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Here is an early morning vlog to end the year – sorry, its slightly longer than usual!
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Here is an early morning vlog to end the year – sorry, its slightly longer than usual!
Here is an early morning vlog to end the year – sorry, its slightly longer than usual!
What has become of the Labour Party?! At a time when there could be some really important political debate, the Labour Party has turned on itself and is in utter disarray.
But what is going on? What lies beneath the turmoil, the mud slinging, the coup and the disunity? Jeremy Corbyn is calling for a 'new politics, a kinder politics' and 'a society where everyone matters, where everyone cares for everyone else.' He is calling for a new kind of debate and a new style of leadership. Owen Smith on the other hand, seems to be looking for some similar things, calling himself a left-socialist, but the difference for him seems more to do with leadership style and ability. He would rather 'smash Theresa May back on her heels' than the sort of participatory approach of Corbyn….
With so much media storm, biased reporting and contradictory messages on all sides, what are we to believe. What is to be made of this mess? I am sure one William Shakespeare would have had a field day in writing this comic tragedy 'Love Labour's Lost' – or would it be 'Love, Labour's Lost'?!
Our political system as a whole is a bit of a disgrace. The Westminster bubble, far too removed from normal every day life, working far too much in political theory than pragmatically in the grit and grime of every day life. And we have all believed a lie. We have believed, that in the end, human beings are motivated by their own selfish needs and that the autonomous self and the desire for freedom are therefore what drives us. But this is only a shadow form of what it means to be human (Richard Rohr). To be human is far more profound than this. We have appealed to our lesser selves for far too long and we need to reclaim the deeper truth of what it means to be truly human. To be truly human is to be first and foremost about love, and not a selfish love, because love is never truly selfish. No, to be human is to be essentially loving, in the image of God. To be first motivated by a self-giving, others empowering love. And this kind of love, as preached by John Wesley is actually one of the founding true principles of the Labour Movement. Without love, socialism is just a clanging gong in the wind. Without love, it has no power to redeem, reconcile or transform society. Labour has given into fear because it sees the crumbling of the Nation State in which it has put so much of its trust and identity.
What motivates the Labour Party these days? Is it the need for power in order to transform? Indeed, power can be used to bring transformation. But power without love is dangerous. And what does it really mean to love? Martin Luther King had something to say about this – here is an excerpt from one of his greatest speeches:
In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It's not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, "Love your enemy." And it's significant that he does not say, "Like your enemy." Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don't like what they do to me. I don't like what they say about me and other people. I don't like their attitudes. I don't like some of the things they're doing. I don't like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That's why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they're mistreating you. Here's the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don't do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they're mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
And our civilization must discover that. Individuals must discover that as they deal with other individuals. There is a little tree planted on a little hill and on that tree hangs the most influential character that ever came in this world. But never feel that that tree is a meaningless drama that took place on the stages of history. Oh no, it is a telescope through which we look out into the long vista of eternity, and see the love of God breaking forth into time. It is an eternal reminder to a power-drunk generation that love is the only way. It is an eternal reminder to a generation depending on nuclear and atomic energy, a generation depending on physical violence, that love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power in the universe."
(read the whole sermon here: http://mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_loving_your_enemies/)
Labour must recover love at its core. Love is the only hope we have a new politics. The politics of how we organize ourselves and live together is either motivated by the need for autonomous freedom and control, which is actually based on fear, or it is motivated by love, but it cannot be essentially motivated by both. Love is the only way for a new and reimagined future. Love is the only way that we ever deal with the needs of our own autonomy. Love is the only way to heal the divide and bring unity. Where there is fighting and hatred, name calling, slander, vitriol, violence and selfishness it must stop. If it does not, then the Labour movement will entirely lose its way. Some call the left ideology Socialism, some call it Humanitarianism. Without love as the essential driving force, both are dead. Love is found in the heart of the teaching of Jesus and it has the power to truly transform the world – some call this Kenarchy. The politics of Jesus is not for the faint hearted. It is rooted in love and its out-workings are utterly pragmatic and the antithesis of autonomy and self-preserving power. We must recover our humanity and rediscover our political motivation, resisting the tide of individualism and fear. Anyone can love their friends…..it is when we learn to love our enemies and speak well of those with whom we disagree or who harm us that we become truly human and can become truly politically engaged. Labour must recover the love it has lost.
In this blog, I am exploring how traditional views of God have dominated western thinking about the nature of power, sovereignty and systems. I am drawing heavily on three brillaint thinkers: Thomas Jay Oord and his book 'The Uncontrolling Love of God', Brad Jersak and his book 'A More Christlike God' and my great friend Roger Haydon Mitchell and his book 'Church, Gospel and Empire.'
I agree with Richard Dawkins that there is an utter God delusion. But I disagree with him utterly about the nature of that delusion, which I will come on to. So much of Western thought has been shaped by "Christianity", or perhaps more accurately, "Christendom", and has very little to do with the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The dominant story, as we have it now, took it's shape in the fourth century, under the partnership of the Emperor Constantine, and a theologian by the name of Eusebius. At this particular point in history, the message of Christianity was spreading like wild-fire throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. It very much challenged the status quo and the power dynamics of the Empire, calling for people to change the way they thought about who God is (a loving father, not a dominant emperor), to consider all people equal, to undo economic oppression and follow the radical way of love, partnering with God for reconciliation, healing and peace. This view of God didn't suit the Emperor, nor the philosophy of Empire.
This allowed an understanding to develop that God is actually quite like a Sovereign Emperor who rules the whole world, a God very much like the one Richard Dawkins describes in his famous book – and why would anyone believe in a "jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" God like that?! No thanks! But this is the kind of God that Empires depend on. This is the kind of God that those with power through the centuries purported God to be like in order to hold onto their own power, making Jesus the great warrior and God the threatening one to be feared. Constantine understood that harnessing the message of Christianity gave him more control. The church leaders understood that partnering with the empire would mean greater safety and prosperity for themselves.
But God is not at all like the caricature painted by Dawkins. As Jesus said, "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father." God is exactly like Jesus. He is the antithesis of a dominant Emperor. He is a loving, kind, creative, healing, perfect Father, who rather than anihilating us for our rebellion, allows himself to be utterly misunderstood and seemingly defeated by the might of Empire, only to overcome it through love, breaking forever, the power of all that stops us being truly human and inaugurating a new way for humanity – what some of us now call kenarchy, but more traditionally referred to as the Kingdom of God (a term which now has so many other difficulties that it needs reinterpreting).
If God is exactly like Jesus, then he is essentially kenotic, in other words, he is first and foremost about self-giving, others-empowering love, and therefore he cannot be like the God caricatured by Richard Dawkins, nor can he be a fluffy grandpa, a doting dad, a domineering dictator or an amalgamation of all of these, dressed up as Santa Claus. That means that the Christian scriptures have to be wrestled with and studied carefully with this lens firmly in tact. It also utterly changes the whole idea that Christianity could ever become a "state-religion", uphold the divine right of kings (or indeed presidents/republics etc that behave in the same ways), or the support the propping up of political ideologies that lead to the oppression of the poor, marginalisation of the other or rejection of any person based on any part of their identity.
For me, the Gospel narrative is not that God made the whole world and we then messed it up, offended his sovereignty and so he needed someone to die in our place so that his wrath could be appeased. No, the narrative is something far more profound and beautiful. Brian Zahnd explains is beautifully in his 'gospel in chairs'. My faith lies in a God who invested himself in the evolutionary process, creating a world of order and randomness in which human beings emerged, in his image, able to choose how we would relate to God, each other and the environment in which we find ourselves. But rather than choose this way of self emptying, others empowering love, we have time and again made God in our own image of power and self-centred free will. In doing so, we have wrought destruction to ourselves, to one another, to those weaker than ourselves and to the ecological systems in which we live, move and have our being. And this is why we have different versions of God painted through the pages of scripture in our desire to understand what God is like – and we must wrestle with ourselves as we read. What do our interpretations of the bible teach us about ourselves? What kind of God are we looking for?
We had so misunderstood and misaligned our very expectations of what God is like, that he came as a human being, especially as a male, as maleness needs utter redemption from the stereotypes we have created, somehow encapsulating the male and female in one body.
The incarnation is therefore not about God changing his mind about humanity, but about giving humanity the chance to change its mind about who he is and what he is like. This human Jesus, stood at the pinnacle of the Roman Empire, proclaiming himself the son of God in direct contrast to the empires of the day. But humanity did not like this image of God and so we killed him. But in his death, he took upon himself all that is broken in us and in our world and nullified its power, overcoming death through his endless, self emptying, others empowering love, and released the potential for new hope, creation and life. To me, this is the story of salvation, that out of our own selfishness, we can be re-activated into a place of love, in which we are free to choose to benefit others ahead of ourselves and bring this shalom or wellness to those around us, sometimes seeing miracles and sometimes not, because although God is good and more powerful than any other force or being, shit still happens; and because he is essentially kenotic, he is therefore unable to just intervene whenever he feels like it. He is unable to be untrue to his nature and in Him an uncontrolling love comes first.
In the end, if you want to believe in a God who is first of all omnipotent, ie limitless in his power, you can find that kind of God in the bible. It's a bit like needing a dominating form of government, and world order in which you are free, until you challenge the Sovereign. When this happens, the nice, good, caring government has behind it the immense threat of the nuclear bomb, which I suppose you could liken to hell. Our view of leadership, our view of how government should behave, our view of the role of the state is actually pretty messed up, and I am arguing that it is messed up because it was shaped by a very warped view of God, who mostly cares for us, but has the great threat of eternal punishment for those who don't believe quite correctly. That is not to say that all will be part of a heavenly future, but I would say that those who pursue the way of love are actually following the way of Jesus far more than those who follow the way of their version of the truth. The truth will set us free, but the truth is: (as Belinda Carlisle – that great theologan told us) in heaven, love comes first!! So when people pray the Lord's prayer – 'thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven' – this looks very little like our current practices of government or nation states and the ways they behave in the earth.
But if self-giving, others-empowering love is the ESSENTIAL nature of God, then this must change the way we understand everything. The glory of God is not found in might, power, dominion and sovereignty. No, it is found in his cruciform nature. And if the earth can be filled with the glory of God rather than the 'glory of empire', where love is the antidote to fear, joy the antedote to debt, goodness the antedote to control through law and peace the antedote to violence, then together we might begin to taste a little bit of heaven.
How might we live and organise ourselves differently? How might we live politically? How might we shape economics? How might we heal and educate? How might we care for each other and the environment? How might nations relate to one another if love and not autonomous power comes first? There is a revolution much more profound than the violent overthrows of the past. It is the revolution of love.
Here are some thoughts on Political Structures and the Economy:
Political Organisation
I would want to legislate Proportional Representation for a fairer reflection of the political will of the people, with coalitions becoming the norm, leading to a more collaborative and conciliatory form of politics, involving real engagement with and empowerment of local people in their communities.
Political conversations in local communities will mean that politicians and public servants do not come up with good ideas and "do things to people", but rather learn to form environments of participatory leadership where co-commissioning becomes the norm. "No decision about me, without me, is for me." (Leeds Poverty Truth Challenge). This is part of the new politics we need.
Sovereignty can be understood in several ways. From my perspective there are two competing narratives that frame the debate. Sovereignty can be the right to self-govern, to be in charge of our own future and rule in such a way to ensure that this happens – that is to insist that our own freedoms matter the most and we may have to suspend the freedom of others to ensure this happens. The alternative view of freedom is rooted in the idea of 'essential kenosis', i.e. that true sovereignty is not the domination of the other, but a self-giving, others-empowering love. I would see this latter definition of Sovereignty to be the basis of a more human kind of leadership. Leadership is something which is from among, rather than something which is lorded over others.
I would continue with town and county councils run on this basis, with two nationally elected houses, one based in the north and the other in the south.
I would start with the breaking up of banks into smaller, regional units, encouraging a multiplicity of options, especially encouraging credit unions and cooperatives. This is a well thought through idea of what to do with RBS, as championed by the New Economics Foundation. This will ensure local lending for local people, businesses and initiatives which will lead to a more sustainable system, more similar to the German or Danish model, both of which have ridden financial storms more easily than those where larger and centralised banks are allowed to dominate the market.
there needs to be a recognition that in all of economic history that we know of, only 3 countries have ever been in surplus and each case this was in a very unusual circumstance and for a short time. The obsession with balancing the books is a nonsense. (A national economy is nothing at all like a household! For instance, we do not have a bank in our back gardens that can print money, nor do we have rich friends living with us, to whom we give special privileges whilst making others work for very little pay, refusing to help them out, but rather telling them they need to have better aspirations and work harder).
A fair society involves creating local environments in which people can work and work pays well, so that a hard days work does not still leave someone unable to afford food, shelter and warmth. A fair society means that when you are unable to work or go through a time of hardship, you will be cared for appropriately. We would encourage the formation and strengthening of unions on this basis.
We need an economy that does not allow organisations to have their headquarters in the UK, but put their profits into other nations, whilst avoiding their fair share of taxation. The UK has many reasons to attract companies here, other than low tax rates and if companies wish to hold the UK to ransom, they can go elsewhere. Instead we will build relationships with those companies that will pay a fair and living wage, ensuring a fair share of profits and contribute to the wellbeing of the economy. Trickle down neoliberalism is failing the vast majority of people, and so we will develop this new economy together.
As a direct result of the new health policy, small community practices are now seeking to federate with one another so that they can now compete (with private providers) for the services they already provide. Although most General Practices in this country are run by private partnerships (which is actually extremely different to a company limited by shares – though they can absolutely be driven by the same kind of greed), all the money they earn comes through the NHS. A practice earns money by providing various services, like vaccinations and smear tests and through meeting various targets (along with target driven initiatives like the Quality and Outcomes Framework aka QOF). The money earned then pays the staff in the practice, including the doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers, managers and administrative teams. If any provider, like Virgin Healthcare, for example, can come in and now say, we will provide all the vaccinations across the county at a lower cost than these GPs are currently able to provide, it might sound like a good idea from a strictly money point of view (I refuse to use the term 'economic point of view' here, because we must rid the term economics of the abuse it suffers as being synonymous with money – it really refers to how we order the house!). However, what it actually does is destabilise the economy of a practice and removes key services from a local community setting, causing staff to lose their jobs. What the government really doesn't understand though is how important it is to form relationships with patients. Taking traditional services out of a local setting breaks some key encounters that doctors and nurses have with their patients, for the sake of saving a bit of money.
With the formation of federations, GP practices are clubbing together to basically try and bid for services en mass, but still provide them in the same way. It's a colossal amount of work, but is also sadly going to break what has been until now a strong value within the General Practice community. As practices choose to federate with one another they basically have three choices in forming these new companies (and they do have to be companies in order to compete with the companies limited by shares whom they will be bidding against). Their first option is to become a company limited by shares themselves. The share holders would initially be the practices in the federation. In the short term, practices would chose what to do with the profits. One would hope, as they are providers of healthcare for the local community, that they would chose to invest the profits back into the health needs of their population. It is my opinion that to do anything else would be wholly unethical. To seek to make a personal profit from tax payers money, rather than using that money for the benefit of those who need it more is, to my mind, wrong. The other significant drawback of this kind of approach is that in a few years time, GP's could choose to sell these companies at a profit and make a tidy sum in the process. In essence then, this could make a federation/company limited by shares no better than the wolves they are trying to protect the sheep they care for against. The second option is to become a Community Interest Company. This still allows profits to be made, but tends to safeguard those profits for the sake of the community. As with any legal entity, loopholes can be found to make a CIC look ethical on the outside, but actually allow large dividends to be paid to the 'directors' (who would be the GPs). However, one would have to chose to change the original constitution of the federation set up on this basis in order to do this, and so on paper a CIC is more likely to act more 'ethically' than a CLC (company limited by shares).
The third option is a potentially kenarchic alternative. Kenosis (to pour out) is one of the root words within kenarchy. However, one can be kenotic, without being kenarchic. It is possible to be a kenotic CLC or CIC, but the power dynamics do not really change. Power is maintained and held by the few and although they may seek to act benevolently, they are not relinquishing their (wrong kind of ) power. Now, power is not wrong. We have power to bring about change. However, power is very distinct from leadership. We need good leadership. But true leadership is able to allow itself to become powerless. True leadership becomes the servant so that the 'other' can be fully built up and truly become all that they can be. Jesus was so radical when he talked about leadership. Let us dispel the myth, that the best way to change the system is to get into the top jobs and change it from the top down. For a start, very few will ever manage to 'get there' even if 'getting there' were a good methodology through which to effect change. The sad truth is, that in aiming for the so called top jobs, much is compromised on the way, and once in the places of power, one can become utterly impotent to effect any change at all. It will also be discovered that the top jobs are really only puppets on the strings of the economic and political higher or ruling powers of the systems.
The third way is the way of co-operatives. Co-operatives give the opportunity for a radical overhaul of power, a true sharing of resource and gift and a letting go of unfair monetary advantages created by our current systems. It means the few let go of the power and benefits and instead everybody is able to share them. In forming co-operative federations (and this can apply for all practices as well – something that would be wonderful to see) there is the choice to allow all staff to become share holders together, not just the doctors. In areas where this happens (like the John Lewis Partnership or Surrey Central Healthcare or the health cooperatives of the Basque region) there is an extremely high sense of morale amongst the staff and high patient satisfaction rates. This is because of an uncomfortable truth for the powerful. It is co-operation and not competition that drives up both happiness and excellence. Of course it takes more time and effort, but relational working is so worth it and the benefits to all far outweigh the costs. However, we can more radical than just all workers being members of the co-operatives. All members of a local population could be members of a co-operative for health and this could then easily expand into education also. A greater sense of interconnectedness and less abuse of the service provided would be far more likely in such a scenario. We have to ask ourselves just how much power we are willing to give away, how much we want to know and love one another, but also to be if we want to be known and to be loved?
Earlier this week the UK parliament voted that the secretary of state for health will have new powers to close any hospital in England, should he see fit. There are a couple of caveats attached. Firstly, the local people will apparently have 'a say' and the local commissioning boards of GPs will also have to agree. How much of 'a say' local people will really get is yet to be seen and how much pressure will be exerted on local commissioning boards to tow the party line we don't yet know.
What this highlights yet again is the complete lack of joined up thinking that happens around healthcare and the wider economy. It also reveals how utterly disempowering central government really is. How can Westminster decide what the needs and wants of the city of Leeds are, for example? What do they know about the non-economic impacts of closing a hospital? I'm not arguing that all hospitals should stay open, and there's a good chance that some may well need to close. But it cannot be a decision from on high. Nor can it be an isolated decision. It's too complex for that.
I find great encouragement from the knowledge that there are several towns and cities in the UK where 'a people's assembly' is emerging. There are some stunning examples of this in Nottingham, Leeds and London. Across a city such as these ones, there are webs of networks and interconnected relationships that represent thousands and thousands of people. I had the utter privilege recently of spending some time with John Battle, a recently retired MP from Leeds. He carries a wealth of wisdom in understanding how to engage people from across a city to participate in key decisions. He was explaining to me that in a people's assembly, there are representatives from many groups across the city. Each person can speak on behalf of their group and report back to them for further discussion. It's an incredible way of involving a huge proportion of a city in a discussion.
In Nottingham, for example, at the time of electing the new police commissioner, over 1200 people, representing a vast number of networks, gathered from across the city to have a facilitated conversation about what they would hope for from their new commissioner. They were then able to ask questions to the four candidates, and were able to set up a system of accountability for the eventually elected commissioner back to the people. The commissioner understood in no uncertain terms that he was there to serve the city and the city understood that it was there to partner together with the commissioner for the welfare of the communities living there.
A facilitated conversation gives voice to everybody and sets no-one up above another. Leadership becomes about facilitation rather than dominance and control. When we talk about closing a hospital or a maternity unit or a school in an area, it is often said (as in my previous blogs) that there are some very complex things to consider. This is absolutely true. The problem is that we don't share the complexity, we leave the decisions to so-called experts (who are at best having a good guess), and then either make them heroes or scape-goats!
National budgeting doesn't work when it comes to healthcare. Local budgeting in isolation doesn't work either. It's all well and good to campaign to keep a hospital open, but we do actually live in a world of finite resources and people and so if we keep the hospital, there may be other tough cuts to make. We have separated out huge aspects of budgeting that really belong together. That is why a people's assembly in a town/city/region doing the complex task of participatory budgeting is a possible way forward. It isn't actually that difficult to get people together and budgets aren't that hard to understand. I know so many people who have extremely tight and complex budgets to manage when it comes to their own households and they do it with finesse. Multiplying the numbers up, ain't that tricky.
When a town/city understands what it's budget is for a year (or longer) and the people can decide what the priorities need to be I think the results could be amazing. Firstly, there might be genuine partnerships formed across cities to work in more innovative and creative ways. Secondly, there would be greater engagement and social responsibility. Thirdly, there would be less waste. Fourthly there would be emerging partnerships of gift (rather than competition) between cities for various resources.
Some argue that in such a situation, the most needy and therefore least empowered in a city could miss out. This happens currently in the national setting. For me, this is where leadership comes in. Leadership is not about riding into town to shut a hospital here, or rename a school into an academy there. Leadership is about emptying power out and reassuring all that they are already empowered. It is also about helping protect and promote those who could potentially be down trodden or forgotten. It is giving a voice to those who feel voiceless and oppressed by the dominant systems. For me that would mean promoting and protecting the needs of women (for whom there is still an incredible amount of injustice), children, asylum seekers and refugees, the marginalised poor and homeless, those with physical and mental health needs and prisoners.
Power needs to be devolved from the centre to the margins (just as Gordon Brown MP stated this week). And once the power is more regional it still needs to be continually emptied out so that communities find and serve one another, so that cities become gifts to one another and we find that the order of the house (economics) is the responsibility of all.


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Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Flock: New Browser on Firefox
Bar Camp showed off Flock:
We're introducing the world's most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be seeding invites to a few lucky folks. Sign up to find out when invites are available
Flock – Social Browsing is Cool
By Techcrunch
Flock was originally called Round Two and raised money (reportedly around $1 million) from Bessemer Venture Partners. For more on the fundraising and early reports, see Om Malik and SiliconBeat.
We got our first look at Flock at Bar Camp last weekend – Andy Smith and Chris Messina gave a great demo. Our beta invitation came that weekend as well.
Flock should be launching publicly sometime in September. They have windows, mac and linux versions of their browser already.
Social Bookmarking
Flock has integrated del.icio.us-type features right into the browser. When you are on a page you would like to bookmark, simply press a "+" button on the top left of the toolbar and the page is automatically included in your bookmark area (called your "breadcrumbs"). You can also tag bookmarks, of course.
Additional features include your "watchlist" (people who's bookmarks you would like to monitor), and "groups" (basically, defined groups of flockers linking to this category).
Breadcrumbs, Watchlists and Groups all have RSS feeds (of course).
Blogging Tool
This is pure magic. We've tested most blogging tools out there, including qumana (the best in our opinion – profiled here and here), blogjet (Jeff Clavier likes this one) and others. All of these requre a download and allow offline drafting and wysiwyg functionality.
I have to say I think Flock blows them all away. I'm dying to show a screen shot, but Flock has asked it's beta testers not to (so ignore the very, very small screen shot above). To show this right now would be pushing the limits of their trust, so I won't.
But it rocks. Setup was very easy (I tested it with my personal blog). It has functionality for editing posts (even posts not created with Flock), quick toggle between preview and viewing the actual code, and, the best feature in my opinion, the ability to simply drag flickr photos direclty into the post and manipulate them. They also allow quick and easy technorati tagging. Wow. I mean, really, wow. This stuff is not trivial to build. The ajax funtionality is stunning.
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As a manager, you often have to get people excited in your plan, ideas, or goals. I call this "selling your vision", which means you have to sell your plan, ideas, or goals to "them". So you have to know what is in it for them. Here are my tips to keep in mind when preparing your sales pitch:
· Who are "them"?
· What will appeal to them?
· What are the advantages towards their needs?
· How to demonstrate these advantages as outcomes that they will care about?
· What will I need to change to sell the idea to them?
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Blue Buffalo Lite Chicken & Brown Rice Formula
Date of last review
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 2 - 2 3/4 cups.
Calorie Content (ME):
Kcal/Kg = 3,100 (calculated)
Kcal/Cup = 444 (as fed)
Deboned Chicken, Whole Ground Brown Rice, Whole Ground Barley, Oatmeal, Chicken Meal, Rye, Rice Bran, Tomato Pomace (natural source of Lycopene), Whole Potatoes, Natural Chicken Flavor, Chicken Fat (preserved with Natural Mixed Tocopherols), Whole Carrots, Whole Sweet Potatoes, Blueberries, Cranberries, Flaxseed, Barley Grass, Dried Parsley, Alfalfa Meal, Kelp Meal, Taurine, L-Carnitine, L-Lysine, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Green Tea Extract, Turmeric, Garlic, Sunflower Oil (natural source of Omega 6 Fatty Acids), Herring Oil (natural source of Omega 3 Fatty Acids), Fructooligosaccharides, Monooligosaccharides, Dried Chicory Root, Black Malted Barley, Oil of Rosemary, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin C, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Beta Carotene, Calcium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Folic Acid, Biotin, Choline Chloride, Calcium Phosphate, Zinc Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Zinc), Iron Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Iron), Copper Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Copper), Manganese Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Manganese), Potassium Amino Acid Complex (source of Chelated Potassium), Cobalt Proteinate (source of Chelated Cobalt), Potassium Chloride, Sodium Selenite, Salt, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bacillus subtilis, Bifidobacterium thermophilum, Bifidobacterium longum, Enterococcus faecium.
Guaranteed analysis:
Crude Protein 20.0% min
Crude Fat 6.0% min
Crude Fiber 7.0% max
Moisture 10.0% max
L-Carnitine* 100 mg/kg min
Omega 3 Fatty Acids* 0.20% min
Omega 6 Fatty Acids* 2.75% min
Glucosamine* 400 mg/kg max
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles.
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Uses good quality ingredients.
Insufficient meat content.
Chicken is the first ingredient of the food. This product is inclusive of water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). There is a further meat ingredient, this time in meal form, 5th on the ingredient list. It is likely that this is the true first meat ingredient in the food, but occuring 5th on the ingredient list cannot give us any confidence that this food contains an adequate amount of meat.
Barley and oatmeal are the next ingredients. They are decent grains, but we believe that a dog food should be based on meat not grain. It is not necessary to reduce the most nutritious part of a dog food to reduce overall calories, and this is the reason for the low rating this food receives. Further grain products are rye, which is a reasonable grain, and rice bran which is a grain fragment that we consider primarily filler. Tomato pomace is further filler.
The use of whole vegetables is appreciated, and the food contains a good range of probiotics.
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He told me there was a funny story behind the gift and as I opened my package he explained looking up Sunday Stills, contacting Ed... I reached in the box, pulled out a Tokina lens and was dumbfounded.
Tokina? The story started to not jive.
"Really? A Tokina?"
Ed has on more than one occasion told me to only go with the Sigma.
Sigma, Sigma, Sigma.
Unbeknownst to Tim, that was the funny part of the story. Of course I had to pop off an email to Ed to ask and it all made sense, but still, first thing in the morning, the non-Sigma lens was a big, funny surprise.
Thanks Ed. This lens ROCKS!
We worked most of the day and I didn't get out to play with it until almost dusk. I really wanted to do the Sunday Stills challenge this week and I was determined to find something. I found lots.
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Brown Eyed Susan.
Bugs. This is a huge yellow squash left out in our garden.
A ground view.
Sunflower Bud.
Borage Bloom. This plant was a gift from a thoughtful friend who told me all beekeepers should plant borage. Thanks Deb :-)
There's another tiny Bee in the center of this zinnia Bloom.
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A shift to more interventionist government has led
…several states, mindful of the checkered financial history of such efforts, and fearing the fiscal liability they pose, have been drafting legislation to rein in these projects which, when they fail, leave taxpayers holding a multimillion dollar bill.
says, Reason Foundation – ANALYSIS: Despite Glossy Reports, Muni Broadband is Still a Net Money Loser.
In a subsection to Reason's Annual Privatization Report 2013 Steven Titch reviews a number of continuing muni failures across the country including Chattanooga, UTOPIA, Ashland OR, and Click Network in Tacoma WA…here's a bit on Click:
The supply chain inexperience of Tacoma's Click Network, for example, was responsible for a big blunder. After lining up three ISPs to handle retail sales of its muni service, and selling them large blocks of wholesale bandwidth to resale Tacoma consumers, the Click Network decided enter the retail business itself. Competing with your own retailers is a mistake learned in Marketing 101; you don't undercut your own sales channel. Tacoma's decision to do so was all the worse because it hurt the local small businesses that it had hoped to nurture with its network, while angering and alienating marketplace allies and all but killed a major source of revenues for its operation.


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We, and when I say we I mean my MMA instructor Morgan Blanton and I, operate a small MMA gym out of a local athletic club. We've been in business a little longer than 6 months fluctuating between 6 and 10 paying students per month. Definitely not a windfall of revenue coming in, but I suppose it's a start.
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Lately I have been thinking about forgiveness, and I realized that there are people I have not forgiven for wronging me. Should I?
Despite resembling an atheist[1], my thoughts and feelings about forgiveness grew from Christian mythology[2]. I later grafted forgiveness on to a more rational root stock. I understand its efficacy for defusing conflict. I do not feel a moral imperative to forgive. For me, forgiveness is practical. I forgive when forgiveness serves its purpose. These purposes are to enable me to let go of a grudge, as well as to reduce any animosity still held by whoever wronged me. But - and this is where my rationale becomes irrational - if in the later case, my softening of the conflict merely enables bad behavior towards me to continue without check, I withhold any public apologies or making nice, and remain defensive. Why meet someone half way if they never do the same and will simply resume attacking you or otherwise be free to cause you harm unchecked? My conflation of apologies with forgiveness, and that bit about defending myself shows where my reasoning becomes suspect.
The Internet Bullshit I wrote about before is what initially stimulated these thoughts. Mostly I am puzzled so question is a better word to use here than thought. The questions I have about it[3] are:
- Would forgiveness of the other camp have any positive effect?
- Is there a downside to forgiving them?
- How do you forgive a mob of anonymous people?
- Would you even want to?
- Would forgiveness and reconciliation between the individuals at the center of this have any positive effect or would the mobs just keep going?
- Are private apologies and forgiveness adequate at this point?
- What about the fact that these are people in the same industry and they have reputations to cultivate and protect and so likely need this to happen in public?
- What if you think someone's views are morally wrong and cause you harm, but spreading those views is at the heart of their livelihood? In other words how do you resolve inherently opposing interests peacefully if at all?
- Does anything fundamental change in the dynamic above when one person crosses the line from attacking the behavior to attacking the person?
- Looked at from another angle, if someone's views - which they publicly espouse and advocate for - harm you and they refuse to acknowledge this, what good would forgiving them do? Shouldn't you keep challenging them? Can you forgive the person, and continue to challenge their behavior? But isn't this impossible for almost everyone to genuinely and convincingly achieve? So what good could it possibly do anyway, but then why should anyone be required to stop defending themself?
- When does defense become an offense? Can I apply the concepts of proportionality and unfair power dynamics between individuals in a battle of words or does this only apply to nations and groups in conflict?
These questions are intended as food for thought, my own thought, but if anyone else wants to have thoughts that's great too. Go have them, and keep them to yourself. I do not need your answers to these questions. Do not email me answers. The conflict that stimulated these questions is not my conflict, and it probably is not yours. I have thought about these questions, of course, but since the answers speculate about other people they remain private. The value of asking these kinds of questions is not to seek answers about someone else's business, but the thought process itself, and maybe you develop some empathy for the people at the middle of the whole mess. In addition to that, I followed these thoughts back to my own unresolved conflicts, looked inside myself to find a lake of bad blood, congealed, fetid, and rotting.
I think that I have in part dwelled on the Internet Bullshit rather than my own issues because other people's issues are easier to deal with, harder to solve of course, but much easier to handle because they are not mine. Perhaps rather than dealing with my own problems I'm projecting them into someone else's conflict. Kinda like sexual transference, but not sex, and no good, potentially harmful. I don't know. I get the sense that I am only half way on to something here. But despite this fuzzy thinking, hopefully not because of it, I think I need to deal with my shit. I am in danger of becoming an open sewer. Here, take a look. Let me pull back the lid.
Lately when alone, my anger sneaks up on me and devours me whole. For those who do not know me, I am noted for my anger, but even when displaying monstrous anger I am in control. I have not always been able to control my anger. I learned to do this because it is a problem, my problem to solve, and I do not want to make it your problem. I always regret showing any anger to my boys, because sharing that anger is like passing on a disease. I do my best to maintain control with a hot head, and much of the time I am successful. This anger I have when alone, however, this anger seethes with destruction and consumes me. I wrote a piece earlier about my anger at the wind. That was my warning sign. Only a crazy man gets angry at the wind, and when alone in the dark with no one around for whom I feel a need to maintain control, occasionally at those times, I lose it, debating out loud with people who are not there, words expressed like bloated fish yanked from the depths, colorless, slick, and ominous. They slip through the air out of context, meaningless with no one else to hear. The exercise is pointless because saying the words reinforces rather than purges the anger. Those fish dive right back down into me. Perhaps this is because I typically engage in a self-righteous tirade, a one man show of which I am the hero.
Although the anger is always there, most of the time I don't notice it, like a shark well below the surface. I am not consumed by it when active, nor does it sneak up on me most nights. Generally throughout the day I am at my desk working, and I am not yelling at the screen or grimacing in frustration. I am simply working away in solitude. Still I feel hampered by it. I have become ponderously slow like I am trapped in a maze of my own making. It is like I have walled my anger off rather than process it, and those walls are spreading so far that my thoughts have to wander the maze before I can do anything with them. It is dangerous to conflate metaphors with reality. I don't know if this is a fair representation of the actual workings of my mind, but rather this is how I feel. I suspect that I have not let go of the object of my anger and so the anger is pervasive, in all of my thoughts like antibodies reacting to my grudges. My thought process is entirely gummed up. I have devolved from a functional human being to a useless pile of flesh struggling to articulate thoughts of use to others. Maybe I was not so great before, but this is unacceptable.
What this suggests to me is that I am holding grudges. I should probably answer the first question I asked at the top of the post: should I forgive those who have wronged me? And the answer is "yes". That is the easy part. Doing so is something else entirely.
I happen to have three grudges eating away inside. One of them is against myself. Another person is someone who has never admitted their fault at stirring up conflict. And there is another as well. So anyway clearly I am not dealing with war veteran level issues here or PTSD from abuse. I am simply a person with anger issues who also happens to have three grudges. These are small things, but I am a small man and they have gotten the better of me. And that is the limit of the dirty laundry I am likely ever to air publicly. More interesting to me are the questions I have about this and what it says about flaws in my understanding of forgiveness.
- How do you forgive someone who never apologizes?
- Is it possible to forgive someone who does not apologize? Why is it so much harder to do?
- What do I achieve by defensively refusing to forgive or apologize? This does not seem to generate a positive benefit for me so why am I doing it?
- Why is forgiving myself so different than forgiving someone else? Am I trying to force myself to correct my mistakes?
I do not have any answers, and I will probably come up with some better questions in the coming weeks, but this post has run its course. I wrote this in media res. This is something I am in the middle of, and it was an exercise to see if I could manage it despite that congealed lake of bad blood I am drowning in. I am not impressed with my writing or thought process here let alone the fact that I hold grudges at all. I have a lot of swimming to do to reach shore. When I was in my teens and twenties, I wrote extensively like this to work through ideas or whatever "big issue" seemed difficult at the time. Between then and now, I lost the habit. I am out of practice, and should maybe make a point of doing this in private on my own. Would be much better than talking to myself in the dark when consumed by anger. As dangerous and as stupid as it is to post something like this on the internet, I feel like doing it anyway. This is the privilege of being someone of no interest to anyone else, and I feel like exercising it just because I can. If this turns out to be a mistake, I'll gladly learn the lesson. Better to make rash mistakes than to do nothing out of fear.
I have been called an atheist when I explain what I do believe, and that is fine, I accept that in the narrow, technical definition of the term for now, although agnostic may come closer to what it is I think, and I am certainly not a member of the almost religious "Atheist" cult accepting uncritically the positions of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, or the late Christopher Hitchens. I think that their bullshit is little more than intellectual cover for the marginalization of others. And even if that is not the intent, the fact that the idiocy of these "Atheists" is used to justify expansion of the security state, and for waging war makes it clear what uses others think their ideology is good for. If Sam Harris has completely walked back his views and criticized the war on terror, I apologize for my error. But that said I am consciously and firmly in the camp that will most likely never forgive him for the harm he has obviously caused, which should hopefully lead you back to the topic of my post. ↩
I qualify this bit about Christianity at the top because I know that others will assume that I intend to or they will themselves project a Christian framework for forgiveness on to my post. I can not help this, but let me assure you doing so will lead you astray here. I am definitely not a Christian, nor do I play one on TV. Despite that I admit that I have been influenced by Christianity. This footnote is intended to explain that a little bit. I respect the core Christian ethic of the Golden Rule, to treat others as you would want to be treated, or however you wish to rephrase the same basic concept. Furthermore I must admit that Christian morals sunk in to my emotional core despite my rejection of the religion for all but ironically my teen years. I grew up surrounded by Christians and the echoes of Christians in a culture in which Christians tend to receive the most lip service on moral matters, so I share their assumptions about what the Golden Rule means without even meaning or wanting to. I just do. What I feel about the Golden Rule is not all that different than what the average Christian feels. I feel that it is wrong to inflict anything on another that you would not accept for yourself. If I describe my reasons for this beyond vague notions of hypocrisy, I will probably muddle those reasons with feelings because I feel this more than intellectualize it. And even were I able to articulate a rational castle of logic, I would have to admit that my reasons were mortared with feelings steeped in Christian metaphor. That this might be because there are profoundly rational underpinnings to justify the Golden Rule itself rather than simply because I am a product of my environment ... well lets just say that I find that to be an absurdly simplistic line of reasoning best left to the delusional ramblings of aspirationally hyper-rational people. Reductive logic is a lie by omission when you intend your reasoning to meaningfully describe living, thinking, and feeling. There is a whole heap of culture that I inherited and accepted merely because I find it impossible and tedious and weird to try to rationally reconstruct everything on my own terms to serve as perfect ethics. Christian morals are in there too. Better that I admit to them than pretend all my thoughts, feelings, and ideas are entirely my own. ↩
If you are obsessed or even just curious about the RPGNet versus Zak Sabbath conflagration, you might want to consider my questions in light of White Wolf's latest statement, titled appropriately Breathing the Same Shadow. There is a great deal of content resting comfortably between the lines of that blog post. I thought every word was well chosen, obviously corporate stuff, but still each word directs you to the truth between the lines. It could be said that I am reading too much into it, because you could probably read this and reach different conclusions than I did and still agree with it, but read it anyway. Make up your own mind. ↩


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Re: st: end of do-file notify
Dan Blanchette <email@example.com>
Re: st: end of do-file notify
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:49:39 -0400 (EDT)
I came up with this idea.
Save this code as beep_me.ado and put it in your ado\plus\b directory:
program beep_me
version 9
args n_beeps
if missing("`n_beeps'") {
local n_beeps= 3
forvalues n= 1/`n_beeps' {
sleep 1000
shell pause
Then run your code inside -capture noisily- and follow it with -beep_me- like so:
capture noisily {
sysuse auto, clear
tab turn
By default -beep_me- will beep 3 times with a second between beeps unless
you specify how many beeps you want:
. beep_me 10
At the end -beep_me- will have a Windows shell window pop-up with the message:
Press any key to continue . . .
So, when you see that window you have to remember that it was caused by -beep_me-
and your do-file is done or stopped due to an error.
Dan Blanchette
Research Programming Services
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina
From Carsten Sauer <email@example.com>
To email@example.com
Subject Re: st: end of do-file notify
Date Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:23:39 +0200
Hi Pablo,
you could use the -beep- command at the end of your do-file:
sysuse auto, clear
reg weight length foreign
Best, Carsten
Am 17.08.2012 18:47, schrieb Pablo Bonilla:
Dear stata list,
Some times when I am running a do-file I don't know how to make it
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error on it. I usually go to excel or internet while Stata is running
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Is there a way to know when Stata finished and therefor don't waste to
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Galectin 3 : Master Modulator of Risk for Cardiovascular Disease , Cancer, Inflammation , and Fibrosis ...
Biomarkers for the Prevention of Cancer and Other Neurodegenerative Conditions .....
Ketogenic Diet and Deuterium Depleted Water for the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer and Degenerative Conditions ...and lastly.....
Hydration and Brain Health.
This morning I learned about a very nasty player in the body called Galectin 3. This is another marker for inflammation and can be directly correlated to bad clinical outcomes.
For example, if you or someone you know has congestive heart failure and your Galectin -3 level is less than 17.8 , the chance of you dying within the next 12 months is 13%. If your Galectin -3 level is greater than 25.9 your chance of dying in the next year rises to 37%Galectin -3 causes fibrosis of tissues including the kidneys. 50 million people in our country have chronic kidney disease, defined as a serum creatinine of 1.6 or higher.
We spend more money on this disease than any other single disease ( if you add up the costs of medicines, dialysis, kidney transplants, etc)
Aldosterone causes Galectin -3 expression and release. So if we can avoid situations which cause high aldosterone ( decreased blood flow to the kidneys caused by congestive heart failure , drop in blood pressure from subclinical dehydration , decreased serum sodium , increased serum potassium that could be seen in kidney failure , and elevated ACTH that might be seen in Cushing's syndrome. )
So , stay hydrated, and if you don't own a handout for Linda's alkalyzing cocktail, pick one up the next time you come into the office. In summary, not only is drinking water important, but also taking in minerals in Alkasalts and Celtic salt is important to avoid low sodium to avoid aldosterone secretion , to avoid Galectin -3 secretion.
Galectin-3 suppresses your immune system. It causes inflammation and promotes cancer by increasing angiogenesis ( growth of blood vessels to carry cancer cells to other places in your body) inhibits apoptosis ( programmed cancer cell death) enhances metastasis by suppressing the immune system.
Is there an answer ? Yes, thank you Lord. Galectin -3 can be inhibited by modified citrus pectin.
This substance is derived from the pith of citrus fruit peels. It is easily absorbed from the GI tract.
It inhibits cancer growth and metastasis. It inhibits heart and kidney disease.
It selectively chelates heavy metals in the GI tract. And it up-regulates the immune system. It also can help stop the progression of liver, kidney, and lung fibrosis.
In the management of cancer it induces natural killer cell activity.
Modified citrus pectin surrounds T cells and inhibits the release of cytokines which are inflammatory substances that signal tumor cells to secrete Galectin -3.
In summary, regarding cancer, modified citrus pectin decreases fibrosis , inflammation , and metastasis. It increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation in those who choose it, and it decreases the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
The dose found to be most effective is 15 grams /day.
It can be taken with or without food. Dr Eliaz recommends 15 min before or after eating. It can be taken with other supplements or medication. It can be put in water or smoothies. It can be sweetened with stevia if need be.
If you want to begin with 5 grams once daily for 1 week, then 5 grams twice weekly for one week, then increase to full dose, that's fine too,
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Penn State has long resisted alcohol sales at Beaver Stadium, but as universities search for new revenue streams, the trend is moving towards college-stadium beers sales, just as pro-stadiums have done for as long as anyone can remember. In May of this year, Penn State announced that it would allow beer and wine sales in the hoity-toity suites and club seats, while the masses would have to get their drink on the old fashioned way in the Beaver Stadium parking lots. In 2015, Ohio State took the exact same segregated alcohol sales approach, but in 2016, all of Buckeye Nation will be able to drink beer in the stadium, not just the well-heeled in club seats.
Should Penn State Follow OSU's lead with Stadium Beer Sales?
Public Drunkenness Charges in Pennsylvania are Not Just for Drunk People
Few people are aware that it is possible to be charged and convicted of public drunkenness in Pennsylvania even without consuming a single drop of alcohol. On its face, this makes no sense, as the very name of the crime suggests that the statute criminalizes being drunk in public. Yet names can be deceiving. The full name of the statute is "Public Drunkenness and Similar Conduct," with the "similar conduct" being intoxication from a controlled substance.
What are Narcotic Drugs?
Perhaps the most misused term in the world of criminal law is "narcotics." Many people who should know better, such as police officers, prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys and crime beat reporters, use the term "narcotic" as a synonym for any illegal drug. Thus, in their use of English, marijuana and cocaine a narcotics, while Oxycodone is a "prescription drug." When I hear such misuse of the term "narcotic" I want to pull out my hair and scream. As a criminal defense attorney interested in linguistics, it is one of my major pet peeves.
Minors Can be Charged with Furnishing Alcohol to Other Minors!
In what can only be described as a strange glitch under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, minors can be charged with furnishing alcohol to other minors! Not only is such a scenario possible, it happens all the time to Penn State students. To add insult to injury, the minor in question will also be charged with "purchase, consumption, possession or transportation of malt or brewed beverages," pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S.A. 6308(a), better known simply as "underage drinking." A furnishing alcohol to minors conviction carries a mandatory $1,000 fine for each minor served, and a permanent criminal record, while an underage drinking conviction carries a mandatory driver's license suspension, even if the situation had nothing to do with driving.


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NEW ORLEANS - Sheriff's investigators said deputies shot and killed a suspect who opened fire on them after leading authorities on a chase through the west bank of Jefferson Parish.
According to WWL-TV, JPSO spokesman John Fortunato said deputies shot and killed 25-year-old Desmond Willis of New Orleans in a fast food parking lot on Manhattan Boulevard after he fired several shots at them.
Fortunato said deputies pulled the truck over that Willis was driving over and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. The deputies asked Willis to turn off his vehicle, but said he sped off and crashed a short time later.
Deputies said Willis fled on foot, firing a gun at deputies as he ran. Deputies said when he got to another parking lot he dropped into a firing stance and pointed his weapon back at deputies, then fired again. Deputies returned fire according to Fortunato, hitting Willis several times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A bystander in the area posted a video on Twitter which had what sounded like dozens of gunshots going off.
Deputies said Willis was armed with a Glock 9mm pistol, and a second handgun was found in his pocket.


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Poznań is a beautiful renaissance old town, rich in colour and atmosphere, on the Warta River. The array of cosy cafes situated alongside trendy bar offer prime spots to sit and relax watching the world go by. Poznań is ideal as a base for exploring the surrounding areas rich in natural beauty and leisure activities.
Poznań is perhaps most famous for the annual midsummer celebration, Kupala, held in June each year. After dark, thousands of paper lanterns are released in to the sky, a wonderfully atmospheric event.
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Poznań offers a delightful mix of sites for the visitor including cultural and historical settings.
- Old Town Hall: Probably best known as the tourist hub of Poznań, where tourists flock every day at noon to see the display of mechanical fighting goats, an experience not to be missed. Surrounding the Old Town Hall is the Old Market Square, full of cafes and bars with colourful facades. Here you can experience the weigh-house, guard-house, Mielzynskis and Dzialynskis Palace as well as the Bamberka Monument and four fountains.
- Basilica of St Peter and St Paul: famous for being Poland's first cathedral, a visit to Poznań wouldn't be complete without a visit.
- Old Brewery: Uniquely, the Old Brewery has been turned in to a completely different venue – its distinctive style is now home to shops, modern art galleries, and theatre.
- June 1956 Museum: A sobering museum taking a look at the first general strike and street demonstrations that were brutally suppressed in June 1956 as well as other artefacts from the Communist era.
- Thermal Spa: Housing both an Olympic-sized pool, as well as spa pools such as the outdoor geothermal pools, and saltwater pool, there is also a fun pool with waves and slides as well as a huge range of sauna zones.
- Przemysl's Hill: Przemysl's Hill is home to the reconstructed Royal Castle and the 17th Century Church of St Anthony of Padua as well as the monument to the 15th Poznań Cavalry Regiment.
- St Maria Magdelena Church: Once called Fara, the unique baroque façade of this beautiful church leads the way to an interior that houses an incredible organ, and as such frequently plays host to various concerts.
- Lech Visitors Centre: A brilliant place to come and learn how beer is made in a modern brewery.


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Christmas: Algebra One & Two-Step Equations Pixel Art Mystery Pictures include all you need to color and review solving linear equations! Students are asked to solve linear equations that contain integer and fractional constants and variables. Each equation will only need one or two steps to be solved.
This product contains 130 unique Christmas activity pages for you and your students. You can choose to use them in any combination to best suit your classroom's needs.
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Here are some ideas of how to use this product:
Print out one Problem Set and pass out matching versions of the Question Page & Pixel Art Grid to each student (Version ID located at the top right). All of these students will work on the same set of 15 questions, but 26 different pictures will be generated as they color in their grids. (You have .)
: Print out all five Problem Sets and pass out matching versions of the Question Page & Pixel Art Grid to your students (Version ID located at the top right). Make sure you mix up the problem sets as you pass them out to students near one another. Now each student will be working on one of the 5 different Problem Sets containing 15 unique questions, and their corresponding Pixel Art Grid which will be one of the 26 different pictures. (This method that are seated next to one another.)
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Letter from the Co-Chairs
Human rights are being challenged both nationally and globally, posing challenges on many fronts.
Divisiveness, fear and anger seem to be on the rise, particularly in the United States. Given this, we feel it is all the more important for us to take an active stand in upholding basic human rights and insuring dignity for all.
This month, our board reexamined the important initiatives and programs that the Concord Carlisle Human Rights Council (CCHRC) has witnessed and supported over the years: Friends of Metco, Concord Fair Housing Authority, Concord Peace Day, Concord Prison Outreach, the Sister City relationship with San Marcos Nicaragua, C4RJ, the Abby Fund, and the Drinking Gourd Project, to name a few.
In addition, we continue to sponsor our own annual, town-wide events: the Holocaust Observance, the Human Rights breakfast and biyearly "Climate for Freedom" award, and the Martin Luther King Jr Birthday Celebration. All of these programs and events are vital to the health and well-being of our communities of Concord and Carlisle, and the CCHRC will continue to support these efforts.
However, these times also present new challenges that force us to ask new questions. How best can we marshal our resources when fundamental human rights seem to be under constant assault? How many rights are we going to sacrifice to balance our desire for security? How do we seek justice for the poor who increasingly have their rights trampled? Yes, we are now a "Welcoming Community," but how will we put these words into actions? In the coming month, we will be wrestling with these and other essential questions, and deciding how best to make a passionate and effective defense of the rights we hold dear.
Whatever is coming our way, the CCHRC looks forward to taking on these challenges, for we walk in the large footsteps of so many dedicated volunteers who came before us.
Yours in gratitude,
Rob Morrison & Louisa Paushter
Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Council Co-Chairs


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Dreams of seals mean that your ambition and discontent with the present status will constantly push you forward. To see a seal in a dream signifies that you will strive for unattainable goals in reality.
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Our health advisors can give you advice and support on cutting down how much alcohol you drink.
One You Merton and the Alcohol Health Network have created a new website to support you in understanding more about alcohol and its effects. Take the new Drink Checker test to see how much you drink and get tips and advice on setting your drinking goals to reduce your units.
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Drinking alcohol affects your body in many ways, from gaining weight to reducing the quality of your sleep.
It also increases your risk of developing health problems such as high blood pressure, liver problems, heart attack and some types of cancer. It's important to know how much you are drinking and that there are easy ways you can cut back, without cutting alcohol out completely.
See the links below to find out more about safe levels of alcohol, the dangers of drinking too much and tips on cutting down your alcohol consumption.
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The One You Merton health advisors can give you advice and support on cutting down how much alcohol you drink.
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The following services all provide support for those who are drinking too much and need support with their drinking habit.
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text: Erin Morgenstern: Biography 08 jul 1978 Erin Morgenstern is an American author and multimedia artist. Erin grew up in Marshfield, Massachusetts and attended Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. There she studied theatre and studio art before graduating in 2000. She was signed by Inkwell Management after more than thirty literary agents had rejected her and her first novel. In autumn 2010 she sold her debut novel, The Night Circus, to Doubleday. Morgenstern's novel, The Night Circus, is a fantasy book which tells the story of a magical circus travelling in an alternate late 19th century. It has been compared to works by incredibly successful fantasy and science fiction writers such as Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, Susanna Clarke and Ray Bradbury. It is a book written with an adult audience in mind but is often recommended to teenage readers. The novel won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2012 along with an Alex Award from the American Library Association. It was also featured on The New York Times Best Seller List for a total of seven weeks. Erin Morgenstern takes part in the National Novel Writing Month every year, and it was during this time that she wrote the draft which would eventually become The Night Circus. Morgenstern now lives in New York City. She continues to write and paint and is currently working on her second novel which is yet to be given a publication date. She has announced that it will not be a sequel to The Night Circus and will be a different, completely separate standalone novel.


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Many states, in response to a demand for more college graduates at a lower cost, are pushing, proposing, and implementing free tuition for students in their states. The state of New York entered the fray recently, promising free tuition to students whose families earn less than $125,000 a year. The most notable caveat to their plan is a requirement that anyone who gets that tuition break has to work in New York for a certain amount of time or pay back the benefit: nothing like a little 21st century indentured servitude to remind us how difficult economic mobility is this day and age.
I'm not going to pretend that free college tuition doesn't have it's appeal. As a college professor and dean, I recognize and believe in the value of higher education, and I'd have to be obtuse not to see that rising costs are problematic for students and parents. In fact, various surveys tell us that incoming college students and their parents see finances as the biggest impediment to earning a degree. Declining federal and state aid forces students to choose between working more hours or accepting student loans. Worse yet, federal financial aid formulas (FAFSA) that determine non-loan aid amounts and eligibility are often ridiculously out of touch with the actual reality of most family's pocket books.
Realistically, we can't, despite what too many politicians argue, create efficiencies that significantly reduce the cost of higher education. Certainly, we could eliminate all college sports, multi-cultural centers, weight rooms, climbing walls, Tutor Centers, and other "wasteful" amenities to offer a bare bones educational opportunity. Doing so would save students money, but at the risk of stating the obvious, people's loyalty to the University of Michigan, Texas A&M, and other major universities isn't because of their English departments. 102,000 people don't show up to cheer a great performance in the physics lab. The reality is that students often choose which schools to attend based on the very things that are inefficient and costly. I'll also remind everyone that there are hundreds of colleges that aren't UT, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. The rest of us are scraping by, scrimping and saving, with faculty and staff regularly working overloads. Not many of us are making six-figures and working 30 hours a week. Don't get me wrong: I'm certain any organization can find ways to cut costs, but there's not as much fat at most universities as people imagine.
It's also worth noting that there already exist low-cost educational opportunities. Students can attend community colleges for two years and then chose four-year universities with lower costs. Some might even choose an online university like Western Governor's University, although last time I checked WGU's tuition and fees are not that radically different from tuition and fees and many public, regional universities. Technology doesn't necessarily equal lower costs. Students who are trying to pinch pennies can live at home, assuming, of course, that there is a college within driving distance of their home.
Free-tuition, though, isn't the solution. At the risk of stating the obvious and insulting anyone's intelligence, "free" tuition isn't really free. Much like all those free-use parks in towns across America, someone is picking up the tab. We just aren't charging you every time you go down the slide.
While I don't necessarily prescribe to the idea that you get what you pay for, I do think that paying for things adds value. As importantly, earning a degree or certificate benefits both the state and the individual. Paying for college is an investment and last time I checked no one was voluntarily dumping money in my 403B retirement account, giving me free housing, or picking up the tab for lunch. Because they cost me, they have value above. More importantly, I have to work to earn those things.
The first step to our college cost problem, though, has nothing to do with students. We must, as some point, return funding levels from federal and state governments to their 1980 levels. When I went off to college in 1987, government funding for higher ed equaled around 80%. Students had some skin in the game, but anteing up wasn't cost prohibitive. Various figures and agencies tell us that for every dollar we invest in education, we get a $5.00 return. I'm no financial analyst, but long term a five to one return seems pretty solid.
Notably, though, the return on that investment only occurs if students graduate from college, though. Regardless of degree, college graduates have a lower unemployment rate and have higher lifetime earnings.
Since, from the state's perspective, graduation is the end game, I'd like to see us develop a funding model that reflects and rewards students as they get closer to graduation. In some ways, I think we can follow the way many athletic programs award scholarships. The lowest scholarship amounts occur the first two years. As you show you can perform, we start raising your funding and lowering your bill. After all, we only get a return on our investment if you actually graduate. Additionally, as courses get more difficult, labs longer, hours in the library basement researching esoteric and difficult ideas increase, students need more time working on college than flipping burgers. Essentially, we're going to increase your up front cost, but we're also going to reward you for performance and reduce your back end costs once you prove you will be successful. I realize some students might have to delay the start of college to earn a little money or they might have to work their first two semesters, but for my money completion is more important than easy access.
Any scholarship and grant model has to be predicated on elected officials funding higher education at acceptable levels, recognizing that students who graduate with degrees (or certifications demonstrating mastery of skills that help them get employed) are beneficial to the larger social good. If we continue to defund higher education, we'll see higher student loan debt and continue with stagnant graduate rates. In today's dollars, funding from the feds and the states hovers around 35%, pushing the other 65% on to the backs of students and their parents. Let's start by flipping those numbers, charging students tuition their first two years and then slowing phasing out their costs the closer they get to graduation. We can reward those who demonstrate the ability to learn with the potential to earn.
At that point, I suspect we can let those New Yorkers move anywhere they want. Heck, we'll even let them move down here to Texas. Maybe.


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West London has long been a hub of creativity, the epicentre for style and home to the fashion-forward. In the 1960's and 70's the King's Road dominated the London music scene with mods and rockers, hippies and punks flocking to its boutique shops and happening hang outs. Sandwiched between the
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The Chelsea Pensioners are the iconic faces of the UK's veteran community. They reside here at the Royal Hospital Chelsea the home of Live at Chelsea, their 300-year-old home founded by Charles II, in the heart of London. At the Royal Hospital Chelsea, they offer excellent accommodation, comradeship and the


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The completed application must be accompanied by the application fee in order to have your child secured for enrollment. The registration fee is one time only and is non-refundable.


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In A Pickle is a small gourmet shop located inside the Crown Point Plaza. It offers sandwiches, soups and salads in low-calorie and vegetarian options. In business since 2009, In A Pickle prides itself on excellent customer service and serving gourmet quality food to the friendly people from the community.


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The New York Times recently reported about a new report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did a poor job of screening medical experts for financial conflicts when it hired them to advise the agency on vaccine safety. The report stated that most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and cervical cancer had potential conflicts of interest that were never resolved. The issue was so problematic that some advisers were legally prohibited from considering the vaccine issues, but did so anyway! As many unsafe medicines have been pulled from the market in recent years, worries have intensified that experts may be recommending medical products in part because manufacturers are paying them.
The inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services found that the CDC failed nearly every time to ensure that the experts adequately filled out forms confirming that they were not being paid by companies with an interest in their decisions. The agency's new director said that the CDC has since strengthened the financial disclosures and conflict-of-interest process by instituting improved business processes and realigning responsibilities and oversight.
Congress tightened rules on outside consulting after similar conflicts of interest were found among advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, prior to the issuing of this timely report, little attention was paid to the potential conflicts of interests at the CDC. This is despite the fact that the CDC has significant influence over what vaccines are sole in the United States in addition to what tests are used to detect cancer and what precautions are taken to protect coal miners.
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More charges filed in Shelton standoff
SHELTON -- The man accused of holding police at bay for more than two hours at a Buddington Road home Tuesday now faces additional charges from the standoff.
Bryan Gagnon, 34, of North Branford, appeared in Derby Superior Court Wednesday where he was advised of his rights as well as the charges he is facing. He was charged with first-degree burglary after surrendering to police Tuesday.
Shelton Police Det. Ben Trabka said Gagnon is also charged with first-degree reckless endangerment; first-degree unlawful restraint and discharge of a firearm.
Bond was set at $250,000 pending further hearings.
Additionally, a full protective order was issued barring Gagnon from coming within 100 yards of his estranged wife, Michelle; her boyfriend or any of their pets.©


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Hercules & Love Affair – "My House" (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
Just like when Diplo coldly electronified his own melody, electronic/dubstep sensation "Dance Hall Queen" from Robyn's Body Talk, as has disco connoisseur Andy Butler of his most recent single under the Hercules & Love Affair moniker. The new remix of "My House" removes most of the disco elements that made it such a throwback, in its place adding eccentric synths, ominous electronic sounds, and off-tempo drum patterns. If you haven't seen the video for the original, please do so, you won't regret it. Hercules & Love Affair's forthcoming sophomore effort Blue Songs is out January 31st in the U.K. via Moshi Moshi.


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Our vascular care and treatment options include both diagnostic and surgical services. The vascular lab, which is located on the ground floor of Sturdy Memorial Hospital, offers a number of noninvasive services that assist physicians in diagnosing blood flow complications such as stenosis, blood clots, and blockages. It's equipped with the latest technology, such as specialized transducers that produce detailed color-flow images. The color images help physicians detect turbulent blood-flow problems without performing an invasive procedure.
Our vascular surgeon sees patients at Attleboro Surgical Group and performs surgery at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. Through combining skill and experience with the latest techniques and technology, we are able to provide surgical relief from ailments of the circulatory system. Some of the procedures performed include:


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Join Us
Catholic Schools Week 2017-2018
Sunday, January 28, 2018
"Celebrating our School"
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM Open House
Book Fair
Decorate the Door Contest
Students are speaking at Corpus Christi Masses, Jesus the Good Shepherd
Come and vote for your child's classroom door, enjoy light refreshments, browse the Book Fair.
Monday, January 29, 2018
"Celebrating the Community"
Breakfast Bags for Bus Drivers
Book Fair
Cards & Donut for EMTS, Fire, Police
Gr. 5-8 watch video about St. Francis Inn
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
"Celebrating our Nation"
Book Fair
Nation Trivia
9:00 AM Grades Pk – K - 1
Grades 2 – 3 – 4
Geography Bee
1:30 PM Grades 5 – 8
Dress Down Red, White, Blue
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
"Celebrating our Leaders"
Book Fair
8:30 AM Certificates of Appreciation presented leaders in Catholic Education
Scavenger Hunt
Thursday, February 1, 2018
"Celebrating our Families"
1:15 PM Special Persons/Buddy Bingo
Come and enjoy Bingo with your child and celebrate their successes.
7:00 PM PTA Meeting
Come and learn relaxation techniques and enjoy desserts and beverages.
Friday, February 2, 2018
"Celebrating our Students"
10:00 AM Liturgy
Treat in the Morning
1:45 PM Assembly – Laser Light Show on Black History
Come and celebrate Mass with us and/or enjoy the Laser Light Show.