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- Anonymous said...
Ah shit. I don't like it. It's a cosmetic improvement but doesn't address the traffic clog that comes from negotiating two roundabouts at the same time. Please someone explain to me why one larger roundabout wouldn't work.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:00
- Brockley Nick said...
Make sure you reply to the consultation.
Personally, I'm less interested in solving congestion (which I don't think you'll ever do, because if the junction improves, more cars will start to use the route, back to square one) than I am in making it easier to cross, nicer to walk through and more attractive to legitimate businesses...
- 17 December 2010 at 16:02
- Anonymous said...
Yeah but i think that the congestion is the main reason that it's not nice to walk through. You have to negotiate cars sitting in queues with their engines turning over. I'm starting to think that maybe it can't be improved very much unless they completely redesign the entire '4 roads into one layout' - and that was never going to happen. My hope was that a large single roundabout would shift the traffic quicker. Maybe that's not possible either, dunno. Cosmetically we'll be back to square one within a few years - and putting those parking bays on there look like some kind of cruel joke. White van man - that's yours that is.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:07
- Unknown said...
my god can't we get rid of the roundabouts? And won't a tree make it harder to see what is going on?
Cynicism aside, it's great to see some redevelopment here. This will provide much better access to Sainsbury's!
- 17 December 2010 at 16:11
- Mr Almost Angry said...
They finished re paving part of Hither Green Lane 2 weeks ago,and I noticed yesterday the gas board are digging it up.Surely somebody must be held responsible for this comical planning.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:12
- Anonymous said...
The pavements look the same width etc but just made out of new paving. The islands are tiny, not much of an improvement, a few trees planted - they could have done that years ago without any design, planning or consultation. Can't really see much of an improvement at all. Where is the improvement that will make it a worthwhile exercise? Add a few cars to that drawing and it looks pretty much like it does today doesn't it?
- 17 December 2010 at 16:13
- Brockley Nick said...
Maybe. They did always warn us that they wouldn't do anything to affect traffic flows. If we must have traffic, I'd rather have it moving slow than fast. But I still think the double roundabout is needlessly dangerous.
I think perhaps you're being a little pessimistic about the long-term return to trend in terms of parking. This will make the chaotic parking we get at the moment less likely, I think.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:13
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
I quite like to Owl's face in the middle but I don't think it will stop vans being parked on the pavements.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:16
- Anonymous said...
don't 'informal' crossing points encourage people to take risks? i.e. the pedestrian sees it as a potentail crossing point but the driver doesn't recognise it as such (in the same way as a zebra crossing)
- 17 December 2010 at 16:17
- Anonymous said...
my thoughts are that if we need two roundabouts then they should be actual roundabouts - raised, kerbed, grassed, and maybe flowered - and not just a tarmac circle that drivers can cross over the middle of if they're in a hurry.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:19
- Brockley Nick said...
Specifically, there will be trees where some of the illegal parking currently takes place. The widened island will also make parking in the middle of the road an even stupider and more reckless act than it already is.
@Anon16.13 I think you're right, the pavements aren't widened, they just look it in one of the images. I think the corner pavement outside Duke could be wider
- 17 December 2010 at 16:20
- Brockley Nick said...
@Anon (names please people!) informal crossing points can make drivers more cautious (if they think the only places people cross are zebra crossings they zoom up to zebra crossings and screech to a halt if they see someone coming - if they think someone might pop out at any moment, then they exercise more caution).
- 17 December 2010 at 16:21
- Blunderbuss said...
I don't give that tree in the middle much chance. Someone runs into the current sign a couple of times a year.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:30
- Anonymous said...
Nick - don't want to cause offence but is that true? Also part of the rubbish thing about those roundabouts IS the uncertainty - the 'will he won't he pull out' element, that encourages people to brake suddenly when they misread a situation. surely the last thing we need is the prospect of people dashing across in front of traffic from out of our peripheral vision.
I'd prefer a much clearly defined junction that tells drivers exactly how to drive it (i like order) and that doesn't give license for the odd idiot to blast straight across, just because the white van they're driving isn't theirs.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:42
- Anonymous said...
Also - why the mixed paving? If they used the same paving throughout the junction it would give the design more coherence.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:45
- Brockley Nick said...
You'd have to ask a traffic expert, I'm not sure about roundabouts specifically, but the science says that on roads if you put up railings, force people to cross at specific points, it causes drivers to speed up.
That's why railings are coming down now, all over London, including in Brockley Road and Ladywell.
Don't know about roundabouts.
There are no informal crossings across the junction, only at the roads feeding in to it.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:45
- Brockley Nick said...
I'd like to see the road approaching the roundabouts from the east become single lane and the island widened even more. That would definitely put an end to the double parking. Don't need two lanes feeding the junction anyway.
- 17 December 2010 at 16:48
- patrick1971 said...
It's a good redevelopment given the limited parameters the Council has set itself; it could hardly get worse. But I really hate this idea that they won't do anything to affect the traffic. The Council should be actively taking steps to affect traffic downwards, which includes prioritising pedestrians, buses and cyclists. If that makes car traffic snarl up, so be it; fewer people will drive.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:00
- Anonymous said...
My problem isn't with the traffic per se. Lordship Lane in east dulwich is very busy but that doesn't stop people sitting outside pubs and bars and enjoying cafe culture. The problem with BX is that the traffic sits idle- pumping out fumes. My ideal solution would have seen the traffic move through BX much smoother, even if that meant more cars - like i said - it's less of a problem if they're moving on being distributed more quickly.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:06
- Anonymous said...
Well, if nothing else they've certainly made the road layout more complicated, and more prone to accidents, than it is now.
If this is improvement I'm afraid you've got rose-tinted spectacles on - the reason why this junction is bad (in every respect) is because of the Traffic - nothing complicate there - and the council have a responsibility to *maintain* the flow, not improve it (if that were possible).
That junction isn't going to improve - get used to it.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:09
- westsider said...
they haven't made the road layout more complicated, they haven't done anything to it
- 17 December 2010 at 17:11
- Anonymous said...
if think if this is it then it's very disappointing. Once it's done they'll not look at it again for years. They need to get it right this time.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:15
- Brockley Nick said...
I totally understand that point of view. The other way of looking at it is that if we wait for them to do something big, nothing will happen for many more years. As it is, this is probably just scraping through against a backdrop of spending cuts by national government, Lewisham and TfL...
My view is that everyone should feedback their comments via the consultation, push for the best deal possible, within the constraints we know about (budget and requirement that traffic flow not be materially altered) and we hope that this leads to some private sector-led improvements.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:31
- Tamsin said...
I've said it before on other threads so unless sorely tempted I will now say it only once (listen very carefully...)
Logic dictates that a double roundbout keeps the same volume of traffic moving through more steadily, and therefore overall more quickly. I think experience probably also shows that, otherwise Swindon's magic roundabout would not still be with us after more than 20 years.
@ Brockley Nick - you need two lanes coming from the east if you are turning right up Shardeloes, thereby not needing to clog up the western pimple of the double roundabout at all.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:32
- Brockley Nick said...
"@Brockley Nick - you need two lanes coming from the east if you are turning right up Shardeloes, thereby not needing to clog up the western pimple of the double roundabout at all."
No you don't - you need one lane where cars can choose to go left, right or straight on. You know, like most traffic systems in London.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:34
- Anonymous said...
One must think that the Council is really joking.
They could have built a motorway instead
Conjestion is not going away, but if one reduces the road size then less cars will try to get through
- 17 December 2010 at 17:44
- Marc said...
Already a complicated roundabout and they decide to add a tree in the middle to obstruct any line of sight.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:45
- Anonymous said...
But they back up more in the left lane than in the right one - so to keep things moving two is better.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:46
- Tamsin said...
Sorry - me. Hit the wrong button.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:46
- Nausea said...
It gives me nausea and dizziness just to look at it.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:52
- D said...
I can't add anything that loads of you haven't said already but need a rant anyway.That double roundabout is just about the most stupid piece of road planning I've ever seen. A junction of 4 roads needs one roundabout.
Remove the 2 roundabouts and put a single oval one in the middle instead of the poor car-target tree that they seem to be planning.
- 17 December 2010 at 17:55
- Anonymous said...
@Tamsin - what is the reason why traffick should continue with the same flow?
I thought the new London Plan is all about reducing traffic everywhere in London, it was also one of the reasons why the ELL was built.
- 17 December 2010 at 18:04
- Tamsin said...
Yes, reduce traffic everywhere - rack up petrol duty etc. but dealing with problems piecemeal just shifts them. The new Kender Road layout is a huge improvement for those living in the Kender Triangle and Greenshoots and the school in Bessom Street - but I imagine those who live on Pomeroy Street are less than happy about it.
With the original Brockley Cross plans produced by BXAG the most likely short-term result would be to either make Telegraph Hill virtually impossible to get out of towards the east or else encourage a lot of homeward bound commuting traffic to divert from Drakefell Road (designated as a district distributor since way back when) to Vesta Road - past two parks, a community centre, a school, the new cafe and a nursery.
That is probably one of the reasons why no steps are being taken that would affect traffic flow.
- 17 December 2010 at 18:14
- VAL said...
I think Brockley Nick is on to something. Single lane traffic from Geoffrey Road. But I would go a few steps further; lengthen the central pedestrian rest area so that it stretches west into the area of the first roundabout, then get rid of that roundabout. One roundabout, with increased flow of traffic. Yellow lines, with short-stop parking bays in the remaining areas.
- 17 December 2010 at 18:52
- Brockley Nick said...
@Tamsin - in a rational, reasonable world, perhaps you'd be right, although those two lanes are a bit too narrow anyway - they're almost redundant.
However, Brockley Cross is not at the moment a rational or reasonable place. Having two lanes encourages people to park in one of them, right next to the entrance to the roundabout. This makes the traffic flow worse, the crossings more dangerous and the area more ugly.
If there was only one lane, even the most pig-headed driver would not park there.
- 17 December 2010 at 19:19
- Matt-Z said...
Seems a bit deckchairs/Titanic. On my travels I've noticed that people are often in the wrong lane coming out of Shardeloes and Geofrrey Road, which holds up traffic as they try to get in the right place. This scheme does nothing to address that. The tree will make a good target for racers.
- 17 December 2010 at 19:20
- Tim said...
Key point I will be making to the council is that they need to have much better parking enforcement round there. There was a promise to give us this a few months ago, but doesn't seem to have happened. I also don't want that parking outside the shops.. it just gets blocked by massive white vans. I am a general fan of a CPZ round the station.
- 17 December 2010 at 19:22
- FoxberryMike said...
i would be interested in what Lewisham feel they are adressing with this scheme. Whilst a few trees are always welcome, the main issue for me has always been crossing here as a pedestrian and this proposal does nothing to make me feel that aspect is being improved. Endwell Road does not even warrant an 'informal' crossing point and is always nasty to cross.
- 17 December 2010 at 20:28
- Anonymous said...
This looks like a very bad design. A tree in the middle would be dangerous too.
- 17 December 2010 at 20:45
- Anonymous said...
The cross should have just one redesigned roundabout.
when it snows over night you see where people drive. People create one roundabout naturally. Next time there is loads of snow take a photo and that should be the shape of the new roundabout.
- 17 December 2010 at 20:48
- VAL said...
Agree with FoxberryMike, and forgot to add the importance of that myself.
Surely BrockleyNick another poll is needed to study the issues.
In my opinion:
pedestrian crossing(s)
confusing roundabouts
people double parking
abuse of parking by trader
non enforcement by council
- 17 December 2010 at 21:11
- Danja said...
It looks to me like they are going to put something more substantial in around the tree to stop people making it into one roundabout.
It looks OK to me, not ideal, but it could be a big improvement all the same.
- 17 December 2010 at 22:02
- Disgruntled Westsider said...
Why does Brockley Rd /Geoffrey Rd get better paving than the other roads? Seems like blatant discrimination against the better side of the tracks...
Otherwise it seems a bit timid - as has been said, most cars actually treat this as one oval roundabout so why can't it be laid out as one? It might smooth the traffic flow a bit, even if getting rid of congestion is too much to aim for (the bridge over the railway is a bottleneck).
- 17 December 2010 at 22:46
- angelofthewest said...
is there anything in the fine print about pigeon-proofing under the railway bridge? For me personally, as a pedestrian, that would be the single greatest improvement they could make. Followed by trees in front of the bagel store. i can't really make out what the plans are for that strange appendix there.
- 17 December 2010 at 22:49
- Anonymous said...
"they haven't made the road layout more complicated, they haven't done anything to it"
well, apart from putting a tree in the middle of the two roundabouts, no, no change, but what a change!
- 18 December 2010 at 11:45
- hilly dogger said...
we sometimes perform the 'double on the roundabout' when weather permits
- 18 December 2010 at 11:46
- Anonymous said...
This sort of weather must present problems for you.
- 18 December 2010 at 12:12
- brockley Dogging Society said...
You can look up advice on the UK Doggers Advisory Service. Essentially it's much like driving, so sudden speeding up or slowing down. No sudden changes of direction. Warm up before starting and have your chains ready in case things turn really slippery.
Colin, BDS
- 18 December 2010 at 12:17
- hilly dogger said...
challenges, not problems
- 18 December 2010 at 12:19
- Anonymous said...
Thanks fo the info. Do you have snow balls?
- 18 December 2010 at 12:20
- Anonymous said...
This all seems a little cosmetic-real changes would be enforcement of parking restrictions- prevention of the dumping of commercial waste around high street litter bins which creates a greasy mess on the current pavement and would continue to do so on any 'new'one-not to mention the installation of some cctv cameras which were much talked about around the time of the recent shooting but now seem forgotten.
- 18 December 2010 at 14:45
- Anonymous said...
rubbish design...please don't let this get passed.
- 18 December 2010 at 15:06
- Anonymous said...
only one roundabout please and no tree in the middle.
- 18 December 2010 at 15:07
- Ed said...
Single roundabout with single lane access and egress.
New high visibility crossings (esp. N/S).
CPZ and enforcement.
Who's with me?
- 18 December 2010 at 15:07
- The other Brockley Nick said...
Agree with much of what Brockley Nick says. We have to accept the limited resources. With enough people responding to the consultation, I don't see why they couldn't make the roads single width as Nick suggests.
However, the number one priority, which isn't addressed in the new design has to be improving pedestrian safety, which this does not do in any way.
I can't believe that a main pedestrian route on the way into a zone two station with two modes of transport doesn't have pedestrian crossings. I had a long debate with a council officer about this, who told me it wasn't possible because they had done a study, and pedestrian crossings wouldn't fit with the 'desire lines'. What a load of bull!
- 18 December 2010 at 15:23
- Anonymous said...
It should now be renamed the Brockley Owl.
- 18 December 2010 at 15:40
- patrick1971 said...
@Tamsin: "the most likely short-term result would be to either make Telegraph Hill virtually impossible to get out of towards the east or else encourage a lot of homeward bound commuting traffic to divert from Drakefell Road to Vesta Road - past two parks, a community centre, a school, the new cafe and a nursery."
To this I say, "so what if it does"? The residents of Telegraph Hill will then lobby for greater traffic restrictions in their area, and fewer of them will use their own cars.
Telegraph Hill won't be impossible to leave; it will be easy to leave it via a short walk to Nunhead, New Cross Gate or Brockley stations.
The situation needs to be made worse for cards in London, not maintained or made better.
- 18 December 2010 at 16:25
- Anonymous said...
It does look a bit like an owl...
- 18 December 2010 at 22:40
- VAL said...
The Brockley Owl - love it!
- 19 December 2010 at 08:30
- Patrick said...
Driver uncertainty had not been addressed. I believe traffic smoothing is why is needed. Currently, when approaching BX from the south there is the notion of a two lane approach but it's so narrow it's ignored by many. Then the business of people in the iffy lane going straight on. This sort of thing is happening at all points of this interchange. I believe that if you make all approaches single lane, the slowing effect of this would be ofset by less nervous dithering by drivers who can't read or fail to cominacte each others intent. There would be no overall change in traffic flow and pedestrians would be safer as the cross would be more predictable with drivers having more time for them. The tree is a terrible idea.
- 19 December 2010 at 09:55
- Anonymous said...
Brockley Cross should be one way into upper brockley road. Could also turn upper brockley and the end of Geoffrey road into a one way circular.
The one way in brockley cross would make the single roundabout more secure and less chaotic. It would be a nicer place for pedestrian as long as parking is not allowed
- 19 December 2010 at 10:56
- Tamsin said...
@ Patrick. I concede you might have something about driver uncertainty - and the two lanes are certainly very narrow and losing them would give more pedestrian friendly pavement space.
On the tree - I hope it is a conifer - the owl needs a beak. But otherwise terrible. You need to maximise visibility and sight lines.
- 19 December 2010 at 11:05
- bumbags said...
Ok, the only good thing I can see about this is that it looks a bit like an owl. This roundabout system is awful- and with buses and the busy pedestrian crossing by the bridge the roundabouts are often gridlocked.
The tree on the island is totally stupid- this is a dangerous enough junction now (I drive and cycle it very regularly- many people don't understand one roundabout, let alone two!). The tree is probably intended to make visibility awful, so we all have to be super-careful.
And MORE bloody 'calming' bumps in the road? WHY?? There is no problem with speeding at these points- it's right next to a busy junction.
I've always wondered why we can't just have a crossroads with traffic lights. A LOT safer, lanes can be clearly marked, and with right turn filters east/west this should be viable, and you could allow pedestrians a safe time to cross.
- 20 December 2010 at 03:21
- Anonymous said...
I agree entirely, this proposal is totally cosmetic!!! I have been in touch with the Council about the safety issue for pedestrians for some time now.
The point I am trying to get across is can a wheelchair user, an old person, parents with pushchairs or children cross Brockley Cross safely at the moment and would the modifications change the current situation positively?
The answer is 'no' in my opinion - without FORMAL ways to cross the roads, pedestrians and particularly those with mobility issues will always be in great danger as without clear and visible signs, drivers will always feel that they have the priority on pedestrians!
I am now heavily pregnant and get hooted at regularly when I cross but hey as the Council said to me several times few pedestrians only get hurt or killed at Brockley Cross and that in any case everyone in this country is responsible for their own health and safety!
From my conversations with Council staff, it seems to me that providing safe routes for pedestrians to cross 'one of the borough's busiest intersections' is not a priority. In fact, their consultation document is very clear on this and states that 'when complete, these modifications should make this busy junction safer for drivers and reduce traffic delays' so do we need more injured and dead pedestrians for the Council to finally consider this matter seriously and if so how many??? What are our Councillors and MPs doing on this serious matter!?
Sorry to be so cynical but I am really annoyed and don't see why I should financed some cosmetic changes before the safety issues for pedestrians is addressed and resolved!
- 22 December 2010 at 14:17
- Brockley Nick said...
Totally agree about how dangerous this junction is for pedestrians and that more should be done here. Particularly for wheelchair / pushchair users.
- 22 December 2010 at 14:21


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I was born rural, poor and white in western Canada, a region soaked in Christianity in all its rainbow of heresies and home to one wannabee theocracy that ruled a province for some years. Prairie communities might have churches as half the buildings in town. Because the populations were/are sparse, the community villages and towns can't isolate parts. People have to interact, intersect marriages happen.
Church attendance (at least then) was more important than loudly professing faith, generations of isolated community 'trust' values in action. Still, there were boozy dances, 'premature' babies, kitchen story telling, socialist politics and rowdy celebrations vying with hard pews, high holidays, and fowl suppers in church basements. Anyone who let church doings get ahead of seeding and harvesting crops while the weather held wasn't pious, they were nuts. In many ways, it was tougher being new to the community than it was to be religiously lax. We moved a lot in my first few years, work to supplement the family farm a necessity. We returned, but I learned what it was to be the xenophon to my 'age set'.
I was born a reader. Or nurtured as one. Or both. Reading alone at 3, I was free to ferret out things people presumed beyond me by 4. This is likely where I was fatally corrupted. I had access to dusty 'old time' books. Classics of literature, opera, fables, etc. Including bible stories. All illustrated in Gilded Age glory. My brain had nothing to stop it from categorizing the bible magic with the rest of the magical tales. I knew the stories before I ever reached Sunday school. About the same age, my cowboy uncles explained Santa Claus as anthropomorphization for the spirit of gift giving, so there was something to 'believe' in=the generosity of people (they even played a recording of 'yes, virginia' to me). Note to the wise: do not attempt to explain concepts like this to other kids determined to find things wrong with you.
I was born at the end of the Baby Boom(insert arguments of the date range here). Conformity to prevailing society was being challenged via the increasing communicative presence of tv, while the pace of change lurched out of a century's slumber and 'just so' values. Universal health care was fought for on my home ground and then was enacted federally, with 'good works' pastors shoulder to shoulder with unionists, farmers and the poor against…well, look to the reactionary freemarketers and priests yelling now. It hasn't changed.
I was born inquisitive and developed outlier to community norms. I was leapfrogged grades ahead in our small Elementary because they didn't know what else to do with me. I had Star Trek and SF, and went through every shelf of books in the small school libraries. I won art and speech competitions. I was considered creepily smart and creepily psychic, which confused me because people told me everything I knew about them(muchmuch later, I learned this is how cold reading works) When Sunday school, the gateway drug, turned to hard core catechism, I learned Sundays now gave me the same sick feeling the rest of the school week did. It was taught by a teacher from school. It wasn't eternal comfort, it was more 'you're not of the body shut-up-because' censure. Grape juice and bread cubes wasn't worth it. I stopped going. By virtue of the times, my locale and family stress, I wasn't forced back.
I was yet another raised by cats. Ostracized from my own species, my feline farm troop raised tail flags and hiked with me into the back forty in all seasons, day and night, teaching me there was more to the world than a homo sapiens sapiens pov.
I was a stargazer. Not a Carl Sagan. Just a prairie kid who, at the age of 5, discovered laying back in a snowbank made for the greatest show not on earth. The harmony of happiness was this; cloudless summer night on the high plains, no artificial sound, no artificial light, a comfortable lay-down, blanketed in a choir of purr, the night countryside going about its business and the sky going about its.
I was still tempted. I was an informal historian, activist and naturalist, but adolescence heightens ostracization from others close in age. Rural communities have few socializing outlets for youth, fewer not run by churches. I was lured into recruitment events put on by the local evangelical baptist college. I witnessed 'talking in tongues' and 'laying on of hands' and making 'circles of prayer against demons. I intellectually wanted to believe, to belong to the social majority but I comprehended the love bombing and other trick techniques. I doubted myself enough to think there must be something to it because the collegians and other kids were sincerely swept up in it. I was frustrated because I had no idea how someone let go of wariness. I couldn't fake it like a few were obviously doing to gain attention.
One winter night, I ended up overcome and went outside to keep my tears to myself. Sensing blood in the water, one of the outreachers followed me. The trigger point? An old friend of mine had died, ancient in years for a farm cat. My comforter didn't know that, saying the dead were in heaven. I asked about cats. The two statements weren't quite connected.
And then, in all sincerity, the outreacher said the fatal words. Cats don't go to heaven. Cats and other animals don't have souls. Only people have souls. I was looking up at a cloudless, still, northern night sky.
'Click'. No yearning, no guilt, no pain. Vanished. Done now. Unexamined cruelty being the key, there was nothing beyond the door I needed or was being forced to profess. I was 15. No longing has ever re-emerged, no matter what faith I've examined.
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"I don't have a Jeep Cherokee," Stevens protested. "And I haven't set foot in Texas in over 30 years." True, but his name was on the contract, and so was his Social Security number.
Soon thereafter, Stevens and his wife learned that someone had bought four more cars and other items worth more than $113,000 in their names. Their excellent credit had been destroyed. "After a lifetime of integrity," says Stevens, "I was being essentially accused of embezzlement and treated like a deadbeat."
It took three years of paper work and $6,000 in legal fees for Stevens to clear up the mess. In the meantime, he was denied a loan to build a vacation home, harassed by debt collectors and forced to pay cash for everything he bought. The crowning blow came when their home was put under surveillance by investigators looking for the missing Jeep.
Other identity theft victims have had their drivers' licenses suspended, been turned down for jobs, even jailed for offenses committed by total strangers.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports that many victims don't discover their plight for more than a year — some for as long as five years.
Jeanine Guilfoyle of Bergen County, N.J., became a victim of identity theft nearly two years ago. She says she will never forget the experience.
"I received letters from several department stores. When I opened them, I found new credit cards with my name on them that I had not applied for. When I called to cancel the cards, I was told they had already been maxed out. Apparently the thieves applied for 'instant credit' at the stores and immediately spent the limit.
Guilfoyle says that she is still paying the price for her identity theft. "I had to call each of the stores' credit departments, call the credit bureaus, get a new driver's license and contact Social Security. It took months of paperwork, phone calls and correspondence. I finally got things straightened out, but not before I was stressed to the point that I broke down."
How can this happen? How can a criminal you have probably never met assume your identity and cause you so much grief?
The magic key that allows a thief to open the door to your life is probably somewhere in your purse or wallet right now: your Social Security number.
Of all the tools coveted by identity thieves (driver's licenses, credit cards, etc.), your Social Security number is the most sought-after prize. It's astonishingly simple to steal a person's identity starting with nothing more than those nine digits. With that information, the thief can easily apply for and obtain credit cards and driver's licenses in the victim's name.
The FTC offers these tips:
Give your Social Security number only when legally necessary. Some experts suggest that you refuse to divulge your Social Security number to anyone other than government agencies and companies such as banks, brokerage houses and employers. (These companies are required to report their dealings with you to the federal government and must have your Social Security number to comply.)
Before revealing personal identifying information to anyone, find out how it will be used and whether it will be shared with others.
Pay close attention to your billing cycles. Follow up with creditors if bills do not arrive on time.
Minimize the identification information and the number of credit cards you carry to what you actually need.
Order a copy of your credit report from the three credit reporting agencies every year. Make sure they are accurate and include only those activities you've authorized.
Keep items with personal information in a safe place. Tear them up or shred them when you don't need them anymore. Make sure charge receipts, copies of credit applications, insurance forms, bank checks and statements, expired charge cards and credit offers you get in the mail are disposed of appropriately.
Here's a little trick that will make life a bit easier if you ever find that your identity has been stolen: Take everything containing personal information out of your wallet or purse — driver's license, credit cards, everything.
Then make a photocopy of both sides of each item. Put the copies away in a secure place and you'll have phone numbers and addresses of the people and agencies that you need to notify in the event of trouble.
Modern technology, the Internet and our ability to gather and store huge amounts of personal data on individuals have all contributed to the evolution of identity theft.
Watch out for e-mails designed to look like messages from legitimate companies and government agencies. These messages often provide direct links to Web sites that have been expertly designed to look like legitimate company sites.
Using a ploy such as "updating our records," e-mail predators usually ask for sensitive information such as Social Security number, credit card numbers, even mother's maiden name. No legitimate company or agency will ever ask you to send that kind of personal information to them in an e-mail. If you respond to such a request, you almost surely will be targeted as an identity theft victim. The best solution: hit the delete key, call the company directly or forward the message to the FTC.
Perhaps the same kind of technology that has helped to make identity theft a major national problem will eventually help us to find a solution.
In the meantime, take the most important step needed to keep you out of that kind of trouble. Get in the habit of protecting your Social Security number and other personal information as if your financial life depends on it. It does.
William Lynott is a freelance journalist and resides in Abington, Pa.
If you learn that your identity has been stolen, you must act quickly. Start by calling the police and asking for a crime report. You'll need that to attach to letters you'll send to banks and credit card issuers.
File a complaint with the FTC by contacting their Identity Theft Hotline, by telephone: toll-free 1-877-438-4338, or by mail: Identity Theft Clearinghouse, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580. For online help, log on to www.consumer.gov/idtheft.
Contact the fraud departments of one of the three major credit bureaus and report that your identity has been stolen (It's no longer necessary to call all three). Ask them to place a "fraud alert" on your file.
Contact the security departments of any creditors or financial institutions where your accounts may have been compromised. Close those accounts and apply for new ones. Put passwords (not your mother's maiden name) on any new accounts you open.
You may want to run a background check on yourself, since crimes committed in your name will wreak havoc on your credit standing. You can run a check on yourself at www.PrivacyScan.com for $40.
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Apparently, my daughter's third question in today's video didn't come through as clearly as I'd thought, which is too bad. Anyway, for those of you who've inquired, she said:
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Isaribi (漁火, Isaribi) is a citizen of the Land of the Sea. She was a human test subject under the control of Amachi, who in turn used to work for Orochimaru.
Isaribi was part of a test that was meant to give shinobi the ability to breathe and operate underwater. Isaribi was one of the first test subjects, and was not the final version. She was sent back to the Land of the Sea to spy on the ships leaving port. Due to her bandages, which were used to cover the permanently scaled parts of her body, the villagers attacked her and vandalised her property. They feared and hated her, as she was the only person to return from being "spirited away". Because of this, Isaribi is very cynical of anyone who tries to be friendly with her (she had much distrust for Naruto Uzumaki when they first met). She was very distant because of the hatred she experienced. Naruto described Isaribi and himself as being very similar, if not exactly the same.
Isaribi has purple hair and black pupiless eyes. Her face, arms and legs are wrapped in bandages that covered scales and she wore a sleeveless tunic-blouse with brown shorts. She also wore a simple yellow sash around her waist. When she transformed she turned green in colour and took on the appearance of a humanoid fish-like creature.
Due to Amachi's experiments on her, which gave her the ability to transform into a fish-man hybrid, Isaribi is a talented swimmer, able to rescue Naruto from the bottom of the sea as well to defeat several of his shadow clones underwater with taijutsu alone. The Kaima Form grants Isaribi enhanced movements and also the ability to breathe underwater. Isaribi could use the Water Release nature transformation and was seen attacking her opponents with strong streams of water. She also gains scales on various parts of her body, even when not transformed, which are strong enough to block a blade from penetrating her skin.
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Kaima Capture Mission
Isaribi was promised that she would be returned to human form if she complied with Amachi's orders. To that end, she attacked ships and killed a number of sailors under the disguise of the Kaima, a sea monster.
She saved Naruto, who had been assigned to investigate her attacks, from drowning at sea and nursed him back to health. Naruto quickly learned about how she was hated by the villagers when a group of children attacked her. When Naruto and his team discovered her role in the attacks, Naruto tried unsuccessfully to talk her out of it, telling her that if she continued, she really would become a monster. Isaribi refused, believing he had no idea of her suffering.
She later took part in another attack, only for Naruto's team to intervene, and ended up battling Naruto, who once again tried to convince her to stop her attacks. He later battled Amachi, intending to force him to cure Isaribi. During the battle, Isaribi learned that Naruto was Kurama's jinchūriki, and had endured the same suffering she had. With this revelation, Isaribi gave up on Amachi.
After his defeat, Amachi tried to get Isaribi to help him escape, but she refused, reiterating Naruto's warning to her. Amachi revealed that he had never had a cure for her condition, and that he had planned to dissect her once she was no longer useful. She returned with Naruto to Konoha after Amachi's defeat, hoping that Tsunade could cure her.
- Isaribi means a fire used for luring fish at night.
- When Isaribi is shown changing back to human form in the hideout after escaping from Anko and team, the scales on her face are under her right eye instead of her left.
- Unlike Amachi upon regression back to human form, Isaribi's ripped clothes are somehow restored intact when she returns to human form.
- Isaribi is one of the few characters in the series to be seen wearing tabi socks, and one of an even fewer amount of characters to be seen wearing them without sandals or any other type of footwear.
- Isaribi was seen in a flashback with Anko as a child. This would imply that Isaribi is much older than she looks.


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The incident occurred Feb. 4 at the Life Time Fitness in Indianapolis. The members are two sisters, 21 and 16, who saw two men pulling on car door handles in the parking lot.
"That's when I immediately thought, 'Oh, shoot, they're robbers,'" one of the victims told Indianapolis TV station WTHR.
The sisters, who asked not to be identified, claim the robbers then attempted to carjack their car.
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One of the sisters threw the keys in the snow and screamed for help. That's when the two men left the victims' car and got in another car with two other men, who then sped away from the scene, according to the TV report. The only item stolen was a cell phone.
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Police are still searching for the suspects. Five "smash-and-grab" incidents occurred in the same parking lot in the past 90 days, according to WTHR.
When asked about the Feb. 4 incident in Indianapolis, Life Time Fitness spokesperson Karen Jayne Leinberger said: "This isn't a health club dynamic; it's a retail dynamic. It sickens me that individuals would choose to prey upon others, whether they visit the mall, grocery store or other retailer, such as Life Time."
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The City of San Antonio's Economic Development Department announced today that Nexolon America, LLC plans to build a manufacturing facility at Brooks City-Base that will produce solar panels and create 404 manufacturing jobs at an average annual salary of more than $44,000/year. Nexolon plans to invest over $115 million in a 10-year ground lease of approximately 86 acres on the Brooks City-Base campus and will also contribute $500,000 over 5 years to Alamo Colleges for solar energy workforce training programs.
"This project contributes significantly to the realization of the SA2020 Vision of creating a more highly skilled workforce and jobs rooted in the New Energy Economy of the 21st Century," said Mayor Julián Castro. "The Nexolon project is an impressive foreign direct investment in San Antonio and signals to the international community that San Antonio is ready to forge global partnerships that create good jobs for our citizens."
The City of San Antonio, in partnership with Brooks Development Authority, developed a competitive package of business incentives for consideration by City Council on December 13 including: a $400,000 grant; a 10-year, 100 percent tax abatement on personal property; and a commitment to invest $12 million in public infrastructure. The $12 million investment is supported by new CPS Energy revenue and the City's best efforts to secure funding in a future bond election.
"The Southside is blossoming as a part of our city that can grow with innovative, state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure," said District 3 City Councilwoman Leticia Ozuna. "This partnership strengthens this long-term vision of powerful economic development and a higher quality of living in this part of the city. As this vision becomes a reality, it promises to benefit the entire San Antonio community, as well."
Brooks City-Base is 1,200-acre master-planned, mixed-use development on San Antonio's South side. In addition to a thriving retail center and luxury multi-family residential complex, Brooks City-Base boasts tenants such as Mission Trail Baptist Hospital; DPT Laboratories, Inc.; Texas A&M University – San Antonio, Brooks City-Base campus; and NuStar Energy. The property is owned and operated by the Brooks Development Authority (BDA).
"This project is a great example of the City's commitment to balanced growth and the partnership with Alamo Colleges really demonstrates the coordination necessary to help people attain the skills they need to break into these industries and make a good living," said District 4 City Councilman Rey Saldaña.
The Nexolon America project is the result of a 400 megawatt Power Purchase agreement signed on July 23, 2012 between CPS Energy and OCI Solar Power ("OCI"). To secure the bid, CPS Energy required OCI to establishment an "anchor" facility to manufacture solar energy products; invest at least $100 million; and create at least 805 solar energy-related jobs.
"The BDA is responsible for redeveloping Brooks City-Base and identifying economic development opportunities that will benefit not just the South side, but all of San Antonio," said BDA Interim President and CEO Roland Lozano. "The Nexolon project will be an outstanding asset to this community and we are thrilled to welcome them to the Brooks City-Base community."
OCI has developed a consortium of partners including Nexolon America, LLC ("Nexolon"), a subsidiary of Nexolon Co., Ltd. and global leader in manufacturing solar panel components based in Seoul, Korea. Two other suppliers are: (1) Energia Ercam, a Spanish company to build the tracker systems (130 jobs); and (2) KACO New Energy, Inc., a German company to build the inverters systems (71 jobs).
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Creating .CBR files is very easy. The CBR file extension is just an image container. If we have a set of image files that we want to group in a comic or book format, we only need to:
- Sort alphabetically the images that we want to pack iinto the CBR file. The images will be displayed in their original alphabetical order inside such CBR file. Select all the images and compress them inside a .zip file. You can do so with "right click / send to / ZIP compressed folder". Or even with "right click / add to file", depending on your file compressing utility.
- We need to display the file extension in order to modify it. If your operative system isn't currently displaying your file extensions, in Windows XP just select the menu tools / folder options, tab display, and then uncheck the option Hide extensions for known file types, and click accept.
- Once we have created the .ZIP file and checked the file extensions, just select that compressed file and then we click right click / change name, and then change the extension to CBR (replacing the final .ZIP by a final .CBR, and we are done.
Note: the images inside the containing CBR file need to be in the root of such path. So when compriming all our images together we need to select all the images (but not the folder containing the images) because this could generate a compressed file with a sub-folder of the same name, which could not be read by some specific CBR readers.
How to open CBR files and extract images
To open a CBR file and extract their images we only need to invert the previous process. Just right click the .CBR file and select /open with, and then select WinZip, WinRar or any other software capable of uncompressing our .cbr file (there are several compatible compression software that should handle CBR files). That will open the CBR file and show us all the images that we can extract out of such type of files.
Or, if we have the option to display all file extensions, just change it from CBR to ZIP renaming the file extension, and uncompress the CBR file like any other zipped file.
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Students in WGSS explore gender, sexuality, and feminist theory within the contexts of culture and history. Through close readings of literature, film, and historical texts, students learn to think critically about gender and sexuality and their relationship to other areas of social difference. Professors collaborate with students to examine the societal roles that women and men play and the direct and indirect implications of these roles on culture and the next generation. Students tailor their academic program to their interests, selecting from courses in WGSS and from other disciplines, and they graduate experienced in a variety of feminist research methodologies.


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Jeff Probst is sticking with "Survivor" next season as host and an executive producer.
CBS announced an agreement Tuesday with Probst, who has been host of "Survivor" since its debut in 2000. He'll be back for the 21st and 22nd installment of network TV's longest-running reality competition series, airing in 2010-11.
In a statement, Probst said he was thrilled to continue working on "Survivor." He's won two Emmy Awards as best host of a reality competition show.
The 20th edition, "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains," debuts with a two-hour episode at 8 p.m. EST Thursday on CBS.
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Unfortunately, the tags are manufactured and can not be customized.
Do the tags include something to hang them with?
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How can I hang my tag on the canopy of my car seat or the canopy of my stroller?
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MINNEAPOLIS – The Minnesota District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration awarded nine Minnesota Lenders at the 2013 SBA Minnesota Lenders Conference in Minneapolis on Thursday.
Criteria for the awards were based on data obtained from the SBA's loan volume dashboard. Loan information was collected from July 2012 to July 2013, with awards based on number of guaranteed approved loans. The categories of "large, medium and small" lenders were obtained from the 2012-2013 Minnesota Bankers Association Bank Directory, based on the assets of the lender.
The award recipients are:
Micro Lender
Entrepreneur Fund, Duluth
Credit Union
Lake State Credit Union, Moose Lake
Small Bank Lender
Vision Bank, St. Louis Park
Medium Bank Lender
Summit Community Bank, Maplewood
Large Bank Lender
Bremer Bank
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So who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters?
Nope. If you're this dude, you call 911.
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Haha... I sent this one in. Crazy stuff.
"In retrospect, maybe selling the Bat-Signal for crack money wasn't the greatest idea."
Headline: Crook So Stupid He Calls Cops On Self.
Keep it coming; I need the overtime.
Makes me want to fry an egg for breakfast!
Guess said mope won't be worrying about breakfast (along with the other two "hots and a cot") for a while...
Mama always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
Oh Lord, when I clicked the link guess what....it pulls up my local news and I was thinking dear God...what have these idiots done now!?! I love how crackheads are geniuses.
Further proof the crack destroys what few brain cells the users start out with.
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Inbox: Farm system's ranking accurate?
Giants beat reporter Chris Haft answers fans' questions
Many publications have the Giants' farm system way down the list when ranked against other Major League teams. Do you agree with that assessment? What is the Giants' farm system lacking? How do they overcome those inequities?
-- Matt R., Benicia, Calif.
To a considerable extent, the club's critics are woefully misguided. The Giants have two unassailable responses for skeptics: World Series titles in 2010 and '12. Other organizations have churned out highly touted prospects for years without even reaching the postseason. If the Giants' farm system were as bad as the so-called experts claim, they wouldn't have won either title. San Francisco's '10 postseason roster included 10 "homegrown" players. Six -- Madison Bumgarner, Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval and Sergio Romo -- were still around to help the Giants triumph two years later. Consider that the Giants struck gold with three consecutive first-round picks in the First-Year Player Draft: Lincecum ('06), Bumgarner ('07) and Posey ('08). Such success, even with first-rounders, is virtually unmatched.
That said, the organization's lack of Major League-ready talent last year was especially glaring. When center fielder Angel Pagan's hamstring injury sidelined him, Juan Perez was the Giants' best option for a replacement. Perez had his moments. But his age (26) and skill level (.348 slugging percentage with San Francisco) made him less than compelling. Also, the club had no suitable alternatives when Ryan Vogelsong went on the disabled list. After Mike Kickham received his chance and displayed poor command, San Franciso had to summon Chad Gaudin from the bullpen.
The Giants face a similar situation this season. They must hope their regulars remain healthy, because nobody in the upper Minors looks promising enough to fill in on the Major League level if an emergency arises. By contrast, the Giants are rich with pitching talent. Left-hander Edwin Escobar probably will pitch for San Francisco before the season ends, and the organizatioan's abundance of mound prospects includes, among others, Kyle Crick, Ty Blach, Chris Stratton, Clayton Blackburn and Derek Law.
To summarize, the Giants don't get enough respect for their farm system's productivity, though its inability to generate position players consistently is a definite shortcoming. A few solid Drafts can improve both the quality and perception of the Giants' Minor League chain. Accomplishing that is easier said than done, of course.
Despite his late-season success last year, Hunter Pence still has major gaps in his swing. They haven't been addressed in two years. When?
-- Mike Z., Modesto, Calif.
Never. I've discussed Pence with Major League talent evaluators, and they've reached a consensus: What you see is what you get. His style is unorthodox, but it mostly works for him. If somebody could have "changed" him, it would have happened by now.
You mentioned Joe Panik and Nick Noonan as leading candidates to be the future second baseman. I'm curious where Christian Arroyo fits in. I know he was drafted just last year, but what are the chances that he steps up and pushes for that spot by the time Marco Scutaro's contract is up in two years?
-- Chet B., Redlands, Calif.
Drafted out of high school, Arroyo probably will need more than two years of Minor League seasoning to become Major League-ready. Moreover, before the Giants consider Arroyo as a prospective second baseman, they must evaluate his suitability for shortstop, his current position. Meanwhile, I expect Panik to get a long look at second base.
I have never heard any sentiment to elect Horace Stoneham and Peter Magowan into the Hall of Fame in the Executive and Pioneer category, respectively. Among other things, Stoneham decided to move to the West Coast before Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, and Magowan saved a legendary franchise by getting AT&T Park built.
-- Brooke B., Lake Hopatcong, N.J.
Since relatively few baseball executives receive these honors, I have doubts that either one will make it to Cooperstown. The odds against them are too overwhelming. However, I have heard of a particular group that wants to launch a bid on Stoneham's behalf. Everybody, and I mean everybody, I have talked to about Stoneham describes him as a exceedingly good and generous man (I highly recommend reading Roger Angell's 1975 piece on Stoneham, "The Companions of the Game").
Many of those same people also agree that the Giants franchise was mismanaged in the final years of Stoneham's ownership tenure. Whether that's true or unfair, any negative perception would hamper his chances for election. As for Magowan, I believe he someday might have a slight chance to gain this recognition, but a well-conceived and timely campaign would have to be organized.


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June 24
A Whole New Life
By Marsh Chapel
There are a few moments in every season when the broad, deep expanse of life opens up to us and we wonder about the meaning, the purpose of things.
A woman stops for the red light. She has finished her day job, working 9-5. She will swing quickly now into a parking lot to gather up her two children from daycare. On the way toward home she will stop to pick up a pizza, ordered a few minutes earlier by car phone. Her husband is traveling so she will not be going this month to the evening church meeting. As she looks out at the long line of snarled traffic, she wonders: "What am I doing here? Who am I?"
Who are you?
A man leaves home in the gray early morning light. He came in at 10:00 and leaves again at 6:30. His teenage children have grown accustomed to his wandering, finding his presence odder than his absence. His job, like all, never ends. For every inch he gives, it takes a mile. He recalls the story of Hercules and the hydra. The gas gauge is on empty—he forgot yesterday to fill it. He backs out of the driveway, and then has this strange moment when he wonders: "What am I doing here? Who am I?
Who are you?
A couple in retirement spend Wednesday morning visiting the physician and the specialist and the therapist. They stop to fill prescriptions and to go to market and to finish the banking. They have lost good friends to death this year. The radio plays a mix of new music and old news. It is raining again. She looks at the street and he looks at her and then past her. Silently they wonder, without speaking, "What am I doing here? Who am I?"
Who are you?
Love without truth is sentimentality. Truth without love is brutality. Today we are swept up again into the great rainbow goodness of Almighty God, who calls us both to honesty and to kindness.
We find our primal identity in Jesus Christ, baptized as we are into him. In Him, we are all children of God. Our identity is not found in our religious tribe. Our identity is not found in our financial insecurity. Our identity is not found, either, in our sex. None of these distinctions, so fundamental to everyday life, gives us our identity. We are children of God, by the promise of God which overpowers every religious, economic, and gender distinction.
We are promised, in the Christ who is Lord of the New Creation, a whole new life.
One day, a friend and I had breakfast, and talked about Reynolds Price's book, A Whole New Life. In it, Price traces the grace of healing which comes to him in the midst of critical illness. Price, a gifted southern author, succumbed without warning to a malady that nearly took his life. He records the terror, the pain, and the disease that nearly killed him. He remembers the kindness, the friendship, the prayer, and the skill that finally saved him.
At breakfast, we mentioned the book a couple of times, A Whole New Life. Our waitress overheard and, bringing the coffee said, "… that's what I want—a whole new life!"
As she returned with juice, I asked, "And what kind of life would you like?"
"Let me think about it", she replied. How would you have answered?
Carrying over grapefruit and oatmeal, she pronounced: "I've decided on my new life…I want to become a baby again…To be held, to be loved, to be rocked, to be protected, to be fed, to be cradled, to be cared for…I'd like to become a child again…and THAT WHOLE NAP THING—WAY UNDERRATED…THAT NAP THING IS TOTALLY UNDERRATED."
Paul's Epistle to the Galatians is one of the great high peaks of the New Testament. It is about a whole new life, a new creation. In fact, it may be the highest peak in the whole range, the Mount Everest of the Bible. It is written to address this question: "Must a Gentile become a Jew before he can become a Christian?" Is there a religious condition to be met, prior to the reception of God's apocalypse in Christ?
After Paul had been converted to Christ, he spent 17 years in unremarkable, quiet ministry. We know nothing of these two decades spent in Arabia. All the letters we have of Paul come from a later decade. Paul was converted to Christ, as he says earlier in this letter, "by apocalypse". Christ revealed himself to Paul. Thus, for Paul, the authority in Christ is not finally in the Scripture, nor in traditions, nor in reason, nor in experience. Christ captured Paul through none of these, but rather through revelation, the apocalypse of God. In short, Paul was not a Methodist.
There is a singular, awesome freedom in the way Paul understands Christ. We have yet, I believe, in the church that bears His name, to acknowledge in full that freedom.
After these 17 years, Paul went up to Jerusalem to meet with the pillars of the church. Can you picture the moment? All in one room: Paul, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Titus, Barnabas. And in that room there was argument, difference. Paul preached the cross of Christ to unreligious people, and they heard. What would the Jerusalem elders say? Jesus was a Jew, and had been circumcised. So also were all the first Christians, including Paul himself. But God had done something astounding. It was the Gentiles, not the Jews, who fervently believed the Good News. Should these unreligious children of God be brought back into the Covenant of Circumcision? No, they all agreed, no. God had done something new. So, Peter went to the circumcised, and Paul went to the uncircumcised. Peter went to the Jews, and Paul to the Gentiles. They agreed to disagree, agreeably. And the meeting ended and it was settled.
But you know how sometimes it's not the meeting but the meeting after the meeting that counts? What was settled in Jerusalem was unsettled later. Peter couldn't be counted on to hold the line, and Paul told him so, to his face. Peter was inconsistent about freedom—sometimes he ate with the unclean Gentiles—that's all of you by the way. Sometimes, when somebody was watching, he backed away. And Paul caught him at it and as he ways, "opposed him to his face". I wish all opposition in church was so clean, direct, personal, and honest. "One of us is wrong and I think it's you!" Paul doesn't talk about Peter, he talks to Peter. There's a life lesson.
The lines that are drawn in the name of religion are so marked, so indelible. Look at the Middle East, Ireland, Bosnia, Botswana, India, Quebec. We listened again the other night to the music of West Side Story, and heard the poignant plea in Maria's song, "There's a place for us." For some, caught between various Montagues and Capulets, there is never a place.
Paul envisions the end of religion, Christ "the end of the law". In its place he pictures the community of faith working through love. Whatever does not come from faith is sin.
Your primal identity does not come from your religion. Christ brings a whole new life, the end of religion and the beginning of the church, understood as the community of faith working through love.
As potent as is the power of religion to determine identity, money is stronger still. This is why in the Gospels Jesus speaks so repeatedly about money, about its dangers…where moth and rust consume. If you are used to solving your problems by writing a check, you are doubly endangered by the real problems, for which no check is large enough.
I remember an old District Superintendent 25 years ago saying to me that Jesus spoke more about money than about anything else, and I was offended. "I thought it was love", I smugly and arrogantly and full of my Union Seminary theological degree did respond.
But over time I have learned from experience, about how selfishness can hurt the spirit, and how mixed up our priorities can become. And I read the Bible weekly for 25 years, and I hear Jesus: with Zacchaeus in the Sycamore, and Matthew the tax collector, and the widow giving her mite, and the prodigal son squandering, and the man fearful of the talents, and the crafty steward, and rendering to Caesar, and—you see how the list grows?
Paul sees what we still hardly ever do see. Money can't buy love. Finally, one's place on the map of economic life is not one's primal identity. It is interesting to remember at the end of his life that John Wesley worried about the growing wealth of his poor Methodists. They did what he told them. They earned all they could. They saved all they could. They gave all they could. They prospered. And in their prosperity, they were endangered. They forgot the poor, once they were not poor. Their diligence, frugality, and industry, all wondrously good things, also contained the potential to obscure their primal identity. We are not what spend, nor are we what we buy.
We are stewards, not owners. Finally we only truly own what we give away.
I remember an old friend of ours, who is now a City School Superintendent. I have watched him for 25 years, as he struggles to teach the poorest children in our region. I will not sentimentalize his work. The city schools in the northeast are in tough shape. Violence and disrespect are rampant in many places. He and I watched our own children hurt by these schools. No, we need not sentimentalize.
But I also remember another day. It was a bright June day like this one, and I had left the office for the hospital when I drove past the school which my friend led so well. There on the side lawn, moving in a circle, were 400 students, 50 teachers and administrators, and a dozen custodians and cooks. There they were—half black, half white; half rich half poor; half male half female; most straight and a few gay; Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jew; some Republicans, and many others; some past puberty, and some a long way from it; some A students and some delinquents. But in that hour, they danced together, with a good leader. In that moment, they swayed back and forth to some new Polynesian beat and rhythm. I pulled to the curb to watch, and pray. It wasn't quite heaven, but you could see it from there. Neither slave nor free. No, your primal identity does not come from your wallet, either.
What could mark more indelibly than religion and money? What could keep our attention better than religion and money? If you had to devise a televised soap opera to mesmerize 270 million people and much cattle for a whole year, what, other than religion and money, would you use? Any thoughts?
In the resurrection, there will be no gender. At least according to Paul in Galatians. In Christ, there is no 'male and female'. Gender is swallowed up in victory. The Oneidas and the Shakers could sense this, odd and contrasted as were their ways of living it out.
We have yet, I doubt, to take seriously the Good News of liberation found in these passages. Your identity does not come from your sexuality, your gender, your orientation.
In this passage, in the Bible, Paul points to a clue, as well, to one of our great arguments today. Here, your identity is not to be inferred from creation….but from new creation! This apocalyptic baptismal formula declares the erasure—who says there is nothing radical about Christ?—of the distinction we so heighten, that between male and female.
God is calling into existence a new community of faith working through love. There is your identity. Not what is natural but what is heavenly about us forms our primary identity. That is, the Bible itself, from the vantage point of this great mountain passage, opens the way for an understanding of identity that is not just nature or creation, but new creation. This is the community of faith working through love. Here, there is a place where God may be doing something new, revealing something new. And, most strangely, it may be those who are not so easily confined by the creational categories of male and female, those who are both or neither, who are on the edge of the new creation. I know what Paul writes in Romans, but you still must ask yourself, at this point, which is Mount Everest: Galatians 3 or Romans 1? I think it is Galatians 3. I have come to believe that gender and orientation do not provide our primal identity. No male and female means no gay and straight, no homosexual and heterosexual. God is doing something new, which includes all in the community of faith working through love.
The trajectory of Paul's preaching in Galatians, and thus in total, makes ample space in our churches for gay people. If you love Jesus, and especially if you love the Bible, then you may just find courage not only to defend a moral life in a post-moral culture, but also to preserve freedom for those who have found a whole new life, like Reynolds Price–a gay man, and so are harbingers of the new creation.
Who are you?
If your identity does not come from religion or money or sex, then who are you?
Are you a part of the new creation?
Are you a child, daughter or son, of the living God?
Are you, baptized into Christ, now wrapped in Him?
Are you an heir of God's promise that predates all else?
Are you identified by faith, the faith of Jesus Christ?
Are you then walking in newness of life?
Are you found in the community of faith that works in love?
Are you on the edge of heaven?
Are you one in Christ Jesus?


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More Americans than ever before are supporting their local food markets, and it's not just because they believe the food is fresher and tastes better.
Heavily marketed as a safer, healthful alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are under fire from California health officials who have declared "vaping" a public health threat, hoping to head off the type of deceptive manipulation that tobacco companies succeeded with for decades, according to researchers.
Flawed forensics and overstated claims make scientific evidence tricky at trial.
We elaborate a cultural framing theory of legal cynicism—previously used to account for neighborhood variation in Chicago homicides—to explain Arab Sunni victimization and insurgent attacks during the U.S. post-invasion occupation of Iraq. Legal cynicism theory has an unrecognized power to explain collective and interpersonal violence in international as well as U.S. settings. We expand on how "double and linked" roles of state and non-state actors can be used to analyze violence against Arab Sunni civilians.
Previous work on conservative Protestant creationism fails to account for other creationists who are much less morally invested in opposition to evolution, raising the sociological question: What causes issues' moral salience? Through ethnographic fieldwork in four creationist high schools in the New York City area (two Sunni Muslim and two conservative Protestant), I argue that evolution is more important to the Christian schools because it is dissonant with their key practices and boundaries.
ASA recently joined 40 other organizations in a statement to Turkish government officials expressing our deep concern regarding their mass arrests and purges of academics. While the attacks on academic freedoms in Turkey have been ongoing for most of the year, they have become significantly enhanced after the July 2016 attempted coup.
The American Sociological Association (ASA) along with the British Sociological Association and the Canadian Sociological Association sent a joint letter to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation regarding a troubling situation with the Levada Center.
ASA has a long and ongoing history of activity supporting diversity, inclusion, free inquiry, and academic freedom. The need for such activity has escalated in recent weeks in deeply troubling ways, with developments ranging from a rash of racist, xenophobic, and other forms of discriminatory activities on campuses across the nation to the introduction of the Professor Watchlist which
A new Journal of Health and Social Behavior study shows that access to health insurance can help hold a community together socially, and lack of it can contribute to the fraying of neighborhood cohesion.
The study, Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance Pre-ACA, published by the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, is an effort by researchers Tara McKay and Stefan Timmermans to "broaden the conversation" about the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
That, historically, capital accumulation has required a supply of cheap, flexible labor is one of the most well-documented and widely accepted empirical findings in social science.