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The issue has become a symbol of the struggle between outsiders and locals to find common ground as neighbors.
"If they don't like us, why do they spend their money to move here and then try to change us," said Marva Jennings, a member of the Jackson County Coon Hunters Association. "I think it is a deeper issue than dogs. We have tried over the years to welcome people here. But, it is very hard for us locals to welcome people if they are going to change our way of life."
Ronnie Bryson said his family has owned hunting dogs on the same tract of land for more than a century.
"We've never had an issue with barking dogs from any of our neighbors until these people moved here," Bryson said. "They come here to see us, 'Oh, we love y'all, y'all are easy to get along with,' but they are trying to change us into the people they left from wherever they were."
Bryson said the only way to make the dogs stop barking is to get rid of them — and that would mean taking away a part of who he is. Hunting dogs are part and parcel with his heritage and way of life.
"They are going to bark. They are hunting dogs. That is a part of life," Bryson said. "We have to be out at work all day long, and we can't do nothing about our dogs while we go."
Frank Clayton said he wants to pass on the tradition of hunting with dogs.
"Whether it is for rabbits or bear or coon or fox or coyotes, whatever, this is a heritage that was built on lifetime's past by people we have always looked up to," Clayton said.
Hunting dogs are a part of his family, Clayton said, just as much as any pet.
"We love our dogs as much as anybody here loves the pet at their homes that sit in their lap," Clayton said.
Commissioners have now found themselves between a rock and a hard place. At least three times during the past year, residents have appeared before the county commissioners talking about incessant barking from nearby dogs and appealing for help to quiet the noise that is driving them crazy.
So commissioners asked the county planner to research what other counties did when it came to barking dogs — which ones had ordinances, how they were worded and how they were enforced.
That set off a firestorm in the hunting dog community, prompting the large and vocal crowd on the other end of the issue to pack this week's commissioner meeting.
But Corbbit Hall of Savannah, who owns hunting dogs himself, admitted that there are a few irresponsible dog owners causing the majority of the problems.
"If you have 10 or 12 dogs tied up and they bark 24-7 around the clock, yeah, it would get old," Hall said.
What, if anything, comes next?
Commissioners remained noticeably silent after audience members spoke on the issue. They gave no indication of where they stood — whether the issue was over or whether they would keep exploring it.
As the crowd spilled into the lobby after the commissioners' meeting ended, they were somewhat at a loss as to whether they had been successful in getting commissioners to abandon the idea of a barking dog ordinance.
"It seems we should have pretty well nipped it in the bud," said Sam Jennings, who owns several hunting dogs in the Glenville area.
But, commissioners had been mostly poker-faced during the audience comments, leaving the audience wondering where the issue stands.
"I would have liked to hear from them," said Corbitt Hall from the Savannah community.
That lack of clarity among the public is understandable — commissioners don't truly know what, if anything, will happen now.
"I think it is tabled for a while. I think we have other things that are more important," said County Commissioner Chairman Jack Debnam after the meeting. "It is not dead forever, but it is not on the horizon as something that is necessary to be working on right now."
To say the county was ever in fact working on an ordinance is a stretch. Commissioners did ask the county planner to brush up on how other places addressed barking dogs but never clearly indicated intentions to pass such an ordinance in Jackson.
Commissioner Joe Cowan isn't ready to throw in the towel, however, and would like to work toward a solution.
"Personally, I think we need to look into it. I would like to see some kind of accommodation worked out," Cowan said. "I think we should see if there is middle ground."
Cowan can see the viewpoint of both sides. A yard-full of constantly baying and barking dogs right next door would indeed be irritating.
"There should be some kind of remedy for that," Cowan said. "But, people's dogs are very important to them."
Debnam indicated that he doesn't think the county should specifically regulate barking dogs.
"I think it is worth exploring. I don't think it is worth the effort just to concentrate on dogs," Debnam said.

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The Veranda House Hotel Collection properties are conveniently located in the heart of Old Nantucket Town. Walk out the door and explore the Island on foot, bicycle, or island shuttle. Many awesome experiences are available on our island including golf; tennis; fishing; sailing; historic tours; nature hikes; shopping. Our favorite part is helping people to experience Nantucket. Ask our fully trained staff to help and direct you. We love what we do.
Grab a tote and towel from your room and head for the beach. In addition we offer backpack beach chairs and umbrellas. Nantucket's calm harbor-side beaches are within walking distance of the hotel. The surf at Nantucket's south shore beaches is just a short bicycle or shuttle ride away. Click here for a Nantucket beach listing and map.
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Dear Hostesses, I want you to know that this site is meant to be about each and every one you!! Feel free to email me with your Purim and Passover recipes, holiday table ideas,tips and inspirations.
Check out Bold and Gold for Spring, the Purim Feast for a King, the Tony Duquette Purim table roundup and Queen Esther Reigns and Entertains!
I'd like to give you some Purim table inspiration so here is my Purim 2011 story.
It was Thursday morning when I realized that I was so busy posting articles about how everyone ELSE should be inspired for Purim, I couldn't believe that I had no table setting,or menu plan of my own .
Here's when a kid with a driver's licence will come in handy.
One of my kids waited in the car while I ran in to Lana's fabric on Kings Highway to buy Zebra polyester fabric -$5.99 a yard cut into 54 inch squares- cost about $25.
I placed the 2 squares as diamonds side by side on top of my white cotton hemstitch tablecloth.
While on her way to Starbucks another of of my kids ran and bought me a pack of white paper napkins that look just like linen. $10.99.
She also bought grey luncheon napkins that we decided to fold over the white large paper napkins $4.99.
I also bought a silver chain trim from the fabric store to use as napkin rings. $3.99 a yard. Pretty- no? cost about $15.
You can use this napkin idea for your Passover seder.
(Send me pics if you come up with any cool ideas!!!!)
This is how the back of the napkin should tie:
These sterling ice coffee glasses given to us a wedding gift by Aunt Sydelle and uncle Mosie in the 80's. About 15 years later I realized that they were still sitting in the closet needing a good polish, so I decided to turn them into vases, and I haven't stopped using them since! My daughter ran out and bought me the dendrobium orchids from the corner flower kiosk up the block, and I stuck these exotic masks that I ordered from from AnytimeCostumes for about $10 each into the "vases".
So many of my goblets have broken over the years that I had to alternate clear goblets from Target with my pretty new blue goblets given to me as a Rosh Hashanah gift from my new "consuegra"- (Syrian word for my daughter's mother-in-law.)
Lunch was not bad if I don't say so myself.
Since the Purim Seuda is traditionally a meat one,
We had grilled chicken with kalamata olives and tomatoes on salad,
melt in your mouth minute steak roast,
wild rice with spinach and sauteed red peppers, plain white rice (for the kids),home made za'ata challah rolls filled with sliced turkey,
(let me know if you want any recipes……)
mini lahamageen,
mini kibbe, tehine, mini baked sweet potatoes,
pareve kibbe neye,
whole wheat mazor's dough with meat hammentashen filling,
fried chicken (for the kids), and my sister Jeanette brought chicken tacos that got wiped out. (click HERE for the recipe)
I have advice for all of you Jewish Hostesses out there- Being a Jewish Hostess doesn't mean you have to be a super woman and make everything yourself!!! I BOUGHT the lahamageen, kibbe, and fried chicken from Kings Highway Glatt. I called them 3 minutes in advance and the kid that was on her way HOME from Starbucks ran in and picked it up for me.
So, if you are organized and want to make it all yourself,then, great, but if you are a last minute type like me, and if you are lucky enough to live near some kosher butchers and kosher grocery stores that sell delicious ready made kosher appetizers…..
The highlight of our day came when Gail and Andy came to say hello…..
But we really had a great laugh when the Gail's normally very serious dad,Ricky C. also rang our doorbell and hung out for dessert.
How was your day?
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Program manager John Shannon said Tuesday it costs $200 million a month to keep the fleet flying.
Right now, the space shuttles are supposed to retire this fall. Four more missions are planned. Some in Congress, though, are pushing for additional flights.
Last month, President Barack Obama killed NASA's Constellation program, which would have created a shuttle successor.
Shannon says NASA already has a fuel tank and set of boosters for one additional flight. He says getting other shuttle parts would not be a problem.
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More Little Known Facts on WW1.
The blog post I did a while back: 9 Little Known Facts of WW1 has been very popular, so I thought I would add a few more bite sized nuggets…so here we go: Little Known WW1 facts, Chapter 2…
When the British mines laid under the Messines Ridge near Ypres were exploded on 7th June 1917, they not only changed the landscape, but could also be heard as far away as Dublin, Ireland. About 10,000 German soldiers died instantly in the blast.
Officers carried revolvers, not rifles, as a result they were easy for the enemy to spot and targetted specifically by the enemy.
From July to December 1917 (commonly referred to as the Battle of Passchendaele) 1 British officer was killed for every 19 men. In the German army during the same period, It was 1 German officer for every 38 men.
The first reported use of gas was by the Germans on the eastern front on 3rd Jan 1915. It was a tearing agent dispersed by artillery shell. The first use on the western front came several months later on 22nd Apr 1915 at the village of Langemarck near Ypres. At 1700 hours the Germans released a 5 mile wide cloud of chlorine gas from some 520 cylinders (168 tons of the chemical). The greenish-yellow cloud drifted over and into the French and Algerian trenches where it caused wide spread panic and death. The age of chemical warfare had begun.
One of the most famous big guns of the Great War is the infamous Paris Gun. Also known as Lange Max, or Big Bertha. In this case size was not everything, although the gun could fire a shell 70 miles in 170 seconds, it didnt have a great deal of explosives and accuracy was non existent.. it was used for propaganda rather than serving any real military tactical advantage.
The youngest casualty of WW1 was 6322 Pte John Condon of the 2nd Royal Irish Regiment who was just 14 when he was reported missing, presumed dead on 24th May 1915.
The first use of tanks (or land ships as they were originally known) on the battlefield was the use of 49 British MK I tanks during the Battle of the Somme on 15th September 1916
634 Victoria Crosses were issued during WW1.
Horses were the main means of transportation for all sides in the War. As such, almost 8 million horses were killed during the conflict with another 2.5 million wounded.
The first German air raid on London took place on 28th November 1916. The Germans hoped that by making raids on London and the South East, the British Air Force would be forced into protecting the home front rather than attacking the German air force.
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There are many applications for the iPhone that give users the ability to make personal financing easier than ever. While solving one pain-in-the-neck issue, it creates another – which app to buy? Because of the popularity of these headache-reducing apps, there is an overwhelming amount of options available in the App Store. Deciphering which app is the best available is almost impossible. Add in the fact that so many aren't free, and choosing the right one the first time around could save time and money. Before downloading anything, it's important to know if the functionality of the app (money transferring, budget tracking, etc.) fits your needs. Provided is a list of ten apps including the price and primary function that can make tracking personal finances much easier.
Mint – There are tons of finance apps available that focus on budget tracking. Few are as popular as Mint, which allows users to manage multiple financial accounts from one simple user interface. With user-friendly features and no price tag, there is little wonder why this app has so many users.
Loan Shark – Dealing with loans is never a pleasant experience. The Loan Shark app helps ease some of the pain endured while handling loans without having to pay anything. It simplifies the process of calculating loans by a great deal and also has many features including a full amortization table, a one-tap extra payment option, and a "favorites" feature.
MoneyStrands – This app is another free option for tracking your budget. With features like alerts, analysis, security, and support, it is one to compare to Mint.
PageOnce – Planning long-term investments can be easy to put off. This app also assists in budgeting your current finances like MoneyStrands and Mint, but really excels in planning for the future. It gives you the ability to look at your 401k, IRA, and stocks all at the same time, while not costing you a cent.
Toshl – Toshl incorporates cloud computing into every day financing with this free app. The cloud feature allows users to automatically sync their mobile movements online. Additionally, there is a premium upgrade ($19.95/year) that allows users to export to Excel, PDF, or Google Docs among other features.
MoneyBook – MoneyBook is another addition to the long line of apps for budgeting. This one, however, comes at a price. Promoted as "Finance with Flair," the app costs $2.99 and is loaded with features to make financing easier.
SplashMoney – At $4.99, what differentiates this from the free apps is its ability to connect wirelessly to most online bank accounts.
Square – The price is right for this free app that makes credit card purchases simpler than ever. By signing up, Square, Inc. will provide a credit card reader that can be attached directly to the iPhone. Once connected, users have the ability to swipe all major credit cards with only a 2.75% charge per swipe.
PayPal – Ebay-owned PayPal provides users a secure, simple way to send or receive money wirelessly.
General Banking – The bulk of major banks have available apps for free. These provide easy-access to any and all bank accounts in a secure fashion.
This is only a small example of the many, many apps that can help make financing easier. With the continuous release of new applications and updates to old ones, banking from your iPhone will continue to simplify; finding the app for doing so may not. This list is a great place to start looking.


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At the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the oldest cancer treatment centers in the world, complimentary therapies such as hypnosis and Tai Chi are now regularly offered to patients. NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.
Along with the standard treatments of chemotherapy and radiation for cancer, patients are routinely being offered alternative or complementary therapies such as acupuncture, massage and yoga in major cancer centers around the country, according to a report by NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman on "Nightly News with Brian Williams." Alternative therapies have become an increasingly mainstream tool for doctors all around the country, especially when used to ease the side effects of treatment.
On Tuesday, Oct. 16., tune in to "NBC Nightly News" to watch part two of Dr. Nancy Snyderman's report on complementary medicine and learn about different therapies for back pain.
A 2010 University of Pennsylvania study found that 70 percent of comprehensive cancer centers offered information on complementary therapies on their websites, according to study co-author Dr. Jun Mao, an assistant professor and director of integrative care at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
"And over half of these centers endorse the use of these therapies in cancer care delivery," Mao says.
The reason complementary therapies have moved into the mainstream, particularly with regard to cancer care, is that they can help patients deal with pain and treatment side effects, explains Dr. Barrie Cassileth, a pioneer in the field of complementary medicine
who heads up the integrative medicine service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Read a transcript from Dr. Snyderman's online chat about complementary medicine.
"Acupuncture does not cure cancer, but it is extremely helpful in a cancer setting because it can control multiple symptoms, some of which are not treatable with mainstream means," Cassileth told NBC's chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman.
"It's not enough to say to the patient, 'OK, you're finished with your chemotherapy, your radiation, your surgery and so on. Goodbye, and have a good life.' The patient is suffering from a wide range of problems."
Mao's study found that acupuncture was one of the most commonly mentioned complementary therapies on cancer center websites.
Diane Miller, breast cancer survivor, and Dr. Barrie Cassileth, Chief of Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, on what Dr. Cassileth calls "a very evidence-based, rational approach to symptom control."
"Acupuncture can help alleviate pain and nausea," Snyderman explains. "The good cancer centers believe that acupuncture is a cornerstone of integrative medicine."
What's still not clear – even to the specialists – is exactly how acupuncture works.
"We don't entirely understand its mechanism," Mao says. "We do know that acupuncture can help relieve pain by bringing in endogenous opiates, which are like pain medication."
Other therapies, such as yoga, help to reduce pain by reducing stress, Mao says.
"They enhance centeredness and peace," he explains. "And that kind of stress reduction can reduce pain. Anxiety can lower a person's pain threshold. By helping to lower stress and anxiety, it can help with the pain."
Beyond this, complementary therapies can help foster the mind body connection, Mao says.
That rings true to Snyderman who would like to see more biofeedback being used.
"Biofeedback may be one of those hidden gems that we don't talk enough about," Snyderman says. "Being able to image a part of your body, harness thought and control things like heart rate and blood pressure and minimize pain is astonishing. I am a huge fan of biofeedback and using that same power to enhance the immune system - a field called psychoneuroimmunology."
For patients, there's a side benefit: feeling more in control of their lives.
"Cancer is often unexpected and it takes a lot of control from the individual," Mao says. "Complementary medicine often helps patients regain some sense of control, and helps them deal with some of the uncertainties."
That makes sense to Diane Miller, a breast cancer survivor who has been dealing with her diagnosis and treatments for the past few years.
"Finding out what I can do myself is empowering," Miller says. "And it really does help my symptoms."


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Day 1 – Friday, May 7
I went a total of 1.01 miles today. I walked and ran some laps. Walking or running was extremely difficult for me today for some reason. I burned a total of 62 calories and that's a very small amount. I walked a total of 2139 steps. Tomorrow's a better day!
Day 2 – Saturday, May 8
I went on my walking trip earlier this morning. Then, I went back later in the day too. So in a complete total I went 3.40 miles! Woot! I burned a total of 212 calories. I walked and ran 7195 steps. I ran a lap and maybe two. Nevertheless, my feet are very sore at the moment.
I would like to thank my family for supporting me in everything. They have always been there when I needed them the most.
I would also like to thank you anyone who has ever said a prayer for me. Thank you for the support over the years. I haven't always been who, I needed to me, but I'm working on that.
Thank you family, friends, neighbors, strangers, and especially you for believing in me! In the end, we are all really family. I would like everyone to pray that we will raise a lot of money for St. Jude's. I believe that the children will be healed! Lives will be changed for you blessing and helping other people. Like the old saying goes, "What comes around, goes around". If you give and help out a child; I believe God will bless you for it. Any amount helps! Let's just come into agreement and ask for God's favor in life and protection!
God Bless!
And even if you don't want to help me, don't do it for me. Or maybe you don't even care for me. But please, do it for the children. I am just the voice and the writer for the voiceless and sick. They need your help and my help!
Watch this video for the survivor stories. You're helping people like these people shown in the video! I love how the video shows young and old survivors. There is always hope! Every life matters! Never give up!
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I missed seeing the documentary Jesus Camp when it first came out in theaters last September. However, I've finally had the chance to view it, and I think this review is better late than never. In any case, so much relevant to the film has happened since then – the 2006 elections, the downfall of Ted Haggard, and even the announcement that the film itself had been nominated for an Oscar – that this seems an opportune time to review it and see how things have changed.
Directed by filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing, Jesus Camp is a documentary about a Pentecostal Christian children's summer camp in North Dakota, called "Kids on Fire," run by a minister named Becky Fischer. The filmmakers follow three pre-teen children, Levi, Rachael and Tory, around the country as they attend this camp, sit in on one of Ted Haggard's sermons in his New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs, and travel to Washington, D.C. during the nomination process of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. The filmmakers themselves do not narrate these events or otherwise provide an editorial voice during the film, but a critical viewpoint is provided by clips from the radio show of Mike Papantonio, a Methodist and the host of Air America Radio's Ring of Fire.
For an atheist like myself, this was not an easy movie to watch, and I think even many Christians would find it disturbing. The children in this film, most of them around 10 or 11, are subjected to a degree of indoctrination that is sickening and cult-like in its intensity, one that is intended to scrub from their minds all traces of independent thought and brainwash them into compliance with an agenda that is extreme and radical even among Christian fundamentalists.
In one scene from the film, Fischer leads the children in "praying in tongues", the babbling of nonsense syllables that supposedly indicates the presence of the Holy Spirit. In another, she publicly chastises the congregation, accusing some people present of being "phonies" who falsely profess allegiance to Christianity, until many of the children are sobbing; she then demands that they come up to the front one by one to confess their sins in public. One boy gets on his knees in front of the entire several-hundred-person congregation to admit that he sometimes has trouble believing that God exists or that the stories in the Bible are true.
Extreme right-wing politics are also a major part of the indoctrination. Fischer and the other ministers often profess their devotion to George W. Bush, because of his supposed born-again Christian beliefs, and at one point bring in a cardboard cutout of the man and encouraging all the children to stretch out their hands toward it and pray for him. The children are also taught that abortion is evil, with tiny dolls that are supposed to be fetuses passed out among them to touch and adore. At another point the entire congregation, including the children, is led in a chant of "Righteous judges!", repeated until many of them are crying or shaking, and are then told that they have made a sacred covenant with God to pray every day that abortion be outlawed. A third scene shows some of the children at home, being taught by their parents to say an altered version of the Pledge of Allegiance, not to the American flag but to a "Christian flag" that consists of a blue cross on a field of white.
Even now, my words do not do justice to the insidious and vile coercion used against these poor children. The film shows clearly how all of this activity takes place in an atmosphere of extreme emotion and intense peer pressure, the same technique used by many cults to break down people's resistance and then rebuild them in a way congenial to the cult's beliefs. The children interviewed for the film appear to be willing subjects who have wholeheartedly internalized the precepts of fundamentalist Christianity, which is not surprising, considering every peer and authority figure in their lives acts likewise and puts them under pressure to behave this way. (Most of these students are homeschooled, of course; one section shows one of them watching a young-earth creationist video and being taught by his mother to say that evolution is "stupid").
Fischer and the other ministers are unapologetic about their desire to indoctrinate children. Fischer praises kids for being "usable" for their cause, and speaks almost with admiration of Muslim madrassas where students are taught to admire terrorists and suicide bombers, stating her wish to teach children a comparable level of commitment to Christianity. Another minister congratulates children who attend the camp, "Way to be obedient!", and says, with no apparent awareness of irony, that "the devil goes after the young, those who cannot fend for themselves". Their expressed goal is to raise a new generation of fundamentalist Christians that will outnumber other groups and win the culture war through population. Stories like this are the best possible evidence for Richard Dawkins' argument that it should be considered child abuse, in a moral if not a legal sense, to indoctrinate children in the religion of their parents and deny them the chance to make up their own minds.
Near the end, the film shows a sermon given by the now-disgraced Ted Haggard. Knowing what we now know, there is much to find amusing about this, such as Haggard's assertion that we "don't have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity – it's written in the Bible!" In another part of his speech, Haggard looks straight into the camera and jokes, "I know what you did last night. If you send me a thousand dollars, I won't tell your wife." His congregation laughs at this, but in retrospect, it is difficult not to think that Haggard was really speaking to himself. I can only wonder at the chaos that must have been raging inside him as those very words were taped. (Some of the children from Fischer's camp are shown attending Haggard's sermon; I'd be very interested in knowing how his fall from grace has affected them.)
Haggard also claims, "If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election," echoing other claims made by the believers in the film that their prayers and votes can control the course of events. Those confidently made assertions are now looking very shaky, considering the Republicans' disastrous loss in the 2006 midterm election. Though they captured a solid majority of the evangelical vote, as they usually do, it utterly failed to bring them victory, even losing many districts that were thought to be conservative strongholds. (And as this site has documented, Protestants in general are losing electoral power to nonbelievers.) What is more, the Republican presidential nominee for 2008 will have to face an extremely difficult balancing act, trying to be extreme enough to appeal to believers like this while simultaneously trying to appeal to the rest of the country, which has rejected most of the fundamentalists' favored positions by large margins.
When this documentary was made, it probably would have been far more depressing for the hope of our society. Now that so much has changed, it is still saddening, but mostly because of these children's lives that are being taken away from them by a warped ideology that tries to turn all its adherents into mindless drones for the cause. Since this film came out, Fischer has closed the camp down, citing fears of a backlash, though she has stated that she intends to continue her child-indoctrination efforts in other ways. However, I would be interested in a followup that explores how the children and adults featured in this documentary have changed, if at all. Fischer's website says the following:
The time people need to be seriously discipled is while they are still children, not when they are teens. If we wait till they are teens, it's too late!
Statistics show that by the time a child is 7 to 9 years old his/her moral moorings are already cast in stone, and whatever he/she believes by the time he/she is 13 they will generally die believing unless something catastrophic happens in his/her life to turn them around. I clearly remember Catholics and Communists both saying years ago saying "Give us a child until they are seven years old and we will have them for life!" They know something Christians don't know.
This movie is my scream for equal time in Christianity for children!
Notwithstanding the irony of Fischer's openly admitting she wants to follow the child-indoctrination model practiced by other groups, I think this declaration is in error. People do not always follow the beliefs they were taught in their youth (and Fischer seems to admit this and contradict herself by saying, on the same page as the excerpt quoted above, that "our own children are leaving the Church in alarming numbers (70%) when they reach their teen and young adult years"). While the devotion of the children in the film seems extreme – preaching sermons before the entire congregation, handing out Jack Chick tracts to strangers on the street – I find that beliefs so intense often do not last. The more intense the indoctrination is, the stronger the backlash can often be. I'm sure that some of these children may retain these beliefs for life, but I suspect that others (perhaps including the one boy I mentioned earlier) may ultimately break away and possibly even become atheists. There is just too much in the world that contradicts the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity once people who hold those beliefs venture outside the protective bubble of their early years.


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I've recently resumed the practice of reading a short excerpt from St Benedict's monastic Rule every day. I don't read the whole thing, just those parts I think are most relevant to a married Anglican layperson living in the so-called real world. So, for example, I skip Chapter 9, which deals with the arrangement of the Night Office (Vigils). The Book of Common Prayer makes no provision for a Night Office, and if it did, I wouldn't get up to do it anyway. But if you ever visit a monastery where it is done, by all means go to it, even if just for one time. The trauma of getting up at such a Godly hour shocks the psyche into being more receptive to the message of the psalms and canticles than it might otherwise be on a full night's sleep.
But I digress. The suggested readings below are based on the RB 1980, published in the same year by the Liturgical Press. This edition of the Rule contains the original Latin text, an excellent English translation on the facing page, and enough critical apparatus to keep a graduate student amused for years. IMHO, this is the gold standard for English-language critical editions of the Rule. The numbers in the citations refer to the versification in this edition. So, good reading and Pax et bonum.
Day 1 Prologue: 1-20
Day 2 Prologue: 21-38
Day 3 Prologue: 39-end
Day 4 Chapter 2 : 1-22
Day 5 Chapter 2 : 23-end
Day 6 Chapter 3
Day 7 Chapter 4: 1-43
Day 8 Chapter 4: 44-end
Day 9 Chapter 5
Day 10 Chapter 6
Day 11 Chapter 7 : 1-30
Day 12 Chapter 7: 31-43
Day 13 Chapter 7: 44-54
Day 14 Chapter 7: 55-end
Day 15 Chapters 19 and 20
Day 16 Chapter 27
Day 17 Chapter 31
Day 18 Chapters 33 and 34
Day 19 Chapter 36
Day 20 Chapter 48: 1-13
Day 21 Chapter 48: 14-end
Day 22 Chapter 49
Day 23 Chapter 52
Day 24 Chapter 53
Day 25 Chapter 57
Day 26 Chapter 58
Day 27 Chapter 62
Day 28 Chapter 68
Day 29 Chapter 71
Day 30 Chapter 72
Day 31 Chapter 73
St Ignatius Brianchaninov on the Jesus Prayer
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Ignatius lived from 1807 to 1867. He was born into a noble landowning Russian family. After study at a military academy at St Petersburg he received a commission in the Tsar's army as an engineer. A few years later he resigned due to illness, and after recovering his health became a monk. He was soon recognized for his piety and became abbot of a monastery near St Petersburg when he was only 26. At the age of 50 he was consecrated a bishop but quite sensibly resigned his bishopric after only four years to become a hermit (Anglican bishops take note). He spent the remainder of his life as a spiritual father, often guiding his directees by means of letter-writing. He was canonized by the Russian Church in 1988. Here are two of his comments on the Jesus Prayer:
The name of our Lord Jesus Christ is a divine name. The power and effect of that name are divine, omnipotent and salvific, and transcend our ability to comprehend it. With faith therefore, with confidence and sincerity, and with great piety and fear ought we proceed to the doing of the great work which God has entrusted to us: to train ourselves in prayer by using the name of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Novices need more time in order to train themselves in prayer. It is impossible to teach this supreme virtue shortly after entering the monastery of following the first few steps in asceticism. Asceticism needs both time and gradual progress, so that the ascetic can mature for prayer in every respect. In order that a flower might bloom or the fruit grow on a tree, the tree must first be planted and left to develop; thus also does prayer grow out of the soil of the other virtues and nowhere else. The monk will not quickly gain mastery of his mind, nor will he in a short time accustom it to abide in the words of the prayer as if enclosed in a prison. Pulled hither and thither by its acquired predilections, impressions, memories and worries, the novice's mind constantly breaks its salvific chains and strays from the narrow to the wide path. It prefers to wander freely...to stray aimlessly and mindlessly over great expanses, though this be damaging to him and cause him great loss. The passions, those moral infirmities of human nature, are the principal cause of inattentiveness and absentmindedness in prayer...The passions are brought under control and mortified little by little by means of true obedience, as well as by self-reproach and humility--these are the virtues upon which successful prayer is built. Concentration, which is accessible to man, is granted by God in good time to every struggler in piety and asceticism who by persistence and ardor proves the sincerity of his desire to acquire prayer.
Animal Saints
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Here are some excerpts from a great post published today by Christopher on his site at http://thanksgivinginallthings.blogspot.com/. The title is "Creation laughs back: animals, theology and animal saints".
I now know what others must feel, after having been laughed at for mentioning animal theology in a conversation. I have long heard others talk about derisive and dismissive encounters with "serious" theologians and scholars when the topic of animal theology is mentioned.
Considering animals in relationship to God is not something extra or foreign to Christianity. In my opinion, a serious doctrine of Creation cannot ignore the rest of the living world and the Creation as a whole and finally be Christian. Even rocks glorify God. And frankly, neither can a complete doctrine of Redemption or Sanctification. Indeed, to set up one's "serious" theology in such a way that one can ignore, dismiss, or deride creatures great and small, organic and inorganic, is a sign of the Fall and the effects of sin, alienation, and division. The rest of Creation pays dearly and regularly for our lack of relational recognition and failures in thankfulness...
When I'm driving and I notice a dead deer, raccoon, seagull, squirrel, or the like, I offer a prayer of thanks to God for the life of this creature and that God will greet him or her in His Kingdom...
I am part of a strand of tradition, the Benedictine, that honors this connection to the rest of Creation and is not threatened by the suggestion that God cares for each creature. A raven, after all, is God's messenger to Abba Benedict in his early monastic life and is often shown in iconography as friend and companion. We may not know the name of that raven, but given the desert penchant to understand that Christian life was to be lived in return to the Garden, I can imagine that Abba Benedict gave the raven a name. And as the icon shows, I'm certainly within tradition to imagine that not only Abba Benedict, but also the raven is raised up, is a saint.
Eucharistic Quotes: Roman Catholic
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Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
This is what happens by divine power in this sacrament; for the whole substance of bread is converted into the whole substance of the body of Christ, and the whole substance of wine into the whole substance of the blood of Christ. Hence this conversion is not formal, but substantial; nor is it contained within the categories of natural motion, but may be called by its proper name, transubstantiation.
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence.
Odo Casel (1886-1948)
When we go with Christ in his way he becomes contemporary with us. He is neither past nor to come but present to us; he is always with us. And not only his person but also his saving act belongs to this present. There can be no deeper communion of living than that we should share the essential life and action of another.
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Vatican II)
...the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fountain from which all her power flows.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
1325. The Eucharist is the efficacious sign and sublime cause of that communion in the divine life and that unity of the People of God by which the church is kept in being. It is the culmination both of God's action sanctifying the world in Christ and of the worship men offer to Christ and through him to the Father in the Holy Spirit.
1396. Those who receive the Eucharist are united more closely to Christ. Through it Christ unites them to all the faithful in one body--the Church. Communion renews, strengthens, and deepens this incorporation into the Church, already achieved by Baptism. In Baptism we have been called to form but one body. The Eucharist fulfills this call: "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Cor 10: 16-17).
1404. The Church knows that the Lord comes even now in his Eucharist and that he is there in our midst. However, his presence is veiled. Therefore we celebrate the Eucharist "awaiting the blessed hope and the coming of our savior, Jesus Christ, asking to share in your glory when every tear will be wiped away. On that day we shall see you, our God, as you are. We shall become like you and praise you forever through Christ our Lord.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile of Jesus, in the inability to make people understand him, in the desertion of his apostles, in the hatred of his persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of his passion, and now in his permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where he has reduced himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now.
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You'll never have to set charge preferences for a Spektrum Smart battery until you want to. When a Spektrum Smart LiPo battery is connected to a Spektrum Smart charger, unique parameters and health of that Smart LiPo battery upload from the Smart memory microchip integrated into the battery. Through the charger, you can view and set preferences, such as charge rates, so that all you have to do to charge the pack every time is press the charger "Start" button. Smart technology takes care of the rest.
Every Smart LiPo battery is factory assembled with the next-generation IC3™ or IC5™ output connector that's conveniently compatible with older devices equipped with robust EC3™ and EC5™ connectors. You can use Smart Batteries with older systems, but only when connected to a Spektrum Smart device will all the benefits of Smart technology become obvious.
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When connected to a Spektrum Smart charger, unique parameters and health of your Smart LiPo battery upload from the Smart memory microchip integrated into the battery. Through the charger, you can set and record preferred settings, such as charge rates and self-discharge options, so that all you have to do to charge the pack is press the "start" button. Smart technology will take care of the rest. Every Smart LiPo battery is factory assembled with the next-generation IC3™ and IC5™ output connector that utilizes a data transfer wire to relay saved information to your Smart Chargers.
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The innovative Smart connection is made possible by an installed microchip on every battery, feeding the unique information through a data cable to the IC3 and IC5 connectors. The IC series of connectors are designed from the ground up to provide a more solid connection, higher heat resistance, and effortless installation. For those using the popular EC3 and EC5 connectors, there's no need to worry. The IC connector series is entirely backwards compatible with existing connectors so you can use Smart Batteries with older systems, but only when connected to a Spektrum Smart device are all the benefits of Smart technology obvious.
LiPo batteries with Spektrum Smart™ technology practically take care of themselves. When programmed with a Spektrum Smart Charger, Smart Batteries will automatically discharge to your predetermined storage voltage when they are left to rest for a time period you choose, between 12 and 240 hours. This feature will help to extend the life of your Smart Batteries by preventing your batteries from sitting fully charged for an extended period of time, which can damage the chemical integrity of Lithium Polymer cells. This unique feature results in longer battery life expectancy and better performance over the life of the pack.
DO: Use a charger that is specifically designed to charge Li-Po batteries. Using chargers that are not Li-Po-specific can be an extreme fire hazard.
DO: Li-Pos don't develop memory or voltage depression characteristics like Ni-Cds. Charge them without the worry of cycling or discharging them first.
DO: Store Li-Pos at least partially charged. Li-Pos will maintain their performance levels over time, even during non-use, much better than Ni-Cds, and there's no need to cycle them.
DON'T: Never fully discharge your Li-Po battery pack. Most electronic speed controls have a voltage cutoff that will prevent over-discharging the battery, but were designed for Ni-Cd & Ni-MH batteries. Be sure that your ESC features the proper Li-Po cut off voltage of 3V per cell (6V for 2-cell packs, 9V for 3-cell packs and so on). Discharging a Li-Po cell beyond its critical minimum voltage will cause damage to the battery.
DON'T: Shorting a Li-Po pack for even an instant can cause damage to the battery. Whether the pack has been shorted when new, while adding or changing the connector, when fully charged or fully discharged, the pack should not be charged without extreme caution. Be sure to take care when soldering connectors and during handling or charging to prevent shorts.
DON'T: If you have a crash and the battery is damaged, don't put the battery in your car or house immediately after a crash. It's possible that a chemical reaction can take place in the damaged battery that could cause a fire. Put the battery in a safe place for at least one hour.
Li-Po packs are available in 2- and 3-cell varieties (Thunder Power packs are also available in 4-cell and 5-cell models). Each cell in the pack has a nominal voltage of 3.7V and multi-cell packs are wired in series.
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A "C" or "current" rating indicates the maximum recommended average discharge current for that pack and is used to help you determine the maximum discharge rate. To determine the maximum discharge rate, multiply the "C" rating by the pack capacity (i.e. 1900mAh cell x 6C rating = maximum discharge rate of 11,400mA or 11.4A).
The "S" number indicates the number of cells in series. For instance, 2S indicates a 2 series (2-cell) pack.
Larger packs use the "P" number to indicate the number of cells in parallel. For instance 3S2P indicates the pack is built with 2 cells in parallel, then 3 sets of the 2 parallel cells are joined in series.
Li-Po batteries require a very different charge method than Ni-Cd or Ni-MH cells and can catch fire if charged with a standard, non-Li-Po charger. Li-Po batteries do not "peak" when fully charged and require a "constant current/constant voltage" capable charger.
JST connectors have become the standard on many electronic speed controls and chargers for slow flyer and park flyer applications. While it's true that the JST connector does have a discharge output limitation, it is still the first choice of beginning modelers or those who do not discharge at very high rates.
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This years IMM Cologne in Germany was held January 19-25. Our stand presented our collection HUH, shelf SIKSAK, chaird GEE and LEE and also tbale COW. It was nice to see that resellers and end-customers from different countries liked our plywood furniture. Also it was our pleasure to see that more and more designers use plywood as natural and strong, but aesthetic material. More pictures about the fair can be seen here.


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Valley still dry after several days of rain
EAGLE COUNTY – It was nice to have a few days of rain showers, and more may be coming at the end of the week. But the county and state remain in a deep drought.It's hard to measure these things precisely – our region is too geographically big and has too diverse a climate for a quick handful of numbers – but the bottom line is we would need something like a "40 days and 40 nights" kind of weather pattern to get moisture in our soil and plants to levels that would be considered normal.From October through June 20, the Colorado River basin, which includes Eagle County, was at just 62 percent of its average seasonal precipitation. Mage Hulstrand, of the National Resources Conservation Service, the federal agency that measures these things, said precipitation over the past few days will help that figure but not by much.Part of the problem is freakishly low precipitation levels being recorded in much of the state so far this year. For instance, the Colorado River basin received just 9 percent of its average precipitation in June.Still, the rain does help – in places where it falls. Wendy Ryan, a research assistant at the Colorado Climate Center in Fort Collins, said thunderstorms in the mountains tend to move slowly, which means the precipitation will soak into the ground in most places. The problem, though, is that our afternoon thunderstorms tend to be isolated. A storm that drops a quick inch of rain in one neighborhood might leave another with just a few tenths of an inch, if anything. For instance, between Wednesday and Sunday, the west weather station at the Vail Golf Club – near the sixth tee – reported 1.4 inches of rain. The east weather station – the 13th tee – recorded just 0.48 inch.Besides the scattered nature of summer storms, Ryan said summer generally isn't the time for stream-building precipitation. And in Eagle County, streamflows are the source of most of our domestic water.Eagle River Water & Sanitation District Communications and Public Affairs Manager Diane Johnson said the weekend rains brought streamflows on Gore Creek and the Eagle River at Avon to about the same levels they'd had a week before the rains. The big question, Johnson said, is how quickly the streamflows drop again.While the Eagle River was running chocolate-milk brown through Gypsum after the storms, indicating runoff from tributary creeks, much of the past rainfall has gone straight into the soil because it's so dry.That increase in soil moisture is going to take some time to show up in trees, which remain nearly firewood-dry. That means we're likely to stay under Stage 2 fire restrictions."It all helped, but it didn't solve the problem," said Ross Wilmore, the area management officer for the U.S. Forest Service. Still, the added moisture and lower temperatures have somewhat eased the immediate fire danger for now, Wilmore said. But that danger could go right back up as grasses green up, and then dry out, from rain.While its value may be limited in the short run, any rain in any amount is welcome. But some people take one bite and then imagine a whole apple."We've had people asking if the drought's over now," Johnson said. "We're not done – not even close."Business Editor Scott N. Miller can be reached at 970-748-2930 or email@example.com.
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Student Ministries - 146th Street
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Meet your Grace Church - 146th Street staff team! We are a multisite church, which means we are one church in multiple locations. And, we LOVE our location. You can find us in the big white building that looks like the Indy airport on 146th Street (otherwise known as the Crossroads of Indy bringing together Carmel, Noblesville and Westfield). We are a fun team providing our campus with upbeat, contemporary, soulful worship, a relevant live or streaming message that dives deep into theology and current topics, and special ministries/events for children, students and adults.


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Teens killed in duplex fire remembered by family, classmates
Classmates of the two victims of Sunday's duplex fire in West Allis learned about their deaths at school Monday.
Michael Gonzales attended Wedgewood Park International School in Milwaukee, and Isaiha Kobow attended West Milwaukee Intermediate School.
Both of the 14-year-olds died in a fire near 57th and Lapham streets Sunday.
Sixth-grader Dillon Whitehouse said Gonzales was known to younger classmates as a hero.
"He was a pretty good friend to all of us, so we're all going to hold him in our memory," Whitehouse said.
"He was a pretty cool young man. He was hang. He was laid back. He don't start drama or nothing," classmate Mark Diamond Jr. said.
"We try our best to prevent these situations, but you know things happen," Mark Diamond Sr. said.
Classmates of Kobow made ribbons in his honor and signed a large banner.
"As the kids came in, they were very somber," Principal Jeffrey Taylor said. "We were able to take those kids right away and make sure they had some support."
"He was just really happy all the time. Like, I never saw him mad or sad. He was always happy," classmate Angelica Trevino said.
Alyssa Scardina brought a candle and a rose to the memorial.
"He was like, a funny person. He always had jokes to tell, and he always talked about his future," she said.
Taylor said Kobow played basketball at the school and was well-liked among his classmates.
Gonzales' cousin, Rafael Gomez, said family was important to Michael.
"Michael loved sports, loved being around family," he said. "He loved making people smile. A genuine kid."
Two other children, ages 4 and 13, were injured in the fire. They were taken to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Gomez said the injured boys are Michael Gonzales' two brothers, Joel and Kendall.
"They're saying he (Joel) grabbed his little brother," Gomez said. "He saved him. He's a hero."
Joel and Kendall Gonzales are listed in stable condition at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, recovering from smoke inhalation.
Cousin Anna Gonzalez said the surviving victims were working through the tragedy in their own way.
"'Maybe Michael's in heaven. Maybe Jesus took him. Maybe he's in a better place.' A 4-year-old little boy telling his big brother this," she said.
Grief counselors were at both schools Monday to aid any students in need of counseling.


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Spacey: Samelson's inspired doodles
If the work in Andra Samelson's exhibit at the Fayerweather Gallery, the cosmic-theme "Ephemeris" looks like the sort of thing that someone might have doodled while talking on the phone, it's for good reason. According to her artist's statement, Samelson– who had been looking for a new, more direct art– came up with the concept at the core of her exhibit while doodling and talking on the phone.
In fairly large, irregularly shaped ovals (a shape that reappears over and over again), Samelson fashions thick galaxies of stars made of concentric circles or spirals separated by the darkness of space laid out here in waves of cross-hatching. This basic idea she repeats a few times with ink pen before she begins to apply it to other styles and methods. In a few works, she uses a more pointillist style for a lighter effect; in others she applies thick swabs of black ink for a much darker one.
In Samelson's conception, "Ephemeris" is an antidote to the wave of conceptual, computer-generated art currently making the rounds. In actuality, it's glorified notebook marginalia. Samelson really doesn't expand upon or develop her concept so much as she simply reproduces it on a scale beyond the means or, most likely, interest of the typical doodler.
It's a little impressive seeing the sort of curlicue doodles people absent-mindedly draw not just taken seriously, but also presented in forms as big as four feet across. But not that impressive, really. It might have helped had Samelson somehow played up the humble origins of her concept with her work, but she seems to be treating it seriously here.
As it stands, this is not the homage to the cosmos Samelson tries to present so much as an homage to the artwork of distracted people taken seriously. In other words, Samelson's newfound astronomical interests come across as a little phony and more than a bit opportunistic.
She does include a few works that depart from the cosmic aesthetic to a degree, and they are the most interesting pieces on display. These smaller works of ink on rice paper take for their subjects complicated, odd, and irregular shapes– large, slumping frameworks that look like toothpaste tubes, bowls, or doughnuts. What these works have to do with Samelson's cosmos (phone doodle) theme is unclear (were they inspired while talking on the phone and dropping acid perhaps?). They certainly show a unique aesthetic and visual spunk lacking in the other stuff.
Andra Samelson's "Ephemeris," an exhibit of cosmos-theme drawings and paintings, runs through March 12 at the Fayerweather Gallery. Rugby Road. 924-6123.


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The American Research Center in Egypt has been actively helping to conserve Egyptian monuments since 1993. With funds generously provided by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in close collaboration with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), over fifty projects have now been completed.
The scope of ARCE conservation work covers all periods of Egyptian art and architecture at monuments and sites throughout the country from pre-historic to Islamic. ARCE's Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project (EAC) encompasses the latest series of projects to be implemented under an agreement with USAID begun in 2004. In 2007 additional funding specifically for conservation and training in the Luxor area was received, and work is continuing.
In the wake of the Revolution of 2011, it has become even more apparent that the future of Egypt's monuments must rest ultimately with Egyptian archaeologists and conservators. ARCE's conservation initiatives include a significant emphasis on training for our Egyptian colleagues. Since 1995 some seven-hundred SCA employees have participated in ARCE's training programs. These initiatives have received enthusiastic support from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
A selection of current conservation projects is featured below.
Engineering works on archaeological sites can have devastating consequences for the preservation of standing and buried archaeological remains. To mitigate unwanted consequences developers gauge the archaeological potential of a site by conducting a desk-based assessment (DBA). The DBA provides baseline data on archaeological and heritage assets lurking above and below the ground that are likely to be affected by the proposed development.
The church of Saints Bishai and Bigol, the 'Red Monastery,' was the heart of a large monastic community, in a region known as an important center for ascetic life in the 5th century, A.D. It is an astonishingly rare example of the coloristic intensity of late antique monuments in Egypt. In this church, late antique paintings cover about eighty percent of the walls, niches, columns, pilasters, pediments and apses.
Director: Dr. Elizabeth Bolman, Temple University.
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View a 2012 video of the Red Monastery >>
A roundtable discussion in 2012 about conservation issue at the Red Monastery >>
Shortly after the bombing at the Museum of Islamic Art and the Manuscript Library and Manuscript Museum of the National Library and Archives of Egypt, a group of heritage activists rushed to the site to assess what had occurred, to form a protective line around the site to prevent looting if needed and to assist where possible in the collection and purchase of supplies required to stabilize artifacts.
Site Management and Conservation
This project was initiated in 2011 as a short-term program to employ 700+ local Egyptians to help mitigate the severe unemployment caused by a deep drop off in tourism following the January 2011 revolution. Supported by USAID, ARCE has engaged Egyptian youth, construction workers, craftsmen and conservators to clean, survey, and stabilize the Temple of Isis at Deir el Shelwit and Theban Tomb 110, train earlier field school graduates in advanced conservation techniques, record the archaeological remains of the village of Qurna, and construct walkways and a visitor center for improved visitor access in Qurna.
The International Council of Museums, in an effort to fight against illicit traffic in cultural goods, compiles the Emergency Red List of Egyptian Cultural Objects at Risk. This list aims to help art and heritage professionals and law enforcement officials identify Egyptian objects that are protected by national and international legislations. View the Red List for Egypt.


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Bitcoin. You may have heard of it: a so-called virtual peer-to-peer currency system. It's been billed alternately as the savior of the world from the hands of the banking system, the scourge of world governments, a monumental waste of energy resources, a privacy nightmare, and just plain dumb. But what the hell is it? Nobody knows. Let's get started.
You have to admit there's something exciting about a virtual currency system, but at the same time, that something just might be hype. There's something vaguely "of Anonymous" to the whole deal—it might be revolutionary, but also could be a joke. It could be teenagers pretending they're anarchist comic book heroes. The trouble is, it's tough to tell for sure.
And yet, this is what we were promised from cyberspace, wasn't it? This is the reality of Neuromancer and Snowcrash. Virtual currencies to spend in virtual shadow worlds, run by cryptopunks, comprising off-the-grid hacker economies. If you have a single sci-fi bone in your body, you are irresistibly turned-on by the idea of a fluctuating exchange rate between Second Life's Liden Dollars and Bitcoin. Watching the numbers rise and fall on www.bitcoincharts.com is better than a Matrix screensaver, because it is somehow, possibly, maybe, happening in real life. This is the sort of radical stuff that is The Future we fantasized about, rather than oil shortages and housing surpluses.
Virtual technologies are becoming decidedly real. From cell phone augmented reality, to the broad range of Kinect motion-sensor hacks, to location-aware tech, it's hard to tell what is virtual, what is real, and what is just made up. The virtual is real... but still, a different sort of real. As Gilles Deleuze wrote, "The virtual is opposed not to the real but to the actual. The virtual is fully real in so far as it is virtual." We have more reality than ever, only some of it is virtual reality, and other elements are actual reality.
"Extreme virtual reality" seems to describe Bitcoin. Setting aside the functional import of a virtual currency for a moment, Bitcoin is quite real, and impressively so. The value of all Bitcoins in existence is around 105 million USD. Over 24.5 million USD in transactions take place every 24 hours. (My stats are as of June 13, 2011. For real-time statistics of all kinds, see the excellent site http://bitcoinwatch.com.) It is difficult to estimate the total computing power of the distributed Bitcoin network, but some vague guesses place it greater than the power of the world's top 500 supercomputers... combined. This virtual reality might not mean a thing to most of us in our daily life of tweets and emails, blogs and new media. But it certainly is not nothing...


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