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If you want to feel a little more like you're in Westeros when you watch Game of Thrones, you sit in a chair that kind of looks like the Iron Throne, you turn the AC up (to make it feel like winter ... other people do that too, right?) and of course, you drink wine.
And now, you can drink wine specially branded for your GoT viewing experience.
HBO and Vintage Wine Estates have partnered up to bring you a line of Game of Thrones wines, which includes a Chardonnay, a red blend and a reserve-style Cabernet Sauvignon. The line will be available in Spring 2017.
"Any fan of Game of Thrones appreciates the role wine plays in the saga," Pat Roney, the president and CEO of Vintage Wine Estates, said in a statement. "We are very excited to partner with HBO to give those fans some delicious wines to sip as they plot their own paths to the Iron Throne."
This wine is the least HBO can give us, since Game of Thrones is starting to near its end.
"Given the prominent role of wine on Game of Thrones and our previous success in the beverage category, an officially licensed wine for the show feels like a natural extension for our fans," said Jeff Peters, director of licensing and retail for HBO. "Game of Thrones wines most definitely will add to the fan experience as the battle for the Iron Throne heats up heading into the final seasons."
If you think you might have heard of Thrones alcohol before, you're not wrong.
In 2014, HBO partnered with Brewery Ommegang to launch Game of Thrones beer. That same year, an Australian company released unofficial GoT wines called Wines of Westeros – although their website now appears to be defunct.
Game of Thrones Cabernet Sauvignon
Game of Thrones Chardonnay
Game of Thrones Red Wine
Game of Thrones wines will be available nationally in 750ml bottles in Spring 2017. Suggested retail price for Game of Thrones Chardonnay and Game of Thrones Red Wine is $19.99, and Game of Thrones Cabernet Sauvignon is $39.99.
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So after a short hiatus writing for this blog (I fixed the subscribing to the blog thing, so please follow/subscribe to show your support and encouragement for more posts), I realized I never covered From the Vault: Twenty.
So what we know from the official announcement from Wizards is that there will be 20 cards, with one card representing a card that was key in the top deck of a premier tournament each year Magic has been produced.
So without further ado, we have 20 years to cover and not much time. Obviously there will be a card for each year. Since 2013 hasn't ended yet, I'm going to assume that we will be dealing with 1993 through 2012. Of course, this poses a small problem:
1993 is comprised of Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and Arabian Knights. Many great cards are on the reserve list from those. So we've got a bit of a problem trying to figure out what 1993 may have... I had a theory about it, but I found something to disprove my thought.
What did I think? Karn, Silver Golem is on the reserve list, yet he appeared in From the Vault: Relics. Of course he also received a print as an oversized card in Commander's Arsenal, but that's different. So why will we not be getting a Black Lotus, Moxen, or other Power 9 card in FTV:20? Because of this post by Mark Rosewater. If you know anything about why the audience didn't like the relaxation of the reserve list, please let me know in the comments (I for one liked it as I now have a copy for Commander. Getting my Sliver Queen for Commander was a real pain in the ass so I'm not too thrilled with the reserve list. At least release stuff produced after 1996... but I digress).
Personally, I'm thinking we'll get some sweet alternate art, foil Sinkhole action. It's an awesome card, and for only double black mana, you can destroy any one land. Another reason why it could be candidate? It was removed from the reserve list in March of 2002. It hasn't been printed again though, so why not now? Of course, it wasn't used in the final match in 1993 as far as I can tell...
1993: Sinkhole
We have many more years to cover, but the only year I feel like I have a very good or definite idea is 2010. 2010 is the year both Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic were released and largely played. Or in 2011 when they were banned on July 1st of that year. Either way, one of them would show up. Just imagine the price of a foil Jace showing up in one of the boxes... But personally, I'd rather see him show up in From the Vault: Planeswalkers, whenever that shows up, or is done, or whatever. It would definitely be cool if they did an FTV dedicated to planeswalkers soon.
1993: "Sinkhole"
2010?: "Jace, the Mind Sculptor" or "Stoneforge Mystic"

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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
269 and Peer 1
So there is some discussion this year of a 269-269 electoral college tie. The level of thinking involved, though is shallow. This is an important lesson in disaster planning. Peer 1, and their customers, didn't plan well. You can read the story here. The connection will be come clear in a paragraph. The quick summary is that Peer 1 relied on the fuel pumps of the building (75 Broad Street) that were in the basement near the fuel tanks. But those fuel pumps failed when they were flooded by Hurricane Sandy as well as a water main break. They went to heroic efforts with a manual bucket brigade, and even avoided downtime (it was so close that some customers chose to shut down to prevent data corruption). However the failures in planning became very clear. Their generators could not operate so long (a week) without downtime. They clearly didn't consider a flood. They were only prepared for a power outage, like a substation explosion. Nothing more. No extended outages, nothing. From the description it isn't even clear they had two generators. This comes from failure to consider the possibilities, and a complacency about the current model. In a 269-269 tie, Congress votes on the president. But there are other possibilities. An Elector is not legally required, let alone automatically counted, to vote for the candidate he or she is pledged for. If there is a 269-269 tie, the first thing that will happen is that the winner of the popular vote will pressure electors for the other side to switch. If just one switches, it is over. Look for the Democrats to do that this time, because in a 269-269 tie, they are most likely the winner of the popular vote, and more importantly they stand to lose in the house. So even if they lose the popular vote, look for another argument. When preparing for the unknown, you have to think beyond the current model, and test its assumptions with different scenarios, and then see if those scenarios are worth planning for in advance (cost/benefit or any other perspective or priority you have).
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Testing in a Run Real World
In August we invited a group of runners to help us test the latest version of our Base and Form shoe models. (blatant plug: SKORA Shoes In Stores February 2012!)
We really wanted to get some big miles on the shoes and hear from real runners about what we did right, and most importantly, what we did wrong when we designed our shoes.
Runners filled out surveys that helped us determine which runners would be the best suited to give us fast, helpful feedback. It was very important for us to find runners that could put some miles on the shoes in a short period of time. With any minimalist shoes, ours included, there is a transition time to get the proper mid-foot/whole-foot stride and we wanted folks that were used to running barefoot or with minimalist shoes so they could 'hit the ground running' (sorry).
There were questions around running style, types of shoes worn, miles per week, etc. Unfortunately, the most important questions was, "What shoe size do you wear?" as we only had men's size 9 and 10 for the tester shoes…
After selecting our testers they were sent either a pair of blue Base or black Form shoes. We set up surveys online for the testers to report their first impressions and more surveys to complete after they were racking up the miles. The SKORA shoe testers ended up being a great variety of real runners from all over the world and we were able to see how our shoes perform in a variety of climates and terrain types.
We had great feedback all the way along and a big thanks goes out to all our testers as they generally confirmed what we knew all along: we have some kick-ass shoes.
One tester in particular deserves a special mention. Kyle Kranz, from South Dakota, liked his tester pair of Base shoes so much he contacted us and asked if it would be alright if he used them in an upcoming race. Seemed fine to us, and then he mentioned it was a 100 mile ultra.
We were a bit nervous as this was to be the first Ultra ever attempted in SKORA shoes and he'd be running in test samples too… Kyle seemed confident, so we said go for it.
We're pleased to report that both Kyle (and his shoes) survived the event and you can read his race report on his blog.
The test program helped us confirm changes we had been planning to make for our final production shoes. It was great to hear the feedback that confirmed the direction we are heading with our shoe. Run Real.


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Tsunami Damage To Ports Reported
Maersk Sealand reports the ports of Chennai in southern India & Colombo in Sri Lanka were damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, but all South Asian ports affected by the waves or flooding have resumed operations, according to industry sources. Maersk Sealand reported that 4 of 6 gantry cranes at the port of Chennai are now back in operation, and that the terminal is able to handle vessels. "However, due to the reduced amount of operational cranes, only 2 vessels can be loaded/unloaded simultaneously," the carrier said. The Indian port closed operations on the morning of Dec. 26 amid flooding. "No major activity is taking place as the roads outside the port are blocked by traffic & road damages," Maersk Sealand added, commenting on landside port operations at Chennai. The port authorities of Chennai are reportedly carrying out a survey of the channel & berths. In the ports of Cochin and Tuticorin, also in southern India, and Colombo, in Sri Lanka, port operations are back to normal. Maersk Sealand reported that no other ports in West India, Pakistan, Aden, Hodeida, Djibouti and Muscat were affected by the tsunami. Ports are working normally in Malaysia & Thailand, according to shipping line sources.
APL said that it does not anticipate "any significant changes" to its operations over the coming weeks due to the tsunami. "The earthquake & resulting tsunami tidal waves did not result in an extended disruption in vessel or terminal services in the areas affected," APL said in a statement. "Vessel movements and loading/discharging of cargo are on schedule & APL's offices remain open across the region, including those in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & Myanmar."
>Zim Line said that one of its ships bypassed Colombo, but all its ships continued operations normally. A ship of the Grand Alliance also canceled a call at Colombo, while another was delayed in the Sri Lankan port.
OOCL reported that a terminal in Colombo was damaged by the feeder M/V Jaami, pushed in by the tsunami. "Berth disruptions and delays/misconnections of transshipments are expected in the coming weeks," it warned.
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Mutual information density of stochastic integrate-and-fire models
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The coherence function of integrate-and-fire neurons shows low-pass properties in the most diverse firing regimes [1]. While the coherence function provides a good approximation to the full information transfer properties in the case of a weak input, for a strong input non-linear encoding could play an important role. The complete information transfer is quantified by Shannon's mutual information rate [2] which has been estimated in certain biological model systems [3]. In general, the exact analytical calculation of the mutual information rate is unfeasible and even the numerical estimation is demanding [4].
Numerical calculation of the mutual information rate is now a commonly adopted practice, but it does not indicate what aspects of the stimulus are best represented by the neuronal response. We developed a numerical procedure to directly calculate a frequency-selective version of the mutual information rate. This can be used to study how different frequency components of a Gaussian stimulus are encoded in neural models without invoking a weak-signal paradigm.
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This work was funded by the BMBF (FKZ: 01GQ1001A).
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I went to a property networking event – now what? (Part 3)
This blog post follows on from I went to a property networking event part 2 here…
Following up your "Passive" list
You've sorted out your system for your business cards (if you haven't, you might be interested in this), and now you have your follow-up lists.
Your 'Passive' list has all the details of all the other people you met at the networking event, who aren't of interest to you now but might be useful in the future.
You might be wondering why you would bother spending precious time (after time) following up these people? After all, what are the chances of them needing you or vice versa in the future? But that is precisely the point, why leave it to chance?
With minimal time investment and effort, you can avoid leaving it to chance. A follow-up call is your opportunity to make a firm impression, to increase your visibility, so when their circumstances change, you are the contact that pops into their head.
You don't have to make it complicated or long-winded. A polite call to say 'Hi, great to meet you. Would you mind if I send you a brief email about what I do/need in case it's of interest in the future?', is not going to offend anyone.
Our super tips for follow-up calls to passive contacts:
- Keep it brief and polite.
- Your main reason for calling is to say 'hi' and 'great to connect'.
- Remember – no sales patter. You're only asking if you can send them your details in case it's of interest in the future.
- Relax – they're unlikely to say no!
How to follow up Part 4 looks at how you can use email and social media.
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How much of this latest crude blood bath do you think is due to Saudis flooding the market with crude to keep Trump off their case for the fiasco in Turkey (If any) vs. margin call washout ??
Trader– I would suggest margin because the market was more wrong footed by Trump's act of allowing relief to some oil buyers.The massive long oil/short natty gas provided some of the impetus
Podcasts are for gym, bicycle, lawnmowing. I will listen and drink later. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving.
I always learn form you, Yra. Thank you and happy Thanksgiving/1
margo–thanks for all your support and a happy thanksgivimg to you and your family and for you I am now playing Kenny Chesney's She's From Boston
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Hi Yra,
I have to say, as a manager of a small macro hedge fund, I enjoy your blog immensely. Amazing analysis. Where do you see risk on money going these days though? Happy Thanksgiving!
Respectfully, I think you and your two colleagues are missing the forest from the trees when it comes to what lies ahead in the markets in 2019. Quite frankly, everybody seemed to have a mildly bearish view, quite similar to many mainstream Wall Street houses that still believe economic strength will percolate next year and that S&P is not facing any untoward sell offs/collapse next year.
Your friend, Peter Boockvar, has previously stated that he believes the best way to understand economic cycles in the post-QE world is not to focus so much on the real economy, but to look for cracks in the financial markets as there is just too much damn debt in the system and the "breaking" of markets is likely actually to cause a recession, not just signal one.
Towards that end, I am shocked that none of you seem to acknowledge that the truly scary 800 lb gorilla in the room is the sudden and violent blow out in credit spreads that finally hit home in the past couple of weeks.
One of the best analysts out there right now who seems to grasp fully the precarious nature of the failing credit system is Chris Whalen. I am surprised (perhaps, I should not be) that many more analysts do not see what he sees….Namely, the current rate hike cycle, accompanied by QT, is causing huge stress in key funding markets. Commercial real estate projects no longer "work" with rising rates and cap rates that have been struck at historic highs.
2019 is likely to see many developers begin to hand the keys back over to the banks….And, the same story is beginning to afflict the huge CLO machines which are similarly overlevered.
While HY spreads blew out in the past weeks, folks are focusing on the composite index and not the breakdown of the constituents. "BB" credits widened by 50-75 but B/CCC credits got slammed as wide as +200 bp. That kind of swift blowout can close the window for re-financing which will cause a sea change of panic in markets for next year.
CREDIT situation is actually far more dire, in my view, and way more explosive than the current equity rout, led by technology.
"Everybody" now believes that the Fed ought to pause to reflect after the coming December hike….Yet, many still believe the Fed will resume rate hikes or just keep a steady hand.
Frankly, folks are not focusing on the dire dire technicals of corporate credit in the US, especially the BIG story now of how many BBB corporates are apt to become fallen angels in the year ahead.
I think the Fed is going to be CUTTING rates by Memorial Day, if not a tad sooner than that.
I am flexible enough to acknowledge that we may yet still see a big recovery in risk markets at year end, especially if Trump plays "Let's Make A Deal" with Xi in Buenos Aires.
But, the BIG story that I think you guys never addressed is the huge unwinding of corporate credit that has begun….After 7 years of hyper steroid growth in the credit bubble due to suppressed rates and trillions of QE, I think we may witness the unwind of those 7ish years compressed into the next 12-18 months, and the speed and chaos will be quite similar to 2009, post Lehman.
That Powell and his acolytes are NOT focused more on the REAL TIME indicators of MARKET STRESS (i.e. credit spreads BLOWING OUT) is proof, to me, that these guys don't understand that what saved/solved the Debt problem of 2008/09 (which was primarily mortgage-related) was a further expansion of the overall debt BUBBLE….That BUBBLE is far far bigger than the equity bubble, in my view….And, it is bursting now.
GE is an idiosyncratic story…..But, the overall BBB sector is filled with huge negative convexity, waiting to be unleashed….And the levered loan market, along with conventional commercial real estate financing, are going to experience violent and painful sell offs next year.
Fed will be confronted with not a garden variety recession, but with the second coming of 2009….RATE CUTS by MEMORIAL DAY!!
Mike–this is a very sound post and deserves a full response–probably a blog but Respectively i would say that Peter in his work and this blog has been warning that it is DEBT,DEBt,DEBT that will drive this market—-Chris Whalen is one I have great respect for but my view on the infrastructure spend is because that the FED will panic as will the ECB for the discussion about inflation is a sideshow to the fear of a deflationary spiral setting in due to what we have long discussed about the FED making a HUGE mistake by embarking upon QT while raising rates.Alexandra Harris at Bloomberg wrote a piece taking the FED to task for this and which the FED was quick to challenge.Simon Potter is no Brian Sack and his continued to maintain that the FED is correct will come back to haunt—but this BLOG has been very consistent in warning about the debt overhang while not necessarily citing the HY corporate sector the warning has been about the onset of Minsky—so that is what I take you to task about—much more to follow
I look forward to your further thoughts. I am trying to figure out what you are taking me to task for. Does Minsk's Moment have to exclude a credit market implosion in which financing mechanisms simply "shut down" overnight?
If GE did not fortunately have $40 BN of undrawn revolvers (for which those bankers are now sorry they previously extended), they would be facing a true Minsky Moment RIGHT NOW.
As I said, I look forward to your further thoughts.
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Barzani's announcement came as a shock to the Iraqi Kurdish population
Protesters tried to storm the Kurdish Parliament after Iraqi Kurdish Masoud Barzani announced his resignation a witness told Reuters.
Barzani confirmed this Sunday (October 29) his plans to step down from the presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Government on November 1 after his plans for independence backfired.
Kurdish television station Rudaw TV said Barzani sent the Kurdish Parliament a letter alerting them of his departure.
Full letter President Masoud Barzani submits to Kurdish Parliament for his resignation November 1st https://t.co/T9T2liMbZOpic.twitter.com/HFIJO0cn06
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Kurds voted overwhelmingly for independence on September 25 but won little sympathy for their cause outside of the region. The Baghdad government considered the referendum illegal and sent troops to seize the city of Kirkuk, which the Kurds consider a future homeland. The governments of Iran and Turkey also promised to crack down on any secessionist movements within their Kurdish regions while US State Department warned the Kurds that "holding the referendum in disputed areas is particularly provocative and destabilizing."
The loss of Kirkuk was a severe blow for Barzani and prompted calls from the opposition for the Kurdish President to resign.


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On January 28th, Joe Biden signed an order to provide US taxpayer dollars to pro-abortion groups in the US and around the globe. Biden's policy and the left's objective is to help legalize abortion in other countries on the "behalf" of the American taxpayers. His decision is unconscionable to millions of Americans who believe that elective abortions should be abolished.
International Abortion Debate
Women's rights activists fill the streets of Buenos Aires as the Argentinian Senate approves first-trimester elective abortions. After over 30 years of protests by pro-abortion advocates, the measure passed with a 38 to 29 vote in the early morning hours of December 30th, 2020. Argentina became the third country in South America to legalize elective abortions.
As we end this terrible year, a historic moment, a ray of sunshine for #WomensRights in beautiful Argentina. Thousands of women gather in Buenos Aires to celebrate legalised abortion. pic.twitter.com/IQH35Rp5CN— Elif Shafak (@Elif_Safak) December 30, 2020
After failing to pass in the Argentinian congress in 2018, the legislation once again came to center stage in 2020 with the support of President Alberto Fernandez. Anti-abortion activists are outraged, because, as we've found in the United States, repealing pro-abortion legislation is very difficult. Supporters often view elective abortions as a reproductive right once it's not illegal to have them anymore. How elective abortions came to be viewed as a right rather than a means of population control is an act of intellectual contortion, of which only the most heartless leftists are capable.
Abortion as Population Control
In the early 20th century, Margaret Sanger established Planned Parenthood centers in inner-city neighborhoods to provide birth control and reproductive education to people who couldn't afford to support children. She started Planned Parenthood as a mechanism of voluntary population control, conveniently placed next to the people she wanted to prevent from having children.
Sanger was a eugenicist. Eugenics is the study of engineering a more desirable human species by eliminating unwanted traits from the gene pool through selective reproduction. Sanger believed that eugenics and providing birth control to those she wished did not reproduce were different means to the same end. She believed that poverty is the result of laziness, which in her mind was hereditary. Sanger wanted to eliminate the genetic predisposition of laziness by giving birth control to the impoverished. She didn't want poor people to reproduce. For the record, Sanger opposed abortion. She found it to be immoral and peddled birth control instead. Activists today fight for what even the eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood felt was unconscionable.
Sanger wasn't the only person to support eugenics and the elimination of undesirable humans. Forced sterilization, birth control, and abortions have been used to wipe populations from the face of the earth, or at least minimize their prevalence in the genetic makeup of society-at-large. Widespread sterilization programs were common around the world in the early 20th century. In Bangladesh, the government offered clothing or money (in 1977 about $1.10) in exchange for getting a vasectomy. China has in recent history limited the number of offspring its citizens can have to either one or two. Nazis, who were inspired by American eugenicists such as Sanger, were almost indiscriminate in their horrifying campaign to create the perfect human race. The Third Reich often sterilized Jews, alcoholics, and political dissenters if they weren't executed.
Intellectual Contortions
Only in recent history have we viewed birth control as a right rather than a punishment. Sanger recognized that within the framework of a civilized and peaceful society, forced population control has limited effectiveness. Much better to convince the people you wish to eliminate that it is their right to abort their own offspring. She and her ideological followers convinced the poor that to claim otherwise is heresy.
Sanger, Kathrine McCormick, and others anticipated the hard truths that young, impoverished women face when they learn of an unexpected pregnancy. Planned Parenthood offers a solution to all the worry about upset parents, runaway fathers, and the exacerbation of money problems before the endless nights of rocking the baby to sleep even begin. All they ask is that participants go through a few logical "compromises" in order to shirk the responsibility of managing another human's life.
Sanger's proteges reconcile the elimination of unwanted children by telling themselves and each other that the body parts being ejected from a mother's uterus don't belong to a living human. Modern science informs us of inconvenient facts such as the existence of a heartbeat, the feeling of pain, cycles of being awake and going to sleep, and the reactions to hearing their mother's voice shortly after exiting the womb. If we were to acknowledge that these occurrences are indicators of life, then we would have to view abortions the same way we view taking the life of any other human who shows signs of life. Imagine taking the life of another human because their life meant some inconvenience within yours.
Modern pro-abortion activists argue is that if abortion is illegalized, then women will get abortions anyway, and will do so outside of the safety of modern medical facilities. This perspective is strikingly similar to the notion that giving clean needles to drug addicts will result in healthier addicts. In fact, even legal elective abortions are performed at an abortion clinic rather than at a hospital. If something bad were to happen, the mother would still need to be admitted to a hospital. The difference within the legalization argument is that the state would be engaged in snuffing out the existence of the abortion clinics themselves rather than legitimizing and even subsidizing the snuffing out of unborn children.
After the work of establishing pro-choice propaganda as dogma within activist organizations is done, the target populations will continue to teach these lies to each other until the objective of reducing their numbers is nearly automatic. So-called women's rights organizations have been radicalized to the point that pro-choice is basically a religion among themselves and the people they unwittingly oppress. Until we share these truths with society-at-large the lies started by the eugenicists of the early 20th century will continue to spread.
As long as the socialist oppressors of the left don't have enough influence to drastically change life for millions of freedom-loving Americans, the United States will remain a global superpower. For better or worse, our national media has the potential to shape the political conversations of millions due to our cultural influence and economic superiority. Our ideas tend to spread, and for the past 50 years or so, elective abortions have been legal in the United States. Make no mistake, the people of Argentina and countries where abortion isn't available by request are fighting for these so-called rights because elective abortions are currently legal in the United States.
US Supreme Court
Elective abortions were legalized in the United States when the US Supreme Court announced their ruling on Roe v. Wade in 1973. The decision in favor of Roe was based on the premise that the 9th and 14th amendments allow women the right to privacy when dealing with matters of medicine and reproductive health. The irony of this constitutional reference is that the 14th amendment prohibits the states from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. Here the Supreme Court used the 14th amendment to deprive millions of unborn children the right to life. Pro-life advocates accused Justice Harry Buckman and others who shared the majority opinion of judicial activism.
In late 2020 Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as associate justice for the seventh circuit on the US Supreme Court. Pro-abortion advocates decried the confirmation of Justice Barrett on the grounds that she would vote to overturn the 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade. To balance the scales, democrats have suggested they would increase the number of justices on the court so that they could insert abortion activists.
A Ongoing Tragedy
The ideological descendants of the 1930s eugenicists will continue to fight for rebranded versions Racial Hygiene. The spread of these ideas coincides with the propagation of other socialist ideas like stakeholder capitalism, social justice, and the existence of more than two genders. The paradox of having the right to do the work of eliminating one's own children on the behalf of one's self or society-at-large is a tragic lie spread by a few calloused individuals to disadvantaged millions. One day, free people will reflect on the voluntary abortions of unborn children with the same shame and horror with which we collectively assign the holocaust initiated by eugenicists in the 1940s. Approximately 125,000 abortions happen around the world each day.


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- President Trump this week announced that he's told his negotiators to end talks for now on a new stimulus bill.
- While that would wreck the chances for a new round of $1,200 stimulus checks anytime soon, that's far from the only negative consequence of a failure to pass a new coronavirus relief accord.
- Millions of Americans are still out of work as a result of the pandemic, and not passing a new stimulus bill would have dire consequences for them.
There are no real winners as a result of President Trump's decision Tuesday instructing his representatives to end negotiations over a new stimulus bill that would be a follow-up, finally, to the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that Congress passed back in March at the start of the coronavirus outbreak in the US. But it's not hard at all to identify the losers in this scenario, should it become a permanent state of affairs — something that, luckily, is rarely the case with a president who changes his mind often and prefers to keep his decision-making as fluid as possible.
For example, tens of millions of American taxpayers will lose out, since the absence of a stimulus deal all but certainly guarantees no additional $1,200 stimulus checks will be distributed. Likewise, millions of Americans who've lost their job during the pandemic — which has wrecked business sectors ranging from the hospitality and aviation industries to local movie theaters — will be hurt, as well. They had a $600-per-week supplement to their unemployment insurance that dried up in July, and, likewise, self-employed people as well as gig workers will see these benefits end after December.
These peoples' hopes for more aid were crushed after President Trump tweeted that he's decided to halt negotiations over a new stimulus bill until after Election Day 2020. Further adding to the confusion, the president followed up that decree on Tuesday with something of an about-face, clarifying that he would support standalone legislation in support of the $1,200 stimulus checks — something that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dismissed as a non-starter, countering that there needs to be an all-encompassing stimulus bill instead of attacking everything piecemeal.
"It appears we're not getting another fiscal package over the next few months at least," Ernie Tedeschi, a policy economist at Evercore ISI, told CNBC this week. Here's one of the many reasons why that's terrible news for average Americans:
Right now, according to Labor Department figures, more than 26 million Americans are collecting jobless benefits — and more than 1 million new applications for those jobless benefits are coming in every week. The amount of money those people are expected to live on monthly varies considerably, depending on where they live in the country. On average, for example, Labor Department data shows that states paid about $305 a week before tax in jobless aid during the month of August.
But that's only an average. The unemployed in Mississippi and Louisiana, for example, only received a little more than $180/week on average. And in the state of Hawaii, that minimum figure is a mere $5/week, which is what jobless aid falls to there without a reinstatement of the increased federal supplement.
In addition to the $600/week increase in federal aid that went away at the end of July, the Lost Wages Assistance program from the Trump administration gave workers an additional $300 for up to six weeks. But that money is now gone, too, for many states, while others weren't eligible to get that money at all.
"(Democrats) were trying to get things, we were trying to get things, it wasn't going anywhere," Trump told Mornings with Maria host Maria Bartiromo in a Fox Business Network interview Thursday. "I shut it down. I don't want to play games.
"We are starting to have very productive talks. (Pelosi) wants it to happen, too. She doesn't want it not to happen. I believe she wants it to happen because it's so good for our country."


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Kupwara, Sep 05 (GNS): At least four persons received injuries in a bear attack at Lalpora of Lolab area in the district on Saturday afternoon.Reports reaching GNS said that the incident happened as a wild bear ventured into the human settlement area from a nearby forest.In the incident, as per reports, four persons have received injuries. Two of them (injured persons) identified as Faisal Ahmad Ganaie (18) from Darpora and Sajad Ahmad Mir (26) from Lalpora have received injuries face and foot injuries respectively and were hospitalised.The other two persons have received minor injuries and were discharged after receiving first-aid treatment, reports said.
Meanwhile after hectic efforts by Wildlife Department assisted by locals the beast was tranquilized later on. (GNS)


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Only a small number of the illegal workers arrested as part of the government crackdown at the 2012 Olympic Games Park were actually working on the site, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has insisted.
It emerged today that more than 90 people had been arrested by the UK Border Agency (UKBA), with a total of 85 involving suspected immigration offences. More than 40 had used fake passports or other documents to gain unlawful employment, and a number have been removed from the UK.
An ODA spokesperson said: "Media reports today give the impression that the UKBA has removed people working illegally on the Olympic Park.
"In the vast majority of cases, those arrested have not done a minute's work on the park. They have been arrested before setting foot on the site through the screening checks set up for all potential workers.
"UKBA have been on site for almost two years checking documentation for workers before they can gain employment on the park. In this way, we make sure that only those legally entitled to work can do so."
Tony Smith, senior director for the agency's Olympic 2012 programme, said: "We have officers based permanently at the Olympic site to check the identity of people seeking work and help ensure the Games are delivered on time, with a workforce legally entitled to be there."


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Quest for the Holy Grail
Quest for the Holy Grail
by Jack Courtis
You have had many adventures, but now you are standing at the gate of the Grail Castle. The gatekeeper will not let you pass unless you satisfy him that you are on the Quest and that you are no longer foolish. You must answer his questions:
Q: What do you seek?
A: The Grail.
Q: What is the Grail?
A: It has different forms.
Q: How do you seek the unknown?
A: By following the path.
Q: Where does the path begin?
A: At this gate.
Q: Where does it end?
A: At this gate.
Q: How do you know you are on the path?
A: The Grail guides me.
Q: Is the Quest easy?
A: The path is long and the task heavy.
Q: How shall you accomplish the task?
A: All who go forth on the Quest achieve their heart's desire.
Q: What do you take with you?
A: Courage, love and dedication.
Q: How will you bring back what you find?
A: In my heart.
Q: Where is the Grail hidden?
A: ln the maze in the heart of this castle.
Enter, with my blessing.
You have satisfied the gatekeeper and you are in the hall of the wounded king. The Grail procession goes past and you witness the 5 Transformations. The Emerald Stone of Lucifer becomes the Sword that killed John the Baptist; then it becomes the Spear which pierced Christ on the Cross; it changes to the Cup which held His blood; and finally it is the Dish which carried the head of John the Baptist.
These are the 5 inner mysteries of the Grail. They are the 5 wounds of Christ symbolising the individual quests of Parsifal, Galahad, Bors, Launcelot and Gawain, at their respective castles.
|Crown of Thorns
|Joyous Garde
Why 5 inner mysteries? How do they relate to:
1 Tree of Life
3 Mother letters/paths
7 Double letters/paths
12 Single letters/paths
The inner landscape of the Grail implies an order amongst the dark forests and stern castles of the imagination. This implicate order points to an explanation of reality that gives it meaning. This meaning lies behind the confusion of images and the numerous characters that are found in this land. It is found in numbers and the relationship between numbers. Here is a clue:
|Ain Sof Aur
|5 transformations
|1 Tree of Life
|3 Mother letters
|7 Double letters
|12 Single letters
There is a Tree of Life on each of the 4 Worlds of Manifestation and therefore, 3, 7 and 12 letters/paths, on each of those 4 Worlds. Each of the Worlds is symbolised by the 4 Grail objects of Sword, Spear, Cup, Dish. However, the Stone is above manifestation. It simply IS. As a cube, it has 3 dimensions and points to the mystery of the 3-fold Ain Sof Aur. It is the rock on which Christ builds His church.
Alternatively from the above relationship between the Grail objects and the Tree, we can reach the following correspondences. The Dish is an obvious symbol for the zodiac with its 12 signs and the 12 Single letters. The Cup relates to the reversal of the flow of life of the 7 Double letters in the way symbolised by the Tarot card Temperance. There is a flow of energy, backwards and forwards, between 2 cups. Further, the Spear used to pierce the side of Christ on the cross has a metal point in the shape of an elongated triangle. A symbolic reference to the 3 Mother letters. The Sword relates to the Tree in that the emanation of God's life into the universe is via the path of the Flaming Sword. Finally the Stone is itself the beginning and the end of the 5 Transformations.
The 22 paths on each of the 4 Worlds give us ample adventures on the Quest. We must experience all of them, as the outer mysteries. Then we must enter the 5 Castles of the inner mysteries. Only then, can we face the gatekeeper of the Grail Castle, to be allowed into the hall of the wounded king.
Let us observe the Procession more closely. This is as Wolfram describes it. A door opens and 2 maidens enter each carrying a lighted candle. They are followed by 2 ladies carrying ivory stools that are put down in front of the wounded king and Parsifal. Now 2 groups of 4 ladies join them, one group carries tall candles and the other group carries a tabletop. They lay the tabletop on the stools thus creating a symbolic portal of the temple. They form an 8-pointed star.
A further 2 maidens appear carrying a silver knife each. They are followed by 4 more maidens carrying candles. Next come 6 more ladies, carrying vessels, who escort the Grail Queen. She bears the Grail itself. These last 7 form a 7-pointed star.
How many are there? The Queen plus 24. What do the stars mean?
There follows a moment when the Grail Queen stands with one circle of 12 on her left and another circle of 12 on her right. The 2 circles represent the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. They are also the Masonic pillars Joachim and Boaz. Who does the Queen represent? Finally comes the moment when the Queen stands in the middle of a circle of 24, each carrying a light. They represent the 24 elders before the throne of God. But why are they all women? Bread and wine are served. Now there is deep silence. The gatekeeper speaks to you:
"Well Sir Knight, you have seen the Grail Procession. Have you asked the Question?"
What will you tell him? It is no excuse to say that you do not know what question to ask. That means instant failure. Think of it this way, it is the same as the Zen koan:
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
There is a technical answer to it but to give it in a book or a discourse is to deprive the Seeker of the right to make the effort to understand. Thus the Grail tradition is the same as Zen in this instance. The aim is for the Seeker to intuitively know what is required. This knowledge comes from the Quest successfully completed. Of course, that is only when the Question is asked.
But why should the healing process be triggered by a question? Because the asking of the Question is a spontaneous gesture and an intuitive act of compassion. Only a Grail Knight who has touched his/her own pain, can respond to the pain of another human being.
Paradox is the very essence of the Quest and the way in which insight is developed. In turn, this is how enlightenment operates; in a non-rational way that is devastatingly powerful as Parsifal discovers. How can it be otherwise? The Quest is about self-discovery in a mythological sense. It is the quest for reality by an explanation that gives it meaning.
The reason why paradox is the road that takes us to a reality that can only be explained by myth, is because in the West we have a confused notion of the nature of reality. Christianity insists that it is historically true and thereby forces upon our consciousness, linear time. That is, reality is something that is measured by a clock. History is therefore the description of the factual, outer world of unique events that are unrepeatable. However myth (as an explanation of reality that gives it meaning) operates on a different kind of time, cyclic time. Myth resonates with our innermost being. It continues to renew its cyclic patterns and symbols. It is precisely these mythical and cyclic motifs that have the power to give us self-transformation. History and linear time do not have this unique ability. Consequently, when a myth is confused with "historical" events, its entire transforming power is lost. Myths describe a reality that is more "real" than the here and now. And so for the Quest, healing is seen as a renewal of the life force of the king and the land. The healing of the king's wound can only be brought about by the radical transformation of each individual into a whole and complete being. This includes both our male and female natures.
Did you notice something about the Grail procession? They were all women. The mysteries of the Grail are female mysteries, well symbolised by the rose. This is important because each Good Friday the dove descends on the Table Round and the mystic rose at its centre unfolds and glows. What does this mean? Look at the rose at the centre of the Hermetic Rose Cross that follows this page. The outer petals have the 12 places for Arthur's knights. The next 7 petals take us through the opposite qualities that the knights must reconcile. The inner 3 petals take us to the mystery of the triune God. At the centre, is the Stone unfolded with its 5 petalled rose that points to the 5 Transformations of the Grail. The 4 great arms of the Cross remind us of the Sword, the Spear, the Cup and the Dish. Within each arm is the 5-fold transformation shown again, within the 3-fold principle.


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In April 2014, I attempted to climb Mt. Everest before an avalanche in the icefall claimed the lives of 18 Sherpa. A year later (May 2015), I returned to Mt. Everest only to witness a 7.8 earthquake while at camp 1. I am preparing to climb again in April 2018 but this blog is dedicated to my purposeful pursuits. Please be sure to check out the charities that I support and follow me on twitter (@pem725) or instagram (pem725).
Monday, July 18, 2016
Day 4 going to be a rest day - no swim tomorrow
Yep, I'm bummed but I won't let a delay get me down. Just need to wait my turn. Hope it comes soon. Sorry to get your (and my) hopes up.
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Jesus' parable of Luke 15:11-32 is usually referred to as "the parable of the prodigal son." But at the very beginning of the parable, Jesus said, "A certain man had two sons," and these two sons had a relationship as sons with their father (Lk 15:11). If Jesus' intention were to speak only concerning the attitude and actions of the younger prodigal son, then He would have probably mentioned that the father had only one son who became a prodigal. The parable, however, involves the relationship of two sons with their father.
The fact that Jesus speaks of the behavior of both sons in relation to their father indicates that the lesson of the parable goes far beyond the behavior of either son. He wants us to discover the heart of our heavenly Father in the behavior of the father toward us as His sons.
Jesus wants us to see ourselves in the parable as we seek to reflect on our gospel living in our relationship with our Father. This is truly a parable that takes us into the function of God's heart that should be reflected in our lives as we live the gospel.
There are three ways by which we can live in this world: (1) religiously, (2) irreligiously, (3) or by the gospel. In this parable, Jesus illustrates religion through the behavior of the older brother. He illustrates irreligion through the behavior of the younger brother in the wilderness. In the illustrations of both behaviors, He seeks to unveil the heart of "gospel living" that was soon to be revealed to everyone in His audience through the gospel of the cross and resurrection. But in order for his audience to understand how one lives by the gospel after the nature of the heart of God, they must first see the inadequacy of their religious behavior.
In the parable, it was the ambition of both sons to secure the wealth of their father. Each approached the matter from different perspectives. Out of frustration, the younger son demanded the immediate reception of his inheritance, and then went on his way. The other older son sought to secure his share of the father's wealth by remaining in faithful obedience to the father. As the parable reveals, one son lived very bad and squandered his inheritance. The other son lived very good in order to secure his share of the wealth of the father for his future. However, we must not miss the point of what Jesus was trying to say to His audience in reference to our Father's relationship with us as His sons, regardless of how we come before Him. The father of the two sons emulated grace toward the sons who came before Him regardless of the former behavior of either son. We must never forget that our Father does the same to us.
In the parable, Jesus unveils the heart of God to which we seek to be close because we cannot resist His love to forgiveness. The father's behavior, not the sons', is the focus of the parable because Jesus seeks to reveal the forgiving heart of our heavenly Father. We are thus driven to live the gospel of grace because we would never merit the grace of God who is defined by love (1 Jn 4:8). We always have His favor (grace) because we are always His created sons. We must simply obediently live according to who He is and what we already have because of our origin from Him.
We must also keep in mind that Jesus was, through the parables, leading the people to the heart of God that would soon be revealed at His last Passover/Pentecost feast. With the example of the two brothers, He sought to reach out to everyone who would futility seek to be close to the Father solely on the merit of their own obedience. Therefore, in the behavior of both brothers, we discover ourselves in our efforts to receive meritoriously the "wealth" that is freely given by the Father through His grace. The parable focuses on the gospel of grace to which Jesus was leading His audience, and to which grace all must respond on the basis of total dependency on the Father. We cannot, as either the younger or older sons, leverage grace from God through any meritorious behavior on our part. Grace is a free gift that is received only through experiencing its glorious nature.
Two key statements in the parable reveal the underlying motives of the two brothers in order to leverage a forgiving relationship with their father. The younger said to the father, "I am no more worthy to be called your son" (Lk 15:21). The older said to the father, "I have never transgressed your commandment at any time" (Lk 15:29). Both brothers sought to establish their relationship with their father upon a wrong premise. Both based the foundation of their relationship with their father on meritorious behavior, whether repentance from bad behavior or faithful behavior in staying with the father. One brother sought to restore his relationship with his father through meritorious repentance, and the other sought to maintain the same through the merit of his faithful adherence to the father's commandments. Both misunderstood the heart of the father in the father's relationship with his sons through grace. Grace is free, not earned. It is difficult for meritorious religionists to understand that our Father's grace is always present for those who want to accept it. But we must not forget that God's grace is not earned through meritorious obedience, neither through meritorious repentance to comply with self-imposed obedience to religious rites.
- The younger brother:
The saga of the story began with one son straying from the father and one son staying with the father. The younger son said to his father, "Father, give me the portion of the inheritance that falls to me" (Lk 15:12). And so the father handed over to him his inheritance. The younger son then "gathered everything together and took his journey to a far country. And there he wasted his inheritance in wild living" (Lk 5:13). Fortunately, as many young men who have sought to spend some time in the wilderness, the younger brother "finally came to himself" after wasting all his inheritance. It was only then that he began to consider his predicament, and then, make a plan to change the environment of his circumstances (Lk 15:17).
Notice what the younger brother said upon his decision to return to his father: "I am dying with hunger … I will arise and go to my father and will say 'I have sinned … I am no more worthy'" (Lk 15:17-19). He was certainly reflecting on what he had done and where he was. But his reflection was on what he would do in order to change the deplorable circumstances of his predicament. Because his focus was on what he would do in order to earn a reconciled relationship with his father, he sought a meritorious solution that was based on what he could do. "I will arise and go to my father" (Lk 15:18). This was not a repentant response to the "invitation song." It was the response of one who only wanted to place himself in better circumstances that was based on his performance. He went back to the father to earn something for himself.
The younger brother's problem was in the fact that he assumed that the father was obligated to receive him back on the merit of what he would do. Upon the merit of his return to be only a servant in his father's fields, he sought to obligate the father to restore him to a meritorious relationship as a servant, but not as heir as a son. His "repentance" was only a return ticket to at least enjoy again the wealth of his father, even though it was from a distance as a meritorious servant in the servant fields.
Though the younger brother's desire was commendable in knowing where to find a solution for his problems of life, it might be good to consider also the fact that his return to the father was still self-centered and meritorious. His repentance to servanthood was only an outward effort to earn a limited relationship with his father. Though he would return as a servant to work in his father's fields, he was still comparing his existing situation of feeding pigs in the field with his father's fields (Lk 15:15).
In order to change his predicament, the younger son assumed that he would simply change locations. Instead of changing his heart, the younger brother wanted to simply change locations from the pig fields to the father's fields. His repentance to the servanthood of his father, therefore, was only an outward expression of an inward desire that still focused on himself. He was not dealing with the sin beneath the sin. He thought that if he could only earn a relationship with the father, then he would be right with his father on the basis of his servanthood. If he could "self-sanctify" himself through humble servanthood in doing good in the servant fields, then certainly he would have earned the right to be in a relationship with his father.
Changing his location was in his thinking, not changing his life-style by changing his heart. Changing from pig fields to the father's fields did not change his heart. His outward change was commendable. However, unless he corrected the sin beneath the sin, he would be the same person in his father's fields as a meritorious servant as was in the pig fields.
The younger son assumed that he would be forgiven by the father on the merit of his willingness to serve in his servants' fields, even if it were service with his father's servants. He sought to merit his acceptance by the father on the condition of his willingness to work only as a servant. He trusted that the father would thus forgive him on the merit of his willingness to serve in the humble location where only servants labor and not sons.
The younger son's problem, therefore, goes deeper than being a good servant. The "repentant" younger son was willing to trade his sonship in order to be just a simple servant in the fields. He reasoned that if he would simply return to service, he would merit forgiveness from the father. His decision to return was based on being received back by the father only as a faithful servant, but not in the position of a son.
So when the younger son did return, he said to the father, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no more worthy to be called your son" (Lk 15:21). The younger son forgot that no one is "worthy" to earn sonship from the father. Sonship is by birth and cannot be changed. It does not come through earning sonship. Doing better in one's life is not a condition for sonship, for we can never do enough. The Holy Spirit reminds all of us:
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ (Rm 8:16,17; see Gl 3:26-29; Ep 3:6).
The younger son wanted to obligate the father to at least make himself a worthy servant on the merit of his return to the father's servant fields. He was seeking to earn his way back into the grace of his father as a servant only, forgetting that he was always a son regardless of his performance of the father's commandments.
We sometimes forget that our location, or circumstances—pig fields or servant fields—will change our direction of life if we would only change locations. It is true that the pig fields will humble us to the point of repentance. We can have a changed mind in the midst of trying circumstances. But trying circumstances are no guarantee for a changed heart. We forget that God is not expecting us to earn our way back into His heart. To Him, we never left. So for us, it is a matter of recognizing where we always were in His heart as His children by inheritance through creation.
The Gentiles, who would later hear this parable, needed to remember this. We are His sons in the peg fields, as well as in the fields wherein we should be as His sons. The heart of God is not limited to our location, neither is His love for us conditioned on how well we would perform as His servants. He still loves us while we are squandering ourselves away in wild living, or living close by religiously in faithful obedience.
The younger son had thus misread the father's love. When this son returned, the father said, "And bring here the fattened calf and kill it. Let us eat and be merry, for this my son was dead and is alive again" (Lk 15:23,24). The younger son was dead in his relationship with the father while he was in the pig fields. However, the father's loving relationship with him had not changed when the son returned. The father's love toward his son was never dead in his relationship with the son, for the son was always his son. Upon the son's return, and before he could even speak one word, his father responded in his love for the son. "When he [the younger son] was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion. And he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him" (Lk 15:20).
The younger son underestimated the heart of his father. And for this reason, he was not returning because he was drawn to his father's heart, but for the purpose of removing himself from the pig fields. His bad experience had changed his mind, but not his heart. We might say that his repentance was initially in reference to changing his situation, rather than changing his heart. But when he experienced his father's reception upon his return, it is then that we assume his heart was changed. When we experience the gospel of God's heart, it is then that we truly understand the heart of our Father, and thus, we respond.
The younger son's reception by the father, therefore, did not depend on the merit of the son's behavior of returning to the father. The younger son could not merit himself back into the grace of his father, for the father would always receive a wayward son back as a true son and rightful heir. This is simply the heart of a father in relation to all his sons. Being sorry for the bad things we do cannot limit the wealth of the grace that God is willing to pour out upon us. Grace is always there in abundance for us when we are ready to return.
We can only imagine the surprise of the younger son when the true heart of his father was revealed in his forgiveness. The younger son had thought that he had given up his sonship. But the father's grace was always there. The son was still the father's son in the pig fields. All the younger son had to do was to come back into the realm of his father's heart. No meritorious conditions, as the younger son assumed, were necessary in order to receive the fattened calf and the celebration feast. No meritorious conditions were necessary to be worthy of the father's sonship. The younger son did not earn the celebration for his return. It was always there for his return. The calf simply continued to fatten until the day the son returned.
2. The older brother:
In their struggle to receive that which both sons so earnestly desired from the father, the very good and faithful older son may have been further away from the heart of the father than the younger son who took his wealth and ran away to a far land. The older brother was far away from the heart of his father because he thought he was so close.
In another parable Jesus spoke of the old brother: "Now He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised [judged] others" (Lk 18:9). As the Pharisee in the parable, the old brother would say to the father in reference to the younger brother, "God, I thank You that I am not as other men" (Lk 18:11). The Pharisee boasted of his obedience in comparison to the wayward ways of the tax collector: "I fast twice a week." The Pharisee bragged. "I give tithes of all that I possess" (Lk 18:12). The conclusion to the behavior of the older brother's attitude would be as Jesus concluded the parable concerning the self-righteous religionist:
I tell you, this man [the tax collector] went down in his house justified rather than the other [self-righteous Pharisee]. For everyone who exalts himself will be abased. And he who humbles himself will be exalted (Lk 18:14).
It is difficult to repent of self-righteousness. It is difficult to turn from one's confidence in his own self-righteous goodness. The self-confident religionist finds confidence in his religious experiences and legalies. He prides himself in an assortment of self-proclaimed self-righteous deeds that he has faithfully performed and bad things he has not done. But in all these merits of self-righteousness, he has forgotten that living the gospel begins first by recognizing the inadequacy of our meritorious spirituality, which is simply religion in action.
The older brother had forgotten that grace teaches us to stay close to the Father because we want to live in appreciation of the father's grace. The grace of the Father teaches us that He has always stayed with us, even while we were in sin (See Rm 5:8). But to stay close to the Father, it is not that we stay there because we are so obedient to the commandments of the Father, but because it is there that we find grace for our dysfunctional obedience. Our confession of our violations of His commandments is what keeps us close to the heart of God (See 1 Jn 1:6-10).
When this son heard the noise of the celebrations for the returned brother, "He became angry" (Lk 15:28). His anger revealed the self-righteousness of his heart and moralism by which he judged his younger brother. He complained to the father, "I have been serving you. I have never transgressed your commandment at any time" (Lk 15:29).
He had sought the father's approval and wealth on the basis of his own faithful behavior as a true son. He thus sought to obligate the father through his own good behavior as a faithful son. He too forgot something that is essential to being a faithful son. He based his faithfulness on his meritorious obedience as a son. He subsequently compared his obedience morally to that of his wayward younger brother. He reasoned that faithful obedience should be rewarded. He forgot, however, that the father also loved him because he was his son, just as he had always loved the younger son who had just returned from disobedience.
Herein was revealed the self-righteousness of those Jews who thought they had an advantage with the heavenly Father over the Gentiles because of their meritorious obedience. Jesus thus cautioned His disciples in view of the self-righteous religionists among them: "Take heed that the light that is in you is not darkness" (Lk 11:35). "Therefore, let him who thinks he stands [in his own self-righteousness] take heed lest he fall" (1 Co 10:12). "For they [the self-righteous] being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God" (Rm 10:3). And for this reason, Jesus, as in this parable, spoke to self-righteous religionists "in parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand" (Mt 13:13).
Because of his "self-righteous faithfulness," the older brother, as the Pharisees, placed himself in a position of being a moral judge of the younger brother. Descendants of the older brother today would be saying to the descendants of the younger brother, "We have faithfully attended the assemblies of the saints. We have faithfully partaken of the Lord's Supper every Sunday. We gave our contribution, and we prayed and read our Bibles daily. We even performed orderly assemblies according to an outline for assembly in our Father's house. And we add to this that we have not done bad things as others have. We have not strayed, but stayed."
In our "faithful" and supposed perfect performance of the Father's commandments, we too are seeking to continue our sonship with the Father. And by doing such, we seek to obligate God to respond to the performance of our faithfulness. In our self-righteously established sonship we seek to establish ourselves, as the older brother, as moral judges of all the younger brothers who have done this or that which we judge to be contrary to our moral and doctrinal code of brotherhood that we have self-righteously established for ourselves. Because of our supposed righteouness, we have convinced ourselves that we have earned the right to morally judge. We seem to forget this statement by the Holy Spirit: "For Christ is the end of law for righteousness to everyone who believes" (Rm 10:4). In establishing our own self-righteousness, we have ignored the righteousness of God.
The error of the elder brother was that he trusted in the performance of his obedience to the Father's will, and thus, he became a moralistic judge who condescended to the "issues" of the younger brother. Descendants of the older brother see issues everywhere by which they would judge their other brothers. They denominate themselves aside as a unique sect of moral judges who would cast judgment on all those who do not conform to the standard of their religious rites. They forget that the Father has other sons living out there in the wilderness of religion for whom He is waiting to return to His loving grace.
It is important, therefore, that the older brothers do not denominate themselves into a unique religion of rites to which they would seek to convert others. Older brother Christians must not deceive themselves into believing that they have earned the right to judge others. We must remember that when we invite others to come to the Lord, that we are not inviting them to join our denomination of moral judges. Our invitation to others must not be to "our religion of judges," but to the grace of God that exists apart from religious performances that are created after our own desires.
Older brothers are often blinded by their own religious self-sanctification by which they seek to obligate the Father to reward their faithfulness with a fattened calf. In making a moral judgment against his wayward younger brother, the older brother thought he had earned the father's favor. And in doing so, he shought to move the father's favor away from the younger, or at least put restrictions on the younger in order to guarantee through religious rites his own acceptance by the father. His anger originated out of his heart when he compared his own self-righteous faithfulness with the unrighteous behavior of his younger brother. But in his jealous comparison, he found himself with an unrighteous heart of anger.
In our efforts to be righteous before God, we must be cautioned that we do not assume that our behavior puts the Father in debt to reward us. We must remember that we are His sons by grace. This is the message of the gospel. "For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God" (Ep 2:8).
When we live the gospel of grace, we are of the heart of our Father who is seeking to throw a feast for all his sons, wherever they may be. As those who are invited guests to this feast of celebration, we must go out and compel others to come. The Father says, "Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in so that my house may be filled" (Lk 14:23; see 14:15-24). Now we know why the older self-righteous and religiously contented brother never went searching for his young brother while he was in the pig fields. When we are content with our own self-righteousness, we are not moved to go looking around in in pig pens.
[End of series. The book entitle, The Gospel of God's Heart, will be forthcoming.]


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30 October 2018, Central London, TBC
This seminar will bring together policymakers and key stakeholders to discuss next steps for improving collaboration between health and social care systems – and to assess the initial performance of integrated care systems.
It immediately follows NHS England's ongoing consultation on contracting arrangements for Integrated Care Providers, which seeks to provide greater detail about how such contracts affect integration between services.
With a recently published review by the National Audit Office into the performance of new care models highlighting mixed results so far amid some indications of progress, delegates will examine the challenges in transforming local health systems and disseminating good practice across the NHS.
Further discussion will focus on how the move towards more integrated and collaborative health services can be effectively communicated to build local systems, following an inquiry by the Health and Social Care Select Committee into integrated care which recommended the development of a national transformation strategy over the next year.
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This marks a first for my blog: a guest post. Patrick and I were talking about the momentum that SolidFire seems to have from a hiring perspective, and when I told him he should write a blog post about it…he did! We've been discussing a bunch of other cool topics, hopefully more of them make it over here! Thanks Patrick!
Predictions earlier this year proclaimed 2015 would be a transformative year for the storage industry. A tipping point, even.
Projecting those trends was kind of a no-brainer. Years of innovation have created undeniable momentum for dynamic new options to both consume and deliver storage — such as all-flash platforms, converged infrastructures, and even software-only options for commodity SSD hardware. These new models are radically reducing costs, greatly simplifying cloud deployments, and helping companies bring new services to market faster than ever.
Yet with all this excitement, few foresaw another measure of disruption in the industry: a growing brain drain among legacy storage providers, with their experts bolting for new opportunities at innovators like SolidFire.
Case in point. At SolidFire, we welcomed renowned IT industry influencer Amy Lewis to our team from Cisco late last year, one of our more than 150 new hires throughout 2014. She was among the first of what has turned 2015 into an all-star year for us. Since then, among others, we have also introduced virtualization and cloud infrastructure development guru Andy Banta (formerly of VMware), Gabriel Chapman, a prime mover in the storage industry (coming to SolidFire from Cisco), and esteemed IT architect Midori Oge (joining us from NTT).
We're not alone in attracting notable talent to jump ship. The innovators are running the storage asylum nowadays, with Pure Storage also recently announcing new hires coming from the legacy world. In fact, a recent Speaking in Tech podcast suggested keeping a scorecard to see who gets more talent from the legacy companies: SolidFire or Pure.
May the best innovator win. I think the odds are on SolidFire.


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Celtic Chief Executive, Peter Larwell, has claimed that Neil Lennon won't be leaving the Scottish giants for Sunderland, although accepts that the manager will always be a target of bigger clubs.
Speaking to the Daily Record, Larwell said;It would take something special to lure him away.
This is a special club. It's a special job. If I was advising him as a friend, it'd have to be something different.
If he continues to do as he is, then there will be approaches. It's inevitable.
But he's focused on what we're trying to do and he buys into it. He's given me no indication that he wants to do anything else. He's a Celtic guy and that is a big plus.
Lennon, like Gianfranco Zola who ruled himself out earlier today, was considered an outsider for the vacancy according to the odds makers.
He has had a successful time at Celtic, although you have to question how that would translate to the considerably tougher Premier League, with many thinking (including myself) it wouldn't work.
Lennon himself remained non-committal on the subject, refusing to speak out about it in too much depth, although he does intimate he doesn't really want to leave Celtic;
I don't like answering questions on this kind of thing.
Maybe you should ask the people linking me with the jobs. I'm not aware of who they are. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing at the minute.
Although not as strong as Zola's denials, Lennon looks as though one to cross off the list. If indeed he was on on anyone's.


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Ireland beat us, I'm afraid.
And since I've started in non-knit mode, I'll go on.
Yesterday's computer problem was the Palm. When I tried to access any of the nearly-300 files I have already equipped with permanent endnotes and squirted in, I got an error message about a previous version of Documents to Go having been detected. I was referred to a website, I went there, and attempted to carry out the alarming instructions I found. Unlike my adventures with Norton's instructions the day before, I failed.
A visit loomed to the nice young men on Tottenham Court Road who sold us the thing in the first place.
But then I discovered that all I had to do was click "Re-install Handheld Applications" from the Tools menu of Documents to Go. So all is well. My husband wants to take the Palm along to London tomorrow, so I will have to spend today squirting in as many as possible of the 123 additional files I have prepared.
Look! what arrived yesterday. I meant it for Strathardle wear, but it was so luscious that I have had it on ever since I opened the package. CafePress are very nice to deal with, quite apart from the wonderfulness of Franklin's designs. Good quality stuff, speedy service, and, for some reason, no customs duty to pay. This was my 5th order from them.
The other non-knit item this morning is the weather. I think we were lucky in our choice of days for Strathardle last week. I am grateful to the passer-by for providing that coup de rouge.
OKC (Obligatory Knit Content)
The soothing qualities of the Princess were much in evidence last night, as I recovered from Scotland's defeat. I'm doing row 64.
The other thing I did last night was repair Thomas-the-Younger's striped Koigu (same design as Rachel's, shewn yesterday, only smaller and with a sort of Aran-coloured yarn for the constant stripes). It fell apart in its first wash. The odd thing is, that the same thing happened to the Baby Surprise I knit last year for a neighbour's baby – which used that same Aran-coloured yarn as its main colour. I can't find anything wrong with the yarn, so I have to blame faulty workmanship in both cases, but it's an odd coincidence.
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If there is one thing that Bitcoin needs right now to continue penetrating into mainstream adoption, it is more positive exposure to the masses.
And it obviously couldn't have come any better than from the Twitter Handle of the current President of America, Donald Trump.
Oh, and Bitcoin has Facebook's new crypto project, Libra to thank for it, with the primary motive of Trump's tweet being to speak negatively about the perceived Mark Zuckerberg led-effort to overtake the global banking system.
The RealDonaldTrumpJ tweeted to his over 61.8 million followers,
I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019
And added this,
…and International. We have only one real currency in the USA, and it is stronger than ever, both dependable and reliable. It is by far the most dominant currency anywhere in the World, and it will always stay that way. It is called the United States Dollar!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2019
And you didn't expect Crypto Twitter to stay silent to all of that and not try to let Donald Trump understand that Bitcoin's value is derived from math and not thin air.
Crypto Twitter Reacts to Donald Trump's Tweet About Bitcoin
While almost everyone on CT had comments to make regarding Donald Trump's tweet about Bitcoin, we picked out some of the notable ones by a few crypto industry leaders.
Anthony Pompliano
The Morgan Creek Digital Founder, who recently predicted a $100,000 price for Bitcoin by 2021, had always named math as the cryptocurrency's core strength and you didn't think he was going to forget that or did you?
If your argument is that Bitcoin is based on thin air, while Bitcoin's argument is that it is based on math, who should we believe?
Asking for a friend 🙂
— Pomp ? (@APompliano) July 12, 2019
Brian Armstrong
The Coinbase CEO labeled Trump's tweet about Bitcoin as an achievement unlocked moment for the industry.
Achievement unlocked! I dreamt about a sitting U.S. president needing to respond to growing cryptocurrency usage years ago. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". We just made it to step 3 y'all. https://t.co/N3tzUKELaK
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) July 12, 2019
Tiffany Hayden
She indirectly pointed out that only a fool would try to use an immutable ledger to hide their crimes and even questioned the fact that the first IP related to the hack of now-defunct crypto exchange, MT GOX, belonged to the U.S Department of Homeland Security.
What kind of idiot would use a public ledger that records and stores every single transaction ever made, FOR ETERNITY, to commit a crime?
Nice try, Donny!#Bitcoin #IvankaUnwanted https://t.co/FeeiVAmp85
— Tiffany Hayden (@haydentiff) July 12, 2019
Justin Sun
The TRON founder was even generous enough to invite Donald Trump to his $4.5 million lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, asserting that the U.S President has been misled by fake news.
Mr. President, you are misled by fake news. #Bitcoin & #Blockchain happens to be the best chance for US! I'd love to invite you to have lunch with crypto leaders along with @WarrenBuffett on July 25. I guarantee you after this lunch, nobody will know crypto more than you!
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) July 12, 2019
Whatever Donald Trump had in mind by making a tweet about Bitcoin, it has apparently done nothing more than pushing the cryptocurrency into mainstream consciousness.
It may not affect the price of the cryptocurrency in the meantime but it would certainly have an effect since there are people who want to do whatever Donald Trump says is wrong.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin at the time writing was exchanging hands at roughly $11,200, with a market cap just below $200 billion, marking a 3% decline in the last 24 hours.
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Honey is approximately 1-1/2 years old,
a Yellow Lab/Collie mix. She weighs about 52 lbs, and is great around
all dogs and people. She was found at 5 weeks old wandering a
busy street, eating cigarette butts, and dodging cars.
Honey is
now a very healthy and active puppy, fostered in a home with four
other dogs. She has had all her shtos, eats normally, and loves
her treats. Since Honey is a very fast runner, can jump a 3 foot
fence without even trying, and is anxious to explore -- she should
be adopted into a home with a secure 6 foot fence.
Honey plays well
with children and dogs of all sizes and ages, although she
may be too rambunctious for small children.
Honey has a constant
companion that will come with her to a new home -- a small white
stuffed kitten that she has had since she was 5 weeks old.


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Social Security has published a new ruling on how Fibromyalgia will be evaluated. The new rule is found here: New Rule
The new rule does not seem to change all that much the evaluation of the impairment, at first blush. It offers two methods by which the Fibromyalgia should be evaluated. However, there is a durational threshold of symptoms for fibromyalgia that has to be met. Clinic notes and treatment notes that do not document the symptoms over time ("longitudinally") are going to be problematic. The patient needs to be very specific about the symptoms and hope that the physician continuously documents the complaints, in detail. Doctors maintain clinic notes for treatment of the patient, which is a very different purpose than documenting symptoms for a Social Security Disability case. Social Security has been, always, pretty stubborn about recognizing the distinct purposes, which sometimes, thankfully, overlap, but sometimes do not.
This is a good thing for the people who suffer with Fibromyalgia. There are still, apparently, Judges who–let's couch it in the most charitable light–"struggle" with the notion that a medical condition must be demonstrated by diagnostic testing, such as MRI's and blood tests. This SSR should end the "struggles" of the Judges who resist acknowledging something that can't be cut out by a surgeon.


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