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The latest Firefox 3 nightly build includes user interfaces elements of the new bookmarking system, complete with tagging support. The interface itself still has some rough edges that need to be smoothed out, but so far it seems relatively reliable and user-friendly.
Although the underlying components of the Places system for bookmark and history storage were first included in Firefox 3 alpa 5, the frontend for leveraging many of those features was still in the early planning stage at the time. The new bookmark frontend interface is based on a mockup created by Mozilla user experience design specialist Alex Faaborg. It will be included in Milestone 8, which is scheduled for release in early September.
In recent nightly builds, a new star icon appears on the far right-hand side of the URL text box. When the user clicks that star or hits ctrl+d, a bookmark dialog drops down that allows the user to specify a name, a folder, and tags for the bookmark.
Much work remains before the new Places bookmarking functionality is fully integrated with the Firefox user interface. For instance, the bookmarks sidebar search feature doesn't show results based on tags yet, and the bookmark properties dialog doesn't expose the tag interface either. Since a full frontend feature freeze is planned for Milestone, it is likely that most of the rest of these features will be implemented before the release of Milestone 8.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Comes naturally: Room groupings seem to flow
ADDRESS: 706 Murray Lane
NEIGHBORHOOD: Ivy
SIZE: 3,500 fin. sq. ft.
LAND: 3.83 acres
CURB APPEAL: 8.5 out of 10
LISTED BY: Mary P. Newton, Keller Williams Realty, 434-220-2233
"Have it your way" is Burger King's catch-phrasem but buying a house usually means having it someone else's way and then figuring out how to make it your way with as little effort as possible. And that's a difficult task in subdivisions, where one specific way applies to every house in the development.
Luckily, this week's house has been crafted from its earliest moments by an owner who has spent the past two years perfecting it to sell. The result has some striking fixtures– the main staircase– and some unusual features– the garage.
From the inside, the garage is as glamorous as one would expect an unfinished storage room to be. While the walls await drywall, it's the outside that deserves comment. Since cars enter by circling behind the house, a façade of narrow, elegant windows has been added to disguise what would be an otherwise utilitarian addition.
The windows in the house are both prominent and decorative. Three oversized Palladian models in a study at the front of the house command a view of the drive, while two sets of French doors at the entrance and six additional windows (stretching to the second floor) at the back let light into the main living space.
The light plays across an open set of interconnected but distinct spaces, with the foyer, dining room, and a living room all sharing the center of the house. Pillars and a standard ceiling mark off the dining room just to the right of the foyer, which is itself defined by the large staircase coming down from upstairs. In the remaining area, the vaulted ceiling rises to the second-floor, creating an open area with a fireplace that can be used as an easily accessible living room.
In the kitchen, an elevated breakfast bar curves around a sunken cooktop, while two ovens, a double sink, and a large refrigerator (all stainless steel) line the walls. Granite counters are everywhere including atop the bar, but some by the door could seem inconvenient, far away from both the sink and the stove. The microwave is in a large walk-in pantry, possibly to conserve counter space, but probably to keep the pantry from feeling empty.
An open space adjoining the kitchen is large enough for a table, and connects to a keeping room at the far end of the house. The room's vaulted ceiling and large, curving windows make it an inviting space for relaxing, and it's heated with a gas fireplace.
In the master suite across the house from the kitchen, the bedroom claims a generous portion of floor space, and the tray ceiling overhead opens the space upwards. Visitors may notice the room's apparent lack of a closet; it's accessed through the bathroom, but it's almost big enough to be another bedroom, with built-in dresser drawers and enough cubby holes for 25 pairs of shoes. While it's a bit of a hike from pajamas to bed, it's a lot of extra storage space.
The bathroom that completes the suite has a vaulted ceiling and more Palladian windows. The large tiled space has two sinks on opposite sides of the room and a built-in vanity, spreading away from the whirlpool tub that serves as the room's focal point. The WC is behind a door, and glass bricks set into the tiled shower spread natural light throughout the room.
Functional rooms are tucked away off the hallways between these areas. A small bathroom and a large water heater have their own spaces between the kitchen and living areas, while the washer and dryer hookups are in a laundry room on the way to the master suite.
The second bedroom, upstairs off a balcony overlooking the living area, makes a miniature suite of its own, with a closet and private bathroom. Also upstairs are the third and fourth bedrooms, which share a Jack-and-Jill bathroom. Since the shared bathroom contains only a shower and WC, each of the two linked bedrooms has its own sink, set apart in alcoves.
The house also has outdoor spaces for relaxing: patios in the front and out back. Although the front of the house has an unobstructed view of a flat lawn, a line of trees begin almost exactly where the rear patio ends.
Taken as a whole, the house has been well designed, with rooms logically grouped into natural clusters that feel roomy and open. Since it's still waiting for its first occupants, it can also be rearranged pretty easily.
Each week, a brave local seller invites the Hook to provide an impartial, warts-and-all look at their real estate listing. E-mail yours today!

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"Restored Mural for Orlando": a Chapbook Responding to TragedyApril 25, 2019
Poets Roy Guzmán and D. Allen Present "Restored Mural for Orlando" and New Works, this Wednesday, May 1, in the Hamlin Creative Space in the Weitz.
Bardwell Smith's Top Books on PilgrimageApril 14, 2016
As a part of the Walk! Festival, Professor Bardwell Smith, who will be giving a talk on walking the pilgrimage route around the island of Shikoku in Japan this Thursday, April 7th, handpicks his favorite 15 books on pilgrimage and journeys
Acclaimed nature writer Barry Lopez to speak October 2September 25, 2014
With the People's Climate March on September 21 and the UN Climate Summit the following week, it's clear that the environment is literally a hot topic in today's world. Barry Lopez, whose writings about environmentalism have won him national recognition, will be speaking at Carleton on Thursday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.
April 18th is National Poem in Your Pocket Day!April 18, 2013
To celebrate National Poem in Your Pocket Day, the Humanities Center has collected a pocketful of poems from departments across campus.
Visit the Humanities Center website for an electronic version.
Or visit the Weitz Center Commons, where you can put an actual poem printed on actual paper in your actual pocket—there's a box of verse waiting for you to adopt one.
Poetry reading to celebrate opening of Tisdale CollectionMarch 29, 2012
Not your typical poetry reading - this one has an element of luck involved.
A TEMPEST-uous week!October 25, 2011
The week of October 24th, enjoy a raging storm of Shakespearean events in the Weitz Center!


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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
By RICK KASH and DAVID CALHOUN
In the new demand economy, the margin for error for all businesses grows smaller and smaller.
In the flagrantly expansionary economy of the past several years, sloppiness in planning and execution were hidden as business sales and profits went up constantly. These days, you are not only competing with ever-growing sources of supply from competitors all over the world, but all of that supply is competing for flattening – even contracting – demand. In this new competitive reality, any mistake can have significant consequences.
The solution must go beyond tightening the screws still further on the supply chain. Now, the precision must occur on the demand side of the equation.
One reason for this is a shift in expectations. Today's customers and consumers expect more precision from business because, thanks to the tech revolution, the world around us has become much more precise. GPS devices will show you within inches how to get from point A to point B. Atomic clocks measure to the billionths of seconds. Twitter can tell you exactly what your friends are up to at any given moment. YouTube, TiVo, and iTunes allow you to access the history of recorded entertainment to find exactly the experience you want at that moment. And cellular telephony lets people contact you anywhere on the globe.
In the face of this unprecedented increase in precision, is it any wonder that customers and consumers are increasingly impatient with inaccuracies, delays, and imprecision? Precision has become the leitmotif of the lives of your consumers – and if you fail to match that precision, those failings will seem even more amplified.
What consumers also instinctively understand is that precision has long been a precursor of progress. In high technology, ever-smaller chips also have ever more functionality. In medicine, laparoscopic and laser surgery enables doctors to work in small, almost microscopic, spaces instead of using more invasive procedures. Heart stents are implanted with precision to prevent heart attacks and strokes. The Kindle delivers thousands of books to your home on a small device within seconds, and soon tiny chips called RFID (for radio frequency identification) will track individual packages as they travel across America or around the world. Precision is almost always the path into the future.
We have seen similar shifts in expectations in the past. Twenty years ago, we experienced a shift to immediacy, to a 24/7 world, thanks to the Internet and companies such as Federal Express and Amazon. More recently, mobility has become an everyday expectation, enabled again by the Internet, by telepresence and technologies such as Skype and Second Life, and driven by a natural desire among people to stay connected with each other wherever they are.
The biggest corporate success story of the century to date, Google, is perhaps the perfect exemplar of the growing need for – and the power of – precision. As consumers, most of us would be lost trying to find what we need on the Internet without Google or another search engine. But acting as a tool to help you find precisely what you are looking for on the Web only explains in part what has made Google such an amazing game changer.
The real power of Google is its ability to help advertisers increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their advertising spending through greater precision. The company helps advertisers reach exactly those consumers who are most likely to be interested in their message. Indeed, almost every significant purchase (as well as many smaller purchases) consumers make today begins with online research. Consumers have learned to compare hotels, cars, TVs, shoes, and a thousand other product categories via the Web. What's more, the consumers conducting these searches are much more likely than the average TV viewer, newspaper reader, or radio listener to actually make a purchase in the category being researched.
The genius of Google's business strategy is that it placed itself right in the middle of this research/decision-making process—an idea so radical that it caught potential competitors, such as the big newspaper and magazine families, so completely by surprise that they not only cheered the rise of Google, but often even turned over their Web page to the Google search engine. By the time the media giants realized their mistake, Google had placed itself at the crossroads of the online retail and advertising world.
In practice, Google can show its advertiser clients precisely how consumers who saw their advertisements online actually behave. Google can also show how many consumers actually click on an ad or visit an advertiser's site for additional information. The advertisers in turn can see the increase in traffic to their site, as well as where this traffic came from, time spent on the site, pages viewed, and, of course, sales.
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Like Google, adding greater precision to your business model has the potential to turn it into a kind of "profit search engine" that can be used to pinpoint the most profitable demand in a market, to help you understand the basis for decision making of those customers, and help align your supply precisely with the highest-profit demand.
Injecting greater precision into your business model drives both greater efficiency and greater effectiveness. And Google isn't the only company that has come to appreciate that fact.
This article was excerpted from "How Companies Win" by Rick Kash and David Calhoun (published by HarperCollins Publishers).
David Calhoun is CEO of The Nielsen Company, an information and measurement company.
Rick Kash is the founder and chairman of The Cambridge Group.


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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future."
— John F. Kennedy, West Germany, June 25, 1963
Up until that year, no Catholic had ever served as president of the United States. In the South, coal miners feared for their way of life; new industries and technology forced many from their homes and from the mines.
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 43, a young Catholic senator from Massachusetts defeated then-Vice President Richard Nixon for the presidency, the world shook — it was to be the first hope and change campaign, and the first use of modern technology to do so.
Nixon and Kennedy's televised debates were the first such in history and reason enough to take appearances seriously. Nixon's infamous sickly state and 5 o'clock shadow convinced viewers that Kennedy had won, while those who listened to the debate on the radio were in favor of Nixon.
"It's time America started moving again." — John F. Kennedy, 1960 televised debate versus Richard Nixon.
Kennedy did, however, have a large swath of opposition — especially in the South. His support of the growing civil rights movement created rifts within his own party, many of whom voted for a third party in protest.
Kennedy eventually won the popular vote by a narrow margin — 49.7 percent to Nixon's 49.5 percent.
The Vietnam War would be ramped up under Kennedy. In 1961, troop levels were tripled. It was in Cuba that Kennedy would find his war legacy — though the Bay of Pigs incident would prove to be a blunder, his reputation was saved by what came next.
Kennedy, with support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), trained 2,500 Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba. After landing, the troops received no support — and were thus captured. After two years of negotiations, the 1,200 survivors were released in exchange for food and medicine. Kennedy believed that the CIA had purposely set him up to fail, leading to a rift in relations between the two.
"We all looked at each other and asked, 'How could we have been so stupid?' " — John F. Kennedy to Time Magazine writer Hugh Sidey.
In 1962, after images showing missile launch sites constructed on the island, Kennedy, fearing attack by the Soviets, was faced with two choices: diplomacy or nuclear war.
Cooler heads would prevail. The USSR, headed then by Nikita Khrushchev, agreed to dismantle the sites. Kennedy would be known as the president who averted nuclear disaster.
In 1963, Kennedy declared himself one with the German people in Berlin in an anti-communism speech. That same year, the foundation for space exploration was set in motion in response to the Soviet's success in sending a man to space.
Unfortunately, Kennedy would not live to see the fall of communism or the fruits of his astronomical labors.
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."–John F. Kennedy, 1962, Rice University.
Kennedy arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on the night of Thursday, Nov. 21, 1963.
From San Antonio, Kennedy, along with his wife, Jacqueline, traveled to Fort Worth on Nov. 22, followed by a short plane trip to Dallas' Love Field airport; the President then entered his motorcade and traveled into the city.
Alongside the president and his wife were then-Texas Gov. John Connally and wife, Nellie. The route would take the president through the streets of Dallas and past throngs of onlookers.
Kennedy, who chose to travel without the optional hood on the presidential limousine, wished to be seen and to interact with the people who came to support him.
Dealey Plaza, in Dallas' west end, is also the home of the Texas School Book Depository, where in October Lee Harvey Oswald had been hired as a manual laborer sorting books for orders.
At approximately 12:29 p.m., the presidential motorcade turned on to Houston Street, directly in front of the book depository.
At 12:30 p.m., shots were fired. The limousine carrying the president and governor sped away as the first lady climbed onto the back of the moving vehicle.
Walter Cronkite, a reporter for CBS, appeared on television with continued coverage of the assassination. At 2:27 p.m. EST, Cronkite, relying on reports from Dallas, reported unofficially that President Kennedy had passed away.
"From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago." — Walter Cronkite, CBS News, 1963.
From then things moved quickly. President Kennedy's body was returned to Washington aboard Air Force One. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the new president.
The nation, in a state of shock, mourned.
While being transferred from detention by the Dallas Police Department, suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was fatally shot by Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner. There would be no trial in the assassination of the president of the United States.
The Warren Commission, established immediately by President Johnson, would later find that Lee Harvey Oswald acted as the lone gunman. This conclusion would later be contradicted in 1976 by the United States Select Committee on Assassinations, which found that the probability of there being a conspiracy to kill Kennedy was high.
A recent Gallup poll found that 61 percent of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
California Lutheran University political science professor Herb Gooch was just 20 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated.
"We had gone down to have lunch with some people," said Gooch, who was a student at UC Berkley. "I remember that now as clearly as my freshman students can tell you exactly where they were when 9/11 occurred."
After the assassination, the generation that had been in its late teens during the election of Kennedy saw its mood change in an instant.
"The election of Kennedy was a kind of beacon that anything was possible. He was speaking to new generations," said Gooch. "With his death, people took it differently. For some people it was the ultimate turnoff. For most people there was a sense of outrage and disbelief."
After 1963, the movement for which the 1960s became known reared into existence.
"As that generation matured through its teens and into their late 20s — wow! They could change things dramatically," said Gooch.
Kennedy encouraged the possibility that things could change, that hope could flourish. After his death, however, the nation's opinions shifted.
"The government began to lose credibility," said Gooch. "From '65 on, you were having increasing urban riots over civil rights. For most people, there was a sense of things getting out of control."
Kennedy's legacy will forever remain one of youthful hope and aspirations, of a life that ended too soon, taking with it potential and sparking a revolution in the country's youth, a movement in direct opposition to the political climate.
Nov. 22, 1963: the day the United States was forced into maturity, kicking and screaming.


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The Lysebotn road is not very easy to get to. It's in a part of Norway that's so far off the beaten track a road was only opened there in 1984.
Norse Mythology
We'd heard rumours of the road's existence, but the reality is that few have driven the 25.5km (16 mile) route that coils, serpent-like, through the mountains and boulders that make up the rugged terrain of south-west Norway. Soon enough, we could confirm that the rumours were true: the Lysebotn road really is all it's cracked up to be.
This is why we gently roll to a halt at the barrier at the Eurotunnel, the first car in the queue for the first crossing of the day. The sun is still asleep, but we've no time for such luxuries as a lie-in if we're to reach Hirtshals, northern Denmark, in time for an evening sailing to Kristiansand, southern Norway.
Eventually, we reach our base, the Høyfjellshotell, at Fidjeland, with Lysebotn road just 5km away.
The hotel is as perfectly placed for fair-weather hikes as it is for the ski season. Our pursuits are considerably less energetic, but no less exciting – enjoying the thrill of driving on one of the world's greatest roads.


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Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the gang are coming to the big screen, as 20th Century Fox Animation and its Blue Sky Studios unit announced Tuesday that they have acquired the rights to Charles M. Schulz's iconic "Peanuts" comic strip.
The planned movie, the product of an agreement between the studio and Schulz's heirs, is scheduled to arrive in theaters Nov. 25, 2015.
Steve Martino, who directed Fox's "Ice Age: Continental Drift" and "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who," is to direct from a screenplay by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz and Cornelius Uliano. Craig Schulz is the famous cartoonist's son, and Bryan Schulz his grandson.
"We have been working on this project for years," Craig Schulz, president of Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, said in a statement. "We finally felt the time was right and the technology is where we need it to be to create this film."
This won't be the first "Peanuts" feature film, however. "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," which was released in 1969, earned $6 million at the box office, was praised by critics for its design and was nominated for an Academy Award for its music. Three more features followed -- "Snoopy Come Home," "Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown" and "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!!)."
In its heyday, the "Peanuts" comic strip was read daily by 355 million people in 75 countries, and spawned beloved holiday television specials including "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which continue to draw an audience today, 12 years after Charles M. Schulz's death.
The scheduled 2015 release of the "Peanuts" animated movie will mark the 65th anniversary of the comic strip's debut and the 50th anniversary of "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
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Again I have been absent too long with writing a blog piece. I had two started; one on a recent field trip down to Dartmoor with the Dipterists Forum and the second on the lopsided fly that I have been donated (believe me I will finish that one as it is a very cool story – albeit all stories about flies are very cool..but maybe this one is slightly more)
But instead I am sitting outside my hotel in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (ah the fun of fieldwork) writing a blog about a 'Fight Club' that I am due to participate in at The Natural History Museum on 23 September. This will be one small part of an enormous event – Science Uncovered 2011.
Let me fill in the details of what goes on. Basically we let the scientists loose in the Museum; out from their labs and officesJ. From behind the scenes about 300 of all sizes and hairstyles will be presented to all who care to attend (and there are many) this free event, from 4 in the afternoon till 10 at night.
This is Dr Mark Spencer pontificating about the finer points of some lovely plants (can you tell that I am not a botanist!!)
And there will be many different types of activities, ranging from desks (aka Science Stations) where we bring out our specimens, to forensic science demonstrations, to the 'Fight Club' in which I am involved, … and le't not forget bars!
In our Fight Club, Dr Richie Abel, and I will be arguing about keeping specimens both for perpetuity and accessibility. He will argue against the need to keep specimens accessible due to modern techniques of taxonomic identification whilst I will argue for the need for collections, such as ours, within which people can come and freely access the material. This is by no means a new debate; in fact my last blog piece was all about the subject of why we museum's need to maintain collections and some of the many uses for them. This is one step further in the discussion as to why we need to let people have access to them. Let me begin to explain the case for and against this access and then you can respond.
The NHM has over 80 million specimens, with the entomology department having about 32 million of them (just a guess mind you!).
Some of the collection….
What's the point of having all of these specimens you may ask? Well there are several (in fact there are many more than several but that would spoil the fight wouldn't it if I gave away everything here!!). But let me just concentrate on one for the moment….
I covered in my previous blog piece about why there is a need for the killing of specimens as identification of invertebrates is very difficult when they are still alive.... Oh I knew that I could get genitalia into this piece if I tried!! Now Richie is the king of the MicroCT Scanner – a very fancy piece of kit that theoretically can do whole body scans of very small creatures (we have looked at the insides of beetles and moths). Ideally we can use this to make 3-dimensional images of the internal anatomy of any specimen that we choose to study.
This video on the Museum's website is of the external morphology of a Rhinoceros Beetle Oryctes boas
Imagine putting on some special goggles and being able to walk inside an insect! That would be most cool….some crazy entomological theme park….
But there are problems. My flies are very weak internally – not many of them have sclerotised genitalia (i.e. it is made from very soft internal tissues) especially the females. You need to use certain products to stain the material to ensure that they are seen by the scanner, which is permanent (how comfortable would you feel doing that with a Linnaeus type? Or one of Darwin's specimens? Or the only specimen in the collection of a species?) But lets for argument sack ignore those issues. We scanned the specimen and now Richie has us throw away the material as we have a great 3D image of the specimen. Let's say for arguments sake that we have also sequenced the specimen. And let's say we have removed all the label data and uploaded this to the database. Oh and have digitally imaged the specimen, head, ventral (bottom up), dorsal (top down), both sides, wings and genitalia (I have a lot of rude insect pictures J). I think that's it for now. So let's get on with the other 31,999,999 specimens in the Entomology department……. we could throw away or lock up the present collection in say…quite a few thousand years! Dr Vince Smith and Dr Vladimir Blagoderov calculated recently that to digitise the Museum's collection (that is just photographing a specimen and uploading the label data) would take 1400 years! …and that of course is presuming that we do not develop any new techniques to aid in identification (because that has not happened previously has it ;) ) and I wonder where we would get both the money and staff to do this?
We are just not ready to throw away the keys. And that is only for the specimens that are already in the collection. We have maybe in the collection a representation of half of the global diversity that is has been described on Earth but this is approximately only 1.9 ma specimens. Our present guess is that this does not even come close to the total number of species alive at the moment. In fact we think that we have a further 5 to 10 million to go. Only in the last few days was there a news piece on the work of estimating global species richness and the techniques that we would have to employ to do this.
We need these new techniques to help us identify things quickly but we need to retain the specimens as a reference for us to cross examine with these new specimens as already pointed out – we have not the time, money or equipment to do all of that at the moment!
A second point that Richie maintains is that OK we may need the specimens but why can't we keep them locked up and away from harms way, with just the images on display/ online etc. The specimens are not just maintained in the museum for the scientists/academics/naturalists etc but also for all that want to look at nature. My argument for that is to just go and look at the galleries. Sure, we can all read books, download images or watch documentaries. But nothing will replace the experience of being able to stand next to the blue whale and take in the sheer size of it, or look at the diversity of insects in the Darwin Centre that is evident to the visitors as they walk around.
One way to think about this Richie, is to ask 'why go on holiday?' Why not just look at other people's photos? If we are to inspire the next generation, and the generation after that to maintain the biodiversity of the planet then we need to engage them in the subject matter.
The blue whale
Specimens in the Darwin Centre Cocoon
P.S. If you would like to help us pick a topic for the Fight Club debates, visit this thread in our Science Uncovered online community and join in.


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The Baltimore City Police Department employs more people than any other department of city government, yet most of its officers live outside the city. Many residents like the idea of police officers living in their communities because they view them as a deterrent to crime and because they believe officers would have a better understanding of neighborhood problems if they had homes in the area. But if Baltimore hopes to encourage more officers to live where they work, it must develop more effective strategies for getting and keeping them here.
A recent report by the Abell Foundation suggests that housing incentives that target police officers could persuade many who currently live outside the city to become Baltimore residents. The incentives could take the form of individual benefits, such as subsidized rents or down-payment assistance on a home. Or they could be more generalized services and support aimed at making it easier for officers to relocate into the city, such as an information clearinghouses or websites that provide one-stop shopping for housing opportunities. Such incentive programs have been offered in Atlanta, Washington, Detroit and New Haven, where, the report suggests, they have helped contribute to those cities' revitalization by making it more likely that other residents will choose to live there as well.
The Abell report argues that even a modest increase in the number of officers living in the city could improve public safety in their neighborhoods and foster better relations between the department and local residents. More city-based police officers would also advance Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's long-term goal of growing Baltimore's population by 10,000 new families over the next decade. Over a period of 14 months, a police housing incentive in Atlanta, for example, attracted 71 participants in the program, or about 6 percent of all the officers living outside the city.
Persuading city police officers to live and raise families in the communities they serve has never been easy, however. Part of the problem involves officers' concern that they or their families could be targeted for retribution by people in the neighborhood whom they have stopped or arrested. Many officers are uncomfortable living in places where they are likely to have casual, nonprofessional encounters with the public they police, and they are particularly reluctant to live in high-crime areas where they could potentially be "on duty" all the time.
Police officers regard themselves as professionals who want the same things for their families that other professionals want: a safe, pleasant environment in which to make a home, good neighbors and excellent neighborhood schools to educate their children. Most officers don't believe they can afford private school tuition, but they value education. That is one of the main reasons they often prefer suburban schools. But at least some of them might be persuaded to move to the city if, in addition to housing incentives, it offered education benefits for their children, such as preferential admission to public charter schools or tuition subsidies at private and parochial schools.
The Abell report's findings suggest there are many communities in Baltimore that could be made both attractive and affordable to police officers, especially younger members of the department and new recruits. Moderate-income neighborhoods such as Belair-Edison, Ednor Gardens, Charles Village, Ashburton, Ten Hills, Butchers Hill and Remington all have active neighborhood associations whose members would welcome more professionals of all kinds living in their midst.
But for that to happen, the city must develop a more thoughtful approach to the problem and the right combination of benefits and housing incentives to make Baltimore a city in which its officers want to live as well as work. Many police officers may still be reluctant to live in the communities they serve, but for those who are willing to give it a try, the city should make every effort to make Baltimore a place they can call home.


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At Pagano's new restaurant, Alba Seaside Italian, drink and eat all you want for $45 per person. The deal is available 7 to 10 p.m. every Thursday.
The WTF (wine, travel, food) menu, which costs $35 per person, features Pagano's yummy creations such as pasta dishes, fish and meat entrees. For an extra $15, enjoy unlimited pours of wine as long as you eat.
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An Australian-led peacekeeping force began hunting Thursday for rebel soldiers suspected in assassination attempts on East Timor's president and prime minister, both of whom were attacked Monday. The attempts on the lives of President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao highlight the nation-building challenges faced by East Timor, Asia's newest country.
Soldiers, helicopters, and armored vehicles have been searching the scrub outside the capital, Dili, for the suspects, the BBC reported. Australian doctors said Mr. Ramos-Horta, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning against Indonesia's occupation, was stable, recovering from gunshot wounds. But he remains in serious condition. Ramos-Horta was attacked by about 10 men near his home as he returned from a morning walk, officials said. His guards fired back, killing rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his followers. Mr. Gusmao was unhurt in a separate attack Monday.
The Associated Press reports that East Timor has extended a state of emergency imposed after the shooting. Gusmao asked parliament for the 10-day extension, saying it was "in the interests of the people," so they could, "live in peace and normalcy." Lawmakers agreed to the emergency order, which bans demonstrations, gives police extended powers, and imposes a nighttime curfew. A United Nations force has been in East Timor since a wave of street violence in mid-2006.
East Timor's neighbors, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia, have been increasingly concerned about the stability of the six-year-old nation. Civil war followed Portugal's abrupt decolonization in 1975 and caused a flood of refugees to cross the border into Indonesia, giving it the pretext to begin an invasion and a 24-year occupation. In 1999, East Timor voted to break from Indonesia in a UN-sponsored plebiscite, and the country has been under UN tutelage ever since.
In the wake of this week's attacks, Australia has pledged to bolster its military deployment and Japan has considered sending its coast guard personnel, reports Australia's The Age. That comes amid questions about the UN, the international military force, and East Timorese government's lapse in security, such as why a rebel leader and his gang were allowed to roam the country for months, reports The New York Times.
Mr. Reinado's supporters, involved in the 2006 unrest, are thought to have carried out Monday's attacks. Reinado, a former military officer, had been on the run with a group of followers for almost two years. In 2006, foreign media blamed Reinado for sparking the wave of violence two years ago after he and his supporters deserted the Army, triggering clashes that killed 37 people and led to the collapse of East Timor's postindependence government. Reinado was charged with murder over the events, but he retained his folk-hero status among some of East Timor's unemployed and disenchanted youth.
At his funeral in Dili this week, hundreds of supporters gathered, trying to make sense of the recent attacks, The Australian reports.
Observers in East Timor are also questioning the lapse in security that led to the attack. The Australian said it had received a latter from the Australian Commander of the International Stabilization Force (ISF) Brigadier John Hutcheson to Reinado's lawyer, Benny Benevides, assuring him of the rebel leader's safety. "Your client is hereby assured that, subject to his complying with any preagreed arrangements during the dialogue period, your client's movements will not be interfered with," the letter said.
Brigadier Hutcheson wrote that the stabilization force was obliged to detain anyone seen carrying an unauthorized weapon, but it seemed Reinado had been granted an exception, "despite the fact he was a prison escapee facing murder charges."
Bloomberg also reports Australia and East Timor had been probing a rebel bid to assassinate the two leaders, quoting East Timor's Army chief as questioning how guerrillas evaded Australian-led peacekeepers.
"We are not jumping to conclusions, we are very carefully, as is the East Timorese government, working through the facts as they emerge," Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.
East Timor's Brigadier General Taur Matan Ruak had said he was "staggered" at the "lack of capacity" of international forces to prevent armed men entering Dili to try to kill the two leaders.
The Associated Press reports that East Timorese Attorney General Longuinhos Monteiro said prosecutors would soon issue arrest warrants for 18 suspects in the attacks. He said the evidence against the men was strong, but did not give any names.
Some analysts expect Reinado's supporters to stage violent demonstrations. So far, however, the country has been mostly calm since the attacks. Australian soldiers on Wednesday searched cars for weapons at checkpoints and armored UN vehicles guarded top politicians.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was to fly to East Timor after pledging to boost Australia's military presence in response to Monday's failed coup. Mr. Rudd said he was shocked and disturbed by the events in Dili.
Rudd said the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) have secured key buildings and deployed more broadly throughout Dili and increased their presence in East Timor's districts. UN forces, including Australian troops, which have been in East Timor since 2006, following the violence between rebel forces and East Timorese police.
Ramos-Horta has waived an arrest warrant for Reinado, deciding instead to seek peaceful negotiations with him.
The UN and East Timorese police have begun a joint investigation and the commander of East Timor's defense force has called for the appointment of a panel of inquiry.
The Asia Times Online says many East Timorese were opposed to Gusmao's decision to call in Australian troops and to hunt down Reinado, saying many would likely take umbrage at the government's decision to request more Australian troops in reaction to Monday's assassination attempt.
The deployment of more Australian troops poses a danger to the standing of East Timorese politicians in general and the Ramos-Horta government. Such a deployment would mean East Timor would have to rely on foreign forces to protect itself.
Hugh White, a former deputy secretary of the Australian Defense Department and professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University tells The New York Times that the international military commitment increasingly looked as if it had no exit strategy.


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Multaq (Dronedarone Hydrochloride)
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(℞) Prescription required. Can not be split. Product of UK/EU. Shipped from United Kingdom.
To comply with Canadian International Pharmacy Association regulations you are permitted to order a 3-month supply or the closest package size available based on your personal prescription. read more
Dronedarone Hydrochloride Information
DRONEDARONE (droe NE da rone) is an antiarrhythmic drug. It helps make your heart beat regularly.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions: -heart failure -history of irregular heartbeat -liver disease -liver or lung problems with the past use of amiodarone -low levels of magnesium in the blood -low levels of potassium in the blood -other heart disease -an unusual or allergic reaction to dronedarone, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives -pregnant or trying to get pregnant -breast-feeding
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Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible: -allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue -breathing problems -cough -dark urine -fast, irregular heartbeat -general ill feeling or flu-like symptoms -light-colored stools -loss of appetite, nausea -right upper belly pain -slow heartbeat -stomach pain -swelling of the legs or ankles -unusually weak or tired -weight gain -yellowing of the eyes or skin Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome): -nausea -vomiting -stomach pain
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Keep out of the reach of children. Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
NOTE: This sheet is a summary. It may not cover all possible information. If you have questions about this medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider.
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Dramas of the People and the Land
This curriculum attempts to tell, through the study of the biblical text, one of the central stories of our collective past and one which has helped shape our identity as a people. "Israel: Dramas of The People and the Land" traces the relationship between the People of Israel and the Land of Israel from the time the Land was first promised to our forefather Abraham until the time of our exile from it, a period of roughly 1,200 years.
The curriculum will try to explain the critical importance of the Land to the fulfillment of our goals as a People, the obstacles that stood in the way to our entry into the Land, the difficulties and challenges we faced as a People in our Land, and the ways in which we dealt with exile from the Land where we had developed and established our religious and national identities.
The curriculum consists of 9 Core Lessons which can be browsed below.
- Introduction
- Lesson 1: The Connection?
- Lesson 2: Was the Land Ready for the People?
- Lesson 3: Were the People Ready for the Land?
- Lesson 4: Would ALL the People Enter the Land?
- Lesson 5: Were they a United People?
- Lesson 6: Could they be Reunited as a People After they had been Divided?
- Lesson 7: Should Religious Worship be Confined to a Religious Center?
- Lesson 8: Would Sovereignty in the Land Ensure their Distinctiveness as a People?
- Lesson 9: How would they Survive?
Makom is offering 2 Additional Lessons here, which were written by the same author which address the relationship between the Jewish People to their land in the post-First Temple period of Jewish history.


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Despite its recent setback in Arizona and several other states, the Compact for America organization continues spending millions of dollars to convince state legislators to call for a new constitutional convention. The convention, the Compact for America states, would be called for the sole purpose of considering and recommending to Congress a balanced budget amendment.
While there are many fundamental flaws with the balanced budget amendment promoted by the Compact for America, the most worrisome aspect of this movement is the fact that its plans are constitutionally and legally suspect.
The defects of the Compact for America have been exposed by The New American on several occasions. As part of our effort to educate citizens and lawmakers as to the dangers posed by the calling of a constitutional convention, this writer appears as witness at state legislatures testifying against the adoption of the Compact for America or similar measures calling for an Article V constitutional convention.
Last week, for example, I appeared as an expert witness at a committee hearing of the Indiana state senate. The chairman of that committee, Senator David Long, was the chief sponsor of a call for a constitutional convention in the Hoosier State.
As I pointed out during my testimony, there has never been an Article V convention, and the stakes are too high to risk exposing our Constitution and the freedoms it protects to the machinations of special interests with billion-dollar budgets.
Furthermore, the plain fact of the matter is that there are no legal guidelines that would govern the proceedings at such a convention. As The John Birch Society has recently explained:
The basic argument against convening an Article V constitutional convention is that based on the right of the sovereign People in convention to alter their government whenever it fails to secure our rights (as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence), an Article V constitutional convention could not be limited as to what amendments might be proposed, and therefore could lead to the proposal and ratification of dangerous alterations to the Constitution. The Article V requirement that three-fourths of the states must ratify any new amendment would not necessarily protect us from harmful amendments because, just as our original Constitutional Convention did in 1787, any new constitutional convention could prescribe an entirely new ratification procedure, such as holding a national referendum.
And as I have written elsewhere, imagine that a pro-choice governor serving as a delegate to the Compact for America's con-con, introduced an amendment calling for the absolute, unrestricted right to abortion. Or what would stop an anti-gun zealot from offering an amendment outlawing all private weapon ownership?
These scenarios are not straw men, they are real and frightening possible outcomes of an Article V constitutional convention. There is no legal or constitutional authority for the Compact for America's claim that the delegates could only consider a balanced budget amendment. That irrefutable fact of law and constitutional history should frighten Americans and spur them to oppose all attempts by states to call for a constitutional convention.
Art Thompson (photo above) is the CEO of The John Birch Society, and he travels frequently speaking to large groups gathered to learn about the pros and cons of a constitutional convention.
In an interview with this reporter, Thompson explained that while proponents of the con-con issue typically rely on arcana of historical examples of state compacts and conventions, he recommends that constitutionalists take a simpler, more direct approach in their opposition to the con-con.
"Stick to simple principles and logic and don't get sidetracked by historical rhetoric," Thompson counsels.
Thompson said that when he speaks on the subject of the Article V constitutional convention, he distills the arguments against it down to eight simple questions.
1. Does the Congress or the administration follow the Constitution now?
2. If changes were made for the better, why would they follow that? Especially when it takes less to get a vote to balance a budget — a simple majority vs. two-thirds?
3. Do you believe that no matter how the "convention" was held — governors or elected/appointed delegates — that those in control would rise to the level of men such as Founders Washington and Madison?
4. Do you believe that no matter what the means to convene the convention, that a sizeable contingent of delegates would be at the level of Gore or Obama?
5. Ask yourself, if now we are not electing constitutionalists to office from our area, what makes anyone think that we will send constitutionalists to any meeting?
6. Do you want a balanced budget?
7. Are you willing to pay for it?
8. Is the Constitution flawed?
Lest one assume from Thompson's questions six and seven that he is against a balanced budget, be aware that he wants a balanced budget, but one that cuts spending, not one that merely raises taxes to pay for present and future spending.
He elaborated:
Let us make it clear that we, too, desire a balanced budget. However, there can be no balanced budget if it does not bring into the equation the downsizing of the size and services of the government. And if it does not include social services such as Social Security, an amendment is worthless as a balancing factor.
So you see, a massive education program must be undertaken before any solution will work.
As to question eight, he went on,
Apparently the promoters of a constitutional convention and/or Compact With America do believe the Constitution is flawed if they are constantly promoting these means to solve a problem that could be solved by simply adhering to the Constitution we have. Why are they not spending the time, energy, and money on getting Congress to adhere to the Constitution, rather than on making changes to the Constitution?
By addressing these eight simple and direct questions, citizens can disarm many of those fighting to drag our Constitution through an unwise and potentially destructive Article V constitutional convention.
As state legislators consider bills calling for a constitutional convention (a con-con bill has recently been re-introduced in the Georgia state senate), citizens can prepare to defend the Constitution by reading the article in The New American entitled "How the Compact for America Threatens the Constitution" and by asking state lawmakers the eight logical and direct questions suggested by Art Thompson.
The situation is critical, and now is the time to stand up for our Constitution and the God-given rights it protects and defend it against powerful lobbyists who want to see it "fixed" rather than followed.
As Thompson so rightly stated in our interview, "From every angle it [a constitutional convention] is dangerous to the freedom of the American people."
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At the time of this writing, for the past several weeks have seen "democracy protests" in the Middle East and in Arab and Muslim nations. They apparently began in Tunisia, have resulted in the demise of at least two governments (Tunisia and Egypt), seem to have Libya at the point of crisis, and show signs of spreading to other nations like Iran, Iraq and Jordan, and have seemed to inspire political demonstrations and rallies in many various places of the world. I haven't had the spare time required to follow these events with any intensity and detail – whether over the Internet or on TV – as I most certainly would have in years past. Also, I haven't attempted any detailed speculation to these events "from a Biblical perspective", especially as it relates to prophecy and eschatology (such as the endtimes, Israel and the coming one world government and religion). So, other than a personal suspicion totally lacking in factual basis than the American intelligence community (CIA et. al.) has had a hand in coordinating and driving this, with regards to specifics I don't have much to say.
However, in terms of the general issues that these protests raise, I can and will contribute a little bit, primarily about how so many people, including not a few Christians, are absolutely, totally convinced that these protests are a good idea, that the general wishes of the protesters should be respected, and that it has the potential to lead to good, positive changes in the Middle East. This honestly does seem to be the consensus opinion. Further, the primary basis for dissent from the main opinion – that these protests are good and positive – is that these developments are negative only because it may lead to violent anti-western groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian government to step into the leadership vacuum and assert themselves. Based on this, we can presume that even the dissenters would be supportive of this massive movement to overthrow civil governments if the new governments that resulted were more to their personal liking.
So, most people believe that these protests are a positive development, and most of the rest would also if they could be assured a "pro-western" ultimate outcome. And to me, that is absolutely incredible, and not in a good way. It is appalling, shocking, disturbing, frightening, and any number of "bad ings". That most people apparently do not share this view – or if they share it, they do so for reasons of self interest – shows just how deep the 1960s protest ideology has embedded itself in our modern culture, so deep that it is no longer oft directly challenged even by Christians. And that is evidence of how our modern culture has so thoroughly embraced a humanistic mindset marked by a complete and total rejection of God and a Biblical worldview.
Let it be known that the Bible does not not endorse rebellion or anarchy. Quite the contrary, the Bible refers to those as evil and sinful, and judges the men and ideologies who promote them the same. And if rebellion, anarchy, lawlessness and violence isn't what happened on the streets of Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and what have you, what is? Also, we are told what a "great thing" it is that this protest movement is being led by young people in their 20s and 30s, just as was our own 1960s counterculture. Are we not aware that the Bible says that the young should be instructed, trained and led by elders who are prudent and wise, and that societies where the prideful, vain and presumptuous youths cast off and usurp the place of the older, more tested leaders are those that are going to soon collapse? Didn't we learn ANYTHING from the turmoil in the Old Testament, such as in the time of the Judges, or in Israel (the Northern Kingdom) when they rebelled against the Davidic monarchy in Judah?
And no, the fact that these people are rebelling against authoritarian regimes in favor of democracy does not make things any better. It must be clearly stated: the Bible at no point advocates democracy. Quite the contrary, when the Bible appears to deal with the general concept, it lends a negative judgment to it, as if it is the product of proud people who reject God's governance in favor of self-rule. I am reading through the late Merrill Tenney's "Interpreting Revelation" right now, and the author did note the tendency to desire to rule oneself apart from God's guidance or law was evident in both Cain's building a city and in the building of Babylon and the Tower of Babel.
Make no mistake: when the Bible calls civil government "the servant of God" in Romans 13 and instructs us to be render under Caesar that which is Caesar's and to be subject to and pray for our leaders elsewhere in the New Testament, there was no "so long as the governments in question are democracies" caveat. Quite the contrary, the governments in view – and the only governments that the ancient world that produced the Bible were aware of – were regimes that by our modern western standards would be considered brutal, authoritarian, repressive etc. and begging to be overthrown and replaced with a modern, progressive one with a representative parliament, a constitution guaranteeing individual rights and separation of powers, and of course consenting to the ultimate overlordship of the United Nations.
And consider another angle: the Bible clearly speaks of and declares the absolute monarchy of Jesus Christ over the church (and ultimately creation) with pastors as His representatives and the Bible as His ruling document. What better method of subverting this model than promoting a mindset where individual human free will agency is the highest, most cherished prize, and that anything that would tend to limit this – such as a monarchy – is evil and oppressive? Far better to cast off ideas of "organized religion" in favor of self-styled "spirituality" where each person is his own ultimate authority (imagine no pastors, and no authoritative canon of scripture or interpretation thereof!). Or alternatively, ecclesiastical bodies with elected representatives can sit as judges. Women pastors? Won by majority vote! Homosexual church officers! The majority carries the day! Many paths to heaven? The majority sided with the newer, more inclusive hermeneutics. The inerrancy and authority of scripture? Sorry, that idea didn't get to 50% among the delegates to the convention!
But let us go back to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and these other places where these brave young democrats are willing to die – and kill – for these new societies, where Twitter and Facebook are apparently changing the world (with the help of . First off, apply this to our own countries in the west … America, France, Canada, Germany, Great Britain etc. Imagine if all of a sudden our own young people took to the streets for a week, a month, a year, or five years and demanded that OUR governments be replaced. Imagine if it were our own high school and college students (helped by the government of Iran or Russia) creating some Facebook page about how we need to get rid of our oppressive, restrictive uncool governments in favor of something proposed by George Clooney and Lady Gaga. And imagine if the other governments of the world – and the United Nations – sided with these kids and told us that we should hand over our own perfectly legitimate and functional governments … or else. Sound like a good idea to you? Of course not. So what on earth makes it a good idea for Egypt or anyplace else? Either the people who are backing this actually WANT the mass confusion (which just may be the case) or we in these last days actually have gotten this far removed from concepts of right and wrong, order and disorder, propriety and impropriety, decency and vulgarity that we now believe that pressuring sovereign nations to hand over control of their governments to a bunch of violent seditious kids somehow represents progress.
And it wouldn't shock me the least if there wasn't at least one preacher or pastor out there who would call it just that. And I am not just talking about the liberation theology pastors who believe that overthrowing authoritarian regimes and powerful corporations in order to provide economic, political and social benefits to oppressed populations is the aim of the Bible. Instead, not a few conservative evangelical or fundamentalist Christian pastors would fully support what is happening in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq etc. so long as the result is a pro-western democracy rather than a sharia law state that sponsors terrorism. That is because so many western Christians have wedded and melded representative democracy, capitalism, individual human rights, and other western ideas into their view of the Bible. Romans 13 and similar? Situational. Open to interpretation. Not the highest or final authority in every society in all times!
In order to try, challenge and prove this "democracy revolution", we need to go to the streets – or the Twitter pages – and ask these bold revolutionaries what they want. Many will say "We want freedom." I say "fine, but what is freedom? How will you exercise this freedom? What is it that you want the freedom to do? And the things that you have not been free to do before today, what effect does their absence really have on your life?" How many of these 28 year old men and women that have been willing to face down folks toting guns (or should I say, the legitimate representatives of their legitimate governments!) would be willing to give a satisfactory answer to these questions? I will tell you the answer to: none of them. Why? Because none exists. The reason is that outside of Jesus Christ, no freedom exists. Instead, all there exists is a soul's bondage to sin, and the soul that sinneth shall die.
OK, so forget about freedom. What else do these MTV generation revolutionaries (assuming that anyone even watches MTV anymore, so I guess I should say "YouTube generation", and that's assuming that's still popular either) care about? They'll tell you that they want money. Class mobility. The ability to earn money, to earn even more money, to keep and invest it. OK, fine. How much money do you need? $1,000? If I give you $1,000, will you get out of the streets and stop doing your part to allow the United Nations to take over your country? Oh, you want more than that. You want $5,000 and a car. Or maybe $15,000 and a house. Maybe you want $50,000 and a college education. Or $1 million, a yacht, a summer home in Dubai, and VIP status in Las Vegas. Will that make you happy? Truthfully, of course not. Money doesn't make people happy. You can find more miserable people in an expensive American gated community with million dollar homes than you can in some third world village where everyone is living in tiny mud huts. The reason is that true riches, true wealth, is only through identification with Jesus Christ. Everything else is something that rust can corrupt and thieves can steal. Or something that won't make a bit of difference to you if you are lying on your deathbed with a few hours to live. I guess in such an instance, a few dollars for drugs to ease the pain in your last moments on earth would have some merit, but we all know that the folks on the streets working to overthrow their governments don't have that on their minds. Instead, they are convinced that they are going to live forever – or at least a very long time – and want more money to do it with, thinking that it will make them happier with their lot if they do. The prosperity doctrine according to Middle Eastern street revolutionaries. Well, the true gospel of Jesus Christ says that godliness and contentment are great gain.
Or what about the principle of the matter? What about simply wanting a better, more honest, more open system of government? What about justice, fairness and truth? To the revolutionary allow me to ask you the same question that Pilate asked Jesus Christ: "What is truth?" What piece of knowledge or system of knowledge is there that will satisfy you? Will make you truly happy? Will answer all your questions? Will meet all your needs? The answer is simple: outside of Jesus Christ, there is none. All else is an inadequate partial truth at best, or a delusion and a lie.
It is inescapable, then, that this battle for democracy in the Middle East is the same as is all worldly battles: vanity. We know this from Solomon. Freedom? Solomon had it, for he was king. Truth? Solomon had it, for he was the wisest man that ever lived. Wealth? Solomon had it, for he was the richest man in the world. All of those things and more Solomon had, and they didn't make him happy. Instead, Solomon found them to be vanity. Why? Because God's Holy Spirit had departed from him because of his idolatry and apostasy. Despite having everything in his hands what these people in the Middle East are killing and dying for and more, Solomon was unhappy. As a result, everything that he had and possessed, everything that he even wanted and aspired to, was worthless. They were worthless precisely because of their very temporal and therefore attainable (at least for some) nature. By contrast, the things of Jesus Christ are the things that truly matter, and they last forever.
So, liberation theology and other religious movements that are primarily concerned with ideas and other things of this world, are vanity. The same can be said with any number of economic, social and political movements: vain, light limited and flawed things that will not last the test of time. Or, as it were, things that will no longer be when time is no more. And that is why despite living in an evil, authoritarian repressive pagan Roman Empire that was wicked to the core, Jesus Christ, Paul and Peter were still able to tell us to be subject to our government and leaders, and even to pray for them. The reason is that these governments only have rule over us for a time. We should be able to endure their inefficiencies, their imperfections, and even their outright wickedness because these things are only for a time. When that time – our time on earth – is at its end, they have no more rule or power over us. Instead, that is when we pass from the temporary, limited flawed rule of man to the permanent, unlimited and perfect rule of Jesus Christ. How is it that we can be counted worthy to enjoy the benefits of the latter if we so reject and despise the cost of the former, even if that cost is persecution unto death?
And this is not merely New Testament doctrine. Remember David as he was being persecuted by the wicked government of his day as embodied by King Saul and his soldiers as they hunted and sought to kill him, and later by Absalom and those loyal to him when they rebelled against David and tried to do the same. It was in the power of David to personally overthrow the wicked human government of Saul and institute a new government to his own liking by killing Saul and becoming king instead. But David refused to do such a thing, because David knew that by doing so, he was not actually rebelling against a wicked government, but against God. David knew that his own miserable circumstances did not justify taking matters into his own hands to correct them.
Instead, David was willing to let God deal with the problem in God's time and in God's manner. As David was a man after God's own heart, should we not do the same in response to our own turmoils and crises? That is not a popular idea in an American society that glorifies our own Revolutionary War with its tea party and "no taxation without representation" and Declaration of Independence and George Washington, but that is just more evidence that human ideas, Cain and Babylon inventions, are always going to be more popular than what the Bible says. That is why our duty as Christians isn't to do what is popular with the people as King Saul wanted to do, but instead to do what God commands us as King David did! We are to do what God commands as opposed to what feels good and seems right in our own eyes! What a radical concept!
And allow me to point out with regards to democracy, that Absalom nearly succeeded in deposing and murdering King David because he gained popularity with the people. And that Jeroboam was able to keep the Northern Kingdom of Israel from rejoining the house of David in Judah by appealing to the people. And that during the time of Israel's apostasy there were a multitude of false prophets who were very popular with the people. And the children of Israel in the desert provoked God to wrath by receiving the wicked report of the ten spies that was popular with the people.
So after all, what is democracy but power to the people who want to seek their own way instead of God's? Just as it was in the days of the Old Testament, it is so in the Middle East, that very same region of the world today. And just as King Rehoboam rejected the wise counsel of the elders in favor of the foolish counsel of the young when confronted with the first crisis in his kingdom, and had ten of the twelve tribes rebel against him as a result, the rulers of the world are siding with the foolish young leaders in the Middle East today. And how many Christian churches today are following the young because they are desperate to be hip and relevant? As it was then, it is today, and as they are, far too many of us are because we are worldly and carnal.
I cannot speak to the long term results of this Middle East turmoil. Its direct implications on issues like the church, Israel, the world governments and economy I do not know, and those are things that God knows and controls. For now, it is enough to say that the very fact that these demonstrations are being embraced, supported and promoted by so many people all over the world is a very troubling thing. It is evidence of how many rulers, leaders and people of this current world order have completely given themselves over to a strange, evil and wicked mindset that rejects order, decency and propriety in favor of presumptuous decadent confusion. I do not know what age or time this Middle East crisis is leading us into, but it is sufficient to say that the reaction to and support of the rebellious demonstrators in the streets over and against the legitimate rulers and governments of these nations is a judgment of the wickedness, depravity, hypocrisy and moral vacancy of our own times. And all such evil and wickedness is not just against man but also against God, and this is the same God that one day will judge all wickedness.
All one needs to do is read Revelation and realize that this judgment and punishment is a serious matter indeed. What a person must do is come out of this wickedness so that they will not be part of this judgment. When that time of judgment comes, do not be counted among the riotous, the seditious, the rebellious, and of the people who have vicarious pleasure in those who do such things. Instead, be counted among those who love the order and peace, which are those who love and trust Jesus Christ, who when He comes into His kingdom will not suffer any such rebellions but instead will rule the nations with the rod of iron. When Jesus Christ returns for His friends, even the last enemy of God's system of order and stability, death, will be defeated and cast into the lake of fire. Even so, come Lord Jesus!