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Modesty Isn't Merely For Summer/
My wife recently wrote a blog post on modesty called "Modesty Is More Than How We Dress." It is excellent and as she read it to me I thought to myself, "There are some other things about modesty that I would like to say too," and so I am! As a man I am always thankful when people, especially women, are reminded about modesty before the hot days of summer approach. Warm weather is often a signal for many women to flaunt their bodies under the guise of "needing to keep cool." As a pastor I have often preached on modesty in the spring for the very purpose of encouraging the women in my congregation not to be like the world, especially in corporate worship (I Tim. 2:9-10; I Pet. 3:1-4). Yet modesty isn't merely for summer, or for women for that matter. Modesty is for every season, for both men and women.
When we hear someone use the word "immodest" they are almost always talking about a woman wearing revealing clothing. And certainly there is a lot of this kind of immodesty in the world and increasingly so. But why do men and women dress immodestly? Why do they try to draw attention to themselves? Why do they want to stand out in the crowd to be noticed? Men and women often act immodestly in different ways and for different reasons, but in general they are trying to satisfy a need for significance.
Biblical Definition Of Immodesty
Biblically, immodesty is anything we say or do in order to attract attention to ourselves rather than give glory to God or love others as directed by the Word of God. With a definition like that it is easy to see how immodesty is not just about women wearing revealing clothing. Any time we try to get people to notice us, focus on us, or give us attention, we are being immodest. Imagine a woman showing up to the workplace today in a Victorian dress, covered from her chin to the floor with loose, flowing material, white gloves disappearing into her shirt sleeves, and virtually no skin exposed except her face. In the estimation of most she would be very "modest." Yet if a woman were to wear such a dress to work in most contexts she would attract a lot of attention to herself making her, according to our definition—immodest. Similarly, if a woman were to wear a dress like that to church she would stick out like a beacon and draw much attention to herself. Thus she would again be immodest. If your definition of modesty is "wearing revealing clothing," a woman in a Victorian dress would be very modest indeed, but even Webster's dictionary will tell you that to be modest is to be unassuming, moderate, to avoid impropriety in behavior, manner, or appearance, or seeking to give credit to others. Notice the bottom line is not attracting attention to yourself. For the Christian we want to attract attention to Jesus Christ and not ourselves.
Different Ways We Can Be Immodest
Think of the kinds of things people to do attract attention to themselves. Yes, there is the skimpy clothing that both men and women wear to show off their bodies. A man works out, develops his muscles, and is proud of his physique, so he wears tight clothing to let people see his muscles. A young lady is proud of her young firm body and wears revealing clothing to get men to notice her. A young man grows his hair out, dies it multiple colors, and spikes it up so he can't help but be noticed, even in a crowd. An older man works at getting really tan, wears a bright colored shirt with half the buttons undone to reveal his large gold chain necklace with an eagle claw. He wants others to notice he has money and a youthful spirit. You see someone with tattoos and they wear a tank top or whatever clothing or lack of clothing to show off their tattoos. They want to stick out and be noticed. I think you get the point. All of these examples are about people trying to attract attention to themselves. They are immodest. Their appearance is designed to make them stand out and draw attention to themselves for whatever reason.
It's worth noting that immodesty is not merely about our appearance; it is about our behavior as well. The class clown is immodest. The boasting know-it all is immodest. The person who longs to be up front in the spotlight in order to get attention, fame, or power is immodest. Contrary to immodesty, the biblical mindset is how can I attract attention to God, to Jesus Christ, and give glory to God? The worldly mindset of immodesty is how can I get attention, fame, notoriety, and respect for myself? Yes, when someone desires to attract attention to their body to make someone lust after them, it is the sin of narcissism. Narcissism is an excessive or erotic interest in oneself or appearance. Certainly women are tempted by this brand of immodesty more than men. God made men to be visually aroused. Consciously or not, women learn that they can get attention for themselves by dressing immodestly and appealing to the sexual appetites of men. This is why advertisers, television programs, and movies employ beautiful women dressed immodestly. An immodestly dressed woman begs for attention, to be noticed, and lusted after.
I once was teaching about modesty in a marriage class and a very beautiful woman was present who just happened to be immodestly dressed. I had explained that women are often wanting a relationship and are willing to be immodest or immoral to get into a meaningful relationship. On the other hand men want sex and are willing to get into a relationship to get it. God made men to be visually attracted to the opposite sex and when a woman dresses immodestly it tempts men to lust. While looking is not lusting, staring often leads to lusting, and lusting is the mental sin of immorality (Job 31:1; Mt. 5:27-28; James 1:14-15). As I taught I gave some examples of how men are tempted to lust and what they are thinking or not thinking when they are lusting after a woman. After the class the immodestly dressed woman came up to me with her husband, her arms were mercifully folded across her chest and she said, "So you mean to tell me that if I wear clothing that reveals my body that I am tempting other men to lust after me, to have sexual fantasies about me?" I said, "Yes." She then looked at her husband and said, "Is this true?" He said, "Yes." Her face blushed red and she walked out. From that time on I never saw her dress immodestly again.
I use this illustration to point out that there may be some cases where women are clueless about the effect they are having on the men around them when they wear revealing clothing. Maybe they are just following fashion trends and don't realize how what they wear, or don't wear, impacts the people around them. This underscores the problem, they are thinking of themselves and not others. Biblical love is antithetical to immodesty. Biblical love is about thinking of others as more important than yourself (Phil. 2:3), doing what is best for them (I Cor. 13:4-8), pointing them to Christ, and encouraging them to give glory to God (I Cor. 10:31). Any woman who desires to give glory to God and love others will not transform herself into a visual stumbling block.
Richard Baxter, the 17th century English Puritan pastor, warned the women in his congregation- to avoid stoking the fires of lust in the hearts of men by the way they dressed when he said:
And you must not lay a stumbling block in their way, not blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments snares, but you must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder, or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.
The Root Sin That Produces Immodesty
The root sin that gives birth to immodesty and narcissism is pride. Pride desires to attract attention to itself, to be noticed, to stand out, like the flea on the elephant's back who said, "Did you see how we shook that bridge we just walked over!" Pride is often the disease that everyone sees but the person who is infected with it. And truth be told, we are all infected with pride to one degree or another. Thomas Watson in his excellent work The Godly Man's Picture gives four common displays of pride saying:
Are not those who are given to boasting proud? `Your glorying is not good' (1 Cor. 5:6).
1. Those who glory in their riches; their hearts swell with their estates. St. Bernard calls pride the rich man's cousin. `Your heart is lifted up because of your riches' (Ezek. 28:5).
2. Those who glory in their apparel. Many dress themselves in such fashions as to make the devil fall in love with them. Black spots, gaudy attire, naked breasts, what are these but the flags and banners which pride displays?
3. Those who glory in their beauty. The body is but dust and blood kneaded together. Solomon says, `Beauty is vain' (Prov. 31:30). Yet some are so vain as to be proud of vanity.
4. Those who glory in their gifts. These trappings and ornaments do not set them off in God's eyes. An angel is a knowledgeable creature, but take away humility from an angel, and he is a devil.
Rational Arguments Against Immodesty
There are some rational arguments against immodesty that might be helpful to consider. For the woman who desires to have a meaningful and lasting relationship, she would do well to remember that if she uses her body as bait to catch a man, she will get a man who loves her for her body. What sane woman wants to be loved because of her body, when she knows it will grow old over time and lose its youthful appearance? What woman cares little about a man loving her for who she is as a person and instead prefers that he sees her as an object of lust? The fact is you catch the kind of fish that are attracted to the bait you use. There are so many women giving men all the benefits of marriage without any commitment and then are often devastated and surprised when they discover their husbands or boyfriends look at pornography, are unfaithful to them, or leave them for someone else. A wise woman will look for a man who loves the Lord, a man who desires to give God glory in everything. A man like that will be committed to finding a godly wife and love her as Christ loves His bride the church. He will be so in love with who she is as a person, he won't care that she is growing old and wrinkly.
It should also be considered that immodesty in many ways is repulsive and unattractive. When someone is very proud we are often offended by them. When someone is greedy for power or fame it is not an endearing quality. Even among unbelievers some forms of immodesty are seen as character flaws. The person who lies or badmouths a coworker to advance themselves in the company is despised. The person who dominates the conversation so that no one else can speak is looked down upon. The person who always wants to be the center of attention grows tiresome to their peers. Immodesty may be attractive to some people some of the time, but it is often unattractive to more people most of the time.
Finally, I would have you consider the folly of trying to get people to notice or like you because of how you look. Tattoos, body piercings, scanty clothing, exotic hairdos; tight, see through, or revealing clothing; being the clown, the comedian, etc., can get you some attention, but from what kind of people and to what end? If your self-worth and purpose in life hinges on people looking, lusting, and noticing you, what happens when they stop? What happens when your purpose in life ends? How are you going to love life and enjoy all your days if you can't fulfill your self-centered desires? I will tell you what will happen, you will be miserable, alone, and empty inside. You will have few friends. The person who invests their life in self is the person who dies with few friends or ends life alone. "I Did It My Way" may have been a popular song, but it is a bad philosophy for life because only what is done for Christ and the glory of God will last. All else will be burnt up like so much wood, hay, and stubble (I Cor. 3:11-13).
Now imagine the person who does the exact opposite, the person who lives to give God glory and be a blessing to others. They are not trying to attract attention to themselves, but others, to promote others, to encourage others, and help others. They have many friends who love them for who they are, for their kind, loving, generous character, for their devotion to God, and desire to give God glory. That person will sleep well at night and have a bright hope for the future. They will have fulfilled God's purpose for their life and have no regrets when they are dying except that they didn't give and serve others more.
Picture in your mind a circle that represents you. And inside the circle picture a bunch of arrows pointing towards the center of the circle. That is what it is like when you are not living for the glory of God or for the love of others. You are always thinking about yourself, what you want, what you need, what you can get, and how you can be noticed. Picture that same circle with the arrows all pointing away from the center, pointing outward towards God and others. That is what it is like when you are living for the glory of God. You are thinking about how you can love God with all your mind, soul, heart, and strength, and how you can love your neighbor as yourself. You are not trying to stick out, but make God and others stick out.
Biblical Reasons To Avoid Immodesty
Immediately after Adam and Eve fell into sin by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God commanded them not to eat, they realized they were naked, sought to clothe themselves with fig leaves, and hid themselves from God in shame. God showed up, made them "fess" up to their sin, dealt out consequences not only for them, but for the entire human race that would come from them. He then mercifully clothed them with animal skins. In order to clothe them with skins the Lord had to kill innocent animals. Thus sin brought death, not only to Adam and Eve, but also to innocent animals who had done nothing wrong. In order to live before God without shame, blood had to be shed on Adam and Eve's behalf. Many things can be learned from the account of The Fall in Genesis 3.
First, sin brought a sense of shame. Shame is a proper response to sin and immodesty. However, if we ignore that sense of God-given shame we become more brazen in our sin, sear our consciences, and after a time can become so hardened in our immodesty and pride that we don't care what God and others think, or how our sin affects those around us (Prov. 28:14; 29:1; I Tim. 4:1-2; II Pet. 2:13-14).
Second, shame makes us want to hide and cover ourselves in fear. Adam and Eve were naked before The Fall, but unashamed (Gen. 2:25). They had no evil or unholy lust or desires. After The Fall they were rightly shamed and fearful (Gen. 3:10). But think about it, the Lord is all knowing, all seeing, and yet Adam and Eve immediately clothed themselves with fig leaves. Why? They didn't want the all knowing, all seeing Creator to see them in their nakedness. This is what sin does; it causes us to hide from God, to fear God, and to seek to cover up the consequences of our sin. Jesus, speaking to Nicodemus in Jn. 3:19-21 said:
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.
Third, sin requires the death of the innocent. Sinners are unable to atone for or cover up their sins by anything they possess. They can do nothing to satisfy the perfect and holy justice of God. This is why God, after telling Eve that she would have pain in childbirth, promised that her seed would crush the serpent's head (Gen. 3:15). The first mention of the gospel came immediately after the fall. God promised that there would be a Savior, a Messiah, a Redeemer, who would be born of a woman and defeat the serpent, who is Satan (Rev. 12:9; 20:2). Jesus Christ is the promised Messiah, Savior, and Redeemer of mankind. He died on the cross, bearing our sin in His body on the tree; He was then buried, and rose again from the dead after three days proving He was sinless, that He conquered death, and is able to save forever those who believe in Him alone for salvation.
Have you placed your faith in Jesus Christ for salvation (Jn. 20:31)? Have you confessed with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believed in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9)? Have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior (Jn. 1:12)? Have you repented of your sin and turned in faith to Jesus Christ (Mk. 1:15; Acts 17:30-31)? If not, do so now! Don't live your life with all the arrows pointing inward; live life with those arrows pointing upward and outward towards God and others. Live, act, and dress in order to give God glory and to be the greatest blessing you can be to others according to the Word of God. You have a purpose for existing that is greater than yourself. You exist to glorify God and enjoy God forever!
What We Should Expect From Those Who Do Not Love God
It is good to remember that without being born again by grace through faith in Jesus Christ people will not have a proper worldview. People will not desire to give God glory. They will not want to bless others for biblical reasons. The Christian has the Holy Spirit in them and the Word of God to guide them, but those who do not know or love the Lord are like a rudderless ship in the midst of a storm. They are tossed to and fro by their lusts and the evil influences of the world. Face the facts; men and women are going to be immodest. We should expect it. We should anticipate it. But we must not despise them for being lost, blind, and governed by their lust. We must remember that if it were not for the grace of God we would be like them or worse! No, we must pity them, pray for them, love them, and live out and share the gospel before them. If we desire to have them change from immodesty to modesty in a way that gives glory to God, it must happen through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Consider that you can get an immodest person to dress or act modestly by coercion, bribery, or threatening. You might be able to do it through the law system or peer pressure, but such motivations for change are external, not internal. They don't give glory to God. An immodest person is immodest from the heart and no amount of external motivation can help them with their heart problem. Even if you could restrain the evil of their heart, their hearts are still evil and rebelling against God. Jesus made it clear that the heart is the factory of sin in Mark 7:21-23:
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. "All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.
Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can change a person's heart. It is only faith in the person of Jesus Christ, crucified, dead, buried, and resurrected, that can transform a person from the inside out. Therefore, if we wish to help others glorify God and live for the blessing of others, it must start with the gospel. The gospel, when received and believed, transforms a person into a new creature in Christ so that old things pass away and all things become new (II Cor. 5:17).
How We Must Live In An Immodest World
We can't expect those who do not love God to live in a God-glorifying way. We can't expect people to dress or behave modestly when they have no reason to do so. We must have mercy on them. We must guard against despising them, looking down on them, when they act like we would act if we didn't know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Summer is approaching and though immodesty is in fashion all year around, it can be particularly intense during the warmer seasons. Here is a plan of attack to be among the world of the immodest without becoming like them.
Take pains to pray. Ask the Lord to help you avoid the sin of immodesty and to "lead you not into temptation." Ask Him to help you give Him glory and be a blessing to others in what you wear, how you think, and what you do. Ask Him to give you boldness in both living out and preaching the gospel before unbelievers.
Take pains to examine your own life. How are you dressing? How are you acting? Are you lusting for power? Are you grabbing for attention? Do you want fame and great things for yourself? Read the Scriptures and pray through them, examining your own life in light of what God says in His Word. Ask God to reveal any wicked way in you and to lead you in the paths of righteousness (Psa. 139:23-24).
Take pains to guard your heart. Guard your heart with all diligence for your entire life flows from your heart (Prov. 4:23). Men, make a covenant with your eyes not to gaze at women (Job 31:1). Don't look, stare, envy, or lust after immodestly dressed people (Psa. 119:37; Prov. 6:25; Mt. 5:27-28). Don't go where you know you will be severely tempted and if you have to go, be on guard, make plans to avoid sinning, asking the Lord for help (Prov. 22:3; 27:12).
Take pains to live out and speak forth the gospel. The world is changed, countries are changed, and cities and cultures are changed when individuals are first changed by the gospel. You can't fix hearts through political activism, making laws, or threatening and bribing. You can't change hearts by complaining, griping, or hiding in a holy huddle with others. You must be in the world, but not of the world (Jn. 17:15-17). You must let your light shine before men that they may see the difference Jesus Christ has made in your life and in hearing the gospel repent, believe, and give glory to God (Mt. 5:16; I Pet. 2:12).
Let us make it our goal every season of the year to be modest, to live for the glory of God, and be a blessing to others in how we think, act, and dress.


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SLINGER, Wisconsin — One of the most conservative congressmen in the country stepped up to defend Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and the rights of all Muslim-Americans yesterday against Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) spurious accusations that she is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, calling them "the wrong thing to do."
During a town hall held by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) on Sunday, a constituent lauded Bachmann's anti-Muslim witchhunt about a supposed Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the U.S. government and called on her congressman to support her efforts. Sensenbrenner instead used the opportunity not only to defend Abedin, but to advocate for the larger notion of religious pluralism in America and a separation between church and state.
The longtime Republican congressman went on to praise the Constitution's ban on religious tests to hold office, saying Thomas Jefferson's vision "was right." When the constituent responded with bigoted accusations about Islam, Sensenbrenner countered: "Religion is a personal issue to every one of the people who lives in the United States…And that has been one of the most cherished freedoms that this country has had since it's beginning":
SENSENBRENNER: Let me say that I do know Huma Abedin and I think that the comments that were made about her in that letter, whether or not they were taken out of context, were the wrong thing to do… I think the Constitution in saying that there shall never be a religious test for any office of trust and profit under the United States meant that people should not be judged on the basis of their religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs. That was Thomas Jefferson that put that in the Constitution — I think he was right.
CONSTITUENT: I think that there's a political ideology that's a concern in Islam that is concerning and that should be looked at and we should know that this person is not a threat…
SENSENBRENNER: Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, the First Amendment prohibits the government from making a distinction between what is "good religion" and what is "bad religion." That's none of the government's business. Religion is a personal issue to every one of the people who lives in the United States, whether you practice a faith, how you practice a faith, whether you don't practice a faith, whether you say you're a member of a faith but don't practice it, it's none of the government's business. And this is the whole issue of religious freedom. And that has been one of the most cherished freedoms that this country has had since it's beginning.
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That Sensenbrenner, a dyed-in-the-cloth conservative, would stand up to Islamophobic attacks from constituents and colleagues, is both laudable and heartening. Too often in the past, these voices of reason about Islam and religious freedom are only voiced on the left.
Still, Sensenbrenner isn't the only Republican put off by Bachmann's bogus charges. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was the first to stand up to Bachmann, calling her allegations "nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen." In addition, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) dropped his support for Bachmann's witchhunt over the weekend.


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Occupy Jackson protesters say they will make a stand Saturday night (Nov. 5) and invite arrest for refusing to leave downtown Jackson's Smith Park at dusk.
The band of demonstrators which has fluctuated in number from fewer than five at times up to a few dozen at other times has been leaving the park at dark and camping on the sidewalk on the west side of Congress Street. They do so under a city rule that prohibits visitors in the park from dusk to dawn. They say they plan to break the rule Saturday night, not having received a response from the city for permission to remain in the park after dark.
The city's permit division has given the protestors permission to continue assembling in the park in daylight hours through Nov. 10. It's unclear whether that permission would be extended beyond Nov. 10.
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Police Officer Harry Brown, the member of the city's permit committee whose district takes in the downtown park, indicated Thursday he thinks the protestors have been discouraging other individuals and groups from using the park.
"Numerous organizations and individuals submit requests to use Smith Park throughout the year. In order to give others a fair opportunity to hold their events in the park, the city finds it necessary to limit the period in which any one organization may reserve use of the facility," Brown wrote in a Nov. 2 letter to Occupy leaders. "Accordingly, the City is restricting use of the Smith Park for your event to the following dates: Oct. 26, 2001, to Nov. 10, 2011."
Brown said Occupy Jackson can submit a new application for subsequent dates.
The permit is a requirement for any group of more than 25 people that gathers on city property. Occupy Jackson, which incorporated as a non-profit Oct. 26, said it has refused to accept the special permit issued by the city because it believes the permit is not required under its First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.
Chris Mims, a spokesman for Mayor Harvey Johnson, said the issue is out of the hands of the mayor and City Council. Use of the park is determined by objective criteria and decisions on its use are up to the permits division, including any decisions on whether the protesters can use the park after dark, he said.
Officer Brown said he is "not so sure" Mims is correct. Any exception to the rules must come from the City's elected leaders, he said.
Asked whether police would arrest anyone in the park after dark Saturday, Brown would say only that city ordinances prohibit use of the park from dusk to dawn, the protestors. Each repeated the response each time the question came up in an interview.
"All parks close at dusk," he said, and noted the restrictions are designed to prevent someone form getting hurt in city parks and holding the City responsible.
The demonstrators have been in the park since early October, arriving shortly after the launch of Occupy Wall Street protests. Protests have been staged continuously in other cities as well.
Though the grievances of individual protestors vary, most cite income inequality they say has been growing and abetted by government policies for many years. They call themselves "The 99%" and say too much wealth has been concentrated in the hands of the nation's richest 1 percent.
Some in the Occupy Jackson group say they may take their around-the-clock protests to the grounds of the state Capitol in the next few days.
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"So that's it?" My friend asked as we sat waiting for the play to start. "You're just DONE with the blog? It's over?" I made a face and did a little head wag while trying to come up with something conciliatory to say, but she wasn't done. "I need some closure here. You need to write a final post."
She was right, of course. I don't know if this is the absolute, final, end-of-an-era post, but I do need to wrap things up a little. It's the right time of year for it.
The Hip is: generally ok, with bouts of snarkiness that are short-lived and weather-inspired.
Will this hold steady? Who can say.
In the end, we can sit around and log every moment of discomfort, each twinge and ache, and try to create some sort of five-year viability projection out of safety pins and scotch tape, or we can recognize that we've tangoed with the MRIs, the CT scans, the arthroscopies, the surgeries, and of course, the raised toilet seat, and it's time to just have a life.
Thank you for the unflagging support through it all, and I can only hope that someone down the line facing what we've all faced will derive a little comfort from this, or at least a few laughs.
If I had to leave you with one last thing, it would be this: it's not about the hip.
(Go ahead - raise your hands to your face in horror. And then take a little time and think about it. You'll agree.)
And remember: Love is all there is.
Friday, December 19, 2008
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aww... i'll miss the blog, sadie. but -- fingers crossed, breath held -- soon i'll be able keep up with your life in person, rather than electronically. which is, after all, better.
- December 30, 2008 at 12:52 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! So much! For this wonderful, optimistic and candid blog. Its been a huge help to me reading about your experiences with an FAO as I consider my options, one of which is a really scary osteotomy. I love the way you write - positive, affirmative and with generous humor, which made me feel lighter and less alone just by reading it. Thank you!
- May 23, 2010 at 4:50 PM
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In the following year the primate, writing on the 15th of May, makes known the fury of the storm to which the Catholics were exposed, and the extreme poverty to which the prelates, and especially he himself, had, consequently, been reduced:—
"Here matters go on from bad to worse. A proclamation offers £10 to whosoever arrests a bishop or Jesuit, and £5 to whosoever arrests a vicar-general or friar. The police, spies, and soldiers, are in pursuit day and night. Colonel Patrick, an excellent Catholic, and a great protector of the Catholics, although a relative of the Duke of Ormond, was exiled by order of parliament, which is desirous of prosecuting even the Duke of York, on account of his being a Catholic. The secular priests had some connivance till the present, though in many parts, and especially in the vicinity of Armagh, they have much to suffer. Such is the rigour of the Presbyterians, of whom there is a large number in these parts; they are now the prevailing faction in the three kingdoms, and are the enemies of all monarchy and hierarchy. One might walk twenty-five or thirty miles in districts and not meet with six Catholic or Protestant families; for all are Presbyterians and strict Calvinists.
"P.S.—A matron named Lady Neale, and several Catholic gentlemen"s have been accused of a design to burn Dublin; only one ruffian, named Murphy, was the accuser; he also accuses three or four of the nobility."
In another letter, on the same day, to the Internuncio, Dr. Plunket confirms these statements, and declares his resolution never to forsake the flock entrusted to him, and his readiness to suffer exile or death in the discharge of his spiritual duties:—
"I received your letter of the 28th of last month, and all the prelates here thank you for the favour in regard to the matrimonial cases, and, indeed, it might be extended to the rich as well as to the poor in the present times, as petitions regarding such matters are now full of danger, as well for the petitioner as for him who writes; it is also dangerous to solicit indulgences, and already a gentleman who obtained indulgences from the Sacred Congregation has had a deal to suffer. Matters here go from bad to worse; the prelates and regulars were already condemned to exile, and now they do not even excuse the parish priests, several of whom have been cast into prison; and even when a moderate Protestant wishes to show them some courtesy, he is styled by the others a Papist, which to them is a term of great reproach. Colonel Patrick, an excellent Catholic, although a relative of the Duke of Ormond, was banished from Court; and those in London are anxious to accuse the Duke of York himself. A reward has already been offered to spies and gendarmes and soldiers; whosoever imprisons a prelate will have 40 crowns, and for a regular, 20 crowns. I am morally certain that I shall be taken, so many are in search of me; yet in spite of danger I will remain with my flock, nor will I abandon them till they drag me to the ship. But in case that I should be taken, I must request you to let me know whither I shall go; for I am sure they will allow me this choice, as they have allowed it to others. I pray you again to let me know your advice and counsel on this head, whether to go to Flanders or to France, or to some other place. I pray you also to send the enclosed letter to the Sacred Congregation, and to obtain for me the favour which it solicits. Should you second it by your letter, I shall surely obtain what I ask for."
The arrest of the primate was the crowning deed of the diabolical conspiracy of the enemies of our holy faith, but still it did not appease their fury. The storm continued unabated, and the rage of the Protestants against the Catholics seemed every day to become more and more inflamed. The Archbishop of Cashel thus writes on the 30th of June, 1680:—
"From the month of April till the present our affairs have become considerably more perplexed. The demon excited this tempest principally by means of a friar, the chaplain and companion of bandits, who, deserving the scaffold, found a means of obtaining pardon by accusing the Archbishop of Armagh, and many others, of a general rebellion throughout the kingdom, and persons are not wanting in other parts of he country to follow the example of this friar. This diabolical invention added greatly to the afflictions of the Catholics, and to the fury of the Protestants against us. These, for the most part, persuaded themselves that the iniquitous imposture of the friar was a reality, and that all the bishops of this kingdom have co-operated in setting on foot this rebellion: wherefore, the mitres are now more than ever hated by the Protestants, who are convinced that the number of bishops is intended to give offence to the government: and hence, too, the ministers of justice are now more active than ever in searching after them. It has even been resolved on by the government to pass a most stringent act in the next Parliament (which, it is thought, will be held in September), prohibiting, under penalty of the scaffold, that any bishop should ever again enter this kingdom. God forbid that their Eminences should make any new bishops for the present, as it would only excite more and more their bile against us, and be of great damage. "We hope, without ceasing, in the mercy of the divine Majesty, that He will free us from these afflictions, and that in His own time He will manifest our innocence of this pretended conspiracy, a thing which we ever anathematized, never desiring anything save the glory of God and the service of our prince. Be good enough to excuse the necessary shortness of this letter, and the absence of titles: and as usual, I make to you my reverence.
"30th of June, 1680."
Again, on the 12th of September following, the same writer not only gives the general details of the persecution, but also adds many particulars regarding the Archbishop of Armagh and some of the other prelates:—
"In this land, not of pleasure, but of tribulation and persecution, where we eat the bread of affliction. But heaven is above and earth below."
This letter is addressed in English, '' To my worthy friend, Mr. Tanarius, at Brusselles:" it begins with Monsr., and no title is given throughout the letter. It is signed merely with the initials G. ft, that is "Giovanni Cassellense," John of Cashel. He probably feared that it might fall into the hands of the government.
"Never," he says, "was there a time more dangerous for writing letters than the present; for when they are intercepted, as very frequently happens, every word is interpreted in an evil sense, and the belief of the conspiracy is so deeply rooted in the minds of all, that an angel from heaven would not suffice to disabuse them of their error; and as for us, we pronounce anathema against all conspirators and disturbers of the public peace: for we have no other thought or desire except for the spiritual profit of souls, with the due subordination to the political government. Those, too, to whom our letters are consigned, as well the letters we receive as the letters we send, now hesitate to receive them, fearing imprisonment and the other penalties: hence it is that so few letters are sent; nor is it expedient to write more frequently, especially for those who keep themselves concealed, and have not as yet come into the hands of the magistrates; for were one of their letters found, every effort would be made to discover themselves, and give them a taste of the prison.
"The Archbishop of Armagh was brought before the courts, accused of conspiracy, especially by a friar, an unworthy student of St. Isidore's: but when the accusations were read, they did not proceed with the trial, as one of the informers, the friar's associate, was wanting, and thus judgment was deferred for six months, and the archbishop was re-conducted to the prisons of Dublin, where he was confined before. He sustains great sufferings with zeal and resolution, comforting himself with his innocence and with the grace of the Lord. His journey (to Drogheda) occasioned him great expense, as well for himself as for those who were brought thither to attest his innocence.
"The Bishop of Cork being already in prison, expected sentence during the assizes of the last month: no mention, however, was made of him at that time, and he continues still in prison.
"The Bishop of Limerick has permission from the government to remain in any part of his diocese, on account of his great age and infirmities.
"The Bishop of Killaloe is not in his own district, but elsewhere: he is in strict concealment, and justly so, for our enemies bear him great ill-will, and speak violently against him.
"Notwithstanding the great afflictions which we suffer, great good is done for the salvation of souls. The government is moderate, nor do we see that rigour which is felt in England. It is now reported that one of the chief informers of the pretended conspiracy has died, and that before dying, he retracted all that he had said about the conspiracy; and this, perhaps, will mitigate the fury of our adversaries. I request you to communicate the substance of what I write, or to transmit this letter to Monsig. Cybo, who, I hope, will excuse my writing so seldom, which is occasioned by the motives already mentioned, and to one and the other I make an humble reverence.*
"12th September, 1680."
This letter is is signed in full Giov. Arciv. Casiellense, John, Archbishop of Cashel. He was at the same time Administrator of Waterford and Lismore, but seldom adds this title, except when writing on matters connected with that diocese.
The enemies of the Catholics in England were no wise content with the slow proceedings of the Irish government. On the 3rd of March, 1680, the Earl of Anglesey wrote to the Lord Lieutenant, "that it is his Majesty's absolute and unalterable pleasure (advised by all the council) to have every individual of the Popish clergy seized and imprisoned till they petition to be sent overseas, and promise never to return or practice against the state; for there is no other way to cure their madness, and there are those in England who will apprehend them all." To which his Excellency characteristically replied, that "if any in England will undertake it, they shall have the promised reward, and his thanks besides; and to tell him of the insolent deportment and signal perfidy of the popish clergy of Ireland is to preach to him that there is pain in the gout; and he protests that he would sooner be rid of them than of that disease."
Such was their hatred against the Catholic clergy, and such their premeditated plan, which was worthy of a Diocletian or a Nero, to banish the Catholic pastors from our shores, or lead them to the scaffold. We shall conclude this chapter with the words of the impartial Fox:—
"The proceedings of the Popish plot must always be considered as an indelible disgrace upon the English nation, in which king, parliament, judges, juries, witnesses, prosecutors, have all their respective, though certainly not equal shares. Witnesses of such a character as not to deserve credit in the most trifling cause upon the most immaterial facts, gave evidence so incredible, or, to speak more plainly, so impossible to be true, that it ought not to have been believed if it had come from the mouth of Cato; and upon such evidence, from such witnesses, were innocent men condemned to death and executed. Prosecutors, whether attorneys or solicitors-general, or managers of impeachment, acted with the fury which in such circumstances might be expected. Juries partook naturally of the national ferment; and judges, whose duty it was to guard them against such impressions, were scandalously active in confirming them in their prejudices and inflaming their passions.
Taken from - MEMOIRS OF THE MOST REV. OLIVER PLUNKET, WHO SUFFERED DEATH FOR THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN THE YEAR 1681.


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Just can't get enough
Global demand for computing is racing ahead of supply, especially in the artificial intelligence arena. Tatau.io is building a distributed computing platform that allows any company easy access to the world's decentralised computing resources. Here's why.
A few years back, it became obvious that software had stopped eating hardware — for everyday, general-purpose computing that is. Run a modern operating system and apps, and your computers won't break a sweat even if they're not the latest and greatest and models.
This was good news for harassed sysadmins and owners of computing resources, and bad news for hardware vendors.
Then artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented reality/virtual reality and autonomous driving took off (amongst other cool things) and now the shoe's on the other foot: the world can't get enough computing power.
We're starting to get a handle of just how much through. As an example, look at not-for-profit research organisation OpenAI, which is backed by tech luminaries such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and counts Microsoft and Amazon Web Services among its sponsors.
OpenAI has put a number on the increase in computing power it uses, and it's a staggering 300,000 times increase in less than six years.
That demand outstrips the observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who noted that the number of transistors in integrated circuits, a measure of how powerful they are, would double every 18 months.
So, while Moore's Law as it became known would've seen a twelve-fold increase in capacity since 2012, AI drove a 300,000 time increase.
This is due to algorithmic improvements and optimisations over the years, of course, but also driven by specialised hardware that's massively parallel and specific to purpose.
Video card vendors such as NVIDIA have been quick to grasp the opportunity, with graphics processing units (GPUs) that feature thousands of cores, and even made AI-specific designs for Google's Tensorflow training technology.
WIth the right workloads, GPU-based compute resources offer significant performance advantages over traditional central processing unit (CPU) offerings.
A practical example was outlined last year by Azeem Azhar. He noted that the Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) in Tesla cars had switched from a Mobileye EyeQ3 processor, to an NVIDIA Drive PX 2.
The switch from the smaller Mobileye processor to a larger NVIDIA chip with many more transistors packed two and a half times more tightly than previously led to a staggering 90-fold performance improvement.
Tesla needed that performance bump because the self-driving ADAS processes vast amounts of data from sensors in the car — and requires enormous amount of compute capacity to figure out what to do with it.
Estimates are that self-driving cars will need around 200 tera floating point operations per second (TFLOPS) of processing power. That's one car, and the world's production of light vehicles is around 100 million annually.
Having the foresight that AI will outpace Moore's Law has paid off for NVIDIA which has seen its share price skyrocket.
It doesn't stop at GPUs though. Intel, the world's largest CPU vendor, is betting on field programmable gate array (FPGA) processing devices for AI becoming the next big thing. FPGAs essentially allow you to put your software into fast, optimised hardware to accelerate application specific tasks.
Microsoft has already hopped aboard that bandwagon and is previewing FPGA compute resources in its Azure cloud.
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8 of the best Irish celebrity feuds
Oliver Callan's pop at Rosanna Davison isn't the first feud we've seen among Irish celebrities – it's not even the first we've seen involving Callan. Let's take a trip down memory lane…
Oliver Callan and Alan Hughes (2015)
Comedian Callan had some choice words for Alan Hughes, who proposed to his partner Karl Broderick live on the Ireland AM couch in 2015, describing it as "crass". But Hughes clearly took the comment to heart and didn't hold back in his response, "He obviously needs to sell tickets for his tour but if that's the type of bitter old queen we have in Ireland, then I don't know. I pity his boyfriend." But Callan had the last word, or words, when he said: "I did find it odd to be called 'old' by someone who is more than 20 years my senior and looks like he slept in formaldyhyde." Ouch.
Twink and Linda Martin (2010)
This is a feud that will go down in Irish showbiz history. Two legends of stage and song and friends for more than 30 years - only for it all to burst into flames backstage during rehearsals for Menopause: The Musical in Mayo. Eurovision songstress Linda said she overheard panto dame Twink bitching about her with a castmate in an adjacent hotel suite.
"I overheard a two-hour character assassination and most of the words began with 'c' and had four letters in them," she said of the incident. They put their differences aside during the search for Twink's beloved Terrier Teddy when he was dognapped in 2014, but are no longer speaking.
Twink and David Agnew (2004)]
In perhaps the most notorious exchange between two irish celebrity exes, Twink and her ex-husband David Agnew finally buried the hatchet in 2015 after a decade of tension. Their marriage ended in 2004 when Twink learned of his relationship with RTE orchestra member Ruth Hickey and they welcomed their first child together two years later. At the time, a reporter called Twink for a reaction. Twink slammed down the phone and rang Agnew, leaving a tirade on his voicemail that included the classic phrase: "Zip up your mickey!"
Amanda Brunker and Andrea Roche (2010)
They're two former Miss Irelands, both beautiful, successful, famous - and there was a time, too, where Amanda Brunker and Andrea Roche were also good pals. Both parties have been cagey about what spurred on the spat, with Amanda simply saying she didn't want to "get sucked into the negativity of rows" when asked about the status of her friendship with Roche.
At the time, it was reported they butted heads on a night out, in Dublin with one eyewitness saying: "Suddenly they both started hurling insults at each other. They were calling each other all the names of the day and it was clear there was a lot of vitriol between them." The pair haven't spoken since.
Georgia Penna (nee Salpa) and Hazel O'Sullivan (2012)
Before she was Mrs Penna, Georgia Salpa was riding high at the top of the Irish modelling game, fresh from a stint on TV3's Celebrity Salon, where she met ex-boyfriend Calum Best. After their split, he was linked to fellow Irish model Hazel O'Sullivan and the CBB star "called Hazel screaming down the phone" after she was pictured with him at a launch. "All Georgia's friends have stopped speaking to Hazel now. It's one thing to go through such a public break-up but to be going after one of your best mates so soon, she's just angry about it", a source said at the time.
Louis Walsh and Ronan Keating (2003)
The feud between the music mogul and singer first began when Ronan first fired Louis as his manager in 2003. Since then, the pair have readily exchanged insults in a cross platform strategy - on tv, in newspapers and on radio. Just last year, Louis described Keating as the biggest diva he's worked with. "They all turn into divas. He can't sing like a diva but I would probably have to say Ronan Keating," he said.
Ronan responded: "Allegedly someone called me a Diva. Ha ha f**k me they obviously never met me or managed me." Separately, Walsh said most popstars "are very ungrateful –they just turn into monsters."
Lorraine Keane and Sinead O'Connor (2008)
During her reign as anchor of TV3's Xpose, Lorraine Keane interviewed the crème de la crème of celebrities in Ireland and abroad. One of her more memorable encounters involved Sinead O'Connor, who wrote of her upset with the presenter after she asked if people "think you're mad" when they meet her.
"Lorraine Keane. She's nice and all and wears a cool red velvet and black leather waistcoat. But after 10 minutes or so comes the 'people think you're mad -- do you agree?" question. I always get asked that. And it always hurts," Sinead said after the conversation.
Lorraine, who is now hosting her own style workshops, gave her own version of events. "I asked Sinéad O'Connor some very tough questions but they were only about things that everyone was talking about in the pub anyway. I asked her about her sexuality and she said -- 'I don't think my sexuality is any of your business' and I said 'fair enough'."
And finally….
8. Rosanna Davison, Glenda Gilson and 'The Rumble in Ranelagh' (2010)
It started off as any other day at the pub, but by the end of it, Glenda Gilson and ex-boyfriend Johnny Ronan met at a Ranelagh pub where they had the mother of all rows. "There were a couple of issues on the boil but the thing that really infuriated Johnny was an issue surrounding the Range Rover which he had recently taken back from Glenda," a source said at the time.
The next day, Ronan added fuel to the fire when he famously jetted off to Marrakesh with former Miss World Rosanna, a former friend of Glenda's. they had been drinking with friends at the Ritz Carlton when they flew off to Morocco on his private jet at the last minute. The drama played out in the papers for weeks after, including an awkward run-in at the Miss Universe Ireland pageant.
"It was a spur of the moment thing. For Glenda's sake I don't want to talk about it. But ultimately no one was doing anything wrong. Even my parents know. It was totally innocent," Rosanna said.
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No slice of Pie for me, thanks! Alyson Hannigan appears to be shifting the baby weight as she shows of trim figure at Pilates
07:28 GMT, 1 August 2012
It's the brutal quest Jessica Simpson and Hilary Duff have also embarked on – losing baby weight.
But Alyson Hannigan looked rather sprightly on her way to a Pilates session today, as well as trimmer.
The American Pie star, who gave birth to her second child in May, was seen wearing a long purple vest over black leggings, while armed with a flask of water and trainers ready for her workout.
Keeping trim: Alyson Hannigan appears to be on her quest to shrinking as she headed to Pilates in Brentwood
While there is a temptation to hide
beneath oversized clothing after putting on weight, it can often have
the opposite effect and make the person in question look bigger.
But Alyson looked petite in her quirky singlet, which cheekily exposed the frill of her black lace bra.
And despite getting ready to sweat
out her toxins and shift the pounds, the redhead appeared in high
spirits as she offered a smile to photographers in Brentwood,
California, from beneath her shades.
Well equipped: Alyson clutched a flask of water ready for her workout session
Changing shapes: Alyson looks svelte compared to during her pregnancy
Earlier this month, the comedic actress tweeted: 'I'm the right weight, just the wrong height.'
Alyson, who wed fellow actor Alexis
Denisof in October 2003, has two mini-me daughters in the guise of
three-year-old Satyana, and the latest addition to the family, newborn
Last September, around the time she fell pregnant, Alyson appeared to be gaining a little weight.
However, she strongly denied she was expecting a second child at the time and blamed her changing body on not doing enough exercise and indulging too much on the wrong foods.
She tweeted: 'NO, I'm not pregnant! I just ate too much carnival food, that time of the month, hurt my back & couldn't suck my gut in, and need to do cardio! And I'm NEVER gonna wear that shirt again!!'
Shrinking: Alyson, pictured earlier this month with daughter Satyana, has been covering up in baggy jeans


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Frassati Fall Retreat/
Two weeks ago, we took 37 graduate students and young professionals on a retreat titled "To Praise, To Bless, To Preach: Deepening Your Faith Through Dominican Spirituality". Through a series of eight talks by Dominican friars, a member of the Dominican laity, and fellow young adults, these retretants explored the four pillars our beloved priests use to balance their spiritual lives: prayer, community, study, and apostolate. They also gained some insight into how to apply these pillars to their own lives to bring them closer to Christ, and spent some time building up their own young adult community through games, movies, marshmellow roasting, and other fellowship. This retreat got us so excited to kick off another year of ministry to grads and young professionals through our Frassati ministry! For more information on what Frassati is up to, click here.


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Carman, Manitoba, R0G, Canada
The Boyne School, School District No. 21Boyne School
1930/01/01 to 1930/12/31
The high one-storey Boyne School, a wood-frame structure built in 1930, occupies a site amid flat open fields near Carman. The municipal designation applies to the school and its large site.
The one-room Boyne School, with its domestic proportions, hipped roof and raised basement, is a good example of one of Manitoba's most popular standardized provincial school designs available in the post-World War I period. Adapted from a 1912 cottage-style scheme, the school incorporates features that constitute a comfortable well-lit space, such as an obligatory bank of windows along one side of the classroom with transoms for air circulation, cloakrooms lit by side windows and a front storm porch. Saved through community efforts and used for social events, this designated place also is one of the few surviving examples in Manitoba of an intact country school site, complete with a fenced playground, flagpole and stable.
Source: Rural Municipality of Dufferin By-law No. 1563, August 4, 1988
Key elements that define the heritage character of the intact Boyne School site include:
- its location four kilometres east of Carman on the south side of Highway 3 and north-south alignment, facing north, on extensive grassed grounds with flagpole and stable
Key exterior elements that define the building's standardized design and domestic proportions include:
- its basic one-storey rectangular form with a medium-pitched hip roof on a raised concrete basement
- the compact front (north) entrance porch with a bracketed gable roof, small side windows, etc.
- the bank of six tall single-hung sash windows on the east side, all in plain wooden surrounds
- the additional fenestration, including two small hopper transom windows on the west elevation
- the basic materials and finishes, including the wood-frame construction with exposed rafter ends under the eaves, horizontal board siding painted traditional white, cedar shingles, a broad brick chimney with concrete coping, metal eavestroughing, downspouts and lightning rods, etc.
- additional features such as the wooden deck, railing, stairs and door on the west side, bracketed shed roof over the paired windows on the east elevation, and the name 'BOYNE SCHOOL NO 21, 1878' painted above the entrance
Key internal elements that define the heritage character of the building include:
- the small vestibule leading to the classroom and basement staircases
- the classroom's largely unaltered and well-lit open space with a high ceiling and two single doors to the cloakrooms in the north wall
- the straightforward materials and finishes such as the hardwood flooring, plain wood trim, board-and-batten walls in the cloakrooms and wainscotting in the vestibule, simple staircase balustrades, a plain wooden handrail integrated into the wainscotting on one side of the classroom staircase, etc.
- other features and furnishings such as the built-in library and science cupboards, the blackboards and the teacher's desk
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You probably thought I fell off the face of the earth. Nope, just really busy. This week is Teacher Appreciation week. I found some cute ideas on pinterest of course! The kids also have field day on Tuesday. Our nightly meeting was changed to Monday night because another congregation has CO this week. Wednesday-Friday I have to work at the bakeshop for a busy cake weekend. Another long week. Meal planning always helps me feel in control even when I'm really not. I'm also cleaning out our freezer in case we end up moving.
Monday: Mustard & Rosemary Pork Loin with salad and green beans
Tuesday: Ground Venison Slow Cooker Chili with crackers and cheddar cheese
Wednesday: Breakfast for dinner - Ground Venison Sausage with scrambled eggs and fried taters
Thursday: Shepherd's Pie with salad
Friday: out to eat
Saturday: Tuna sandwiches and oven fries for lunch; Tacos for dinner
Sunday: Asian Chicken Wings, rice, broccoli and green beans
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When You Should Take Action
Being affected by a disaster like the Bastrop wildfires can be traumatizing, and you may not feel mentally or emotionally ready to take action to secure your financial future. However, a delay in action may decrease your chances of receiving the insurance benefits that your family needs to begin the recovery process after fire damage. The Bastrop wildfires devastated thousands of people, but everyone whose life was affected should take action as soon as possible to help increase their chances of receiving compensation.
If you or someone you know has been affected by the Bastrop wildfires, it's important to take action as soon as possible in order to get financial compensation from the insurance companies. Contact the Bastrop fire insurance claim attorneys of Williams Hart today by calling 800-639-8460 to discuss how our attorneys can help increase your chances of obtaining insurance benefits.
Timing is Critical
When filing an insurance claim for damages sustained from fires or other disasters, timing is probably the top priority for those affected. Any delay could result in:
- Mistakes / Inaccuracies on applications
- Improper assessment of actual damage
- Alteration in replacement costs and actual cost value
- A denied application for insurance compensation
- A lengthy legal battle
These are all common results of a delay in taking action after suffering damages from a wildfire or other disaster.
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If you or someone you know has been affected by the Bastrop wildfires, an experienced legal professional can help you pursue the compensation you need. Contact the Bastrop fire insurance claim attorneys of Williams Hart by calling 800-639-8460 today to discuss the details of your case with a qualified member of our legal team.


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The interest yield on 10-year US Treasuries – the benchmark price of long-term credit for the global system – jumped 33 basis points last week to 3.45pc week on contagion effects after Standard & Poor's issued a warning on Britain's "AAA" credit rating.
The yield has risen over 90 basis points since March when the US Federal Reserve first announced its controversial plan to buy Treasury bonds directly, a move designed to force down the borrowing costs and help stabilise the housing market.
The yield-spike may be nearing the point where it threatens to short-circuit economic recovery. While lower spreads on mortgage rates have kept a lid on home loan costs so far, mortgage rates have nevertheless crept back up to 5pc.
The Obama administration needs to raise $2 trillion this year to cover the fiscal stimulus plan and the bank bail-outs. It has to fund $900bn by September.
"The dynamic is just getting overwhelming," said RBC Capital Markets.
The US Treasury is selling $40bn of two-year notes on Tuesday, $35bn of five-year bonds on Wednesday, and $25bn of seven-year debt on Thursday. While the US has not yet suffered the indignity of a failed auction – unlike Britain and Germany – traders are watching closely to see what share is being purchased by US government itself in pure "monetisation" of the deficit.
Don Kohn, the Fed's vice-chair, said over the weekend that Fed actions would add $1 trillion of stimulus to the US economy over time and had already prevented "fire sales" of assets.
"The preliminary evidence suggest that our programme has worked," he said.
The US is not alone in facing a deficit crisis. Governments worldwide have to raise some $6 trillion in debt this year, with huge demands in Japan and Europe. Kyle Bass from the US fund Hayman Advisors said the markets were choking on debt.
"There isn't enough capital in the world to buy the new sovereign issuance required to finance the giant fiscal deficits that countries are so intent on running. There is simply not enough money out there," he said. "If the US loses control of long rates, they will not be able to arrest asset price declines. If they print too much money, they will debase the dollar and cause stagflation.
"The bottom line is that there is no global 'get out of jail free' card for anyone", he said.
The US is acutely vulnerable because it relies heavily on foreign goodwill. China and Japan alone hold 23pc of America's $6,369bn federal debt. Suspicions that Washington is trying to engineer a stealth default by letting the dollar slide could cause patience to snap, even if Asian exporters would themselves suffer if they harmed their chief market.
The dollar has fallen 11pc against a basket of currencies since early March. Mutterings of a "dollar crisis" may now constrain the Fed as it tries to shore up the bond market. It has so far bought $116bn of Treasuries as part of its "credit easing" blitz, out of a $300bn pool.
When the Fed first said it was going to buy Treasuries in March the 10-year yield to dropped instantly from 3pc to near 2.5pc, but shock effect has since worn off. Any effort to step up purchases might backfire in the current jittery mood.
In the late 1940s the Fed was able to cap the 10-year yield at around 2pc, but that was a different world. The US commanded half global GDP and had a colossal trade surplus. The Fed could carry out its experiment without worrying about foreign dissent.
Fed chair Ben Bernanke has long argued that central banks can bring down long-term borrowing rates by purchasing bonds "at essentially no cost". His frequent writings rarely ask whether foreigner investors – from a different cultural universe – will tolerate such conduct.
Mr Bernanke is betting that under a floating currency regime there is no risk of repeating the disaster of October 1931, when the Fed had to raise rates twice to stem foreign gold withdrawals, with catastrophic consequences. This assumption may be tested.
It is not clear where the capital will come from to cover global bond issues. Asian central banks and Mid-East oil exporters have cut back on their purchases of US and European bonds as reserve accumulation slows. Russia has slashed its holding by a third to support growth at home. Even Japan's state pension fund has become a net seller of bonds for the first time this year the country's population ages.
Japan's public debt will reach 200pc of GDP next year. Warnings by the Japan's DPJ opposition party that, if elected this autumn, it would not purchase any more US debt unless issued in yen, is a sign that the political mood in Asia is turning hostile to US policy.
There is no evidence yet that foreigners are in the process of dumping US Treasuries. Brad Setser from the US Council on Foreign Relations said global central banks added $60bn to their US holdings in the first three weeks of May.
This is bitter-sweet for Washington. It suggests that private buyers are pulling out, leaving foreign powers as buyer-of-last resort.
We just have to hope that G20 creditors agree to put a clothes peg on their nose and keep buying Western debt until the crisis passes, for the sake of the world.


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Can an Eclipse Really Help us Date Events in Greek Mythology?
Chinese, Greek, and many other ancient cultures left references in their texts to the sky going dark during the day, possible allusions to solar eclipses. These mentions are tantalizing clues to scientists, who think they might use those clues to date historical events.
The latest buzz in historical dating started this week, when researchers Marcelo Magnasco and Constantino Baikouzis said they had tied an event in Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus' return to Ithaca
Italy after a two-decade journey, to a total solar eclipse on April 16, 1178 B.C. But how could they be so exact?
First, knowing the motions of the Earth and the moon allows astronomers to project when solar eclipses are coming down to the day, time, and location. They can use the same techniques to go backward, pinning down dates and approximate locations for millennia-old astronomical events, and that's when the historians and archaeologists get excited. In the 1800s, Henry Rawlinson of Britain tied a known 763 B.C. eclipse that darkened much of the Middle East to a reference in a text of the Assyrian Empire about the sun being blocked out. Historians have subsequently used that date as a basis to date other events in the ancient world. You can see NASA's whole list of eclipses and possible historical tie-ins here.
In the 1920s, The Guardian says, scientists calculated that there had been a solar eclipse over the Odysseus' supposed home on the Ionian Sea in 1178 B.C. To dig deeper into a possible link to the Odyssey, Magnasco and Baikouzis scoured the text for other mentions of astronomical events around Odysseus' homecoming. They say that Homer mentioned a new moon the night before, Venus high in the sky six days before, Mercury at the west end of its trajectory 33 days before, and the constellations Pleiades and Bootes being visible at sunset. The only time those events happened in that pattern, the researchers say, was the day of the eclipse—April 16, 1178 B.C.
However, Homeric astronomy is mythological and cryptic—the blind poet actually writes of Hermes, who corresponds to the Roman god Mercury, but doesn't specifically mention the planet. Even the text about the sun being blocked from the sky is vague, though historians have generally interpreted the meaning as an eclipse. So the researchers acknowledge that the Odyssey link is tenuous, but they're still excited.
Now, if scientists find a skeleton of the Cyclops, we'll be in business.
Read more about the Odyssey study here.
Photo: iStockphoto


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Once you deposit your application at the Canada Visa Application Centre (CVAC), the CVAC staff will perform a completeness check based on IRCC requirements and will then submit your application on your behalf on the following business day.
Once the Canadian Visa Office has assessed your application they will make a decision and affix a visa counterfoil in your passport or otherwise issue you with a letter explaining why a visa could not be granted.
The Canadian Visa Office will then securely return your passport to the CVAC who will inform you via your preferred method of communication. An update will be also be provided on the Online Application Tracking System, that your passport is ready to be returned. You may then come to the CVAC to retrieve your passport.


text: Have you read a number of the food labels from your local supermarket at present? What you could not know is that pectin binds to heavy metals in your body (especially in the colon) and allows them to be secreted from the body rather more easily. The reasons fruits high in antioxidants are a number of the finest foods for liver health are that they defend the liver from high levels of harmful free radicals which might be produced naturally in the course of the detoxing process.\n\n- If you're using poultry in your food plan your healthiest alternative is to eat the white meat as a substitute of the dark meat. – Processed meats have massive amounts of chemical substances, sodium and saturated fats and must be eliminated from your food plan.\n\nGet pleasure from healthy fats. Not all fats are created equal. There are good fats and unhealthy fats. The nice guys are monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats lower LDL, or unhealthy, cholesterol and so they also enhance HDL, or good cholesterol.\n\nSome of us produce unhealthy amounts of cholesterol despite a strict food plan. Some other fats are good. Heavy amounts of soy products may help with that, but then there's the sodium concern. First, they say it's "empty calories," causes weight acquire, destroys the liver, leads to dependancy.


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Enjoy fresh-baked bread in a warm wooden interior
Located near Karasuma Oike Station, this café serves delicious bread and coffee. It has a warm and relaxing wooden interior brimming with the aroma of baking bread. The café changes its menu with the time of day, offering toast sets in the morning (10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.); soup, quiche, and salad sets in the afternoon (11:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.); and a la carte food and drinks in the evening after 3:00 p.m. Here we introduce the café's must-eat morning sets, available with fragrant bread, toast, or sandwiches.
Bread set / Your choice of two pieces of bread and one drink for ¥30 off the a la carte price
Choose two pieces of bread from the store window. Ask an employee about the contents of bread without English descriptions. Drinks are ordered from a menu. *Pictured is bread filled with sausage and yuzukosho (a seasoning made with chili pepper and yuzu citrus) (left) next to a steamed chicken and hard-boiled egg sandwich (right).
Toast set / ¥500 ~ ¥650
Toast that is both crispy and delightfully springy. Spread on our house butter, made with just the right amount of salt. *Four sets to choose from. A: Buttered toast│B: Butter and sweet red bean paste toast (uses our homemade un-mashed bean paste)│ C: French toast│D: Bacon and egg Pictured is set B, butter and sweet red bean paste toast (uses our homemade un-mashed bean paste). Sets include your choice of one of the following drinks: Coffee│Espresso│Black tea│Orange juice
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Bread Takeout / about ¥180 ~ ¥300
Our breads are baked with a wide variety of ingredients, and range from meal to dessert varieties. If you'd like fresh-baked bread, you can ask an employee if anything will be finished baking soon.
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Rusk / ¥160
Our rusk is slightly sweet and baked with rum and butter. Delightfully crunchy and recommended for snacking on the go.
How to Order
Some menu items are also written in English. Bread in the shop window can be purchased as either eat-in or takeout. Customers can also order a drink alone.
- Order Tips -
If you'd like to eat fresh-baked bread, just ask an employee "Yakitate no pan wa arimasuka?" Do you have any fresh-baked bread?
3.0 food3.0 service3.0 atmosphere3.0
Overseas Tourist-Friendly
3.0 food3.0 service3.0 atmosphere3.0
One of the things Kyoto is famous for is its abundance of bakeries! In addition to western-style breads, Annee offers items made with uniquely-Japanese ingredients and seasonings, such as yuzukosho (a seasoning made with chili pepper and yuzu citrus).
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Overseas Tourist-Friendly
3.7 food3.5 service3.5 atmosphere4.0
|+81 75-222-0517
|Purimofuiore1F, 139, Tsukinukecho, Nakagyo-ku Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, 604-8202
|5-minute walk from Subway Karasuma Line Karasuma Oike Station.
|Open Hours
|11:00 a.m.- 10:00 p.m. (Last orders at 10:00 p.m.) *On Saturday is 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
|No reservation
|Thursday, Sunday, 3rd Wednesday
|Come early for special value sets. There's a good chance the bread will be freshly baked.
|Price range
~ ¥1,000
|Credit cards
|Not accepted
|Good for
|Solo, With Friends
|Overseas Tourist-Friendly
There is English on the Japanese menu.
|Japanese only
|Lanuages spoken
|Japanese only
|Number of seats
|18 seats
|Private dining rooms
|Non smoking / smoking
|Non smoking


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I'm always grateful when the sales assistant hands me a €7.50 off voucher at the till in Boots. However, the voucher is for No.7 products. I'm really not a fan (although their lipstick in Starshell is one of my favourites).
When I was in college I seemed to be in Boots a few times a week (god knows why) and one term I had an endless supply of No7 vouchers. I actually used to struggle to find products to buy. I hated the eyeshadows, eye liners, lipliners and glosses so I often bought skincare items. A few years on and really nothing has changed. The same weak products in the range are still weak.
Anyway, I found myself with three vouchers this week and not a clue what to spend them on. As I mentioned, I'm not a fan of the brand in general. I find it very over-priced and many of the products remind me of their 17 range but with fancier packaging. I find the pigmentation of the eyeshadows and glosses disappointing and the formulations of the eye liners and brow pencils just don't cut it for me.
That being said, I was determined to find a product to spend the voucher on :)
I swatched and tested a few bits n' pieces and settled on two items…
No7 Quick Cover Concealer and No7 Nail Polish in Pink Grapefruit. (Reviews and swatches to follow)
I just couldn't find anything to spend the third voucher on. I was tempted by an oil shower wash but left flustered. I would love to hear what you have picked up with your vouchers in the past or recently. Any recommendations?


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Director Patty Jenkins is drawing parallels between her vision of Wonder Woman and her fellow DC Comics icon Superman. This week the long wait for a live-action feature version of Wonder Woman will finally come to an end, more than 40 years after Lynda Carter played the Amazon warrior princess in the classic TV series from 1975-79. Of course, several other DC superhero legends have had their turn at movie greatness either in lead or supporting roles since then — most notably Batman — but it was Superman in the guise of Christopher Reeve that kicked it all off in 1978.
For her big screen interpretation of Wonder Woman, with Gal Gadot starring in the title role, Jenkins tell the LA Times that it was never her intention to take the character in a direction that fans were familiar with — but to stay with the basic fundamentals of the character because of her inherent goodness, akin to the Man of Steel. Jenkins says:
"[There's] been a fear that you needed to go harder in some direction to make [Wonder Woman] interesting. And I was always confused by it. You could go out on Halloween, even now, 75 years later, and there's a good chunk of people dressed up as Wonder Woman. She's pretty simple. She is like the parallel of Superman. She's good, she means well, she's kind, she's loving."
Jenkins has clearly made it known during the making of her film that she's a big fan of Superman, and she even includes an homage (among other tributes) to Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) protects Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) from a street mugger. Jenkins says her love for Donner's origins film was so strong, in fact, that it led to a major career move:
" 'Superman I' had been a favorite movie of mine, even when I was at Cooper Union, which is a very fine-arts school. People were painting a portrait of the career that I could have as an indie New York filmmaker. The only thing that stood in my way from staying in New York — because I loved New York and I wanted to stay — was something more that I wanted to do that was inspired by 'Superman.' One day I would love to sing a song to the world, to bring something into the world that is beautiful in that sort of way."
And so far, it appears that everyone is not only listening to her cinematic song, but loving what they hear. Following and overwhelming positive first reaction to the film and favorable critics' buzz, reviews of Wonder Woman sing high praises for the origins movie. Most importantly, the film has impressed Carter, who called Wonder Woman a "wonderful movie" after attending the premiere.
More: Our Wonder Woman Movie Review
From Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment comes the epic action adventure starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright, directed by Patty Jenkins.
Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
Source: LA Times


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Lumby Garden Centre
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been meaning to call in here for a while and went in today all what a lovely garden centre loads of choice and some good advice gives tong a run for its money
Visited here a few days ago and was pleasantly surprised by the range of products and the quality of the plants. More importantly, it has lovely cafe with a good menu. Worth a visit.
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French Twist Hair Ttorial
1.Starting with a deep side part, add texture to your hair. I used Living Proof Flex and a 1-inch curling iron to create messy wave, then teased throughout the crown.
2.Loosely gather hair at the name of the neck and begging twisting.
3.Continue twisting, and fold the gathered hair straight up.
4.Fold the end of the tail back down on itself as pictured.
5.Tuck the end of tail into twisted hair by gently rolling it underneath until completely concealed.
6.Secure with bobby pins and allow loose hairs to fall around the face. Spray all over.
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