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Making Mountains Out of Molehills
Part 3
This is part 3 in this series. Here are Part 1, Part 2, & Part 4. Again, my responses are in Italics.
43:28 "What I did, is I responded to, you know, some people started saying, for example Paul Barth quoted from Augustine. And Augustine wrote a short little book. It's a available in Latin online. I pulled up when we got here quite easily. And here's one of the translations: "Certain persons of little faith, or rather enemies of the true faith, fearing, I suppose, lest their wives should be given impunity in sinning, removed from their manuscripts the Lord's act of forgiveness toward the adulteress, as if he who had said, Sin no more, had granted permission to sin." – Augustine, De Adulterinis Conjugiis, 2:6–7. And so Augustine made a comment about the Pericope Adulterae, and Augustine's primary text was the Latin. He could muddle around with Greek. He could not read Hebrew"
44:27 The only 2 major church fathers that could read both Greek & Hebrew: Jerome & Origen
45:21 Augustine defended the duetero-canonical;
What does this have to do with Augustine's defence of the Pericope? Nothing. It's an ad hominem.
46:38 How did Augustine know, what manuscripts in Greek, in Caesarea said, when he is in Hippo and can barely read Greek. How does he know what motivations there where?
Paul Barth effectively deals with Mr. White's erroneous comments during this section. Read Paul's response here: Response to James White on Augustine and the Pericope Adulterae
47:00 "Paul Barth's response when I said, when I questioned Augustine on this was 'But apparently modern liberal scholars know better than someone who lived contemporaneously with Codex Sinaiticus. Silly Augustine and his tin foil hat.'"
Mr. White's bias against Confessional Text advocates have led him to misrepresent the facts. Check out the time stamps for the posts in question:
As you can see, Paul Barth was not responding to James White. Again, this is an example of Mr. White's biases clouding his judgment.
47:17 "The fact of the matter is, Augustine would not have had access to the information that we have today."
Again Mr. White puts forth his opinion as a definitive truth claim. How does Mr. White know what Augustine had access to in his day? He doesn't. The reality is, we have no idea how much information Augustine had access to himself and through his contemporaries. We do know that he could read Greek and translate it. Unless of course Mr. White wants to reject the doctrine of Original Sin which is based in part off of Augustine's translation from the Greek of Rom 5:12.
47:45 "I mean the amount of textual data that we have available to us today is astounding and something to be greatly thankful for."
Of course he has an unargued bias that the Alexandrian mss should supersede the Confessional Text. Again he is refuted by the simplest of questions. What is your objective foundation for believing that the manuscript data we have today should overturn the authentic Greek text? Mr. White and his ilk bear the burden of proof. They must provide an objective argument derived from the authentic texts to reject and replace the authentic texts. And this is a self-defeating argument for them.
48:00 At this point Mr. White goes into the so-called textual evidence for the Pericope.
49:15 It is omitted by p66 & p75. The two earliest papyri manuscripts we have of the Gospel of John.
Again Mr. White equates great age to accuracy. He must first prove that great age correlates to accuracy. Neither he, nor any RTC advocate has ever done this.
49:53 It is unknown in the first 400 years of the church
This is what is called an argument from silence. It is a logical fallacy.
50:13 How do we know what Iraeneus wrote?
Dr. Riddle deals with Mr. White's erroneous claims during this segment. The Pericope Adulterae
54:54 In the year 500, the Majority Text would not contain this. (Pericope)
This is yet another instance of Mr. White claiming omniscience for himself. He has no idea what the MT of 500AD is unless he has access to EVERY Greek manuscript that was available in the year 500 AD. He does not. This is why Mr. White offers no challenge to those of us who hold the to the Confessional Text. His holding to a naturalistic view of preservation means he offers nothing more substantial against the Textus Receptus than mere opinion. A child can defeat that with one question.
54:59 "And so those who are ET advocates who say its church usage, I guess the church for the first 400 years is just irrelevant. Because they didn't have it."
Again Mr. White makes a claim that is impossible for him to prove without his having omniscience. He does not have every Greek manuscript produced during the first 400 years of church history and therefore he can make no definitive claims based upon the miniscule amount of evidence that he does have from that period. Furthermore, his desire to determine what is and is not Scripture from incomplete records shows his rejection of the doctrine of Providential Preservation which states that God's word, "has been kept pure in all ages". We don't change the text of Scripture based on new manuscript discoveries or else the text of Scripture will always be in a state of flux.
55:16 "So again it comes down to this nebulous, vague definition of 'church'. And now let's get a little more specific. I've been told, I've been accused of not being confessional as a Reformed Baptist elder…There are people who will honestly say, you should not be in that position…Because you do not hold that view…There was a quote here, yeah, fellow by the name of Sean McDonald wrote to me and said, 'Mr. White, other than the line about continuing revelation what would be inaccurate about what I stated? It is demonstrable that your doctrine of the preservation of Scripture is not that of the Protestant Reformers or of the Puritans who drew up our confessional standards.'"… After this point he goes into bragging about himself and his debates. Look at me, look at me.
Sean McDonald's statement is factually true. Regardless of what Mr. White claims, he does not hold to the doctrine of Providential Preservation as originally intended by the Reformers and the writers of the confessions. He has stated multiple times that he hold to the so-called "multi-focality" view. And he is an advocate for Restorationist Textual Criticism. But do we find these views among the Reformers and the writers of the Confessions? The answer is no.
Commenting on Isaiah 59:21, Calvin affirmed his belief in the perfect preservation of all the Words of Scripture in every age in the true Church,
The word of Christ shall always continue in the mouths of the faithful; there shall be some in every age who, believing with the heart unto righteousness, shall with the tongue make confession unto salvation. The word shall never depart out of the mouth of the church; for there shall still be a seed to speak Christ's holy language and profess his holy religion. Observe, The Spirit and the word go together, and by them the church is kept up. For the word in the mouths of our ministers, nay, the word in our own mouths, will not profit us, unless the Spirit work with the word, and give us an understanding. But the Spirit does his work by the word and in concurrence with it; and whatever is pretended to be a dictate of the Spirit must be tried by the scriptures. On these foundations the church is built, stands firmly, and shall stand for ever, Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.
The liberal historian, McCabe accepted that the Reformers had no time for rationalistic textual principles,
The reformers, indeed, extended little patronage to the exercise of reason in religious matters; they denounced it and its fruit, philosophical speculation, as an evil not to be tolerated; and Luther went so far as to assert (even to the disgust of the Church of Rome) that a proposition may be true in theology and false in philosophy.
As we search the Reformation writings this fact becomes quickly apparent. Samuel Tregelles notes,
Beza's text was during his life in very general use among Protestants; they seemed to feel that enough had been done to establish it, and they relied on it as giving them a firm basis….After the appearance of the texts of Stephanus and Beza, many Protestants ceased from all inquiry into the authorities on which the text of the New Testament in their hands was based.
Brook records that,
Mr. Cartwright defended the holy Scriptures against the accusation of corruption, and maintained that the Old and New Testaments written in the original languages were preserved uncorrupted. They constituted the word of God, whose works are all perfect, then must his word continue unimpaired; and, since it was written for our instruction, admonition, and consolation, he concluded that, unless God was deceived and disappointed in his purpose, it must perform these friendly offices for the church of God to the end of the world. If the authority of the authentic copies in Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek were lost, or given up, or corrupted, or the sense changed, there would be no high court of appeal to put an end to disputes; so that the exhortation to have recourse to the law, the prophets, and the New Testament would be of very little effect. In this case our state would be worse than theirs under the law, and in the time of Christ; yea than those who lived some hundred years after Christ, when the ancient fathers exhorted the people to try all controversies by the Scriptures. Their own Gratian directs us, in deciding differences, not to the old translation, but to the originals of the Hebrew in the Old Testament, and of the Greek in the New.
Thomas Cartwright observed this about preservation,
Woe unto the churches, if the Scriptures, the charters and records of heaven be destroyed, falsified, or corrupted. These divine charters were safely kept in one nation of the Jews; and though they were sometimes unfaithful, yet they kept the keys of the Lord's library: but now, when many nations have the keys, it is altogether incredible that any such corruptions should enter in, as the adversaries unwisely suppose. If the Lord preserved the book of Leviticus, with the account of the ancient ceremonies, which were afterward abolished, how much more may we conclude that his providence has watched over other books of Scripture which properly belong to our times and to our salvation? Will not the Scriptures bear witness to the perpetuity of their own authority? "Secret things belong to God;" but things revealed belong to us, and to our children forever. Jesus Christ said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away." Notwithstanding the sacred writings were disregarded, and even hated by most persons, they had been preserved entire as they were the first day they were given to the church of God. More than fifteen hundred years had elapsed, during which not any one book, nor part of any book, of canonical Scripture had been lost: and it was evident not only that the matter of the Scripture, but also the words; not only the sense and meaning, but also the manner and form of speech in them remained unaltered.
William Whitaker said,
Now we, not doubtfully or only with some probable shew, but most certainly, know that this Greek edition of the New Testament is no other than the inspired and archetypal scripture of the new Testament, commended by the apostles and evangelists to the Christian church….. If God had permitted the scripture to perish in the Hebrew and Greek originals, in which it was first published by men divinely inspired, he would not have provided sufficiently for his church and for our faith. From the prophetic and apostolic scripture the church takes its origin, and the faith derives its source. But whence can it be ascertained that these are in all respects prophetic and apostolic scriptures, if the very writings of the prophets and apostles are not those which we consult?
Whitaker went on to say he accepted the Received Text handed down by faith,
Now the Hebrew edition of the old, and the Greek of the New Testament, was always held the authentic scripture of God in the Christian churches for six hundred years after Christ. This, therefore, ought to be received by us also as authentic scripture. If they doubt the major, we must ask them, whether the church hath changed its authentic scripture, or hath not rather preserved, and commended to all succeeding generations, that which was in truth authentic from the very first? If it lost that which was published by the prophets and apostles, who can defend that negligence, who excuse so enormous a sacrilege?
Whitaker also cleverly rejected the argument that the Masoretes had corrupted the Hebrew Text,
Besides, if the Jews had wished to corrupt the original scriptures, they would have laid their sacrilegious hands specially upon those places which concern Christ and confirm the faith. But in those places these fountains run so clear that one feels no lack: nay, they sometimes run far clearer than the Latin streams.
He also showed how that God protected the Scriptures in the ages, God protects the scriptures against Satan, as being their constant enemy. Satan hath frequently endeavoured to destroy the scriptures, knowing that they stand in his way: but he hath never spent any trouble or thought upon these unwritten traditions; for he supposed that his whole object would be gained if he could destroy the scriptures. In pursuance of this plan he hath raised up such impious tyrants as Antiochus, Maximin, Diocletian, and others, who have endeavoured utterly to quench the light of scripture. Now, if religion could remain entire even when these books were lost, it would be in vain for Satan to labour with such furious efforts to remove these books. William Whitaker, A Disputation on Holy Scripture: against the Papists, especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1588 reprinted 1849)
Bishop of Salisbury and eminent Divine, John Jewel (1522-1571), who was a strong apologist against the Church of Rome, also makes clear the need of perfect preservation,
By the space of so many thousand years, the word of God passed by so many dangers of tyrants, of Pharisees, of heretics, of fire, and of sword, and yet continueth and standeth until this day, without altering or changing one letter. This was a wonderful work of God, that having so many, so great enemies, and passing through so many, so great dangers, it yet continueth still without adding or altering of any one sentence, or word, or letter. No creature was able to do this, it was God's work. He preserved it, that no tyrant should consume it, no tradition choke it, no heretic maliciously should corrupt it. For His name's sake, and for the elect's sake, He would not suffer it to perish. For in it God hath ordained a blessing for His people, and by it He maketh covenant with them for life everlasting. Tyrants, and Pharisees, and heretics, and the enemies of the cross of Christ have an end, but the word of God hath no end. No force shall be able to decay it. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Cambridge-educated Puritan preacher, Nicholas Gibbens also retorted in 1602, For by these authorities it may seem apparent, that the Hebrew Text has been corrupted by the Jews: which if it be; where is the truth the Scriptures to be found, but either perished, or only remaining in that translation which the Papists so greatly magnify. For answer whereunto, we affirm and testify by the authority of the Scriptures themselves, (which is the voice of God) of the Fathers, and of the adversaries themselves; that the Scriptures in the Hebrew tongue are pure, and unspotted of all corruption.
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617 – 1688) the German Lutheran dogmatician argued,
We believe, as is our duty, that the providential care of God has always watched over the original and primitive texts of the canonical Scriptures in such a way that we can be certain that the sacred codices which we now have in our hands are those which existed at the time of Jerome and Augustine, nay at the time of Christ Himself and His apostles.
English Presbyterian clergyman, John Flavel (1627 – 1691) argued in response to a question: "What was the end of writing the word?" answered, That the church to the end of the world might have a sure, known, standing-rule, to try and judge all things by, and not be left to the uncertainty of traditions.
English Puritan and theologian, Edward Leigh (1602–1671) explained why we needed confidence in a pure text for our Bibles,
If the authority of the authentical copies in Hebrew, Chaldee and Greek fall, then there is no pure Scripture in the Church of God, there is no high court of appeal where controversies (rising upon the diversity of translations, or otherwise) may be ended. The exhortations of having recourse unto the Law and to the Prophets, and of our Saviour Christ asking "How it is written," and "How readest thou," is now either of none effect, or not sufficient."
The great Puritan Thomas Watson (c. 1620 -1686) makes clear,
The devil and his agents have been blowing at Scripture light, but could never blow it out; a clear sign that it was lighted from heaven….The letter of Scripture has been preserved, without any corruption, in the original tongue.
Another Puritan, John Owen adopted the same stance,
It can, then, with no colour of probability be asserted (which yet I find some learned men too free in granting), namely, that there hath the same fate attended the Scripture in its transcription as hath done other books. Let me say without offence, this imagination, asserted on deliberation, seems to me to border on atheism. Surely the promise of God for the preservation of his word, with his love and care of his church, of whose faith and obedience that word of his is the only rule, requires other thoughts at our hands.
Owen did not accept every "obscure private copy…to be admitted as a various lection" or Rome's textual critics views of variants, as Owen explains,
Let it be remembered, that the vulgar copy we use, was the public possession of many generations; that upon the invention of printing, it was in actual authority throughout the world, with them that used and understood that language….men may, if they please, take pains to inform the world, wherein such and such copies are corrupted or mistaken, but to impose their known failings on us as various lections, is of course not to be approved….
Swiss Hebraist, Johannes Buxtorf (1599 –1664), who defended the preservation of even the Hebrew Vowel points against the attack of Louis Cappel with studies published in 1624 and 1650. Buxtorf also affirms the purity of the Received Text in 1620,
From the extremity of the East to the extremity of the West the word of God is read with one mouth and in one manner; and in all the books that there are in Asia, Africa, and Europe, there is discernible a full agreement, without any difference whatever.
A typical presuppositional approach based on providential preservation was that of the Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Robert Rollock (1555-1599). He argued for the "the preservation of the divine oracles of God unto our times74" and the retention of may disputed passages such as I John 5:7, Mark 16, John 8 based on the fact that these are, "our Greek books, which we hold for authentical, have this verse and our Church receives it." He rejected all the textual critical assaults of Rome on the Received Text by summarizing, Thus we see then the adversaries cannot prove by these places that the Greek edition of the New Testament is corrupted, and so act authentical. Wherefore it resteth that the Hebrew edition of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament is only authentical.
Dr Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713), provost of the College of Dublin and later Archbishop of Armagh writes against one sceptic who attacked the Hebrew Masoretic Text,
It may be suspected, that the intention is to bring it into doubt, whether we have any such thing, as a true Bible at all, which we may confide in, as God's Word… However, I doubt not, but that, by God's Providence, as the Hebrew Text hath hitherto stood firm, so it will stand on its own bottom to wear out all assaults against it, and be, what it always was, received as the undoubted Word of God, when all the arguments and objections against it are vanish'd into smoke.
Baird tells us, "Simon sharpened historical criticism into a weapon that could be used in the attack on Protestantism's most fundamental error: the doctrine of Sola Scriptura." Indeed, Simon himself explains plainly his purpose, "the great changes that have taken place in the manuscripts of the Bible – as we have shown in the first book of this work – since the first originals were lost, completely destroy the principle of the Protestants…if tradition is not joined to scripture, there is hardly anything in religion that one can confidently affirm." They assembled many of the variant readings into Polyglots to aid this attack. The Cambridge History of the Bible accepts the universal standard of the TR amidst the Reformed Churches, In creating the phrase textus receptus they had confirmed acceptance of the third edition of Estienne and Beza's recension of it as the standard version. Effective awareness of the significance of textual criticism for the ancient versions of the biblical text may be said to begin only with the Biblia Polyglotta of Bishop Walton in 1657.
Even Dan Wallace accepts that, "New Testament textual criticism was born as a polemic against Protestants, intended to show that they couldn't really trust the Bible!"
Reformed church historian, Richard Muller summarized the post-Reformation Reformed view of the providential preservation of the Holy Scriptures,
By "original" and "authentic" text, the Protestant orthodox do not mean the autographa which no one can possess but the apographa in the original tongue which are the source of all versions. The Jews throughout history and the church in the time of Christ regarded the Hebrew of the Old Testament as authentic and for nearly six centuries after Christ, the Greek of the New Testament was viewed as authentic without dispute. It is important to note that the Reformed orthodox insistence on the identification of the Hebrew and Greek texts as alone authentic does not demand direct reference to autographa in those languages: the "original and authentic text" of Scripture means, beyond the autograph copies, the legitimate tradition of Hebrew and Greek apographa. The case for Scripture as an infallible rule of faith and practice and the separate arguments for a received text free from major (non-scribal) error rests on an examination of the apographa and does not seek the infinite regress of the lost autographa as a prop for textual infallibility. – Richard Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993),
There simply is no higher authority than the Word of God. Naturally, this confessional position can only work when one can particularise his starting point of where this self-authenticating revelation of God is perfectly found. Richard Muller insightfully observes,
The orthodox definition of the truth of Scripture – like the orthodox definitions of infallibility and authority – treads a very narrow line. Scriptural truth is never allowed to rest upon empirical proof: truth depends upon divine authoriship and can be defined as a "truth of promise" or as an intentional fidelity or veracity upon the part of God as author.
These were pulled from here: Preservation Quotations by Dr. Paul S. Ferguson
Many more quotes could be produced demonstrating that Sean McDonald's assessment of Mr. White was spot on. This concludes part 3.


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Over the last few months I have been organising a music industry insight event for young people in Croydon.
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As part of Global Enterprise Week the grand final of The Pitch 2010 will be held in front of a live audience on Tuesday 16 November at the glorious IoD Headquarters in London, UK.
The Pitch is an annual competition where entrepreneurs compete and pitch regionally (in 5 major cities) for the chance to pitch in the grand final for £50,000 worth of business support. The finalists will pitch their business to a high-profile panel of judges including household names Tim Campbell & Julie Meyer.
This free all day conference has an exciting agenda full of business advice, networking, face-to-face mentoring and real-life stories and lessons from successful entrepreneurs like Doug Richard. For a full break down of the jam-packed day check out the and to register for your free ticket click HERE.
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I am really looking forward to opportunity to network with like-minded graduates and entrepreneurs at The Net Location's Social Networking Party this Wednesday 27th October 2010 at Graphic Bar, Golden Square, London.
Finally someone has noticed the niche and taken the initiative to organise a networking event for young graduates, professionals and entrepreneurs in London. It's been a long time coming!
An intellectual crowd, adventurous cocktails, delicious food, good music, a professional photographer and a magician are all promised to make the networking night one to remember.
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The party kicks off at 7pm so I look forward to seeing you there!
12, March 2010 5 Comments
Hi Antonia
I hope you are well.
Just wanted to share my concerns with a successful women who I hope will understand my frustration.
I have noticed a number of articles recently, some disappointingly written by female journalists, that seem to not only reinforce ancient gender stereotypes – 'women are not natural networkers', but more importantly, inadvertently discredit women's natural business potential by reinforcing associations between female success and adoption of 'masculine' behaviours- we must 'start schmoozing like men'.
I am tired of reading about femininity being a hindrance in business 'you need to change your female mindset'. Tired of reading articles that seem to identify the primary cause of women being the second-rate enterprise gender as exactly that, the fact that they are female. As though our sexuality is a disability in business that we need to camouflage with testosterone in order to succeed.
I am worried about the way these powerful media messages will shape my younger sisters' worldviews.
For that reason, I feel urged to e-mail you. You are a prominent woman in the UK's media world and I would like to share with you some of my thoughts on your article (and the wider issues it addresses) which I read yesterday on The Times Online.
Interestingly it was filed in the Life and Style section as oppose to the Business section of the site.
On top of the perhaps necessary controversial headline 'Why Women Are Such Bad Networkers', skim reading the first few paragraphs results in this visual summary:
Why women are such bad networkers: it's no good thinking hard work will get you anywhere…you have to start schmoozing like men. The champagne is not working. Women are not natural networkers. "It's a complete scandal" Gordon Brown agrees...
Not a pretty picture. Why do we need to behave like men in order to be successful? We are not natural networkers… I totally disagree! We are relationship builders through and through! We connect with people, we nurture and sustain relationships, we tell great stories, we really listen…
In the article, gender inequality, particularly in the corporate world, is highlighted, and of course necessarily so, because it is a massive issue, and we all know the playing field is far from even, especially in the board rooms and top half of Corporate UK. But to attribute this inequality of success to the 'fairer' sex not being male or manly enough (something none of us should want to change) is reinforced sexism and innately wrong.
We as women, can embrace our femininity and individualism be extremely successful in business without acting like men. I will not reel off real life examples, you mention some in your article and I am sure many names come to mind.
Sweeping generalisations are also made (some are from quotes and are not your own words) without reference to statistics or ratios – 'Women tend to lack social capital' and "Women do their jobs in a quiet professional manner and don't tell everybody what a good job they are doing". This is far from true in my workplace!
The article discusses networking and its value in the climb to the top. However a clear definition of networking is not provided. Networking is loosely defined as an altruistic activity- 'it's about forming relationships that can be used to help others, and get help in return'. Why?! Do we need to do this to 'sell' networking to women? Are we that selfless a gender?!
Networking is about forming mutually beneficial professional relationships and finding the people you need to get the resources you require. It is not always about a giving transaction. That is ok. Women can cope with that! Networking is also not isolated to formalised events, it can take place in an elevator as often, if not more, as over supplied champagne and vol-au-vents.
"You insert yourself at a given point, spray your card around and meet people. Then you invite them on to something else. You have to be so disciplined with yourself. I carry a notebook around with me, always"
The importance of networking and building and banking social capital (especially via social media) are also highlighted. Great. The problem is that suggestions made for women to address their inability and also get noticed at work include "volunteering within your organisation, setting up some charitable initiative that gets you noticed". Volunteering or setting up a charitable initiative– why? Again an altruistic focus. This is business not the DoE. Perhaps because we wouldn't possibly want to hold a conversation about football? Chats about footy / darts take an awful lot less effort and organising! I personally would rather read the back pages of the Metro to be honest.
Reinforcing gender stereotypes? Yes. Maybe some suggestions about cross-gender networking above 'sharing war stories' would have been less patronising and more helpful?
In the same space, the referral to charity work and volunteering baffles me no end. This is an article about businesswomen, social capital, networking; its importance and benefits, gender comparisons in techniques and what women can do to enhance their networking skills isn't it?! No wait, then I remember the title! Why are we mentioning doing things for others, and for free so much?
I know there is research behind the generalisations and statements made and that isn't what worries me. What worries me is the overriding notion that we as women are at a genetic disadvantage when it comes to building networks, climbing ladders and selling ourselves, and that in order to overcome our gender disability we need to further emphasis it through the traditional altruistic behaviours associated to womanhood OR deny it by adopting 'unnatural' male behaviours.
I passionately believe that something needs to be done about the fact that women are being told time and time again that they are naturally too feminine to achieve success equal to men in business environments. The solution to this issue does not lie in women being willing to do as men do or play up to out-of-date female stereotypes.
The solution is more likely to lie in individual businesswomen learning about and harnessing their individual strengths, identifying and building on their individual weaknesses, learning, improving and exploiting every transferable business skill (including networking) that there is in the book, confidently presenting their abilities, seeing themselves as equals, working damn hard and being the best at what they do. (This is of course not an exhaustive solution, I know the situation is an awful lot more complex, as your article suggests).
You are in the position to do something about this! To promote the benefits of being a woman and perhaps more importantly, an individual in business and using what skills and traits we often have as women – intuition, compassion, understanding, balance etc as well as all of our individual differences (we are all women and of course all individuals) to succeed in the corporate world.
Also I would really like to know about your personal journey of success so far, have you written about this? Could you please send me a link if so?
In closing I would like to let you know that I had such a fantastic International Women's Day on Monday. I spent the day schmoozing and networking like the Networking Queen that I am at the Stepping Into Success Conference held by Women Unlimited at British Library with over 200 other female entrepreneurs / businesswomen who are doing pretty damn well in the enterprise / business sector despite their breasts and female mindsets!
I also live- tweeted from the event, letting my social network on Twitter know all about what I was doing for my business's benefit. You can check out the tweets from the day (and many of the attendees) using this hash tag #WUC . I couldn't find you on Twitter though Antonia. Are you tweeting? If not you really should! It's great for networking / business.
Thank you very much for writing the article and for getting this much-needed conversation started.
Thank you also for taking the time to read this e-mail, I am sure as the Deputy Business Editor of The Times you are ridiculously busy!
I look forward to receiving your response.
Warm regards
Naomi Jane
(Sent via e-mail to Antonia on Friday 11th March 2010)

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We have just heard that Germany, with its complicated form of proportional representation, has at last managed after four months to cobble together a ruling coalition that few of its politicians or electorate are happy with.
Frau Merkel's CDU has had to go cap in hand to Martin Schulz's SPD to give some semblence of a workable parliament.
Moreover, to obtain this settlement, Herr Schulz has demanded the job of foreign minister.
Schulz is an arch-federalist and has called for a fully functioning United States of Europe as early as 2025, with of course, Germany calling the shots.
So, with the SPD winning just 153 of the Reichstag's 709 seats, representing just over 20 per cent of German voters, the future course both of Germany and the EU is set to change irrecovably.
So much for an EU that was designed to lay to rest the bogeyman of German hegemony.
We in the UK can at least take comfort from the fact that we shall not be part of it.
But that is a different story.
The real point that those PR advocates such as Mr Tuffin seem unable to grasp is that after all the inevitable horse trading, there is nothing more representational , nor indeed proportional, about any system that might replace first past the post in UK elections.
Supporters of PR had their chance in 2011 when the alternative vote was put to a referendum.
AV might not have been their preferred option but it went some way towards thei ultimate goal.
Even this modest proposal was trounced by a sizeable majority content with the status quo.
It is cynical to suggest that in certain parts of the UK the electorate is disenfranchised by virtue of local conditions and the suggestion that voters in non-marginal constituencies need not turn out is to be deplored.
It is the performance of the parties in Parliament that creates marginals.
These were quite different in 1997 after the Major years from what they were in 2011 after rule by Blair and Brown, as they will be again in 2022 or earlier.
The first past the post system gives us locally accountable representatives who stand or fall according to their performance. There is no substitute for that.


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|After four long years, Mary Baldwin was able to celebrate a win on Saturday.
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The Mary Baldwin basketball team defeated Wesleyan (Ga.) 43-42 on Saturday afternoon in a USA South matchup.
The Fighting Squirrels jumped out to a 11-2 lead after the first quarter then battled in the second quarter to take a 30-21 lead into the half.
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Mary Baldwin's last win came on Feb. 11, 2012, when the Fighting Squirrels defeated Meredith 89-87. Mary Baldwin lost the next 106 games.
Anna Ramirez led all scorers with 15 points. Kaitlyn Crews followed closely with 12 and Khai Davidson added nine points and nine rebounds. Nicole Blackburn also grabbed nine boards for the Fighting Squirrels.
After the game, coach Andrew Stephens said, "Today is a great day for our basketball program. We showed some toughness at a challenging place to play. This is a sign of progress. We just have to keep working hard to get where we want to be."


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LINCOLN, Neb. – Augusta University 2016 baseball senior Nick Rau signed a professional contract with the Lincoln Saltdogs in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday August, 10. The Saltdogs are a member of the Central Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.
The Saltdogs compete at Haymarket Park since 2001 and have been members of the American Association since 2006.
Nick Rau (Thomson, Ga.) spent his second-consecutive summer in San Francisco, Calif., as a member of Top Speed Baseball in the Golden State Collegiate Baseball League. Rau helped Top Speed win another GSCBL Championship with a 47-4 overall record and earn a No. 5 national ranking by collegiatesummerbaseball.com.
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As the starting third baseman for the season, Rau hit .349 in 44 games played and 129 at bats. He blasted 11 homers and 45 hits total while scoring 47 runs with 31 RBI.
Rau was a junior-transfer to the Jaguars for the 2015 season. He was named the MVP for Augusta in 2015 and made every start at second base. In his senior campaign in 2016, Rau Compiled a .335 batting average while starting all 51 games in the infield.
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What an enjoyable read! Such a tightly plotted, expertly crafted book. It sounds so cliché and redundant to even say this at this point, but Murakami is truly a fiction master. From a writer's perspective, this is the kind of book that makes you shake your head and silently mouth the words Damn. He makes it look SO easy… but it is so not.
This book draws you in a with a simple mystery that in typical Murakami style gets more and more layered and complex as the book progresses. We meet our titular hero, Tsukuru Tazaki, during a time in his life when he is experiencing profound melancholy, almost to the point of suicidal depression (this was a part of the book I really enjoyed–it's strange that I can't think of more examples in fiction where authors try to depict melancholy… I guess because it's very difficult to capture… so static and numbing). We then jump into the future, when he's on a date with a woman, and via his conversations with her we learn that this intense period of melancholy was due to him being abruptly cut off by his four best friends from high school. These four friends each had different names that mean different colors in Japanese: red, blue, white, black (colors that are all opposite from each other–this theme of balance & contrast comes up repeatedly throughout the book). Tsukuru's name means "builder," or "he who makes things" (something like that; I'm too lazy to flip through the novel and check right now). This is where the "Colorless Tsukuru" of the title comes from–not only does his name lack color, but he is constantly questioning his lack of color as a person… seeing himself as uninteresting and empty, a vessel who is constantly abandoned.
Anyway, so that's one of the first things to respect about this novel: how the plot is kicked into high-gear in a classic, verging on detective fiction style. We have a mystery (why did Tsukuru's friends cut him off?) and a motivation (the woman Tsukuru is on a date with tells him he needs to find out what happened, or else she won't be able to date him since she senses there is a part of him that is closed-off and emotionless due to this incident). This is such a great way to make the reader want to keep reading–you want to find out the answer. I loved how I felt consistently surprised while reading this book, as though Murakami himself was discovering the story as he went along, as opposed to being heavy-handed about it.
The other thing I really respect about this book is the subplot that occurs early on, right before Tsukuru begins his quest to track down his four friends in their current day lives. I can see how some people might read this subplot and go WTF, but it reminded me of that part in Fargo when Frances McDormand goes out with that old friend of hers, who turns out to be a compulsive liar. It may initially seem to be a TOTALLY random divergence, like it has nothing to do with the main thread of the story, but then it actually provides essential knowledge and experience for the main character later on.
The seemingly random sub-plot I'm referring to deals with a friendship that Tsukuru forms with another guy, shortly after his friends abandon him. I can't speak highly enough about the way this friendship is handled, and the way it foreshadows and hints at what becomes the biggest, most important question in the book (I won't give away any spoilers, but the question has to do with one of the four friends in the group, in terms of her motivation and her ultimate fate). We aren't given many definitive answers in this novel, but I definitely feel like Murakami gave me enough information to be able to draw my own (supernaturally-influenced) conclusions. It also helped that I was reminded of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and its theme of people's subconscious emotional selves being projected as actual physical beings, running around and doing crazy-ass things (and now I really will say no more!).
The final chapter of this book dragged a little for me, as if Murakami couldn't figure out how to end it. There are only so many pages of Tsukuru reflecting about his father in the train station that I was willing to read at that point. But on the whole I felt extremely satisfied but this novel, and really enjoyed reading it. I haven't even gotten into the theme of balance that keeps popping up (the five friends are frequently compared to the five fingers on a hand, which is interesting since a lot of them end up in jobs that involve working with their hands–as a potter and pianist respectively). The theme of creation, or making things, was one I found really interesting. In a way this book reminded me most of Murakami's running memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. I also love how mysteries are left unanswered (what's with the theme polydactylism, or people with six fingers?! What was in the jar on top of the piano?!).
I highly recommend this book. A lot more enjoyable for me than 1Q84, which was respectably ambitious but if I'm honest I can barely remember anything about it now.


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Well, I need to be up front about this. Chris and I sat down to watch Stolen after a huge, fancy dinner, and strong, fancy drinks. And Stolen is not exactly the edge-of-your-seat thriller it thinks it is and . . . well I fell asleep about halfway through and didn't wake up until the movie and a couple of King of the Hill episodes that Chris watched were over. I thought about rewatching it, but . . . no thanks.
Stolen is trying so hard to be Taken, but it never will be, and it never could be because Taken is amazing and Liam Neeson is amazing and Nicolas Cage seemingly is incapable of being in anything amazing in the past few years. Nicolas Cage's weird-looking daughter gets kidnapped by an even weirder, laughably fucked up Josh Lucas. I kind of don't know much past that. Obviously, my consciousness couldn't take it. But I'm okay with that.
THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT!! The whole time I suppose there is a conflict but it also kind of feels like an SNL skit that just lasts too long to get to the joke. Nic Cage, as everyone knows, is currently at a place in his career where it's impossible to take him seriously. And Stolen confirms this!


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Wes Borland, legendary guitarist of LIMP BIZKIT, is currently touring Europe with his band "Black Light Burns" promoting their two new LPs "The Moment You're Going to Fall" (released in 2012) and the just shortly released "thing" called "Lotus Island" and found the time to stop by at the Music Store Professional before performing in Cologne on the next day. So we took the chance to talk with him and his band about… well, just read for yourself.
Interview: Pete Casper / photos: Antonia Nahas
entertaim.net: Wes, you are mostly known for playing guitar – most of the time – in Limp Bizkit. Is "Black Light Burns" a solo project of yours?
Wes: This is another band. If I would do a solo project I would put my name on the record. But that will never happen.
entertaim.net: What do you like to do in a different in Black Light Burns compared to Limp Bizkit?
Wes: Well, I'm not quite sure what I would like to do that's different. I've just done something different. It's a different Idea, it's a different group of people. There are pretty much no trace elements of Hip Hop involved in the sound of the group. Besides "Coward" which is a 50 Cent beat rip off. But that's Danny Lohners fault, not mine. It's just a different thing and I think that people who listen to Limp Bizkit may or may not be into Black Light Burns. And I think there is a some sort of narrow strip of people that actually ran into our trap, I guess, as fans, because a lot of Limp Bizkit fans don't like what they hear. And a lot of people who aren't Limp Bizkit fans won't give it a chance
entertaim.net: First thing I thought when hearing you are working on other projects I expected you to work in a heavier direction.
Wes: Yeah, Limp Bizkit is five different people coming together and bringing what they bring to one project and I have no interest in the things that the other members of Limp Bizkit are interested in. I think Limp Bizkit is a melting pot and that's where we get our sound from. But for my personal listening I have no interest in Hip Hop.
entertaim.net: Last week your new LP "Lotus Island" was released …
Wes (interrups): It's a "thing". It's not really an album or an EP, I would like to call it… uhm… an interim piece… of… something. It's made specifically to be an alternate soundtrack to a movie called the Holy Mountain (1973) by Alejandro Jodorowsky and it influenced me as an artist, especially as a visual artist. And that film … because it has been such a big influence on me and has given me so much in some ways it's like giving back to the film… something.
entertaim.net: I would like to know something about the bandmembers. What other projects you are on to, how you got in the band – for example. Talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Nick Annis: I got into the band after the first record "Cruel Melody" (2007) already was done. He'd see me play a couple of shows in L.A. and called me up one day and explained the project and asked me if I want to be a part of it. I checked it out and loved it. Myself personally I do similar stuff you know, trying to keep playing and touring. I do production and engineering on the side, all stuffed in L.A. I recently finished an EP with the original live bass player of Black Light, Shawn Fetterman, called "Darkly Noon". We released that uhm, like on everything, on Halloween last year.
Dylan Taylor: I'm the newest auditioned to the band. I've been playing in "Black Light" since August 2012. It all came about me playing drum covers on Youtube. I guess Wes' wife Anna found me on Youtube out of the"Skrillex – Cinema" drum cover. And Wes, I guess, was impressed enough to contact me via Twitter and I flew out to L.A., tried out, been happy ever since!
Wes: You didn't even try out. You were in! (laughing)
Dylan: For me it was a tryout! I mean, it's a big difference. My mentality is different now than when it was happening. When it was happening it was nerve-wrenching as hell! Obviously Wes being the guitarist he is, there is a level of a standard musicianship there is expected for the bands. So I had to make sure that me being the youngest an newest, to kinda step up. And it has! It definitely pushed my ability as a musician.
Dennis Sanders: I play music and started working for Wes as a tech… for Nick as well. Their bass player took a vacation and there was a big festival show coming up and I just hopped in. And it was really fun. And I also love to smoke (…) and I love dogs, I also got a band called "Spirit in the Room", which is pretty bad ass! And that's all about it!
(everybody laughing)
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I made $50 yesterday selling some books to Booklore. Spent some of it on snacks for the cupboard to stave off morning tea and afternoon tea munchies for the next week or so and left the rest burning a hole in my wallet.
This morning as I was lazing in bed waiting for 6am to arrive I idly though "gosh, wouldn't it be nice to go spend some of that money today?!"
I rather meant finding time to pop into an op shop or two (it's been far too long). Maybe dropping into the mall. Or driving out to Spotlight which is open late tonight.
What I didn't mean was having to spend $30 on a cat carrier (since mine is locked in J&M's garage and they're off cruising the Pacific.) And driving a 68 km round trip. With Nibbs in said cat carrier looking most perplexed and disgruntled. To give the vet $68.(Odd how the cat carrier suddenly looks like a fine place to be once you arrive at the vet's, isn't it?)
Finally there was the $2.90 I spent on steak to mollify him (the cat, not the Vet) once we arrived home.
As the Vet said "There are two sorts of fighters. Good fighter and bad fighters. Bad fighters get bitten on the bum as they run away. Nibbs got bitten on the face. This proves he's a good fighter." Errr... cheers. I think?
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Be careful what you wish for...
3 comments :
- Taphophile said...
Oh poor Nibbs - he not only fought the other cat but your bank balance as well.
- 7:57 pm, October 18, 2007
Rats,... did I tell you my story of going to listen to a buddhist monk talk of non attachment to material things, and then I took some lentil stew home from the shared lunch only to find it had leaked all over my bag and ruined my ipod.... Oh the irony !!!
Goes to show "always expect the unexpected" -ho ho ho -sob! :-/
- 5:25 am, October 19, 2007
- Mondo Viagiatore said...
Next time you need a cat cage, call - I also have one
- 6:33 am, October 22, 2007
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Everybody knows that Zakk Wylde is one of the greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time. What a lot of people don't know is that he is a virtuoso on the piano and even less people probably know that he is one funny mother fucker. "Bringing Metal to the Children" is not just for Zakk Wylde fans, it's for fans of comedy. I'm not sure how this is going to translate, but I spent probably the entire interview laughing my ass off. Check out the interview below, you can also listen along right here.
Zakk Wylde: Bob, how are you doing brother?
Zoiks!: Pretty good how about you?
ZW: Good Bro
Z!: I'm a big fan, thanks so much for taking the time to do this with me.
ZW: No problem buddy.
Z!: I read your new book "Bringing Metal to the Children." How did the idea for this book come about?
ZW: I just figured the world needed another masterpiece, another "Gone With the Wind" (laughs). I can't even say it out loud with out laughing man. This parchment of stupidity, I just figured it needed to be written. It's just like me and you sitting around, especially back when I was drinking, we'd be laughing and telling these ridiculous stories, just about music business stuff. It'd be like 'Bob, get out of here that never happened…did it?' It's like, 'dude, I wish I was making it up Zakk. I can't even make this up.' I always laugh. We always talk about "Seinfeld" or whatever with Larry David. You know those episodes, that one episode with Bob is hysterical where he picks up that hooker so he can drive in the car pool lane. It's like we didn't make that up, Bob actually did that bro. The guys would be like, 'are you kidding' and I'm like, 'no, we elaborated on the story, but that actually happened.' Pretty much with the book, that's how it came about.
When we started writing the book it almost could have been a guitar instructional thing and then it was like me adding bits of humor in there. Then it was us laughing at some stupid stories. It was like two books. Let's just make it so it's ridiculously stupid through out the whole book. You take this stuff so serious, but it just gets crammed out of your ass at the end of the day. Like we were talking at the beginning of the book, yeah you practice 24 hours a day, you got your pictures of Jimmy Page up on the wall, Zeppelin and Sabbath and all these bands that you love. Once you get out there in the real world its not even close dude. The running joke is you can go to high school, but do they really prepare you for what's going to happen once you get out of there? They don't, I know how to read, write, add, subtract you know, but nobody told me it was going to be like this when we got out of there.
Z!: Will there be any more books in your future?
ZW: Yeah, why not man. All I've got to do is keep touring, I'll get more stories (laughs).
Z!: Most coauthors aren't featured as prominently as Eric Hendrix was featured in "Bringing Metal to the Children." What did Eric bring to the book?
ZW: Me and Eric were bouncing ideas off of each other and just like refining the stories and this and that. We'd just throw ideas off of each other…no he's a good guy man.
Z!: I may be mistaken, but I could have swore I read that you were working on a movie script, is that accurate and how is that coming along?
ZW: Well I've been talking about doing that for years. For me it's just a matter of time where I have a break in what I'm doing. After we just got back from Australia I had to get everything ready for the tour over in Europe then in a couple days we have the Ozzy rehearsals, then Black Label rehearsals, then book signings and the Golden Gods, so you know it's just a matter of having…for me I've never had six months where there's nothing going on.
Z!: One of my favorite albums of last year was Leslie West's "Unusual Suspects" which you appeared on, what was it like working with Leslie?
ZW: Oh it was Awesome. I've been blessed with the fortune that he was in my life. I know him dearly, which is awesome. Leslie is unbelievable. Aside from him being a legendary guitar player, the voice of doom, having the pipes, forget about it. You talk about comedy; all you have to do is be around Leslie, he'll tell you some stories. Whenever you get him and Ozzy in a room talking, you talk about comedy; it's beyond ridiculous bro.
Z!: Last year you played with James Durbin on "American Idol." Is it possible for somebody coming off a reality show to survive in the very judgemental world of hard rock and heavy metal, even with the support of you, Steven Tyler and Judas Priest?
ZW: My whole thing is just like when Eddie (Van Halen) played on Michael Jackson's "Beat It," at first I was like dude? But then I heard some ripping guitar on the thing. My whole take on it is, "American Idol" is not our party anyways. It's like any of my friends get bummed out because the Grammy's doesn't even acknowledge hard rock. It's like when Jethro Tull beat Metallica for best metal band. It just goes to show you. I have friends that get so bent out of shape, but I'm like, 'dude, it's not our party.' Would you get pissed off because I'm getting ready to do the Golden Gods out here? If Celine Dion isn't up for best vocalist, do you think she's gonna get pissed? I couldn't care less. It's not my party, who cares? It's not for hard rock or heavy metal, it just isn't.
I remember somebody was telling me, 'yo Zakk, Justin Bieber…fuck him or Lady Gaga.' 'Yeah I know, I can't stand them either, you know why because they're doing six nights at Madison Square Garden, that's why I can't stand them, because I can't do Madison Square Garden.' Yeah I hate them too because of their merch sales, albums sales. If somebody goes, 'I hate Justin Bieber,' I say, 'you know who you must really hate too? Joe Pass. You must really hate that mother fucker.' Then they go, 'who's Joe Pass?' and I go, 'he's a legendary jazz guitar player,' and then he goes, 'well I don't listen to jazz,' and I say, 'exactly and I don't listen to Justin Bieber either so I don't know anything about him dude.' I don't get bent out of shape over something I don't know anything about or let alone care about.
Z!: A couple of years ago I was hanging out at the Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival when I met this big guy named Monster. He told me that if I ever get the chance to talk with you to tell you that Monster says, 'LOC.'
ZW: Oh (laughs) Legion of Cock, you're talking about my buddy Monster. Yeah we were talking about being these fucking wrestlers and it's called Legion of Cock. The finishing move is, you know you hold the guy down on the mat, and because we're sponsored by Viagra, we have a raging hard on. The finishing move is that you hold the guy down and you just fucking come off the top rope. They're like, 'oh no good God they've got the cock, turn away from the tv if you don't want to see this.' And you just do a massive splash into the guy's ass. The whole thing is no one wants to wrestle us and mind you, we've held onto the title for 25 or 28 years, but we've only wrestled one time and that was when we gained the title. Everyone is like I don't want to have no part in that shit, I'm not wrestling these assholes…no pun intended (we're both laughing pretty heavily at this point). So that's where the Legion of Cock came from, LOC. It's like, are you afraid of these guys? Yeah I don't want any part of that. You can keep the title, I don't want! (still laughing heavily).
Z!: What do you have in store for the remainder of 2012, I know the "Unblackened" DVD is later this year?
ZW: Yeah that's going to be in August. No we have the Ozzy rehearsals coming up then we're going to knock this stuff out, what we have coming out right now.
Z!: When will we be getting new Black Label music?
ZW: Well obviously we're doing the "Unblackened" thing; we'll record some acoustic tracks to coincide with that thing. I'd imagine sometime after that, but if we go back out on the road after that, who knows.
Z!: Do you have any free time coming up in the next couple of years?
ZW: No, I gotta be honest with you, I love working. My kids, the two oldest are in college, the little guy is nine and Barbaranne is 6 ½ months pregnant right now. My friends are like, 'you must be excited you're having another baby?' 'Yeah we just extended the tour another twenty years.'
Z! I really appreciate you taking the time that's all I had.
ZW: No problem man, I'm glad you dug the book, the parchment of stupidity.
Z!: I've been a big fan for a long time, so thanks again.
ZW: That's very cool Bob, we'll talk to you in a bit.
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Zakk Wylde Talks About "Bringing Metal to the Children" and the Parchment of Stupidity – Interview
Everybody knows that Zakk Wylde is one of the greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time. What a lot of people don't know is that he is a virtuoso on the piano and even less people probably know that he is one funny mother fucker. "Bringing Metal to the Children" is not just for Zakk Wylde fans, it's for fans of comedy. I'm not sure how this is going to translate, but I spent probably the entire interview laughing my ass off. Check out the interview below, you can also listen along right here.


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Saturn Prepares for Life Beyond General Motors
Peter Valdes-Dapena from CNNMoney.com: Abandoned and facing death as General Motors cuts brands in its own fight for survival, Saturn, the "different kind of car company," could soon become a very, very different kind of car company just to survive. GM has said it will stop producing Saturn vehicles in about two years. Rather than accept that it's over, Saturn executives and the brand's leading dealers are looking at new ways - some that have never been tried before - to keep Saturn alive. "When times are tough, that's when the biggest breakthrough's come," said Jill Lajdziak, Saturn's General Manager. Lajdziak is among a group of about 10 people, including a few GM executives, a few Saturn retailers and prominent industry consultant Stephen Girsky, who are considering some daring approaches. Among the options being seriously considered: selling electric cars, turning Saturn into a chain of boutique stores offering vehicles by various manufacturers or simply finding one company - perhaps one based in China or India - to make a new lineup of cars. All are variations on the same thing. The new Saturn will be a retail channel only. It will not be a car company. "We're not going to be in the manufacturing business," said Girsky, "We're going to leave that to the experts."


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Fort William is the largest highland town with a population of 10,000 (second in size only to the city of Inverness). The West Highland Museum is based here. The original settlement was built by Cromwell in 1654, a wooden structure to shelter English troops. The Fort was named after Prince William Duke of Cumberland (William of Orange) also known as the notorious Butcher of Cumberland.
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Sounds like the best way to self-indulge! Amazing movie! :D
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I LOVE that movie. LOVE it. :)
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I push through the sticky slow doors of Baker Sports Complex and swipe my ID card that never works, harshly reminding me of that with a grating beep. I walk past the stairs that lead to the Wildcat Den (best soups, sandwiches, and cookies in Western North Carolina, best people in the world), and stare through the glass walls in front of me into the sparkling slick vacant basketball arena. I know if I walked inside it would be hushed with the eerie, stagnant tranquility of the off season.
But I still hear it ringing in my ears.
Silent echoes of cheers, chants, music blaring over the speakers, announcers and fans wildly putting sound and meaning into the otherwise quiet swish of a ball through a net.
It shivers in my bones and lands in a quiet smile on my face. This place is filled with memories of energy that has been, and thankfully, with frenzy and jubilation and possibility that will be. The silence makes sacred what will happen again...


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Some Find Hope For Shift In US Drug Policy
SEATTLE — Washington State law prohibits the possession of marijuana except for certain medical purposes. Hempfest is not one of them. Yet each summer when the event draws thousands to the Seattle waterfront to call for decriminalizing marijuana, participants light up in clear view of police officers. And they rarely get arrested.
"Police officers patrolling are courteous and respectful," said Alison Holcomb, drug policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.
One reason for the officers' approach, said Ms. Holcomb and others who follow law enforcement in Seattle, is the leadership of R. Gil Kerlikowske, the chief of the Seattle Police Department and, officials in the Obama administration say, the president's choice to become the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, known as the drug czar.
The anticipated selection of Chief Kerlikowske has given hope to those who want national drug policy to shift from an emphasis on arrest and prosecution to methods more like those employed in Seattle: intervention, treatment and a reduction of problems drug use can cause, a tactic known as harm reduction. Chief Kerlikowske is not necessarily regarded as having forcefully led those efforts, but he has not gotten in the way of them.
"What gives me optimism," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, "is not so much him per se as the fact that he's been the police chief of Seattle. And Seattle, King County and Washington State have really been at the forefront of harm reduction and other drug policy reform."
The White House has yet to announce the nomination of Chief Kerlikowske, and a spokesman for the Seattle police said the chief would not discuss the matter. His appointment would require Senate confirmation.
Chief Kerlikowske, 59, became police chief in Seattle in 2000, after serving as a deputy director for community policing at the Justice Department in the Clinton administration. While there he worked with Eric H. Holder Jr., then a deputy attorney general and now the head of the department.
Before going to the Justice Department, Chief Kerlikowske was the police chief in Buffalo and in Fort Myers and Port St. Lucie in Florida. Under John P. Walters, the drug czar during most of the administration of President George W. Bush, the drug office focused on tough enforcement of drug laws, including emphases on marijuana and drug use among youths. The agency pointed to reductions in the use of certain kinds of drugs, but it was criticized by some local law enforcement officials who said its priorities did not reflect local concerns, from the rise of methamphetamine to the fight against drug smuggling at the Mexican border.
"The difference is I'll be able to call Washington and get ahold of Gil and he'll answer the phone," said William Lansdowne, the police chief in San Diego and a member of the board of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Chief Kerlikowske is the president of the association. "He listens. He's very open to new ideas. He'll build cooperation."
Chief Lansdowne added, "He'll take a look at prevention as much as enforcement."


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Soviet disinformation and active measures continued during what was called the era of glasnost in the 1980s. Soviet communist party officials described "the main enemy" (United States) as:
a country where freedom is suppressed, where violence flourishes, where trade unions are persecuted…and where the basic rights of the individual are hampered;…
The author of these words in the propaganda pamphlet, On the Edge of the Abyss (1985), was Aleksandr Yakovlev, head of the Central Committee Propaganda Department of the CPSU. Yakovlev further wrote that:
there was no alternative to détente…the Soviet Union stands for equal relations and mutually profitable cooperation, for a peaceful solution of all problems and disputes, for the free choice of all peoples on earth of a way of life to their liking…
It sounded very reasonable but was of course a big lie. In Russian there are two contrasting words for "lie":" lozh", which is a deliberate attempt to mislead, and "vranyo", which is a falsehood both to speaker and listener. The listener, however, is expected to be too polite to denounce the falsehood openly.
The Helsinki Final Act on August 1, 1975, was not worth much more than the paper it was written on because the Soviets had no intention to observe human rights.
In the present New Cold War the Russian government is very much using the active measure methods from the 1980s. Agents of influence on behalf of Kremlin are at work especially in Europe. They are highly sought after by Russian media: TV, radio and on the internet. In this series of contributions a few Swedish cases have been presented but similar individuals can be found all over mostly Western Europe. In Eastern Europe the situation is different.
Both authorities and common people remember the "bad old times" during the Soviet occupation. In those countries primarily threatened by Russian aggression as for instance Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland measures are already taken to counter propaganda by Russian media.
One can only hope that the United States and the European Union will increase countermeasures against Russia's war of disinformation, which has steadily increased since the illegal occupation of Crimea in 2014.


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