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David C. Cassidy (Bellevue Literary Press, New York, 2009), 480 pp., $27.00
Reviewed by Alvin M. Saperstein
[Editor's note: An abbreviated version of this review was published in the January 2010 edition of Physics Today.]
Most of our readers are aware of Germany as a fountainhead of science in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We associate science with the pinnacle of humanistic endeavors, and thus have looked to Germany as a pillar of humanism. And yet, 20th century Germany gave us Nazism, with all its bestial ties. How do we account for such a dichotomy?
David Cassidy explores this conundrum in his biography of Werner Heisenberg, born into the German professorial class, defender of the prerogatives of German academia, major contributor to the physics of fluids and elementary particles, and a founder of quantum mechanics. Offered many opportunities to join the flood of liberal academics fleeing Hitler's pre-war Nazi Germany, Heisenberg chose to remain, becoming head of the German government's wartime nuclear weapon applied research program and simultaneously studying abstract non-linear field theory.
This book interested me because it offers insight into the rise of modern physics as well as the rise of the extreme form of nationalism called "Nazism." This masterful combination of biography, history, and popular science speaks importantly to current difficulties in the relationship between science and society and the question of the obligation of the scientist to the world outside of his "ivory tower."
The book begins with an incisive sketch of post-Bismarkian Germany, a quasi-feudal, class-bound society in which the children of the "non-respectable" productive classes--farmers, artisans, merchants--are pushed into the "respectable" professional class. This class, very conscious of its privileges and prerogatives and dedicated to preserving them, demonstrated very little apparent concern for extending privilege to the rest of society. Growing up in the decades immediately following the unification of Germany, Heisenberg's circle of family, friends, fellow students, and colleagues were intensely committed to strengthening and preserving the German state, although there is little evidence of concern for the well-being of the individual German outside of their privileged circle. Werner's father's father was a successful master-locksmith, descendant of a long line of similar tradesmen, who became an official "Burger" of a small German city which brought him far more status than he held as a craftsman. His mother's father was a Gymnasium (academic high school) teacher and educational administrator, but he never achieved his long-sought status of university professor. Heisenberg's father reached the desired status of professor of classical languages at the University of Munich. Werner's long-term goal was to succeed his teacher, Arnold Sommerfeld, in the Chair of Physics at the University of Munich, a goal encouraged by his professional colleagues but never reached because of the dissatisfaction of the local Nazi party apparatus with his political "purity."
A defining event in Werner's late teenage years, during his last years of Gymnasium, seems to have been the attempted post-World-War-I Communist revolution in Munich. As a member of the militaristic and nationalistic student body at his elite high school, young Heisenberg participated in the right-wing counter-revolution. Werner then met the German workingman--at the opposite end of his gun. It was during this time that he became a leader of a German equivalent of the Boy Scouts (an organization too nationalistic to be an affiliate of the actual internationally oriented Boy Scout movement), a pre-occupation with youth that he kept for most of his life.
The book then describes Heisenberg's student and research career, working with Sommerfeld (in Munich), Born (in Göttingen) and Bohr (in Copenhagen), interacting with and sometimes competing with Schrödinger and most of the other great figures of physics in the 1920s and 1930s. We follow his development of matrix mechanics, the uncertainty principle, the quantum mechanics formalism, and the Copenhagen interpretation. We learn about his struggles with the increasing politicization of the German University and his receipt of the Nobel Prize for Physics. The actual physics content is qualitatively sketched--there are no formulas or experimental descriptions; the book's intended audience is not "scientists as scientists." The onset of World War II finds Heisenberg ensconced as the youngest German Professor of Physics at the University of Leipzig, where he built up a formidable research group in theoretical physics (in spite of the Nazi distaste for theoretical physics which they referred to as "Jewish science") after turning down several offers to leave Germany for an American professorship. Except for responses to direct attacks upon himself or his science (responses in which he often "saved himself" at the expense of other considerations), Heisenberg spent these years immersed in the closed circles of his international scientific colleagues, his music (he was an excellent pianist, giving many private recitals), his youth group and its hiking activities, and his rapidly growing family. He married late, after his Nobel prize, to a much younger wife, and soon had six children with whom to be concerned.
Heisenberg's wartime activities are the source of much controversy. Did he help or hinder the Nazi drive for nuclear weapons? Did he try, successfully or otherwise, to save fellow scientists and scholars from Nazi persecutions such as the military draft? Why did he visit his old teacher and friend, Niels Bohr, in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen? Was it to spy on Allied nuclear activities, to boast of German nuclear activities, or to signal some sort of nuclear truce with the Allies that would include the mutual cessation of weapons research? The book does a commendable job of presenting the evidence for both sides of each controversy. The book is well referenced, with 45 pages of notes. Cassidy points out the evident weaknesses of the arguments, the passage of time and memory, and the paucity of written documentation, and then allows readers to reach their own conclusions.
Controversy does not end with the end of World War II and the devastation of his beloved Germany. Heisenberg's self-appointed task, largely successful, is to be a major factor in the rebuilding of German science to its pre-war eminence. As such, he cannot afford to be tainted with the suspicion of moral or professional lapses during the war. Hence, colleagues and friends, such as Carl Friederich von Weizächer, circulate the word that German's failure to create a nuclear weapon during the war was due to the ethical reluctance of German physicists to provide Hitler with such weapons, rather than to any scientific or organizational failures on their part. Again, the author presents the available evidence, including the famous Farm Hall tapes. These secretly recorded British intelligence tapes were the result of eavesdropping on the technical (and personal) conversations of the captured German physics elite while they were comfortably captive in an English estate. They document the German physicists' surprised reaction to the success of the Allied nuclear weapons program when it became evident by the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once again, the author lets the readers make up their own minds.
The book is interesting, well written, and amply documented. Everyone who wishes to function productively in our modern science-based society should be aware of its contents. My wife and I disagree as to whether the average American college undergraduate can productively read it. I hope to use it in a freshman/sophomore honors course for non-science students; my wife thinks I'm crazy. I urge Forum readers to read it and make up their own minds about the many questions raised in this excellent discussion of science, society, and the role of the individual scientist.
Alvin M. Saperstein
Wayne State University, Detroit
This contribution has not been peer refereed. It represents solely the view(s) of the author(s) and not necessarily the views of APS.


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Take a minute from your busy routine and think are you fully aware of the GDPR Cookie consent? Being a business or a website owner, do you respect your user's privacy? Have you specified terms and conditions along with a privacy policy for your consumers? Well, I guess it's time to take some awareness, so let's get started.
Small files, get dropped automatically on your computer, whenever you browse the web. Cookies are harmless bits of texts that are locally stored and can be viewed and deleted quickly. However, they give a great deal of insight into a user's activity and preferences. They tend to identify a user without explicit content.
From a legal point of view, it is an indication of a data breach. The way technologies are thriving sophisticatedly. Therefore, there are more chances that the privacy of a user can get compromised increasingly.
Not every cookie is used to identify users, but the majority of them so, similarly they are subject to GDPR. Cookies for analytics, advertising and functional services, are the cookies that identify users.
The problem with cookies related to user privacy is, they don't know what is being registered? Who is tracking you? What is their core purpose of tracking? Where does the data go? And how long they keep a consumer's data on their network?
It is highly essential to know what constitutes a proper GDPR cookie consent. The consent must be:
Do know what GDPR complaint cookie banner is.
The requirements mentioned above give most of the cookie banners and notifications used before GDPR implementation. Implied consent by merely visiting a site is not enough. The same goes for banners and Pop-ups that state 'By using this site, you accept cookies'.
In simple words, for accepting cookies "Ok" button is not sufficient.
Making cookie policy compliant with GDPR
As per the GDPR instructions, everyone running a business in the EU or dealing with EU citizen in any way, must revise their cookie policy and bring it in line with the regulation.
The ePrivacy Directive and GDPR of the EU want you to take prior and informed consent from your site users. In addition, GDPR also requires you to register each consent.
In other words, you must know what user data you are sharing with the third-part services on your website and where the information is being sent.
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Make sure your GDPR Cookie Consent Policy renders a clear and explicit picture to the user of, in what ways cookies are used on the website. It is necessitated that a policy must be written in an understandable and plain language.
2) Accountability for cookies on your website
You are required to control and account for the data processes going on in connection with your website. It is not easier than it looks, because most sites have a large number of third-party cookie flowing through their system.
3) Consent requested through an affirmative action
GDPR brought enormous changes to it. "A consent should be rendered by a clear affirmative action", is the most significant change for cookie and the online tracking.
EU citizens have grown accustomed and perhaps slightly annoyed to the banners on every website that state the use of cookies. At times they ask you to check the ok button but giving no right choice.
The regulation asserts that it is not sufficient. Consent should be given by means of affirmative and positive action. Moreover, rejecting cookies option should be given as well.
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A power to withdraw consent at any time must be given to the user. You must know that your user has access to their current consent state and aware of the settings of withdrawing their consent.
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The renewal of consent for cookies is not an issue that is the clear matter, the guidance indicates that the
duration of consent should be reasonable, it is also impacted by any changes to the cookies or
a similar technology that is added to track user behavior.
6) User-friendly, no-nonsense dialogue
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7) Prior consent
General Data Protection Regulation and the ePrivacy Directive state that user consent must be given prior to the setting of the website.
Under GDPR, prior consent is required to set cookies to track personal data. However, the ePrivacy Directive needs you to get consent for setting all but the strictly necessary cookies.
8) Consents must be recorded as evidence
Every content should be stored securely because it can be used as evidence in case of control.
1) How does the GDPR Cookie Consent Work?
By default, our plugin blocks all the cookies until and unless a user clicks on the "I accept" button in the consent pop-up. Only then a user can enable different services in the privacy setting.
2) Define GDPR cookie consent
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive (ePR) has an influence on how you being a website owner obtain and store cookie consent from your EU visitors.
3) Who enforces cookie compliance?
Information Commissioner Office (ICO) enforces cookie compliance in the UK. Whereas, other member states are expected to have designated authority enforcement of the cookie law.
In many cases, it is the local Data Protection authority, but sometimes it is a telecoms regulator or a business regulation organisation who enforces compliance.
4) Why is it crucial to comply with the EU Cookie Law?
In general terms, it is a law and laws are made for the ease and safety of humans; therefore, compliance is important. Any non-compliant website must be ready for enforcement actions from the regulators.
In the most serious cases within the UK, the ICO can force a website for compliance, and in the case of non-compliance, the website can face a penalty of approximately £500,000.
Compliance is a way to meet visitor's expectation and to show respect for his or her privacy preferences. In no time, it will become a key business driver for the website owners.
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Social Security and Medicare are already tens of trillions of dollars in debt, and if Obama's national health care program is passed, that will add another $9 trillion in debt. All of that debt gets to be paid for by you, dear taxpayer.
As this clever video shows, that's like adding 2.3 children to every household in America. Only this government-newborn doesn't come with the joy of raising one of your own or even an "It's A Boy!" cigar. All you get is a lousy $400,000 in debt. Congratulations, new parents!
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That was some kinda celebration, huh?
It looked like Lollapalooza from my office, and then Oif got it on his computer for the speech part and he goes, "Man, just think if this was the Cubs."
Oif, you have to understand, is a member of the deeply, deeply scarred.
The Double Deeplys.
When I first met him years and years ago, he told me he didn't like Ron Santo.
"How could you not like Ron Santo?" I asked.
And he thought for a minute and I could see he was struggling for an answer and finally blurted out, "BECAUSE HE RUINED MY LIFE!"
He was probably 6 in '69.
So when Oif gets wistful about the Cubs, it's a real kind of wistful.
Then he asked, "How many honest to God Blackhawk Fans you think there are in Chicago? Fifty? A Hundred thousand?"
No idea, I said.
"Can you even imagine what it would be like if the Cubs won the World Series?"
There was about a 2 day span in 2003 when I actually thought that might happen.
I felt this crazy joy, and if I'm completely honest with you I also felt a particular terror.
Like finding out your parents aren't your parents.
Or having that weird dream where I suddenly find myself on this long staircase and the sleeping devil in the grass suddenly wakes up and shoots me with his harpoon thing and now I'm falling..falling...
And I wake up with the tv on and the bases are loaded with Mariners and there's Shawn Camp giving up a single to somebody named Zunzio?
And the Cubs lose 4-5 and everything is back to normal.


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kyokoyama wrote in Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:48 pm:(And it's good to go international and learn a few words in other languages, too! )
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Matt Damon wants to reboot the 'Bourne' franchise.
The 'Promised Land' actor admits he has approached screenwriter Jonah Nolan to brainstorm ideas for a new storyline helmed by original director Paul Greengrass which would enable his alter ego Jason Bourne to return to the franchise after this year's spin-off 'The Bourne Legacy'.
He told Deadline.com: "We just don't have a story, and we haven't had one. I quietly went to Jonah Nolan, because he and his brother Chris did such a brilliant job on 'Batman' and that whole mythology. I just said, 'Can you put your brain on this? I can't figure it out.'
"And he took a run at it and he couldn't crack it either. Paul and I have been talking about it for years. And we can't quite see what the movie would be. If we could get line of sight on that..."
The 42-year-old star - who was replaced by Jeremy Renner in the spin-off - realises fans of the action franchise have high expectations and insists he won't reprise his role as rogue CIA agent Bourne unless he is completely satisfied the new film will be a must-see.
Matt said: "Neither of us is against it. I would love to do another one. I love that character. To me, the reason to make that movie is because people want to see it. Paul and I have said that to each other.
"We don't take for granted the fact that we've built an audience for 'Bourne', that's a real privilege. But our part of that bargain is that the movie is good and belongs with the other three. Until we can deliver that, we just can't make it."


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Miso-tamarind roasted potatoes wedges with locally sourced, garden salad items
I tasted cucumber flowers yesterday and they were a joy. See how I got straight into it today?
They looked so pretty but what surprised me the most was the intense cucumber flavour of the stem. I was very spoilt at the London produce show. My toddler and I were picked up so that we could travel into town and along the way my boy remembered which roundabouts led to the oriental supermarket and which ones to London zoo. His childhood is so different to how mine was. He knows his spices, including mixes like ras-el-hanout and he is just two. Anyway, as I arrived at the Grosvenor house hotel there was a wonderfully quiet area where we were shown fabulous produce such as tomatina, purple carrots, red oxtail, pea shoots, wonderfully juicy asparagus, salad fennel and I took home some salty, shrub-like okahijiki, warm pinks steam radish, pepper salad fennel and some sea buckshorn! Oh and I was also given Valentine Warner's new book, 'what to eat next'.
We were given a master class and they made the most superb salad with simple ingredients from the collection above and lightly dressed with sharpness and oil but you know simple and fresh ingredients show off lots, and quite rightly too. The funny thing is, that whilst I was nibbling away at natures best stuff and chatting to fellow foodies about lifestyle choices such as ecological household items, living near farms and eating locally sourced eggs, bread and walking in the fields or even building eco-friendly homes…it reminded me of how each choice I make on a daily basis affects my body. Someone I know moved to the Cotswolds to nurture their family away from London, and you know I love London but there is something to this isn't there. I love being outdoors, fresh air, picking my own fruit and veg and then returning with bundles of fresh stuff to cook or freeze. What a life. Far cry from the underground and shopping centres of the city eh?
I couldn't let all that fresh and beautifully wrapped stuff that still smelt of the garden go to waste so the very next day I made this salad and I think it looks pretty. But let's move onto those miso-tamarind roasted potatoes before I pop. They are really very, 'oh my goodness'. I think miso is fabulous for its deeply mellow and gentle tones that are lasting and 'brown'. Tamarind is spiky, tangy, sweet and sharp in a tantalising way. I wouldn't have imagined them tasting good together but they REALLY do. Try it. (Oh and serve with a few dollops of garlic mayonnaise).
Ingredients to serve 2
500g king Edward potatoes
4 tbsp. miso paste
2 tbsp. tamarind chutney
2 tbsp. oil
A few dabs of garlic mayonnaise
My salad had in it;
– ½ cup of petit poi's
– 8 spears of asparagus
– A handful of Okahijiki
– 5-6 radish shaved or very thinly sliced
– 2-3 baby beetroot
- Cut the potatoes into thick wedges and then boil them (skin on) for 7-8 minutes or until barely tender
- Drain the potatoes and let them cool and dry completely.
- In a large bowl mix the potatoes with the miso, tamarind chutney and oil and toss them all until there is even coverage.
- Roast the potatoes in the oven at 180 degrees until they are crisp and sticky brown.
- To make the salad simmer the asparagus, beet, peas for approximately 4-5 minutes and then drain them.
- Plate the salad and the potatoes and serve with garlic mayonnaise.


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I have a second Diplomat piece this week, this time on the ongoing troubles with the F-35:
Perhaps more importantly, rules of engagement are inherently political. Civilian leaders, and their politically attuned senior military counterparts, will draw up guidelines for combat in context of political, not military, necessity. If the F-35 can only operate successfully in BVR (Beyond Visual Range) context (and to be sure the networking capability of the F-35 make "BVR" a different proposition than with past aircraft), and if the civilians restrict the ability of the aircraft to operate under such conditions, then the utility of the fighter comes into grave question. This question is hardly academic, as potential peer competitors of the U.S.(including Russia and China) will undoubtedly take political steps to limit the ability of the F-35 to fight at full capability. Again, this may be even more true of the partner countries in the F-35 program, which often suffer from more rigorous political restrictions that U.S. forces.
The larger problem is that none of today's major players have serious experience with fighting high end aerial combat against an advanced peer competitor. Most sophisticated air forces have invested heavily inexperimental learning, in the form of Red Flag and its various clones around the world. These efforts place air forces light years ahead of their 1960s counterparts, which found (in the case of the United States in Vietnam) that actual air combat bore little resemblance either to earlier wars or to extant theoretical studies. Nevertheless, even the best experimental learning settings cannot replace experiential learning; combat in real war conditions, beset by all of the political baggage that necessarily afflicts military operations. Investing in an aircraft that can only maximize its potential in a particular, unusual political environment carries serious risk, and at the very least operators need to work out the implications of operations across the spectrum of political commitments.
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For those of you that haven't been counting down for nearly six months, football season officially starts in less than five weeks with the first games of the college season being on Thursday, September 2. This means I thought it would be a good time for us to evaluate our personal desires for how we would (realistically) like our respective teams to fare this season. Bryan and I are both Tennessee Vols fans, he's a Missouri Tigers fan, I'm an Indianapolis Colts fan and he's a St. Louis Rams fan. So for our Friday 5 I'll put up the schedule for each game, how many wins we expect/hope that team to get and at then end for the final part, to complete the '5' in Friday 5 I will put up a total. I will also plan on putting up some sort of weekly chart or graph or both or something to provide something to look at for the progressions our teams our making towards the goals that we are setting for them. Let's get started: Continue reading
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January 8th, 1990. That was our first day of broadcasting. WBVN was so much a "God work" to us.
In October 1987, for what I consider "unexplained reasons," I had told my employer that I would be leaving that job. I didn't know when I would be leaving. I did not know for what reason I would leave. But, it had become "obvious" in my heart that I wouldn't be able to continue working on a long-term basis with that company. That same October, a friend called and told my wife that during one of her prayer times she'd "seen my face" before her. She told Jane I should read Hebrews 10:35-36: "therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward, for you have need of endurance so that when you have done the Will of God, you may receive what was promised." That had 1983 all over it!
You see, in the summer of 1983, I had heard in an "unmistakable voice" a promise from the Father. (Yes, it really did happen was just like I'm telling it.) At the time it made no sense to me. Without revealing the specific words, let me just say that it was a "word" that I had no ability to fulfill or to perform. It hadn't come in a meeting and it hadn't been delivered to me by anyone. To be perfectly honest, I felt kind of silly about it, just keeping it to myself for many years. Then in '87, something began to happen "in me," something pursuing me day and night. It was something that "pulled me along" rather than me pushing it. It was so strong. I remember walking down the hall at work, walking toward the "boss's office" to turn in my resignation. Just as I was about to knock on the door I knew immediately I should not go in. I returned to my office, shut the door, paused and prayed a short prayer. "Endurance…so that you will receive the promise" reoccurred in my mind. Within a couple weeks, on January 14th, 1988, a man came into my office and said there was an existing radio station for sale in the area and "had I ever thought about doing a Christian Radio station?" "No! Not me! Never crossed my mind!" Let me make it perfectly clear how I felt about that suggestion: "Too much risk, not enough security, too much money to start, not enough courage!" That's how I felt!
Uncharacteristically, within two weeks someone gave me $5000 with no strings attached. Two days later, the first "fella" was asking me if I had decided, "to go for it." Well to shorten the story, let me just say that on the 15th day of March 1988, we were to sign contracts to purchase that existing station. Just as amazingly, suddenly that same day, the other party backed out of the sale. It seemed that everything that had "pulled us along," everything that seemed so right, so perfect, now was falling apart. At that same time, two national ministries had been exposed for misbehavior and received lots of national media attention. The environment was not really advantageous for starting a local ministry by some "up-shot" trying to share Contemporary Christian Music. By that March I was unemployed and had already signed a loan to purchase that existing station. No job and a big loan! Some of our friends suggested it was the devil interfering with the process, others suggested the Father that had influenced the situation. Jane and I prayed. We didn't do much talking, but a lot of listening. Listening to our hearts and not our heads. Oh, we had many thoughts, but we wanted to be lead by the inner person, listening to the Spirit of Christ that dwelt within us. It was like being on a road, not knowing the next destination and not being able to see around the next curve but required to keep moving just the same.
Six months later, on August 25th 1988, we filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission for a new FM station license. There had been no FM license available for this area until that day. That summer, a special "window" was opened for a new broadcast station in Carrier Mills, IL. We were told no ruling would come for at least for one year, perhaps two, if someone challenged the application. Then, just as suddenly as when every thing had turned bad, a "being pulled along" began again. Things began to go in our favor. On April 21st, 1989, six months earlier than we were lead to believe by our FCC attorney, we had a construction permit issued to us. We weren't sure what to do next, but we believed that it was the fulfillment of a promise made to our hearts 7 years earlier. On January 8th, 1990, WBVN went on the air broadcasting a Keith Green song titled "The Victor" and we began broadcasting CCM over WBVN.
Year seventeen begins in just a few days. We don't have a "fail-safe" plan for the future. We live on a budget that operates 60 days at a time. We've pledged to stay until we know God would have us do differently and as long as we're relevant in our listeners' lives. Even though we don't have a guarantee about tomorrow, we still believe God is "pulling us along." We know how vulnerable we are in our own ability. We're very aware of how the Father has blessed us rather than having been "smart" enough to run a radio station.
Just like the first day, we still depend on listeners to keep us on the air. They've done that for over 8 million minutes now. Our Message hasn't changed. We still share a "Word" of Grace and Peace with our listeners. Ironically, the purpose and vision of this ministry is not nearly as complicated as the "mechanism of broadcasting" over FM 104.5. One is miles of wires, and rooms full of computers and transmitters, monitors and mics. The other is simply the encouragement found in sharing the Love of God with our listeners using Contemporary Christian Music.
We are so grateful for your partnership for these 16 years. I recently heard Ryan Dobson say on Focus On The Family Daily broadcast while talking about the ministry he's involved with: "All this and Heaven too!" I thought that was a pretty good statement about what we get to do here. "All this and Heaven too!" It's been a joy for us. We've had such wonderful people work for us and many terrific volunteers over the years. For 13 straight years our listener support has met the entire budget needs of WBVN.
We've seen hardships and miracles. A few have accused that CCM is not really Christian music at all because of it's contemporary sound and the "fun" it is sometimes. At the same time, we've had letters and phone calls that 'tearfully' offer expressions of how much these lyric and tunes mean to people. We live in a very difficult time and having the opportunity to have shared this Message and encouragement over the 16 years has been a tenderhearted experience for us and we trust for our listeners as well. Thank you for all the kind words and prayers. We obviously are grateful for the contributions that have kept WBVN here for 16 years. How certain are we that God has been in this experience and wishes to continue and use this ministry to encourage the believers that choose to listen to FM 104.5? "Without a doubt," "absolutely," "10-4," "Positively," "For sure," "It's a deal," "Certainly," "Emphatically," "Roger," "Affirmative," "As sure as the sun comes up in the morning," "O.K.!" "Yeah!" "Yes," "For sure," "Where do I sign?" "Amen!" In 2006, may God bless this area in some small way through programming heard over WBVN.
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It's tough to get a handle on the movie through these brief clips - some jokes are funny, others a little jarring - but it's not like you could exactly boil down "Borat" in a 1:30.
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The annual tradition of the fall celbration is becoming the annual weekend of rainy, cold weather. That being said, when a group of friends get together, we can manage to make the best out of anything.
It turns out a clean garage with a space heater serves as a great pumpkin carving location. This year people got even more creative with their carvings.
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Repairs to the aging Sagamore Bridge during the spring have slowed traffic leaving Cape Cod to a crawl most nights and backed it up for miles on Sundays, culminating in a Mother's Day morass when the stalled line of cars stretched past multiple exits on Route 6 and triggered all-day gridlock on nearby Route 6A.
"Whoever conceived of this plan should be fired,'' said Anne Kilguss, a Boston social worker and psychotherapist with a second home in Orleans. "If I were a tourist and I was caught up in that thing on Sunday, I would never go to the Cape again.''
Kerry Barrett, co-owner of a seasonal ice cream shop on the Cape a mile from the bridge, said business has fallen by more than 50 percent on Sundays, normally the busiest day, since Twin Acres Ice Cream Shoppe reopened April 1, with this past Sunday by far the worst.
"We're a seasonal small business; we cannot make this up,'' said Barrett, who watched bumper-to-bumper traffic on Route 6A obstruct the entrance of Twin Acres and nearby businesses for much of the day.
Officials said the work, to repair and replace many steel elements, is necessary to extend the life of the nearly 80-year-old Sagamore Bridge and will wind down before May 24, leaving one more trying week and painful weekend before the span is freed from obstruction in time for Memorial Day and peak tourist season.
They also said they have taken measures to warn motorists of delays and shoehorn the disruptive work, which cannot be performed in winter, into the spring.
"Everyone would love us not to do the work so we don't have the backups, but recognizing that we have to do the work, we're trying to pick the best time of year,'' said Larry Davis, canal manager for the US Army Corps of Engineers, charged not just with maintaining the canal, but also the three 1930s bridges that connect the Cape and mainland, the Sagamore and Bourne for cars, plus a freight railroad span.
Two of the four lanes on the Sagamore closed in March to accommodate work that initially was being done in a single 12-hour shift a day. The bridge had to remain closed around the clock because it was too cumbersome to remove heavy equipment, including lifts that can raise workers 100 feet above the deck. Work crews removed that equipment only when the bridge was fully open Easter and Patriot's Day weekends.
The Army Corps's contractor, Aetna Bridge Co. of Rhode Island, increased to two 10-hour shifts daily halfway through the project to meet the late-May deadline and to address the perception that work was not being done efficiently, with irate motorists trickling past idle equipment in the closed lanes.
Still, wind speeds above 25 miles an hour force workers to descend, given the danger of working in the open air 200 feet or more above the water.
"A lot of the criticism is, 'I drove on the bridge on such a nice day and no one's working,' '' Davis said. "Well, at your house it's a nice day and the wind's only blowing 10 miles per hour, but when you get up to the elevated height, the wind's blowing a lot more.''
The closures have meant more than just lost leisure time and business transactions. Michael Last of Medford said several guests arrived late to a wedding he attended in Brewster Saturday and had to change hastily in the bathroom. He and his wife had missed the worst of the traffic on the way in, but their return drive from Brewster to the Sagamore Bridge Sunday took about 2 1/2 hours, a trip that normally takes 45 minutes.
The Army Corps faced a backlash in 2009 after a resurfacing project on the Sagamore deck caused severe backups, prompting the convening of a federal, state, and local task force to work with business and civic groups and coordinate project timing and traffic management.
They agreed that the weeks immediately after Labor Day were of greater tourism value than the weeks before Memorial Day in scheduling necessary but unpopular bridge work, including resurfacing of the sibling Bourne Bridge in 2010 and related steel work on that bridge late last fall.
Bourne Town Administrator Thomas Guerino said the Army Corps and the state - which had four nearby highway projects underway this spring - are "doing everything they possibly can to alleviate the problem during the peak season.'' And federal, state, and local government have used message boards, social media, and other methods to warn drivers of delays.
The state, which is ending its own Route 6 projects by Memorial Day, had removed workers and equipment for Mother's Day. But delays were worse than ever because of heavy traffic volumes and rubbernecking at the bridge, Davis said, with motorists slowing not just for the work zone but for a nuclear-power protest at the base of the Sagamore.
Former state representative Thomas S. Cahir, chairman of the task force, said the state and federal government could do more to improve traffic flow off the Cape. Exit 1 - hard against the bridge's base, near the windmill-adorned landmark of the Christmas Tree Shops - is too close to the Sagamore, Cahir said, calling for it to be moved long-term and to be shut down for Sunday peak hours in the short term.
Drivers who have tried to skirt Route 6 until the last possible moment, clogging Route 6A, have worsened delays while trying to merge onto Route 6 just as that highway shrinks to one lane outbound.
"I really think that's the reason for the most frustration,'' said Cahir, now administrator of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority. But long-term traffic improvements can take decades, as was the case with replacement of the Sagamore rotary with a $60 million flyover in 2006, which Cahir backed in the Legislature.
Memories of the rotary still cause motorists to shudder and use it as a reference.
How bad has traffic been this spring? "Far worse than anything when the rotary was there,'' said Kilguss, the Boston and Orleans resident.
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Metropolitan areas in Minnesota and Wisconsin have seen significant declines in the number of impaired driving offenses, but the rate of drunken driving in rural areas remains high.
Minnesota's Dakota, Washington and Hennepin counties saw the steepest reductions in chronically impaired drivers between 2015 and 2016. Hennepin, Minnesota's largest county, experienced nearly a 100-person drop in DWI convictions for a fourth or higher DWI offense.
READ MORE: Impaired in the north country: Chronic drunken drivers plague Minn., Wis. roads
Director Donna Berger of Minnesota's Office of Traffic Safety said the downturn is in line with a decade-long decline in drunken driving across the state.
"Through education and enforcement most Minnesotans are making the right choice when it comes to lining up a sober ride," she said, adding "but we still have a long ways to go."
In some rural counties, the number of chronic drunken drivers has either remained steady or has seen an uptick in the past five years.
Stearns, Rice and Clay in Minnesota, saw the highest year-to-year increase between 2015 and 2016. Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, Jefferson, Monroe and Lafayette counties also saw the state's highest increase over that same period.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wisconsin had a higher level of heavy drinkers. The agency defines heavy drinkers as adult men having more than 14 drinks and adult women having more than seven drinks per week.
In 2015, the CDC noted 6.5 percent of Minnesotans as heavy drinkers, compared to 8.2 of Wisconsin adults, the third highest in the nation.
But rural residents tend also to be heavier drinkers than their urban counterparts in Minnesota.
According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, 4.8 percent metro-area resident adults are defined as heavy drinkers. That's lower than the state average and far lower compared to more than 9 percent of adults in the Arrowhead region and 5.5 percent in southeastern Minnesota.
Wisconsin's department of health does not track the prevalence of heavy drinking by county. However, the department highlighted binge drinking as a high concern in its recent annual report on alcohol and drug use.
Results across countries vary, though
According to DHS, only 18 percent Jefferson County residents reported binge drinking, for example, compared to 29 percent of adults in St. Croix County, which was among the lowest counties for impaired driving convictions. Fifty-nine percent of residents living in Milwaukee County reported binge drinking, the report said.
The statewide average for binge drinking sat at 23 percent of adults between 2012 and 2014.


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Tuesday, 8 February 2011
A Clash Of Innocents
There's a new review up on Bookersatz at the moment. It's of 'A Clash Of Innocents' by Sue Guiney. This book is fabulous. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's an absolute 'must read'.
I had quite a good writing week last week, one fiction sale to Take A Break and two to Woman's Weekly. Also, my short story 'Trial By Fire And Water' is in this week's issue of The Weekly News.
I'm still horrendously busy, but that's good right?
6 comments:
- Queenie said...
It is. And congratulations. And I agree 100% about A Clash Of Innocents, I loved it, compelling reading.
- 8 February 2011 at 19:44
- Deborah Carr (Debs) said...
Busy is good, especially when you're also being so productive.
A Clash of Innocents is so good.
- 8 February 2011 at 21:50
- Denise Covey said...
Hi Helen! Thanks for participating in the Australian Adventure. Your guest appearance at the Publication Party was a great success with comments in the 50+. Thanks yoy for being generous with your return visits to answer the many questions. The critique winner will be contacting you shortly.
More stories published! That is so good! Your creative juices must be flowing non stop!
Thanks again, my valued English friend.
The next Party launches in a few hours. Waiting for those Americans to get outta bed.
Publication Party!
- 9 February 2011 at 03:36
- Denise Covey said...
I meant 'thank you' not 'thank yoy'. I stabbed my finger with an umbrella today and am typing one-fingered on my right hand!
- 9 February 2011 at 03:38
- Unknown said...
Congratulations on those sales!
Horrendously busy is very good indeed. No really, it is. :)
- 10 February 2011 at 14:40
- Suzanne Ross Jones said...
Great story, Helen. Did you manage to get a copy of The Weekly News? I've still got mine, just in case.
- 10 February 2011 at 20:40


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The Philadelphia 76ers publicly apologized Friday to the singer who wasn't allowed to sing the national anthem at the team's home opener this week because of her "We Matter" jersey.
The team said in a statement that they hope singer Sevyn Streeter will come back and sing at the Wells Fargo Center before another game this season. Streeter was supposed to sing Wednesday evening before the Sixers' nationally-televised opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The team's statement released Friday afternoon read:
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"We are sorry that this happened. After receiving feedback from our players, basketball operations staff and ownership group, we believe that the wrong decision was made, and Sevyn should have been welcomed to sing. We apologize to her, and in an effort to move the conversation forward, we have reached out to offer her an opportunity to return and perform at a game of her choice. We are waiting to hear back."
The controversy began minutes after she was replaced by a Sixers cheerleader for the pre-game ceremony. Streeter posted a short video on Instagram saying she had been told she could not perform because of her attire.
"I'd say two minutes before we were about to walk out ... the organization told me that I could not wear my shirt while singing the national anthem at their game," the R&B singer later told the Associated Press. "I was never given any kind of dress code. I was never asked beforehand to show my wardrobe."
The Sixers initially would not say what caused the franchise to keep Streeter from singing.
"The Philadelphia 76ers organization encourages meaningful actions to drive social change. We use our games to bring people together, to build trust and to strengthen our communities. As we move from symbolic gestures to action, we will continue to leverage our platform to positively impact our community," the Sixers said in an initial statement.


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Good Works and Assurance
Matthew Henry comments, "Those who are growing in grace, and abounding in the work of the Lord, shall have an abundant entrance into the joy of their Lord, and they shall reign with him for ever and ever." Although gaining ...Read More
Power to Minister
If you are a Christian, you have already received the Holy Spirit, and you have the mind and ability to serve God and His church. We all may not be ordained to specific church offices, but all of us who ...Read More
The Fruit of Faith
John Calvin writes, "Before we are in [Christ], we are dry and useless wood." After we are united to Him through faith alone, however, we become living, fruitful branches. The doctrine of justification by faith alone frees us to do ...Read More
The Joy of Everlasting Life
Knowing that we have everlasting life comforts us because we know that it is a life grounded in the perfect righteousness of Christ and, therefore, secure forever. It also comforts us because we know that we will experience righteousness, peace, ...Read More
Gentleness and Self-Control
Jesus, indeed, was a gentle man, but He was by no means a pushover. He denounced sin when He needed to and gave His life of His own accord, not because the Romans and the Sanhedrin forced Him to the ...Read More
Goodness and Faith
We will continue to sin until we are in the direct presence of God, so there will always be occasions when we disbelieve the Lord and transgress His law. Our need for perfection has been met in Christ, and He ...Read More
Patience and Kindness
Showing patience to others takes a significant amount of wisdom. There comes a point when even God ceases to be patient with us, and there are times when we will need to stop being patient with someone for that person's ...Read More
Joy and Peace
John says we should not be surprised that the world hates us (1 John 3:13). Still, we do not have license to give the world rational reasons to oppose us. We can do nothing about the irrational opposition unbelievers may ...Read More
The Imitation of Christ
The Apostle Paul's teaching on our sanctification is ultimately a call to the imitation of Christ (1 Cor. 11:1). Therefore, we should pay close attention to the words and actions of Jesus if we want to understand what a life ...Read More
An Offering of Gratitude
Without an understanding of the grace of God and submission to Christ's lordship, we cannot dedicate ourselves to the Lord in thanksgiving. Sanctification follows justification; the ability to walk in holiness is a benefit that results from our having been ...Read More


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Sen. Brady Chooses Former Long Grove Mayor As Running Mate
Republican state Sen. Bill Brady is naming former Long Grove Mayor Maria Rodriguez as his gubernatorial running mate.
The Bloomington businessman and 2010 GOP nominee for governor made the formal announcement Tuesday at an event at the Union League Club in Chicago.
Rodriguez served two terms as mayor and lost in the 8th Congressional District Republican primary in 2010 to Joe Walsh. She has been involved with the conservative watchdog group For the Good of Illinois and several Catholic women's groups. As mayor, she considered economic development one of her top accomplishments.
Having a suburban female on the ticket could boost Brady's chances in the collar counties.
Brady is the third of four primary candidates to have announced their lieutenant governor selections. Venture capitalist Bruce Rauner's pick is still outstanding.


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World Tarot Day 5-25-10
I know I've been absent from the blogosphere for awhile, but I had to come back and post at least a little something in honor of World Tarot Day. I think it's a super idea to honor the Tarot and to try to promote its deep wisdom and teachings. I have been reading and studying Tarot for over 25 years, and I still find fascinating and incredible new guidance and insight using the cards. I encourage any student of metaphysics to delve into Tarot study; you will not be sorry if you embrace this enlightening gift from the Universe.
One of my favorite Tarot cards in the deck is Major Arcana II: The High Priestess. Here she is in some of her many forms:
This image comes from the Rider-Waite-Smith, the first deck I ever owned and used, and still one of my favorites. Here are some other beautiful interpretations of this card:
This image is from the DruidCraft deck, by Stephanie Carr-Gomm, Philip Carr-Gomm, and Will Worthington.
This image comes from the Animals Divine Tarot, by my good friend, the talented Lisa Hunt.
This final image is also by Lisa Hunt, from her beautiful Fairy Tale Tarot. (Be sure to visit Lisa's website, where you can find many wonderful artistic treasures!)
As you can see from all of these images, the High Priestess is a magickal card. She carries an energy of intuition and transformative wisdom, especially when studying the mysteries of the Universe. She holds the keys to enlightenment for anyone daring to sit at her feet and listen to her guidance. She is the incarnation of the Divine Feminine, the Goddess energy, within each of us, whether we be male or female. She is the yin force; she is passive but fearless wisdom of both shadow and light. When we can embrace the High Priestess, we accept and love all parts of ourselves, and we honor the deeply powerful and magickal beings that we are.
On this World Tarot Day, I hope that you will find that beautiful, magickal being within you. The High Priestess is there, waiting. Will you let Her instruct you? It's your choice, as always. The path may not be easy, but it is filled with astonishing light.
Blessings to you all! xox
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Now, don't panic: I'm keeping this blog.
But I've also started another one I'm happy to let you have the address for.
I get stuck easily, though. That's why I've not been writing here. Because I've been thinking about my desire to stop being anonymous on the internet, particularly after a (short) string of paid writing work, and I knew I wanted to start a new blog, but I just hit pause in my mind.
TMD took the kids out today for a couple of hours, and I spent the time on my arthritic laptop setting up the basic features on a new blog. I have exactly one post up. It's all self conscious and assholey because I wasn't necessarily in THE MOOD to write, but I needed to get something out because otherwise I don't think the pause button would ever be unpaused.
Other things on pause: my vulva. Consultant dermatologist reckons I've got some weird skin infection that can cause brown spots on the vulva. Yeah, really. She's given me steroids and I have to apply cream twice a day, steroids once. It's like I'm Snort with skin problems, except….well, not. Anyway, I go back in three months. If the spots are still there, then they get chopped off and biopsied. GOOD TIMES.
Back to the other blog stuff.
I'm worried about it. I'm worried about writing about how awesome I think unschooling is, because I don't want to alienate or hurt friends with kids in school. Which is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS because I am not offended when these people write about how good school is for their kids, so maybe I should stop worrying.
But how can I tell you the new address? It is myrealnameincludingmiddlename.wordpress.com
So I guess if you are my facebook friend, you may know my full name? Or if you followed me on twitter @existere, that links to my new real name twitter account, which links to the blog.
OR you leave a comment here with your email address and I'll email you the address of the new blog. It has pictures of faces on and everything. Don't feel embarrassed to get in touch even if you never have before. I had one other blog before this one, and it was much more widely followed. I closed that blog so I could write about my experiences working as a therapist on this one, and issued a similar call for comments and email addresses. And you know, I met some interesting people. Many people were just a 'Hi, here's my new blog address' sort of thing, but some? Some were more. It was nice.
Catch you on the flip side.


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Descended from a long line of shamans,
Zoo Lou traveled far and wide to the Seven Strange Strongholds - ancient, mysterious sites of great wonder in Skylands - where he studied the wisdom and fighting styles of the Seven Strange Mages. After many years of traveling and studying, Zoo Lou returned to find an army of trolls had invaded his sacred homeland to mine its natural magic resources. Zoo Lou's warrior heart burned with fury. And having now mastered the enchanted art of communicating with nature and summoning animals, he unleashed his great mojo - attacking the trolls and single handedly freeing his lands once again. It was this heroic feat that caught the eye of Double Trouble, who then brought Zoo Lou to Master Eon and the Skylanders.
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