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A prayer of hopelessness and despair.
For a time when it seems all is lost.
For a time when it seems as if there is nowhere to go.
I thank You that You are a great God and that there is no other God, but You alone. There is no one else to turn to, no one else that can help, and there is no one else that I know will hear me to the fullest. Life has never met my expectations and it has never been as kind as You have been. Life apart from You is dangerous and void of an intellectual reason to live. How can I live without You? And how can I live through this moment without You?
You seem so far, yet so close. You are so near, yet so distant. Oh Lord, why is my soul so confused? Why does it wander about in its own ambition? My heart is nothing but a part of me that seeks to rid Your involvement in life. I am, but a wretch who hopes in Your redemption and in Your sanctifying presence. Can this request be granted, Oh Lord?
My struggles seem unbearable. I am close to giving in. I am still, and I am waiting. I am waiting for You to speak. Your Spirit renews me daily with the faith that I need, but oh what great doubt can arise. Lord, why do I doubt You, and yet I love you? How do I question Your will yet fear you? Have I not seen Your goodness in my life? The voices of the enemy grow louder and louder, closer and closer, clearer and clearer.
Oh Lord, free me from my pride!
Oh Lord, free me from my idolatry!
Oh Lord, free me from my slavery!
Every part of my soul longs for you Lord God. Grant your Holy Spirit to comfort me in my needy estate. Only You, Lord, can determine when these struggles will be over. So I beg you to never forsake me. I dread being in such lonesome estate, with no one to hold me through it all. Though I have many friends, they might as well desert me for it feels that way. You are my sole comfort, even though my emotions cry out from within to place blame on all around me.
I feel as if I am battling every evil from within and from the outside on my own. Has Your Spirit left me? The one that You promised would comfort me must be beside me. Is it the intuition of my flesh that makes me feel lonely? Is it the voice of Satan's demon that convinces me of Your absence? Is it the sins that I have committed that have assured me that I have not come to the full realization of who You are? Oh no, Lord! You wouldn't leave me after so much You have been patient with, would you?
Oh Lord, don't leave me to suffer alone!
Oh Lord, don't leave me in the battle!
Oh Lord, don't leave me when I suffer through temptations!
Attend to my soul! I need You in every passing moment of life. You see my desire that only You could have given me. You were strong enough to bring me to the knowledge of Your Son and the atonement He brought through His sacrifice. You alone are responsible for my salvation and it is by Your will that goodness has come into my life. Shall I question Your will now? I can't help it. You seem so far.
Nevertheless, let Your Spirit give me patience. You were there through greater trials of the past. You loved me even when I rebelled against You, and You sought good for me even when I was evil. How much more will You grant good things to one You have granted to become Your adopted child?
Oh Lord, You are my salvation!
Oh Lord, You are my deliverer!
Oh Lord, You are my everything!
Forgive my doubt, and forgive my pride. Help me to remember that You will never forsake me. Let me not forget Your promises to the elect of God. You see my needs, and You will do with them as You see would be for the greater good of your plan. What greater peace can there be? There is no greater peace, but that my God, who is sovereign over all things, is the One who watches over me. Watch over my soul, see to my needs according to Your will, and forgive my doubting and my sins against You.
Father God, work out Your divine purposes among Your people and in the world. Son of God, be ever more gracious and loving to us; what a great brother and a friend you truly are. Holy Spirit, let Your presence comfort me and teach me to be conformed to the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Be glorified my God, and do not forget my prayer of desperation.
Soli Deo Gloria.

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The hospitality sector has always had issues with staffing, with high turnover, people not turning up for shifts and covering unsociable hours, to name a few.
There is a more and more focus on providing what is wanted: development opportunities and flexibility. It is not always (all) about the money…
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In fall 2012, the New Haven Board of Alderman established New Haven Works—a non-profit organization designed to help unemployed and under-employed New Haven city residents prepare for and find jobs with local employers over the course of four years. As a founding employer and supporter of this initiative, Yale has invested resources to ensure the organization's success.
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The SBTA was formed in 1970 and since it's early years, the Association has been a leader in developing Baton Twirling in Scotland. The SBTA is a founder member of the World Baton Twirling Federation (WBTF) which was founded in 1977
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An-Nasa'i recorded that Ibn `Abis Al-Juhani said that the Prophet said to him,
«يَا ابْنَ عَابِسٍ أَلَا أَدُلُّكَ أَوْ أَلَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِأَفْضَلِ مَا يَتَعَوَّذُ بِهِ الْمُتَعَوِّذُونَ؟»
(O Ibn `Abis! Shall I guide you to -- or inform you -- of the best thing that those who seek protection use for protection) He replied, "Of course, O Messenger of Allah!'' The Prophet said,
«﴿قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ ﴾
﴿قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ ﴾
هَاتَانِ السُّورَتَانِ»
(Say: "I seek refuge with the Lord of Al-Falaq.'')( and (Say: "I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind.'')( These two Surahs (are the best protection).) Imam Malik recorded from `A'ishah that whenever the Messenger of Allah was suffering from an ailment, he would recite the Mu`awwidhatayn over himself and blow (over himself). Then if his pain became severe, `A'ishah said that she would recite the Mu`awwidhatayn over him and take his hand and wipe it over himself seeking the blessing of those Surahs. Al-Bukhari, Abu Dawud, An-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah all recorded this Hadith.
It has been reported from Abu Sa`id that the Messenger of Allah used to seek protection against the evil eyes of the Jinns and mankind. But when the Mu`awwi- dhatayn were revea- led, he used them (for protection) and aban- doned all else besides them. At-Tirmidhi, An-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah recorded this. At-Tirmidhi said, "This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.''
﴿بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ
(In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
﴿قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبّ الْفَلَقِ- مِن شَرّ مَا خَلَقَ- وَمِن شَرّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ- وَمِن شَرّ النَّفَّـثَـتِ فِى الْعُقَدِ- وَمِن شَرّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ-﴾
(1. Say: "I seek refuge with the Lord of Al-Falaq,'') (2. "From the evil of what He has created,'') (3. "And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab,'') (4. "And from the evil of the blowers in knots,'') (5. "And from the evil of the envier when he envies.'') Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Jabir said, "Al-Falaq is the morning.'' Al-`Awfi reported from Ibn `Abbas, "Al-Falaq is the morning.'' The same has been reported from Mujahid, Sa`id bin Jubayr, `Abdullah bin Muhammad bin `Aqil, Al-Hasan, Qatadah, Muhammad bin Ka`b Al-Qurazi and Ibn Zayd. Malik also reported a similar statement from Zayd bin Aslam. Al-Qurazi, Ibn Zayd and Ibn Jarir all said, "This is like Allah's saying,
﴿فَالِقُ الإِصْبَاحِ﴾
(He is the Cleaver of the daybreak.).'' (6:96) Allah said,
﴿مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ ﴾
(From the evil of what He has created,) This means from the evil of all created things. Thabit Al-Bunani and Al-Hasan Al-Basri both said, "Hell, Iblis and his progeny, from among that which He (Allah) created.''
﴿وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ ﴾
(And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab,) Mujahid said, "Ghasiq is the night, and `when it Waqab' refers to the setting of the sun.'' Al-Bukhari mentioned this from him. Ibn Abi Najih also reported a similar narration from him (Mujahid).
The same was said by Ibn `Abbas, Muhammad bin Ka`b Al-Qurazi, Ad-Dahhak, Khusayf, Al-Hasan and Qatadah. They said, "Verily, it is the night when it advances with its darkness.'' Az-Zuhri said,
(And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab,) "This means the sun when it sets.'' Abu Al-Muhazzim reported that Abu Hurayrah said,
(And from the evil of the Ghasiq when Waqab, ) "This means the star.'' Ibn Zayd said, "The Arabs used to say, `Al-Ghasiq is the declination (of the position) of the heavenly body known as Pleiades. The number of those who were ill and stricken with plague would increase whenever it would decline, and their number would lessen whenever it rose.'''
Ibn Jarir said, "Others have said that it is the moon.''
The support for the people who hold this position (that it means the moon) is a narration that Imam Ahmad recorded from Al-Harith bin Abi Salamah. He said that `A'ishah said, "The Messenger of Allah took me by my hand and showed me the moon when it rose, and he said,
«تَعَوَّذِي بِاللهِ مِنْ شَرِّ هَذَا الْغَاسِقِ إِذَا وَقَبَ»
(Seek refuge with Allah from the evil of this Ghasiq when it becomes dark.)'' At-Tirmidhi and An-Nasa'i both recorded this Hadith in their Books of Tafsir in their Sunans. Allah said,
﴿وَمِن شَرِّ النَّفَّـثَـتِ فِى الْعُقَدِ ﴾
(And from the evil of the blowers in knots,) Mujahid, `Ikrimah, Al-Hasan, Qatadah and Ad-Dahhak all said, "This means the witches.'' Mujahid said, "When they perform their spells and blow into the knots.''
In another Hadith it has been reported that Jibril came to the Prophet and said, "Are you suffering from any ailment, O Muhammad'' The Prophet replied,
(Yes.) So Jibril said, "In the Name of Allah, I recite prayer (Ruqyah) over you, from every illness that harms you, from the evil of every envious person and evil eye. May Allah cure you.''


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Andrew Dys
Can reading be as cool as sports and entertainment?
A world gone awry came into focus at a Chester school this past year, when substitute teacher and pastor C.T. Kirk asked students what they wanted to be when they grew up.
The students mainly wanted to be rich sports stars, singers, actors.
Then one kid said, "I might as well be a drug dealer – that's all I see where I live."
"We have all these kids who think they can get rich, have a great life, if they play pro sports, be rappers, whatever," Kirk said. "We don't show them that it is reading that is the key to jobs like engineer, doctor, teacher.
"We have to do better. If a kid thinks that life is sports or entertainment – or selling drugs – that's not life."
So Kirk and many from his church, Sanctuary of Life Outreach in Rock Hill, are collecting books to give to kids in York, Chester and Lancaster counties this summer. The effort kicks off Friday night, with a free concert featuring Christian rap and other music at Rock Hill's Friedheim Park – aiming to show that reading can be cool.
The group has collected about 1,000 books already but is seeking more, said Carlondo Brown, one of the volunteers who is active in community events.
"We want to make it cool and fun to read and be a good student," Brown said.
The books will go to all children, but the group is focusing specifically on helping black kids do better. Only 43 percent of black children in South Carolina measured above basic reading in fourth-grade testing in 2013.
"We cannot accept that less than half of our African-American children do not read at grade level," Kirk said. "We have to stress that reading is the key to the future.
"There is more to life than sports, music, entertainment."
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For more information or to donate books for kids in York, Chester and Lancaster counties to read this summer:
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What: Christian rap concert to celebrate reading
When: 6:30 p.m. Friday
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Effective November 2, 1999 all child support and alimony payments must be sent directly to the new State of Florida Disbursement Unit (FLSDU) in Tallahassee. This change is part of a new process required by federal and state law to help improve child support collections.
It is important that you add 36 (the Lee County indicator) to the beginning of your case number and include it on all payments.
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Pay On line at: www.myFloridaCounty.com Go to Online Services, then select Pay Child Support For payment information call 1-877-769-0251 or 1-850-201-0140. You will need to know your case number and social security number.
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Held July 18- 22, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada, Camp "Malanka Magic" is inspired by the traditions of Ukrainians celebrating the ancient holiday of "Malanka" (New Year's).
Situated in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, Pokrova Camp explored the story of Ostapchyk, a child visiting his grandparents in a Hutzul village during the Christmas season. Curious, Ostapchyk stumbles into his grandfather's magical workshop to discover the secrets of Malanka, as animal masks come to life creating chaos. Is it real, or a dream? Ostapchyk never finds out.
For the second year, Pokrova Camp performed at the Capital Ukrainian Festival on July 23, 2016. 31 children aged 6-12 years from Canada, the United States and Ukraine danced and sang on stage with performances reflecting the unique Hutzul Malanka experience. Under the direction of performance instructors, Calgary, Alberta's Stephania Romaniuk (music) and Thunder Bay, Ontario's Sara Cooper and Jeremy Luby (dance), Pokrova campers performed songs and dances learned over five short days in Canada's Capital.


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Archive for August, 2011
CARTOONS FROM THE REVSunday, August 28th, 2011
SERMON: "I Feel the Earth Move" by the not-so-reverend bobSunday, August 28th, 2011
The earth rumbles, and you can bet that a lot of people will start praying. Among the prayerful will be a number who harbor a belief that the earthquake is a message from God, most likely a call to repentance — a warning to a sinful people to "get right" with God before it's "too late". (That's what the lady I heard interviewed on the radio today said regarding the most recent "East Coast" earthquake).
Somewhere far down on the list of possible explanations for the tremors, humans will find the real one: the rather well-established fact that we live on a cooling planet. Earthquakes are natural phenomenon that happen all the time in all sorts of places. Some places suffer tremendous damage because of their geology, which can amplify the power of shifting chunks of the earth's crust. Others shake less destructively, again due to their local geology. When an earthquake occurs in an economically prosperous region, the damage is sometimes less because the buildings are built with better materials, inspected by fairly trustworthy inspectors, and not overcrowded. When it hits Haiti or China or Iran, well, the destruction can be terrible.
Nowhere in that equation is there any need for involving external mysterious sources for natural phenomenon. Yet we do. Consistently. Incessantly. Never stopping for a moment to consider that the intelligent being that is supposed to be the source of all existence and knowledge consistently chooses to communicate to sinful individuals with massive natural disasters that, for all of their fury and destructive attention-grabbing force, are mute, unintelligible and dreadfully ambiguous examples of effective God-to-man conversation. (God is love. It's your sin that made the tornado hit your house. It's God's mercy that spared your cat — a miracle of divine selection that ignored a few hundred other people in the tornado's/hurricane's path, such as when God's guiding hand brought that jetliner down safely in the "Miracle on the Hudson", while a week later another jet went down with all hands).
I hold that our response to natural events reveals a great deal about how we humans make sense of the world, and nothing about the character or reality of God.
This is the heart of what science has long said about the existence of God: He may or may not exist, but his existence is not needed to fill in any missing piece of the natural explanation of natural phenomenon. (I'm one of those takes the view that if God is no longer necessary, then what is the point of keeping him around?)
Religion is a complex thing, as complex as the organisms that practice it. I would like to dismiss it as a primitive habit that we would be better off to have never picked up in the first place. I can point to the colorful tales of Nordic mythology as far better (and more interesting) morality tales then any that came out of the monotheistic Middle East. But to be fair, the conflict between Christianity and Viking heathenism was less the brutal imposition of monotheism (that I long thought it to be) than it was a classic evolutionary battle between an earlier form of belief and a newer, more highly evolved religion. Christianity was the exotic new species that shoved out the old one. (As Richard Dawkins has pointed out, ideas evolve too).
The mistake people make is in assuming that one religion beats out another because it is somehow closer to some sort of ultimate truth. But in many ways, the Viking world (to continue with that example) was probably ready for a change. The world, after all, was changing. Societies were evolving, the idea of nationhood was forming in Western Europe. There were lots of reasons why a new religion could displace a less organized older one. But, again, that explanation ranks right there with actual geology for making sense of an earthquake when the more "spiritual" rationale is much quicker to seize our attention.
Which brings me to a problem with criticizing any particular religion. It's a tricky thing. Because it's not a "thing" at all, but a behavior that is shared by many individuals, each in their own particular manner, yet related by a certain category of generally shared tenets and behaviors. But there is no living organism or corporate headquarters for Christianity or Islam. There's no building to picket, no store to boycott. Religions exist, yes, but as ideas that anyone can participate in. (Sure there are the evangelists who feed and water irrational belief for their own (mostly commercial) ends, but even they are not the source. They are freelance master manipulators of the human brain, trying to make a buck the best they can).
This is hardly satisfying. It would be so much easier to attack irrational belief if there were some central plant that was sending out belief through a grid system like an electric plant. That way we could shut down the source, and that would be the end of it. But belief is a human phenomenon, a by-product of consciousness, a capacity latent in most human brains only awaiting an external trigger to come to life. Belief begins in our own brains. So irrational belief must be confronted one brain at a time. But even if there is no actual God, we are still stuck with dealing with the believer who thinks that there is and, therefore, remains many mental miles away from understanding that the source of his or her belief rests very much between his or her own ears.
And so I come to agree with Christopher Hitchens when he says that we will never eliminate religion. And maybe Christianity did bring some benefits to the heathen Vikings a thousand years ago. Perhaps it was a step up from their earlier beliefs, even if the religious violence that became the new norm was only slightly less violent than that which preceded it.
The earth rumbles and dissipates the pressure built up from the incessant migration of its crust, shaking itself off to make room for the new rock being formed deep in the oceans. And so we humans convulse from time to time, shaking off old beliefs and accepting new ones. Perhaps Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" was such an intellectual earthquake, and we are still feeling the aftershocks of its publication. The unraveling of the human genome, the discovery of the age of the universe and the blossoming field of neuroscience have all been recent shake-ups of old ideas.
Unfortunately, most humans feel the rumble of these earth-shaking discoveries and look skyward for the meaning that rests, in plain sight, right here on earth.
t.n.s.r. bob
CARTOONS FROM THE REVSunday, August 21st, 2011
SERMON: "Angry Badger in my Head" by the not-so-reverend bobSunday, August 21st, 2011
I'm in the middle of a big project. It's one of those deals where I am applying my experience in a wide range of past projects to a new one that has it's own particular challenges, many of which I can clearly see are made up of steep, unavoidable learning curves. The project also involves the participation of a good number of other people, all of whom I must rely on, and trust that they will come through.
There is money involved, which is an easy trigger for anxiety in my monkey brain. And reputation, which is vitally important to us social mammals.
As I write this, I'm at the ragged edge of exhaustion, enhanced, in no small part, by the four days of spotty sleep brought on by my brain's response to stress.
Our brains are pretty interesting things.
It was some years ago when I first experienced the rather impressive energy my mind and body were capable of producing for days on end (when the situation called for it). It was probably when I was making sets for the opera. I became a sort of carpenter-berzerker, working early until late, and getting up and doing it again, and again, and again. (The week after the set was done, I would crash and have to take some time to get myself back in working order).
I became rather proud and impressed that one part of my self could so clearly heed the call of my conscious brain and pass the word on down to my body and off we would go. The only downside is that once kicked into such a high gear, my mind doesn't really know how to turn itself off. It seems to just switch on and like some angry badger will not let go until the great task is dead, dead, dead.
Of course, depending on your worldview, one might think of this as God's spirit helping us along, or one's "higher-self" coming to our aid in a pinch. The reality is, of course, that this is just how our brains and bodies react to stress. There is some trigger that gets tripped when we feel the threat of a potential disaster should the challenge confronting us overcome us instead of us conquering it. Eat or be eaten.
A fair share of our time in life is taken up with the pursuit of some sort of conceptual framework which we can apply to life (including the way our brains actually work). It makes sense: we are born squalling and helpless into a world none of us has ever seen before (despite the claims of reincarnation). We are living, breathing beings for whom knowledge of our world is vital — our very survival depends upon it. So it is also very natural to us (and, again, vital) to learn from those of our kind who have more experience than we do.
I think if we each reflected on our life we could easily recall those moments when someone else was there with a word of instruction or advice at the right time, and also recall the tremendous sense of relief and gratitude that accompanied those occasions (okay, maybe not when the instruction was a rebuke from mom or dad). Of course, we often find out later that we've been given the wrong advice, or incorrect (or at least incomplete) information. But sometimes the accuracy of what we pick up is not as important as the encouragement that is part and parcel of someone sharing their experience with us.
This is how I became a Christian when I was 14. In response to my own curiosity, my older brother let me take a "Bridge to Life" tract from the stack he had by his bed. As he was busy trying to finish a paper for school, he sent me off with this over-the-shoulder matter-of-fact remark: "Read it, and then say the prayer at the end before you go to bed".
I went to my room, and read the tract that introduced me, for the first time it seemed, to the concept of sin and salvation through Christ. When I got to the prayer at the end, I remembered his instruction to say it before I went to bed. But I was about to go to a high school football game, and reasoned that in case something "happened" while there (jumped by a gang of thugs, or some such), maybe I'd be better off to say it now. So I did.
This began my spiritual journey, and over time I attended meetings and studies and churches and learned what it really meant to be a Christian. And, being the kind of person I am (with the kind of mind I have), I took it seriously for some long stretches of 15 years of my life, finding myself, at last, smuggling Christian literature behind the iron curtain as a "Summer" missionary. But that's another story.
In time I came to realize that Christianity was not the "truth" I had been told it was. I had been given bad advice. I felt foolish. How could I have fallen for all of that? (Well, it turns out that was not the last thing I would "fall" for before the spell of belief was finally broken).
I don't feel so foolish about believing what I did (when I did) now. I've come to understand that we are believers by nature. I also understand how profoundly social we are, so that when my own brother tells me Jesus is Lord, and there is a Holy Spirit and a God the Father, I am naturally going to give his words some weight. I had no reason to doubt him, and I also have no reason to blame him, for he was a believer too.
So as I observe this evolved computing/sensing/thinking electrified fleshy organ in my skull at work, I see it now for the biological organ that it is, and less as a conduit to anything higher than my own consciousness. The human mind is amazing, but not in the sense of it being anything close to perfect. Oh no. It is like everything else in life (and, actually, like everyONE else in life): a complex organism doing the best it can with what natural selection and evolution have given it. Our minds, like our bodies, are the sum total of millions of years of random changes, enough of which were beneficial to our survival (or at least not dangerous to it) to allow it to survive until it became "us". It was not built from scratch from a brilliant new design. Nope, it was built upon the first cells that generated their own little electrical impulses.
It is an amazing story — this tale of how we came to be — scads more interesting that any reductionist religious fable we humans have invented to give us that much-needed conceptual framework we so eagerly search for.
And though I aggressively stand up to anyone trying to impose their religious beliefs on others, I don't hate religion or religious believers. For in the bigger scheme of things, we are all babes in the woods trying to find our way in the very short time we have to figure it all out. My brain is what it is: both ancient and modern; hard-wired and plastic; wonderful and clunky. It's the only brain I'm gonna have, in the only life I'm gonna live. I'm doing the best I can to do the best I can with it.
t.n.s.r. bob
CARTOONS FROM THE REVSunday, August 14th, 2011
REVIEWS FROM THE REV: "Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds" By Kevin Dutton, Phd.Sunday, August 14th, 2011
FROM THE WEBSITE: DR. KEVIN DUTTON is a psychologist and research fellow at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University. His work has been published in journals that include Scientific American Mind, Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Cognition and Emotion.
Reading too much about the neuroscience of the human animal can, I think, be a bit like learning a little too much about how sausage is made. I mean, it's better to know how things work (and how things are made), but it can sure put you off your favorite food for a while.
Having tempted you with THAT introduction, I nonetheless can recommend "Split Second Persuasion", which is really a neuroscience book tarted up as a sort of guide book for would-be master persuaders out there. The author takes situations we are all familiar with (the person in a tense situation that has said just the right thing to defuse things, the smooth talker that has talked us out of something) and takes us to the root of what is happening inside our brains.
The author is an English psychologist, and he references a boat-load of studies and brain scans that paint a pretty clear picture of not only how our brains work when it comes to "persuasion", but where the frontiers of this sort of research are right now (which inevitably points to where it might be taking us in the near future).
It's a highly readable book — seasoned with judicious sprinklings of wit — that includes some experiments on the reader (as well as one of the best descriptions and explanations of psychopathy I've yet to run across).
If you have any interest at all in just how it is that your own brain makes its own "sausage" when subject to "persuasion", you'll enjoy this book.
t.n.s.r. bob
SERMON: "Goodbye Adam and Eve" by the not so reverend bobSunday, August 14th, 2011
According to this recent story on NPR, the accumulating evolutionary evidence of genetics is penetrating even into Evangelical university settings, threatening the most basic Christian tradition of a literal Adam and Eve birthing our species in the Garden of Eden:
But others say Christians can no longer afford to ignore the evidence from the human genome and fossils just to maintain a literal view of Genesis. "This stuff is unavoidable," says Dan Harlow at Calvin College. "Evangelicals have to either face up to it or they have to stick their head in the sand. And if they do that, they will lose whatever intellectual currency or respectability they have."
"If so, that's simply the price we'll have to pay," says Southern Baptist seminary's Albert Mohler. "The moment you say 'We have to abandon this theology in order to have the respect of the world,' you end up with neither biblical orthodoxy nor the respect of the world."
Mohler and others say if other Protestants want to accommodate science, fine. But they shouldn't be surprised if their faith unravels.
Christians are right, frankly, to mistrust science. Not because science is unreliable, but because science does, indeed, threaten the very foundations of religion. One might ask why. Aren't Science and Religion concerned with completely different spheres of the human experience: one with physical reality, the other with spiritual belief? There are many who support this polite fiction.
The problem is that every religion makes claims about the origins of life. Yet none of these creation stories have survived the discoveries of science intact. Even the Catholic church (perhaps, as suggested by the NPR story above, recalling the historic debacle of Galileo's persecution) has thrown in with evolution, and placed God back at the beginning of that natural process (where he can, presumably, sit for a while as science continues to search for just how life did begin). Evangelical Christianity has drawn its line in the sand by claiming that the Bible is the unerring word of God, and the more devout of that wing of belief have carved out a special niche in the walls of unreason, determined to be the purest of the pure who take every single event as described in holy texts as the gospel truth. So they believe in a literal Adam and Eve, with Eve made from a rib taken from Adam's side while he slept. A rib removed, it is written, by God himself.
But as others (like Christopher Hitchens) have pointed out, one aspect of what makes religion appealing to some human minds is the opportunity it presents to be part of an exclusive club, a club which has stringent requirements for inclusion. We like this. In fact, we like it enough that the further the things we profess to believe are from what most everyone else believes, the more we congratulate ourselves for holding firm to those beliefs.
So the religious extremist has little to lose and everything to gain by fighting the tides of popular and scientific opinion. The fundamentalist is, in fact, entrenched in a dynamic that is fed by an antagonism toward "the world" (which can mean reason, education, community mores and the like).
There are a lot more believers in another group, however: those that are cultural believers (having been born into a tradition, as most Americans that have been raised under a pervasive Christian influence). These are the reasonable believers, who have, by and large, been ready to admit that the Bible is mostly allegory. These are also the ones that accept scientific evidence, and then work to incorporate it into their belief system. They continue to believe in God, to be sure, but they don't wear it on their sleeve (and they don't go in for the extreme fundamentalist mindset).
It is the moderates who won't have too much trouble abandoning the idea of an actual Adam and Eve. But then, they have not staked their entire belief system on a indefensible position of Biblical inerrancy. What is significant about the NPR article is that the acceptance of the genetic evidence of our evolution is beginning to penetrate the Evangelical Christian community, which is, I think, profound. At this stage it is still at a level where the presidents of bible colleges can force heretics to resign, but the fault lines are showing. Eventually, this might lead to the more extreme fundamentalists calving from the evangelical community like a lone iceberg from the arctic ice sheet, left alone to float in the broad ocean and, eventually, to melt away.
t.n.s.r. bob
CARTOONS FROM THE REVSunday, August 7th, 2011
REVIEWS FROM THE REV: "The World Without Us" by Alan WeismanSunday, August 7th, 2011
Bill McKibben calls "The World Without Us" "…one of the grandest thought experiments of our time…". Take the world as we know it — all of our technology, our structures, our fabrics and copper pipes and fired brick — and leave it all alone to the ravages of nature. What would happen? And how soon would it happen?
A lot of what we've built would crumble pretty damn soon, according to author Alan Weisman. It turns out that just about everything about the infrastructure of our modern life is only kept spinning and standing through an astounding amount of effort that most of us (myself included) can comprehend only with the aid of a book like this one. I had no idea the amount of electricity and pumping it takes to keep the New York subway system from flooding in a matter of hours. I didn't know that without workers to blow out the debris that can accumulate in the expansion joints of major bridges the power of heat expansion and contraction from subsequent cooling would shatter their massive pre-stressed, reinforced concrete spans in a very short time.
But not everything of us would vanish so quickly. We have labored hard to bring to the surface of our planet vast quantities of heavy metals that will take a very, very long time to migrate back underground. Our plastics and polymers will linger for millennia until bacteria finally evolve to eat them, or until they are driven underground by the forces of geology and melted into nothingness. The animal kingdom, if they take notice at all, will breath a sigh of relief and rapidly re-occupy abandoned urban landscapes.
The most satisfying (and compelling) parts of this book are the descriptions of just how the things most familiar to us will come apart. In this the author is clearly aided by talking to people who would know: the very engineers and scientists responsible for the creation and maintenance of these things. But there isn't enough of that to fill an entire book, so the author takes us on side trips into the ecological history of our human presence on the planet. In this he takes a definite view which will be distasteful to those who think of the earth as our god-given garden to exploit. (Weisman even gives a few pages to describing one group that endorses the voluntary self-extinction of our species — an intriguing but, I think, flawed exercise in self-loathing and mis-placed hyper-morality).
Aside from the terribly sobering reality of just how powerful an effect a single living species has had on their home turf, I was also struck with a certain admiration for both the power of nature to return every molecule back into the materials box and the human knack for engineering ways to stave off that eventuality and make our pipes not rust and our houses not fall down around us (at least while we're still living in them).
This book is such a fine collection of facts and perspective, that I can't help but recommend it. It's also a smooth read.
t.n.s.r. bob
SERMON: "Jesus Vines and Lakes of Blood" by the not so reverend bobSunday, August 7th, 2011
Kudzu vines on a utility pole in the shape of Jesus on the cross. A Texas lake turns "blood red". Signs from God?
I'd have to do a survey, but I'm fairly confident that these sorts of stories show up like clockwork every week in the national news. They fill a certain niche in a newscast: part humor, part social commentary, part visual interest, yet never truly mocking: they are presented in a straightforward manner, as if it were not completely unreasonable that the God of the Universe should choose to communicate a message too opaque to even qualify as "vague" through a utility pole and an invasive creeping vine, or a small man-made lake turned blood-red mud hole in drought-ravaged Texas.
The "Jesus vines" story was on the news last week, and spread like a short-lived wildfire across the nation (and the world, considering the citation in the UK's Guardian newspaper). This week it was the dying reservoir in drought-stricken West Texas which reached a critical mass that led to a flowering of Chromatiaceae bacteria which, according to this Live Science article, thrive in oxygen-deprived water. It turned the water blood red.
In a television report on the red lake story, a reporter interviewed two teenage Texas girls, one of whom was quick to make the connection between a Bible verse and the putrid pond. ("And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood." Revelation 16:4 KJV).
I guess that means we should ignore the two verses previous to that one state that the first "vial" is to be poured out on land, where it produces boils and sores on every living thing, whereas the second "vial" is then poured out in the oceans, and kills every living thing there, and THEN the third vial is accidentally spilled in a 5,440 acre (when full) reservoir in West Texas, while the other 1.62 million square miles of freshwater lakes on the earth are spared, more or less (okay, I changed that third one around a bit).
This is how our human minds work: the local is the global, and the personal is the universal. We are solipsistic, tribal animals, bred by evolution for survival, not for the comprehension of an entire planet (much less a universe).
I also saw that there was a bit of news about the "cross" at ground zero in New York City. Once again the ease with which our minds go the the deep well of belief is striking. We think "What are the chances of a perfect cross coming to rest standing upright in rubble after the fiery collapse of two massive skyscrapers?" Pretty good, it turns out. Especially considering that a skyscraper is made up of thousands of crosses of steel where sections are riveted together, producing strong points that are likely to be the last parts to be torn apart in a collapse. That one of these (many smaller ones were found surrounding the most famous one) was upright and visible could have been predicted. In reality, the statistical probability of there NOT being an entire crop of steel crosses after such an event would be incredibly small. God apparently works not just in mysterious ways these days, but primarily through very predictable, silly ones as well.
Of course it's not just Christians who find symbolism and meaning in the perfectly pedestrian surprises of nature and disaster. It is a human condition. As much a part of us as the blind spots in our eyes, our weak primate backs or our inability to not respond to a baby's cry.
I've been as much a believer as anyone else. And maybe that's part of the problem, and why it took me so long and so many turns to move beyond belief to — as Daniel Dennett says — "break the spell": I was a believer surrounded by other believers. But I did break the spell. And though the tickle of belief will always be resident in my mammalian brain, it has a greatly-diminished influence on my cognitive life. I have moved to a point where any nagging suggestion of my believing brain, when left to its own, is quietly beaten silly by the more quiet deliberation of my reason.
I get some mild heat about my Atheism. Perhaps it strikes some as presumptuous or overdone. But let's take just a step or two back and consider this from a different perspective: Given all of the scientific evidence we now have of the world, what is the more difficult response to understand: taking a tangle of an aggressive, invasive vine on a human-built structure as a sign of a universal deity's personal intervention in our lives, or seeing that tangle as a natural occurrence that strikes our pattern-seeking brains in a predictable way? The former interpretation is a flight of fancy and is, therefore, much more stimulating to us, I think. It's more fun. The latter is a sort of wet blanket on the pleasure we get from tricking our own brains into thinking wild things. It is also more closely aligned with reality.
I think this points tp the greater drag on the spread of Atheism and a materialistic view of life: it doesn't look like much fun from the outside. Worse — it seems to require that all of us kids stop playing pretend. I get that. I also think it's a load of crap. Don't get me wrong. It may well be that in the face of actual reality — that we are simply these surprisingly conscious animals let loose in a nature that demands our demise in a very short time — there's nothing wrong with engaging in all the fantasy we can get our hands on to keep our minds off of death and annihilation. I can't really argue with that, anymore that I could deny a dying alcoholic a final scotch or a diabetic one last ice cream cone.
But those of us still trying to live our lives would like it if there were more human brains focused on making life on earth as good as we can for ourselves and for others. But, as one Mr. Hardison said in the Guardian article about the Kudzu crucifix: 'You can't spray Jesus with Roundup.'' Amen to that, brother.
t.n.s.r. bob


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I have an odd double-life. I live most of the time in Pensacola, Florida but spend my summers up in Washington State. This is my fifth year working for the helicopter company that does cherry tree drying up here in Brewster.
It's about as far from Florida to Washington as you can get in the continental U.S. Diagonally from one corner of the country to the other it's a little over 1,800 miles straight line. It's a little more if you fly since you have to go past Brewster to Seattle and then come back on a little commuter plane. And if you drive it's about 3,000 miles! There is no direct diagonal route; you have to "stair-step" your way northwestbound.
So getting here is not exactly easy. I've driven up twice (which took three full days), ridden up on my motorcycle once (which took the better part of a week), and flown twice on the airlines. It's always an adventure.
This last trip up was thankfully the most uneventful. We had no weather delays or other issues, and all of my (three) flights were on time. Dave Sr., the owner of the joint met me at the Wenatchee Airport and drove me the rest of the way to Brewster. It was about as painless as air travel gets these days. Glory be! I still don't like flying on the airlines and am seriously considering just buying a car and driving back when the season is over.
This past winter was very mild up here, so they tell me. That, combined with the warm Spring we're having up here means that the cherries are "early," perhaps by as much as two weeks. So we're kind of scrambling to get everything ready in anticipation. Since I got here the weather has been simply gorgeous.
It would be easy to just move up here and stay year-round. The beauty of this part of the country is unbelievable. And I could almost see myself living here permanently…if not for the winters, even when they're "not so bad" as they coyly say. I just don't like the cold. Plus, I really love Pensacola. It's nice being here, but in a way I'm already kind of looking forward to getting back home. To my other home.


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Who is Frank Andrews?
Tough question to answer without sounding pretentious. I am driven, caring and always willing to help those who are in need. I wear my heart on my sleeve and am extremely passionate about things that are important to me. I am also driven to succeed and some would say a bit of a workaholic.
What is your favorite childhood memory?
My father suffers from multiple sclerosis so my favorite childhood memory goes back to a time when he was still able to walk. Almost every Sunday we would have a picnic/BBQ with the extended family. Running around and playing with my cousins while all of my aunties and uncles prepared lunch and watched us have fun in the sun, is a treasured memory. Unfortunately I didn't get to experience as many of these days as I would have liked.
If you could have a do-over in life, what would you do differently?
I try not to look to the past and prefer to focus on the present and the future. Obviously with the benefit of hindsight you can always look back and say you would have taken a different course of action, but the reality is at the time you did what you thought was right. So for me it's about the future, and not the past.
What do you feel most proud of?
There are a number of things that I am proud of including the awards and accolades that I've achieved for my cafes and coffees, but the thing I am most proud of is that I took the plunge to leave a 20 year corporate banking career to follow my passion for coffee and create a career of it. To be able to wake up everyday and do what you truly love is so rewarding.
If you could keep only 3 possessions, what would they be and why?
- My bed – a good night's rest is vital for me and I hate it when I sleep in a bed other than mine.
- Toothbrush (plus tooth paste) – a must have after a good night's rest.
- My clothes – because without them it would only take a matter of time before I got arrested
What do you want your tombstone to say?
Frank by name. Frank by nature.
What is your passion project?
My passion project is a world-first brewing method that I created the FAB (Fractional Atmospheric Brew). It replaces the traditional filter; pour over and batch brew workflow in a fraction of the time while also elevating flavour, texture and mouthfeel. The FAB is made using a modified Sanremo Opera.
FAB disperses water to ground coffee at a fraction of atmospheric pressure. The gentle introduction of heated water allows for a unique flavour profile that continues to develop as the beverage cools.
I found that with pour over coffee methods it would often take a significant amount of time to make a beverage which is not always possible when baristas are servicing a busy cafe with lines of customers out the door waiting for their espresso based coffee.
The FAB method means that even during busy periods we can encourage our customers to enjoy unique specialty coffees from around the world. Given the ease of the process and the simple repeatability it means we can replicate a consistent flavour profile over and over again as well as providing us the ability to simply adjust the brew to meet any specific customer requests.
I want to set a new industry benchmark for flavour profile, depth of aroma and rich taste, as well as time efficiency.
What is your favorite kind of coffee?
In all honesty I don't have a favorite origin. I just enjoy good quality coffee no matter where it is from. As far as favourite brew method goes, I would have to say FAB is my go-to brew method. The ease of brewing and the complexity of aroma and flavor with the smooth and clean mouthfeel makes it extremely enjoyable.
In which coffee shops are we likely to bump into you?
You are most likely to find me at Frankie's Beans in Darlinghurst but when I'm not there I am usually visiting one of the cafes that I supply my roasted coffee beans to, or I'm out and about checking out any new cafes that may have opened up and managed to grab my attention.
What does a perfect day look like?
A perfect day is sleeping in then heading in to my café and enjoying a coffee and breakfast and having the time to read the newspaper, before heading off to spend the rest of the day roasting and cupping coffee.


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Maggie Sanders
Maggie focuses her practice in the areas of civil litigation including casualty defense and retail and hospitality litigation.
She received her undergraduate degree in political science with a minor in international relations, earning the magna cum laude distinction in only three years at Florida International University. She pursued a master's degree in international business the following year. Maggie earned her Juris Doctorate with the cum laude distinction at St. Thomas University School of Law.
While in law school, Maggie was president of the Moot Court Board, semi-finalist in the 21st Annual Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition, and quarter-finalist in the Intramural Moot Court Competition. She was also an articles editor for the St. Thomas Law Review, and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Appellate Advocacy. As part of St. Thomas' clinical program, Maggie interned for the Appellate Division at the Office of the Public Defender, where she drafted appellate briefs and argued State v. Hernandez, No. 13-1796, in front of the Third District Court of Appeal. Additionally, she participated in the bankruptcy clinic where she filed client cases involving chapter 7 debtors. As part of her internships, she worked at the City Attorney's Office of the City of Miami focusing on civil rights, commercial and tort litigation, and election law issues, and the Office of the U.S. Trustee, where she gained invaluable experience related to chapter 11 and chapter 7 cases.
Her previous professional experience ranged from litigating complex commercial issues such as representing the D&Os of failed banking institutions against claims of personal liability brought by the FDIC to securities and financial services litigation and internal investigations.
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The economy is on the front page of the news constantly and its effect has been felt in church circles. It has changed the way we do church, but the decrease in giving has not been as bad as many churches anticipated last fall.
From XPastor's discussion at a conference this spring, the economy appears to have affected smaller churches; these churches feel the pain more if ten percent of their people become unemployed. In informal surveys of twenty Southern California churches, eighty percent had general fund giving that was up slightly over last year—and those that were down were not down dramatically. This does not mean that everything is going well. Many of those same churches had building funds that were behind budget or Christian schools with dramatic decreases in enrollment.
People are losing their jobs or making less this year. We have seen a decrease in giving from some families, but there has also been an increase in churchgoers. In addition, an increased awareness of the need for stewardship in the face of a financial crisis has resulted in more financial participation within our church. Giving toward our benevolent fund has doubled this year as people realized there were real needs in our congregation. Those who have been blessed with adequate resources have helped in this way during a unique opportunity.
Our church leadership decided to put a capital campaign on hold. We would like to do some improvements to our campus to further our vision. However, since they are not time sensitive, we decided to wait for some improvement in the economy before launching it. This is understandable. People are sacrificially giving to our church and it wouldn't appear to be good stewardship to add an increased burden of a capital campaign. We have also heard of churches that are struggling with their building campaigns—two neighboring churches have extended their three-year campaigns into four-year campaigns. On the other hand, the economy does not limit God's resources since He owns it all anyway.
I have also talked to a number of churches who believe that now is a great time to do a building project. Some contractors are hungry for work so you can save twenty percent or more on construction costs. Starting a campaign now could allow you to be a better steward of your finances—but consider whether the majority of those giving to your church have been dramatically impacted by the economy.
The economic crisis has allowed churches to become more efficient and opened doors for more creative ministry. The age-old concern of running your church too much "like a business" is a topic during an economic slowdown as well, but it's also a time when pastors must pay attention to sound financial decisions. Many times we blame tough policies on our auditors, lawyers, or insurance agents; now we can blame tough actions on the economy!
Our church had already renegotiated many of our insurance and maintenance contracts, installed energy efficient lighting and even reduced our Christmas party expenses. We therefore had a hard time cutting additional expenses at the start of the downturn last year. Unfortunately, many times reducing your workforce is the only thing left to do to control costs. One of the hardest jobs of any Executive Pastor is to let people go; having the economic backdrop provides some understanding for those affected. Many churches I have talked to had to reduce their staff size or are leaving certain positions unfilled, creatively using volunteers instead.
The benefit of the economic crisis is increased opportunities to minister to our members who are going through a tough time, as well as the community around us. We have seen an increase in participation in our financial counseling ministry; attendance at budget coaching and mortgage workshops has been high. A financial crisis tends to amplify other marital, relational, and personal problems, so our counseling ministry has also had more people sign up for assistance. This economy might be the catalyst for people to realize their need for Christ and appreciate the willingness of the church to reach out and help them. We have been working on developing budget workshops to meet the needs of our community and are looking to partner with our local cities to help provide these services.
Our church has also continued to develop our community outreach partnerships. We have used the resources of our people's time to help our city reduce some of its costs by adopting our local park, helping to maintain and clean it up. We want to show God's love to our community in any way we can. If this economy makes us stand out more, then let's shine brighter as a church.
I am not an economist but it seems like confidence has returned slightly. In our church we have seen a few unemployed people return to work—however, there is still a long list of those out of work. Some local economists think the housing prices will continue dropping until the fall of 2011, but some of the recent increases in consumer confidence and stock market gains are promising. The good news is that although we don't know the economic future, we do know who does and can trust in His provision for ministry. We can continue to impact people in our local communities and around the world for Christ.


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It's not, by any means, the most fun you'll have at the cinema this year - but it is the most important thing you can watch.
And should watch.
And be prepared to be angry.
Even now, sitting here, I can feel my blood pressure rising as I remember scenes of Daniel Blake trying to use calm, rational thought with the people whose job is - essentially - to help those in need.
Only the system is broken. And it wasn't an accident.
If you've missed all the chatter, Blake - played perfectly by Davy Johns - is a man who has been told by his doctors that he can't return to work yet following a massive heart attack.
However, this causes him a problem. Because he's failed the Employment Support Allowance assessment as the person behind a desk has run some tests and concluded he's fit to work.
So he should be out there, job seeking.
And if he's not job seeking - against the advice of nurses, doctors and consultants - he'll have his only source of income taken away from him.
Think this sounds ridiculous? You're right. But try living it.
Thanks to director Ken Loach, you don't have to - because I, Daniel Blake lives it for you, bringing the pain, heartache, anger, frustration and despair of a system designed to help to a wider audience.
Helped hugely by winning the Palm d'Or at Cannes, what is taking this film and its message to the multiplexes is the performances of the two main characters.
Comedian Davy Johns and actress and writer Haley Squires bring their characters to life with warmth, compassion and understated rage that leaves you breathless.
Thanks to the pair of them, what could be a bleak watch has true humanity. You care for these two, you're on their side from the minute you see them.
And you share every painful sling and arrow the system throws at them.
If you aren't sniffing and blubbing at least once during this film, you are simply dead inside.
I thought we'd both done well to make it to the foodbank scene before losing control of our tear ducts, but it turns out someone else had already been quietly dabbing her eyes long before that.
And I thought that scene - which is easily the best single scene I've seen in a film in years and should net Squires every award going - was the toughest thing I'd have to watch here.
But I was wrong.
Loach had one more trick up his sleeve.
Now let's be clear about this - this is not an easy film to watch. It's light on laughs (although the first third has its share, and if you're a football fan the Charlie Adams bit will have you in stitches).
But that's the bloody point.
There are people living this every day, through no fault of their own. They are simply trying to exist, but they are fighting a system that strips them of their humanity.
And Loach - through Johns and Squires - is giving it back to them.
It's not a perfect film - I have no idea why we needed a shouty man outside the job centre, and I would have liked to have seen the patching up of a key friendship - but these really are the nittiest of nit-picks.
I, Daniel Blake is a film that shouldn't exist. Simply because our Government should have never been allowed to take a system that was designed to help the most in need and use it to break them.
Much has been said in certain quarters about how, since 2008, the plan has been to simply stop helping people.
To leave those already destitute to starve, to be passed over and forgotten, to be thrown in the nearest gutter.
And I'm sure you've read those stories and thought them fantastical. Ridiculous. After all, what kind of society would we be living in if that was happening?
You may even think, albeit quietly and to yourself, that in some way 'these people' have brought it on themselves.
Because, again, no just society would treat people like that.
And no, it wouldn't.
But as Loach shows us, this is no longer a just society.
There's a war being waged, and it's against those who can't fight back.
And if you aren't sitting there as the credits roll feeling angry that such situations can exist, you're not human.
In the screening we were in, only two people left as the credits came up. Everyone else was just sat there in stunned silence, taking in what they had seen.
And as people started to leave, you could see they were thinking. They had been affected by what they had seen. Loach, Squires and Johns had done a good job.
Maybe now we can start treating each other as equals, and help those worse off than ourselves rather than buying into the poisonous rhetoric currently being peddled in certain sections of the media.
In a just society, this film wouldn't need to be made. But sadly it does.
Thankfully, Loach has taken the job on and done us all proud.


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Almost ALL veterans have tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. Tinnitus in both ears is an automatic 10%.
Shopped at my local Home Depot today. I got my 10% discount with just my ID card AND I parked in one of about 6 spots near the front door each with nice painted signs complete with an American flag that said,"Reserved for American Veterans".
Thanks to this forum, I now know about and use my Home Depot 10% discount just by whipping out my Service Connected VA card.
Thanks to whoever the OP was! All disabled vets and other persons with a permanent disability need to check into the National Parks All Access pass and your state of residence parks pass, if available. http://store.usgs.gov/pass/access.html
And for those who are 62 or over, you can get a pass to all federal parks for free, after paying a one time fee of ten bucks.-Don- SSF, CA
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5/4 Cavalry, 2ABCT, 1st ID from 2006 - 2013. Retired on disability from two tours in Iraq. A special thanks to all who have seen the worst of mankind and all that helped support us. Thanks to everyone that has served and still is.
about the 1st ID, do they still say "If ya gotta be one, be a BIG RED ONE" ?
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Samsung's just announced its 2013 lineup of home theatre and audio devices. The new set features an interesting mix of vintage and developing technologies designed to combine classic sound with modern connectivity. Four marquee models have been announced: the HW-F750 Vacuum Tub Soundbar, DA-F60 Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker, HT-F9750W 7.1 Channel Home Theater System, and BD-F7500 Premium Blu-ray Player.
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The Verdict on Canned Fish Excerpt
Fish and seafood, in general, closely resemble the nutritional characteristics of humanity's original staple food (lean game meat). These are quite high in protein, low in total fat and typically contain high levels of omega 3 fats. Given these characteristics, you should not be surprised to find that regular fish and seafood consumption is one of the best strategies you can take to improve your health.
Numerous well-controlled scientific studies have shown time and again that regular fish consumption reduces total and LDL cholesterol (the "bad" cholesterol) and triglycerides while simultaneously increasing HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol). The end result of these beneficial changes in blood chemistry and heart function translates into a reduced risk of heart attack, stroke, type II diabetes and death from all causes combined. By eating fish regularly, you can significantly reduce your risk of dying from the number one killer of all Americans − heart disease.
Canned tuna is by far America's favorite seafood, but the canning process causes a number of problems – the least of which is a loss of fresh flavor.
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Combining the concise whimsy of hannah_g's micro-narratives with the pathos and vulnerability of Leslie Supnet's illustrations, Thought Factory is a woeful tale of postindustrial, interspecies precarity and a wry Prairie response to the inflated legacies of conceptual art.
hannah_g is a writer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Winnipeg. Narrative is at the heart of her practice, whether it's in the magic realist stories she makes in response to environment and conversation or public space interventions created to spark ideas and dialogue about enchantment and social justice. hannah has used sound, storytelling, writing, collage, chalking, stencils, screenprinting, and postering to this end. She is co-director of aceartinc., an artist-run centre in Winnipeg.
Leslie Supnet is an artist whose drawing, animated and film work aims to represent sincerity, lived experience, and the multiplicity of human emotion. Her moving image works have screened at various festivals, such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Images Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.


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Book covers are the most important marketing tool an author or publisher has at their disposal. Think of them as mini-movie posters, it's the same concept. You have ten seconds TOPS to draw in your reader or viewer and convince them they want, no need, to read your book or watch your movie.
Celebrities help, flashy review blurbs help. But those aren't always available to new authors. So what's a writer (or publisher) to do? Hit 'em with your best shot. When working with a publisher, it's important to have a concept ready for what visually represents your book. You're the creator, you know your book intimately. Think about what images floated through your head while you were writing the book. What one or two key images or action sequences rise to the top?
Although publishers will work with professional designers and artists on your cover, many of them (like us) are interested in your visual concepts and ideas for the cover. There are even times when authors have a special artistic talent and can contribute graphical elements to the story that they've created.
Covers, like a book's positioning in the market and genre/theme, follow trends. Search for titles that are similar to yours. Check out the best-sellers and their covers. Note the ideas, themes, colors, design and look and feel elements that you like. You can share these with your publisher to give them an idea of what you feel represents your book.
Romance titles, for example, have gone from the Fabio-clinch days to more love-based visuals to chick-lit high heels...and back again. Read more about romance cover evolution in this illuminating Publisher's Weekly article. Regardless of genre, each cover must distinguish itself from the competition but still work within a brand aesthetic—all while enticing readers to give something new a try, but still represent the story readers expect. Whew!
All this is to say - you don't have to be an artist or designer to have a great idea for an eye-catching book cover. All you have to do is close your eyes and let the images speak for themselves.


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Brian Reisinger is a New York City-based photographer and graphic designer.
Brian was raised in Flushing, Queens, during the Koch and Dinkins administrations.
He likes to have fun while working and tends to get along swimmingly with clients.
Select clients include:
- The Teagle Foundation
- Right to Play International
- Warner Music
- Roadrunner Records
- Sony Records
- Dreyfrus Records
- Velvet Hammer Music
- Alternative Press
- Blues Review Magazine
- Guitar Player
- Guitar World
- San Pellegrino
- MedAd News
- Getty Images
- IronPlate Studios
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Sometimes you need to really bring out the big guns and be prepared for Mother Nature. Need grip? The Romika Spike Men 09's metal spike system can secure your step in the iciest conditions. Need warmth? The sheepskin plush lining keeps heat inside. The style provided by the boot's oiled leather uppers are a bonus.
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What's up with that weird little girl Ivy on Gotham? Well, let me tell you a few things about Batman enemy Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy was originally Pamela Lillian Isley who first appeared in Batman #181 (June 1966). In Ivy's original origin, she was Dr. Lillian Rose, who is seduced by a thief named Marc LeGrande into helping him steal an ancient Egyptian artifact. Afterwards, LeGrande attempts to kill her with deadly herbs so she cannot be a possible witness against him.
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Insurance Claims Are All We Do.
Water Damage
Property damage can be very frustrating, but a denied claim from your once-trusted insurance company can be calamitous. Water damage can come as a result of a leaking roof, a pipe burst in your home, or even due to external factors such as storm or flood. The cause and extent of the water damage needs to be clearly defined, as your insurance policy may not cover all types of water damage. Many insurance providers have steadily declined coverage on water damage claims over the years. From a sewage incident to a natural disaster to neglect, water damage can come as a result of many occasions and fast.
Flood Versus Water Damage
One key differentiation in these insurance claim cases is between water damage and flood damage. A typical homeowner's insurance policy will specifically dictate that water which causes damage to a home prior to coming into contact with the ground is not to be considered flood water. If the damage is in fact considered to be as a direct result of flood water, you should then consult your flood insurance policy. Flood damage can be appropriately defined as damage directly caused by water that has previously been on the ground. Certain areas in the United States are more prone to flooding than others and may require a flood insurance policy to be purchased.
What To Do If Your Property Suffers Water Damage
At the first sign of water damage, it is important to initiate any feasible emergency mitigation possible to your property. Consider exercising your option of hiring your own private expert to evaluate your water damage claim. Water or flood damage can leave homes vulnerable to even further damage, resulting in things such as weakened walls, doors, windows, appliances and other types of structural damage. If theft, explosions, or fire, etc. occur as a result of water damage, these subsequent damages may be covered by your homeowner's insurance even if the initial disaster is not.
Additional problems to be aware of that can come as a result of water damage, are mold and decay.
Another possible build-up following any type of water damage, that can cause harm to the home as well as its residents, is mold. Mold can lead to health problems, such as respiratory infections, bronchitis, and asthma. Because mold is directly caused by moisture, it is vital to make repairs as soon as possible following water damage as a preventative measure. Mold damages typically require laboratory testing to identify the best course of action to remedy the particular type of mold.
Decay can be defined as the decomposition or decline in the excellence of an object. Decay is commonly found in wood, also referred to as wood rot. Decay has the possibility of attracting insects such as termites and carpenter ants.
Ice Dams and Roof Collapse
The weight of ice and snow in northern regions can cause a roof to become damaged or even collapse. The water content of snow can vary but ice is made of water; therefore, it is very heavy as one inch of water weighs 5.2 pounds per square foot. As it accumulates on rooftops, the weight of snow and ice can certainly damage and, in some cases, destroy a roof.
Ice damming is a second damaging event that is caused when the warm air that is circulated in a house meets the ice and snow on a roof, then causing the bottom layer to melt. The water then flows to the edge of the roof, which is typically poorly supported by the structure, and there isn't warm air underneath it. This water builds and freezes at the edge of the roof and the continued water flow will build up and work its way under shingles. This often causes shingles to be dislocated and water can work its way through the ceiling and into homes.
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Fountain Square in Snow, Cincinnati, 1999
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Frank McElwain is an artist living in Cincinnati. Much research has gone into McElwain's paintings concerning accuracy of architecture, transportation systems, and fashion. His style is intended to allow one to enjoy a romantic and artistic view of the city.
He celebrates treasures such as Miami-Erie Canal, the Suspension Bridge, Fountain Square, and the riverboats at the public landing. His work is in private and corporate collections including Cincinnati Financial, the Queen City Club, Procter & Gamble, and Fifth Third Bank.


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Motoring Podcast at BTCC, Rockingham 2016/ Alan Bradley
As regular listeners are aware, we don't really "do motorsport" on Motoring Podcast, but every now and again an exception - such as FormulaE - comes along and we just can't help ourselves. This weekend was one such exception, and I headed across the road to Rockingham Speedway here in Corby to watch the British Touring Car Championship on my local turf.
I took many, many photos over the weekend, but here's the slimmed-down collection for your delectation and a larger (uncaptioned) selection is available on our SmugMug page.


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We arrived in Hungary after 4 flights and 27 hours of travelling! Nothing like taking the long way around. Unfortunately, Nikki and my paddles failed to arrive with us, so we went to the all too familiar "Lost and Found" desk and started the process of locating the missing bags.
We are staying at the Cspel canoe club, which is right where we train. It's fantastic, our rooms are great and there is wireless internet. The cooking facilities, however, consist of a microwave and fridge. Self catering can't quite mean the same thing over here. Luckily, we've got Robbie, and we've asked him for some cutlery, pots etc.
That's all for now. I am on Skype, my Skype name is eraymich, if anyone wants to chat. I also have a cel over here: +36 702 679 306 for sms's/calls.
For some International canoeing news, the recently held European Champs has some video footage up on www.flatwater.info
And locally, well done to Graeme Soloman and Lance King on their second place finish at the SA Marathon Champs, and to Jemma Hofmeyer and Megan Kelly on their third place finish.


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Apple's suppliers have achieved a new compliance mark for employee hours, according to the iPhone maker.
To shed light on how its suppliers are behaving, Apple launched its Supplier Responsibility page early last year. This page attempts to show how suppliers are faring with such issues as excessive overtime, underage workers, and other violations of Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct.
Compliance with the 60-hour work week limit varied throughout 2012. But in January, the rate reached a record of 99 percent, Apple revealed yesterday on the Supplier Responsibility page
The number of workers we track has increased from over 500,000 in January 2012 to over 1 million in January 2013. In January 2013, we achieved 99 percent compliance to the 60-hour work week across all employees we track.
Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct limits employees to a 60-hour work week except in "unusual circumstances." Further, any overtime hours must be voluntary. The company conceded that suppliers continually violated this policy in the past. So in 2011, Apple started tracking the number of weekly work hours at specific suppliers. Any violations discovered were brought to the attention of each individual supplier.
For 2012 as a whole Apple suppliers achieved a 92 percent compliance rate with the policy, with the average number of working hours per week less than 50.
How have Apple's suppliers fared in other areas?
The company say it found no instances of underage labor at any of its final assembly suppliers last year, though it continues to conduct regular audits. Apple did acknowledge a violation at one supplier in January 2012. A third-party labor provider was recruiting younger workers to Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics. After finding 74 workers under the age 16, Apple cut off its business relationship with that supplier.
Despite Apple's efforts to crack down on these labor violations, some watchdog groups say the company needs to do more.
The Student & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) issued a report last month accusing three of Apple's Chinese suppliers of poor worker conditions.
SACOM said that the three suppliers -- Foxlink, Pegatron, and Wintek -- do not provide for basic human needs and continue to employ student workers.
The watchdog group also criticized Apple for shirking its responsibility to monitor its Chinese suppliers and said that violations have actually risen due in part to increased demand for Apple products.
(Via MacRumors)
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