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Baptism, ritual and actual
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John - what do you make of the idea that baptism in/by the Spirit is water baptism? See Peter Leithart (and, he say, Calvin) here.ReplyDelete
Anthony Smith
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Anthony. Interpreting what occurred on the Day of Pentecost, the Apostle Peter referred to the Holy Spirit being poured out (Acts 2:33).ReplyDelete
When Cornelius' household was given the gift of the Spirit, the Jewish believers with Peter were astounded that "the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles" (Acts 10:45)
Peter then reasoned "can anyone keep these people from being baptised with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have".
Whilst the two baptisms are not identical, there is then a direct connection between Spirit baptism and water baptism illustrated here.
Interesting comparing NIV with ESV on 10:47. NIV gives the impression that the people have been baptised with the Spirit, so therefore they should be baptised with water. ESV has "Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?" which isn't so conclusive.ReplyDelete
But 11:16 is probably the relevant verse, Peter speaking about Cornelius et al receiving the Spirit, prior to being baptised: "And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'"
This does seem to suggest that Cornelius et al. were baptised with the Holy Spirit before they were baptised with water, as there was no water involved on the Day of Pentecost when the original disciples were "baptised with the Holy Spirit" (1:5). I suppose Leithart's comments on that verse are relevant (see link in my previous comment), though I'm not finding that part of his case fully persuasive.
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Peter then reasoned "can anyone keep these people from being baptised with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have". - Graham Wood -
Precisely, Graham. Although the neophyte Christians had already 'tasted' of the Holy Spirit; they were still required, by Peter, to submit to Water Baptism. Thids should give John Richardson a clearer indication of the importance of Water Baptism, which is a ritualised adoption by God in Christ - a basic Christening.
John - I'm still wrestling with this. Is there any sense in which baptism with water actually admits someone to the church?ReplyDelete
It seems that the answer you would give is that there are two churches and two baptisms. There is the visible "church" of the water-baptised, and there is the invisible "church" of the Spirit-baptised. Ritual baptism admits you to the institutional church, and actual (Spirit) baptism admits you to the actual (invisible/true) church.
I'm reluctant to separate what God seems to have joined together. In the incarnation he seems to have joined together the invisible and the visible in a way that will not be fully experienced by the whole created order until the resurrection. But we live in the already-and-not-yet, and it seems that the visible church on earth - at least partially, and at least in some sense - actually partakes in this joining together of the invisible and the visible, as the body of the still-incarnate Christ. We can try to make a sharp distinction between the visible church and the invisible church, or between water baptism and Spirit baptism, but the New Testament seems to blur that distinction, in ways that are hard to grasp. So Paul writes to a visible congregation of water-baptised people, and speaks to them as though they are actually a part of the invisible, Spirit-baptised church - without any hint that he considers the visible church and water baptism to be nothing more than visual aids, pointing toward the invisible reality.
Anthony "I'm still wrestling with this. Is there any sense in which baptism with water actually admits someone to the church?"ReplyDelete
A good question and one that I would also ask. It seems to me that John is complicating the relatively simple doctrine of Christian baptism by his references to "actual baptism" and "ritual baptism".
I ask: why not stick to the two biblical elements, namely - firstly, Spirit baptism which is the gift given to every believer upon a true faith in Christ, and secondly, its symbolic counterpart of water baptism? The second (which I think John calls "ritual) merely illustrates the reality of the first - that is the 'new birth'.
Others in a previous thread have made the same claim that baptism somehow has a primary meaning of "admittance to the church", but nowhere in scripture AFAIK is this emphasis found. (it begs also the question as to what is "church", but we won't go down there at the moment!). If as John rightly affirms he means that the believer is incorporated into the body of Christ, then that simple definition is IMO sufficient.
Perhaps this terminology - i.e. "the church", is used by those who believe that infant baptism is the mechanism by which this becomes a reality ? (we are back to the error of infant baptism once again - ground already covered ).
John seems to further confuse the simple symbol of baptism by his statement:
"Actual baptism is only guaranteed to those who persevere in faith"
I don't know what he means by that!. Surely perseverance in the faith is the outcome of God's continuing grace, obedience, and the exercise of faith in Christ and nothing to do with baptism, or its being "guarenteed" in this way?. (cf. Paul in Gal 2:20).
It seemed that the writer to the Hebrews considered that believers do not profit from attempting to lay again foundational truths, such as "the doctrine of baptisms" laying on of hands, & etc. and that there are far greater priorities in the Christian life ! (Hebrews 6:1,2).
Graham - I'm hearing you and John saying the same kind of thing: that there are two elements: "Spirit baptism" or "actual baptism" on the one hand, and "water baptism" or "ritual baptism" on the other hand, the latter being merely illustrative of the former.ReplyDelete
Questions of baptism and the church are very closely related. On the Day of Pentecost, about 3000 were "added", and presumably that means they were baptised (Acts 2:41; see 2:47; 5:14; 11:24). When Paul writes to a church and mentions baptism, he seems to assume that all of the recipients have been baptised, almost as if baptism marked someone out as having been admitted to membership of the church. Baptism has implications for church order; it's not just an opportunity for someone to profess their personal faith.
As the scripture texts you've quoted indicate, baptism in the NT is what I would call "realistic"; i.e. it is regarded as promising and even conveying what is attributed to it. Therefore, I think your conjectural distinction between ritual and actual baptism is not a helpful way to go. Better to allow baptism as a means of grace to stand and attribute the personal failure to persevere in baptismal grace to falling away from faith and rejecting that grace - hence Paul's warning, which does not imply a defect in baptism but in personal faith. I do like your conclusion, though, which I suspect is not emphasised enough outside of Lutheran circles, that baptism means a daily dying to sin and rising to new life in Christ (cf. Luther's Small Catechism). Thanks for your reflection and the opportunity to react to them.
"Actual baptism is only guaranteed to those who persevere in faith"
If this is true then we can facilitate our own salvation. Are we saved because we chose to believe? Or are we saved because we are chosen by God?
The Bible repeatedly states the latter. Why else would we chose to believe? Baptism of whatever kind is not necessary therefore for salvation.
Basically how would you ever know that you have persevered enough?ReplyDelete
And if you have persevered .. say.. a lot!. Does this mean God owes you faith/salvation/whatever, for what you have done?
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This is very problematic. If you are asserting a difference between the ritual and the reality of baptism, you are saying that many, if not most, of those "ritually" baptised in infancy have not really been baptised at all. You are at least shedding and spreading doubt in people about their own salvation and the efficacy of their baptisms. The obvious corollary of your idea is that one might be ritually re-baptised, a teaching which every mainstream church except the Baptists has rejected, for reasons which I am sure are well-enough known not to need repeating here.ReplyDelete
Your idea also denies the efficacy of the sacraments instituted by Christ and defined by the Church of England, in common with the wider Catholic Church, as the visible and effective signs of an invisible grace. According to classical Anglican teaching, the sacrament of Baptism is effective in regenerating the recipient regardless of his or her ability to profess the Christian faith: it is by God's grace alone, given to the Church and her ministers to impart. We must not divorce the outward sign from the inner grace.
Forgive my temerity, but it does seem problematic to me that an Anglican priest should be teaching Baptist doctrine. If nothing else, it will cause great confusion to any of your flock who ever go to another Anglican church and find that you have taught them something contrary to the Church's teachings. I don't mean to be nasty or offensive in saying this, mind!


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And I trust my instincts a whole heap more than I trust the shite on TV.
I agree with you, but you have evaded to answer the question I asked.


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The Surgeon, the SCOTUS, the senator, and the gun: Some reflections on United States v. Castleman
By Michelle D. Schwartz
AFJ Director of Justice Programs
These are not encouraging times for those of us who care about reducing gun violence.
Mass shootings are met with shrugs.
Legislation to improve background checks has scarcely seen the light of day since it was filibustered nearly a year ago.
And the nominee to be Surgeon General finds himself in the gun lobby's crosshairs because he has reached the seemingly self-evident conclusion that gun violence is a public health issue.
So I was relieved last week to receive some good news on the gun violence prevention front from a place I don't generally turn for solace these days—the United States Supreme Court.
Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of "a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" from possessing firearms. In United States v. Castleman, the court considered which crimes fit that definition. As the New York Times wrote:
The case concerned James A. Castleman, a Tennessee man who in 2001 was convicted of assault in state court for causing bodily injury to the mother of his child. Court records do not say precisely what he did or what injuries the woman sustained.
When Mr. Castleman was indicted under the federal gun law, he argued that it did not apply to him because his state conviction did not qualify as a crime of domestic violence. Though the federal law defines a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" as one involving the use of physical force, he argued that the state law under which he was charged did not require proof of such force.
In a unanimous decision, the Court disagreed with Castleman—and with the district and circuit courts below—and held that "Castleman's conviction for having 'intentionally or knowingly cause[d] bodily injury to' the mother of his child qualifies as a 'misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.'"
In her opinion for six justices (concurrences were filed by Justice Scalia and by Justice Alito for himself and Justice Thomas), Justice Sotomayor wrote that, for purposes of this statute, "the requirement of 'physical force' is satisfied . . . by the degree of force that supports a common-law battery conviction." Such acts of violence may be relatively minor, and could include hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, hair pulling, and "a squeeze of the arm that causes a bruise." "[A]n act of this nature is easy to describe as 'domestic violence,'" Justice Sotomayor wrote, "when the accumulation of such acts over time can subject one intimate partner to the other's control."
This decision is a victory for victims of domestic abuse. It is a victory for those who advocate for domestic violence victims and for gun violence prevention.
But this decision is deeply personal for me, too.
That's because it means that my hero and late boss, Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, will continue saving lives.
The law at issue in Castleman is often referred to as the "Lautenberg Amendment" because Senator Lautenberg authored it in 1996. It was one of the Senator's proudest accomplishments, and he spoke frequently—really, really frequently—of how the law had prevented convicted domestic abusers from purchasing firearms on approximately 200,000 occasions. It's hard to know how many lives have been saved as a result, but a Department of Justice study cited in Justice Sotomayor's opinion offers a clue: "When a gun was in the house, an abused woman was 6 times more likely than other abused women to be killed."
While working for Senator Lautenberg, I had the privilege of working on an amicus brief he, along with Senators Feinstein and Murray, filed in United States v. Hayes, another case urging a narrow interpretation of the Lautenberg Amendment. In Hayes, as in Castleman, the Court (by a 7-2 majority) rejected that narrow interpretation.
In her opinion for the Court in Hayes, Justice Ginsburg quoted Senator Lautenberg in pointing to the impetus for this law:
Existing felon-in-possession laws, Congress recognized, were not keeping firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers, because "many people who engage in serious spousal or child abuse ultimately are not charged with or convicted of felonies." 142 Cong. Rec. 22985 (1996) (statement of Sen. Lautenberg). By extending the federal firearm prohibition to persons convicted of "misdemeanor crime[s] of domestic violence," proponents of § 922(g)(9) sought to "close this dangerous loophole." Id., at 22986.
Thanks to the decision in Castleman, that dangerous loophole will stay closed, and, I hope, more families will be spared the devastating consequences that can ensue from the toxic combination of domestic violence and firearms.


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I'm a big fan of Battle Bones, always have been. However I wasn't impressed with the 200x remake.
With the talk of large beasts being made and the reveal of Battle Cat, I was wondering if Battle Bones was classed as a beast and could be made.
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Family Fresh Green Bean Casserole
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 6 to 8 servings
- Total: 45 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 30 min
Kosher salt
1 1/2 pounds fresh French green beans, ends trimmed
4 tablespoons butter, divided
2 tablespoons finely chopped Vidalia onion
4 ounces baby portobello mushrooms, cleaned and finely chopped (about 2 tablespoons)
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
Freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 cups corn cereal (recommended: Corn Flakes)
1/2 pound grated mozzarella cheese
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over medium heat. Add the beans and cook for until just tender but still firm, about 5 to 7 minutes. Remove the beans from the water to a large bowl of ice water to preserve color and stop the cooking. Drain the beans and set aside.
- Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and saute until translucent. Stir in the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, to taste, and saute about 3 to 5 minutes. Add the flour and stir for another minute, to cook out the raw flour taste, and then whisk in the sour cream. Simmer for just a couple of minutes to bring the flavors together and taste for seasoning.
- Cut the green beans into 2-inch pieces. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter in a small pan. Crush the cereal flakes in a resealable plastic bag and add them to the pan with the butter. Toss to coat. Spread the green beans over the bottom of a 9-inch casserole dish. Pour all of the mushroom sauce mixture over the beans and top with the grated cheese. Sprinkle with the buttered cereal flakes and bake in the preheated 400 degree F oven, until light golden brown and bubbly, approximately 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.


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May 2002 Journal of Geoscience EducationVolume 50, Number 3
Using GPS to Teach More than Accurate Positions
Marie C. Johnson Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996
Peter L. Guth Department of Oceanography, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402
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Undergraduate science majors need practice in critical thinking, quantitative analysis, and judging whether their calculated answers are physically reasonable. We have developed exercises using handheld GPS receivers that expose students to this recent technology and promote larger goals that transcend the simple use of a tool for precision location. Using the GPS to calculate the volume of sand in the dunes at Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado requires traversing the dunes, plotting a topographic profile, calculating the volume of sand traversed, and then extrapolating to estimate the volume in the entire dune field. This exercise serves to reinforce students' abilities to think quantitatively, to make realistic "back of the envelope" assumptions, and to determine whether their final answers make physical sense. Using the GPS to measure the running track at an outdoor track and field stadium requires students to gather data, import the data into a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel, plot it and perform error assessment. This exercise reinforces concepts from statistics, and allows students to estimate the precision of GPS measurements both qualitatively and qualitatively. Together these two exercise promote quantitative analysis in a geologic context.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p241
Reconstruction/Interpretation of Macroscopic Structures from Discontinuous Mesoscopic Observations: A Major task of Field/Structural Geologists
F. Ornelas Marques Departmento Geologia, Universidade Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Geologists face a difficult task when mapping metasedimentary rocks over large areas where outcrops are scarce: reconstruction/interpretation of the macroscopic structure from information gathered at isolated outcrops. Situations can range from very simple to very complex, but most have a unique solution. The basic technique derives from Shackleton's rule: to compare the stratigraphic (polarity) and geometric (angular relation between bedding and cleavage) criteria at each outcrop, to evaluate accordance--it they are accordant, the structure is very simple because antiforms (geometry) are anticlines (polarity) and synforms are synclines (upward facing folds); otherwise antiforms and synforms are, respectively, synclines and anticlines, and the macro-structure is more complex (downward facing folds). When studying, for instance, polyphase deformed metasedimentary rocks of accretionary wedges, the geologist often finds a second deformation phase with a concomitant cleavage, and he must be much more careful because first deformation phase criteria are modified by second phase folds. Still, solutions are possible if there are no second phase recumbent folds with plunging brows. When the geologist observes first phase overthrusts folded by a second deformation phase, the solutions are reasonably easier if the sense of shear of fault is known. Otherwise, solutions are similar to the ones of second phase folds. Here we propose new rules for these more complex cases. The most important rule is: first phase criteria are non-accordant in the inverted limbs of second phase folds, when vergences of first and second phases are in the same sense, and in the second phases normal limbs, when first and second phases show opposite vergences.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p247
Transferable Elements of the Education Program SEA Semester
Charles E. McClennen Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346
Audrey W. Meyer Falmouth Academy, 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA 02540
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SEA Semester is a highly successful semester-length academic program, providing undergraduate students with an in-depth knowledge of the oceans. There are a number of structural, program design, and other educational considerations that have contributed to SEA Semester's success. Key among these is a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, an educational program that combines theoretical learning and practical experience, and an environment of focused learning and intense personal and team challenges. Many of these beneficial characteristics can be incorporated to advantage in both field-centered and more traditional college campus settings, leading to enriched student learning and success in a wide variety of geoscience, earth and environmental science, oceanography and other educational programs.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p266
Studying Earthquakes, While also Learning about Data and Visualization
Neil A. Wells Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
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Earthquakes have complex causes and patterns of occurrence that can remain enigmatic without lots of data, but earthquake datasets nonetheless seem very comprehensible to introductory students, as they consist primarily of just XYZ positions (latitude, longitude, depth), magnitude, and time of occurrence. Nonetheless, table of abundant data involving more than a couple of parameters are overwhelming. Earthquakes can therefore be used to teach about the importance of (a) collecting enough data, and (b) simplifying and visualizing them appropriately. In particular, interactive stereoplotting routines such as 3D.BAS can simplify multiparameter datasets, and can help visualize multiparameter datasets, and can help visualize subducting and spreading plate boundaries, tectonic settings for faults and volcanoes and time distributions. This can lead students relatively easily into a sophisticated yet enjoyable examination of large databases and into creating hypotheses to explain the patterns that they unearth.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p271
Visual Solute Transport: A Computer Code for Use in Hydrology Classes
Kathryn W. Thorbjarnarson, Julie H. Inami, and Gary Girty Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182
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Gaining an understanding of solute transport processes can be a time-consuming process due to usage of Fortran models. Senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in hydrogeology classes are not always familiar with data file preparation and output graphing procedures. Assignments designed to point out important impacts of various transport processes can turn into many hours of preprocessing and postprocessing data with little time or energy for thought and evaluation. A stand-alone Visual Basic program, Visual Solute Transport, has been created for easy data input and graphing of one-dimensional diffusion and advection-dispersion with equilibrium sorption and decay models. Inquiry-based exercises for evaluation of advection-dispersion, dispersivity and sorption effects are included in the paper.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p287
Teaching GIS and Remote Sensing Integration Using Fire Ecology in Longleaf Pine Sandhills
Ryan R. Jensen Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may02.html#v50p998
I developed a class assignment that integrates Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and longleaf pine sandhill fire ecology to analyze potential sandhill succession in north central Florida. Students used remotely sensed imagery, vector GIS layers, and raster/vector overlay to complete the assignment. Students found that they could use these two geo-technologies to map and monitor the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in sandhills and use this information to implement prescribed burns to ward off succession. This assignment taught students not just the tools to integrate GIS and remote sensing but also the importance of using these technologies in tandem to solve real world spatial problems.
A Student-Centered Field Project Comparing NEXRAD and Rain Guage Precipitation Values in Mountainous Terrain
Christopher J. Woltemade and Diane Stanitski-Martin Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA 17257
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A team of undergraduate geoscience students compared Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) estimates of storm total precipitation to measurements from a network of 20 rain gauges. Student researchers gained valuable experience in field data collection, global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), Internet data access and downloading, computer graphic analysis, descriptive statistics, and conference presentation. The project emphasized problem-solving techniques, positive interdependence and individual accountability.
The study evaluated 31 storms delivering >= 0.30 inches total precipitation to one or more gauges in the 51.8 km2 Burd Run watershed, which drains a low mountainous areas of south-central Pennsylvania. Rain gauge measurements fell within the corresponding range of radar estimates in less than half (46.8%) of all cases. Departures between rain gauge and radar estimates were more common for large storms (total precipitation >= 1.00 in at one or more gauges) than for smaller storms (0.30-0.99 in.). Students explored the environmental reasons for data departures.
SI units are used throughout this paper except in the case of precipitation measurements. We maintain the National Weather Service standard of using English units (inches) when discussing precipitation values.
The study evaluated 31 storms delivering >= 0.30 inches total precipitation to one or more gauges in the 51.8 km2 Burd Run watershed, which drains a low mountainous areas of south-central Pennsylvania. Rain gauge measurements fell within the corresponding range of radar estimates in less than half (46.8%) of all cases. Departures between rain gauge and radar estimates were more common for large storms (total precipitation >= 1.00 in at one or more gauges) than for smaller storms (0.30-0.99 in.). Students explored the environmental reasons for data departures.
SI units are used throughout this paper except in the case of precipitation measurements. We maintain the National Weather Service standard of using English units (inches) when discussing precipitation values.
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Developing a Geologic Outreach Program
Kathleen M. Bower Geology/ Geography Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920
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A geologic outreach program was initiated within the Geology/Geography Department of Eastern Illinois University to deliver geologic demonstrations and activities presented by undergraduates to area classrooms in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. The presentations are developed to aid classroom students by the delivery of inquiry methods of geology teaching. The presentations are available on a website so teachers can use them when no guest presenter is available. The program has been well received by area teachers.
Optional Seminars Bring Small-Class Experiences to Students in Large-Enrollment Geology Courses
Martin G. Miller Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403
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At large universities optional seminars that dovetail with large-enrollment courses can provide meaningful small-class experiences for students who want them. I teach an optional, one-credit, limited enrollment course, offered in conjunction with the large-enrollment course, Geology of the National Parks. This seminar, being discussion-oriented, differs greatly in design and philosophy from required course material and related topics, as well as instruction in writing and research. Perhaps most importantly, it allows meaningful interaction between student and professor.
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The Use of U.S. Geological Survey CD-ROM-Based Petroleum Assessments in Undergraduate Geology Laboratories
Robert L. Eves Division of Geosciences, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
Larry E. Davis Department of Biology, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
Thaddeus S. Dyman U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Team, Denver, CO 80225
Kenneth I. Takahashi U.S. Geological Survey, Energy Resources Team, Denver, CO 80225
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Domestic oil production in declining and United States reliance on imported oil is increasing. America will be faced with difficult decisions that address the strategic, economic, and political consequences of its energy resources shortage. The geologically literate undergraduate student needs to be aware of current and future United States energy issues. The U.S. Geological Survey periodically provides energy assessment data via digitally-formatted CD-ROM publications. These publications are free to the public and are well suited for use in undergraduate geology materials.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources (Digital Data Series or DDS-30)(Gautier and others, 1996) is an excellent resource for introducing students to the strategies of hydrocarbon exploration and for developing skills in problem-solving and evaluating real data. This paper introduces the reader to DDS-30, summarizes the essential terminology and methodology of hydrocarbon assessment, and offers examples of exercises or questions that might be used in the introductory classroom. The USGS contact point for obtaining DDS-30 and other digital assessment volumes is also provided. Completing the sample exercises in this report requires DDS-30.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources (Digital Data Series or DDS-30)(Gautier and others, 1996) is an excellent resource for introducing students to the strategies of hydrocarbon exploration and for developing skills in problem-solving and evaluating real data. This paper introduces the reader to DDS-30, summarizes the essential terminology and methodology of hydrocarbon assessment, and offers examples of exercises or questions that might be used in the introductory classroom. The USGS contact point for obtaining DDS-30 and other digital assessment volumes is also provided. Completing the sample exercises in this report requires DDS-30.
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Julie C. Libarkin, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
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Bain execs spent nearly $5 million on Romney's White House runs
WASHINGTON — Of all the investments made by the super-wealthy partners at the private equity firm Bain Capital, perhaps none has a greater potential return than the one they've made in Mitt Romney.
Current and former Bain executives and their relatives have given about $4.7 million to organizations that are dedicated to making Romney the next president of the United States, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.
Some Bain associates have been filling Romney's campaign coffers since 2004, long before the former Massachusetts governor officially embarked on a presidential run.
Since then, they've given to political committees in early primary states — some without contribution limits — for both of Romney's presidential campaigns and to federal "leadership PACs" that the candidate controls.
Most dramatically, they gave at least $3.1 million last year to Restore Our Future, a "super PAC" that Romney doesn't control, which has used the contributions to launch ads against his opponents. Super PACS are the independent groups that have mushroomed since a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 permitted corporations and others to donate and spend unlimited amounts on a candidate's behalf, often with the sources undisclosed.
The Center for Public Integrity examined contribution data from the Center for Responsive Politics, CQ MoneyLine, the Federal Election Commission and state campaign-finance regulators. (Contributions made from 2004 to 2007 to the South Carolina PAC weren't available.)
Romney supporters established one federal and six state-based leadership political action committees — each dubbed a "Commonwealth PAC" — in 2004 and 2006, allowing Romney to raise almost 10 times more money per contributor than he could through his presidential campaigns alone.
Many candidates and elected officials establish PACs to contribute to other candidates and to advance the party agenda, but few were as prolific as Romney's, especially at the state level. In total, current and former Bain executives and their relatives contributed more than $1 million to the state and federal PACs from 2004 to 2011, when Romney wasn't an official presidential candidate.
Much of the Commonwealth money came from 16 current or former Bain executives and their wives, some of whom contributed tens of thousands of dollars in a single day to multiple PACs.
Bain Capital has more than a rooting interest in Romney. Records show that the company spent more than $3.1 million from 2007 through 2011 for lobbying on issues from regulatory oversight of the financial industry to tax benefits for rich investors.
Boston-based Bain Capital LLC was founded in 1984 by Romney and other partners of the consulting firm Bain & Co., which William Bain founded in 1973. Romney worked for both Bain Capital and Bain & Co., which are separate entities. Five of the 16 contributing executives worked at Bain & Co. and the rest at Bain Capital.
Bain Capital specializes in leveraged buyouts and investment in a variety of ventures, including office supply stores and a pizza chain.
Romney left Bain Capital in 1998 to take over managing the debt-ridden 2002 Winter Olympics, but he parlayed his Bain connections to fund his Commonwealth PACs and subsequent campaign organizations.
Romney made his first moves to run for president in 2003, barely six months into his Massachusetts governorship.
The Boston Globe has reported that longtime Bain associate Robert White met with Republican operatives in Washington to discuss Romney's potential candidacy. White, who headed Romney's gubernatorial transition team, had worked on Romney's unsuccessful 1994 U.S. Senate campaign and the 2002 Olympics.
By the summer of 2004, Romney supporters had established a federal Commonwealth PAC and four state Commonwealth PACs, in Arizona, Iowa, Michigan and South Carolina. Once the PACs were set up, the Bain money started pouring in.
In a single day in August 2004, White signed checks for $21,500 to four PACs. He and his wife eventually gave at least $83,000 to the PACs.
Another Bain executive, Paul Edgerley, wrote checks worth $21,500 in a single September 2004 day for four PACs. He and his wife eventually contributed at least $68,000 to the PACs.
William Bain contributed $7,000 in one day in 2004 to two state PACs, and he and his wife eventually contributed at least $43,000 to the PACs.
By 2006, Romney announced that he was considering a presidential bid.
Commonwealth PACs were established in New Hampshire and Alabama, and 2006 became the year for the largest amount of contributions to the PACs, especially in Michigan and Iowa. In a single week in 2006, former Bain executive Fraser Bullock and his wife gave $43,000 to four Commonwealth PACs.
Meg Whitman, a former Romney protege at Bain & Co. who ran unsuccessfully for California governor in 2010, contributed $96,500 to four PACS in two days in November 2006.
Bain executives either didn't return phone calls or wouldn't comment on the record.
The fundraising didn't stop at Bain's door. Businessmen who worked with Bain also gave thousands of dollars to the Commonwealth PACs, steadily increasing their donations as their businesses flourished.
For example, Thomas Stemberg received $3 million from Bain in 1986 to grow Staples Inc.
By 2006, when Staples had 1,700 stores, Stemberg and his wife contributed at least $39,000 to four Commonwealth PACs. Stemberg is now with Highland Capital, a company whose managing partner joined with a Bain managing partner to buy the Boston Celtics basketball team. Stemberg and his wife eventually contributed a total of at least $90,000 to the PACs.
In another instance, Peter Karmanos Jr., the executive chairman of Compuware Corp., a Detroit-based company that Bain considered acquiring but declined in 2007, contributed $246,500 in a two-week period in 2006 to four Commonwealth PACs. A month after one contribution landed at the Michigan PAC, Karmanos became a member of its steering committee. Scott Romney, Mitt Romney's brother, sits on the Compuware board of directors.
Last summer, Compuware bought a Bain-backed software company.
Compuware spokesman Bill McGraw said Karmanos "likes the fact that Romney compromises, and he was able, as a Republican, to pass things such as health care in the most liberal state in the union because he could work with Ted Kennedy and other Democrats."
The spokesman said Karmanos still supported Romney and was waiting to see what financial support the candidate would need.
Once Romney officially declared his candidacy in 2007, the PACs went dormant and more than 85 other contributors who listed Bain as their employer gave about $188,000 to Romney's official campaign.
Federal contribution limits were $2,300 per person, per election. After conceding a loss in 2008, Romney immediately geared up for another run. The Commonwealth PACs, separated from the campaign during election years, were reinvigorated and renamed Free and Strong America. Once again, donations flowed in.
In 2010, Edward Conard, a former managing director at Bain Capital who'd donated tens of thousands of dollars to the PACs from 2004 to 2006, contributed $100,000 in a single day to six Romney PACs.
Other donors with Bain connections also contributed. Two executives with Sun Capital, a Boca Raton, Fla., investment firm that Romney and Bain joined in company ventures, donated a combined $100,000 to six PACs in a two-week period in 2010.
The Romney campaign declined to comment on the Bain contributions and referred questions to the PACs. Representatives of the PACs didn't return calls.
Campaign officials have said in past media interviews that the Commonwealth PACs followed the "spirit and the letter" of election laws and the PACs were created to allow Romney to campaign for and contribute to other Republican candidates and present his ideas when he isn't running for president.
"The use of state committees and federal leadership PACs to lay the foundation of a presidential run by Romney and other candidates is troubling because it's an obvious tactic to evade the (contribution) limits applicable to candidates for federal offices," said Paul Ryan, an attorney for the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit group that works with campaign-finance issues.
Last year, Romney supporters created the super PAC called Restore Our Future. Through the end of January, it had spent $17.3 million, mainly on advertising blasting opponent Newt Gingrich. By law, the super PAC can't coordinate with Romney or his campaign. But the group provided another vehicle for current and former Bain executives to show their financial support.
Conard has contributed at least $1 million to Restore Our Future, a donation that was masked through a shell corporation before Conard stepped forward. Edgerley and his wife also contributed at least $1 million. Stephen Zide, a Bain managing director, contributed at least $250,000 and David Bullock, the son of Fraser Bullock, contributed at least $100,000.
Disclosure reports filed Jan. 31 show that three additional Bain executives and one spouse together contributed $750,000.
The same two Sun Capital executives who contributed to the state PACs, Rodger Krouse and Marc Leder, also contributed $125,000 each to Restore Our Future last June. Krouse, Leder and their wives also contributed a combined total of at least $19,000 to Romney's 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
A spokesman for the two Sun Capital executives declined to comment.
Stemberg contributed at least $10,000 to Restore Our Future, and he and his wife contributed the maximum $5,000 allowed last year to Romney's campaign. Stemberg didn't return calls requesting comment.
For thrifty Bain executives, there's still the traditional method of contributing directly to Romney's campaign. For this year, the limit is $2,500 per person, per election. Last year, more than 95 contributors who listed Bain as their employer donated a total of about $221,000.
A spokesman for Bain Capital declined to comment.
The company is politically astute enough not to put all of its contributions in one party basket, however. For years, Bain entities also have contributed to Democratic candidates at the state and federal level. But in the 2008 election, Bain entities contributed far more to Romney than they did to Barack Obama, and thus far have done the same in 2012.
Romney's Bain connections have drawn scrutiny, especially questions about the low tax rates that executives of private equity firms pay. Romney recently released his 2010 and 2011 tax returns, which showed that he'd paid a little less than 15 percent in taxes on his $42 million total income for the two years.
About $13 million was from "carried interest," or a share of profits to equity managers on Bain investments that's taxed at lower rates than ordinary earned income is. Among Bain's lobbying interests was legislation that would treat "carried interest" as taxable income.
Bain Capital was a member of the Private Equity Council, now the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, which in 2010 opposed legislation to change the tax treatment of carried interest.
(John Dunbar contributed to this report. The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit center for investigative journalism.)
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A multi-purpose venue, Dubai Ice Rink features year-round events both on and off the ice including themed skating events, figure skating shows and sporting matches.
Ice Marshals are at hand at all times during public skating hours to ensure customer safety, and the Zamboni - a special ice resurfacing machine - is deployed across the rink every couple of hours to ensure top quality ice at all times.
Two-hour public skating and disco sessions are popular and skating lessons are on offer, private or in groups.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union officials will make a fresh try Tuesday to reach a political accord on desperately needed bailout loans for Greece — an agreement that eluded them last week.
The Irish finance minister, Michael Noonan, said a main point of contention at the meeting in Brussels among officials of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro is whether to give Greece an extra two years to get to a point where it can raise its own funds — and how to finance that extension.
The finance ministers need to agree on the extension before they can pay Greece the €31.5 billion ($40.2 billion) rescue loan that has been kept on hold for months. When previously frozen aid is considered along with further aid scheduled to be disbursed later this year, that total could reach €44 billion ($56.15 billion), said a spokesman for Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the eurozone finance ministers' meetings.
As he went into Tuesday's meeting, Juncker said Greece deserved the aid.
"It is clear that Greece has delivered but we still have to agree on the details," he said. "I expect the chances are good that we will come to an agreement tonight, agreed by all sides, but I am not completely sure about this."
The finance ministers had hoped to settle on the conditions for the aid last week, but their meeting ended without agreement. That delayed the loan payment, pushing the country closer to bankruptcy and a possible exit from the euro.
Laboring under a mountain of debt, Greece has been relying since 2010 on international bailout loans, under terms supervised by the so-called troika — the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission, which is the 27-country European Union's executive branch. To receive the aid, Greece has had to impose strict austerity and reform measures. Two weeks ago, the coalition government narrowly succeeded in passing a €13.5 billion package of budget cuts, tax increases and reforms in order to secure the latest loan payment.
The main aim of the bailout program is to right the country's economy and get it to a point where it no longer relies on international aid and can independently raise money on the debt markets.
The reform program attached to the bailout was supposed to steadily reduce Greece's debt to 120 percent of its annual gross domestic product — a condition imposed by the IMF, whose consent is needed if the funds are to be released. The deadline for this target was 2020 but it's been clear for months that the country is way off track for achieving that.
Last week's meeting revealed disagreement on whether Greece should be given until 2022 to reach the 120 percent target. The IMF is insisting that Greece stick to the original deadline.
The question of debt sustainability is as important as it is divisive: If Greece's debts can't be reduced to a level where the country can afford to pay them, the billions of euros in bailout loans given to Greece will have been wasted.
Greece, however, was granted one extension at last week's meeting — an extra two years until 2016 to implement its program of austerity reforms and deficit cuts. By giving the government more time, it is hoped the impact on its struggling economy would be lightened. But this extension will also cost more money — another €32 billion through 2016, according to the troika — since the debt will have to be financed over a longer period.
The problem is that many eurozone countries are opposed to putting more money into Greece's aid program.
The eurozone countries could help pay for the extension by lowering the interest rates Greece has to pay for its rescue loans. They have also indicated that they would be willing to hand back to Greece profits they receive on Greek bonds held by the European Central Bank.
That may not be enough, though. Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem warned the extension it could, in the end, cost new taxpayer money: "The chance is very large. I see it as my duty to make sure the damage is as limited as possible."
The eurozone finance ministers will try to hammer out an agreement on the conditions attached to the aid, but they will not be able to give final approval. Parliaments in some of the countries must first vote, after which the ministers will meet again on the issue.
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human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased
risk for developing a
tuberculosis (TB) infection. Their risk for a TB
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If they have latent TB, which cannot be spread
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can be spread to others. Active TB in the lungs also is more likely to spread
to other parts of the body (extrapulmonary TB) in people who have HIV infection
than in people who do not have it.
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CitationsSonnenberg P, et al. (2005). How soon after infection
with HIV does the risk of tuberculosis start to increase? Journal of Infectious Diseases, 191(2): 150–158.
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Make Any Tire A Sticky - The Sticky Icky
Get the traction you need
Traction is the magic we are all searching for off-road. Locking differentials, big, aggressive tires, and low gearing are common upgrades to help rigs get farther up the trail. A decade ago "sticky" tires took traction to the next level when they were introduced for rockcrawling competition. Similar to how a slick hooks up at the dragstrip, these competition-only sticky tires sacrificed tread life for unmatched traction.
A recent trip to Summit Racing Equipment got us wondering if we could take another cue from racing to add traction. We picked up some Allstar Performance CTS Tire Softener with hopes of turning our well-worn Pit Bull Rockers into rock-conquering stickies. The softener is a chemical formula designed to add traction for roundy-round racers.
Most sticky compound tires are not DOT approved for use on the street, and few manufacturers offer them to the general public. Plus, they are expensive, particularly when compared to the $40 we paid for a gallon of CTS. Was this idea too good to be true? We headed to the trail to find out.
While we were at Summit Racing Equipment we picked up a tire durometer gauge from Intercomp Racing. Our 8-year-old Pit Bull Rockers had a reading of 68 when we began our testing.
"Makes Tires Super Sticky!" "Makes Old Tires New Again!" How could we resist? The "undetectable" claim is in response to tracks that have banned "tire soaking" as an unfair advantage. We even read one story of a track that employed a drug-sniffing dog to determine who was using tire softener!
Our Allied beadlock rims allowed us to air down to 8 psi without concern of pealing the Pit Bull Rockers off of the wheel, regardless of how much traction the tire generated.
The CTS looked and smelled like wood stain. We have not tried any on our deck yet, but we still have a little left over from the gallon we started with, so it is still an option.
We started with untreated tires, attempting various lines at our local wheeling spot until we found some climbs that were beyond the limits of our Death Proof Bronco's traction.
There were no instructions with the CTS, so we turned to the internet to provide us the unfettered truth. We didn't find anyone who had used tire softener for rockcrawling, but some circle track racers claimed that they applied the tire softener every two hours for 12 hours and then stored the tires in plastic bags for 48 hours prior to racing on them. We ignored them and made up our own methods.
We used a garden sprayer to apply the CTS to the Pit Bull Rockers. By the time we got to the last tire most of the liquid had evaporated off the first tire we had sprayed down.
After spraying the Pit Bull Rockers down and letting them soak for an hour, we soaked them again, waited another hour, and soaked them a third time before heading back to the same obstacles. We nearly used the full gallon of CTS.
The durometer of the tires dropped from 68 to 64 after applying the CTS, but the temperature warmed up at the same time, so we cannot attribute all of the durometer change to the tire softener.
This is the proof. We could not get the rear driver-side tire to stick to this climb before we used the tire softener. Did we pick a better line? Was the temperature warmer out? Does CTS work? All three were factors. The CTS certainly added traction, but it didn't go so far as to turn our old tires into stickies.