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An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2011 Telos Conference, "Rituals of Exchange and States of Exception: Continuity and Crisis in Politics and Economics."
In light of the 2008 global financial crisis, a reassessment of the global market system seems to be afoot. If neoliberalism (too much market) yields the Great Recession, if socialist planning (not enough market) produced the failed economies of the former Soviet bloc, and if social-market combinations (too much centralization of the market) progress towards the slow economic growth and high-cost programs of Western Europe, what are better options?
"New evangelicals,"[1] perhaps unexpectedly for non-believers, offer a few ideas—interesting for their mix of market and common-good positions, and for an apparent paradox. "New evangelicals" work with a sophisticated notion of the common good—though their beliefs and practices rely on the very eighteenth-century principles that fostered unregulated market development. That is, they uphold unencumbered entrepreneurialism in markets, but this commitment makes them entrepreneurs for the benefit of others. This becomes more interesting when one considers that the "new evangelical" paradox has significant effect on the circulation of money and people worldwide. The material here is taken from field research that I did between 2005 and 2010 and which will appear in a book later in 2011 (Eerdmans Publishing).
America's "New Evangelicals"
Emerging from Britain's and Germany's "enthusiast" and pietistic movements. evangelicalism is an approach to Protestantism found across many denominations. It sought a more personal relationship to Jesus and a less state-oriented/state-run religion emphasizing an inner individual relationship with Jesus, the cross as a symbol of service and sacrifice, individualist Bible reading by ordinary men and woman, and the priesthood of all believers rather than of a priestly class. More contemporarily, over the last forty years, evangelicals have been associated with conservative theology and politics, neo-liberal economics, hawkish foreign policies, and at times with efforts to impose their version of Scripture on the body politic.
"New evangelicals" are those who distinguish themselves in self-identification, aims and means from these last forty years of associations. They hold to the doctrinal beliefs just mentioned but have broadened their activism beyond opposition to abortion and gay marriage and beyond the Prosperity Gospel[2] to an anti-militarist, anti-consumerist focus on poverty relief, environmental protection, and immigration reform. "New evangelicals" are neither small nor elite, coming by some estimates to 24 percent of the American population,[3] distributed across Protestant denominations and the country.
"New evangelicals" both believe in the individualist, capitalist market and paradoxically spend their time forming institutions that restructure opportunities for the needy, without calculation of reward to themselves. They are entrepreneurs for the sake of others not themselves, pace Mandeville and Smith, and their entrepreneurial activity aims at restructuring what the market has wrought. They assess not only market functioning but market results by their effects on the common good and, where that has suffered, set up organizations to redress that wrong.
Support for the market arises from doctrine. The individualist emphasis of Protestantism—the responsibility to develop a system of moral conduct—is itself an outlook of self-responsible striving that built the open market.[4] "Self-responsible striving" is actually two things: one, self-responsibility—it is weak and unethical to rely on others— and worse, possible papist. Two, striving: what we do in this meager life is strive asymptotically forward. No flat-liners here. While this originally meant striving toward the divine, striving became a muscle well exercised and applied to all arenas of life, including the secular and economic. Do-it-yourself moral uplift came to undergird do-it-yourself conduct across the board. Moreover, doctrinal support for anti-authoritarian, anti-statist self-reliance came also from the evangelical understanding of the human and divine realms. As all human governments are fallen, the kingdoms of the world may never be confused with the kingdom of God. Each believer must try to witness it, not follow the authorities or status quo.
These ideas are available to all Protestants, but dissenting Protestants, which evangelicals were, became emphatically self-reliant since the others on whom they might rely—neighbors, states, and state churches—persecuted them. Many came to America, where the two things we've mentioned—self-responsible doctrine and the dissenter's suspicion of authorities—interacted synergistically with the rough nature of American settlement. One could not rely on authorities or the state because there was little of either—and what state there was, was resented as British meddling. Willy nilly, survival depended on a can-do inventive individualism and voluntarist associationism. Here, the mytho-poetics of liberal freedom—freedom as absence of restraint—thrived.
America's churches developed these same self-responsible, creative features to survive in America's grassroots, multi-faithed religious landscape. As settlers had few authorities to rely on, so did the churches. To be sure, several colonies had official faiths. But even here, individual parishes were embedded in a hierarchy flatter and lighter than in Europe. Moreover, there was little taste for following top-down hierarchies or dicta. The First Great Awakening (1740s) was a festival of breakaway, entrepreneurial churches and unorthodox ideas preached by self-appointed, anti-authoritarian men and women. These were the churches that grew as traditional churches declined.[5]
In sum, in an America where people strove to start new lives by their own efforts, the evangelical call to "be born again," to strive toward uplift, was a suitable spiritual echo. Evangelical doctrine and the physical conditions of American settlement converged to make evangelicals anti-authoritarian civil society builders, suspicious of the loafers and the state. The largest U.S. government operation in ante-bellum America was the postal service, but by 1850 evangelical churches had double the employees of the postal service, twice as many facilities and raised three times as much money.[6]
This socio-doctrinal worldview endured through the following 150 years, as the frontier and then the frontiers of industry and invention continued robustly—with the opportunity and demand for start-up can-do-ism. This is not to say the federal government did not expand in infrastructure development and legal reach.[7] Yet in the United States, civil society remained the locus of much national activity, and governmental regulation is often state and local, owing to America's federal system—itself a reflection of American suspicion of government and preference for voluntarist associationism. "New evangelicals" share this socio-doctrinal worldview, making them avid supporters of civil society and its free market, and wary of authorities and their regulation.
Yet for "new evangelicals," self-responsibility doesn't end with the market. It directs them to serve—to form civil society institutions that develop relationships with those in need so that resources are restructured appropriately to each. "New evangelicals" remain self-responsible entrepreneurs but for Jesus's aims, so to speak.
Though the mandate to serve others even at cost to oneself seems at odds with market motives, "new evangelicals" come to it also through doctrine. They hold to a political Jesus—not in the sense of his being in government but in his seeking a radical reorganization of the way men live in the polis. Building on the Jewish Jubilee principles of debt cancellation and slave manumission, Jesus calls us not only to service but to serve unto sacrifice, as he did in life and death. Communities of Christians would transform the polis through "revolutionary subordination"—John Yoder's term.[8] They would accept their social roles and political rule (Romans 13: 1-7; 1 Peter 2:18; Ephesians 5:22). But they would live in the polis as a "contrast society," aiding others and promoting the dignity, freedom, and equality of each person (1 Corinthians 7:20; John 17:15-16).
The key to doing this is relationship. This does not mean that large aid agencies are unproductive but that the structures which organizations set up should promote relationships, friendships, between giver and recipient, and that the job training or substance abuse counseling, for example, should be entwined with those. This sort of service, "new evangelicals" hold, can change the world.
One might say this is gift-exchange as discussed in the work of Lewis Hyde,[9] John Milbank, and others. Milbank summarizes the literature on gift-exchange by noting three central features:[10] (1) delay of return; (2) non-identical repetition (the returned gift is never the same as the initial one); and (3) asymmetrical reciprocity (gift from A generates a gift to B which generates a gift to C, etc., which may return to A only much later, even in another form). That is, one gives out of concern for the rightness of the world and forming relations in it, not because of gifts in return. "New evangelical" service fulfills these criteria if the asymmetrical reciprocity reaches to all God's children, if the appropriateness of the gift lies in worldwide care and justice, and if gifts come back to the donor when Christ comes back to us.
To the non-believer, this may seem utopic, but it has significant consequences for the global circulation of resources and people. World Vision, the largest Christian relief organization, aids one hundred million people in nearly one hundred countries, with an annual budget of near three billion dollars from governmental and private sources, including donations from 4.7 million Americans. Its micro-credit program supports over 440,000 projects in forty-six developing countries. Though donations do not create personal relationships with recipients, the thousands of World Vision volunteers do. Moreover, giving of one's money also reflects a sense of responsibility and connection with recipients—the asymmetrical reciprocity of gift exchange.[11]
In 2004 the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) released a watershed document, For the Health of the Nation, calling for a fair legal and economic system "which does not tolerate perpetual poverty." This requires not just alms-giving but structural improvements in health care, nutrition, education, job training, and immigration for the common good.[12] In 2010, a new organization, the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, was established specifically to bring "new evangelical" ideas to the public. These include human rights, democracy, peacemaking, economic justice, strong families, and environmental protection.[13]
The bulk of "new evangelical" work, however, is done by local churches, whose programs include free medical clinics, prison counseling, substance abuse programs, literacy and job training, environmental protection, and, overseas, reducing disease and building orphanages and schools. These organizations are staffed almost entirely by volunteers, who do much of the fund-raising as well. Rick Warren, who gave the invocation at Obama's inauguration, set up the P.E.A.C.E.[14] coalition, which—in a significant effort to restructure market resources based on relationship—links hundreds of American churches directly with sister churches in developing regions. One effort raised the number of health care providers in a Rwanda region from one doctor in 2007 to over 1,400 trained community health care workers in 2009. Warren explains: while there was only one doctor, there were "826 congregations in this thing. Now, where would you like to get your meds distributed? [A hospital] two days' walk, [a clinic] one day's walk, or five minutes away?"[15]
One Florida church in my study spends roughly $1.5 million a year on social justice projects. In its work in Swaziland, "what started out as two camp fires and a kettle is now several classroom buildings, a medical clinic, and we're doing micro-loans for business start ups" one pastor explained. As with Warren's program, this is not charity but the redirection of market resources—education, credit—where the market is disinterested. "The project is run by people who instead of taking a vacation at the beach volunteer for Swaziland." Another church in Idaho, where parishioners are largely working and lower-middle class, raised $66,000 in one offering to build a training center in Zambia and one hundred thousand dollars in another fund raising effort. In addition to its domestic programs, it runs ongoing partnerships in Ecuador, the Philippines, Zambia, Chile, and Paraguay for poverty relief, community development, and environmental protection. The point is not only to feed the hungry but also to impart skills that restructure the local economy.
Many more examples could be given of the resource distribution and economic restructuring resulting from the "new evangelical" paradox—entrepreneurialism in markets yielding entrepreneurialism for the common good. Against the view that linking markets to common-good principles is Romantic or useless, the "new evangelical" paradox might have something to say, especially since it is already on the ground, doing just this sort of linking.
1. "New evangelicals" is a term taken from Rich Cizik, former Vice President of the NAE and current president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good.
2. Where belief in Jesus ostensibly brings not only spiritual uplift but material success
3. This 25 percent includes: the "religious left" at 9 percent of the U.S. population (the older evangelical left, the Catholic left, and new, emergent churches); the "red letter Christians," who red-line Biblical passages as a guide to progressive politics, also at 9 percent; and religious centrists (liberal theology, moderate politics) at about 6 percent. See the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, June 5, 2008, Assessing a More Prominent "Religious Left."
4. This echoes but is not identical to the Weberian argument, which, with its emphasis on the Protestant rationalization of life, underestimates the striving aspect of the Protestant ethic.
5. The number of Methodist churches rose from twenty in 1770 to 19,883 in 1860, a 994.1 multiple of increase. The number of Baptist churches rose from 150 in 1770 to 12,150 in 1860, an eighty-one multiple of increase. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the evangelical Methodist and Baptist churches accounted for two thirds of Protestants in the United States.
6. Through the same period, the more traditional Congregationalist churches increased by a factor of 3.6, Anglican by a factor of 6, German Reformed by 4.7, Dutch Reformed by 4.4; see Roger Finke and Rodney Stark, "How the Upstart Sects Won America, 1776-1850," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28 (1989):27-44.
7. Mark Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 182, 200-1.
8. For a discussion of governmental expansion as a support for capitalist development, see Adrian Pabst, "The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy," Telos (fall 2010): 44-67.
9. John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing,1992), pp. 185-87.
10 Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (New York: Vintage Books, 1983).
11. John Milbank, "Can a gift be given?" unpublished manuscript, 2010.
12. Other major evangelical relief agencies include the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the Association of Evangelical Relief and Development Organization, the International Justice Mission, The Urban Alternative, Evangelicals for Social Action, Evangelical Environmental Network, Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education, Call to Renewal, and Christian Churches Together, among many others.
13. In 2009, NAE president Leith Anderson and other evangelical leaders issued a statement asking Obama to provide adequate finances to implement immigration laws and reduce the "enormous" waiting time for immigrants applying for legal status; see, Michelle A Vu, "Evangelicals Make Case for Welcoming Immigrants," Christian Post Reporter, April 1, 2009.
14. http://www.newevangelicalpartnership.org/?q=node/1
15. P.E.A.C.E. stands for Promote reconciliation, Equip ethical leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick and Educate the next generation.
16. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, November 13, 2009."The future of evangelicals: A conversation with Pastor Rick Warren."


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Indie Round-Up: Camera Obscura, Art Brut, and I Was a King
Here are three terrific new records that demonstrate just how great– and varied– the indie pop genre can be. The first two are already doing well with the indie set, having won raves from Pitchfork and the like. The third one hasn't quite caught on yet, and perhaps it never will, but it's their loss– it just might be the best of the three albums here.
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
"I don't believe in true love, anyway," sang Tracyanne Campbell, on her band's show-stopping 2006 LP Let's Get Out of This Country— and of course, we didn't believe her any more then than we do in 2009, when she tells us that her "maudlin career is over." Truth is, no other band is quite as spellbinding and romantic, as utterly swoon-worthy as Camera Obscura; their music could convince the most jaded cynic that true love is real, and for that reason, let's hope the band's career is only beginning.
And if their new album, My Maudlin Career, is perhaps a tiny bit less instantly-infatuating as the last one, it's still a ravishing, passionate work, the stuff of which major musical crushes are born. An incomparably blissful marriage of beach music, country, doo-wop, and girl-group harmonies to diarist sincerity and theater-major melodrama, this is nothing if not a sequel to Let's Get Out of This Country, but so what? Here the band offers subtle refinements of an album that didn't really need refining to begin with, and the Belle & Sebastian comparisons that have long hounded them have never been more irrelevant: Camera Obscura sounds more confident and comfortable with themselves than ever. If Country was their break-through, Maudlin is the victory lap where they make it clear that they've carved for themselves a signature sound– and, with it and great albums like this, a legacy.
If anything, the album is bigger and bolder, but also darker. Tracyanne falls in love with a sailor and sees her reflection in the moonlit waters– and that's just in the first song!– while the songs are supported by lavish, increasingly complex and integral string arrangements. The upbeat songs are less interesting here– there's nothing as immediately memorable as "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" or "Let's Get Out of This Country"– but the band shows growth on their ballads, especially the striking, painfully wounded tracks "Away with Murder" and "James." Love hurts, as they say, but romantic longing may never have felt sweeter.
Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
For their third album, Art Brut celebrates The Replacements, takes potshots at Brian Eno and U2, and oh yeah, records with indie godfather Frank Black in the producer's chair. In other words: If you're looking for something arty and esoteric, you're looking at the wrong band. Art Brut finds their footing somewhere between punk, indie, and garage rock, and, just in case their love of raw, jagged riffs and full-band energy isn't obvious from the record's careening momentum and rough-and-ready sound, they've recorded another one of their meta-songs to spell it out for you– this time, it's called "Slap Dash for No Cash," and it's a Valentine to those bands that record lo-fi, lo-budget, high-speed rock and roll without a lot of studio overhead or rehearsal time. It turns out to be a perfect album that marks something of a return to form after It's a Bit Complicated, which may have been just a shade too fussy; and if the Frank Black collaboration isn't quite a boon in the way you might think it would be, it's a boon nevertheless: He may not put Art Brut in touch with their inner-Pixies, but he does keep them true to their inner Art Brut, preserving their enthusiasm and passion in all its ragged glory.
Art Brut isn't a band you listen to in hopes of being surprised; if anything, they're a band that proves just how utterly thrilling a time-tested formula can be, as their sound is nothing if not drunk on the spirit that's kept rock and roll alive and well for all these years. Still, there might be something just a tad eyebrow-raising about Eddie Argos' songwriting. As usual, his vocals are closer to spoken-word than actual singing, but his witty, cheerfuly absurd narratives about music, drinking, romantic pitfalls, and general loserdom have a surprising new twist here: In a way, the album paints a picture of growing up and accepting maturity versus remaining in perpetual adolescence, beginning with an anthem of pathetic, unrepentent alcoholism but ending on a note that's just a tad more remorseful. Between those songs, Argos celebrates those childhood pleasures that remain with you throughout life ("DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshakes"), ponders growing up within the context of not knowing how to drive ("The Passenger"), and cleverly sends up teenage neuroses ("Am I Normal?"). That these songs have a lot of humor goes without saying, but they've also got a lot of heart, which is what makes the whole thing an exhuberant good time, even when Art Brut squares off with the Prince of Darkness on "Demons Out!"
I Was a King – I Was a King
The lead singer of I Was a King is named Frode Stromstads– and what's amazing is, that's not even the most awesome thing about them. Sure, this Norwegian rock outfit wears their influences on their sleeves, but damn if they don't have great taste. Imagine: The power chords and sugar-rush hooks of Teenage Fanclub or New Pornographers, wed to the noisy, ramshackle production of early Pavement and filled with wicked guitar freakouts worthy of Hendrix. Not exactly what you'd expect from a group with close ties to Scandanavia's native Christian music scene, but then, the only evidence of religiosity that you'll hear on this terrific album is a cover of "Hard Luck and Bad News," written by Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman. Here's an album that's drunk on big hooks, smart songwriting, and rock-god guitar heroics– a perfect shot of power pop madness, just in time for summer.
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This super easy chicken casserole recipe is made with boneless chicken breasts, mushrooms, Swiss cheese, and soup, along with sour cream and optional wine. This is an excellent dish to prepare for a busy day dinner.
This easy sour cream sauce is a mixture of condensed soup, sour cream, and your choice of wine, sherry, or chicken broth. One reader commented that the amount of sherry was overwhelming (see below).
Serve this flavorful chicken with mashed potatoes or an easy top of the stove stuffing and a tossed salad for a fabulous family meal. It's wonderful with noodles or rice as well. Steamed broccoli or asparagus would complement the chicken nicely.
What You'll Need
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 6 to 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 6 boneless chicken breast halves, without skin
- 2 cups shredded Swiss cheese
- 1 can (10 3/4 oz) 98% reduced fat cream of mushroom soup
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup dry sherry, white wine, or
- chicken broth
- 1/4 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
How to Make It
Heat the oven to 350 F (180 C/Gas 4).
Lightly butter a 2-quart baking dish.
In a small skillet or saute pan, heat the butter over medium heat. Add the mushrooms to the pan. Cook, stirring until the mushrooms are tender and golden brown.
Arrange the chicken breasts in the prepared baking dish and then spoon the sauteed mushrooms evenly over the chicken. Sprinkle Swiss cheese over the mushrooms.
In a small bowl, combine the condensed soup, sour cream, and sherry.
Pour the sauce over the chicken, mushrooms, and cheese.
Bake the casserole for 45 minutes. Sprinkle with the grated Parmesan cheese and bake for an additional 5 to 10 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and casserole is bubbly.
Place the chicken breasts and mushrooms on serving platter. Stir the sauce to blend and serve with chicken.
Tips and Variations
Replace the Swiss cheese with shredded fontina, Gruyere, Gouda, or Emmentaler.
Mushroom-Free Version: Omit the butter and mushrooms. Drain a 14-ounce can of artichokes. Chop the artichokes and sprinkle over the chicken in the baking dish. Top with the Swiss cheese. Replace the cream of mushroom soup with cream of chicken soup and continue with the recipe.
Reader Comments
"This dish was good but I will adjust the amount of sherry next time. I got an overwhelming alcohol taste from using the amount recommended in the recipe. This made the flavor somewhat, bitter! The sherry does lend a very interesting taste, though. I would use much less especially if you are serving this to kids. I added a fine dice of a shallot and some fresh garlic also, I didn't have any mushrooms. All in all a very good dish!" — E.A.
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I want to be like Louise Bourgeois when I grow up. At 96 years old and still working, bruised, battle-scarred Bourgeois is at once fragile and strong like the materials she uses to work: soft latex, fabrics, glass, wood, marble and metal. Provocative, emotionally intense, and very, very sexual, her sculptures are disquieting, definitely unpretty but unmistakably beautiful. I would meet her on Dean street in the building where my cousins Patrick and Marie-Ange lived in the late 1980's and where she had her studio. I was intimidated by her and never said anything other than Bonjour and even that, with misgivings. How I wish I had been bolder then…
"Spiders have nerves of steel. So did my mother…"
I first became fascinated by her when I saw her Maman sculpture. A huge spider with long, spindly legs, it both attracted and repelled me. As I am deathly afraid of spiders (tarentulas abounded in my childhood landscape and these hairy creatures can still provoke nightmares in broad daylight) I projected my own emotions on the work and the title. But where I saw menace, Bourgeois meant protection. Her mother was a spinner, a weaver, skilled in the craft of intricate tapestry repair and for her, the spider signifies a mother's labor, generosity and foresight.
Things fall apart, life unravels…Maman repairs the fragile threads by weaving hers…
"My childhood never lost its magic, never lost its mystery, and never lost its drama." Bourgeois' childhood drama was the loss of her innocence when she discovered her father and her live-in governess were carrying on a passionate love affair which her mother pretended not to notice. There are none so blind…. "There is one story and one story only that will prove worth your telling" says the poet. The trauma inflicted by her father's infidelity has fueled Bourgeois' work so much that she seems a willing captive of this emotional damage, tirelessly using her relationship with her parents and the role sex played in her family life as the vocabulary in which to understand and re-create that story.
Clearly one of the most influential artists alive today (gender notwithstanding- "There are inequities in our society between men and women, but they have never kept me from saying or doing what I want" she's said), her life might have followed the path her name pointed to, but decidedly unbourgeois Louise left France at 27 (she was born in 1911), settled in New York, had three children, and worked. Restless and inventive she created drawings, etchings, moldings, carvings in stone, castings in metal, wood constructions and walk-in assemblages. She has said that she works in response to emotions: fury at the past and fear of the present among them. Not so much breathing through the pain but working through the pain so you can breathe, is the lesson I learned from her life and work.
Michele Voltaire Marcelin
Come into my parlor, said the spider…
So run, don't walk to the Guggenheim to see the retrospective of Louise Bourgeois as the exhibit (over a hundred pieces), lasts only until the end of September.
The Destruction of the Father
The blind leading the blind
Arch of hysteria
Cell-Choisy (guillotine hanging over her childhood home)
"I work with the eternal, universal and ever-present emotions. Especially the emotions of violence, jealousy and fear. I believe in resurrection in the morning. There is a withdrawal, but it is temporary. You lose your self-esteem, but you pull yourself up again. This is about survival… about the will to survive."
An eternal scent? How could I not love an artist who says:"The most eternal present is a perfume by Guerlain"?
Curators and art critics:
Katherine Brinson
Robert Storr
Paulo Herkenholf
Holland Cutter
Robert Mapplethorpe
Raimon Ramis
Annie Leibovitz
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Review from Rebecca B. – Orlando, FL
We used Ace for a local move and found them to be very professional and positive with every step of our move. Candace gave us an accurate and fair estimate of moving costs and the moving crew was courteous and very careful with our belongings. They even finished faster than expected.


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SIALKOT: At least five Pakistani civilians were killed and several others sustained injuries as Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel resorted to firing and shelling along the Working Boundary in Sialkot's Charwah, Harpal, Chaprar and Sucheetgarh sectors through early Friday morning, sources said.
Sources said Punjab Rangers were responding with retaliatory firing.
Rangers sources said the attacks along the Sialkot Working Boundary have mostly harmed civilians, adding that livestock belonging to residents of the area has been killed, while houses have been partially damaged.
Instances of firing across the Indo-Pak border have occurred intermittently over the years.
In the last instance of unprovoked Indian shelling in Sialkot's Sucheetgarh and Charwah sectors on Aug 18, 60-year-old Mohammad Shareef was killed when he was hit by a mortar shell.
A team of United Nations observers visited the villages hit by Indian shelling and met the family of Shareef at Thathi Khurd village, Sucheetgarh.
The UN team also met other locals affected by Indian shelling and sought details from them about the fresh BSF hostilities, which caused heavy losses of their property and livestock.


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Looking for any Bakish in Lebanon
Dear readers,
I know that there are Qanat Bakish on the mountains of Lebanon, but I found no body of Bakish family there. I been told that there are some of the family are living in the north (Al Shemal), but it was not possible to me to find any body of the family. Can any body be kind enough to guide me...please. Than you in advance for help.
Best Regards
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RWD Magazine
|Tego Sigel
|Former editors
|Nardene Scott, Matt Mason
|Staff writers
|Grant Brydon, Ben Fawcett, Julius Pepperwood
|Music, Style, Sport, Gaming, Film, Technology, News
|Total circulation
|98,806 (ABC Jul - Dec 2013)[1]
Print and digital editions.
|Year founded
|1 September 2001
|Rewind Creative Media LTD
|United Kingdom
RWD Magazine (also known as RWD or RWDmag) is a British based magazine which features Music, Style, Sport, Gaming, Film, Technology, News, interviews and charts on hip hop, Grime, Dubstep, RnB, UK garage, Drum and bass and U.S. house music. It is released monthly, distributing 98,300 copies each time and is ABC certified. It's considered the largest magazine on youth music and lifestyle in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
As well as the magazine, RWDmag has a website which features music videos, tracks and artist profiles.
RWD Magazine became a well known name in UK underground urban music circles in mid to late 2003. This coincided with the rise of a new urban music genre, which later became popularly referred to as Grime. Founding editor-in-chief was Matt Mason, who later wrote The Pirate's Dilemma (2008).[2]
RWD Magazine provided a platform for emerging unsigned artists to get their names and their faces into every popular underground music outlet. This works by aspiring artists paying to feature within the magazine. This may not seem very desirable at first, but the magazine's healthy distribution and circulation makes this more attractive. The magazine enjoys a relatively healthy distribution and circulation as readers can pick up the magazine for free.[citation needed]
This new platform (along with music channel Channel U TV) appealed to many aspiring artists from the grime scene and allowed them to do independently what they could have previously only done with the backing of a major record label.[citation needed]
The popularity with the physical paper magazine soon spread online to its website. Its official website was buoyed by a popular forum, the most central point being the Grime Music Forum. This forum allows for the discussion of everything to do with the grime scene and regularly enjoys visits from big names in the Grime scene who occasionally also post.[citation needed]
RWD Magazine recently celebrated 100 issues.[citation needed]
In mid-2007, RWD Magazine underwent a number of management changes, one of the most important being a change of editor. The new editor wanted to expand the magazine's audience in order to feature all types of music that might appeal to a younger generation. In order to achieve this, the content and appearance of the magazine and website changed, much to the disappointment of the users. This resulted in an exodus of users, establishing their own forums; namely ViP2 Forum which evolved from the Flashback993 forums that was established in 2005. Grime Forum was also created where grime music fans who used to post in the RWDMag forum created their own forum website named Grime Forum with its own connected "Grimepedia" encyclopedia of the genre as well as a music store.[citation needed]
On 1 April 2009 RWD launched a new and redesigned website with extended content under the different genres and enhanced social networking features which give users the ability to manage their own profiles, keep in touch with friends, as well as track forum activity. The functionality behind this was carried out by atticmedia and the design by alex donne (aka vector meldrew)[citation needed]
RWD Magazine launched a football show known as FilthyFellas on YouTube on 12 September ahead of the 2014–15 Premier League season. The show releases a new episode every Monday at 7pm following the matches of the weekend, and is known for its amusing and mocking element of Banter that it contains.[3]
- ^ Plunkett, John (13 February 2014). "FHM circulation drops below 100,000". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ Q&A: Matt Mason, .net magazine, 5 February 2008.
- ^ MEET THE #FILTHYFELLAS, 13 September 2014.


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I have been so horny all day thinking about what I want to do with my poop that is still inside of my ass. I've needed to go the bathroom for a few hours, and now I really desperate, and have to go. I lay down on my bathroom floor, pull down my silky panty and begin to release my poop onto the floor. Holding back the urge to poop is making me get off as the poop comes out of my asshole. I want to cum even harder the next time that I poop, so I decide to save my poop and freeze it to play with later. Another day goes by and I am extremely horny thinking about getting filthy again. I take off my thongs, and you can see that I am already messy with poopy evidence on my thighs. My frozen poop feels so good and naughty inside as well as popping out of my pussy. I really have to poop now the saved poop is out of my pussy. It feels so amazing as I continue to put my poop back inside my pussy getting nice and filthy! I cum so much, I am so glad I decided to save and freeze my poop to play with later! Cum hard while watching me cum super filthy! #110
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I have been sweater obsessed lately and I know that seems obvious since clearly it's fall and that's the type of clothing you tend to wear this time of year. However, I use to rely mostly on jackets and cardigans during these colder months more so than pullover sweaters. But the variety of sweaters that are out there nowadays are much cuter and less boring than a few years ago.
Take this amazing cold shoulder turtleneck. I mean it's simple but the cold shoulder cutouts make this sweater much more feminine and flirty. It's a bit oversized which I love because it adds an extra element of coziness. I paired the sweater with my grey jeans that I bought during the #Nsale this summer, but I also think it would be super cute with a miniskirt, tights and booties. In fact, this could be a contender for Thanksgiving!
I also got these sexy over-the-knee boots last year for a steal! If you sign up for ShoeDazzle's VIP program you can get them for less than $15!!(see link below)
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Hayden and Christine have been trying unsuccessfully to conceive and Christine suggests they visit a fertility clinic.
Hayden is sure to clarify that he is accompanying her and not there with her and is shocked to find out that as far as Christine is concerned she is as fertile as she needs to be. The problem may be with him.
Real great scenes involve Hayden questioning the rather young doctor about his qualifications and Hayden going to give a sample of his 'bad boys'. He soon finds out that the problem does lie with him since he has a low sperm count.
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Have any of you guys ever hauled AAFES loads? A small local company who has a direct contract with AAFES approached me with a need for trucks. He offered to let me lease some of my trucks to his authority to haul exclusively AAFES loads on AAFES trailers at a rate of pay of 90% of gross. When I asked him what types of rate these loads pay he said "very well" and that he would stop back in a few days with invoices and such showing exactly what they pay.
So in the meantime, I'm trying to do some research as to what to expect when hauling this govt. stuff so that I can make an informed decision. It is the slow season for the niche that I serve, so I could free up 2 or 3 trucks to do this deal for awhile if it proved worthwhile. Any first hand insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated.
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Are you talking about amunitions and explosives type loads? I know the have to be team because someone HAS to be on the truck at all times. I also k now they rates are high but they have been coming down due to the same undercutting we see everywhere.
Ladnstar has a division that hauls them. I know they cut there rates this year in order to keep there volume up... nothing like looking out for the investors over the drivers. the rates are still good but there is alot of headache.
Broker will tell you $1.30 is a "very good" rate
I wasn't sure it was some other form of it or something. I'm not that familiar with it.
I don't think I'd lease exclusively to the guy if I already had a good business going. the whole eggs in one basket thing ya know
There is an AAFES warehouse in Waco, Tx that had a few brokers looking for 'power only' operators last year, to pull their trailers round-trip. If I recall correctly, they paid 82cpm plus a FSC of 31cpm, at the time the FSC should have been .45cpm. Plus they paid HHG short miles.
It could have been the broker trying to make a mint on each load, but I told him I couldn"t afford to run for that little bit of money. He was also trying to get lease tractors to sign up. They may be offering more now, I just don't know.
He stopped back in the shop today and dropped off a stack of invoices from the last two weeks with my wife(I'm on the road)and she is going to scan and email them to me. From what she was reading of them to me, I would call the rate good...but not outstanding.
And BTW, for theguy who made the comment about it pays .82 plus fuel through a broker....If the broker could move it for that, he is getting RICH. It pays about 3 times that much.
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eskimo...for that id drag a van for ya!!
affes only goes to military bases....less traffic, big roads ( designed for tanks after all....ever drivin one?? they have BIG blind spots...lol)
if it works for ya i say why not.
heck i wouldnt mind hualing a trailer that says " serving the best customers in the world" and knowing it is for military affliated folks at all
my take? look at it ...if it is a profitable situation, do it.....if not walk away
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Breaded Pork Chops
Lately I've had a hankering for breaded pork chops with applesauce, so we got a family pack of pork chops on sale at the supermarket last week. I wanted to make roasted potatoes to go with them, but it's just too hot for that kind of cooking. I opted for mashed potatoes, but I wanted to try this tip from a blog I've been reading. This woman in Australia makes garlic mashed potatoes by throwing a few cloves of garlic in when the potatoes are cooking and then mashes both together when they're done. But SP decided to be helpful and started the potatoes when he got home so by the time I arrived the potatoes were done cooking. Looks like that experiment will have to happen another time.
The pork chops were about an inch thick, which meant I would have to finish them in the oven if I didn't pound them thinner. I was going for something schnitzel-like (hence the breading and pan frying....all I would have needed for the proper schnitzel is a fried egg). I pounded the chops in a plastic bag with my trusty Death Blow hammer. I should take a picture of this thing sometime. It works so much better than a traditional meat pounder and was super cheap at the hardware store. Plus it's bright orange so it never gets lost in the drawer.
I beat two eggs in a pie plate and filled another pie plate with Italian seasoned bread crumbs. Once the chops were the right thickness (or thinness, as it were), I dipped the chop in the egg, then in the bread crumbs and then straight into a hot skillet. The chops cooked for maybe 3 minutes per side until the bread crumbs were golden brown.
I mashed the potatoes with about 3 tablespoons of butter, a few good pinches of salt, a lot of freshly cracked black pepper, a splash of milk and three good spoonfuls of sour cream. I threw in some chopped scallions at the end for some onion-y flavor.
We were supposed to have green beans, but the beans had been purchased over a week ago and were looking a little past their prime. So, we settled for an old standby - frozen corn. Still tasty, but I was kicking myself for not buying the beautiful broccoli crowns that had been on sale this week. Oh well, live and learn.
I served my chop with a nice heaping helping of applesauce.
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HANNAH McKell doesn't want her big sister, Emma, to be forgotten. Nor does she want her to become just another of SA's unsolved murders.
Above all, she wants Emma's killer to be brought to justice.
Like the Major Crime detectives probing Emma Pawelski's 2005 murder, she has a fair idea who may be responsible. But frustratingly, she knows police need more evidence.
Emma Pawelski, 30, was last seen alive on November 26, 2005. Her body was found in the Mt Crawford forest eight days later. Police have a suspect - a man well-known to Emma.
On the eve of the seventh anniversary of Emma's death, Hannah, 22, has spoken publicly for the first time in a bid to solve the mystery of her sister's murder.
She has set up a Facebook page - Please Help Solve The Murder of Emma Jade Pawelski 2005 - in the hope social media will provide a breakthrough in the case.
"I hope by doing that someone may remember something, or it will jog their conscience and they will come forward and talk to the police," she said.
"A lot of people communicate using Facebook only and don't see the news services or newspapers, so hopefully this can get through to them and they will help us find justice.
"I do not want Emma's death to become a closed case because the more the years go on, the harder this is for us to deal with and the harder it becomes for police to solve".
Major Crime detectives this week revealed they have information indicating more than one person was involved in disposing of Emma's body.
"Investigators now believe there is credible information supporting an early theory that others were involved in the disposal of the body," Detective Brevet Sergeant John Schneemilch said.
He said police were appealing for information about the use of a red Ford Telstar sedan around the time of her death. "We have information that gives us reason to believe associates of Emma's were using this vehicle," he said.
Hannah, who last spoke with Emma on her 15th birthday, still has vivid memories of growing up with her older sister.
Her last memory is of attending Emma's flat several weeks before she vanished.
"She had all of the photos and drawings out that I had given her. That is my most treasured memory," Hannah said. "There have been times I've been so lonely and longed for my sister so badly. We made plans for things we were going to do when I grew up, but that was taken from me".
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Celebrity Badminton League gets going in full momentum
Chennai,Sep 17(tamilnaducentral): The Celebrity Badminton League which has been creating a positive buzz among the sports, media and entertainment fraternity is all set for an official launch of Season 1 on 17th Saturday in Chennai.
The league consisting representations from all the four southern states namely Kollywood, Sandalwood, Mollywood and Tollywood is gaining momentum as the big day arrives. "Considering the unfortunate current issue between two states Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the franchise partners Chennai Rockers, Karnataka Alps, Kerala Royals and Tollywood Thunders along with the CBL management has proposed two small changes from the original schedules as follows:
1. On 17th September Launch the Karnataka Alps team will be introduced via AV format.
2. The Chennai league and Bangalore league (which was originally scheduled on 18th Sep and 8th Oct) matches have been rescheduled to a later date in October which will be announced shortly.
The four teams will now start the set of matches from Kochi on September 24, 2016 as planned at Regional Sports Center (RSC) stadium. All other schedules remain same including Malaysia. Needless to say, Karnataka Alps is an integral part of the CBL Season 1, as much as the others and all the teams are determined to play the sport in right spirit. We have taken this decision as a responsible organization to ensure peace and harmony.
L Hemachandran is the Founding Director and CEO, Celebrity Badminton League Pvt Ltd.


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Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using skateboard.
A person who skateboards is called skateboarder, skater or skate rat.
Skateboarding was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when waves were flat.
No one knows who made the first skateboard. Several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time.
These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom.
Eventually companies were producing decks of pressed layers of wood – similar to the skateboard decks of today.
During this time skateboarding was something to do for fun besides surfing and was often referred to as "Sidewalk Surfing" .
Manufacturers started to experiment with more exotic composites and metals, like fiberglass and aluminum, but the common skateboards were made of maple plywood.
The skateboarders started inventing new tricks.
Z-Boys (so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop) also known as Boys of Dog town started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought. This started a vert trend skateboarding.
There is a movie about the group called Lords Of Dog town. It is a Hollywood retelling of the story blending fact and fiction.
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There is not an animal on earth, or in our unearthly imaginations, that has not been endowed with human meaning beyond its perfect "is-ness."
The reasons for this would fill a dissertation (or a courtroom) let alone a humble notebook entry.
Nevertheless, as an artist whose imagery leans heavily on their powers I need to honor the membership of animals in the pantheon of human deities, although I will only be scratching the surface.
Across the globe, across time and second only to our own likeness, image-makers have used animals as a mother lode of subject matter, probably because early on, if less so now, humanoids recognized that "Them's Is Us."
We use them as models because every aspect of an animal's physical body reflects the fundamentals of our manifested reality: the curve, angle, point and spiral. Flesh and eyes and joints.
We depict them because they are ubiquitous, even if some of us have forgotten this.
The artist Elli Crocker, whose majestic drawings of animals are an important part of her repertoire, has thought a lot about our relationship with them. In one sense, she says, we know more than ever about animals, all we have to do is Google a species and we can find out everything about them from their bone structure to their mating habits.
And yet "we're perhaps more estranged than ever … Our comprehension of animal reality feels odd and imbalanced."
They've always been emeshed in human life. "We've used animals for clothing and food. We eat, befriend, breed animals and kill them for sport. We bioengineer and clone them."
And we perform experiments on them we wouldn't do on ourselves. We excuse this by declaring they don't think (like we do) don't feel pain or fear (like we do).
It is a mighty paradox that we neglect, torture slaughter and dismiss the very beings we revere, study, save and conjure in dreams.
Why are we compelled to project onto an animal image qualities we fear and admire? In daily life animals in the wild may be flea-ridden, obsessive foodies but in our collective imagination we get immense spiritual gratification using them as receptacles of poetry.
Some of it has to do with the sheer size of some beasts, their strength, predatory danger and perceived intelligence.
Into those warrior-like male archetypes fall The Lion, The Stag, The Bear, The Bull, The Tiger, The Elephant, The Wolf, The Eagle. Even Pinocchio's whale.
We have the calculating fox, cat, coyote, rat, serpent. The unifying dove, the prophetic raven. The sacrificial lamb. The fertilizing bee, the Resurrection Butterfly and resurrecting Phoenix. (Speaking of Phoenix, we've also breathed life into winged lions and uni-horned horses, fire-mouthed dragons, thunderbirds, and our own gap-filler, the mermaid.
We attribute special sacredness to nature's rarities: The white whale, white buffalo, white leopard, black swan.
Perhaps we want to observe the fearful in a reflection outside of ourselves, and we want to absorb the noble by aligning ourselves with a "familiar." Thus the totem, the fetish, the animal as spiritual lightning rod.
Maybe it's Darwinism. By granting us our beloved sense of mystery some species have narrowly sidestepped extinction. Just a thought.
Animals provide allegory and metaphor, standing in for humans as in Mickey Mouse and Kafka's cockroach. A friend once showed me a page from an ancient Hebrew Passover haggadah. Because Jewish people were not supposed to make human images it was illustrated with bird-headed people.
Ultimately for artists, animals are living, breathing grace, in motion and repose.
These days they are also fragile emissaries of a yet unbroken world, or, more accurately, canaries in the global coalmine.
Referring to artists as "mediums of our society," Elli Crocker believes animal imagery is reappearing in contemporary art for contemporary reasons. The speeding changes in our global climate, she says, "puts the future of most species in incredible peril. We are beginning to experience a fraught sense of this shared destiny tied in with all life on the planet."
Animal as warning. The one true thing we have in common with animals is mortality.


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Distracting Social Media Stats
Although you know I hate to fan your social media flames, here are the latest social media usage stats from the Pew Internet Project.
Some highlights:
- 46% of online American adults are social network site (SNS) users. This figure was only 8% on February 05.
- Of these, 73% have Facebook accounts, 48% use MySpace, 14% use LinkedIn.
- 45% of SNS users have college or advanced degrees (now I'm getting more interested), compared to 35% of the entire online population.
- Only 10% of SNS users are ages 55+ (oh well, now I'm less interested again).
And in this report, Pew tells us who tweets. These figures combine Twitter and similar "status update services" (for me, a "status update service" is a Post-It note on the fridge).
- 19% of American online adults tweet.
- Only 9% of those ages 50-64 do so; 4% of those ages 65 and older.
- No education or income skew.
- 39% of those who own 4 or more wireless devices tweet (I can't name 4 or more wireless devices, unless my battery-powered hand drill counts).
- 35% of SNS users also tweet.
So there you have it. I've done my public service. Now, go proof your direct mail copy.
P,S. OK, bored with your mail copy? Here's more distracting SNS trivia … from Experion Hitwise, here's the market share of various social media sites as of September. Facebook gets 59% of all SNS visits; Twitter gets 2%. Now go raise some money!
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Many Monroe County residents could be living on a sinkhole and not know it.
Sinkholes in the county are nothing unusual. In fact, they're quite common, according to C. Pius Weibel, senior geologist with the Illinois Geological Survey.
"There are probably more sinkholes in Monroe County than any other county in Illinois," Weibel said.
Although a man fell into a sinkhole last month at Annbriar Golf Course near Waterloo, the known sinkholes — about 13,000 — are not the primary concern of the county's residents, professional geologist Philip Moss said. The documented sinkholes are visible as depressions in the ground, but there are an unknown number of hidden sinkholes that can only be definitively identified through geophysical surveys.
The primary area of concern is within the sinkhole plain in the western part of the county. Moss said that, to his knowledge, there has been no effort made to map these hidden sinkholes, which could number in the tens of thousands.
"The tests would be expensive and labor intensive," Moss said. "If someone has a particular interest, they need to have a survey done on the property they are interested in."
Commercial developers should consider paying for a geophysical survey before construction, Moss said. Private homeowners should be careful about where they choose to build.
"Within the sinkhole plain, flat spots are very suspicious to me," Moss said. "If I were a homeowner, I wouldn't build on flat land."
The land given preferential treatment for development in Monroe County is the least productive farmland, which is hilly, he said. The land with the most hills contains the most sinkholes. It's Moss' contention that the flat areas between the hills are most likely to have hidden sinkholes, which, like visible sinkholes, formed over thousands of years as holes that formed in the soil and migrated toward the surface.
More land is being developed as the county's population continues to grow. The census bureau estimated that 33,357 people lived in Monroe County in 2012, a 21 percent increase since 2000. The county experienced a 23.2 percent growth rate between 1990 and 2000.
Hidden problem
A dilemma for those who live in the sinkhole plain is that they probably do not know they live in a problem area. Much of western Monroe County and a portion of southern St. Clair County are in the plain. Although the sinkhole plain has been well-documented, its exact location is very difficult for the average citizen to determine.
Moss said neither the Monroe County Geographic Information System website (http://monroeil.mygisonline.com/) nor the Illinois Department of Natural Resources website make the information easily available to the public. The Illinois DNR website has maps that identify the sinkhole plain, but Moss said the maps are too encompassing and include areas not in the sinkhole plain.
The Monroe County Comprehensive Plan maps all known sinkholes in the county, but does not indicate what land is in the sinkhole plain. Property owners or perspective buyers can buy special software to view sinkhole plain maps, or contact an engineering company that may be willing to share the information.
Monroe County Zoning Administrator Mike Fausz said that a soil and water report must be completed on all land being developed. The report will tell whether the land has "karst" characteristics.
Karst is a landscape formed by the process of soluble (dissolvable) rocks being broken down under the ground. About 9 percent of Illinois and 33 percent of Monroe County is karst, which is characterized by sinkholes, caves and underground drainage systems.
A potential developer may not know what karst is, but they have a duty to educate themselves, Fausz said.
"Can I tell you that everyone knows what karst is? No. But if someone is going to do development, they will need to do their due diligence," Fausz said.
The Monroe County zoning code has regulations for developing on known sinkholes and restricts mobile home parks from being built on karst topography. There are no codes for other types of development on karst, Fausz said.
Is more regulation needed?
Moss, who is a karst expert, believes the regulations for building on karst should differ from those for building on all other landscape types. Weibel said there was a push about 10 years ago to have statewide rules for karst development, but they were never enacted. He agreed with Moss that regulations are needed.
"There should be some rules in those areas to protect their own people, because it really is different," Weibel said.
Moss believes that residents of the Illinois Sinkhole Plain should be more concerned with their fiscal safety than their physical safety. Because houses are typically larger than sinkholes, a home on top of a hidden sinkhole isn't likely a safety concern.
"Generally there is enough structural integrity that it would cause a lot of damage, but not death," Moss said. "But, the damage could be greater than the value of the home."
Homeowners are at risk because their insurance policies do not protect them in the case of sinkhole damage. Insurance broker Joe Swierczek, of FLS Insurance Agency in Columbia, said sinkhole insurance is a separate part of policies, and one not many people have chosen.
"After the Annbriar incident, a lot of clients called to check to see if we have it," Swierczek said. "We added it to a handful of policies."
Few companies offer sinkhole insurance in Illinois. Connie Fingerhut, of FLS Insurance Agency, said only two of the 10 companies the agency works with offer the coverage, which is different than mine subsidence and earthquake insurance.
It would cost less for a person living in the sinkhole plain to buy sinkhole insurance than to have their land surveyed to determine whether their home is in danger, Moss said. Fingerhut estimated that most homeowners can purchase the insurance for less than $100 per year, although the cost varies based on the price and type of home.
Moss suggested that if a person decides against buying insurance, their other options are to sell or hope no sinkhole damage will occur. He acknowledges that he does not know of any cases in Monroe County in which a home was proven to have suffered sinkhole damage.
Should residents be afraid?
Although he is unaware of any homes damaged from sinkholes, Moss thinks the growing population of Monroe County, coupled with the lack of information about the potential hazard, make it likely that an incident will occur in the future.
Climatologist Iben Browning predicted a major earthquake would occur on Dec. 3, 1990, in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois. The day passed without so much as a tremor, but Browning's prediction raised awareness that a major earthquake could occur in the region.
About 50 percent of FLS' clients carried earthquake insurance prior to Browning's predictions. After the prediction, about 99 percent picked it up and have kept it, Swierczek said.
Moss is not predicting imminent disaster or expecting a Browning-like response for sinkhole insurance, he just wants the public to be aware of potential risks.
"I'm not trying to protect people from themselves," Moss said. "I'm trying to protect people from a lack of information, people thinking they have insurance and they don't."
Moss said he did not want to alarm anyone living in the sinkhole plain.
"I don't want to panic people that if they own a house in the sinkhole plain that it's a matter of time until it sinks. I don't think that is true at all," Moss said. "(A sinkhole) could open up at any time, but it is unlikely to be life-threatening. It could be financial solvency threatening."


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What are futures…
Futures are exchanged traded derivatives. Futures contract are contracts to buy or sell a specified commodity at a certain date in the future at a market determined price. These contracts are traded on exchanges called future exchanges. The market determined price is called the future price. Unlike stocks and bonds that are direct securities, futures are securities that fall under the type derivative contract.
The future price is determined by the delta of the supply and demand among competing buy and sell orders at that time. The delivery date or final settlement date is called the future date. Future contracts can have various underlying assets both tangible (currency, securities and etcetera) and intangible (stocks, interest rates and cetera).
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The proposal to reconsider Palo Alto's election years split the council before eking out a bare majority of support. The switch from odd to even years was proposed by Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss, a former Palo Alto mayor who promoted it as a way to both save the city $200,000 every other year and to raise voter turnout.
"There's no question the voter turnout is better in even years," Kniss told the council Monday.
Council members Karen Holman and Greg Scharff were the most fervent supporters of asking the voters to consider the election-year change this November — a proposal would add a year to each council member's term. Holman said making the switch to even years would help council candidates get the attention of the city's voters, which she said is often difficult in odd-numbered years.
Scharff said most communities already have even-year elections and that Palo Alto should join them and, in doing so, raise its voter participation.
"We're saving money and increasing voter participation," Scharff said. "It seems to me those are two positive goals."
Gail Price, Yiaway Yeh and Nancy Shepherd joined Holman and Scharff in supporting the ballot measure. Mayor Pat Burt, Vice Mayor Sid Espinosa and Councilmen Greg Schmid and Larry Klein dissented.
Klein said the city should gather more information and consider other implications of making the switch, including its impact on the school-district measures and elections.
Klein also said the city's tradition of having elections in odd years allows voters to focus on local elections and not be distracted by state and national issues.
"It enables our community, our voters, to have a community discussion about where they want the city to go," Klein said. "That's implemented in who they vote for in the council elections.
"The attention certainly will not be paid if the council is one of 10 or 15 elections that will be held in an even-numbered year."
City staff indicated savings from even-year elections would have a range but be less than the $200,000 estimate by Kniss. Some council members expressed concern about potential extra costs to the Palo Alto Unified School District and Foothill-De Anza Community College District should they keep their elections in odd years.
The council also voted 5-4 not to put the binding-arbitration provision on the ballot. The provision, which city voters adopted in 1978, enables an arbitration panel to settle labor disputes between the city and its public-safety unions.
Though most council members said they oppose binding arbitration, the proposal to bring the issue up for a vote this year fizzled after Klein said the city needs more time to gather community input.
He also said he would be interested in exploring a measure that would keep binding arbitration in place for the two police unions, but remove the provision for the firefighters union.
"There have been no hearings, no considerations of alternatives," he added. "We ought to have opportunities to consider them."
Klein joined Price, Shepherd, Espinosa and Yeh and voted to keep a binding-arbitration measure off this year's ballot.
Proponents of the repeal argued that the provision is costly and anti-democratic. Scharff and Holman both urged their colleagues to place repeal on the ballot. Scharff said the provision makes it impossible for the city to control the city's spiking pension costs or make structural changes to employee contracts.
He called putting binding arbitration on the November ballot a "no-brainer" decision and said the time to repeal the provision is now.
"If you're really seeking structural change, and you really care about getting pensions under control, and you really care about fiscal sustainability, you need to get rid of binding arbitration."
Holman said the tough financial climate calls for political leadership and repealing binding arbitration is the boldest action the council could take at this time.
"Binding arbitration is one of the more significant aspects of how the city does or does not have control of its own destiny," she said.
Holman said the council's proposal to repeal arbitration is not an act of retaliation against the firefighter's union, which will have its own measure on the November ballot. The initiative, spearheaded by Palo Alto Firefighters, Local 1319, would require the city to hold an election any time it wants to close a fire station or change department staffing levels.
The union received more than 6,000 signatures for the ballot initiative, more than enough to qualify it for the ballot. The council on Monday officially placed the measure on the November ballot, with several members saying they fiercely oppose the proposal.
Scharff called the firefighters' initiative "amazingly selfish," while Burt called it a "misguided attempt at a power play by the Fire Department."
Though the council ultimately rejected Scharff's and Holman's proposal to include binding arbitration on the November ballot, members agreed the issue deserves further discussion and possible inclusion on a future ballot.
Staff is scheduled to bring back a timeline for these discussions in the fall.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – CBS has ordered two additional episodes of Monday sitcoms "Mike and Molly" and "Rules of Engagement" to help cope with scheduling issues arising from the absence of Charlie Sheen from the hit show "Two and a Half Men," according to sources.
These extra shows will fill in a schedule with sudden holes caused by the absence of Sheen, who reportedly is attempting a rehabilitation program at home with a trained expert in addiction. (Sheen's spokesman declined comment on the actor's health, citing federal privacy laws.)
TMZ has reported that Sheen, who was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital last Thursday complaining of abdominal pains, will be unable to work for three months. A CBS source says that the network has not been informed that Sheen will be out for the season, but his absence would leave CBS short of eight episodes of the planned 24-episode season (there has been no serious talk of shooting the series around his absence).
Warner Bros. Television, which makes "Men" and "Mike" (both from studio-based executive producer Chuck Lorre), would not comment on the additional episode order. TMZ claimed Warners and CBS played a role in selecting the addiction specialist treating Sheen, but Warners would not comment on what role it played (if any) in locating the expert. Neither CBS nor Sony Pictures Television, which makes "Rules," immediately responded to requests for comment.
CBS has said in a statement that a shutdown of "Men" "is not material" to the network. "Any ratings declines will be more than offset by the reduced programing costs for episodes lost this season," the network said.
Describing its schedule as "strong and deep with hit series," CBS said it is not reliant on one show. "In addition, 'Two and a Half Men' has always performed well in repeats," the network said.
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Is the ability to design a talent you must be born with or is it a skill you can learn? Successful designers have shown that the answer to this question may not be so black and white.
Famed designers like David Carson have changed traditional design by experimenting with typography and images. His story and others like it support the argument for innate design – the ability to innovate on such a level must come from an internal creativity.
Also supporting the theory that designing ability is innate, web designer Kirsten Jahn Richardson, presented this point in an article about this very matter: "We are constantly bombarded by digital images and messages – if designing were based wholly upon training, wouldn't we all be experts through exposure alone?…"
While Richardson provides a solid argument, it's hard to deny that even if some design ability is natural, the best designers know the basics and have studied others' work before adding their own touch to the field. In the words of the 14th Dalai Lama, "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
Some designers have even made a name for themselves by successfully emulating others' ideas or typography. For example, there are an endless number of popular derivative renditions of Milton Glaser's famed "I Love NY" design or Roy Lichtenstein's pop art paintings.
The gray area of the debate boils down to this: at the core of every successful designer lies an innate vision and drive to produce creative designs, coupled with a foundation of design knowledge. A successful designer needs to bring innovation to the field, but also to learn from others' failures and successes, as well as their own. This widely-known quote from Ira Glass, applicable to any creative field, best sums up the issue by describing this marriage of knowledge and talent:
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- 1 teaspoon solid vegetable shortening, butter or margarine
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
- 1 package (9 ounces) yellow cake mix or 1 2/3 cups devil's food cake mix (plus ingredients to make cake)
- Quick Ganache (optional, see below)
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour bottom and sides of Stainless (8-in.) Sauté Pan, tapping out excess flour. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Pour batter over bottom of Sauté Pan, spreading evenly.
Bake, uncovered, according to package directions using time range for 8-inch cake pan or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Using Oven Mitts, carefully remove pan to Stackable Cooling Rack; cool according to package directions. Loosen edges of cake; carefully invert cake onto Simple Additions® Dinner Plate. If desired, spread Quick Ganache over top of cake.
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Confederate States Richmond Musket
Common name: Richmond Musket
Description: When they captured the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in April 1861, the Confederates moved the musket manufacturing machinery, tools, and parts to facilities in Richmond, Virginia and began to produce their own version of the US Model 1861 "Springfield" Rifle-Musket. Initially under the direction of the State of Virginia, the facility was later turned over to the Confederate States government. This muzzle-loader was produced in larger numbers than any other Confederate rifle.
Employment at Sharpsburg: This was a common weapon in Confederate service in 1862 and later.
Ammunition Used: .58 caliber bullet (minie ball)
Manufacturer: Richmond Armory Where made: Richmond, Va Model: 1861 Year(s) made: 1861-1865
Maximum Range: 500 yards Effective Range: 300 yards
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