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By Brian Kelly
Theme: Toward an Integral Catholic Culture: Variations on a Theme of Father Feeney
Title: The Royal Priesthood of the Laity
Mr. Kelly first had to assure his audience that he was not going to espouse any heresy by introducing such a topic, which, in actual fact, has not been emphasized as strongly as it ought to be among Catholics loyal to the traditional Latin Mass. After giving a few personal anecdotes from the days of his youth in the 1950s, when there was still a residue of Catholic culture left in homes and parishes, the speaker moved right into the issue by showing how the royal priesthood of the laity was prefigured by the priestly kingdom of the Old Testament. As a nation God called the Jews from the time of Moses on to be a priestly kingdom; in the New Testament, however, Mr. Kelly explains that God reversed the role by inspiring Saint Peter to write in his Epistle to the whole Church: You are a kingly priesthood. Then, he explains how this royalty and priesthood are a participation of the members of the Mystical Body in the Priesthood of Christ the King. We are royal, the speaker pointed out, because we are members of His Body and our Head, Jesus Christ, is the King of the Universe.
The most important part of Mr. Kelly's talk was his examination of the participation of the faithful with the sacrificing priest at the altar in Holy Mass. He quickly ran through the prayers of the Mass to show how almost all of them are given in the plural: our sacrifice, our oblation which we offer, grant us we beseech Thee. What deputes the laity to offer what Saint Paul calls spiritual sacrifices is the character received in the sacrament of baptism, which makes us members of the Church. Our morning offering and the three prayers the angel of Portugal taught the Fatima children are good examples of our priestly commission. Of course, Mr. Kelly also explained the difference between the character of the sacrament of Holy Orders, which gives the ministering priest alone the power to consecrate and forgive sins, and the common priesthood with which we are marked at baptism.
Citing excerpts from Father Feeney's Bread of Life, Mr. Kelly inspired the audience to take seriously their noble calling as royal members of Christ the King. He concluded his talk with some explanations of the meaning of Catholic culture, ending it with a prayer from True Devotion for the coming of the triumphal age of Mary when holy souls will breathe Mary as the body breathes the air.
Watch a preview on YouTube here.
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Your probably wondering why I'm writing about AutoCAD 2010 on a Revit blog. It's a valid point. Well the Autodesk 2010 portfolio was announced last Friday with fanfare and a global webcast. If you haven't seen it, its worth taking a look, because you'd get a sneak peak of Revit Architecture 2010 as well as the rest of the new 2010 Autodesk AEC portfolio. :-). If you haven't take a look here.
I've been fortunate enough to have had the AutoCAD 2010 beta version on my laptop for sometime now and I have to say I have been very impressed with what's new. There are some cracking features in this release and the Revit development guys should take note, because there are some nice touches which should be in Revit!! If you want a complete run down of all the new features in AutoCAD 2010 take a look at Heidi Hewetts video examples, which can be found here.
Ok, I have to say that I haven't really used AutoCAD in anger for a number of years. I generally use it now as a translation tool which sits along side Revit. AutoCAD is still a very powerful tool, even if its still just considered a CAD programme that draws lines arcs and circles by some. Saying that, anybody who attended the design symposium session on the Monday at AU 2008 you may have a different view! I generally don't get that excited about using AutoCAD, but I have to say, that this is the first version that has made me smile whilst using it.
So what will AutoCAD 2010 mean for the Revit user? Fundamentally in my view, the most important feature is the introduction of freeform modelling within AutoCAD. As many of you have seen, Revit Architecture 2010's freeform capabilities have been completely overhauled as well. With both AutoCAD and Revit now having these sort of capabilities this will only enhance the tools available to the design architect.
And the reason why I believe this is the case?
Convert to solid! This tool alone will change your workflow for ever.
It will mean that you can create complex forms in AutoCAD as meshes, convert them to a solids, save the file and then load this into a Revit mass family. Then use the building maker tools, convert this into building components. This is nothing new, as you've always been able to do this workflow from AutoCAD, but the ability to work with a mesh inside AutoCAD and convert these meshes to solids, completes the weak link in this workflow. There have been others ways to achieve this, but you had to resort to third party applications to do the translation. Now its all in the same box.
Take a look at this example............
I quickly did this pancake shape in AutoCAD 2010 using the new mesh tools and then converted to solid and saved the DWG.
I then imported this DWG into a mass family and then loaded this into a project. I was then able to skin the mass with walls and curtain wall as well as get the area of the floors plates.
Ok, it won't win any awards but as a quick design exercise, this is just amazing.On a side note this form was brought into Revit Architecture 2009 and it only took me 30 minutes from inception in AutoCAD until completed renders in Revit.


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A new study suggests that private schools are not inherently better than public schools. Surprised? Enough people were such that the study, funded by the US Department of Education, has created a stir in the education arena, as well as in the national news. But I want to argue that the results are meaningless, and for reasons not having to do with the methodology employed in the study.
The authors of Comparing Private Schools and Public Schools Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling analyzed math and reading scores of nearly 7,000 public schools and more than 500 private schools on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress at the fourth and eighth grades. NAEP was the chosen assessment tool since it is considered to be the national achievement test and is used to assess student academic performance against national standards.
Though the title sounds impressive, the findings simply suggest a conclusion. Nothing has really been proven and no new truths exposed. I could begin by questioning the whole concept of empirical studies that suggest this or suggest that. I could ask, "What truths have been brought to light by any study that is couched in such a vague qualifier?" I could attack all the assumptions that went into the model and then list those that did not. Had I gone that route, I hopefully would have raised enough doubt in the reader that the study would be discarded as worthless.
But the real error here is more philosophical than empirical. Studies such as these simply show that a deeper ill exists, a malaise caused by government interventionism.
Consider Consumer Reports
The popular magazine reviews consumer goods based on a proprietary set of standards. They test, analyze, test, analyze, etc., until they are satisfied as to the quality of the products under review. CR then assigns individual product ratings and notes one product as a best buy. Though most Americans accept CR's results as being of excellent quality, the noted best buy is not usually the market best-seller. Yes, I will occasionally look at CR prior to purchasing a good, but I almost never buy the best buy. I agree that the CR results are scientifically valid based on their standards, but that doesn't mean I am in the market for the scientifically valid, CR best-buy product.
Though it may only last six months, I want the new hairdryer complete with the latest features, bathed in the hottest colors. That's my choice. My preference rank for features and colors is above that for durability. Who is to say that I am wrong? In a free market, anyone. But, they cannot force me to act otherwise.
What would happen if Consumer Reports had legislative and regulatory authority akin to government? We would all be forced to purchase the best buy and we would all spend our lives unsatisfied. On the surface it sounds great to have a leading research organization controlling the market for "the general good and welfare," but consider your own actions vis-à-vis CR's best buys.
The same holds for a government-run education system. Even if the federal government mandated a set of standards that were scientifically valid according to the DOE national outcomes, the set of standards and outcomes would not be the standards and outcomes most Americans would choose as acting individuals.
Scientific research can create goods that are bigger, smaller, faster, slower, etc. But just because research can create the good doesn't mean that there is a market for it. No one wants a hypodermic needle that is rougher, wider, longer, etc. The superlatives associated with improvements and innovations from scientific research are not always desired by consumers.
In education, the best that DOE could be is a truly benevolent authority. It could gather the nation's greatest thinkers to divine standards of education outcomes and employ the top psychometricians, statisticians, etc., to create assessments that are mapped to those standards. At its hypothetical best, this brain-trust would simply function as CR does in the products market. The assessments would be scientifically valid and could rank achievement and note the educational best buy — based on the arbitrary set of DOE standards. But parents and students, as well as community members, teachers, and radicals, etc., would be unsatisfied; just as the consumer would be unsatisfied having to always purchase the CR best buy.
So, what's the solution? Simply, let the market reign.1 A free market system of education would create for those who seek different options a system that encourages the implementation of the spectrum of educational choices — best viewed as experiments, just as each new product, service, store, etc., is a market experiment. The successful experiments become the market standard that new entrepreneurs seek to surpass.
These choices would involve all aspects of education — including pedagogies, methodologies, etc. — which would afford all parents the ability to satisfy their desires for their children's education. Each idea would be evaluated by the parent, the education consumer, ex ante over the summer according to individual preferences and ultimate goals, and once again ex post at the end of each school year.
Parents would choose their standard of results and they would seek out entrepreneurs who would then hire teachers and administrators that could deliver the parents' vision. The entrepreneurs would purchase products to implement the vision and the science community would be engaged to improve old products and innovate new ones — all due to the market pressures of the freely acting parents, the consumers. This is the proper direction of improvements and innovations, from the consumer back to the scientist, engineer, researcher, etc.
The standards set by the parent would drive the research that would deliver the product, not the reverse.2 Currently we have a system where the standards are set by a myriad of governments and agencies — standards no one wants or agrees with — and we have a spectrum of research whose real goal is to drive the standards and grab the tax dollars.
There are scientific winners in the field of the delivery of quality, basic education, such as Direct Instructions, etc., but we know a significant number of parents, teachers, and administrators don't give a hoot about reading, writing, and arithmetic. They want affective learning — the feel-good, progressive educationist-babble currently in favor — and long for the ideal child, the product of the latest version of Trotsky's proletarian paradise.
I disagree with them, but their solutions may actually end up being correct, or they will fail. Only a market can show whether a solution is right or wrong.
That said, we have to keep in mind that Consumer Reports creates valid ratings that we mostly ignore, and we are all better off because we continue to make our own choices. Our individual wants drive improvements and innovations to provide for our greater satisfaction. Why should education be any different?
- 1The free market is the only economic system where we can disagree yet live peacefully. My wife likes Coke while I prefer Pepsi. In fact, I'd rather drink a glass of baking soda than a glass of Coke (OK, a little hyperbole for effect). Due to the free market in soft drinks, my wife and I can live happily ever after. Under interventionism, or plain socialism, the fight becomes which bland flavor will be served by the scowling apparachik wearing a faded Babushka. Choose freedom every time.
- 2Certainly a scientist could act as an entrepreneur prospector and create a product even though no current desire exists. But if they fail to meet future needs, they will suffer financial loses. The current system does not discipline the scientist since government purchases the product whether the education consumer wants it or not.


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The nature of artistic endeavor is that of ceremony itself; an artist gathers not only the materials with which to create, but the inherent spiritual actions that will allow the work to come to fruition. These may encompass such things as using a "lucky" brush; playing particular music while stretching a canvas; beginning a work of sculpture by first reading a series of poems -- the vessels of ceremony which set the stage for an artist's first gesture are infinitely various, yet filled with the seeds of the important beginning. From these come the art itself. And so, these ceremonies become an ardent midwife to visual ideas. All of our ceremonies do the same essential thing: gather us toward community. And it is in this communal spirit that the work of MIYA ANDO resides. A child of two cultures, in her art she encompasses both the duality of her heritage and the extraordinarily rich components of each: a Japanese reverence of simplicity and spirit, and an adamantly American vigor of transmutation and renewal. Her materials and inspirations are elemental: air, water, earth; her processes are spiritual: intention, focus, and clarity.
The result is an art of ceremony, and its ephemeral and transient core. Working with metals and the intricately mysterious surfaces which occur when their surfaces are transfigured -- chemically or physically -- Ando produces pristine and mesmerizing works of color, light, and texture. With seemingly infinite variation within a precisely chosen and defined geometric arena, her squares, rectangles, and boxes inhabit a realm of beauty that is a mirror of the tangible world: horizons, waterscapes, illumined landscapes, skies all impel the viewer to linger. Their disarming simplicity is garnered over long effort, and astute focus on materials, composition, idea, and presentation. Using photography as well as paints and chemicals, Ando's mark is that of the eye as mirror. She understands that visual images have two lives: one when they are created, and again when they are observed. She offers the viewer a magnanimous choice of creations.
And it is not only on the one-dimensional plane that these come to fruition. Ando's public works, such as the Obon water series, a public project in Puerto Rico, or the Reichstag project in Germany (see videos on the artist's website) reveal Ando's capacity to capture the essence of the transitory, and the ardor of memory revealed through the very ceremonies which are the heart of much of her work. Whether a scintillant reinterpretation in metal of a traditional kimono, or the time-stopping quality of light and movement in a daguerreotype process, these works evoke both memory and spirit. They have a resonance akin to the fragile beauty of a bell's echo, and the strength and resilience of metals forged through infinite process and reconfiguration. Her colors never mimic nature, but they are always the basis for what is found there. Taking her cues from both of her cultures, Ando has the best of both worlds. Each of these works have the touch of her hand; and all of them the ceremonies of her heart.
You have two cultures in your heritage, Japanese and
American. Can you discuss how each have affected how you first came to art, and
how they continue to invest your work?
I think being raised
between the East and West has influenced me significantly as an artist.
I'm seeking harmony in my works and
tranquility, I am looking
for interconnectivity with my works and I have a tendency to work with
balancing disparate things: permanent and impermanent, hard and soft. I believe part of the reason for this
seeking is associated with growing up in two cultures and with two language and
being of mixed race.
Who were some of your first inspirations as you developed as
an artist?
I looked up to and very much loved my grandparents in Japan.
My grandfather was the head priest of our Buddhist temple and so he was a
spiritual figure to me, but also someone who loved me and I felt very nurtured
and loved by my family in Japan. I have always wanted to be like my
grandparents, so compassionate and ethically pure with so much Omoiyari (caring for others)
Your work comprises a broad range of expression within a disarmingly finite scope of materials -- metals primarily, yet also photography, writing, sculpture and public works. How do you incorporate this post-minimalist approach to each of these forms of expression?
I use a limited vocabulary and similar concept in each of my
projects, regardless of material or context. Commonality is light (for example,
I use light in the form of reflectivity in my metal pieces and phosphorescence
as a light source). My interest is in materials that are in a constant state of
flux; materials that change as the light changes, for example. My works on paper involve graphite and
tiny prayers burnished directly onto the graphite - they are only visible from
certain angles, for example - the graphite reflects light in a soft and
mysterious manner and the text is subtle, almost invisible.
What is it about minimalist art, and its artists that you
have admired, that have guided your ideas?
I'm very interested in Zen thought as a precursor to the American school of minimalism. I am drawn to the philosophical notion of distilling or refining via subtraction, to arrive at something pure and true. I also very much admire the American school of minimalism.
Your approach to color is lush, yet almost restrained --
your tones and hues are inspired by dawns, dusks, and evenings, rather than
high noons -- please speak more about your ideas on color and its expression in
your work.
I spent my first 5 or 6 years working only in grayscale so
color is relatively new to me. Color is emotional and more difficult for me to
work with - that said, I enjoy working with color as memories - I always
remember how light looked during certain events in my life. I go back to those
memories when I'm making the color works.
Your "daguerreotypes" are fascinating; you have taken an antique and beautiful process and created almost images of the subject (self-portrait, landscape, clouds, skies) essence rather than direct depiction. How did you develop these ideas and this project?
I love the concept of 'Hakanai' (Japanese for 'fleeting or
ephemeral') This idea has been in
my works from the beginning and this is especially investigated with the new
'daguerreotypes.' - I thought it would be interesting to continue the
expression of this idea in different forms - I hadn't work with figurative or
representational works and so I thought this would be a good opportunity. I
love the idea of transforming something hard (metal plates) into capturing
light and transitory imagery.
I was very inspired by the Daguerreotype, the first photographic process of embedding imagery onto silver plates - they are so beautiful and almost invisible from certain angles. I hoped to pay homage to this tradition but in contemporary materials and forms. I always take photos when I'm traveling and for some reason I seem to have a huge number of photographs of fog and water and foggy mountains, of elements. I also photograph light ascending or transcending and now the figures. In researching daguerreotypes I was so moved by these traveling photographers who would have signs that read 'capture a likeness of your beloved' and so this inspired me to create works which were about traces and memories. I am hoping to create not clear portraits but muted, ghostly or dreamlike images.
I was very inspired by the Daguerreotype, the first photographic process of embedding imagery onto silver plates - they are so beautiful and almost invisible from certain angles. I hoped to pay homage to this tradition but in contemporary materials and forms. I always take photos when I'm traveling and for some reason I seem to have a huge number of photographs of fog and water and foggy mountains, of elements. I also photograph light ascending or transcending and now the figures. In researching daguerreotypes I was so moved by these traveling photographers who would have signs that read 'capture a likeness of your beloved' and so this inspired me to create works which were about traces and memories. I am hoping to create not clear portraits but muted, ghostly or dreamlike images.
In your public project, "Obon", the viewer
approaches the works through observation of its transience, by way of what
happens simply by accident on the course of the water's surface and how that
activates the leaves in particular patterns. Or, in the case of the lanterns,
how we might be lead through the landscape. How did this wonderful project come to be? Can you discuss
the evocative title of the work?
Yes, the 'Obon' Puerto Rico project is actually the third in a series of public works I've been creating for the past few years. Obon is a festival in Japan which occurs every August. The belief is that during Obon, one's departed relatives return to the home. On the third day the spirits return to the netherworld or spirit world via small candles in boats floated down rivers. It's such a beautiful tradition and I wanted to create something to pay homage to this idea, but with contemporary forms and materials so I chose to use phosphorescence, a renewable and ecologically friendly source of light. Phosphorescence has fascinated me for some years. In 2007 I was making paintings on steel with phosphorescence - in the day time they looked grey and at night they appeared blue. I love the idea of using a renewable and unexpected light source which will absorb and emit light forever. Also intriguing to me is that the phosphorescence charges according to how much light may be in a space and so this project is constantly changing and adjusting - assimilating to it's site and space.
For me, your works evoke the natural landscape and its
sensibilities: air, light, color, texture, and energy. Yet your works are also
spiritual in relation to how you express these qualities. Why is that such a
strong impetus for you?
I've always been very spiritually inclined... My family tells me that I was very
devout even as a tiny tiny child. Some of my first sound memories were of my
grandfather chanting Buddhist sutras early in the morning and hearing temple
bells. Coupled with living in the middle of a redwood forest in California has
highly influenced me. My interest
as an adult has been to investigate more universal, non-denominational
spiritual expression and I have become very interested in interconnectivity and
in finding bridges and vocabulary which connects us.
Geometry is a significant stimulus for you -- the grids,
boxes, squares, rectangles, circles provide a third dimension on your
one-dimensional surfaces. Is this a version of art-loving mathematics?
I am very interested in the geometry of nature, actually and so mostly my compositions are an investigation into this. Also I grew up in Japan and was surrounded by variations on a grid: shoji screens, tatami.
The surfaces of your work have a startling range of
pictorial possibilities: you work with some very difficult materials and
processes -- fire, fumes, toxic fluids -- yet you bring an alchemical result to
the final pieces. Can you describe some of these techniques?
I am interested in transformation and mostly I have been
focused on metallurgical alchemical transformations. These techniques involve
heat and fire and chemicals and acids and I do enjoy coming up with unique and
pioneering methods of executing my visions. Mostly I work with finishing techniques but also anodizing
and dyeing, I layer and combine and invent new techniques all the time, I'm
Very curious and adventurous when I'm working.
There is a quality of participation in the ceremony of making your art -- a kind of sacredness to its processes -- and you've stated that ceremony can be accorded to even the simplest, most utilitarian of tasks and objects. How did you come to this understanding?
I have a
respect for the materials that I use and for the practice of art. I try to
approach my studio practice with focus and concentration and with the correct
intention. My belief is that objects retain energy and a memory of the creator
and so I am cognizant of this as I work. My family in Japan made swords before
they became Buddhist priests and so I feel a responsibility in representing my
Watching "The Return of Gratitude of a Crane", I
am struck by how movement becomes a pulse of the landscape in this work. Can
you discuss this piece?
Yes, this video piece was a re-telling of a traditional
Japanese fairy tale that I grew up with. The story is really lovely and complex
and contains so many levels of intrigue. I wanted to tell the story in Japanese
and English and thought that an interesting image would be to simply drop
pieces of silver leaf in front of one of my steel paintings. The idea of metal (silver leaf) being
so fragile and ethereal was intriguing for me.
How did the "Reichstag" project come about? What
was its inspiration?
Sakura Reichstag was a fleeting project, lasting only
moments. I painted a field of cherry blossoms outside on top of the snow in
front of the Reichstag building in Berlin. Being of mixed heritage, it was my
way of expressing the sadness I felt while I was in front of this significant
building; significant for both of my two cultures. My family in Japan live not
far from Hiroshima and were effected by the atomic bomb and the war. My
American family has both US military and also holocaust survivors.
Your work has been international in scope, as far as where
you have exhibited. Are there particular countries where you feel most
energized in creating work?
I feel tremendous gratitude each time I am able to exhibit or create works outside of my current home of New York. I have found that there is a particular happiness for me to showing works in Asia, however because there is an understanding and context which makes for ease in understanding.
Writing -- prayers, sequences, letters -- are a component of
some of the metal pieces, and the graphite work. They become illumined on the
surface; tiny roads of thought and line. Are there more pieces in which you wish
to/plan to incorporate the written word?
I've been doing prayer pieces since the beginning of my
practice. In fact in 2003 my very first sculpture was a welded steel piece with
free-hand torch cut Buddhist prayers all over it. I grew up praying and writing
Buddhist prayers has been a tradition that I've always been interested in and I
see this as something that I'll always do. I have recently been studying the history of the copying of
prayers onto various materials, a practice that is particularly beautiful in
places like India.
What are you developing at present, and what projects do you
have for the future?
Currently I'm looking at surface transformations in the form
of rusting things in gradients - I am very interested in the fragility of rust
and the metaphor of the transitory nature of all of life with this
vocabulary. I'm also working now
with candy coated automotive
finishes with my work - these are a counterbalance for each other and something
I've been developing now for years. My main focus at the moment is to prepare
for a solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York, which is scheduled for June of 2013; I am also working
on two new public commissions.
All images copyright MIYA ANDO, 2012. Used with kind permission of the artist. Images, top to bottom: "Ascension Red"; "Kimono"; "Zendo"; "Woods and Lake"; "Leaves on Water," from the 'Obon' series; "Fudo"; "Big Sur"; View of gallery installation; "Ora Kumo".
For more images, and information regarding MIYA ANDO's work, visit her website at: miyaando.com
All images copyright MIYA ANDO, 2012. Used with kind permission of the artist. Images, top to bottom: "Ascension Red"; "Kimono"; "Zendo"; "Woods and Lake"; "Leaves on Water," from the 'Obon' series; "Fudo"; "Big Sur"; View of gallery installation; "Ora Kumo".
For more images, and information regarding MIYA ANDO's work, visit her website at: miyaando.com


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There's been a shift in the economic discussion in American politics. For months, the debate was focused on government spending, regulations, debt and taxes. Now there's something new: income inequality.
And it's not just the Occupy Wall Street protesters who are worried about the growing gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America. The gap has been growing for 30 years, but in the midst of the recession, it appears to have reached a tipping point.
A senior White House official says there's a surging sense among voters that the playing field is tilted toward the wealthy and connected. That's the sentiment behind President Obama's new populist push for his jobs bill.
"Middle-class families shouldn't pay higher tax rates than millionaires and billionaires," the president has said. "Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett."
Republicans in the past have done a very good job of screaming 'class warfare.' ... However, it may be that we have entered a phase where the gap has become so yawning, so wide, that those arguments are not going to be as effective.
But where the president sees simple fairness, Republicans see class warfare. Last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) blasted Obama for his call to raise taxes on millionaires.
"The president is barnstorming swing states, pushing a divisive message that pits one group of Americans against another on the basis of class," Ryan said. "This just won't work in America."
A Populist Moment?
Ryan says the income gap isn't as important as the American ideal of equality of opportunity — people's ability to move up the economic ladder.
But social mobility is also slowing down. It's now lower in the United States than other developed countries. The number of Americans who can move up has shrunk as the income gap has gotten wider.
"This issue is one that drives Republicans crazy," says Democratic strategist Carter Eskew, who thinks this might be a rare populist moment in American politics, when Democrats instead of Republicans have the advantage.
"Republicans in the past have done a very good job of screaming 'class warfare,'" Eskew says. "We, I think, have an ambivalent feeling when people try to stoke those kinds of fears and divisions, and Republicans have been very good at playing to that. However, it may be that we have entered a phase where the gap has become so yawning, so wide, that those arguments are not going to be as effective."
GOP strategist Ed Rogers thinks Republicans need to offer their own solutions to the widening gap between the rich and everyone else, which he believes is a real problem.
The answer to income inequality isn't to confiscate [from] the few and spread out among the many. ... The solution is to build a bigger pie where more people get a bigger slice.
"The answer to income inequality isn't to confiscate [from] the few and spread out among the many," he says. "They tried that in Havana. They tried that in Moscow. It hasn't worked.
"The solution is to build a bigger pie where more people get a bigger slice."
A 'Polite' Message
Rogers wants the kind of economic growth where wealth is more evenly shared — but by the market, not by the government. But Democrats are confident the redistributionist label won't stick to them because Obama is delivering his populist message not with a pitchfork but with a teaspoon.
"The way that it's being framed is pretty polite," Eskew says. "President Obama is not talking about a massive redistribution of wealth. What he's talking about is shared sacrifice, which most Americans would support."
And they do. Polls show 75 percent of Americans back a millionaires' tax and equally big majorities see Republicans as defending the interests of big corporations.
Rogers says that could present a risk for his party.
"You can't be a candidate or a party that appears to be in business to protect the interests of the privileged few, and that's where Democrats want to push the Republicans," he says. "Republicans are pretty good at pushing back, but, nonetheless ... that would be an untenable political situation."
Republicans Changing Tone
One Republican who wants to avoid that trap is presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He initially called the Occupy Wall Street protests dangerous, but now he says he understands people's frustrations.
"I don't worry about the top 1 percent. I don't stay up nights worrying about 'Gee, we need to help them.' I don't think about that. I'm not worried about that. They're doing just fine by themselves," he has said. "I worry about the 99 percent in America."
Other Republicans are changing their tone as well. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who once called the Wall Street protesters a "growing mob" now says he wants to have a policy discussion about solutions to the income gap.
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How Stress Affects Memory?
How exactly does stress interfere with memory? To answer this question we first need to understand how memory works. You may find that stress has nothing to do with you forgetting!
Memory processing allows us to acquire, retain, and recall information and/or experiences. We have short-termmemory and long-term memory. Information is first in our short-term memory (also called working memory) and it then gets processed and stored into our long-term memory. How?
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Information makes its way into memory by way of three stage:
1. Encoding is receiving information from the environment and preparing it to become a memory e.g. someone tells you a phone number.
2. Consolidation is how information becomes fixed into our long-term memory. e.g. you work the information by repeating the number in your head. Consolidating a memory is like burning a CD. Once the CD is burnt, it is in your long-term memory store.
3. Retrieval is calling back the information stored in long-term memory when we need to use it e.g. bringing the number to mind and dialing it the next day.
Stress can interfere with each of these stages of memory processing.
Interfere with the memory
When we encode information, we usually have many methods that we use to ensure that this information will start to be consolidated. Most of the time however, we simply repeat the information in our head in order to memorize it. If I give you the phone number 761-6131 and asks you to go and dial it on the pay phone at the end of the corridor, there is a good chance that on your way to the payphone, you will repeat this number over and over again until you can dial it. By doing this, you are ensuring that the memory trace of the phone number stays active in your short-term memory.
You cannot forget what you never encoded in the first place! However, information can be in your long-term memory store, but this does not mean that it is safe! Stress can also interfere with your capacity to retrieve this information from your long-term memory store. |
Although this system works quite well most of the time, the caveat is that this system is very sensitive to interference. For example, if, while walking toward the payphone to dial the number, you meet your friend Sarah in the corridor who starts talking to you, then there is a very high probability that you will forget in an instant the phone number that you were repeating over and over again!
Stress is like Sarah showing up before you can encode the number; it is a form of inteference. When you are stressed by something (e.g. work, a colleague etc.) this stress takes a lot of resources from your brain and interferes with your capacity to encode any new information. This is when you will 'forget' the management' meeting, or to bring your child to the dentist. Did you really forget these events? OR did these events even make their way into your memory in the first place i.e. were they encoded?
There is a fair chance that you never encoded this information in the first place. At the time that your colleague told you that 'Next Thursday, there is the management meeting', you did not pay full attention to what this person said because your brain was occupied with a stressor. Consequently, the management committee information never made it to your brain, was not consolidated and never entered your long-term memory store.
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Stress hormones have the capacity to increase your memory for traumatic events because they exist in large part to help you survive (e.g. chase a mammoth). |
For example, the phone number that you had to dial on the payphone at the end of the corridor could now be in your long-term memory store, and you now know this phone number 'by heart'. However, it is quite possible that the next day, just as you are about to dial it, Steve asks you a question. You then look at the phone and you draw a blank. Stress can act in the same way and prevent us from retrieving information from our memory.
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Memory processing involves many steps each of which is relatively easy to disrupt. Stress primarily acts as a source of interference and can prevent each of the stages of memory processing (encoding, consolidation, and retrieval) from occurring. So, why do I really forget things when I am stressed? |


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida teen is accused of killing his grandmother during an argument over beer.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office tells local news outlets that 18-year-old Dylan Brougham was initially charged with aggravated battery, but a murder charge was added Thursday after 69-year-old Joyce Ann Courson died.
The Florida Times-Union reports the argument started Oct. 10 after Courson hid her grandson's beer while he was showering. A witness told investigators he heard the woman screaming and found her body on the floor as Broughman left the house.
Police say the woman was taken to the hospital. She told police her grandson shoved her to the ground, punched her face and kicked her because she had hidden his beer. She died a week later.
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No doubt there have been remarkable strides in our effort to catch up with the rest of the world, particularly in adopting modern technology and best practices of advanced countries to make life in the Philippines manageable, if not comfortable. CCTV cameras are sprouting in every street corner, motorists have become accepting of cyclists sharing the road, green technology is fast making inroads in homes and industries. But alas, we are lagging behind in many areas as some bad old habits have taken deep roots and simply refuse to fade away. There are just some characters and situations that drive many Filipinos up the wall and out of the country faster than the promise of earning greenback. We chose only 15 that easily came off our mind or we'll take forever . . .
1. Ugly Oldies Need Not Apply
You are not likely to see this employer unless you meet his requirements: "Female with pleasing personality and good moral character, age 25 to 35". Such discriminatory job vacancy announcement is so common that Filipinos have learned to accept it as the norm. In advanced countries, these requirements are a no-no; workers are not even required to divulge their age, religion, sexual orientation and marital status.
2. Divine Intercession
In blatant disregard for the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, religious groups such as the Iglesia Ni Cristo and El Shaddai compel their members to vote as one bloc and campaign for candidates that support their sectarian and political agenda. But don't tell that to politicians who move heaven and earth to receive the "divine blessing" of the INC Supremo and Brother Mike every election time.
3. Knock on Wood
You're lucky if you happen to get on the handful of jeepneys and buses that have buttons or levers installed on them that signal to the driver when to pull over, otherwise you'll to project your voice and shout Para! or knock on the bus or jeepney ceiling to signal that you're getting off. This would all be unnecessary if the country would just follow the rest of the world and implement proper loading and unloading zones.
4. In God We Trust
Whether one is a Muslim, Christian, or of another faith altogether or however one conceives God to be, it's immaterial because the government is supposed to be neutral to any religious belief as mandated by the Constitution. But lo and behold, many government offices and public schools are adorned with Catholic symbols, primarily the cross and other religious icons. First Friday Masses are observed in some government offices, and Christian prayers are routinely conducted in public schools.
5. Slow Walk to Salvation
As if the horrendous traffic conditions in big cities aren't bad enough, some groups and individuals make it a habit to turn our main streets into their private domain by holding religious rituals and funeral processions on main roads. Honoring the saints and the dead is fine but can't people use the side streets so as to minimize chaos on major roads?
6. What Are We in Power For?
Whether you applied for a new passport or license for your business, any request from any government agency, chances are that the government employee who processed your documents would find some trivial and often subjective reason to needlessly prolong the process of your application, prompting you to come back or, worse, fork over grease money to facilitate the transaction.
7. Gusto ko happy ka!
That's not the title of a sitcom, it's actually a campaign slogan that helped propel an aspirant to the Senate! During elections, you will encounter candidates and parties with no clear-cut political distinctions. Candidates preach the same promises and pro-poor agenda while dishing out catchy slogans. Philippine politics and elections are not really be a contest of platforms and principles but a battle of personality, popularity, and political machinery (spelled money).
8. Kayo Ang Boss Namin!
Perhaps the sight of the Supreme Court rank and file holding vigils and prayer rallies for Chief Justice Renato Corona at the height of his impeachment trial left a sour taste in your mouth. After all, government employees were hired by the state, through a non-partisan process overseen by the Civil Service Commission, and not by the officials who would be appointed or elected to the office they work for.
9. Hello, How May We Help You?
You will encounter this character at the lobby of an office or at the sales counter of a store. The receptionist or clerk will answer a call even as he or she is in the middle of transacting business with a customer. The proper course of action would have been for the employee to mute or put the call on hold until he or she is done attending to the customer who took time to personally do business at the office or store.
10. Welcome to the Neighborhood
You might have noticed the unassuming office or the unmistakable warehouse on your way home. While this lax implementation of zoning laws allowed sari-sari stores and bakeries to be conveniently located in your neighborhood, it also sets dangerous precedents for small factories, repair shops and KTV night clubs to be set up in your area, or convert the narrow street into a parking lot for trucks.
11. Slow Men at Work
'Slow' is used here as an adjective, as in slow-moving men doing road repair on busy streets during the day when traffic congestion is at its peak. In other instances, the repair crew tears the road up and in the middle of their job they mysteriously disappear, making the potholes even bigger and deeper and snarling traffic.
12. By Appointment Only
At one point you probably found that your phone or electric bill was mysteriously jacked up. Or that you're suffering from a dismal Internet connection. While these are frustrating enough by themselves, what's even more infuriating is that instead of resolving anything via phone or email, you are directed to take time out of your busy schedule to visit your service provider's offices.
13. Point of No Return
If you find yourself unhappy with a purchase beyond matters of factory defects, you will be hard-pressed to find a store that will refund your payment. They will only offer store credit, forcing you to choose between an item of equal or lower value, lest you pay the difference for a higher priced but significantly better product.
14. For Your Eyes Only
Turn to your right, there's Angel Locsin teasing you in her skimpy bikini; look up and there's John Lloyd Cruz staring at you, as if making a pass. Here, there and everywhere on Edsa and other main roads are gigantic billboards featuring celebrities hawking all sorts of merchandise and services – from cellphones and men's briefs to sardines and liposuction. For heaven's sake, isn't the metropolis ugly and dangerous than it already is?
15. Ganito Kami Dito, Paano Kayo Dyan?
Tricycles are meant for short trips in the neighborhood; pets are supposed to be kept at home; vendors are allotted stalls in the market to hawk their wares. But alas, they are everywhere except in their proper places – tricycles racing on highways, stray dogs on every street corner, vendors taking over the sidewalks. Add clogged drainage, uncollected garbage, kotong cops, unresponsive officials . . . and you'll have an idea of life back home.


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Nothing breeds lawsuits like uncertainty. That being the case, the Supreme Court's landmark health care ruling is almost certain to open the door to lawsuits challenging the federal government's authority.
The court ruled the federal government can't force states to participate in a major expansion of Medicaid or else risk losing existing Medicaid funds from Washington. That threat amounted to unconstitutional coercion.
"In this case, the financial 'inducement' Congress has chosen is much more than 'relatively mild encouragement' — it is a gun to the head," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion.
Congress and federal agencies frequently put strings on the money they give to states. But the high court's health ruling didn't draw a clear line between the types of financial conditions that are OK and those that are unfair to states.
"The way Roberts wrote the opinion, it's a deliberate invitation to litigation," says Brian Galle, a law professor at Boston College.
Testing The Limits
This could become a very significant ruling if they're willing to be aggressive about elaborating on this.
It's possible that this ruling will have broad implications, because Congress uses the threat of financial penalties to get states to do all kinds of things, such as meeting clean air requirements and making elementary school children take annual standardized tests.
It's also possible that it won't mean much, because Medicaid is such an exceptionally large program. "This could be a sui generis situation," says Tim Conlan, a public policy professor at George Mason University. "No other federal-state program comes close to the size of Medicaid."
But Conlan says there appear to be a majority of justices willing to ask larger questions about the limits on congressional spending power than has been the case for decades.
"This could become a very significant ruling if they're willing to be aggressive about elaborating on this," he says.
The justices probably will get a chance to do so. States are likely to be emboldened to challenge other federal strictures. If courts find financial penalties that are much smaller than Medicaid to be unconstitutionally harmful to states, this could lead to a massive shift in relations between the states and the federal government — Congress would become much more limited in its ability to impose national standards over a vast amount of domestic policy.
New Ammunition For States
A spokeswoman for the National Association of Attorneys General says the group's members are still sorting out what the health care ruling means for other federal-state programs. The offices of individual state attorneys general, including some who challenged the health care law, similarly say they haven't yet thought through all the implications.
We've had very little guidance about the point at which a condition becomes coercive. I'm not sure we really have any more guidance now.
State attorneys general and governors often challenge new rules out of Washington. Typically, they don't win. "I don't know that states have won anything since the New Deal," says Ray Scheppach, a former executive director of the National Governors Association.
But the Medicaid ruling gives them new impetus to try.
"States are not going to stand passively by and allow the federal government to pass detrimental legislation," says Susan Frederick, federal affairs counsel for the National Conference of State Legislatures. She added: "What we can take away from the Affordable Care Act litigation is that states are no longer afraid to challenge federal legislation."
Conlan agrees. "If there's ever been an open invitation for attorneys general to pursue cases, this was it," he notes. "The court did not do what it did in Bush v. Gore, which was to say there will never be another case with these characteristics, which they could have done easily."
Congress has been imposing requirements on states in exchange for money for at least a century, Conlan says. During the 19th century, Congress handed out land grant and college funds without any real provisos. Since then, however, Congress has used its spending authority to force states to change the way they do business in lots of areas, from highway administration to welfare policy.
"In a sense, Congress learned its lessons about just providing the funds and leaving it up to states' good judgment," Conlan says.
No Clear Guidance
But the Medicare decision upends that dynamic. If governors in states such as Louisiana, Florida and Texas make good on recent announcements that they won't participate in the Medicaid expansion, the federal government lacks leverage to do much about it.
"It is true that this is the first time that the court has invalidated an expansion based upon restraint on federal power," says James Blumstein, a law professor at Vanderbilt University who wrote an amicus brief in the Medicaid case that anticipated Roberts' ruling.
"But they've always said for years, decades, that this [limit] existed," Blumstein says. "If this [Medicaid rule] had not crossed the line, the line wouldn't have existed."
So where exactly is the line now? No one is certain.
In his health care opinion, Roberts cited a 1987 decision, South Dakota v. Dole, in which the court found that it wasn't "impermissively coercive," as the chief justice put it, to require states to raise the minimum drinking age to 21 or lose 5 percent of their federal highway funds.
The sum at stake amounted to less than one-half of 1 percent of South Dakota's budget at the time — a lot less than the share of federal Medicaid money that makes up every state's budget, which is about 15 percent, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
But because there's such a big gap between the amount of money the court has said is permissible and the amount it has ruled is unconstitutional, no one has a clear sense of how much leverage Congress can wield over the states.
"We've had very little guidance about the point at which a condition becomes coercive," says Richard Garnett, associate dean of Notre Dame Law School. "I'm not sure we really have any more guidance now."
Redefining The Lines
It's possible that the Medicaid ruling will remain an outlier. Medicaid is far and away the largest federal-state program, and it was an unusual move for Congress to put the entirety of existing Medicaid dollars at risk, as opposed to a small percentage of program funding.
Supreme Court decisions in the 1970s and 1980s suggested that justices were open to exploring limits on what Washington could force states to do, based on congressional spending power, but nothing much came of those cases. And the court said as far back as the 1930s that it didn't want to wade into the murky waters of defining what might constitute coercion because that would result in "endless difficulties."
On the other hand, nothing in the court's opinion suggested that it views Medicaid as unique because of its size.
Other federal rules also put lots of money at risk. The government places numerous strings on education dollars, for instance. Those may not make up a huge percentage of any state's spending, but federal grant money dominates the budgets of some school districts, which might be encouraged to sue when presented with strictures they don't like.
The Civil Rights Act, meanwhile, threatens to cut off all federal dollars from any entity that discriminates on the basis of race or gender.
It's also unclear whether the court's decision opens the door for states and localities to challenge existing rules, or only new ones.
"The Supreme Court knows that this decision is going to result in some federal rules being ruled unconstitutional by some judges and maybe even upheld by some circuit courts," says Galle, the Boston College law professor. "They know that."
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"The biggest thing I learned editing The Getaway Car is that a working writer's work is never done."
Let's kick off 2015 with a podcast about one of the 20th century's great America writers, Donald Westlake! Our guest, Levi Stahl, is the editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany (University of Chicago Press). We talk about his history with Westlake's crime novels, why Parker is Westlake's greatest achievement, why the author wrote under so many pseudonyms, what it was like to be a working writer and how that concept may not exist nowadays, and what Westlake project he'd love to bring into print.
We also talk about Levi's day job as publicity manager for U of Chicago Press, his advice for people looking to get into publishing, why he loves twitter, how the internet has helped and hurt book criticism, what makes him put a book down, what he's learned about book marketing over the years, his favorite menswear store in NYC, how he can support both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, and more! Give it a listen!
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Levi Stahl is the publicity manager for the University of Chicago Press. He has served as the poetry editor for the Quarterly Conversation, and has written for the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Reader, the Second Pass, the Bloomsbury Review, the Front Table, the New-York Ghost, the New York Moon, and McSweeneys Internet Tendency. He tweets at @levistahl
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Lilly Pulitzer: Remembering the 'Queen of Prep'
Her tropical slashes of color enlivened the old-money crowd
Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink!
—Lilly Pulitzer
It all began with an orange juice-stained dress. American fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, who died this weekend at age 81, started her iconic clothing line out of necessity. She had moved to Palm Beach, Florida, in the early 1950s after eloping with her then-husband, Peter Pulitzer, who owned citrus groves in the area. She opened an orange juice stand and while working there, discovered that squeezing juice was a messy business. To camouflage the inevitable stains, she said, she designed brightly printed sleeveless dresses. The style was a hit with customers who began to request their own dresses, and she began selling the vibrant floral shifts in addition to O.J. Her short, easy-to-wear pieces took off and she left the juice biz to focus on fashion design.
The "Queen of Prep" (as in preppy) as she became known, became the president of Lilly Pulitzer Inc. in 1959. Her iconic jungle and floral prints in shades of pinks, orange, blues and greens were manufactured by the Key West Hand Print Fabrics company in Key West, Florida.
Because of her pedigree—her mother came from the Standard Oil fortune and she married into the Pulitzer publishing family—Lilly Pulitzer seamlessly situated her brand amongst the blue-blooded set. From the 1960s to the '80s, her Florida-vacation-in-a-dress shifts were worn by her former high school classmate Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, socialite and artist Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman and anyone aspiring to a Lilly lifestyle. Lilly herself summarized that lifestyle when she said, "The Lilly girl is always full of surprises. She lives everyday like it's a celebration, never have a dull moment, and make every hour a happy hour." Basically, her clothes were worn by the antithesis of any Molly Ringwald character from a John Hughes movie.
The brand hung on until 1984 when Pulitzer closed its struggling operation, but it was reborn when Sugartown Worldwide Inc. purchased the rights to use the company's name in 1993. Today, Lilly's legacy can be found in dresses, maternity clothes, stationery and bedding in department stores and Lilly Pulitzer stores around the country. (Apparently, as pictured above, Lilly prints can be found on Jeeps.) And they're also on the backs of sorority sisters, as indicated by the special-edition Lilly Pulitzer collections made exclusively for them.


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2 days ago I gave a presentation "Oracle 12c from the attackers perspective" at the DOAG SIG Security. I learned some interesting things, especially that a fix for the Oracle oradebug "disable auditing" problem is available since 9 months.
Oradebug allows to run OS commands and to enable/disable Oracle SYSDBA and normal auditing on the fly without leaving traces in the audit log. The fix for this problem is available in Oracle 188.8.131.52/184.108.40.206 and was backported to 188.8.131.52 using the patches 15805002, 15808245, 16177780.
By default the setting is not enabled in Oracle 184.108.40.206/12.1..0.1.
The undocumented parameter _fifteenth_spare_parameter (Oracle Description: fifteenth spare parameter – integer – Yeah, really useful) can now disable or limit the oradebug functionality. I could not find any information about this parameter on google or my oracle support.
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## _fifteenth_spare_parameter can be set to "all", "restricted" or "none"
## "all" disables execution of all oradebug commands, "restricted" disables
## execution of restricted oradebug commands, "none" (default) allows execution
## of oradebug commands.
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One of the unique attractions of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's preaching was his unique method of crafting messages which were both rich in substance and clear in presentation. Spurgeon rejected the highbrow attitude of the aristocratic Victorians of the day and instead preached directly to the masses in the popular language of the day. He used illustrations from everyday life and current events, rather than the literary allusions common in Victorian sermons.
This approach had an immediate impact in the London of the day, which was starved for relevant preaching. "Not for a long time," one observer noted, "had a prominent preacher condescended to preach the simple gospel in plain English, free from classical quotations and over-burdened rhetoric." Spurgeon accomplished this task by scouring the newspaper daily for relevant themes which he could tie to Bible messages. As part of his instruction at his Preachers College, Spurgeon passed on this method to his students preachers to read the Bible and the newspaper side-by-side, and he was a keen observer of his culture. Current events, he urged, illustrated timeless truths.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) converted to Christianity at the age of fifteen. By the age of twenty-two, he was the most popular preacher in England, and remained so for the latter half of the 1800s. He frequently spoke to crowds over 10,000 in the days before electronic amplification. Known as the "Prince of Preachers," he delivered nearly thirty-six hundred sermons throughout his life. A prolific writer as well, many of Spurgeon's works remain in print to this day.


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The Stations of the Cross, also known as the Via Dolorosa, is a narration of the final hours in the life of Jesus Christ on earth that continues to provide spiritual conviction for every Christian and application to our lives. The Stations of the Cross serve as a stark reminder of the humble manner in which Jesus was willing to set aside any privilege of deity in order to provide a path to salvation through His sacrifice.
There are several widely accepted versions describing those final hours, one being biblical and the others being more traditional accounts of events in Jesus' final hours. The traditional form of the Stations of the Cross is as follows:
1. Jesus is condemned to death.
2. Jesus is given His cross.
3. Jesus falls down for the first time.
4. Jesus meets His mother Mary.
5. Simon of Cyrene is forced to carry the cross.
6. Veronica wipes blood off of Jesus' face.
7. Jesus falls down for the second time.
8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem.
9. Jesus falls down for the third time.
10. Jesus is stripped of His clothing.
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross – the Crucifixion.
12. Jesus dies on the cross.
13. Jesus' body is removed from the cross – the Deposition or Lamentation.
14. Jesus' body is placed in the tomb.
In the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, however, stations 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are not explicitly biblical. As a result, a "Scriptural Way of the Cross" has been developed. Below are the biblical descriptions of the 14 Stations of the Cross and the life application of each.
1st Station of the Cross: Jesus on the Mount of Olives (Luke 22:39-46).
Jesus prayed on the Mount of Olives for His Father to take the cup from His hand that meant His death on the cross; it demonstrated the humanity of Jesus (Luke 22:39-46). It is not difficult to imagine how great His anticipation was concerning the events He was about to face. There comes a time in the life of all Christians when they must also choose between God's will and their own, and that choice, like Jesus' choice, displays the level of commitment and obedience to God, as well as the true condition of the heart. Even though Jesus was aware of the fate He was about to face when He prayed on the Mount of Olives for God to alter the events, His prayer was that the Father's will be done regardless of what the future held for Him. Even nailed to the cross with His life's breath slipping away, Jesus was still teaching us the importance of obedience to God's Word and the importance of trusting Him in every situation.
2nd Station of the Cross: Jesus is betrayed by Judas and arrested (Luke 22:47-48).
Judas not only became one of the most despised characters in history when he betrayed Jesus; he also became a haunting reminder to every Christian that there have been times they have fallen to temptation to sin. For the Christian, stumbling in sin is like betraying the One who gave His life for us. How much greater is that betrayal when the sin is a chosen behavior, deliberately turning away from spiritual conviction (Luke 22:47-48)? Judas lived with Jesus and sat at His feet learning from Him for years. But because his heart was not truly transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit, he fell away when tempted by Satan. As believers, we are told to "examine ourselves" to see if we are truly in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5).
3rd Station of the Cross: Jesus is condemned by the Sanhedrin (Luke 22:66-71).
The Sanhedrin council, made up of seventy priests and scribes and one high priest, demanded that Pilate execute Jesus. This incident serves as a warning for all Christians to be careful not to exalt ourselves by self-righteously judging others. Biblical knowledge and exalted positions in this world still fall pitifully short of holy perfection, and prideful thinking can easily be the downfall of even the most pious among men. The Bible teaches us to respect positions of authority, but ultimately it is God's will and God's Word that should reign supreme in our lives. Christians are gifted with a baptism of God's Holy Spirit to comfort, teach, and guide them in every situation, allowing them to make every decision according to the perfect will of God, essentially negating an individual's need for religious rulers like the Sanhedrin. The Jewish people's entrusting supreme religious authority to the Sanhedrin led to corruption among many of the priests and scribes of the Sanhedrin, and when Jesus began to teach a doctrine that undermined their authority, they plotted against Him, ultimately demanding His crucifixion by the Roman government (Luke 22:66-71).
4th Station of the Cross: Peter denies Jesus (Luke 22:54-62).
When Jesus was arrested, a number of those present at the time accused Peter of being one of Jesus' followers (Luke 22:54-62). As previously predicted by Jesus, Peter denied knowing Jesus three times. Peter was Jesus' beloved and trusted disciple who witnessed many miracles firsthand, even walking on water with Jesus (Matthew 14:29-31). Even so, Peter demonstrated the weakness of humanity by denying Jesus for fear of also being arrested. Christians all over the world still face persecution and humiliation by the non-believing in society, from verbal abuse to beatings and death. People might self-righteously judge Peter for his denial of Jesus and his fear of what the Romans would do to him if they discovered his relationship with Jesus, but how many Bible-believing Christians can say they have never remained silent about their faith in the face of discrimination, public or private? Such a silence demonstrates the imperfect frailty of humanity. Peter's faith was an imperfect faith, primarily because he was not indwelt by the Holy Spirit at that time. After the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost to live in the hearts of believers (Acts 2), Peter was a valiant lion of faith, never again fearing to proclaim His Lord.
5th Station of the Cross: Jesus is judged by Pontius Pilate (Luke 23:13-25).
By today's legal standards, it is unlikely that Jesus would have been convicted in any court, especially since no real evidence against Him could be produced. Pontius Pilate could find no fault in anything Jesus had done and wanted to release Him (Luke 23:13-24), but the Sanhedrin demanded that Pilate order His execution. The Sanhedrin, who ruled according to strict Mosaic Law and tradition, considered Jesus a major threat to their ruling authority over the Jews. Jesus taught the people that salvation was by the grace of God and not by adherence to the many precepts set forth by the Sanhedrin, and such teaching not only undermined the authority of the religious leaders, but it also posed a serious threat to the livelihood that they enjoyed as a result of their control over the Jewish people. Even today, the message of salvation by the power and choice of God, not by our own efforts, is unpopular. Human beings in their fallen nature always want to achieve their own salvation, or at least have a part in it, so we can claim at least a part of the glory. But salvation is of the Lord, who shares His glory with no one (Isaiah 42:8).
6th Station of the Cross: Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns (Luke 22:63-65).
The healing referred to in this passage is spiritual healing, or healing from sin. Pardon of sin, and restoration to the favor of God, are frequently represented as an act of healing. Over five hundred years before Mary gave birth to Jesus, Isaiah prophesied that Jesus would be wounded for our transgressions (Isaiah 53:3-6) and bruised for our inequities and that by His stripes we would be healed.
7th Station of the Cross: Jesus takes up His cross (John 19:17).
When Jesus took up His cross, He was carrying more than wood. Unknown to the many spectators that day, Jesus was carrying the sins of mankind, facing the punishment those sins deserved, which He was about to suffer on man's behalf. Jesus exhorts us in Matthew 16:24, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." He also reveals that this is not an option: "…and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me (Matthew 10:38). Taking up our cross, an instrument of death, means dying to self in order to live as completely new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17) in service and obedience to Christ. This means surrendering to God our will, our affections, our ambitions, and our desires. We are not to seek our own happiness as the supreme object, but be willing to renounce all and lay down our lives also, if required.
8th Station of the Cross: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry His cross (Luke 23:26).
Simon of Cyrene might be considered a victim of circumstance. He had most likely come to Jerusalem for the Passover festivities and probably knew little about the proceedings at hand. We know very little about Simon of Cyrene since he is not mentioned in the Bible after he helped to carry the cross upon which Jesus would be nailed (Luke 23:26). Ordered to help by the Roman soldiers, Simon did not resist, most likely fearing for his own life in light of the situation at hand. Unlike Jesus, who carried His cross willingly, Simon of Cyrene was "compelled" or forced to carry it. As Christians, we are to join Jesus in His suffering willingly, as Paul exhorts us, "So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God" (2 Timothy 1:8).
9th Station of the Cross: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem (Luke 23:27-31).
When Jesus encountered the weeping women and some of His disciples on His way to crucifixion, He cautioned them that they should not weep for Him, but that their concerns should be for themselves and the lives of their children considering the rising evil throughout Jerusalem (Luke 23:27-31). Even while suffering great pain and personal humiliation, Jesus' concern was not for Himself, but for the lives and souls of those who faced the danger of eternal damnation because of the sin in their lives. The same caution is relevant for Christians today that we should be careful not to allow our concerns for this world to come before our devotion and obedience to God. Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36), and as citizens of heaven, our focus and attention should be there.
10th Station of the Cross: Jesus is crucified (Luke 23:33-47).
It is difficult, over two thousand years after the fact, to imagine the horror of the moment as those closest to Jesus were forced to helplessly stand by as the spikes were driven through His hands and feet into the timber on which He would take His last breath in human form (Luke 23:44-46). His loved ones and disciples did not yet fully understand the meaning of what was taking place at the time. They were not yet able to understand that this evil deed of men was the result of divine purpose and planning for the salvation of all who would believe in the Christ. For us today, "how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?" (Hebrews 2:3). "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
11th Station of the Cross: Jesus promises His kingdom to the believing thief (Luke 23:43).
It is possible that the thief being crucified next to Jesus was able to grasp the concept that life was not ending for Jesus, but that He was transcending the physical world into eternal promise from which He came to provide for humanity. The thief would become one of the first to enter paradise by grace through faith in Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9). Jesus told the thief that he would be in paradise that day with Him because he accepted and believed in the Son of God. Clearly, this is an example that a person is saved by grace through faith rather than by works, as those who persecuted and condemned Jesus would have the people believe.
12th Station of the Cross: Jesus on the cross speaks with His mother and disciples (John 19:26-27).
Jesus, in His dying moment, was still putting the needs of others before His own as He selflessly committed the care of His mother to His beloved disciple John (John 19:27). His entire life, including His death, taught by example that we are to put the needs of others before our own, subjecting everything to the perfect will of God. The willingness to abide by His Word and demonstrate with actions by faithfully sacrificing for others in the face of adversity, are defining characteristics of the true Christian life.
13th Station of the Cross: Jesus dies on the cross (Luke 23:44-46).
At the moment of Jesus' death, the curtain in the Temple, which separated men from the holy of holies, tore from top to bottom. This was terrifying for all the Jews who witnessed the event, who did not realize it signified the end to the Old Covenant and the beginning of the New Covenant. No longer would man have to suffer separation from God because of sin, but we would now be able to approach the throne of grace boldly in prayer for forgiveness of sins. The life and sacrificial death of Jesus had removed the barrier of sin, making it possible for man to obtain salvation by grace.
14th Station of the Cross: Jesus is laid in the tomb (Luke 23:50-54).
After Jesus died and was taken down from the cross, He was laid to rest in a tomb provided by a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea (Luke 23:50-54). Joseph happened to also be a member of the Sanhedrin, but was opposed to the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. Joseph secretly believed that Jesus was the Messiah according to Scripture, but feared the consequence of acknowledging his belief publicly (John 19:38). After Jesus died, Joseph went to Pilate secretly and requested the body of Jesus so that he might provide a proper burial.
Jesus' great sacrifice not only became the atonement for man's sins, but it also became the victory that would defeat and overcome death, which would have otherwise been the inescapable fate of all men who are born under the curse of sin. Sin carries its own inescapable penalty, and that penalty is death. Our Creator is just and fair and so demanded that the penalty for sin be paid. Because God is loving and merciful as well as just, He sent His only begotten Son to pay the penalty for our sins, knowing we were otherwise doomed for all eternity (John 3:16). God's love and mercy are greatly demonstrated by the words of Jesus as He hung dying on the cross when He asked God to forgive those who were killing Him in their ignorance (Luke 23:34). It is easy to surmise that man's unwillingness to fully surrender in obedience to God's Word and law is because of his lack of knowledge and wisdom. The irony of that summation is the fatality it produced for Jesus on the cross becomes spiritual fatality for those unable to overcome the same ignorance that still plagues much of humanity today. The sinful man who refuses to accept the gift of salvation that Jesus made possible by His sacrifice is surely the product of rebellious ignorance and sin that separates a man from the wisdom of God.


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I changed my iPod's name to Titanic. It's syncing now.
When chemists die, they barium.
I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time.
How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I just can't put it down.
I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.
Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.
We're going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz.
I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me.
Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?
When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
Broken pencils are pointless.
I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.
What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.
I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.
I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.
All the toilets in New York's police stations have been stolen. The police have nothing to go on.
I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.
Haunted French pancakes give me the crêpes.
Velcro — what a rip off!
A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchy.
Venison for dinner again? Oh deer!
The earthquake in Washington obviously was the government's fault.
H/T Shelly
Monday 30 April 2012
From Theo Spark at 12:24
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