text: Your installer is showing great progress. Good work and thanks for getting involved. Some questions and coments: * I've got test computers with Win98-FE and WinME installed. Both have HKCU registry hives, so I'm not clear on your comment about they don't have this subhive .... perhaps you (or the nsis page) are referring to the uninstaller info, which may be specific to HKLM. Anyway, this makes me inclined to suggest that you/we rethink which registry entries to use for detecting previous installations .... I would be inclined to advocate maximum usage of HKCU, except that BibleCS 1.5.6 used InstallShield and uses: HKLM * I'm not clear how you got the MUI_STARTMENU_PAGE to offer the option to not write shortcuts .... I suppose I need to stare at the MUI documentation closer. Nicely done. * You've got an !include for WriteEnvStr.nsh, and a section for that, but no Components page. Is that silently done then? Are you really intending to write the SWORD_PATH environment variable? * What is your preference on detecting and possibly over-writing a BibleCS 1.5.6 installation? There is the statement: InstallDirRegKey HKLM "${PRODUCT_REGKEY}" Path which resolves to HKLM SOFTWARE\CrossWire\The SWORD Project sword.exe 1.5.6 used: HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\sword.exe" "Path" * I would suggest using more meaningful section names than the Eclipse generated sections Section -Main SEC0000 ---> Section -Main SecWriteFiles Section -post SEC0001 ---> Section -pose SecWriteRegistryEntries Section un.Main UNSEC0000 ---> Section un.Main SecUninstallFiles Section un.post UNSEC0001 ---> Section un.post SecUninstallRegistryEntries * The MUI_FINISHPAGE might have the text "Run InstallManager" rather than "Run The SWORD Project" * I would suggest consideration of having the "Family !define" statements and perhaps some of the "Product !define" statements be in separate .nsh include files ... a'la: !include "CrosswireFamilyDefines.nsh" !include "LcdProjectDefines.nsh" * Do you have intentions of eventually detecting a prior installation of BibleStudy, LcdBible, sword.exe 1.5.6 or earlier, JSword? ... the issue is to avoid redundant installation of resources (KJV, WEB, etc.) * I'm curious about your thoughts/preferences about a "StarterKit" that includes a Bible so InstallManager isn't requried to be able to commence usage. As it happens now, this SwordSetup installer is "empty" without using InstallManager. * It is possible to have the the MUI_FINISHPAGE reference a function, which can have a sequence of .exe's invoked: !define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN !define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN_FUNCTION OnFinishPageRun ; more statements here ;-------------------------------- /* * Function: OnFinishPageRun * Notes: - */ Function OnFinishPageRun SetOutPath $INSTDIR ExecWait 'InstallManager.exe' Exec 'sword.exe' FunctionEnd ----- Original Message ----- From: "DM Smith" <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] BibleCS Installer > L.Allan-pbio wrote: >> From SwordSetup.nis >> ;-------------------------------- >> ; Establish and remember the Start MenuGroup info >> !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_DEFAULT_FOLDER "$[PRODUCT_TITLE}" >> ; Remember where it is >> !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_ROOT HKLM >> !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_KEY "${PRODUCT_REGKEY}" >> !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_VALUENAME StartMenuGroup >> ;-------------------------------- >> This may be a no-no .... HKLM should apparently not be used with >> installations because it assumes the end-user doing the installation has >> administrator privileges. > I thought about that, but according to the NSIS site that HKCU is not > available under Win9x and WinME. > See: > http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Add_uninstall_information_to_Add/Remove_Programs > > If so and we go the HKCU route then we need to add in OS version > detection. > If Win9x then HKLM automatically. > Else, it should be a choice in the install to install for the current user > or for all users. > > But if several users on the same machine install to the current user, how > would that work? I mean where would the program be installed? Where would > the modules be located? > > In any "home" installation at least one person has administrator privs. In > a company setting, the user may not have admin privs and may even be shut > out from doing any installs even HKCU or changing/adding environment > variables. > > I'm not sure that it is worth trying to install to HKCU. I think perhaps > we need to go for the lowest common denominator ;) > >> Ouch .... I hadn't been aware of this, and have always developed >> installers that assumed the end-user had admin privilege. I'll do some >> more research on this. >> See: >> http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/windowsxp-sw.mspx item 3.3 >> http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6271.asp >> Comment: "You're having trouble installing a program for a user with a >> limited account" >> nsis forum question: >> http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=237355 >> <http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=237355> >> > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > >


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Kislev 5, 5765
The question arose this year, as it
does every year: what should be the focus of the discussions held at the
General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North America, which took place
this week in Cleveland? And as they do every year, the cynics noted that
yet again the main agenda items are assimilation, which continues apace,
and the difficulty encountered by the fundraising apparatus to respond to
the communities' needs.
Some observers also cite the low number of participants this year - about 2,500 Jews - at what is the largest and most important gathering of organized American Jewry, a symbol of the power of the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. And once again, experts in the U.S. and Israel lament the overly decentralized structure of the Jewish community in America, which lacks a central authority that might radiate leadership and outline clearly defined challenges.
Nevertheless, the secret of the strength of the American Jewish community lies in its very decentralization and the lack of centralized planning. There are more than 2,000 Jewish organizations and some 700 Jewish federations in America, as well as thousands of synagogues. The Jewish community displays its vitality through an immense array of institutions and organizations, which necessarily creates redundancies. But the decentralization accurately reflects the American political culture and the belief - also reflected in the economic system - that supply and demand will take care of these matters.
The issue of support for Israel may constitute a major factor among participants in the General Assembly, but it is less significant when it comes to discussions and decisions. On the other hand, the GA is important when it comes to formulating decisions on the amount of assistance rendered to Jewish communities around the world, including Israel. In this area, the participants will have to consider the possible implications of cutbacks in the federal education, health and welfare budget allocations as a result of the increased budgetary deficit.
But in the big picture, changes taking place in Jewish society are largely similar to the changes taking place on the general American scene. The approximately 25-percent increase in the number of Jewish voters for Bush and Republican congressional candidates is not only a factor of Bush's attitude toward Israel; it signals a much more substantive process among American Jews - the reinforcement of conservative and traditional attitudes.
Every few years, it seems, the American Jewish community witnesses a significant demographic revolution in which the percentage of Orthodox Jews grows, both in absolute numbers and in terms of more active participation in Jewish and general political life. The Orthodox overwhelmingly voted for Bush and the Republicans not only because of their positions on the Israeli-Arab conflict but also, they claim, due to their sense of identification with the Republican's social and religious values.
The Orthodox outlook, which is also seeping into the more liberal Jewish constituencies, constitutes a substantial shift from the traditional Jewish position, which backed the liberal line of clear separation of religion and state, and was inclined toward the left on issues of individual rights such as abortion and homosexuality. Increasingly, more Jews feel a commonality of interests with evangelical Christians.
Organized Orthodox Judaism is now closer than ever to the power centers of American politics. The Orthodox represent only 10 percent of the Jewish population, but they are at the hub of activity in Jewish organizations and federations, and their share of leadership positions is growing.
More than 70 percent of Orthodox Jews voted for Bush (as opposed to 70 percent of all Jews, who voted for Kerry). And as David Zwiebel, one of the heads of Agudath Israel of America, explains, from now on the Orthodox will be recognized, by both the administration and the general Jewish population, by their new standing as a leading political force in the Jewish community.
Bush's victory, and the increased influence of believing Christians that helped to fuel that victory, will have an effect on internal processes at work in the Jewish community.

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The Yankees played their first game this Spring, defeating FSU by a score of 8-3. Sure, the starters left after the third inning, but the backups were impressive, and FSU also drew their own crowd when Jameis Winston appeared later in the game.
The only Yankee regular starter to get a hit was Brett Gardner, while Francisco Cervelli erased him on a double play in the first inning and Kelly Johnson struck out looking. From there, the Yankees backups came to play, and they displayed some power.
The Yankees hit six doubles in the game: one from Zoilo Almonte, Brendan Ryan and Dean Anna and three from John Ryan Murphy (MLB.com still has him listed as J.R. Murphy). Ramon Flores hit a home run in the eighth inning, making him the first Yankee to hit it out of the park this season.
Jameis Winston came in the game for FSU in the sixth inning and went 0-for-2, but he received a round of applause for effort; he did win the Heisman Trophy after all. He wanted to pitch against the Yankees today, but he had a tender elbow which came from his last start. Despite that, it was still a good experience to face the Yankees.
What's Next?
— The Yankees will face the Pittsburgh Pirates tomorrow at McKecknie Field. Brian McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran will make the trip and Girardi expects them to play about 4-5 innings.
— Girardi has also put a date as to when Yankees fans will get their first glimpse of Masahiro Tanaka. Tanaka (along with Hiroki Kuroda and CC Sabathia) will face the Philadelphia Phillies on March 1st and each of them will go 2 innings and throw approximately 35 pitches. After this start, Girardi will split up Tanaka from the other pitchers to get him adjusted to the five day rest rule.
— The Yankees were one of seven teams to watch Johan Santana throw today as Santana attempts to make a Major League comeback. Santana pitched the only no-hitter in New York Mets history a few seasons ago but he never was the same pitcher. The Yankees showed interest in Santana earlier this offseason and it seems their interest never faltered. It could only be a matter of time until we find out which team Santana will sign with.


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Just days before being named a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the remarkable single mother of 6 talked to us about her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, and the challenges faced by women in politics.
Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee
Tavis: In October of 2011 we were honored to be joined here by a remarkable woman from Liberia named Leymah Gbowee. When her homeland was being torn apart by tribal conflict and a brutal government regime, Gbowee proved the difference just one single person can make in our world.
Despite being a single mother of six, Gbowee encouraged the women of Liberia to organize and fight for peace. That effort was the single most important factor in the remarkable rise of Africa's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
But when Leymah Gbowee joined us back then to discuss her book, "Mighty Be Our Powers," we had no idea that within 48 hours after that conversation she'd go on to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
[Begin previously recorded interview.]
Tavis: Let me start with this quote on the back of the book for a particular reason. The quote says, and I quote, "Leymah bore witness to the worst of humanity and helped bring Liberia out of the dark. Her memoir is a captivating narrative that will stand in history as testament to the power of women, faith and the spirit of our great country." It's written by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, the first woman, as you well know, to be president of your native homeland.
A year ago, 2009, as a matter of fact, April 7th, as I recall, 2009, President Sirleaf sat in that very chair. I was honored to have her on this program for a conversation, and I asked her a question about what being a woman did for her, how that aided and abetted her or challenged her in becoming the first woman president of Liberia, and here's what your president had to say.
[Begin video clip of previously recorded interview]
"President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf:" As a man I would have had so many kind of interests, so many things to claim my attention. I would have not been so focused, so concentrated, or wanted to be a successful professional. I would not have been able to speak out in a manner in which I could, because I think men and their camaraderie, want to make sure everybody — the forceful positions I took I think came from the fact that as a woman I felt I could speak.
[End video clip of previously recorded interview]
Tavis: I want to start with that, Leymah, because there's no way that Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes president if women like you courageously don't pave the way for that moment to happen. So what do you make of your country now having a woman as president as we are about to approach the reelections now in Liberia?
Leymah Gbowee: For me, 2005 was an exciting moment because I felt like we were ordinary women doing our protest and advocating for peace, and then having a woman as president was like the intro to our story coming to the limelight, because I often say that there's no way anyone can tell the story of Madame Sirleaf and don't say what the women did for peace.
So that's the first thing, but it was really an exciting time because it's been years. Liberia got her independence in 1847. It was not until 1957 that women could vote. So almost 100 years after independence before women could vote, so we had waited all of these years and then we finally got the female president.
It opened up two things. First, we had a whole population of young women who had been destroyed by the war and they were at a place where sex, their bodies, all of the abuses was what they knew, and the war really pushed them back into that subservient place.
Having a woman as president brought them out. We had a whole generation of older women who never really thought that politics and involvement of women in politics was something that they were supposed to do. Ellen also, her elections paved the way for that. So it opened up a whole new avenue of possibilities for women in politics.
Tavis: I want to get more to the back story of your life and what made this moment for her and your nation possible. Before I do that, as I referenced a moment ago, we are just days away from elections in Liberia, President Sirleaf standing for reelection. What's going to happen in those elections, you think?
Gbowee: Well, I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. I'm optimistic that she's going to have a first-round win.
Tavis: A first-round win.
Gbowee: First-round win, that's how optimistic I am. People say that's too much to be asking for, but I think there are two challenges ahead of us as women of Liberia. One, African women are saying to us your failure to reelect Ellen is going to prove to us that you are not as powerful as we thought you Liberian women were. That's the first thing.
The second thing, it is like now we've seen development roll out in a way that we've never seen. I have never seen it in my own lifetime like I'm seeing now, and I think we should continue in this trend and then start to prepare someone to take over after she leaves.
So I think she's going to have a first-round win. It's a tough call, but she's definitely going to.
Tavis: What, to your story now, and it's told beautifully in this new text, but what motivated you, or put another way, what compelled you to put yourself, literally to put your life on the line to motivate, to empower, to bring women together and to do so bringing Christian and Muslim women together, which is remarkable for me.
Gbowee: Tavis, we had no life, so there was no life to put on the line. You wake up in the morning and you were grateful. Grateful for what? Nothing, because it was always in the back of your mind that one bullet could take you out and you could be gone.
You go to bed at night, you're grateful to be sleeping, but then sleep would never come. We had a horrible life. Rape was an everyday thing. Our children were being adopted and sent off to fight, so there was absolutely no future. No one is promised a tomorrow as it is, but people plan for tomorrow.
When the nation get to the place where there is no planning and no hope that there is a tomorrow, someone had to do something. It was at that point that we, the women of Liberia decided we will die sitting, so let's die trying to bring peace. That was the motivation for us.
We needed to secure the future for our children. So for me, I had four children at the time, and they were not with me, they were living as refugees in another country. That was no life. I thought, let me get out there. Sisters, let's do what we have to do.
Those women who had seen the worst decided we will step out; we will do what we have to do. Even if we die trying, we will do it.
Tavis: Tell me, Leymah, what the purpose was and how you came upon the idea to just sit holding those signs, and always sitting, again, women, Christians and Muslims together, wearing white. Tell me more about that.
Gbowee: When we decided to do the protest we had different ideas, and the first thing was we had no idea about Dr. King, nonviolent struggle. The rest of the women — I had read King, I read Gandhi, but these were women who didn't have any ideas of any of these things.
The only thing they knew was the Bible and the Qur'an, and the Christian women were saying, "Let's do as Esther did when the children of Israel were under threat. Let's go to God in our sackcloth and ashes," and we didn't have the literal sackcloth and ashes to put on, so we thought, white.
But then also as we put on the white, no makeup, no jewelry, and we cover our hair, so that's how the white came about. So the white was symbolic, symbolizing our sackcloth and ashes. Then we decided we would do it fasting and praying.
Every day as we went out there to fast and pray we thought let's not keep it inside. Let's take it outside, and we decided to take that fish market because it was the major highway for President Taylor going home and going to work every day.
Then someone said, "Let's picket." At the end of the day we kept our focus. It was about the peace of Liberia, it was about the future of our children.
Tavis: I am struck by, and I want to ask you to comment on this, I am struck by — and it's in the subtitle of your text, but we live in a world where not everybody values the power of prayer.
No matter who you're praying to — if you're a Christian you're praying to God, if you're Muslim you're praying — so you're bringing, again, these Christian and Muslim women together, but the one thing they have in common, the one thing they agree upon, is the power of prayer, which again, for some people is so overrated these days. But talk to me from your perspective about the power that's pregnant in prayer.
Gbowee: There is no way that I can talk about the work that we did, or there is no way that the success of this work can be documented without the religious or the prayer part. That part of faith.
I'm sitting on your show today and it's evident of the power that God has in using the foolish things of this world to confront the wise. When we started our work we could not have gotten the boldness to step outside if we weren't praying to God. So every morning we went, we said a Christian prayer, we said a Muslim prayer, and we sang.
Tavis, no one, not a single being in this world, can leave their children at home knowing that I could be protesting for peace and a missile could land on my house and do that protest faithfully for two years without prayers and without the power of faith in a higher power.
So I know that everything we did was that guidance, that hand carrying us. There were times that we would decide we're going to this place to do something. Some of the very people in Taylor's government would be the one calling our cell phones to say, "Don't go," and it's only through the hands of God that these things happened.
The world that we live in now, people don't believe these things. They tend to put it, but the work of the Liberian women, God first, our nation to persevere second — I think that's what gave us the success. But 100 percent, even from the beginning of the work, it was divinely inspired.
Tavis: Since you mentioned the Bible, there's a Bible verse that comes to my mind right now that says that God has not given us a spirit of fear —
Gbowee: — but of power, love, and of a sound mind.
Tavis: — love and a sound mind. You know it well. I love that. I love a sister who knows her word. So not a spirit of fear, but of love, of power, and of a sound mind, and yet I'm juxtaposing that scripture with the brutal dictatorship of Charles Taylor.
How do you get beyond the fear of a dictator like Taylor, on trial right now — we'll come to that in a second — on trial at The Hague, outside, of course, of Liberia, but how do you get beyond the fear to get to the love, the power, and the sound mind when what you're up against is the brutality of a dictator like Charles Taylor?
Gbowee: First thing, I had been afraid all of my life, and you get to a place, I was 17 when the war started, and this is 14 years later. So you're talking 31, you can't be afraid for that long. You get used to it.
At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that. That's the first thing. So we had gone over the thing of fear. The power came from our anger.
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
We took our anger and put it into a peaceful container, and then we just got the power, I think from God, because that anger in that peaceful container propelled us.
Taylor had a ban on public gathering. The first day we were just singing and praising God in a little room, and then someone said, "Let's go outside." Without even a second thought, because he had some of the most brutal soldiers, we took to the street, about 250 of us.
People were shocked. We marched through the street, went to the city hall, presented our statement to the press. No one did anything. It emboldened us. The next time we stepped out our numbers increased, and every time we stepped out it increased and increased and increased.
Sound mind? You can't have a sound mind all by yourself when you live in terror, you live in mayhem. The sound of a tire firing is like a sound of an explosion. You can never have a sound mind by yourself, and I think that's the second place that God stepped in.
I'm going to keep this group focused. You will not lose your mind. Even as you lose your children, because there were women losing their children on a daily basis, but you keep your focus. I will give you a sound mind and you will do this work that I've called you to do.
Tavis: Tell me how you arrange these kinds of protests, you gather these women together, again, of different faiths, in a country, by your own admission, where women had not been respected.
So they're being raped and murdered, women and their children, every single day. I'm trying to figure out how you go from being disregarded in that way to being respected as you protest in the streets. I'm missing something here.
Gbowee: In 2003 we had a gathering where we brought women together in 2002, and these women, after we had sat for five days just having a conversation about peace, 20 of us, they decided let's take to the streets and create the awareness amongst the ordinary Liberian woman that we have a stake in all that is happening.
So we started a campaign called the Peace Outreach Project. Fridays we went to the mosques, Saturdays we went to the markets, Sunday we went to the churches. We did that for nine months, and the first time we started it was just 20. By the following week it was 40, 60, 100, 200, and then we had to split up into groups and give people assignments.
Then we went to a meeting after nine months to evaluate the work that we had done, and these women then signed a memorandum of understanding of Christian and Muslim women that anything that threatens our society, we will step out.
By April of that year, that was when the war started again. These women stepped out. But when we started we asked each of the groups that came, because as you know, they have different churches and different Muslim sects. We asked them to give us leaders from the different groups, so each group brought a leader, and these leaders became the organizers.
So every day after we protested, 20 of us again went around the table and three questions we asked ourselves: What did we do good? What did we do wrongly? How can we do better tomorrow?
Because we had no political connections we didn't know where the meetings were being held, the big meetings. Someone would just call and say, "Oh, we saw the presidential convoy going to this place." There was this old guy who could not make good business with his old boss so he would just pocket daily, and then once we had somewhere to go we jumped in.
Some days we didn't have money to pay him and he would say, "Well, when peace comes, I'll get my pay." So that's how we operated. Sometimes we walked, other times we had transportation. Sometimes no water, sometimes we had water. But the one thing we never had to offer those women on a daily basis was food.
Tavis: I mentioned Charles Taylor earlier. He is, as we know, on trial at The Hague. Your thoughts about his being on trial at The Hague and not in Liberia, and what you expect to come out of this trial.
Gbowee: Well, first I have a really radical view when it comes to The Hague, the prosecution of Taylor. I would have loved to have seen Taylor on trial for crimes in Liberia, not minimizing what he did in Sierra Leone, but I also think the people of Liberia deserve some answers for the kind of terror that he unleashed on them.
He's on trial in Sierra Leone and the verdict is supposed to come any day from now. The one question I'm asking myself, even if he's guilty, how does that make it right for those amputees in Sierra Leone that we see on a daily basis living in camps?
Billions of dollars — and this is like a policy issue now — is being spent on keeping this one man in a cell while hundreds of thousands of people will never have the ability to live their lives right.
Every time I ask myself what kind of justice, because I think justice is equal, if you look at the justice scale. So if you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice. I would like to see, even after his verdict is handed down, and I think it's going to be guilty, that some of his wealth is given to those people to rebuild their life. That would be a semblance for me of justice.
Tavis: How do you spend your time these days? Taylor is out of the country now on trial, perhaps about to be found guilty, you've got a woman president standing for reelection now. So what are you and the women in your group doing these days?
Gbowee: Many, many challenges, Tavis. Peace is not an event, it's a process. Six years later we have teen prostitution on the increase, teen pregnancy. I'm a part of something called the African Women's Leaders Network on Reproductive Health and Family Planning. Liberia has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world — 994 deaths to every 100,000 births.
In some countries it's one to every 100,000. Liberia has 994. You have the whole issue of the youth surge. Unemployment is high amongst the youth. So we continue to do peace education amongst young people, we're doing leadership with girls.
Because the one thing I keep saying to the young women and to my colleagues, we've left a legacy, President Sirleaf is leaving a legacy, but all of those legacies will only be a legacy if we have young women to walk in our shoes when we leave the stage.
So that's the kind of work that we do now. Beyond that, we're using our experiences from Liberia into other countries. A few years ago we conducted a nonviolence campaign during Sierra Leone's elections. For the first time my group and I have organized something we called the first-ever West African Women's Elections Observation Mission.
So we're having women from all over West Africa go to observe Liberia's elections.
Tavis: I love coming to work every day. I love coming to this studio every day, because I never know what icon and what great artist, what great humanitarian I'm going to meet, but it's not often that I just see courage walk up in this studio, courage just walk up in this building. Doesn't happen every day, but it did today, and I am honored to have Leymah Gbowee on this program.
Her new book is called "Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War." Leymah, I am honored to have met you, honored to have had you on this program. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Gbowee: Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure, and I'm truly humbled just being here today.
Tavis: I'm delighted to have you.
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Tavis: Gandhi once said, "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." Leymah Gbowee wanted to bring peace and tranquility to the people of Liberia at a time when all they knew was turmoil and tragedy. Her simple yet steadfast determination helped lift all the women of her African nation, and indeed women around the world. Leymah Gbowee shook the world indeed, and for that, she was a deserving recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.
Up next, a preview of an event we'll bring you next week on this program, focusing on the crippling issue of poverty in America — stay with us.
As they say, numbers don't lie. It's a sad and sober reality when it comes to poverty in this country. Recent Census Bureau numbers about poverty are simply staggering. Nearly 50 million Americans live in poverty, which means that more than 16 percent of fellow citizens are struggling to survive. For children, that number is 20 percent, and for African Americans the figure is nearly 26 percent.
With all the talk of a slow recovery in America as we dig our way out of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, there doesn't seem to be much good news for the nation's poor.
So it's against the stark backdrop of these numbers that we convene a special conversation in Washington about poverty called "Vision for a New America: A Future without Poverty."
Over the course of three nights next week, beginning Tuesday, we'll bring you a special event from George Washington University featuring an all-star panel, including Jeffrey Sachs, Cornel West, and so many others, with a focus on solutions to reducing poverty in the richest nation in the world.
Once again, "Vision for a New America" kicks off here next Tuesday night and will run over the course of three nights next week. I hope you'll join us for a critical conversation about one of the most important, but often forgotten and vexing, issues of our time.
Tomorrow night we'll continue this 10th anniversary week on PBS with a look at some memorable visits here by legendary singer-songwriter James Taylor. Until then, good night from L.A., thanks for watching, and as always, keep the faith.
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Hello readers! I've been blogging here at Come to Christ, since 2009. The Lord has been so good to me, and has done so much work in my heart these past five years through this avenue. I am starting up a new blog that I want to let you know about, at www.PoetryRenascent.com. I want you to know that I intend to keep Come to Christ running, but I want to make this new blog a higher priority, which means I will be posting on here less often.
A few reasons why I've started a new blog:
I've been writing poetry since I was around twelve years old, and it has played a crucial role in my life. Even as an unbeliever, poetry seemed to force me to be honest with myself about the condition of my soul, and in truth, that process had much to do with my coming to Jesus Christ. When I was saved around the age of eighteen I committed that my writing was to be first, and foremost, for the glory of God.
There are many reasons I've started up a poetry blog. I've faced many physical difficulties in my twenties, one of them being with my wrists. Pumping out lengthier articles (and attempted novels) doesn't fare too well with my body most days. A few weeks back I confessed to the Lord I felt like I was constantly being driven into a corner; so I prayed that if I be in a corner, may He blow the roof off of it and let me see more glory and more beauty than I would ever be able to see in open fields.
I don't know if that makes sense to you, but trust that it makes perfect sense to me.
Also, may it be said, that poetry is the form of writing that brings me the greatest sense of delight and satisfaction. I have long lamented that I was born in the wrong century and that "no one seems to care about poetry anymore." Well, I feel challenged that perhaps that is not true.
Lastly, I recently read "Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully," by one of my favorite writers and preachers, John Piper. I suggest you read it too as it mightily encouraged me in poetic pursuit.
What I hope (key word being hope) to accomplish with this blog:
1. I want to hone my own writing skills and bless first the Lord, then people with my poetry.
2. I want to read more stuff by poets and hymn writers of old. Then I want to share the best of it with you.
3. Of course I'm also happy to share poems or review poetry books by people far more accomplished then myself who have already published! Feel free to let me know what's out there!
4. I want to share my love of hymns with you and try to feature modern artists who promote that same aim.
5. I want others to join me! I am hoping to receive and share some excellent, little-known or unknown poetry from other writers. Beyond that how awesome would it be if we could collaborate? I like to dream about musicians, and videographers, and photographers, and actors, and poets all collaborating together- but perhaps I dream too much?
Well, it doesn't hurt to dream does it? In the meantime I'll try to stay faithful to my meager efforts, as the Lord allows me to. I hope you will take time to visit my new website and perhaps share, subscribe, or follow on Facebook!
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Chrissy Metz is about to hit the red carpet of her very first Golden Globe Awards appearance and she's thrilled.
E! News caught up with the This Is Us actress and first-time Golden Globe nominee during one of her dress fittings for the night ahead and got the scoop on who she's may be bringing to the award show.
As for what Metz will be donning come Sunday evening, the star worked with Christian Siriano to create not one, but two gowns to choose from.
Her hairstylist David Gardner will undoubtedly be by her side for glam prep and he told us he's going back and forth between two inspirations—but of course, it all depends on which dress she chooses. One thing is for sure, there will be volume, texture and gorgeous hair!
Check out the video below to get more details on both of the gowns that the 36-year-old star is currently picking between.
And as for a possible date to the 2017 Golden Globes, Metz admits that she's going to have her publicist and agent with her Sunday night and helping her with her recent knee injury.
With these major award show nights, it's easy to get caught up in the moment if you get so lucky as to be called up on stage for your performance, right?
Well, Metz is taking nerves into account if the opportunity presents itself, but she tells us she won't be preparing a speech.
"I think roughly I know who I want to thank but I'm not even thinking that far," she tells us. "I think I might have a loose list but I'm not going to take anything up, I want everything to be really organic."
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Hi Folks! I am in such a great mood today! Yesterday, I went to my kids after school program and volunteered to do cards with them as part of my 26 random acts of kindness in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting. I didn't know anyone there and although they live… Read More »


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As Probrand releases strong interim results, it is the brands that are growing channel sales after backing the companys online IT procurement solution, www.theitindex.co.uk.
Probrand has helped vendors buck the flat market for a third year, posting impressive 2006 interim results that show turnover up 14% year-on-year.
And thanks to the success of Probrands online channel, which now accounts for over 50% of its business, vendors are recording sales growth of up to 300%. Probrands award winning IT procurement portal is the key to future IT reselling.
Theitindex.co.uk secured Probrands position as one of six suppliers providing 2BN ICT goods and services through the governments Catalist framework. This in turn has unlocked several new account wins from police forces to Local Authorities and educational establishments.
Last year saw theitindex.co.uk smash all records, continuing its exponential growth rate of 144% year-on-year. The solution has more than doubled in size since 2004 and now contributes over 10M to the Groups annual turnover.
These results demonstrate Probrands insatiable march on the IT sector. Theitindex.co.uk continues to grow and now daily lists over 100,000 product lines from 1200 manufacturers by best price and availability. It is helping customers like Cheltenham Borough Council save over a day week in procurement time and 15% on its IT budget. The solution is the first of its type to be accredited by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
But it is the innovative Mercato software that powers theitindex.co.uk that looks set to be Probrands ongoing strategic growth model.
As Probrand continues to develop new online tools that apply Mercato web technology to a host of commerce areas from e-CRM through to price policing, this has seen further value added to its growth. The new technologies also take Probrands offer into sectors outside of IT.
Stephen Bushell, Probrand Group Head of new business, said: "In business you have to innovate and this is what we have been doing since we introduced theitindex.co.uk some years ago. The Mercato technology that powers theitindex.co.uk continues to help us and the vendors grow against a sector that still remains flat.
Organisations are looking for best priced IT within the shortest possible time and we continue to deliver just that. It is our innovation that has seen the public sector switch on to the bottom line savings theitindex.co.uk can offer with approval to the OGCbuying.solutions Catalist framework.
Additionally, the ongoing development of our suite of online Mercato solutions that touch almost every aspect of commerce functionality, from sales to purchasing, continue to work hard for us as both private and public sector organisations look for efficiency savings to add value to the bottom line.
Financial Directors, IT Managers and procurement professionals alike are reaching for the time and money savings alongside a clear audit trail delivered by our proven solutions. This includes a record of all transactions and RFQ communication with suppliers.
Functionality that is now required after the DTI took a lead from US Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and expanded its demands for reporting compliance in the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) of 2005.
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CF Industries Holdings, Inc. announced that it will construct new ammonia and urea/UAN production units at its complex in Donaldsonville, La., and new ammonia and urea units at its complex in Port Neal, Iowa.
CF Industries' board of directors has authorized expenditure of $3.8 billion for the projects and the company has retained engineering and procurement services from ThyssenKrupp Uhde through their affiliate Uhde Corporation of America. In combination, these projects will be able to produce annually 2.1 million tons of gross ammonia and upgraded products ranging from 2.0 to 2.6 million tons of granular urea and up to 1.8 million tons of UAN solutions, depending on product mix.
"We are pleased to announce definitive, large-scale nitrogen capacity expansion plans at our North American operations focused on substantially increasing our ability to serve our customers," said Stephen Wilson, chairman and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. "We believe that our projects will be among the first in North America to be in production. We already own suitable sites, have retained a world-class engineering partner and have completed the front end engineering and design study for key components of the projects."
The capital cost estimate of $3.8 billion includes: engineering and design; equipment procurement; construction; associated infrastructure including natural gas connections, power supply, and product storage and handling systems; and related start-up expenses.
Expenditures for the projects have begun and will continue into 2016. The Donaldsonville project budget is $2.1 billion, with the new urea and UAN plants scheduled to come on stream in the second half of 2015 and the new ammonia plant in 2016. The Port Neal project budget is $1.7 billion with the new ammonia and urea plants scheduled to come on stream in 2016. The following table indicates the production capacity for each of the new plants and the anticipated typical product mix.


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The most useful standalone tool in threepress right now is tei2epub, which the system uses to convert its internal source XML to the emerging e-book standard format epub.
TEI is the Text Encoding Initiative, and is one of the most popular markup formats for printed works (especially in academics). All of the content on threepress has been converted from the Gutenberg format to TEI upon ingestion into the site.
epub is the shorthand for the e-book format proposed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), which uses XHTML and custom metadata formats. An e-book bundle is distributed in ZIP file format with its text and supplementary media "bound" together.
tei2epub is written in Python with XSLT. It also comes bundled with the latest version of epubcheck, for validating the output. It is meant to be used by developers rather than end-users (unlike the recent BookGlutton epub converter) and as most of the functionality is in the XSLT, should be easy to port to other languages. Like all threepress tools it is released under the BSD license which means it is free for all commercial and non-commercial use. You may download the ZIP version of the current release or get the latest version from svn at
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The state lottery in Georgia, upon which Tennessee's constitutional provision is modeled, has been hailed as the finest scholarship program in the country and the best constitutional lottery provision as well. Tens of thousands of Georgia students have tuition paid through the HOPE scholarship and then join the state's work force, which fuels Georgia's economic engine for the 21st century.
Seventy-five percent of the best and brightest students in Georgia now attend Georgia universities rather than the 25 percent prior to the establishment of the HOPE program. SAT scores have risen by 11 percent since the inception of HOPE, and pre-kindergarten programs have provided an early start to children in reading and learning -- and a great start toward a HOPE scholarship.
Critic Nell Levin, a state income-tax advocate, missed the point when she wrote in the Flyer last week that "a lottery creates few jobs and no useful product." It creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and better workers who enter the work force debt-free because of the proceeds of the lottery. Further, when people go out of state to buy lottery tickets they often purchase groceries, alcohol, and gasoline. If those people buy their products in Tennessee, they contribute to Tennessee's economy and pay Tennessee taxes.
Levin suggests that the lottery will not solve Tennessee's revenue problems. On this she is right, of course; it will also not cure cancer, malaria, or whooping cough.
It took 17 years to get the lottery on the ballot in Tennessee. Its failure to do so did not help the cause of those who advocate tax reform, and its passage this year will not hinder them either. A lottery isn't a tax. It is a voluntary form of funding scholarships and participating in a game, which is a form of entertainment. People play the lottery in approximately the same proportions as their income levels. In fact, the typical player is middle income and a high school graduate.
Tennessee's program has not yet been developed, but I would advocate not allowing Pell grants to be used, as they can be in Georgia, as a credit against lottery scholarships. This would benefit lower-income families while not disadvantaging students from other income levels.
Ours will be one of only three states whose constitutional provision for a lottery mandates education spending on new and specific programs. The amendment requires that the money supplement, not supplant, education funding.
Tennessee may be late getting into the lottery game, but a study by the state's Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations estimates we will net $300 million for college scholarships and post-secondary technical and educational improvement opportunities, in addition to pre-kindergarten and after-school programs and K-12 capital construction improvements.
We might have made more had we started earlier, but for right now and the past 17 years we have gotten nothing. It is like buying a stock for a penny a share, which climbs to 300 million in the first year. If it should fall to 250 or 200 million, we still bought it for a penny. That is a pretty good investment for Tennessee shareholders whose dividend will be a better-educated work force and citizenry.
I have always played the lottery wherever I go and have won a few small returns. I enjoyed picking the numbers and look forward to seeing the winning numbers. My only regret is that I have helped other states meet their needs rather than my own state.
I look forward to making a voluntary contribution to a Tennessee lottery game and know Tennessee's future will be better for it. It is a sure-fire winner.
It says yes to Tennessee, it says yes to young people with ambition and ability, and it says no to Tennesseans traveling to Kentucky, Georgia, Missouri, Virginia, and other states -- as they have done with more than $200 million -- to play the lottery in those states. Lottery yes!
State Senator Steve Cohen is the sponsor of the statewide lottery referendum, coming in 2002.


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Losing weight and keeping it off may require more exercise than previously thought -- maybe twice as much as the 30 minutes recommended. A study from Brown University researchers found that 2,500 people who lost an average 60 pounds and kept it off for a year exercised about an hour a day. We know that 30 minutes every day is a good thing -- it's better than less than that. But after that, what you want is somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes.
Most of the people studied walked about 10 miles a week, and then did aerobics, weight lifting or other activities. Another study found that short bouts of exercise during the day were as effective as one long period in maintaining weight loss for women. It is important that people know they can exercise a little bit at a time. To send them a message they have to do an hour a day is going to turn them off. We need to readjust that figure and find ways to get people to do a little more. Patients who kept the weight off likely paid close attention to their diets as well. If you don?t adopt both exercise and focus on the eating behaviors you won?t be successful long term.
Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity at Charleston, South Carolina November, 1999
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
It is not common that a news piece changes my clinical practice, but this report has. I will be confidently advising patients who are heavy and seeking to lose weight to increase their exercise to one hour per day. This will require significant lifestyle modifications, as most of us do not have a free hour to spare every day.
One simple suggestion, in light of the fact that winter is approaching and walking outside is not really a comfortable option for most of us, is to use a high quality rebounder. One needs to purchase one for at least $200 as the $20 models will not hold up. I recommend 800-497-9516 as the least expensive source I have been able to identify.
When I had TV in my home, I would watch it while I was rebounding in the winter and found it a practical way to be more efficient and get in my exercise. I was delighted to find out from this report though that exercise can be broken up and the same benefits will be achieved. This makes compliance much more likely to this approach.
Let?s say you?re already a fan of fitness. You?re tuned into the diet and exercise regimen your body needs to keep on ticking properly. But like a lot of Americans, you?d like to lose a few more pounds and your days are already packed. You squeeze in a half-hour of exercise over lunch (if you don?t have a meeting) or after work (if you can break away before you need to get to your dinner date or home to the kids). You've been reading for years that you should shoot for 30 minutes of exercise a day, and that?s all you have to give.
Then along comes last week?s report that researchers now think you might need to double your exercise time to an hour if you want to lose weight and keep it off. It?s enough to make you give up, head for the couch and get ready for a nice cozy winter of chips ?n? salsa ?n? channel surfing.
But if you probe behind the breathless wire stories and talk to the Ph.D.?s of the fitness world ? as we did for this story ? you realize that all is not lost. Experts say many people focus too much on the duration of their exercise time and not enough on the intensity. Thirty minutes a day can still be enough if you concentrate on ramping up your routine when you?re ready.
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John Jakicic, an assistant professor at Brown University School of Medicine who studies exercise and obesity, was part of the team that presented their findings at last week?s symposium of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
How Much Should You Do?
National Coalition to Promote Physical Activity (US Surgeon General, CDC, AHA, et al): 30 mins moderate 5 or more days
Jakicic seminar: 60 mins moderate 5 or more days
American Coll. Sports Medicine: 20 mins mod. -High 4-5 days
These are the MINIMUM exercise recommendations of various experts. The National Coalition offers a broad guideline, Jakicic focuses on people who exercise primarily to lose weight, and the ACSM focuses on people who are already in a safe weight range and exercise primarily for health and fitness. All groups say if you have time for an hour a day, go for it.
The Brown group studied data from an established survey of overweight people known as the National Weight Control Registry, as well as several of their own studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. They looked at the histories of a group of overweight women, all of whom were age 18 or older and had lost 25 pounds or more. The average starting weight of the group was 200 pounds, and their principal fitness goal was weight loss. Then the researchers looked at the individuals who had been most successful ? those who had maintained their 25+ pound weight loss for a year or more.
And they concluded that for those women, the U.S. Public Health guidelines on exercise for general cardio-respiratory fitness were just not enough. Those guidelines suggest that Americans should exercise at moderate intensity (activities like brisk walking) for at least 150 minutes a week: a half-hour a day five or more days a week. But when weight loss, not heart and lung health, was the main objective, the most successful individuals had exercised for 280-300 minutes a week at moderate or higher intensity, according to Jakicic. ?Doing just the amount of exercise indicated by the public health guidelines doesn?t do enough for weight loss,? he says.
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But Wayne Westcott, fitness research director at South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Mass., says that the hour-a-week suggestion only tells half the story. ?People concentrate too much on the time they exercise instead of on the effort they expend,? says Westcott. ?In reality, you need both ? it?s a reciprocal relationship.? To illustrate, he uses an example of a non-overweight person exercising with her dog. If she walks her dog for an hour at a brisk 4mph pace, she burns 400 kcal (calories). But if she doubles the pace to an 8mph running speed and goes for half the time, 30 minutes (not easy but a speed most runners can build up to), she burns about 440 calories, 10 percent more.
?It?s like what you always hear about your car,? says Westcott. ?If you rush to get to the gas station, you actually burn more fuel.? Even when you?re on foot, covering the same distance at a faster pace burns more calories. This fact is especially relevant to people who do some of their exercise in gyms on cardio equipment like treadmills, stairclimbers and stationary bikes. Those machines often have two programs: a faster one called something like the ?conditioning zone,? and a slower one like the ?fat-burning zone.?
But the reality is that most people only get on those machines for a fixed amount of time every workout, say 20 or 30 minutes, regardless of how fast they plan to go, and many of them purposely keep their speed down because they think they?re burning more fat. Wrong! ? Westcott contends that the faster you go, the more calories of fat you burn, no matter how high you jack up your speed. ?There?s no difference between ?weight-loss? people and ?fitness? people in the exercise world. My recommendation to both groups would be: If you can afford 60 minutes a day, great. If you can?t, or if you?re just getting started, work up to 30 minutes, then increase the intensity.?
Do What You Can
With enough motivation people can lose weight on their own. Half of the people in the Registry didn?t have the help of dietitians or commercial weight-loss programs or self-help seminars. They did it by getting off the couch and making sure they set aside the time to exercise, even if they had to do it for twice as long as other people. And the root cause of what Jakicic?s data show may be this: high-intensity conditioning is often too much for obese people to handle, and therefore they have to put in more time. At a certain point, admits Jakicic, ?we need to balance what we think they need to do and what we can actually get them to do.? So don?t give up on exercise completely just because you don?t have an hour a day to give. But if you can?t do the time, you?d better be ready to sweat.
Not So Easy
Researcher Wayne Westcott dismisses the common belief that training at lesser intensity burns more fat than training at higher intensity. The percentage of fat calories burned is higher at lower speeds, but the absolute number of fat calories burned is always greater at higher speeds ? and for people trying to lose weight the total number is the only thing that matters.
A recent study compared calorie burn rates for a 30-minute walk at 3 1/2 mph (moderate walking speed) and a 30-minute run at 7 mph (moderate running speed). The walking group burned an average of 240 calories in their half-hour, 40 percent of which came from fat and 60 percent of which came from carbohydrates. So the walkers burned 96 calories of fat. Now, the harder-exercising runners split their calories differently: 24 percent of their burn comes from fat, 76 percent from carbs. But they burned a whopping 450 calories in the same half-hour, which means they burned 108 calories of fat in the same amount of time.