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Of Nakedness and Clothing
Of Nakedness and Clothing
The West's confrontation with the Muslim faith brings into focus the question of clothing. It stares one in the face: Muslim women are covered to far greater degree than western women. Just what is the place of clothing? Is it simply a deterrent against sexual advances? The controversy sparked by Australia's al-Halali's ill-spoken words could have us think the answer is Yes.
It is not so. Genesis 2 describes the situation in Paradise when God gave Eve to Adam. We read in vs 25: "the man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame." That Adam and Eve were 'uncovered' was not a problem – not to them nor to God.
The following chapter relates the fall into sin, and then mentions clothing twice. The first mention occurs in vs 7: "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves" (Gen 3:7). With their effort to cover themselves, Adam and Eve expressed their sense of vulnerability, of being exposed, on display. Exposed to whom? Peeping Toms? No, for there were no other people on earth. Rather, they felt exposed before the eyes of holy God! Why did they feel exposed and vulnerable now, and not the day before? That's because they had sinned, had disobeyed God, and their sin was like a black stain on their skin that drew God's judgment upon them. So they sought to cover their guilt from the eyes of holy God by means of fig leaves sown together. Yet they also knew that the coverings they fashioned were insufficient to hide their guilt from the all-seeing eyes of the Almighty, for when they heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden to visit them, they trembling fled to hide themselves from this God (3:8). Their clothes, they knew, could not stop God from seeing their corruption (see Hebrews 4:13).
And they were correct. Holy God knew of their wickedness, confronted them with their sin, exposed them for the sinners they were – and then in incredible mercy set before them the gospel of Jesus Christ; the Seed of the woman would crush the seed of the serpent (see 3:15). What delightful revelation of God's identity as a God of grace is caught in that promise-to-naked-sinners!
That gospel of grace was impressed upon Adam and Eve in the second reference to clothes in this chapter, verse 21. God "made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them." Though the two were married –note the phrase "Adam and his wife" and there were no people around to look upon them, the Lord God Himself made a point of giving them clothes – and hence giving them a continual reminder of how their sinful hearts are covered in the blood of Jesus Christ. The Lord saw to it that an animal gave its coat to the sinner and his sinful wife, and that's to say that God had this animal lay down its life for man's sake. There's the glorious gospel of substitution: another would die in place of man! The Other one is ultimately the Lord Jesus Christ, who would die in place of sinners on the cross of Calvary so many years later. For His sake God would spare sinners and give them forgiveness of sins and life. Note it well, dear reader: as a constant reminder to both God and people of the redemption God would give through His only Son, God had "Adam and his wife" wear clothes! Clothes are not first of a cultural phenomenon, nor are they first of all protection from cold or from the sun, nor even disincentive from groping hands; clothes are first of all God's constant reminder of the Savior! How positively merciful this God is!!
That God intended clothing to depict the gospel of grace is pointed up by God's command to Israel concerning the priests. When the Lord established His covenant of grace with Israel at Mt Sinai and determined to live amongst His people in the tabernacle, the Lord gave instructions not only about how the tabernacle was to be decked out and what sort of ceremonies were to be carried out in the tabernacle, but He gave instruction also about the clothing those who labored in the tabernacle were to wear. Under no circumstances was the nakedness of the priests to be exposed in any way (Ex 28, esp vs 42f; 20:28); they were always to be covered. More, they were to be covered with the best of materials (28:5) – costly linen. The clothing of the priests in the tabernacle spelled out for Israel that the blood of Jesus Christ is the best covering a sinner can ever find.
That's also the significance of Jesus' nakedness on the cross. John 19: "when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes…" (vs 23). All the sins of God's own were piled onto Jesus Christ, and there was to be nothing at all behind which Jesus could hide; this Man-become-Sin had to be fully exposed before holy God so that all the righteous judgment of God might be poured out on Him – and He atone for our sins.
And atone for sin He did, so that the saints of God may stand before God dressed in "white robes", garments purified in Jesus' blood – and therefore acceptable in the sight of holy God. In fact, John sees the saints of God "wearing white robes" (Rev 7:9; cf Isaiah 61:10), and even sees a vision of the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, "prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband" (21:2). That's the people of God of every tribe and race, with all their sins washed away. Then they're not left naked (as in Paradise), but they're covered, delightfully covered as a result of the atoning work of the Bridegroom – to His greater glory.
So it follows: the human race after the fall is not to go naked. (Of course, what happens in the sanctuary of marriage, the bedroom, is a different matter, as the Song of Solomon, for example, makes abundantly clear.) In faith God's Old Testament people had to portray the gospel of redemption in the fact that they dressed themselves, and dressed themselves well. By the grace of God they were covered in Jesus' blood, and they were to proclaim that gospel in their clothes.
The same is true in the New Testament dispensation. The Christian does not wear clothes because our culture expects it, or as protection from sun or cold – as if when the weather is right and the public not looking its OK to go naked. The Christian does not wear clothes either as a disincentive to another to seek sexual activity. Rather, the Christian wears clothes because of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ. He believes, with profound gratitude, that Christ has atoned for his sins, so that we now wear those robes of righteousness. We show our gratitude for that wonderful gospel by covering ourselves, and covering ourselves well.
The implication is this: what drives the Christian's sense of good fashion is not the trend of the day – for the world associates nakedness with sexuality instead of with sin, and as a result so much of what's fashionable in today's clothing flirts with sexuality. What drives the Christian's sense of good fashion is the gospel of redemption; I'm completely covered in the white robes of righteousness Jesus obtained on the cross, so why shall I dress scantily (as if Jesus work didn't cover me all the way), and why shall I dress as if the fashions of the world excite me – when in fact it's the gospel of redemption that electrifies me!?
Please hear me well. It is not so that we have to dress today the way our grandparents dressed years ago, when one exposed only the face and the hands, and perhaps some arm. But the other extreme as we see it today, with open shirts and low cuts exposing lots of flesh, does not portray the perfect work of our Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, it plays games with the heart's desire for mischief. Let the Christian demonstrate what he's learned from Scripture: we wear clothes because of the redeeming work of our Lord Jesus Christ; they symbolize the robes of righteousness which permit us to stand in the presence of holy God. From that perspective, those of the Middle East dress more appropriately than do many North Americans.
Let the world read from the way we dress that we have understood the Biblical connection between clothes and redemption. For that reason too, let fathers –for God has made fathers primarily responsible for our sons and daughters– see to it that our children are well covered – and make sure we and mother set a good example.
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This is just a little unobtrusive announcement that my Etsy shop has been recently overhauled and restocked with an assortment of new cards, bookmarks and hand-written calligraphy encouragement notes. I'll be steadily adding more artwork to the shop over the next few weeks, so come back and visit again if you like!
Thoughts From the Brave New World
There was a thing, as I've said before, called
All the crosses had their tops cut and became T's.
There was also a thing called God.
We have the World State now and Ford's Day
celebrations and Community Sings and Solidarity
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same
they used to drink enormous quantities of
There was a thing called the soul and a thing called
But they used to take morphia and cocaine.
Aldous Huxley puts these words in the mouth of the director of his dystopian society in a scene where the collapse of the world as we know it is narrated with an eery nonchalance.
Huxley's classic novel has been on my list to read for quite some time and when a friend wanted to read it with me over the summer, I finally got down to it. Based on what I'd heard about the book, I was expecting to find some remarkable parallels between Huxley's society and our own technological age. However, I wasn't prepared for just how many powerful ways I would see the Spirit of the Age foreshadowed in this book.
In Huxley's Brave New World, the old order of struggling for survival and working to achieve your goals has been replaced by a new society where scientific advancement has removed the need for pain, suffering, frustrated desires and social instability. People are genetically engineered to serve the specific needs of society and conditioned from infancy through hypnopaedic sleep training to embrace their lot in life. There is no disease and the effects of aging have been obliterated. There are no longer any causes for dissatisfaction or discontentment. And if anyone should find themselves experiencing strong emotions, there's always soma, the feel-good drug that provides a euphoric escape from any unpleasantness.
The catch? In order to do away with the strong negative emotions that threaten the stability of the social order, the Brave New World has done away with marriage, family, and all strong and meaningful connections that bind humans to one another. They've done away with love. Everyone is trained in uninhibited promiscuous sexuality from childhood and words like fidelity, parents, and God have become indecent expressions. The high arts have been replaced by synthetic music and sensory experiences. Television and soma are ever-present as a constant distraction against any serious contemplation. Pleasure flows through the culture like a steadily dripping intravenous solution, deadening feeling.
Huxley paints a picture of an existence that most of us would no doubt categorize as no way to live. We don't live in a society where Shakespeare and the Bible are forbidden and marriage is a dirty word. The high arts are still held in high regard by educated people and housed in museums that can be visited free of charge all over the country. We can still listen to opera and classical music radio stations in every major city in this country. Unfortunately, I think these ways in which our culture isn't like Huxley's can be a dangerous distraction from a myriad of ways in which it is.
Technology in our time has ushered in an era that is unprecedented in history. Mechanization has drastically reduced the need for quantitative manpower and a few people can easily complete work that once required thousands of laborers. Whereas humanity used to be engaged in a constant struggle for survival, the means of production are rapidly evolving to a point where this struggle is no longer necessary. In order to accommodate the resulting leisure opportunities, virtual and passive entertainment forms have become increasingly central in the lives of millennials.
Gaming provides opportunities for activating the brain's rewards system and giving users the illusion of accomplishment. Smartphone technology provides instant access to many forms of mindless entertainment or pleasure simulations, from Candy Crush Saga to pornography. Apps like Snapchat allow smartphone users to feel informed about world events and trends with daily news and fashion feeds but all of these news outlets look more and more like tabloids every year. Rather than promoting serious observations, research or deep thought, they stimulate users on a shallow level with short articles centered on pop culture figures, gossip tidbits and useless trivia. They promote a hook-up culture in which meaningful, committed, long-term sexual relationships are replaced by cheap one-night stands and love and friendship are divorced from sexuality.
Are we happier for all this? Are we happier now that we live at a level of physical and material comfort that none of our ancestors ever experienced?
I think if we're honest with ourselves, we can see that this influx of consumer media has resulted in the loss of many important elements of the human experience. There's no longer any need for boredom or contemplation or pondering the hard facts of reality and the questions of existence that enhance our humanity. There's little motivation to expend effort towards achieving long-term goals when so many short-term goals are instantly attainable.
What is it that's missing? What is it that the human heart hungers for so desperately and that can't be fulfilled by ending world hunger or unemployment, by giving people everything they want? Why is it that what we think we want is never really what we want after all?
"God, you have made us for yourself," St. Augustine wrote, exposing the emptiness of all the pleasures in the world, "and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in You."
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Summer with my family has been a time full of changes and green and very little internet. We've moved to a new property, wide with acres, and spend a lot of time swimming in the deep and narrow lake and blazing trails through the forests.
One thing I have managed to get done as I've been away from the worldwide web is some additions to my Etsy store here, including more Tolkien art, a Reepicheep bookmark, and some other things like this card based on Coventry Patmore's whimsical Victorian poem, The Azalea.
If you've been having troubles getting in touch with me, I should be back online soon! In the meantime, here's a thought-provoking little poem I picked up from Garrison Keillor's anthology Good Poems.
Each summer the last summer, Levertov says.
The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.
The wind blowing the leaves
shivering in the sun,
each day the last day.
A red salamander
so cold and so
easy to catch,
dreamily moves his delicate feet
and long tail. I hold
my hand open for him to go.
Each minute the last minute.
(Denise Levertov)
Childhood Is The Kingdom
When I was a child, I read The Wizard of Oz over the course of a few days. I was eight years old and reading still made me feel accomplished. I read it everywhere, from the top bunk of my bed with the yellow blankets to a tiny balcony of an office building in Ankara, walking back and forth over old leaves on the stained concrete. I tried (but mostly failed) to ration it, to make sure I wouldn't finish it too soon, because I was already old enough to know that the best things in life should be saved and unwrapped slowly, then savored like expensive chocolate or buttered crab.
I knew that Old Yeller was going to die and even though I wept like a faucet for Where The Red Fern Grows, I didn't feel cheated and the world didn't darken. But when at the end of the yellow-brick road, the wizard wasn't a wizard after all, and the city wasn't erected of emerald, and there was no fix, no cure, no king, it was a disappointment unlike anything else that had happened to me. I lay awake that night and cried my heart out in the dark and wanted my mother.
"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies," wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem of the same name:
Nobody that matters, that is. Distant relatives of course
Die, whom one never has seen or has seen for an hour,
And they gave one candy in a pink-and-green stripéd bag, or a jack-knife,
And went away, and cannot really be said to have lived at all.
And cats die. But, she says.
But you do not wake up a month from then, two months
A year from then, two years, in the middle of the night
And weep, with your knuckles in your mouth, and say Oh, God! Oh, God!
The obvious thrust of this vivid and unsettling poem is, of course, the part about nobody dying. The expected emotional safety of the very young and the presence of wrenching grief as a distinguishing aspect of adulthood.
But there is something else that stands out to me about this poem. Childhood is the kingdom. The poem touches on more than the absence of death in the lives of children. It speaks to the presence of benevolent power, the irresistible magnetism of monarchy.
There is this thing about a kingdom. Everything is under control. Someone-Who-Knows is in charge of things. Nothing can go ultimately wrong. And isn't this the essence of traditional childhood?
When we were children, tragedies could happen to us. Like a favorite doll breaking or a bike crash or an unfulfilled promise of ice cream. But nothing could really go irretrievably awry. There were always adults around us who knew what to do. And God, of course, could do anything for us. But we hardly needed Him to. We had parents who had all the answers and when we were afraid, it wasn't the fear of a best friend bleeding out after a car crash, or wasting our lives or marrying someone who won't love us forever or dying alone in a dim, squeaky house without even flowers.
We were afraid of wasps. Or Chihuahuas. Or timed math tests.
To the skeptics who populate an unkinged world, The Wizard of Oz reflects sad reality. The transition is from trust to an empty truth. There is no one who has any idea what in the heck is going on. We, limited, ridiculous, arrogant and clueless, really are the only guardians of the galaxy.
But I subscribe to a different narrative: that there is a kingdom. And we must become children all over again, for there is no other way to get in.
It's been awhile since I've put any poems up on the blog, so here's one I wrote awhile back on this subject. It was an attempt to configure all these ideas into a compressed format, but I'm afraid that without this semi-lengthy explanation, it wouldn't have made too much sense.
LOSS: [after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]
"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things."
(Edna St. Vincent Millay, Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies)
Childhood is the kingdom.
There are fierce beasts howling in the heart of the forbidden forest
and little people peer at you from cracks in walls
and the stamen-cups of flowers, tittering.
Wily witches will cook you and eat you for dinner
if you let them catch you.
But you don't.
Childhood is the kingdom.
At the end of the long road through the valley of shadow and poison-flowers,
looms the jubilant city and the great throne room.
There are decrees under hot wax seals,
on parchment, rules that make sense,
and if you do all you have set out to do, you will live
happily ever after.
Childhood is the kingdom.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child, I turned the pages of fairyland and found it very good.
Oh, Dorothy in gingham-blue,
your little dog, your simple friends,
there is a green witch after you! But it is alright,
there is a wizard too.
Childhood is the kingdom.
And we are skipping, dancing down the yellow-brick road,
for all our troubles, all our tears,
are bottled for the reckoning and written in the book.
That we are little and helpless is of no account
for we are making our happy way to Oz
the Great and Powerful.
Childhood is the kingdom.
And unless you become as a child, you shall in nowise enter therein.
I put the story down crying when
the man is behind a curtain and is only a man.
I was oppressed by the sudden press of danger and
awoke in a dark bedroom to the thick aloneness
and could not be comforted.


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So was one of the quotes from the Inaugural speech of Mayor Edward FitzGerald.
I attended the swearing in ceremony to hear the thoughts of the new Mayor as to his vision of Lakewood under his watch.
I was not sure as to what to expect as I walked into the Masonic Temple on Detroit Avenue. I arrive early to ensure a seat and to watch the who would be in attendance.
I walked in behind Senator Sherrod Brown, who was conducting the oath of office. And so the Democratic Party Parade began. State Senator Dale Miller and State Representative Mike Skindell were in attendance along with many other candidates or former office holders.
Ward Councilmen Butler and Bullock and Councilwomen Madigan were also being sworn in, but newly elected Councilman Mike Summers apparently had previous commitment and was unable to be at the ceremony.
The program moved along to the main event, the swearing in of Ed Fitzgerald and then he gave his inaugural address.
FitzGerald's opening comments were, "Lakewood is not the only city facing difficult times", he went on and said that some of those cities will fail, some will flounder and the rest will prevail. "It is everyone's responsibility in Lakewood to see to it that it prevailed.
The new Mayor struck some very positive cords with a comment that we are not going to wait to implement things like past administrations. He also indicated that the old line of "that's the way its been done" will not be tolerated at City Hall.
He indicated that he will not have a 100 day process, trying to implement changes than sitting on the laurels to see how things work, he intends to evaluate things on a constant basis.
In very general terms he laid out what he hopes for the City by the time it celebrates is 100th Birthday. Essentially, he indicated that he want the city safe, the finances secure and sound, stable housing market etc. It really was a 30 second repeat of the campaign themes.
He indicated that the campaign became bigger than himself and would hope that his administration will do the same.
Closing out his speech, with some inspired lines such as "Every Resident is an Ambassador" and that "we are a real city, not a developer's idea of what a community should be"
Finally, "the next chapter of Lakewood's History is yet to be written. Let's make it a chapter worth reading!
All in all I thought the speech was well done, he kept it brief and in fact the whole ceremony was quickly done.
Let's hope some of Fitzgerald's ideas and plans aren't done as quickly as the ceremony.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
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Locked away in his bedroom in Boston, Massachusetts, Matthew Weigman had isolated himself from the real world. Born into a life of blindness and poverty, he struggled to connect with his peers. But behind the scenes Weigman lived a secret life – and wielded more power than anyone could imagine.
Weigman was born on April 20, 1990, in East Boston, a diverse neighborhood across the harbor from the city center. Tragically, he was born with optic nerve atrophy, something that rendered him blind from the moment that he entered the world. On top of that, Weigman's home life was somewhat troubled.
His father was a violent alcoholic who was known to abuse his disabled son. He left the family when Weigman was just five years old, leaving the mother of his three children to care for them on the slim salary of a nurse's aide. Although Weigman also received a disability allowance, life for the family was tough.


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A 31-year veteran of the broadcasting industry, Charles Warfield Jr. has been president and chief operating officer of ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Inc. (ICBCBH) since July 2000. ICBCBH owns and operates 17 radio stations in New York City, San Francisco, Jackson, Miss., and Columbia, S.C.
Charles' broadcasting career includes managing some of New York's most successful radio stations, counting 12 years at Inner City Broadcasting Corporation as vice president and general manager of WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM. He joined the company as corporate controller and was instrumental in the acquisition of five radio stations. Later, he joined Summit Broadcasting Corporation as vice president and general manager of WRKS-FM, New York, which was named "the most listened to radio station in America."
In July 1997, Charles was appointed vice president and general manager of heritage stations, WDAS-AM/FM, Philadelphia. He was appointed senior vice president of urban regional operations for Chancellor Media Corporation in March 1998, with oversight of KKBT-FM, Los Angeles; WJLB-FM/WMXD-FM, Detroit; WGCI-AM/FM and WVAZ-FM, Chicago; WUSL-FM and WDAS-FM, Philadelphia and WEDR-FM, Miami. Charles was promoted to senior vice president of regional operations in October 1998, with responsibility for Chancellor's 30 stations in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami and Puerto Rico.
Presently, he serves on the Radio Advertising Bureau Executive Committee. His community commitments have included the American Red Cross, Police Athletic League, Salvation Army, United Negro College Fund, The Urban League, the Partnership for a Drug Free Greater New York, the Harlem YMCA and various other groups.
After graduating with honors from Hampton University with a B.S. in accounting, he began his career as staff auditor at Ernst & Young. In 1974, Charles caught the "broadcasting bug" when he joined RCA Corporation as supervising senior auditor.
A Washington, D.C., native, Charles and his wife reside in Newtown Square, Pa., and have three children as well as three grandchildren.


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Here is what I posted about the tour stop on the savvy forum...
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Junk Bond Deal for Murray Energy to Take Over Bowie Resource Partners Falls Through
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Bowie Resource Partners LLC, a Kentucky coal-mining company, pulled a $510 million debt deal Friday as investor sentiment toward high-yield debt became more cautious.
The deal would have paved the way for a takeover of the company by Murray Energy Corp. and new bondholders.
The proposed deal was intended to refinance Bowie debt set to mature in 2020 and would have cashed out Bowie's current owner, commodity trading firm Trafigura PTE Ltd.
The debt deal was a key condition in a new partnership Bowie planned to form with Murray Energy, to be called Canyon Consolidated Resources. Murray Energy was set to take a 30.5% stake in the company, and new bond investors would've gotten a 28.5% stake if the debt deal had gone through.
The decision to pull the plug on the capital raise puts the fate of the Canyon partnership into question.
More: ($) "Coal Company Bowie Resource Partners Pulls Debt Deal Backing Takeover"


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Cancer. Just the word is scary. Actually, that's the problem. Once you say that word, the average American will do anything, ANYTHING!, to just get it out of their body. Whether or not they have it, whatever the actual numerical chances of their ever developing it, no chance for detecting or treating it should ever be neglected. EVER!
Ask any med-mal lawyer. Better, ask any 12 average people off the street (i.e., the ones who are going to wind up on a jury). "The doctor didn't do every possible test/procedure, and now the patient has CANCER? String him up!"
Hence we have the new guidelines for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. (Given that many patients with prostate cancer have normal PSAs and lots of patients with high PSAs don't have prostate cancer, it doesn't seem semantically correct to call it "prostate cancer screening".) Surprise! Turns out that not only does PSA testing not save lives, but that urologists don't really care. Certainly not enough to stop recommending PSAs to just about everyone they can get their hands on.
Nor do breast surgeons have any intention of modifying their recommendations, not only in light of new understandings of the limitations of mammography, but even as their own treatment recommendations contract, becoming ever more targeted and less invasive.
I recently heard a local surgeon speak about the progression from radical mastectomies to partial mastectomies to lumpectomies; from axillary node dissections to sentinel node sampling; from whole-breast radiation to intra-cavitary seeds. Listening to him, breast cancer therapy is becoming downright minimalist. Yet at the end of the talk, when asked about the new recommendations for biennial mammography, his response was, "Every woman should have an annual mammogram starting at age 40. I mean, there are no downsides to mammography."
Never mind the psychological stress of extra views, ultrasounds, and false positives, not to mention the bruising and even skin tearing that I see far more often than I'd like. "No downsides"? Not for him, that's for sure. When will they realize that mammography catches slower-growing cancers that would be treated just as easily if they were found a year later? Women die of aggressive tumors that pop up between annual mammograms, which by definition would not be detected by standard screening.
The gynecologists are no better. They all still insist on annual visits for Pap smears to find cancers that take 10 years to grow (and then only in the presence of human papillomavirus) and pelvic exams that detect, well, nothing. Whether driven by legal concerns or patient insistence, scientifically unnecessary medical care is running rampant in this country, playing a pivotal role in bankrupting us in the Orwellian name of "the best medical care in the world."
What to do, though?
First, stop asking the foxes what they think of the new hen house alarm system. What do you think a urologist is going to say about PSAs? Why would a surgeon ever recommend against a mammogram? And whatever you do, don't even think about questioning the need for an annual gynecological exam. Goodness. What's a poor doctor to do without providing all that care? Starve?
Actually, you might be able to get an appointment with a urologist in less than six weeks for a kidney stone if they weren't so booked up with annual rectal exams and PSAs on every asymptomatic man over 50. Think about getting in to see a gynecologist for heavy bleeding in less than three months. Not only would the care be more appropriate, but those same specialists worrying about their empty appointment books would probably be making more money by seeing patients who actually need their specialized skills and procedures.
So if you shouldn't ask the specialists about screening guidelines, to whom should patients turn? How about me? Why not discuss these complex issues with your family doctor, who doesn't make any money off your PSA or your Pap or your mammogram. Believe me, my schedule is plenty full with sick people and the worried well (defined as those patients I cannot talk out of all those inappropriate interventions. Yes, they're out there. Yes, I try to explain it to them. Am I always successful? Of course not, though it's not for lack of trying.)
I'm more interested in seeing that the care you get is medically and scientifically appropriate, especially when deciding which screening interventions to forgo. "Watching and waiting" is often as viable a strategy for cancer as it is for lesser ailments. Let us family physicians educate you, our patients, so that you don't end up with irreparable harm from treatments intended to cure something that would never have killed you. Sometimes "just getting it out of my body" leaves you much worse off than leaving well enough alone.
This post by Lucy Hornstein, MD, appeared at Get Better Health, a network of popular health bloggers brought together by Val Jones, MD. Better Health's mission is to support and promote health care professional bloggers, provide insightful and trustworthy health commentary, and help to inform health policy makers about the provider point of view on health care reform, science, research and patient care.
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I am a member of an online group of parents raising children with Rhombencephalosynapsis. It is a wonderful place to compare notes, ask questions, gather information, etc. I consider it a very valuable resource. Recently a new member has joined and she has been a delight. She asks plenty of questions and drums up a TON of great conversation with all of the members. Many of her questions have lead to some thoughts about great potential posts. They are all things that new RS parents might want to know about.
So I am going to try to spend some time posting about these questions and our experiences with these topics.
The first topic was when our children started walking. Here is our experience...
Abby didn't meet any of her milestones on time. NOT ONE! We had her in physical therapy from the time she was 4 months old because of this. By the time she was 18 months she was FINALLY crawling, rolling over and starting to stand up. It was a long road to get her there but we got there. Unfortunately there was minimal effort to walk.


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Nicole Kidman's Oscar campaign continues to roar with the Australian actress adding a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her feted Lion role, but Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Joel Edgerton have suffered setbacks.
The SAG Awards, along with the Golden Globes, have become reliable tests ahead of January's announcement of the Oscar nominations.
Kidman appears unstoppable in achieving what would be her fourth Oscar nomination and a decent chance of winning at the February 26 Academy Awards after she claimed a SAG supporting actress nomination on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Kidman will compete for the SAG prize against Viola Davis (Fences), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) and Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea).
Sydney's Edgerton, for his lead actor performance in Loving, has also been cruising through Hollywood awards season with multiple nods, including Monday's Golden Globes nomination, until his SAG snub.
While frontrunners Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) and Ryan Gosling (La La Land) received SAG lead actor nominations, Edgerton was squeezed out by Hacksaw Ridge's Andrew Garfield, Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) and Denzel Washington (Fences).
The SAG Awards, as they only reward actors, have an "outstanding ensemble" award instead of the traditional best picture category.
Gibson's Australian-shot Hacksaw Ridge has been gaining momentum in its bid to score an Oscar best picture nomination after multiple nods, including Monday's best picture-drama Globes' nomination.
But SAG voters handed its ensemble nominations to Captain Fantastic, Fences, Hidden Figures, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight.
It was also a blow to the Oscar best picture aspirations of Kidman's Australian made Lion.
Lion's British actor, Dev Patel, did have success at the SAG ceremony with a supporting actor nomination.
The SAGs also honour TV actors and ensembles.
Australian actress Yael Stone and her Orange is the New Black cast will look to claim their third straight TV comedy ensemble win after being acknowledged again.
The series is up against the ensembles from The Big Bang Theory, Black-ish, Modern Family and Veep.
Orange is the New Black's other Australian star, Ruby Rose, has been busy with multiple major feature films the past year so was not included in the series' ensemble.
The SAG Awards winners will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on January 29.
Other major SAG categories include:
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Movie Role:
Amy Adams (Arrival); Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Train); Natalie Portman (Jackie); Emma Stone (La La Land); Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins).
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series.
Riz Ahmed (The Night Of); Sterling K Brown (The People v OJ Simpson); Bryan Cranston (All the Way); John Turturro (The Night Of); and Courtney B Vance (The People v OJ Simpson).
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series:
Bryce Dallas Howard (Black Mirror); Felicity Huffman (American Crime); Audra McDonald (Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill); Sarah Paulson (The People v OJ Simpson); and Kerry Washington (Confirmation).
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a TV Drama Series:
Sterling K Brown (This is Us); Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones); John Lithgow (The Crown); Rami Malek (Mr Robot) and Kevin Spacey (House of Cards).
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Drama Series:
Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things); Claire Foy (The Crown); Thandie Newton (Westworld); Winona Ryder (Stranger Things); and Robin Wright (House of Cards).


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As it turns out, yes, it is. Political scientist John Sides built a model that predicts presidential approval based on the economy, the presence of major scandals and wars, length of time in office and past approval.And Obama, the George Washington University professor says, should not be as popular as he is:
[Obama] is more popular than expected, and consistently so throughout these three years. His quarterly approval ratings are, on average, nine points higher than expected.
[...]Two other presidents have experienced a discrepancy between expected and actual approval in their first terms that was larger than the discrepancy in Mr. Obama's first three years. One was George W. Bush, and this arises largely because the model doesn't fully anticipate the quickness and size of the "rally effect" that took place after Sept. 11, 2001. The other was Ronald Reagan, whose first-term approval ratings exhibited more fluctuation than Mr. Obama's but were about 10 points above the model's expectations, on average.
Sides offers two hypotheses for Obama's overperformance: First, that perhaps he's just a likable guy. Second, that Americans still seem to place most of the blame for the bad economy on Bush.
I'd add a third: That the Republican Party isn't offering a very compelling alternative right now, and so Obama's numbers are, in part, a relative judgment given the options available to voters. It's easier to say someone is doing a bad job when there's someone you can point to who looks like they're doing, or at least could do, a better one.


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PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).india Updated: Feb 21, 2014 09:34 IST
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) – all under the PM's stewardship – haven't met for years, says the RTI query.
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.
PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government.
"With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council," Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, "The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis."
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which – on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat – met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said," "It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now."
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, "I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later."
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National survey of family growth, cycle IV; evaluation of linked design
Published Date:July 1993
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Keywords:Family Characteristics
Family Life Surveys
Family Size
Fertility, Human
Health Surveys
Population Growth
Research Design
Sampling Studies
Statistical Methods
Family Life Surveys/United States
Family Size/Statistical Methods/United States
Fertility, Human/Statistical Methods/United States
Health Surveys/United States
Population Growth/United States
Pubmed ID:8212600
Description:"This report is the third in the NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series that evaluates the error and cost effects of linking the sample design of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to the design of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), NSFG Cycles I-III had been designed as stand-alone area household sample surveys. The sampling paradigm of the linked NSFG survey design is that the file of names and addresses of the NHIS sample households, including the information collected about them in NHIS, serves as the NSFG sampling frame. The first report, Integration of Sample Design for the National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle IV, With the National Health Interview Survey (Series 2, No. 96), estimated the NSFG design effects resulting from linking the NSFG to the NHIS design instead of designing the NSFG independently. The design effects based on statistical modeling investigations were quite encouraging and indicated that linkage was likely to produce substantial goins in the NSFG sample design efficiency. The second report, Linking the National Survey of Family Growth With the National Interview Survey (Series 2, No. 103), presented results that were based on survey experiments in which alternative design options for linking the NSFG to the NHIS were tested, The experiments demonstrated conclusively the feasibility as well as the efficiency of linking the NHIS and NSFG sample designs. Although the findings did not lead to a definitive determination of the optimal design for integrating the NHIS and NSFG designs, the findings did provide the basis for making informed choices for integrating the NSFG Cycle IV design with the NHIS. This, the third report, evaluates the linked design that was executed in conducting NSFG Cycle IV. For fixed precision, it compares the actual NSFG Cycle IV costs with those expected for an unlinked design and for two somewhat more efficient linked designs that might have been executed under more ideal conditions." - p. iii
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Patrick Richardson - Reports from Beyond
- Doug Johnstone
- 16 October 2008
(Ultima Thule Press)
The best travel writing is much more than just writing about travel, something this hugely experienced journeyman doesn't seem to realise despite a lifetime of wanderlust. This glossy coffee table effort is subtitled 'A Journey Through Life to Remote Places' and details Patrick Richardson's many far-flung trips, culled from 20 years of contributions to various broadsheet newspapers. But Reports from Beyond manages to be a lot less than the sum of its parts.
Great travel writing has a narrative, a purpose and some insight into the writer's mindset, the places visited and the cultures encountered. This book manages to have precious little of that, making treks through East Yemen, Burma and the Ethiopian Highlands seem like banal, trudging itineraries, lists of travels and travails that merge into one big tedious slog. The world is an amazingly diverse and fascinating place. Sadly, Reports from Beyond fails to capture any of that.


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Marisa Tomei, 44, has nothing to complain about. Not only is she nominated for an Oscar for "The Wrestler," (Don't you think it's time you SAW this movie?) but she has a hot boyfriend to keep her warm in Utah. She's handholding with hunky actor Logan Marshall-Green, 32, who happens to have a Masters degree in fine arts. He was on "The O.C." but we don't remember him. The couple met last June when they did a play in New York together.
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By Anonymous
On January 23, 2009 at
Uh-huh. It's a toss-up between Marisa and Mira Sorvino as to which one burned bridges the fastest with their outrageous behavior — in the wake of winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Suffice it to say, both are much more humble these days. Interesting that both are also Italian, have similar names and have gravitated toward younger men who are "aspiring." Of the two, so far, Mira seems to have the edge on relative career success and aging well.
By Anonymous
On January 23, 2009 at
P.S. The first time I saw Marisa was during a taping of "A Different World" — seems like a hundred years ago LOL. I remember that she definitely stood out (and not just because she was virtually the only cast member who was not black); she had a real charisma and attractiveness. Flash forward many years and I am watching her in "In the Bedroom," in which she did a decent job, but her attempts to approximate a Maine accent got her no love here in the Pine Tree State.
By gerard Vandenberg
On January 23, 2009 at
………..BUT THE REST SUCKS DRAMATICELY, folks!!
By Anonymous
On January 24, 2009 at
I have no interest in this rubbish Hollywood derivative movie nor the mediocrity of Marisa Tomei
By Neena
On January 25, 2009 at
I think her boyfriend played Ryan's brother in Season 2 of the OC.
By Anonymous
On February 8, 2009 at
I think he played the brother as well.
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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :Every-day scenes. Nevile Lodge, 1952.
Reference Number: H-727-008
Shows ten scenes of life in Wellington: a man chasing his hat in the wind; a traffic officer issuing a parking ticket to a car parked on a No Parking sign; a woman collecting for a street appeal; passengers holding on to the outside of the Brooklyn tram; a man tripping over some uneven steps; a horse-drawn milk delivery cart; a man digging up the street with a pneumatic drill; a man holding onto a picket fence as he struggles to walk uphill; a man standing at a tram stop just after 6 p.m. holding a carton of ale; a car being shaken up as it is driven across tram or train tracks.
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1 image, categorised under Ink drawings and Cartoons (Commentary), related to Nevile Sidney Lodge, New Zealand Cartoon Archive. Lodge Laughs at Wellington [Book title] 2004., A H & A W Reed, Wellington City, Trams, Automobiles, Pavements, Milk trade - New Zealand - Wellington Region, Automobile parking, Horses, Ale, Hats, Pneumatic tools and Winds.
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Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[39 copies of cartoons from 'Lodge looks at Wellington', Nevile Lodge, 1952], Reference Number H-727-001/039 (8 digitised items)
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Raiders of the Lost Shark
Raiders of the Lost Shark
Four friends set out by boat for an idyllic vacation on a private, remote island. But unknown to them, a weaponized shark has escaped from a top secret military lab nearby, a shark that was genetically engineered with hate in its blood, and progra
Genre: Horror
Actor: Dan Desmarais Peter Whittaker Kitty Kamieniecki Angela Parent
Director: Scott Patrick
Country: International
Release: 19 May 2015
Duration: 71 min
Quality: HD
Rating: 1.7
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How To Drop Weight Easily And Quickly
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February 12, 2014 --
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 12, 2014
Could cell phone radiation from towers, wifi and wireless hand-held devices be responsible for a shocking increase in brain tumors over the last 10 years?
According to the Brain Tumor Foundation of Canada, brain tumors are the leading cause of solid cancer death in children under the age of 20, now surpassing acute lymphoblastic leukemia. They are the third leading cause of solid cancer death in young adults ages 20-39. - http://www.braintumour.ca/2494/brain-tumour-facts
Research published by Dr. Lennart Hardell indicates that brain tumor risk increases with more years of cell phone use. Proving the effects of cell phone radiation are cumulative with more hours of use, those with the most usage had a 300% increase in having a brain tumor on the same side as a cell phone was most used. The official technical abstract of this study can be found here: http://www.spandidos-publications.com/10.3892/ijo.2013.2111.


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Blind Items Revealed #34
February 27, 2017
Academy Awards
This ABC network comedy actor bailed on the last 30 minutes of his commitment to a show because he met two women while working the crowd there to see the stars arriving. They both wanted to hook up with him but had to catch a flight back to their country at 1am or something, so our actor said see ya to the shoot.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Rajasthan has become a 'durbar for sycophants and a mafia hub', party MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari said while targeting Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and party's leadership in the state.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Rajasthan has become a 'durbar for sycophants and a mafia hub', party MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari said while targeting Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and party's leadership in the state. As per an Indian Express report, Tiwari on May 14, had said that as long as the present leadership continues to hold power in the state, he even feared for his life. This reaction came in the wake of Tiwari being served a notice by the party's central disciplinary committee last week. Tiwari also attacked the central leadership.
As per reports, Tiwari said that he had tried to explain his case before various top leaders of the saffron party but it did not have any effect. He also termed the disciplinary proceedings being conducted against him as 'a mere formality.'
However, Tiwari's major grievances are against Raje and he had written a six-page reply where he had accused the Rajasthan CM of having him removed from the national working committee of the BJP. His hard-hitting missive said, "Mukhyamantri ne Rajasthan mein chori aur seenazori ke naye keertiman sthapit kiye…kya is mukhyamantri ko aapne party girvi rakh di hai (the chief minister has set new records of brazenness in Rajasthan…have you mortgaged the party to this chief minister)."
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The notice served to Tiwari demands explanation on his alleged anti-party activities which includes floating a parallel outfit, colluding with opposition parties and not attending important party meetings. However, Tiwari has justified his absence from party meetings citing threat to his life, alleging that he was attacked by the leaders close to Raje during many such meeting.
"The party, under pressure from the CM, removed me from all positions and responsibilities at Centre and state levels…I have been humiliated at every step. Before sending me this notice, you could have called me…asked me about my problems…without talking to me, you sent me a notice and made it public via the press," Tiwari said.
Quoting the 16th-century Hindu mystic poet Mirabai, Tiwari said, "Raja roothe, nagri raakhe (if the king is upset, the town will protect)." People in power may have turned away but the people of Rajasthan will do justice when the time comes.
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Learning Document Embeddings by Predicting N-grams for Sentiment Classification of Long Movie Reviews
- Abstract: Bag-of-ngram based methods still achieve state-of-the-art results for tasks such as sentiment classification of long movie reviews, though semantic information is partially lost for these methods. Many document embeddings methods have been proposed to capture semantics, but they still can't outperform bag-of-ngram based methods on this task. In this paper, we modify the architecture of the recently proposed Paragraph Vector, allowing it to learn document vectors by predicting not only words, but n-gram features as well. Our model is able to capture both semantics and word order in documents while keeping the expressive power of learned vectors. Experimental results on IMDB movie review dataset show that our model outperforms previous deep learning models and bag-of-ngram based models due to the above advantages.
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text: Home /Vacatures /Component Engineer Component Engineer Doorsturen E-mailadres* Print Aanbod € 35,000 - € 50,000 Functiegroep Energie Dienstverband Fulltime Vacaturenummer 8132100 Locatie Overijssel Contract Detachering via YER Branche Manufacturing Over deze vacature You are responsible for the introduction and registration of electronics components (catalogue materials and customized derivatives) used for the design of electronic functions implemented in high-end analog and digital circuits and realized on PCBs. Functie In your job, you will be the linking pin between design teams, purchasing, obsolescence engineering and component vendors, providing advice and guard the balance between technology, quality, cost and logistics, often in an international environment.Your work will cover:Build and maintain expertise in the assigned components product category by doing market research on trends/developments, participating in seminars/conventions, studying literature etc.Maintain (technical) contact with components vendors, suppliers and organisation sitesMake policies w.r.t. electronics componentsEnsure the availability of suitable components (technology, applicability, vendor selection, etc.) required to build our products; select, approve, document and manage purchased componentsFind suitable solutions for obsolescence issues Bedrijf Our client is active in the Defence and Security sectors and is the top provider of high-tech jobs. Product innovation and swift anticipation of the newest technological possibilities are the mainsprings of our business. Aanbod Challenging and innovative projects and developments in a high-tech market; Opportunities for growth and (international) personal development; Good and flexible working atmosphere; open, cooperative organization; Room for initiatives and ideas.You will be employed by YER and seconded to the end client. Our benefits are very competitive and designed around your preferences:Fixed salary commensurate with knowledge and experience24 days annual leave and 8% holiday bonusTravel allowanceAttractive pension schemeStructured and personal coachingInspiring masterclassesSubject specific trainingBachelor or Master in for example Computer Science or likewise Profiel You have a Bachelor degree in Electrical EngineeringYou have a background in hardware designYou are independent but not individualYour are creative, enterprising and problem solvingYou are an enthusiastic and persistent personality with good communication skillsYou are fluent in English Doorsturen E-mailadres* Print


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Join us to help our Hills, say AONB Friends
"Join us to help the hills we love" was the open invitation of Friends of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at their annual get together at Aston-on-Clun last Friday (July 7).
The 30 or so Friends attending the event visited some of the local conservation projects their membership is supporting. They explored an exciting arts in the countryside programme and saw initiatives conserving threatened butterflies, managing roadside verges for wildlife and improving access to local wetlands. They also heard about projects ranging from a mobile farm visiting schools to invasive plant removal along vulnerable riverbanks.
"Our Conservation Fund supports these and many other projects each year from Friends subscriptions, together with much appreciated donations from the Millichope Foundation and Jean Jackson Trust," explained Shropshire Hills AONB Trust treasurer, George Chancellor.
"Our initial target is to build our Friends membership to 1000. At just £25/year for an individual, £36/year for a family and £50/year for an organisation this would make all the difference to the number of highly worthwhile community projects we can help.
"Charitable status makes all subscriptions and donations as tax efficient as possible and allows us to boost them with Gift Aid. Please help us to conserve the wonderful landscape, wildlife and heritage of the Shropshire Hills. All the information you need to become a Friend is available at http://www.shropshirehillsaonb.co.uk/a-special-place/friends/or by ringing the AONB Partnership on 01743 254740."


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After 13 months we have had a major setback followed by a major boost. The final quotation for the re-hanging work came in at almost £25k – staggering us. We hope to be able to reduce this somewhat, but at first it seemed well beyond our financial reach. However Professor Janet Beer, the new VC at Liverpool, has taken an interest in the Adagio project and it now seems that she will ensure that the University will provide the help we need to complete the project. We are back on track to do the installation in July and to announce a grand opening after that. Keep your fingers crossed.
The first year
I started this campaign in March 2014: A year has passed. Despite this, I am optimistic that we are making progress and confident that by the summer Adagio will be hanging (and slowly oscillating) where others can see her. Keep watching this space.
We now have a card bearing the address of this blog – ask if you need some to hand to friends.
Smith fecit
February 2015: On the recommendation of Marianne Forrest (the artist) I contacted Smith of Derby, who installed Adagio in the Phil back in 1995. On 18th Feb Jim Foster and Kevin Litchfield from Smith of Derby came over to see Adagio and our proposed location for her. I was excited to discover that Kevin was the project manager for both the construction and original installation of Adagio. He pronounced that it was still in good condition in The Friary, and that he could see no insuperable problems in re-installing it in the HCL Reading Room. We are awaiting his quote for doing this work.
This is a very promising development, although it still seems likely that we will need a bit more funding, so our search for that must continue.
A new date
January 2015: Discussions with the Librarian indicate that the next real opportunity to do the necessary work in the HCL Reading Room is in June. The Easter vacation is not a good time, because the library is open all hours in the period up to the main exams. This gives us a bit of time to solve our various problems. And solve them we will!
Phil Sykes and I have investigated a couple of potential sources of further funding. However the project does not seem to fall within the remit of either the Wolfson Foundation, or the Heritage Lottery Fund.
I was particularly disappointed to find that art works do not feature in the Heritage Lottery Fund's remit. Their rubric is:
We fund projects which focus on heritage. Heritage includes many different things from
the past that we value and want to pass on to future generations, for example: archaeological sites; collections of objects, books or documents in museums, libraries or archives; cultural traditions such as stories, festivals, crafts, music, dance and costumes; historic buildings; histories of people and communities; histories of places and events; the heritage of languages and dialects; natural and designed landscapes and gardens; people's memories and experiences (often recorded as 'oral history'); places and objects linked to our industrial, maritime and transport history; and natural heritage including habitats, species and geology.
Missed the window!
December 2014: By the tender deadline we had no bids from contractors to re-install the sculpture, but just one came in a week or so later. It rather shocked me, adding up to a total of almost £17,000. So, since there is a funding gap of about £5,000 between what we currently have and this cost, and also because it is now only a week to the Christmas vacation, we have had to accept that the installation will be delayed. This means that we have also missed the window of opportunity to bring the large parts of Adagio in via the window gaps while the HCL is refurbished.
However I have now measured the size of the opening in the new windows and it is (just) large enough to accept the long (9.2m, remember) central component. All is not lost.
We must now either (or preferably both) raise a bit more money or/and find a way of doing the re-installation more cheaply.
This is one of the candidate windows. It opens to the horizontal, giving quite a large opening.
Can we install before Christmas?
October 2014: It would be ideal if we could install Adagio during the Christmas vacation and we have a tentative date of 22nd December for moving the components into the Library via one of the window openings. The scaffold erected by the contractors who are refurbishing the library should still be there, and the disruption to students will be minimal over Christmas. We now need quickly to obtain a quotation from a contractor to do the installation.
Outside views of the Harold Cohen Library, during and after window replacement
Not such good news from Kickstarter
22nd September 2014: Despite attracting pledges from 14 individuals, our Kickstarter campaign only reached just over £1,000 against its target of £3,000.
More positively I have written to all of the significant pledgers, asking them to donate separately, and indeed to fill in a gift aid form which adds 25% to their donation. All have agreed – thank you everyone.
We now have promises of over £11,000 towards the project. I hope this might be enough.


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[deleted post]Just like your name, I will "laugh out loud" on your comment. Do you even know how much big, an 808 PureView sensor size is? And if they managed to put it in a much more slimmer 9.7 mm thick body while 920 is an inch thicker than this one. Try fitting a sensor technology like this in any slim phone with shot bezel and you'll *cry* out loud.
I'm sure EOS will provide excellent camera experience, but I am getting Lumia 925.
Eagerly waiting on tmobile USA
Common_636, 06 Jun 2013I wonder if there will be conflict between Nokia and Canon if they decide to keep that nameEOS is a greek term I think, it is not the same as Canon's EOS technology AFAIK
gawd, why are everyone making the phones this big now a days?? I want a 4" screen that is easy to hold in my small hands.
More fisher price bricks.
Good camera or not it is thick and heavy with huge bezels.
Tell you guys what, If Nokia ever decided to do ONE high-end Android device you will see what will happen to the Samsung Galaxy's.
Anyways there is a good chance this being my next Smartphone and camera.
Common_636, 06 Jun 2013I wonder if there will be conflict between Nokia and Canon if they decide to keep that nameWon't be. Canon cannot claim the name, it's used for other purposes as well, not only Canon uses it.
lumia 925 928 all r same waste but this in true update version of lumia 920
Still a few questionmarks.
Screen technology and sub pixel count.
Lets hope for a Amoled, but unlike 925 they should have a full sub-pixel set.
You don't need more than 720p in a mobile, today, or you will be wasting graphics power painting pixels you can hardly see, instead of more details or better batterylife.
Storage. if it comes at 64 and 128, at decent price level, well, then it will be fine, even without micro-SD. But with 32GB, it really needs it.
It's a cameraphone, high resolution high quality pics takes a lot of space. And we are hoping for RAW mode this time, and a proper RAW converter to deal with potential image distortions due to the system (that is how Micro four thirds and Sony RX100 does it, however its built in to their jpeg algorithms).
Cloud storage is just a gimmick at this point. It uses resources, relying on a internetconnection. The write speeds are far from high enough for imaging, so then if you take a lot of images, you will run in to trouble.
OIS wasnt mentioned here.
Without it, it will not dominate, even if it might still on quite e few occasions probably be the best (depends on what sony does with Honami).
Variable apretature, has been mentioned, and that would be awesome, but should not be implemented if it affects the maximum aperature size.
Battery capacity, is very very important, as well.
Taking pics and shooting videos drains the battery a lot. I'm affraid Nokia wont deliver on this, we probably will be seeing a meaissly 2000mAh, and that will not be enough. Standy of modern OSes and CPUs are not effective enough.
And please Nokia, implement Bluetooth 4.0, without it, it can not connect to all modern BT accesories.
Ohh comon a dual core processor ,
nokia please grow up soon , put the snapdragon 800 processor in the phone & enable 4k video capture on the pureview sensor .
AnonD-134497, 06 Jun 2013LOL stop showing yourself as paid to praise Samsung. We already have seen how the "Galaxy... moreThat wasn't even a fan speaking for Samsung but might be an employee willing to be shot at anytime by Samsung haters! Haha! That was an advertisement right there! :P
Anonymous, 06 Jun 2013Who cares! if i want a good picture i will buy the latest handy digicam out there, not this! p... morepeople have different needs and/or hobbies, some apreciate a good camera always available in their pockets, wrapped in the most qualitative materials used so far in smartphones(you were reffering to samsung about cheap plastic and you know it:)) while some, like you, want just to show off with their aquisitions, kill time through playing silly games and reboot/flash a messy OS hopeing to make it work and crying just after few months from their purchase because a new, better specd phone is available:)...yeah, who cares? since trolls like you bother to "honour" us with their presence and "vastly" knowledge:)
Common_636, 06 Jun 2013You seem to know alot about 3 phones that are only rumored and haven't even been release yet. I got the info through reading during my free time. Try it! Maybe you'll have a couple more ideas when you research what interests you while killing your time. :)
AnonD-3557, 06 Jun 2013Stop crying over Micro SD Support.
You have SkyDrive, Box.net, Dropbox, Sugarsync, Google Dri... moreAnd for those who do not want to rely on the cloud, what should they do? Just with the maps on Nokia Here and maybe Here+, it is predictable that at least almost half of the memory of this smartphone will be for the cached maps. Plus the fact you want high quality music and photos, not on the cloud, and you will have filled three quarters of the internal memory of this device... Oh, wait, it still remains 8Go, then, but will it be enough for all the apps one will need? For people for which 8Go will not be enough and still do not want to rely on the cloud, will they have to transfer their photos and music to their computer?
A Micro SDHC slot should have been provided on this device. Definitely too bad it is not there. Otherwise... whoa!
rj23, 06 Jun 2013Among the phones that are rumored and set to be released on the second half of 2013 I am only ... moreYou seem to know alot about 3 phones that are only rumored and haven't even been release yet.
AnonD-3557, 06 Jun 2013Stop crying over Micro SD Support. You have SkyDrive, Box.net, Dropbox, Sugarsync, Google Dri... moreThe great thing about having a couple of extra GBs of memory through micro SD is something that I will definitely like because not all the time you can use internet or you'll have an internet connection anytime, anywhere whereas if you have your microSD, its gonna be worry free for you and it will be lesser of a hassle for me at least. Another fact is that your files on your SD card will be more confidential compared to cloud memory that is internet based so that's for sure is a little more risky being exposed to hackers and all. There's still a little more advantage in having a micro SD card slot, not to mention, you will also have to pay a monthly service for cloud memories after 2 years of using them. Not a smart move having it. :)
I wonder if there will be conflict between Nokia and Canon if they decide to keep that name
Among the phones that are rumored and set to be released on the second half of 2013 I am only getting intrigued and interested with this Lumia Pureview and Sony's Cybershot lines that will star the rumored Honami a phone with a 5" screen and Togari with a rumored 6.3" screen size which I think is a bit oversized already just like the rumored Galaxy Note 3 from Samsung. Anyhow, going back to the Lumia Pureview, if it will have a nice body build, nicer than that of the present Lumia phones, there's a great chance I might have my One X+ changed for it but Sony really kills it by designing such lovely phones, Sony has always made nice looking phones especially the Xperia Z! The Honami was reported to have a Metal, Glass and Carbon Fiber elements in its design category and that for sure will be made well by Sony and their new devices Honami and Togari will sport a Cybershot technology that will mimic the quality of images produced by Sony's RX100 camera which is a beast especially for a smartphone that will surely be a great head to head battle between Nokia and Sony and Zoom on the other hand from Samsung will be left out for sure only having a qHD resolution on a 4.3" screen size? Wow! That's something that should have been released back in 2011! There will be no LTE connectivity too which for sure is available with Sony's Honami and maybe with the Lumia Pureview too! Honami will have a full HD screen resolution and a Triluminos screen like the ones on their Smart TVs according to a representative from Sony Philippines which (if rumors will be true) will surely be a fire hit and will throw SAmoled out of the water. Lumia Pureview on the other hand might not have a full HD screen resolution but it is a little over than a regular HD screen at 768 resolution which isn't bad, atleast Nokia makes it higher than a 720p HD resolution but Samsung doing it at qHD, WOW! That's something that you Sammy fans should be afraid of. It's no longer 2011 and we're about to approach 2014 when these devices will arrive to the market! I hope all the rumors for Nokia and Sony come true coz if they'll make it possible for us who believe in them, Sammy and Apple and even the struggling BlackBerry will all get their revenues down. For me, Nokia is at its best with Windows platform and Sony for me is the best among the Android OEMs. Sammy and Apple are two of the most overrated names in this world next to Justin Bieber! lol
it's certainly been a while since I posted anything on here!!
but just had to say...
as an owner of Galaxy 2/3 and currently Note 2...
I do love Sammy's products, they're tough, reliable and arguably the best-specced on the market...
I think specs are pretty much levelling out now... beyond quad core and HD screens - really the next battle has to be fought on what 'unique' benefits a phone from any manufacturer can bring?
I've got mine until the end of next year...
but I can honestly say IF Nokia is still going by then and making phones like this... I'll be jumping ship without hesitation... I think stand-out features (as well as looks, etc.) will be what matters next...