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by Kevin M.
March 17, 2008
In recent years Americans have
gotten the bad news: our children — as the rest of
us — are getting fatter. More than 20
percent of the adult American population is overweight and/or
obese, and the percentage of overweight children is approaching
these numbers. The rest of the industrialized world — not as flush
in fast foods and video gaming — seemed to be not so fat.
But childhood obesity is on the
rise in Spain and other countries as well, says Gabriel A. Martos-Moreno,
M.D., Ph.D., a pediatric endocrinologist who is joining John
Kopchick, Ph.D., at the Edison Biotechnology Institute and Ohio
University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) to continue his
research of the alarming problem at Ohio University's Edison
Biotechnology Institute. Working with Kopchick, who is a professor
of molecular and cellular biology and Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar at
OU-COM, Martos-Moreno will spend the next several months seeking to
unlock the molecular and genetic keys of the spreading health
problem. Kopchick, an established pioneer in the human growth
hormone field, has for the last several years been studying the
genetic and molecular basis for obesity and diabetes. Martos-Moreno
and Kopchick met at a conference in Seville in 2004. Kopchick has
been a friend and colleague of Martos-Moreno's boss, Jesus Argente,
M.D., for several years.
"In Europe and particularly in
Spain, obesity was thought to be a problem abroad. We had always
thought of it as a problem for Americans," says Martos-Moreno, a
fellow in pediatric endocrinology at the Department of Endocrinology
of the Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús in Madrid, Spain.
"But (in Spain) we've come to realize that not only in adults but
for children as well, during the last 20 years obesity has increased
its prevalence from about four-and-a-half or five percent to about
15 percent. It's tripled. It's a trend quite similar to the one in
the United States. The trend lines were nearly parallel. It's the
same problem in both countries."
Teaming with Martos-Moreno,
says Kopchick, will allow him to continue extending his research
with human adipose (fat) tissue in search of bio-markers of obesity
and diabetes, which are highly correlated with each other.
In Kopchick's Edison
laboratory, Martos-Moreno will be studying serum (blood) samples of
his Spanish patients — both before and after weight losses.
Kopchick and his
colleagues, Darlene Berryman, Ph.D., and graduate student
Lucila Sackmann Sala, will be studying human tissue samples he has
received from Dexter Blome, M.D., Ph.D., the chief of plastic
surgery at Mt. Carmel East Hospital, a Centers for Osteopathic
Research and Education hospital in Columbus. Kopchick will study
mouse adipose tissue, as well.
Martos-Moreno and
Kopchick will make a range of comparisons of adipose and serum
samples at the genetic and molecular levels in order to determine
the proteins that are expressed in these tissues as a function of
diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity.
"These investigations
can shed a little bit of light on understanding the real expression
of proteins in human obesity," says Martos-Moreno. Both researchers
hope their findings will eventually help lead to the development of
medicines and therapies effective for treating and, perhaps, even
curing obesity and diabetes. Also, protein biomarkers or diagnostics
that may be discovered could allow for early detection of
As a practicing pediatrician,
Martos-Moreno says he came to see that the problems of obese
children were not being studied as well as he thought they could be.
These patients needed more attention, he says, if they were going to
get healthy and stay healthy.
"We're honored to
have Dr. Martos collaborate with us," says Kopchick, considering he
could have chosen other universities to do so. "It's prestigious for
Ohio University to have Dr. Martos here."
In addition to his
laboratory research, Martos-Moreno will work with C. Thomas
Clark, D.O., chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at OU-COM.
Although he won't be licensed to practice medicine in the United
States, he will be able to observe patients with Clark and will
lecture medical students.
"It's a great privilege to have him
as part of the department of pediatrics," says Clark. "Even though
he'll be limited to education and didactics, it's a real stimulus
for the pediatrics department to have him on board as a visiting
professor of pediatrics until he leaves in November."
Martos-Moreno will also be working
in collaboration with Karen Montgomery-Reagan, D.O.,
associate chairwoman of pediatrics, and Andrew Wapner, D.O.,
a pediatric diabetologist.
"I wanted to have the
experience of living here and seeing the way you work," says Martos-Moreno,
whose stay is funded by the Spanish government. Not only just this
single investigation, he says, but to observe a broader range of the
ways research is conducted in America.
"Most of all, after
meeting John, we both saw a great opportunity to push further a
common line of scientific investigation that we shared."


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i wanted a very simple advent calendar and while i love the fabric ones people make to use every year i like the idea of making a new one each year. i guess i hope when dmitri is older he can help make a paper advent calendar each year. this years calendar i made alone since dmitri is 13 months and not very helpful he did play with the crayons while i worked though and he kept me company. it is just envelopes hanging on a string with numbers drawn on with crayons. i am happy with it. it is for the entire month of December so it goes to 31 and no candy is inside it (although rob wishes it had candy) instead it just has pieces of paper with a fun thing to do each day and many of the things are easy and simple activities we might have decided to do any ways. one of the fun things is i shuffled the papers and so most of the days i don't know what the activity will be. i like that it will be a surprise for me! my activities include baking an apple pie, going to the beach, looking at stars, having a family music night and a family reading night (where rob reads out loud but if dmitri wants to pay with the books we may just curl up and listen to a favorite audio book) all simple easy non stressful things. when dmitri is older we will do more elaborate things i might put a treasure map in one day and we could go to museums and stuff.
Archive for November, 2008
our advent calendar
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Robs solstice spiral hat
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I am almost done with robs hat. It's gray because that's what I had and rob really likes gray. And it is large cuz rob has an abnormally large head.
dmitri's spiral hat
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i am so happy with this spiral hat. i made up the pattern and plan to write it out for others to use. it knit up super fast and i love the spiral. it is shaped sort of like an acorn cap and so i have found myself calling it his acorn hat. it is reversible and looks neat no matter how it is worn. it is also super stretchy. i have enough yarn left that i think i may make a bigger one for me and give my simple rolled brim hat to rob. dmitri seems to like it to because he actually wears it instead of taking it off when i put it on his head.
stay tuned for the pattern and also the adult version once it is knit up.
my simple rolled brim hat
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my simple rolled brim hat. i am pretty happy with how this came out
a t-rex day advent calendar
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we don't celebrate christmas or Hanuka (we might start celebrating Hanuka though in a very simple way). rob is agnostic and i am a pantheist. i plan to raise dmitri as a pantheist but anyhow not being christians rob and i have never felt all that comfortable with christmas but we i feel a need to do something fun very year and while we always celebrate solstice i wanted something more of a silly kid holiday and so i canme up with t-rex day. t-rex day used to be on the new moon in december but since becoming a mom we changed it to the 25th so that dmitri won't feel like he is left out when all his friends get to celebrate xmas every december 25th he will be celebrating t-rex day. to celebrate t-rex day you have to decide who will be breaking into your home to leave gifts. this is something for kids to do. the first year it was a t-rex thus the name. when dmitri is old enough we may write a letter to the univers every year saying we would like to invite a dinosour or a dragon or a pine tree or whatever we come up with to break in and leave some gifts while we are sleeping. then you get to spend a month decorating the house and sneaking about making gifts. a big part of t-rex day is that gifts are supposed to be hand made and fun and easy and simple. non stresful gifts. you then get to give your gift anonymously by pretending to be something like a dinosaur. anyhow this is our families way of not celebrating christmas but still having fun and we get to decorate the house and this year i want to make an advent calender. i have ben having a lot of fun browsing flickr and looking at different calendars and my favorite ones are the ones with simpole bags iether paper bags or cloth sacks with numbers on them strung up on a wall. i thimk i will be making one with bags probably paper bags. i need to decide what to put in them. when dmitri is older i may do winter seeds to plant and little notes about how that day we will take a trip to the beach or a favorite museum but he is 13 months old so whatever i fill a calendar with this year will be more for me than for him. i may actually buy some thinghs this year that he needs any ways and fill the calendar that way. he is growing out of all his cloths and his socks and i could easily fill a calendar with things i need to buy soon anyways. anyhow t-rex day is coming as is solctice! i hope to post some pics of our holiday crafts soon.
hat pattern
Posted in yarn on November 24, 2008| 1 Comment »
i actually bought a knitting pattern. i don't buy patterns often but i bought one and i plan to soon start knitting a spiral hat i spent a few weeks looking at the pictures of the hat before i decided to just go ahead and get the pattern. now i have to find yarn to use for it. any suggestions?
magical cayenne pepper
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i seem to have caught some sort of viral ickyness that includes a terribly sore throat. cough drops never really help much and i was feeling desperate so i looked up home remedies on google. i kept finding things that said to drink various things like orange juice or water with cayenne pepper in it. i was afraid to try it but desperation drove me to try it and it works! it sort of numbs my throat and i am realizing i tend to like spicy things like hot and sour soup when i am sick for the reason of it helping my sore throat and it helps with congestion. so next time you get a sore throat try cayenne pepper!


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Here at Pohara we are parked beside a dinky little van named Dora, loving painted and decorated with flowers by her owner. We had 4zees with a group of campers including Dora's owner yesterday, but sadly her name escapes us. But we remember that she is from the Wairarapa, lives in a lifestyle village rather like our own, and we have friends in common!
Pretty little Dora
Today was a great day to do some more sight-seeing, not quite as hot and sticky as the previous day. We had decided to visit Totaranui, because we had never been there before. Our trip started with driving through a hole hacked out of the rock right here in Pohara, and then we were on our way.
We reached the end of the sealed road and turned onto a 10km wiggly unsealed road to take us down to Totaranui on the coast.
There is a huge DOC campground at Totaranui, which is on the edge of the mighty Abel Tasman National Park. The place was teeming with walkers, all keen to walk the tracks throughout the park. Outside the DOC office we saw a group of them all getting instructions.
Crowds of campers were milling about down on the beach, ready to board the water taxis and get on their way. Most of them looked young and fit, but there was a sprinkling of older trampers there too.
Views of the beach
Inside the DOC office, we read about Perrine Moncrieff, the founder of the Abel Tasman National Park. She wanted to save this pristine area from the loggers, and the MP for Nelson presented the case to Parliament. 1942 was the anniversary of Abel Tasman visit to New Zealand, the park was named in his honour and the Queen of the Netherlands was asked to be patron. And this marvelous piece of the country was saved for everyone to enjoy.
Back in the car we went, up the hill, and took the other unpaved road down to Awaroa Bay. This was a bit hair-raising when a huge truck sped towards us on the narrow road. We backed over to the side of the road as the truck drove past, with inches to spare.
Awaroa Bay has two claims to fame. The beautiful private beach in the Abel Tasman Park was put up for sale, "Best beach on the planet on the market for two million dollars", said the headline. Adam Gardner and Duane Major, a couple of good Kiwi blokes, weren't going to stand by and let that happen, so they set up a Give-a-little page. The public got behind them, as did other big players, and the money was raised to purchase the beach. We couldn't walk on the very special white sand beach as it was across the estuary, but zoomed in for a photo.
Our special beach, now owned by all
The bay is also home to the endangered pateke (brown teal) and young captive bred juvenile birds have been released here in the hope that they will thrive and mate. These birds are being closely monitored as there are only about 2000 birds left in the wild.
We continued our slow drive back over the hill, and stopped at Tata Beach while we ate our picnic lunch in the sun. The beach was busy, with swimmers and kayakers, others sunbathing, or walking along the sand.
Tata Beach
There was a memorial mosaic bench on the beach, made in the memory of a young woman who had passed away, by four friends. It really was a work of art and incorporated commercial tiles, together with mosaics made from pottery, glass and beads.
In memory of Kelly
Yurts as holiday homes
Lastly, we stopped off at Liger Bay (Named by Abel Tasman as Murderers Bay) to view the Abel Tasman Monument. We were entertained by the antics of a cheeky weka as we walked up the path.
The flightless weka
View over Liger Bay
Then it was just a short drive back to Pohara, back through the hole in the rock –maybe it looks different from this side. It was great to see parts of the country we hadn't traveled to before.
Coming back through
Another beautiful sunset


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Even though Blizzard has already confirmed that they were attending E3 this year, it appears that they have had a change in heart. According to GiantBomb, Blizzard has confirmed that they will not be arriving at E3 this year. Sorry guys. No updates on Starcraft II, Diablo III, or even the next WoW expansion at this year's E3. But rejoice, gamers — even though Blizzard will not be at E3, Blizzcon is only four months afterwards. Then you can drool all you want over the new games Blizz will be coming out with. Although Blizzard may not be attending the expo, big brother Activision will still be attending, so we can expect to hear some new updates on the Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, and Guitar Hero franchises.


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Probably, you have been meaning to do this for a long time.
Finally, you can.
Bring your notebooks and a pen.
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Friday, 6 March 2015
Making Home Made Yoghurt (The Updated Version)
So, it turns out that you can make yoghurt in just about anything so long as you have a yoghurt starter culture, some milk and a thermos/Eski type container. I use an Easiyo thermos (which you can find dime a dozen at the op shop) but I don't use the plastic jug any more. I've been using a glass Fowlers jar number 31. I feel better about using less plastic items in my life (we all know about the risks of BPA) and since discovering I can use the glass jar (or anything that fits into the thermos for that matter), I have purchased another op-shop easiyo thermos so I can do a double batch at once. Mainly because my family use 2L of yoghurt a week and it's easiest to do it all in one batch. You do not need a Easiyo thermos to achieve the yoghurt though, you simply need a small thermos which can hold hot water.
The recipe:
1 Litre of milk (of your choice, cow, goat, soy etc but not nut - it won't work)
1 Heaped tablespoon of your starter culture (that can be a heaped tablespoon out of a packet of Hansells or Easiyo powdered yoghurt starter or a heaped tablespoon of yoghurt out of your *last batch of yoghurt that you've made.)
1 - Heat milk in a saucepan but don't let it boil. A good sign of this (if you don't have a cooking thermometer) is the point where the milk starts to froth/bubble a bit. You do this to kill off any cultures/bacteria that will compete with the yoghurt cultures (which you don't want to die otherwise the yoghurt won't work). Alternatively, use a long life milk as it has already been heated at high temperature so you can skip this step and the next.
2 - Cool your milk to room temp or colder. I put the heated milk in a jug in the fridge for an hour or two at least.
3 - When your milk is ready add the yoghurt/powdered yoghurt into your jar of choice, making sure all the starter mixes through evenly. Cover your jar with a piece of cling-wrap.
4 - Boil the jug. Fill up the Easi-Yo thermos with boiling water to the recommended point and submerge your jar of yoghurt mix or if you use a small thermos, fill the water so that it comes two thirds up the side of your jar of yoghurt.
5 - Leave the yoghurt mix for minimum 6 hours (I prefer 10-12). When you are ready, remove the yoghurt from the thermos and check that it has worked. You should have lovely creamy yoghurt (and you can make it creamier by adding milk powder into your mix when you add the starter culture to the milk).
6 - At this point you can decide what to do with your yoghurt. Eat as it is or add other flavours. I have been adding equal parts of stewed/pureed fruit and a tsp of vanilla paste to make the most delightful sweet yoghurt.
If you want to make cream cheese:
7 - Get a bowl/jug and a piece of muslin/clean tea towel. Tip your yoghurt into the muslin/tea towel and tie it with a rubber band or piece of string. Suspend the wrapped yoghurt over the bowl/jug (I hang mine off a wooden spoon) so the whey can drain from the yoghurt. Do this at room temperature in a place out of the sun for up to 12 hours (or until you get the consistency of cream cheese that you want.) Do not discard the whey, it is incredibly nutritious and can be added to smoothies or used to ferment vegetables. Store it in a jar in the fridge for up to a month.
If you want to have a look at my original yoghurt making post, the link is here. It's much the same but I have tweaked it since discovering you don't need to use as much starter culture as I first thought.
Yoghurt made from a commercial starter culture like the one I use has 4 different beneficial cultures/bacterias which help with good gut health. Keep an eye out for my post on Milk Kefir which contains between 35-50 good cultures/bacteria and from it you can make coconut yoghurt. The stuff is magic juice for the stomach.
*note. If you use a heaped spoon of your last batch of yoghurt, you may find that you can only do 5-7 batches of yoghurt this way before you need to re start with a commercial starter product. I've recently learnt that this is because the probiotics slowly reduce each batch (I can't remember why) but what you will find is you get a thinner yoghurt the less probiotic it contains and if you're anything like me, I like a thicker yoghurt so I always use a commercial starter every couple batches. It only need to be a heaped tablespoon of a Hansells or Easiyo packet starter and you'll be off again with a renewed probiotic content (and thicker yoghurt).
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- Anonymous7 March 2015 at 13:22
Thanks for the inspiration, Alex. I'm going to give this a shot with soy milk ... I'm off dairy just now and the coconut yoghurt is costing me a bomb! I'll be scouring the op shops and markets for an EasiYo thermos this week. Thanks xReplyDelete
Hello! I better say here that I have not experimented with the soy milk BUT I know that it can be done using these instructions. HOWEVER, you'll have to consider that the "starter culture" will have some dairy product in it too....that said, not a lot (but keep it in mind). I'm fairly sure you can buy "vegan" starters out there which may suit you better if you're trying to totally eliminate dairy. Alternatively, I can teach you how to make coconut yoghurt using a fermentation technique/product using 'Milk Kefir grains'. I'm going to write a post about it but who knows when I'll get around to doing that so I can send you some milk kefir grains and some instructions if you're keen?ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous7 March 2015 at 14:20
Ooooo! Thanks, Alex. I've been hearing a lot about kefir grains, so maybe it's time for me to dip my toe in, so to speak. I would love for you to send me what I need to get started ... how lovely of you! First you get me initiated into sour dough making and now this. You rock. :) Sheryl xDelete
You better stock up on tins of coconut milk!Delete
I use UHT milk, as this has already been heat treated you can skip the milk-heating step. I use low fat UHT milk, about three dessert spoons of skim milk powder (reduces the amount of whey that comes out) and two or three dessert spoons of youghurt. Mix and make as normal.
This is quick & easy & cheap.


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LOL, yeah the first couple I set up were tricky now for some reason they seem easy. Uhh, I would just be happy if you did a couple, because I think we only need 10 total sancs in testnet to prove the quorum side features are all working correctly, lets talk about that soon.But in the mean time, I would definitely like to get 50 boinc cpids out here, because not only do I want to get a feel and give everyone a taste of what we would be doing, but also to test the superblock frequency and verify the payments per mangitude and all the security.I have 2 running, so if you did 2 + Togos, we would be halfway there.Ill start getting the commands to show what rules the sancs go through in the morning.
Sure, just let me know when. The only problem right now is I only have enough tBBP for one more. You have my e-mail, it's a headache trying to keep up with the forum. How many cpids are running right now?
Actually a live quorum test might explain 75% of the process, since your DCC is working now.Could you post the result of 'exec testvote'?Your SAN directory should have something in it now - the Filtered file should be 1281 bytes (thats our Biblepay researcher list)The exec testvote, file hash "filehash" for the DCC filehash, should be:000000000000000000000000000000008d18b23d463c9e866cb5db0f02262506?
Hmm, it says:error code: -1error message:boost::filesystem::last_write_time: No such file or directory: "/home/biblepay/.biblepaycore/SAN/magnitude"
Oh btw, the exec testvote, and all DCC file hash testing must be done on the hot sanc.
Which flavor OS is your hot sanc? Also, do you now have a user file in /SAN?
Still no file. Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, kernel version 4.13.0-1008-gcp.
Hmm, I just remembered something, there is a very complex command in the DCC Filter, something that is done in QT (otherwise we need a new lib in headless, and the exchanges dont like unecessary libs on their native machines) so I did it in QT.. Im thinking, we may need to have you run your hot sanc in -qt mode. Do you have graphics on that ubuntu box, and can you launch the hot sanc like this:./biblepay-qt -testnet?Need to rule that out.
I can try, it's on a VPS so I need to install x on it or something. I'll let you know.
Yeah, I installed graphics on all my VMS, that would make this easier. Thanks!
Rob,This is interesting because now for the people that were running Rosetta already, they just need to install the wallet and link their CPID. They can now turn their number crunching into money if so desired. In fact, it is so easy to install the wallet that it's a no brainer. If half of the computational power signs up for Biblepay, what do you estimate the payout to be for one normal computer? Like an i5 or i7 processor. I'm thinking the payout will be very small then.I have one suggestion, since you have contacts with the people behind BOINC. Can you e-mail then to have some of them install the wallet? That would probably get you many CPIDs on the testnet fast adn it doesn't really cost them anything.


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So You Didn't Finish NaNo? Join the Club.
As discouraging as it can be to read through the long list of blog posts concerning writers who finished their novel this past month, I am here amidst a throng of successful, driven people, to rally behind the ones like me who did not complete the Holy Grail of Writerdom. NaNo.
So you didn't finish NaNo? No worries, neither did I.
And neither did some others (I know it seems like everyone and their great aunt Barb completed a NaNo novel - and good on them) but seriously, you and I aren't the only ones. Okay?
And you know what else? We're not the losers of the writing world either.
(I'm saying this for my own benefit too, just so you know.)
Did you get any writing done this month? I did, it wasn't much but it was something. More words than I had at the beginning of the month.
I'm betting you've got more words now than you had November 1st too.
What were you doing this month instead of NaNo? Yes, some of it was probably a lot of procrastinating (I know I'm guilty as charged) but I bet there were some special, important things too. Special life things. Aren't you glad those happened? Would you trade words on the page for them? I wouldn't.
Yeah, it sucks that you didn't meet your goals, trust me, I know, but you aren't a writing failure because of it. I promise.
Personally, I hardly got anything done in my fairy-tale/fantasy novella The Snow Dragon. But I do have a solid first few chapters and I learned a lot about my plot through that. I have a better sense of the story's direction and I'm incredibly excited to take it further.
So while I can't say as I finished a novel this month, I did write, and that's the important part.
Plus, a lot of other amazing things happened in the meantime, and I've already written two books this year, I think I'm doing okay.
I think we're both doing okay. So don't worry, friend. That book will get written. Today, tomorrow or years from now, it will.
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During the thirty years, France's population and dirigiste economy grew rapidly. The French standard of living, which had been ruined by both World Wars, had become one of the world's highest. Since the 1973 oil crisis, France's economy, while still faring well under Mitterrand and Chirac, slowed down its explosive growth, thus the mid-1970s mark the end of the period.


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2. Double click on the name of the patient from the list to open the Patient Information page as shown below.
3. Click on the Case button, this will display the Case screen as shown below. Existing cases will be displayed in the list above. Select the case you wish to edit from the list
4) Click on the Case Switch tab which shows all unposted lines under this case
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6) After selecting the encounter line, select the case to which line is to be moved from the Switch To (Case#) box below.
7) When we click on the Switch To (Case#) box, all the existing cases for that patient will get populate.
8) Select the Case to which we need to switch the existing encounter & then click the button near Switch To (Case#) box to perform the case switch.
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Evolutionary methodology for aseismic decision support
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One of the fundamental long-term goals of earthquake engineering research is to enable the development of disaster-resilient communities. The innovative engineering technologies and associated design guidelines are certainly beneficial. However, decisions about enhancing seismic safety in critical facilities requires more than engineering choices about which technology or what guideline is most appropriate. Such decisions are made in the context of organizational goals and strategy, financial capacity, choices about how safe is safe enough, and driving forces in the social, economic, and political environment. In this dissertation, a complex adaptive evolutionary framework is developed, which integrates artificial earthquake models, state of the art understanding of structural response, alternative means for mitigating the risk, normative organizational behavioral models and economic loss estimation models. Starting from a probabilistic seismic model, different retrofitting alternatives are evaluated. Genetic algorithms are used to find the most robust optimized solutions considering the uncertainties of the seismic environment. The decision processes and criteria of healthcare organizations are investigated. Based upon this investigation, the system dynamic behavioral models of acute care hospitals are developed. Multidisciplinary approaches are used to address the complex socio-technical problems in the model. Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis have been done to improve the robustness of the model. Then in a certain period of life cycle, different policy scenarios and earthquake scenarios are input into this model. The loss estimation model is also introduced to evaluate the economic loss of the hospital organization due to seismic events. The cost-benefit effects and some other socio-economical impacts are analyzed. Again genetic algorithms are applied to pick the most robust policy sets. A case study for a west coast demonstration hospital shows the proposed evolutionary decision support methodology has the potential to help decision makers in healthcare organizations make more informed choices about mitigating the likely consequences of earthquakes.


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I'm supposed to go to a cookie exchange in a few hours. Which means that, right now, I should be in the kitchen making cookies, or in the shower, washing my hair.
But instead, I'm sitting here, on my yoga mat, in a wide legged fold in front of my laptop, listening to Butch Walker, and wondering if I can pull myself together enough to get dressed and drive myself to her house, with or without cookies.
My autoimmune thyroid disease has reared it's ugly head again today, and it's taking everything I've got, just to get through the day. My eyes are puffy, my head hurts, I had to take a nap this afternoon, and I really want to crawl back under the covers again right now.
I don't talk about my autoimmune thyroid disease with most people because my mama always told me that, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything at all.
It's hard to think of something good to say about this struggle, but I think it's about time I told you a little about it.
I have fought this battle for at least five years, maybe longer. I've learned a lot, but I still wonder: how do we make sense of the fact that our bodies attack themselves?
For me, it's an internal battle steals my energy, and makes it hard to get the simplest things done.
Especially on days like today, when I am expected at this party, that is being hosted by someone who is really important to me. Missy is a good friend, and someone I care about a lot. I know she has gone to a lot of trouble to open her home to her friends, and in my heart I want to show up tonight.
It's just that the divide between what my heart wants, and what my body is willing to do, is seeming too big to cross right now. I know, however, that this is an illusion, so I am going to get past it.
First, I am going to stop telling myself that I can't, and believe that I can.
Next, I am going to spend 45 minutes on my yoga mat, working as vigorously as I can manage, to burn off the brain fog and joint pain. I'll wrap it all up with a 5 minute meditation at the end.
Afterwards, a cup of green tea, and a green juice will help ease some of the inflammation and boost my energy.
A whole body coconut oil massage (abhyangha, as the yogis call it), followed by a hot and cold shower (5 minutes hot, 30 seconds cold, three times) will give me energy and help my liver detox more efficiently.
And then I will put on my sassiest holiday outfit, pull my hair into a ponytail, apply a little bit of makeup, and walk out the door, whether I feel like it, or not. I'll buy cookies on the way to the party, because I decided to get healthy instead of bake, and I'm sure Missy will understand.
Because the truth is that I can make it to this party. And it's what I really want, even though it might not feel like it right now.
In the end, I refuse to succumb to autoimmune disease. I am stronger than this disease will ever be. I have beaten it before, and I can do it again. All it takes is a little bit of intention, and a whole lotta crazy healthy.
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Pat Patterson, MHS, ACNP-BC, AACC, moved to Wichita from Massachusetts in 1985. Her nursing experience began in St. Louis, where she received a Diploma in Nursing from Jewish Hospital/Barnes School of Nursing. After moving to Wichita she graduated from Wichita State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
Her plan was to move back to Massachusetts, but the opportunity arose to assist in opening the first Electrophysiology Lab in Kansas, working closely with Galichia Medical Group physician Dr. J.E. Val-Mejias. After a five year relationship with Galichia Medical as a hospital employee, Pat officially joined the Galichia Medical Group in 1988, assisting in the care of patients with electrical disturbances of the heart.
During this time, Dr. Galichia was then pioneering many new drugs, cardiac and vascular devices, made available to patients through medical research trials. For the next 10 years, Pat worked as a Clinical Research Nurse and Clinical Director for the Wichita Institute for Clinical Research, which later became the Galichia Research Institute.
Further education and professional opportunities were made possible which afforded Pat the opportunity to seek further education, graduating with a Masters in Health Administration and a second master's degree, allowing practice as a Acute and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, both from Wichita State University. Over the following 17 years, she was able to gain clinical experience in the areas of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Electrophysiology, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine, working with Galichia physicians specializing in those areas.
Pat has also earned the Associate of the American College of Cardiology designation (AACC) which recognizes those nurse practitioners who, through advanced education, training and professional development, have dedicated themselves to providing the highest- level of cardiovascular care.
She has gained specific experience Heart Failure Management, providing care as a nurse practitioner in a regional heart transplantation center. This care extended to heart failure patients prior to transplantation, intraoperative assistance in transplantation and ventricular assist device surgeries and postoperative critical care. She has a special interest in the care of patients with congestive heart failure and is certified both as an Acute/Critical Care Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Transplant Coordinator.
In 2006, Pat's journey led her back "home" to Galichia Medical Group. Pat currently is working as a hospital based acute care/critical care nurse practitioner in the clinical areas of cardiology, pulmonology and emergency medicine.
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Bernhard hat mir seine Dübelsäge zum Tunen gegeben. Damit man Dübelsägen tunen kann muss man natürlich auch Dübel haben.
Bernhard send me his dovel saw for fine tuning. So I needed dovel.
The 6mm bit was in the machine, but I didn't have 6mm dovels. So drilling again.
Better a few more dovel.
Hier erkennt man gut den Lack, der Sägen schützt, wenn sie unter Umständen lange im Regal liegen.
Do you see the coating, for protection in the store.
A little Aceton and the coating is history.
There was no set and the saw is filed rip cut.
Leider habe ich das Lichtproblem in meiner Werkstatt noch nicht in den Griff bekommen, deshalb arbeite ich gerade mit dieser Funzel.
I have a problem with the light for filing in my shop. This lamp gives me the rakes light but not enough.
20 tpi are fine.
The filing form a little burr on the underside of the saw. And I didn't like the feeling of "rip cutting" a crosscut dovel.
So filed a little fleam. And for the first time since a few years I made a big mistake. St steel ist softer that the one I'm used to file. So I recut the teeth 18 tpi crosscut.
I filed a biut of the etching....
Deburr the underside.
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ETH-USD (Coinbase/GDAX) Bull Flag Forming on 1 Hour Chart.
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I put my long entry in at the crossing of the conversion line, held and still holding. Looks like we have a bull flag forming on the hourly. I'm going to be adding to my position here during the conformation. I believe this is the breakout that we've all been waiting for and i'm getting long as f**k. Game time!
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Kamui the Ninja: Stories Other Than the Legend (忍風カムイ外伝 Ninpū Kamui Gaiden) is a shōnen anime produced by Tele-Cartoon Japan in 1969. It was broadcast in Japan from 6 April 1969 to 28 September 1969 by Fuji TV. Kamui the Ninja had 26 episodes with a running time of 22 minutes each one. The series was based on the manga The Legend of Kamui by Sanpei Shirato.
Kamui is a ninja from the Edo period who has decided to leave his clan. After doing so he is pursued relentlessly by the members of his former clan; who consider him to be a traitor and therefore wish to kill him. Kamui then wanders around Japan to escape from them by using his intelligence and great abilities to survive. In the course of the series Kamui begins to suffer from paranoia because of his status as a persecuted man. Kamui then started to believe that everybody wished to murder him and became distrusting of everyone he came across.
Related anime:
Kamui Gaiden: Tsukihigai no Maki (movie) (compilation)
Kamui Gaiden: Tsukihigai no Maki (movie) (compilation)
Alternative title:
Kamui the Ninja: Stories Other Than the Legend
Kamui, El Ninja Desertor (Spanish)
L'invincibile Ninja Kamui (Italian)
Las aventuras de Kamui , el ninja desertor (Spanish)
忍風カムイ外伝 (Japanese)
Themes: historical
After working his way up from the oppressed peasant class, the rogue ninja Kamui must struggle to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. He travels through all the country running from ruthless killers who have traveled to the ends of the Earth to destroy him.
Running time: 22 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 1969-04-06 to 1969-09-28
Opening Theme:
"Shinobi no Theme (Instrumental)" (忍びのテーマ) by Tatsuya Jo
Ending Theme:
"Shinobi no Theme" (忍びのテーマ) by Hiroshi Mizuhara
Insert song:
"Shiroi Tsubame" (白いつばめ) by Duke Aces
Chief Director: Yonehiko Watanabe
Script: Junji Tashiro
Music: Ryōichi Mizutani
Original creator: Sanpei Shirato (manga)
Character Design: Shuichi Seki
Art Director: Toshihiro Ōsumi
Chief animator: Tsuneo Komuro
In-Between Animation:
Hisaei Nanba (eps 1, 16)
Joji Fukuda (eps 11, 23)
Setsuo Keuchi (8 episodes)
Toshitaka Tsunoda (8 episodes)
Yoshiyuki Kumao (ep 1)
Animation: Tele-Cartoon Japan
Broadcaster: Fuji TV
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Microsoft Plans Steady Stream of Evidence
Apparently Microsoft has commissioned a number of independent studies to compare Linux and Windows. These really are independent studies, though funded by Microsoft. The Windows apologists will be making much noise about these in the months to come, but there are reasons not to listen.
Remember first of all that this is a company with money to burn. Bill Gates is the guy who suggested buying a bunch of Porche 959's to destroy just so he could legally own his. They can afford to buy lots of studies:
But the company has a strategy to present a steady stream of evidence on topics such as the cost, security, interoperabilty and reliability of the Microsoft software platform compared with the Linux stack, according to Martin Taylor, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft.
Although paid with Microsoft money, the studies will be honest:
Rymer said the Microsoft official was firm that the report not take a slanted approach, since the company really does need to better understand the Linux phenomenon. If the result were negative, Microsoft could simply choose not to publish the report.
Ooops. Run that last sentence by me once more?
If the result were negative, Microsoft could simply choose not to publish the report.
Of course. When playing cards with yourself, just keep dealing under you get the hand you want. Look, a straight flush, isn't that something!
So how many studies went back in the deck? Who knows, but this might be meaningful:
The first Microsoft-commissioned analyst report on Linux emerged last November, and it took 10 months for the second one to see the light of day.:
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
DT post by Gwen - Like the Flower and the bee. . .
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Absolutely GORGEOUS!!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend,
TRES BEAU BRAVO BIZReplyDelete
Love your card! I agree, the papers are "springy"!! TFS!ReplyDelete
I love the fun rounded edge on this...It looks great.ReplyDelete
Gwen, this is such a pretty and sweet card! The flower bouquet and papers are gorgeous. The sparkly bee looks fantastic buzzing alongside the wonderful sentiment. Beautiful work, inside and out! :o)ReplyDelete
Hugs and blessings!
So very pretty and definitely springy.ReplyDelete
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Hello readers. How are you today?
I know I promised this extra on 26th March but due to RL and working overtime (9h to 10h) simply made me all sleepy and exhausted. I do hope you all forgive me with this baby.
In this extra I can say it was the first time I re-draw penis to the full extent and not just parts, so I do hope you all forgive me if the penis looks a bit out of anatomy…
Either way I do hope you all like this extra which was released in an Anthology book from AGF2013 from Dear + and Cheri +.
Hope you all have a great rest of Sunday and a great week ahead.
Note: Next project to be released is the last chapter of Ano ko to Juliet. I can't believe after so many years we will finish this story!
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I know it can be set to warn you about adblock but still allow you to go trough to get link…
Hello, that is the option available. So far no one had the problem and so far there is no problem.
Please report the status with images of the so called "unsafe ad page". Also if you use a anti-virus in your PC there won't be a problem. I use avira and even though I've this option I've no problem.
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In the coming week, we will be celebrating a fantastic American holiday: Thanksgiving. Everybody loves Thanksgiving, right?! Food on food on food. And we're off school, does it get any better than that? Well, I, like many others, like to spend this holiday season reflecting on what I am thankful for.
I'd say I owe a lot of my thanks to my parents. Not only am I thankful for the material things I am able to have because of them but for the opportunity to do what I'm doing: going to college. It's such a wonderful and rewarding opportunity that I find I often take for granted. They've given me the single most important opportunity to achieve what I would like to achieve.
I am thankful for my health, because I literally don't know what I'd do without the ability to go to class after a measly four-hour slumber… three nights in a row. Also, how does one usually recover from six cups of coffee? Thank goodness my mother often reminds me that I won't be this young for that much longer… haha.
I am thankful for my friends, who are there for me when things aren't going so well. More importantly, though, and my mother has always stressed this: they are there for me when times are good. Those are the best kind of friends; not only available when you're not proud of yourself, but when you are. They have provided me with invaluable memories, priceless wisdom, and irreplaceable keepsakes. I have to keep reminding myself not to be sentimental yet, I still have an entire semester until graduation!
I think that if you were to leave you all with one message, although I'm certain you've heard this before, I would say this: don't dwell on the things you don't have, but rather rejoice and appreciate the things that you do. That's what this season's all about anyway, right?


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Femina Girl Priyanka Chopra says Power is Sexy.
Femina's much awaited annual Power Issue was unveiled by the Bubli Badmaash of Bollywood, the very talented and sexy Priyanka Chopra. This year's issue salutes the young and the powerful women.
It features 35 extraordinary women from diverse fields who have made an impact on the society. Besides covergirl Priyanka Chopra, the list includes names as IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, singer Sona Mohapatra, filmmaker Soundarya Rajnikanth and Shuttler Saina Nehwal and many more such women.
Priyanka Chopra considers herself as a Femina Girl because Femina has been with her from the start of her career. She had been Femina Miss India and later won the Miss World title. She added, "Femina will always remain special to me". Talking about the Power issue, when Priyanka was asked to describe power in one word she said,"Power is Sexy".
According to her a person who is rich or has an influence on people is not powerful. To her a person who is self contained and is comfortable and confident about what he or she does is the most powerful person. When asked who she considers to be the most powerful person she replied."I think Beyonce is a very powerful woman. Because she can balance both her personal and professional life with great ease and the most powerful man for me is undoubtedly Mr.Bachchan". She added, "Abhi yaha agar meri jagah Amitji aate toh aap khade ho jaate. Who isliye kyuki unhone who izzat kamayi hai".
But like all the other things in this world power has its pros and well as cons. According to Priyanka Chopra power leads to loneliness. She said," When a person has certain amount of power with him, people might miss understand or misinterpret him and that may lead him to loneliness". Talking about her industry she said, "You don't need power to survive in this industry. It is not that people who have power or people who are pretty are popular. It is talent that works in this industry. In the end, public ko jo pasand hai who hi tikta hai aur bikta hai".
Priyanka also shared her thoughts on a lot of social issues and the recent rapes that have been happening in Aamchi Mumbai. To this she said," I am no one to say what punishment should be given to the rapist but the laws that have been made in our country should be strictly implemented and a fear for the law must be created in the minds of the people". Priyanka has been supporting the cause of the girl child with the UNESCO for the last 6 years and she assured that she will continue doing so.
Dhinchak Mumbai hopes Priyanka Chopra, by her social service brings a change in the society and we wish her luck for her future endeavors!


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- Jan 25, 2018 -
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Pontoon Nine Reading
1:00 pm
Sunday October 15th
Richard Hugo House
1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle
Please come out to celebrate with the Editors of Floating Bridge Press the publication of Pontoon Nine. More than a dozen poets will read on the Cabaret Stage. The wine and snack bar will be open. A great place to meet and reconnect with poetry friends and buy your issue of this beautiful anthology.
Some of the readers: Terri Cohlene, Laura Snyder, John Whalen, Esther Helfgott, Joseph Powell, Kathy Whitcomb, Katy McKinney, Tatyana Mishel, Priscilla Long.
See you there!
2 comments:
- aka Leonardo Likes Gulls said...
Hi Peter,
I'm sorry to miss this today and both Ronda & Annette will be there!
Do post something on your blog about the reading. I'm sure it will be fab!
- October 15, 2006 11:43 AM
- Nick said...
Great cover! The reading didn't sound too shabby either.
- October 16, 2006 9:31 AM
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This You Tube video clip offers a broader context of Rev.Wright's post 911 sermon than that being shown on Fox TV and other networks that created a firestorm of controversy. Excerpts from other Wright sermons are also being aired out of context. For my commentary,please see my blog post, April 4, Television, Race and Obama .
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Irresponsible Media Distortions, Manipulation? You be the Judge
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Fleming Rutledge is a preacher and teacher known throughout the US, Canada, and parts of the UK. She is the author of eight books, all from Eerdmans Publishing. Her most recent book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, is the product of the work of a lifetime and is being described as a new classic on the subject.
One of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, she served for fourteen years on the clergy staff at Grace Church on Lower Broadway at Tenth Street, New York City.
Fleming and her husband celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2009 and have two daughters and two grandchildren. She is a native of Franklin, Virginia.
Discerning God's Work In The World: Tips From The Times For Preachers: May 2005
Friday, May 27, 2005Tom Friedman says "Shut Gitmo Down"
In today's New York Times Friedman, perhaps the most-read columnist in America and certainly no liberal, reports from England where a rising tide of revulsion against American treatment of prisoners is unmistakable. This is a just small part of what he writes:
Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: "When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'" Guantánamo Bay is becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty.
The link to the Friedman column is
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Monday, May 23, 2005God and "man" at Yale
Required reading for me always includes the Friday Wall Street Journal "Houses of Worship" column. One does not always agree, of course, but this column is consistently interesting and provocative. This week's column, "Changes at Chapel" (May 20) gently questions (lampoons?) the recent decision at Yale to disengage from the United Church of Christ in order to "strengthen religious and spiritual life on campus." One may legitimately question whether the UCC has had anything to say for a while (except for its celebrated TV commercial casting aspersions upon the "inclusive" pretensions of the other mainline denominations) but the author of the column, Naomi Schaefer Riley (author of God on the Quad), reminds us of the great days when William Sloane Coffin kept the Yale chaplaincy in the news.
Some may have forgotten that Coffin signed the Hartford Declaration, a document which put forth some claims for traditional Christian doctrine. Riley writes,
"Doctrine, even weakly expressed, signals a seriousness of religious purpose. It honors a religious tradition--even a liberal tradition--and habits of devotion. For religious students these days, the greater alienation comes from a dilution of belief into a vague, "inoffensive" spirituality. (It is hardly surprising that the [Yale] committee used the phrase "spiritual life" in its call for changing the chapel's identity.)"
If Yale really wants to strengthen religious life, it needs another William Sloane Coffin, another Peter Gomes [Harvard], another Will Willimon [Duke]. It is being said that, after the passing of these preachers, there will be no more of these great figures in our great university pulpits. Let us look to the new chaplain at Duke, Samuel Wells, for hope.
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Sunday, May 22, 2005The spirit of the Barmen Declaration must live in our own time
In 2004, Gabriel Fackre, Professor Emeritus of Christian Theology, Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, signed (and no doubt contributed to the writing of) a public letter celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration in which the Confessing Church, at the risk of its members' lives (viz Dietrich Bonhoeffer), spoke its unambiguous "No!" to the "German Christians" who were fully collaborating with the Third Reich. The letter explores the implications of the Declaration for our own time in America. It was placed [as] a Religious News Service story, and can also be found on the Confessing Christ website. The following excerpts from Gabriel Fackre's Theology and Culture Newsletter No. 44 communicate the essence of the public statement. His website is http://gabrielfackre.com/
An Open Letter to Pastors and Teachers, May 31, 2004
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to weep, and a time to laugh;... a time to keep silence, and a time to speak" (Eccles. 3:1,4,7b) In the face of events that are scalding the earth and fracturing the nations, we are thinking of each of you and asking ourselves, as you also are doing... "How can those who confess Christ hold their tongues?" We remember you in our prayers as you preach, teach, and "equip the saints" for their ministry in times like these.
And we remember our Barmen forebears on this 70th anniversary of their Declaration. Can they help us bear witness in our time, as they did in theirs:
· to "Jesus Christ, as he is attested for us in Holy Scripture… the one Word of God which we have to hear, and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death" (Article 1)?
· to say again loud and clear: "No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 3:11)?
· and to find a way to "reject the false doctrine, as though the Church were permitted to abandon the form of its message and order to its own pleasure or to changes in prevailing ideological and political convictions" (Article 3)?
Confronting the "German Christians" and their fusion of blood and soil with the "one Word of God," Barmen spoke a bold "No!" Today, we have to do with "American Christians" who cannot separate nation from gospel, counting upon God to bless their crusades and praying to "Jesus, the warrior" rather than to "the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." To this, we likewise speak a firm "No!" So also to any other ethnic or theocratic claim to hold hostage the sovereign God and view ourselves as a "righteous empire."
While the divine majesty is wrongly blended with national allegiances and ethnic loyalties, we know also that Jesus Christ is Lord of our lands as well as our souls. We ought not to be silent before the present tyrannies and injustices that abound on our own soil and in other nations. We encourage you to seek places in every congregation where the wounding of Christ and the folly of nations can be faced and the issues aired. We pray that you may find ways within the life of the congregations you serve to examine, as students of Scripture and as theologians, the inflamed situations described imperfectly every day in the media, risking judgments and acting in humility rooted in the one Word of God each of us is called to proclaim.
While making our witness, however, we acknowledge our own temptation to forget that "there is no one who is righteous, not even one!" (Rom. 3:10) Again, the wisdom of another forebear, Reinhold Niebuhr is ours to learn. In the heat of the struggles of his day against the powers and principalities, he confessed to the sin that persists in the champions of justice as well as in its foes. He also prayed for forgiveness of his own self-righteous fury.
Along with the courage to speak and the contrition that must accompany it, comes the consoling Word spoken by another of our great teachers in an earlier time of tribulation. Writing to Christians in England as the bombs fell and the struggle against Hitler went forward, Karl Barth said that "the world in which we live is the place where Jesus Christ rose from the dead... although at present the glory of the Kingdom of God is held out to us only as a hope, yet the kingly rule of Christ extends over the whole of the universe… and confronts and overrules… the principalities and powers and evil spirits of this world." Amen!
There is a time for those who confess Christ to speak and there is a time to be silent. It is when we listen for the Word of God and look for light from this Source that we are able to discern the signs of the times. And so we pray for each of you and for the Church in whose midst we all kneel as servants: "Speak to us, O Lord, the Word we need and let that Word abide in us until it has wrought in us your holy will."
Signatories: Andrew Armstrong, Frank Baldwin, Lee Barrett, Dawn Berry, Richard Christensen, Deborah Rahn Clemens, Herbert Davis, Willis Elliott, Roger Easland, Beth Ernest, Gabriel Fackre, James Gorman, Gail Miller, F. Russell Mitman, Deborah Schueneman, Frederick Trost, Theodore Trost III, Bennie Whiten, Henry Yordon
And Gabe Fackre and his wife Dorothy (in whose voice the Fackre Newsletter speaks), add this:
What books have you discovered to be helpful in discerning the present state of affairs? Here are some recent ones that we have found challenging: R.R. Reno, In the Ruins of the Church , Alan Wolfe, The Transformation of American Religion, Philip Jenkins, The Coming of Global Christianity, David Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite , C. Braaten and R. Jenson, eds., The Ecumenical Future, Reinhard Huetter, Bound to be Free.
Your replies will feed into Gabe's writing of Volume 5 of his Christian Story series on the doctrine of the church. (Volume 4 on the doctrine of Christ is scheduled for 2005). If you respond, write to us either by e-mail at email@example.com or email@example.com or to PO Box 428, West Hyannisport, MA 02672. We will summarize the results in the next Newsletter.
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Saturday, May 21, 2005An urgent recommendation
Readers are urged to go to www.newyorktimes.com and then to "The Bagram File" interactive video. This impeccable piece of reporting cannot be ignored just because Newsweek has faltered. America needs to know what is being held back from public knowledge. This is why we need newspapers.
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Hooray for Calvin College
I spend several days last January at Calvin College, and was very impressed by the level of teaching and studying at this highly-regarded Christian Reformed institution. It is therefore a great pleasure to post this article:
Calvin protests should be source of pride for graduates
by Charles Honey for The Grand Rapids Press, Saturday, May 21, 2005
Well, at least they can't call us dull anymore.
By "they" I mean most everyone who doesn't live in Western Michigan and believes we all worship twice on Sunday, drink nothing stronger than coffee and vote Republican.
A lot of people around here do those things, and God bless them. But the dust-up over President Bush's commencement speech at Calvin College shows this is not a uniformly conservative, compliant place.
In fact, the protests of professors, students and alumni against Bush policies shouldn't surprise anyone who has spent time on the pretty East Beltline campus. Calvin's classrooms are lively incubators of inquiry based on a theology that calls for transforming souls and society. That Christian world view takes people in politically unpredictable directions, as our commander in chief has discovered.
If Bush was expecting a trouble-free photo op in the conservative heartland, he got more than he bargained for. About 150 Calvin faculty, staff and former faculty and about 800 students, alumni and supporters saw to that.
Their ads in The Press, one that ran Friday and one that was to run today,
take Bush to task over the Iraq war and his alleged neglect of the environment and the poor. They challenge his much-publicized faith on its own grounds, charging his actions do not match their faith and, by implication, his.
Are these protests inappropriate, as some have complained? This is, after all, the president. Shouldn't he be welcomed graciously? Absolutely. And should the host community exercise its democratic right to free speech? Absolutely.
As long as the protests are civil, and Bush's commencement speech this afternoon is not disrupted, this whole affair will be a win for all. For the students, it's a high honor, a chance to be part of history and a great story to tell their children. For the Calvin community, it's an opportunity to clue the wider world into the school's intellectual vigor and depth of Christian thought.
And for President Bush, it may be an eye-opener that not everyone out here in the heartland wears the same color of Christianity. He may have known that already. So says the Rev. Peter Borgdorff, who as a board member of Call to Renewal has met with the president.
"Calvin would hardly be thought of by people knowledgeable about the place as a right-wing Christian college," Borgdorff said. Maybe. But when news broke Bush was speaking at Calvin, I feared the college's reputation would suffer from the perception it was being used politically.
Instead, Calvin's reputation will enlarge as a place not easily used for politics or any other partisan purpose.
Its intellectual feistiness stems from the stubborn-mindedness of its parent Christian Reformed Church. Delegates to its annual Synod drag out debates on theology and social policy long after the likes of Pat Robertson have turned the TV off.
Calvin has bumped up against CRC conservatives on issues such as the teaching of evolution but has landed on the side of academic freedom. And it has produced some of the leading lights in academia, including Nicholas Wolterstorff, the retired Yale Divinity School philosophy professor originally scheduled to speak today.
Although conservatives aplenty teach and study there, Calvin attracts a wide swath of political and artistic talent to its doors. Two weeks ago, liberal evangelical Jim Wallis packed the college chapel.
This is a college that likes to mix it up on a firm platform of faith. The hubbub over Bush is an object lesson in the school's intellectual strength and American democracy. That's an exemplary thing for today's graduates to witness.
2005 Grand Rapids Press.
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Friday, May 20, 2005The uproar about Newsweek and its relationship to the more fundamental issues
The uproar about Newsweek and its most unfortunate publication of a story about a Koran being flushed down a toilet without adequate supporting testimony has presented the American public with yet another opportunity to take the easy road to vilification of favorite targets while ignoring larger issues. Here is Thomas Friedman's column of May 20, continuing a theme that he has been pursuing for several weeks:
"The Best P.R.: Straight Talk"—Thomas Friedman's column, May 20, 2005
The fact that the White House spokesman Scott McClellan spent part of his briefing on Tuesday excoriating Newsweek - and telling its editors that they had a responsibility to "help repair the damage" to America's standing in the Arab-Muslim world - while not offering a single word of condemnation for those who went out and killed 16 people in Afghanistan in riots linked to a Newsweek report, pretty much explains why we're struggling to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world today. We are spending way too much time debating with ourselves, or playing defense, and way too little time actually looking Arab Muslims in the eye and telling them the truth as we see it. In part this is because we are so dependent on their oil - and addicts never tell the truth to their pushers. In part this is because the administration got so carried away by the vote in the Iraqi elections that it lost focus...
Instead of sending Mr. McClellan out to flog Newsweek, President Bush should have said: "Let me say first to all Muslims that desecrating anyone's holy book is utterly wrong. These allegations will be investigated, and any such behavior will be punished. That is how we Americans intend to look in the mirror. But we think the Arab-Muslim world must also look in the mirror when it comes to how it has been behaving toward an even worse crime than the desecration of God's words, and that is the desecration of God's creations. In reaction to an unsubstantiated Newsweek story, Muslims killed 16 other Muslims in Afghanistan in rioting, and no one has raised a peep - as if it were a totally logical reaction. That is wrong.
"In Iraq, where Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni Muslims are struggling to build a pluralistic new order, other Muslims, claiming to act in the name of Allah, are indiscriminately butchering people, without a word of condemnation coming from Muslim spiritual or political leaders. I don't understand a concept of the sacred that says a book is more sacred than a human life. A holy book, whether the Bible or the Koran, is only holy to the extent that it shapes human life and behavior.
"Look, Newsweek may have violated journalistic rules, but what jihadist terrorists are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan - blowing up innocent Muslims struggling to build an alternative society to dictatorship - surely destroys the Koran. They are the real enemies of Islam because they are depriving Muslims of a better future. From what I know of Islam, it teaches that you show reverence to God by showing reverence for his creations, not just his words. Why don't your spiritual leaders say that?..."
Fortunately, a few courageous Arab intellectuals, such as Abderrahman al-Rashed, have asked such things. Writing in Wednesday's Saudi daily Asharq Al Awsat, he said: "When thousands in Afghanistan are concerned about a report in a magazine that does not reach them, written in a language they do not speak, leading them to protest in a manner unprecedented among other Islamic nations that do speak English, the matter is worth pursuing further: it tells us more about the dangers of propaganda and its exploitation by opposition groups than it does about spontaneous popular sentiments."
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Friday, May 13, 2005The New York Times Book Review in a new light
There is so much food for thought in this week's Book Review (May 15, 2005) that I hardly know where to start (and it arrived on Friday, too, for the first time--surely a signal of greater seriousness, since it gives the reader a whole weekend to digest it). The cover review of Hilary Mantel's new novel, Beyond Black, by Terrence Rafferty, concludes this way: "This is, I think, a great comic novel. Hilary Mantel's humor, like Flannery O'Connor's, is so far beyond black it becomes a kind of light."
And the week's essay on the last page, "Church Meets State," by Mark Lilla, offers a really incisive (though necessarily brief) analysis of the breakdown of "liberal" theology in America and what that might mean for those of us who care for the church not only as a critique of government but also as a transfiguring influence on government.
Check it out for free (if you hurry) at www.newyorktimes.com
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The importance of the Geneva Conventions in WW2Freeman Dyson reviews Armageddon: The Battle For Germany, by Max Hastings, in The New York Review of Books, April 28, 2005
The history of WW2 teaches us several lessons that are still valid today. First is the immense importance of the Geneva Conventions on humane treatment of prisoners in mitigating the human costs of war. [In Hastings' book] we see a stark contrast between two kinds of war, the war in the West following the Geneva rules and the war in the East fought without rules...In the Western war, soldiers who reached the prison camps were treated in a civilized fashion, with some supervision by delegates of the International Red Cross. They were neither starved nor tortured.
At the same time, on the eastern side of the war, brutality was the rule and the IRC had no voice. Civilians were routinely raped and murdered, and prisoners of war were starved...It is not possible to calculate the numbers of lives saved in the West and lost in the East by following and not following the Geneva rules...Americans who are trying today to weaken or evade the Geneva rules are acting shortsightedly as well as immorally.
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Deaf Power in the UkraineThis link leads to a story about what God did through a remarkable young Deaf woman whose "voice" was instrumental in confronting the principalities and powers.
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Stroll through Scenic Areas
The trails in the 95-acre Linfield Wildlife Area use an old, tree-lined farm laneway to access a beautiful maple beech forest, babbling brook and ponds. Birds abound in the wide diversity of trees and shrubs. The high centre point of the farm is a perfect spot for a picnic with scenic vistas of the surrounding countryside and Lake Huron. Please stay to the trails and respect the cropped farmland.
The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority is the trail contact.
2.3 km
Difficulty Level
Level 2
Trail Use
Hiking, bird watching, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, fishing.
Trail Hazards
None evident (Pavillion Rd. is a "no winter maintenance" between Goshen and Bronson Lines, park at Goshen and ski/snowshoe along Pavillion Rd. to access the property.) Trail Surface Natural surface
Cost for Using Trail
Donations accepted by Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority
Driving Directions
Located west of Pavillion Road and Goshen Line intersection, southwest of Varna and north of Zurich.