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In his 35-year career with Accenture, Mr. Nanterme has held a wide variety of leadership positions across key parts of Accenture's business. Prior to becoming CEO in January 2011, he was Group Chief Executive of Accenture's Financial Services operating group, which serves clients in the banking, capital markets and insurance industries. In 2006, he joined Accenture's global leadership team, where he contributed to the planning and execution of Accenture's successful long-term business strategy and the implementation of its global operating model.
From May 2006 through August 2007, Mr. Nanterme was Chief Leadership Officer, with primary responsibility for Accenture's leadership development program. In that role, he oversaw Accenture's corporate citizenship initiatives globally. He also served as Accenture's country managing director for France from November 2005 through August 2007. Mr. Nanterme spent much of his earlier career with Accenture in the Financial Services operating group, where he served as managing director for Europe, Africa and Latin America, as well as global managing director of Accenture's Insurance industry group.
Mr. Nanterme represents Accenture in a number of external venues. Since 2011, he has served on various task forces for the B20 Summit, which comprises top business leaders from the G20 countries who inform and advise the G20 on key global issues from a business perspective. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's International Business Council and its IT Governors Steering Committee, as well as executive sponsor of the Forum's Digital Transformation of Industries research project. He is also a member of the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council.
Mr. Nanterme joined Accenture in 1983 and became a partner in 1993. He holds a Master of Science degree in management from ESSEC Business School (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) in Paris. He was awarded the insignia of Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in France in 2010. In 2015, he was named to Fortune's "Businessperson of the Year" list of top CEOs. In 2016, he was named to Harvard Business Review's list of "The Best-Performing CEOs in the World."


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Now it's time to take the Illusive Man's advice, and head to Omega to find Dr. Mordin Solus, "a brilliant Salarian scientist," as the Illusive Man so aptly put it. To get there, order the Normandy to head over to the Omega Nebula. Once you've made the jump, you can then head to Omega itself. Omega is an interest place. It was once an asteroid that had been hollowed out and converted into a space station long ago. Now, it's in a state of perpetual disrepair, and completely overrun with lawless brigands. You're heading here not to bring the place down (which would likely be impossible), but rather to find who you're looking for. Once your tasks here are done, there's no other reason to explore.
Of course, your intent is far different from perceptions back on Omega itself. When you arrive, you'll almost immediately be intercepted by a surprisingly-kind Salarian named Fargut. However, Fargut won't get many words out before he's quickly replaced by an angry Batarian named Moklan. Instantly catching an attitude with Shepard, no amount of persuasion with Moklan will bring him off of his high-and-mighty perch. He demands that you go explain yourself (and your presence) to Omega's leader, who is located nearby, in a place called Afterlife. You won't have much of a choice but to follow his instructions.
Afterlife: Don't waste any time exploring any other area of Omega yet, because there's little you can do before you find the woman who's actually running the show here. And to do that, you need to enter Omega's booming club known as Afterlife. Skip the line in front and walk up to the entrance. The guards there will let you in after letting you know that Aria is waiting for you at the back end of the club. As you walk down the entrance tunnel, you can speak with a Batarian named Kylan. We responded to him with a Paragon slant, which forced him to holster his weapon and walk away (you'll likely meet up with him later). Renegades may catalyze an outright gunfight right here, however, so be careful!
When you finally get into the club itself, let's begin to look around. Other than the bartender, who will serve you plenty of shots, you won't find anyone else who will speak with you. A man known as the Merc Recruiter has to do with acquiring the help of someone called Archangel, so you can ignore him completely both now and after your conversation with Aria (we'll recruit Archangel when we're done with the Salarian doctor). Aria, once approached, will force her men on you with guns drawn. Once they realize you're no threat, Aria will begin to talk to you about any number of subjects. You can ask her about herself, and about Omega, and even about the aforementioned Archangel, but for the time being, what you really want to know more about is the Salarian doctor named Mordin Solus. She'll tell you that he can be found in the Quarantine Zone, helping out some sickly people there. She also lets you know that you travel there at your own risk, if you can even get there at all.
Harrot's Emporium: You can visit Harrot's Emporium at the location designated on the map, whenever you'd like. Harrot is the name of the Elcor that runs this store, and he's got quite a few goods worth bartering for, if you examine the kiosk at his counter. However, the main reason you probably want to visit Harrot is in association with the side quest called Omega: Struggling Quarian. More on this side quest can be found in the Side Quests section of the guide. Please keep in mind that you may also be able to convince Harrot to lower his prices, whether with Paragon or Renegade tactics.
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Don't you hate it when Valentines Day rolls around and you're still stuck with that person you kept meaning to break up with, but then they made you a sandwich and you forgot?
So now you have to get that person a Valentines cake, but you don't want to go overboard with the whole mushy sentiment or effort or anything?
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And speaking of "buttering" her up, fellas, have you considered the new "rear view" pendant that's all the rage this year?
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — While the rest of the market was tanking over fears of going off a fiscal cliff, hospital stocks soared Wednesday as the re-election of President Barack Obama is expected to keep them on firm ground for at least another four years.
Shares of major hospital companies jumped by more than 9% in some cases after fears were allayed that a Mitt Romney administration would undo Obama's health-care overhaul legislation, commonly known as Obamacare. See story on election results.
Hospital shares had tanked on Tuesday as the market apparently was concerned about a Romney victory. The repeal of Obamacare would have meant that hospitals would return to putting a large share of "bad debt" on their books in order to pay for indigent patients' emergency care.
Industry leader HCA Holdings Inc. HCA, -3.07% led the way, with shares up 9.5% in recent action to $33.85. A number of major chains were right on HCA's heels.
Tenet Healthcare Corp. THC, -2.12% made a similar move, up 9.6% to $27.34. Health Management Associates US:HMA gained more than 7% to $8.28 and Community Health Systems Inc. CYH, -6.94% surged by 6% to $30.39.
Medicare and Medicaid insurers joined the party as well, as Obamacare is designed to keep dollars flowing to their companies. Centene Corp. CNC, -1.24% climbed 10% to $43.88 while WellCare Health Plans Inc. WCG, -0.60% tacked on more than 4% to $49.90. Molina Healthcare Inc. MOH, -0.59% also gained ground, up 4.6% to $27.85.
But the news wasn't all good for the sector as the vast majority of companies — who see Obamacare as a mixed blessing at best — joined in with the rest of the falling market.
Humana Inc.'s HUM, -1.62% exposure to Medicare Advantage reform under Obamacare, coupled with its plans to acquire Metropolitan Health Networks Inc. US:MDF, caused two key analysts to downgrade the company's shares.
Shares of Humana plunged by nearly 8% to $70.16.
Goldman Sachs Inc. analyst Matthew Borsch cut Humana shares to sell from neutral while Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Kevin Fischbeck also reduced his rating to neutral from buy.
"While outperformance is unlikely for the sector as a whole, we see mixed or even positive election implications for companies with minimal-to-modest exposure to commercial and Medicare Advantage reform downside risks and positive exposure to Medicaid expansion," Borsch wrote in a note to clients.
Fischbeck was slightly more optimistic about Humana's chances, saying, "we expect 2013 guidance has reset the bar low and given [Humana's] scale and track record, we believe that they will weather this storm better than most."
Others in the sector were dragged down as well, including WellPoint Inc. US:WLP, which was off more than 5% to $57.85 and UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH, -0.81% dropped nearly 4% to $54.26.
For many insurers, Obamacare is a mixed blessing. While they can expect to enlist more patients in their programs, they won't be able to weed out high-risk patients and stick exclusively to more healthy policyholders.
Medical device makers, meanwhile, can look forward to a tax on their profits as Obamacare tries to rein in their skyrocketing margins from the last decade.
Medtronic Inc. MDT, +0.27% fell 3% to $41.51 while St. Jude Medical Inc. US:STJ was off more than 3% to $37.38. Similarly, Boston Scientific Corp. BSX, +0.91% lost more than 3% to $5.16.


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More Americans are buying homes in all-cash deals, according to a new report. But real-estate experts say this increase may not be a good sign for the health of the housing market, which may also be impacted by the Federal Reserve's decision to pull back on its bond-buying program.
All-cash purchases accounted for 42% of all sales of residential property in November 2013, up from 39% during the previous month, according to data from real-estate data firm RealtyTrac released Friday. "This is still a very cash- and investor-driven market," says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.
The cities with the biggest month-over-month jumps in the number of all-cash sales, according to RealtyTrac, included Florida (63%), Georgia and Nevada (both 51%), South Carolina (50%) and Michigan (49%). This helped boost overall sales of U.S. residential properties, which sold at an annualized pace of 5.1 million in November 2013, a 1% increase from the previous month and a rise of 10% from a year ago.
The decision by the Federal Reserve Wednesday to reduce its bond-buying program to $75 billion per month starting in January, from $85 billion per month currently, may also encourage more cash-purchases — at least for those who can afford it, Blomquist says. "They're going to do everything they can to keep interest rates low, which may be tough to do," he says. To reduce cash buyers, he says there will need to be low interest rates and a cooling off in home price appreciation. "Otherwise, you'll see the market skew even further toward cash buyers," Blomquist says.
When interest rates went up slightly in June, there was a notable increase in cash sales, Daren Blomquist says. "Some markets are more interest-rate sensitive than others based on affordability," he says. "Just a slight increase makes homes a lot less affordable." In fact, another report by Goldman Sachs in August was even more strongly in the cash-is-king camp, estimating that cash sales now account for 57% of all residential home sales versus 19% in 2005. Walt Molony, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors, says that the association's estimate of the share of the market made up by all-cash buyers is lower than others', at 31% in July, but that it's still at an all-time high.
Molony says that investors make up 32% of all-cash buyers (70% of all investors pay cash), up from 31% in October and 30% in November 2012, while retirees who've built up equity in their homes or paid off their mortgages account for around 12%. The rest include vacation-home buyers and foreign buyers.
While cash buys help explain the surge in home sales over the past year, some experts say it's an unsustainable trend — and one that should be greeted with caution. "The rise in cash sales is not a good long-term trend for the housing market," Blomquist says. Although RealtyTrac doesn't identify who has cash-in-hand, experts say wealthy Americans and downsizing retirees account for some of these all-cash deals. Investors who are keen to make a profit by buying low and renting those properties — or flipping them — also drive up the number of all-cash deals, he says. None of these three groups — flippers, retirees and the wealthy — are big enough to sustain the market in the long run, he says. If it remains dominant in the long run, cash buying "will have a chilling effect on home sales and prices," Blomquist says.
If tapering does lead to higher mortgage rates, some home buyers might buy with cash rather than a mortgage, says Jed Kolko, chief economist for real-estate firm Trulia. However, many cash buyers are investors, and now that prices have risen, investor activity is also starting to decline, he says. (House prices in 20 American cities rose more than 13% in the 12 months leading up to September, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values, the biggest rise since February 2006.) "On balance, the all-cash share of purchases will probably decline next year, as fading investor activity outweighs the impact of higher rates."
Another challenge for the housing market in 2014: The pool of potential buyers is being limited thanks to a combination of tight lending standards and rising interest rates, experts say. "Cash is king in hot markets where getting the sale done now matters and where investors are driving price recovery," says Susan M. Wachter, professor of real estate and finance at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Cash's dominance is a sign of the fact that it's more costly and hard to get financing, she says, "that's a bad thing." On the upside, interest rates are still historically low, she says. "Now is a time to lock in if you are a buyer."
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Financial advisers often have an alphabet of professional designations behind their names, but the dominant one remains "CFP," or certified financial planner.
The CFP Board, which sets the national standards for financial planners, has announced in the past year or so a series of changes meant to strengthen the designation. It beefed up the ethics curriculum and hired a director of investigations to make sure planners comply with standards. And this summer, it will begin disclosing whether members have filed for bankruptcy within the past five years — something that could affect a consumer's decision to hire them.
The CFP Board also launched an "ambassador" program, in which members of good standing reach out to the public about the need for a financial plan and explain what the CFP designation means.
Maryland's ambassador is John Hauserman, a Marriottsville planner and the author of "RetirementQuest: Make Better Decisions." Hauserman has been a financial adviser for 20 years and a CFP since 2007.
Why did the CFP Board launch the ambassador program?
They felt like people didn't understand the value of the [CFP] mark. But they have a dual mission. One is to understand the value of the mark, and the other is to educate the public. So we as ambassadors should be doing those two things.
What's the difference between a CFP and all the other designations out there?
The CFP is uniquely qualified to provide a holistic view of a person's finances. A CFP has gone through rigorous training. On average, it's two years of course work and a rather grueling two-day exam. It has about a 45 percent pass rate. And then they are held to a pretty high standard of ongoing education, and that includes ethics. … Other industry organizations are catching on to this, but the CFP was one of the first to come out and just completely endorse the concept of the fiduciary standard. … If you're an independent adviser, you are held to this fiduciary standard of putting your clients' needs first. As a broker, you're not.
Investors had a lot of mistrust of financial advisers. The Bernie Madoff scandal didn't help. And neither did finding out recently that Goldman Sachs employees reportedly called their clients "muppets." What do you think about this lack of trust of the industry?
Our industry began for the most part in the Industrial Revolution era. And it was hard-closing, hard-jiving, churn and burn, and if a few people fall into the meat grinder along the way, so be it. And those players are still that way … selling real estate because it was a hot thing; selling the funds that would trade through the wire houses and pay extra for the trade because it wasn't their money, it was the clients' money. … It's no wonder people don't trust them. … [Still,] most of the people I have met in the industry are very good, well-intentioned people who want to do their clients well.
The most common question I get from readers is, "How do you find a trustworthy adviser who isn't just interested in selling you investments?" So how do you find one?
There is a little bit of homework you need to do. … You have to know a little bit about what the process looks like because that way you will know if they are cutting corners. … You can check out your adviser. There [are] a number of ways to do that. There is BrokerCheck, which is through FINRA [Financial Industry Regulatory Authority]. And the CFP Board also has a link, Letsmakeaplan.org, where you can check out your adviser. The CFP Board also at Letsmakeaplan.org has a tool where you can find a CFP in your area. It's a person who is in good standing with the board. That's the only way to be on there and you have to be accepting clients. … They also have a CFP Consumer Guide to Financial Self-Defense.
What can a planner do that someone can't do on their own?
Take the time. … People have all the access to all the tools. There are no secrets anymore. The biggest thing that you get from an adviser is a broad base of knowledge and experience. … Another important thing an adviser is generally able to do: They don't have the same emotional attachment to your money. They are much more likely [to be] able to help you stick to a disciplined game plan.
Can you suggest some questions that a consumer would want to ask planners or advisers before hiring them?
The question I would ask absolutely is "How do you get paid?" If they say, "Oh, the investment company pays me," be aware that's a commission. It's not necessarily bad to earn a commission, but it is a transaction-oriented approach. So if you're looking for someone to be on the same side as you and hold your hand through retirement, you're far less likely to get that with a transaction-oriented approach. Obviously, I think it's important that they are a CFP. I would ask how long they have been in the business. … "Describe your ideal client" would be a very good question to ask.
For instance, if you're a business owner and you have a lot of complex issues, you wouldn't want someone who has never worked with a business owner before. … Likewise, if you're relatively simple — half a million dollars in your 401(k), you need an asset allocation model, some general advice — you probably don't want the adviser that works with all business owners because they charge for all kinds of things that you are never going to use.
Last year, the CFB Board strengthened its ethics curriculum and recently hired a director of investigations. Can you elaborate on those moves?
They are very serious about their mission to protect and serve the public and to do that by making sure that CFP practitioners are well-educated. Now that there are 65,000 of them and growing, [board members] wanted to make sure they had the manpower to enforce adherence to the fiduciary standards and all the other things. Their holy grail is to make sure that [the CFP] mark is meaningful to the public and to the industry.
What would you advise the Mega Millions winner?
Call me.
I thought you would suggest taking the lump sum.
Before you take a lump sum, it's not as much a math decision as it is a personality decision. When I have people come to me and they have the option of taking a pension as a lump sum when retiring, the first questions I ask: "Did you save any money in your 401(k)? Do you have credit card balances?" And if the answer is, "No, I haven't any money in my 401(k), and yes, I have credit card balances," then I just say, "Stop there and take the pension. Because your relationship with money hasn't historically been very good. And my experience has been that it's probably not going to change when you get a lump sum. … In fact, it will make it worse."
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|A number of Fujitsu's product ranges form product families. The LIFEBOOKs E752, E782, S752 and S782, for instance, make up one family, whilst selected product lines within the ESPRIMO PC family form another. The family concept means that the devices share the same design features, BIT image, BIOS and accessory components. Thus you benefit from a uniform and neat working environment, as well as greater flexibility as you can use the same accessory with a number of different devices.
|Full disk encryption (FDE) is a security feature whereby every bit of data is encrypted on the hard disk drive. Encryption involves converting information into unreadable code, which cannot be deciphered easily by unauthorized users. Thus full disk encryption prevents unauthorized access to the stored data.
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|The presence sensor detects the movement and body outline of anyone sitting within the viewing range of the system. The ultrasound sensor is sensitive enough to perceive a user's presence even when they are sitting calmly in front of the computer. The presence sensor settings enable users to define commands that are to be executed in their presence or absence. The user may, for instance, choose for their PC to be locked and enter sleep mode when they leave it, thus saving energy whilst providing a high level of security. Then, when the user returns, the PC can be programmed to wake up or even boot automatically for added security and increased energy savings.
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|Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a security feature available on selected Fujitsu ESPRIMO PCs, STYLISTIC Tablet PCs, LIFEBOOK Notebooks, CELSIUS Workstations and FUTRO Thin Clients. The TPM itself is a computer chip (microcontroller) which securely stores information, such as passwords, certificates or encryption keys, used to authenticate your PC or laptop. A TPM can also store information regarding your PC or laptop, enabling you to determine whether your device is trustworthy and has not been breached.
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Conrad Ball Middle School sixth-grader Chandler Welch, 11, middle, gets help from teacher Mandy Skinner, right, in setting up the iPad he received on loan from the school while his parents Gale Welch, left, and Jennifer Lakey look on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 at the school.
Loveland-based artist Abbie R. Powers poses Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 at ReStore in front of an installation piece of a weaving she recently made out of used, but unsalable, clothing.
Fort Morgan High School senior Kollin Mobley prepares to putt on No. 18 during the Class 4A Northern Regional Golf tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 at Indian Peaks Golf Course in Lafayette.
Silver Creek High School's Dylan Wonnacott watches his drive off the No. 18 tee box during the Class 4A Regional Golf tournament on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 at Indian Peaks Golf Course in Lafayette.
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T-shirts for the Loveland Fishing Club Senior Fishing Derby.
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Bob Bulloch, center, gets some help baiting his fishing pole from Loveland Fishing Club member Pat Weller, left, as Dorothy Bulloch, right, hopes for a bite during the Senior Fishing Derby at Flatiron Reservoir on Wednesday.
Juanita Adamson of Loveland gets some fishing tips from Jim Giles, right, a Loveland Fishin Club member, Wednesday during the Loveland Fishing Club Senior Fishing Derby at Flatiron Reservoir.
Ray Petersburg, center, a Loveland Fishing Club memeber, delivers hot dogs to folks fishing on the dock Wednesday during the Loveland Fishing Club Senior Fishing Derby at Flatiron Reservoir.
Iris Thompson of Loveland reels in her line while fishing at Flatiron Reservoir west of Loveland on Wednesday during the second annual Senior Fishing Derby. Thompson said "This is what I miss more than anything is getting out and fishing. It doesn't matter if you catch anything or not just have fun."
Loveland Rotary Club memebers and friends fill food packs Wednesday for more than 200 schoolkids for the Kids Pak program, which provides meals for students over the weekends to help alleviate hunger. From left are Corinne Carrigan, Claire Grinager, Fran Phillips and Bob Lebsack.
Lacey DeMars picks up a huge pumpkin to move it for her mom Karen DeMars Tuesday afternoon in downtown Loveland. Karen DeMars planted a few pumpkin seeds in front of her home and to her suprise they grew to be quite large.The biggest one weighed in at 55 pounds. Karen had her daughter move the pumpkins away from the front of the house to make sure they didn't get smashed before she could used them to decorate for Halloween. She said if something happened to them "It would be heartbreaking. It's just been so much fun to watch them grow so big."
Trinity Holloway, 7, shares a laugh with her grandmother Karen DeMars Tuesday as she sits by two huge pumpkins DeMars grew in front of her downtown Loveland home.
Sean Kellar of Berthoud, left, and Doug Miller of Loveland ride their bikes west on Larimer County Road 18E on their way to Flatiron reservoir during a lunchbreak on Tuesday.
Aaron LaSalle, 5, right, a kindergarten student at Lincoln elementary School, gives a hig-five to the new Thompson School District's recycling mascot as Michelle Malvey, center, encourages him Monday at the school in Loveland. The mascot was unveiled Monday during an assembly to update students on the district's recycling program.
Bonnie Berry, right, and her dog Molly walk around Foote Lagoon in downtown Loveland on Monday where some of the leaves on the trees are starting to turn fall colors. Berry walks at the lagoon almost everyday and said "I like the colors of fall."
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Members of the group Lalla Rookh play Celtic music during the Night on the Town event on Friday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Sun Plaza Office Suites in downtown Loveland.
Djembe Jive and members of Gregg Hanson's Front Range Djembe Orchestra play drums as part of the Night on the Town event on Friday evening in downtown Loveland.
Loveland resident Maria Steider pays Carcineria Munoz co-owner Liliana Lozano for her purchase Tuesday after shopping at the store on East Eisenhower Boulevard with her son Bryan. (Photo by Craig Young)
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Loveland Habitat for Humanity volunteers work on several homes during the second annual Build-A-Thon in northeast Loveland. Front from left are George Rigby, Don Foster, David VanGorkom, Kim Jaynes and Bob Skillman. During the event teams of volunteers will be building on four homes in the Willow Park subdivision culminating in dinner for Build-A-Thon participants that will also celebrate the Loveland nonprofit's 25th anniversary.
After Pastor John Chisumkha, left, of Malawi, Africa, asks what makes America so prosperous, Marty Wilson, right, explains the concept of free enterprise and small businesses to Chisumkha and Getrude Msowoyo. Three Malawi citizens visited Loveland through the Mountain View Presbyterian Church for three weeks to learn about our way of life.
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Artist Jade Windell works on a painting Thursday at the old Mr. Neats space in downtown Loveland. The space, which is owned by the city, is being used as a studio and gallery with alternating artists who will use it on a quarterly basis. Windell is the first artist chosen to use the space.
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Robert Schmidt works on a knitted cap on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 in his Loveland home. Schmidt has knitted thousands of hats over the years that he donates to needy children.
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The House has officially disapproved of Republican Congressman Joe Wilson's behavior in shouting, "You lie!" at President Obama during his healthcare speech to Congress last week.
If only a simple vote could slap back similar kinds of personal attacks that are now so prevalent in American public discourse.
Two examples from the weekend: Tennis dynamo Serena Williams hurled finger-pointing profanities at a line judge for calling a foot fault during her crucial serve at the US Open. Rapper Kanye West stormed the stage at the Video Music Awards to snatch the mike from winner Taylor Swift during her acceptance remarks.
"I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time," he pronounced, as the stunned Ms. Swift, a teenage country singer, looked on.
Lawmakers, athletes, celebrities – people in such visible positions should be helping a diverse America get along, not telling one another to move along.
And yet they so often model the worst behavior – reinforced by an anonymous electronic culture that spreads insult over the Internet, egged on by "shock jocks" who require new shock to surpass stale shock, and even preached in some pulpits. (Making the rounds on YouTube: a pastor who prays for the president to die.)
Before last week, Congressman Wilson was just one of 435 members of the House of Representatives, a Republican from South Carolina known mostly to his constituents. Now his "You lie!" inspires T-shirts, posters, and protesters. Not to put down dissent; debate makes democracy. But personal attack can tear it down. It reduces debate to smears. It obfuscates. It spreads mistrust.
The Wilson charge that Obama lied about healthcare and illegal immigration papered over the actual wording of the main House bill, which states "no federal payment for undocumented aliens." Wilson's complaint is about the enforcement of that wording – a subtlety lost in a two-word accusation.
Democrats are moving to strengthen the wording, but the misimpression remains that their legislation would make government-subsidized healthcare available to illegals.
The congressman rightly apologized to the president (through Mr. Obama's chief of staff) and Obama graciously accepted his apology. Republicans, too, regretted Wilson's historic outburst in the House.
But whatever sincerity was involved has since been lost in a sea of mistrust and cynicism amid charges of racism about Wilson and political game-playing in the Democrats' reprimand. Add to that, the fact that both sides are gaining financially from political donations related to the episode.
The "politics of personal destruction" go way back in America. In 1856, a Massachusetts senator was actually beaten unconscious in Congress for his antislavery remarks. It didn't come to that during the impeachment of Bill Clinton or the war years of George W. Bush, but the personal attacks from both conservatives and liberals during those presidencies greatly distracted from the issues at hand.
Thomas Jefferson had it right in his manual of parliamentary procedure: "No one is to disturb another in his speech by hissing, coughing, spitting, speaking or whispering to another; nor to stand up or interrupt him."
Only through civil discourse can people hear one another and work together. Jefferson knew this, and, if we all think about it, so do we.
[Editor's note: The original version misspelled Kanye West's name.]


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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: This button mold, which makes a single button. belonged to Deacon Phineas Field of Charlemont, Massachusetts. The button mold has a metal half that has the design for the top of the button incised into it. Metal plates incised "P F" are attached to blocks of wood to form the other half of the mold which forms the button's shank. To make a button the mold would be attached together and molten pewter would be poured through the hole. The upside-down button second from the left is how the button looks directly from the mold. The button on the left has had the excess pewter removed from the shank and shows the backwards "P F" mark from the mold. The other buttons show the decorated face.
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People talk about the Baseball Hall of Fame like it is one stable and uniform place. It is not. Oh, sure, you will hear people say all the time: "Oh, that guy's not a Hall of Famer," or "The Hall of Fame is incomplete without this guy."
But the truth is … the Hall of Fame is a total mystery. It has shifted and varied, adjusted and revised so many times through the years that you can back up pretty much any argument you want by simply using the people who are already there. Tom Yawkey is in the Hall of Fame. Candy Cummings is in the Hall of Fame. George Kelly is in the Hall of Fame. Al Lopez is in the Hall of Fame. Effa Manley is in the Hall of Fame. Jesse Haines is in the Hall of Fame. Bruce Sutter is in the Hall of Fame.
I'm pretty sure you could use those seven to make a compelling case for your favorite good player, whoever he is.
But there is a "Hall of Fame" standard that people reach for … the best of the very best. On my blog I broke down the Hall of Fame into several groups -- Contributors, Negro Leaguers, Old Timers, the Players Who Struggled to Get In and so on. And after all of that I was left with what I think you can call the Inner Circle of the Hall of Fame. These are the 32 players who were elected first ballot with at least 86 percent of the vote.*
*With the exception of Walter Johnson, who gets in because he was elected the first year of the Hall.
You will, of course, notice some great players missing from the inner circle. Bob Gibson. Jackie Robinson. Joe DiMaggio. Joe Morgan. They should be here. But this is how the voting has gone. And this is your Inner Circle:
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1936: Ty Cobb. Georgia Peach. "Mr. Cobb, what would you hit against today's pitching?" "About .300." "Why only .300?" "You've got to remember, I'm 73 years old."
1936: Babe Ruth. Bambino. In 1920, he hit more homers than any team in the AL. In 1921, he only out-homered five of them.
1936: Honus Wagner. "There ain't much to being a ballplayer. If you're a ballplayer."
1936: Christy Mathewson, Pitching in a Pinch. "The greatest pitcher who ever lived." -- Connie Mack.
1936: Walter Johnson. The Big Train. "You can't hit what you can't see."
1939: Lou Gehrig. Luckiest Man. By special vote.
1962: Bob Feller. "My Dad taught me how to play ball, which is the way everyone should learn the game."
1966: Ted Williams. Best Hall of Fame speech ever shamed Hall of Fame into considering Negro Leaguers.
1969: Stan Musial. Baseball's Perfect Knight.
1972: Sandy Koufax. Left Arm of God.
1973: Roberto Clemente. Hero. By special vote.
1974: Mickey Mantle. "I just hope God has a place for him where he can run again." -- Bob Costas.
1979: Willie Mays. "The only man who could have caught that ball just hit it."
1980: Al Kaline. "I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark."
1982: Henry Aaron. "There a new home run champion of all time."
1982: Frank Robinson. "He can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine" -- Joe Morgan.
1983: Brooks Robinson. Human. Vacuum. Cleaner.
1989: Johnny Bench. "We got along all right. Doesn't matter. He was one hell of a player." -- Pete Rose.
1989: Carl Yastrzemski. "Don't let anybody monkey with your swing." -- Ted Williams.
1990: Jim Palmer. Never gave up a grand slam. "I never once saw Palmer give in." -- Jim Kaat.
1991: Rod Carew. The man of 1,000 batting stances.
1992: Tom Seaver. "Blind people come to the park just to listen to him pitch." -- Reggie Jackson
1993: Reggie Jackson. "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar it tells you how good it is."
1994: Steve Carlton. Lefty. Silent. Slider. "When Steve Carlton and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60 feet, 6 inches apart." -- Tim McCarver.
1995: Mike Schmidt. "It's like talking about religion" -- Mike Schmidt on hitting a baseball.
1999: Nolan Ryan. 100.9 mph: Still the Guinness Book World Record fastest pitch ever thrown.
1999: George Brett. "Every game I ever played, I was scared to death I would embarrass myself."
2002: Ozzie Smith. The Wizard. "I never asked 'Can I make the play?' I just made it."
2005: Wade Boggs. Chicken. From 1985-87, hit .397 at Fenway Park.
2007: Cal Ripken. Ironman. "I didn't always feel perfect. But every day was perfect."
2007: Tony Gwynn. Hitter. "Would I have hit .400 in 1994? Absolutely."
2009: Rickey Henderson. "Lou Brock was a great base stealer. But today, I am the greatest."


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Portsmouth where? Maine? Virginia?
Like many North Carolinians, my friend had not heard of Portsmouth, N.C. He was resisting my push to visit Portsmouth in connection with a planned trip to Ocracoke Island to participate in a program for public school teachers organized by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, known as NCCAT.
Take out a state road map, I said, and look for an island just south of Ocracoke. You will see Portsmouth Island, and on it is marked the town of Portsmouth.
Portsmouth is just a small village with a few old buildings: houses, a store, post office, church, a former lifesaving station and a graveyard.
But no living people.
By the 1970s only three people remained on the island and they are long since gone.
The buildings, maintained by the National Park Service, stand as reminders of what Portsmouth once was: a thriving and important commercial center.
Portsmouth lies to the south of Ocracoke Island, separated by Ocracoke Inlet, which, according to the late Dirk Frankenberg's recently reissued classic, The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast, is "the only inlet on the Outer Banks that has been open continuously throughout recorded history. It was a major entry into North Carolina's coastal sound and estuaries in colonial times — first for pirates and smugglers," including Blackbeard, who was killed at the inlet in 1718. After the Revolutionary War, "the inlet became important as a transshipment site for materials used for developing the land resources of North Carolina and southern Virginia."
The village, established in the 1750s, Frankenberg wrote, "played a major role in the maritime commerce of North Carolina for the next century."
Local pilots were necessary to guide ocean-going boats across the shallow inlet. Later, facilities grew up to accommodate the need to transfer goods between larger ocean-going ships and the smaller boats that delivered cargo to local ports near the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds.
Over time a sand build-up made the Ocracoke Inlet more tortuous, and Frankenberg wrote that it was "quickly abandoned for the clearer channels of Hatteras and Oregon Inlets that were opened by the hurricane of 1846."
My friend agreed to add Portsmouth to our trip. Our three-hour ferry ride from Swan Quarter got us to Ocracoke just in time to join NCCAT leader Alton Ballance and his group of teachers on a boat that gave us a long, cold ride across the inlet to Portsmouth with guide Rudy Austin.
Austin told us about each building and the people who worked and lived there. But other than his voice there was no sound. The eerie quietness surprised and then delighted us.
Ballance told us about once spending the night alone in the deserted village, feeling the spirits of the dead and departed villagers and trying to imagine what they were like and how they lived.
Later I remembered how Michael Parker's book, The Watery Part of the World, set out a fictionalized version of the last three people who lived on the island. In Parker's version, university researchers visited a couple of times each year and asked questions about history and life on the island. They recorded the answers and preserved the distinctive way the threesome spoke. Their answers were not always totally honest, and their brogues became more pronounced for the outsiders they called "the Tape Recorders."
The history lessons and the spur to imagination that came from our visit to Portsmouth make such a trip easy to recommend, notwithstanding the difficulty in getting there.
But, says guide Rudy Austin, be careful about going in the summertime when mosquitoes and other bugs "will eat you alive."


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Has anyone here become more against religion over time? Before religion didn't really bother me, but whenever I see something religious now it pisses me off. If I found a bible, cross or some other religious figure I would probably end up burning it.
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I was just thinking that this morning on the way to work. I was listening to an audio book, and an otherwise good story kept getting interrupted with religious bullshit. The whole book had been relatively free of dogma and hokey Jesus shit, then the main character gets sick and ultimately dies in the end, and I found myself being inundated with his looking forward to meeting Jesus, the promise of heaven, etc. Every mention of the word "christ" was like fingernails on a chalkboard. What's worse - the whole time I thought it was a novel since it was John Grisham, but the afterward informed me that it was nonfiction.
I definitely have. The various acts of terrorism haven't affected my view because I'm fortunate enough not to have been personally affected by them and it is the sort of thing I expect from powerful religions based on historical behaviour.
Over time I've been increasingly exposed to religious people, and their stupidity etc has worn my long term patience very thin, so I will respond to things I would have let go a couple of years ago and respond more forcefully.
Yes, I have. For one thing, more than just a passing mention of religion in the movies I used to like to watch every year, have made them unwatchable now.
One of the things that has been irritating me no end lately is Rick Steve's Europe travel shows. I used to enjoy watching them, but no more. He spends a huge amount of time talking about religion.
I just looked-up his page and see that he has collaborated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and made 5 videos talking about faith and the people in the bible. Ugh!
Oh dear! this is bad news. I no longer own a TV, but I used to watch all of Rick Steve's travel shows. He lives in Washington state, or at least he used to. I shall have to send him a note and express my concern about his religiosity and those of us who do not believe in supernatural beings do not want to hear that stuff. I wonder if he will respond ... I'll let you know.
Thanks Joan. I'd like to say I'm eager to hear how he responds, but I expect he will just respond with fake concern that he's losing some viewers, but not change his religious ways.
It's being on this site that likely does it :) Lots of anti-religious talk.
Atheist Nexus hasen't done anything to piss me off. I don't have a problem with anti-religious talk it's just religion itself. The whole world is infested with religion bullshit.
I'm sure that being around a lot of atheist anti-religious people has a big influence. That doesn't mean that it's a bad or wrong influence. People choose who they spend time around, so they choose what shapes their perceptions.
I started to feel irked sometimes by Christmas music in the stores for example, after being around a bunch of atheists. It changed my reactions to the monks and nuns of various flavors (buddhist, christian) out in public. I'm sure others are similarly influenced.
Melinda - me too.
What I find scary is the threat of a nuclear war (WW3) breaking out in the Middle East. If this great war breaks out, it originated from religious hostility between Iran and Israel, which have been enemies since 1979 thanks to bastard Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. He declared Israel an enemy of Islam but before he became leader of the 1979 Iranian Revoluton the two countries had close ties. Retarded isn't it? Make Isreal an enemy so the Middle East is more unstable. Iran does no good to the world besides making people laugh at the dirty camel monkeys.
Who put Ruhollah Khomeini in Iran?
Thank America's CIA. Thank President Eisenhower (who in 1953 reversed President Truman's decision and told the CIA to go ahead and overthrow an elected government in Iran). Thank Great Britain's Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (for wanting Iranian oil but not wanting to pay Iran a reasonable royalty, and for treating its Iranian workers like serfs). Thank the American Dulles brothers and especially Kermit Roosevelt. And of course, thank American taxpayers who paid for the overthrow, training the tyrant's secret police, and more.
After about twenty years of that tyranny, the Iranian people overthrew the tyrant the CIA had installed. Khomeini returned from Paris and formed the religious government we know.
For more info, search Wikipedia for key words like CIA in Iran, 1953 overthrow in Iran, etc.
Thank the US of A for Khomeini.
It's no stretch to see 9/11 as payback for America's Middle East foreign policy.
Oh, religion irritates me a whole lot.
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TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. says it will delay the launch of the Prius hybrid minivan in Japan due to disruptions in parts supply following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco said Wednesday the world's No. 1 automaker initially planned to roll out the Prius minivan in April. But the disaster in northern Japan crippled supply chains and destroyed shops, forcing Toyota to postpone the launch.
Since March 14, Toyota has halted auto production because of difficulty securing components, including rubber parts and electronics. The company said it will suspend output until Sunday — a production loss of 140,000 cars.
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The light curry and ginger fragrance of this warm, creamy and colorful soup is as inviting on a cool fall evening as your favorite sweater … and almost as simple as putting it on. Loaded with carrots and beans, it's very nourishing besides.
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Published on September 28, 2008
Light, creamy and colorful, this fragrant curried and gingered carrot and pinto bean soup is a nourishing addition to a fall table


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The reality must to be faced, the Taiwan LGBT Family Rights Advocacy said yesterday, calling for the public and lawmakers' support for gay people's rights to marriage and family life.
The nation's first lesbian couple married in a Buddhist ceremony which was not legally recognized and a lesbian mother who has two children with her partner called for equal marriage rights at the press conference, saying that while their lifestyles have been well received by their parents, the bond they have formed is not protected by law, a fact that might damage their rights to social welfare, property and could harm their relationship with their relatives.
Huang Mei-yu (黃美瑜), who married Yu Ya-ting (游雅婷), the group's vice president, in a Buddhist ceremony last year, began her statement citing a suicide note from the high-school lesbian couple who took their own lives in 1994, which said: "We are not fit to what this society requires for survival."
"Many people say they do not discriminate against homosexuals, but just object to the proposal of legalizing same-sex marriage," said Huang, adding that the "but" in the sentence betrays itself. "Only people who are discriminated against can feel the discrimination."
Huang and Yu said that everyday social activities such as renting a house, applying for a loan or filing taxes could become a hassle for a couple that is not lawfully recognized.
"If one of us passes away or has an accident, we would not have the same rights as family members," Yu added.
The lesbian mother, nicknamed Da-kuei (大龜), said her partner underwent in vitro fertilization in Canada and gave birth to two children, and although they live together as a family, she is not related to the two in legal terms.
Her application to adopt the children was denied by the Taipei City government on the basis that same-sex marriage has not been legalized.
Citing Thomas Humphrey Marshall's argument of an evolutionary citizenship through three stages — civil rights or equality before the law, political rights and social rights — Frank Wang (王增勇), an associate professor at National Chengchi University's Graduate Institute of Social Work, urged the nation, as a developed society, to grant people equal rights to enjoy social civilization.
"And the family system can be seen as part of this civilization," Wang said.
Citing opposition voiced by people who claim to want to protect "traditional family values," Wang said there may be some gay people who do not want to get married, "but those who do are the ones who truly believe in 'traditional family values.'"
Democratic Progressive Party legislators Cheng Li-chun (鄭麗君) and Yu Mei-nu (尤美女), the two lawmakers who proposed to legalize same-sex marriage in the legislature, were also present at the press conference to show their support.
"The right to marriage is a basic human right, not a benefit offered by the government, which can revoke it when it sees fit," Yu said, adding that when the women asked for equal rights in the workplace in this country, an act for 'women's welfare' was first proposed."
"However, we insisted that it is the 'Act of Gender Equality in Employment' (性別工作平等法) that we need. Women should be seen as [acting] subjects, not [passive] objects," she said, adding that the same principle goes for the LGBT community.
Cheng said that the proposal is to support the "enlargement" of the marriage system, not the destruction of it.


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Organization of completed content for long-term storage
As we expand our holdings to multiple collections, and content from different sources beyond Hoole, we need to organize files and folders in a systematic manner. The following solution follows a simple rule: replace the underscore in a file name with a forward slash, to determine the appropriate directory location for the file.
Based on the File Naming Schemes we selected,
Within a specified directory on a slow server (to reduce risk of damage and corruption by access):
1) By holding institution and subsidiary group
The first letter in a filename indicates something about the origin. All digital content starting with "u" originated from holdings within the University of Alabama, whereas other letters indicate origins elsewhere. Following the initial letter are a series of 4 numbers indicating a grouping and an institution. Using these 5 digits to create the first level directory structure ensures that all content is segregated by the holding organization; that is, all Hoole Rare books content will be in folder "u0004" as that is the number assigned to it. For example, a file labeled u0004_0002061_0000345_0003.tif will be found in a subdirectory under /u0004/ in the file system.
2) By collection
In the third level (within the folders on the 2nd level), folders will be named according to the 2nd set of numbers in the filename: after the first underscore and preceding the 2nd underscore. This is the number of the collection for the institution/grouping. In the file name u0004_0002061_0000345_0003.tif, "0002061" indicates collection number 2061, so the folder "2061" will exist for this collection: /u0004/0002061/
- note that metadata and images for collections that do not have items digitized will be stored here, and there will not be a 3rd or 4th level.
3) By item
In the 4th level (within the folders on the 3rd level), folders will be named according to the 3rd set of numbers in the filename: after the 2nd underscore, and preceding the 3rd underscore. This is the number assigned to the item within the specified collection. In the file name u0004_0002061_0000345_0003.tif, "345" is the number for this item in this collection. So the folder /u0004/0002061/0000345 will contain all files relating to this item.
- note that items that do not have pages will be stored here, and there will not be a 4th or 5th level.
4) By sequence for delivery
In the 5th level (within the folders on the 4th level), folders will be named according to the 4th set of numbers in the filename: after the 3rd underscore, and preceding the 4th underscore or the period and filename extension. This is the number assigned to the sequence of delivery for the files within the item. In the file name u0004_0002061_0000345_0003.tif, "0003" indicates the 3rd image in a sequence, so the directory /u0004/0002061/0000345/0003/ will contain this tiff and all information associated with it.
- note that if there are subpages, such as in a scrapbook, there will be an additional level beneath this one, using the same reasoning.
Each of the levels above may contain any or all of the following folders:
A) Documentation
- Note: All documentation needs to be in unicode or ascii xml or plain text.
This directory holds administrative information.
B) Transcripts
- Within the Transcripts folder, files should be named for the item transcribed and should be in ASCII text or UTF-8 text. If the file is OCR, include .ocr before the .txt extension. For example, u0003_0000580_0000002.ocr.txt would be the OCR for item 2 in the Hoole Manuscripts (u0003) MSS 580 collection (0000580). Transcripts should be stored at the level to which they belong, just like metadata -- that is, if this is the transcript for item 2, it should be in item 2's directory, in a subdirectory named Transcripts.
We have since decided that OCR text is not archival content, since it can be generated by script, and since OCR software keeps improving. If we correct the OCR by hand (changing the extension from ".ocr.txt" to simply ".txt" and retaining it in the Transcripts directory at the applicable level) then the human-corrected transcript is worth archiving and will be kept. The OCR, however, will be only kept in the delivery system.
C) Supplemental
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations, and Undergraduate Research Papers, are often submitted with supplemental files. These aren't component files, although they are named as if they are "pages" within the item. Since, however, they are supplemental files for the item itself, the Supplemental directory normally resides at the item level, and these "page" numbered files are deposited within that directory. This provides the delivery system with additional information to inform rendering, and it also provides clarity for those reconstructing our content as to what files are supplemental to what level of content.
D) Metadata
- If a METS file is available to organize the metadata and tag it with appropriate namespaces, that is ideal. This METS file should have xlinks to the archival quality bitstreams. Within the metadata folder, filenames should be adapted according to the type of metadata they contain: type followed by underscore, followed by version. The following shorthand is to be used:
- qdc for qualified Dublin Core
- udc for unqualified Dublin Core
- mods for MODS (Metadata Object Description Standard)
- mets for METS (Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard)
- tei for TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
- ead for EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
Versions of metadata will be tracked in the database (saved as flat file regularly in the top set of directories).
Note that the metadata record is stored at the appropriate level: an EAD would be stored at the collection level, as it is a collection level record.
Thus, /u0004/2061/Metadata/ may contain u0004_2061.mods.xml and u0004_2061.ead.xml and u0004_2061.dc.xml each containing collection-level metadata about collection 2061.
If collection 2061 currently includes only one item, the filename for that item should be u0001_0002061_0000345; the directory /u0004/0002061/0000001/metadata would contain the metadata about that item. If there is page-level metadata for that item, then the metadata for the first page would be stored in /u0002/0002061/0000001/0001/Metadata, the metadata for the 2nd page would be stored in /u0004/0002061/0000001/0002/Metadata, and so forth (each would be named appropriately).
- For metadata records of local profiles (for example, where needed fields are taken from different metadata schemas), a schema or dtd or text/xml data dictionary is expected within a subsidiary "Documentation" folder. The folder containing the metadata record and the "documentation" folder should be named according to the following system: "profile" followed by underscore, followed by the 8 digit date (year month day sequence), followed by underscore, followed by the initials of the responsible party. For example: "profile_20080825_jld" would indicate the profile Jody Lynn DeRidder created on August 25, 2008. Note that the date is the date of the profile, not the date this record was created or stored.
Thus, within the /u0004/0002061/0000345/Metadata/profile_20080825_jld/ folder, you would find an xml metadata record meeting a profile specified by text or xml information in /u0004/0002061/0000345/metadata/profile_20080825_jld/Documentation/ -- and the metadata record would be for the item u0004_0002061_0000345.


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A major question people have when they hear about Christian Hedonism is, How is God's passion for his glory not a sinful form of narcissism and megalomania? The answer is: God's passion for his glory is the essence of his love to us. But narcissism and megalomania are not love.
God's love for us is not mainly his making much of us, but his giving us the ability to enjoy making much of him forever. In other words, God's love for us keeps God at the center. God's love for us exalts his value and our satisfaction in it. If God's love made us central and focused on our value, it would distract us from what is most precious, namely, himself. Love labors and suffers to enthrall us with what is infinitely and eternally satisfying: God.Therefore God's love labors and suffers to break our bondage to the idol of self and focus our affections on the treasure of God.
To see the God-centeredness of God's love demonstrated in Christ let's look at John 11:1-6, the story of Lazarus' sickness and death.
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." 4 But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, [ο?ν, therefore] when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
Notice three amazing things:
- Jesus chose to let Lazarus die. Verse 6: "When He heard he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where he was." There was no hurry. His intention was not to spare the family grief, but to raise Lazarus from the dead.
- He was motivated by a passion for the glory of God displayed in his own glorious power. Verse 4: "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."
- Nevertheless both the decision to let Lazarus die and the motivation to magnify God were expressions of love for Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Verse 5: "Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus . . . so he stayed . . . where he was."
O how many people today – even Christians – would murmur at Jesus for callously letting Lazarus die and putting Him and Mary and Martha and others through the pain and misery of those days. And if they saw that this was motivated by Jesus desire to magnify the glory of God many would call this harsh or unloving. What this shows is how far above the glory of God most people value pain-free lives. For most people love is whatever puts human value and human well-being at the center. So Jesus' behavior is unintelligible to them.
But let us not tell Jesus what love is. Let us not instruct him how he should love us and make us central. Let us learn from Jesus what love is and what our true well-being is. Love is doing whatever you need to do even to the point of dying on the cross to help people see and savor the glory of God for ever and ever. Love keeps God central. Because the soul was made for God.
People asked me, shouldn't love be part of BBC's mission statement (We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ)? I answered this is our definition of love.
Jesus confirms that we are on the right track here by the way he prays for us in John 17">John 17). Consider how Jesus prays in the first five verses:
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
This is the way God prays when he is being loving to his people. He prays that his glory be upheld and displayed.
The connection with us comes in verse 24, "Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world." The love of Jesus drives him to pray for us and then die for us, NOT that our value may be central, but that his glory may be central, and we may see it and savor it for all eternity. "That they may see My glory!" – for that he let Lazarus died, and for that he went to the cross.
See one illustration of Paul's experience of this way of being loved. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10:
So to keep me from being too elated by the surpassing greatness of the revelations,1 a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Many man-centered Americans who have defined the love of Christ as his making much of them, not his helping them to enjoy make much of him, would cry out to Jesus in this situation: I don't care about your power being made perfect, I care about not hurting with this thorn!
O how we need to help people see that Christ, not comfort, is their all-satisfying and everlasting treasure. So I conclude that magnifying the supremacy of God in all things, and being willing to suffer patiently to help see and savor this supremacy is the essence of love. It's the essence of God's love. And it's the essence of your love. Because the supremacy of God's glory is the source and sum of all full and lasting joy.