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A while ago, I looked up a book that I like on Amazon's Kindle store, to see if I could get it for my Kindle. Sure enough, they had it, but they wouldn't sell it to me. Instead, I was met with this message:
To my mind, there is no good reason for this. There is, however, a very bad one: Corporate greed. Because authors generally have publishing deals with different publishing houses in different regions, they lose sales. By the same logic, I should not be allowed to buy a book in the US, and bring it back with me, or order the paperback from Amazon, yet I am.
Ebooks are by no means alone in having this kind of problem. The best example I have, is regions on DVDs and Blu-Rays. The historical background is the divide between NTSC and PAL; two different systems for video tapes. NTSC tapes would be recorded and played back at 60 frames per second, while PAL tapes would be recorded and played back at 50 frames per second. The reason is simply that the electrical grid in the US transfers AC power at 60 hertz, while the grid in European countries transfers AC power at 50 hertz.
Now, while there was a good reason way back when, there is no good reason now, and this silliness needs to stop.


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Backlash against proposed taxi apps
New Yorkers may want to hail and pay with the tap of a finger, but some drivers are not yet on board.
New Yorkers may be ready to download an easier taxi hailing experience with the touch of a finger – but many drivers are hitting the brakes.
Some drivers are pushing back against plans for apps to hail and pay for cabs by smartphone.
Critics cite worries that the apps might mean fewer cabs available for spontaneous street hails or drivers fumbling with phones while they should have eyes on the road.
Apps like Uber, GetTaxi and Taxi Magic allow users to hail with the tap of a finger.
In June, the Taxi and Limousine Commission collected app proposals from companies like these to allow taxi passengers to pay, hail and even rate their cabbies.
But not all drivers will welcome the apps with open arms – the Livery Roundtable, which represents livery drivers, criticized the plans, saying that that pre-ordering a cab would blur the line with its industry, where people call to order a car, or mean fewer street hails.
Yellow cab driver Charbel Sfeir detailed another potential problematic scenario that could arise from using the apps.
"What happens if you are on Tenth Street and Greenwich, and I'm on 12th Street and Washington. You hit request, and I'll respond – I'll be there within minutes," he said. "(But) sometimes people are running late to work, so they don't want to wait for me to pick them up, and they will get into a cab driving by or dropping off someone else."
Also, he said he is concerned about getting tickets while waiting for fares where it is not easy to pull over. "On Fifth Avenue or Madison Avenue, there's no place to park," he said. "My concern is No. 1 the tickets."
And earlier this year, the Maryland-based Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association cautioned that apps could create fare gouging.
TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg said the agency has received positive feedback from cabbies, and they promised to work with the livery industry as they consider apps.
But there is just one catch: All the apps are still technically illegal under TLC rules.
City officials say they are hoping to legalize paying for cabs via phone soon, but it would not happen before February, when a taxi contract with their credit card payment processor ends.

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I was supposed to start Lexapro five days ago, but I am terrified to take the first 5 mg dose. My doc prescribed 5 mg for for days, then 10 mg after that.
I am very anxious, but definitely not depressed, and I have never been on medication for ANYTHING before. I'm a 25 year old woman working 60 hours per week in a very demanding position. My social anxiety has always been a problem for me, but ultimately I've always forced myself through hard times and never let it interfere with accomplishing my goals in life. However, the monotonous hum of anxiety is flowing through me at all times. I sleep well, but I spend nearly every waking hour worrying about whether I can reach my goals (at work and musically - I'm also a singer). I always get through it, and I always do fine. I know this, but it does not soothe the anxiety.
I've recently started a new relationship, and the sex is great. It's the best time of my week. But I'm still working 60 hours. Reviews seem to be generally positive for Lexapro, but it seems that everyone's "con" is lack of sex drive. How significant are these side effects? I'm not sure whether calming my constant anxiety is worth sacrificing my sex life at 25. Any advice?


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It is an exciting beginning of the 2017-2018 school year. Our library has many new books for our students to enjoy and checkout. I look forward to having all Wenonah students in library class this year.
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Jack Lake Revare has recently completed a genealogical project on several surnames in his ancestry. The title of the book is
Descendants of Jacques REVERD of France & Daniel LAKE of North Carolina
. It was published by Gateway. The book covers some surnames that have not been published before and will include some new and innovative research. The book has maps, graphics and pictures to enhance the presentation. It consists of eleven chapters covering the following surnames:
This chapter traces these families back from Missouri and Ohio to the Franche-Comté area of France. Most of the material has never been published before.
This chapter covers several additional French surnames from the Montbéliard area including these French families back to the 1600's to the Franche-Comté area. Information on these families has never been printed before. The chapter covers many other surnames in France including BOHIN, DUVERNOY, PARROT, LECUREUX, LOUYS, ROSSELOT, RIGOULOT and BELFILS.
This chapter covers the descendants of Daniel Lake of Buncombe Co., NC. It traces the family's trek from North Carolina to northeast Missouri. A Lake DNA project is under way at
This chapter consists of the first published work of the descendants of John Eales of Virginia. It incorporates the manuscripts of Harry Eales, formerly of Wichita, KS. Mr. Eales and his brother did extensive domestic research on this family. If your Eales ancestor came to America before 1800, chances are your line is in the book. Eales lines are traced to several states including Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas.
This chapter includes new research and theories from research done over the years by Dr. Wade Watts. It traces the ancestors of Capt. Peter Watts, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. It also traces descendants of Peter Watts from North Carolina and Virginia to Kentucky and Missouri.
This chapter covers the descendants of John Lady of Adams County, Pennsylvania. Descendants are traced to West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Kansas.
This chapter covers the descendants of Daniel Ferrell of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Some of the states covered are Missouri and Kansas. Since the book was published, updated research links Daniel Farrell to ancestors in Maryland. A line of the QUIMBY family is also covered.
This chapter traces the Tilton line from England to New England, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio. It discusses the founding of Tiltonsville, Ohio.
This chapter covers the Northcutt family fromVirginia to Kentucky to Missouri and beyond. The chapter specializes in Missouri Northcutt descendants
The book is approximately 500 pages with an excellent name and place index. An insert is enclosed updating and correcting data. The price is $27 postpaid. For further information or orders, contact


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Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.
Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.
"In the whole Bible there is hardly another chapter which can equal this triumphant text." (Martin Luther)
A. The benefits of believing.
1. (Rom 5:1-2) Peace and a standing of grace.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
a. Therefore, having been justified by faith: To this point in the Book of Romans, Paul has convinced us all that the only way of salvation is to be justified by grace, through faith. Now he will tell us what the practical benefits of this are, explaining that it is more than an interesting idea.
i. Justified by faith speaks of a legal decree. Romans 1:18-3:20 found us guilty before the courts of God's law, God's glory, and our own conscience. Then Paul explained how because of what Jesus did for us, the righteousness of God is given to all who believe. The guilty sentence is transformed into a sentence of justified, and justified by faith.
b. First, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Because the price has been paid in full by the work of Jesus on the cross, God's justice towards us is eternally satisfied.
i. This is not the peace of God spoken of in other places (such as Philippians 4:7). This is peace with God; the battle between God and us is finished - and He won, winning us. Some never knew they were out of peace with God, but they were like drivers ignoring the red lights of a police car in their rear-view mirror - they are in trouble even if they don't know it, and it will soon catch up to them.
ii. This peace can only come through our Lord Jesus Christ. He and His work is our entire ground for peace. In fact, Jesus is our peace. (Ephesians 2:14)
iii. Remember that the Bible doesn't say we have peace with the devil, peace with the world, peace with the flesh, or peace with sin. Life is still a battle for the Christian but it is no longer a battle against God, it is fighting for Him. Some Christians are tempted to believe the battle against God was almost a better place to be, and that is a dangerous and damnable lie.
iv. "I am delighted to find that sin stings you, and that you hate it. The more hatred of sin the better. A sin-hating soul is a God-loving soul. If sin never distresses you, then God has never favored you." (Spurgeon)
c. Into this grace in which we stand: Second, we have a standing in grace - in God's unmerited favor. This grace is given through Jesus and gained by faith.
i. Grace (God's undeserved favor towards us) is not only the means by which we are saved, it is also a description of our present standing before God. It is not only the beginning principle of the Christian life it is also the continuing principle of the Christian life. "We stand translates a perfect tense, used in this sense of the present, and with the thought of a continuing attitude." (Morris)
ii. Many Christians begin in grace, but then think that they will go on to perfection and maturity by dealing with God on the principle of law - on the ideas of earning and deserving. Paul spoke against this very point in Galatians 3:2-3 and Galatians 5:1-4.
iii. A standing in grace reassures us: God's present attitude towards the believer in Christ Jesus is one of favor, seeing them in terms of joy, beauty and pleasure. He doesn't just love us; He likes us because we are in Jesus.
iv. Standing in grace means that:
v. "The former rebels are not merely forgiven by having their due punishment remitted; they are brought into a place of high favour with God - this grace in which we stand." (Bruce)
vi. The Proper Attitude of Man under Grace (William Newell)
d. Through whom also we have access by faith: Our access into this standing of grace is only by faith, and through Jesus; we cannot work ourselves into this standing. The access isn't just into a standing of grace, but into the very courts of heaven. This is a blessing beyond peace with God. "One may be reconciled to his prince, and yet not to be brought into his presence." (Poole)
i. Morris on access: "The idea is that of introduction to the presence-chamber of a monarch. The rendering access is inadequate, as it leaves out of sight the fact that we do not come in our own strength, but need an 'introducer' - Christ."
ii. Wuest quotes Thayer regarding access: "That friendly relation with God whereby we are acceptable to Him and have assurance that He is favorably disposed towards us."
e. We have access: The perfect verb tense of have access also indicates that this is a standing, permanent possession. Because our standing is based on grace, we really can stand and have peace, because we know that our access is a permanent possession. It cannot be taken away at a later time.
i. "And this access to God, or introduction to the Divine presence, is to be considered a lasting privilege. We are not brought to God for the purpose of an interview, but to remain with him; to be his household; and by faith, to behold his face, and walk in the light of his countenance." (Clarke)
f. The logical conclusion to such peace and such a standing of grace means that we can rejoice in hope of the glory of God. When we relate to God on the principle of works, any rejoicing is presumptuous, and any imagined glory goes to us, not God.
i. Rejoice is the word normally translated boast; it means "a triumphant, rejoicing confidence." (Morris)
ii. Hope never implied uncertainty for Paul. J.B. Philipps translates hope as happy certainty.
g. Again, all this only makes sense having been justified by faith. If we are not justified by grace through faith, then we have no peace with God, and we have no present standing of grace.
h. "Alas, how few believers have the courage of faith! When some saint here or there does begin to believe the facts and walk in shouting liberty, we say (perhaps secretly), 'He must be an especially holy, consecrated man.' No, he is just a poor sinner like you, who is believing in the abundance of grace!" (Newell)
2. (Rom 5:3-4) The promise of glory is also for the present time.
And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
a. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations: Paul anticipates the accusation that he is too "pie in the sky," that glory for the Christian only applies to the sweet bye-and-bye. Paul replies, "I know we have many tribulations now but we glory in those also."
i. Paul isn't simply spinning out spiritual platitudes. First, he uses strong words. Tribulations is "a strong term. It does not refer to minor inconveniences, but to real hardships" (Morris). Second, Paul lived a life full of tribulation. If this is true Paul knew it better than anyone.
b. Knowing that tribulation produces perseverance: We can glory in tribulations (literally, stresses) because they are the occasion to produce perseverance (endurance).
i. A runner must be stressed to gain endurance. Sailors must go to sea. Soldiers go to battle. For the Christian, tribulation is just part of our Christian life. We should not desire or hope for a tribulation-free Christian life, especially because:
ii. "A Christian man should be willing to be tried; he should be pleased to let his religion be put to the test. 'There,' says he, 'hammer away if you like.' Do you want to be carried to heaven on a feather bed?" (Spurgeon)
iii. "I've heard people advise others against praying for patience because God will then send them tribulations. If that's the way patience comes then, 'God, bring on the troubles.' I need patience!" (Smith)
iv. "Whatever virtues tribulation finds us in, it develops more fully. If anyone is carnal, weak, blind, wicked, irascible, haughty, and so forth, tribulation will make him more carnal, weak, blind, wicked and irritable. On the other hand, if one is spiritual, strong, wise, pious, gentle and humble, he will become more spiritual, powerful, wise, pious, gentle and humble." (Martin Luther)
v. " 'Tribulation worketh patience,' says the apostle. Naturally it is not so. Tribulation worketh impatience, and impatience misses the fruit of experience, and sours into hopelessness. Ask many who have buried a dear child, or have lost their wealth, or have suffered pain of body, and they will tell you that the natural result of affliction is to produce irritation against providence, rebellion against God, questioning, unbelief, petulance, and! all sorts of evils. But what a wonderful alteration takes place when the heart is renewed by the Holy Spirit!" (Spurgeon)
c. Perseverance, character; and character, hope: This is a golden chain of Christian growth and maturity. One virtue builds upon another as we grow in the pattern of Jesus.
i. Most every Christian wants to develop character and have more hope. These qualities spring out of perseverance, which comes through tribulation. We may wish to have better character and more hope without starting with tribulation, but that isn't God's pattern and plan.
ii. I would rather have God just sprinkle perseverance and character and hope on me as I sleep. I could wake up a much better Christian! But that isn't God's plan for me or for any Christian.
iii. Therefore we say - soberly, reverently - we say about tribulation, "Lord, bring it on. I know you love me and carefully measure every trial and have a loving purpose to accomplish in every tribulation. Lord, I won't seek trials and search out tribulation, but I won't despise them or lose hope when they come. I trust Your love in everything You allow."
3. (Rom 5:5) Evidence for hope: God's love in our hearts right now, evidenced by the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
a. Now hope does not disappoint: The hope that tribulation builds in us is not a hope that will be disappointed. We are assured of this because God has proved His intention to complete His work in us - the proof being the love of God … poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
b. Every Christian should know what it is like to have the love of God … poured out in our hearts - to have a deep inner awareness of God's love for us.
i. Paul's logical arguments in Romans are devastating but the Book of Romans doesn't lack emotion or passionate experiences with God. Paul wants us to think the right thoughts about God, but he also wants us to have the right experience with God - the love of God … poured out in our hearts.
ii. God's love isn't given to us in a trickle, it is poured out in our hearts. Some Christians live as if it was only a trickle but God wants us to know the outpouring of His love.
c. This love is ours by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. A lack of awareness of God's love can often be credited to a failure to be constantly filled with the Holy Spirit and to walk in the Spirit.
i. "The love of God is like light to a blind eye until the Holy Ghost opens that eye … may the Holy Spirit now be here in each one of us, to shed abroad the love of God in our hearts." (Spurgeon)
ii. Everyone who is a Christian has the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9). But not every Christian lives in the fullness of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), and not every Christian walks in the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:4-5).
4. (Rom 5:6-8) A description of God's love towards us.
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
a. When we were still without strength: Paul describes the greatness of God's love. It is love given to the undeserving, to those without strength, to the ungodly, to sinners. This emphasizes the fact that the reasons for God's love are found in Him, not in us.
i. Who are these people? Who are the ungodly and wicked people Jesus died for? Paul spent the first two-and-a-half chapters of the Book of Romans telling us that we all are those people.
b. In due time Christ died for the ungodly: God sent the Son at the right time, at the due time. It may have seemed late to some but Jesus' work was done at the perfect time in God's plan: when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son. (Galatians 4:4)
i. The world was prepared spiritually, economically, linguistically, politically, philosophically and geographically for the coming of Jesus and the spread of the Gospel. "The Scripture everywhere speaks of a certain season or hour assigned for the death of Christ: see Matthew 26:45; John 8:20; John 12:27; John 17:1." (Poole)
ii. In due time also has the meaning that Jesus died at the due time for us. He died when we were sinners who needed a Savior. His timing was just right for us.
c. Christ died for the ungodly: Paul mentioned the idea of a substitutionary sacrifice with the word propitiation in Romans 3:25. Here, he makes the point again by saying that Christ died for the ungodly. The ancient Greek word for is the word huper, which means "for the sake of, in behalf of, instead of."
i. Other places where huper is used in the New Testament help us to understand this. In John 11:50, we read: nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for [huper] the people. Galatians 3:13 says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for [huper] us.
ii. Therefore, to genuinely say "Jesus died for me" you must also say "I have no strength to save myself. I am ungodly. I am a sinner." Jesus died to save and transform these.
iii. "You will say, 'Oh, I am one of the worst in the world.' Christ died for the worst in the world. 'Oh, but I have no power to be better.' Christ died for those that were without strength. 'Oh, but my case condemns itself.' Christ died for those that legally are condemned. 'Ay, but my case is hopeless.' Christ died for the hopeless. He is the hope of the hopeless. He is the Savior not of those partly lost, but of the wholly lost." (Spurgeon)
iv. "If Christ died for the ungodly, this fact leaves the ungodly no excuse if they do not come to him, and believe in him unto salvation. Had it been otherwise they might have pleaded, 'We are not fit to come.' But you are ungodly, and Christ died for the ungodly, why not for you?" (Spurgeon)
d. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: God's love is a love beyond even the best love among humans. A good man might die a noble martyrdom for the "right kind" of person - such as a righteous man or a good man. But Jesus died for those who were neither righteous nor good.
i. Is there a difference between a righteous man and a good man in Paul's mind? The difference in Romans 5:7 seems to be that the righteous man is only that - righteous in his personal life but perhaps lacking in feeling for others. The good man by contrast goes beyond the other man by also being kind and benevolent.
e. But God demonstrates His own love: How does the death of the Son demonstrate the love of the Father? Because it was harder for the Father to send His only Son, and because God [the Father] was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. (2 Corinthians 5:19)
i. "It would be easy to see the cross as demonstrating the indifference of God, a God who let the innocent Jesus be taken by wicked men, tortured, and crucified while he did nothing … Unless there is a sense in which the Father and Christ are one, it is not the love of God that the cross shows." (Morris)
ii. The work of Jesus on the cross for us is God's ultimate proof of His love for you. He may give additional proof, but He can give no greater proof. If the cross is the ultimate demonstration of God's love, it is also the ultimate demonstration of man's hatred. It also proves that the height of man's hatred can't defeat the height of God's love.
iii. The demonstration of God's love isn't so much in that Jesus died, but in whom Jesus died for - undeserving sinners and rebels against Him.
5. (Rom 5:9-11) Salvation from God's wrath.
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
a. Much more then, having now been justified His blood, we shall be saved from wrath: If we are justified by the work of Jesus, we can be assured that we are also saved from wrath through Him. The wrath of God that was revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men (Romans 1:18) was placed on Jesus as a substitute in the place of the believer.
i. By nature, some are inclined to preface these great promises of God with "much less then" regarding themselves. God wants them to see it plain and clear: Much more then is the love and goodness of God given to us and much more then can we have confidence in Him.
ii. Saved from wrath: Whose wrath? God's righteous wrath. It is true that we must be saved from the world, the flesh and the devil but most of all we must be rescued from the righteous wrath of God.
iii. John Trapp on much more then: "It is a greater work of God to bring men to grace, than, being the state of grace, to bring them to glory; because sin is far more distant from grace than grace is from glory."
b. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God: If God showed such dramatic love to us when we were enemies, think of the blessings we will enjoy once we are reconciled to God! If God does this much for His enemies, how much more will He do for His friends!
i. Wuest, quoting Alford: "Not only has the reconciled man confidence that he shall escape God's wrath, but triumphant confidence - joyful hope in God."
c. Much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life: This reconciliation isn't only helpful when we die; it also touches our life right now. God is forever done dealing with believers on the basis of wrath. He may chasten them as a loving Father, but not in punishment or payment for their sins. Chastening is always to provide loving correction and guidance.
d. Saved from wrath through Him … we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son … rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus … through whom we have now received the reconciliation: The point is clearly emphasized. What matters is what we have through Jesus. What we have through our own works doesn't matter and can't help us. It's all through Jesus.
B. The Two Men.
1. (Rom 5:12) The spread of sin through the human race.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned;
a. Just as through one man sin entered the world: The Apostle Paul regarded Genesis 3 as totally, historically true. According to Paul (and Jesus, as He says in Matthew 19:4-6), Adam and Eve were real people and what they did has a lasting effect to the present day.
i. It is important to understand that the Adam and Eve account is not an optional passage to be accepted or rejected, or allegorized away. According to Paul's theme here in Romans 5, you can't take away Genesis 3 without taking away principles that lay the foundation for our salvation.
ii. "To Paul, Adam was more than a historical individual, the first man; he was also what his name means in Hebrew - 'humanity.' The whole of humanity is viewed as having existed at first in Adam." (Bruce)
b. Through one man sin entered the world: Paul doesn't prove this, he simply accepts it true from Genesis 3 - sin entered the world through Adam. Significantly, Adam is responsible for the fall, not Eve. Eve was deceived when she sinned but Adam sinned with full knowledge. (1 Timothy 2:14)
c. And death through sin: Death entered the world and spread to all men as a result of Adam's sin. God promised Adam, in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die (Genesis 2:17). The principle of death was introduced into the world when Adam sinned and it has reigned on earth ever since. Every grave is mute evidence to the spread and reign of sin since the time of Adam.
d. Thus death spread to all men, because all sinned: Since death and sin are connected, we can know that all men are sinners - because all are subject to death. A sinless man is not subject to death but since every person is subject to death - even the smallest baby - it proves that all [mankind] sinned in Adam.
i. This sounds odd to our individualistic ears, but Paul clearly teaches that we all sinned "in" Adam. Adam is the common father of every person on the earth; every human who has ever lived was "in" Adam's genetic makeup. Therefore, all mankind actually sinned in Adam.
ii. "All sinned in this case means 'all sinned in Adam'; Adam's sin is the sin of all." (Morris)
iii. Humans are mortal - subject to death - before they commit any sin themselves. Since mortality is the result of sin, it shows that we are made sinners by Adam's sin, not by our own personal sin.
iv. We may not like the fact that we are made sinners by the work of another man. We may protest, and say, "I want to stand on my own two feet, and not be made a sinner because of the work of another man." Nevertheless, it is fair to be made righteous by the work of another man only if we are also made sinners by the work of another man. If we aren't made sinners by Adam, then it isn't fair for us to be made righteous by Jesus.
e. All men: This truth may make us uncomfortable, but it is still the truth. The smallest baby is a sinner, subject to death. David understood this when he wrote, Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me (Psalm 51:5).
i. We can also know that we are born sinners for other reasons. First, think of how selfish and angry the smallest baby can be. Second, think of how we never have to teach our children to be bad - they learn that quite on their own, with old Adam teaching the lessons.
ii. If babies are sinners, does that mean that they go to hell? Not necessarily. First, we know that the children of believers are sanctified by the presence of a believing parent (1 Corinthians 7:14). Secondly, David had the assurance that his baby would meet him in heaven (2 Samuel 12:23). Finally, we know that at the end of it all, God, the judge of the entire world, will do right (Genesis 18:25).
iii. If there are the children of unbelieving parents in heaven, it is important to understand that it is not because they are innocent. As sons and daughters of guilty Adam, we are each born guilty as well. If such children do go to heaven, it is not because they innocents who deserve heaven, but because the rich mercy of God has been extended to them as well.
2. (Rom 5:13-14) An objection answered: "I thought we were sinners because we broke the Law."
(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
a. Until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law: We know that at the root of it all we are made sinners because of Adam and not because we break the law ourselves. We know this because sin and death were in the world before the Law was ever given.
i. The law was too late to prevent sin and death and it is too weak to save from sin and death.
b. Nevertheless death reigned: The total, merciless reign of death - even before the law was given at the time of Moses - proves that man was under sin before the law. Death reigned … even over those who had not sinned in the exact way Adam did, showing that the principle of sin was at work in every human.
c. Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come: Paul presents Adam as a type - a picture, a representation - of Jesus. Both Adam and Jesus were completely sinless men from the beginning, and both of them did things that had consequences for all mankind.
3. (Rom 5:15-17) Contrasts between Adam's work and Jesus' work.
But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
a. But the free gift is not like the offense: Adam gave an offense that had consequences for the entire human race - as a result of Adam's offense, many died. Jesus gives a free gift that has consequences for the entire human race, but in a different way. Through the free gift of Jesus, the grace of God … abounded to many. Adam's work brought death but Jesus' work brings grace.
b. Paul describes the results of Adam's offense: Many died; judgment, resulting in condemnation, and death reigned over man. He also describes the results of Jesus' free gift: grace abounded to many, justification (because many offenses were laid on Jesus), receiving abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, and reigning in life.
i. "He is not saying that death reigned over us all because we all sinned; he is saying that death reigned over us all because Adam sinned." (Morris)
c. Death reigned … righteousness will reign: We could say that both Adam and Jesus are kings, each instituting a reign. Under Adam, death reigned. Under Jesus, we can reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
i. It is staggering to think of how totally death has reigned under Adam. Everyone who is born dies - the mortality rate is 100%. No one survives. When a baby is born, it isn't a question of whether the baby will live or die - they will most certainly die; the only question is when. We think of this world as the land of the living, but it is really the land of the dying, and the billions of human bodies cast into the earth over the centuries proves this. But Paul says that the reign of life through Jesus is much more certain. The believer's reign in life through Jesus is more certain than death or taxes!
4. (Rom 5:18) Summary: the two men.
Therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life.
a. One man's offense … one Man's righteous act: From this passage, Adam and Jesus are sometimes known as the two men. Between them they represent of all humanity, and everyone is identified in either Adam or Jesus. We are born identified with Adam; we may be born again into identification with Jesus.
i. The idea of Adam and Jesus as two representatives of the human race is sometimes called Federal Theology or Adam and Jesus are sometimes referred to as Federal Heads. This is because under the federal system of government, representatives are chosen and the representative speaks for the people who chose him. Adam speaks for those he represents, and Jesus speaks for His people.
ii. Again, someone may object: "But I never chose to have Adam represent me." Of course you did! You identified yourself with Adam with the first sin you ever committed. It is absolutely true that we were born into our identification with Adam, but we also choose it with our individual acts of sin.
b. Resulting in condemnation … resulting in justification: The outcome of this election - choosing Adam or Jesus - means everything. If we choose Adam we receive judgment and condemnation. If we choose Jesus we receive a free gift of God's grace and justification.
c. The free gift came to all men: Does this mean that all men are justified by the free gift? Without making a personal choice, every person received the curse of Adam's offense. Is it therefore true that every person, apart from their personal choice, will receive the benefits of Jesus' obedience? Not at all. First, Paul makes it clear that the free gift is not like the offense - they are not identical in their result or application. Second, over three verses Paul calls the work of Jesus a free gift, and he never uses those words to apply to the work of Adam. It is simply the nature of a gift that it must be received by faith. Finally, Paul clearly teaches throughout the New Testament that all are not saved.
i. In what sense then did the free gift cometo all men? It came in the sense that the gift is presented, but not necessarily received.
ii. The idea that all men are saved by the work of Jesus whether they know it or not is known as universalism. "If the doctrine of universalism is being taught here, Paul would be contradicting himself, for he has already pictured men as perishing because of sin." (Harrison)
5. (Rom 5:19) Summary of the contrasts.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience many will be made righteous.
a. Adam's disobedience makes mankind sinners. Jesus' obedience makes many righteous. Each representative communicates the effect of their work to their "followers."
b. Many were made sinners: Paul emphasizes the point again. At the root, we were made sinners by the work of Adam. Of course, we chose Adam when we personally sinned. But the principle remains that since another man made ussinners, we can be made righteous by the work of another man.
i. This is the only way for the work of Jesus to benefit us in any way. If every man must stand for himself, without the representation of either Adam or Jesus, then we will all perish. None would be saved, because each of us sins and falls short of the glory of God. Only a sinless person acting on our behalf can save us, and it is fair for Him to act on our behalf because another man put us in this mess by acting on our behalf.
ii. If I robbed a bank and was pronounced guilty by the judge, what would happen if my friend came before the judge and said, "Your honor, I love my friend so much that I want to serve his prison time. I want to stand in his place and receive the punishment he deserves." The judge would reply, "Nonsense. We will not punish you for his crime. That wouldn't be fair. He did the crime, so he has to pay the penalty." It would only be fair for another person to pay the penalty if I was guilty because of another person's work.
iii. The person who says, "I don't want to be represented by Adam or Jesus; I want to represent myself" doesn't understand two things. First, they don't understand that it really isn't up to us. We didn't make the rules, God did. We simply have to deal with it. Secondly, they don't understand that our personal righteousness before God is as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). To God, our personal righteousness is an offensive counterfeit; so standing for yourself guarantees your damnation.
6. (20a) The purpose of the Law.
Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.
a. Paul has shown us that the law does not justify us. Now he shows that in itself, the law doesn't even make us sinners - Adam did that. Then what purpose does the law serve? What good is it at all? Was the giving of the law God's failed experiment? No. There is a clear purpose for the law, and part of it is so that the offense might abound. The law makes man's sin clearer and greater by clearly contrasting it with God's holy standard.
i. The flaws in a precious stone abound when contrasted with a perfect stone, or when put against a contrasting backdrop. God's perfect law exposes our flaws, and makes our sin abound.
b. There is another way that the law makes sin abound. Because of the sinfulness of my heart, when I see a line drawn I want to cross over it. In this sense, the law makes sin abound because it draws many clear lines between right and wrong that my sinful heart wants to break. Therefore, the law makes me sin more - but not because there is anything wrong in the law, only because there is something deeply wrong in the human condition.
7. (20b-21) The reign of grace.
But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
a. If sin abounded under the law, then grace abounded much more under Jesus. Literally, the phrase abounded much more means "super-abounded." God makes His grace super-abound over abounding sin!
i. We might have expected that where sin abounded, God's anger or judgment would have abounded much more. But God's love is so amazing that grace abounded much more where we might have expected wrath.
ii. If grace super-abounds over sin, then we know that it is impossible to out-sin the grace of God. We can't sin more than God can forgive, but we can reject His grace and forgiveness.
b. As Paul stated before, sin reigned in death. But grace reigns also. The reign of grace is marked by righteousness and eternal life and is through Jesus.
i. Grace reigns through righteousness. Many people have the idea that where grace reigns, there will be a disregard for righteousness, and a casual attitude towards sin. But that isn't the reign of grace at all. Paul wrote in another letter what grace teaches us: For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age (Titus 2:11-12). Grace reigns through righteousness, and grace teaches righteousness.
ii. Grace reigns to eternal life. God's grace gives us something, and takes us somewhere. It gives more than just everlasting life in the sense that it will never end. Eternal life has the idea of a present quality of life, God's quality of life, given to us right now - not simply when we die.
iii. Grace reigns through Jesus. There is a King in the kingdom where grace reigns, and the King is Jesus. A life of grace is all about Jesus and others, and not about me. A life of grace doesn't look to self because it understands that this undeserved favor of God is given apart from any reason in self. All the reasons are in Jesus; none of the reasons are in myself. Grace doesn't reign through self, but through Jesus.
c. Even so grace might reign through righteousness: Wherever grace rules, God's righteous standard will be respected. The legalist's fear is that the reign of grace will provide wicked hearts with a license to sin, but Scripture doesn't share that fear. Grace does not accommodate sin, it faces it squarely and goes above sin in order to conquer it. Grace does not wink at unrighteousness, it confronts sin with the atonement at the cross and the victory won at the open tomb.
i. Grace is no friend to sin; it is its sworn enemy. "As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel as grace and sin in the same heart." (Thomas Benton Brooks)
ii. In John Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress, a wonderful character is a man named Mr. Honest. He was a traveler along the way, and saw many a fellow pilgrim, some who had set out boldly and strongly but who turned back. He saw others who stumbled at the start but finished in fine fashion. Some began full of faith, but ended in doubt, but others came to greater assurance along the pilgrim's road. Mr. Honest obviously knew a lot about this pilgrimage we call Christianity, and he summed up all his knowledge in his last words:
"Mr. Honest called for his friends, and said unto them 'I die, but shall make no will. As for my honesty, it shall go with me' … When the day that he was to be gone was come, he addressed himself to go over the river. Now the river at that time overflowed the banks in some places, but Mr. Honest in his lifetime had spoken to one [named] Good-conscience to meet him there, that which he also did, and lent him his hand, and so helped him over. The last words of Mr. Honest were, 'Grace reigns!' So he left the world."
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LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE — Only one team had the depth to endure playing down a man Thursday when the La Cañada High boys' tennis team hosted South Pasadena.
The Spartans pulled out a commanding Rio Hondo League victory, 15-3, despite playing two sets without their No. 3 singles player, with sweeps from Andrew Danuns (6-0, 6-3, 6-3) in No. 2 singles and Harrison Zuk and Leeho Lim in No. 2 doubles, 6-2, 6-4, 7-5.
The win was an indication that La Cañada is right on track of meeting its goal of a top-two finish in the Rio Hondo League.


text: Kathy Komoll Mary Oleske, MS, RD Patty Keane, MS, RD Hunger NewMexico Mexico Hunger in New http://healthyfoodbankhub.feedingamerica.org Online Giving www.milklife.com/give Text to Donate $5 Text Milk to 27722, enter zip code Retailer Events: Albertson's $1, $3, $5 donations at checkout Kathy Komoll Director, New Mexico Association of Food Banks 5 In 2006, the descriptions of categories were revised to better describe food insecurity. Together, these 2 categories measure food insecurity— Low Food Security: People who have had to make changes in the quality or quantity of their food in order to deal with a limited budget Very Low Food Security: People who have struggled with not having enough food for the household, including cutting back or skipping meals on a frequent basis for both adults and children. Note * While the word hunger has been removed from the descriptions used in these surveys, it should not be interpreted to mean that there has been a major shift in the incidence of hunger. 6 Chronic illness, disability, low fixed income High costs of living Rural lack of access to jobs and services Unemployment, underemployment, lack of education Unexpected crises (medical, financial, etc.) 7 Total NM 21.5% Total US 15.0% NM Children 30.7% US Children 21.9% NM Seniors 15.0% US Seniors 8.7% Note *Poverty levels for a family of 3: $19,090 (100%)-$24,817 (130%)$35,317 (185%) 8 Total NM 20.1% NM Children 30.6% NM Seniors 21.0% Total US 16.4% US Children 22.4% US Seniors 8.4% 9 Every week, nearly 40,000 New Mexicans seek food assistance. That's the equivalent of a city the size of Farmington needing emergency assistance four times every month. 40% of the members of households seeking food assistance are children under the age of 18. 7% of those children are under the age of 5. 13% of the people seeking food assistance in New Mexico are senior citizens. 41% of households needing food assistance report having at least one member in poor health. 70% of food pantry programs in New Mexico rely entirely on volunteers. The average monthly income for a household seeking food assistance is $900/month. 10 11 For additional information, including Map the Meal data by congressional district or county, please contact Kathy Komoll, New Mexico Association of Food Banks. 505-217-1066 [email protected] 12 Accessibility to sources of healthy food, as measured by distance to a store or by the number of stores in an area. Individual-level resources that may affect accessibility, such as family income or vehicle availability. Neighborhood-level indicators of resources, such as the average income of the neighborhood and the availability of public transportation. Many areas of New Mexico are food deserts: Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Food Access Research Atlas, http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-researchatlas.aspx. 13 14 SNAP – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program TEFAP – The Emergency Food Assistance Program Federal/state school breakfast/lunch programs WIC – food assistance for mothers with children Child and Adult Care Food Program Commodity Supplemental Food Program FDPIR –Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations Summer meal programs (private sector, CYFD/PED) Senior programs – state SNAP supplement, congregate meals, home delivered meals Homeless shelters Food Banks – statewide network of more than 400 agencies 15 Program Administering Agency/Funding Source Eligibility Current Served SNAP HSD/USDA 165% of poverty to apply;100% poverty or below to receive benefits TEFAP HSD/USDA 185% of poverty 43,643 per month January 2012-December 2012 CSFP 100% Federal Funds 185% of poverty (WIC); 130% of poverty (Seniors 16,428 seniors (60+) and women and children (up to age 6) School Breakfast USDA/PED 443,784 individuals in June 2013 (197,621 were children) Free (130% of poverty); Reduced (185% of poverty) 888 schools 16 with all these private and public programs, New Mexico still has one of the highest rates of hunger in the country….. 17 Increase state SNAP supplement so the elderly and people with disabilities receive additional monthly SNAP benefits Advocate to protect SNAP from cuts Increase state funding for the Fresh Produce Initiative Increase the minimum wage Encourage economic development that provides well paying jobs 18 Enact stronger enforcement of the wage theft law Fund the Individual Development Account program to help low-income families build their financial assets Improve public transportation Implement effective early childhood education Increase Medicaid outreach and facilitate enrollment Increase access to Adult Basic Education, job training and ESL classes 19 Increase availability of affordable housing by funding the State Housing Trust Fund and permanent supportive housing services Fund state child care assistance at 200% of the poverty line Increase Working Families Tax Credit (at least 5%) Increase the Low Income Comprehensive Tax Rebate Visit a mobile or other food pantry in your district 20 Every week, 40,000 New Mexicans are faced with the uncertainty of not knowing where their next meal is coming from. The challenge of meeting that need is more than the private sector can handle. The public and private sector must continue to work together to create solutions and build systems that put food on every table. 21 22 23 33% of SNAP participants are children, elderly or disabled, people one would not expect to work. The majority of ablebodied adult SNAP participants are working or trying to work. SNAP program structure provides a strong incentive to work. SNAP program rules place strict time limits on those who are not working. The House nutrition-only farm bill would eliminate waivers that allow states to provide food assistance when jobs are scarce, shifting burden to charities and state and local governments at a time of high unemployment and historic need. 24 While we can all agree that jobs are the best solution to hunger and poverty, jobs remain elusive for many low income families. The SNAP cuts proposed in the House farm bill would lead to 15 billion lost meals for low-income families. Congress should reject cuts to SNAP. SNAP participation and spending will go down as the economy recovers, without the need to cut food assistance for low-income people. (For additional information on these points, please refer to SNAP Program Overview, SNAP Facts Myths and Realities, and SNAP and Work Talking Points in your resource guide.) 25 Map the Meal Gap: Uses Census data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) in which people are actually surveyed about whether they ran out of food and how much more money they needed to meet their household food needs CPS Data used to arrive at weekly budget shortfalls Localized (county level) average meal costs calculated from data provided by Nielsen which collects data about all food items scanned in the country in 26 different food categories by age and gender of purchaser Food Insecurity determined by complex formula which takes into account poverty, unemployment, median income, home ownership, ethnicity and affirmative answers to certain questions on the CPS All Feeding America research accompanied by technical briefs that explain methodology and sources of data (see sample attached) 26 Hunger Study: Conducted nationwide every four years by virtually all Feeding America food banks in the United States Food banks collect data according to a strict data collection protocol dictated by the national research firm contracted by Feeding America for the purpose Research firm for data we use now was Mathematica Policy Research One part of the study involved collection detailed surveys from virtually every emergency food provider (food pantries, shelters and soup kitchens) in the United States; 37,000 surveys were collected in 2009 The second part of the study is random interviews of clients at randomly selected emergency food sites; in 2009 62,000 random, anonymous client interviews were obtained in the U.S. Data collection for 2013 has been completed working with research firm Westat; results will be released in the spring of 2014 (looks like it will be May) 27 28 Hunger in New Mexico Mary Oleske, MS, RD Bureau Chief for Food and Nutrition Services Bureau Introduction Child Hunger Task Force Food Assistance Programs in New Mexico Food Program Administration Challenges Constituent Involvement 30 Although the most effective way to reduce hunger is to reduce poverty, progress against hunger can be accelerated through nutrition programs, such as school meals or food stamps. When people get enough to eat, they are better equipped to deal with the other challenges they face. (Alliance to End Hunger) 31 Created by Executive Order in August 2012 Members included the Governor's Office, State Agency leadership, School Districts, Appleseed and USDA Report issued in October 2013 Includes Recommendations 32 See brochure Aging and Long Term Services Children, Youth and Families Department of Health Human Services Public Education Tribal 33 Regulations and Guidance ◦ Local ◦ State ◦ Federal Funding Compliance Challenges Constituent Concerns 34 Early champions….


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When most-recent BTW Beacon aren't walking their sense for sensual R&B through a long, luxe hall lined with Warp LPs and bass music mixtapes, they work together at their own video production house. They've hand-crafted this video for "See Through You," explicitly as a hat-tip to the "intuitive and passionate" genre of amateur-made videos, and certainly as a hat-tip to explicit imagery of CGI ladies riding poles and jiggling in bikinis. There is no nudity, but there are some cyber-thongs, so let's call this one NSFW.
Beacon made an annotated YouTube playlist of their favorite amateur-made videos; "each one has a story and special place in framing the debut of our new music video "See Through You." Dig in at Don't Die Wondering.
The band's worthy No Body EP is out via Moongadget. Grab the title track here:
And hear the rest of it in their BTW post.


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text: So I've been thinking CTMP could use some charging facilities. I have a friend who is planning to participate in the CASC Time Attack Series there next summer and he suggested that I contact them. Apparently they've been pouring a lot of money into the facility so they may be open to something like this. I've also been thinking that the next EVSE install @ a track that I play a role in should be a DC quick charger. So is a DC quick charger @ CTMP something that you'd use (as a participant or as a spectator)? Does contacting Tesla to see if they'd consider a supercharger there make the most sense as a first step?


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From Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group Wiki
2011-03-04 Agenda
Update: due to some deadlines we want to keep the telco short (around 30 min).
Participants and Scribe
Scribe: Siemens
TOP 1 Review of past Action Points
- Action point: Barbara Schennerlein provides a transcription of remaining parts of SemProM Meta data in editable text.
- Action point: Ralf Barthels, provides an example for their rdf-based approach.
TOP 2 Memory organization
- Memory organization should be finalized. Concrete modeling of memory structures. DFKI provides an example how this can be achieved using the SemProM format.
TOP 3 F-2-F Meeting
- Location has to be determined. Saarbrücken or Kaiserslautern?
- Action Points
- Next phone conference: March 18, 2011?


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Funny thing about declaring a "mandate" after a presidential election. Pundits tend to think that when their guy wins he has a mandate — meaning he can impose his policies on Congress, because the American people want it that way. When the other guy wins, the triumph has no lasting punch.
A bunch of pundits renewed a quadrennial tradition that might be called Mandate Derangement Syndrome.
Weekly Standard editor and frequent Fox News contributor Fred Barnes played the game this week. He brushed aside President Obama's 2-percentage-point, 3-million-vote (and counting, with many votes in Democratic-friendly California still to be counted) victory over Republican Mitt Romney as hollow. Obama, Barnes said, is a "man with no plan and no mandate."
Funny, because he felt quite differently when President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004. The same Barnes declared the Republican's win a "3-point landslide," adding: "I think he's got a mandate. And what is a mandate? A mandate is just that you won by talking about certain issues, and you will pursue them afterward."


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Nine months after workers installed a pump in the ground, dirty oil continues to ooze out of a polluted site here at the rate of 13 gallons per day.
The site, considered one of Broward County's worst pollution cases, is the now-vacant Petroleum Products Corp., a waste-oil recycler at 3130 SW 19th St. Contractors for the state Department of Environmental Regulation have been pumping oil out of the ground since March 14.
"We've recovered about 3,000 gallons of oil and treated a little more than 10 million gallons of water," said Patrick Fitzgerald, the state agency's project manager.
That's hardly a dent in removing the 20,000 gallons to 60,000 gallons of oil that environmental officials estimate are under the ground around the site, at an industrial area near Interstate 95.
"It's going to be awhile (before it's cleaned)," Fitzgerald said. "We're going to keep pumping as long as we keep getting oil. We've got a ways to go yet."
Most of the oil is floating atop the groundwater, which is cleaned and sent into Hollywood's sewer system, where it is treated. The concern was that the oil, some of which had spread underground to nearby residences and warehouses near the property, would threaten drinking water wells in nearby Hallandale.
But the oil pumping will result only in averting an immediate emergency. A full-scale cleanup, which the state is negotiating with contractors, will not begin for another year and may take another year beyond that to complete, Fitzgerald said.
Meanwhile, crews hired by the company cleaned the surface at the site during the summer. That included clearing oil from above-ground storage tanks, buildings and an oil-water separator.


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I thought I knew what good photography was: even light, smooth skin…then about 3 years ago I happened upon an article in Shutterbug Magazine about one of the world's top wedding photographers. I didn't care to read about him because I couldn't get past the photographs he had taken. They were different; made my eyes "think" and I couldn't stop staring. His photographs made me…feel. I still have that magazine article today and keep it to be inspired. The man behind the lens was Cliff Mauntner. His work reminds me of the old movies and the Italian painter Caravaggio.
I wanted to create images that lasted, that were like his, that were…different. He offers a three day intensive workshop, Lighting and Skillset Bootcamp. I knew I had to go. In a world saturated with "wedding photographers" with the same style, the same poses I wanted to stand out. A wedding is a powerful event in a person's life and should be remembered that way. Cliff reminded us that all the wedding magazines are leading us astray with the photos of details and such. Photography is about capturing moments. Special, one-of a kind pieces of history we can never get back but only cherish in a print.
There were 19 of us so teaching was really personal and we all became close. From 9am- about 10pm we learned about technical and artistic skill and business. Cliff was so helpful and open about anything we wanted to know. One afternoon we worked on outdoor shooting, the next was indoors with off camera flash- both in Philedelphia. He'd hired real models to make working and learning that much better. And not to be unsung, breakfast and lunch were provided each day and those had to be the BEST chocolate chip pancakes ever!
Below are some images from my time at the bootcamp. I can't wait to put these skills into practice in my work.


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BOSTON (MainStreet) -- The business world will always have loose cannons -- executives who stray from their crafted bullet points to say cringe-worthy things.There are also decisions made at the top that no public relations expert would ever condone. When AIG ( AIG ) was spared from extinction with an $85 billion federal bailout from the government, its clueless leadership didn't think twice about spending nearly a half-million dollars on a luxurious spa retreat and golf outing for executives. Executives for the "big three" automakers made a political miscalculation by flying into Washington, D.C., hat in hand for a bailout -- on corporate jets. Chastened by the response, they later overdid things by driving themselves in hybrid cars. In looking at some of the biggest PR miscues in recent years, we discounted thick-headed blunders such as these. No matter how good internal or external PR departments are, they can be no match for a CEO gone rogue. Instead, we focused on situations where a company's public response amid controversy was either too little, too late or dishonest and it was the spinmeisters themselves making the unforced errors. The following are 10 examples of when spin control spun out of control and a PR strategy only made matters worse:
So, you work for a firm that gets hired by Chrysler ( DAI) to help build its social media presence. If you read the newspapers, you may realize that the company had battled to stay alive, resorting to a government bailout to stay afloat. You should also be aware that the government loan riled up conservatives, despite supporters maintaining it was needed to save U.S. jobs, particularly in Michigan. If you know anything about your big client, you might also know Chrysler had unveiled a series of dramatic commercials, some featuring rapper and Detroit native Eminem, to show the world that the hardworking character of that city's workforce should be a source of American Pride and optimism. You should have known all that. Instead, an employee of New Media Strategies, a Virginia-based marketing firm retained by Chrysler, went on the company's Twitter feed, @ChryslerAutos, and posted: "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to f***ing drive." (In the tweet -- accidentally posted to the company site instead of a personal feed -- the expletive we censored was actually spelled out.) Accidents happen and, really, the tweet was not that bad. But in the world of social media, never the company and personal should meet. Given the company's Detroit Pride message, the posting was even more of a wreck. Fortunately, Chrysler shook aside the flurry of unwanted media attention. The firm, however, lost the gig. As for the staffer who made the mistake, last month he started work on the social media initiatives of another company -- this time Ford ( F).
It is hard to know whether the brain trust at Abercrombie & Fitch ( ANF) is inept or brilliant. The latter, and a calculated move to maximize publicity, might be the only explanation for some of the hard-to-believe ways the company has responded to controversy. Back in 2002, the retailer was under fire for T-shirts seen as reinforcing negative Asian-American stereotypes. One shirt shows cartoon Chinese laundry worker caricatures -- complete with slanted eyes and conical "rice-paddy" hats -- with the slogan "Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White." Amid charges of racism and nationwide protests and boycotts, the company finally offered an apology -- sort of. "We're very, very, very sorry," a spokesman told the San Francisco Chronicle. "It's never been our intention to offend anyone." Then came the head-scratching coda: "We personally thought Asians would love this T-shirt." The response to a later controversy -- selling thong underwear for children adorned with images of cherries and the words "kiss me" and "wink, wink" -- had the same bizarre mix of contrition and glibness. The official statements to the media included such gems as "It's not appropriate for a 7-year-old, but it is appropriate for a 10-year-old" and "The underwear for young girls was created with the intent to be lighthearted and cute; any misrepresentation of that is purely in the eye of the beholder." Laying out its case for what age it is OK to start sexualizing young girls was scurrilous enough, but the kicker accusing critics of harboring their own dirty thoughts broke just about every PR and crisis control rule ever written.
Remember the Disney ( DIS) movies featuring Herbie, a sentient Volkswagen Beetle that could start, stop and steer all on his own? In real life, it is not so much fun when your car seems to have a mind of its own. Toyota had the misfortune of balancing a growing PR crisis with the legal imperative to cover its bumper. The two didn't mix well. As Toyota ( TM) would learn, silence doesn't work. Nor does blaming the motor skills of drivers when the sheer volume of incidents, some of them fatal, seem to indicate that's not the case. Are we really, even now, 100% sure what was happening with the sudden acceleration? Although the problem seems solved, many questions remain. What we do know is that Toyota's public relations response was a textbook case in what not to do when they dodged and denied the problem for months before issuing an apology and potential mechanical fix. Brian Dobson, a crisis PR expert, says Toyota was "flat-footed" and slow to respond. "If brand managers don't engage the media from Day One, then crisis reports get driven by critics, competitors and pundits who dominate news with negative comments," he said last year in comments about the issue. "Toyota lost ground trying to minimize its troubles as competitors pounced to capitalize."
Facebook seems to always be under attack by one disgruntled party or another, usually about its ever-changing, sneaky approach to a privacy policy. Bottom line: A company that give you a service for free in exchange for mining data is never going to be too keen on shielding your data from prying eyes. It does seem Facebook suffers a disproportionate share of scorn regarding this topic than the bigger potential threat to personal privacy that is Google ( GOOG). Still, Facebook crossed a line when PR firm Burson-Marsteller was tasked with trying to spread privacy-related vitriol about Google and plant news stories and blogs that prodded writers to make the case for them, even offering to help write these pieces. The targets ranged from influential blogs to USA Today. In one of the emails leaked by an unwilling blogger, Google is described as having "a well-known history of infringing on the privacy rights of America's Internet users." PR firms always try to influence stories -- it's what they are paid for. What made these efforts such a failure is that the firm refused to reveal it was working for Facebook. Here's the other miscalculation: The public often has a finely tuned hypocrisy detector. A suitable defense for Facebook when its lackadaisical approach to user privacy is denounced really needed to be more than "They started it!"
Rest in peace, Steve Jobs. We would be doing Apple's ( AAPL) late genius a disservice, however, if we didn't include one of the most famous examples of his sometimes caustic management style. When a design flaw was uncovered in the 2010 iPhone 4 -- touching certain areas killed reception -- Apple initially avoided the topic with a companywide cone of silence. Jobs didn't help matters by chastising users, in one of his many off-the-cuff email answers, that they were holding it wrong. Ignore the problem. Blame the customer. Refuse to apologize. Those approaches never work. Cooler PR heads eventually prevailed, and Apple instead spent $175 million sending cases to owners to resolve the issue. (Even now there may be questions about the problem. AntennaSys, an antenna design and consulting firm, did tests and told PC World that "all the hype has been just hype ... It's not any more sensitive to hand position that was the first-generation iPhone -- and probably many other phones on the market.")
LeBron James has a lot to carry on his broad shoulders. There is the six-year, $110 million investment the owners of the Miami Heat have in him. There are basketball fans to appease. And there are big-name sponsors who have shelled out big bucks to associate themselves with the top NBA star, among them McDonald's ( MCD) and Nike ( NKE). For most of his career, James was one of the few young phenoms who seemed to pan out, entering the league straight from high school. He was young, likable and talented -- a native of Cleveland who played for the hometown team. But James' decision to pursue free agency left Ohio residents hanging. It was very likely their hometown hero would pack his bags. While there would surely be a fair share of Cavaliers fans who would never forgive their prodigal son, James certainly had the opportunity to exit gracefully and with at least muted good wishes. Many of his critics, deep down, would be thankful for the resurrection of the team he ruled and admit they too would switch employers for a few million more dollars a year. But James let his consultants and handlers pitch him on making the whole contract process a spectacle. Notable was a disastrous, hourlong, ESPN special called The Decision, in which cities vied for his services as though they were reality show contestants. In trying to create drama and build upon James' reputation, all they did was ruin it. James is now one of the more reviled and mocked figures in sports (aside from another classic PR bungler, Tiger Woods).
The inevitable bit of bad service on an airline (or a grumpy passenger) make for easy headlines. Southwest Airlines ( LUV), for example, had to deal with the weighty fallout when they angered filmmaker Kevin Smith by saying he was too fat to fly with a one-seat ticket. All a company's PR department can do in a situation such as that is straddle the line between apologizing and defending their actions. With any luck, short memories will prevail and everyone moves onto a new villain. (Thankfully, airlines always have the TSA to steal away the attention.) Alaska Airlines ( ALK) had every opportunity to douse a publicity fire when a family was stuck in Las Vegas because the man's wife, tending to a baby's diaper needs, was kept from boarding the plane because, in the alleged words of an employee, she was "one minute late." The airline certainly sounds heartless. To be fair, however, time is of the essence when boarding a plane. With all due sympathy for a mom having to deal with a child, once the plane door closes, security measures dictate that no one boards. People are stuck on standby every day because a connecting flight was a few minutes off schedule. But Hell hath no fury like a "mommy blogger" scorned, and an online attack on the airline's handling of the incident titled "Alaska Airlines Hates Families" got widespread exposure and was reported in mainstream media. In its annual rundown of the worst PR blunders, the San Francisco-based Fineman PR explained what the airline did wrong. "While Alaska Airlines social media manager Elliott Pesut did respond promptly in the blog's comment section, he did so without compassion, citing rigid policy and offering a future travel voucher for less than half the family's losses," the PR firm wrote. The lesson learned: when you are under the harsh light of a full-on media attack, swallow some pride and a few bucks by going beyond normal procedures to make things right. A little contrition can go a long way.
What if they threw a press conference and nobody came? That was the scenario when FEMA scheduled a 2007 press conference to update media on efforts to combat raging wildfires in California. To reporters, press conferences are a necessary evil in covering big stories for which a public official has to efficiently answer questions or detail talking points, and they know they must separate spin from facts. But delivering the trut is harder when a press conference is missing one very important element -- the press. Instead of letting reporters grill executives, FEMA filled the room with staffers and agency officials. It was a make-believe press conference! In a memo to all FEMA employees Oct. 29, 2007, administrator R. David Paulison said that "without intending to deceive," the FEMA external affairs staff "nevertheless lost perspective of the core imperative that they preserve the credibility of our agency." He described the fake press event as among "a series of serious mistakes and extremely poor decisions." Among the issues Paulison cited is that media who did get to take part in the conference off-site were restricted to a "listen only" capability, which kept them from stepping on the toes of the fake reporters who did get to ask questions. An earlier statement from FEMA's vice admiral, Harvey Johnson, missed the point: "The real story -- how well the response and recovery elements are working in this disaster -- should not be lost because of how we tried to meet the needs of the media in distributing facts."
Enough has been written about how badly BP ( BP) botched its response to last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, including former CEO Tony Hayward declaring he wanted his "life back" and dashing off to a yacht race while an entire region's economy and environment was trashed. Hayward's case of foot-in-mouth disease obscured some other terrible PR moves by the company. There are two basic flavors of spin control -- deny, deny, deny; or 'fess up and take your lumps. BP basically took the former route, trying to pass the buck to other contractors and underplaying damage they had caused. It hurt, rather than helped, a battered reputation. There were upbeat Twitter posts by the company offering unrealistic updates and estimates for the progress of the cleanup (in one, beaches were prematurely described as "beautiful") and one making the jaw-dropping claim that New Orleans' hotels "ended 2010 on high note," a bit of allegedly good news credited to $5 million ponied up by the multibillion-dollar company that ruined the area's tourism in the first place. Hotel business in other cities throughout the affected gulf were not mentioned. From wildlife inventories to how safe seafood was to eat, BP never gave up a chance to sugarcoat the spill, understate the damage and exaggerate the restoration effort. It has also been pointed out that BP's claim it would "restore the shoreline to its original state," made by one-time mouthpiece Hayward, neglected to mention that the company really didn't think that was even possible. A federally mandated spill plan assured that with any PR messaging "no statement shall be made containing any of the following: promises that property, ecology or anything else will be restored to normal."


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|Sweet Hearts Snap Sack
Here in the US, Valentine's Day is a pretty big deal. Restaurants will be busy for dinner. Flowers, confections will be exchanged. The perfect day for a little indulgence. From a sweetheart, a secret admirer, or from yourself! (Why not?!) Perhaps I have an idea for a little treat you might like to make for your sewing room. I made one for myself earlier this week.
My quilt guild meets once a month, except for the summer months. February is always a fun workshop day.
Several little projects are offered. Everyone brings a sewing machine, little clusters of project groups form, and it's down to sewing. Most of the projects are small.
Sometimes I lead a project group. And sometimes I join in and just sew. Mostly I try to stay out of trouble. . . which doesn't always work.
This week I joined in and made something that didn't fall into my usual comfort zone. I'm typically not a big fan of making three dimensional things like dolls or stuffed animals.
But there is something about making a pin cushion that tempts me every time.
So when the project offering was a little mouse-shaped pin cushion, stuffed with sand, complete with a wire tail that doubles as a thread-holder, I couldn't resist.
The Little Mouse Needle and Thread Keeper pattern by Art Fabric Studio, includes several of the non-fabric needs to make the project, like beads and wire. In addition, Nancy, our group leader, was nice enough to provide some of the additional elements like the sand and some fiber fill scraps.
Little Penelope (the last step in the pattern is to give your mouse a name) was finished by the end of the session. And she already has a little sister in process who will be orange with brown ears. I think maybe her cute little hind-end might need a couple of embroidered daisies, don't you agree?
At any rate, it was a nice break and a fun project.
Have a great week & happy stitching!


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P60 Explained
A P60 is a form used by HMRC. A P60 is issued at the end of each tax year. A P60 contains exact information about how much you have earned PAYE (Paye As You Earn) and NIC's (National Insurance Contributions) you have paid during the specified tax year. It is your responsability to check your P60 and claim back any overpaid tax or report underpaid tax.
30 second introduction to P60
How the P60 works
A P60 (End of Year Certificate) is an annual statement issued to taxpayers at the end of each tax year that the employee works for an employer. You should never destroy your P60 as it is a vital part of the proof that tax has been paid.
A P60 is actually one part of a three part tax form call a P14 (End of Year Summary). the P14 comes in three parts
- P14 Part 1: Part one of the p14 is for HMRC and is sent to the Contributions Office.
- P14 Part 2: Pat two of the P14 is retained by the tax office where your employers PAYE scheme is registered
- P14 Part 3: Part three is the P60 that we all know and love!
P60 Facts
- A P60 is an 'End of Year Certificate'.
- If you are working as a PAYE employee (normal worker) on 5th April each year your employer must give you a P60.
- A P60 defines exactly what HMRC know and belive your should have paid in tax and National Insurance.
- If your P60 is incorrect, it is up to you to rectify the error.
- You will typically be asked to provide a copy of your P60 when applying for a mortgage, property rental or other financial service.
- You should never destroy your P60! Your P60 is proof that you have paid your tax. HMRC have superb technology these days but they frequently make mistakes and will bill you unwittingly when they make a mistake. HMRC tax systems are automated and will create and issue letters without human interaction. Errors can quickly amplify into fines so keep your P60 as proof.
- If you are an employer, you must provide a form P60 to each employee who is working for you at the end of the tax year. You should also have completed a P11.
P60 in detail
Well, that the P60 explained in 30 seconds, well, maybe a little longer. If you want to know more about P60's, your responsability as an employee / employer and who to contact for a tax rebate if you think you have paid too much tax read our guide: P60 Explained in detail
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As life leaps forward I fell back (in love) with baby fun.
When asked to create a shower invitation, I found that child's play now is style play.
Authentic, creative and plush – baby lush is everywhere. Enjoy.
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Sea inspired baby blanket I made for the shower. Ships ahoy, it's a boy!
old fashion / new fashion: handmade dolls by Jess Brown turns their frown upside down
music ball: come on, come on baby – twist no pout
mini things mean a lot
S is for styley sister snake
home spun family fun
cool mom meets drool mom: teething necklace
powder pouf – baby proof
felt pom poms feel festive: baby décor
soft and sporty spill stoppers: attached to glass
cuddle duds for little studs


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Here's another Chilean wine that will tease your palate while you await this year's Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival which features Chile. There's not many Chardonnay blends with Marsanne on the shelves. Marsanne is a white grape originally from France's Cote du Rhone where it is a main componsent in white Cotes dur Rhone wines. Made from Chilean fruit in Chile's Casablanca Valley where premium white grapes flourish, the Chardonnay takes on extra flavour, colour, and body from its new partner. A golden drop with rich honeyed peach and honeysucklle aromas and tastes, this is one delicous and refreshing blend. Absolutely spot on with the scallop prawn soup I made using the lobster and chicken broth last month. And if that's not enough to persuade you to indulge, did I mention it is organic?
Emiliana Novas 2010 Chardonnay Marsanne, Chile, $17.99 14%.
Chill this Chilean and Cherish.
Medium White & Highly Recommended! $17.99
If you are interested in what Marsanne tastes like on its own, go down under to Tahbilk's Marsanne. Produced in Victoria state where it has been planted since the 1860's.the Tahbilk is $18.99 and one of a kind, in a very pleasant way.


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"Shit!! Not again!! ........%$£%^&%$ "
Evra admitted the United defence had to take responsibility for Torres's decisive 65th-minute opener, when Ferdinand struggled badly against the power and pace of the Spanish striker. He said: "We know the game and we know Torres. He got a chance and he scored. He is a good striker but for a defender it is not good to concede those goals."
The United left-back did concur with his manager's view that Marriner erred in only booking Carragher when he pulled Michael Owen to the floor as the last man in the 80th minute. Evra claimed: "I don't think the referee has an easy job but I think he made some mistakes. Against Michael Owen, Carragher was the last man and didn't get sent off. It was important because, when you play 11 against 10, you have an advantage and it is difficult to understand why Carragher wasn't sent off. Maybe it was a factor but I would rather focus on the display of Manchester United and the performance was poor."
While Ferguson attempted to shift the focus on to Marriner's experience of such grand fixtures, or supposed lack of, he will no doubt share Evra's demand for a similar response to last season's defeat at Anfield, when United embarked on a 12-match unbeaten run in all competitions.
"Losing to Liverpool is the most pain you can have when you play for Manchester United," the defender conceded. "It's a great feeling when you win at Anfield but it's also a big pain when you lose. After the game there was silence and big disappointment in the dressing room. We need to show the same as last year now. We lost against Liverpool twice but won the league. We have to make sure we do that but also, at Old Trafford, we have to show the real United team."


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