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Title: Are you praying for me?
Text: Acts 12:5-17
Introduction: Prayer is bringing the kingdom of God into your situation. Prayer is telling God you are the only one that can help me. Prayer is man exercising his legal authority on earth to invoke heaven's influence on earth. Prayer is the necessity for living. After all that prayer can do, wouldn't you want the results of prayer to manifest in someone's life? So are you praying for me? Are you praying for me? (build on)….Our story is about someone who benefited from the blessings of prayer.
I. Pretext: Life's perils
Here we have in the text the apostle Peter in a bad situation. It was Peter who preached the sermon on Pentecost. It was Peter with John who told the lame man to look upon him and he was healed. It was Peter who is carrying out the mandate to preach the gospel and who is being a witness through the world. Peter who was filled with the Holy Ghost addressed the Sanhedrin about the wicked ways in crucifying the Lord who they tried to stop him from preaching the gospel finds him in a jam again. He was captured before but this time King Herod was not going to so kind to the leader the believers and let him go. Herod just killed James. Now he was going to have Peter executed for creating an uproar about the resurrected Savior. By the way it was King Herod's grandfather who killed Jesus (it was in his blood). Herod who tried to win favor with the Jews started harassing the church. There are some people who don't like you because someone else does not like you. They don't have a reason but they want to be in the clique. Herod was a "people pleasers" so he seized Peter to please the Jews. But it was the time of Passover so he could not be executed immediately according to custom. So he sent Peter to jail and put in solitary confinement. The text says that he was surrounded by four squads of soldiers to keep him in check. You know you must be powerful man or woman of God when you got more than one thing holding you down! My brothers and my sisters, life perils will hold you down in bondage. You are probably like me and asking God why am I dealing with this mess and feeling like this? I do the right thing and don't bother nobody. But still trouble always seems to knock at my door. Beloved, you got problems and that keep me in bondage from doing what the Lord called me to do! Like Herod, it seems like the devil stretch out his hand toward you to give you perpetual perils in your life. But God has a way of delivering His chosen out of trouble.
II. Earnest prayer of the Church
There is some trouble you can't get out of by yourself. If you could you would have done it by now. As a believer, you exercise your faith in community of other believers that are faith filled and blood washed that God in his sovereignty draws to himself and uses to advance His kingdom. I am talking about the church of Jesus Christ, the ekklesia, the called out to worship Jesus as Lord. The church is not a building but a people. It was a band of the called out who were obediently waiting in praying in the upper room when the Holy Ghost fell in Acts 2 which birthed a movement that would change history. Like all movements in history to influence change society, each had an MO. Like today North Korea has weapons of mass destruction. But 2000 years ago the church had an MO and it was a weapon of mass destruction that is still powerful till this day; Prayer! And there has never been or will be anything compared to it power! In verse 5, it says that Peter was therefore kept in prison but prayer was made by the church unto God for him. It is through engaging in intense corporate prayer of the church that Peter was released from his bondage in prison. If we unpack this verse exegetically, we see that they earnestly unceasingly prayed to God, the creator, the all powerful, the Almighty, the Father of heaven and earth. They prayed to the One who could do anything but fail. They offered up… which suggest they had faith. But what is so powerful about this text is the church had laser beam focus in prayer. It says "for him". They were all on one accord "for him". They abandoned their personal problems and agendas "for him". Imagine if Tried Stone, could come together with such a focus and pray on specific issues with expectation that God will work it out! Prayer is what the early church did and it was who they were. We should live a lifestyle that embodies prayer that is God focused to meet our needs and the needs of others. But here lies the problem. We don't come together for corporate prayer like we should. We have become too individualistic. This was not the practice of the early church that demonstrated power. But I am here to testify that one can chase a thousand and 2 can put 10,000 to flight in prayer! When you pray together you just do stay together, you conquer together! There is power in agreement. Look at your neighbor…
But before we go to our next point we have to observe a lesson we can learn from Peter in his predicament. In verse 6, Peter was sleeping that night bound with 2 chains between 2 soldiers with guards at the door. How could Peter sleep on eve he was suppose to die? Some of you maybe saying well Peter slept while Jesus was praying in the garden of Gethsemane. He was probably narcoleptic. But this is not the same Peter. This Peter is filled the Holy Ghost power. This Peter who had a promise from Jesus himself! This Peter had a purpose! Peter was able to focus and not be distracted by his situation. He knew he was able to rest in God. My beloved, when you are focused on God's promise and His purpose, He will give you rest too! David said it best in Ps 16:9, "Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope". He will kept you in perfect peace when you eyes (your focus) is upon thee because you trust in him.
III. Prayer ignites God's power
But here in verse 7 is the result from a praying church. An angel of the Lord came and stood by Peter and shone a light in the prison, struck Peter to wake him up. An angel is God's messenger. God has angels watching over you on assignment bring messages of hope and ready to act in the time of need. Next, the text says that light was shone in the prison. When you are in bondage shut up from freedom you are in darkness and you need light. Jesus is the light to leads you out of darkness to show you a brighter day. Next, it says that the angel struck him… and awaken him. God is going to give you an awakening so you can get out of the situation for you to give Him more glory. Look what happens next. His chains fell off and the angel told him to put on his clothes and his shoes and cover up, I am going to get you out of here. God is telling somebody to "get ready, I am going to get you out of here"! Peter obeyed what the angel said and followed him. Even though the text says Peter thought he was seeing vision. This tells us that despite how we feel or our circumstances, when God gives us instructions we have to follow. And because of Peter obedience things just seem to happen for him. The text says that got past the first and the second guard. Then they come to the obstacle that separates Peter from complete freedom, an iron gate. You would think that he would have to break through. However, when they came to the gate the text says it opens on its own. When you follow what the Lord says it will always get you past obstacles and things you thought would completely block you would open up on its own. My brothers and my sisters when you are chosen by God and obedient to his Word things will just happen for that seem impossible. Even though you might not understand, obey his word. Even though it may be tough obey His word. You are blessed by your obedience. Obedience is the key to unlocking the favor of God. When Peter and the angel went out to the street, the angel departed. The angel's assignment was done! After Peter comes to himself he realized that it could have only been God that delivered him. That is somebody testimony today. All that you went through and how you got out was so amazing, you came to the realization that it was only God. Pause. Then Peter went to a house John Mark's mother where the believers were praying. Peter knocked on the door of the gate and a servant girl name Rhoda came to answer. When she recognized Peter's voice she got so excited it was him she forgot to open the door and ran to tell the others that it was Peter. But they thought she was crazy. This leads me to the last point.
IV. Pray with expectancy
These believers were gathered together prior praying for Peter. Their prayers have been answered and Peter is out of prison, safe and at the door. But the church did not believe what it prayed for. A church that does not believe what it prays for is in bad shape. But in every church there is at least one person with some radical faith that now matter what anybody says they believed the report of the Lord! The text says that Rhoda kept insisting it was Peter even though they thought she was seeing his angel. When you see God manifest in your life you will be able to stand despite the opposition. But Peter kept knocking and finally they open the door and they went into shout because Peter was there in the flesh. But Peter calms them down to tell them the great thing that the Lord has done. The church initially could not believe what just happen. This is testimony of the awesomeness of God. We serve a God that continually out God's himself. He always takes his "Godness" to a new level which should take our faith to a new level. God displayed His power in response of a few people with some faith knowing what God is able when people pray! What is He able to do when you pray? The exceedingly, abundant above all we ask or think. My God is able! That is why the church has to pray! Peter was released because the churched prayed!
If The Church Would Just Pray...."
– Gossipers would stop talking!
– Liars would stop lying!
– Cheaters would stop cheating!
– Back biters would stop back-biting!
– Drunkards would stop drinking!
– Sniffers would stop snorting!
– Smokers would stop smoking!
– Fast woman will slow down!
– Fresh men would keep their pants on!
– Old folk would stop acting foolish!
– Young folk would stop acting crazy!
. . . "If The Church Would Just Pray!"
Celebration: I am here to tell you that I am result of somebody praying for me. Somebody prayed for me…


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Saturday, 16 May 2015
A Day Out (1972)
A Day Out is a beautifully bittersweet play which was Alan Bennett's debut play for television in 1972. Set on a summer Sunday in 1911, it depicts the members of a Halifax cycling club, following them from the town to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. It's an idyllic vision of an England long past but hanging over it, like a black storm cloud just out of sight on the horizon, is the impending war which broke out three years later in 1914. It's addressed in a ruefully ironic manner when the keen socialist Boothroyd (Brian Glover) explains his theory that there will never be another war, and that people will look back on this generation as the dawn of a new age. Of course, we know this was not to be and The Great War cut its swathe through that generation and tragically through many of the club's members as well, as the 1919 coda suggests.
But for now, the day out provides a temporary freedom from the dull and stifling routine and grind of the mill, offering them at the very least a chance to air thoughts and feeling to sympathetic ears and likeminded souls, regardless of class and position in society, and a chance to breathe the fresh, clean country air.
To capture the period feel, the director Stephen Frears shot A Day Out in black and white, and the hazy, cinematography equally captures the lyrical quality of Bennett's script as well as the artistic evocation of Edwardian life.
A great cast of professionals and locals give A Day Out an authentic north country flavour and many of the 'new faces' here such as Paul Shane, Brian Glover, Bernard Wrigley and Dave Hill would become firm favourites for this kind of genre in the years to come. Oh and I defy you not to think of Arthur Conan Doyle when David Waller's bewhiskered Mr Shuttleworth appears on screen, ever the recipient of James Cossins' toadying Mr Shorter - both make for a fine middle class double act.
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text: Home > Medical > Childhood Diseases > Experts > Question Search health advice Find an answer Question Posted by: M | 2010/11/16 Q.4month old rejects breast My 4month old often refuses to take the breast during th day and cries non stop until I giv him a bottle- I don''t know what to do. Because this doesn''t happen at night- I don''t want to stop breastfeeding but the crying is wearing me out!Thnx More: All ExpertsPaediatrician Expert's Reply A.Paediatrician There is no harm in breast and bottle feeding if your baby will only take the bottle during the day.Continue to breast feed him at night and in the morning if possible. The information provided does not constitute a diagnosis of your condition. You should consult a medical practitioner or other appropriate health care professional for a physical exmanication, diagnosis and formal advice. Health24 and the expert accept no responsibility or liability for any damage or personal harm you may suffer resulting from making use of this content. 4 user comments C. Posted by: Purple | 2010/11/17 It is difficult, but if you want to continue breastfeeding, get yourself some help from an international board certified lactation consultant or from the la leche league. They will help you to get things right within a few days.One way of increasing milk supply is to express for 3 - 5 minutes on each breast immediately after feeding, even if there is no milk coming out.Yes, any breat milk your child gets is fine, but remember that the more bottles of formula you give, the more your milk supply will go down as less milk is being demanded, so in a few weeks you will not be breastfeeding at all. Reply to Purple Posted by: M | 2010/11/16 This is soo depressing!! I''m really struggling. I don''t have a lot of milk-do u think this is th reason he doesn''t want to drink? It seems like he doesn''t like it cos wen I put him on he takes one suck n th crying begins- I''m so worn out I jus feel like running away sometimes- I dint giv my older son a bottle n dint hav this problem. But I felt it was too difficult to exclusively breastfeed with a 2yr old so I started 1bottle at nite which is now also 1 bottle at lunch time-I''ll try th advice bt I hope it doesn''t get worse- I spose half breast half bottle is betta than no breast?! I cnt express cos its too painful and I don''t hav a great flow.Thanx for th help- its been a ruff day:( Reply to M Posted by: Kim | 2010/11/16 Why not try a breast pump and express, that way LO gets best of both, Reply to Kim Posted by: Purple | 2010/11/16 Babies soon learn that the bottle is easier to drink from than the breast. If you are determined to continue breastfeeding, then offer the breast and if baby doesn''t want it don''t offer the bottle. There will be crying and this might go on for a day or two, but your baby will eventually take the breast again. Just comfort baby through the crying, don''t get yourself stressed about it, perhaps just pop baby in the pram and go for a walk (isn''t crying just so much easier to deal wtih when you are outside?)Also remember that at this age babies often appear to be refusing the breast as they start to de-latch and look at the world around them, this passes by about 5 months and they then carry on feeding as usual. Usually just trying to feed again a little later does the trick, though they will continue to delatch and look around and then latch again, suck once, de-latch and so on. Its frustrating, but worth persevering through. Reply to Purple Want to comment? Your name (optional) Your comment Security × Thanks for commenting! Your comment will appear on the site shortly. × Thanks for commenting! Your comment will appear on the site shortly. Reply to Your name (optional) Your comment Security Close Submit comment


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Skip to comments.Dehumanizing others is no virtue (WEEKLY GREELEY ALERT)
Posted on 08/04/2006 10:25:31 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
To hate other humans or to feel no pain at their suffering, it is necessary to dehumanize them, to write them off as less than human. The Nazis are the classic example of this dehumanization. Germans were the obermensch, the master race. Jews, Slavs, Gypsies were the untermensch, the inferior peoples who barely had the right to exist.
The Puritans dehumanized Native Americans, white Americans dehumanized African Americans, Irish Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland dehumanized one another, as do Jews and Arabs in the Mideast, and Shiite and Sunni Muslims. In every case, one attributes to the "other" characteristics that prove that they are not fully human by the use of stereotypes -- "illegals," for example. The American soldiers who tortured, beat, raped and murdered Iraqis dismiss their victims as "rag heads." The rest of us are able to ignore the pain and the grief of ordinary Iraqis, as I learned from responses to my last column, by arguing that Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 attack or that Saddam Hussein killed far more than have died under our inept and unplanned "occupation."
The first argument is ignorant. Bush administration officials have admitted in whispers that no evidence has been found of a link between al-Qaida and Iraq. It is also immoral because it assumes that revenge is appropriate. The second argument reveals twisted immorality. Because Saddam was a mass murderer, Americans are not responsible for our failure to protect Iraqis when we have taken charge of their country. He was worse than we are, he killed through commission, we kill (for the most part) through omission. Our only sins were to make war on the basis of false arguments with little understanding of the people whose social system we destroyed and to establish an occupation of arrogant incompetence. Thus the ineffable Paul Wolfowitz, the intellectual architect of the Iraq war, could say, "I think that there are ethnic differences in Iraq, but they are exaggerated."
Right! The Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites will be too busy celebrating our liberation to kill one another. It is unlikely that Wolfowitz assumes any responsibility for what went wrong.
So you see, the e-mail that makes this argument implies, why should we feel any guilt because Saddam was much worse than we are? Baldly stated, that argument is nonsense and immoral nonsense at that. Yet many Americans are still ready to use it to wash their hands of the pain and suffering, the fear and the horror of innocent Iraqis we have betrayed.
Joel Preston Smith, one of my e-mail commentators, writes he was in Iraq before the war and after it began. "If I hadn't been treated so well, maybe I wouldn't feel so connected to the families and friends who sheltered me, fed me, helped me do my work. But I see the vast majority of Iraqis as incredibly kind, thoughtful people. And it is a knife in my heart, every day, to see them suffer." Many Americans do feel a similar knife, but many others dispense themselves from any feelings of grief or responsibility.
Moreover, when Americans finally "cut and run" -- as Ronald Reagan did in Lebanon -- there is no reason to think that Baathist leaders of the insurgency (from the safe haven of Syria) will not re-install Saddam or someone as bad as he was.
The man who was to lead the military police contingent into Iraq was promised 20 battalions of MPs. At the last minute, to prove Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's point that not many troops would be needed to dispose of Saddam, his contingent was cut to three battalions. If he had his full complement, he might have been able to prevent the looting that provided weapons for the insurgency. Rumsfeld dismissed the looting as something that was inevitable and not important. "Stuff happens."
Are all Americans responsible for the administration's ignorance and arrogance in Iraq? Surely not. Yet those who still defend the war with clichés and phony arguments despite all the published evidence to the contrary are whistling in the dark as they pass the graveyard.
white trash, crackers, rednecks, trailer trash, lily white.
Which is the essence of islam - those who are not muslim are non-islamic scum - worth of only rape, murdered and slavery.
An absolute bald faced lie.
I remember seeing this grinning fool Greely on the Katie Couric show a year or two ago ... and this fellow calls himself a Roman Catholic priest??
I guess Greeley's judgementalism is a virtue?Greeley is a Pharisee.
"or that Saddam Hussein killed far more than have died under our inept and unplanned "occupation."
The Left keeps insisting that Iraqis were better off under Saddam Hussein. Fat Ted Kennedy said that Abu Ghraib had just reopened under new management. How many hands have we chopped off? How many women have been taken to rape rooms? How many wives have been disemboweled in front of prisoners at Abu Ghraib?
The left is sick.
It's a little hard to dehumanize some people any more than than they do to themselves.
Sawing heads off innocent unarmed people, killing women over honor just because they went out in public without a man, hiding and firing rockets from civilian areas to draw return fire and have the civilians killed, using ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons. I could go on but everybody gets the point.
Don't forget Sunni dogs and Shiite pigs, or is it the other way around?
Allow me to translate:
"Greely cannot find any assertions by Bush administration officials that no evidence has been found of a link between al-Qaida and Iraq, so he'll simply make it up."
Hillary Clinton - October 2002
Oh, right ... I get it.
Kinda like the way the Left says babies aren't babies, merely non-viable cell masses.
They make it easy to hate the President by calling him Hitler.
The MSM does it when they focus on the 'civilian' deaths in Lebanon, yet pay scant attention to the Jewish civilians slaughtered in their beds by the jihadis all these past years.
And a Philistine as well.
Father you stupid dupe. We have spent our blood and treasure to bring freedom, democracy and prosperity to Iraq. We have built schools, roads and hospitals. We have done all we can to free those people from a dictator who was dangerous to them and to us...to you. So don't get all holy with me. I don't want to hear the lectures that you should be giving to the murdering terrorists who are killing innocent civilians in droves. I stand proudly by the president of the US and I say we should fight the terrorist to our last breath. Stiffen your spine. It's going to be ugly. Now go back to writing your silly novels.
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Joel Preston Smith, one of my e-mail commentators, writes he was in Iraq before the war and after it began. "If I hadn't been treated so well, maybe I wouldn't feel so connected to the families and friends who sheltered me, fed me, helped me do my work. But I see the vast majority of Iraqis as incredibly kind, thoughtful people. And it is a knife in my heart, every day, to see them suffer." Many Americans do feel a similar knife, but many others dispense themselves from any feelings of grief or responsibility.
What kind of work was that? Human shield? The contractors didn't go in until after the war (in which Saddam was toppled). Doesn't sound like he was with the army either. Even a journalist would have a hotel room. So what kind of sympathizer was this and why should we take his word without hearing who his side is?
A google search of his name and Iraq identifies him as a "Peacemaking delegate" (of the Iraq Peace Team www.iraqpeaceteam.org) and a photojournalist. He webpublished a series of photos titled ""Living With the Enemy" - January 14-24, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq."
Iraq Peace Team is not affiliated with Human Shield projects. Though we hope to remain in Iraq in the event of an attack, we don't consider ourselves human shields." IPT exists to stand in solidarity with the peoples of Iraq. Voices in the Wilderness refuses to incorporate military language or ideas to describe the peace witness of IPT members.
Oh darn it. I don't know how that signature email@example.com got left in my post 16. It was my post. Sorry about that.
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
Enter with love the temple that is your own Heart
Union with me (from Bhagavan's Promises and Declarations)
Seeking my true Nature in your Heart, discovering it and rejoicing
in it by bathing in the bliss of my jnana swarupa -- this is union.
Only bhakti sadhana performed continuously with love will
facilitate easily, in a gradual way, this union.
Enter with love the temple that is your own Heart and experience
the bliss of being absorbed in my swarupa, becoming one with it.
I myself will command and control a mind that has died by the
sacrifice of the ego.
from Padamalai, Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Recorded by Muruganar
translated by Dr T. V. Venkatasubramanian, Robert Butler and David Godman
edited and annotated by David Godman
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U.S. Extends AIG Bailout by up to $30 Billion
By LIAM PLEVEN, MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN and DEBORAH SOLOMON The federal government is boosting its investment in embattled insurer American International Group Inc., providing the company with an additional $30 billion in capital on an as needed basis, but also exposing U.S. taxpayers to additional risk. The new terms ease the financial burden on the company, which on Monday reported a $61.66 billion loss for the fourth quarter. The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve announced the overhaul of the government's bailout of the firm in a joint statement early Monday. In addition to providing up to $30 billion in additional capital to AIG in return for preferred stock, the Treasury said it would convert its existing $40 billion of preferred shares into new preferred shares that more closely resemble common stock. Under the new terms, the Treasury is to get a 77.9% equity interest via preferred stock on Wednesday. The steps by the Treasury will be coupled with changes to the Fed's existing $60 billion resolving credit facility for AIG. The Fed and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York plan to take up to a $26 billion preferred interest in two AIG life insurance subsidiaries -- American Life Insurance Co. and American International Assurance Co. -- as well as make $8.5 billion in new loans to benefit the domestic life insurance subsidiaries of AIG. In addition, the interest rate on the existing credit facility will be modified to reduce the existing floor. The Fed and Treasury said the steps are meant to provide "tangible evidence" of the government's commitment to an orderly restructuring of AIG, and that the cost of not helping the company was judged to be too high. "Given the systemic risk AIG continues to pose and the fragility of markets today, the potential cost to the economy and the taxpayer of government inaction would be extremely high," the joint statement said. Record Quarterly Loss Also on Monday, AIG posted a fourth-quarter net loss of $61.66 billion, or $22.95 a share, compared with a year-earlier net loss of $5.3 billion, or $2.08 a share. The latest results included the restructuring charges and write-downs as the company continues to be slammed by credit-market deterioration, especially in its exposure to commercial mortgage-backed securities. AIG Chief Executive Edward M. Liddy said in a statement that the company has made "meaningful progress" in addressing its liquidity issues, but it taking more steps to preserve the value of its business amid the economic and capital-market turmoil. AIG said it will continue looking for buyers for its units that are already up for sale and will continue reviewing its options for other units, which may include a public offering. AIG said it is considering combining its domestic life and retirement businesses as it looks to boost competitiveness. The combined units would have assets of $246.8 billion. The loss is the biggest quarterly loss in history, breaking the record set by Time Warner Inc. in 2002 amid its acquisition by America Online. Operationally, AIG's general-insurance business swung to a loss amid write-downs, falling investment income and losses at United Guaranty Corp. General-insurance net premiums dropped 16% to $9.2 billion. Life-insurance profits fell 70% and financial services' loss widened. AIG's shares were recently up 7.6% at 45 cents in premarket trading. The stock is off 73% so far this year. Fitch Ratings affirmed its credit ratings on AIG amid the government support, but downgraded some of the company's hybrid debt, saying there was a possibility of increased future political or other incentives to defer payment on hybrid instruments to preserve cash and support the repayment of the government money. 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Officials believed they had little choice but to use the TARP money, particularly because they lack the authority to unwind a troubled firm such as AIG the way the government can do now with failing banks. Timothy Geithner And the government isn't necessarily finished providing support. Government officials are expected to continue assisting AIG as needed in order to help the company shrink and dispose of some of its businesses, according to people familiar with the matter. The AIG funding eclipses the $50 billion that Citigroup Inc. has received from three Treasury programs, and the $45 billion that Bank of America Corp. has received, although each of those firms might receive additional funding in coming months, if necessary. The two banks also have commitments from the U.S. government to back potential losses down the road, putting hundreds of billions of dollars in public funds on the line. The decision to approve another revision of the AIG bailout amounts to a calculated bet by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke -- both architects of the original bailout -- that there would be even greater risk to letting AIG fail. Fed officials feared that a bankruptcy filing by AIG could be disastrous for the economy, which is in worse shape than it was six months ago. While AIG is trying to unwind many of the derivatives contracts in its Financial Products unit, deepening trouble at AIG would create more trouble for municipalities that have business relationships with the firm. In addition, a bankruptcy risked driving away many of AIG's roughly 74 million policyholders, forcing them to replace insurance contracts at a difficult time, adding to economic troubles in the more than 100 countries in which AIG operates. Valuation of Businesses The deal puts the government more directly into the insurance business. A key aspect of the plan involves creating trusts to hold two AIG units that sell life insurance overseas: Asia-based American International Assurance and American Life Insurance, which operates in 50 countries. Sept. 16: The government extends AIG a two-year loan of up to $85 billion, and gets a 79.9% stake in return.Oct. 8: Bailout loans increase to nearly $123 billion due to problems in AIG's securities-lending program.Nov. 9: The rescue package increases to $150 billion, including a new $40 billion federal investment.March 1: The government makes $30 billion in TARP money available and cuts the loans to up to $25 billion.But AIG and the government have yet to agree on how to value those businesses. That's a major issue for both the company and taxpayers, because it will help determine how far AIG will go to reducing the outstanding government debt. If those AIG franchises lose value after the trusts are created but before they can be sold, that could hurt taxpayers. Already taxpayers are exposed to tens of billions of dollars in soured AIG assets, via participation in investment vehicles that the government helped finance. The Obama administration may move even deeper to ensure AIG's success: providing financing to buyers interested in purchasing AIG's aircraft-leasing business, International Lease Finance Corp. AIG will package life-insurance assets into bonds to give to the government, reducing its federal debt by the value of the bonds. The government can either hold them or sell them to investors. Officials at the Fed think the restructured rescue package gives the U.S. government adequate collateral to protect taxpayers. Two elements of last fall's rescue -- the creation of special-purpose vehicles for certain debt and mortgage assets -- will remain in place and provide interest and earnings to help cover the government's commitments. The latest version of the bailout came as AIG faced potentially crippling cuts to its credit ratings. Downgrades would likely have forced it to post billions of dollars in collateral on an array of financial contracts, and could also have triggered the termination of many corporate insurance policies, costing AIG billions more. In a November filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, AIG warned that a one-notch downgrade of its long-term rating could require it to pay out about $8 billion to its counterparties. The major credit-rating companies signed off on the latest package, according to people familiar with the matter, clearing the way for the deal to go forward. The revision was negotiated over a period of months between AIG and U.S. government officials, these people say. —Sudeep Reedy and Kerry E. Grace contributed to this article. Write to Liam Pleven at email@example.com, Matthew Karnitschnig at email@example.com and Deborah Solomon at email@example.com
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OR, they will use other options to keep Low Prices, Always. For example, the last time we raised the minimum wage, Wal-Mart invested in those newfangled self-checkout machines which have since become increasingly ubiquitous.
Gosh, I wonder what happened to all the minimum wage tellers and baggers whose services were no longer required, but whose cost had just been increased?
Also, although true, spending at Walmart probably has limited impact as Walmart is a privately owned company so the buying there would tend to increase income inequality, wouldn't it?
Not sure what this silly rant about raising minimum wage to $100 an hour is about. Is this really the best straw man you can come up with?
Raising the minimum wage to bring it up to similar historical levels is not some kind of radical action. The circumstances and economics of today suggest such a move would have moderately positive effects.
Why Costco is Backing Obama's Minimum Wage Push - DailyFinance
that isn't how it works and calling you out on it isn't being an ass.
Low wages exist due to low skill jobs. the lower the skill job the more people that are qualified to do it. which means there is a large supply of people that qualify for that job
that suppresses wages.
as your skill increases along with knowledge then you offer more you can produce more you become more efficient which means that your value goes up.
it is like this across any company. the lower you are the less pay you get.
what happens is when you increase the pay for a position the demand for skill and production go up. if you can't or don't have the skill then you are priced out of a job.
places like target, walmart etc ... sell to specific markets on top of that. walmart targets lower/lower middle income people. target goes after higher income people.
they still have to be competitive with other people.
most companies have a flat line of profit that they make. in order for a company to stay in business it has to make a profit. most profits are put back into the company while some is paid out to investors and others are given out in raises.
most profits are used to fund next years projects or they are used to pay for added expenses.
by mandating pay for low skill jobs you price those people out of jobs and new people coming in. in order to justify a 10 dollar salary that person has to produce more than 10 dollars an hour. if they don't then they cost you money. the other issue is there is only so much 1 person can produce.
Low wage workers pay less net taxes on their income than would investors or executives would on what would have been more corporate profit. This would produce an end result in which the government collects less taxes, investors and executives take home slightly less pay, and the wage workers take home significantly more.


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Too late as Tinahely triumph
Within 60 seconds the sides were level as Eric Donoghue converted a free from 25 yards and Tinahely would go on and dominate the half although Donard missed some good chances.
Seán Pollard used his expert positional play to get in behind but missed the first major chance with the goal gaping.
Within minutes Donard nearly punished them in full but Lillis was on hand to beat away Eddie Flynn's rasper from 10 yards.
Tinahely closed out the half with good points from the busy Conor Kenny and his namesake Shane as well as a handful of Donoghue frees to lead by six at the break.
They continued on in the same vein of domination in the second half, although Donard had their moments, and seemed to be cruising to victory with 10 minutes to go as they led 10 points to 2 with substitute Stephen Nolan giving them the eight-point cushion with a well taken point.
Flynn and Lawrence Daly added points before the latter pounced on a breaking ball in the box as his bullet found the top right corner to leave Tinahely supporters anxiously looking at their watches.
Anthony Phelan's pointed 45 acted as an insurance point to give Tinahely a four-point buffer but they survived some nervous moments as Donard came at them hard in the final five minutes.
It was too little too late though for the West men as Tinahely deservedly came through to preserve their position at the top of the group and leave Donard with 2 must win matches against Coolkenno and Annacurra if they're to qualify.
Scorers - Tinahely: Eric Donoghue 0-5 (all frees), Conor Kenny 0-2, Willie Quaile 0-1, Shane Kenny 0-1, Anthony Phelan 0-1 (45), Stephen Nolan 0-1.
Donard-The Glen: Lawrence Daly 1-1, Dean Mann 0-1 (45), Stephen Doherty 0-1, Eddie Flynn 0-1.
Tinahely: Alan Lillis, Thomas Dalton, Kevin Doyle, Danny Quinn, Bill Kavanagh, Brian Hickie, Willie Quaile, Anthony Phelan, Niall Gorman, Conor Kenny, David Dillon, Eric Donoghue, Seán Pollard, Shane Kenny, Stuart Gilbert. Subs: Anthony Byrne for Brian Hickie (8 mins), Enda O'Keefe for Anthony Byrne (13 mins, BC), Stephen Nolan for Seán Pollard (38 mins).
Donard-The Glen: Enda Walshe, Gavin Walshe, Brendan Daly, Ger Halloran, Ger Daly, Micheal Daly, James Corrigan Steve Pierce, Dean Mann, Lawrence Daly, Stephen Doherty, Declan Healy, Colm O'Neill, Eddie Flynn, Brendan Coyne. Subs: Jerome Kelly for James Corrigan (22 mins).
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Could really do with some advice. Will try keep it short.
My relationship with my mother really belongs on stately homes thread. There is a long history of a poor relationship that I just can't fix. She has hurt me with her actions over and over again, is a persistant liar and is controlling and over bearing. Our history is a thread of its own but I hope you get the idea.
My father is a lot older than her and is very ill. Nearing the end of his life now. She herself has also been ill but insists on keeping my dad at home. Carers were arranged but she stopped them coming as they were "common".
So now she constantly complains she has to do everything herself. Is vile about anyone who tries to help (behind their back). Has alienated everybody throughout her life.
I go there once/twice a week with my kids. I have 2 young children and without fail every time I leave i cry the whole way home. I am a nervous wreck every time I am there. I could go every single day and it would not be enough. I live 45 miles away from them and have a job. I do my best but it's never enough. It's sad to say but the past is just too much for me to forget and she re wrights history in her own head regarding any situation where she may have been in the wrong.
I am tense and nervous in her company and sick and tired of being put on a guilt trip constantly. I get texts every day sometimes emails too telling me how bad her life is but how she will cope as she has no choice.
Sorry this has turned into a rant it's just something I can't admit to in real life but I feel like I'm sinking down this black hole with no end in site.
Had to laugh about carers being common! I'm sure if you sent Kate Middleton round she'd still find fault.
She really sounds impossible and I'd say you are doing more than enough . It seems like she is confronting you with all her difficulties, but forbidding you from doing anything and so ensuring you constantly feel guilty. At this stage I suspect it should be more about you protecting yourself, than about you helping her. I have been there with the guilt monster, and my Dad was nowhere near as manipulative as your mum sounds, so I know it's not easy. Initially I had 20 months of counselling (not an instant fix) but I will also say that bizarelly, the less you do the less guilty you feel. So my advice FWIW, is to pull back a little, be firm, maybe set time limits on phone calls an ignore emails for a few days. The less the contact, the less the bad feelings in my experience.
Hi op. It sounds really tough- Bob gives some great advice. Protect yourself and your family. Lots of advice and empathy on this board- you are not alone. Good luck
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me.
I know I need to distance myself it's just so hard to do. I know what I get and the way I get treated when I do. I need to take a grip on the situation and stop allowing myself to be guilt tripped but don't know how to do it.
Hi.Counselling can be really help in enabling you to reframe the conversations.Many on this board have found this the only way to protect themselves particularly when the back story is massive.
OP, your post really really resonated. I would second counselling. You need to be in control and part of that is understanding what buttons your mother pushes and why you react as you do.
I was "lucky" in that a few months before the mother problems really kicked off, I was being made very unhappy in a voluntary context by someone who was behaving very strangely and, essentially, picking on me. Friends were happy to agree she was rather odd, but the issue was why I reacted as I did. And the way I reacted seemed to single me out for more such treatment. The lightbulb moment was realising that I reacted to the manipulation and criticism in the same way as I would react to my mother. Taking the criticism passively, getting very upset, trying to please etc.
Then a bit of Googling around Grandiosity, Narcissism, and also Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis parent adult child model.
Its not going to get easier. The relationship model used at the moment where your mother is the parent and you are the child is wearing you down. One thing about elderly parents is that we start caring for them, and though we will aim for as much adult to adult interaction, and indeed still want to be the child, there will be many times,. if things are to be sustainable, when you will need to take on the parent role and make the decisions.
So step back, and focus on you. You need to work out what is going on and how you can constructively assert yourself. You need to decide what boundaries you need and how to defend them. You also need to learn that you are not responsible for things you cannot control.
I ended up going with the flow when my dad was terminally ill. My mother was getting exhausted, and became willing to at least hear me out, when I suggested I attend a MacMillan nurse visit, though my dad then died suddenly in his sleep before things got any worse. I wanted to do this for my dad, and he took comfort from me being there, even though it was exhausting.
1. I decided that I, as an individual, wanted to do "the right thing" and that this was an individual decision regardless of the behviour of others, past or present.
2. I decided that my boundaries were at the point where either my husband or my children would start feeling resentful (time or money or emotions).
3. I started not accepting some elements of my mother's behaviour. Quietly and firmly. For example I stopped her when she came out with a load of nasty criticism in front of the children. She was genuinely quite shocked. Now I generally ignore it, and more normally takes the form of her telling anyone who will listen how dreadful I am, rather than being aimed at me directly. (Though it is still upsetting!) I also ignore her criticism of others (and "common" is only the starting point..) though now note that a sign that her dementia is getting worse is that she is losing the ability to differentiate between family, who she can be openly rude to, and others, who she is generally polite to, at least to their faces.
4. I finally worked out that I could not do anything about things I could not influence. I did a little behind her back, like speak to the Inland Revenue to explain why they had not received a tax return in four years,. and then fax over a rough estimate of her income so they could call her in and "do" a tax return with her. But I gave up ringing round when she did not answer the phone. She would not tell me where a key was kept, so not much I could do. I visited her reasonably regularly, but did not eat in her flat as it was too filthy, or rather I picked up M&S food on the way for us both. Only when she had a fall, and she agreed to a POA, was I able or willing to sort things out.
FWIW, I'm glad I have stuck with it. There was a temptation to walk away. And reestablishing the relationship on a more sustainable basis was pretty brutal. Our relationship is better now than it has ever been, and as more people are involved in my mother's care, I have had some useful external recognition that the behaviour that upsets me so much, is unreasonable. Plus I am less likely to see myself through my mother's critical eyes.
In the short term, decide what you are willing to do and stick to it. When my dad was ill I was driving 100+ miles each way and only staying for a short time, as the atmosphere was so awful. She was not letting me help anyway. If need be, make something up. Say you fell and hurt your back and the doctor said you should not drive longer distances. The one that always worked for my mother was that DH was unhappy. She thought it normal that husbands would demand priority over my time.
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We will learn what a timeline and learn how to order events along a timeline.
In pairs you will create a game to order important events in the different ages of history. You will use the on-line application:
Step 1: The first step is to create an account in the application of LearningApps.org. Then go to the class of 1 ESO BILINGUAL and create your game!. Only one student has to create an account and log in.
Step 2: The language you should use to create this game is English. Select the UK flag on the menu above.
Step 3: You are going to create an App. In the Sequence section, choose the activity Number line. For the students working on the Prehistory timeline and the Ancient Age timeline, choose the option Sequence and Order.
Step 4: Study well the events on your timeline so you can present your project showing all that you have learned.
Here is a game to order events in Prehistory:
Sequence and order game
This week your teachers will give you the events and the timeline for each group so you can start working as soon as possible.
Here is the evaluation criteria for this project in pairs. Pay attention so you can all create the best games!!!


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a. my grandma's field peas and salmon patties..
yes, salmon patties. i was born in bradenton, florida and lived there til the age of six. it was cool because that's where my dad's entire family was. my grandparents house was just a short drive away. we'd go there every sunday after church (well, after they got out of church). my grandma was and may still be a great cook. her best meal, and my all time favorite of hers, is field peas (hand picked from their garden), and salmon patties, hand squished. yes, believe it or not, i used to eat seafood. it is the only seafood in my whole life that i have ever enjoyed. i couldn't wait for that supper.. of course she would spend hours in the kitchen making lunch, with other things to go with it, biscuits, fried okra, etc. the smell would radiate through the whole house and outside into the yard where my brothers and i would be chasing frogs, armadillos, and rabbits. that smell still haunts me when i think about it.. so good... and then FINALLY supper would be on the table. but of course, before we could eat, we had to pray.. this would usually consist of a regular prayer, and then a 20 MINUTE reading out of some bible handbook, and then a few passages from the actual bible. it always seemed to take FOREVER. and then finally, we got to sink our teeth into the salty, yummy goodness.
of course, now my grandma rarely cooks. she and grandpa live in georgia, and she is too busy taking care of a house, and a sick grandpa to be able to cook big meals. plus, there's no one really to cook for anymore.. seems like everyone has moved away.
i'm not sure i'd be able to enjoy the salmon patties anymore anyways.. i haven't eaten seafood in years.
that one was kinda long i guess..
b. the creek
when we lived on billy st. in kannapolis, down at the end, where the road dead ends into the woods, there was the entrance to a trail. at the end of this trail was a creek.. a pretty little creek. and at the creek was a cabin. although it wasn't deserted, i NEVER saw a human at this cabin, and never saw a car, in fact i don't even know how a car would get to it. it was nice though, with a little bridge, a rock wall, and a picnic table. this was a favorite place to go for all of us neighborhood kids. anytime we wanted to escape our parents or siblings, or to have imaginary soap operas, me and my best friend marissa would go down to the creek. my eighth grade birthday party (the first one with BOYS) happened mostly here. we played spin the bottle and i got my first french kiss from rory miller (who unfortunately passed away a few years ago).
but this wasn't the end of the creek's coolness. there was another trail, from the creek, that led to a deserted skeet shooting range.. there were several buildings, all delapitated, perfect for kids and wasps. most of the buildings were blue and for some reason they were really small, but they were so cool. one year the mostly absent owners of this farm had a haunted hayride trail through the range for halloween. when it was over, my brother and me and all of our friends had and even greater time, due to the fact that they just left all of the props laying around the area..
now the beginning of the trail to the creek is closed off. the owner of the house at the end must have gotten tired of all the kids cutting through his yard. but one day, i swear i'm gonna go back there and see what it looks like now.
c. the wizard of oz as performed by a and a suggs
when we were wee lads and lasses, my brother alan and i would watch the wizard of oz over and over and OVER again.. we knew every word. we would act out the scenes, using our cats, my parents, and occassionally my oldest brother scott, as other characters. i, of course, was always dorothy.. and alan was usually the lion. my cat mayonnaise was toto. my mom even bought me a plaid dress similar to dorothy's. we had so much fun...
d. family vacations.
my family was hardcore into road trips. we went on road trips all the time. when we lived in florida we would take weekend trips up to north carolina to see the mountains and the "snow" during the summer months (yes, summer, it's 900 degrees in florida during the summer). when we moved up here, we would take day trips to the mountains, since it was only a 2 hour drive from k-town. at the grand old age of 9, my family, including my mom, dad, two brothers, and nana (other grandma) went to new england. we took a two week trip driving all the way up to maine and back.. we saw new york, maryland, rhode island, boston and everything in between. i'd say my favorite part was the whale watching in cape cod. another cool part, which i didn't appreciate at the time, was that we got to see the twin towers and go inside. there is actually a picture of my bros and i inside looking out from the top floor of one of the towers.
when i was 11, we took a month long trip across country, all the way to california and back. my family, my cousin alicia, and my grandma and grandpa. a van, a truck, and two campers. it was awesome.. got sick in vegas, saw seals in cali, saw yellowstone, yosemite, mesa verde, grand canyon, devil's tower, mt. rushmore, and EVERYTHING in between. i have been to 44 u.s. states because of these two road trips alone.
these weren't the only ones, just the best. we also went on a cruise to mexico, and other various vacations.. i miss that..
e. let's see.. i guess this last one should be the most important.. um... i miss... naps!
naps!! the most important and stupendous thing ever invented. i was never one of those kids who fought to stay awake in kindergarden at naptime.. i always warmly welcomed my favorite part of the day. the soft towel and pillow, the dark room, the back of my eyelids... this tradition carried on to the afternoons all through elementary school, and yes, even in middle school my mother would often come home to find me asleep watching animaniacs and tiny toon adventures. those rocked. in high school, i had to get a stupid job, so the naps had to end. every once in a while i'd be able to catch one.. who am i kidding, i napped everyday, during class!! especially when we'd watch a video, i'd be out like that.. . but then of course in college, i had a job too. but in college, you can't sleep during class, or you're fucked. i tried a couple times my freshman year, but it never worked. my naptimes officially stopped for good.
now i have a regular daytime job.. and my nights free. i could take naps if i wanted. of course i want to.. but now if i take a nap in the afternoon, i can't fall asleep at night.. which totally blows. so... no more naptimes for ally.
wow, that was a LOT of rambling.. sorry..
4 comments:
- Katie said...
YAY!!! Okay, comments:
a. I LOVE salmon patties. I've actually made them for Daniel and I, and you know that's saying a lot considering I don't cook. Um, the whole 20 minute prayer thing- wow- that explains your religious choices now that you are able to decide for yourself. My family was more the "Thank you for the grub. amen." kind of people...
b.That place sounds AWESOME! What a great place to explore as a kid!!!
c. Go fuss at Daniel- he's never seen the Wizard of Oz. EVER. !
d. I'm so jealous! The only road trips we ever went on were from Louisville to NC, Cincinnatti to NC, and Columbus to NC. (We moved a lot, and always came back to visit all the family twice a year.)
e. I am a firm believer that work productivity would increase greatly if we all could take afternoon naps after lunch.
See, now was that so bad? It was almost therapeutical for you too.
- Allison said...
thanks katie, you're so good to me!! and oh yeah WHAT?!?!?! daniel's NEVER seen the wizard of oz!!?? that's messed up.
- Katie said...
I KNOW!!! I thought about making him watch it, but I just don't think it will have the same magical effect on him today. Bummer- he missed out on a great childhood memory! (I have fussed at his mom about this tragedy, and she too is upset about it.)
- Allison said...
it's just wrong.. wrong i tell you.


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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Card for a teen
Still trying to increase the number of male cards I make. This stamp is from Spiral Whispers, coloured with promarkers, with a bit of chalk for the sky. I then used papers from The Sweet Shoppe. The wood is real wood but the name of it escapes me -like rough laminate!! I inked the edges but not sure how well you can see that.
Can't believe the kids will be back at school in two weeks, should we take bets that summer will start about then?
Posted by WeirdCat at 19:55
8 comments:
- Alison said...
Great card, like the wood touch is it balsa wood?
- 19 August 2008 at 20:24
- Becky said...
Hi Ruth! Long time no visit! Sorry hon! Love this stamp and your card, I too need to make more male cards! I'm starting to think that summer is over :0(
Hope you are well
Love Becky xx
- 19 August 2008 at 22:20
- Andrea, said...
Great card, I love the papers
- 20 August 2008 at 06:49
- Lorraine said...
Lovely card, Ruth. I think the wood is a 'veneer'. Really thin stuff to stick onto other stuff, lol.
- 20 August 2008 at 16:28
- JANE CARROLL said...
fabulous boys card
love the wood - very rustic
hugs jane x
- 20 August 2008 at 19:13
- Wendy said...
Great card Ruth
Wendy x
- 21 August 2008 at 09:32
- Donna said...
Lovely vibrant card ruth :) Donna x
- 21 August 2008 at 14:15
- Glitter Gran said...
Great card Ruth, and love the colours
- 23 August 2008 at 11:10
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