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It seems to me that the entirety of Mesekhet Horayot - about what to do when the Sanhedrin errs - itself is the eulogy for the Sanhedrin. The Yerushalmi there says that you disobey the Sanhedrin when it says left is right and right is left, and the Bavli there says that there is no kavod ha-rav (honoring a rabbi) in a case of hillul ha-shem (desecration of God's name, including pronouncement of erroneous halakhic views). Furthermore, the principle of ein shaliah b'davar `averah ("there is no [excuse of being someone else's] proxy [as an agent] in the case of [the performance of] sin [at their behest]"), which demands disobedience of everything and anything anyone ever commands anyone else when it violates the Torah, means here would never be a case where you should obey the Sanhedrin if you disagree with it, which results in abolition of the Sanhedrin altogether.
Now, the Sifrei famously disagrees, and say to follow the Sanhedrin even when it says left is right and right is left, but we have already seen that the Bavli and Yerushalmi seem to disagree, as well as the fundamental and axiomatic principle of ein shaliah b'davar `averah. Rabbi D. Z. Hoffman suggests that the Yerushalmi and Sifrei simply disagree, while others suggest that Sifrei and Yerushalmi are talking about two different situations: Sifrei says obey if you are a layman and don't know enough, Yerushalmi says to disobey if you are a hakham and know enough to question authority. Others, however, suggest that the two are talking about different kinds of errors of the Sanhedrin's: Sifrei says obey a minor error (such as a disagreement between you and the Sanhedrin on how to interpret a source), but Yerushalmi says to disobey a major error (such as the Sanhedrin's grossly overlooking an entire critical source). But of those three opinions (one, that Sifrei and Bavli/Yerushalmi disagree; two, that they are directed at different kinds of people; three, that they are speaking of different kinds of errors), the first two of them seem to annul the entire existence of the Sanhedrin; when taken to their logical conclusions, they seem to say that no one should ever obey the Sanhedrin when they disagree with it.
Update: In the comments, here, Larry Lennhoff directed me to here. There, two commentaries are translated, one by the RambaN - summarizing the simple and traditional view of obeying the Sanhedrin - and the other by the Yad ha-Melekh (a commentary on the RambaM), summarizing the view of disobedience which I here, in my blog, am favoring. The RambaM, in Hilkhot Mamrim 1:2, says,
ב כָּל מִי שְׁאֵינוּ עוֹשֶׂה בְּהוֹרָאָתָן--עוֹבֵר בְּלֹא תַעֲשֶׂה, שֶׁנֶּאֱמָר "לֹא תָסוּר, מִכָּל הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר-יַגִּידוּ לְךָ" (ראה דברים יז,יא). וְאֵין לוֹקִין עַל לָאו זֶה, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁנִּתַּן לְאַזְהָרַת מִיתַת בֵּית דִּין: שֶׁכָּל חָכָם שֶׁמּוֹרֶה עַל דִּבְרֵיהֶם--מִיתָתוֹ בְּחָנֵק, שֶׁנֶּאֱמָר "וְהָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר-יַעֲשֶׂה בְזָדוֹן, לְבִלְתִּי שְׁמֹעַ . . ." (דברים יז,יב).Back to the Yad la-Melekh, commenting on RambaM, he says,
(My translation) Anyone who does not act according to their (the Sanhedrin's) ruling, violates a negative commandment, as it says, "Do not depart from any word which they shall tell you" (cf. Deuteronomy 17:11). And we do not lash (violators) for (violation of) this negative commandment, because it is warned in the Torah as being liable for capital punishment, i.e. death by the court, for every sage who rebels against their (the Sanhedrin's) words (i.e. the zaqen mamre), his death is by strangulation, as it says, "And the man who shall do deliberately, without listening..." (Deuteronomy 17:12).
…It is clear that according to the understanding of Rashi and the Mizrachi the intent of the Sifre [that one must listen to the rabbis even when it apparently involves Torah prohibitions] is against the view of the Babylonian Talmud and also against the Yerushalmi. Furthermore since the Rambam omits mention of this Sifre therefore we have only the halachic view that is explicit in the Bavli and Yerushalmi. Thus all halachic rulings which appear to contradict the words of the Torah e.g., eating prohibited fats or killing an innocent man – irrespective as to the authority of the rabbi giving the ruling they are not to be accepted. It is stated explicitly in the Yerushalmi and also the Bavli that if someone errs in this matter and thinks it is an obligation to listen to these rabbis to eat fat prohibited by the Torah because he thinks it is a mitzva to always obey the rabbis – this individual is obligated to bring a sacrifice as he would be for eating any Torah prohibited food in error.(End of Update)
All the arguments against Haredi Da'at Torah (see Professor Lawrence Kaplan: (1), (2)) apply to the Sanhedrin too, albeit to a different degree. That is, while Haredi rabbis are very wrong and provide no justifications for their insanity other than "because I said so", by contrast, the Sanhedrin would, hopefully, be only a little bit wrong and actually try to justify itself, but the principle of the Sanhedrin is the same as with Da'at Torah. If we reject one, why not the other?
All this means that the entire institution of zaqen mamre (the rebellious elder wo disobeys the Sanhedrin) is like ben sorer u'moreh (the rebellious child, whom Hazal said was never meant to be punished in real life, with the Torah's treatment of that subject being an educational lesson of an ideal but unrealistic concept).
Update: my friend Michael Berg showed me this, a passage (and commentary thereon) from the Mei ha-Shiloah, the Ishbitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner, discussing Korah. The Mei ha-Shiloah writes,
"The entire congregation is holy, and God is in their midst; why then do you lift yourselves up above the congregation of the Lord." (Num 16:3). Here Korach makes the claim that there is no hierarchy in Israel where one individual ought to be set higher than his fellow man, for God is in the midst of the entire congregation. That is to say that Hashem dwells within everyone equally, as it is written in the midrash (Talmud Bavli, Ta'anit, 31a) "In the future, the Holy One Blessed Be He will make a dance for all the righteous." "Dance" refers to a circle, in which no one is closer [to the center] than his fellow man. And Korach claimed that this vision was already realized at the time!?!The blogger there, Elli Sacks, comments, saying,
wo weeks ago, in Parashat Be-ha'alotekha, we read about the story of Eldad and Meidad. As you will recall (Numbers: Chapter 11) the 70 elders of Israel had traveled from the Israelite camp to the Tent of Meeting where the Spirit of the LORD descended upon them, endowing them with the power of prophecy. At the same time, the Spirit of the LORD descended upon two additional men -- Eldad and Meidad -- who had remained within the Israelite encampment, and who also began to speak the word of God. Moshe's second-in-command, Yehoshua Bin Nun, feared that this "extra-territorial" prophesying represented a threat to the hierarchical power structure within Israelite society and asked Moshe to forbid them from doing so. But Moshe's reaction towards Eldad and Meidad is not only not hostile, it seems downright giddy. "Would that all of Hashem's people were prophets, and that Hashem had put His Spirit upon them!"It seems to me that we go a bit further: Exodus 20:15 states, "And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.' Deuteronomy 5:5 has Moses recalling that event, saying, "I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare unto you the word of the LORD; for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount." The people asked God to not speak directly to them anymore, but to use Moses as His intermediary. And what was the result? According to the Kuzari, the Golden Calf was not an attempt to replace God, but to replace Moses; when Moses failed to return from the mountain, the people were terrified at the prospect of losing their intermediary between them and God. In other words, the desire to set up a religious hierarchy to interpose between man and God, resulted in idolatry. And with good reason: how could a desire to interpose something between man and God result in anything but idolatry?(End of Update)
Does not the voice of Moshe in Be-ha'alotekha sound similar to Korach's voice in our parasha? Perhaps Moshe was echoing a sentiment that was popular in the Israelite camp. After all, hadn't the entire congregation achieved the level of prophecy at Sinai, when God spoke directly to each and every person present? If only the Children of Israel could have maintained that level of intimacy, that level of connection, there would have been no need for priests or elders or for political leadership. Moshe could have retired to the quiet of the Beit Midrash, learning Torah all day instead of constantly dealing with the enfuriating complaints of the maddening crowd.
So why is it that Moses was so offended by Korach's challenge? Why wasn't he wooed by the vision Korach proffered from the conclusion to Masekhet Ta'anit:"Ulla Biraah said in the name of Rabbi Elazar: In the future the Holy One, Blessed be He, will make a dance of all the righteous people, and he will sit among them, in the middle of the circle, in the Garden of Eden; and each and every one will point with his finger toward Him, as it says: He shall say on that day, "Behold! This is our God; we hoped to Him and He saved us; this is Hashem to Whom we hoped; let us exult and be glad in His salvation."
The answer according to the Ishbitzer is that Korach was essentially correct in his claim, but, as so often is the case in life, his problem was one of timing. Korach expresses the true egalitarian ideal that will be realized in the End of Days when the righteous will dance around the Holy One in a circle, and everyone will commune in equal proximity to Hashem who will then truly be "in their midst." Nevertheless, it was patently clear to Moshe that this was NOT that time and that no matter the legitimacy of his ideals, Korach was jumping the gun.
So much for the theoretical aspect; let me ask practically: what need do we have for the Sanhedrin? All of the problems in the Orthodox world today, are not due to disunity and lack of a central authority, but rather due to the ignorance and/or ignoring of the mesorah (tradition) and authentic halakhah. Our problem is not that there are two Torahs in Israel (cf. the houses of Hillel and Shammai), but that some of these Torahs out today, are ridiculous perversions of the true Torah. The reinstitution of the Sanhedrin wouldn't solve any problems. Reinstituting the Sanhedrin would merely provide one party with a monopoly, and political science, game theory, and public choice theory tell us quite amply what happens when a political party gains a monopoly and lacks any competition. In short, they become hideously corrupted; witness: the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. The last thing we need to do is provide any party with a monopoly. At least today, despite all the insanity in the Jewish world, one has the ability to disagree and follow his opinion, the one he believes he is correct. We need to increase the possibility by disbanding the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, not decrease it by turning the Rabbinate into a Sanhedrin.
The only need I would see for the Sanhedrin, is to legislate for the Beit ha-Miqdash (Temple)'s `avodah (sacrificial order), as there is no way to privatize the Temple. But Rabbi Avraham Yitzhaq ha-Qohen Kook and Rabbi Haim David Halevi said that sacrifices will not exist in the future and that they will be annulled, and if so, then there remains no need whatsoever for a Sanhedrin either. The historical institution would merely be like kingship or sacrifices: a concession to primitive, ignorant men of the "God speaks in the language of men" and "every prophet speaks in his own style" sort. Honestly, is my saying the Sanhedrin won't exist, any more extreme than saying qorbanot (sacrifices) won't? But Rav Kook and Rabbi Halevi said qorbanot indeed would not exist in the future! Now, the Torah has merely a few sentences about the Sanhedrin, while the entire book of Vayiqra (Leviticus) wasn't enough for qorbanot, and it had to spill over into Shemot (Exodus)!!! So if we can say that sacrifices - the subject of more than a fifth of the Torah! - will cease, then what is the danger of suggesting the same for the Sanhedrin too, which occupies merely a sentence or two in the Torah? And conceptually, what's the difference between ben sorer u'moreh and zaqen mamre? My point is that I do not believe my proposal is really so radical.
Regarding the Torah making concessions to primitive men, let me quote Rav Kook on this general subject, (Igrot 478, translated in Tzvi Feldman, Rav A. Y. Kook - Selected Letters (Ma'aliot Publications of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe; Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel, 1986), pp. 17f: [] are Feldman's, {} mine):
And if we find in the Torah certain things which other people think were based on the widely accepted notions of the distant past, but which are incompatible with the scientific knowledge of today, indeed, we do not know at all if today's research is absolute truth, and even if it is true, certainly there is also some important and sacred objective for which certain matters [in the Torah] needed to be presented in the commonly accepted description and not the exact one, as is plain in the spiritual concepts and in certain foundations of practice, for "the Torah provided for man's evil passions" {i.e., the Torah made certain laws as concessions to man's nature} or "to make [its words] intelligible {by using human idioms and language usage}," and upon all of them appears the living endearing divine wisdom.Similarly, Rav Kook's Eder Hayakar (pp. 42-43, translated in Ben Zion Bokser, The Essential Writings of Abraham Isaac Kook (Amity House: Amity, New York, 1988.), p. 48, "Assyriology and the Bible"):
As to the similarities in teaching [between the Torah and the Code of Hammurabi], it was already made clear in the days of Maimonides, and before him in the teachings of the Talmudic sages, that prophecy reckons with man's nature, for it is its mission to raise his nature and his disposition by divine guidance, as is implied in the statement that "the commandments were only given so as to refine the nature of people" (Genesis Rabbah 44:1). Hence, whatever educational elements there were in before the giving of the Torah, which gained a following among the [Jewish] people and the world, if they only had a basis in morality and it was possible to raise them up to a high moral level - the Torah retained them.According to the Midrash Rabbah on Devarim and Rabbi Yitzhaq Abarbanel, and the simplest interpretation of the book of Samuel, all this applied to kingship in the Torah (an opinion in the Talmud says that no, kingship is not a concession as these other sources believe but rather an ideal); why not to the Sanhedrin too? Why not say that like sacrifices and kingship, the Sanhedrin too was a concession to primitive man who needed an authority to compel him?
Furthermore, to quote Professor Marc Shapiro here, Rav Kook also says (to pastiche several disparate statements of his):
ואם תפול שאלה על איזה משפט שבתורה, שלפי מושגי המוסר יהיה נראה שצריך להיות מובן באופן אחר, אז אם באמת ע"פ ב"ד הגדול יוחלט שזה המשפט לא נאמר כ"א באותם התנאים שכבר אינם, ודאי ימצא ע"ז מקור בתורה.To translate myself:
כשהמוסר הטבעי מתגבר בעולם, באיזה צורה שתהיה, חייב כל אדם לקבל לתוכו אותו מממקורו, דהיינו מהתגלותו בעולם, ואת פרטיו יפלס על פי ארחות התורה. אז יעלה בידו המוסר הטהור אמיץ ומזוקק.
כל התורה הזאת של מלחמת רשות לא נאמרה כ"א לאנושיות שלא נגמרה בחינוך.
כל לב יבין על נקלה כי רק לאומה שלא באה לתכלית חינוך האנושי, או יחידים מהם, יהיה הכרח לדבר כנגד יצר הרע ע"י לקיחת יפת תואר בשביה באופן המדובר. ומזה נלמד שכשם שעלינו להתרומם מדין יפת תואר, כן נזכה להתרומם מעיקר החינוך של מלחמת רשות, ונכיר שכל כלי זיין אינו אלא לגנאי.
And if a question arises about any law of the Torah, that according to ethical notions it will need to be understood in another manner, then if indeed the Sanhedrin decides that this law was made only for conditions that are no longer extant, then indeed a source for this [ethical notion] will be found in the Torah.Rav Kook is saying that we must reinterpret the Torah in accordance with new ethical notions. The Talmud itself already says that the law of taking a woman captive in war, is not an ideal but merely a concession, and Rav Kook extends this to the law of voluntary wars of aggression, which the Torah also permits. Rav Kook even says that any new ethical notion in the world must be incorporated by everyone, with the Torah explicating its details. I believe individual liberty and freedom to be one such new principle; to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's Politics:
When natural[-law] morality strengthens in the world, in whatever form it will, every man is obligated to incorporate it into his own ethos from its source - namely its manifestation in the world - and its details will be explicated according to the way of the Torah. Then pure morality will arise into his grasp, strong and purified.
This entire teaching of milhemet reshut [voluntary wars of aggression, which the Torah permits] was said only for a mankind that had not yet completed its education.
Every heart will understand easily that only for a nation that had not come to its humanistic-educational conclusion - or individuals thereof - could need a concessionary law for the selfish human inclination via the taking of a beautiful woman (yafet toar) captive [in war] in the manner spoken of [in the Torah]. And from this we will learn that just as it is incumbent upon to rise beyond the law of taking a woman captive in war, so too we will merit to rise beyond the educational principle of voluntary wars (milhemet reshut), and we will recognize that every vessel of war is disgraceful.
The tendencies of the times favour the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints. The movement in this direction has been very marked in modern history. Much has been blind and discreditable, but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters; for this is a purely moral force. It was never adopted by any party in history, neither can be. It separates the individual from all party, and unites him, at the same time, to the race.Similarly, Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience":
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
So at most, we'll have a Beit ha-Miqdash that functions as nothing more than a beit ha-knesset (synagogue) for tefilah (prayer), and a Sanhedrin that does nothing more than decide which siddurim (prayerbooks) to buy and which building maintenance and janitorial staff to hire. Update: I forgot that according to Rav Kook, while the sacrifices cease, there will still be flour (minhah) offerings, according to him. So perhaps we will still have a Sanhedrin to decide the laws of flour offerings. But my point is the same: we will, at most, have a very tiny, minimalistic Sanhedrin with almost no responsibilities or authority.
Thus, in my view: in the future, we will no longer have a Sanhedrin. There is simply no need for it.


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What the other reviewers have said is true. Penn Jillette is obnoxiously foul mouthed. But didn't you know that when you bought the book? Haven't you seen his show? Or worse, that movie all those comedians did about the dirtiest joke in the world, The Aristocrats? I find it interesting that the biggest objection to this book isn't that he rejects the existence of god, but rather, that he has a dirty mouth. Oh yes. And he name drops. Well, of course he does! He's a famous guy that knows other famous people. He isn't very likely to say, "I was hanging out with this guy I know that does magic, I think his name is Bob..." No. He's going to say, "When I was hanging out with Siegfried and Roy backstage..." These are the kinds of people he is surrounded by, so of course they will be part of his story.
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During our careers, we have experienced several approaches to training across different organizations. We have found that the best training development and delivery experiences come to life when training and the business professionals collaborate. Unfortunately, there are many instances when the business or operations become disconnected with training, meaning they are doing things independent of each other that they should be doing in conjunction with.
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It has been our experience that open communication between training and the business from the onset of a project like the aforementioned is critical to the success of the training program that will be developed and implemented. Working together as partners through the Training Needs Analysis, Training Proposal, Program Design & Development, ending with the final delivery and evaluation will ensure that all parties will remain focused on the final goal: successful implementation of the new business system.
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South Walton TDC Event Sponsorship Grants
A total of 21 events have been recommended to receive sponsorship grant funds from the South Walton Tourist Development Council (TDC) in 2012 and 2013. Members of the tourism council voted on May 15 to recommend awards ranging from $2,500 to $50,000 in marketing grants for the 21 events.
A total of 24 eligible events had applied for the funding.
The decision took place at the tourism council's May 15 special meeting in the TDC conference room.
Eligible events are ones that promote tourism in Walton County and that bring substantial numbers of overnight guests to the county.
Funding for the grant awards comes from the council's New Product Development account, which is filled by the third "cent" collected in bed taxes. Safety and lifeguard services are also funded through this account.
Applications for funding are reviewed against funding criteria by a panel composed of TDC staff members and members of the TDC's advertising and public relations consulting firms.
Events termed "experience events" are eligible for funding of up to $10,000. "Signature events," which are large multi-day events, may receive up to $50,000. Funding for the 21 events totals $425,000.
TDC members discussed signature events being considered for recommendation in detail at the May 15 meeting. Experience events had been discussed at a previous council meeting.
Signature events recommended for up to $50,000 in funding were: Taste of the Beach, 30A Songwriters Festival, and the Seaside Half Marathon & 5K; recommended for up to $40,000 in funding was ArtsQuest; and recommended for up to $35,000 in funding were the Sandestin Wine Festival, Annika & Friends, and Run to STA. The new title of South Walton Adventure Run is being proposed for Run to STA.
The Destin Celebrity Golf Classic was recommended for up to $35,000 in funding and the Destin Charity Wine Auction was recommended for up to $30,000 in funding, contingent on the changing of those event names to South Walton Celebrity Golf Classic and South Walton Wine and Dine in Paradise, respectively. Name changes are also being proposed for others of the previously-mentioned signature events, including the change of the Sandestin Wine Festival to Savor South Walton and the change of ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival to South Walton ArtsQuest Fine Arts & Music Festival.
Experience events recommended for approval included: Baytowne Wharf Beer Festival & Vettes at the Village ($5,000); Rosemary Beach Uncorked ($5,000); Noche de los Muertos Costume Party ($2,500); Seeing Red Wine Festival ($10,000); Hilton Sandestin Beach Basketball Blowout at Freeport High School ($7,500); Sandestin Gumbo Festival ($5,000); 30A Wine Festival ($2,500); Sandestin Beach Bicycle Tour ($2,500); Emerald Coast Blue Marlin Classic ($10,000); Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach ($10,000); the Sandestin Triathlon ($2,500); and the Sandestin Music Festival ($2,500).
The event grant award recommendations are to go before the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) for final consideration in public session, and the recommendations will have to go through the budget scrub process, as well, Moliterno told the council members.
She explained that grant award recipients will be required to sign a memorandum of agreement regarding the use of funds received, and each event recipient will be required to submit a quarterly report.
The TDC has scheduled a 2:30 p.m. May 31 special meeting on sponsorship grant policies in the TDC conference room.
The BCC and the TDC are scheduled to hold a joint meeting at 5 p.m. on June 11 concerning the possibility of advertising for request for proposals or request for qualifications design/build services on a new TDC building. The meeting location is the South Walton Courthouse Annex.
These meetings are open to public participation.
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Before you all start patting youselves on the back about how much smarter you are than other races, and use biased figures to try to suport your "uberman" superiority, look at some other information for the cause of the differences.
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Perhaps the most dramatic example is the Northern Irish. Even though they come from the same ethnic group, Catholics (the discriminated minority) score 15 points lower on IQ tests than Protestants." (So does belonging to one particular religion make you less intelligent or is it that you are a discriminated minority?)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence states: "The mean score for people of East Asian and Jewish descent is usually higher than the mean score of whites, but the extent of that difference is not precisely known. However, most studies place the median IQ of Ashkenazi Jews (who make up the overwhelming majority of American Jews) at approximately one standard deviation above the mean for other whites."
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HARTFORD — Some of the police officers who responded to the school shooting in Newtown are so traumatized they haven't been working, but they have to use sick time and could soon be at risk of going without a paycheck, a union official said Wednesday.
The union, Council 15 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is seeking more generous assistance in talks with the town's insurer. It is also reaching out to lawmakers and the governor's office with proposals to modify state law and expand workers' compensation benefits for officers who witness horrific crime scenes.
"The insurer for the town has taken a position that these officers are entitled to only what the statute allows. Unfortunately for these officers, the statute doesn't allow any benefits," said Eric Brown, an attorney for the union, which represents nearly 4,000 officers around Connecticut.
A gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 and slaughtered 20 first-graders and six educators. The gunman, who had also killed his mother that morning, committed suicide as police arrived.
Brown said that the number of officers "critically affected" by the tragedy is below 15 and that a small number of them are not currently working.
A spokesman for Newtown police, Lt. George Sinko, said the officers are generally holding up well.
"A couple of them are taking it harder than some of the other ones," he said. "The things that the officers had to experience underscores the need to support them in every way possible."
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In the past, advocates have pushed to change the statutes on workers' compensation, which currently include provisions for officers who suffer mental impairment as the result of using or being subjected to deadly force — but not for those who witness crime scenes with mass casualties. Continued...
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"We don't want it to be used in an abusive way, but the circumstances are so horrific in Newtown. We need to protect those first responders and give them all the help we can give them," he said.
Firefighters who responded to the scene at Sandy Hook also have described struggling with feelings of frustration and anguish, but said they were grateful they were spared from witnessing the scene that greeted police inside the school.
Brown said outside agencies have been meeting demands for counseling services, but it will be important to ensure support is in place over the long term. The officers who are not working also could use up available sick time by early January, he said.
"The emotional loads they're carrying far exceed anything they could imagine," Brown said.
Police have yet to offer a possible motive for gunman Adam Lanza's rampage.
Expansive memorials throughout the small New England town have become gathering points for residents and visitors alike. A steady stream of well-wishers have taken pictures, dropped off toys and fought back tears at a huge sidewalk memorial in the center of Newtown's Sandy Hook section that is filled with stuffed animals, poems, flowers, posters and cards.
Newtown officials plan to convert into a memorial the countless mementos paying tribute to the schoolhouse victims. Thousands of flowers, letters, signs, photos, candles, teddy bears and other items at sites around town will be turned into soil and blocks to be used in a memorial, The News Times in nearby Danbury reported.
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It's from October 15, 1988, Season 14 Episode 2, hosted by Matthew Broderick with musical guests, The Sugarcubes. The notorious sketch featured Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon, Dennis Miller, Jon Lovitz, Victoria Jackson, and Nora Dunn as members of some sort of nude beach club and host Broderick as a newcomer friend of Carvey's. Broderick is self-conscious of his penis size, but is reassured by the members of the club and they all eventually break out into "The Penis Song." I read the transcript here and it sounds like it was really funny. Mainly though, I just want to see it because I know it was banned from ever airing again. However, on the internet I have discovered a lot of other sketches and performances that have been banned from ever airing again, so I'm just wondering if maybe this one's out there somewhere, too.
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The arts are a prosperity generator. In addition to their value to society, they offer a blend of benefits across other sectors. Yet, in times of economic pressures lawmakers may question why the arts should receive funds when so many other needs are pressing. If the arts are to survive the current financial crisis it is crucial that policymakers and the general population understand how the arts benefit government and citizens.
In order to encourage dialogue about this issue, The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in the US, realized a survey and has recently published its results in the form of an arts advocacy guide : "Why should Government support the arts?".
Here there is a list summarizing the most important points and reasons for governments and lawmakers to support the arts :
As economic drivers, the arts:
Help communities to prosper: The arts put people to work. They employ a skilled work force with creative occupations in a wide variety of other trades and professions: artists, managers, marketers, technicians, teachers, designers, carpenters and workers.
Attract tourism revenue: Cultural tourism is a huge market. In average, cultural tourists stay longer and spend more at their destinations than other kinds of travelers.
Are an effective rural development strategy: The arts help to address geographic isolation, infrastructure limitations and population flight.
Work as a business magnet. The arts boost local economies. Organizations purchase goods and services and audiences spend money on admissions, transportation, food, accomodation and souvenirs.
The arts are an asset for companies that attract employees and clients with a creative environment.
Creative workers help businesses to innovate new product lines, effectively market their services and create distinctive brand identities.
Product's artistic qualities, uniqueness, performance and design are increasingly valued in the international marketplace.
Prevail as a dynamic contributor to the small business sector. Small businesses and individual entrepreneurs are critical to every state's economy.
As educational assets, the arts:
Help to create a positive school environment both for learning and human development. Students who receive arts education have stronger social skills, improved motivation to learn and more esteem for themselves and their peers.
Provide the critical thinking, communication and innovation skills necessary for 21st-century success. Arts education is a necessity in a global economy driven by knowledge and ideas
Keep kids in school. Numerous studies have found that arts education programs help to reduce dropout rates, increasing the engagement of students.
Help at-risk youth. Participation in arts programs decreases young people's involvement in delinquent behavior and increases academic outcomes for disadvantaged children.
As civic catalysts, the arts:
Bring public spaces to life. Artworks and arts activities make public spaces attractive and distinctive, engaging residents in the creation of welcoming and sustainable places to live and work.
Foster civic participation and a strong democracy. The arts enhance our ability to illustrate viewpoints, to dramatize issues, to inspire action and to see things through the eyes of others.
Build bridges among people. Facilitating intercultural understanding and providing a common lexicon for building relationships in an increasingly diverse and global society. The arts are a communications resource in a global society.
Contribute to collective efficacy. Engaging citizens in civic discourse, magnifying important issues and encouraging collective problem solving.The arts strengthen interpersonal ties and empower residents, all of which nurture the collective efficacy of a community to address major problems, including poverty.
Public support for the arts serves the public interest :
Government investment covers areas that the private sector does not, ensuring that all areas of a state receive the benefits of the arts. In contrast, in the marketplace or among individual philanthropists, many motivations (including personal goals and advertising exposure) drive funding decisions.
Public arts agency grants emphasize grass-roots arts development, giving priority to education, community outreach, long-term planning and other activities . In addition, these often provide funding for individual artists—two important areas that few foundations or corporations routinely support .
Government support provides fair access to arts resources. It reduces barriers to public participation in the arts, such as those linked to poverty, geographic isolation, limited education, lack of information, disability, age or ethnicity.
The role of artists, cultural organizations and arts agencies:
Artists form the foundation of a creative environment. Many artists also work as educators, providing training in creative skills and passing on cultural value among generations.
Arts organizations create opportunities for citizens to experience and learn about the arts. They also act as community hubs and catalysts for social cohesion, building a bridge between artists and communities and facilitating public access to artists and to artworks.
Arts agencies offer grants, resources, information and training programs that help nonprofit arts organizations and artists (to develop their careers, market their products and facilitate the share of ideas with others).
Arts cutbacks can lead to large losses:
Arts grantees use the "seal of approval" of public funding to attract support from other sources.
The arts are central to community resilience. Arts help with educational and civic challenges aggravated during tough times: economic distress, natural disasters or other adversity. The arts are a powerful force for recovery and healing, a benefit that few other industries offer.
Reducing modest expenditures won't appreciably affect national budgets, but will damage the cultural sector's ability to provide jobs, goods and services to communities.
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Singapore…the Paradise of Asia
Ahhh! Singapore…the Paradise of Asia
"Take off your shoes, please" was the polite reminder from our SE Asia Regional Director Spencer right as we walked in the control room building of one of the refineries on
Jurong Is
land. Yes. No shoes allowed in the control room. The reason? To keep out dust particles. Let's just say wearing sandals to a control room isn't quite the same as a walk on the beach. Minor inconvenience but definitely understood.
Welcome to Singapore!
Entering Singapore through the Changi airport is like walking into a meticulously manicured garden with beautiful orchids, varieties of soft glowing palm trees, perennial flowers and tropical plants everywhere. The trees are pruned to perfection resembling symmetrically shaped umbrellas decorating a cold cocktail. T
he streets are clean; as clean a shopping mall.
Singapore is a city state of order and organization. The highly educated people of Singapore are hard working, very polite and extremely disciplined. But apparently, it wasn't always like that in Singapore.
On the way to visit a few of PAS's long time customers in Jurong Island - a man-made island that is hub to industrial complexes employing over 100,000
workers - our man Spencer gave us a brief background on the recent
history of Singapore
. According to him, the rapid progress for Singapore began when she gained independence from colonial control post world war II. A sense of national pride, strong leadership and a set of strict rules (sometimes criticized as too harsh) seems to have transformed the character of this young nation in less than fifty years.
And speaking of transformation, it appears our panel of industry executives assembled to discuss the aging workforce at the PAS Users Conference in two weeks is attracting a lot of attention. Registration to our conference is up by 18% compared to the same time last year. There is a lot of excitement these days at PAS with the marketing team organizing to have the best PAS UC ever.
At center stage at this year's conference will be an integrated demo of our solutions to address the very challenge of the aging workforce and skills gap. Plants can now capture the most complex knowledge about plant production, which reside in automation systems in PAS's Integrity (DOC3000/DOC4000) software for everyone to everyone. I was told by a customer here in Singapore this week that our DOC4000 software helped them simplify the way they manage their control system and allowed their control and systems engineers to improve their productivity by more than 30%. Think about it. That is, if you have a group of seven engineers, you just increased the output of the team by two headcounts simply by enabling them to get their job done faster and with higher accuracy by using Integrity software.
Now that is a clever way to deal with the aging workforce and the shrinking pool of automation experts.
What do you think about that? Drop me a comment. Let me know what you think.
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Aging Workforce Concerns
Aging Workforce Concerns Dominate Honeywell Users Group in Land Down Under
(I am writing the next few blogs while Roland is in Italy with his entire family for a well-deserved extended vacation. These are big "blog shoes" I am going to try and fill...so wish me luck. Eddie)
After a grueling 36-hour commute via Moscow (yes, via Moscow) and Singapore, I made it to Perth, Australia mid-afternoon Saturday. It's in the middle of winter here down under, and the sunny and cool (60 Deg F) weather in Perth was much appreciated coming from the hot and humid (98 Deg F and 90% humidity) Houston. The four-mile run before dinner did magic in helping overcome the flight fatigue – at least temporarily.
Catching up with old friends from Worsley, Alcoa, LyondellBassell, Honeywell and others was great. Lots of comments from various customers on the value they get out of our DOC3000 and DOC4000 products. One mining company client mentioned that nowadays it's not just the control/DCS engineers who rely on DOC4000 to get their daily tasks done but that their operators also use it to understand control strategies and the logic in their control systems.
The conference
is well attended and high energy, unassuming and fun – very Australian, of course. The presentations are also high quality. The one topic that keeps coming up in almost every presentation and every session is the aging workforce, which incidentally happened to be the topic of my presentation as well as a major topic at our own PAS Users Conference later in September. In fact, I must humbly report that my session was standing room only and ended up moving to the hallway afterwards with lots of comments, questions and concerns. Just like in the US, the
can't seem to get enough skilled workers to fulfill their healthy appetite either.
The discussion on the aging workforce was fast-paced and interactive. We discussed the magnitude and the root causes of the problem. We also highlighted the importance of the role of the console operator knowledge worker, what's in automation systems (from process chemistry know-how to complex control strategies and safe operating limits and alarms), the valuation of these systems, how to manage and protect the configuration in them and more…
There were specific recommendations beyond the obvious in recruiting best practices including:
Develop a plan, obtain executive sponsorship and communicate to stakeholders
Retain the talent you have
Recognize and reward good performance
Provide intellectual challenge
Make it a fun place to work and provide competitive compensation
Re-engage talented retirees
Implement DOC4000 (Integrity) to capture the knowledge in your Automation Assets and to create a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration
Several existing DOC4000 users chimed in with the value they are getting from their application and how it practically contains and exposes in a simple format all the knowledge associated with process operations and controls.
And here is what an ops manager who was seeing a demo of DOC4000 for the first time had to say about the application: "I think it (DOC4000) is going to make a radical change in how we manage our business…once we show this to our operators, they will gain a totally new perspective into their process operations and control."
Meanwhile, our young DOC4000 Jedi Dan D. has been busy in the demo area…his has been the busiest booth at the show. He definitely deserves a bit of R&R after this week.
So what do you think about this aging workforce issue? Is it a problem at your company, in your industry or geography? Drop me a note. Let me know.
Cheers Mates!
PS - the only regret about being down here this week is that I missed the twins' first day back to school as well as celebrating my grandson MD's first week anniversary.
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Next time you think change is a challenge
(I am writing the next few blogs while Roland is in Italy with his entire family for a well-deserved extended vacation. These are big "blog shoes" I am going to try and fill...so wish me luck. Eddie)
My long anticipated business trip to Australia and SE Asia was unexpectedly interrupted earlier this week as I was literally packing the night before the flight. The call came Monday evening that my older daughter had gone into delivery four weeks ahead of the projected due date.
We spent much of that evening and the following day at the hospital with my daughter and the anxious soon-to-be father. All the hard work by the young mom eventually paid off and the baby, let's call him MD, was finally here. MD weighed in at 6 lb 12 oz, 19" long and was irresistibly precious, like all newborns. What a phenomenal afternoon…there is a certain realization about one's grown children becoming parents themselves.
Both mom and baby are doing well thanks to the excellent care from the professional staff at the local medical center.
Once the excitement settled and MD was taken for observation, I could not help but think about what the little man had just been through. His whole world had suddenly turned upside down. Here he was tightly cuddled in his pitch black world surrounded by soft and friendly embryonic fluids at a constant temperature and comforted by the soothing thump thump of his mother's heart beat, and suddenly, without warning, he is squeezed and yanked at the same time, his eyes are exposed to intense light in the delivery room, his skin is surrounded by dry and cold air and the constant and comforting beat of mom's heart is nowhere to be heard.
Talk about change. The good thing is, we all experienced this traumatic change when we were born, and I doubt any change we ever experience can be as drastic.
Change is a fundamental element of all progress. Embrace it. Champion it. Manage it.
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Is 50 really the new 30?
(I am writing the next few blogs while Roland is in Italy with his entire family for a well-deserved extended vacation. These are big "blog shoes" I am going to try and fill...so wish me luck. Eddie Habibi)
The new phrase I keep hearing these days is "50 is the new 30." Is this just the wishful thinking of some of us baby boomers or is there some truth to it? Is it possible to turn back the clock on the aging process?
Possible or not, fighting the physical and the health-related effects of aging is something most of us think about – and some of us do something about.
I happen to personally know someone who is doing the best he can to counter the impact of aging. Yes, in fact that individual is none other than our own President and COO, Mr. Roland Heersink, who will be turning 50 in just a few short months. Over the last year or so, Roland has been on a strict fitness mission preparing for his family vacation.
If you know Roland, you know how driven and competitive he can be. Well, when they planned the family vacation earlier this year, Roland set out a goal for himself to be the fittest (baby boomer) on the fine beaches
of the Mediterranean. So over the last few months, Roland kicked it up a notch and intensified his workouts, and by the time he was leaving for vacation you could see the new and improved Roland. He even claimed to have developed his "six pack" abs. (More than we wanted to know, of course.)
So, how do you measure aging and how do you slow the process? An entire
anti-aging industry
is developing and billions are invested every year toward the secrets of and the counter-measures to aging. Occasionally, we hear claims of a "silver bullet" to slow, and sometimes to even reverse, the aging process. But like anything else in life, if it sounds too good to be true…it is.
Age can be measured in different ways: chronologically, biologically, physically and emotionally. Regarding the first two, unless you can find a time-machine or are willing to mess around with the human DNA, there is nothing any of us can do to slow down time or the aging of our cells naturally. The other two – physical and emotional – we have some control over. In fact, these two measures of aging are quite interactive and difficult to decouple from one-another.
Exercise and a healthy diet go a long way toward physical and emotional fitness. While we can't control the passage of time or the aging of our cells, we can have total control over what we eat and how much exercise we get.
Even if 50 isn't exactly the new 30, being fit and healthy has proven to extend the longevity and the quality of life…and that in itself is worth the effort.
So, let's wish Roland a fun-filled vacation and hope that the baby-boomer-babes on the Italian beaches are not bothering him to much…
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - UNC Greensboro's men's and women's cross country teams earned All-Academic Team honors, as announced this week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
The men's team finished the fall semester with a 3.24 combined GPA during the first semester.
For a team to be considered for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Championship and also have a minimum 3.00 team cumulative GPA.
135 Division I men's programs and 176 Division I women's programs received the honors this year.
Oklahoma State earned Scholar Team of the Year honors on the men's side, while Villanova received the honor for the women. The Scholar Team of the Year distinction goes to the program that earned All-Academic Team honors and placed the highest among the field at the NCAA Cross Country Championships.


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One day we (me and one of my husband's long time nurses) were orienting a new nurse. This was her first day in a home care setting. She had worked the last 10 years in a radiology office. She worked all the way through the morning routine including the bowel program. Everything seemed fine that morning…normal.
The nurses were back in the bedroom cleaning up and my husband and I were in the living room talking when I heard a little commotion at the back door. I went to check and found both nurses were out of the house on the driveway. In about 15 minutes, long time nurse came back in, but new nurse was missing. I was a little surprised and asked what happened to new nurse? Old nurse said she had to leave. She was out on the driveway sobbing because she couldn't believe that people actually lived this way at home. She never came back and never went to another case. She quit the agency that day.
I didn't know what to say. At that moment I felt so different; like another human was repulsed to live the way we had been forced to live with hospital beds, twin beds, wheelchairs, bowel programs, catheters, urine bags, suction machines, ceiling lifts, shower chairs. Were we really that different? I wanted to start sobbing too.
Dan, you forgot to mention handi-capable. That's my favorite.
Eagerly awaiting your book too.
Hi Keith,
Welcome to the community. You definitely are not alone. I'm many more years down the road from you but have experienced most of what you have expressed.
One of the hardest things is something you also noted. It makes me really sad to realize how this role of caregiver has impacted my role of mom. I'm busy, distracted, exhausted, working, and trying to meet everyone's needs and definitely not doing all I wish I was doing for my kids. Somehow their dad's needs often push them aside. I hate that part and it makes me incredibly sad. It's a very fine balancing act, and some days I'm a huge failure. I hope you will keep sharing your experiences with us.
Amen to that BBS. I am a mother of an 18 year old quad and since his injury, two years ago, we have had ZERO help in our home. No skilled nursing, no respite, zilch. Everyone gives me all these places to call, but somehow, we just fall through the cracks and meet none of the specific criteria. What to do??? What to do???
As caretakers, we should be given complete control of the "allotted" funds that medicaid will pay and then we could hire two or three different caretakers for our loved ones for the $$ we pay these agencies. That way, we could hire people for different shifts to cover virtually morning to night or maybe even night to morning. For $100,000/yr, in this economy, i could hire three people to care for my son at different times of the day as needed.
At this point, I am being told that my son doesn't qualify for any grants that pay for skilled care and as the caretakers above have noted, respite workers and family members can't fill the bill. Again...what to do? what to do?
For some reason, your situation more than any other I've read makes me cry. I guess it is because I can identify with you. I never in a million years dreamed that I would have to be a full time caregiver to my teenage son and then in a split second, our worlds change and so do we. I have learned in these last two years to stop fighting it. Not to stop fighting for my son to get better or a cure, but to stop fighting the "change", the identity crisis, the accidents, the interruptions, the clothes and bed changes.....need I go on?
Every day, I pray for the grace to handle my new role and do it in a way that my son deserves, happily and patiently (not that I always accomplish this..we are only human) and I will pray the same for you as well. God Bless You Keith.


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The CPO sector continues to be resilient against economic uncertainties and high commodity prices, and upstream players are in for record earnings due to rising palm oil prices that are offsetting increased operating costs, said CIMB Research.
Ethanol prices have the potential to move higher over the next six to 24 months, but ethanol margins are expected to remain under pressure from soaring corn prices, Goldman Sachs reported today. The next major catalyst for the ethanol producers is likely to be upcoming reports from the USDA that update the 2008 corn harvest following floods in US Midwest, the bank said according to OPIS.
Aurora Biofuels in northern California secured $20 million through a second round of funding led by existing investor Oak Investment Partners, Biodiesel Magazine reports. The funds will be used to further its work on algae-based biodiesel.
Kansas State University has been given a $98,560 grant to study the manufacturing of algae biofuels in the ocean. The grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation.
Denver-based BioFuel Energys two new 115 million gallon per year ethanol plants in Nebraska and Minnesota have started production. Both plants are located near Cargill grain elevators next to Union Pacific railroad mainlines. Cargill will market the ethanol from the new plants.
Biométhodes of France has signed an agreement with Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties for multiple technologies that convert biomass to ethanol and hydrogen. The biomass to hydrogen technology will be developed in France and tested in a biohydrogen fuel cell prototype and small-scale model car.
Brazil's biodiesel program has a long way to go before it is economically competitive, according to the Brazilian Agriculture Minister. He added that palm oil is the only feedstock source that has proved competitive because of high soybean prices. He believes that the country will be able to produce biodiesel from jatropha over the next five to ten years.
In Brazil, farm consultancy group Agroconsult expects soy planting to increase 4.4% in the 2008-09 crop season, to around 22.4 million hectares, depending on credit available for farmers, Dow Jones reports. The countrys government needs to provide at least $2.5 billion to help soy farmers pay for rising costs for the 2008-09 soy crop.
Petrobras is unveiling its biofuel production unit Petrobras Biocombustivel and presenting new production technologies under development, Dow Jones Energy Service reports. Among the new technologies are cellulosic ethanol and synthetic biodiesel pilot plants to be operational by 2010, Petrobras said. Petrobras is also likely to include a biomass unit at its planned $11 billion oil refinery in the state of Ceara in northeastern Brazil.
Petrotec AG has put its biodiesel plant in Emden, Germany into full production, with annual capacity of 100,000 mt. In addition to production facilities, the plant contains a refinery, storage tanks, a laboratory and its own loading and unloading unit for inland and ocean-going vessels on the harbor pier.
Austrian Biodiesel International announced its sixth biodiesel plant was officially opened in the port of Ferrol, Spain. The plant has production capacity of 200,000 mt, which makes it Spains largest plant.
Seaweed from Irelands coasts could be used for biofuel production, scientists say. The manager of the Irish Seaweed Centre said that Ireland is poised to become an important player in the next generation of biofuel production, as the country has 16 commercially useful seaweed species and its location could be a major selling point to the world market.
The UKs Business Secretary has set out a national renewable energy blueprint designed to reduce carbon emissions and enable the UK to meet its proposed 15% renewable energy target by 2020.
Virgin Atlantic, Boeing and Air New Zealand are attempting to develop the world's first green fuel from pond and seaweed for the aviation industry. Virgin Atlantic hopes to be operating partly on algae-based fuel within five years.
The Agriculture Secretary of the Philippines welcomed the recent declaration by officials of 180 countries to develop the biofuels sector within the context of global food security. The declaration from the Food and Agriculture Organization Summit had called on industrialized economies to assist developing economies like the Philippines produce biofuels from non-food crops.
Malaysia will not allow the clearing of forest areas for new palm oil plantations to avoid accusations that palm oil expansions are destroying forests. The Prime Minister said that with more effective management and new technologies, production can increase by 30%.
In Thailand, the Charoen Pokphand Group is considering developing wind and solar power projects to save costs and maintain profitability amid a sharp rise of energy prices. The Charoen Pokphand Group is already involved in biomass power projects that use chicken and pig manure.
Moodys gave a positive rating outlook for the Asia Pacific's palm oil industry over the next 12 to 18 months due to strong balance sheets.
Toyo Engineering Corp.s Thai entity Toyo-Thai Corp. will construct a 792 gallon per day pilot jatropha biodiesel plant in Lombok, Indonesia.
Industry players participating in a jatropha conference urged Indonesias government to establish a market price for crude jatropha oil to draw more investment into the countrys developing biofuel sector.
The director of the Surfactant and Bioenergy Research Center (SBRC) at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture in Indonesia said the development of jatropha was still well below target levels. The use of Jatropha remains limited because of widespread doubt among farmers and investors about its economic feasibility, experts said.
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DJ Droood wrote:Do you visualize a pension plan and dental benefits with this job, Merlyn?
Spit out coffee laughing on this one. Being older, I would definitely include dental/pension/senior care
DJ Droood wrote:Do you visualize a pension plan and dental benefits with this job, Merlyn?
But then there is a magical aspect to it also. When I was looking to move away from the city and wanted a completely different lifestyle, she had me make a map. One of the photographs we chose was a one room white church in the middle of a field. There was something special about the "vibration" coming off the picture. When I did decide where I was going to live we drove past that church. It was the church, not one that looked like it. 1/2 a country away.
Too often we are stuck between the lofty ideas of the Air Dragon and the Emotionally charged stress of the Water Dragon and fail to move ahead.
Merlyn wrote:We can decide what we want to do, and then do it. the balance and our direction is up to us.
Merlyn wrote:It has been a good subject with lots of good ideas from everyone, I agree.
It has made me think about things I might have not, and more.
echoe wrote:Somehow I feel it's unrealistic to sit back on the haunches and visualise an employer coming and knocking on your door, and a lottery (without purchasing the ticket) being awarded to you. Somewhere in the visualisation there must be action, no?
echoe wrote:I've achieved a hell of a lot in my life, that many people would not achieve, against all odds and against all scientific observation (that's for Drood. <grin>) But In no way did I just sit on my rear and let it come to me. I had to work for it. I had to determine whether or not it was important to me to achieve and I had to really want it, because any time I faltered, I found that I must not really want it or I'd see it through.
echoe wrote:(geez, I'm having a hard day, my z's and s's are mixing up again, kind of like my frenglish.)
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Seb Jewell replaces James Lewis in the outside centre berth, while James Tideswell and Alfie To'oala also move off the bench into the starting pack with Adam Balding moving to the bench and Arthur Joly misses out altogether.
Dai Young makes four changes to his Wasps side with two in the backline and two in the pack.
Winger Tom Varndell returns to the starting line-up after a minor foot injury, replacing Christian Wade.
The other change is at fly half, with Nick Robinson starting in the 10 shirt, and Stephen Jones dropping down to the bench.
There are also two changes amongst the forwards, with James Cannon earning a start in the second row, and Jonathan Poff given the nod at 7, in the place of James Haskell, who also picked up a knock last weekend.
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As a country with over 350 cultural ethnic groups, the cultural diversity of Indonesia deserves to be explored. Discover unique cultures and witness traditional life in Indonesia with a visit to one of the many traditional local villages where residents maintain indigenous cultures, living just as their ancestors did centuries ago. Spread throughout Indonesia, traditional villages offer the chance to experience something uniquely Indonesian, places where traditional beliefs and rituals, practices still dominate daily life. The traditional communities and cultural groups who live in these villages still practice their ethnic rituals, customs, produce exotic arts and crafts and wear traditional clothes. The main attraction of these villages is the chance to see and experience distinctive cultures which remain free from influences of modernisation. A visit to a traditional village is an unforgettable experience and offers the rare opportunity to embrace a purely village atmosphere.
Traditional Village of Compang Ruteng
A compang is a stone altar usually found in the yards of traditional homes of the Manggarai community. The Compang is the center of traditional ceremonies, among which is the penti, a ceremony to thank God for a bountiful harvest. Water buffalos and cows are tied to this Compang to be subsequently sacrificed. The Compang Ruteng is located in the center of the Ruteng Pu'u village in Golo Dukal sub-district, Manggarai, Flores,...
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Some 3 km from west from the town of Tomohon, or about 28 km from Manado is the village called Woloan, which has become famous for its industry in traditional knock-down houses that can be transported and re-assembled anywhere in the world. These are not dolls houses or souvenirs, these are actual houses to live in.Orders have arrived from as far away as Argentina, Norway, Poland, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and the United States, and of...
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WORCESTER — Representative Stephen F. Lynch arrived more than an hour before his rival, and began shaking hands with the two-dozen union steelworkers, carpenters, and retired firefighters sipping beers in a function room at Leo's Ristorante.
"You ask any member of Congress who the labor guy is in the House — it's me," Lynch said. "And I'm proud to wear that label."
Lynch voted against Obamacare, abortion rights, and an assault weapons ban and he voted for the Iraq War and with the Republicans on opposing a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq...I vote for Lynch every two years because he's better than a Republican and he never has a primary challenger, but I certainly don't want him as my Senator!
Just curious. How is he better than a Republican? You just described him as a Republican who happens to be a Democrat (Democrat in name only, whatever that is supposed to mean?). Is it that you want a Democrat who votes with the party on the issues you mentioned? Again, I am just curious; how you vote is entirely up to you.
At least he votes with the Democrats on some of the issues, and even if he didn't vote at all, his party affiliation increases the chances for a Democratic majority in the House, which determines committees, Speaker of the House, etc.
I'm not complaining, his voting record as a Representative fits my town like a glove. I understand he's the right Representative for his district and my views are in the minority where I live. But the entire state of Massachusetts isn't his district, and deserves a real Democrat.
why doesn't anyone ever ask:
"who is the guy (or gal) who stands up for non-thug, non-hack, non-illegal taxpayers?"
I know Steve Lynch to be a person who takes a reasoned position on issues. Yes, he had the courage to oppost the DEMOCRATIC tide on Obamacare. He said it was 2700 pages that no one in Congress really understood. It was not well thought out and would result in many many hidden taxes!
It took a lot of courage to oppose that Health Care Train coming down the track! I attended a community meeting in Milton and he was roundly attacked by Party Hacks for his opposition. Steve Lynch recited parts of the proposed law that were troublesome and now we are finding out how troublesome the costs are.
He voted for a House Bill that would have corrected many of the poorly drafted portions of Obamacare but the final vote was on the Senate version (with no amendments allowed) He voted against that very flawed legislation.
I call that political courage. That doesn't sound like a mindless union thug does it?
Steve's position on Abortion is in line with the majority of American Citizens. In local and national polls the majority of people are prolife. That majority is growing. Does that sound like a non thinking political hack? It takes some political courage to take a stand in Massachusetts. He didnt take an easy way out with a mealy mouth tapdance. Again that to me demonstrates individual courage.
Finally, do I agree with everything that Steve Lynch has voted for? No, of course not. Iraq and Afghanistan wars are a disaster and he voted in support of the surge in Iraq. He has been over there in both countries showing his support for our troops. That seems to be his focus. I hope he votes now to bring our troops home and avoid future military adventures around the globe.
Steve Lynch is not a Show Horse, but he is a Work Horse.
By the way has anyone seen Senator Elizabeth Warren now that she is safely ensconced in her position as Senior Senior Senator from Massachusetts? Watch how she votes. She will follow along in line with all the other party regulars in Washington. Finger in the wind and dancing on difficult issues.
Yes, I am a 75 year old lifelong Democrat. I like to say that I am a Harry Truman Democrat Thank you!