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Theology must find feet, it must bleed. We must always ask the ever-relevant question, so what? Why does any of this matter? How does this help us at all? How does an accurate biblical understanding of hopelessness change things for us. Jurgen Moltmann is correct, "as long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective." [1] Consider a few things regarding the pertinence of a theology of hopelessness.
God is a surgeon and his Word is a scalpel.[2] With great precision and skill, He diagnoses our ailments and provides saving care. Hopelessness is the diagnosis. It puts words to the unrest in our souls. It pinpoints the aftermath of our sin. It captures the wreckage within us. It speaks to the pain around us.
We put our finger on a core problem when we speak about hopelessness. It is a deeper issue than we thought. It is more pervasive than we imagined. It is multi-faceted and shows up in ways we didn't anticipate. Jurgen Moltmann makes this astute observation about hopelessness.
"Hopelessness can assume two forms: it can be presumption, and it can be despair. Both are forms of the sin against hope. Presumption is a premature, self-willed anticipation of the fulfillment of what we hope for from God. Despair is the premature, arbitrary anticipation of the non-fulfillment of what we hope for from God. Both forms of hopelessness, by anticipating the fulfillment or by giving up hope, cancel the wayfaring character of hope. They rebel against the patience in which hope trusts in the God of the promise."[3]
In other words, hopelessness has multiple faces. It shows up in active rebellion as it strives to rip prerogative from the hands of God and fulfill his promises with human strength. We see this in the Abraham-Sarah story. The promise of a miracle baby to a century old spouse was more than a stretch, it was impossible. Instead of resting in the promise, Abraham took matters into his own hands. The root of his action was hopelessness, he lost hope in the promise of God. But this hopelessness took the form of active, prideful rebellion.[4]
Hopelessness also shows up in despair, this is its inactive face. It curls up into a ball, crawls into a hole, throws its hands up and simply quits. Like active hopelessness it gives up on the promise of God. The only difference, it lays down instead of rising up. We see this in the story of Elijah. God does mighty things through the prophet showing his power through fire and rain. Moments later, his life is threatened and Elijah despairs of the promises of God. He flees, hides, lays down and pleads with God to die.[5]
[1] Moltmann, Hope Moltmann draws this observation from Joseph Pieper's treatise Über die Hoffnung (1949)
[2] God is described as Physician a number of times (Exodus 15:26, Psalm 147:3, Hosea 6:1, Matthew 9:12, Mark 2:17, Luke 5:31). Hebrews 4:12 states that the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword and capable of "piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
[3] Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 7. Moltmann states that this idea is drawn from Joseph Pieper's treatise Über die Hoffnung (1949).
[4] In the Abraham-Hagar narrative (Genesis 16:1-15) we learn that Sarah and Abraham jointly despaired in God's promises. Sarah explicitly says, "The Lord has kept me from having children" (16:2). In other words, God is the own barrier to his promises! He has kept me from the very thing He has promised. She then states, "Go sleep with my slave, perhaps I can build my family through her'" (16:2). The despair is potent. God is in the way. He won't build the family he has promised, so I will. The remainder of the narrative points to an unsurprising tension between Sarah, Hagar and Abraham. The fruit of active hopelessness is always painful.
[5] 1 Kings 18-19. This side of hopelessness may also exist in the Abraham-Sarah story. In Genesis 18:1-15, the promise of a child is reaffirmed in spite of the successful attempt to defy God's word and have a child through Hagar. Both Abraham and Sarah laugh in response to the promise. It is clear that Sarah's laughter at this time is not one of joy-filled faith (18:12-15). The laughter of unbelief may be very close to the passivity of hopelessness—it is despair cloaked in a smile.


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In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and writings have been a subject of enduring interest across disciplines. This Handbook brings together essays by prominent scholars that examine Montaigne's literary, philosophical, and political contributions, and assess his legacy and relevance today in a global perspective.
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In addition to this contextual approach to Montaigne, the Handbook also establishes a connection between Montaigne's writings and issues and problems directly relevant to our modern times, that is to say, our age of global ideology. Montaigne's considerations, or essays, offer a point of departure for the modern reader's own assessments. The Essays analyze what can be broadly defined as human nature, the endless process by which the individual tries to impose opinions upon others through the production of laws, policies or philosophies. Montaigne's motto -- "What do I know?" -- is a simple question yet one of perennial significance. One could argue that reading Montaigne today teaches us that the angle defines the world we see, or, as Montaigne wrote: "What matters is not merely that we see the thing, but how we see it."


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Oil rose back above $87 a barrel in choppy trading on Thursday as a Wall Street-led recovery in global stock markets overshadowed concerns about weakening demand in the world's top oil consumer, the United States.
U.S. light, sweet crude for March delivery was higher, rallying from lows of $86.24 as on the back of a slight recovery in the U.S. stock market.
London Brent crude followed the move.
Oil has also been supported by production shutdowns in the North Sea and in Nigeria, but stock market movements, particularly the U.S. market, set its trading direction on Thursday.
Oil prices fell for the second straight day on Wednesday after a government report showed a surprisingly big build in U.S. petroleum stockpiles, pointing to weaker demand ahead.
Analysts said the data was the latest in a steady stream of bad news on the U.S. economy despite aggressive interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve to ward off a recession.
"Instead, it seems that problems are getting worse...We would not be surprised to see a much sharper break in crude oil prices over the next few weeks," said Edward Meir at MF Global.
Oil prices have tumbled from their January record above $100 on mounting concerns of the U.S. recession, and traders said the market appeared to disregard bullish news.
Royal Dutch Shell said on Thursday it was halting 130,000 barrels per day of Nigerian output because of pipeline leaks. This came a day after Total announced it had shut around 280,000 barrels of oil equivalent in output from its North sea oilfields.
"At the end of last year, if you had news like this, it (oil) would be hitting new highs. Now every time there is a rally, it seems to get sold into. I think funds are continuing to liquidate their positions," said Christopher Bellew at Bache Commodities.
In addition to the souring economic outlook, fuel demand has been curbed this winter by milder than usual weather in the U.S. Northeast, normally a big consumer of heating oil.
The National Weather Service eight to 14-day outlook released on Wednesday predicted normal or below normal temperatures for the northern half of the United States, with above seasonal readings expected for the rest of the country.
A Reuters poll showed world oil demand growth losing momentum in 2008 as high prices and a slowdown in the world's industrialised nations led by the United States hit consumption.
The poll of 20 analysts forecast average world oil demand growth this year at 1.43 million bpd, down from 1.56 million bpd in a similar poll last August and well short of International Energy Agency's forecast of 1.98 million bpd.


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NZD/USD has been quite volatile and bearish recently while residing above 0.6700 area with a daily close. NZD has been struggling to regain momentum over USD whereas US positive economic reports provided USD with support.
NZD has been quite impressive with the recent counter-move against USD but recently could not sustain the impulsiveness it had earlier when trading above 0.6700. December's New House Sales report was published with the sharpest decrease in the recent seven years. This undermined NZD in the pair. This week NZD was quite positive with the economic reports, but it did not quite help the currency to gain momentum. Today Business NZ Manufacturing Index report was published with an increase to 55.1 from the previous figure of 53.7, which helped the currency to establish certain bullish counter-move in the pair but it is expected to be short-lived. On the other hand, USD is likely to maintain momentum in the coming days. As NZD investors are currently waiting for the US-China efficient trade deal. If the deal is concluded, NZD is going to pick up steam in the hsort term after weakness.
On the other hand, USD has been quite optimistic and positive with the recent economic events and reports which helped the currency to sustain the bearish pressure in the pair. Citing FED's Quarles, inflation is very well contained and data on the domestic economy is also quite positive. Solid fundamentals are sure to prop up the economy in the medium term. After raising the interest rate 4 times last year, this year FED Chair Powell is going to take a patient approach with at least of 2 rate hikes which are currently being discussed. According to FED's official Charles Evans, a pause in rate hike is crucial amid looming uncertainty. Recently Philly FED Manufacturing Index report was published with a significant increase to 17.0 from the previous figure of 9.4 which was expected to be at 9.7 and Unemployment Claims report was published with a positive result of a decrease to 213k from the previous figure of 216k which was expected to increase to 219k.
Meantime, USD is expected to dominate NZD further in the coming days. Any soft economic report from the US will provide grounds the bullish momentum again in the future.
Now let us look at the technical view. The price is currently heading towards 0.6700 area after a breach below the dynamic level of 20 EMA. As of the current price structure, the price is expected to move lower towards 0.67. If any bearish rejection with a daily close is observed, certain bullish pressure towards 0.70 is expected in the future. As the price remains above 0.6700 area, the bullish bias is expected to continue.
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We are often asked if planning permission is required for greenhouses.
Greenhouses are covered by the same planning rules as outbuildings or other garden buildings.
Under planning rules greenhouses and sheds are considered to be permitted development, not needing planning permission, subject to the following limits and conditions:
- The greenhouse or shed should not be built forward of the front elevation of the house.
- The greenhouse should be single storey!
- The maximum eaves height is set at 2.5m with a maximum overall height of 4m (with a dual pitched roof) or 3m for a lean-to.
- The greenhouse should have a maximum height of 2.5m if it's within 2m of a boundary of the curtilage (defined as the area accompanying the property) of the house. This still allows for most Elite greenhouses to be built right up to the boundary.
- The greenhouse should not cover more than half the area of land around the "original house" – this is the house as it stood in July 1948 (or when it was built if that is the latter date). It is worth bearing in mind in this case that although you may not have extended the property, a previous owner may have, but in most cases this would allow for a huge shed or greenhouse to be erected.
- In National Parks, the Norfolk Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the maximum area to be covered by a greenhouse (more than 20m from house) is limited to 10m2.
- If your greenhouse is going on the side of the house within the above areas (AONB, National Park etc) Planning permission will be required.
- Within the curtilage of listed buildings any outbuilding will require planning permission.
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Volatility is a relatively new asset class, coming on the scene in 2009.
Should you trade volatility? Traditional asset classes that we all know are stocks, bonds and commodities but volatility is a new and relatively little known asset class in comparison to the main standards.
Until recently, the VIX index was exclusively the domain of futures traders, but with the advent of VIX options and VIX ETNs and ETFs, the arena is now open to retail traders and investors.
The first volatility ETF was NYSEARCA:VXX which started trading in early 2009 and has remained extremely popular since then in spite of its problems that we earlier discussed.
NASDAQ:XIV came on the scene in late 2010 and many other volatility ETFs followed, long and short and leveraged and non-leveraged, using different term structures and enjoying different levels of success and acceptance.
As we've discussed, these don't directly track the VIX index but trade VIX futures contracts. For a retail investor, the main advantage to trading volatility is that you can do it within a conventional brokerage account, can go long or short, can use the ETFs within IRAs and 401ks and can take advantage of market moves that are always occurring as volatility ebbs and flows.
In today's markets, many analysts suggest that the Federal Reserve and other global central banks are actively working to boost stock prices to avoid recessions and get the global economy going again after the body blow it took in the 2008 financial crisis.
Many foreign central banks buy equity futures contracts to bolster stock prices and conspiracy theorists posit that foreign central banks are even doing the work of the Fed by buying stock futures in the U.S. market.
All of this action serves to suppress volatility and so we've seen historically low levels on the VIX index since the onset of the financial crisis in 2009.
Some investors use volatility products as hedges against losses in a primary stock portfolio while others take directional bets on volatility using the VIX ETNs and ETFs and options that are available. Others simply use volatility as another way of diversifying a portfolio, just as they would stocks, bonds or commodities.
The important considerations before trading volatility are the following:
–> Volatility products are not suitable for buy and hold style investing.
–> Long volatility products like VXX generally will suffer from time decay due to the effects of contango.
–> Inverse volatility products like XIV tend to benefit over time from contango as it provides a tailwind for these asset prices.
–> Risk management and a solid trading plan executed with discipline are vital if you are going to succeed in this arena.
–> Volatility products offer the opportunity for quick profits and losses.
–> Volatility products are not suitable for buy and hold investing as years of gains can be wiped out in a period of days or weeks during times of intense stock market volatility.
–> Volatility products can serve as a way to diversify your portfolio, hedge or make directional bets on a deep and liquid market.
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Many voices of this school of thought are convinced that maximum exposure for Johnny to friends and activities is an absolute necessity for his well being and has a far-reaching impact on his ability to get along in a complex world.
Not surprisingly many Christians have obligingly accepted this theory as fact and have diligently sought to socialize their children. Most have found out to their chagrin that once their child has been properly socialized they have more than they bargained for.
Instead of producing Spurgeons, Moodys, Hudson Taylors and Abraham Lincolns, socialization has largely produced carnal worldly feeling oriented Laodicean Christian youth.
Even the pagan world has authoritatively documented the deleterious effects of television on young minds. Yet Christians are still heard to not only defend its usage and ownership they maintain one is depriving his family if he destroys the family altar (television). My dear Christian friend your TV is indeed socializing your youngsters but in a way you will profoundly regret in years to come.
How about friends? Surely our children should have many of them especially if they are found in church and at our Christian school. May I respectfully point out that our churches and Christian schools in this country are filled with hardhearted youth whose hearts are clearly inclined toward this world. Because a youngster is involved in a church youth group or Christian school does not guarantee the impeccability of his character! Our girls over the years have confessed to having had sexual intercourse in the church building while activities are going on in other parts of the building! Christian school students use alcohol and dope. They lose their purity; they kill their babies. All of the wickedness you observe in the mass media has been confessed to our staff people by our live-in students who as you know all come from fundamental backgrounds and most of whom were enrolled in Christian schools.
How a child behaves in and adjusts to his family can be a possible forecast of how he will function in the world around him as an adult. This is precisely why it is so vital that he be taught to immediately and sweetly obey authority learn the lessons of self-control over his flesh and feelings and learn how to lovingly interact with his siblings.
As this happens as an adult he will obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit and mandates of Scripture as a continuation of the obedient character formed within as a child (Proverbs 22:6). He will function as a self-controlled responsible adult who realizes from his childhood training that giving vent to excess and following feelings create problems. More importantly for the purposes of this article a child vigorously trained to responsibly interact with his several brothers and sisters (the Bible presupposes the normal family has many children Psalm 127:5 Psalm 128:3 Psalm 113:9) will be able to successfully integrate himself in most social situations as an adult.
Witness an early agrarian America with its rural economy which in many instances saw families living in comparative isolation from their nearest neighbors. Education and socialization of necessity took place within the confines of the immediate family circle. Responsibility and Godly character thus formed produced a charactered leader such as Abraham Lincoln. On the other hand socialization and peer interaction of contemporary Christian youth may reinforce hardened hearts and questionable character if the child's home is weak; because youth left to socialize (especially in unstructured unsupervised ways) on their own will tend to reinforce one anothers weakness of character. I am convinced no child should be allowed unfettered and unsupervised fraternization outside the family circle if he is not correctly responding to his parents or siblings.
God providentially places children in specific homes. Their problem by and large is not their old-fashioned parents but their unwillingness to obey Godly authority. A rebel may well find comfort acceptance and solace in the arms of uncharactered friends but he has bypassed his primary responsibility to first find his pleasure, joy, peace and fulfillment in his family. To put it another way a child properly socialized with his parents and siblings is a far better prepared candidate for marriage and ministry than one who is primarily socialized with friends, instead of obligingly going along with whatever direction your child is heading and instead of accepting his circle of friends and activities you must choose them for him based on your scripture- enlightened discernments.
It is about time some Christian parents said to another set of parents Our kids are not good for one another.
This is not unloving. That is love and genuine caring. We must very carefully gauge the effect children have on one another.
Scripture warns us that evil character is contagious (1 Corinthians 15:33; Haggai 2:12,13; Proverbs 22:24,25). If your child has one friend with evil character he will be infected with that character without exception. You must very carefully choose his friends and associations and just as closely monitor his activities. The chief friends of a child ought to be his Godly parents and secondarily his Godly siblings. Other friends and associations should have a lesser priority.
To some these ideas seem narrow and restrictive. This is true. So are the Scriptures. In fact the Scriptures picture the Godly life in that way and yet it is filled with happiness peace and joy.
Whereas worldly Christians are busily socializing their children to their detriment and exposing them to all manner of things this world has to offer the narrow-minded Fundamentalist agrees with Paul: I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil (Romans 16:19). Ask Jacob and Leah how happy they were when their daughter Dinah was socialized! (Genesis 34:15). Read the Old Testament closely and see how God was pleased when Israel became socialized with the pagan nations around her. Israels many compromises and her ultimate apostasy should stand out as clear warnings for us today (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Noah appeared to the world of his day as a religious fanatic yet his family alone was saved. Abraham kept his family at arm s length from his Canaanite neighbors and their filthy abominations and produced a Godly Isaac. Jonadab refused to obey the social planners and polite society of his day maintained a strict lifestyle for himself and his family and had the joy of looking over the ramparts of Heaven 400 years later to see his descendants still living separated lives (Jeremiah 35:5-10) uncontaminated by the world.
It is my prayer that you see the two contrasting principles in all of this. It is the satanically-dominated world which says socialize whereas it is the Word of God that says SEPARATE!
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A magical time of the year is setting upon the land. No, of course I'm not speaking of the winter holiday season. A decade in retail ruined Christmas for me forever. I'm talking about something much more wonderful. I'm talking of course about Next Iron Chef: Redemption.
I never thought I would be a Food Network enthusiast. I never got that hunger-porn feeling a lot of people get when they watch cooking shows. I don't even really like food that much. If I'm alone I often forget to eat. I suppose that makes me a poseur. It's a shame I have to learn to live with.
It was last year that Zelda started introducing me to Food related television. She started me off easy with Good Eats. There were costumes and puppets that would entertain me if the food didn't. Then it was Chopped. I was hooked pretty much instantly. The judges were awesome to watch. The competitors were always hilarious, whether or not it was intentional.
Then along came Next Iron Chef last year. I was seeing the cooking talent that Geoffrey Zakarian and Alex Guarnaschelli had that got them into those judges' seats on Chopped. In retrospect it would have been awesome to see a Zakarian/Guarnaschelli face off at the end. It didn't happen and I could live with it. I don't know anything about Elizabeth Falkner so it was much easier to keep using the #TeamZakarian twitter hashtag. To this day one of my most retweeted tweets was something to the effect of "I hope Geoffrey Zakarian set up Falkner's area with Home Alone-style traps."
Over the summer I learned just how emotionally invested I can truly get over a cooking competition show. Food Network Star absolutely captivated the Kittensharks. A tear-stricken Alton Brown in the promos had us setting up the DVR immediately in case we couldn't be around to see it live.
Ultimately, our standard brand of antagonizing people on the internet would end up getting us to root for the lovely Nikki Martin, who we are STILL waiting for Food Network to just give her a show already despite not having been the champion. We consider Nikki a Kittenshark. (You have to be one if we say you are. That's just how it works.) Giada De Laurentiis blocked me during an episode about midway through the series because I said she looked like a Bratz doll. She was my second Food Network block. It was one of the happiest feelings I've ever had.
Now we've got Redemption, and I just can't wait for it. The Kittensharks are going to support Alex Guarnaschelli with our usual level of ferocity. She's the rightful champion of this competition and I know she's going to cook with the heat of a thousand suns.
Here's a few reasons why we love Alex:
1. Her descriptions of food on her twitter feed will immediately make you hungry. I never understood hunger-porn until I started following her on twitter. Listen to this classic youtube video when you have a few minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p48BKFOh1zs (WordPress doesn't want to turn this into a functioning link. You'll have to copy/paste.)
2. As far as Chopped judges go, she cares the most BY FAR about how the food tastes. The others will go into presentation and other elements of a meal more often. I love it when Scott Conant tears into some would-be chef because the food wasn't stacked all pretty, but Alex has an appreciation for flavor goes unmatched. At the end of the day I'm more excited about how my food tastes than how it looks.
3. She wished the cat at the top of this page a happy birthday this year.
4. Amanda "Bones" Freitag must be stopped. I mentioned above that De Laurentiis was my second block on twitter. Freitag was my first. Apparently I like Chopped too much. Sorry every time you try something new you find bones in your mouth. The Bones in your mouth are teeth, Amanda. They're supposed to be there.
Go get 'em, Alex. You just let us know whether you like #IronChefGuarnaschelli or #TeamAlex better.


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Hemispherx Biopharma Inc (NYSEAMERICAN:HEB) took a key step forward in its Phase 2 clinical trial on Wednesday after it announced that the first patient has been treated with its flagship drug Ampligen.
The study looks at the effectiveness of ampligen in combination with the drug pembrolizumab at treating ovarian cancer. It is being run out of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Shares of Hemispherx jumped 21.8% on Wednesday afternoon in New York.
READ: Hemispherx Biopharma's well-funded to take promising cancer drug Ampligen through clinical trials
Florida-based Hemispherx believes that Ampligen could have anti-viral and anti-cancer properties. Prior clinical trials of the drug looked at patients with renal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma.
The Phase 1 initial study indicated that Ampligen is generally well-tolerated when administrated through the abdominal cavity.
The Phase 2 clinical trials are being run under the leadership of principal investigator Dr. Robert Edwards and is expected to treat 45 patients.
Clinically significant
"Ampligen has the potential to be clinically significant because a robust killer T-cell population in the tumor microenvironment without attracting Treg cells is important to help optimize checkpoint blockade induced tumor shrinkage," said Dr. Edwards in a statement.
Ovarian cancer is expected to be the cause of death for 152,000 people this year, according to Hemispherx.
"With this new large-scale study funded by an industry grant, Hemispherx and the team at Magee-Women's Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are focused on developing a potentially life-saving therapy to meet this critical and unmet medical need," said CEO Thomas K. Equels.
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MP-RC 8th Theological Talks in Ecumenist Conference
Beginning on October 7th, 2013, and lasting until October 10th, the bishops from the Roman Catholic Church and the Moscow Patriarchate engaged in an 8th series of theological conference in Germany, in the continued efforts at ecumenists being spearhead by Pat. Kirill of the MP. The talks took place in Magdeburg, Germany, hosted by the German Roman Catholic Bishops conference at the Ronaclli Diocesan Center.
The head of the Moscow Patriarchate delegation, MP Abp. Theophan of Poltava conveyed the greetings of Patriarch Kirill to the ecumenical meeting and his endorsement of the endeavour. According to the Moscow Patriarchate Department of External Church Relations report, "Participants felt the common spiritual roots of the two traditions, attending vespers in the Russian Orthodox Church of All Saints in Magdeburg and in the monastery of Benedictine Hyusburge , the worship being served by Bishop H. Feige in the Catholic Cathedral of Magdeburg in the presence of a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church."
The MP reports concludes by saying, "Finally, it was decided to hold the next theological talks between the Russian Orthodox Church and the German Bishops' Conference 15-19 June 2015 in Russia."
The continued and increased ecumenical discussions and attending of worship services between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Roman Catholic Church is part of the overall agenda of both bodies. Contrary to true and traditional Orthodox theology and principles, the Moscow Patriarchate (as well as the other ecclesial bodies it shares full communion with), seeks an eventual amalgamation of some sort with the Vatican. This is, of course, contrary to Orthodoxy theology, and has subsequently, along with the history of the creation of the modern MP in schism and heresy, placed the Moscow Patriarchate outside the Orthodox Church.


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To draw people into heavenly worship of the Father with music and musicianship empowered by the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Music Ministry Vision
To have a music ministry comprised of musicians called by the Father, surrendered to Jesus Christ, serving in the Holy Spirit, who lead people to glorify God at Christ the King and in the larger Church.
If you are interested in serving in any of the following ministries, please contact Kelley Burns at 734-929-0976 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Adult Choir – Weekly rehearsals on Thursday evenings. Wide variety of music genres. Sing at the 11:00 a.m. Liturgy about once every three weeks, September through May, and on Christmas Eve, Holy Thursday, and Easter Sunday. Qualifications: high school age or older, willing to support our service with prayer, practice at home, hard work at rehearsals; able to sing in tune, blend, learn music well, and attend most rehearsals. Music reading ability is a plus. New members have a very brief private audition prior to attending first rehearsal. Please contact Kelley Burns for an interview prior to attending your first rehearsal.
Music Teams: Singers and Instrumentalists for Sunday Masses – Individuals high school age and older who sing and/or play with good tone and intonation; two Sundays per month plus Wednesday night rehearsals and personal practice. Interview with Music Director prior to serving.
A1:8 & Fuel Music Teams: Singers and instrumentalists for A1:8 prayer meetings and retreats. Musicians of high school age and older who sing/play with good tone and intonation; Fuel bi-weekly prayer meetings Monday, A1:8 Tuesday prayer meeting; 2-3 hours/week plus practice time.
Music Leader (Daily Mass) – Piano or guitar/vocalist, as available.
King's Choir (Youth Choir) – For students third through eighth grade. High school students welcome to participate as junior directors or accompanists. Choir sings on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday.
Song Leader for Baptisms – Piano or guitar/vocalist to lead singing for Baptismal Rite at scheduled Baptisms, generally second Sunday each month.
Instrumentalists for Special Feasts – For players of instruments who can read music and play with good tone and intonation. Occasional need. For special feasts such as Christmas and Easter.
Clerical Assistance for Music Director – Make photocopies, provide songbook maintenance, and compile music for special feasts. Occasionally, about 2 hours/month.


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Hi Mark,
Recently I purchased your Ebook, and I can't help but think we're too late to do anything about our son.
We live in Australia and our son turns 18 in 3 weeks time, this is the legal age in Australia for accessing Alcohol etc.
He has left school and was going to Tafe studying computers (but dropped out). He has an older brother in the ARMY living in DARWIN, thousands of kilometers away. My marriage is very stable so he has/d 2 parents living with him. We always wanted to know where he was and what time he would be home, this always seemed too restricting to him.
In a nutshell, our Son has now left home (quit his job) to live with friends. The motivation behind this is to collect unemployment benefits from the government. (he can't do it under our roof because it's means tested, yes thats right the government splits up families this way!) Approximately a month ago he had a job delivering pizza's which used to fund his loan repayment to me ($1000 for his car) and petrol for his car to get to his job etc.
Then he started hanging around with some old school mates (buddies) and I can't help but think they brain washed him into quitting his job because he will be better of on benefits. Also most of these mates have lost their license for driving offences, and he taxis them around everywhere now. During one of these episodes my son got busted for curfew and no P Plate display so he too will lose his license soon.
We raised him to be a kind considerate responsible person, but most of this has gone out the window since meeting up with these old school mates. (Still kind and considerate(to his mates) but responsible has gone)
Currently he still isn't on benefits, because you have to say your parents are abusing you, to get benefits under the age of 18, and I don't think he can bring himself to tell this lie, as we've always loved and supported him.
We feel so helpless, we spent 17 years bringing him up to be independent and seek employment etc. and in the first 2 week hanging around with these friends they convinced him to ditch everything. (we can't help but thinking they are preying on his kind nature, because he's always running them somewhere in his car. When we suggest they may be using him, he says they pay him petrol money, and won't listen any further.)
He still comes home for the odd meal (we usually coax him, because we miss him and want to see how hes doing, but he has not slept here for a month.
At the beginning of all this he also split up with his girlfriend. I don't think he's emotionally mature enough for any of this stuff thats going on, everytime we try to speak to him about any of it he more or less blocks his ears, and storms off.
We are toughing it out not giving him any money, (hoping he will come home to survive), so he comes home and gets stuff to sell. It's only stuff he's has bought himself from his job and he sells it to get petrol and maka's money. He loves his driving and freedom.
We don't think he's doing drugs, however he has recently taken up smoking and drinking alcohol.
Our main concern is in 3 weeks he will be eligible for unemployment benefits living at another address(without having to lie about abuse). We are concerned that once he starts he will get stuck in a rut, and not be able to get out of it, like so many young ones do these days. Another concern is he may have the opportunity to apply for an apprenticeship this week, but we now have zero control over his wearabouts etc. and are afraid his so called mates may talk him out of it, so he can get benefits for nothing in 3 weeks.
He is a bright kid with lots of potential, in a way he seems to have given up on himself. He always struggled with school as he never was interested, however he can build a computer from parts and install all the necessary software etc. no problems.
We had him tested for adhd years ago it was negative, however reading your Ebook, I can answer yes to just about all questions, appart from violence. However it also seems to describe most teenagers to some degree. He's has had several jobs already and is a really likeable guy, he gets bored easily with the jobs however. We always made him do jobs for pocket money etc, as I was bought up fairly strictly I guess.
What do we do? We know where he's staying. Should we continue to tough it out, or go around and drag him out kicking and screaming, actually that would be hard he's 6 foot 2 and bigger than me :-) What other strategies are there to try to get him on the right path again. I get the feeling he thinks he was causing us some money problems, and this is helping us. (I don't know how he can't afford the car payments any more) I could sell the car as it's in my name and still half the money owing to me, but this will just enable his unemployment situation with a lack of transport. In fact he has suggested to sell the car, it wouldn't worry him. His attitude is "I'm living the life that I want to."
Sorry for the size of this Email, but in a way it only scrapes the surface.
Best Regards .... G.
Hi G.,
It sounds like you may be experiencing Empty Nest Syndrome, which refers to feelings of depression, sadness, and/or grief experienced by moms & dads after teens come of age and leave their childhood homes. Women are more likely than men to be affected; often, when the nest is emptying, mothers are going through other significant life events as well, such as menopause or caring for elderly parents. Yet this doesn't mean that men are completely immune to Empty Nest Syndrome. Men can experience similar feelings of loss regarding the departure of their teens.
- Full-time parents.
- Those who struggle with menopause, retirement, and aging parents.
- Those who feel their child is not ready to leave home.
- Those who have difficulty with separation and change.
- Those who feel their child will be in "harm's way" while out in the "real world."
There are practical steps you can take to help you feel better:
• Buy some pay-as-you-go mobile phone vouchers or prepaid calling cards for your son so that keeping in contact is financially viable.
• Explore alternatives, such as spending some time with a relative or taking part in a supervised summer work project. Discuss other options, such as spending several weekends away instead of the same number of days in a row.
• Help you're your plan his time away from home. This gives him the message that you have faith in his maturity—something most adolescents are desperate to hear. It also helps you ensure that his plans are reasonable and safe.
• Make care packages for your son with anything from groceries to a set of towels for his apartment (or wherever he resides). Try not to overdo it in the beginning, and don't attach any strings to the gifts.
• Renew close relationships, such as those with spouses, partners, other family members, and friends.
• Send your son brief e-mails of what's happening at home.
• Stay in close touch with the people your son will stay with. Explain any special concerns you may have. If the stay is for more than a few days, agree on ways to communicate regularly with your son.
• Time and energy that you directed toward your son can now be spent on different areas of your life. This might be an opportune time to explore or return to hobbies, leisure activities, or career pursuits. Realize that a loss can actually be a gain.
• Try to schedule a weekly chat on the phone.
• Lastly – let go. Remember that the more resistant you are to your son's emotional growth, the more of a struggle it will become. Some parents have a very difficult time giving their adolescents enough opportunities to make their own decisions. Being too restrictive can provoke the rebellious and possibly dangerous behaviors you're trying to avoid.
This marks a time to adjust to your new role in your son's life as well as changes in your identity as a parent. Your relationship with your son may become more peer-like, and you will have to get used to giving him his privacy.
Good luck,
Mark Hutten, M.A.
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Is He Worthy
While this song doesn't fit well in a listing of new congregational worship songs, we did sing it as a special just last Sunday and it was a powerful moment of worship. Andrew Peterson does a beautiful job reminding us of God's worthiness, the beauty of Christ, and the mercy that comes as a free gift.
Let this song be part of your personal worship as you think and reflect on our great God.


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Mike Jelinek hails from from the Czech Republic, but has expanded his influence as a creative in the transportation industry well beyond his country borders. He established a strong reputation in his professional career working full time for companies like Volkswagen and Autodesk and consulting for big names like Nike and Wacom. Now, after paying his dues and always striving to perfect his craft, he makes a living as an independent artist taking jobs that fuel his passion for speculative concept design. His solid foundation in the hard physical reality of the transportation industry combined with a driving thirst for knowledge in cutting edge technologies spawns a style that is both believable and futuristic at the same time.
It was inevitable that Mike would be an early adopter of virtual reality for creative design based on his fascination with all things tech. He has been honing his virtual sketching skills with Tilt Brush and most recently with a BETA version of Gravity Sketch with his HTC Vive. He has seen the role of virtual reality in the transportation industry grow to be commonplace in the areas of design evaluation, but feels the tools will soon evolve to allow designers to create in VR instead of as just a visualization artifact.
Since virtual reality design software is still in its nascent stages his workflow is still reliant on desktop tools like Autodesk Alias, Sketchbook Pro, Photoshop and Keyshot. Still, he is amazed almost daily when experimenting with design in virtual reality and can already see a future where he ditches the controllers and crafts his ideas with his bare hands and voice.
Whether you believe yourself to be a seasoned veteran or a novice artist trying to improve your skills, you can't go wrong following the work of this "form follows function" master.


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The USPSTF recognizes the importance of immunizations in primary disease prevention. However, the USPSTF does not wish to duplicate the significant investment of resources made by others to review new evidence on immunizations in a timely fashion and make recommendations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) publishes recommendations on immunizations for children and adults. The methods used by the ACIP to review evidence on immunizations may differ from the methods used by the USPSTF.
For the ACIP's current recommendations on immunizations, please refer to the National Immunization Program Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html.


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Thank you for sharing this recipe!
I made a couple of substitutions including fresh strawberries in place of blueberries and instead of agave nectar or honey I used organic turboado. I also added 1 egg to make them more cake-like…hey, it works for brownies so it seemed like a good idea.
Yummy!!! I will make this recipe again. :)


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Victoria First Aid features workplace approved first-aid and / or Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) re-certification instructional classes. These kinds of courses are created for individuals who want to renew old awards. All renewal courses provide successful participants with workplace approved certificates which satisfy or exceed the certification value of the old award. We supply all available re-certification training courses at several different dates and also at the best costs. Enrolment is completed easily and on-line. This web page will outline the offered renewal training courses offered in Victoria via Victoria First Aid.
Standard First-aid Renewals
This re-cert lesson is created for individuals who need to re-certify expired standard first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation awards in Victoria. This program is roughly 8 hours long and features CPR level "C" renewal. Automated external defibrillator renewal is incorporated. Re-certification cards are current for three years.
Emergency First-Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Renewals
This particular renewal course is made for participants that want to recertify both emergency 1st aid and CPR. CPR level "A" and AED comes standard within this re-cert training course, however, applicants may opt for Cardiopulmonary resuscitation "C" to opt with the training course. Automated external defibrillator renewal is covered. This class normally takes 4 to 6 hrs to finish.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation HCP and AED Renewals
This CPR "only" renewal program focuses just on Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and will not incorporate 1st aid renewal. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation HCP (also known as CPR level "C" for health care providers) re-cert classes are available in Victoria at various venues and different dates and times. Browse the CPR HCP and AED re-cert page to find out more or to sign-up.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation level "C" and AED Re-certification
This particular re-cert course is regarded as the most in-demand workplace approved re-certs obtainable. This particular class takes about three hours to complete and also incorporates AED education. Browse the Cardiopulmonary resuscitation C re-certification web page for additional information or registration.
Prior to registering for any re-certification class applicants have to fulfil a number of workplace approved required specifications. Check out the re-certification course web page of your preference for additional information or to register. All the first aid and / or cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) re-certifications within Victoria offer successful candidates valid three year certificates.


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An individual may fear humiliation, embarrassment or becoming subject to judgment and scrutiny by others. Social anxiety attacks can occur when an individual is placed in public places. Immense feelings of anxiety and panic are felt along with flushing, sweating, increased heart rate, lightheadedness, and trembling.
People suffering from social anxiety are at high risk of becoming addicted to different substances, and relying on alcohol becomes a tool for them to boost their confidence and feel better about themselves. To reduce the fear of inhabitation and social settings, alcohol and substance abuse becomes common.
How Rehab Centers can help:
Drug addiction usually gives birth to different kinds of psychological disorders including social anxiety.
Dealing with a psychological issue along with substance abuse requires professional care. For such individuals the most appropriate treatment can be recommended only by professionals at rehab centers who deal with the root of anxiety through different therapies and medications.
In case of substance abuse, the individual first has to go through a detoxification process. The treatments offered at rehab centers for social anxiety disorder include: Cognitive behavior therapy, psychotherapy, anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications.
Relaxation therapy: Mental relaxation is provided to reduce the frequency of negative feelings and anxiety attacks. A healthier and more positive state of mind is achieved through hypnosis and other relaxation techniques such as counseling, breathing exercises etc.
Rehab centers also train individuals for various skills of coping with everyday social stress.
Some of these coping skills include:
Stress management: Stress management training is provided through meditation, counting exercises, breathing, physical exercises, stress-relieving pressure points and other activities.
Social skills: Social skills like correcting behavior, reading and writing skills, interacting with large public gatherings and other stress causing triggers based on an individual, are controlled. Social skills also involve learning new skills as per the demand and wish of an individual.
Assertiveness Training: This training mostly involves building confidence. It projects around removing the feelings of anxiety and stress and focus more on personal abilities and strengths.
Other than that, at rehab centers the professionals allow the individual to roam around in an environment that is comfortable and where they can communicate without being hesitant. These activities not only help individuals to deal with social anxiety, but also help in recovering from substance abuse.
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How to Plant a Charentais Melon on a Trellis
Charentais melons, or French cantaloupes, develop sweet orange flesh and a smooth rind. These small muskmelons require three months of frost-free weather and at least six hours of daily sunlight to reach maturity. Small charentais melons are suitable for small gardens, because you can successfully grow them on a trellis. The melons will need some support so they don't prematurely slip from their vines. Vertical growing also allows you to angle the plants toward the sun, increasing the amount of light they receive and improving fruit set, ripening and the final flavor of the melon.
Select a full sun, well-drained garden bed. Spread 1 1/3 pounds of 5-10-10 fertilizer and a 2-inch layer of compost over every 50 square feet of garden bed. Work the fertilizer and compost into the top 12 inches of soil.
Install a 6-foot-tall sturdy garden stake every 4 feet down the planting row, orienting the rows so they face the sun. Bury the bottom 12 inches of the stake in the ground so it's firmly anchored. Stretch 2-inch mesh hardware wire between the stakes tautly. Wire or staple the hardware wire to the stakes.
Sow the charentais seeds along the base of the trellis, spacing the seeds 36 to 48 inches apart and planting them one-half inch deep. Water the soil thoroughly after planting, so the top 6 inches is moist. Seeds typically germinate in 3 to 10 days.
Water the plants weekly, providing about 2 inches of water at each irrigation so the top 2 to 4 feet of soil remains moist. Spread a 2-inch layer of straw mulch over the bed once the seedlings are 6 inches tall to help retain soil moisture and keep down weeds.
Guide the plants onto the wire trellis once they begin to send out vines, as the vines won't usually climb on their own. Tie the vines loosely to the trellis with cloth plant ties, spacing the ties approximately 8 inches apart.
Tie the ends of a strip of stretchy fabric, such as a cut up T-shirt, to the trellis behind a developing melon, forming a sling. Set the melon in the sling. The sling supports the heavy fruit so it doesn't slip from the vine.
Cut the charentais melon from the vine with a sharp knife once it ripens. Harvest the fruits when the rind turns tan and it develops a strong, sweet smell. Charentais melons are overripe when the rind turns orange and slips naturally from the vine.
Things Needed
- 5-10-10 fertilizer
- Compost
- Spade
- 6-foot tall stakes
- 2-inch mesh hardware wire cloth
- Wire or staple gun
- Straw mulch
- Plant ties
- Cloth strips
- Knife
- You can start melon seedlings indoors in peat pots about four weeks before you transplant them outdoors. Transplant charentais melons outside once frost danger passes and the soil temperature is above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The melons grow best at soil temperatures above 76 degrees.


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It's a fair bet that almost nobody in the North Bay under the age of 50 has heard of the Eagle Forum. Maybe that's how the California branch of the 80,000-member-strong right-wing political organization managed to slip into Rohnert Park practically undetected for a March 31 education conference. Presentations at the event covered everything from gay marriage to world government.
Starting at 9am and running into an evening dinner session, the conference attracted some 150 middle-aged white people who filled the large, round dining tables in the Vineyard Room of the Doubletree Hotel. There, they listened to a variety of speakers, including their guru, the 81-year-old notorious anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.
Touted as the leader of the women's conservative movement, Schlafly--and the Eagle Forum--were leaders in defeating the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) during the 1970s. If the ERA had been ratified, this federal constitutional amendment would have guaranteed equal rights to all Americans regardless of gender.
Schlafly chose the name "Eagle Forum" because she was "impressed with how the eagle flies into the wind and then uses the wind to raise it even higher," according to Orlean Koehle, president of the Eagle Forum of California and a main organizer of the recent conference.
Over the years, and with Schlafly still at the helm, the Eagle Forum has branched out to promote a full spectrum of "pro-family" and "Christian values" issues. Her signature blonde bouffant still impeccably in place, Schlafly was forceful, articulate and even humorous at the March conference, expounding without notes her latest political thorn in her side: "activist" judges. "There's one good thing that George Bush said," she quipped. "He won't stand for activist judges."
While Eagle Forum members support Bush for his "pro-family" platform, it turns out they oppose his policy of creating closer ties between the United States, Canada and Mexico. Strangely, the conference was not exactly a Bush administration love-fest.
Lashing out at the federal judiciary, Schlafly admonished the circuit courts for decisions involving the Boy Scout jamboree, parents' rights in schools, teaching about Islam in public schools, the Ten Commandments, the Pledge of Allegiance, immigration, abortion and pornography. "The federal courts are uniformly antiparent and pro-public schools," she complained. "Their decisions are mostly pro-homosexuality. Diversity is becoming the new religion of public schools."
She also objected to the Massachusetts state court decision in favor of same-sex marriage, saying one of the judges, who comes from South Africa, was influenced by "foreign sources."
"Now we have liberal majorities on all of the circuits except the 15th," she continued. "And you can't count on Republican presidents; seven out of the nine last appointments were made by Republicans."
Her goal, she said, is to pass legislation to "limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in areas where we don't trust them." Admitting that's a hopeless task under a Democratic Congress, she exhorted her followers to "get together in study groups" the way the early Eagle Forum members did when they were fighting the ERA. "This is the way we're going to take back the American self-government," she said. "The Democrats won the last election by choosing candidates just a hair to the left of the Republicans."
Koehle, a Santa Rosa resident, has been doing her homework for several years. She said she first became concerned about the schools when two of her children were required to take the California Learning Assessment Test. The test, which is no longer administered by the state, asked leading questions, according to Koehle. "There was an obvious agenda," she says. "I became involved in standing up for what I thought was a very scary situation in the public schools."
So she started a couple of local organizations to fight against what she sees as a liberal bias in the schools, then decided to join the Eagle Forum. Now she also works two to three days a week as a substitute teacher. "It lets me see what's going on in our public schools," she explains.
According to the speech she delivered at the Eagle Forum conference, one of the things Koehle saw was an emphasis on teaching children about Islam in seventh-grade world history. She said the state-approved text includes 78 pages about Islamic history and only 46 pages about Christianity. And it requires students to read and memorize such Islamic documents as the "Five Pillars of Islam," but does not make the same demands concerning such Christian literature as the Bible.
Even worse, according to Koehle, the textbook appears to be biased in favor of Islam. "Throughout this book, it always mentions how tolerant the Muslims were of the Jews and Christians. Everything is always favorable about Islam," she said. "There is always a little slant against the Christians. It's part of the multiculturalism being taught today, that all cultures are equal."
An independent survey of the text World History: Medieval and Modern Times instead reveals some 91 pages about Christianity and its historical influences, 65 pages about Islam and the Muslim Empire, 25 pages about Judaism and fewer pages about other religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
As a long-term substitute teacher, Koehle said that when religion is on the lesson plan, she spends her time teaching about Christianity instead of Islam. "If I'm going to be teaching a religion, I want to teach the religion of my choice," she told the conference to laughter and applause.
Koehle was also part of a group that protested against the Diversity Day program in Santa Rosa high schools a few years ago. Earlier this year, she testified on behalf of a family that is suing the Santa Rosa schools for alleged religious discrimination. At the conference, she talked about the possibility of suing the schools once again over the teaching of Islam.
"We believe in traditional education based on Judeo-Christian values," Koehle told the Eagle Forum audience. She indicated that the current public school philosophy is based on the "Prussian" model, where "children belong to the state" rather than to their parents. "Such a system would make it ideal for a dictator to come in and take over," she warned, setting up what would be a common theme for the conference: fear of domination from within or without the U.S.
The public school system is a main focus for members of the Eagle Forum. Not only are they attempting to inhibit teaching about diversity, but they also view environmental education as a danger.
Susan O'Donnell specializes in what she believes are "internationalist" influences in American education, with an emphasis on bashing the National Education Association for promoting so-called "progressive" education. "Our national education system is becoming of a branch of UNESCO," she warned.
But the biggest threat to America's schoolchildren, according to O'Donnell, is the teaching of environmentalism, or "sustainability," with the primary culprits being Al Gore and the Green Party.
"Did you know Al Gore is causing people to go to therapists because of his global-warming theories?" she asked. "There's a new malady: eco-anxiety. His film An Inconvenient Truth is targeted at children to advance a political agenda below the radar."
As she continued, her voice grew louder until she was almost screaming. "Education for sustainability is a tool for the Green movement. They're going to the children first because the American people would say no," she exhorted, evoking Hitler, Lenin and Marx as examples.
"This is systems thinking. The goal is to completely transform education. It teaches the ideology of the Green Party by incorporating sustainability into all of the curriculum. This is ecological child abuse. The Greens have gotten God out of our schools. Humanism is the new order--that land cannot be bought and sold. This transcends all other systems. It diminishes the value of individual success, which is the cornerstone of our nation." At this point, some audience members groaned. "If this continues unchecked it will result in rapid, nationwide indoctrination of our children to support the Green Party."
In the same vein, Koehle described a classroom she observed where, after saying the Pledge of Allegiance, students also intoned a "pledge to the earth."
"A little blue earth flag was hanging up next to the American flag," she said, her voice filled with incredulity.
In a telephone interview some time later, Sebastopol Councilman Larry Robinson, one of four elected Sonoma County officials who are members of the Green Party, chuckled at O'Donnell's evaluation of Green Party power.
"I appreciate their estimation of the Green Party and wish it were so, but there are only 7,000 registered Green Party members in Sonoma County. And the idea that the Green Party wants a world government, or to tell people what to do, is 180 degrees off. The Green Party wants decisions to be made at the most local level possible. Land-use decisions should be made by local governments and even neighborhoods. Of course, issues that affect the global picture clearly need to be worked out at the international level by international agreement. Wind blowing and rivers running don't stop at national borders."
In Robinson's opinion, the Eagle Forum's aversion to environmentalism has an economic basis or religious basis--or both. "It's a misunderstanding of what sustainability is, or some other agenda," he says. "Some religious-right people believe we are in the End Times and that resources should be consumed as quickly as possible in order to bring about the Second Coming of Christ," he said. "This marries perfectly with the agenda of the extractive industries. Corporations are only interested in the next quarter's profits. The Republicans are in both streams," he concluded.
But Forum members' fears about internationalism aren't limited to attacking the left end of the political spectrum. They also rail against the Bush administration for its alleged promotion of something called "The North American Union."
"We're so upset with President Bush because he won't stand up for American sovereignty," Koehle said.
The North American Union is a phrase coined by a trilateral independent task force composed of representatives from the United States, Mexico and Canada that advocates a greater social and economic connection between the three countries. Eagle Forum members and others on the far right believe the task force's report is a blueprint for a political union between the three countries, like the European Union. They fear it would impinge on U.S. sovereignty.
"We don't want our laws harmonized with Canada and Mexico," Koehle said in a telephone interview. "The European Union really has become a government for all 27 nations, and we're afraid the North American Union would be like that."
But Andy Merrifield, a political science professor at Sonoma State University, dismisses those fears, saying relations between the three countries of North America are not likely to include political homogenization.
"It's a semi-offshoot of NAFTA," Merrifield said. "I don't know anybody who seriously thinks it's going to be anything but a trade agreement. It is not similar to the European Union. There is no parliament that would hold power over the governments of the United States, Canada and Mexico."
Merrifield reminds that it took the Europeans 50 years to create the E.U. and that the union's parliament is more of a debating society with no real jurisdiction over the political affairs of its member nations. He also predicted it would be "500 years" before the United States would consider a political union with Canada and Mexico.
Another tenet of the Eagle Forum and other far right groups is the inalienable right to private property. Sebastopol resident Maria Donnelly spoke about her successful opposition to a plan to protect rivers and streams by requiring landowners to increase riparian corridor setbacks in the 2020 update of the Sonoma County general plan. Resistance to the plan has led the county to reconsider it.
"We have affected change because we have been sitting there at every meeting of the board of supervisors and the planning commission," Donnelly explains.
This local effort, in which she was joined by Koehle, reflects the Eagle Forum belief that American democracy is based on the right to private property and that all efforts to protect wildlife habitat threatens to destroy that right. She described United Nations projects to protect and restore wildlife habitats around the world as "communism at its finest. Al Gore is leading America and the world down the path of destruction," she decried.
Of course, a gathering of the religious right would not be complete without a choral arrangement of the Seven Deadly Sins, according to its own interpretation of the Bible.
At the conference, there were verses about assisted suicide, gay marriage, abortion and the "religious left." The choir included a doctor from Sebastopol, a right-wing talk show host, the head of the Sacramento-based Campaign for Children and Families and a Petaluma priest who opposes the Episcopal Church's acceptance of homosexuality.
Dr. Steven Crane, an emergency-room physician at Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, linked assisted suicide with abortion and the financial difficulties hospitals are facing in Sonoma County and around the nation.
"God is withdrawing support from hospitals [because they perform abortions and allow expiring patients to die]," he warned. "That's why they are failing. There have been 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade," he continued. "That's a generation of children. I am concerned that abortion is intimately connected with assisted suicide. There won't be enough young people to take care of the old people."
The hero du jour of the local religious right came to the podium, fresh from a graveside memorial for one of his parishioners. Pastor David Miller of St. John Anglican Church in Petaluma, formerly St. John Episcopal Church, wept as he described his church's withdrawal from the American Episcopal Convention over the national church's acceptance of gay marriage and gay leadership. "The Episcopal Convention undermines the authority of the Bible," he said to a chorus of amens from the audience.
Hughes had the last word when she claimed that "the 'political left' is manipulating the church to win the 2008 election. "I believe they are using religion to manipulate, to get a vote. All of a sudden the liberals have got religion. They have books saying how to take back the country from the right wing. Will the voters get it? They'll get it if we tell them," she said.
But despite Eagle Forum members' obvious enthusiasm, Merrifield believes their anti-ERA heyday is over and dismisses their efforts as marginal.
"They are maybe useful in rallying the troops," he said, "but at 80,000 strung all over this country in little groups, they are very small."
Still, not unlike the far left, Eagle Forum members can affect local change, such as Maria Donnelly's effort to protect private property rights in the Sonom County general plan update. And their conviction appears to be deeply rooted and even amiable. But Merrifield feels that it is misplaced.
"The reality is, they're talking about a world that never existed, an America that never was," he said.


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According to the latest unemployment statistics for the EU member states, prepared by Eurostat, the youth unemployment rate in Greece had remained at around 50 percent in the years 2013 to 2015, and there are no indications the situation may improve in the near future.
According to figures released by the Ministry of Labour, more than 22 percent of Greek workers are employed half-time or part-time and earn less than €400 (US $430) per month.
Apart from that, many of those who do manage to find jobs have to put up with receiving part of the salary in coupons, a practice that is becoming increasingly popular among Greek companies struggling to cope with rising payroll costs and social security.
GSEE, Greece's largest umbrella trade union which represents about 1.8 million private sector employees, has warned that coupons, which don't count towards a person's social security and pension contributions, are throwing the country's already damaged labor market into further chaos.
"Even if payment were being offered in bars of gold, this would all be terribly illegal," said GSEE Secretary Dimitris Kalogeropoulos in a recent interview with DW.
"We have informed the Ministry of Labour and we hope they will take measures against this practice."
Before the economic crisis, some firms issued employees with vouchers on top of salaries to reward them for outstanding performance at work. Treats included all-inclusive stays at holiday resorts and free theater tickets. But now, what many employees can count on is lackluster pay in kind vouchers for supermarket supplies as a substitute for money.
According to GSEE, in recent months it had received thousands of complaints centered on a group of telecommunications companies, security firms, cleaning and collection companies which operate across the country. Despite mounting complaints, no official investigation has yet been launched into the practices.


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Warning: As you might have guessed, this article contains spoilers from up until the very end of Death Stranding.I recently listened to a podcast about the Donner Party - the tragic group of American pioneers that tried to take a wagon train from Missouri to California and met just about every awful impediment they possibly could. It was almost completely horrible – a story of very human mistakes and inhuman acts, that stemmed almost entirely from poor planning. But what really struck me was that this whole tale is a fascinating reminder that, not so long ago, slightly misreading a map could lead to total ruin when the world you're travelling in wasn't yet built to accommodate you. It really made me want to play a game about that.
And then Kojima Productions gave me that game. Sort of. Death Stranding, fairly often, plays out as a sci-fi cousin to those pioneer tales, a dangerous Westward journey across America's vast, changeable expanse in the hope of making it slightly more hospitable to the shivering groups of people dotted across the country. Sometimes it's about other things; like the power of human connection, and global extinction, and ghosts who absolutely hate being covered in mailman piss. I like it a lot less when it's about those things.
Which is why, after 50-odd hours, after watching multiple credits sequences roll, after having the ludicrous plot explained to me in ludicrous detail by characters I never learned to care about, I am so happy that Death Stranding's post-game is, basically, what I wanted all along.
For so much of its runtime, Death Stranding swings wildly between AAA gaming's most complex fetch quests - which I mean almost entirely as a complement – less successful attempts at stealth-action, and blockbuster cutscenes Hideo Kojima has become notable for in the latter half of his career. There are people who feel very differently to me about the relative value of those things but, in my experience, I was only ever truly won over by the first part.
From the day I found out that it was about a sci-fi postman in weirdo Icelandic America, I always hoped Death Stranding would be a game that made getting from place to place both difficult and interesting. Sometimes, it was. Sometimes, it was a game in which I travelled patiently along the banks of rushing rivers to scan for safe crossings; or meticulously planned vertigo-inducing paths down the sides of what, in most other games, would be impassable obstacles; or found the remnants of someone's else's experiment in getting around, and fixed them up to help the next passer-by. It's basically life-or-death orienteering, or a hands-on version of The Oregon Trail, or Norman Reedus' Xtreme Hiking - whatever you call it, I am extremely into it.
But throughout the game proper, that lonely, contemplative work was regularly interrupted by BTs (somehow both boring to fight and sneak past), MULEs (moronic AI impediments) and terrorists (moronic AI impediments with guns). There's an opinion piece to be written about how the man that popularised stealth-action has seemingly forgotten how to do it, but it's not here.
Even when I got past all of those roadblocks and finally got to do a bit of fantasy-pioneering again, there would inevitably come a decades-long cutscene where people speak in unexplained jargon, after which Sam Porter Bridges would say something insightful, like: "Huh?" To someone enjoying the core of the game, it felt like I was some schoolchild, yanked out of playtime by Principal Kojima to do a bit more learning on a subject that will absolutely never be useful to me. And even then he never actually explained what DOOMS stands for.
But then something wonderful happened. I finished the game. I made myself wade through the series of barely interactive sequences and thinly concealed expository monologues that make up Death Stranding's last two hours. And when I was finally allowed to play my video game again, Mr. Kojima couldn't stop me anymore.
The post-game of Death Stranding is set amid two halves of the final act, a dead zone between Sam stopping complete human extinction and the weird bit where the president breaks down in tears at his feet in a corridor for ages (aided, to be fair, by the best performance capture I've ever seen in a game). It's a glorious shard of frozen time, an endless cloudy day during which Sam can go on as many difficult walks as he likes, and get absolutely everyone's post delivered, with little to stop him bar his own degrading shoes.
The more I play of its post-game, the more I like Death Stranding in retrospect, simply because I'm able to forget about most of the stuff that bothered me. Cutscenes are absent. Plot-related asset stripping has mercifully stopped (no one can take Lou away from me again). Even my problems with BTs and bandits are allayed by the sheer range of tools and choice of routes I have available to me. I can basically dodge all the stuff I don't like (or use the excellent Sticky Gun, which is essentially a F**k-You-Machine for thieving MULEs).
The more I'm allowed to just live quietly in this wide, weird world, the more I appreciate its smart touches. I truly love that this is a game map where even a small rock can alter your route through it while, equally, almost any huge terrain obstacle can be overcome. The old video game boast of "if you can see it, you can go there' means a lot more in Death Stranding, because the 'going there' is that much more involved than just hammering a jump button and hoping your character clips onto the edge of another bit of non-slidey rock texture.
With every one of the game's deliveries now available to me, I'm building chains of quests, seeing how far I can push myself across the Central Region, and how far my fully inflated set of tools can keep me going. I'm watching this game's beautiful roads build themselves across the horizon, and bridges pop up across rivers as more and more players invisibly flood across America around me. I'm starting to think up self-made challenges for myself - refusing to use other players' structures on my routes, or loading up with PCCs and just building zipline networks across entire swathes of map.
Plucked out of its narrative mire, the game at the centre of Death Stranding does begin to feel like quite a special experiment, a surprisingly literal AAA successor to the 'walking simulator' popularized in the indie space. There are things I'd change (I will never find constantly readjusting my balance fun), but there's a lot I wouldn't. I would not have had this opinion even days ago, before I'd seen the "TWO WEEKS EARLIER" intertitle that introduces the endgame.
It's a shame – to me, at least – that Kojima didn't seem to want that experiment to be the key part of his game, so often stepped over in favour of a grand storyline that, if I was being charitable, I would say is 'distractingly overwrought'. It's perhaps a step too far into what-iffery, but I wonder about how much better that wonderful walking could have been if a little less development time had gone into all the bits where you weren't walking at all. Could we have had more varied and interesting vehicles, buildable transportation beyond those brilliant ziplines, or a wider variety of terrain hazards? Or at least more than one place where that oxygen mask item I carried for 10 hours was actually required?
But the very fact I've got those wishes at all speaks to the fact that, after all this time, I'm still engaging with Death Stranding's core mechanics, its basest game ideas. After the credits roll, it really does begin to become a game about the triumphs and tribulations of travel, just like I'd hoped for. I just wish it hadn't taken 50 hours to get there.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK Deputy Editor. Follow him on Twitter.


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Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua will present the first lecture of its social justice series, on health care, at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in the Hall of Philosophy. Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin will focus on the obligations of society at large, the local community and the individual with regard to healthcare coverage. The lecture will explore how Jewish literature deals with these moral issues.
Questions to be addressed include: To what extent can individuals be compelled to contribute toward a public welfare system? What kinds of medical care should be provided, when should it be provided, how much should be spent on providing the healthcare?
Vilenkin will examine references from the Talmud, Maimonides, the Code of Jewish law and other classical Jewish writings and apply their guidelines and principles to the questions of today.
Vilenkin is the spiritual leader of Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua. He was also a former teacher at the Rabbinical College of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is for the past 13 years at the Talmudic Seminary in Brooklyn, NY. He also serves as the assistant dean at the Talmudic Seminary and is a highly sought after speaker. He is a known educator and lecturer who has spoken in the Hall of Philosophy and for the past 12 years offers daily classes as part of Chabad's Jewish Discussions Group at Chautauqua.
The second lecture of the social justice series will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 1, on economics and the third lecture will take place Wednesday, Aug. 15, on the subject of education. The lectures are co-sponsored by Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua and the Department of Religion.


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Negotiating Real Estate Deals: A Beginner's Guide
Buying or selling a home for the very first time can be both really exciting and really stressful.
Generally, beginners in the real estate game are most nervous about the ins and outs of negotiating real estate deals, hoping to get the most out of the bargain for their cause.
However real estate negotiation is like anything else, there's always a fair bit of compromise.
The following tips can be applied to both buyers and sellers in an effort to help them up their skills negotiating real estate.
Tip 1: Know the market
Knowing the market is the best way to ensure that your expectations are in check when it comes to property values, both real and assessed.
At any given point in time, the real estate market is considered to be in one of three positions: favoring buyers, favoring sellers, or favoring neither (an even balance of supply and demand).
Consider your position in relation to this market and realize that the best time to get a deal is when it favors you.
Tip 2: Consider leverage
Each real estate transaction is unique. Each property is different and each buyer and seller has their own set of circumstances which dictate their pace and need.
If you are selling a house because you are moving for work and need the money then you will be willing to take a lower offer than a seller who has no timetable for leaving.
Conversely, a buyer who is one of five bidding on a property will not be able to negotiate the way that a sole buyer will.
Tip 3: The devil is in the details
One mistake that both buyers and sellers make in negotiating real estate is relying too heavily on similar properties in an area as a base line.
Again, every real estate deal is unique and two homes of similar features (square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc.) may sell for the same dollar amount, but that doesn't tell the whole story.
What concessions did the buyer or seller make? Did the seller agree to share closing costs or fix the hot water heater?
Any of these details will not show up in your research and give an incomplete picture of the situation.
Tip 4: Financing needs to be paramount
Again, regardless of which side of the table you sit on, the financing situation is essential in negotiating real estate.
Buyers with pre-approval are far more competitive than those without it. This means that both buyers and sellers need to use financing as a basis for making decisions.
Learning the ins and outs of negotiating real estate can be tough.
That's why it's important to make sure that you are informed as well as why it's important to make sure to use the services of a real estate professional who knows what he or she is doing.
Properly managed, the art of negotiating real estate will leave both parties feeling good about the transaction that they made and the new lives they are about to start.


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|Earth Week 2013
Join us as we celebrate Earth Week 2013
and make Earth Day Everyday at Bay Farm School!
Watch a message from our Tree Musketeers 2013
Check out our Wacky Tacky Trashy Day Catwalk 2013!
1. Be sure to walk or roll to school every day because we are collecting data to see if we can make a difference in our environment by doing this all week long!
2. Pack a zero waste lunch every day to see how much waste we can reduce from the landfill. See if your picture gets taken and added to our special Earth Week Bulletin Board!
3. Wear Green on Monday and Blue on Tuesday to honor and celebrate everything green on Earth Day, which is Monday, April 22!
4. Read and Learn something you didn't know before about conservation, climate change, or appreciation of our limited natural resources. Share your new information with a friend and your family.
5. Use this website to have fun while you learn about ways that you and your family can help protect the earth not just this week, but every week!
6. Take the EarthDay Pledge and use the comment box below to tell us how you and your family make a difference at home!
7. Take the Earth Week Survey to see what kind of a difference we make together! Compare past surveys to see if we are doing better at saving the Earth!
8. Dress up Friday. Wacky Tacky Trashy Day! Student Council and Go Green have joined forces! The challenge is to wear an outfit to school that is wacky, tacky and made with materials that are recycled or reused. Of course there will be a Wacky Tacky Trashy Fashion Show during lunch on Friday.
But Wait....There's more!
Beginning Monday, April 22 and until Friday the 26, we are asking you to check with your teacher each day of Earth Week to see if you earn Earth Day raffle tickets!
Here's how to get raffle tickets!
If you walk or roll, you get a ticket.
If you can show your teacher that you brought a no waste lunch, you get a ticket.
What's a "No Waste Lunch"? We need to all be on the same page here so read carefully.
You carefully write your name and room # on your ticket(s). They will be collected by your teacher in a bag from Ms. Kuttner and your teacher will turn them in to her on Friday or the following week. Winners of the raffle will be announced after Earth Week 2013!
Good Luck!