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I am preparing the virtual lecture "Ecology of learning with new media tools" for the master of semiotics program in Helsinki University for the course "Semiotics and media, sciences and technology studies".
I was looking one article that was inspired by the Lakoff's book "Metaphors we live bye".
It assumes that we live by metaphors that actually structure our perceptions and understanding
Our conceptual system, thus, plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we thinks what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor.
Interesting in this paper is the assumption that metaphorical concepts that we use form a system.
TIME IS MONEY, TIME IS A LIMITED RESOURCE, and TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY are all metaphorical concepts. They are metaphorical since we are using our everyday experiences with money, limited resources, and valuable commodities to conceptualize time. This isn't a necessary way for human beings to conceptualize time; it is tied to our culture. There are cultures where time is none of these things.
I started to think if there exists also the personal system within the affordances that we potentially actualize in interaction with the world.
My idea seems not to be exactly the same as affordance network idea conceived by Barab and Roth (2006). Particularly it is elaborating this part where environmental knowledge is used.
Barab and Roth (2006) have noted that connecting learners to ecological networks, where they can learn through engaged participation, activates the affordance networks.
Barab and Roth (2006) assumed that affordance networks are not read onto the world, but instead continually "transact" (are coupled) with the world as part of a perception-action cycle in which each new action potentially expands or contracts one's affordance network.
Basically i think that:
a) if affordances are our perspectives, the positions that we take in the moment of action/emotion in the multidimensional geo-conceptual hybrid space consisting of conceptual dimensions and geographic dimensions (Pata, 2010; Normak, Pata, Kaipainen, forthcoming), then
b) there exists the personal spatial area within geo-conceptual hybrid space that is frequently defined by these positions
This personal spatial area (a cognitive niche) is simultaneously activated internally and externally as the cognitive distributed space during the cognitive chance-seeking (Bardone, 2010), and people are always "validating" the effectiveness of this space for affording their actions and emotions.
c) and within this personal space WE CAN FIND CONSISTENCY of what dimensions of the space are incorporated into certain affordances as personal perspectives useful for certain action or emotion
d) The accumulation of individual positions within this space (to the geographical and virtual object world and to the interpersonal relational actions) contribute to the formation of the cultural spaces – the niches within geo-conceptual hybrid space.
So some of the affordances are offloaded to the objects which are spatially located, some affordances are run dynamically in the awareness of the persons who are interacting and keeping awareness of bodily and emotional activations of each other and with the object world.
We may have several of such taskspaces.
Taskspace is an array of activities related to a certain environment (Ingold, 2000). A taskspace fosters a range of affordances of an environment, delimiting some and enabling others (Edensor, 2004).
e) Cultural niches within geo-conceptual hybrid space are used by individuals for spatial navigation while they select the positions in their own spaces (basically cultural niches can prompt or inhibit some dimensions that the person can use in the geo-conceptual hybrid space for actualizing affordances.
(dataset and image from Pata, 2009)
Image indicates the community perception of affordances for using an aggregator tool.
Part of the problem is how effectiveness of taking action or having emotion is evaluated by each individual in respect to the community niche, and how such effectiveness may be accumulated to the niche.
If the (geo)tags used for defining some conceptual artifacts are interpreted as the dimensions of the geo-conceptual space (for example if we look blog posts, or bookmarks), there exist some dimensions that are the root- or central dimensions, and other dimensions are additional dimensions.
The pictures of tag-networks allow us to see the "hubs" (root-dimensions) in this multidimensional space.
Here is the affordance dimension network based on my dataset (Pata, 2009a,b). I have used the Bayesian networking tool for finding the best fitting causal model for collaborative activity taskspace with social software tools.
From the previous spatial dimension figure we can see that monitoring is the most frequently perceived affordance of the aggregator. The other affordances frequently perceived while using aggregator are: filtering and mashing; collecting; reading; and evaluating.
We may assume that in the collaborative activity taskspace with different types of social software tools, the monitoring affordance in general is related with searching and evaluating and reading.
The arrow to reading indicates causality that actualizing monitoring affordance allows in turn reading affordance.
Following the same idea of spatial re-location while taking action and having emotion, Lackoff said about conceptual metaphors that Another functionality for metaphors is orientation in space.
I'm feeling up. That boosted my spirits. My spirits rose. you're in high spirits. Thinking about her always gives me a lift. I'm feeling down. I'm depressed. He's really low these days. I fell into a depression. My spirits sank.
Lakoff and Núñez suggest that conceptual metaphors form network of bodily grounded entities with inferential organization.
In his book "Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought" Lakoff and Johnson (1999) conceptualized living by metaphors using the embodied mind idea.
"our bodies, brains, and interactions with our environment provide the mostly unconscious basis for our everyday metaphysics, that is, our sense of what is real."
Together with the "father" of embodied simulation Vittorio Gallese George Lakoff wrote and article "The Brain's Concepts: The Role of the Sensory-Motor System in Conceptual Knowledge." (2005).
The argue against the cognitive processing
A common philosophical position is that all concepts—even concepts about action and perception—are symbolic and abstract, and therefore must be implemented outside the brain's sensory-motor system.
and suggest embodied simulation, assuming that
"sensory-motor regions of brain are directly exploited to characterise the so-called "abstract" concepts that constitute the meanings of grammatical constructions and general inference patterns."
In the recent book "Embodied cognition" Shapiro distinguishes three important themes in embodied cognition (Shapiro, 2010):
Conceptualization – the properties of the organism's body constrain which concepts an organism can acquire.
Replacement – the organism's body in interaction with the environment replaces the need for symbolic representational processes. (systems do not include representational states)
Constitution – the body or world plays a constitutive role rather than causal role in cognitive processing.
I am thinking of two interesting aspects:
How is personal cognitive niche/a cultural niche a coherent referential network?
A person can offload some of the affordances to the environment using some artifacts, so the community niche may form and be reused for personal cognitive navigation?
A person interacts with other people directly and the monitored actions and emotions actualize temporarily parts of the community niche as well, which may be used for navigating in personal cognitive niche
How are some dimensions in the geo-cognitive space highlighted among others, and which are in principle these "spaces of flows" within cultural/community spaces and how one person is immersed to these flows.


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Most media focused last week on oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the controversial federal health insurance mandate for individual Americans. However, justices also heard arguments on other aspects of the legal challenge to what has become known as ObamaCare that could lead to a more nuanced decision and perhaps even more complexity for states.
Justices listened to arguments on whether the constitutional challenge of the individual mandate is ripe because it hasn't gone into effect yet. Commentators expressed doubt the court would effectively punt a big decision for this reason. They also considered the severability of the federal health care reform act. They wanted to know if voiding the individual mandate would void the popular ban on excluding health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
A ruling isn't expected until late June, which will allow for a lot of media speculation, political bombast and unease by state officials who will play a key role in implementing health care reform in whatever form it survives from the court case.
Based on the intense questioning by justices and the balky performance of the U.S. attorney arguing the government's case, you could easily conclude the federal individual health insurance mandate is in trouble. The court seems clearly split, but the split echoing from the questioning suggests at best a 5-4 rejection of the mandate.
However, the mandate underpins a grander bargain. Creating the largest possible pool of people with health insurance coverage gives health insurers the ability to absorb and spread costs, including from new insureds who may be combating cancer or suffering from a chronic disease. Dispatching the mandate could put even more pressure on health insurance premiums, which are continuing to rise. That, in turn, could erode the quality of existing employer-provided health insurance and, in some cases, cause employers to drop coverage for employees altogether.
The unspoken part of the story crowded out by commentary on the mandate is what happens if we return to the status quo before Congress approved ObamaCare. The truth is, that status quo has disappeared.
• The exclusion of pre-existing conditions and expansion of family coverage to children up to age 26 are very popular provisions, which few would want to lose — especially in an election year.
• Many employers facing stiff domestic and international competition are looking for ways to trim their health insurance costs. One way is to hire temporary workers without benefits.
• The public safety net has more holes in it, as Medicaid participation has been limited and funding cut for public health care clinics.
• Heath care technology continues its steady march ahead, opening new diagnostic and treatment options and adding more costs.


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Hey everyone,
This is my first time posting (although I've had an account for awhile). I've finally gotten around to installing Arch, which is working wonderfully, however I'm having difficulty configuring some of the stuff to work the way it should. The one that I'm currently having issues with is DVD playback. I've installed Kaffeine and mplayer (although I don't know that mplayer is really necessary) and libdvdcss.
So far though, I can only look at the data on DVDs, but can't actually play them (through both Kaffeine and Mplayer). I can access data alright, for example I have a bunch of AVI files on one DVD and can play them without difficulty, however when I try to play a movie DVD I get the message (from Kaffeine):
"Source cannot be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g. no disk in drive) /dev/dvd"
"No plugin found to handle this resource (dvd:/)"
As I mentioned above, I have no problem accessing other data, so I am sure I have enough rights, and I am in the optical group. Any ideas as to what could be causing this problem?
Try VLC and see if you have the same issue.
Which symlinks are you refering to? I saw some references to symlinks, but I can't find anything on the wiki or on Google that helps me understand what exactly is supposed to be linked with what.
Trying vlc now, although I doubt it will make much of a difference, neither mplayer nor kaffeine (using Xine) can play a DVD.
what does "ls -l /dev/dvd" give you?
can you try running it as root, to verify if it's a permission issue or not?
Try changing UDF to iso9660 in your fstab. I think thats what I had to do...
If you don't have udev installed, I would also recommend doing that.
Ok, I finally figured it out.
My /dev/dvd is set up just fine, but when I created /mnt/dvd, the permissions were wonky somehow. I chmod'd it to 777 and it works find now both inside and outside of root.
Thanks for the help.
I'm trying to do the whole uDev thing too, but I'm having trouble understanding the point of what it does and the wiki entry on uDev... but I can look for that myself.
I'm trying to do the whole uDev thing too, but I'm having trouble understanding the point of what it does and the wiki entry on uDev... but I can look for that myself.
From a user's point of view there isn't much changed. From a technical point of view, devfs has alot of code that is just poorly done and certain thing's can't be fixed due to design. Also, managing device nodes is something that needs not be part of the kernel proper - udev does this in user-space.
In addition, udev alos supports the windows style "plug in device and go" type support, as it will automatically load modules to accomodate new devices.
...I chmod'd it to 777
You shouldn't have had to do that. Unless you want everyone to have all permissions to the folder.
I have default 755 in mine:
[root@eLINUXe ~]# ls -la /mnt/dvd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-02-02 23:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 192 2005-04-20 08:05 ..
There's a discussion about udev as we speak. Maybe that'll shed some more light on it:
Thanks for all the advice, this is a heck of a community!
As for the chmod, my drive is a DVD burner, so I am guessing I'll need write access to it as well. I'm still getting the hang of this I guess.
As far as the udev stuff goes, how can you tell it is running? I know I have udev installed, but I'm not sure how to check that it is doing what it is supposed to. I've followed the walkthrough from the wiki, but I haven't noticed any difference (which I guess might be a good sign).
Oh well, I'll do some searching and see if I can find anything. Thanks again for the help.
when you reboot you should see it as the first thing to load up.
i had to chmod 0777 /mnt/dvd and /dev/dvd for my dvd playback to work :shock:
i had to chmod 0777 /mnt/dvd and /dev/dvd for my dvd playback to work :shock:
Are your users in the "optical" group? This hefty a chmod shouldn't be necessary for DVD playback.
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BRASELTON, Ga. - Junior Megan Bradford led Tech with a two over
par on the final round to claim a third place finish in the field
of 48 at the Larry Nelson Invitational. She helped lead the Golden
Eagle women's golf team to a fourth place amongst the nine
Tech, Belmont Abbey, Garnder-Webb, Mercer, Samford, South Dakota State, USC Upstate, Xavier and host Kennesaw State made up the women's field. The men's field was a little larger, with Tech, Belmont Abbey, Belmont, Columbia, ETSU, Florida Gulf Coast, Gardner-Webb, Jacksonville, Morehead State, Stetson, UT Martin, USC Upstate and host Kennesaw State. The men will be back in action on April 6-7 in Nashville at the Big Blue Intercollegiate, hosted by Tennessee State. The women play again April 11-12 at the EKU Spring Invitational hosted by Eastern Kentucky in Richmond, Ky.


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As the nation watches the Iowa caucuses, Republican Mitt Romney became the first in Illinois to file a full slate of candidates for the March 20 primary.
First in line for the 8 a.m. filing was state Treasurer Dan Rutherford, Romney's Illinois campaign chairman. Rutherford was the only representative of a major presidential candidate present when the doors opened.
The move secured the first-on-the-ballot position for Romney and his 108 convention delegates and alternate delegate from 18 newly drawn congressional districts across the state, election officials said.
Rutherford bound together the paperwork for the slate with leather boot straps, a tradition he has used for his own campaigns. To run in the presidential preference race in Illinois, a candidate needs a minimum of 3,000 signatures on petitions, but Romney's petitions have the maximum 5,000 signatures, Rutherford said.
After seeing some candidates fail to get on the ballot in Virginia, Rutherford said, each signature for Romney and for the delegates and alternates were vetted to make sure they all lived in the proper districts.
Unlike other long lines that occur when state legislators, judges or statewide officials file to get on the ballot, today's line was tiny. Only two people were there when the doors opened, reflecting the notion that ballot position is more important in local races than high-profile national races.
Also in line early was Jeremy Iloulian, a 20-year-old George Washington University junior who filed to be a Democratic delegate for President Barack Obama. Iloulian left his Highland Park home by 4 a.m. and drove to Springfield with his mother. He also filed paperwork for his college roommate Josh Brown, 22, of Riverwoods, who is also running to be an Obama delegate.
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Under Democratic rules, the presidential candidate, in this case Obama, will get to choose the delegate candidates who will appear on the ballot, said Ken Menzel, deputy general counsel.
Iloulian acknowledged he may face long odds, but he said he didn't want to look back 10 years from now and wish he had filed but didn't.
"It's a small chance we'll get it," he said, adding: "If we do everything we possibly can to get the best chance, then we know we did our best, and maybe next time."
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President Barack Obama has nominated the mayor of Charlotte to head his Department of Transportation.
Obama revealed Mayor Anthony Foxx as his pick in the White House East Room Monday.
The president called the rising Democratic star his friend and called on the Senate to quickly confirm him. He said he wants to get Americans back to work rebuilding roads and other infrastructure.
"I know Anthony's experience will make him an outstanding Transportation Secretary. He's got the respect of his peers, mayors and governors all across the country. And as a consequence, I think that he's going to be extraordinarily effective," Obama said as he announced the pick.
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Foxx is the first black nominee among Obama's picks for open spots in his second-term Cabinet.
If confirmed, he will replace outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood, one of the few Republicans serving in Obama's administration.
Foxx would take over a department that has been at the center of Washington's debate over the impact of the so-called sequester cuts. The automatic cuts resulted in furloughs for air traffic controllers that spurred delays at many airports.
Congress reached a deal last week to provide the Transportation Department flexibility that allowed it to end the air traffic controller furloughs.
The White House official said that as mayor, Foxx has experience in boosting transit infrastructure and using those projects to create jobs. He oversaw a program to create an electric tram service to Charlotte, an expansion of a light rail system and the opening of a third runway at the city's airport.
Foxx was first elected Charlotte mayor in 2009. He raised his national profile last year when Charlotte played host to the Democratic Party's convention.


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- 2007 19 Jun
Trapped in a Cycle of Pain
And you call yourself a Christian!"
I noticed how tight and white my mother's lips were when she spoke. She was standing on the stair landing above me, hands on her hips.
"You'll never get into heaven with an attitude like that! God knows all the evil thoughts you've ever had about me. Not one is hidden from him."
She continued down the steps, her index finger pointed at me. Her footsteps were heavy, the stubby heels of her black shoes thudding. The thin pale lips were moving again.
"You'll never please God the way you are. Don't think you won't reap the consequences of your evil thoughts. 'Vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord!'" She was upon me now.
I was eleven. I had vacuumed the house and, according to my mother, not done a very good job. I was not fond of vacuuming, and when she ordered me to do it over, I had pushed back. I thought I had done a great job, and besides, it was a daunting task. Our house was a historic faculty home on the campus of a well-endowed institution for higher learning. There were fireplaces in every room, and the rooms were immense.
Maybe she was angry because I had spent time with my father that morning listening to his lecture. He had read it to me with his glasses balanced on the end of his nose. She didn't like it when Dad and I spent time alone. But I wasn't really sure what had set off this episode. I never was.
"If you knew the truth—that I am the apple of God's eye—you would treat me differently!" She was building momentum now, her voice rising. "You are spurning God's chosen one when you look down on me!" The words shot through the air and whizzed through me with their familiar pain.
The culmination was at hand, the consequences imminent.
"You are a hypocrite—full of evil thoughts and lies. A whitewashed tomb. Everything you do and say is a lie, and Satan is the father of lies, so you must belong to him!"
I could hear the cicadas buzzing outside. There had been a rash of them that summer, and when you walked on the lawn you could scarcely avoid the sickening crunch they made underfoot. I was aware that I was crying.
"Go to your room!" she ordered, flinging her arm out to point up the stairs. "I don't want to see you again, and I don't want you to talk to anyone. Have nothing to do with your sister either. This family will not associate with someone who refuses to respect those God has put in authority over them!"
I ran up to my room and lay across the bed, sobbing. I cried like this almost every day. I sometimes wondered if other kids cried all the time, but I didn't have anyone to compare myself to. Outsiders weren't welcome in our home. When they did gain access, after a brief honeymoon the relationship was always cut off because of "questionable motives" or a "spiritual oppression" they brought with them.
Even my little sister's friend, a seven-year-old, was forbidden to come to our home to play. The tears and pleas of my sister, eight years younger than I, did not sway the decision. Friends were not easy to come by under these circumstances, and though I was only partially aware of it, I lived an isolated, lonely life. I was less favored than my sister, and I never had a real friend at all. I told myself I didn't need friends, that I was fine the way I was. I deadened myself to the circumstances, neutralizing any hopes and expectations. I said "Whatever" a lot.
Mine was a precarious life as well as a lonely one. I was constantly on edge, vigilant, able to emotionally prepare myself instantly for what could come my way at any second. You learn quickly when the only thing predictable is the unpredictable.
We'd be packed and ready to go on vacation, only to cancel on the day of departure because the trip was "not God's will." We'd be eagerly anticipating a promised outing or gift and it would be canceled or never delivered, again because of divine will. Pets were given away without discussion. We were dragged from church to church every couple of months, abandoning a congregation once the pastor said something that "disagreed with Scripture."
My father, a professor and theologian who was endlessly loyal to my mother, kept telling me it would get better, that God would do a new thing. He said this after each blowup, each tirade—and these could last for days.
I tried to believe him, and often after an eruption we experienced a period of calm. It was a scary calm—we weren't sure when things would flare up again—but it was a calm nonetheless, and I was grateful. Yet the pattern inevitably repeated itself, and despite our earnest prayers and hopes nothing changed. My father sometimes bore his soul to me. "Why does she have to be so cruel to you?" he would say after an angry outburst that had left me shattered and sullen.
I didn't know.
"She not only puts the knife in," he said, "but she turns it."
The fighting between my parents was extreme. Screaming and door slamming woke me in the night. Days of tension paralyzed my sister and me with fear, and we crept quietly up to the attic to play with old toys.
"I need to rise above this," Dad would tell me in his vulnerable moments after he had been the target of an onslaught. "I have to not let what she does affect me."
Away from home (and he kept the two worlds very separate) my father's work and writing helped a great many people come to know the authentic power of Jesus at work in their lives. His combination of intellectual knowledge and conviction of the personal presence of God flooded the lecture halls where he spoke. But the world at home was scary, insane and lonely.
As I grew older I discovered that my mother had been the victim of severe abuse as a child. Even though I intellectually began to come to terms with the reasons for her behavior, I was unable to free myself from her grasp. Still, my father's comments and judgments against my mother's behavior helped me begin to grasp the unfathomable and experience a deep courage. Despite her claim that she was God's voice and presence in the world, despite her grandiose proposals and assertions about her power and unique giftedness, I began to realize that she was—perhaps—wrong.
Maybe these experiences were not God's will at all. Perhaps it was wrong that I couldn't have friends over or get involved in social activities. Maybe I wasn't born to be miserable all the time, and maybe I wasn't in the grips of Satan with evil spirits lurking in dark corners ready to oppress me and throw me into hell. Maybe I wasn't contaminated by those demons the way my mother said I was when she came into my room in the middle of the night to cast them out. Perhaps purging the house of evil—praying in each room that Satan would leave—was not the way most families spent their Saturdays.
At one point I suggested to my father that we get Mom some help. His usually gentle face went rigid and he sucked in his breath. He told me my mother didn't need help, that she was doing better, and he asked where my family loyalty was. He declared that God had given him this situation so he could learn to rise above it. Jesus suffered, saints suffered—why shouldn't he?
This topic was clearly taboo. It was just too painful for my father to identify the problem honestly. So the bizarre, erratic behavior continued to loom larger than life and define us. One day her tirade might be God's voice to shape us up. Another day a low mood was a "dark night of the soul" she was being called to walk through. She often believed her struggles were demonic and had many well-known people in the deliverance ministry try to cast out spirits from her. It never seemed to take. Other days she accused my father of having no faith and contaminating her with an oppression she could not shake off.
Years of intensive psychotherapy later, as I look back at the shattered landscape of my early life, I still shudder at the cycle of pain and abuse. The most chilling aspect of those years was the fact that my mother's spiritual language seemed to validate everything. Although I am sure there were spiritual components to my mother's condition, her ultra-spiritual terminology gave her assaults frightening leverage in our lives. If I had been able to grasp that my mother needed psychological help, perhaps I would not have taken her actions and words so much to heart. I would have had some mastery and control over the situation, and I would have had the correct words to define the reality in which I lived. Had my father been able to come to terms with the problem, I believe he would have attempted to persuade Mom to get professional help.
When I left for college, I watched from a distance as the situation became increasingly chaotic. During my visits home I saw my dad's jovial demeanor dissolve into brooding melancholy. He began to question why he was still alive. One day as he was walking out of a bank, he fell over with a massive stroke and died. He was only in his sixties.
Mom eventually left the area, and her behavior continued to deteriorate, especially once my father was gone. His presence had served as a kind of support for her erratic condition; once he died there was no one to contain it.
Our family's faith was a mixed blessing. Had we not believed in God, we might have sought help much more readily. Paradoxically, spiritual language can be a lacquer that covers over and justifies problems rather than helping us discern the most appropriate, even obvious, course of action.
I am a pastor now, and I see many people trapped in a similar cycle of pain. The woman in the abusive marriage whose husband threatens to kill her tells me, "Maybe if I just clean up that back room and keep the kitchen a little neater, things will get better. The Lord put me in this marriage, and God works all things for good." The wife of a bipolar man whose wild spending habits have brought them to financial ruin says, "God is telling me to love him and pray harder." There is certainly nothing wrong with loving, and praying harder is always warranted in difficult situations. But these people reappear in my office a week, a month, even a year or two later asking why God hasn't done anything. Despite their earnest prayers, heaven is silent. The old patterns keep repeating. There is no relief. In fact, the problem now looms larger than before.
I call this cycle "hamster-wheel suffering." In my work I have seen countless people who struggle with patterns of thought and behavior that keep them spinning but going nowhere. Unless we work through loss, trauma and abuse both psychologically and spiritually, we find ourselves muted, stymied and shut
off from the present because of the past. The broad landscape of life grows dim and small. There seem to be no options. We cannot remember what used to bring us joy. Our sense of identity—if we ever had one—goes underground. Time collapses; we feel old or convince ourselves that life is almost over anyway. Dreams evaporate and fear interlaces even peaceful moments with dread. Delight, joy and wonder are replaced by obligation, guilt and routine.
When reading Dante's Inferno awhile back I was struck by how much of the torment in Dante's hell is cyclical. The people in one group are all stabbed in the chest as they travel along their path. They continue on and their wounds begin to heal. As the bleeding stops, these sufferers find they have come full circle, and they are stabbed again. The healing effort is lacerated, and the cycle begins anew. Health and wholeness are dashed. The hope of a new thing is unrealized. This is the hamster wheel. This is hell on earth.
I know the hamster wheel. To seek God when you are in hell and not be able to find him is the most despairing journey of the human heart. Many people in this situation use spiritual language to cover their cyclical wounds, desperately trying to hold on to some sense of meaning and purpose. I do not look down on their efforts to find God in the midst of crisis and difficulty. Even after leaving home and breathing a big sigh of relief, I continued to relive the chaos I had grown up with. It was all I knew.
But now I know there is a difference between suffering that is cyclical and destructive and suffering that is redemptive. I realize that distinguishing between types of suffering can lead us to a potential Pandora's box of questions about evil and suffering in the world. To answer these questions is not the intent of this book. Nor do I assume that these distinctions are prescriptive—set in stone. The distinctions I will be making are intended as general guidelines that can be applied practically so that people of God can be freed to recognize their purpose and not be shackled by endless patterns of futility and fear.
Throughout history the Enemy has used cyclical oppression to keep God's people enslaved, to keep them from recognizing the glorious purpose and hope to which they have been called.
White slave owners in the Old South knew that once the African American slaves became educated, able to think and articulate their experiences, they would seek a higher form of life and recognize freedom as their inalienable right. So they passed laws forbidding anyone to teach slaves to read.
In the same way, if we stay blinded, uninformed and unable to understand or articulate what is happening to us, we cannot examine how our lives fall short of the glorious liberty we are entitled to as God's children. If we mistake the hamster wheel for God's will, we make God an oppressor rather than a liberator, a justifier, an outrageous forgiver and the Author of life. To live in freedom we must think intelligently about our lives and stay open to the possibility that things may not be as predetermined as we thought.
In the Gospels, Jesus does not succumb to every kind of suffering that comes his way. His identity as God's beloved Son and his sense of purpose and calling cause him to avoid certain situations. God reminds him before he goes into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil that Jesus is his beloved Son (Matthew 3:17). This reminder of his identity as the beloved one is to encourage Jesus and build him up before a period of desolation. We too need to be reminded of who we are in the eyes of God. Paul tells us that we are chosen by God (Colossians 3:12), his "beloved children" (Ephesians 5:1).
In the wilderness, Jesus knows who he is. There is no doubt in his mind—and he states it. The Enemy tries over and over to challenge this identity. "If you are the Son of God, let's see you prove it!" He distorts Scripture, and if Jesus were to follow what Satan wanted, he would come under the bondage and oppression of evil. But he doesn't. Time after time he answers Satan's distortions with statements of victory and purpose. When he emerges from the wilderness, his identity leads him to begin his ministry the right way. From the outset he tells people who he is and why he has come. He reads from Isaiah:
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. (Luke 4:18-19)
This is who Jesus is—the liberator of captives and the champion of the oppressed. He states to the people that this is his mission and call. And at first they think he's great. But when he refers to incidents in Scripture in which God intervened on behalf of non-Jews (Luke 4:24-27), implying that God has sent him to the Gentiles, they bring him to a cliff and prepare to hurl him over. How quickly they change! What does Jesus do? Stand there and let himself be destroyed? Does he say, "It must be God's will that I suffer for what I said. Go ahead, guys. I'll die a martyr right now by letting you toss me over this ledge!"
No. Scripture tell us, "He passed through the midst of them and went on his way" (Luke 4:30). On his way to where? To fulfill the purpose for which he came. Immediately he starts healing people, setting them free. The people love him so much they try to keep him from leaving them (Luke 4:42), but Jesus is clear about his call. He responds, "I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also; for I was sent for this purpose" (Luke 4:43).
Would you be able to succinctly sum up your call and your reason for being sent to earth at this time? Are you able to spot scriptural distortions that perpetuate oppression rather than liberation? Are you able to act courageously and confidently in the truth that you have been beloved of God since the foundation of the world and are "of more value than many sparrows" (Matthew 10:31)? I know many Christians who don't feel worth one sparrow.
This book is about discovering your tremendous worth in Jesus Christ. It is meant to help you break out of the bondage that can steal your life and rob you of the purpose and call of God. In the following chapters I talk a lot about stopping the cyclical past in order to recognize God's liberation. The first crucial question to ask on this journey is, "Am I suffering because I am fulfilling my God-ordained call and purpose—or because I'm on a hamster wheel?" To help in the discernment process, I try to give practical suggestions and examples, not a list of self-help solutions. This book is an effort to help you get in step with the Holy Spirit, the only true Helper, and discern his direction for your life. I encourage you to read prayerfully and seek the Holy Spirit's transformation. Recognizing patterns, remembering who Jesus is and discovering the dreams God put deep inside you can open new channels for grace and change.
What I share with you on these pages is what I have lived. I am here now because of Jesus' love. Writing this book has made it necessary for me to turn myself inside out, exposing all my ragged edges and uneven seams. I have had to honestly examine the path my life has taken, including the many times my flaws and shortcomings got in the Lord's way. It has been necessary for me to assess what is holding me together these days and causing me to look forward to living rather than dying. So I share with you my insights, reflections and stories in hope that they might shed some light on who God is and who we as God's people are called to be in Christ Jesus.
I start by describing the characteristics of hamster-wheel suffering, which we must recognize if we are going to be freed or help free those we love. The courage to change means we must dare to believe that although the hamster wheel is circling, there is a way out, a choice we can make that will launch us into a new way of living, loving and allowing ourselves to be loved.
Taken from Running in Circles: How False Spirituality Traps Us in Unhealthy Relationships by Kim V. Engelmann. © 2007 by Kim V. Engelmann. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426. For more information, please visit www.ivpress.com.


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City of Lincoln
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2004 Media Releases
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today presented the Mayorĺs Award of Excellence for August to Koren Erickson, a firefighter with Lincoln Fire and Rescue. The Mayor also presented the Mayorĺs Award of Excellence for September to Police Officer Randy Clark. The monthly awards recognize City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The awards were presented at the beginning of todayĺs City Council meeting.
Erickson has worked for the City since October 2002 and was nominated in the category of customer relations by Fire Captain Randy Bohaty for her work on developing two public education and fire safety projects. The first project was a fire safety and evacuation program for residents of high-rise buildings and included a training meeting for residents of Lincolnĺs Mahoney Manor. The second project she is developing is fire safety information for pre-schools. She is working with St. Markĺs Church Preschool, teaching children the dangers of playing with fire, the "stop, drop and roll" message and the importance of knowing how to call 911.
"Due to little or no budgeted funds, Koren has done these projects with little or no cost to the City and has donated her own time also," wrote Captain Bohaty in his nomination.
Clark has been with the Police Department since 1991 and was nominated by Sergeant Mark Meyerson in the category of productivity. Clark has been an investigator in the Forgery and Fraud Unit for five years. Meyerson says Clark has always displayed "superb investigative skills and an outstanding work ethic," but a case he recently completed deserves special recognition.
In January of 2004, security at a local department store told Clark of similarities in forged checks which had been passed. Clark noted similar handwriting on many of them and found that most were drawn on Omaha banks. Over a period of months, he realized that at least 45 of these counterfeit checks had been passed in Lincoln for a loss of more than 18-thousand dollars. Clark discovered that this case involved a large group of people across the U.S. who were conspiring to produce mass quantities of counterfeit checks. He coordinated the efforts of detectives in law enforcement agencies across the country.
"Due to Investigator Clarkĺs extensive efforts, leads and suspects were eventually developed," wrote Meyerson. "Investigator Clark then make it his mission to locate the parties responsible."
Officer Clark broke the case open when he spotted and stopped one of the suspect cars in Lincoln. Numerous counterfeit checks were located inside the car, and two people were arrested. Both admitted to the crimes, resulting in enough information to secure six additional arrest warrants for various felonies. Since the arrests, not a single counterfeit or forged check from the group has surfaced in Lincoln.
"This was an outstanding piece of detective work involving many months of interviewing, surveillance, documentation, cross-jurisdiction coordination, patience and perseverance," wrote Meyerson.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are valor, safety and loss prevention. All City employees are eligible for the Mayorĺs Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are reviewed by the Mayorĺs Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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Venous insufficiency is caused by a series of disorders in the vein including when the valves of the veins fail to function properly. This interferes with venous return and causes blood to pool in the veins. Venous insufficiency can become more chronic and lead to spider veins, varicose veins, phlebitis, blood clots, and changes in the skin. The most serious disorder is a venous leg ulcer. Chronic Venous Disorders (CVD) is a collective term used to describe a long-standing condition involving impaired venous return in varying degrees of severity.
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Home favourite Marco Crespi joined a three-way tie for the lead at the halfway point of the Challenge Provincia di Varesi after a four under par second round of 66.
The 33 year old joined Argentine Daniel Vancsik, who impressed with a 65, and Scotsman Raymond Russell, who signed for a 67, on ten under par, while Switzerland's Raphael De Sousa carded a 67 to be one shot back.
Crespi has missed the cut in his last three tournaments following his maiden Challenge Tour win in the Telenet Trophy last month, but spent time practising at Golf Club Varese last week to prepare, which is looking like a shrewd decision.
"I've been playing very badly ever since I won, so last week I took a week off to work with my coach and practise hard here," he said. "Fortunately the preparation is paying off.
"I played very well on the front nine. I'm not doing anything spectacular, just trying to keep the ball on the fairways, which is what you have to do on this course as the rough is punishing. I missed a couple of putts on the back nine but overall I'm very happy to be leading the tournament going into the weekend.
"It would be great to win in my home country, and I believe I can do it if I just keep playing steadily."
Russell's second round was more of a battle than his first, and he was delighted to remain in contention.
"I struggled on the front nine and didn't play particularly well, but hung in there and made a few good up and downs," said the 39 year old, who missed almost all of last season with a debilitating virus. "That was the best it could have been.
"Fortunately I gathered myself and got it together on the back nine and had a good finish. I'm very happy with that considering how I played on the front nine. It was damage limitation at that point.
"It's a great golf course but it's extremely hot. Not only is it difficult to concentrate, the ball is travelling a little bit further so you have to factor that in.
"It's great to give myself a chance, that's all I'm trying to do. There's a lot of golf to be played between now and Sunday afternoon."
Vancsik set the pace in the morning with his second consecutive round of 65, a feat he attributes to simply staying patient.
He said: "For 11 holes I played very well, but on the 12th I made a mistake and dropped a shot, and for the last six holes it felt like I was fighting the course. I lost my concentration a bit, which is the reason my score is not lower.
"The last few weeks I've been playing much better. The problem is that when I miss one shot it usually ends up in a double bogey. But this week if I've missed a shot I've managed to save par or at the worst make a bogey. That's the difference.
"I've been working very hard with my coach for the last two weeks, working on not just my swing but on my focus, concentration and patience. On the Challenge Tour you have to be very patient. There have been times when I've been in a good position and thought about winning, and then everything has gone wrong. I'm trying hard to take it shot by shot and not think too far ahead."
Alessandro Tadini is another player trying not to get ahead of himself, but he has the advantage of local knowledge, having grown up playing the course.
A second successive 66 leaves him well placed at eight under, although he admits he is trying to quell the excitement of his army of supporters.
He said: "I know the course very well because I've played here all my life. I know where the good places are to hit the ball and where not to hit it. I am very familiar with the greens too, so if my putting is good I know I will hole many putts.
"It would be fantastic to win here. I have many, many family and friends here this week so it is already very special to be playing a Challenge Tour event in my town. But to win the title would be a dream come true. Everyone wants me to do it but I'm trying not to think about it too much because it will be very hard and I'll have to continue playing very well."
|Player name
|RUSSELL, Raymond
|VANCSIK, Daniel
|TADINI, Alessandro
|CRESPI, Marco
|LOCKERBIE, Gary
|MCARTHUR, Andrew


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GT's entire schedule should be played on Thursday night so that their -- SHPHOKIE 02/13/2018 8:38PM
Glad to see an open date prior to playing the fighting chopblockers -- EDGEMAN 02/13/2018 12:33PM
Bud's defense doesn't lose GT games. Evidently extra time is needed on O... ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 12:50PM
Can't say that after last years game, they lost it for sure. -- VBHokieman 02/13/2018 6:29PM
FU lost this year. -- vpi98 02/13/2018 11:24PM
Correct and unusual coaching aberration but CFU..plus Terrell Edmunds -- sacramento hokie 02/15/2018 07:58AM
Yep. He overthought it and outsmarted himself. ** -- NokieHokie 02/14/2018 12:26AM
Agree to disagree. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 7:07PM
Beg to differ...not normally but last year the D lost it -- Hokeedokee 02/13/2018 12:57PM
The Hokies lost because its secondary got beat deep twice for TDs -- Hokie1992 02/14/2018 06:51AM
That's a reason, not THE reason. Giving up 28 points to GT is pretty good. ** -- NokieHokie 02/14/2018 09:10AM
Yeah, it seems we just never play that well vs GT. ** -- reestuart 02/14/2018 08:44AM
This was a bad one no matter how you look at it...... -- MontgomeryTexasHokie 02/13/2018 5:14PM
Yards don't matter. We only gave up 28, but couldn't score more than 22. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 5:55PM
Final score is the only thing that really matters. Our D -- Hokeedokee 02/13/2018 9:34PM
We left points on the field with two bad 4th down coaching decisions ** -- Hokie`79 02/13/2018 10:45PM
If final score is all that really matters, you should be more bothered by -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 9:40PM
You are the only one who seems to be bothered based on -- Hokeedokee 02/13/2018 9:58PM
Good job deflecting since you have no argument. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 10:04PM
You wouldnt know or recognize a valid / different point of view -- Hokeedokee 02/13/2018 10:55PM
Last year the D and the O stunk equally in that game...team loss ** -- VictoryTurkey 02/13/2018 5:13PM
Was that on scheme or on individuals? ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 02/13/2018 4:57PM
Getting beat through the air by GT was not a good look. ** -- Techsupport 02/13/2018 4:38PM
Beg to differ. O put pressure on D to be perfect. Sound familiar? ** -- marcbvtgm 02/13/2018 2:29PM
I read on TSL that Fuente lost that game. ** -- Tyson 02/13/2018 1:59PM
So at worst, the D is equally responsible one time. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 1:06PM
I haven't spent any time looking at past GT games we lost -- Hokeedokee 02/13/2018 1:13PM
And I'd put the loss more on Fuente's "strategy" than's Bud's defense... ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 1:45PM
FWIW VT has lost the following games to GT with Bud as DC -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 1:44PM
Bud wasn't DC until 1995 ** -- Hokie Bird 94 02/13/2018 3:49PM
Uh oh - you came with facts instead of fable. -- akaHokie 02/13/2018 3:22PM
Some of the "issues" may not be unique to PJ though -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 3:42PM
Man, I like the way you think -- akaHokie 02/13/2018 5:21PM
LOL! The only reason we have a viable program is Bud Foster propping it up -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 5:57PM
LOL ** -- akaHokie 02/14/2018 12:25PM
Even though that may be true, it doesn't change the fact -- VTHokie2000 02/14/2018 08:59AM
I agree. I just don't place the GT losses on the D. ** -- NokieHokie 02/14/2018 09:09AM
I never placed the losses squarely on the D -- VTHokie2000 02/14/2018 09:14AM
It's been fun! But I'll disagree that every loss has been equally on the -- NokieHokie 02/14/2018 09:17AM
Some of those games weren't with Paul Johnson's offense, too. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 1:46PM
PJ went to Georgia Tech in 2008 -- Hokie1992 02/14/2018 06:39AM
I know, but I am not sure it matters in the big picture -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 1:51PM
The point is that PJ's offense requires extra time to prepare for. So only -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 2:06PM
Even if you narrow it to only the games against Paul Johnson's offense -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 3:22PM
I maintain that the problem has been offense in all of the games. Expecting -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 3:33PM
When did I ever say the defense had to be perfect? -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 3:58PM
What's also lost on GT is that their D has been terrible, and our O has -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 4:02PM
You have an interesting definition of "terrible" -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 4:47PM
Those #s aren't that great. ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 4:50PM
Doesn't automatically make them terrible though -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 5:25PM
Whatever you think of their defense, our offense made them look much better -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 5:58PM
If the D holds GT below their average, then that's a win for the D in my -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 4:00PM
I think you are missing the point. -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 4:37PM
The primary mission of the defense is to prevent the offense from scoring -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 4:53PM
But as you said earlier this discussion is only on Paul Johnson offenses -- VTHokie2000 02/13/2018 5:16PM
It's debatable if Bud's defense lost the game when we only scored 22... ** -- NokieHokie 02/13/2018 1:43PM


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My dictionary defines apologetics as a "systematic and logical defence of Christianity against its detractors and unbelievers." In 1 Peter 3.15, Christians are told to be ready to give a reason (apologia) for their hope in Christ.
Apologetics can draw people to Christ as we read in the Acts of the Apostles with St. Peter at Pentecost. Peter's sermon was a classic example of apologetics. It drew 3,000 people to faith in Christ. St. Paul's witness in Athens was another example of apologetics. It is documented in Acts 17.17-34.
Apologetics does not always convert people. They must have an open mind and a seeking heart. The most brilliant defence of Christianity will not change the hearts of those who refuse to accept it.
Look at the events leading up to the martyrdom of Stephen. We read in Acts 6.5 that he was "a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit." People who opposed his witness for Christ were not able to resist "the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke." How did they respond? The shocking answer is found in Acts 7: They killed Stephen.
Stephen's words cut deep into the hearts of an unreceptive group of religious leaders in Jerusalem. The crowd's anger toward Stephen grew to a climax and the crowd became a mob.
In what must have been a terrifying moment for Stephen, God gave him a serene vision of heaven. Looking past the terror of his impending death, Stephen saw to the glory of Jesus waiting for him. He said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
Those words of Stephen the Martyr were too much for his accusers. They rushed and seized him, threw him out of the city and stoned him. As he was dying, Stephen was heard praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
The stones continued to rain down on him. He fell to his knees and uttered his last words: "Lord, do not hold this sin against them."
What happened to the murderous crowd as a result of Stephen's witness for Christ and his brutal death at their hands? We don't know what happened to most of them. But one was a man named Saul, a terrible persecutor of Christians. He later had a dramatic encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus. He became the great St. Paul and went to his own death after years of witness for Christ and defending faith in him (apologia).
Other examples of ancient apologetics include a defence of Christianity Apologia by St. Quadratus of Athens to the Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 130. Justin Martyr left two apologiae. In his book City of God, St. Augustine defended Christianity against pagan allegations that Christians were responsible for the fall of Rome. St. Thomas Aquinas defined apologetics as making known the truth of the Catholic Church.
In an era increasingly hostile to Christianity - such as the one which North America is presently experiencing - followers of Christ must be ready to defend the truth of the Catholic faith and to give a reason for the hope that is within them.
Study the Catechism of the Catholic Church and be prepared to defend the Catholic faith from its detractors. Don't expect everybody to accept what you tell them, but learn to systematically and logically defend your faith.
Always be prepared to share your faith in Christ at the right opportunity. You never know the impact your words and example will have. Your witness may not be the final link in the chain of another person's journey to faith in Christ but make sure you're not the missing link.
As it was for Stephen, the opportunity to witness and glorify God in the face of great adversity or death is a privilege. To boldly express confidence that we will spend eternity with God, through faith in Jesus Christ, can be a powerful witness to skeptics and unbelievers.
Personally, I have found more opportunities to witness for the hope within me since becoming disabled and wheelchair-dependent than when I was healthy and able-bodied. My circumstances allow me opportunities to speak of faith that transcends physical limitations and focuses on eternal matters.
Use whatever circumstances you find yourself in to defend the Christian hope within you.