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at his Feet. By these Marks I knew him to be OLD-AGE. You were seized with the utmost Horror and Amazement at his Approach. You endeavoured to have fled, but the Phantome caught you in his Arms. You may easily guess at the Change you suffered in this Embrace. For my own Part, though I am still too full of the [frightful [2]] Idea, I will not shock you with a Description of it. I was so startled at the Sight that my Sleep immediately left me, and I found my self awake, at leisure to consider of a Dream which seems too extraordinary to be without a Meaning. I am, Madam, with the greatest Passion, Your most Obedient, most Humble Servant, &c.
Lachrymaeque decorae,
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[Footnote 2: [dreadful]]
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No. 302. Friday, February 15, 1712. Steele.
Lachrymaeque decorae,
Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore Virtus.
Vir. AEn. 5.
I read what I give for the Entertainment of this Day with a great deal of Pleasure, and publish it just as it came to my Hands. I shall be very glad to find there are many guessed at for Emilia.
Mr. SPECTATOR, [1]
If this Paper has the good Fortune to be honoured with a Place in your Writings, I shall be the more pleased, because the Character of Emilia is not an imaginary but a real one. I have industriously obscured the whole by the Addition of one or two Circumstances of no Consequence, that the Person it is drawn from might still be concealed; and that the Writer of it might not be in the least suspected, and for [other [2]] Reasons, I chuse not to give it the Form of a Letter: But if, besides the Faults of the Composition, there be any thing in it more proper for a Correspondent than the SPECTATOR himself to write, I submit it to your better Judgment, to receive any other Model you think fit. I am, SIR, Your very humble Servant.
There is nothing which gives one so pleasing a Prospect of human Nature, as the Contemplation of Wisdom and Beauty: The latter is the peculiar Portion of that Sex which is therefore called Fair; but the happy Concurrence of both these Excellencies in the same Person, is a Character too celestial to be frequently met with. Beauty is an over-weaning self-sufficient thing, careless of providing it self any more substantial Ornaments; nay so little does it consult its own Interests, that it too often defeats it self by betraying that Innocence which renders it lovely and desirable. As therefore Virtue makes a beautiful Woman appear more beautiful, so Beauty makes a virtuous Woman really more virtuous. Whilst I am considering these two Perfections gloriously united in one Person, I cannot help representing to my Mind the Image of Emilia.
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Big Sister through Foster Care & Adoption
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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!
It's Foster Parent Friday once again, so today I'm featuring an anonymous interview with a foster parent from Queensland, Australia. For all of the interviews I've featured so far, just click on the Foster Parent Friday category by following this link or looking at the Categories on the right side of any blog page.
How long have you been a foster parent?
"10 years."
Do you do respite, short-term, or long-term care?
How many children have you taken in over that period of time?
"Over 50."
Do you limit your care to a certain age group? If so, what ages do you take in?
Have you ever adopted any children? If so, how many?
Did you have any biological children when you started foster care? If so, how many? How old were they at the time?
"Yes, 4, aged 25, 21, 17, & 16."
What were your biggest concerns as you started your foster care journey?
"We would be considered too old, and that we would struggle to hand children back to their bio parents."
What is the biggest lesson you have learned from being a foster parent?
"That even though we don't always agree with department decisions, we can accept them. Oh, and that even though a child may no longer be with you physically, they are always in your heart."
Is there anything you would change about your experience as a foster parent?
Do you have any words of wisdom for future or new foster parents?
"Always stay true to yourself and don't be afraid to put your own needs above the needs of the children in your care."
It's great to hear from so many different perspectives! Keep an eye out for the next Foster Parent Friday post to hear from another foster parent. I'm so glad that there were some foster parents who were willing to answer my questions!
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There are less obvious cheats.
It is a simple matter to rig up a script that uses distance measuring to automate the swapping of weapons and stance toggling to enable a combatant to always have the best possible DPS for his current range. Making a macro that automatically attacks and block as soon as your enemy is within range is simple as well. To the casual observer it might look like the guy simply has amazing reflexes, but truthfully he is using an enhancement that is nearly undetectable. You can practice for days and become that talented naturally, but the scripts can put you into the top tier of melee duelers quicker.
As far as I know there aren't any client side aiming tools available in SL but it is an open source viewer and such a tool is feasible to make. There are open source aimbots out there that wouldn't take a rocket scientist to adapt to arrows in SL, again with little chance of detection.
While the cheat huds are pretty obvious to detect (especially when people use those copybot viewers to detect the hud objects people wear), I wouldnt go so far as to assume it is very hard to cheat with the client side options out there. Scripting a tracker arrow or fucking with GM's comm channels are obvious easily detectable things but automatically pointing your mouse in the right spot is a different animal. I could probably out-sword most raiders with autohotkey one handed and looking at my scripts wouldn't reveal what I'm doing. With a little more work a hitscanner could be rigged that would give one a massively unfair advantage in aiming projectiles as well.
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The agreement seemed to supersede a similar but failed deal that
Where BP had planned to swap stock, Exxon, which is based in
In announcing the arrangement at a surprise signing in the Russian resort town of Sochi, Prime Minister
"The scale of the investment is very large," Mr. Putin said. "It's scary to utter such huge figures."Continue reading the main story
But while Russian news agencies said Mr. Putin had stated the potential investments by both companies to be as high as $500 billion, Exxon officials said the figures, at least initially, would more likely be in the tens of billions of dollars.
For Exxon, which is America's largest company and is a spinoff of the original Standard Oil, the deal means wading deeper into Russia's risky business environment. As a result of the agreement, which is almost certain to require a review in Washington, more of the company's investments and future earnings will partly hinge on policies set in the Kremlin.
Russia has reneged on deals with Western oil companies before. In 2006, for example, it compelled
Until now, Exxon's principal investment in Russia has been a production sharing agreement on Sakhalin Island, on Russia's eastern coast. That arrangement, which waives local
Under the new agreement, the state-owned Rosneft could become a part-owner of drilling operations in the
The Rosneft deal would also be among the most significant attempts by a company from a country that is not an American ally to acquire United States oil fields since Cnooc, the large Chinese oil company, tried to buy the
Having an American company win the Rosneft deal could also suggest that the Obama administration's policy of détente toward Russia, known as the reset, can benefit United States businesses, said Cliff Kupchan, a senior analyst at the Eurasia Group, a consultancy.
The Exxon-Rosneft deal, if completed, would further a long-held goal of the Russian petroleum industry to diversify internationally. It would allow Russia to do that by using access to reserves at home to gain the necessary capital and technological expertise.
Russia's economy is dependent on petroleum for about 60 percent of its export revenue. Policies here are also important for world oil supplies, as Russia now pumps more oil than
Despite the varying accounts of the overall potential value of the agreement, a fact sheet released by the companies indicated an initial commitment to invest $3.2 billion in exploration in the Kara Sea, the body of water between the northern coast of European Russia and the Novaya Zemlya island chain.
Once seen as a useless, ice-clogged backwater, the Kara Sea now has the attention of oil companies. That is partly because the sea ice is apparently receding — possibly a result of
This summer, Gazprom, the Russian
In the waters off
Rosneft's attempt to strike a similar pact with BP this year fell apart because the British company had a joint venture with a separate group of private Russian investors, who blocked the Rosneft deal in an international court. The collapse was an embarrassment for Mr. Putin, who had endorsed the BP-Rosneft deal.
After the failure of that deal, the onus fell on Russia to demonstrate it could uphold an agreement, Mr. Kupchan, the analyst, said. "They got away with BP, because the deal was seen as BP having two Russian wives," he said.
Exxon, in contrast, has no exclusivity clause with a competitor in Russia that could come up in court.
Still, if Rosneft's participation in American projects leads to objections in the United States, Exxon's investment in Russia could also be vulnerable. Russian officials say reciprocity, or mutual dependence, is a condition for foreign investment in their petroleum fields.
Igor Sechin, a deputy prime minister in Russia and one of the country's top energy officials, said Rosneft would obtain shares in at least six of Exxon's oil fields in the United States. He said that the value of these assets would be "in proportion" to the ones Exxon would own in Russia.
Alan T. Jeffers, a spokesman for Exxon, said Rosneft would be subjected to the same regulatory oversight in the United States as any other oil company.
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Chess Grandmasters are the successors of a long tradition throughout the world. Anyone who could play this game well has won admiration from the general public and high society alike. This is true no matter how far back you go or what country you think of.
Great chess players have played in front of Sultans, Kings and Presidents the world over for many centuries. People would gather in chess cafes and clubs to watch them weave magic over the board.
People will never agree on who is the greatest player of all. It's very subjective and we all tend to have our favorites. For some reason or other some player or another will capture your imagination and that's that. Who do you think is the greatest?
Throughout history so many players have wowed the world of chess. Great games have been played, enriched with incredible combinations. Remarkable genius has also on occasion been witnessed through the prism of flawless positional strategy.
Some games are also remembered for brilliant individual moves. Others for sustained and incredible, violent attacks. Still more for unbelievable defense from a player in the face of all out assault before taking victory themselves. These masters become immortal through their brilliancies.
Many players have variations or entire opening systems named after them in recognition of their contribution to chess. There are so many criteria on which you can judge a player's greatness. The greats leave their mark in so many different ways. We all probably have a player whose style we admire the most. Who is your favorite chess player?
There have been many great players down through the years, decades and centuries. There does not seem to be an undisputed greatest. Different people have different opinions. Who do you consider the greatest? Why not write a piece on the top chess player of all time. Tell us what sets him apart from the rest. Or even do an article on one of the greatest who you think deserves a mention for his services to chess. Your player doesn't necessarily have to be the greatest all rounder. He can be the greatest tactician or greatest endgame specialist or have some unique and interesting style. Can you think of a player who should be talked about? Put forward the case for Your Greatest Chess Player Ever.
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With the Olympics looming, China goes green
In Beijing, 1,600 students attend the Number Two Middle School, an institution widely regarded as one of the best secondary schools in China.
The school is revered for producing some of the country's best and brightest, yielding students who receive top scores on China's annual college entrance exams.
The students at Number Two stand out, however, not only because of their academic achievement, but because of their enlightened attitude toward the environment.
Over the last few years, especially since Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympic Games, environmental awareness has gotten a new emphasis among those who will be the next generation of China's educated leaders.
At the school, there is an environmental curriculum and an active environmental club. All of the attention paid to the environment poses a fundamental question: Can China sustain a booming economy and also protect its environment?
China's Schools Going Green
Many at this specific school would say yes, a better environment makes for a better economy. But the balance is not easy to accomplish. In fact, Beijing is struggling to improve its air quality in time for the looming Olympic Games yet the city itself is under construction 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
There is no question China wants to put its best foot forward for the Olympics, but there is a lot of work to be done. For example, because the air in China is still many times dirtier than the air in Los Angles, America's smoggiest city, the government is determined to increase China's air quality and reduce the amount of air pollution.
"We are faced with challenges in our environmental protection work," said Du Shaozhong, Beijing's deputy director of the municipality's Environmental Protection Bureau.
He showed ABC News how the city measured air quality around the clock. It turns out the most polluted time of the day is 10 p.m., when the exhaust-belching commercial trucks make their deliveries to the city.
Olympics and the Environment
In fact, officials like Du believe the constant clash between economic development and the environment must be dealt with independent of the Olympics.
"If we fail to balance the relationship between development and the environment, we would not be in a position to sustain development," he said.
In economic terms alone, pollution has been expensive for China. The World Bank estimates that 10 percent of China's gross domestic product is lost to pollution, from workers calling in sick to factory shutdowns.
"China itself, it's facing an environmental crisis across the board," said Elizabeth Economy, director of Asia studies at the Counsel on Foreign Relations in New York. She says a major problem is 30 percent of the water in China's rivers is too polluted, even for industrial use.
"Just this past year they're talking about $42 billion lost in industrial output because the factories don't have enough water to run," she said.
At the moment, however, the Olympics are at the top of the Chinese agenda, not just in Beijing but all across this country. Six years ago when it was awarded the Olympics, the city of Beijing pledged $13 billion to clean up the city.
China's Solar Cities
Before the games, coal-burning factories around the city will be shut down. Already Beijing's biggest industrial polluter, a steel plant, has been moved to a neighboring province. Traffic will be sharply curtailed during the Games as it was during the China-Africa summit in the fall.
Despite all of this action, some worry that fundamental changes have yet to come, and that the changes in Beijing are just cosmetic and temporary.
"I think that probably is the case at this point in time," Economy said. "What we're going to get with these Olympics really is just a shutdown of the city to make it work for those few weeks."
At the same time there are visible signs of change: Millions of electric bikes have been sold, alternate energy sources are gaining popularity and China has become a world leader in solar thermal production and use.
The city of Dezhou is the world's largest producer of solar water heaters and the city of Rizhou is increasingly becoming a solar city. One in 10 Chinese homes has solar hot water.
"Change in China has got to come from the bottom up," Economy said. "I think it's going to have to come from a new understanding by the Chinese people of how to treat the environment ¡ and why the environment matters so much to us."
And that understanding is beginning in places like the Number Two Middle School, as well as the 4,000 environmental groups that have sprung up in China since 1994.


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1: This book shares the adventure of 36 travelers who journeyed to Abadiania, Brazil from Nov. 21 - Dec. 5, 2011 to visit the Casa de Dom Inacio and meet Joao Teixeira de Faria known as John of God or Medium Joao. Photos and Text by Eileen Flanigan
2: Hotel Rei Davi is located aobut 10 minutes from the Casa and is a lovely home while in Abadiania. The small town is colorful and the people delightful. It is possible to see all transportation options from horse carts to high end cars while walking the length of the shops and cafés.
3: Roger & Erica Teel | Patty & Dr. Patty | Monica, Laura & Heather | Enjoying our group at dinner
4: Entry Gate to the Casa Dom Inacio established in 1979. The Casa operates as a non-denominational temple and Spritual holspital. Everyone receives God's love and healing and there is no charge for the services.
6: Main Hall - everyone gathers here at 8:00am and again at 2:00pm to join the current or get in line to see the entity. There may be 500-600 people on Casa days waiting to see JMedium Joao. | The day begins with prayer and the lines are called from the main hall stage. Most of the communication is in Portuguese with French, German, Spanish and a little English mixed in.
7: Heather Cumming is our guide and Medium Joao's primary support person. She owns the hotel where the group stays and takes each member of her group to see the entity. She provides the translation between English and Portuguese .
8: Medium Joao performs physical surgeries on the Main Stage when incorporated. The group is reminded repeatedly that God does the healing. | It is possible to recognize the different entities that incorporate as Medium Joao's physicality changes as the entities change.
9: Medium Joao occasionally took the microphone before conducting a surgery to explain what he was about to do and how all healing is done by God.
10: Crystal beds are apart of the healing protocol. One reclines on the bed and the crystals are aligned with the chakras. A colored light is pulsed through the crystal to help bring energetic balance to the body.
11: Blessed Soup is served to everyone attending a Casa day - free of charge. Hundreds of people receive the meal prepared in the on-site commercial kitchen.
12: The overlook provides a beautiful setting for mediation and appreciation of the spectacular setting of the Casa.
16: Shopping for magnificent crystals was a favorite activity in the gift shop!
21: Before returning home to the US, the group made a stop at the Temple of Good Will. One of the Seven Wonders of Brasilia...


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A Study of Recruitment & Selection Process in Bank
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Without a sound and effective banking system in India, it cannot have a healthy economy. The banking system of India should not only be hassle free but it should be able to meet new challenges posed by the technology and any other external and internal factors. For the past three decades India's banking system has several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its extensive reach. It is no longer confined to only metropolitans or cosmopolitans in India. In fact, Indian banking system has even reached to the remote corners of the country. This is one of the main reasons of India's progress. During the first phase of financial reforms, there was a nationalization of 14 major banks in 1969. This crucial step led to a shift from Class banking to Mass banking. Since then the growth of the banking industry in India has been a continuous process. The Government's regular policy for Indian bank since 1969 has paid rich dividends with the nationalization of many private banks of India. As far as the present scenario is concerned the banking industry is in a transition phase. The Public Sector Banks (PSBs), which are the foundation of the Indian Banking system account for more than 78 per cent of total banking industry assets. Unfortunately they are burdened with excessive Non Performing assets (NPAs), massive manpower and lack of modern technology. On the other hand the Private Sector Banks in India are witnessing immense progress. They are leaders in Internet banking, mobile banking,...
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General Information and Demographics
" Singa-Pura " which means The City of the Lion is from where Singapore derives its name. The official name is The Republic of Singapore. It is a diamond shaped island in South East Asia, holding an eternal coastline of 193 kilometers, surrounded by 60 smaller islets which are a portion of the state. This 'City-State ' is located in the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, serves as a meeting point between two huge H2O organic structures – the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Singapore is separated from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor. Due to this critical location of the state, it serves as one of the largest ports in Southeast Asia and is besides one of the busiest in the universe. Thus, Singapore is counted as the universes 4th taking fiscal centre, and plays a critical function in international finance every bit good as trade.
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Topographically, the state has hills of sedimentary stones in the northwest part and sandy level land in the E. Bukit Timah, which is built of pyrogenic stones and granite and is 206 m above sea degree, is considered as the highest extremum in the state. The island was ab initio covered with dense and tropical woods inland and Rhizophora mangles along the seashore. 40 % of the land is utilized for parklands, reservoirs and plantations and 50 % of it is urbanised.
Singapore is a city-state. A 'City-State ' may be defined as that independent state which consists of a metropolis which is non under the disposal of another local authorities. The authorities lays particular accent on necessities like H2O, and besides shops resources like oil and sand. This manner, they are non dependent economically or politically on any larger endeavor and run into the definition of a metropolis every bit good as a to the full autonomous province.
Taking into consideration all the islands, the entire country of this state is about 704 sq.km, and as of twelvemonth 2007 the approximative population is 4.8 million people. The Chinese constitute about 78 % and 14 % of the people are Malays. Indians besides make up about 7 % of the population of this multi-lingual province whose national linguistic communication is Malay. The other official linguistic communications are English, Mandarin and Tamil. It is one of the most densly populated states in the universe, and in 2008 the population growing rate was 3.1 % . The literacy rate in this state in 2009 was 96.3 % and its currency is the Singapore Dollar. 1 Singapore dollar is about 0.74 U.S. dollars.
The Political System
On the 9thA of August, 1965 Singapore became an independent democracy from the Federation on Malaysia.A A Since so, the political relations has been dominated by the People 's Action Party ( PAP ) even though in theory there exists a multi party system.A A In the election held in 2006, 82 of the 84 seats in the parliament were won by the PAP. The model is that of a Parliamentary Republic and the Head of State is the Prime Minister. There exists a dominant party system and there are 3 subdivisions present in the authorities – The Executive, The Legislature and The Judiciary.
The legislative power lies in the custodies of the Parliament every bit good as the Government and the Judiciary is free of the other two divisions of the government.A A The executive power is vested in the authorities. Elections in Singapore are held every 5 old ages and after the election, the President appoints, from one of the members of parliament, the Prime Minister. It is known that the President is a front man or more of a representative character and has no existent power to do determinations for the province.
The Executive – It consists of the cabinet of Singapore which is composed of the President and the Government. It is jointly responsible to the parliament and controls jurisprudence devising to some extent. The cabinet is appointed by the President, after confer withing the Prime Minister.
The Legislature – This organic structure along with the President comprises the Parliament. It is made up of the elective representatives of the people. The charge of disposal is in the custodies of the talker. The chief intent revolves around commanding fundss, doing Torahs and guaranting answerability.
The Judiciary – In Singapore, the Supreme Court has full Judicial control. It consists of two bomber tribunals, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. The assignment of Judgess is done by the President after they have been recommended by the Prime Minister. In 2008, it was reported that Singapore has the best Judicial system in Asia.
Singapore is considered as a 'hybrid ' state, as it has democratic every bit good as autocratic elements. The People 's Action Party has been re-elected every clip since 1959 and in many of the General Elections they have won all the seats in the Parliament. Some of the major resistance parties include the Workers ' Party and the SDA which is the Singapore Democratic Alliance.
Singapore 's political system may be mostly interpreted as a successful one, as the changeless re-election of the PAP has uplifted Singapore from a Third World state to a First. The party has proven itself by maintaining the state afloat through assorted crises since the 1970 's, including the oil daze of the 1970 's, the recession of the 80 's and the Asiatic fiscal crisis. The party can be regarded as one with great deepness of experience and is obviously making good for the state as there exists an unchallenged economical success. It is besides rated as one of the least corrupt states in the universe.
However, every system has its drawback. In Singapore 's political system, the major point of unfavorable judgment is that there is practically no balance of power between the resistance and the governing party. Another negative facet of the system is the there is no freedom of imperativeness and decease punishment is perceived as a downside by many. It should besides be noted, that the wage of the caput of authorities of Singapore is the highest in the universe at 3.1 Mio S $ and this is frowned upon by many.
The Economy and the Factors of Production
The resources employed to bring forth goods, like land, labor and services are known as factors of production. Each factor is alone in the function it plays in the state 's economic system. The economic system of Singapore is extremely developed, and may be called as a free-market economic system. It is extremely dependent on exports, and therefore due to the planetary recession in 2001-2003 it was hit hard.
However, since so, due to a great sum of internal flexibleness, and lowered involvement rates, between 2004 and 2007 the GDP growing was about 7 % per annum. The GDP portion of services of Singapore may be compared to that of states like Taiwan and Ireland, where as in footings of services it may be comparisons to Germany or Japan. ( fig 3 ) . However, after 2008, there has been a rapid and too bad lessening in the GDP of the state ( fig 4 ) . In 2008, the existent one-year growing rate was merely 1.4 % and in 2009, it fell to -2 % .
Due to the presence of an unfastened concern scene, the system is practically corruption free and this has helped the national economic system greatly. Exports are the chief beginning of gross and transshipment center trade is practiced excessively. The fiscal control is in the custodies of the legislative assembly of the state. There is a 'development fund ' where capital assets, land acquisitions and any other capital parts are directed. The authorities can retreat this money one time a 'supply jurisprudence ' is passed by the parliament.
It is considered to be a inactive factor of production, one that is non created by worlds. In Singapore, the land is used to cultivate harvests like gum elastic, copra, domestic fowl, fruits and veggies. The long coastline is besides taken advantage of by deepwater ports and piscaries are a major industry excessively. However, land in Singapore has been the slowest turning factor of production. The land is used for commercial, industrial and agricultural intents but since 1960 has grown merely by 5 % . This reflects on the renewal and the release of province owned land for assorted intents like development. It should besides be accounted, that land used for agribusiness has greatly declined and that used for non-agrarian intents has increased. The graphical representation for the assorted utilizations of the land is depicted in the appendix as fig 5.
This refers to human input and attempt and the ability of the people to work. It may be measured as the physical every bit good as mental input of the employee to the occupation given. In Singapore, the work force is around 2.2 million and is besides dependent on foreign labor. There is a individual trade brotherhood federation, the National Trades Union Congress, which contains about 99 % of organized labor. The general labor affairs are controlled by authorities policies. There is an income threshold and small protection for white collar workers and a particular tribunal to pull off differences which can non be solved informally. The unemployment rate rose to 4 % in 2001, and in 2007 was 2.7 % . A assortment of programmes have been put away by the Singapore authorities to hike the labour force amongst seniors and adult females. The deficit in labour forces is made up by foreign workers, and recent information showed that 27 % of the work force was comprised of them. The services sector is an of import sector of the Singapore economic system. In 2005, the sector accounted for 63.8 per cent of nominal GDP and 68.7 per cent of entire employment ( fig 6 ) .
The capital of a state increases the ability of the state to bring forth more wealth. The accretion of capital has been the most of import factor of production for Singapore. The graduated table of investing is impressive, and Singapore 's capital stock increased 33 crease since 1960. In 2003, the entire trade was of $ 279 billion, and it is the fourteenth largest trading spouse of the United States. The rule exports are nutrient, fabrics and crude oil merchandises amongst chemicals and electronic equipment. Singapore 's chief imports are aircraft, rough oil, electronic constituents, Fe and steel. It attracts big scale investors and as of 2003, the entire plus acquired by the stock invested by U.S. companies was approximately $ 61.4 billion. Industry accounted for 24 % and Services 64 % of Singapore 's entire industrial end product. Fig 7 in the appendix will demo how each sector has contributed to the GDP and growing of the state 's economic system.
Decision and Findingss
It can therefore be concluded from the above information obtained, that the Republic of Singapore is a state on an upward rise in this industrialized universe and has a batch to offer. Singapore has besides been involved in advancing biotechnology and top research scientists have been involved in this undertaking. The national authorities besides plans to set into action a financial policy that would concentrate on enlargement and cut down the impact of recession. The two major sectors are the industry and service sectors and steps have been taken by the authorities to keep the place of the economic system. We can hence conclude that this macro-economic tendency for Singapore along with the consistence in the authorities and handiness of resources every bit good as strategic location has worked out good for the state.
Fig 1 – The Map of Singapore
Fig 2 – The National Flag of Singapore
Fig 3 – Comparison of GDP Shares and Services
Fig 4 – GDP of Singapore
Fig 5 – Use of Land in Singapore
Fig 6 – GDP and Employment in Singapore
Fig 7 – Singapore 's GDP by Industry


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Stuck fermentations — when sugar levels stop dropping and the winemaking process stands still — are one of the more persistently frustrating mysteries in winemaking. Like most winemaking mysteries, we understand part but not all of the situation. Bacterial contamination is one of numerous known causes of sticking: lactic acid bacteria can compete with wine for access to sugar, but it's also long seemed that something else is going on. Researchers now have a better idea of what that something else is, and it involves prions.** Yes, prions, best known by nearly everyone as the infective agent in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more fondly known as Mad Cow Disease.
Briefly, bacteria are producing some kind of small signaling molecule that provokes Saccharomyces cerivisiae to shift from preferentially fermenting glucose into alcohol to consuming other energy sources indiscriminately. Bacteria release the molecule, yeast take the molecule up and begin expressing a prion, and in some as-yet-unknown way, the prion jams the mechanism that normally tells yeast to consume only glucose when it has both glucose and other energy sources available. Bacteria don't tolerate alcohol as well as S. cerivisiae, so it's in the bacteria's interest to get the yeast to make less of it. S. cerivisiae can use all manner of different molecules for energy, but a specific control mechanism ensures that it (usually) eats glucose first when glucose is around.
These findings tie into an overwhelming lot of very interesting, very intricate biology, the fullness of which is a bit much to discuss here. But (understanding that there are others), a few reasons why this research matters to scientists and to winemakers stands out.
To scientists:
- Bacteria and yeast are talking to each other. Or, rather, bacteria are controlling yeast for the bacteria's benefit. Bacteria produce lots of small messenger molecules — a bit like hormones in the human body — to communicate amongst themselves. But the idea that they use a similar molecule to control the behavior of a different species is exciting. Bacteria probably do this all the time, too, but microbiologists are behind on learning about it because we traditionally study one type of microbe at a time, by itself, in a test tube or beaker. Imagine studying 12 year-old boy behavior by putting lots of 12 year-old boys in a room by themselves and watching them for a week. That's what we've been doing with bacteria. Microbiology as a field is increasingly realizing that there are better ways (which are, of course, more complicated, and therefore harder…)
- The mechanism involves prions, which are cool because they're a relatively recent discovery and we're finding them in places we didn't see coming. It's still not clear how they're working in this setting, but finding out will almost certainly involve learning some new and interesting biology
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- Winemakers who are adamant about avoiding stuck fermentations are probably also vigilant about trying to keep bacterial contamination out of their wines, so I imagine this news doesn't change much. Nonetheless, some folk might end up using more sulfur dioxide in an effort to knock down bacteria in ferments that tend toward stickiness.
- More interestingly, researchers may be able to develop yeast that don't respond to the bacteria-induced switch, maybe with a mutated form of the prion protein. Non-stick yeast?
**The research is published in two complementary papers (here and here) in the journal Cell and, as happens with particularly interesting stuff like this, the editors have put together a short summary. It's still pretty dense stuff unless you have a background in molecular microbiology, but you can find it here if you're interested in the details (and if you have institutional access to the journal).


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A visit to the u-pick-it farm
God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. Gen 1:29
Every suburban or urban dweller who doesn't work in agriculture should make at least two visits to a u-pick-it farm a year.
We have developed such a culture of consumers, that many of us have little appreciation of the abundance with which God has graced us. Fresh fruit means going to the local supermarket. For what is there to be thankful? A convenient parking space? Extended operating hours? A short line at the check-out? That's all "stuff" of human endeavor that we tend to take for granted.
But visit a u-pick-it to gather your own produce. Spend a couple of hours in the fields engaged in hide and seek with the fresh vegetables and fruits. The wonder of food on the table engages your spirit.
The smells are the first things that grab you; earthiness, sweetness of some produce and acridness of others, merging of smells baking under the sun.
Then there is the dirt itself; wondrous! Living things just spring up out of it. Add to that the variety of growing things, and the intricacy of the design of each. And all of it is both aided and assaulted by legions of insects of endless diversity and intricacy.
The effort of finding fruits or vegetables at just the right freshness and picking so as to not waste any offers a challenge. And you pick enough for a few pies, or a couple of dinners… while being reminded that the produce you take for granted is the result of human effort working within Gods creation hours upon hours to bring it to your table.
What does this have to do with stewardship? THE formula: God created everything that exists. He created us in his image, to do his work, and to have dominion over all creation, and to glorify him. That makes us stewards with the responsibility to doing as God would have us do.
So much of stewardship seems rather abstract. The u-pick-it makes it very concrete. It is hard to appreciate the wonder of the gift that God made in Genesis when it comes in a package at the local Super Foodmart. It is just another commodity for our consumption. But get out into the field. Appreciate the wonder of the springing of the produce from the soil. Appreciate the toil that it takes to make the produce available for purchase. Appreciate the effort that the chef exerts to prepare the food for the table.
The lyric from Godspell, How shall we sing, sing the Lords song, in a foreign land? based on Psalm 137 suddenly plays through my mind. The foreign land of our consumerist economy, foreign to Gods economy, conceals the wonder of Gods provision from us, and with it the cause to live in thanksgiving.


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I've decided to return to writing my Southernisms posts here at Progressive Redneck Preacher. At a recent time chatting over lunch with my long-time friend, the writer and activist Chuck Fager, he suggested if ever there was a time for progressive voices of faith to engage what is going on in our culture, it is right now.
My Southernisms posts have always highlighted a phrase, a word, or a theme common to southern culture, both light-heartingly giving some space to laugh at our little foibles and particularities but also at times to discuss some of the in's and out's of what is happening here in the south-land. Many of our readers from other areas, like the mid-West or even the northern part of Appalachia, have been quick to remind me that often these phrases and things are not particular to the south but pop up in other areas too.
In thinking about what is the most appropriate southernism to express our current cultural situation, I couldn't help but think about a phrase I remember my momma saying many times coming up. I first remember it when, for some reason, I had fiddled with a bracelet of hers she left laying out on a table, and somehow absent-mindedly managed to bend it all out of shape.
"This here is why we can't have nice things, y'all!" mamma said exasperatedly.
Anyone growing up in a less than upper class home in the south, and I would wager almost any small town, probably heard that.
Friends and readers gave a few descriptions of times they have heard or said these words:
Chasity, from the NC Sandhills, told the following story of when she found herself saying this:
"[I p]ut the Christmas tree up on Monday. My crazy cat likes to play soccer apparently. Come home and the entire bottom of the tree is wrecked and he's kicking all my glass ornaments around looking up at me like "what mama?" This damn cat.
"This here, is why we can't have nice things."
Rev. Sharon Wheeler, from Elon, NC, writes:
"Have been wanting a new chair or recliner because the dog sits in and has scratched it up so bad, it is almost torn. "this here is why we can't have nice things y'all!" My sweet husband however did buy me a slipcover to cover it because "company's comin' to the the house" #thishereishwywecanthavenicethingsyall
Michelle from Denton, NC, writes:
"Once when deep frying a turkey for the first time, we got the oil too hot. Of course we were on the deck so when said turkey was submerged in the scalding oil, it over flowed and burned the deck. It also charred the brand new turkey fryer and scorched the turkey! So the 3 losses of the day were the fryer, the turkey, and the deck. Sheesh!" #thishereishwywecanthavenicethingsyall
Andrew, a transplant from Oxford, NC to Boston, writes the following:
"I was the reason we couldn't have nice things. As a kid I walked on (and fell off) the back of the couch (onto a glass picture frame). I cut open a chilly Willy (and my finger) with a butcher knife. I played with legos, spreading them all over the floor. Like ALL OVER. I rearranged my room like 500 times."
But he didn't take all the blame:
"Between eating our tomatoes and plants and running in front of us on the road and smashing up cars, this deer here is why we can't have nice things, y'all."
Another friend and long time reader from Florida shared the following picture and comment:
"That's a bottle of red bath bubbles they poured down the slide. …" #thatswhywecanthavenicethings
I wonder if any other folks have poignant stories about why we can't have nice things?
This phrase doesn't just connect with the difficulties in keeping up nice things in the home, but is one I have found myself jokingly using about our failures at building sustaining, life-giving communities and changes in the places we live.
While working in a military town in North Carolina as pastor and advocate who spoke up for women's rights, LGBT rights, the rights of the poor & minorities, I was always touched to see people working across the divide, joining together regardless of religion and background, to make the community better. But I was also discouraged to see how quickly the stress of the army lifestyle would spill over into toxic ways of relating in the community, so that folks turned to in-fighting, name-calling, and fights which ultimately would sabotage the good work being done.
I remember talking with a friend from town about it one day, and both of us shaking our heads saying "this here is why we can't have nice things, y'all".
In many ways, I think with the recent election, many of us are asking, "Why?" and feeling like many a person who on looking at the disarray in their home or neighborhood asked "why is it we can't have nice things, y'all?"
Nationally, after years of expanding our ideas of welcome of all and human rights as a country to begin to include more fully LGBT people & their families, to further conversations about the importance of confronting systemic racism, we see as a country the candidate who spoke out in ways that baited people around race, that were misogynistic toward women, and who actively courted homophobic hate groups, was voted in as president-elect.
In the south, we see an ongoing struggle over our identity in terms of who we are. My own state, North Carolina, just re-elected a legislature that pushed discriminatory laws that hurt people of color, queer people, limit access to health care, and hurt education while at the same time by popular vote pushing out the governor who signed these laws.
Clearly, as a state, we are of two minds about who we are and what we need. And now, refusing to step down, Governor Mcrory is pushing to fight the election results tooth and nail.
One could see the fact that it is only by the Electoral College map, not by popular vote, which Donald Trump was elected president-elect, as a sign that we as a country have just such an identity crisis.
In a recent News and Observer article, a piece was put together entitled "Hi, America, It is North Carolina, and we know what's next" (http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article114758628.html) . This article suggests that what has occurred in my state of North Carolina is a model for what can happen, if we are not careful, nationally right now. What has happened here? Pollution of the environment, through coal ash dumped in the water and removing protections on the air and water, so that we have less of a pristine nature to pass onto our children. What has happened here? Damage to the education system. Not fully funding appropriate healthcare for all citizens, especially those who are economically struggling. Becoming a symbol across the nation for discrimination, and rightly so, as voter suppression has gone on as well as laws that hurt minorities like queer people in our midst. This, folks, is why we can't have nice things.
It is easy to scratch our heads saying, "why? Why is it we can't have nice things, y'all?"
We all need to be seriously asking this question.
I don't have all the answers, and really would invite my readers to share their insights.
Here are some suggestions, though, worth considering:
1. One reason we can't have nice things, y'all, is we fail to listen across the divide
One of the shocking things we progressives have to face up to is that a part of why there was the sweeping win of conservatives in our country – and not just run of the mill conservatives, but many far-right, extremist conservatives too – is because of a failure to connect and communicate across the cultural and class divides that exist in our society.
One author who raises important points about this is J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy. A conservative author himself, who grew up with roots in Appalachia, Vance writes of how both political parties have failed to listen to the experience of struggling poor and working class people from his community, folks who do not identify with the way modern Democrats focus in on the experience of women and racial minorities. His book came to national attention as Donald Trump shocked pundits by successfully courting these workers. Asked about this phenomenon, Vance writes:
"The simple answer is that these people–my people–are really struggling, and there hasn't been a single political candidate who speaks to those struggles in a long time. Donald Trump at least tries.
"What many don't understand is how truly desperate these places are, and we're not talking about small enclaves or a few towns–we're talking about multiple states where a significant chunk of the white working class struggles to get by. Heroin addiction is rampant. In my medium-sized Ohio county last year, deaths from drug addiction outnumbered deaths from natural causes. The average kid will live in multiple homes over the course of her life, experience a constant cycle of growing close to a "stepdad" only to see him walk out on the family, know multiple drug users personally, maybe live in a foster home for a bit (or at least in the home of an unofficial foster like an aunt or grandparent), watch friends and family get arrested, and on and on. And on top of that is the economic struggle, from the factories shuttering their doors to the Main Streets with nothing but cash-for-gold stores and pawn shops.
"The two political parties have offered essentially nothing to these people for a few decades. From the Left, they get some smug condescension, an exasperation that the white working class votes against their economic interests because of social issues, a la Thomas Frank. Maybe they get a few handouts, but many don't want handouts to begin with.
"From the Right, they've gotten the basic Republican policy platform of tax cuts, free trade, deregulation, and paeans to the noble businessman and economic growth. Whatever the merits of better tax policy and growth, the simple fact is that these policies have done little to address a very real social crisis. More importantly, these policies are culturally tone deaf: nobody from southern Ohio wants to hear about the nobility of the factory owner who just fired their brother.
"Trump's candidacy is music to their ears. He criticizes the factories shipping jobs overseas. His apocalyptic tone matches their lived experiences on the ground. He seems to love to annoy the elites, which is something a lot of people wish they could do but can't because they lack a platform.
"The last point I'll make about Trump is this: these people, his voters, are proud. A big chunk of the white working class has deep roots in Appalachia, and the Scots-Irish honor culture is alive and well. We were taught to raise our fists to anyone who insulted our mother. I probably got in a half dozen fights when I was six years old. Unsurprisingly, southern, rural whites enlist in the military at a disproportionate rate. Can you imagine the humiliation these people feel at the successive failures of Bush/Obama foreign policy? My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself: I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. " (taken from http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/ )
Vance brings up a powerful point worth considering: a part of the reason for the election going as it has, both nationally and locally, is the ways in which we progressives have failed to fully hear the needs and experience of a whole portion of the electorate. Though personally I see little being offered by either Trump or the Republicans both locally and nationally which will really address the concerns of poor & working class folks in rural and small town communities, Trump was able to communicate in a way that left them feeling they were being heard and understood.
Sadly, too much of our liberal politics talks down to those from these communities.
In her campaign, for instance, Hillary Clinton had the gaffe of calling many of Trump's supporters a pack of deplorables. Though clearly Clinton intended this as focusing on individuals such as the leaders of the alt-right, who are in bed with white nationalists and racist organizations, to many a small town person it sounded like yet another voice of the liberal elite putting them down for the very different values they feel they have than folks in academia and who are affluent.
To truly connect across the divide, progressive voices have to ask the question, "Who are the folks we are leaving out in our messaging? How do we reach out to them?"
In my own circles, since moving to the larger Durham/Chapel Hill area after spending much of my adult life in rural and small town North Carolina, I have been amazed to hear so-called progressives talk down about poor and working class people. I often find myself in Bible studies, spirituality groups, and social justice groups I engage in, finding myself compelled to say "Hold on a second. Let's not have this approach and let's recognize how much of what we are saying only makes sense because of education, affluence, and privilege".
I remember one such conversation in particular in a discussion of Sara Miles' book Take This Bread, a conversation that somehow ended up being about vegan and vegetarian options, buying local and organic, in which people began to pat themselves on the back for their very expensive socially conscience food choices. I stopped the conversation and said, "Listen, folks, it's great you can live like this. But it's important to realize, you can only do so because you are fairly affluent and because of where we live: a place where these options are in abundance". I then proceeded to share about living in Robeson County, next to folks in a trailer park, whose only food options were what were sold in the local market and Piggly Wiggly. Who when they gave me a dish welcoming me as a neighbor gave exactly the best they had, and who when I struggled to get by as a church planter, out of their own want consistently shared what they had in a way I don't see consistently in the affluent circles I bump into here in a more metropolitan area.
What we in an affluent, liberal minded bubble of a university town patted ourselves on the back for had a deep disconnect to anything being experienced in the rural community I once worked. And yet, there, even among conservative people, important values of community, giving, and togetherness were at work that our talking down to folks from that community will prevent us from seeing.
My point of course is, these challenges and virtues that exist in a community very much different than the one I am in now are not observed because folks are not really getting to know the experience of folks in these overlooked groups.
To be fair, this also occurs across the political spectrum. Here in North Carolina, throughout the Mcrory administration, Rev. Dr. William Barber and the NAACP have been again and again asking for Mcrory and the Republicans in office simply to sit down with the NAACP to hear the experience and concerns of people of color in our state. It has not gone on.
This failure to listen across the divide, to really see the experience of others as equally valid to our own, is I think a part of why we are struggling to keep nice things in our state and country.
This brings me to the second barrier I see to us having nice things
2. We can't have nice things, y'all, because we keep living in our bubble
One reason this all happens is we are content to live in our comfortable bubble. Since moving around 3-4 years ago to Carrboro, a suburb of the college town of Chapel Hill, I found myself comfortably surrounded by many people who think, believe, and ask questions all very similar to myself. When I lived as a progressive in rural and small town parts of our state, I found myself constantly having to question myself, question my values, and consider how what I believed connected with their situation.
Similarly, it is easy for folks with very conservative values to avoid conversations with those of us who identify as progressive.
Our new social media culture doesn't help us with this tendency. It is very easy to only see points of view that match our own, to avoid difficult conversations, and to simply hole ourselves up.
Yet the way forward is really encountering and being a part of different communities.
I'm struck by the example of how some religious movements engage people in intentionally living, visiting, and reaching out to folks outside of their normal community.
For instance, in some of the churches out of the Radical Reformation – the Mennonites, Quaker, and Brethren traditions for instance – out of a desire to avoid military service, they developed a program for young adults where for a few years of their life, they are placed intentionally in parts of the world in which they live outside of their comfort zone, working among and learning from new communities.
In some of the intentional living movements sponsored by Christian radicals like Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove in the last decade there has been an emphasis on getting otherwise affluent and detached believers to live intentionally in areas connected with poverty to come and build intentional relationships with others different than themselves.
And in his ministry Love Wins, Rev. Hugh Hollowell, a Mennonite pastor, seeks to build a community in which the lives and experiences of people experiencing homelessness are embraced. The answer to homelessness, he often says, is not programs or food but community.
I am not thinking most of us can have such radical shifts in living, since let's be honest, most of us have to live near where we work. Most of us have bills to pay and families to raise.
That said, are there ways we can begin to intentionally move outside the insular bubble, be it conservative or liberal, in which we find ourselves? I honestly think until we learn to do this practice more, we will continue to find ourselves becoming more isolated, fractured, and unable to find healing and direction in our communities.
This is a part of what Desmond Tutu talks about in his writing about reconciliation. In his classic book No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu writes,
""Ubuntu […] speaks of the very essence of being human. [We] say […] "Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu." Then you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, "My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours." We belong in a bundle of life. We say, "A person is a person through other persons…
"[…] A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are."
Finding small and big ways to reach across the divide, to build bridges, and to both hear other's stories and experience very different than our own and share our perspectives, can be a deeply transforming and healing practice for all of us to engage.
3. We don't have nice things because too often we embrace ideology rather than people
You can see this in the extremes of both parties.
How can we choose to stand against keeping children's parents together, making sure they can raise a family in peace just because those parents are of the same gender, if we are prioritizing truly caring for our neighbor above our ideology?
Yet we progressives can be quick to tear down and talk as if those in our communities without our ideas are ignorant, dumb, uneducated, and hateful; or be unable to break down our ideas of justice, equality, freedom into everyday common language understandable outside the academy. Such extremes, too, only make sense if our focus is not individual people but ideas.
As I think about this problem that keeps us from having nice things, I am reminded of some words of John Amodeo's in his book Dancing with Fire. Amodeo explores the Buddhist idea of nonclinging, discussing perspectives and approaches to life and others in which clinging to our perceptions and beliefs can hold others at be, keeping us from seeing the fullness of who they are, who we are, and what is possible together.
Amodeo first talks about "ideological clinging", in which our holding onto beliefs about others or the world, ideology, can become a barrier to true connection:
This "is often so pervasive we don't recognize it. Our beliefs shape our worldview and set us up for heartache when reality fails to match it. . . Our beliefs are only approximations of reality; they never fully capture what is real and true, so clinging to them keeps us caged in a dim reality. To avoid solitary confinement, we may try to lasso people into the same shadow prison to keep us company. We may attempt to convert people to our religious or political viewpoint so that we don't feel so alone…"
This ultimately, according to Amodeo, can inspire a squashing of other's freedoms politically and communities of injustice, something many of us are working every day to resist. Yet, more importantly to our discussion, he argues that such pushing people into a box keeps us from fully experiencing them.
It "removes us from the present moment and deposits us firmly in our heads. We usually don't notice how we restrict ourselves by clinging to fixed images and limiting stories… Instead of living out of some myth or story about who you are … live in a state of openness, of welcoming everything that comes into your awareness," and every person too.
He also notes the other types of clinging which can stand in the way of true encounter: clinging to a desire to change people rather than accept them as they are, holding tightly to our perceptions and negative interpretations of other's motives, holding on to a person who is continually abusive or emotionally/physically unavailable, and clinging to patterns that disconnect us from those around us.
Writing of this last barrier to true connection, Amodeo writes about the four factors that ultimately tear relationships apart according to social science research – "contempt (sarcasm), stonewalling (shutting down), criticism, and defensiveness". He fleshes these out by saying "these slayers of intimacy" are "manifestations of clinging. We desire connection but we are so consumed by old hurts or fear of rejection that we resort to sarcastic comments and hurtful criticisms. We're so convinced that love won't be forthcoming that we scratch and claw for it. We cling so tightly to the shame of feeling wrong or undeserving of love that we get defensive or shut down".
At heart, this letting go of clinging whether to one's beliefs (ideology), one's expectations, or to outcome is a part of the apophatic path of embracing a bit of not knowing in our relationships.
You can see how what Amodeo talks about in terms of how clinging to ideology rather than real encounter with others not connects with his immediate focus – our relationships with friends, partners, coworkers, and family – but also to the larger problem of why we fail to keep nice things in our communities.
It takes remembering that real people are involved. It takes taking the time to really connect to another, hear their story.
I want to close with two references.
First, I want to point to a great piece on This American Life from a few years ago. This piece discussed studies into how people change their minds. In it, and in a later updated due to some flaws in the study it was based on, the team at This American Life explores evidence that what changes other's point of view is not badgering people with facts but instead real human encounter.
Here is the link to the original story: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/584/for-your-reconsideration
And here is a piece that is a followup on some flaws in the original study:
Also I want to close with a quote I used in a previous post. Often our fear of connecting with others who are different, a lot of the fears which drive us to not live so we can keep nice things in our communities, is a fear of scarcity. In his The Source of Life, theologian Jurgen Moltmann rightly challenges this approach, saying,
"The ideology of 'there is never enough for everyone' makes people lonely. It isolates them and robs them of relationship. The opposite of poverty isn't property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community. For in community we become rich: rich in friends, in neighbors, in colleagues, in comrades, in brothers and sisters. Together, as a community, we can help ourselves in most of our difficulties. For, after all, there are enough people and enough ideas, capabilities and energies to be had. They are only lying fallow, or are stunted and suppressed. So let us discover our wealth; let us discover our solidarity; let us build up communities; let us take our lives into our hands, and at long last out of the hands of the people who want to dominate and exploit us".
What is your experience of this saying and theme? What answers do you have?
In the midst of questioning , cynicism, and fear, let's embrace hope, compassion, and tearing down walls of division. We are not this. We are better than this. At heart, we all know it.
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