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In Which I'm in Three Different Parts of the Country in Three Days
Friday: Chicago
I've never had a bad time in Chicago, and that includes when I was 12 and took the Greyhound bus from Iowa in order to see Grant Wood's painting American Gothic. Now the home of some of my favorite Carolina people, the trip was inspired by my sister Michelle, now in her 2nd trimester – she was attending a convention downtown and asked the rest of the family to meet her there. Oddly enough, almost all of us did.
We got to coo with baby Marlena, Lucy and her cousin Barnaby got to run roughshod over the rental house, I got to have BBQ with some Lodge buddies, and it was awesome. At least for the twelve minutes I was there, because the following morning, I had to fly to…
Saturday: Norfolk, VA
I will say this once, because it's in print: this was my 25-year high school reunion. A full quarter-century has passed since I was at Norfolk Academy in Tidewater, Virginia, and while it's always de rigeur to say "how time passes so quickly", I do indeed feel like it was several geological epochs ago.
My extended clique of 8-10 deeply-interwoven friends from NA did a pretty terrible job of keeping up with each other for various reasons, yet Facebook and a tragedy last year has gradually put each other back together. It's impossible, I think, to spend every waking moment with a group of people for many years – then suddenly never really see them again – and predict that it would go smoothly, but I have to tell you, with my friends, it's been wonderfully effortless.
It's one thing to see your old crowd again; it's quite another to attend the actual reunion, populated by the student council, the cheerleaders, the lacrosse players, the dudes across the classroom you never talked to, and girls you once thought beautiful from afar. Our class was small, only about 100 kids, and many of them had gone to school together since 1st grade. 'Twasn't an easy party to wander into.
And yet, everyone is perfectly nice, in some cases surprisingly interesting, or bizarrely revelatory. And we all look at each other, former lab partners, ex-study group sharers; we had memorized each others' 16-year-old faces, and now, we're intensely aware that we're staring at the eyes and skin of the same person, now 43 years old.
I know where their birthmarks are, whose parents divorced and married other classmates' parents, whose religion tortured them even as their sexuality took them over. I know these amazing details, and yet, absolutely nothing. Why does anyone come to these things? There is no glory to relive, no "one last" anything, why did I go? We could have just gathered our old friends together, but we actually went to the party.
On the way back to Hamp's place, it hits me: it's not just the ghoulish interest to see who has aged the worst (although I'm sure that's a subconscious parlor game), it's to convince ourselves that we had actually existed. It's a gathering of folks who all hum in unison, smile, and reassure you that it had happened. And it's all a long time ago, and truly, all those psychological nightmares, those unrequited crushes, the glances across the room that made you live or die, the generalized anxiety of being a teenager, it all happened. And when you're given that sort of validation, you are now free to do with those memories what you wish.
Hamp and Sharon deal with an unfortunate mullet-headed "NA student" sculpture on campus
flyer for school party celebrating the music WE WERE FORBIDDEN TO PLAY in the ACTUAL 1980s
Sunday – Manchester, NH and upstate NY
Why New Hampshire? Well, a dealership had the best price on the best Ford Escape hybrid I'd seen in a while, and it wasn't that far from our farm, so I made it happen. When I told Lucy I was going to get a car that finally had "all-wheel drive" so it could drive in the snow and on ice, she said "Yes. It can also drive on ocean waves, over mountains, and even on HOT LAVA. It's called Strongtaneous." And so, my friends, this is our new car Strongtaneous:
I'd expected the fall colors to be long past peak by the time I got to the Hudson Valley in NY, but this is one party that has gone on for a gorgeously long time. The geese are heading south, and the first ones arrived at their usual stop near our place:
And the state route nearby… it's hard to express how much you can miss the fall season when you're in California. Maybe I thought if I took enough pictures, the yearning would be bearable.


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GOLD COAST, Australia - Canadian Christabel Nettey won gold in the women's long jump Thursday at the Commonwealth Games.
The 26-year-old from Surrey, B.C., jumped 6.84 metres on her first attempt, to finish ahead of Australia's Brooke Stratton (6.77) and England's Shara Proctor (6.75).
"I was hoping to build on that (first jump) with a good series, as the only way to win was to keep having good jumps," said Nettey, whose personal best is 6.99 metres. "The other girls are great jumpers."
Nettey won bronze four years ago in Glasgow with a jump of 6.49 metres.
Toronto's Aaron Brown and Shawn Barber earned silvers in the 200 metres and pole vault, respectively.
Brown was upgraded to silver after England's Zharnel Hughes was given provisional first place in a photo finish with Jareem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago when they crossed in 20.12, was disqualified for making contact with Richard.
Richardson, who was inside Hughes and closing in on him quickly down the straight, appeared to be impeded, but didn't know he'd been awarded the win until the pair had completed a lap of honour. A later protest by Hughes was rejected by officials.
Brown clocked 20.34 seconds.
Australia's Kurtis Marschall cleared 5.70 metres on his third and final attempt to edge Barber, whose best jump was 5.65. Barber won bronze four years ago.
With files from The Associated Press


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With all the recent sexual allegations going on, a recent problem in American sexual culture has come to light: the word "no" is meaningless.
This is something we all probably already knew. PUA websites tout the adage that a woman doesn't really mean "no" until she says it three times. Let me tell you – this is such exhausting nonsense. Do you know how frustrating it is to have to tell someone no three times before they believe that you actually know that you mean it? It's like going to a bar and ordering a gin and tonic three times before they realize that you don't actually want the Long Island Iced Tea you're being served.
This myth is perpetuated because men think women are too stupid to understand what they want and how to express it. In PUA circles, men believe that women need to be pressured into the sexual act. Coerced. Seduced. This thought process belies the idea that women are adverse to sex, disinterested in it, or don't think about on a critical level or in a way that allows them to understand and express their sexual desires and dislikes.
If you've been reading this blog for at least a little bit of time, you know damn well this is not true. A woman's mind is not a stationary monolith, and over time women can change and grow in their opinions and desires, too. The PUA thinking around "she has to say no three times to mean it" is a gross oversimplification of the idea that women change their minds. However, in the PUA context, women only change their minds when pressured by a man. This is not true. Women's ideas and attitudes to sex are allowed to grow or change over time of their own volition and through their own autonomy. A woman may be disinterested in sex one day and obsessed with it the next.
But the nuance of a woman's mind isn't what I want to discuss here. Instead, I want to examine the toxicity of pressure and coercion in sexual relationships. A man can use pressure and coercion to attain consent from a woman in a sexual situation – this is know. He can ply her with alcohol and set the mood in order to get that "yes." But what's strange to me is the fact that men don't condone doing something ordinary and effective such as having mature conversations about sexual desires and consent. In fact, because male courtship is so geared to coercing a yes out of a woman, when her no sticks, it becomes a disaster of rejection.
As a woman who has had conversations about sexual desires with men, let me tell you – it is shocking how little men are able to express their sexual desires outright, even after having set up this nuanced dance of seduction. It is a strange revelation, certainly, but mostly because: why are men taught how to seduce and coerce women into sex before being taught how to sexually express themselves both physically and verbally? Why are men taught how to play this intricate game of sex before they are taught how to win or how to lose that game?
We are setting men up for failure. We are not teaching them to communicate in the most simple manner possible: through plain, old verbal communication. Men don't know how to hear the word "no" and walk away. Men don't know that hearing "no" isn't an assessment of the failures of their personalities or who they are as both a person and as a sexual being. Men can't smile and walk away. Men don't even seem to understand that it's more beneficial for them to accept "no" the first time a someone says it. Perhaps men don't know that women give in after saying "no" three times because they're fucking afraid and they start to feel powerless and it's easier to give in than to start a physical fight that they are sure to lose.
Sex is better when both parties consent, both in the moment and afterwards. Sex is a deep form of physical communication, and to start the sexual experience off by ignoring a someone's "no" is to compromise that communication. It also compromises the ability to communicate during the sexual experience, which should be an opportunity to maximize physical pleasure. It compromises the ability to communicate after sex, the ability to say what was good or what was bad. The inability to communicate sexually induces anxiety. It is a set up for failure.
Ignoring someone when they say no the first time is a great way to lose someone's respect. It's also fucking annoying and childish, and no one wants to fuck an annoying child.
I would appreciate it if people respected me the first time I say no – in every aspect of my life.


text: Yes, gals, it's true. I'm not referring to the infamous Gucci. Season 3, returning to NY w/ the girls at the end of part 2 of their LA trip, Carrie sports a true 80's fanny pack in pink. (If this has already been discussed, please advise.) And though I have never been a fan of the f.pack, I gotta say if you're gonna wear one, pull a Carrie and go all the way w/ the real deal - no, "Really, it's a belt bag". I love Carrie's style - totally embracing her inner 80's self. Have even found myself desiring one like it (yes, I know) - but no luck so far.


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Devastators, Dark Angels & A Codex Spotted For 40k Space Marines
June 1, 2015 by brennon
There is a lot of Space Marine stuff coming out from Games Workshop for Warhammer 40,000 including a look at new Battleforces, an Interrogator Chaplain for the Dark Angels and a whole new Devastator Squad on top of the Codex release. You can see it all HERE.
Battleforces & Dark Angels
Found online on Bolter & Chainsword we have a look at the Battleforce for the Dark Angels although there are ones for the Blood Angels and Ultramarines too.
Each of the Battleforces gives you a Tactical Squad, Captain model and also a Dreadnought (if you're Ultramarines or Blood Angels). The Dark Angel set comes with a range of Space Marine Bikes instead for the Ravenwing arm of their army.
As well as the Ravenwing style boxed set they also might be getting a new Interrogator Chaplain as one was spotted in Warhammer: Visions by Bolter & Chainsword too. You can see what it looks like on the link above but it's a very, very nice model and the artwork below is quite close.
Codex On The Horizon
As well as the new Battleforces there are some fantastic looking bits and pieces in the Limited Edition Codex set for Space Marines. There are a range of different Codices on offer each with their own Chapter flavour alongside a bunch of bits and pieces inside the box.
Devastators Blow Stuff Up
Last but not least is the new set of Devastator Space Marines thanks to Millest's Mediocre Meanderings. They have some new designs including interesting leg armour that looks like it's built for countering the kick back from those massive weapons they tout around.
Inside the set you appear to get all the standard weapons including a Missile Launcher, Heavy Grav Cannon, Heavy Bolter, Plasma Cannon, Lascannon and Multi-Melta.
So, will you be getting the new Space Marines?
"The Dark Angel set comes with a range of Space Marine Bikes instead for the Ravenwing arm of their army..."


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The journey up into The Rockies took a couple of hours. Most of the journey was straightforward, but we knew there were weather warnings in place for later. The weather started rather sooner than later. As we approached the ranch where the activity was to happen we found roads like this.
|The ski run some considered a road.
We had already been up and down steep mountain roads. They weren't the hairpin bend type I was used to in the Alps, but they were steep nonetheless. Adding snow and ice made them more hazardous. We went on.
We found the ranch, Rancho Escondido on the outskirts of Leadville. It looked like a jumble of dilapidated wooden barns and shacks, but I was later assured it looked this way because it was one of the oldest ranches in the area and the buildings were being restored in keeping with their 1930s origins. We found the office and signed in. Signing meant signing away any potential claims for compensation. I did not realise that what we were about to do was likely to be quite so dangerous.
In the end, the experience was much more interesting and fun than I had anticipated. The three adults in the party were able to take turns driving the team of eight dogs while the four children took turns at riding in the sleigh. The dogs were amazing. They were all very affectionate and we were encouraged to spend a little time making a fuss of them and getting to know them. It is only since being moored up at the farm that I have found dogs interesting. I wouldn't go as far as calling myself as dog lover, but I am willing to pet and talk to dogs these days, something I would not previously enjoyed. These dogs were delightful. They were also very keen to get on with the job. It appears these dogs love to run. Apparently given the chance they would run fifty to seventy miles a day. These dogs routinely run twenty miles every day - not the sort of undertaking the casual dog owner would want. Eight of the 140 or so dogs on the ranch were hitched to the sleigh (or sled?) and after some brief instruction we were off.
The snow started falling again as we set off. The job of the driver was to stand on the back of the sled and hang on while the team hauled the cargo round a six mile track. These dogs rely on scent to find their way, which is one of the reasons they don't take visitors out on fresh, deep snow. With two children tucked up inside the sled and the rest of the party waiting their turns on a snow scooter-drawn sleigh that set off in front my only job as the driver was to keep the harness line taut and lean the sled round the bends. Braking is achieved through adding resistance to the sled - signalling the dogs to slow down is done by stepping with one foot on to a pad attached directly to the harness that adds the required resistance. To stop, the driver steps onto a different bar with both feet. This action drives spikes into the snow. The parking brake is applied once stopped by driving four anchors into the snow. Older, more experienced, dogs lead the team while the remaining six dogs provide the rest of the engine power. The dogs are carefully paired up to suit their individual behaviours and personalities.
|A driver's eye view of the engine.
When working the dogs need eight thousand calories per day. The meat bill was staggering.
But then ...
The journey home was all we needed to take the enjoyment out of the day. By now the snow was falling steadily and settling. We had mountain roads to negotiate (both the up and the down versions) and the one we needed was showing up on flashing road signs as closed. We had no choice, but to pull off the highway and try and find somewhere to stay overnight. Finding accommodation for seven was not going to be easy. With phone batteries fading we found lists of places to stay and started to call them as we crept along in nose to tail traffic. There was no room at the inn, or any other inn unless we could afford between $1,200 and $5,000 for a night! We stopped and spoke to several hoteliers to ask for advice and, of course, none was forthcoming. My daughter-in-law put out a call on Facebook and someone suggested she phone the police to ask about emergency shelters. Surely, in this part of the world this was not the first time heavy snow had interfered with traffic!
The police said that the I-70 had been reopened, so we crept our way back towards the road, stopping first at a garage to refuel, fill up on garage food and set off. Six hours after leaving Rancho Escondido we arrived back home, fortunately still in the same number of pieces in which we set out. I have to come clean and say the journey was one of the scariest I have ever undertaken and that I do not wish ever to have to do that again. Still, the dogs were great.


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Millard Fuller, a self-made millionaire who gave away his wealth to start the Christian house-building group Habitat for Humanity, and who started a similar organization after he was fired over disputes with the Habitat board, died Tuesday en route to a hospital in Albany, Ga. He was 74.
An autopsy was being performed to determine the cause of death. Fuller had recently been treated for chest congestion and was taking antibiotics, said a spokeswoman for the Fuller Center for Housing.
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976 and based in Americus, Ga., built more than 175,000 houses in 100 countries under Fuller's leadership and attracted prominent volunteers, including former President Carter. The Fuller Center for Housing, founded in 2005, raises money for Habitat affiliates.
Hundreds of thousands of low-income families that had been living in substandard housing benefited from Habitat's no-interest mortgages. Would-be homeowners had to make a small down payment and spend a certain number of hours building their home along with volunteers.


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- Geology
Volcanic Vetting
- Brooks Hanson
The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland in 2010 disrupted air travel across large parts of Europe. Just recently, a series of earthquakes has occurred beneath Katla, which has produced much larger historical eruptions. Ash from even modest volcanic eruptions can be preserved as fine layers in lake and bog sediments, and along with historical records, can provide information on likely recurrence rates. Swindles et al. provide a synthesis of these records, improved by recent dating, microscopic identification of thin ash deposits in the sedimentary sequences, and in some cases chemical fingerprinting of ash to sources. The integrated record, which is probably still missing some events, implies that ash from Icelandic eruptions spread across northern Europe on average about every 50 years during the past 1500 years, and a bit less frequently earlier. In a separate study, Taddeucci et al. examined the fallout of ash from Eyjafjallajökull and show, through direct high-speed videos and simulations, that fine-ash aggregated within the cloud, accelerating its fallout. This effect increased the amount of fine ash particles close to the vent but depleted the downstream ash cloud of fine particles by about a factor of 10. This process should be considered in modeling ash clouds, as commented on by Rose and Durant, and in assessing local health effects from eruptions.
Geology 39, 887; 891; 895 (2011).
- Development
Palate Development Revealed
- Beverly A. Purnell
Disruptions of cellular migration, proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis during development can lead to serious defects. Cleft lip and/or palate, a defect seen in 1 in 700 live births, occur when the plates in the roof of the mouth do not join correctly during embryonic development. Previous work has shown that the mutation of several genes, including WNT, FGF, P63, and IRF6, result in clefting in humans and mice, but how these pathways interact to regulate this process is not well understood. Ferretti et al. now show that cephalic ectoderm-specific deletion of Pbx, which encodes a transcription factor, in mice results in cleft lip and palate. Pbx binds to a specific regulatory element of Wnt9b-Wnt3, which is known to regulate p63. The genetic module Pbx-Wnt-p63, along with downstream Irf6, specifies correct embryonic apoptosis, and misregulation of these elements led to craniofacial defects. Clefting could be repaired by ectopically expressing Wnt in the ectoderm of Pbx mutant mice. Because there are many conserved developmental pathways among mammals, this mouse model will probably be useful to elucidating the mechanisms underlying cleft lip and/or palate in humans.
Dev. Cell. 21, 627 (2011).
- Biochemistry
Cutting to Size
- Valda Vinson
For proteins and peptides synthesized on the ribosome, proteolytic cleavage is a common activation mechanism. Two papers extend this mechanism to nonribosomally synthesized peptides and peptide-polyketide hybrids, natural products of interest in drug development. Reimer et al. identified a gene, xcnG, in the biosynthetic gene cluster for production of the antibiotic xenocoumacin from Xenorhabdus nematophila. An xcnG deletion mutant did not synthesize xenocoumacin but did synthesize pre-xenocoumacin compounds. A pre-xenocoumacin compound added to Escherichia coli cells that expressed full-length xcnG was cleaved to give a xenocoumacin precursor. Homologs of xcnG were identified in other biosynthetic gene clusters. Dubois et al. independently investigated one such homolog, ClpB, an atypical biosynthetic protein in E. coli. They determined the structure of the periplasmic domain and showed that it belongs to a family of serine peptidases. C1pB showed peptidase activity, and mutagenesis experiments confirmed the importance of active site residues in cytopathic activity. Homologs to XCNG and ClpB included larger proteins with ABC export domains, suggesting that inactive prodrugs might be secreted and synchronously cleaved for activation.
Nat. Chem. Biol. 7, 10.1038/NCHEMBIO.688 (2011); J. Biol. Chem. 286, 35562 (2011).
- Neuroscience
Alcohol's Toll on the Brain
- Lisa D. Chong
Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) is expressed by immune cells and controls the expression of genes related to the inflammatory response to pathogens. Wu et al. report that TLR4 and MyD88 (an adaptor protein that acts downstream of TLR4) are also involved in alcohol-induced behavioral changes in mice, implicating an inflammatory response in the brain to alcohol exposure. The duration of acute alcohol-induced sedation and impaired motor activity was reduced in mice lacking TLR4 or MyD88, and these mice recovered motor control more quickly than wild-type animals. Pharmacological inhibition of TLR4 before alcohol exposure also resulted in attenuated behavioral responses to alcohol. Analysis of hippocampal cells isolated from mice showed that alcohol increased the expression of IkBα (an inhibitor of the proinflammatory transcription factor NF-kB), an effect that depended on the presence of TLR4 or MyD88. Thus, a specific immune signaling pathway may be involved in a neuroinflammatory mechanism that controls behavioral responses to alcohol. These observations add to previous reports that in response to alcohol, TLR4 controls glial cell activity and cognitive functions in mice.
Br. J. Pharmacol. 10.1111/j.1476-5381.2011.01572.x (2011).
- Biomedicine
Surveying the Damage
- Paula A. Kiberstis
Cellular macromolecules such as proteins, lipids, and DNA undergo an increase in oxidative damage with aging, and this damage can have a cascade effect. Oxidation of membrane lipids, for example, produces a reactive product called malondialdehyde (MDA), which can then form adducts with normal cellular proteins, creating new epitopes that are recognized by the immune system, potentially inducing an inflammatory response. A new study presents a plausible model for how these molecular events contribute to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a form of blindness affecting over 30 million people worldwide. Weismann et al. now show that the immunoregulatory protein complement factor H (CFH) binds MDA with high affinity and blocks MDA-induced inflammation in mice. Interestingly, a variant form of CFH that is associated with an elevated risk of AMD in humans was found to have a lower affinity for MDA. Thus CFH, which is one of the most abundant proteins in plasma, protects mammals from oxidative stress by virtue of its interaction with a specific product of oxidative damage; disruption of this interaction appears to underlie AMD and conceivably other age-related inflammatory diseases.
Nature 478, 76 (2011).
- Physics
Error Corrected Interferometry
- Ian S. Osborne
Optical interferometers can probe an object at high resolution through its effect on their interference pattern. Neutrons also have an associated wavelength—the de Broglie wavelength— which is very much smaller than any optical wavelength and can in principle provide information on an atomic size scale. However, neutron interferometers are susceptible to low-frequency mechanical vibrations of the interferometer itself. Pushin et al. show that ideas based on error correction protocols used in quantum information science can be carried over to suppress such effects of environmental noise. They show that the formation of decoherence-free subspaces (DFSs), special states in which the system is manipulated in such a way as to protect it from the surrounding environment, can be formed by carefully designing the setup of the system. In this case, they use a figure-eight interferometer carved into a single ingot of silicon instead of the usual two-arm interferometer setup and show that a DFS formed at the center of the interferometer suppresses the effect of environmental noise.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 150401 (2011).
- Economics
Advantage: Women
- Melissa McCartney
The Internet transformed communication between coauthors by eliminating the transfer of data by mail and allowing for more interdepartmental collaboration. Using women in political science as a case study, Butler and Butler ran a series of regressions on data from three influential journals in the discipline to test the effect of the Internet on coauthorship rates. Although a strict causal interpretation is not possible, the analysis showed that the Internet disproportionately affected women in two ways: through increasing the rate at which women coauthor relative to their male counterparts and through an increase in the number of women accepting jobs in departments with fewer women faculty. These trends may reverse existing gender inequities and possibly have a multiplier effect. Whether these gender effects hold across academic disciplines and how academia can best capitalize on them are open questions.
Econ. Educ. Rev. 30, 665 (2011).


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The Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) has launched The Social Change Project, a new project aimed at strengthening civil society's ability to bring about change, and is seeking contributions from anyone involved in civil society. The 15 month initiative is funded by a consortium of independent trusts & foundations, and is built around a new network of civil society organisations which SMK has drawn together.
The project has already hosted a series of workshops across England to consider key drivers and barriers to social change, looking across a wide variety of case studies from the smoking ban and living wage, to equal marriage and Brexit. These conversations have already identified a number of "burning issues" which will now be examined in more depth through a series of events this Autumn.
These include:
• Models of social change – knowing what works
• Making better use of the law
• Unlocking the power of people
• Collaborations – coalitions, networks and alliances
• Moral purpose, ethics and integrity
• Organisations structures, governance and leadership
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation is encouraging anyone passionate about social change to get involved with the project. They are looking for people to share their experiences and insights, help tackle the burning issues, and agree key ways forward. Conversations will run to early 2018 and the project will bring together the main findings into a set of recommendations to be published next Spring. Anyone interested in how they can get involved and have their say can do so by visiting smk.org.uk/social-change-project-events where they will also find details on forthcoming events around each of the burning issues.


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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
Volume 12 Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World, Tome 1: Language Areas, Tome 2: Main Orientations and Topics
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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence is the first-ever multivolume treatment of the issues in legal philosophy and general jurisprudence, from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team, this book is a classical reference work that would be of great interest to legal and practical philosophers as well as to jurists and legal scholar at all levels. The work is divided in two parts. The theoretical part (published in 2005), consisting of five volumes, covers the main topics of the contemporary debate; the historical part, consisting of six volumes (Volumes 6-8 published in 2007; Volumes 9 and 10, published in 2009; Volume 11 published in 2011 and Volume 12 forthcoming in 2016), accounts for the development of legal thought from ancient Greek times through the twentieth century.
Volume 12 Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil Law World
Volume 12 of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, titled Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Civil-Law World, functions as a complement to Gerald Postema's volume 11 (titled Legal Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Common Law World), and it offers the first comprehensive account of the complex development that legal philosophy has undergone in continental Europe and Latin America since 1900. In this volume, leading international scholars from the different language areas making up the civil-law world give an account of the way legal philosophy has evolved in these areas in the 20th century, the outcome being an overall mosaic of civil-law legal philosophy in this arc of time. Further, specialists in the field describe the development that legal philosophy has undergone in the 20th century by focusing on three of its main subjects—namely, legal positivism, natural-law theory, and the theory of legal reasoning—and discussing the different conceptions that have been put forward under these labels. The layout of the volume is meant to frame historical analysis with a view to the contemporary theoretical debate, thus completing the Treatise in keeping with its overall methodological aim, namely, that of combining history and theory as a necessary means by which to provide a comprehensive account of jurisprudential thinking.
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University of Bologna, Italy
Born in Rome on April 8, 1941. Graduated summa cum laude in law from the University of Bologna, 1964, with a dissertation on Hans Kelsen and Alf Ross. Libero docente (Habilitationsschrift) in the philosophy of law, 1971. Was awarded a position as full professor in legal philosophy through a national 1975 competition for a professorship in Italy. Tenured professor in legal philosophy at the Bologna University School of Law. Served as dean of the Bologna University School of Law from 1977 to 1979, and then as member of the Bologna University Board of Directors from 1980 to 1989.
Main research fields: Legal philosophy, general jurisprudence, the history of legal ideas, and computer science and law. Author of over two hundred publications. Main speaker at national and international conferences. Invited speaker at universities in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the United States.
1982–1989. Promoted (with others) and served as member of the Ph.D. programme in Analytic Philosophy and Legal Theory of the University of Milan. Coordinator: Uberto Scarpelli.
1983–1990. Served as member of the International Statutory Interpretation Project, Cornell University School of Law, USA. Coordinators: Neil MacCormick (University of Edinburg, UK) and Robert S. Summers (Cornell University, USA).
1986. Founded CIRSFID—Bologna University Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Law and in IT Law and Legal Informatics—serving as the centre's director from 1986 to 1999, and from 2006 to the present.
1986–1995. Served as member of the advisory board of the Center for Semiotic Research in Law, Government, and Economics, Pennsylvania State University, Reading, Pa. Founder: Roberta Kevelson.
1987. Founded Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell), serving as editor-in-chief from 1987 to 2001. Original Committee of Advisors: Hans Albert (University of Mannheim, Germany), Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin, Italy), H. L. A. Hart (University of Oxford, UK), and Georg H. von Wright (Finnish Academy of Science, Finland). Current Committee of Advisors: Hans Albert (University of Mannheim, Germany), Ronald Dworkin (University College London, UK), Enrico Pattaro (University of Bologna, Italy), and John Searle (University of California at Berkeley, USA).
1989. Cofounded the European Association for the Teaching of Legal Theory, based in Brussels, and have since sat on the board of directors.
1989. Founded the Bologna University Ph.D. Programme in Legal Informatics and Information-Technology Law, serving as coordinator until 2000.
1989–present. Member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences.
1989–present. Served as member of the advisory committee of the Istituto de Derechos Humanos "Bartolomé de las Casas," Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid. Founder: Gregorio Peces-Barba (Spain).
1992–present. Served as member of the advisory committee of Anuario de Filosofía Jurídica y Social, Sociedad Chilena de Filosofía Jurídica y Social, Valparaiso (Chile).
1992–present. Served as member of the editorial board of Artificial Intelligence and Law, Berlin–Dordrecht–Heidelberg–New York: Springer.
1995–99. Served as president of IVR, Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy), founded in 1909. Vice presidents during the same period: Eugenio Bulygin (Argentina), Mikael Karlsson (Iceland), Rex Martin (USA), and Aleksander Peczenik (Sweden).
1997–1999. Chaired the Jurists' Team of the Euro Committee appointed by the Italian government to draft the statutory instruments and delegated legislation on the changeover to a single European currency (the euro).
1998. Conceived and carried out the Irnerius Project, digitally reproducing and making available on the Web the medieval glossators' and commentators' manuscript codices of the Reale Collegio di Spagna in Bologna (the database is online at http://irnerio.cirsfid.unibo.it and now counts 138,908 leaves).
1999–present. Honorary president of IVR, Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy), founded in 1909.
2001. Promoted the Master's course in Legal Informatics and Information-Technology Law, Bologna University School of Law, part of the European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP) consortium. Other universities in the consortium: Strathclyde University Glasgow, UK; Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Université Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur, France; Universitetet i Oslo, Norway; Lapin Yliopisto Rovaniemi, Finland; Stockholms Universitet, Sweden; Universität Wien, Austria; and Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
2001–present. Conceived A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence, 12 vols. (Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer), serving as editor-in-chief. Associate Editors: Gerald J. Postema (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Peter G. Stein (University of Cambridge, UK). Advisory Board: Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin, Italy), Ronald M. Dworkin (New York University, USA, and University College London, UK), Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford University, USA), and Knud Haakonssen (University of Sussex, UK).
2004–2008. President of the Italian Association for Legal Philosophy (formerly called Italian Association for Legal and Political Philosophy), based in Rome. Vice presidents during the same period: Vincenzo Ferrari (University of Milan) and Francesco Viola (University of Palermo).
2007–present. Served as member of the editorial board of Studii de drept romanesc (Legal Romanian Studies), Bucharest, Romania.
2008. Founded the Italian Society for Law and Literature (www.lawandliterature.org), currently serving as its honorary president.
2008–present. Served as member of the editorial board of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Berlin–Dordrecht–Heidelberg–New York: Springer.
Corrado Roversi
Bologna University School of Law
Corrado Roversi is assistant professor in Legal Philosophy at the University of Bologna. He holds a Ph.D. in Analytic Philosophy and General Jurisprudence from the University of Milan. He is a member of CIRSFID (Centre for Research in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Law, and in Computer Science and Law) at the University of Bologna, and assistant editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Wiley-Blackwell). His main interests are in social and legal ontology, the theory of norms and normativeness, and the philosophy of normative language. Among his publications are "On Constitutive Normativity", in The Normativity of Law, eds. S. Bertea and G. Pavlakos (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming); "Constitutive Rules in Context," Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 96: 223-38 (2010); "Inferentialism, Social Practices, and the Connection between Law and Morality," coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo, in The Rules of Inference. Inferentialism in Law and Philosophy, eds. D. Canale and G. Tuzet, 45-72, Milan: EGEA (2009); "Performative Contradictions and Norm-enactment," coauthored with A. Rotolo, Ratio Juris 22: 455-82 (2009); "The Structure of Social Practices and the Connection between Law and Morality," coauthored with G. Bongiovanni, A. Rotolo, C. Valentini, Ratio Juris 22: 1-23 (2009); "Constitutionalism and Transcendental Arguments," Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 59: 109–24 (2008); "The Claim to Correctness and Inferentialism: Alexy's Theory of Practical Reason Reconsidered," coauthored with G. Bongiovanni and A. Rotolo, in Law, Rights and Discourse, edited by G. Pavlakos, 275–300 (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007).
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When does a fetus become human?
When does human life begin?
I usually stay away from writing about abortion because it is a very hot button topic. We all have our opinions and seldom do I see a lot of logic in debates about it. But because a private member's bill threatening to revisit the issue was recently tabled in Canadian Parliament, I decided to put in my two cents.
In the US abortion is an ongoing fight between prochoice and pro life. But in Canada there hasn't been any real debate about it since the Supreme Court struck down our anti abortion laws as unconstitutional. Since then Canada is one of the few if not the only country in the world with no law about it whatsoever $6.
Some think that's how it should be. Abortion is between a woman and her doctor. Others think abortion is murder, full stop. These two polar opposite ideas are the problem. Usually all or nothing opinions are the problem in any issue. But what issue is more divided than one in which one side views the other as murders, and the opposite side sees the others as wanting to impose their will on all woman and strip them of their rights to do what they will with their own bodies?
For 400 years now a fetus has had no rights at all under British law and is not considered to be a human being until the moment it is born. Still, anti abortion laws have existed for most of that time. Canada inherited that definition and many of those laws.
But isn't ironic that on the one hand a fetus has not rights, but on the other, for most of the past 400 years abortion has been forbidden.
When does a fetus become a human being? There are many points in time that have been suggested. We could place the time at when there is a heartbeat, or when there is brain activity, or at conception. When does a fetus feel pain? When does it become aware? When do emotions begin? I'm sure there are other points we could start recognizing humanity at. But 400 years ago we picked live birth. Why?
It seems rational enough for the time and the politics. At the time there was little medicine could do to keep a premature baby alive. There were many miscarriages. Many died at birth from complications. The mothers will to carry to term was the only real chance a fetus had. If your mother didn't want you even before birth, you were already lost and would likely end up a burden to society if she couldn't find a way to abort.
Woman were not persons under the law in the 1700s so how could the unborn be fully human? To recognize a fetus as human and as a person at any stage of a pregnancy meant it would automatically have rights. In those days you just never knew the sex of the fetus until it was born; if it was born at all.
In the 1700s men still owned woman and children, and afforded them only the right to life under the laws of most countries, not only the UK. Men had the right to discipline and even kill their children and wives under certain circumstances. Supposed honor killings still take place today in Muslim countries as well as in Western countries that have a population of Muslims. We think it is a disgusting practice but not more than 200 years ago we were doing similarly horrendous things for the same reasons. Glad we changed our views.
Abortion and laws against it, forced or willing, are probably as old as our species. Ancient texts from as far back as 2000 BCE grapple with the issue. If a woman wanted to terminate a pregnancy there have always been ways she could do it. Laws against it have ranged from lax to stringent. In between, the practice was accepted.
Many suggest a fetus is not really human until 3 months of gestation. Some say as early as two months. Others claim 28 days. We categorize the stages of gestation like we categorize the life cycle of an insect. The first stage of pregnancy it's a zygote. It's just a few indistinguishable cells at that point. The zygote turns into an embryo after mitosis. It is not a fetus until it is 8 weeks along from conception. Then it is a fetus until live birth.
The question of when life begins is not the issue because every cell is alive. That means sperm and eggs are living things from the outset. The question is when does a group of cells become a human being with human rights?
To the Christians and no doubt some non-Christians: "every sperm is sacred"; as Monty Python put it. Masturbation could be considered murder by those standards. But we cut our fingernails and hair, which are also living cells containing all the DNA our sperm and eggs hold. Where is the limit?
Many people would agree that a zygote is not fully human. Still others would be willing to say an embryo is not human. Some have gone as far as to say an embryo is a parasite as it cannot survive without a host to feed off. An extreme analogy to say the least. A welcome parasite which most mothers are only too happy to accommodate; and which no parent thinks of as a parasite until at least the teen years. But not an inaccurate analogy.
It seems to be impossible to define at which moment a biological system becomes a human. Certainly we would use the term human zygote or human embryo to distinguish them from say a frog embryo. All zygotes are potential human beings from conception. But we cannot properly use the word child when talking about a fetus.
Our language even indicates how we view pregnancy. We don't consider ourselves parents until our child is born. We celebrate our birthday, not our day of conception. Our tradition are that pregnancy and birth are different. When we come into the world we have made it. Before that is a journey not all of us can make.
The question then becomes: When does a fetus no longer rely on its mother for life itself? The answer is: when it's born. But if we want to know the earliest time that it is possible a fetus might be able to survive on its own, that seems to be 6 to 7 months; but that's pushing it. Survival at six months is not assured by any means, and neither is full development. By the time of live birth, the heart, lungs, brain and emotions would, of course, all have to be fairly well developed or survival would not be likely.
It seems to me that if a pregnancy must be terminated, the earlier the better is probably the best bet. Most jurisdictions that allow abortion set a three month limit. That seems to be the best we can do sorting out when an embryo or fetus is least like a human being, and least likely to suffer. I'd say less than two months would suit me better. But it doesn't all end there. It's a complex and messy issue. And thank goodness it isn't up to me.
The big issue is the rights of the mother. She is human under the law and has rights. How can anyone dictate to another that they must carry to term? That once pregnant the fetus's rights strip the woman of her right to do what she likes with her body? We are as much as telling woman that they are forced to allow a parasite to run its course.
Woman's rights have come a long way and part of that fight for rights was control of their own bodies. The right to say no. Do men have anything to compare this with? Could we be forced to give up control of our bodies in anywhere near the same way? Not that I can think of. If a woman feels as if she is carrying a parasite it would be pure cruelty and mental torture to force her to comply and carry it to term
Rape victims spring to mind as potentially being of that mind set. A child could be a constant reminder of the violation she endured.
We know that when abortion is forbidden completely woman find ways to abort anyway due to desperation of many varieties. The consequences are often fatal for the woman. That's yet another reason to give woman safe options and has been one of the reasons public opinion changed over the years, away from absolute prohibition.
If a fetus had rights then potentially every legitimate miscarriage would become a suspected homicide. Seventy five percent of fertilized eggs do not combine their DNA properly and fail without a woman even suspecting she was potentially pregnant. Potential miscarriages get less likely by the time the heart starts beating around 6 weeks, but the first three months are the most critical. 20 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage or stillbirth.
Imagine having to spend resources to investigate approximately half a million cases per year in the US alone? Most of them will end up being legitimate and we would be dragging 500,000 woman a year through criminal investigation while they greave their loss. Look at how many crib death incidents have led to investigations and even convictions of innocent people.
It seems that from a religious perspective god skims seventy five percent off the top when we aren't looking, twenty percent off the rest right in front of us, and the remainder of us all in good time.
Then there are the father's rights to consider. Or are there? Woman are no longer the property of men so cannot under law be forced to become what some woman regarded as baby factories. The church's rule has subsided and woman no longer feel obligated to have 16 kids; like many families in Canada had when I was growing up.
Since men cannot even possibly care for or carry and nurture the fetus before it is born, and have no way of knowing about or preventing a problem in birth or development, they really have no say before the fetus becomes a child.
Woman do not have to bow to pressure to have or to abort at a man's wishes or whims. After birth, of course, a man has rights and obligations to his offspring.
Not entirely fair? No… but it's complicated isn't it? If you give men rights before birth you do so by taking rights from woman. A man might not want the child but be held responsible for it by law. On the other hand he may want the child, and if his rights trump that of a woman, force her to endure a pregnancy she doesn't want for whatever reason. Or if he does not want it, force her to abort.
The Supreme Court of Canada in its decision on the constitutionality of Canada's abortion law ruled: "State interference with bodily integrity and serious state-imposed psychological stress, at least in the criminal law context, constitutes a breach of security of the person. Section 251 clearly interferes with a woman's physical and bodily integrity. Forcing a woman, by threat of criminal sanction, to carry a foetus to term unless she meets certain criteria unrelated to her own priorities and aspirations, is a profound interference with a woman's body and thus an infringement of security of the person."
Thus Canada has been without any abortion law at all since 1988. Appeal was granted by the courts but was not challenged. Even now when Canada has a conservative government, the PM understands that opening this can of worms is political suicide. Every government since the ruling has understood it. And perhaps that's a good thing after all. Perhaps government shouldn't get involved in this issue.
On a related note: It amazes me that in the US where most fundamentalist Christians are conservatives who believe in less interference in our lives from government they run to legal solutions to try to force their beliefs on everyone. Just a thought.
If not in the hands of government, whose hands are, or should, the abortion issue be in? Should doctors take things in hand and decide whether or when they will perform abortions? They have that right. Doctors will perform abortions or not according to their conscience. As it turns out, Canadian doctors do not do late term abortions over 5 months unless the woman's health is at risk. But is it up to doctors to make choices for woman? Clearly it isn't.
Science still can't definitively answer the question of exactly when a foetus becomes a human. Philosophy has no definitive objective answer and neither do law makers or the courts. Perhaps there is no objective answer because it's a subjective question? So perhaps those law makers of 400 years ago who determined that a foetus was not a human being under the law weren't all that wrong in their decision. Notice the term "under the law".
When a child is born it becomes fully human with full human rights. But while it is in the womb its mother bestows any rights she sees fit on it, including none at all. That's nature's way. Humans are the only animal that feels it has the right to interfere with this process. Clearly without the mother the foetus cannot survive; unless we plan on removing unwanted foetus's and producing artificial wombs for them there isn't a lot we can do. Nature may produce a perfect child in the end or a child with physical or mental issues; or more often than we even know it may self abort the process at any time. We still can't know for sure until it is born. In a way it is like Schrodinger's cat, in a state of superposition until it is born.
So how can we give rights to a potential being? Everything depends on it being born. You can't welcome someone to your house before they arrive.
Woman by and large don't take any of this lightly. 90 percent of all abortions in Canada are done before the end of the first three months. Long wait times are more to blame for the majority of the other ten percent than anything else. There will always be those who use abortion like birth control, but they are the small minority. Anything we do or create has potential for being used responsibly or irresponsibly. The vast majority of Canadian woman seem to use their rights responsibly.
Doctors play a large part in education and setting guidelines and standards for their own behaviour. Perhaps if we talk about the issues we can convince even more people to think carefully about what they are doing.
I am pro choice but I am also pro life. I would never council anyone to have an abortion. But I am glad the option is there if it is needed. If things in Canada were different, or I was living in the US, I would say that I think certain standards can be set without trampling woman's rights: such as abolishing late term abortions. By the time a foetus is 6 months old it has a shot at living without it's mother. We could, had we the will, birth those foetus's and make the babies wards of the state. However there are legal obstacles to doing that as well. For one thing it would have to be done with consent.
If it were up to me I would suggest that anyone having an abortion do it as soon after they know they are pregnant as they can. And if it is late in the process seriously consider other options. Contrary to popular belief: Most people who are pro choice are not pro late term abortion.
Pro choice advocates everywhere like to see guidelines. As it turns out not many of us can advocate late term abortions, and neither can the vast majority of doctors. But perhaps we don't need government to legislate them.
It's been over 20 years since we have had no abortion law at all in Canada and the moral sky has not fallen. Abortion has been decreasing from 20 in a thousand when this experiment began, to 15.1 in a thousand as of 2008. The rate has been dropping a bit every year.
Doctors are being responsible in their conduct setting their own guidelines based on science. Women are better educated about the issues than ever before in history. What do we need legislation for?
Most of us would like nothing more than if humans were evolved enough to never abuse or take their rights for granted. Legislating behaviour doesn't always work. At best it's a desperate measure. We have seen the results of prohibition and the drug wars. Both were absolute failures that have done and do more harm than good. Humanity has to grapple with its issues on its own. Letting governments always decide what rights we have and which we don't, even if we think we do, will only slow our progress. Education is the answer. I think Canada is a good example of what can be achieved among the people themselves if they are free to do so.
In some ways the public governs itself anyway. That's what upbringing, education, culture and tradition do.
The thing about rights is: you never have to use them. If you need to, they are there. Having the right to abortion doesn't force anyone to have one.
Canada's constitution, and in particular the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has served to take away the government's power to deny us rights on more than one occasion now. It has struck down anti gay laws and anti gay marriage laws. It has struck down abortion laws, and recently it struck down some of our laws concerning prostitution.
It seems to be telling us to recognize everyone's rights and act according to our own conscious when it comes to our own private lives. Perhaps we should give that a try, and see if we can build a fair and just society after all.
This is a well balanced treatment of a highly controversial subject. Not only are you dealing with life and death in the minds of some but also the freedom of choice which is an idea people will die for. I wish you the best of luck and I look forward to reading the debates in the comments here that will almost certainly ensue.Thank you.


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A tip for people experiencing mobs going into anti-exploit
More often than not – mobs going into anti-exploit seem to be caused by path-finding issues where the mob seem to be on a different vertical plane than the player.
So – when you experience it. Here's a few tips to get it killed regardless.
1. Check the environment around the mob. Is there a different ground type or a different ground height that differences you from the mob. If so – move onto the same ground as the mob.
2. If there's any objects near the mob (crates, campfires etc.) try to jump on top of them (and if that is not possible – jump close to them and strike in the air).
3. And finally – if you can't find any terrain differences that causes the exploit – try standing on top of the mob and jump constantly. If you are a melee class you can jump and strike in the air – if you're a ranged mob – you're not as lucky I'm afraid.
In example – all the Annuminas camp-mobs that always go into anti-exploit can be killed by some crazy jumping.
Of course – it would be better if there were no mobs in anti-exploit. But that's not gonna happen, so remember, anti-exploit is always caused by path-finding issues (the mob's ability to find its way to you), and can more often than not, be corrected by the player.
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Sentential Subjects: Topics or Real Subjects?
Terje Lohndal
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This paper surveys sentential subjects in English and whether they should be analyzed as topics or as subjects sitting in SpecTP. It is argued that various speakers judge crucial data differently, and that this may speak in favor of two different analyses among speakers of English. The paper also offers a brief comparison with Norwegian, arguing that the Norwegian data support a topic analysis.
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Why Preach on the Holy Spirit Right Now?August 5, 2017 1:19 pm
Power and Presence: Living Life in the Holy Spirit
Part One: The Lord and Giver of Life
John 14:26; 15:26; 16:7,13-14; 20:19-22
Message Notes for August 6, 2017
"For where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church, and every kind of grace." – St Irenaeus
We begin a new series today looking at the person and work of the Holy Spirit. That might be as unsettling for some people as it is intriguing to others. There may even be some who are like the people in Acts 19 who told Paul, "We haven't even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit."
Why should we do this? Why should we take the time to focus on the Holy Spirit?
We could answer that negatively by simply noting that there is a lot of confusion and ignorance about the Holy Spirit, or that extreme and dangerous teaching has upset and harmed many. That's true; as Luther said about some extremists in his own day, "They've swallowed the Holy Ghost feathers and all!" Then there's the other extreme: willfully ignoring and quenching the Holy Spirit, who has been called 'the ugly stepsister of the Trinity for our denomination' (The PCA). So wrong! Calvin, according to BB Warfield, was 'THE theologian of the Holy Spirit'. But let me head in the opposite direction and give you a few positive reasons why we need this season of study so badly.
Jesus taught about the Holy Spirit and we need to know what Jesus taught. We must sit at his feet and embrace his words, and receive the Spirit's work the way Jesus intended. In fact, the central subject of Jesus' last discourse before his crucifixion, in private with his disciples, is the Holy Spirit. To ignore the Spirit would in some ways be tantamount to ignoring Jesus teaching.
Jesus and the Father give us the Holy Spirit as a promised gift. How could we possibly ignore a gift long promised and given at such cost? It would be incredibly ungrateful and arrogant to turn up our noses at the very Person the Father and the Son sent to unite us to them. Jesus said we have to be born of the Spirit and we must worship in the Spirit, the first thing he did after being raised from the dead by the power of the Spirit is to give the Holy Spirit to his disciples. This is important! Jesus said it was to our 'advantage' that he go away so that the Spirit would come (John 16:7).
Everything happens through the Holy Spirit. He's the one who is at work to bring everything the Father plans in eternity and the Son wins in history into our experience personally. He's the one who makes preaching and mission effective. He's the one who leads us into the truth. He's the one by whom we pray and worship. He's the one who inspired the Bible. The Holy Spirit is the One who unites us to Christ.
You can't open the Bible without running head-on into the Holy Spirit. He's everywhere, starting on the very first page! (here, cite Gen 1 and then offer several OT examples, from Joseph to Bezalel to David to the promise of Joel). Actually, there'd be no Bible at all without the Holy Spirit!
Living by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit is the new normal for Christians. It's that simple. Just a cursory reading of Romans 8 – the central chapter of the most important letter Paul ever wrote – maybe even the most important book in the whole Bible – is all about the Holy Spirit and living in the Spirit. In fact, in the first 27 verses of that chapter, the word 'spirit' shows up 29x! The Spirit's life sets us free from spiritual death; the Spirit dwells in us and will cause our bodies to be raised from the dead; we are led by the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, empowered by the Spirit; pray in the Spirit, receive the witness of the Spirit, and have the Spirit of adoption by which we cry out, 'Abba Father'. In fact, Paul writes that if someone doesn't have the Spirit he can't be a Christian at all! Wow!
So I'd say this is pretty vital territory we're venturing into and it deserves our sustained attention.
My experience as a child – kinda scary because when he was mentioned at all we said 'Holy Ghost', not 'Spirit'. Personally speaking, as a five-year-old, I found the idea of God being a ghost a tad frightening!
It didn't get any better when I was a teenager… my story about asking friends about the Spirit: damned if I did and damned if I didn't!
So how can we begin to be better acquainted with the Holy Spirit? Let's bear in mind what we say in the Nicene Creed: "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord ,and giver of life…
I. The Lord: The Spirit of God is God – John 15:26
A. Two mistakes people make about the Spirit
1. De-personalizing the Spirit: turning the Spirit into an 'it', a 'force'; but Jesus called the Spirit 'He', a Person. You can't lie to a force, but Peter told people they lied to the Spirit; a force isn't 'grieved', but the Spirit can be.
Trinity so often in view when the Spirit comes
2. Marginalizing the Spirit: forgetting that we depend on God for everything
B. The main 'job' the Spirit does: "He will testify of me.."
– Make Jesus real in human hearts
– JI Packer: like a great spotlight shining it's beams on a beautiful city center Cathedral at night.
– God the Holy Spirit reveals God the Son so that we might become the sons of God the Father.
II. The Giver of Life: Spirit of God is Our Very Life – John 20:19-22
* The first thing Jesus did when he was with his disciples was to breathe on them and say, "Receive the Spirit"
– Breath – Wind – Spirit (Ruach/Pneuma)
– Genesis 2: God breathing life into us.
-The new creation is underway; the age of the Spirit has begun!
* Ezekiel and his preaching to the bones and invitation to the wind/spirit
Are you discouraged by the church today? You see bones, but God sees an army rising!
This is what happened at Pentecost: the breath became a mighty wind and filled them and then ignited the world. The fire is spreading still.
I do think some of us had suffered some gut punches and had the air knocked out of us though. We need to have a fresh encounter with God the Holy Spirit making Jesus real in our lives. "Breathe on me breath of God/til I am wholly thine/Til all this earthly part of me/Glows with thy fire divine"
The Spirit is bringing you life today, by the word, by his presence, and by the body and blood of Christ. Come and be filled. Come and LIVE!
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1- We do mission day to raise money for the girls in Vietnam so they can have a better life and education.
2- Mission day connects to St Therese's message "Its the little things that matter" because even doing something small like running a school fair and raising money by making and saling food or running a haunted house and donating the money to a place or cause can help.
3- I wouldn't say we are responsible for every one in the world but I think that we all should just do things out of the goodness of our hearts. And while we do these things know that it is for a good cause.
4- My participation in mission day represents my faith because I brought things and recycled things to make the Haunted house so that we could raise money for the girls in Vietnam.
5- I enjoyed the making of the Haunted house as well a scaring kids out of their pants. I also enjoyed having fun and knowing it was going to a good cause.
6- Next time I would raise the amount of the entry fee so that we could raise more money. But other than that I recon My group did FANTASTIC.
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I hope you enjoyed your public holiday. (Queens)
At school we are doing a new way of running things. Instead of doing Literacy, then Maths and so on, We get to choose what we do and when we do it. We still have to have all the subjects done, but we get to choose when we do it. I think thats a really good idea.
Maths- In Maths, my friends and I figured the area and volume of the hall. It might sound easy but the roof is on a angle which makes it a lot harder. Now we are going to start a workshop on area and volume, that way we can teach kids about what we know.
Literacy- The past couple of weeks we have been focusing on persuasive writing, and we have gotten into groups and worked on a topic. My topic was should marine culling be allowed and why. We did a news report on I movie. It was great
R.e- in r.e the year six's have been getting ready for confirmation, we have chosen our saints and I have chosen St Michael. He is really cool, he is a archangel. You can read about him on my front page.
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Carlos Dinares wants you to look at the first rower on the video and look at his lower back. This rower is not seating up at all and because of that his lower back shape is the proof of a huge load on his spine. He is also shutting his slide and has a very uncoordinated drive. The whole rowing stroke is done in a way that doesn't help him develop the right movements to be able to be healthy and move a boat properly. The reality is that rowing a stationary Concept 2 is never healthy even when done properly and always performs huge pressures on the spine and knees.
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DiS Bookclub #14 (May): The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it depicts as a large, Yiddish-speaking metropolis.
As of December 2008, a film adaptation is in pre-production, to be written and directed by the Coen brothers.
I've not read a word of his so quite looking forward to it. Sounds like a pretty interesting premise.
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#1 Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (Jan 09)
#2 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Feb 09)
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#3 The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills (Mar 09)
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#4 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (Apr 09)
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#5 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (May 09)
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#6 A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene (Jun 09)
#7 Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Jul 09)
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#8 For Esme ~ With Love and Squalor by JD Salinger (Oct 09)
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#9 Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth (Nov 09)
#10 The Collector by John Fowles (Jan 10)
#11 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (Feb 10)
#12 World War Z by Max Brooks (Mar 10)
#13 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Apr 10)
I lent this to someone and on return they said that they didn't realise that Alaska had such a large Jewish population...
I'm in.
I finished my degree
so I'm in!
I started it yesterday. I like it.
Anyway, you all need to put this book down for a few minutes because Joanna Newsom is on Jools tonight. That's if you like her of course. I do, so I am.
"You bet. Mazel tov, Berko"
Landsman's congratulations are so ironic that they are heartfelt, and they are so heartfelt that they can only come off as insincere, and he and his partner sit there for a while, not going anywhere, listening to them congeal.
I finished this this afternoon and I still don't realise that Alaska has such a large Jewish population...
Good though innit?
Basically two old men playing chess with human beings maybe?
Some of the phrasing is brilliant: "I need you out of my bed. Soon and in a way that's lasting"
Liked the jaunty, light-hearted prose. The third-person present-tense seemed a bit jarring at first but soon got used to it and it worked well during the flashback towards the end when it converted to past-tense for a chapter.
How dare they kill his sister? She seemed neat.
Oh and Landsman always seeming to find something to beat himself up over. Wonder what the next thing will be.
Look forward to seeing how the Coen's handle it.