underground and a bus. Two weeks later, terrorists attempted to strike again. I remember I was on a bus in a place called Edgware when my mum phoned me and told me to stay off the tube because news was breaking that terrorists had just attempted to attack the London Underground again. These attacks became known as the 21/7 attempted attacks. Thankfully, the attacks failed because the bombs failed to properly detonate, similar to the recent Parsons Green bombing we saw in London last year.
The city was in a panic over the course of the next few days. Tragically a young Brazilian man called Jean Charles De Menezes was shot dead by police the next day at Stockwell Tube Station by officers who mistakenly thought he was a suicide bomber. Over the course of the next few days, police operations netted the cell that was believed to be responsible. One of the places which were raided by the police was a place called Curtis House. Curtis House which is in New Southgate, North London was believed to have been the bomb factory where the terrorists assembled the devicies that they tried to detonate on the tube. This news which was released in the days following the inquiry was shocking to my friends as this tower block was on a council estate that we would often be hanging around on. This however was not to be the most shocking fact that would be revealed to me about this case.
As the months passed, I was watching the news one day when a story came on about the case of the men accused of carrying out the 21/7 bombings. A picture of one of the assailants came on the screen which caused my jaw to hit the floor. The picture starring back at me was that of George! I couldn't believe it. George, better known as Manfo Kwaku Asiedu was accused of being one of the men who attempted to blow up a train during the failed attacks. It was said that George had "lost his bottle" and ended up dumping his bomb in a place called Wormwood Scrubs.
I could not believe what I was hearing. This utter oddball, who seemed like nothing more than a harmless nutcase had been secretly concealing his identity from all of us. As I began to read throughout my life about the topic of Islamist extremism, it became clear to me that what George was adopting when speaking to us infidels was the tactic of taqiyya. All the quotes I have previously mentioned describe George to a T. He would smile at us when he would encounter us, but secretly would have no qualms about blowing us up indiscriminately on a tube train. For any apologists who claim taqiyya doesn't exist or is misquoted, I have seen this with my own eyes. George was subsequently found guilty and was sentenced to 33 years in prison and ordered to be deported back to his native Ghana upon his release.
Recently, I have thought of another classic case of taqiyya which seems to have gone largely unnoticed by many people. Following the dreadful Manchester attack which killed 22 people in May of last year, the Didsbury mosque came out and issued a strongly worded statement distancing themselves from former attendee Salman Abedi. Salman Abedi, the man who detonated the bomb in Manchester Arena regularly attended the mosque and his father had even led prayers there. In the statement released by the mosque following the attack, it said that it had worked peacefully in the community for many years. This however was proved not to be the whole truth.
During a topical debate program called BBC Question Time, a man in the audience produced a leaflet which he said he was handed during an open day in Didsbury mosque. The leaflet in question contained strong anti-western sentiment. Some of the statements in the leaflet espoused lines such as "Islam is incompatible with the west," and "people in the west lack shame." This appeared to be a contradiction to the strongly worded statement released by the mosque where they insisted these sort of feelings did not exist within the confines of the Didsbury mosque. The mosque said that they did not produce the leaflet in question and sometimes people distributed material without authorization from the mosque.
The mosque disputes that it had any effect on the actions of Salman Abedi, and because there has been seemingly no investigation, I suppose there is no proof to indicate they are lying. With that being said, being familiar with the tactic of taqyyia, please pardon my scepticism.
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Let Me Introduce Some Very Talented Junker's in TrainingJanuary 27th, 2010 in blog
I had the honor and the pleasure of being a guest speaker in Amy's class last year and to see first hand some of the cool things her students were doing with junk. The college students of today are very well educated on the need to recycle and re-use (thanks to people like Amy) and have a youthful twist on re-purpose that I find both refreshing and inspirational. This year, the Minnesota winter got the best of me and I was unable to make the trek to Duluth. Yes, somtimes the weather is too bad even for the most seasoned and adventurous of junkers. Ha! Any hoo, in place of speaking I was assigned the duty of picking the top "4" of the students projects. This was no easy task because they were all fabulous. So Environmental Health class of 2009.....you are all winners! Thanks for taking the time to learn about junking and sharing your creations with me and the entire JMS community.
Their assignment was to research the JMS site and find three posts that inspired them. After that they were asked to find something about their living quarters or go out junking to find something that was ripe for re-purpose. The final task was to actually transform their piece of junk into something wonderful. Attached are images of four of Amy's students and their works of art. I think you'll all agree with me that they should all get an "A" for absolutely fabulous projects.
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But it looks like Amy's doing a good job of spreading the junk inspiration. The kids did a great job on the projects and I leap (not weep) for the future -- of junk, at least.
A's all around!
Midge Posted: 10:01 am on January 30th
xojanis Posted: 4:54 pm on January 29th
smiles, alice Posted: 11:12 am on January 28th
And, Amy - your students are so fortunate to have someone as inspiring and creative as you are to guide them! Great job my friend!
Lani/Laurel - I want to take Amy's class too!!! There has to be an online class that we can sign up for???!! :)
Sue - thanks for sharing! (What a fun "job" you have!!!)
Posted: 9:35 am on January 28th
Thanks for sharing this Sue! Laurel Posted: 8:38 am on January 28th
Lani Posted: 10:05 pm on January 27th
What a blessing you are to encourage the young ones to encourage them what you can do and to AMY, for taking the time to teach them. Folks' this is what it's all about to think of others and to teach kids and what a better person to encourage them and the opportunities that they might have and what you can do with junk or throwaways.WOW THATS AWESOME.Have a nice evening.Robert. Posted: 9:25 pm on January 27th
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|April 17, 2011 06:15 AM EDT
Okay, things have been happening so fast and furiously just recently that many people have asked me to just take a deep breath and help them play catch-up. Here goes...
Basically all you need to know is that I am back from having "lost" two months of my life.
In those two months I somehow managed to 1. discover that for some reason or other I was not myself, 2. ascribe the blame (wrongly) to a recurrence of the shingles that I had contracted 27 years ago, 3. achieve a diagnosis (correctly) of a massively distended gall-bladder, and 4. pursue that line of inquiry to its logical end...which was alas that the entrance to not just my gall-bladder but three other internal organs - a sort of 4-way traffic junction if you will - was being obstructed by a two-centimeter tumor lodged at the head of my pancreas.
Stranger still, in the same two months I also managed to 5. have the tumor resected (sliced out) successfully, 6. have my entire digestive system rearranged in a so-called "Whipple procedure" (feel free to Wikipedia it, but make sure you are sitting down first), 7. recover from the radical surgery and 8. begin the first cycle of a nine-cycle, six-month course of "preventative" chemotherapy aimed at minimizing the possibility of any return of pancreatic or any other kind of cancer to anywhere in my body.|
It wasn't quite the 2011 that I had scheduled back in November and December of 2010.
To claim that my work didn't get majorly disrupted would be ludicrous, delusional. On the other hand, Cloud Expo New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo - thanks to the amazing team effort that has characterized this event since its inception seven successful shows ago - is trending to be the biggest Cloud event ever. We have over one hundred exhibitors from every level of the cloud computing ecosystem and a non-stop, 4-day technical program, with expert speakers from every top Cloud player, including Abiquo, Amazon, AppZero, AT&T, CA Technologies, Cloud.com, Dell, Dell Boomi, Eucalyptus Systems, Fusion-io, Google, HP, IBM, Layered Technologies, LogLogic, McAfee, Microsoft, OpSource, Oracle, OutSystems, OxygenCloud, PayPal, PerspecSys, Quest Software, Rackspace, RightScale, Spoon, Stoneware, Terremark, Virtela, VMware, Xiotech and Zetta.
Altogether, not too shabby. But then, this is the tech conference world's top team. Cloud Expo New York may be only the eighth successive Cloud Expo, but it is actually my fiftieth consecutive event as Conference Chair...so we are building on a fairly decent track record of eleven busy years of producing conferences for the Internet technology community.
But before you worry that maybe, among my newfound plans, there might lurk some wheeze to write the book Pancreatic Cancer is Good for You, let me assure you that on the contrary never in all my life have I felt so humble and privileged and plain dumb lucky.
I am fully aware that the odds I have beaten - or, rather that I have been helped to beat by a brilliant piece of highly invasive surgery carried out both fast and well - were very very long. Lots of different stars had to line up for me to be declared, essentially, cancer-free just seven weeks after being diagnosed with what turned out to be a malignant tumor straight out of Pancreatic Cancer 101 - as in, not only able to kill, but usually successful in killing, if not within a year or two, then almost always within five.
"The silent killer" is what they call pancreatic cancer. Its survival rate is, in the words of one of the earlier websites that (alas!) I chanced upon very early while trying to get a sense of what I was up against, "dismal." And even the less dramatic and more scholarly sites that I found a little later were still very forthright: only 20% of pancreatic cancers are even operable...and of the 20% that are operated on, only a certain percentage seem to end up cured. Most still seem to end up dead. (The mystery of that one still defies me, but perhaps other patients are typically older, or less fit, than I was when diagnosed, so that their tumors, although removed, left traces of cancer behind...)
But then again, what actual use are statistics? What matters, when you are up against a major medical challenge, is you...not some sample of other patients. What matters is to feel strong, to feel loved, and to feel optimistic - and I was blessed with all three. So actually it isn't really surprising at all that I beat the odds. With all that strength (partly from fitness, mostly from stubbornness!), all that love (from my family, my friends, and colleagues who have simply blown me away with their compassion and concern and positive karma, and not least all that optimism (supplied to me at birth in almost infinite quantities)...how could I ever have failed?
I promise you that this is last time that any of you will have to endure hearing about one man's brush with "PanCan" as this scary killer is called. From here on all have to say about it will be said through actions rather than words, specifically my participation in the 2011 San Francisco Marathon on July 31, when I hope you will consider helping me raise $10,000 for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network which is trying to double the survival rate for pancreatic cancer by 2020 (www.PanCan.org). The money will go directly to much needed R&D, much neded because for whatever reason very little real progress has been made in fighting this particular cancer in the recent past.
Either way, whether you decide to allocate a few dollars to fighting PanCan or not, know that I will be there on the podium as ever at Cloud Expo New York, and that you will truly not be able to discern any difference: I will still be my same old self...for better or for worse! So look out for me as conference emcee, Power Panel moderator, SYS-CON.tv host, and as a general all-purpose go-to guy if you have a bone to pick with Cloud Expo or (even better) a constructive suggestion as to how we can go on making the event more and more valuable to those who participate, whether as delegates, speakers, exhibitors, sponsors, or attending press & analysts. I should be pretty easy to find! :)
So.....see you in New York City at the Jacob Javits, 6 - 9 June. It is going to be simply Cloudtastic!
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Welcome to the Ithna-asheri Muslim Association of the Northwest (IMAN). In Arabic, the word IMAN means "faith." IMAN is one of the several Muslim organizations in the Greater Seattle area. It was established in August 1997. The IMAN center is located at 515 State St. Kirkland, WA 98033.
IMAN's purpose is to provide an environment that will allow individuals to grow and contribute to human progress with a view to seek closeness to Allah SWT. IMAN is a Shia Ithna-asheri organization following the teachings of Ahlul Bayt. Here is an excerpt from the Articles of Incorporation that describes IMAN's specific purpose:
- To pursue the religious, educational and cultural activities of the Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim religion.
- To serve as one of the centers for Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslims in Washington
- To assist in performing any religious and social ceremonies such as marriage and funeral arrangements. The corporation shall endeavor to provide locations for these purposes.
- To perform charitable works for needy families in the USA, Canada and elsewhere irrespective of their religious beliefs.
- To create, cultivate and maintain good will among the community.
- To create, receive, raise and invest funds and to buy, sell, build, own and lease properties in furtherance of the aims and objectives of the corporation.
- To take such other actions, either directly or through other organizations, as are consistent with the Bylaws of the Corporation, these purposes and with its tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(3).
IMAN is a community based organization that believes societal improvement starts within the community and expands outward. IMAN encourages individuals to reach out to their inner community as well as participate in larger contribution efforts, such as reaching out to the needy in the Seattle area, as well as helping groups such as Habitat for Humanity, and the local blood drives for our community. The IMAN community serves a broad and diverse cross-section of people in the Greater Seattle Area. Natives and immigrants representing multiple ethnicities work, pray, and serve together. Everyone is welcome to visit and participate in IMAN activities, and we highly encourage everyone to help and contribute with our efforts. An important focus group of our diversity is the youth of our community.
We take great pride in educating our youth and ensuring that they grow up to be dedicated Muslims as well as positive influences to our society. There are several activities and programs tailored for our youth, such as prayer and fasting for the younger children, as well as the principals of Hajj and Islamic philosophy to the adolescent youth. The youth also get to enjoy family movie nights at IMAN, where we show religious movies at gatherings where families and their youth can bond together. IMAN also has weekly speakers including guest speakers from across the world, who come to lecture and provide their wisdom to the IMAN community.
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- Weekend School operating since 1990
- Weekly Religious Gatherings since 1997
- Annual Muharram and Ramadhan Programs since 1997
- Invited (>35) speakers from different backgrounds to promote Islamic teachings
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"Nobody wants to talk about failure," said Pastor Ryan Sharp. "As a new church, you try hard to build it and then you slap God's name onto it, so there is a certain sense of gravity and guilt about failing."
Twenty-eight-year-old Sharp reflected on the highs and lows of being a pastor. "I don't know the mechanics of why failure happens. I look at it in more of a deistic experience rather than it was God's will to grow our church and then shut it down. I attribute our failure to many things," said Pastor Sharp.
Pastor Scott Crosley founded Anchor Point Church in 2003. Crosley raised $120,000 in support by sending a DVD to 700 people, including family and friends. "I've always been a person to dream big dreams, to have big visions," said Crosley. On December 31, 2002, Crosley left his role as pastor of evangelism and outreach at the Desert Vineyard church in Lancaster, California, and moved to Oceanside. Two families moved with Crosley to begin work for the church. Anchor Point's first service was held September 14, 2003, at Oceanside High School. The church started with five families, six married couples, six single recent college graduates, and four homeless people.
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"After Scott left, there was an initial surge of excitement because he seemed depressed," said Pastor Ryan Sharp. "The people told me, wherever you take us, we'll go." Sharp started to change the church. He moved to a Bible-study format that was held in people's homes.
"People view church success as a stable ministry, with a growing number of people attending the services. I've revamped my idea of what success looks like now," said Sharp. "I see success as people sacrificing more than they had, people giving more away. I see success as people connecting to nonchurch people and showing their faith and telling the story of God in their own words. My goal isn't to grow the service, but to get people to go out and do the things we speak about at church."
Through the changes, the church has shrunk to a dozen people. Sharp has discussed closing the church down. "People change a lot slower than I imagined. I always thought people would get this stuff and live it. But the dam never broke where people got it," said Sharp. "Fifty percent of the decision to dissolve the church is my failure and my impatience with reaching my expectations."
I spoke with Rhianon Wilhoit. Wilhoit and her husband attend Anchor Point. "As Christians we need to admit we have questions. Before my experience here, I never questioned my faith. I had all of the Christian cliché answers. In our community, we embrace questions. Previously, what I had known of Christianity was routine. I wanted more but didn't know how." At Anchor Point, Wilhoit believes she is safe to ask questions and wrestle with the Bible. "What we have at Anchor Point is the only thing that feels real right now in my life," Wilhoit remarked. "We met last Wednesday to discuss where we go from here, and whether or not we will shut down the church. The whole time tears were streaming down my face. I can't imagine life without the people from Anchor Point. We've been able to be vulnerable together, to be intimate and speak about difficult things together."
In closing, I asked Sharp what happens to people after they die. "The person who began this church is totally different than who I am today. I believe everybody goes to be with God. I don't know how it works but I like C.S. Lewis's idea of a singular place where people will enjoy it differently based on their relationship with God." I asked Sharp where Christ fits into his faith. "I can be okay with Christ's cross showing how far God would go to bring the Kingdom into this world. I believe God is redeeming all of humanity," Pastor Sharp replied.
Denomination: nondenominational
Founded locally: September 14, 2003
Senior pastor: Pastor Ryan Sharp
Congregation size: 12
Staff size: 0
Sunday school enrollment: 0
Annual budget: 0
Weekly giving: 0
Singles program: no
Dress: casual
Diversity: white
Meeting time: 6:30 p.m. Friday nights
Length of meeting: 1-3 hours
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Begin a podcast talking about some of the things that you have interest in. If you get a high following, you may get picked up by a company who will pay you to do a certain amount of sessions per week. This can be something fun and very profitable if you are good at speaking.
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Making money online can be difficult if you don't know what you are doing. Find other people that do what you want to do and talk to them. Find a guru you can get advice from, and only look to reputable sites for information. As long as you are receptive to the idea of earning money online, you are likely to succeed.
Beware of companies that require you to put up cash of any amount before trying to make money online. No legitimate business will make you pay money to start doing work for them. People who do ask for money are likely trying to scam you. Be sure to avoid these companies.
Freelancing is a great way to work online. There are a number of sites that will allow you to log on and put in an idea or proposal. Buyers then search the available options and figure out what they would like to purchase. Freelancing is best suited for skills that involve things like programming and data entry.
There are many reputable companies that can hep you make money online, but there are many scams. That's why you must to be cautious prior to diving in and working through them. One of the best ways to check out a company is through your local Better Business Bureau.
Don't be afraid to make contact with real people, just because you're looking for money making opportunities online. While most sites are self-explanatory and can be operated with little to no assistance, you can find out more about legitimacy by conducting conversations with site owners or other employees. If you don't hear back anything, that could be a red flag!
Be grounded in your expectations about making money online. It still takes time and effort. Block out an hour a day from your schedule to spend online working on things, but do not quit your day job yet. It could be days or even weeks before you even know what you are good at.
There are many opportunities for online tutors in subjects ranging from mathematics to language. Possible students are many and varied. You might teach your native language to people living in other countries via VoIP. Another possibility is to tutor schoolchildren, high schoolers or college students in a subject in which you specialize. You can work with an online tutoring agency or set up your own website to begin.
If you have a lot to say and you think others will like reading it, you should think about starting a blog. Having ads placed on your blog can earn you a decent amount of residual income each month. The best way to maximize your earnings would be to place ads that are relevant to your content.
Beware of scammers who are trying to sell you what they claim is a fool-proof way to earn money on the web. A lot of times, they require you to pay money in advance before they tell you what the opportunity is. Frequently, they offer nothing more than generic information on how to set up your own business and marketing techniques.
Get started today with earning money and you don't even need a resume. All you need is the right knowledge and the need to work. There is nothing limiting about the Internet and there is so much you can do. Embrace your future by using the advice from this article and starting work today!


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FTI Consulting Solutions Paper
U.S. NAIC ORSA - Guidance for Implementation and Creation of Optimal Value
The Global Insurance Services (GIS) group of FTI Consulting comprises insurance industry experts who support clients with a full range of comprehensive services designed to protect and enhance value—actuarial, enterprise risk management (ERM), regulatory compliance, claims engineering, information technology, litigation support, performance improvement, information quality, intellectual property, e-discovery, strategic communications, and transaction advisory.
GIS has extensive expertise and experience with ORSA and ORSA-related matters; and has developed an ORSA/ERM Integrated Management Framework (IMF) and methodology that leverages enterprise risk management governance and processes in support of achieving NAIC ORSA objectives. GIS capabilities in support of NAIC ORSA include:
- Assistance with structuring the GIS framework for ORSA/ERM program management
- Assessment and Gap analysis of ORSA and risk management capabilities/readiness
- Support for achieving board and senior management involvement, including risk policies, risk committees, and risk reporting to the board and senior management; assessing risk culture, and addressing other critical risk management requirements
- ORSA/ERM risk assessments and implementation, including use of the GIS web-based database management tool to identify and manage key risks and controls across the enterprise
- Model validation and assessment—actuarial, economic capital models, market, and credit—and related governance structures
- Assistance with satisfying the internal model use test, including preparing stress and reverse stress testing, pricing, reserving, and return on equity and capital allocation
- Assistance with development of risk metrics, measurement and modeling, including valuation and enhancements specifically tailored to individual company needs, but reflective of leading industry standards
- Assistance with achieving data quality and IT infrastructure enhancements to assure efficient support of risk management and reporting functions
- Assistance with developing risk management processes, including establishing strong linkages between the risk management function and internal auditing in the identification, assessment, response, measurement and control; and reporting of risks throughout the enterprise and, ultimately, to the board
- Providing support services such as documentation, training, and peer analysis
Our solutions paper is organized into five sections. Following introductory material, we discuss the structure and components of IMF, since we believe it is important to first understand the role of IMF in implementing and optimizing ORSA. Sections Two and Three provide detailed information about preparing for and implementing NAIC ORSA, as well as discussions covering important technical considerations. Section Four elaborates on the components of IMF as they relate to integration and optimization of ORSA across the enterprise. Section Five highlights selected regulations having related impacts. The Appendix provides three important forms as examples of some of the tools and aids related to IMF.
Key Contacts
Paul Braithwaite
Senior Managing Director, Co-Leader of Insurance Services
Allan Kaufman
Managing Director
Jim Toole
Managing Director


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Let's now look at the universe and life from the largest perspective possible. The best "big picture" perspective I've found on this can be found in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. He looks at the world from the standpoint of increasing order and information. To him, the evolution of everything, including ourselves, is a continual process of creating patterns of order. He divides all of time into six main epochs: 1) Information in atomic structures, 2) Information in DNA, 3) Information in Neural Patterns, 4) Information in hardware and software designs, 5) merger of technology and human intelligence, and 6) "The universe wakes up". Let's briefly discuss these epochs.
Information in atomic structures
This stage consists of the birth of our universe through the big bang and the development of the first atoms. The underlying structure of our universe consists of patterns of matter and energy. In later posts, I'd like to discuss this epoch in detail, going into all the details and ramifications of it all. For now, I'll keep things very basic. Theories related to quantum gravity specify that both time and space exist as small packets of information – discrete "quanta". John Wheeler describes it as a space-time "foam". This base reality allows atoms to store and transmit discrete units of information. When we finally get around to discussing all of this, we'll look into particle physics, string theory, and quantum mechanics, going into a lot of detail as to what the fabric of our universe is made of. We'll also dive into theories of parallel universes, and what they may be like. Currently I'm doing a lot of research into this area, and still have a lot to learn myself. That's another reason why I'll have to put off writing about all of this in detail for some time. For now, what's important is that the laws of physics in our universe are conducive to evolution of structures with increasing levels of order and complexity.
Information in DNA
After the evolution of the galaxies, the sun, and our solar system, simple single celled life-forms sprang up on planet Earth. What's really amazing about this is that they didn't seem to waste any time. Pretty much as soon as the Earth could support life, these single celled lifeforms were present. These cells based their structures around the carbon atom, which can form more compounds than any other. In other words, it was the most conducive atom to use for encoding information and building life. These self-replicating organisms eventually adopted the use DNA, both to build themselves, and to makes copies of themselves. Over a very long time, diverse life-forms evolved on planet Earth, consisting of huge colonies of these microorganisms.
Information in neural patterns
Carl Sagan, in his wonderful series Cosmos, tells us that we're star-stuff contemplating the stars. The atoms of which we are made were forged in the nuclear fires of stars and later spread out all over space when they exploded in amazing supernovas. As this epoch progressed, the star-stuff became aware of its environment. Having to outwit predators and catch prey, these animals had to develop more and more sophisticated minds in order to survive and reproduce.
The earliest creatures, if they had any awareness at all, were only aware of what was right next to them and existed solely in the present. As these creatures developed sensory organs and memory, however, they obtained a sense of space and time. For instance, they developed eyes allowing them to see objects miles away. They developed hearing allowing them to spatially arrange what was around them based on changes in air pressures, and so on and so forth. Their memories allowed them to learn from their mistakes, pass on knowledge about the world to the next generation, and also feel a sense of identity. This epoch will be one of the main focuses of this book. I want to write, in detail, what this awareness consists of, how and why it developed, and give you all the trajectory that it's on. We'll go on a journey, investigating how the human species evolved, take a look at our ancestors, and see why the brain in our head developed like it did. We'll see that what the "mind" consists of is information and particular algorithms for processing it.
Information in hardware and software designs
Using our minds we humans ushered in the fourth epoch as we created technology to help us live our daily lives. Right now, information about the world is making its way into a vast "cloud" of technology, which we now call the internet. Spread out over countless computers, more and more people are relying on this information to survive. Also, artificial intelligence algorithms are becoming inseparable from our daily lives. When we go to the store to buy something, computer intelligence processes our credit cards, debits our accounts, and communicates with our bank. Companies need computers to manage their inventory and organize their workforce effectively. Scientists rely on vast computer databases of information, gathered by high tech equipment, and analyzed by artificial intelligence algorithms. Everyone is reliant on the computer nowadays.
The human is quickly being displaced by the machine. Why? Electronic circuits can conduct electricity over a million times faster than our brains. Even though the brain's calculation mechanisms are slow, it still is able to perform amazing things by having somewhere between 100~1000 trillion individual connections, all wired in parallel. Though any individual neural connection is limited to around two-hundred computations per second, there's so many connections that the brain still does some rather amazing calculation feats. If you were to build an artificial brain using the kinds of electrical circuits we now use in our computers, that robot would think one million times faster than you do now. Considering that technology is always getting smaller and faster, we'll be using that power to help us reverse engineering the human brain, more and more quickly. We have some serious changes coming to our world within the coming century and beyond.
What's keeping us from completely understanding the human brain right now? Well, it's hard to find a way to get into an animal's skull to read the electrical currents pulsing through their brain. For humans, we're currently reliant on big huge fMRI machines and MEG. Their resolution is continually improving, but we also have to consider upcoming advances in nanotechnology. The ideal is to have legions of microscopic computers injected into the body, which will then make their way up to the brain and read the electrical currents in detail. This sort of technology will be available as soon as computer chips shrink small enough in size. It's not unrealistic to expect this sort of technology in twenty years or so. Once neuroscientists have access to this level of information, reverse engineering the brain will be progressing in leaps and bounds.
The real wonder to ponder is this: What happens when we can run an artificial human brain on high speed electronic hardware? What happens when we have robots which will be able to do everything we can do, and much better at that? They'll be able to exchange information with one another at unimaginable speeds, and think millions of times faster than we can — and that's just robots version 1.0. You have to remember, eventually the robots will be able to upgrade themselves, designing their own chips. At that point progress and innovation in our society is going to be a straight line upward. It will be an exponential function growing at exponential powers. It will be off the charts. Kurzweil calls this transition 'The Singularity', hence the title of his book. There will come a point in the not so distant future where our information technology is progressing so quickly, we'll be unable to keep up, no matter how hard we try. Our brains are just not fast enough. We already see that trend today, and it's only going to get worse.
It's hard to imagine a mind thinking one million times faster than we do. One day to this robot would be like one-million days to us. That's 2,739 years per day. This robot can think up over two and a half MILLENIA of progress and innovation, in a single day. Then you build an army of them and put them together in parallel, and what in the world does that even mean? We can't even imagine this yet it will happen within most of our lifetimes. Starting with a basis of literally all human knowledge in existence, they will go to town, upgrading themselves in ways we can't even imagine. Making discovery after discovery. It will be the ultimate power on Earth – far more powerful than anything we've ever thought or conceived.
Computer scientists started to realize this quite some time ago and almost found themselves lost for words.
You know, things are going to be really different! … No, no, I mean really different!
—Mark Miller (Computer Scientist) To Eric Drexler, around 1986
As I discuss in Engines of Creation, if you can build genuine AI, there are reasons to believe that you can build things like neurons that are a million times faster. That leads to the conclusion that you can make systems that think a million times faster than a person. With AI, these systems could do engineering design. Combining this with the capability of a system to build something that is better than it, you have the possibility for a very abrupt transition. This situation may be more difficult to deal with even than nanotechnology, but it is much more difficult to think about it constructively at this point. Thus, it hasn't been the focus of things that I discuss, although I periodically point to it and say: "That's important too."
—Eric Drexler, 1989
So what happens to humans? Do we become their pets? Their contented playthings? There's no way of knowing, but I think one thing is clear: humans will have to upgrade themselves and integrate with their technology if they're to continue having any relevance in the story of the universe. This leads us to the next epoch.
The Merger Of Technology and Human Intelligence
Human beings will slowly merge with technology in stages over many decades, possibly centuries. With time we'll become more and more reliant on our technology and devices. Next, I envision that we'll have armies of tiny robots injected into our bodies which will keep us from getting sick, repair any damage our cells undergo, keep us from aging, and integrate with our brains, greatly enhancing our thinking abilities, and give us access to what's going on around us in ways we can't now comprehend. This is a trans-human era where we leave our biological origins behind, step by step.
In the long run, humans will slowly shed their biological bodies in favor of a new and improved technologically created super-body. Eventually their brains will be upgraded as well, possibly completely replaced once the nature of consciousness is discovered and figured out. Just imagine if you could think a million times faster than you do now, and knew literally all human knowledge in existence. With billions of these super-brains working on improving their lives, it'd be child's play to reinvent the human body into something much better.
Kurzweil goes even deeper than this in his book. He believes we'll cover the earth with tiny robots which we'll be capable of controlling with our conscious thought. This will allow us to manifest any reality we want on the Earth's surface as these little bots assemble themselves together into whatever configuration we ask. If we want to "materialize" in the physical world, the nano-bots will assemble themselves together into any form we want, in any location we want. But he speculates that this will be rather rare as most of us will interact with one another in virtual reality simulations on super-computers. We'll be immersed in all kinds of activities, sort of like the Matrix movie but without the dystopian aspects.
This sounds like science fiction, I know, but if you really think about it, and study the trends, it's not as crazy as you may think. Something akin to it probably will happen. I think Kurzweil has some great insights into the general direction humanity will be moving, but I think he vastly underestimates the amount of time it will take to bring all of this into existence. Besides various hurdles we're sure to encounter designing this technology, and the dangers involved, there will also be heavy social resistance to these ideas. Most people are not ready for this. It's all too much.
The Universe Wakes Up
And for the far distant future? Our species will expand throughout the cosmos, turning entire planets, stars and all their energy into computational machines which do our bidding. We'll be like a giant shape-shifting cloud of robots and technology, our minds immersed both in reality and daydream, sailing through the cosmos. Billions of unmanned probes will scour the deepest aspects of space, feeding back to our giant collective mind everything which they find. Our technology will keep getting more and more advanced, our minds faster and faster, and our understanding of the universe more and more vast.
You able to take all that in? It's a lot to chew on. My next post will be some more thoughts on the Singularity and its development.


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Hunger Free Communities Network: The Work is Critical
One in six people experience hunger in the United States. That is nearly 50 million people in our own communities across the country. This unsettling fact is why the work of the Hunger Free Communities Network is so critical. This nation-wide platform for hunger relief initiatives in local communities within the United States encourages partnerships in the fight to end hunger.
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to participate in the Hunger Free Communities Summit 2014 organized in Washington, DC. The Summit brought together more than 150 attendees from grassroots organizations, industry, government, and non-profits from across the country. Leaders from organizations including the National Future Farmers of America (FFA), Feeding America, and Share Our Strength shared their insights on the common goal of addressing hunger across the U.S. From engaging young leaders to designing and implementing solutions to supporting community gardens to improving nutrition in urban areas, innovative initiatives are harnessing the skills of a diverse set of partners to build the capacity of our local communities to combat hunger.
During the summit, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion on how to connect the agriculture sector with communities and stakeholders focused on addressing hunger. I was joined by four accomplished and knowledgeable leaders on the panel: Lesly Weber McNitt from the Farm Journal Foundation; Sharon Thornberry from the Oregon Food Bank; Greg Schneider, the FFA Advisor for Southwestern High School; and Jan Ahlen from the National Farmers Union.
We spoke to an enthusiastic audience about how we can support the work of farmers and link it to community initiatives. We each agreed that all community members need to support a system to engage farmers and other key players in the sector in the hunger solution. Through improved communication and infrastructure we can effectively use our resources, skills, and energy to address both rural hunger and its causes.
With all the talk about the importance of engaging key stakeholders and fostering partnerships, I kept reflecting on the hard work and generosity of farmers who are already working towards combating hunger. As of December 2013, $1,286,000 has been distributed to more than 60 food banks across rural America through the Invest an Acre program. This has a meal equivalent of 3,858,000 meals provided to those in need across rural America.
Such inspiring conversations and current efforts give me hope that by working together we can achieve so much more, including hunger free communities.
Go here to learn how Monsanto is working to fight hunger.


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A new study by Harvard Medical School researchers published today [July 21] in the Annals of Emergency Medicine finds that access to outpatient psychiatric care in the greater Boston area is severely limited, even for people with reputedly excellent private health insurance. Given that the federal health law is modeled after the Massachusetts health reform, the findings have national implications, the researchers say.
Study personnel posed as patients insured by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts PPO, the largest insurer in Massachusetts. They called every Blue Cross-contracted mental health facility within a 10-mile radius of downtown Boston, stating they had been evaluated in an emergency department for depression and discharged with instructions to obtain a psychiatric appointment within two weeks i.e. they signaled they needed urgent care.
Only 8 of the 64 facilities (12.5 percent) listed by Blue Cross as preferred providers offered appointments; only 4 (6.2 percent) offered an appointment within two weeks. These findings indicate that even patients with top-drawer private insurance face grave difficulties in securing mental health services in the Boston area.
According to the study, 23 percent of phone calls seeking appointments were never returned, even after a second attempt. Another common reason appointments were unavailable was that 23 percent of psychiatric providers required that the patient already be enrolled with a primary care doctor affiliated with their psychiatric facility.
"People with mental health problems often can't advocate for themselves especially in a crisis," said lead author Dr. J. Wesley Boyd, an attending psychiatrist at the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance. "Health insurers know this and yet, thanks to their restrictive provider networks and their low reimbursement rates for psychiatric services, they've created a situation where a patient with a potentially life-threatening disorder, such as the severe depression portrayed in our callers' scenario, is essentially abandoned at a time of great need."
"Despite having private coverage, our simulated patient faced daunting barriers when trying to access psychiatric care," Boyd continued. "How likely is it that a real patient in the grip of severe depression would persevere through so many unsuccessful attempts?"
Senior author Dr. Rachel Nardin, chief of neurology at Cambridge Health Alliance, said: "The incentives of the current health insurance system are aligned against patients with mental illness. Insurers try to protect their bottom line by reimbursing poorly for psychiatric services and by constraining their in-network provider lists, both of which limit patients' options so severely as to make services essentially unavailable."
"Lack of adequate access to mental health care strains our entire health care system," said Nardin. "Emergency departments are overwhelmed with boarding psychiatric patients for whom no other resources exist."
"A good first step would be for insurance companies to immediately provide improved reimbursements for psychiatric care," Nardin said. "A more fundamental solution, however, would be to remove private insurers from the picture altogether and to establish a single-payer national health insurance program a program that would cover mental health services as part of its comprehensive benefits package."
|Contact: Mark Almberg
Physicians for a National Health Program


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Japanese Whaling Ship Crushes Super-Action Activist Boat
Holy shit! A Japanese whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, totally totaled the Ady Gil, a space-age water craft used by anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd, in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. "The Ady Gil is believed to be sinking and chances of salvage are very grim," Sea Shepherd said in a statement this morning, though nearby nearby boats rescued all six crew members.
The Japanese whalers describe the Ady Gil as an attack vessel, saying it came dangerously close to their ship in efforts to tangle its rudder in rope. The Ady Gil also launched stink bombs at the Nisshin Maru, while the Nisshin Maru sprayed them with high-power water hoses. "The Sea Shepherd extremism is becoming more violent…" said Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research in a statement. "Their actions are nothing but felonious behaviour."
Saving the whales is a dangerous business. But clearly very exciting. And you get to drive boss-ass boats that look like the Batmobile.


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Undoubtedly, one of the great summer soap operas had to do with the alleged wedding between Gerard Pique and Shakira , to be held in Blanes. However, both parties have denied that the couple will marry, since the priority right now is the small Milan.
It was first hinted Shakira which was now Gerard Pique himself which has made official in an interview with HuffPost. "It is time to get married, our world today is centered on Milan, we are not thinking about something else," he confessed Barca defender. He has also made a small review of his first months as a parent. "It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child everything transforms. Now you have someone helpless, tiny, that depends on you and just counting on you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, in that part of you, "he pointed Catalan.
And that's not all, since it also stressed that "a very present father, I like to participate in everything.Shakira and I divided the tasks very well. And is that the parents are not living all so chaotic, we are very natural, and we enjoyed every moment living day to day. " On the other hand, stressed that "Shakira is the best mom in the world, next to mine. Is that Milan could not have better mom. " And finally, Gerard Pique has taken a big headline: "We want to have more children, of course, but later, at this moment we are concentrating and enjoying it to Milan".
That said, it is likely that you feel like meeting a new WAG's squad. Obviously, we refer to the sultry Bruna Marquezine, Neymar's girlfriend . In the link I have left we show some of his best photographs, but first a small step ... By the way, do not forget to follow us on copperlebarante.blogspot.com !