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On Wednesday, federal prosecutors will walk into an appellate court in Boston and tell a panel of judges that they are seeking evidence in an exceptionally serious crime, the murder of a widowed mother of ten who was taken from her home in Belfast and shot in the back of the head by members of the Provisional IRA. Because they are aiding police officials in the United Kingdom with such an important investigation, they will sound a note of urgency: The matter before the courts must be brought to a conclusion, because murderers must be brought to justice.
They will be full of shit.
There was a murder, and it was awful. A widowed mother was killed, and ten children were left with no parents. But is there a murder investigation underway? Is the Police Service of Northern Ireland working to bring killers to justice?
I've said before that you should start thinking about this claim from the moment in 1972 when McConville was taken from her home to be killed. What then? Nothing much. The police have acknowledged that they didn't try to solve her murder until the 1990s, and even then they didn't try especially hard, and then finally they admitted that they probably weren't going to make a case in such an old murder that would survive in a courtroom. Now it's 2012, and there's somehow a serious criminal investigation underway.
But this time, let's start the story somewhere else: February 21, 2010. That's the date a newspaper in Northern Ireland printed a story alleging that former IRA member Dolours Price -- as the paper soberly put it, a "TERRORIST IN A MINI-SKIRT" -- had admitted that she drove McConville to her death. Not only that, added the Sunday Life, but she was known to have told the story to researchers at "Boston University," which is a solid fifty percent correct. (The story isn't online at the newspaper's website, but you can see page scans here.)
And so the Police Service of Northern Ireland, alerted to the confession of an accomplice to murder, came roaring to life and began their desperate quest to win justice in the case of Jean McConville. Game on -- justice was awake and on the hunt. The first set of interviews Boston College will potentially give up to the government when the legal appeals are over are the interviews conducted with Dolours Price. Her newspaper confession is bringing the day of legal reckoning ever closer. The newly tireless detectives have almost got their target.
There are just a few problems with that picture, and start with the fact that the Sunday Life story ran more than a year before anyone got around to asking for subpoenas of the Boston College material. Think about this: A newspaper said on February 21, 2010, that a particular person had driven a murder victim to her death, and that there was more information available in a university archive. The first subpoenas arrived at the university archive in May, 2011. You can almost taste the urgency.
Better yet: In August, 2010 -- several months after the Sunday Life story named her as an accomplice in Jean McConville's murder -- Dolours Price was in a courtroom in Northern Ireland, facing criminal charges. Here's the story on the BBC website. Having confessed to her role in the McConville murder in a published interview, causing the police in Northern Ireland to lock onto her with their laser focus and their passion for justice, Price found herself in the hands of the criminal justice system in the very place where she was known for her role in an infamous political killing. They had her, in the flesh, the IRA terrorist who named Gerry Adams as her commander in a murder she had directly facilitated.
So go read the BBC story. What happened when the woman who drove Jean McConville to her death appeared in a courtroom in Northern Ireland? This: "Convicted Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price has been acquitted of a charge of shoplifting at Newry Magistrates Court." The end. Terrorist in a mini-skirt!
Months after the Sunday Life story identified Price's role in McConville's death, nobody in the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland cared or tried to do anything about it. She went and stood in a courtroom, and no one mentioned the whole "murder of a widowed mother of ten at Gerry Adams' command" thing. They yawned at her shoplifting charge and sent her home. Because they were so aggressively pursuing it, you see.
In its amicus brief in the legal appeal, the ACLU of Massachusetts charged that the DOJ was facilitating a political investigation, a course that could lead the United States government into ever-more-horrible involvement in appalling political repression overseas. When a foreign government asks for help gathering evidence against political organizations like the IRA, the U.S. government should think carefully about what they're being asked to do, and the courts should take a close look at the decisions the Justice Department makes.
Here, again, is the government's most recent brief in the Belfast Project appeal. Look at pg. 57, and let's go ahead and add emphasis to make this easy:
Finally, nowhere in ACLUM's argument is there a recognition that a request by a foreign sovereign under a treaty regarding a sensitive and confidential criminal matter is any different than a civil request by a private party in a mundane business matter. ACLUM's argument, if taken to its logical conclusion, would subject even the most sensitive and urgent law enforcement requests to litigation and delay by persons with a deeply felt, but tangential interest in such a criminal investigation. Under ACLUM's reading of §3512, criminal defendants in foreign countries, and others who disagree with the foreign policies of the United States, could tie sensitive and urgent international criminal investigations in legal knots.There is no "sensitive and urgent" criminal investigation. The police in Northern Ireland have had forty years to investigate Jean McConville's murder, and they have not. They had several months between the publication of a story saying that Dolours Price had driven McConville to her death and the moment when she stood in a courtroom and was available for an easy arrest. They had a year to get around to asking for subpoenas of the Boston College interviews.
Someone needs to apply some skepticism to the government's framing of these subpoenas. Let's hope the First Circuit manages the task.

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I may be wrong, but the packaging looks like a standard CD mailer. Amazon may have chosen that envelope due to advantages in shipping costs or because of preexisting handling procedures at the post office.
In early November, Internet ultrastore Amazon.com announced their "Frustration-Free Packaging" initiative, aimed squarely at reducing the jagged tears and nasty lacerations that are an unfortunate occurrence of wrestling with clamshell and other hard-to-open packaging. One of the key points is: you've already bought an item and it's been shipped in a box, so enforcing plastic armor as an anti-theft deterrent is absolutely stupid.
I'm sad to announce that as of this writing, only 19 products are certified "frustration-free". Granted, Amazon has declared FFP to be a multi-year project, but the current list basically boils down to 8 kinds of toys, 7 of the same Microsoft mouse in different colors, and 3 SDHC memory cards. I love keeping you apprised of continuity, so you may remember that in "How to find the sweet spot when buying electronics", I cited the 16GB SDHC from Transcend as a sweet spot. Shortly after writing the article, I purchased 2 of them, and thanks to Amazon Prime, they arrived a couple days later.
Both cards came in a bigger cardboard box, not much deeper than the plastic cases needed to hold the cards. Inside were two smaller flatpacks, each containing a card and labeled as you see:
There was a tear strip that didn't even need scissors.
Seconds later, I had opened the contents.
Also good for the environment: "Contains 30% recycled fiber".
So does Amazon.com's "Frustration-Free Packaging" live up to its name? Simply put: while I haven't tried the other products offered under this option, in this case and without a doubt, yes.
If I had a suggestion for improvement, it'd be that the overall packaging for these tiny cards was still too big.
With an increasing amount of business done online, and quite some time before consumer 3D printers to manufacture our own goods are commonplace, FFP is one of the stepping stones in the bridge of progress. While nascent, it makes sense that when things still need to be shipped as opposed to downloaded (like movies & music), that we'll see this trend continue to rise — and accelerate, especially if more consumers are vocal about their displeasure with clamshell hell.
As with a number of other non-legally-protected advances, more e-merchants should take a page from Amazon's book and provide better packaging which is environmentally-friendly and a joy to unwrap.
Have you experienced Frustration-Free Packaging?
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I may be wrong, but the packaging looks like a standard CD mailer. Amazon may have chosen that envelope due to advantages in shipping costs or because of preexisting handling procedures at the post office.
I wish they would quit using bubble wrap. If you happen to live at a high altitude, the air in the bubble wrap expands and makes the box break open before it gets to you.
I have ordered a few items from amazon and anything that is a book comes in this casing. Its great but for some reason or another they like to shrink wrap their packages for international orders. The plastic is also quite thick which makes opening the packages still rather hard.
Maybe we could get them to switch to Geami paper (www.geami.com), and then there'd be less plastic to deal with, too!
@Dan: It was larger than previous CD mailers I've received before. It's (1) been a long time since I download my music (incl. through Amazon) now, and (2) I wasn't aware there was a "standard", too.
@Dwight: Wasn't any bubble wrap in this package.
@Michelle: New name to me! *checks it out*
I got myself a little 2 inch diameter mortar and pestle from Amazon for Christmas and was curious as to whether it would arrive in "frustration free packaging." It came in a cubic foot box, filled with bubble wrap and inside that was a slightly smaller box also filled with bubble wrap. Inside that was the teeny tiny mortar and pestle. It didn't give me wrap rage, but it was still far more packaging than needed.
Christmas morning with 6 kids and a chorus of 'Can you help me open this" is agony! Wire ties, screws, plastic -horrible! And all the packaging goes into the trash.
One toy this year, a Polly Pocket playset, arrived packaged in a thin cardboard box. It was not a attractive, but it was out of the box and being enjoyed in about two seconds. The box went into the woodstove.
We'd love to see much more of that next year.
Michelle= that Geami paper is beautiful stuff! As a collage artist I'll now be on the lookout for it. Great texture!
I ordered a video game and it came in an easy-to-open package, but the cardboard carried had a window gap on it about 1 inch by 3 inches. Everyone could see what was inside and this definitely would make stealing my $50 video game much more tempting.
If Amazon is changing their packaging, it's not to help the consumer, it's because it's cheaper to ship that way. There was a time when every book order from Amazon came in a box.
I ordered three books in the last few weeks. The first was a paperback that is the size of a magazine, only thicker. It was shipped in padded bag, without any kind of cardboard. It arrived destroyed.
Next, they sent me a paperback book in a sort of light cardboard wrapper with rubber cement inside. It arrived destroyed.
Today, they shipped me a heavy hardcover book in a padded envelope. It made it here in one piece, but as an Amazon seller myself, I would never even consider sending a big heavy hardcover book in a padded envelope.
They're obviously trying to save money on shipping, but if enough people start to receive damaged merchandise, they are going to have to rethink what they are doing.


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Lungworm: Dog owners warned of increased risk as cooler weather sets in
As summer turns to autumn, cooler nights and a decrease in daylight means dogs are likely to come into frequent contact with snails and slugs, which are the most common hosts of the lungworm parasite.
But experts say even keeping pets from accidentally or deliberately eating the molluscs might not help in the fight against the spread of the disease.
Dr Huw Stacey, director of clinical services at Vets4Pets, said: "The risk of lungworm is gradually increasing in the UK, with examples of the disease now occurring in all counties. It was first documented in Cornwall and South Wales in 1979, and has spread rapidly, with cases now confirmed in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
"Lungworm is a parasite and has a life-cycle which starts and ends with snails and slugs. The lungworm larvae are found in dogs' faeces, and are eaten by molluscs, which then infect other dogs that either eat these slugs and snails or come into contact with their slime.
He added: "Symptoms of lungworm can include changes to breathing, such as coughing or running out of breath easily, weight loss and a reduced appetite. In advanced cases it can cause life threatening bleeding disorders.
"None of these signs are a guarantee of the presence of lungworm, so further tests would need to be carried out by a vet to diagnose the infection."
Lungworm isn't a condition that affects only dogs. Foxes can increase the transmission of parasites in a local area, however the long distance movement of the infection is thought to be almost entirely down to pet dogs.
"Lungworm is a condition that can be treated successfully by vets, if diagnosed in time, " added Dr Stacey.
"Preventative products are available and with regular use, prevention is easily achieved. You should always speak to your vet as not all worming products are effective against this parasite.
"There are a number of other steps that can help prevent your pet from getting lungworm.
"These include stopping your dog putting snails or slugs in their mouth, bringing your dog's toys in from the garden at night and not throwing your dog sticks; because as well as the risk of causing injury a stick can harbour lungworm larvae if a snail or slug has been on it."


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Aamulehti has some background on the gunman who carried out the shootings at the shopping mall in Espoo, Finland, today:
The suspect, Ibrahim Shkupolli (born 1966) is a Kosovo Albanian who according to Aamulehti's information came to Finland via Norway in 1990. He was placed in the reception center at Mikkeli [Eastern Finland], which he later left to live in Espoo, Finland.
In the early 1990s he already had a Finnish girlfriend who is one of the victims of the Sello tragedy. Aamulehti understands that Shkupolli later separated from this girlfriend and married an Albanian woman. He also had children in common with her. The whole family lives in Finland.
The suspect's wife and child as well as his parents and brother live in Finland.
So far, unconfirmed reports suggest a triangle as the background to the shootings. Shkupolli may have been driven by jealousy of his former, Finnish girlfriend's new life.


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When image trumps ideology: How JFK created the template for the modern presidency | Opinion
(President John F. Kennedy watches as planes conduct anti-sub operations during maneuvers off the North Carolina coast in April 1962, The Conversation, photo)
By Steven Watts
John F. Kennedy remains an enigma.
We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time – a man who, in our mind's eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
While historians have portrayed him as everything from a nascent social justice warrior to a proto-Reaganite, his political record actually offers little insight into his legacy. A standard "Cold War liberal," he endorsed the basic tenets of the New Deal at home and projected a stern, anti-Communist foreign policy. In fact, from an ideological standpoint, he differed little from countless other elected officials in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party or the liberal wing of the Republican Party.
Much greater understanding comes from adopting an altogether different strategy: approaching Kennedy as a cultural figure. From the beginning of his career, JFK's appeal was always more about image than ideology, the emotions he channeled than the policies he advanced.
Generating an enthusiasm more akin to that of a popular entertainer than a candidate for national office, he was arguably America's first "modern" president. Many subsequent presidents would follow the template he created, from Republicans Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
A cultural icon
JFK pioneered the modern notion of the president as celebrity. The scion of a wealthy family, he became a national figure as a young congressman for his good looks, high-society diversions and status as an "eligible bachelor."
He hobnobbed with Hollywood actors such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis, hung out with models and befriended singers. He became a fixture in the big national magazines – Life, Look, Time, The Saturday Evening Post – which were more interested in his personal life than his political positions.
Later, Ronald Reagan, the movie actor turned politician, and Donald Trump, the tabloid fixture and star of "The Apprentice," would translate their celebrity impulses into electoral success. Meanwhile, the saxophone-playing Bill Clinton and the smooth, "no drama" Obama – ever at ease on the talk show circuit – teased out variations of the celebrity role on the Democratic stage.
After Kennedy, it was the candidate with the most celebrity appeal who often triumphed in the presidential sweepstakes.
A master of the media
Kennedy also forged a new path with his skillful utilization of media technology. With his movie-star good looks, understated wit and graceful demeanor, he was a perfect fit for the new medium of television.
He was applauded for his televised speeches at the 1956 Democratic convention, and he later prevailed in the famous television debates of the 1960 presidential election. His televised presidential press conferences became media works of art as he deftly answered complex questions, handled reporters with aplomb and laced his responses with wit, quoting literary figures like the Frenchwoman Madame de Staël.
Two decades later, Reagan proved equally adept with television, using his acting skills to convey an earnest patriotism, while the lip-biting Clinton projected the natural empathy and communication skills of a born politician. Obama's eloquence before the cameras became legendary, while he also became an early adopter of social media to reach and organize his followers.
Trump, of course, emerged from a background in reality television and adroitly employed Twitter to circumvent a hostile media establishment, generate attention and reach his followers.
The vigorous male
Finally, JFK reshaped public leadership by exuding a powerful, masculine ideal. As I explore in my book, "JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier," he emerged in a postwar era colored by mounting concern over the degeneration of the American male. Some blamed the shifting labor market for turning men from independent, manual laborers into corpulent, desk-bound drones within sprawling bureaucracies. Others pointed to suburban abundance for transforming men into diaper-changing denizens of the easy chair and backyard barbecue. And many thought that the advancement of women in the workplace would emasculate their male coworkers.
Enter Jack Kennedy, who promised a bracing revival of American manhood as youthful and vigorous, cool and sophisticated.
In his famous "New Frontier" speech, he announced that "young men are coming to power – men who are not bound by the traditions of the past – young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions."
In a Sports Illustrated article titled "The Soft American," he advocated a national physical fitness crusade. He endorsed a tough-minded realism to shape the counterinsurgency strategies that were deployed to combat Communism, and he embraced the buccaneering style of the CIA and the Green Berets. He championed the Mercury Seven astronauts as sturdy, courageous males who ventured out to conquer the new frontier of space.
JFK's successors adopted many of these same masculine themes. Reagan positioned himself as a manly, tough-minded alternative to a weak, vacillating Jimmy Carter. Clinton presented himself as a pragmatic, assertive, virile young man whose hardscrabble road to success contrasted with the privileged, preppy George H.W. Bush. Obama impressed voters as a vigorous, athletic young man who scrimmaged with college basketball teams – a contrast to the cranky, geriatric John McCain and a stiff, pampered Mitt Romney.
More recently, of course, Trump's outlandish masculinity appealed to many traditionalists unsettled by a wave of gender confusion, women in combat, weeping millennial "snowflakes" and declining numbers of physically challenging manufacturing jobs in the country's post-industrial economy. No matter how crudely, the theatrically male businessman promised a remedy.
So as we look back at John F. Kennedy a century after his birth, it seems ever clearer that he ascended the national stage as our first modern president. Removed from an American political tradition of grassroots electioneering, sober-minded experience and bourgeois morality, this youthful, charismatic leader reflected a new political atmosphere that favored celebrity appeal, media savvy and masculine vigor. He was the first American president whose place in the cultural imagination dwarfed his political positions and policies.
Just as style made the man with Kennedy, it also remade the American presidency. It continues to do so today.
This is an updated version of an article originally published on May 25, 2017.
Steven Watts is a history professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He wrote this piece for The Conversation, where it first appeared.
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Obedience through Our Faithfulness
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
The family home evenings Sister Perry and I have been holding each Monday night have suddenly increased in size. My brother, his daughter, Barbara's brother, and a niece and her husband have moved into our condominium complex. It is the only time I have been blessed having family live near me since I was a boy. Then, my family lived on the same block with several members of my mother's extended family. Grandfather Sonne's home was next door to ours on the north, and Aunt Emma's home was next door to ours on the south. On the south side of the block lived Aunt Josephine, and on the east side of the block was where Uncle Alma lived.
During my boyhood, we interacted with members of our extended family daily and shared moments of working, playing, and visiting together. We could not get in a great deal of mischief without a report reaching our mothers very rapidly. Our world is different now—the members of most families spread out. Even if they live relatively close to each other, they do not often live next door. Still, I have to believe that my boyhood and my current situation are a little like heaven, with beloved family members living close to each other. It serves as a constant reminder to me of the eternal nature of the family unit.
When I was growing up, I had a special relationship with my grandfather. I was the oldest son in the family. I removed the snow from the walks in the winter and cared for the lawns in the summer for our home, Grandfather's home, and the homes of my two aunts. Grandfather usually sat on the front porch as I mowed his lawn. When I had finished, I would sit on the front steps and visit with him. Those moments are treasured memories for me.
One day I asked my grandfather how I would know if I was always doing the right thing, given that life presents so many choices. As my grandfather usually did, he answered me with an experience from farm life.
He taught me about breaking in a team of horses so that they would work together. He explained that a team of horses must always know who is in charge. One of the keys to asserting control and directing a horse is a harness and bit. If a member of the team ever believes that it does not need to obey the will of the driver, the team will never pull and work together to maximize their ability.
Now let's examine the lesson my grandfather taught me using this example. Who is the driver of the team of horses? My grandfather believed it is the Lord. He is the one who has a purpose and a plan. He is also the trainer and builder of the team of horses and, in turn, each individual horse. The driver knows best, and the only way for a horse to know it is always doing the right thing is to be obedient and follow the driver's lead.
What was my grandfather likening to a harness and bit? I believed then, as I believe now, that my grandfather was teaching me to follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost. In his mind's eye, the harness and bit were spiritual. An obedient horse which is part of a well-trained team of horses needs little more than a gentle tug from the driver to do exactly what he wants it to do. This gentle tug is equivalent to the still, small voice with which the Lord speaks to us. Out of respect for our agency, it is never a strong, forceful tug.
Men and women who ignore the gentle promptings of the Spirit will often learn, as the prodigal son learned, through the natural consequences of disobedience and riotous living. It was only after natural consequences humbled the prodigal son that "he came to himself" and heard the whisperings of the Spirit telling him to return to his father's house (see Luke 15:11–32).
So the lesson my grandfather taught me was always to be ready to receive the gentle tug of the Spirit. He taught me that I would always receive such a prompting if I ever veered off course. And I would never be guilty of more serious wrongdoings if I allowed the Spirit to guide me in my decisions.
As James 3:3 states, "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body."
We must be sensitive to our spiritual bits. Even with the slightest tug from the Master, we must be willing to completely alter our course. To succeed in life, we must teach our spirit and body to work together in obedience to God's commandments. If we heed the gentle promptings of the Holy Ghost, it can unite our spirits and bodies in a purpose that will guide us back to our eternal home to live with our eternal Father in Heaven.
Our third article of faith teaches us about the importance of obedience: "We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel."
The kind of obedience my grandfather described in his example of a team of horses also requires a special trust—that is, an absolute faith in the driver of the team. The lesson my grandfather taught me, therefore, also alluded to the first principle of the gospel—faith in Jesus Christ.
The Apostle Paul taught, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Then Paul used the examples of Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham to teach about faith. He dwelled on the story of Abraham, for Abraham is the father of the faithful:
"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
"By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country. …
"Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised" (Hebrews 11:8–9, 11).
We know that through Abraham and Sarah's son, Isaac, a promise was given to Abraham and Sarah—a promise of posterity "so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable" (see verse 12; see also Genesis 17:15–16). And then Abraham's faith was tested in a way that many of us would consider unimaginable.
I have contemplated on many occasions the story of Abraham and Isaac, and I still do not believe I fully comprehend Abraham's faithfulness and obedience. Perhaps I can imagine him faithfully packing up to leave early one morning, but how did he take all those steps alongside his son Isaac over the three-day journey to the base of Mount Moriah? How did they carry the wood for the fire up the mountain? How did he build the altar? How did he bind Isaac and lay him on the altar? How did he explain to him that he would be the sacrifice? And how did he have the strength to lift the knife to slay his son? Abraham's faith empowered him to follow God's lead with exactness up until the miraculous moment when an angel called out from heaven, announcing to Abraham that he had passed his agonizing test. And then the angel of the Lord repeated the promise of the Abrahamic covenant.
I recognize that the challenges associated with having faith in Jesus Christ and obedience will be more difficult for some than others. I have had enough years of experience to know that the personalities of horses can be very different and, therefore, some horses can be easier or more difficult to train and that the variety of people is far greater. Each of us is a son or daughter of God, and we have a unique premortal and mortal story. Accordingly, there are very few one-size-fits-all solutions. And so I fully recognize the trial-and-error nature of life and, most importantly, the constant need of the second principle of the gospel, even repentance.
It is also true that the time during which my grandfather lived was a simpler time, especially regarding the choices between right and wrong. While some very intelligent and insightful people might believe our more complex time demands ever more complex solutions, I am far from convinced they are right. Rather, I am of the frame of mind that today's complexity demands greater simplicity, like the answer my grandfather gave to my sincere question about how to know the difference between right and wrong. I know what I have to offer today is a simple formula, but I can testify about how well it works for me. I recommend it to you and even challenge you to experiment upon my words, and if you do, I promise that they will lead you to clarity of choice when you are bombarded with choices and that they will lead to simple answers to questions that confuse the learned and those who think they are wise.
Too often we think of obedience as the passive and thoughtless following of the orders or dictates of a higher authority. Actually, at its best, obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. When Abraham demonstrated his unwavering faithfulness and obedience to God, even when commanded to sacrifice his son, God rescued him. Similarly, when we demonstrate our faithfulness through obedience, God will ultimately rescue us.
Those who rely solely on themselves and follow only their own desires and self-inclinations are so limited when compared to those who follow God and tap into His insight, power, and gifts. It has been said that someone who is all wrapped up in himself or herself makes a very small package. Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God's unlimited wisdom and omnipotence. According to the lesson my grandfather gave to me, it is a choice to sense the spiritual bit in our mouths and follow the driver's lead.
May we become heirs to the covenant and the seed of Abraham through our faithfulness and by receiving the ordinances of the restored gospel. I promise you that the blessings of eternal life are available to everyone who is faithful and obedient. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


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By Dan Gilgoff, CNN
(CNN) -- A conservative activist who served in George W. Bush's White House, Suhail Khan has lately found himself at odds with certain figures who should be allies, like fellow activists on the right and some leading lights of the Republican Party.
Khan, a Muslim, has chafed at recent remarks about Islam from potential Republican presidential contenders like Sarah Palin, who has called on "peaceful Muslims" to oppose a proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero, and Newt Gingrich, who has called for a federal ban on Sharia, or Islamic law.
Khan supports the New York Islamic center and says there's no threat of Sharia taking hold in the United States.
Then, last month, as he presided over a strategy session at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Khan was repeatedly interrupted by right-wing activists accusing him of having ties to the Islamic Brotherhood, the Islamist political party based in Egypt.
In recent days, Khan has gone on the offensive, meeting with Republican staffers on Capitol Hill and urging old friends to help halt or dramatically alter the direction of Republican Rep. Peter King's hearings on "radicalization in the American Muslim community," which begin Thursday.
"How did we go from the majority of American Muslims supporting Bush in 2000 to the very misguided comments of people like Palin and Gingrich and these King hearings," Khan asked in an interview this week.
While opinions vary on the propriety of Palin's and Gingrich's remarks and King's hearings, there appears to be a dramatic uptick recently in Republican rhetoric around Islam and Muslims.
In the run-up to last November's elections, Republicans including Palin and Gingrich weighed in against the proposed New York Islamic center, while Oklahoma voters approved a Republican-led effort to ban Sharia law (though the ban was blocked by a federal judge).
In the months since, roughly a dozen other states have started weighing bans on Sharia, with all or almost all of those efforts led by GOP lawmakers.
Other high visibility Republicans have criticized Islam or aspects of the religion or the Muslim community. Mike Huckabee, likely a 2012 presidential candidate, last month called Islam "the antithesis of the gospel of Christ" and criticized congregations that allow mosques to use their churches for prayers.
There are disagreements about what has caused such critiques to become an increasingly important part of GOP messaging and policy efforts. But with the Republican presidential primary on the horizon, as well as the 10-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, political analysts say the trend is likely to accelerate.
Republican operatives attribute the movement to lingering fears of terrorism, including an apparent spike in homegrown terrorism.
"People are concerned about terrorists, and anytime someone goes on an airplane they¹re reminded of that," says Ed Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist and CNN political contributor. "There is great mystery about Islam. I don't think the discussion is in a sophisticated place right now, but King is going to make a case."
Frank Gaffney, a conservative Washington activist who has long criticized Islam but whose views have often been rejected by mainstream Republicans, says a spate of high-profile terrorist incidents on American soil is making the GOP more receptive to his message.
The alleged gunman behind the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, massacre reportedly was radicalized by an American-born cleric based in Yemen. The failed Times Square bomber, sentenced to life in prison last year, is a naturalized U.S. citizen who said he was motivated by Islam.
"We have a problem, and the country is coming to grips with that," says Gaffney, who is among the activists alleging that Khan has ties to radical Islamist groups.
"The Republican presidential candidates are going to have to be knowledgeable about this problem to a degree that they haven't had to be up to this point," Gaffney says.
But other Republicans suggest that inflammatory remarks about Islam are coming from the party's fringes.
"So far, a great many leading Republican figures have been very temperate in their remarks" about Islam, says GOP strategist Whit Ayres. "They¹re making a distinction between peace-loving Muslims and radical terrorists."
He rattled off a list of likely 2012 Republican presidential contenders who he says fit that description: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour and Jon Huntsman, all current or former governors.
Asked about whether Palin, Gingrich and Huckabee would make the cut, Ayres said, "I'll leave it at that."
Few Republicans have criticized King's hearings, which could stretch out for more than a year. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, King has responded to criticism that the sessions single out Muslims, saying, "I will not allow political correctness to obscure a real and dangerous threat to the safety and security of the citizens of the United States."
"We're talking about al Qaeda," King told CNN over the weekend. "There's been self-radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there, and that's where the threat is coming from at this time."
Of course, the broader issues of terrorism and national security, which often touch on Islam, aren't new to the GOP. John Esposito, a Georgetown University professor of religion and international affairs who focuses on Islam, said in an email message that rhetoric around Islam by "Republicans like Peter King and others go back to post-9/11."
"You could especially see it in presidential primaries," says Esposito, the co-editor of a new book on Islamophobia. "Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee all played the Muslim terrorism card in 2008 without carefully distinguishing between the small minority of cases at that time and the Muslim-American community."
Khan, who served in the Bush White House's Office of Public Liaison and in its Transportation Department, says the increasingly charged GOP rhetoric on Islam reflects a leadership vacuum in the party since it lost the White House in 2008.
"Hours after 9/11, Bush made it clear that ours was a war on violent extremists that were limited in number and were not representative of Islam," Khan says. "That leadership was key in reminding Americans that we¹re all Americans, regardless of faith or ethnic background."
Khan and other critics of the GOP's recent Islam critiques allege that the campaign is part of a broader effort to falsely brand President Obama, who is a Christian, as a Muslim.
"Conservatives see a nice nexus of being able to take advantage of pairing the president as Muslim while burnishing their national security credentials by fear mongering about Islam and Muslims," says Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, a national group.
A Pew survey last fall showed that nearly one in five Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, up from around one in 10 Americans who said he was Muslim in 2009.
Republicans deny allegations of such a campaign. But some non-Muslim strategists within the party have also criticized the way some if its spokespeople treat Islam, warning that harsh rhetoric on Islam could scare off Muslim voters and other religious minorities.
"The support for criticizing a mosque is half a mile wide and an inch deep," Grover Norquist, a top party strategist, told the Washington Post last year around the time of the controversy over the Islamic center near ground zero.
"And at the end of the process," he said, "the only people who will remember it are the people who feel threatened by this -- not just Muslims, but Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Mormons."
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LENEUF DE LA VALLIÈRE DE BEAUBASSIN, ALEXANDRE, naval captain, knight of the order of Saint-Louis; b. 22 June 1666 and baptized 2 Feb. 1667 at Trois-Rivières, eldest son of Michel Leneuf de La Vallière de Beaubassin, governor of Acadia, and of Marie, daughter of Nicolas Denys*; d. 1712.
Like his father, he was a good sailor and became a daring sea-captain. In May 1685, in his father's name, he arrested Bergier Des Ormeaux on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and seized his pelts; the latter was the son of Clerbaud Bergier*, the director of the Compagnie des Pêches sédentaire de l'Acadie.
Leneuf became a sub-lieutenant in 1690. In May 1691, on Buade* de Frontenac's orders, he went by boat from Quebec to Beaubassin to take gifts to the Indians. This mission seems to have been criticized by the king in a memorandum of April 1693 addressed jointly to the governor and the intendant; the king accused the person responsible for distributing the gifts to the Indians in this region of having used for his personal advantage the powder which was intended for them; according to some authors, this was one of the causes of the defection of a certain number of Acadian Indians.
Leneuf was promoted lieutenant on 1 March 1693. In a letter to the minister on 25 Oct. 1694, concerning a petition by La Vallière, the governor supported him as follows: "Everything he says therein is true; he is a very fine lad, liked and esteemed by everybody here, and has distinguished himself in several encounters."
During the winter of 1698–99 he carried on fur-trading by boat in Baie Verte. The year 1703 gave him an opportunity to take vengeance for the destruction of Beaubassin by Church in 1696. Rigaud de Vaudreuil sent him in the direction of Boston with a detachment of Abenakis and French. On 21 August (10 August, o.s.) Leneuf and his men made a surprise attack on the little town of Wells and took possession of it. According to François de Beauharnois* de La Chaussaye and Vaudreuil, they laid waste more than 15 leagues of enemy country and killed or captured more than 300 persons. Casco was saved thanks to the resistance put up by Captain Southack* and John March.
On 12 Oct. 1705 Ramezay recommended La Vallière to the minister for promotion. In 1707 he became associated with Guillaume Gaillard, and as commander of the Nostre-Dame-de-Victoire, he set out from Quebec in July for Newfoundland, with Thomas Moore, Henri-Louis Deschamps de Boishébert, and a crew of 100 Canadians, in search of Englishmen. He arrived there on 20 August. This privateering venture had little success, since no prizes were taken during it.
Alexandre was raised to the rank of naval captain on 5 May 1710. He was captured on the Neptune and taken as a prisoner to England in August 1711, when he was returning from France to bring aid to Acadia. In October he found himself penniless in Paris. The king recognized his services by granting him the cross of the order of Saint-Louis in June 1712. He died at sea on the Héros, in September of the same year.
Alexandre's naval career continued the tradition of the La Vallière family, which up to the period of the conquest furnished an unbroken line of distinguished soldiers and sailors.
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Do you have a bunch of credit cards, bank accounts, brokerages, and other money-related accounts? Create a map of your accounts and bills to get a better picture of your financial world.
Financial blog Bargaineering shows you how to diagram your accounts: first list all of them on a separate sheet, then link them together in the diagram, with your main checking account at the center. Add investment accounts and credit cards. Then link services you pay regularly (cable, Netflix, etc.) to the cards.
This hand-drawn diagram uses arrows to show how money flows in and out, plus letters (A, DD, etc.) to reflect direct deposits and electronic transfers.
You could definitely make your own financial network map as simple or detailed as you wish, even using Visio if you prefer.
Ramit Sethi's diagram on I Will Teach You to Be Rich is similar and illustrates how he has automated his money:
The point is to get the big picture view of your accounts so you can see if you need to simplify, where you might have any weaknesses, and so on. Check out the Bargaineering article below for more on how to set up your own map or share your thoughts with us if you've already created something similar.
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This week is all about ripple variations – how to make your ripples pointier, lacier, more or less textured, and so on. This week's Ripple Mania PDF includes four stitch patterns and one project. Due to Hurricane Sandy, I didn't take as many pictures as I would usually, but here are the patterns you will find this week.
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Donna Garner Explains Why Audiences Will Relate to the Untraditional Romance in Once
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In the Tony Award-winning Once, which arrives at the Boston Opera House on January 7, two musicians, Guy and Girl (played by Stuart Ward and Dani de Waal), form an unexpected partnership that leads to a complicated romance. According to Donna Garner, who plays Girl's mother Baruška, the family and friends around them blossom as a result of their relationship. The actress spoke to us about playing the matriarch of a Czech family in the show, as well as being a part of an orchestra and ensemble of singers (the actors in the show play their own instruments). Get to know Garner, then see Once, which will play Boston through January 19.


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Dickies is authentic American Workwear adopted by different subcultures, strongly associated with the West Coast. One thing all these groups have in common is that they have chosen Dickies because they stand for anti-fashion. Simple, relaxed, rugged garments that are stylish but never fancy.
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Back in 1922 when C. Don Williamson started a small family company with his father and cousin we doubt they could have imagined just how influential what they were creating would be. Williamson-Dickie Mfg. went from a small manufacturer of bib overalls to become the largest manufacturer of work clothes in the world.
The authentic dedicated users have influenced the rest of the world and created Dickies as the poster boy for a no-nonsense brand that is a little rough around the edges. Dickies has become so much more than just Workwear in the term: clothes just to work in. It has become part of so many various ways of expressing yourself and your specific lifestyle.
One thing is for sure, almost 100 years after the company's introduction, workers all over the world, whether they are tattoo artists, skaters, custom bike builders or construction workers, still choose Dickies as their number one choice when it comes to durable, functional, rugged garments that are stylish but never fancy: quality clothes for hard workers! Dickies will always stay true to its identity and vast heritage with its classic's such as the bib overalls and the Original 874 chino but also evolving this with trend into their European collections!


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These Deimos images combine HiRISE exposures in near-infrared, red and blue-green wavelengths. In the enhanced color, subtle color variations are visible -- redder in the smoothest areas and less red near the fresh impact craters and over ridges of topographic highs (relative to Deimos' center of gravity). The color variations are probably caused by exposure of surface material to the space environment, which leads to darkening and reddening. Brighter and less-red surface materials have seen less exposure to space due to recent impacts or downslope movement of regolith.
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Remember: "There is *always* a god of the system."
Brett Graham Fawcett at American Thinker:
Fear Theocracy? Bad News: All Politics Is Theocratic
The mistake of those panicked commentators [concerning recent mildly restrictive abortion laws] isn't that they think the ban on abortion is a theocratic move. That's more or less true. What they've missed, though, is that all politics is theological, including theirs."What they've missed, though, is that all politics is theological, including theirs."
The debate between pro-lifers and pro-choicers (and among different pro-choicers) has to do with when a fetus becomes a baby with moral rights. In other words, when does a bundle of cells become a person?
How you answer this depends on how you define human nature. This is a philosophical question - one of the oldest ones - relating to that branch of philosophy dealing with ultimate reality, metaphysics. It also touches on ethics, the philosophical project dedicated to answering the question: what are human persons supposed to do?
In other words, despite philosophy's reputation for abstraction and irrelevance, we find that all political beliefs are really philosophical beliefs.
They "miss" this deliberately. The secularists (leftists, "liberals", libertarians, etc) oppose "theocracy" only when the laws are based upon true/actual morality, and thus point toward the only God. One has only to look at what is going on in the world today to grasp that all their blather over the past century about "religious neutrality in government" was a head-fake: they were for "religious neutrality in government" only until *they* gained control and could impose *their* religious-and-moral conception upon the rest of us.
"... all politics is theological ..."
Religion and morality and politics are just different ways to ask, and to answer, the same questions: What do we *owe* one another? What may we *require* of one another? What may we *forbid* one another? What may we *compel* one another? And why? That is, what is the basis/grounding for the answers?
"How you answer this depends on how you define [i.e. 'conceive'] human nature."
And how you conceive human nature follows, inescapably, from how you conceive God.
EDIT 2019/06/01: Here is an article by Raymond Ibrahim, linking to an interesting discussion by two Scandinavian women -- "Deep Spiritual Crisis": Scandinavian Women Expose the West's Root Problems


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By James Jacobson, Digital Mapping System Data Analyst, NASA Ames Research Center
As a Digital Mapping System (DMS) operator, I have a fairly consistent morning ritual to prepare for a day of flying over the ice. This consistency is necessary for both operational integrity and presence of mind while we are attempting to accomplish our mission. I am often apprehensive at the beginning of a daily mission because I know it is so easy to overlook a small detail that might have a large effect later. All the average person looking down into the P-3 bomb bay would really see is a pair of Canon DSLR cameras pointing down at the ground, unaware of the great care that goes into the preparation.
Once at the plane, I clean our optical window inside and out with pure ethanol so that there is no residue of dust or grease left behind (a task often made difficult by gusting winds, freezing temperatures and other unforeseen environmental effects). I then clean the cameras and lenses and take a few test frames on the ground to ensure that the cameras are working properly. After that, I set up our GPS receivers to make sure we can capture the position and orientation of the P-3 at many fractions of a second.
Next, I set the camera's frame rate so we are sure to capture at least 60 to 70 percent overlap from one frame to the next. This changes due to how high or fast we are flying at any given time, I am constantly adjusting and fixing settings during flights, calculating frame rates by hand. Very little of the DMS system is automated for the simple fact that the human eye is often the best tool to determine the correct settings and factors that make for good data collection. I have to use whatever limited time I have at my disposal to get the best results I can, writing down by hand all changes made, as well as environmental conditions outside the plane that might adversely affect our imagery such as clouds, haze, fog or poor sun angle).
Because the instrument I operate is, in essence, a pair of very specialized digital cameras, I feel that it often gets overlooked by visitors to our little world within the tin belly of the NASA P-3. I don't mind, really, as I completely understand the draw that one might have towards the exciting technologies involved in the laser system, the radar arrays, the gravimeter sitting shrouded in the mid-body of the plane, or the magnetometer poised in the P-3's stinger. But what most people don't understand is that other than the pilots, I have probably the best view of the world outside the plane while we fly. Through hundreds of thousands of digital photographs I document the world as it passes below us at 250 miles per hour and see it clearly and unobstructed.
Also, I get a view that none of the other instruments get, because as a human being, you can see our data and have and instant and intuitive understanding of what you are looking at, without any need for computers to help you interpret what you are seeing with graphs or charts. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. What does 15,000 pictures over an 8 hour flight say?
As I watch glaciers, mountains, valleys, rivers and ice pass below us in crystal clarity, I am consistently awe-struck by the images that I see. Few people have ever gotten such a pure perspective. Some of the places we go have never been seen by human eyes, and I am both humbled and honored every time we fly by the task and mission we have set before ourselves. It is a fairly daunting mission, with radical scope, and I am proud to be a member of the team responsible for helping to make it happen. Like I said before, the casual observer may think of operating DMS as mundane, but I know for a fact that they don't see what I see.
For more information about the Digital Mapping System, visit: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/icebridge/instruments/dms.html
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Regarding the launch of the platform, the Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, said: "Cities and regions are at the forefront of implementing policies related to pollution, and are major drivers in the green transition. Many are already finding innovative solutions to clean their air, water and soil, and encourage more sustainable patterns of production and consumption. I am delighted to partner with the European Committee of the Regions to create this new platform to share these good ideas, and support zero pollution objectives on the ground."
The President of the European Committee of the Regions and Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia in Greece, Apostolos Tzitzikostas , welcomed the platform stating: "We all have a responsibility to act to protect our environment, leaving the safe and healthy future our children and planet deserve. Governments, businesses and stakeholders must all come together to stop the pollution of our water, air and land. It needs local leadership which is why the European Committee of the Regions is delighted to launch the Zero Pollution Stakeholders Platform with the European Commission."
Vasco Alves Cordeiro , First Vice-President of the European Committee of the Regions and Member of the Azores Regional Parliament, took part in the launch event of the Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform, saying: "Local and regional governments are responsible for delivering 70% of EU policies, 70% of climate mitigation measures and up to 90% of climate adaptation measures. The Zero Pollution Action Plan is essential to save lives and create a more sustainable future. Its platform will help translate European goals into local and regional realities, as regions and cities are in a better position to assess the effectiveness of measures and the fulfilment of goals. To be a success, this will need to be an open and inclusive process, mobilising citizens, SMEs, businesses, social movements, and research institutions. Exploring synergies and ensuring territorial cohesion is essential."
Tjisse Stelpstra (NL/ECR), Member of the Council of the Province of Drenthe, was one of the jury members of the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards . The ceremony, held on 1 June, awarded the most outstanding awareness-raising actions on waste reduction implemented during the 2020 EWWR. Stelpstra declared: "There is no waste! We need a mind shift in how to look at resources. Too often in our linear economy, materials are simply discarded and tossed away. But materials we no longer use, are the resources of our future. Governments at all levels have to lead in regulating and stimulating to make a fair transition to a circular economy possible. The Action Plan of the European Commission says good things on re-use and the right to repair. We can prevent a lot of waste if products are designed accordingly. Many people have excellent ideas, but ore than that, there is a lot of activity. So this award ceremony is for me also a ceremony of hope and confidence."
On 3 June, János Ádám Karácsony (HU/EPP), member of the Local Government of Tahitótfalu and CoR rapporteur on the EU Clean Air policy , engaged in the session LIFE for clean air– EU funding in pollution hotspots , which focused on the zero pollution projects that are being carried out through LIFE funding, and remarked: "The revision of the Ambient Air Quality directives in connection with the new World Health Organization guidelines is one of the proposals of greatest importance of the Zero Pollution Action Plan. The Ambient Air quality directives have a clear territorial dimension with the definition of zones and agglomeration and local and regional communities have a fundamental role in improving air quality in their areas. However, pollution does not stop at local, regional, national or European borders. To reduce pollution, we need cooperation and funding. The implementation of air quality programmes will only succeed if enough financial resources are allocated. EU funding opportunities, including LIFE, are crucial to achieve climate objectives."
Emmanuel Disabato (BE/Greens), member of the Parliament of Wallonia, participated in the high-level session Achieving zero-pollution cities through regional policy and the Green City Accord on 4 June and stated: "The Zero Pollution Action Plan is fundamental if we truly want to obtain a green recovery and to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal. Cities and regions will play a crucial role in its implementation and in ensuring that there are no gaps between what is proposed in Brussels and the reality on the ground. Thus, a new 'Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform' to bring together stakeholders and experts from different policy areas will be established in order to assess the effectiveness of policies and share concerns. The CoR is willing to contribute to meeting the zero-pollution ambition and for this reason will continue to support the Green City Accord and its developments."
The session presented the Green City Accord and showed how this initiative can support the delivery of the zero-pollution ambition at local level. Niina Ratilainen (FI/Greens), member of the Turku City Council presented the case of her city: "The City of Turku is committed to a climate-neutral and resource-wise future with zero emissions, zero waste, and a low ecological impact by the year 2040. Our goals are ambitious, but when we look at the scale and complexity of the ecological crises, no city can strive for less ambition. The next steps we are about to take include finalising a circular economy roadmap, establishing a local biodiversity plan and starting to operate the first large-scale end-of-life textile refinement plant of the Nordic countries."
On 11 June, Arno Kompatscher (IT/EPP), President of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, participated in the Green Week partner event co-organized by the CoR. The event was called Rural and urban challenges in developing regional zero-pollution plans and aimed to reflect on the potential solutions that cross-border EU regions should be aware of and how the CoR could support the process towards zero-pollution cross-border regions. Kompatscher stated: "Zero pollution is the vision which determines our goals: whatever we do, there will always be a certain degree of pollution noise, light, etc. However, we have to take the right track. Let's push our efforts to reach close to zero, safeguarding our enterprises, consumers and territories. Rural vs urban, cross-border, multilevel: those should be our milestones when transforming the vision and challenge of today into the reality and opportunity of tomorrow."
The Deputy Minister for Tourism, Regeneration, Justice and Local Administration of the Regional Government of Andalusia, Manuel Cardenete Flores (ES/RE), also participated in the event, where he shared his experience from a regional perspective on how to achieve zero pollution: "We are developing municipal action plans more than 800 municipal action plans in our region and we support them with guidelines and tools. Public transparency and participation of all different actors is essential to achieve visible results, so Andalusia is making sure to support local governments to be able to deliver their and our commitments".
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The iPad and the Future of the App
Permalink for this paragraph 0 MKG: I'd like to talk to you about the iPad. I found your latest post on the if:book blog ("The Future of the App") pretty interesting. In it, you wrote about always searching for what could replace the book, or being asked —
Permalink for this paragraph 0 BS: — the post on if:book was focused on the word "book"; i.e. what word might replace it as forms of expression evolve.
Permalink for this paragraph 0 MKG: Do you think that the book as a kind of metaphor provides a useful constraint on how we imagine future modes of learning, or is it just a conceptual stumbling block that we're going to move past?
Permalink for this paragraph 1 BS: One important aspect of a book that I realized early on is that before the digital era, or before the electronic era, books were the one medium where a user was in control of the sequence and pace at which they absorbed the contents. Back in 1981, I started describing books as a user-driven medium, in contrast to twentieth century media — radio, television, movies — which at that point were producer-driven, because you just sat in a chair and you had absolutely no control over the experience.
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The "aha" moment I had was that adding a microprocessor to the mix meant that producer-driven media, like movies and television, were going to be transformed into user-driven media. For me, the crucial thing — and this happened in the process of writing the paper for Britannica — was when I wrestled with the question of "what's a book?" and "what happens when we make it electronic?" I realized that everything was going to become book-like in the sense of being user-driven and that the ways in which a user interacts with content becomes an important part of her experience. I didn't know much about McLuhan at that point, although the more I understand of his work, the more I realize his importance and that I was, in some respects, following in his path.Permalink for this paragraph 0 MKG: Going back to your blog post, you described the "app" as being maybe not the candidate, but at least one of the best ones you've seen, for something that could replace the book.
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BS: I think you're taking my post a little bit differently . . . . I was purely talking about the word "app." Frankly, I just wanted to go on record being the first person to say that we're going to stop talking about "books" some day and start talking about "apps". And that was really an attempt at flag planting, as much as anything else. [laughs].Permalink for this paragraph 0 MKG: Let's turn a little bit towards the iPad, because you spoke about how important it has become to you. I have one, and I've been using it more and more, as well. But, especially when it first came out, there was a line of argument against the iPad which was that it is basically a device of consumption and not production. I don't know if you know Jonathan Zittrain's work, but he describes what he calls generative devices and generative systems. He thinks that app systems, which are designed to be centrally controlled and which allow application makers to roll out upgrades and updates easily, sometimes without the approval of users — don't provide the kind of generativity that, say, the computer might. So, I'm wondering: do you use your iPad mostly for the consumption of media? And if so, is that a problem to you?
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BS: I made a huge mistake in assuming that when the tablet arrived, it would be a version of the all-purpose Dynabook Alan Kay had predicted back in 1967. [Steve] Jobs surprised us with a tablet that was exquisitely designed for consumption. The core assumption of the iPad is that for most people, computing will now be equated with consuming rather than producing. Do I think that's a good thing? No. But I think it's happened. Whether or not we're going to get out from under that? My guess is not for a while. I think this is fundamentally a social and political question and not a technical question. It's not that Apple couldn't have delivered something akin to the Dynabook; they just chose a different path with long-term consequences we don't yet understand.Permalink for this paragraph 0 Will Nick Negroponte be able to build the Dynabook? Maybe, but my instinct is that the forces of capital are such that it won't be able to get the same kind of traction that the iPad has. My guess is that the tablets running Android, Nokia and other operating systems are likely to follow the iPad lead. They may be more open in terms of what you can have in the App Store, but I don't see them optimizing their tablets for productivity. They may. I mean, if we look ahead twenty years, Google Docs may be a fully-realized multimedia authoring environment. But for the next few years I think we're stuck with a weirdly deformed computing environment where we're carrying around multiple devices — tablets, phones and notebook computers — which duplicate a lot, but not all, of each other's functions.
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My computer was stolen the other day and I'm thinking about seeing how far I can get with just a tablet and a phone. I'm definitely going to move to the cloud [ie., cloud-based computing], but it's complicated for me. I have a tremendous love for the media objects in my life. I grew up with books, I grew up with vinyl, I used to lie down on the couch and read the album cover while listening to music, so those things are important to me. On the other hand, the idea of everything from now on being in the cloud? I'm sort of okay with that. It doesn't frighten me the way it seems to frighten a lot of people, especially in my age group. They seem to think it's horrible – the idea that you'd have to log onto the web just to read a book.


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A few weeks ago I was asked how I manage my time to accomplish items on my to do list. First let me just say that my situation affords me a lot of time to devote towards illustration projects and for that I feel very fortunate. My youngest boy is now 13 and does a lot with his older brothers and friends. My wife was teaching school when he was a pup so I spent a lot of time watering and weeding that one but now I have much more time. I don't have a full time job so that really helps. I know many of you have a lot of responsibilities that demand big chunks of time but here are some of my strategies - perhaps they might give you a few ideas:
I need less money because we've simplified our lives. Fewer activities, reusing items, less extravagant vacations - basically living within our means has allowed me to take on less work- to be choosy and more judicious with my time.
I work many hours during the day but when I draw I do it on my iPad in the family room so I can be with my wife and kids - not super high quality time but I can still participate in discussions...and arguments :) I do most of the thumbnail and design decisions in my studio where I can think and then refine the finishes with the fam.
I sketch on an iPad - I can't tell you how much time this has saved me. We have some medical issues in our family and find ourselves at doctor appointments quite often. Now I can take my work with me on the iPad. I like it better than a sketchbook because I can completely finish drawings because I never run out of "paper". You can always re-size and keep working. When I'm at school or waiting for one of my kids in the car - at the in-laws, etc. I always have the ability to keep working. I then email the work to myself and when I get home I'm already to start photoshop work.
I love hiking in the mountains and playing racquetball - so I use both of these as incentives. I'll tell myself that I can't leave for my hike until I get x done. Self imposed deadlines have become a way of life - so much that sometimes I forget that they are my deadlines and I sometimes have to remind myself that it's ok to blow one now and then. The hike resets my mind and gives me focus - I'm more productive when I return.
I had to go on an internet diet. One of my indulgences is to check facebook, email, twitter, my blog, my back office sales stats for Amazon and Pubit, other people's blogs, news feeds, etc. The online connections are potentially endless and Seth Godin really helped me by clearly stating that these distractions are NOT work. So while I used to be able to convince myself that it was part of my productivity I no longer can - Thanks Seth! I jump on in the morning and then a few more times throughout the day but then I click out and really try to crank on my assignments.
I visualize a lot too. I begin with the end in mind as Stephen Covey put it in his 7 habits book. Imagining how cool it will be to have children's story apps for iPad and android really gets me going and gives me the motivation to sidestep many distractions that inevitably try to trip me each day.
I also break down each project into small little checklist items. Even if you're only able to cross one little item off each day think what you'll be able to accomplish in a year. Thinking about doing it is good but people sometimes spend years telling themselves, "I'm going to_______." - make the freakin list - start checking things off!
Probably the biggest thing I've been able to do to boost my productivity and time management is to start saying no to assignments I'm not in love with. Cutting out the projects that bring me down and replacing them with projects I love has me waking up in the morning excited to get going. Sometimes I have to pinch myself that I get to go in my studio and work on some freakin cool stuff.
Hope this list helps some of you - it's taken me many years to finally figure out what works for me - I'd love to know what works for you...maybe I can steal a few ideas.


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With all the fuss around the EPA's proposed carbon dioxide standard for new power plants, you would be forgiven for missing the following line: "EPA projects that this proposed rule will result in negligible CO2 emission changes, quantified benefits, and costs by 2022." That's right, the standard will likely have little to no effect before the date by which EPA will be required by law to revise it.
Why? As I recently told the National Journal, because the most credible projections have natural gas so inexpensive for the next several years that very few power companies are planning to build new coal plants – compared with the 150 natural gas power plants in the works. Pulling the proposed standard wouldn't change that reality. In fact, the one coal plant being built today includes carbon capture and storage (CCS), and is expected to meet the tough carbon standard EPA has proposed. A handful of additional coal plants with CCS may move forward in the next several years, as well.
So what's all the fuss about?
Most of it is politics, which we'll leave for others to discuss. (And exemplify.) Once you get past the politics, the proposal raises two important questions.
The first is: Does the proposal indicate how EPA will set carbon dioxide standards for existing power plants? No, according to EPA. Earlier this week, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said, "[CCS] is not seen, at least at this stage, as an add-on that could be used to put on an existing conventional coal facility." McCarthy isn't alone in saying that. Even the Natural Resources Defense Council, the author of a detailed proposal for the existing plant standards, doesn't see EPA requiring CCS for existing power plants.
The real question is the second one: Will the new standard advance CCS?
By every credible indication, coal and natural gas will be predominant sources of electricity in the United States and around the world for decades to come. If we don't figure out how to use coal and natural gas while keeping their CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere, we will not solve the climate change problem. Today, CCS appears to be the most viable means of doing this. The International Energy Agency estimates that CCS can achieve 14 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed by 2050 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
CCS is not a brand-new technology. There are nine active commercial-scale CCS projects at industrial plants around the world, six of them in the United States. The world's first two commercial-scale CCS power plants — Southern Company's coal-fueled Kemper County energy facility in Mississippi, and Boundary Dam Power Station in Saskatchewan, Canada – are under construction and expected to be operational in 2014. Approximately 50 additional commercial-scale CCS projects in the power and industrial sectors are in various stages of development around the world. The problem with CCS isn't that we don't know how to do it – it's that we don't know how to do it inexpensively yet.
Pushing CCS down the learning/cost curve is a national and global imperative. The real question for the proposed new power plant standard is whether it hinders that process, helps it, or has much impact one way or the other. In particular, with natural gas so cheap, who will build the next several commercial-scale CCS power plants, the ones that will get us down the cost curve?
The answer is probably that CCS will only be built to accommodate the one industry that actually has an appetite for large amounts of carbon dioxide – the industry that pumps it underground to recover oil from otherwise tapped-out oil fields. This "enhanced oil recovery" has been underway in west Texas for 40 years, accounts for 6 percent of U.S. oil production, and could account for a lot more once we figure out how to get more carbon dioxide to the fields from industrial and power sources. In addition to deploying CCS, encouraging carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) would have the added benefits of safely storing carbon dioxide underground, boosting domestic oil production, and generating federal revenue.
What we should be asking is whether the new coal plant standard will be enough to advance CCS.


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Rick Warren: 9/11 National Prayer Day Planned 2 Blocks From Ground Zero
A church located two blocks from New York City's ground zero, which was planted in Manhattan shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S., will be part of the live webcast memorial services led by Orange County, Calif., megachurch pastor Rick Warren.
The services will be at least partially broadcast from Lower Manhattan Community Church, one of Saddleback's "daughter churches," on the weekend of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy.
The full details of the "Hope & Freedom" services have not been disclosed and are still being formulated, said a Saddleback Church spokesperson. Lower Manhattan Community Church is led by Ryan Holladay, the son of Saddleback Church's associate pastor Tom Holladay.
Warren made it obvious to his congregation during weekend services that the decision by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's to exclude any prayers from clergy at ground zero in the upcoming 10th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks did not sit well with him.
Bloomberg recently stated, "Everybody would like to participate, and the bottom line is everybody cannot participate. There isn't room. There isn't time. And in some cases, it's just not appropriate."
Warren described the 9/11 terrorist attack as an event that changed the world and led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, with many lives lost.
"This week the mayor of New York City announced that at the 10th anniversary memorial service at ground zero that there are going to be no prayers," Warren said in church, accompanied by a smattering of boos. "Now, you know what I think about that. So, we are going to have our own nationwide, national prayer day," he said to applause.
Warren said that Saddleback sent two of the church's pastors to New York City to start two churches "in order to take care of the spiritual needs of a very confused and broken city." Lower Manhattan Community Church was originally called Mosaic.
"On 9/11 weekend we are going to link up with our daughter church in New York City. Ryan is going to help me with this service where he is going to broadcast from ground zero," Warren continued during his announcement to the church. "We're going to have some testimonies out of our church in New York City of people who were there on 9/11."
Warren added that the weekend services will also be "an enormous opportunity for us to honor the people who have kept our nation free."
"This will be a nationwide coast-to-coast linkup to have prayer. Of all the times, America needs prayer," Warren said and then rhetorically asked, "Do you think it needs prayer right now?"
Holladay told The Christian Post that Lower Manhattan Community Church commemorates 9/11 on the first Sunday in September every year, but there is more emphasis on the ceremony this year because of the 10th anniversary.
"We want to give people an opportunity to process the anniversary from a spiritual perspective," Holladay said. "It wasn't just a national or civic tragedy, it was a spiritual tragedy, and we want to support people as they work through it. 9/11 left a spiritual vacuum behind for many people. We want to fill that vacuum with God's love."