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NEW YORK -- Right-hander Cory Mazzoni was slated to be part of a standout Triple-A rotation to open the season with Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero and Jacob deGrom.
Instead, the honor of starting the Grapefruit League finale on getaway day for the Mets in Port St. Lucie, Fla., became a major setback for the 2011 second-round pick out of NC State.
With the Mets wanting to avoid using Bartolo Colon against the Nationals since he also was due to face them in his first regular-season outing, Mazzoni took the March 27 start at Tradition Field. He was forced to leave the game against Washington in the second inning because of what eventually was diagnosed as a right lat-muscle strain.Courtesy of New York Mets
Cory Mazzoni
Only now is the 24-year-old Mazzoni due to head to Las Vegas.
In what was expected to be his final tune-up before joining the 51s, Mazzoni tossed seven innings for Binghamton at Erie on Saturday. That was his fourth minor-league appearance as he gets back into pitching shape.
"I thought it was going to be a couple-of-week thing," Mazzoni said. "It was tough being out that long, seeing all of your friends pitching well and stuff in Double-A and Triple-A. It's definitely tough to watch.
"You see what deGrom did in Triple-A and now he's in the big leagues, pitching really well. Obviously everything gets pushed back a little bit now. But you still have to keep the same mindset and you can't dwell on that."
Mazzoni went 5-3 with a 4.36 ERA in 13 appearances (12 starts) with Binghamton in 2013 before requiring season-ending surgery on Aug. 2 to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee.
Mazzoni's fastball sits at 92-94 mph. He also throws a slider and changeup. He is projected to pitch in relief in the majors.
"He's come with some high recommendations from the people in the organization that this kid can be an absolute late-in-the-game kind of bullpen guy, because he's got three quality pitches," Terry Collins has said.
Said Mazzoni: "I can always work on fastball command. I'm still developing my splitter. It needs to be a little bit more consistent. But my arm feels good, and I feel like my stuff is pretty good. It's just refining and tweaking it a little more."
Organization leaders
Average: Matt Reynolds, Vegas, .350; John Mora, GCL Mets, .338; T.J. Rivera, Binghamton, .336; Enmanuel Zabala, GCL Mets, .329; Oswald Caraballo, Kingsport, .323; Matt den Dekker, Vegas, .312; Dilson Herrera, Binghamton, .312; Jeff McNeil, St. Lucie, .312; Kevin Plawecki, Vegas, .308.
Homers: Dustin Lawley, Binghamton, 16; Andrew Brown, Vegas, 15; Brian Burgamy, Binghamton, 15; Allan Dykstra, Vegas, 12; Wilmer Flores, Vegas, 12.
RBIs: Allan Dykstra, Vegas, 59; L.J. Mazzilli, St. Lucie, 58; Brian Burgamy, Binghamton, 53; Wilmer Flores, Vegas, 53; Kevin Plawecki, Vegas, 53.
Steals: Patrick Biondi, Savannah, 19; Dilson Herrera, Binghamton, 17; Jeff McNeil, St. Lucie, 15.
ERA: Marcos Molina, Brooklyn, 0.94; Rob Whalen, GCL Mets, 1.67; Octavio Acosta, Brooklyn, 1.86; Kevin McGowan, St. Lucie, 2.14; Steven Matz, Binghamton, 2.41; Robert Gsellman, Savannah, 2.89; John Gant, Savannah, 2.97; Corey Oswalt, Brooklyn, 3.16; Matt Bowman, Vegas, 3.43; Darin Gorski, Vegas, 3.51.
Wins: Gabriel Ynoa, Binghamton, 10; John Gant, Savannah, 9.
Saves: Chasen Bradford, Vegas, 12; Robert Coles, St. Lucie, 12; Randy Fontanez, Binghamton, 10; Akeel Morris, Savannah, 8.
Strikeouts: Darin Gorski, Vegas, 96; Dario Alvarez, Savannah, 89; Steven Matz, Binghamton, 87; Matt Bowman, Vegas, 85; Noah Syndergaard, Vegas, 82.
Short hops
• First-round pick Michael Conforto is due to head to Los Angeles for Thursday's Golden Spikes Award. Conforto, who officially signed on Friday after a standout career as an outfielder at Oregon State, is one of three finalists for the award, which goes to the nation's top amateur player. The winner will be revealed on "SportsCenter." The other finalists are LSU right-hander Aaron Nola (selected seventh overall by Philadelphia) and Kentucky left-hander/infielder A.J. Reed (a second-round pick by Houston). Conforto is due to rejoin the Brooklyn Cyclones on Friday and should make his professional debut shortly thereafter.
• Matt Reynolds has continued his offensive surge since a promotion to Triple-A. In 24 Pacific Coast League games, the former second-round pick out of Arkansas is hitting .337/.389/.453. Not known for being accomplished defensively, Mets personnel nonetheless say he is showing better range at shortstop than Ruben Tejada and Omar Quintanilla possess. That's not a terribly high bar, but suggests he may be viable at the position in the majors.
• Allan Dykstra, who won Monday's Triple-A Home Run Derby in Durham, N.C., topped a familiar face in the finals. Former Mets minor-league teammate Francisco Pena finished as the runner-up.
Pena, a catcher like his All-Star father Tony Pena, left the Mets last offseason as a minor-league free agent and signed with Kansas City. The 24-year-old Pena made his major league debut on May 20, catching the final inning, but was returned to Triple-A Omaha without a plate appearance. He did throw out the first would-be base stealer against him. His father formerly managed the Royals and his brother Tony Jr. played there. He is hitting .254 with a career-high 18 homers and 40 RBIs in 205 PCL at-bats this season.
Dykstra will serve as the PCL's DH for Wednesday's Triple-A All-Star Game.
• The Eastern League All-Star Game also will be played Wednesday night. Representing Binghamton at Altoona, Pa.: infielder Brian Burgamy, outfielder Kyle Johnson and right-handers Cody Satterwhite and Jon Velasquez.
• Left-hander Blake Taylor, the player-to-be-named acquired from Pittsburgh with Zack Thornton in the April 18 trade for Ike Davis, has been promoted from the Gulf Coast League to Kingsport. Taylor, who turns 19 on Aug. 17, made three GCL appearances. In 10 2/3 innings, he allowed two unearned runs and one hit while walking seven and hitting a batter. In his K-Mets debut Monday, Taylor was pulled one out into the third inning. He was charged with four earned runs on six hits and two walks.
• Binghamton right fielder Travis Taijeron has been named Eastern League Player of the Week. For the week ending Sunday, the 25-year-old Taijeron hit .400 (8-for-20) with three homers and 10 RBIs and had a league-leading .900 slugging percentage. The former 18th-round pick out of Cal Poly Pomona is hitting .251 with 11 homers and 46 RBIs in 227 at-bats this season with the B-Mets.
• Binghamton reliever Hamilton Bennett, 26, was released by the organization last week. The former 29th-round pick in 2010 out of Tennessee Wesleyan College had produced a 3.38 ERA in 10 appearances with Double-A Binghamton this season. A Mets official said the release came at Bennett's request.
• Montero is nearing a return to Vegas. He tossed four scoreless innings for Class A St. Lucie on Monday. Five days earlier he had logged two innings in the Gulf Coast League. Montero had been sidelined since leaving a Triple-A start on June 14 after only five pitches with a strained left oblique.
• Catcher Ali Sanchez, right-hander Adonis Uceta and infielder/catcher Victor Moscote represent the Mets on the Dominican Summer League All-Star team.


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Jerszy Seymour
Born in Berlin in 1968, Jerszy Seymour grew up in the multicultural concrete landscape of London as an integral part of the 80's street scene creating club flyers and as a dj playing hip hop, electro, dub and ska in the underground club scene. In 1991 he was given a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he developed his interest in design and sculpture. After leaving the college he travelled and lived around the world, skating, snowboarding and collaborating with other artists, during which time he fermented and formulated the ideas that would characterize his idiosyncratic creative approach. In 1999 he opened his workshop in Milan, where he started his own experimental productions including 'House in a Box' in 2002, 'Scum' in 2003 and Tape' in 2003. In parallel he has designed for companies such as Magis, IDEE, Sputnik, Covo, Swatch, Perrier, L'Oreal, and Smeg. His work has been exhibited in the Design Museum in London, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel and Berlin, the Pompidou Center and the Palais De Tokyo in Paris as well as in the renowned Gallery Kreo in Paris. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Fondation National de Art Contemporaine' France. He has a given lectures at the Domus Academy in Milan, the Royal College of Art in London, and the Vitra Design Workshops in France. In 2000 he was awarded the Dedalus Award for European Design,and in 2003 the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art. Jerszy currently works and lives between Berlin and Milan.
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The Office of Student Conduct (OSC) administers the Statement of Student Rights and Code of Student Conduct, which outlines the rights and responsibilities of the student body at Southeast. The OSC collaborates with a number of offices within the division of Enrollment Management & Student Success as well as the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Athletics, academic departments, and other campus units to support students in their educational efforts. Along with adjudicating student cases, the OSC provides information related to student conduct and campus civility to students, student groups, athletic teams and faculty/staff through various outreach efforts. Also, the OSC offers students the opportunity to Mediate certain student conflicts and incidents rather than adjudicating the case through the judicial process. http://www.semo.edu/stuconduct/
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After getting kicked off the Oscars for anti-gay comments, Brett Ratner agreed to direct a series of ads for GLAAD. A bunch of the ads were released today. Towleroad.com reports:
Ratner called working with GLAAD "a positive and enlightening experience" in the wake of his remarks, and his PSAs have just been released. They feature a number of well-known celebs and allies "coming out of the closet" for equality. Jackie Chan, Tamala Jones, Giada De Laurentiis, DeRay Davis, Hudson Taylor, Jaime King, Jason Alexander, Kristen Johnston, Sarah Shahi, and Pauley Perrette are featured in the first set. I've posted four of them above.
The ads will air initially on Comcast nationwide. Here's Jackie Chan's ad:


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This column incorrectly said that Sen. Barack Obama shared his views on how to avoid micromanagement with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last Saturday. Obama shared those views with British opposition leader David Cameron.
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President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour
The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder reported last week that Obama has directed his staff to begin planning for his transition to the White House, causing Republicans to howl about premature drape measuring. Obama was even feeling confident enough to give British Prime Minister Gordon Brown some management advice over the weekend. "If what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything, then you end up being a dilettante," he advised the prime minister, portraying his relative inexperience much as President Bush did in 2000.
On his presidential-style visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week, Obama left a written prayer, intercepted by an Israeli newspaper, asking God to "help me guard against pride and despair." He seems to have the despair part under control, but the pride could be a problem.
One source of the confidence is the polling, which shows him with a big lead over McCain. But polls are fickle allies: A USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday found McCain leading Obama by four percentage points among likely voters. Another reason for Obama's confidence -- the press -- is also an unfaithful partner. The Project for Excellence in Journalism reported yesterday that Obama dominated the news media's attention for a seventh straight week. But there are signs that the Obama campaign's arrogance has begun to anger reporters.
In the latest issue of the New Republic, Gabriel Sherman found reporters complaining that Obama's campaign was "acting like the Prom Queen" and being more secretive than Bush. The magazine quoted the New York Times' Adam Nagourney's reaction to the Obama campaign's memo attacking one of his stories: "I've never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others." Then came Obama's overseas trip and the campaign's selection of which news organizations could come aboard. Among those excluded: the New Yorker magazine, which had just published a satirical cover about Obama that offended the campaign.
Even Bush hasn't tried that. But then again, Obama has been outdoing the president in ruffles and flourishes lately. As Bush held quiet signing ceremonies in the White House yesterday morning, Obama was involved in a more visible display of executive authority a block away, when he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani at the Willard. A full block of F Street was shut down for the prime minister and the would-be president, and some 40 security and motorcade vehicles filled the street.
Later, Obama's aides issued an official-sounding statement, borrowing the language of White House communiques: "I had a productive and wide-ranging discussion. . . . I look forward to working with the democratically elected government of Pakistan."
It had been a long day of acting presidential, but Obama wasn't done. After a few hours huddling with advisers over his vice presidential choice, Obama made his way to the pep rally on the Hill. Moments after he entered the meeting with lawmakers, there was an extended cheer, followed by another, and another.
"I think this can be an incredible election," Obama said later. "I look forward to collaborating with everybody here to win the election."
Win the election? Didn't he do that already?


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The "Old Perspective" on Justification in the Genesis Patriarchal Narratives/
In case you haven't noticed, the doctrine of justification by faith alone (sola fide) is under attack. A growing number of modern scholars are conflating faith and obedience, confusing faith's mode of operation in justification with its mode of operation in sanctification. This "new perspective" is based in part on a faulty reading of Genesis 15:6 where we read, "And [Abram] believed the LORD, and [God] counted it to him as righteousness" (ESV). What Luther and Calvin interpreted as a simple act of faith in God's promise, some modern scholars are construing as a more complex demonstration of the patriarch's faithfulness to God's expectations. In such a case, God "counts" Abram "righteous" on the basis of the patriarch's virtue, not in spite of his vice. Such a reading loses sight of the simple fact that the patriarchs were ungodly sinners in need of a righteousness from God. A more careful reading of the text in its larger context supports the doctrine of justification by faith alone, as I'll attempt to demonstrate below.
The Plaster Saint Syndrome
Israel had just been redeemed from Egypt and was about to take possession of Canaan. It is likely Moses intended the Genesis narratives to do more than provide Israel with a historical record of humanity's origins and Israel's ancestral roots. Moses had a theological message for Israel. That message was about human sinfulness and divine grace.
Unfortunately, a review of Israel's history, as recorded in both the Old and New Testaments, reveals that many Israelites made the same mistake many modern interpreters have made. They concluded that the story of sin ended where Israel's history began. For some of these ancient Israelites, the result was more tragic. They assumed, wrongly, that the patriarchal narratives were mainly about good people (in contrast with bad people who predominated primeval history) and that God's promises to these pious patriarchs were grounded on the patriarch's personal merit.
From this reading, it was only a small step to the conclusion that Yahweh had ransomed Israel from Egypt and was about to gift them the Promised Land on the basis of the Israel's intrinsic worth. Moses detected this self-righteous mindset among some of his contemporaries and warned them with words that allude to the patriarchal narratives:
Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, "It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land," whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from be fore you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob (Deut. 9:4-5)
With these strong words, Moses eliminates any fantasy his contemporaries may have entertained regarding their supposed superiority to their pagan neighbors.
"Ah!" says one of Moses' fellow Israelites. "I agree that we have not established a good track record with Yahweh in our wilderness wanderings. But as your concluding words indicate, we will enjoy Yahweh's blessing because of the fathers, that is, on account of their merit!" Moses replies, "My dear kinsman, you have greatly misunderstood the meaning of my words. It is not on account of the fathers' merits that you will inherit the land. Rather, the land will become yours on account of God's gracious promise to the ill-deserving among whom the fathers are included!" Then Moses encourages his Israelite neighbor to reread Genesis—especially the patriarchal narratives. There he will not find plaster saints and huge reservoirs of human merit. On the contrary, he will find that his patriarchs and matriarchs sometimes behaved worse than the pagans around them.1 There he will learn that salvation is by grace alone and not by works.
Saint Abraham, the "Ungodly"
Moses did not write Genesis for his generation only. He also wrote it for future generations. Fourteen centuries later a Jew named Saul of Tarsus would come to see that Genesis was not written to set off the Jews as the sole heirs of salvation, nor was it written to ground their hope in the piety of their ancestors (or their own for that matter). Once converted, this Saul-turned-Paul would argue that sin's sway over Israel functioned as a portrait of sin's sway over every man thereby condemning the entire human race (Rom. 3:9-19).2 Paul would even use Abraham as an example of one over whom sin had sway, placing him on the same level as the penitent yet forgiven King David—a sinner who rejoiced in the God who "justifies the ungodly" (Rom. 4:3-8).
Paul's characterization of Abraham as "ungodly" (ασεβη) cannot be limited to Abraham's pre-conversion state. Paul bases his portrayal of Abraham as an ungodly man justified on Genesis 15:6, a text characterizing the patriarch some time after his initial conversion (compare Gen. 12:1-6 with Acts 7:2-4; Heb. 11:8). Although Abraham was justified once for all years before his act of faith described in Genesis 15:6, that simple faith remained paradigmatic of the patriarch's first act of saving faith. Moreover, the blessing attributed to Abraham in 15:6, namely, being credited as righteous, continues to contemplate his state as "ungodly," that is, as a sinner in need of saving grace. Similarly, Paul's citation of David's words in Psalm 32 applies to post-conversion experience (Ps. 32:1-2; Rom. 4:7-8). Thus, it seems likely that Paul's characterization of Abraham as "ungodly" is not based merely on the patriarch's pre-Canaan life (Josh. 24:2; Neh. 9:7) but embraces the totality of the patriarch's life as depicted in the patriarchal narrative.
Think about that for a moment. Paul classifies Abraham as "ungodly"! Someone may object, "But does not Genesis 15:6 tell us that God counted him as "righteous" (Gen. 15:6)? "Yes," says Paul. "But God reckoned him so on account of faith in [God's] promise (Rom. 4:3-5). And if we examine Genesis 15:6 in its context, we'll conclude that it was God's faithfulness not Abraham's faithfulness that Moses highlights.
Yahweh, the God Who Justifies the Ungodly
At that time Abram was struggling with doubts because he had neither an heir nor an inheritance. So God comes to him, and says, "Fear not, I am your shield [or Benefactor]; your reward shall be very great" (15:1). God's admonition against "fear" does not refer primarily to the dread induced by an encounter with deity but to the circumstances in Abram's life that were giving rise to anxiety. Abram identifies these circumstances as the lack of an heir (15:2-3) and an inheritance (15:8). God addresses the patriarch's fears by reiterating the promises of an offspring (15:4-5) and an inheritance (15:7). And while Abram responds to God's promise in genuine faith, God senses that the patriarch's faith needs more than a bare word. Abram's appeal, "Oh, Lord God, how am I to know I shall possess it?" (15:8) suggests that Abram needed greater assurance. Accordingly, God condescends to his weakness and places himself under a self-maledictory oath (15:9-21; Heb. 6:13-18). Thus, the accent of the chapter falls on God's great faithfulness rather than on Abram's great faith.
Reading the patriarchal narratives in a way that does not turn a blind eye to the many weaknesses and the sometimes large faults of the fathers will serve as a powerful antidote to a works-based religion. In fact, Paul himself argues that one of the primary functions of the law (of which the patriarchal narrative was an essential part!) was to increase the magnitude of Adam's original trespass by means of displaying its spread among Adam's progeny among whom death reigned (Rom. 5:14a, 20-21).3 Thus, the entire book of Genesis underscores man's desperate need for saving grace.
The Modern Attack on Justification by Faith Alone
This point has relevance not merely for the Jewish contemporaries of Moses or Paul. It needs to be proclaimed in the church in every generation—especially today when contemporary Protestant scholars are conflating faith and obedience as the instruments of justification. For instance, some modern scholars argue that the faith that justifies must be understood in its active sense, namely, obedient faith or faithfulness. Hence, they understand Paul and James to be referring to the same genus of justification in their appeal to Abraham's faith in Genesis 15:6 (see Rom. 4:3-5; James 2:21-24). Daniel Fuller argues that it was the combination of Abraham's initial act of faith whereby he left Ur together with his ongoing perseverance in faiththat served as the condition for his justification.4 Not surprisingly, Fuller goes on to fault Luther and Calvin for interpreting Paul and James to be referring to two different kinds of justification.5. Don Garlington avers,
In keeping with the Hebrew term 'emunah, the Greek noun translated 'faith,' pistis, is two-sided: faith and faithfulness. Given this set of data, righteousness does consist of pistis in the expansive sense of 'emunah, that is, covenant conformity.6
N. T. Wright appears to be moving in the same direction when he remarks, "Faith and obedience are not antithetical. They belong exactly together. Indeed, the word 'faith' itself could properly be translated as 'faithfulness,' which makes the point just as well." Wright quickly assures the reader that his definition of faith does not compromise the doctrine of justification by faith alone by adding, "Faith, even in this active sense, is never and in no way a qualification, provided from the human side, either for getting into God's family or for staying there once in. It is the God-given badge of membership, neither more nor less."7Wright does not appear to understand the Protestant doctrine of sola fide.
The Reformers never denied that true faith eventuates in good works. What they taught was that the one and the same faith responds differently to divine promise than it does to divine law. Faith responding to promise is passive or receptive. Faith responding to law is active or obedient. Faith in its passive or receptive role is alone the instrument of justification. Faith in its active or obedient role may be viewed as the instrument of sanctification, as well as the evidence of one's justification.8
Making Proper and Important Distinctions
I believe Paul was focusing on faith in its receptive role and James was focusing on faith in its active role. For this reason, they were each using the term "justification" differently. James Buchanan calls attention to this distinction in his classic work on the subject:
While 'Justification' is a forensic or judicial term, it is used in Scripture to denote, some times the acceptance of a sinner as righteous in the sight of God [e.g., Paul's usage]—sometimes the manifestation or proof of his acceptance, by which it is attested and made sure [e.g., James' usage]: and this variety in the application of it is the ground of an important theological distinction—the distinction between actual [Paul's focus] and declarative [James' focus] Justification.9
We cannot truly appreciate the grace of God unless we truly appreciate man's sinful condition and his need for a righteousness that is not his own but is a gift from God. I believe a correct reading of the patriarchal narratives places the primary accent or emphasis on God's faithfulness and grace, not on human piety. This, in turn, supports the traditional Protestant and Reformed understanding of justification by faith alone through grace alone based on the imputed righteousness of Christ alone.
Note: Some of the material posted above has been drawn from and adapted from my book Where Sin Abounds: the Spread of Sin and the Curse in Genesis with Special Focus on the Patriarchal Narratives. Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers. www.wipfandstock.com
- I provide extensive support for this reading in my recently published book Where Sin Abounds: The Spread of Sin and the Curse in Genesis with Special Focus on the Patriarchal Narratives (Wipf & Stock, 2010). [↩]
- Specifically, Paul concludes that "the law speaks to those who are under the law [i.e., Jews], so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world [i.e., Jews and Gentiles] may be held accountable to God" (3:19, emphasis added). John Murray insists that the phrase "to those under the law" includes all people in light of the following universal descriptions: "every mouth" and "the whole world." Murray also notes the universality of Rom. 2:14-15. Epistle to the Romans, NICNT, ed. F. F. Bruce (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1968), 1:106-07. The phrase "under the law," however, is also used more restrictively to refer to the Jews (2:12). Consequently, Paul seems to be arguing that the law's condemnation of the Jews (which is found throughout the Old Testament canon) serves as an indictment on the entire human race. See Douglas Moo, The Epistle to the Romans, NICOT, ed. Gordon D. Fee (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996), 204-06. [↩]
- Romans 5:20 is key: "Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more." Interestingly, the Greek word translated "trespass" is singular and includes the article: to paraptoma. In every other case it is used in this passage, it refers specifically to Adam's one act of disobedience (5:15 [twice], 16, 17, 18; see also verses 14 [tes parabaseos], 16 [henos hamartesantos], 18 [tes parakoes tou henos anthropou]). Hence, Richard Lenski translates the verse, "Now the law came in besides so that the fall increased" (emphasis added). The Interpretation of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (Colombus: Wartburg Press, 1945), 383-84. This raises the question of how the law, which was given millennia after Adam's sin could cause his one sin to increase. Sensing the difficulty, some commentators interpret the singular to paraptoma as a collective noun, referring to the sins of men in general or Israelites in particular. See Charles Hodge, The Epistle to the Romans (1835; repr., Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1983), 177. In this context, however, Adam's transgression is chiefly in view, and whatever sins follow Adam actually point back to his own transgression. Accordingly, Leon Morris suggests that "the word may be chosen as a way of bringing out the continuity between his sin and that of his descendants." The Epistle to the Romans, PNTC, ed. D. A. Carson (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1988), 241. See also Robert Haldane, An Exposition of Romans (1839; reprint ed., MacDill AFB, Florida: MacDonald Publishing Co., 1958), 227. Hence, Paul's allusion to the reign of death between the time of Adam and Moses as indicative of sin's presence in the world (5:13-14) and his continuance of the sin-death-reign connection in the next verse (5:21) would seem to suggest that one of the law's purposes is to "increase" Adam-like transgressions. The book of Genesis, as part of the Torah, certainly functions as a magnifying glass that demonstrates the spread of "the trespass" and "the reign of death." Thus, even though men may not have reckoned their sinful behavior as transgression against the will of God prior to the law, the law, particularly Genesis, demonstrates that such sinful behavior is linked to Adam's transgression and is therefore a violation of God's will and worthy of his wrath. [↩]
- The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God's Plan for Humanity (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992), 310. [↩]
- Ibid., 311. [↩]
- "Imputation or Union with Christ," Reformation & Revival Journal 2 (2003): 52. [↩]
- What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Saul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997), 160. [↩]
- For an analysis of Luther and Calvin's conception of justifying faith, see Sam Waldron, Faith, Obedience, and Justification: Current Evangelical Departures from Sola Fide (Palmdale, CA: Reformed Baptist Academic Press, 2006), 13-71. [↩]
- The Doctrine of Justification: An Outline of Its History in the Church and of Its Exposition from Scripture (1867; repr., Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1991), 233. For a helpful exegetical analysis of the respective ways in which Paul and James use Genesis 15:6, see G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, ed., Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), 622-24, 1003-05. [↩]


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The Digital Transformation megatrend is fundamentally disrupting and changing every industry, business and most jobs at a rapid pace. Many executives and managers are struggling with understanding this megatrend and what it means to them and their organization. Digital Transformation affects everything from updating the company vision and strategy, to educating CEOs, CIOs and management teams on the significant changes that are taking place today.
Are you thinking "outside the box" in 2017? Are your competitors?
A Digital Transformation process includes reviews and updates to Goals, Objectives, Strategy, Process, Metrics and Technology. The following list of top technologies are being implemented today in other companies to digitally transform the way their employees work and dramatically improve their customer experiences. We included a few comments next to each. How many of these items are in your plans for this year? Use the list to stimulate ideas during your reviews and discussions.
Top 11 Digital Transformation Technologies for 2017
- Big Data and Analytics Reporting
You are going to have an exponential increase in data in your business over the next few years. Are Excel spreadsheets the best solution? Do your managers have the real-time reporting needed to be successful in today's business environment?
- Cloud Apps and Mobile Solutions
All top application developers are rebuilding their applications (apps) for the cloud and mobile. Moving old apps to a remote location is not really taking advantage of cloud computing. How old are your apps and when were they built? Cloud and Mobile Apps are needed these days for most professionals to be productive. Do you still use desktop solutions for your Millennial workers?
- Customer Experience (CX) and Social Marketing
Today's customer expects a very fast response to their needs from all companies. They communicate in many ways: social, text, chat, Skype, FaceTime, email, phone and in person.
- Cyber Security
Traditional virus software and static system firewalls do not cut it today. All business systems are targeted by hackers from around the world and sometimes within your own company. The latest cyber security systems are proactive and reactive in protecting your company.
- IOT (Internet of Things) and Wearables
IOT can be used in most offices to save money on energy, improve security and reduce costs. The Healthcare Industry will make very good use of wearables over the next two years.
- AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning)
Look for AI and ML to be integrated into many of the latest business applications this year. Sales and Marketing Apps with this technology will make your people much more productive. Do your applications have this technology this year - or next year?
- AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality)
Very few businesses need VR technology this year. AR will have a faster return on investment than VR for the majority of companies in the next few years.
- eSignatures
This is one of the fastest returns on digital transformation investment for businesses. If you have a lot of paper processing and signing, you need to implement eSignature technology this year.
- Voice Personal Assistants Chatbots (Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and Hey Google)
Many companies are experimenting with using voice personal assistants as productivity tools for employees and customers.
- Robots, Drones and Self-Driving Safety Features in Vehicles
Low priority technology for most companies this year. Security robots and drones are being implemented this year. Self-driving safety features in the latest cars help reduce accidents and deaths of employees traveling in vehicles.
- Responsive Designed Websites with Video
Your website should be designed to work on all devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops and TVs. You should also increase your investment in publishing short videos on your web pages.
Please contact us if you want us to help you be more successful with your digital transformation projects in 2017.


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Health care workers need to be able to understand the language used on a daily basis to provide education and motivation for healthy behavior and illness management. Using good communication techniques helps them relate health information better, limit misunderstandings and build trust. This course provides the communication techniques necessary to facilitate better communication between health care providers and community members.
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- Use the principles of plain language to improve interactions with patients, clients and other health care providers
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- Overcome common barriers to ensure effective communication
- Understand the challenges related to cross-cultural communication
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Dream big Go Tiny
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> Okay — I think I have the general idea of this annotation concept — > basically like using MS Word review comments function with encryption, > so you'd have to unencrypt the code to reference the footnotes — > right? Well, I suppose you can say that it's *like using MS Word review comments*, but annotation is a technology-independent concept. One of the original inspirations is the Talmud. I don't know where encryption enters the picture, though it might be mentioned as an optional feature. Annotea, and other web-based annotation tools, have a number of very useful features which break free from the "single-document" model (which both Word, and for that model, the Talmud, suffer). I thought that the Overview statement for Annotea quite clear (and I'm not even associated with it): "By annotations we mean comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document without actually needing to touch the document. When the user gets the document he or she can also load the annotations attached to it from a selected annotation server or several servers and see what his peer group thinks." I can't comment on this rest of the documents. I have some writings on annotation which touch more on application needs. > The big controversy on listservs is how we (teachers) harp on our > students about plagiarism only to find ourselves inadvertedly doing > exactly that. Now that everyone is sensitive to the issue, an idea > like yours is ripe for implementation (if I understand your idea...) — > but it has to be accessible for the low-techy. What do you think? On what listserve? I assume one for teachers. I don't know how annotation helps (fight) plagiarism. One way of thinking is that you can start to think about avoiding the conditions which might subtly encourage plagiarism. Maybe one cause is assigning the same paper to all the students. Instead they might be encouraged to engage in a Talmudic collaboration: appending to original texts, not copying them. JonReceived on Wednesday, 6 March 2002 16:12:58 UTC
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Bisexuals may get their day in Berkeley
If one Pride celebration isn't enough for you, pack up your party hat and come to Berkeley.
Berkeley on Tuesday could become what appears to be the first city in the country to proclaim a Bisexual Pride Day, separate from the LGBT events that light up the calendar every June across the globe.
Bisexual Pride Day, if it's approved by the City Council, would be celebrated Sept. 23 in conjunction with Bisexual Pride events in Los Angeles, Boston and other cities. But, so far Berkeley - which has no official celebrations planned - is the only city to consider officially recognizing a separate day for bisexuals.
City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who proposed the idea, said he hopes the public will organize parties, forums, barbecues or other events.
"Bisexuals can experience prejudice from both directions," he said. "Increasing bisexual visibility is a way of saying, yes, they do exist, and they deserve our support and acceptance."
Bisexuals have complained for years that they're shunned by the LGBT mainstream, that they're considered fence-sitters or that they're not a legitimate part of the gay movement because they may occasionally be in relationships with the opposite sex.
"They think we have 'straight privilege,' and we hide in that," said Martin Rawlings-Fein, a director of the Bay Area Bisexual Network, a nonprofit educational and cultural group. "We get pushed to the side in the LGBT community and told we don't exist, that we're actually gay or lesbian and just not totally 'out.' "
In reality, more than 50 percent of the LGBT community considers itself bisexual to some degree, and sexuality for most people falls on a spectrum, Rawlings-Fein and others said.
Another myth is that bisexuals are polyamorous, he said. Just like people in any group, bisexuals can date many people or be in long-term monogamous relationships, he said.
But because of the political nature of LGBT movement, bisexuals don't have an easy niche, said Brendan Behan, executive director of San Francisco Pride.
"Berkeley's doing a great thing," he said. "Unfortunately, even in our own community, bisexuals can be invisible. I've seen bisexuals outright dismissed because of their sexuality."
The move to create separate recognition for bisexuals should be a wake-up call to the LGBT community to broaden its perception of relationships, whether they're gay, straight or something in between, he said.
For example, many assume that two men together are gay, or a man and a woman together are straight. In reality, human relationships are endlessly nuanced and rarely easy to pigeonhole, he said.
"We no longer live in an age when we can make assumptions about someone's sexuality or gender," he said. "You can't classify people based on what you perceive."
Gays and lesbians, just like heterosexuals, need to reconsider what they consider normal, he said.
Nancy Carleton, a former Berkeley zoning board chair and a bisexual, said Berkeley's move is symbolic but hugely important.
Bisexuals aren't any more special than other groups, but they're not well understood, she said.
"Certain parts of the LGBT community get lots and lots of attention, and certain parts just get lumped in," she said. "We're just a tag-on on the longer list."
Anything that brings visibility is helpful, she said.
"The more we can learn about each other, the more tolerance grows," she said. "This gives the LGBT community a little spark."
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For Aaron Rodgers, Practice Makes Perfect Motor Skills/
During a Green Bay Packers win over the Atlanta Falcons earlier this season, Peter King, the NFL's dean of sportswriters, found a new level of respect for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Here's how King described one particular third and two play late in the first quarter:
"At the snap, Rodgers' first look, a long one, was to the left for Nelson. Well covered. Quickly Rodgers turned to the right, to where Cobb was planting his foot in the ground three or four yards upfield and preparing to run a simple in-cut; at the same time, his cover man, cornerback Desmond Trufant, was going to have get through traffic to get to the ball if Rodgers was going to make the throw to Cobb."
"Rodgers was going to make the throw, all right. He was making it a millisecond after Cobb put his foot in the ground. Trufant's good—quick and fast. As the ball rocketed toward Cobb, Adams knifed through traffic and got to Cobb just as the ball did. But the ball was placed perfectly in the oncoming Cobb's gut. It got there just before Trufant did. Smash! Trufant barreled into Cobb, who cradled the ball to his chest. If the pass is wide or low or high, even by half a foot, the force of Trufant hitting Cobb would have dislodged the ball—no question. And Trufant played it perfectly. In fact, after he slammed into Cobb, Trufant got up triumphantly, feeling, I made the play!
But Rodgers made the play. Gain of four. First down."
The variables of speed, strength, environment and defenders constantly change yet, eventually, both QB and receiver need to get on the same wavelength. Often referred to as "motor memories", athletes rely on thousands of practice repetitions to help them instantly adjust to new conditions on the same tasks - throw and catch a ball. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have a better understanding of how we are able to do this.
"In learning a new motor task, there appear to be two processes happening at once," says Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. "One is the learning of the motor commands in the task, and the other is critiquing the learning, much the way a 'coach' behaves. Learning the next similar task goes faster, because the coach knows which errors are most worthy of attention. In effect, this second process leaves a memory of the errors that were experienced during the training, so the re-experience of those errors makes the learning go faster."
For over 10 years, Dr. Shadmehr and his research team have been studying how we learn motor skills with the help of a video game with a twist. As test volunteers stare at a computer screen, they control a joystick to move a cursor towards a target. However, the joystick is hidden from their view, so they can't actually see their hand moving the device. Imagine throwing a football at a target without being able to see your arm.
Last year, Shadmehr used this set-up to test what happens how we use visual feedback to adjust our motor skills as we learn. First, they practiced moving the joystick so that a blue dot on the screen reached a red target. Next, he added a secret challenge to the task by making the joystick pull to the left, causing the volunteers to adjust to the right.
After they had learned this new twist, Shadmehr now showed half the group a screen simulation that did not reflect what was actually happening. In other words, they were getting false feedback to their movements, as if they were doing the task perfectly every time. They eventually stopped adding the adjustment to the right, forgetting what they had just learned.
"Our results correct a component of knowledge we thought we understood," said Shadmehr. "Neuroscientists thought decay was intrinsic to motor memories, but in fact it's not decay — it's selection."
So, from a football perspective, players refresh their motor memories during preseason as new feedback from passing drills provides additional data samples. Continuing with the same experimental set-up this year, the research team tweaked the variables to see if our memories of the errors we previously made helps us improve our technique.
This time, they played with the joystick calibration to slowly move it to the right or left of center, eventually being as much as 30 degrees off. Over time, the volunteers adjusted more quickly to these unknown small adjustments, also known as prediction errors, often without even noticing the change.
Shadmehr is convinced that this is why his own tennis game gets better after the first few points. "I'm much better in my second five minutes of playing tennis than in my first five minutes, and I always assumed that was because my muscles had warmed up," he said. "But now I wonder if warming up is really a chance for our brains to re-experience error."
For some QB-receiver tandems, it takes a little more time for each to adjust their timing, movement and motor skills. As the old saying goes, "repetition is the mother of skill."
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Tourism galore!
The goal for today was to see as much of the city in as little time as possible. Call it 'speed-tourism' if you like. San Francisco's warmest day in a while began for mum and I with a famous cable car ride from the Powell Street station up and down the hilly terrain to Lombard Street. The steep streets didn't stop there of course, as Lombard street is the most crooked in the world. It wasn't much of a challenge to descend the stairs, but it was fun nonetheless. A quick breakfast, and visit to Lombard Street later, proceeded the long walk to the Golden Gate bridge. It was at least an hour between first glimpse and reaching the start of the bridge, and the views from different angles were all uniquely impressive. After many, many photos of the bridge, we walked across then kept going to a town known as Sausalito. From here, a ferry was caught back to San Francisco that offered a great view of Alcatraz and over the city as it passed.
An afternoon meal took place at a nice seafood restaurant somewhere between Pier 39 & Fishermans Wharf (mmm, clam chowder), and then the exploration continued. This time, by walking the streets until we saw the Apple Store on Chestnut Street. Can you really say you came to San Francisco for WWDC without visiting all of the local stores? The look and feel of this store reminded me a lot of the Bondi Apple Store in Sydney.
A bus ride later, it was time to visit Moscone West again. It's since been dressed up and is all ready for the big event. Between yesterday and today, two massive Apple logos have gone up onto the glass along two sides of the conference centre - quite a sight. Apple also have put up five banners on a street opposite, displaying the text "WWDC" for all to see.
Fun fact of the day: For about half of today the roaming on my iPhone changed from the carrier AT&T 3G to T-Mobile 3G. The experience on T-Mobile was ridiculously sub-par.
Fun fact #2: At the time of writing (10:52pm), my Apple Watch is reporting 35755 steps taken. Insane!
Tomorrow's agenda: Meeting up with some fellow scholars for breakfast in the morning, before heading down to the scholars orientation. Hoping to get the opportunity to meet some Apple executives at the orientation. Will keep you posted, so stay tuned!


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Today's Freeze Frame features Tracey Reid (Loyalist PR 09/10) who is now employed as a Graphic Technician in the Marketing & Communications Department of Loyalist College.
Prior to enrolling in the Post-Graduate Public Relations Program at Loyalist College, completed the Advertising Program at Loyalist College and worked for 15 years in the field. She returned to Loyalist as a mature student in the fall of 2009.
Freeze Frame: How did you learn about the Loyalist PR program?
Tracey Reid: I learned about the program through a three week course I took through the Abbott agency in Belleville. I had never heard of public relations before and when I heard that they were offering it at Loyalist, I was excited because it was close to home.
FF: What do your duties include as a graphic technician?
TR: My duties include designing publications such as Lasting Connections, Focus Magazine, Kids Camp Brochure and many other fun marketing tools Loyalist puts out.
FF: How did Loyalist PR help prepare you for your current position?
TR: The PR program prepared me in so many ways. I wouldn't have gotten this position if I hadn't been in the PR program. This program has taught me how to write with more confidence and clarity. This program has taught me how to take on leadership roles in a project that I am responsible for.
The PR program has changed my life, I am not kidding, I think entirely different coming out of this program. I am not the same person that walked into this course.
FF: Do you have any favourite memories of your time in the Loyalist PR program?
TR: Wow, I can't believe I have to pick one memory! I have so many. I would have to say going to Toronto with the class was one of my favorite memories – meeting George Stroumboulopoulos [of CBC's "The Hour"]. I think we bonded as a class once we returned from that trip as well.
FF: Any words of advice for students entering the program this fall?
TR: I was a mature student and this was one of the hardest decisions that I have ever made but it was worth it. If I could give any advice at all is that it would be...not to be scared going back to school, if you are a mature student. I couldn't believe how I was accepted as one of the students and how everyone always made me feel so welcome.
I would have to say the advice I would give everyone, is NETWORK! This is truly a powerful tool and will take you directions that you never thought possible. Be a sponge and absorb everything, it is remarkable what you will learn from it.
FF: Anything else to add?
TR: You will have memories that will last a lifetime and friends that will be by your side when your knees are shaking behind the podium! Be positive and have fun. Enjoy this year.


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The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) just released year four of its ongoing study, and it's got some interesting findings on what Americans know about transportation funding in the United States and, regardless of what they know, what they think about it. It's laboriously (but informatively) titled "What do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads?" The biggest takeaway, as far as I can tell, is that people have no damn clue how the hell transportation funding works in this country, and their opinions about how it should be funded are often completely contrary to their own self-interest.
Here's the justification for the study, found in the introduction:
Over the past several decades, the transportation revenues available from state and federal gas taxes have fallen significantly, especially in terms of inflation-adjusted dollars per mile traveled. At the same time, the transportation system requires critical—and expensive—system upgrades. Among other needs, a large portion of the national highway system needs major rehabilitation, and there is growing desire at all levels of government to substantially upgrade and expand infrastructure to support public transit, walking, and bicycling, modes that have been relatively neglected in the past 50 years.
This dilemma of growing needs and shrinking revenues can be resolved in only two ways: either the nation must dramatically lower its goals for system preservation and enhancement, or new revenues must be raised. If the latter is to happen, legislators must be convinced that increasing taxes or fees is politically feasible. One portion of the political calculus that legislators make when deciding whether or not to raise new revenues is, of course, considering likely public support for—or opposition to—raising different kinds of taxes.
Fair enough. It's probably helpful to have some idea of what proposals a politician or other public official could make without ending his or her career, otherwise we might never get anything done. It's taken as axiomatic at this point that attempting to raise gas taxes is political suicide, so we want to know what alternatives might be palatable to the American public, and whether gas taxes are really as anathema as they're often portrayed.
Let's look at what they found.
"Gas taxes are the worst, unless they're actually going to be used for something. (Really, anything is fine.)"
When poll respondents were asked how they felt about a ten-cent gas tax increase (from 18 cents to 28 cents per gallon), support was abysmal at just 23%. However, support increased when a use was specified for the additional funds, and every suggested use received greater than 50% support:
This encompasses basically every possible use of gas taxes, including some that are arguably illegal under current law, but Americans support it all when you actually tell them what it's for. Most people, of course, aren't aware that the Highway Trust Fund has been a net recipient of tens of billions of dollars over the last several years (or that there is a thing called the Highway Trust Fund, probably). But really, what do people think gas taxes are currently spent on? Medicare?
"Yes, fares cover the full cost of transit service, I'm certain. Final answer."
MTI wanted to assess the average American's knowledge of how transit is funded, and they started with the following question:
"When people ride public transit, they pay a fare. This money is used to pay for the service. Do you think that the money collected from public transit fares in general covers the full cost of the service?"
The correct answer is no, and the amount covered by fares is usually quite low, around 20-40%. The most transit-oriented cities (SF, Chicago, NYC, D.C., etc.) get up into the 50s and 60s. Fifty-five percent of people got this right, and another 15 percent said they didn't know, but a shocking proportion of people—30 percent!!!—said that yes, transit fares do cover the full cost of the service. It's not a big deal that people don't know the truth, really, but if you don't know why can't you just say so!?
Given that this is completely untrue, and has been for basically as long as anyone's been alive, I'm not sure what to think of it. On the one hand, maybe these people are genuinely misinformed and thought they had good reason to believe what they said. That would be unfortunate. On the other hand maybe they really didn't know, and rather than admit it they gave the answer they felt was most likely or fit their ideology best. That would be even worse.
Bonus fact: people who drive cars that get 39+ miles per gallon were about twice as likely as those driving lower-mileage cars to think/say that fares covered the full cost of transit. I have no idea what that to make of that.
"Congress should raise bus fares. They can do that, right?"
Respondents were asked if they supported some gas tax revenue being used to support transit and—good news!—every subgroup of people expressed majority support (even Republicans!). They were then asked how, if Congress decided that public transit spending should increase, they should go about funding it: by increasing the gas tax, cutting other programs, or… increasing transit fares?*
Two things. First, I'm once again unsure of whether this is unconstitutional or not. Second, even if it's not technically against the law, it's a matter that the federal government currently doesn't meddle in—it's up to the regional or municipal transit organization to set fares, at least in most places. (Despite this, the study found the greatest support among those good ol' local-control Republicans.) I'm gonna give America a pass on this one though, since you've gotta answer the question as given. Mineta gets the fault here. Stupid question, Mineta.
*And just to be clear, they do phrase the summary as "Three Ways Congress Could Pay for Expanding and Improving Public Transportation," so they do actually mean Congress would raise the fares.
"Sure, I hate taxes, but you know what I really hate? Myself."
Delving further into the question of which of the three transit-funding options provided were preferred by respondents, MTI looked at the subgroups that were most supportive of each option. I'm going to reprint that below, and I'm going to underline the groups lobbying against their own self-interest or ideology:
- Those most likely to prefer raising the federal gas tax were respondents who fell into one any one of the following subgroups: white or black/African American, living in households with annual incomes of $100,001 or more, drove vehicles in the two least-fuel-efficient categories, or either had not taken transit in the last 30 days or were living in communities with no transit service.
- Those most likely to prefer reducing spending on other government programs were respondents who fell into any one of the following subgroups: Asian/Asian American, not of Hispanic or Latino descent or origin, or living in households with the lowest annual income.
- Those most likely to prefer raising transit fares were respondents who fell into one any one of the following subgroups: Democrat, drove the most fuel-efficient vehicles, or had taken transit within the last 30 days.
Every single choice is full of subgroups that make no sense whatsoever! What are people driving the least fuel-efficient vehicles doing preferring gas taxes? Same story with people who don't uses transit or don't have access to it, i.e., the people most likely to drive. Are these people just super altruistic, or is it some kind of climate guilt?
And although this isn't really a new thing, we have the poorest people advocating for reduced spending on government programs, even though they're the ones most likely to be served by them. Maybe they're those median Americans who think 25% of the government's money goes to foreign aid.
As for raising transit fares, Democrats' support just seems like it's contrary to the ideology of the party, but what I'm most interested in is these self-hating transit riders. What's their deal?


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Beige Painted Antique Mahogany Chest of Drawers
An Edwardian chest of drawers so dating between 1910 - 1920, has its original handles, it was originally a dressing chest as shown in one of the thumbnail photos. We have painted it in Annie Sloan Country Grey ( a beige colour) and we have picked out the detail in white. It has been slightly distressed by sanding it and then we have waxed it and buffed it to give it a slight sheen. This matches the three drawer beige chest also on the site, although they are not quite the same height. The mirror that was originally on this piece has also been painted and had a shelf added.
Width: 106cm Depth:52cm Height: 78.5cm
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This item has been taken out of the shop and has now been painted. We anticipate that it will be in the shop from Sat 8th March. Now photos will follow shortly.
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Biology II Exam II
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For each glucose that enters glycolysis, _____ acetyl CoA enter the citric acid cycle
For each glucose that enters glycolysis, _____ NADH + H+ are produced by the citric acid cycle.
oxidative phosphorylation
In cellular respiration, most ATP molecules are produced by _____.
The final electron acceptor of cellular respiration is _____.
intermembrane space
During electron transport, energy from NADH and FADH2 is used to pump hydrogen ions into the _____.
kinetic energy that is released as hydrogen ions diffuse down their concentration gradient
The proximate (immediate) source of energy for oxidative phosphorylation is _____.
This reaction occurs spontaneously.
This reaction requires a net input of energy from its surroundings.
In cells, this is usually the immediate source of energy for an endergonic reactions.
The reaction ADP + P --> ATP is a(n) _____ reaction.
The energy for an endergonic reaction comes from a(n) _____ reaction
This group is removed when ATP is converted to ADP, and then acquired by a reactant in an endergonic reaction.
energy coupling
the use of energy released from an exergonic reaction to drive an endergonic reaction
When ATP is hydrolyzed into ADP and inorganic phosphate, a ______ amount of energy is released.
When one molecule gains an electron from another, the molecule that received the electron has been _____.
Energy of activation
Enzymes work by reducing the ____.
organic catalyst
Name given to the reactants in an enzymatically catalyzed reaction
As a result of its involvement in a reaction, an enzyme is _____.
orienting substrates
Enzymes speed reaction rates by _____ and lowering activation energy
the transition state
Activation energies are reduced because enzymes stabilize _____.
the active site's R-groups
Enzyme specificity is a function of the shape of the active site and the chemical properties of _____.
conservation of energy
energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one form to another
Chemical energy is a form of _____ energy.
cellular respiration
In your body, what process converts the chemical energy found in glucose into the chemical energy found in ATP?
heat, carbon dioxide, and water
By-products of cellular respiration
oxidized, reduced
In cellular respiration, glucose is _____ and oxygen is _____.
How many NADH are produced by glycolysis?
substrate-level phosphorylation
In glycolysis, ATP molecules are produced by _____.
In glycolysis, what starts the process of glucose oxidation?
In glycolysis there is a net gain of _____ ATP.
acetyl CoA
enters the citric acid cycle
substrate-level phosphorylation
In the citric acid cycle, ATP molecules are produced by _____.
The high-energy electron carrier that is reduced during glycolysis, pyruvate processing, and the citric acid cycle, and which carries electrons to the electron transport system, is _____.
_____ is the three-carbon sugar that is produced as an end product of glycolysis.
competitive inhibition
Competitive inhibition involves binding of a regulatory molecule to the active site
allosteric regulation
a regulatory molecule binds to a different location
The reactions of pyruvate processing, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain occur within the _____ in the cell.
purpose of the electron transport chain in the formation of ATP
The proteins in the electron transport chain pump protons from the matrix of the mitochondria to the intermembrane space, thus establishing an electrochemical gradient
ADP synthase
At the end of cellular respiration, protons flow through a protein called _____,.which drives the formation of ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate.
lactate and NAD+
In muscle cells, fermentation produces _____.
pyruvate, NADH
In fermentation _____ is reduced and _____ is oxidized
Which molecule is metabolized in a cell to produce energy for performing work?
phosphate groups
The potential energy in an ATP molecule is derived mainly from its three _______ ______.
Which step of the cellular respiration pathway can take place in the absence of oxygen?
carbon dioxide
Into which molecule are all the carbon atoms in glucose ultimately incorporated during cellular respiration?
electron transport chain
NADH and FADH2 donate their electrons to the ______.
electron transport chain and chemiosmosis
Which stage of glucose metabolism produces the most ATP?
The reactions that generate the largest amounts of ATP during cellular respiration take place in the _________.
Organisms that have an ETC as well as fermentation pathways almost never ferment pyruvate if the electron acceptor required by the ETC because the fermentation is extremely inefficient in terms of ____ molecules produced for each molecule of glucose metabolized.
_______ regenerates NAD+ from NADH to keep glycolysis going in the absence of oxygen.
water, NADPH
The light reactions of photosynthesis use _____ and produce _____.
light-dependent reactions
Which set of reactions uses H2O and produces O2?
The ____________ reactions turn CO2, a gas, into usable carbon in the form of sugars
This molecule is the primary product of photosystem I
dependent, independent
The light-________ reactions produce ATP and NADPH, which are then used by the light-_________ reactions.
regeneration of RuBP
Which of the following reactions ensures that the Calvin cycle can make a continuous supply of glucose?
The molecules that absorb only certain wavelengths of light energy from the Sun in order to begin the photosynthetic reactions are called ____________.
chlorophyll pigments
The _______ ________ absorb all wavelengths of light except in the green spectrum, which it reflects
enter an excited state
When a photon of light is absorbed by a pigment molecule, electrons in the molecule _____.
What important molecule that is needed for cellular respiration is released when water is split in the light reactions of photosynthesis?
During the Calvin cycle, carbon dioxide is _____, in order to drive the formation of sugars.
____________ captures light energy from the Sun and stores it in the bonds of glucose, which is then used during cellular respiration to drive the formation of ATP in all plants and animals.
The ______________ experiment answered the question of whether protein or DNA was the genetic material by learning if DNA or protein from a virus entered bacterial cells during infection.
This experiment determined what part of newly replicated DNA comes from the parental molecule and what part is newly synthesized
5' to 3'
DNA polymerase can assemble DNA only in the ______ direction
Short segments of newly synthesized DNA are joined into a continuous strand by _______.
old, new
After DNA replication is completed, each new DNA double helix consists of one ___ DNA strand and one ___ DNA strand
the action of _______ creates replication forks and replication bubbles
replication fork
the transition region between paired and unpaired DNA strands
DNA Polymerase
DNA synthesis by ___ __________ always proceeds in the 5'→3' direction, using a complementary, antiparallel strand as template
the first step in the replication of DNA is catalyzed ______
The _______of a new strand begins with the synthesis of a RNA primer complementary to a preexisting DNA strand
RNA primer
The synthesis of a DNA strand begins with the formation of an _________
catalyzes the formation of an RNA primer.
daughter DNA
the new DNA's after replication is complete; identical to each other
leading strand
the new DNA that grows continuously in the 5' to 3' direction
DNA polymerase
the enzyme that can replicate DNA
replication fork
during DNA replication, an open section of DNA, in which a DNA polymerase can replicate DNA
Okazaki segments
short segments of DNA that are synthesized on the lagging strand of the replicating DNA
the process of using the information in mRNA to synthesize a protein
central dogma
The idea that the sequence of bases in DNA specifies the sequence of bases in an RNA molecule, which specifies the sequence of amino acids in a protein, is
A cell's phenotype is the result of physical traits that are the product of proteins it produces. Errors in _______ of DNA to mRNA would change the mRNA sequence and might change the amino acid sequence of protein
____________ of translation happens when the ribosome hits a stop codon on the mRNA.
aminoactyl-tRNA synthesase
enzymes that attach amino acids to tRNA
the RNA that has an amino acid attached to it, and that binds to the codon on the mRNA, is called a tRNA
the process performed by the ribosome, of reading mRNA and synthesizing a protein
__________ of translational ways always happens at the start codon of the mRNA.
modified guanine nucleotide
During RNA processing a(n) _____ is added to the 5' end of the RNA.
long string of adenine nucleotides
During RNA processing a(n) _____ is added to the 3' end of the RNA.
snRNPs and other proteins
Spliceosomes are composed of
the RNA segments joined to one another by spliceosomes are
translation occurs in the
bind(s) to DNA enhancer regions
What is the process called that converts the genetic information stored in DNA to an RNA copy?
DNA does not store the information to synthesize which of the following?
nontranscribed sequence on DNA
Transcription begins at a promoter. What is a promoter?


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Former 'Shield' Actor Convicted Of Second-Degree Murder, Highlight Hollywood News
Jace, 53, did not testify in his own defense. He told detectives soon after the attack that he had retrieved the gun to kill himself but couldn't do it. Instead, he planned to shoot his wife, an avid runner, in the leg so she would feel pain, Jace told detectives in a recorded interview.
Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef told jurors the actor was waiting for his wife and he shot her in the back and taunted her before shooting each of her legs.
Jace's 10-year-old son testified that he heard his father say, "'If you like running, then run to heaven,'" before firing the second time.
Savoy Brown, an adult son of April Jace, said the family was pleased with the verdict. He said watching Jace has been difficult for the family, and said he is hoping the actor, who bit his bottom lip when the verdict was read but showed no other emotion, will show his feelings when he is sentenced.
Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef said the potential sentence would be 40 years to life in prison.
She said during the trial that the actor was upset that his wife wanted a divorce and believed she was having an affair, although no evidence was presented during the trial that she was cheating.
Jace's attorney, Jamon Hicks, said his client is remorseful for killing his wife. He said the actor may speak during his sentencing hearing to express his remorse, but he wants to be respectful of April's family.
Hicks previously told jurors the actor accepted responsibility for killing his wife but should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter because he shot her in the heat of passion.
Jace also had small roles in films such as Planet of the Apes, Boogie Nights and Forrest Gump.
April Jace, 40, was a financial aid counselor at Biola University.


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My work is motivated by and is an expression of perception, its main focus lies in the complexity of emotions, feelings and thought processes causes by our reaction to sensory stimulation. The dialogue between unfinished, rough and underdeveloped areas in contrast to the smooth, crisp sections in my work speak to that intention.
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About Stafford Creek Lodge
FLY FISHING ON ANDROS is world renowned and there is no better place to experience the excitement of flats fishing than at Stafford Creek Lodge. Prescott Smith will be one of your guides. Prescott and our other experienced guides will put you on the right flats at the right tide, giving you the best opportunity to sight and catch fish.
Stafford Creek Lodge can accommodate up to six anglers at one time. Some groups prefer to book the entire Lodge. Others mix with visiting anglers from around the world. All levels of angling experience are welcome. The serious angler will be rewarded with the opportunities for Bonefish, Tarpon and Permit, while the first time angler will catch their first bonefish! For the non-anglers we offer nature walks, birding, a visit to a blue hole, stand up paddle boarding in the creek, eco-tours, and dolphin watching. We can also arrange a stroll on white sand beaches, snorkeling and diving, or a taxi tour of historic sites and artisans workshops on the island. Whatever your choice, you will experience a new dimension in lodging, a home away from home atmosphere, and a feeling that this Lodge belongs to you. We look forward to your visit to Stafford Creek Lodge.
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Come with us and experience our fishing program at Stafford Creek Lodge, home of the "Taming the Wind" casting technique by Capt Prescott Smith. Here at Stafford Creek Lodge we target the three main salt water fly fish: Bonefish, Tarpon and the illusive Permit. However it is not uncommon to experience Barracuda, and Snapper amongst your "catch and release" trophies of the day. Bonefish and Tarpon fishing is a year round endeavor, with the primary months for Permit being May though early November (subject to cold fronts).
We will take you to the wilderness flats of the Joulters Cays and North West coast, fishing from high performance and comfortable Maverick skiffs. You will also have the opportunity to stalk Bonefish, wading the most beautiful flats in the world.
Our fishing days start early, allowing valuable fishing time on the flats. We plan the day according to the tides, the weather and the fish, not by the clock. Our experienced guides will have you on the best flats casting to fish in no time. We leave each morning either from the dock here at the Lodge or will trailer our top of the line skiffs a short distance to the northern Joulters Cays in comfortable vehicles.
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Practice meetings with dogs in the woods.
If you should by chance happen to meet a group of hikers while out in the woods be sure to have the dogs sit or lie to one side of the walkway so that the hikers can pass without feeling threatened. Also greeting them and perhaps giving a word of explanation of what all these dogs are doing will go a long way in avoiding any ill feelings and easing any concerns on the part of the hikers.
The same should happen if you happen to come across bikers. With bicycles remember that they stimulate the dogs natural desire to give chase much more than a person that is merely walking. Joggers are another concern that you must be aware of and take precautions for.
It is a good idea to train the dog for the eventuality of meeting hikers, joggers and cyclists. Teaching them to sit or lie down rather than jumping, giving chase or barking are some of the best things you can do.
Unless you are certain that all of the dogs in your group are extremely well behaved, mannered and obedient you will want the dog trainers to keep them on leashes at all times when there is the possibility that you will come across other people or animals while out training.
Training dogs how to behave around horses is another very important thing. Teach them to do the same as with any other encounter. Just remember that you will want to use a very calm and manageable horse for this exercise otherwise you could end up with some very serious problems on your hands.


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A judge in the Western District of Virginia may have given victims of ATV accidents a green light to file uninsured motorist claims. This could allow them to tap additional insurance company assets to pay compensatory damages. The ruling issued February 24th came as Judge Glen Conrad denied summary judgment to an insurance company in a case entitled Porter v. Buck. Now, the plaintiff, Abigail Porter, can go forward with her case to see if her father's insurance company will have to pay $500,000 for the traumatic brain injury she suffered while riding in a friend's ATV.
On July 28th of 2012, Ms. Porter was injured while riding on a public road on an all-terrain vehicle driven by Jacob Buck. Ms. Porter's injury exceeded the limit of Mr. Buck's coverage for his ATV, so the Porter family felt they should be able to file a claim with their own insurer which had promised to pay "in accordance with the Virginia Uninsured Motorists Law, all sums the "insured" is legally entitled to recover as damages from the owner or operator of an "uninsured motor vehicle.""
The insurer balked at paying uninsured motorist coverage, claiming that an ATV is not a motor vehicle, and asked the court to grant them a summary judgment to that effect. The court responded with a denial. The court found that an ATV is "a self-propelled wheeled conveyance that does not run on rails," and it sufficiently fit the definition of a motor vehicle. So, does that mean that, by law, an ATV is a motor vehicle? Maybe, but maybe not.
The court in its opinion states that since this was a motion for summary judgment, it had to interpret ambiguous language in favor of the plaintiff, Ms. Porter. A trial court is not going to be under such constraints. The trial court can also consider facts not in evidence in the motion for summary judgment. Moreover, with half a million dollars at stake, it is likely that the party disappointed at trial will appeal the ruling. So the issue is far from settled, but for the moment it looks like plaintiffs injured in ATV accidents may have another avenue of compensation to explore.
However, that avenue may be short lived. Insurance scribes are no doubt sharpening their pencils and preparing to draft limiting language into riders for uninsured motorist protection. The court stated that the insurer might "have excluded ATVs from the… uninsured motorist coverage without violating the minimum requirements imposed under Virginia law," but "failed to do so in a clear and unambiguous manner." We are sure that insurers are taking notice of this case and will draft future policies accordingly.
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See the U-C Street Art Project page for information on the current project.
The Urbana-Champaign People's History Project, coordinated by elizaBeth Simpson, is a collective, largely volunteer, effort to identify current and historical citizens, groups, places, and events which have made a significant contribution to the social well-being of the Urbana-Champaign community.
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U-C Street Art Project
The project is inspired by the Celebrate People's History Posters distributed by Just Seeds Artist's Collective.
You are part of the story- please get involved!
Learn more about the People's History.
The intial phases of this project were funded in part by the Urbana Public Arts Program
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I hope the tribal Indians (Native Americans) will receive some serious attention. Way back before local tribes started to get driven west to the point that they trampled on each other and which resulted in their own wars. The natives that really lived here before colonial invasion. May need an anthropologist. Good luck with the project. David
Sounds like a worthy project. Good luck!