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The Daily Mail – UK
By Vincent Graff
Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too.
Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, there are three large raised flower beds.
If you'd visited a few months ago, you'd have found them overflowing with curly kale, carrot plants, lettuces, spring onions — all manner of vegetables and salad leaves.
Today the beds are bare. Why? Because people have been wandering up to the police station forecourt in broad daylight and digging up the vegetables. And what are the cops doing about this brazen theft from right under their noses? Nothing.
Well, that's not quite correct.
'I watch 'em on camera as they come up and pick them,' says desk officer Janet Scott, with a huge grin. It's the smile that explains everything.
For the vegetable-swipers are not thieves. The police station carrots — and thousands of vegetables in 70 large beds around the town — are there for the taking. Locals are encouraged to help themselves. A few tomatoes here, a handful of broccoli there. If they're in season, they're yours. Free.
So there are (or were) raspberries, apricots and apples on the canal towpath; blackcurrants, redcurrants and strawberries beside the doctor's surgery; beans and peas outside the college; cherries in the supermarket car park; and mint, rosemary, thyme and fennel by the health centre.
The vegetable plots are the most visible sign of an amazing plan: to make Todmorden the first town in the country that is self-sufficient in food.
'And we want to do it by 2018,' says Mary Clear, 56, a grandmother of ten and co-founder of Incredible Edible, as the scheme is called.
'It's a very ambitious aim. But if you don't aim high, you might as well stay in bed, mightn't you?'
So what's to stop me turning up with a huge carrier bag and grabbing all the rosemary in the town?
'Nothing,' says Mary.
What's to stop me nabbing all the apples?
All your raspberries?
It just doesn't happen like that, she says. 'We trust people. We truly believe — we are witness to it — that people are decent.'
When she sees the Big Issue seller gathering fruit for his lunch, she feels only pleasure. What does it matter, argues Mary, if once in a while she turns up with her margarine tub to find that all the strawberries are gone?
'This is a revolution,' she says. 'But we are gentle revolutionaries. Everything we do is underpinned by kindness.'
The idea came about after she and co-founder Pam Warhurst, the former owner of the town's Bear Cafe, began fretting about the state of the world and wondered what they could do.
They reasoned that all they could do is start locally, so they got a group of people, mostly women, together in the cafe.
'Wars come about by men having drinks in bars, good things come about when women drink coffee together,' says Mary.
'Our thinking was: there's so much blame in the world — blame local government, blame politicians, blame bankers, blame technology — we thought, let's just do something positive instead.'
We're standing by a car park in the town centre. Mary points to a housing estate up the hill. Her face lights up.
'The children walk past here on the way to school. We've filled the flower beds with fennel and they've all been taught that if you bite fennel, it tastes like a liquorice gobstopper. When I see the children popping little bits of herb into their mouths, I just think it's brilliant.'
She takes me over to the front garden of her own house, a few yards away.
Three years ago, when Incredible Edible was launched, she did a very unusual thing: she lowered her front wall, in order to encourage passers-by to walk into her garden and help themselves to whatever vegetables took their fancy.
There were signs asking people to take something but it took six months for folk to 'get it', she says.
They get it now. Obviously a few town-centre vegetable plants — even thousands of them — are not going to feed a community of 15,000 by themselves.
But the police station potatoes act as a recruiting sergeant — to encourage residents to grow their own food at home.
Today, hundreds of townspeople who began by helping themselves to the communal veg are now well on the way to self-sufficiency.
But out on the street, what gets planted where? There's kindness even in that.
'The ticket man at the railway station, who was very much loved, was unwell. Before he died, we asked him: "What's your favourite vegetable, Reg?" It was broccoli. So we planted memorial beds with broccoli at the station. One stop up the line, at Hebden Bridge, they loved Reg, too — and they've also planted broccoli in his memory.'
Not that all the plots are — how does one put this delicately? — 'official'.
Take the herb bushes by the canal. Owners British Waterways had no idea locals had been sowing plants there until an official inspected the area ahead of a visit by the Prince of Wales last year (Charles is a huge Incredible Edible fan).
Estelle Brown, a 67-year-old former interior designer who tended the plot, received an email from British Waterways.
'I was a bit worried to open it,' she says. 'But it said: "How do you build a raised bed? Because my boss wants one outside his office window."'
Incredible Edible is also about much more than plots of veg. It's about educating people about food, and stimulating the local economy.
There are lessons in pickling and preserving fruits, courses on bread-making, and the local college is to offer a BTEC in horticulture. The thinking is that young people who have grown up among the street veg may make a career in food.
Crucially, the scheme is also about helping local businesses. The Bear, a wonderful shop and cafe with a magnificent original Victorian frontage, sources all its ingredients from farmers within a 30-mile radius.
There's a brilliant daily market. People here can eat well on local produce, and thousands now do.
Meanwhile, the local school was recently awarded a £500,000 Lottery grant to set up a fish farm in order to provide food for the locals and to teach useful skills to young people.
Jenny Coleman, 62, who retired here from London, explains: 'We need something for our young people to do. If you're an 18-year-old, there's got to be a good answer to the question: why would I want to stay in Todmorden?'
The day I visit, the town is battered by a bitterly-cold rain storm. Yet the place radiates warmth. People speak to each other in the street, wave as neighbours drive past, smile.
If the phrase hadn't been hijacked, the words 'we're all in this together' would spring to mind.
So what sort of place is Todmorden (known locally, without exception, as 'Tod')? If you're assuming it's largely peopled by middle-class grandmothers, think again. Nor is this place a mecca for the gin-and-Jag golf club set.
Set in a Pennine valley — once, the road through the town served as the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire — it is a vibrant mix of age, class and ethnicity.
A third of households do not own a car; a fifth do not have central heating.
You can snap up a terrace house for £50,000 — or spend close to £1 million on a handsome stone villa with seven bedrooms.
And the scheme has brought this varied community closer together, according to Pam Warhurst.
Take one example. 'The police have told us that, year on year, there has been a reduction in vandalism since we started,' she says. 'We weren't expecting this.'
So why has it happened?
Pam says: 'If you take a grass verge that was used as a litter bin and a dog toilet and turn it into a place full of herbs and fruit trees, people won't vandalise it. I think we are hard-wired not to damage food.'
Pam reckons a project like Incredible Edible could thrive in all sorts of places. 'If the population is very transient, it's difficult. But if you've got schools, shops, back gardens and verges, you can do it.'
Similar schemes are being piloted in 21 other towns in the UK, and there's been interest shown from as far afield as Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and Canada. And, this week, Mary Clear gave a talk to an all-party group of MPs at Westminster.
Todmorden was visited by a planner from New Zealand, working on the rebuilding of his country after February's earthquake.
Mary says: 'He went back saying: "Why wouldn't we rebuild the railway station with pick-your-own herbs? Why wouldn't we rebuild the health centre with apple trees?"
'What we've done is not clever. It just wasn't being done.'
The final word goes to an outsider. Joe Strachan is a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.
He is 61 but looks 41. He became active with Incredible Edible six months ago, and couldn't be happier digging, sowing and juicing fruit.
I find myself next to him, sheltering from the driving rain. Why, I ask, would someone forsake the sunshine of California for all this?
His answer sums up what the people around here have achieved.
'There's a nobility to growing food and allowing people to share it. There's a feeling we're doing something significant rather than just moaning that the state can't take care of us.
'Maybe we all need to learn to take care of ourselves.'


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Religious Studies (31-37,5 Credits), 7.5 credits
Religionskunskap (31-37,5 hp), 7.5 hp
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The 5 Best Sport Watches
If you're an athlete or if you're someone who just wants to get in shape, a GPS watch can be very motivating. It can tell you how fast you're moving, your heart rate, how many calories you've burned and much, much more. Not only can you see these metrics in real time, once you're done working out you can upload the data to an online platform where you can keep track of your progress over time. It's almost like having a personal trainer.
Here are five great sport watches that I put to the test, most of which work best with a heart rate sensor that you strap to your chest.
Best Mid-Range Watch for Runners and Cyclists: Polar RC3 GPS
This watch, which is relatively thin (13.7 mm), light and easy to configure and use, is ideal for runners and cyclists but not swimmers. While you can use it in the rain and could even shower with it on, it's not designed to take the kind of wet barrage that comes with lap swimming.
I ran with Polar RC3 GPS for several weeks and found it did an admirable job of tracking my speed, heart rate, calories burned, and route. After each workout the watch gives you a summary of how you did—things like how far you went, your fastest speed, the number of calories you burned, your average heart rate and more.
It also gives you an interesting number called "Running Index," which reflects aerobic fitness and how efficient you are at running. When I first started running with the Polar RC3 GPS my Running Index score was abysmal. But as I got more into shape the score gradually increased, which I found quite motivating.
The Polar RC3 GPS also will show you the heart rate zone you're in—an important metric for people trying to lose weight or increase their anaerobic fitness—go too fast or too slow and you'll be less able to do either. You can also turn on a ZoneOptimizer feature which reads your heart rate variability at the beginning of your workout and adjusts the limits for your heart rate zones according to how much your body is ready to train. At the end of your training session the watch tells you how much time you spent in each zone.
The Polar RC3 also automatically saves your starting location and will guide you back to it at any point during your route with a large arrow that tells you which direction to head—a nice feature, especially if you're traveling or otherwise in unfamiliar territory.
The watch lets you track running, cycling or other things such as working out at the gym. For activity in which GPS data isn't helpful, such as using a treadmill or lifting weights, you can turn off GPS; Polar says doing so will give you about 1700 hours of battery life compared with 12 hours with GPS enabled.
A USB power cord connects the watch to your computer for charging as well as uploading data to PolarPersonalTrainer.com which lets you see your training route on a map, get detailed results from your training, share results to social networks, pose fitness challenges to friends or strangers and more.
My only complaint is the eight training views on the watch aren't customizable, meaning you're stuck with switching between them if you want to see certain metrics during your training session. For example, I'm most interested in seeing my heart rate, current pace and number of calories burned. While I can get all that data by switching between training views, it's not all located in one spot.
Optional accessories include a Polar s3+ stride sensor which helps runners improve their technique, as well as WIND sensors for cyclists that measure cadence or speed.
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Best For Serious Athletes, Triathletes and Outdoor Adventurers: Suunto Ambit2
Whereas the Polar RC3 GPS has a bit of a retro-80s look to it, the Suunto Ambit 2's aesthetic leans toward the future with a brushed metal and porthole-shaped clock face frame and five substantial buttons. A USB power cable clips onto the back of the watch and connects the device to your computer for charging as well as for customizing the device and uploading data from it via software called Moveslink, which connects you to Suunto's web app, Movescount.
It's a sophisticated GPS instrument you can pair with a heart rate sensor as well as foot and bike PODs to get a wealth of information about your sports performance in addition to things like your altitude, the ambient temperature and barometric pressure.
You can also swim with the Ambit2 and it will track things like swimming time, pace and distance, as well as the count, rate and efficiency of your strokes. It works for free style swimming outdoors but can also track metrics indoors such as pool length, laps and total distance. The Ambit 2 also can determine your swimming style which you can analyze later in Movescount.
Mountaineers, trekkers and anyone who likes to hang out in the wild will appreciate the Ambit2's GPS capabilities. Not only does it give you your latitude and longitude coordinates, you can set points of interest then navigate to them later through a function that shows you how far away they are as well as which direction to head in order to get to a POI in a direct, as-the-crow-flies route.
But what I appreciated most about the Ambit2 is how much you can customize it. Within the Movescount app you can change and add views for a slew of various sports. For example, I don't care much about altitude, but I'm keen on how many calories I've burned. I found it marvelous to be able to edit available screens so that I always have the latter and never the former taking up real estate on the watch face.
As part of that customization, you can also choose from more than 1,000 apps that can work within the watch and do extra tricks, such as show you how things like how fast you're skiing downhill or the oxygen level at a particular altitude.
As for knocks, I found some of the numbers on the watch a bit too small and because it's such a complex instrument it takes a bit of playing around with to figure out how to work it. Otherwise, it's a fantastic multisensory device if you're willing to pay a premium for it.
Price: $500 for the Ambit2, $550 for the Ambit2 with heart rate belt, $600 for the Ambit2 Sapphire and $650 for the Ambit2 Sapphire with heart rate belt. Available at various sporting goods retailers.
Best Price: TomTom Runner and TomTom Multi-Sport
TomTom recently released a new line of GPS watches for runners, cyclists and swimmers that feature a large display and easy-to-read numbers, one-button control and slim form-factor that measures only 11.5 mm thick. In comparison, the Suunto Ambit2, the most substantial watch I tested, measures 17.5 mm thick.
The TomTom Runner is, obviously, for runners. It pairs with an optional heart rate monitor to track training zones for weight control, performance or speed and has an indoor tracker feature that counts strides to measure pace and distance on a treadmill. You can automatically upload data from the watch to online platforms such as TomTom MySports, MapMyFitness, and RunKeeper, where you can analyze and share your stats.
TomTom Multi-Sport does all of that but also allows lets you track your distance, time, speed and other metrics when you cycle or swim. It comes with a bike mount, cadence sensor and built-in altimeter to track elevation, ascent, descent and grade.
The swimming motion sensor measures laps, strokes, time and speed, and calculate a SWOLF score that reflects how efficiently you're swimming.
A couple of standout features are worth mentioning. First, there's a cool "race yourself" feature that takes advantage of the way TomTom records where you're moving and how fast. As you're going along the watch will tell you where you are compared to your best or last activity so if you're 120 feet behind where you were at the same point in the comparative run, bike or swim, you'll know it.
The watch face—which pops out of the watch band for charging, uploading data to online platforms or mounting on a bike—displays large, easy-to-see numbers so you can spend less time actually looking at the it. And instead of pushing buttons on the side of the watch face you navigate settings and features with a square below it that houses the GPS receiver.
Vibration is another nice addition. Every time you navigate settings or features you get a mini vibration which I found somehow psychologically pleasing. And when the alarm goes off not only does it beep, the watch shakes considerably making it hard to ignore.
I also liked how it looked on my wrist. Of the watches I tested the TomTom watch had the sleekest profile. The Suunto Ambit2 and the Polar RC3 both looked quite large on my small wrist.
Price: $169.99 for the TomTom Runner and $199.99 for the TomTom Multi-Sport. The TomTom Runner is available now at Amazon; the TomTom Multi-Sport will be available there later in July. You can get a bundle that includes a heart rate monitor for $219.99 from TomTom.
Best non-chest strap unit: Mio Alpha
The Mio Alpha is not gps-enabled on its own and lacks many of the features other watches profiled here. But it has a couple of features that makes it great for sports enthusiasts.
First, if you don't mind working out with your smartphone you can get GPS tracking and other useful features if you have an iPhone 4S or 5 with apps such as MapMyFitness and RunKeeper installed. As for Android, Runtastic Pro is a $5 app you can pair with the watch as long as your phone is Bluetooth Smart 4.0 enabled (check here to find out if it is). By pairing your phone with apps like these you can use your phone's GPS capabilities to map and record things like time, distance, elevation, calories and more.
But accuracy isn't a problem with the Mio Alpha. It uses two light beams and an electro-optical cell to sense the volume of blood under your skin and determine heart rate. When I ran wearing it with either the Suunto Ambit2 or Polar RC3 GPS on my other wrist paired with a chest strap heart rate sensor, the Mio Alpha was almost always only one or two bpm below or above the other device.
Another thing I appreciated about this one was the silicone watch band—it's soft, flexible and stretchable so you can get a good contact between the wrist and the sensor without squeezing the heck out of your arm. It also lets you tack the end of the band down into itself with three little pegs, giving the watch a relatively flat profile.
A flashing light and beeps give you heart rate zone alerts. You can either use the default target heart rate zone, which is between 110 bpm and 130 bpm, or set your own. The watch beeps once when you're not exercising in your target zone and twice if you're 10 bpm out of it. A green flashing light means you're in the target zone, while a red flash means you're working out above your upper limit and a blue flash means you're below your lower limit.
Mio says you can swim with the Alpha although heart rate accuracy might be reduced in cold water and you shouldn't dive with it on or push its buttons under water.
Price: $199 at Amazon or alphaheartrate.com.


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We have explained on a number of occasions how the Federal Reserves' agents, the bullion banks (principally JPMorganChase, HSBC, and Scotia) sell uncovered shorts ("naked shorts") on the Comex (gold futures market) in order to drive down an otherwise rising price of gold. By dumping so many uncovered short contracts into the futures market, an artificial increase in "paper gold" is created, and this increase in supply drives down the price.
This manipulation works because the hedge funds, the main purchasers of the short contracts, do not intend to take delivery of the gold represented by the contracts, settling instead in cash. This means that the banks who sold the uncovered contracts are never at risk from their inability to cover contracts in gold. At any given time, the amount of gold represented by the paper gold contracts ("open interest') can exceed the actual amount of physical gold available for delivery, a situation that does not occur in other futures markets.
In other words, the gold and silver futures markets are not a place where people buy and sell gold and silver. These markets are places where people speculate on price direction and where hedge funds use gold futures to hedge other bets according to the various mathematical formulas that they use. The fact that bullion prices are determined in this paper, speculative market, and not in real physical markets where people sell and acquire physical bullion, is the reason the bullion banks can drive down the price of gold and silver even though the demand for the physical metal is rising.
For example last Tuesday the US Mint announced that it was sold out of the American Eagle one ounce silver coin. It is a contradiction of the law of supply and demand that demand is high, supply is low, and the price is falling. Such an economic anomaly can only be explained by manipulation of prices in a market where supply can be created by printing paper contracts.
Obviously fraud and price manipulation are at work, but no heads roll. The Federal Reserve and US Treasury support this fraud and manipulation, because the suppression of precious metal prices protects the value and status of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency and prevents gold and silver from fulfilling their role as the transmission mechanism that warns of developing financial and economic troubles. The suppression of the rising gold price suppresses the warning signal and permits the continuation of financial market bubbles and Washington's ability to impose sanctions on other world powers that are disadvantaged by not being a reserve currency.
It has come to our attention that over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives also play a role in price suppression and simultaneously serve to provide long positions for the bullion banks that disguise their manipulation of prices in the futures market.
OTC derivatives are privately structured contracts created by the secretive large banks. They are a paper, or derivative, form of an underlying financial instrument or commodity. Little is known about them. Brooksley Born, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Corporation (CFTC) during the Clinton regime said, correctly, that the derivatives needed to be regulated. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary and Deputy Secretary Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Arthur Levitt, all de facto agents of the big banks, convinced Congress to prevent the CFTC from regulating OTC derivatives.
The absence of regulation means that information is not available that would indicate the purposes for which the banks use these derivatives. When JPMorgan was investigated for its short silver position on Comex, the bank convinced the CFTC that its short position on Comex was a hedge against a long position via OTC derivatives. In other words, JPMorgan used its OTC derivatives to shield its attack on the silver price in the futures market.
During 2015 the attack on bullion prices has intensified, driving the prices lower than they have been for years. During the first quarter of this year there was a huge upward spike in the quantity of precious metal derivatives.
If these were long positions hedging the banks' Comex shorts, why did the price of gold and silver decline?
More evidence of manipulation comes from the continuing fall in the prices of gold and silver as set in paper future markets, although demand for the physical metals continues to rise even to the point that the US Mint has run out of silver coins to sell. Uncertainties arising from the Greek No vote increase systemic uncertainty. The normal response would be rising, not falling, bullion prices.
The circumstantial evidence is that the unregulated OTC derivatives in gold and silver are not really hedges to short positions in Comex but are themselves structured as an additional attack on precious metal prices.
If this supposition is correct, it indicates that seven years of bailing out the big banks that control the Federal Reserve and US Treasury at the expense of the US economy has threatened the US dollar to the extent that the dollar must be protected at all cost, including US regulatory tolerance of illegal activity to suppress gold and silver prices.


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Investigative agency finds over a thousand health plans covering abortion on demand Promised "separation" of abortion funds from tax dollars not implemented Abortion-related abuses under Affordable Care Act require corrective action
WASHINGTON—A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) "confirms the U.S. bishops' longstanding concern about abortion coverage" in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), said Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The report, "Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-excepted Abortion Services by Qualified Health Plans," was issued by the GAO, an independent reviewing agency of the U.S. government, on September 15.
Despite repeated claims by President Obama and other supporters that the ACA would not promote abortion, the report identified over a thousand health plans eligible for federal premium subsidies that cover elective abortions. On five state exchanges, every plan covers such abortions in 2014; in another three large states, 95 to 98 percent of the plans do so. The Act's alleged requirements regulating abortion coverage do not exist or are widely ignored. Many health plans do not inform enrollees about their inclusion of abortion coverage; they do not tell them how much they are being charged for such coverage; and they do not charge a "separate payment" for abortions that is distinct from the premium payment eligible for federal tax subsidies. While state insurance departments are supposedly tasked by the federal government with ensuring that these health plans maintain segregated accounts for abortion funds to keep them separate from federal funds, the report indicates that this is not taking place.
"This report confirms the U.S. bishops' longstanding concern about abortion coverage that we raised both before and after enactment of the Affordable Care Act by Congress," said Cardinal O'Malley. "Surveys have shown that most Americans do not want elective abortion in their health coverage, and do not want their tax dollars to fund abortions.Their wishes are not being followed, and it can be difficult or impossible for them to find out whether those wishes are respected even in their own health plan."
Cardinal O'Malley added: "The only adequate solution to this problem is the one the Catholic bishops advocated from the beginning of the health care reform debate in Congress: Bring the Affordable Care Act into compliance with the Hyde amendment and every other federal law on abortion funding, by excluding elective abortions from health plans subsidized with federal funds. At a minimum, Congress should not delay in enacting a law to require full disclosure of abortion coverage and abortion premiums to Americans purchasing health plans."
Past USCCB materials on this issue, including Cardinal O'Malley's letters to Congress endorsing the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" (H.R. 7) and the "Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act" (H.R. 3279), are at www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/index.cfm.For an analysis of how the Affordable Care Act treats abortion coverage see www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/health-care/upload/Backgrounder-The-New-Federal-Regulation-on-Coerced-Abortion-Payments.pdf.
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The U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service, the precursor to the National Security Agency, began a secret program in February 1943 later codenamed VENONA
The mission of this small program was to examine and exploit Soviet diplomatic communications but after the program began, the message traffic included espionage efforts as well.
Although it took almost two years before American cryptologists were able to break the KGB encryption, the information gained through these transactions provided U.S. leadership insight into Soviet intentions and treasonous activities of government employees until the program was canceled in 1980.
The VENONA files are most famous for exposing Julius (code named LIBERAL) and Ethel Rosenberg and help give indisputable evidence of their involvement with the Soviet spy ring.
The first of six public releases of translated VENONA messages was made in July 1995 and included 49 messages about the Soviets' efforts to gain information on the U.S. atomic bomb research and the Manhattan Project. Over the course of five more releases, all of the approximately 3,000 VENONA translations were made public.


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James 3
1Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.
2For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
3Behold, we put the bits in the mouths of the horses, that they may obey us, and we turn round their whole bodies.
4Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will.
5Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!
6and the tongue [is] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
7For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;
8but the tongue can no one among men tame; [it is] an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.
9Therewith bless we the Lord and Father, and therewith curse we men made after [the] likeness of
10Out of the same mouth goes forth blessing and cursing. It is not right, my brethren, that these things should be thus.
11Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
12Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.
13Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
14but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
15This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
16For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.
17But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.
18But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.


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Cecil Blount DeMille was a founder of the Hollywood motion-picture industry. His first film, The Squaw Man, was the first feature film shot in Hollywood. His last, The Ten Commandments, remains a box-office legend. He made stars and cultivated artists. He was successful in aviation, banking, real estate, and radio. He received scores of honors, most notably two Academy Awards.® Mr. DeMille is the most successful producer-director in the history of film.


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Lego will cut 1,400 jobs as part of a broad overhaul of its strategy after a decade of rapid growth.
The job cuts, which account for roughly 8% of the toymaker's workforce, were announced alongside a drop in profit and sales for the first six months of 2017.
The Danish company hasn't suffered an annual revenue decline in 13 years.
Lego was forced to reinvent itself after coming under intense pressure from electronic toys and video games in the early 2000s. It slimmed down and refocused, finding success with The Lego Movie and product lines based on Star Wars and Disney Princess.
It expanded factories in Mexico, Hungary and Denmark as sales quintupled over a decade to reach 38 billion krone ($6 billion) in 2016. The number of employees boomed too, jumping from 4,200 in 2007 to the current 18,200.
But the company acknowledged Tuesday that it now needs to simplify operations.
"We have added complexity into the organization which now in turn makes it harder for us to grow further," Lego chairman Jorgen Vig Knudstorp said in a statement. "As a result, we have now pressed the reset button."
Lego will hope for a return to profit under its new CEO, Niels Christiansen, who is set to start in October. His first task will be turning around declining sales in established markets including the U.S. and parts of Europe. China, meanwhile, remains a bright spot.
A Lego spokesperson declined to comment on where the jobs would be cut, but the company said a majority of the 1,400 positions will be gone before the end of the year.
Lego is owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family, which founded it in 1932.


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Required Textbooks
- John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, and John Buckler, A History of Western Society, 4th ed., volume A.
- Marvin Perry, Joseph R. Peden, and Theodore H. Von Laue, Sources of the Western Tradition, 2d ed., volume 1.
Course Objectives
- To gain an overview of the history of the Western world from ancient times through the Renaissance.
- To understand how early Western cultures, political developments, and economic structures still contribute to current life, identifying major themes and trends.
- To become familiar with the differences and similarities in the histories of various regions of the Near East, Mediterranean, and Europe.
- To recognize major actors and groups along with their roles in Western civilization prior to 1500.
- To understand how economic, social, and political developments interacted to create or discourage change.
- To explain why Western civilization developed as it did prior to 1500.
- To identify significant features on appropriate maps and to comprehend the importance of chronology.
- To sharpen academic proficiencies, including the ability to read and listen with comprehension and critical perception; to develop a larger and more varied vocabulary, while gathering information from printed sources (involving a variety of written communication forms and styles), electronic sources, and observation; to respond orally to questions and challenges; to recognize fallacies and inconsistencies; to distinguish knowledge, values, beliefs, and opinions; and to learn independently. In addition, the course will help students learn to write clearly, precisely, and in a well-organized manner, which involves the ability to construct and support hypotheses and arguments; to analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and interpret information and ideas; and to integrate knowledge and experience.
- To develop historical perspective through learning that history is the art of interpreting an oral, written, and material record. Different historians may interpret the evidence differently.
Course Requirements
- Class participation, based on the reading assignments, is required and will count for 8% of each student's final grade. Thus, students must complete all reading assignments as scheduled. The professor encourages students, before coming to class, to take notes from the readings assigned for that class period and to jot down any questions about them. Participation grades will be constructed from three elements: (a) attendance, (b) small-group discussions, and (c) large-group contributions.
- Regular class attendance is essential. The only "excused" absences are those connected to school-sponsored activities. Any illness or problem that may cause a student to miss a number of classes should be discussed with the professor when the problem first arises. Note: According to the policy on accommodating students' religious beliefs, students with a conflict between an academic requirement and a religious observance must notify the professor in the first three weeks of class of the specific date(s) on which they will request relief from an academic requirement.
- Small-group discussions in the classroom must focus on the topic at hand (or related issues). Also, small-group work must involve everyone in the group. It is up to group members to involve a reluctant student by asking for opinions.
- Large-group contributions consist of those things spoken to the whole class.
- Using e-mail will be a regular part of this class. Every student must have an e-mail account, either at UW-BC or at home. In addition, during the semester, students will participate in a listserv (sort of like a chat group but with an editor). The listserv will put students into contact with others across the UW System who are taking U.S. history survey courses. The professor is also a member of the listserv, and her students must contribute at least twice during the semester (once before midterm). The e-mail component of the course will equal 4% of a student's final grade.
- Students must complete one Internet exercise that draws on the information in the textbooks and a selected Internet site. The exercise will equal 8% of the final grade. The topic is listed below. The due date is on the Class Schedule. The professor will deduct late points (3 points per week day) for assignments turned in after the due date. The professor will distribute a criteria sheet to help students understand her expectations for the exercise.
Exercise Topic
Read carefully the Salic Law and Anglo-Saxon Law (they may be found at the Avalon Project of the Yale Law School https://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm). In an essay (400-700 words in length), compare and contrast these two sets of laws with the information about them in McKay and others (213-216).
Students must complete two Internet site reviews (400-700 words in length). Each review will equal 8% of a student's final grade (for a total of 16%). The site addresses are listed below. Due dates are on the Class Schedule. The professor will deduct late points (3 points per week day) for assignments turned in after the due date. The professor will distribute a criteria sheet to help students understand her expectations for the reviews.
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures. https://eawc.evansville.edu/eawcindex.htm
- WebMuseum, Paris La Renaissance. https://www.hipernet.ufsc.br/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/index.html
Students will periodically be asked to work in class on assignments. These will not always be quizzes but will assume knowledge of required readings. Such assignments will not be announced in advance and cannot be made up if missed. However, the instructor will not deduct for those missed if the student is not in violation of the attendance policy stated above (in section 1a). These assignments will equal 5% of a student's final grade.
The professor has scheduled three examinations during the semester. Each will contain map questions and essay questions. The professor will provide the list of questions one week before the exam. Students are expected to learn each question thoroughly for an exam. The professor will drop a student's lowest grade on the three exams before figuring the final grade. The remaining two exams will each equal 19% of the final grade (for a total of 38%). Since the professor will drop one exam grade, she will not give make-up examinations unless the student makes arrangements before the scheduled exam period.
Students must take a comprehensive final exam at the end of the semester. The final exam grade cannot be dropped, but the questions will be provided at least one week in advance. The final exam will equal 21% of a student's final grade.
Students have continuous opportunities for extra credit. Anytime a student desires, he/she may do additional reading in Perry and others. To prove that the reading was done, the student must submit a document analysis sheet to the professor. Each student will receive a copy of this sheet on the first day of class. If additional sheets are needed, speak to the professor.
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