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OK, one exception: some practice of mindfulness might be helpful if you're not familiar with watching your own thoughts and feelings e.g.
"A phenomenon cannot overwhelm you as long as you can divide it into manageable parts ... By separating thought into ... parts, we divide its gripping power ... What gets conquered is the drivenness, congealing and unconsciousness that affect thought and are responsible for it being perceived as a problem." -- Shinzen YoungAnd meditation can be helpful sometimes to rest your mind and body.
Well we sure need some atheist/humanist philosophers to take the lead now that Richard Dawkins et al have done their job. So, more power to you.
For me, about the only thing that sunk in from reading Buddhism is to avoid strong attachments if they seem to be a futile waste of energy.
But then again, if something is really important to you and there's no way through but to tough it out, then I'm hanging onto my attachments.
"In order to understand how pain becomes suffering, you need to know a deep truth about the nature of suffering. Most people equate suffering with pain, but suffering is a function of two variables, not just one. Suffering is a function of pain and the degree to which the pain is being resisted. (S = P x R)" -- Shinzen Young
"The wind encounters the woods, anxious to shake up the tranquillity. It will temporarily reshape pliant limbs and trunks, but it will prune those that are brittle, rigid and resistant. Those that bend and adapt align themselves with the direction of the force, letting it go by without passing judgement and returning to normal stability and equilibrium when the force has passed... Force of strength represents a potential that is witnessed only by its effects on the self, others, or other objects. Remove that 'other' and the 'action' remains powerless, or remain in the path of a strike and grant that action a measure of effectiveness." -- Stan Wrobel: Aikido For Self-Discovery.
This is an old thread.
I happen to believe Buddhism is internally consistent. But its axioms are not sound. Ask a Buddhist how he answers to the is-ought problem, and that's when you learn that Buddhism is not an atheistic religion, but a deist religion.
Buddhism in the real world, in Buddhist-majority populations, is far from being an atheistic religion. Though there is a university-grown movement of Western philosophical Buddhists who would like to claim it to be, it is not. (I'm of the opinion that they're projecting their fantasies of an atheistic religion onto Buddhism for the "exotic" "cool" factor and they've never actually set foot in East Asia or even witnessed an elderly Buddhist lady in Chinatown praying to Guanyin. Or maybe they saw all that and were like, "la la la~ selective memory~".)
Some versions of Buddhism are deist, but then there are others that are pretty much polytheist. It varies. Siddhartha Gautama clearly told his followers not to worship him as a god when he passed. Did they listen to him? Hay-ell no! And don't even get me started on Tibetan Buddhism and the worship of the Dalai Lama as a living god...
...In conclusion, join the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and be Touched by His Noodly Appendage! Ramen! :P
(But on a more serious note, yes, some aspects of some religions are helpful and fulfilling. Meditation is pretty awesome, but you don't have to call yourself a Buddhist to do it.)
I like this comment better than any. I believe all religions are dangerous and want no part of any of them. I like emocivilblog's step 3. I have my own unique simple philosophy (probably made up, in part, consciously and subconsciously from others) but it certainly does not consume my life. I do like to meditate because it is very restful.
If there are practical applications to a religion -- any religion -- I'd have no problem with taking those parts, using them, and leaving the rest. When I looked, briefly, into Buddhism the only part that really bothered me was human beings taking time, hours and hours, of spinning prayer wheels when they could have been feeding the hungry or painting the house or writing a book. But that's still a personal choice. At least Buddhists haven't tried to pass laws to force me to follow their beliefs.
I really like the ritual and link to history and fantasy that paganism affords, but I cannot believe in magic or deities, so what does that leave me with? I have an appreciation for the mythos and the observation in changes of the seasons. I term myself a pantheist because regardless of my rational lack of beliefs, I still get that awe and woo feeling when appreciating the world around me. I acknowlege it as a feeling and appreciate the moment. Fabricating on top of that seems a disservice to the experience and to reality. Nature is super itself without the supernatural. I think we can learn a lot about the human condition from all religions, for both empathy, compassion, and charity as well as the faults that so human all religions must be at the end of the day. By taking the substance and letting go the chaff, we can know ourselves and cultural background. ...But we should not get so caught up in belief systems, lest we wander into the lies that weave and catch so many.
"So my overall question is... Are atheistic religions helpful, fulfilling, and worth it or are all religions a worthless waste of time?"
All atheists, I believe, become atheists on the strength of their own freethinking. If we find something somewhere that appears closer to our thinking, we may study it as a matter of interest. It would be a waste of time to be more involved in them because you will also find many other things there that do not conform to our thinking. All religions have some sort of a regimentation. Buddhism has monks and their monasteries, it believes in proselytising. Its' mandatory chant is "Buddham saranam gacchami, Dhammam sarananam gachhami, Sangham saranam gachhami" which means "I surrender to Buddha, I surrender to the religion, I surrender to the community." Modern atheists cannot accept such notions. It is better not to waste too much time thinking about them.
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@Dale - First, I'd like to start out saying I'm a republican. Of course, I'm for what the republicans "claim" to stand for, not one of the delusionally superstitious [self] Right[eous]. I guess you could call me more of a Libertarian these days.
My viewpoint is that the government should stay out of everyone's lives as much as possible. Not *completely*, mind you, because there are some services that the government is necessary for such as civic projects, law enforcement, and regulatory duties to maintain a free market with as little corruption as possible. That being said, outside of "free" healthcare, and your suggestion that people should never be allowed to defend themselves, I agree with everything else you say.
I believe that "free" healthcare is extremely expensive because it's paid for via taxes and the government runs it. Consider how inept the government is at running the Social Security program - we all pay into it for 50 years and the system gets to benefit from all that money, and yet it can't support us for 15 years afterwards, putting out a fraction of what was put in. Let me put my money into a retirement fund for that long and I would be living the high life after retirement, not living at poverty level. This is due to nothing other than poor management. It is *not* a pyramid scheme. It is *not* because of "baby boomers". We have all put in more than enough money to support us in our retirement, the government just rapes that fund and then blames the elderly for expecting to get their investment back. Health care is paid for *by us* one way or the other. I just don't understand why people think that making the government pay for something makes it "free". Do they not understand where the government gets its money from?
As for the firearms issue - here are a couple of extremely clear facts: 1) there is NO WAY we are ever getting rid of all the firearms in this country. Period. People can wine about it until doomsday, but it's just simply not going to happen. 2) based on premise 1, if we outlaw guns (and law abiding citizens actually go along with it, which we won't), what you have created is a society of victims. You have criminals with gun and an unarmed public. What could go wrong with that? 3) the police are NOT there to protect you. They admit it themselves. They are a reactive authority, not a proactive authority. Based on your post, you can surely see why this is the way it *must* be and putting more proactive power int the hands of the police can only be a bad thing. 4) Statistics clearly show that the more restrictive the gun control laws, the higher the violent crime rate, as a general rule. Sure, you can find exceptions (which is why we turn to statistics), but they are few and far between. 5) You are FAR more likely to get shot accidentally by a police officer than you are a citizen, and *especially* a law abiding citizen. Again, look up the statistics. 5) the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting or protecting yourself against intrusion. It is solely meant as a deterrent against a tyrannical, repressive government. The argument that "they have tanks and jets, so you having guns is useless" is one of the most ridiculous, moronic statements I can even imagine. It proposes a scenario that is completely impossible and takes a concept to an absurd extreme. Just looking at your post with your proposal of how oppressive our government already is against its citizens, can you imagine how bad it would be if they thought we were all completely helpless to fight back? So, to sum up, being pro gun control is basically declaring that you want everyone you know to be helpless victims for no other reason than your fear of something that you obviously don't understand.
Again, other than those two, I completely agree with your other comments about our government.
Good points. My only real retort would be my general distrust for *our* government to be able to manage it. Just because other countries governments an manage to govern a health care system, doesn't mean ours can. I have heard many times that Canada's health care system is better than ours. But then, I've also heard of several people who have come here from Canada, because their system would have let the person die because of such long waits for critical treatments.
Don't get me wrong, I do think that our health care system needs overhauling. I have heard professionals say that part of the reason that our health care costs so much is that our government is involved more than it should be and in ways that it shouldn't. Basically I just don't trust our gvmt to manage their way out of a paper bag at this point.
When Canadians opt to pay cash for surgery in the U.S. because they feel the waiting time in Canada jeopardizes their health, they typically pay tens of thousands of dollars - sometimes hundreds of thousands. Their counterparts in the U.S. typically pay the same price to bypass their HMO's. In both cases, we are talking about people who have 40 or 50k to drop when necessary. The other 99% of people wait longer, at their own peril, in Canada while their American counterparts just plain die.
So tell me again how this situation reflects poorly on the Canadian health care system?
Hi Heather - Please try not to take my comments out of context. I never said the Canadian heath system was bad, just that it wasn't perfect. My point, though, is that I don't believe our government is nowhere nearly competent enough to run a healthcare system as well as any government that current does that, including Canada. The Canadian government probably actually CARES about it's citizens where I think the majority of our politicians (especially the republicans) are much more concerned with staying in office while making sure big business makes as much money as possible.
In my view the biggest problem comes from big companies (mostly pharma, but also medical tech) that lobby government to jack their prices. It's a bigger problem in the U.S. than Canada but I believe part of the reason for that is the lack of public accountability for health care in the U.S. - being that there is no universal health care in the U.S.
I'm not saying our system is perfect - but I did clearly illustrate that your point actually underscores a bigger problem on your side of the border than ours.
All in all, countries that have socialized health care (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and even Canada) tend to spend less of their overall GDP on health care than the U.S - which has a higher GDP per capita. Furthermore, most of those socialized medicine countries actually have greater life expectancy.
All of this points to the fact that socialized health care is a good thing - although I agree that your system of government may be screwed. Perhaps you need socialized health care in order to get your senators and congressmen to stand up to corporate lobbying. Just a thought.
Yep, Kris, I completely agree. There's no way to do an apples-to-apples comparison since there are so many factors that come into play.
As for Americans going to Canada for healthcare, having glaucoma, I order my Lumigan from a Canadian pharmacy, since it is SO expensive (over $100 / month) and I can get it from there for about 1/2 the price, so I get to experience the positive side of the Canadian healthcare system. :)
Oh, and one other thing: I think that patriotism isn't evil, brain washing. I think we should all be proud of our country. That's why I joined the Marine Corp at 17. That being said, I don't think it should be *mandatory* to force children to say the pledge of allegiance every day in school. However, I don't think it hurts anything, either. If we all had a little more pride in what this country stands for (freedom, personal liberty, land of opportunity and diversity, tolerance) I think we could be great once again. As long as we allow the government and big business to exacerbate our differences and big church to continue trying to force their superstitious nonsense down our throats, and as long as we bicker over inconsequential and unproductive issues, we will continue to allow the government to grow and take over more and more of our lives in a very negative way.
The "Knights of Columbus" take great pride in their accomplishment to get "under god" added to the pledge. Never underestimate the power of guys with silly hats who take secret oaths. In fact, does anybody know where you can pick up a pope hat? I'd like to wear one next time I go to the supermarket.
Hi Will,
As an Australian, I don't have to take a pledge of allegiance to my country, or yours. If I did, I would be very disappointed if it involved religion, other than to specify freedom of religion.

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MUSIC REVIEW - Pick of the stack: Music lovers' stocking stuffers
Here's a wrap-up of current CDs for you to consider as you plan how to stuff those stockings hung by the chimney with care:
Artist: Samantha
Album: Square One
What it is: Singer/songwriter rock with palpable pop appeal
The Good: Don't confuse this newcomer with other sanguine, soft, or depressing singer/songwriter chicks. Samantha is an adventurous writer and arranger with subject matter that ranges from risqué to reflective. This is not a boring record, by any means– as a matter of fact, it's dangerous and sexy at the same time. Samantha somehow manages to balance pop appeal and down-home and dirty jamming. Helping her keep her balance is a cadre of fine musicians who complement her wild style. Notable guest appearances by Stanton Moore (drummer from Galactic) and Robert Mercurio (bass) on two tracks provide a nice change to her interpretation.
The Bad: As much as I enjoyed certain tracks on this record, the first two just didn't do it for me. It's important for a new artist to grab people's attention– Samantha didn't get mine until track 3, and I wasn't fully impressed until midway through the record. Lyrically she's at her best with simple metaphors that can be interpreted in many ways. When her tongue got moving too fast, I tended to tune out.
Notable Songs: Icicles (surefire single!), The Party Life, Her Style (Diamonds), and Frank Sinatra
Artist: Silent Tongue
Album: The Formula Of Believing
What it is: New wave synth rock
The Good: First off, I haven't heard music made this way since my sister's depressed teenager phase in the late '80s. I admit to being out of touch with my Goth side. However, Silent Tongue are seven records into their career and still going strong, and you have to respect that. The songs on this record flow beautifully, with continuity from the intro to the outro. The lyrics are refreshingly depressing and full of social commentary on the not-so-glamorous life of the average urban Yankee. Sonically, Silent Tongue utilizes '80s synths that sound like Casio keyboard patches. But it works well for the entire package.
The Bad: Silent Tongue are not the best musicians in the world. The pair display shoddy skills frequently during the course of the record: a not-so-impressive guitar solo on "Motion in Purpose" subtracts from the song. The gritty underground feel of this record is cool, but there are times when they could have been more thorough in execution.
Artist: Jae Sinnett
Album: The Sinnett Hearings
What it is: Pharmaceutical-grade precision jazz
The Good: I talk to jazz musicians all the time who tell me that jazz music is dead. Funny thing is, they continue to explore and play the music. Maybe it's for the nostalgia– maybe they're fighting to keep the sound alive in young ears... who knows? When listening to drummer Jae Sinnett and his trio (sometimes quintet), you get the feeling jazz is alive and well– at least it was when they were recording this album. Sinnett, who also wrote and arranged the songs on the album, has stepped forward to prove that jazz drummers can be band leaders as well. The songs are generous rhythmic odysseys with distinctive melodies. Sinnett himself plays in all styles, at some moments sounding all Elvin Jones, and others sounding more Roy Haynes. John D'earth and Steve Wilson appear on tunes to lend spice to already complex and engaging compositions.
The Bad: The album in nine tracks long with five of them clocking in at over eight minutes. I had a hard time listening all the way through. The material was so dense and long that sometimes it lost me. I think seeing Jae Sinnett live and getting a chance to watch him work his magic would be a much different experience.
Notable Songs: What Elvin Left, Heading South, Third Potato
Artist: Jim Wave and the Young Divorcees
Album: Self-titled
What it is: Good ol' homegrown bluegrass
The Good: Jim Waive has character seeping from every pore, and his voice and delivery are inviting. Once inside his spell, you find the tales he weaves to be anything but a disappointment. His stories are full of color and description. Even though the landscapes he paints are at times gloomy and depressing, they still manage to connect beautifully with the music. The Young Divorcees back Wave with a combination of upright bass, fiddle/violin, and/or dobro, pedal steel or bottleneck guitar. The music never gets too fancy. Every song sits at or near the same tempo and intensity. The subtleties in the music make the difference.
The Bad: There's not much to complain about here. If anything, I would have opted for a bit cleaner mix that accented the deeper frequencies in the music. The heart is in the treble, the soul is in the bass. This music is too soulful to not have a little bottom-end love.
Notable Songs: Voodoo, Shut Down 49, Bend


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This week we commemorate American agriculture and the benefits it brings to our society, our economy and our environment.
But most of all, we celebrate the productivity of our nation's farmers and ranchers. Gov. Bill Ritter has declared March 20 as Agriculture Day in Colorado.
While farmers and ranchers constitute less than 2 percent of our population, they feed our entire country and a good number of consumers overseas. The productivity of our agricultural industry is astounding, and scientists continue to explore new frontiers of crop and livestock technology, which will bring even greater productivity to feed a growing world population.
Agricultural productivity is more important in today's economy than ever.
Americans spend only about 9 percent of their income on food. That compares nicely to 11 percent in the United Kingdom and 17 percent in Japan. Food is a bargain in America, freeing more of a consumer's paycheck to pay for other necessities, and maybe even a splurge once in a while.
A farmer receives only a small portion of every food dollar.
For instance, a pound of boneless ham might sell for about $4.50, and the farmer's share of that is less than 70 cents. A bag of potato chips costs about $3, but the farmer gets only six cents of it. A $2.50 loaf of bread contains only eight cents worth of wheat — about the same value as the plastic wrap it comes in.
United States agriculture will have to become even more productive as the world's population increases. Demographers expect the world's population to grow to nearly 10 billion people by 2050. That population will need 10 billion tons of food to survive — twice as much agricultural production as farmers currently provide.
Where will all that food come from?
Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is credited with saving a billion lives by creating the "Green Revolution" through agricultural research, believes farmers could produce that much food today. Borlaug believes that research in agricultural technology is the key to keeping food production in line with population growth.
We are fortunate as Americans to have farmers and ranchers who work their fields and care for their livestock on a daily basis to allow us consumers to have access to the safest, most economical and the most dependable source of food, fiber and fuels in the world.
Even during difficult economic times, America's agricultural producers continue to undergird the economy with products that touch every American every day.
This Ag Day, there is much to celebrate.
John R. Stulp is state agriculture commissioner. He farms and ranches south of Lamar.


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No matter what campaign tactic Mitt Romney chooses, it's the wrong one. A July 12 New York Times headline reads: "Romney Faces Calls to Deliver Counterpunch." Jeff Zeleny and Ashley Parker began their front-page "campaign memo" relaying concerns from the GOP that he is not counterattacking Obama:
Mitt Romney and his team of advisers built a reputation during the Republican primaries as tough street fighters skilled in the tactics of political warfare. They quietly took pride in tearing apart Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and the rest of their rivals.
The aggressive posture ultimately became one of Mr. Romney's selling points, particularly among conservative voters who were searching for the candidate tenacious enough to take out President Obama in the general election.
But now, even with polls suggesting he is battling Mr. Obama to a draw at this stage of the race, Mr. Romney finds himself confronting concern that he is not nimble and aggressive enough to withstand the Democratic assault against him.
That has stirred worries among some Republicans that Mr. Romney is allowing himself to be defined by the Obama forces and that he lacks the kind of powerful counterpunch the base of the Republican Party is craving.
Compare that to the Times' s April 26 headline: "Allies Urge Romney to Shift to Positive Campaign." Michael Barbaro wrote:
Republicans have a message for Mitt Romney: it's time to go positive.
Prominent party leaders, unsettled by the frequently combative tone of Mr. Romney's presidential campaign, are pressing the presumptive Republican nominee to leaven his harsh criticism of President Obama with an optimistic conservative vision that can inspire the party faithful, appeal to swing voters and set out a governing agenda should he win in November.
Their worry: that the angry tenor of the Republican primary season could carry over into the general election, leaving Mr. Romney trapped in a punch-counterpunch campaign that would limit his ability to define fundamental differences with the Democrats. In interviews, these Republicans said that Mr. Romney must focus more on what he is for, not just what he is against.


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Autoimmune Disorders
Early detection of autoimmune disease is critical to ensure that early treatment is administered to prevent the development of disabling conditions. Siemens is committed to providing clinicians with the tools needed for the diagnosis and monitoring of autoimmune disorders.
An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorders.
Normally, the immune system's white blood cells help protect the body from harmful substances called antigens. Examples of antigens include bacteria, viruses, toxins, cancer cells, and blood or tissue from another person or species. The immune system produces antibodies that destroy these harmful substances.
In patients with an autoimmune disorder, the immune system can't tell the difference between healthy body tissue and antigens. The result is an immune response that destroys normal body tissue. This response is a hypersensitivity reaction similar to the response in allergic conditions.
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The beta release of Red Hat developer toolset 2.0 arrives this month with new features to develop applications for deployment on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and on OpenShift. This latest version is designed to enable C and C++ developers to compile once and deploy to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
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The toolset includes Eclipse 4.3.0 IDE to "weave together" a full set of tools required for software development in the most popular programming languages. Also included here is Dyninst 8.0 to deliver an API for the development of performance measurement tools, debuggers, and simulators — this functions by permitting the insertion of code into a running program.
Red Hat Developer Toolset is available for users who develop applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. It includes Strace 4.7, which helps developers debug programs and identify the root cause of crashes or other unexpected behaviors by tracking the system calls made and received by a process. MEMSTOMP provides tools to help identify code with undefined behavior at a lower runtime cost than other tools such as Valgrind.
NOTE: An Updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.8 offers enhancements including: improvements in generated code quality on ia32 and x86-64 targets via a new, Red Hat contributed Local Register Allocator; support for the latest C++ language specification; the ability to compile extremely large functions with smaller memory consumption in less time; and support for Hardware Transactional Memory on upcoming CPU architectures.
"In addition to these enhancements, Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 also continues to deliver software collections functionality, which enables the concurrent installation of multiple versions of the same RPM packages on a system," says the Red Hat team.


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Thursday, June 25, 2009
So, um, I was asked to paint Spider-Man a lot last weekend. Here are all the results.
I was partly to blame for the endless requests: I told most everyone that Spidey was the only thing I could make look good on those Dark Avengers variant covers. For those of you who aren't familiar with them, they are special versions of the comic that leave space for custom sketches on the front. While the paper is a significant improvement over its Secret Invasion predecessor, it still doesn't absorb paint as well as the watercolor paper on which I usually paint.
I normally use quite a bit of water to vary the color and value of my conventions sketches, something that doesn't work well on these covers. Since my Spidey paintings are basically pure cadmium red and alizarin crimson, it's somewhat less of an ordeal. Thankfully, the last request was on my own paper.
Posted by Paolo Rivera at 9:00:00 PM
Labels: Conventions, Painted, Pin-Ups, Spider-Man
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that's a lot of Spideys! always inspiring!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Francis. I'm looking forward to following your work from Russia. I'm assuming you'll still be keeping the blog?ReplyDelete
Paolo, I just read your work for the amazing spider-man Extra #2 and it's one of the best I've ever seen!! The body langage of all the charaters is excellent. CONGRATULATIONS!!! You have a new fan.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Alex. Glad you enjoyed it. I'll be getting back to Spidey pretty soon.ReplyDelete
Hey Paolo, thanks. Yeah I'll be able to update, although it will be not as consistent. To be honest I'm looking forward to the lack of technology..haha. But I'll be in touch. Cheers!!ReplyDelete
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While preaching through 1 Corinthians recently, I was struck by chapters 8 through 10. There, the apostle Paul addresses idolatry. Apparently, some people in the Corinthian church had taken to attending feasts in idol temples, eating food that had been offered to idols; that is, they were participating in the worship of pagan deities. They had somehow convinced themselves that since idols were not really gods, any "worship" of them was meaningless, and thus a Christian could take part in these meals without compromising his confession (1 Cor. 8:4-8). Indeed, such attendance was to them proof of Christian maturity, since it showed that one fully grasped the doctrine of monotheism and accordingly had no fear of false gods. Those who went to these feasts were, in their own estimation, the "strong" Christians, and those who stayed away were the weak ones.
Not surprisingly, Paul condemns this thinking most vigorously. After all, the second commandment says, "You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them" (Ex. 20:4-5). There is no exception clause in the second commandment. It does not go on to say, "But feel free to bow down to carved images as long as you maintain a mental reservation noting idols aren't really gods at all, but only pieces of carved rock."
Worse still, Paul adds, idolatrous feasts are in fact demonic sacraments (1 Cor. 10:14-21). As the Lord's Supper spiritually (that is, by the work of the Holy Spirit) joins us to Christ, so these feasts spiritually unite one to demons. Participation in pagan feasts is essentially a denial of one's Christian confession: "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons" (1 Cor. 10:21).
But what fascinates me is how Paul waits until chapter 10 to make this point. He begins his condemnation of the Corinthian practice in chapter 8 by showing how the "strong," who can make the mental reservations that permit them to attend the idolatrous feasts, lead the "weak," who can't, into sincerely worshiping a false god. In fact, if all we had to go on was 1 Corinthians 8, we might well conclude that participation in pagan feasts contains no inherent sin, and is to be avoided only when it might compromise a brother's conscience.
Our doctrine is clear: idol worship is a terrible sin. But Paul doesn't begin with doctrine. He begins with charity. He exhorts the Corinthians in chapter 8 to love their brothers by refraining from pagan feasts. In chapter 9, he defends his apostolic authority, not to instruct them on the second commandment, but to command them to forsake their sin of pride. The "strong" Corinthians are proud of their conduct only because they do not love their brethren as themselves. Paul's argument is this: What's the point of teaching the Corinthians right doctrine, if they're not seeking to apply what they already know with love? Knowledge without love is worse than useless; it can kill the weaker brother for whom Christ died (1 Cor. 8:11). "We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies" (1 Cor. 8:1).
We Orthodox Presbyterians are very careful about our doctrine, and are rightfully wary of those who pit love against doctrine. Indeed, the liberals in the old Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. rallied under the banner of "love" so they could uncharitably persecute the orthodox in their midst. Paul himself insisted on correcting the doctrinal error of the "strong" Corinthians who thought that participating in pagan feasts was proof of their great knowledge. Still, we err whenever we think that right doctrine is sufficient in itself. Our doctrine, however right it may be, is worse than useless if it is not clothed in love. Love, not doctrine, is the chief Christian virtue, and love is always an identifying characteristic of the true church. When we begin with love for our brethren, our knowledge will not puff up, but will edify. Love enables us to use our right doctrine for the good of our brethren, in imitation of our Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnation of truth, who first loved us, and who will always love us.
If there is division between you and your Christian brethren, within your congregation or outside of it, what has caused it? Is it really your right doctrine, or is it your failure to pursue and promote right doctrine with the genuine Christian charity that imitates the love of Jesus?
"Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (1 Cor. 13:12-13).
The author is the pastor of Park Hill Presbyterian Church in Denver, Colo. He quotes the NKJV. Reprinted from New Horizons, October 2002.


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Increases the chance the Sim will find rare ores, gems, insects, and other collectables around the town. Works great with Werewolves, increasing the quality of their hunts.
This trait is compatible with all others.
Increases the XP gain rate for the Logic skill. Remember that a high Logic skill also increases the speed of learning other skills, so a Sim with Genius indirectly can learn all skills faster than normal. Pairing Genius with Bookworm and spending all your time in the library will let you gain skills through books alone in record time.
The Genius trait also increases the chance a Sim will win a game of chess, and increases his take from a successful hack at a computer (if the Sim is also has the Computer Whiz trait).
This trait is compatible with all others.
Applies a buff when this Sim does any good-natured action, especially social interactions. The Sim also gains a few special social interactions, including one that can cancel another Sim's debuffs (in the form of comforting them). Sims with the Good-trait are the ultimate team players, best used for families.
This trait is incompatible with Evil.
Good Sense of Humor[edit]
Greatly increases the chance the Sim's joke social interactions pass (unless the target has the No Sense of Humor trait). There is no direct correlation with an increase of the relationship gain, but with Good Sense of Humor, your Sim can tell jokes and gain it pretty fast that way. Especially paired with Charismatic and/or Friendly, you can make friends pretty quickly.
This trait is incompatible with No Sense of Humor.
Great Kisser[edit]
Greatly increases the chance of any kiss-type social interaction is accepted, even early in the relationship. When paired with Flirty or Hopeless Romantic, a Sim can get anyone in the mood for Woo Hoo pretty rapidly.
This trait is compatible with all others.
Green Thumb[edit]
Increases the speed and quality of the Sim's gardens, and allows the Sim to revive dead plants. Sims without this trait can buy the Super Green Thumb Human lifetime reward to offset it if necessary, but Sims with the trait can garden well pretty much from the beginning.
This trait is compatible with all others, including Hates the Outdoors for some reason.
Increases the negative effect of all debuffs; buffs are unaffected. That means these Sims are often in a bad mood and have a tough time staying happy, indirectly hurting their job performance at conventional careers. This is a negative-only trait, to be used when you want a challenge.
This trait is incompatible with Excitable and Hot-Headed.
Increases the XP gain rate of the Mechanical skill, decreases the chance objects break at all, and decreases the time it takes to upgrade or repair objects. Also makes the Sim unable to die by electrocution while standing in a puddle.
This trait is compatible with all others.
Hates the Outdoors[edit]
Applies a debuff whenever this Sim is outdoors. The debuff is moderate strength, so it's tough to ignore it. Definitely a challenge, this makes farming or firefighting incredibly difficult, though not impossible.
This trait is incompatible with Eco-Friendly and Loves the Outdoors.
Heavy Sleeper[edit]
Allows the Sim to sleep through emergencies, for better or worse. Sims with the Heavy Sleeper trait also snore, which can bother their bed partner if he or she is a Light Sleeper. Despite the in-game description of this trait, the Sim will still wake up when the alarm clock rings.
This trait is incompatible with Light Sleeper.
Hopeless Romantic[edit]
Increases the chance that all romantic-type interactions are accepted, and the chance that this Sim will accept others' romantic-type interactions. Paired especially with Great Kisser, the Sim will be able to get any Sim ready for Woo Hoo in a short amount of time.
Hopeless Romantic Sims are not inclined either way to prefer many Sims or only a single Sim. If you pair Hopeless Romantic with Family-Oriented, this Sim will probably want to have many romantic moments with his or her spouse. If you pair Hopeless Romantic with Flirty, this Sim will try to bed the entire town.
This trait is incompatible with Commitment Issues.
Causes the Sim to get angry quickly when unhappy. That means when any debuff is present, this Sim is quicker to use aggressive negative social interactions. This one can be a lot of fun paired with Disciplined and Evil, allowing the Sim to basically just pick fights all day long for his own amusement.
This trait is incompatible with Grumpy.
Applies a debuff when the Sim is swimming. Sims who are bathing or dealing with broken plumbing objects are unaffected.
This trait is compatible with all others.
Applies a buff when the Sim upsets another Sim, and tends not to dress in their formal attire even for formal parties. This Sim is a jerk, but enjoys being a jerk, so the trait is a net positive one even if relationships become a little tougher as a result.
This trait is incompatible with Proper.
This Sim exhibits unpredictable behavior, including wearing whatever outfit he wants to regardless of the situation. This Sim also gains the "Talk to Self" self-interaction, providing a Social meter boost even when no one else is around.
This trait is compatible with all others.


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Downtown Green Bay businesses are pulling out all the stops with about 100,000 people expected at the city's Fourth of July festivities.
"Just because of how many people are going to be down here, you really have to be on your A-game to showcase what you have," said Beau Gille, the owner of Adam's Street Pub & Grill.
Adam's Street Pub is hoping a pig roast and live music will help lure people in. The restaurant and bar opened just four months ago. Gille hopes the fourth will help introduce people to his new downtown establishment.
"We're crossing our fingers," said Gille. "It should be the big hooray, the Super Bowl, I guess so to speak."
Green Bay city leaders are hoping the same thing for its revamped downtown.
"I think if you haven't been here in a year, it's significantly improved," said Jim Schmitt, Green Bay's mayor.
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A number of area track and field athletes turned in noteworthy performances late last month at the historic and prestigious Penn Relays.
In the Championship of America race in the girls' distance medley relay, a Germantown Friends quartet that includes three underclassmen finished second in an elite field with what is believed to be the fastest time ever registered by an in-state secondary school at the sprawling meet.
Their time was 11 minutes, 55.99 seconds, eclipsing the 1999 winning time of 11:59.99 produced by the old Archbishop Prendergast High School. In the 1200-meter opening leg, freshman Sarah Walker's split of 3:35.6 was actually a little faster than that of the lead-off runner for the eventual champ, Benjamin Cardozo High School of Queens, New York City.
Next came sophomores Taryn Millbourne (58.2 in the 400) and Brigit Anderson (2:22.6 in the 800), and the lone senior, Eliza Lukens-Day (who will run for Brown University), finished up with a 4:59.6 in the 1600-meter anchor leg. Benjamin Cardozo won in 11:45.69, and first among the 13 schools behind GFS was Warwick Valley (N.Y.), with a time of 11:57.08.
The Inter-Ac league, with a boys' championship meet that dates back to the 1880's, is accorded its own heat of the 4 x 400 meter relay down at the U of P. The top honors this year went to Penn Charter, as juniors James Biggs-Frazier, Charlie Hoyt and Tre Williams joined up with senior Daryl Worley to hit the finish line in 3:22.46.
Worley, a football signee for the University of West Virginia, helped the current Quakers relay approach the race record of 3:21.06 set by another PC quartet in 2009.
In the 2013 race, Haverford School was second (3:25.86), and Germantown Academy came in third (3:29.06) with Andrew Simon, Nelson Floyd, Sam Ritz, and Earl Edwards. Fourth and fifth went to Malvern Prep (3:29.16) and Episcopal Academy (3:34.86), and sixth, in 3:36.26, was the Springside Chestnut Hill Academy foursome of Mac Concannon, Chris Williams, Phil Giovinazzo, and Jamil Poole.
The two girls' relay teams entered by Springside Chestnut Hill Academy were both made up of the same constituents; senior Drew Davis, sophomore Bridget Lipp, and freshmen Julia Reeves and Brooklynn Broadwater.
The quartet established a new school record in the 4 x 100 meters, completing the single-lap race in 49.25 seconds, which ranked them 18th out of 333 teams that completed the event.
In the 4 x 400, the Blue Devils came away with the silver medal in the Prep School Division, turning in a time of 4:01.52 as ninth-grade standout Broadwater ran 55.6 seconds in the anchor leg.
Germantown Academy junior Megan McCloskey tied for third place among a field of elite high jumpers at the Penn Relays. She cleared the bar at 5'7.25" to equal the efforts of an athlete from Jamaica's renowned Vere Technical School program.
The winning leap of 5'8.75" was made by Fleetwood (Pa.) High School's Cyre Virgo, considered one of the best jumpers in the country this spring, and aside from McCloskey, the rest of the top five finishers all hailed from Jamaica.


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Paul Konerko may have played his last game as a member of the White Sox.
Konerko, a free agent five days after the 2010 World Series ends, will be an offseason priority of the Arizona Diamondbacks, according to two major league sources.
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Australians would be smart to keep their mouths shut and clothes on this holiday season. Christmas comes at the height of summer Down Under and summer brings flies -- billions of them.
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Christmas comes at the height of summer Down Under and summer brings flies -- billions of them.
The silent bush flies travel in swarms this time of year, from the stark outback to beachside towns, seeking refuge from the sizzling sun in places warm and moist: that often means people's mouths, noses, ears and elsewhere.
"Australia has about 20,000 species of flies that provide a service to the environment by recycling nutrients, but the bush fly is the one bad apple when it comes to humans," says entomologist David Yeates of the government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
A three-year drought across much of Australia that finally broke this year gave Australians a reprieve in Christmas's past from the pesky, though harmless bush fly, which is most prolific along the coast after a rainy spring.
"Females can lay lots of eggs, probably hundreds given the right conditions," Yeates says.
In a country that posts "beware of crocodiles" signs on highways and where even city folk are wary of leaving their shoes outside fearing deadly spiders will crawl inside, the bush fly ranks as a featherweight.
Yeates says he has never heard of anyone getting sick from swallowing too many flies, though there have been some cases of eye infections.
"I can't tell you how they taste because I spit them out as soon as I feel one walking on my tongue," said 10-year-old Christine Martin, who had tired of the relentless swatting after a day on Sydney's Manly beach.
How to spend a fly-free day? Some suggest tying a damp cloth around the forehead so the flies take up residence there instead of in darker bodily zones.
Others throw fashion to the wind and don wide-brimmed hats festooned with wine corks, a swatting machine if you will. These can be accessorized with mosquito meshing or clear cellophane wrap.
By the start of autumn, around March, most of the flies are dead or soon will be. As adults, the bush fly only lives for a week at best.
"They don't do so well come the end of summer, being cold-blooded animals relying on environmental heat to keep their energy levels up," says Yeates.
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We held a contest at 99designs.com for our Wine Label and we've since had it finished off, printed and on a bottle. Now we need stationary to go with it so we decided to come back to the community.
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Primarily we're looking for a letterhead and business card design. The letterhead will also be incorporated into an order form, but we see this as a pretty simple job that we could do ourselves if it's easier.
We are very happy with the look and feel of the wine label, but would probably steer away from having the goat on the stationary and would probably prefer to keep it text based. Elegant and Classy, yet we don't want it to look like a law firm or insurance agent.
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In our regular Sunday feature, FIFA.com presents you with some of the biggest names in football who will be celebrating their birthdays over the coming week.
25. Xabi Alonso(31) has, over the past few years, established himself as one of the world's most effective central midfielders. Instrumental in Spain's FIFA World Cup™ victory in 2010, and in their successive UEFA European Championship triumphs of 2008 and 2012, he was also part of the team that finished third at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. In addition, he appeared at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and at UEFA EURO 2004. It was while starring for Real Sociedad that the Basque attracted the interest of Liverpool, and he would go on to enjoy great success with the Reds, winning the FA Cup, Community Shield, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Super Cup. Alonso subsequently returned to La Liga in the colours of Real Madrid. He quickly became one of Los Blancos' key players, helping them to secure the Copa del Rey and the Spanish league title, as well as the Spanish Super Cup at the start of the 2012/13 season.
26. Danny Welbeck(22)has, despite his tender years, earned a regular place for himself in the England national squad. The young forward featured in all four of the Three Lions' EURO 2012 matches, scoring one of the tournament's most eye-catching goals against Sweden. He is currently involved in his country's attempts to qualify for Brazil 2014, and previously appeared at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the 2009 UEFA European U-19 Championship, where England reached the final. Last year, he also took part in the UEFA European U-21 Championship. Welbeck is a product of Manchester United's famed youth academy, and after loan spells with Preston and Sunderland, he graduated to the Red Devils' first-team set-up in 2011.
27. Roberto Mancini(48) made his name at Sampdoria, helping propel the Genoa-based club to the Serie A title, four Italian Cups and an Italian Super Cup, as well as a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He also came close to winning the European Cup, but fell at the final hurdle versus Barcelona at Wembley. After moving to Lazio, he added further honours to his footballing CV, lifting the Italian Cup, Italian Super Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup. The talented forward also performed on the international stage for Italy, at UEFA EURO 1988. Following a short stint at Leicester City, Mancini hung up his boots and turned to coaching, guiding both Fiorentina and then Lazio to success in the Coppa Italia. He was then handed the reins at Inter Milan, whom he led to three Italian championships, two Italian Cups and two Italian Super Cups, before returning to England to take over at the helm of Manchester City. His impact was immediate, as he won the FA Cup in his first year and the Premier League title and Community Shield in his second.
28. Alessandro Altobelli(57)played a significant part in Italy's FIFA World Cup triumph at Spain 1982, making three appearances. During one of those, the momentous 3-1 win over Germany in the Final, he registered La Nazionale's third goal. Four years later in Mexico, he scored four times in as many matches, including the opening goal of the tournament. He also participated in two European Championship campaigns. After having served his football apprenticeship at Latina and Brescia, he signed for Inter Milan, where he won the league title and two Italian Cups. He would go on to spend eight years in Lombardy, before enjoying a one-year spell at Juventus, after which he saw out the remainder of his career at Brescia.
29. Kasey Keller(43) was the starting goalkeeper for the United States at France 1998 and Germany 2006, as well as at the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup. Furthermore, the athletic custodian held aloft three CONCACAF Gold Cups, and played at the 1996 Olympic Football Tournament and the 1989 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Keller began his club career at Portland Timbers, before crossing the Atlantic to represent Millwall and Leicester City, with whom he won the English League Cup. Stints at Rayo Vallecano, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton followed, as did a move to Bundesliga outfit Borussia Monchengladbach. After a final season in Europe with Fulham, he made a grand return to his homeland, where he hoisted three consecutive US Open Cups with Seattle Sounders. His performances for the American club saw him earn the MLS Goalkeeper of the Year award in 2011.
30. Gary Lineker(52)famously captured the Golden Boot award at the 1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico, where he racked up an impressive tally of six goals in five matches. The clinical striker also struck four times at Italy 1990, helping his nation reach the semi-finals of the competition. In addition, he turned out at the 1988 and 1992 European Championship tournaments. At club level, he started out at Leicester City, where he won the second division championship, before being transferred to Everton, with whom he secured the Charity Shield. By signing for Barcelona in 1986, the Englishman's career moved on to a different level, and he would earn winners' medals in both the Spanish Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup while in Catalonia. A transfer to Tottenham ensued, as did an FA Cup triumph and a subsequent and final move to Japanese side Nagoya Grampus. Lineker notably finished leading goalscorer in England with three different teams.
1. Salvatore Schillaci(48) enjoyed a meteoric rise to global prominence at Italy 1990, where his striking prowess saw him net six times in seven encounters for the host nation, including the winner against England in the match for third place. The Italian front man scooped both the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards at the event, further enhancing his reputation. 'Toto' made his professional debut for Messina, before putting pen to paper with Juventus, where he emerged victorious in the Italian Cup and UEFA Cup. After two seasons at Inter Milan, Schillaci brought down the curtain on his eventful career at Jubilo Iwata in Japan.


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The number of students taking online courses doubled to 3.9 million, outpacing the growth in traditional college settings by twelve percentage points between 2003 and 2007. Employers are also increasingly appreciating the value of distance learning, which makes an online bachelor's degree a great addition to a job candidate or current employee's resume.
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Various institutions offer online bachelor's degree programs including traditional four-year colleges and universities as well as exclusively within online colleges. Be sure to read course and degree program requirements carefully to be certain whether there is an on-campus component or not.
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Also, extracurricular and volunteer activities can not only enhance your application but also give you exposure to subjects you might eventually want to pursue as a career.
What is the application process for an online bachelor's degree program like?
Online bachelor's degree programs may require an application, application fee, high school and/or other college transcripts, an essay explaining why the applicant would like to pursue a bachelor degree from the institution, and scores from the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or other college achievement tests. Be sure to check with each school for specific requirements.
Some institutions require students to take standard assessment tests in basic subject areas like English, mathematics, and foreign languages in order to place them in the appropriate classes for their skill levels.
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UW Graduate Program in Neuroscience
The study of neuroscience is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of human endeavor.
The goal of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience is to produce the best neuroscientists possible. The breadth of our faculty allows us to provide interdisciplinary training drawing from a variety of topics, techniques and perspectives, including neuroanatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, physiology, biophysics, pharmacology, in vivo brain imaging (e.g., fMRI, M-EEG), computational modeling and behavior. A graduate of our program will be well versed in the neurosciences, prepared to conduct independent research, and equipped to pursue a variety of career paths.
140+ faculty members of the University of Washington provide outstanding graduate training in all areas of modern neuroscience. Our students perform cutting-edge research, at a leading research university, in one of the most famously livable American cities.
What does it mean that we are a 'Program' and not a 'department'? It means that we draw faculty from departments across campus and from affiliated institutes across Seattle to train our students. Students in our program are often considered to be de facto members of the department in which their faculty mentors have a primary appointment, but their diplomas show that their PhD degree is in Neuroscience. Our faculty and students are bound together by a common commitment to graduate education in Neuroscience, and we all benefit from the synergy of our diverse approaches to understanding the brain.


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The joy of sharing
What tastes better, the saké or the sophisticated dishes accompanying it? We go on a taste tour through San Francisco's izakayas, where Japanese cuisine is currently experiencing a boom
The saké master plumps down on the upholstered bench. He is wearing patterned Converse Chucks and a short blue kimono with a belt. "Oh, this is just a promotional gift from a brewery I like," says Stuart Morris laughing. The stocky American is one of only a few westerners who has passed the official exam for Kikizakeshi – saké sommeliers –in Japan. He embodies the cultural mix that the restaurant in San Francisco's banking district, where he works, likes to reflect.
The sophisticated business meeting-place: Pabu
"Pabu" says the sign above the entrance to a skyscraper in California Street. It means "pub" in Japanese. The place you meet friends, or pass by after work with colleagues to grab a bite to eat, and above all to have a civilized drink. An "Izakaya" is the Japanese version of a Spanish tapas bar or an Italian enoteca. It roughly translates as: "saké store in which you can sit." It is where you indulge in one or more drinks of rice wine, and share small dishes with friends, for example skewered meat, silken tofu with side dishes, or just some soybeans.
California is home to the largest Asian community in the U.S., and in Ed Lee, San Francisco already had a mayor of Chinese descent. Demographers predict that in a few decades there will be more Asian-Americans living here than Caucasians.
Japanese cuisine outside of Japan has traditionally meant mostly sushi. That is in the process of changing. The izakaya scene is growing and with it, Japanese cuisine in the diaspora is experiencing a boom. While sushi and sashimi are, of course, being served in the izakayas, they are only a few of the many sakana available – the snacks you can have with your saké. The fact that an izakaya like Pabu, which is more of a sophisticated restaurant than a local watering hole, has opened right in the middle of the financial district is an indicator of this change. "I don't want people to think that saké is just another kind of booze," says Stuart Morris. He pours the saké, which he has chosen to accompany the tuna bites, into a wine glass and rich aromas of quince, white chocolate and citrus fruit waft through the room. "It is the world's most misunderstood drink," believes the sommelier. Too often, it is just carelessly knocked back, instead of being savored, he says. "I hope that at some point, saké will be served with your meal just as naturally as beer or wine." Incidentally, saké goes phenomenally well with Tex-Mex chicken and mashed potatoes, he adds.
At 6 pm, Pabu is crowded. It is a huge room that gives onto the street, reminiscent of an atrium spanning two floors. The walls are decorated with delicate cherry blossom paintings. Some bankers have finished work early due to the time difference with Wall Street. They roll up their sleeves, and receive hot towels to start off their evening refreshed. The guests sit in groups on upholstered benches at large tables, or crowd around the bar. They are bent over their small plates and bowls. The dishes that the diners pass to each other across the table cost between seven and 20 euros: for example chawanmushi, a kind of hearty, creamy egg custard with a smoky caramel flavor; red crab legs seasoned with ginger and lime – spicy and refreshing at the same time. For dessert, gourmets treat themselves to a black sesame sponge with red bean ice cream, and a carefully selected saké with pineapple flavor.
Those who are lucky are taken by Morris to his inner sanctum. Through the kitchen, past the small colorful origami birds that someone has glued to the walls, into a cold storage room filled with bottles whose labels are so artistically designed that you will want to publish them in a book. Those who are really lucky are allowed to sample the odd bottle. With a slightly raised blood alcohol level and feeling certain that we are turning into izakaya fans, we continue on to the Mission neighborhood. The area features a mix of narrow residential houses with bay windows and street level stores that invite you to explore. It is home to cult organic supermarket Bi-Rite, the bakery and café Tartine, which has a long line out the door even at 8 am, and the knife shop where many of the local chefs have the tools of their trade sharpened.
Vegan and amazing: Shizen
It is one of the city's most recently opened izakayas and without doubt the most unusual. Everybody is talking about Shizen, which is Japanese for "nature." The place looks so unassuming that you could easily miss it driving past. Here, they serve vegan sushi, created by owners Casson Trenor and his business partner Kin Lui. Apart from Shizen, the former Greenpeace activist and the chef run another three sustainable sushi joints in the city. "At our places, we want you to be able to eat without feeling that you're doing something wrong," explains Trenor. He has a shaved head and skull buttons on his shirt, and is sitting on one of the long benches. Chef Kin Lui turns things like eggplant, or burdock roots from the local market into dishes so delicious that no one misses the taste of seafood. Many items on the menu are gluten-free. The vegetables are strictly "in season" and are fermented, marinated, cooked and fermented again in order to create constantly new flavor nuances.
So why are izakayas so popular in San Francisco? "The places have a casual atmosphere," says Trenor. "Everybody is sharing their food. I believe it is a reaction to life on social media and to everyday digital life in this area." The down-to-earth approach and love of nature are both impossible to ignore at Shizen. There are the moss and birch bark collages on the wall, stools made from scrap wood and the ceiling which is reminiscent of the inside of a ship's hold. Business is booming. They do not take reservations, so guests have to stand in line if they fail to arrive by 5 pm. A guy with a Ramones T-shirt enters the restaurant, followed by a lady with blue highlights in her hair and a Louis Vuitton bag. Grinning, Trenor pushes another plate across the table. It is one of the establishment's specialty rolls: "Colonel's Pipe." It is pink, green and yellow, nutty and crunchy, yet also velvety smooth with avocado, and has hints of vanilla and seafood – everything is incredibly harmonious. To finish off with: six maki slices topped with a delicate circle of beetroot enveloped in lemony miso paper, garnished with faux-caviar. "It is called 'surprise ending,'" says Trenor. "One of the slices contains chili sauce."
Traditional delicacies: Yuzuki
The saké scene in San Francisco is small. Located only five minutes away by bike is a light and airy, unpretentious corner restaurant called Yuzuki. This izakaya has already been around for four and a half years. "I missed the food of my Japanese homeland," says owner Yuko Hayashi. In 2011, she swapped her life as an accountant for that of an izakaya owner. While her sommelier is preparing little trays with four different types of saké behind the bar, she is serving what must be the creamiest, nuttiest and most refreshing tofu in the world in a small bamboo bowl. It is homemade and seasoned with sea salt. With it, she serves a fruity Junmai saké. "It took us six months to perfect the texture." The chefs work for two days soaking the soybeans, squeezing them, boiling the soymilk and continually straining it through cloth. You can watch them working in the open-plan kitchen with jazz playing in the background.
I missed the food of my Japanese homeland
Yuzuki's goal is to recreate the dishes with which Hayashi grew up as faithfully as possible. Anyone you ask will say that this is the most authentic Japanese cuisine in the city. That is also the only explanation for the delicious and delicate chawanmushi accompanied by saké that smells like a freshly mowed meadow. Or for the bliss you experience when dipping ever deeper into the silky-smooth seaweed salad with your chopsticks while savoring the saké, whose taste is reminiscent of candy apples from a carnival.
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In an impressive piece of reporting, Financial Planning's Ann Marsh was recently surfing the FPA's website (FPAnet.com), and discovered that the option of "salary" had been removed from the "find a planner" page, leaving consumers with only three choices: "fee-only," "commission only" and "combination fee/commission." She wrote about it on Sept. 5 in "FPA Changes Compensation Disclosure."
Astute readers will have recognized the now missing "salary" option as the one that now ex-chairman of the CFP Board Alan Goldfarb first chose to describe his compensation, before changing it to "fee-only:" and running afoul of the Board's ethics committee for owning a 1% stake in his RIA's affiliated broker-dealer.
You may also remember that one of Goldfarb's defenses was that the FPA's questionnaire offered no choice that fully described his compensation; he simply chose the "most accurate" option. Which raises the second question: Did the FPA change its website in response to Goldfarb's seemingly reasonable comments? And if so, does the change actually solve the problem for other planners?
Inspired by Ms. Marsh's intrepid reportage, I talked to FPA president Mike Branham to find out why the change. "The CFP Board made the decision to change their site, and we wanted to be congruent with them," he told me. "That's where the disclosure conversation took place. But there needs to be a larger conversation on compensation structure definitions, and we are willing and interested to be part of that conversation."
So now I'm surfing the CFP Board's website (I know, right?), and sure enough, there's no "salary" option under "find a CFP professional" either. But there is an explanation. It seems on August 7th, the Board issued a release, and hosted a webinar (which you can see on YouTube), which explains the thinking behind the change.
It says, in part: "A CFP® professional is required to describe his/her compensation in a manner that allows clients and prospective clients to understand how they will pay the CFP® professional and any related party. Except in very limited circumstances, salary does not provide an accurate and understandable description of the compensation arrangement being offered by a CFP® professional because it does not describe how the client will pay the CFP® professional and any related party. Therefore, CFP Board will remove 'Salary' from its 'Find a CFP® Professional' search engine, effective Friday, August 16, 2013."
While this reasoning seemed to make sense, something about it bothered me that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Then it hit me: A subtle change. Notice how the Board's explanation starts out talking about how a CFP describes "his/her compensation" but then concludes that 'salary' "does not describe how the client will pay the CFP…."
That's right: The problem is that the Board—and everyone else—has been asking the wrong question. When it comes to disclosing conflicts, it's not about "compensation," it's about "payment." That is, the client doesn't need to know "how their advisor gets paid," he/she needs to know how they pay for the services they get
It doesn't matter to the client if their advisor gets a weekly check based on an AUM fee, a salary, a percent of the firm's profit on them or an hourly rate. What does matter is whether they pay the firm a commission, which creates an incentive to sell them more stuff, or a fee, which creates an incentive to grow more assets.
After my minor epiphany, I looked back to the Board's search page to see how the question was asked. And sure enough, prospective clients are asked to select "their preferred compensation method." The Board doesn't get it, at least not yet. But a quick look at the FPA's planner search page reveals a choice between three options under: "How planners charge."
This week, leaders from the CFP Board, the FPA, and NAPFA, the groups comprising the Financial Planning Coalition, are meeting in Chicago to have the "larger discussion on compensation structure issues" that Mike Branham was talking about. Hopefully, those in attendance will realize that, while financial planners have other conflicts of interest that need to be disclosed to clients, the most important conflict is how they pay their planner's firm—not how their planner gets paid.
Had the question been posed that way, Alan Goldfarb might still be chairman of the Board.


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Resolving Problems at Work
How to find the help you need to get your work life back on track
Workplace Problems
Many people will occasionally encounter situations at work that can be difficult or frustrating to resolve. Some of these situations might include:
- Problems with your supervisor
- Problems with a co-worker
- Feeling that you are being harassed or discriminated against
- Learning that you have a disabling condition
- Feeling like you are not being treated fairly
- Coping with illness in the family
- Wanting to learn how to improve your workplace interactions
Often we try to resolve the problem on our own. When we have success, we feel good about being able to manage our own problems effectively. Sometimes, however, even with our best efforts, we are not successful. At these times, you may want to contact one of these resources.
Talk to Your Supervisor
Talk to your supervisor, especially if you have been trying to work things out on your own. Your supervisor may be able to suggest other alternatives that you haven't considered. Many times supervisors have information that would be helpful to you. You and your supervisor may be able to develop a resolution together.
Contact the Office of Human Resources
- River Campus, ESM, MAG
Eastman School of Music
Memorial Art Gallery
- 273-4320
- Medical Center
- 275-2513
Contact a Human Resources representative for assistance, especially if your supervisor seems to be a part of the problem. Human Resources representatives know how to approach a problem and can help develop strategies for talking to your supervisor or co-worker about a situation.
Call the University's Employee Assistance Program
- Strong EAP
- 475-0432
Make an appointment to speak with a counselor at the University's Employee Assistance Program. Services are confidential. The professional counselors at Strong EAP are good resources for creative problem solving, especially when challenging problems involve family members, significant others, or co-workers. They may also be able to suggest other resources for you to draw upon.
Consult with the University Intercessor
- Intercessor's Office
- 275-9125
- Intercessor - Racial Discrimination
- 275-2867
- Workplace Accommodations
- 275-9125
Ask for guidance from the University Intercessor. The University Intercessor will listen to your description of the situation and will want to learn what strategies you have tried to resolve the situation. You and the Intercessor can then develop a plan of what to do next, whether you decide to proceed on your own or with the assistance of the Intercessor.
University of Rochester/Strong Health Integrity Hotline
Call 756-8888
The University of Rochester/Strong Health Integrity Hotline is designed to promote honesty and high ethical standards throughout the institution. All employees—faculty and staff—should report any concerns about improper or unethical behavior to their supervisors or to the Hotline. Individuals must report any suspicious behavior that may jeopardize the integrity of the institution, such as noncompliance with laws and regulations, violations of professional standards of practice, business ethics, conflicts of interest, research fraud, or a breach of patient confidentiality. All calls are treated confidentially, and individuals who call the Hotline may remain anonymous. Calls to the Hotline (an outside, dedicated line) are not recorded, and the caller's number cannot be identified.
Both federal and University guidelines forbid retaliation toward a person bringing a good faith allegation of noncompliance. Any retaliatory conduct against persons acting in good faith will be subject to disciplinary action. (Employees who intentionally and maliciously make false accusations will be disciplined in accordance with University policy.)
Policies and Procedures Manual
The University's Policies and Procedures Manual is readily available online. Staff and faculty are invited to review the list of policies to determine if there is a University policy that applies to their situation. Paper copies of specific policies are available by contacting your Human Resources representative.
Some relevant policies include:
- the Grievance Procedure (Policy 160 [.pdf])
- the Policy against Discrimination and Harrassment (Policy 106 [.pdf])


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Wire Shelving - 54 Inch High
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I found a picture of a zebra striped cake on Pinterest but it did not take me to instructions (make sure when you pin you have the proper source) so I did a search for how to make one and came up with several sites so you shouldn't have any trouble finding anything.
I knew I was going to make cupcakes so I only needed a six inch cake to use for candles. I chose to use the Wilton zebra cupcake liners that would retain color while baking.
I made up two cake mixes (chocolate and french vanilla) to use. I departed here from one of the recipes I found online that suggested you add a bit to the chocolate cake mix, but I went on the fly. I shouldn't have. If you find one of the sites that says to add something to the chocolate, it will help thin it out a bit (I'm guessing).
I just alternated a quarter cup of batter from each flavor until my pan was full enough to bake.
The instructions said to bake according to package directions so I made sure I got two mixes that had the same bake times. Now, I'm not sure if my oven is having issues or if I did something wrong, but my cake took almost an hour to bake. That is way too long for a six inch cake to need and I didn't have a lot of time to start over so I just went with it. I had plenty of cupcakes so the cake wasn't really as much of an issue.
I iced the six inch cake white and used parchment sheets cut straight across to draw a rainbow on top.
This is the first shot of me actually putting decoration on the cake. The hubs asked if he could do anything to help so I told him to grab the camera.
I also iced the cupcakes white and used candy to stand up for the rainbow on them. Just to remind you, this is how they looked.
If you use this candy on cupcakes, put it on right before the party. The strips will slowly flatten down, they are not very stiff.
Here is the cake.
Notice how the rainbow was off centered a bit? I didn't even let it bother me this time. I just keep telling myself about all the money I saved making this myself.
And here is how it looked cut.
What cakes have you made lately?
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