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Most Californians have heard that their state is the world's eighth largest economy. According to a new analysis of federal data by the Center for Continuing Study of the California, the state remains 8th largest.
This analysis also included some regional numbers that are just as striking. My favorite: if Southern California were its own country, it would be the 15th largest economy in the world -- right between Mexico (14th) and South Korea (16th). The Bay Area would be the 20th largest, between Switzerland and Belgium. San Diego would be 45th, between Nigeria and Pakistan (countries with populations of more than 150 million each).
This data is a reminder: California is a very, very rich place. While our government may be in fiscal trouble, this state is not bankrupt. California has more than enough money to meet its needs -- provided it fixes its dysfunctional governing system.


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In the annals of mostly-forgotten Ford Product of the 1980s, there lies the EXP, the front-drive two-seater for active singles or childless couples on the go. And as with any car, it has its own enthusiast group. Now, add biodiesel to the Venn diagram and in the overlap, you'll find the vehicle utilized by the Ford EXP/Mercury LN7 owners' club, who've yanked the petrol mill in favor of an Escort diesel unit, in hopes of winning The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's annual Tour De Sol Challenge, followed by a record attempt at Bonneville.
The Green Experiment - Biodiesel EXP Project
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NEA State Media Grants
Center for Great Public Schools Welcomes Proposals
The specific mandate from the NEA Representative Assembly is that the State Association Media Grants are intended "to advance the cause of public education and publicize the role of the Association and its affiliates in improving the quality of public education."
Specifically, these funds are to:
- Proactively advance the Association's mission through image and reputation campaigns that strengthen the Association's image among the public; and/or advocacy campaigns to advance a particular issue of importance to the Association and its members.
- They are not to be used for the promotion of specific legislative or political objectives or the overt recruitment of members.
Those interested in applying for this grant may contact Heather Griffin, NEA Center for Communications.


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Sample Quotes
Education Quotes
The following quotations may help you prepare remarks or materials for American Education Week.
"A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."
—César Chávez
"Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?"
—César Chávez
"The end of all education should surely be service to others."
—César Chávez
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
—Helen Keller
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
—William Butler Yeats
"When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built."
—Mark Twain
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
—G. K. Chesterton
"A child miseducated is a child lost."
—John F. Kennedy
"[My family] believed in the public school because they believed in a community. They believed the important thing was what was in your head. My grandmother was a schoolteacher. She taught in a one-room country school north of Anoka, Minnesota, and my grandmother had a certain contempt for people who made a great show and were not that bright. My grandmother said, 'Don't be a 10-dollar haircut on a 25-cent head.' You avoided that by going to school and paying attention. You became a worthwhile person and a member of the community."
—Garrison Keillor, radio humorist
"Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity."
—Deborah Meier, educator
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
—Malcolm S. Forbes
"Education is the vaccine for violence."
—Edward James Olmos, actor
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
—Benjamin Franklin
"A teacher affects eternity."
—Henry Adams
"Children need all school workers. A person is not 'just' a janitor, not 'just' a custodian. Janitors can see children when [teachers] don't see them, and bus drivers recognize that children who are disruptive on the bus are likely to be disorderly in the classroom. They're partners in education. We need each other to make this work."
—Rev. Jesse Jackson
"The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."
—Dan Rather
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
"I like to think that the greatest success of any life is that moment when a teacher touches a child's heart and it is never again the same... Everything America is or ever hopes to be depends upon what happens in our school's classrooms."
—Frosty Troy, editor Oklahoma Observer
"There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education. It is the underpinning of our cultural and political system. It is the great common ground. Public education after all is the engine that moves us as a society toward a common destiny... It is in public education that the American dream begins to take shape."
—Tom Brokaw
"Education is the transmission of civilization. Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned again by each new generation."
—David Kearns, former chair Xerox Corporation
"Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child."
"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness. To have knowledge, deep broad knowledge, is to know truth from false and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked men's progress, is to feel the heartthrob of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."
—Helen Keller
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
—Helen Keller
"Knowledge rests on knowledge; what is new is meaningful because it departs slightly from what was known before."
—Robert Oppenheimer
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
—James Madison
"By viewing the old we learn the new"
—Chinese Proverb
"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest"
—T.S. Eliot
"All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars."
—Star Trek's Capt. James T. Kirk, "Gamesters of Triskelion"
"We grow accustomed to the dark, when light is put away."
—Emily Dickenson
"Excellence is achieved by the mastery of fundamentals."
—Vince Lombardi
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
—Peter F. Drucker
"Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est." ("Knowledge is power.")
—Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae. De Haeresibus.
"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."
—Francis Bacon
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
—Benjamin Franklin
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him."
—Benjamin Franklin
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Non schola sed vita decimos" (Only the educated are free)
—Epictetus (AD 50-125)
"It's harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
—Arnold Glasgow
"The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth."
—Francis Bacon
"Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than his father Philip for giving him life."
—Thomas B. Macaulay
"The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
—Aristotle, Metaphysics, bk. 1, ch. 1
"Knowledge is the food of the soul."
"Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty."
—Daniel Webster
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
—James Madison
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."
—Benjamin Disraeli
"Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought."
—St. Basil
"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."
—Victoria Bond, conductor
"A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge."
—Samuel Johnson
"To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave."
—Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), escaped slave, abolitionist, author
"The more the ignorance, the better the slave"
—Edmund Fairfield, President, Hillsdale College, July 4, 1853
"Et nunc, reges, intelligite, erudimini, qui judicati terram:
And now, kings, understand; you who decide the fate of the Earth, educate yourselves"
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
—Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
—Margaret Fuller
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
—B.B. King
"The further I go, the sorrier I am about how little I know: it is this that bothers me the most."
—Claude Monet
"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."
—George Santayana
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge."
—Sir Philip Sidney
"Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch."
—Steve Droke
"Let knowledge grow from more to more."
—Alfred Tennyson, "In Memoriam", Prologue, line 25
"Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams."
—Daniel Webster, address on laying the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument
"Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty."
—Daniel Webster, completion of Bunker Hill Monument
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."
—Peter F. Drucker
"All men by nature desire to know."
"One of the most common reasons so few people are consistently able to achieve meaningful results is that they are unwilling to experience the discomfort associated with relentlessly pursuing a correct perception of reality."
—Stuart Brodie
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
—Will Durant
"Knowledge is an antidote to fear."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am -- not with what we know -- but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored."
—John H. Glenn, Jr.
"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."
—Samuel Johnson
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
—James Madison
"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens."
—Charles Morgan
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
—Laurence Sterne
"Happy the man who knows the causes of things."
—Lucretius, Roman philosopher
"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."
—Denis Waitley
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
—George Gurdjieff, 19th-20th-century Greek-Armenian religious teacher, quoted in: P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, ch. 2 (1949)
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not."
—Samuel Johnson, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better."
—Mark van Doren, 20th-century American poet, Liberal Education (1943)
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
—George Gurdjieff
"As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in traveling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."
—Samuel Johnson, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer, remark, 17 Apr. 1778, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, vol. 3 (1791)
"For remember, my friend, the son of a shepherd who possesses knowledge is of greater worth to a nation than the heir to the throne, if he be ignorant. Knowledge is your true patent of nobility, no matter who your father or what your race may be."
—Kahlil Gibran, 20th-century Syrian-American mystic poet and painter "The Words of the Master," viii, in The Treasured Writings (1980)
"Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty."
—Daniel Webster, 19th-century American statesman and orator, in an address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 17 June 1825
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
—John Adams, second President of the U.S., dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)
"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."
—Thomas Hobbes, 17th-century English philosopher, Leviathan, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1651)
"Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force."
—Samuel Johnson, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer, Imlac, in The History of Rasselas, ch. 13 (1759)
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
—Chinese Proverb
"Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 19th-century American writer and physician, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6 (1858)
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
—Laurence Sterne, 18th-century English writer, Tristram Shandy, II.iii (1760)
"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country."
—John Adams, second President of the U.S., Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law (1765)
"To read the Latin and Greek authors in their original is a sublime luxury ... I thank on my knees him [Jefferson's father] who directed my early education for having put into my possession this rich source of delight."
—Thomas Jefferson, 1800
"Information is the currency of democracy."
—Thomas Jefferson
"Knowledge -- that is, education in its truest sense -- is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice, and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities or panic-stricken leaders."
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A liberal education ... frees a person from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation."
—Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Political Animal
"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
—Edward Everett
"Knowledge ... is also power; prior to its being a power, it is a good; that it is not only an instrument, but an end."
—John Henry Cardinal Newman
"Pursue knowledge for its own sake -- for the glory of God, the perfection of your mind, the good of the universe"
—John Henry Cardinal Newman
"As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League"
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
—Epictetus (Roman philosopher and former slave), Discourses
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
—H.G. Wells
"Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
—George Washington, address to Congress, January 8, 1790
"Critical thinking is a lot harder than people think, because it requires knowledge."
—Joanne Jacobs
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
—Anatole France
"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
"Only when we know a little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"...we should not necessarily conclude that higher-level strategic skills are somehow the critical issue. It is exactly these processes that are most vulnerable to specific knowledge failures. We think these processes are important, but we suspect that they develop ordinarily in tandem with the gradual accumulation of knowledge..."
—Charles Perfetti
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
—Winston Churchill
"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
—Robert Louis Stevenson
"I refuse to engage myself in a battle of wits with a man who is unarmed."
—Mark Twain
"It is easy to spot an informed man -- his opinions are just like your own."
—Miguel de Unamuno
"He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet."
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound"
—William Shakespeare
"An erudite fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool."
—Jean Paul Baptiste Moliere
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
—Aldous Huxley
"A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such."
—Samuel Butler, Characters
"To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment. Not to know and yet think we do is a disease."
"Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse."
—Nigerian Proverb
"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
—Lao Tse
"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
—Kermit the Frog
"Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
—Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
"Professors complain about students who arrive at college with strong convictions but not enough knowledge to argue persuasively for their beliefs. ... Having opinions without knowledge is not of much value; not knowing the difference between them is a positive indicator of ignorance."
—Diane Ravitch, The Schools We Deserve, p. 8
"Eventu rerum stolidi didicere magistro." (The stupid have no teacher except their own experience.)
—old maxim
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Scandal in Bohemia"
"The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact -- of absolute undeniable fact -- from the embellishments of theorists and reports. Then, having established ourselves upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what inferences may be drawn and what are the special points upon which the whole mystery turns."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Silver Blaze"
"Then, with your permission, we will leave it at that, Mr. Mac. The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Valley of Fear"
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet"
"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts."
—Sherlock Holmes, speaking in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Second Stain"
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
—Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
—Bernard M. Baruch
"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another."
—John Burroughs
"Nothing is more tragic than ignorance in action."
—Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd."
—Bertrand Russell
"Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The young specialist in English Lit ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong. ... My answer to him was, '... when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.'"
—Isaac Asimov
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
—Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
—Sherwood Anderson
Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money.
—Max Forman
I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer
Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.
—Max Forman
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
—Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
—John Dewey (1859-1952) U.S. philosopher and educator
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
—Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
—Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer
A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
—William Feather
An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.
—Sydney Wood
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.
—Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) American journalist
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
—William B. Yeats, poet
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
—Herbert Spencer
Your Education is worth what You are worth.
When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the living are to the dead."
—Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd century)
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
—Leonardo da Vinci. Notebooks
There is a great danger in the present day lest science- teaching should degenerate into the accumulation of disconnected facts and unexplained formulae, which burden the memory without cultivating the understanding.
—J. D. Everett [In the preface to his 1873 English translation of Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by A Privat Deschanel. (D. Appleton and Co.)]


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Many years ago, Alanis Morissette broke out because she broke up. You, you, you oughta know.
Alanis has a new album due out on June 10th called Flavours of Entanglement and she's revealed that much of the material came from a period last year when she hit what she describes as "rock bottom".
Alanis says she channelled the "unraveling of significant relationships" in her life into her music and if it's anything like what happened when Uncle Joey cheated on her, Ryan Reynolds is in for a serious, serious bitch slap even though, realistically speaking, the more mature Alanis is unlikely to be so obvious with her lyrics, the songs will undoubtedly provide some insight into the split and, more specifically, how Ryan presumably disappointed her.
Consider Alanis's answer when asked about her new outlook on love:
"My nature is always hope filled. It"s more about values matching now. That"s the foundation."
Values matching. Very interesting. Clearly the Hollywood beefcake who wears too much foundation (thank you to the lovely reader who pointed that out), who was not faithful some of the time, who was tapping the Shelf Ass while shooting in Vancouver, who is now engaged to a matching bombshell Hollywood starlet… clearly those values weren't exactly aligned.
Still… Alanis is poised for a successful return. And she has a boyfriend now too, although she's reluctant to talk about the new relationship.
Curiously enough, she and Scarlett Johansson release their albums 3 weeks apart.
Scarlett can't sing for sh*t.
Isn't it ironic?
Here's the cover for Flavours of Entanglement. LOVE the art. HATE that "flavors" isn't spelled the Canadian way.
Also attached – Alanis and Ryan in happier times. The one with the finger has always been my favourite. Almost as though she knew it all along.
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Many years ago, Alanis Morissette broke out because she broke up. You, you, you oughta know.


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* What: Amber Fults and the Ambivalent Lovers present "Dark Side of the Rainbow."
* When: 9:30 p.m. today, Nov. 22.
* Where: Rhythm & Brews, 221 Market St.
* Admission: $10.
* Phone: 267-4644.
* Venue website: www.rhythm-brews.com.
* "Speak to Me"
* "Breathe (In the Air)"
* "On the Run"
* "Time"
* "The Great Gig in the Sky"
* "Money"
* "Us and Them"
* "Any Colour You Like"
* "Brain Damage"
* "Eclipse"
To hear Amber Fults describe it, prepping to play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album tonight has been like learning to mountain-climb without oxygen.
Fults and her band, The Ambivalent Lovers, will perform a start-to-finish rendition of the British rock legend's 1973 opus, which will play simultaneously with a projection of "The Wizard of Oz," a well-known, bizarre case of multimedia synchronicity.
Although the album isn't known for complex solos or challenging vocal acrobatics, it is a nonstop assault, Fults said.
"Even though ['Dark Side'] is only 45 minutes, you feel like you're playing for three hours because it's continuous; there's absolutely no break," Fults said. "We didn't really think about it until we played it all the way through the first time and felt like we'd run a marathon.
Adding to the strenuousness of the experience, the show will be bookended by sets of the Lovers' original music.
"We're going to have to pace ourselves," Fults added, laughing. "The first song is called 'Breathe,' but I feel like I haven't taken a breath since we started."
The connection between "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wizard of Oz" was first enumerated in 1995 by Charles Savage, a writer for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. When played simultaneously, "it's as if the movie were one long art-film music video for the album," Savage wrote.
So-called "Dark Side of the Rainbow" shows have become a fixture at Floyd cover shows, but when the Lovers started prepping this summer, Fults said she hadn't heard the album all the way through and wasn't aware of the connection.
"It's bizarre," she said. "I was sitting there and it was like, 'This is blowing my mind.' "
Since then, Fults has listened to the album nonstop and developed an appreciation for Pink Floyd's technical complexities and deeply emotional songs. That respect notwithstanding, though, she's ready to take a break.
"It was cool to take care of Pink Floyd's babies for six months," she said, laughing. "But I'm ready to give them back."
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The Aliens are taking over Earth as we know it! But what do they look like? Purple skin and jelly arms? 15 eyes and no teeth? Let your imagination go wild to create your own extraterrestrial invader.
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After the latest terror attack on Istanbul airport and a death toll that's already 41, with over 200 injured, US Secretary of State John Kerry, says that the increase in the number of terrorist attacks represents "weakness" on the part of ISIS – sorry, ISIL (we shouldn't mention Syria, the Administration's biggest single foreign policy failure!).
Just last week, the Administration tried to remove all references to Islam, the Quran and the IS leader, in an attempt to water down the Orlando attack.
A short video I saw yesterday showed a journalist interviewing youngish (18-34) people on the streets of Brooklyn, asking them who was behind the Orlando shootings. Not one thought the attack had anything to do with Islam; blame was placed on the Republicans! It seems to me that the US is singularly incapable of dealing with the greatest security threat to the West since World War II.
The month of Ramadan still has some time to go, so expect more terror attacks. It's just their way of celebrating holy days!
"One thing is certain: Britain's departure from the European Union will not make the union more democratic. The hierarchical structure of its supranational institutions will want to reinforce itself: Like all dying ideologies, the union knows only how to forge blindly ahead. The roles are already cast — Germany will lead the way, and France will obligingly tag along.
Here is a sign: President François Hollande of France, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain take their lead directly from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, without running through Brussels. A quip attributed to Henry Kissinger, "Who do I call if I want to call Europe?" now has a clear answer: Call Berlin."
(Marine LePen, "After Brexit, the People's Spring is inevitable. NY Times, 28th June.")
Nietzsche, German philosopher: "The German is an expert on secret paths to chaos."
Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, never misses an opportunity to push for Scotland to break away from the United Kingdom.
She's on the continent today talking to EU officials about keeping her country in the EU. 62% of Scots voted to "Remain" in the EU. If something can be worked out with the EU, Scotland could remain in the organization, while England would be outside of it. This could only happen with a break-up of the United Kingdom.
Ms. Sturgeon's scheming with EU leaders would have been treason not so long ago!
Prior to the two kingdoms uniting under one king, back in 1603, Scotland posed a major security threat to England. Remember Mary, Queen of Scots?
The worst-case scenario following Brexit is that Scotland and Northern Ireland will leave the United Kingdom and remain in the European Union, with Berlin as its new de facto capital.
Can you imagine what this would have meant for Winston Churchill in World War II?
Long-term this development could be a major security concern for England.
Perhaps a future John Kerry type British Foreign Secretary could put a positive spin on this. No doubt a Scottish death-blow to the United Kingdom is really a good thing!
Donald Trump has been very supportive of Britain's Brexit vote, promising a speedy trade deal with the UK (or what's left of the UK) if he becomes president. He is hoping Americans will vote the same way in November – to reject globalization and internationalism and "make America great again."
This could be very interesting – the two English-speaking powers lined up against the EU globalist socialists.
The European Union has even gone so far as to stop the use of English in meetings. This will, in effect, make their meetings more secretive as foreign languages have never been a strong point of the Anglo-Saxons!
Another threat posed to England comes from the new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to hold the post. Twenty years ago it wouldn't have mattered as the role was ceremonial. Then, the law was changed to make London and other major metropolitan centers, more like New York and other US cities, granting the Mayor an executive role.
Mr. Sadiq's first decision was to ban ads showing women in swimsuits on British Transport, including the London Underground.
No vote was taken on this. It's a clear case of Mr. Sadiq forcing his Islamic beliefs on non-Muslims.
He would also like to take London out of the United Kingdom so that it can continue its association with the European Union.
What a mess! No wonder David Cameron has quit.
Syndicated anti-Trump columnist Kathleen Parker observed: "His resignation essentially marked the death of the establishment and a rebirth of people who have risen in protest of a world they refuse to accept" ("Brexit – meet Trexit – Trump's political rise" (LSJ, 6/28).
The two recent prime ministers who have contributed most to this mess are Mr. Cameron and Tony Blair. It was Mr. Blair who let Scotland have its own parliament, laying the groundwork for the latest attempt to break away. Then David Cameron called the referendum.
We should not, however, forget Edward Heath, who was PM from 1970-74. He's the one who took the kingdom into Europe, one of the biggest mistakes the country ever made. IMO.
Pressured by Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton declared a few days ago that she is a Methodist.
The United Methodist Church in America came out last month against abortion, a decision that is not binding on members. The majority of delegates, however, felt strongly enough on the issue to make a statement. Since 1973 the church had been supportive of Roe vs Wade.
Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, is pro-abortion. Even more so than the average person as she believes abortion should be available in the third trimester.
This is murder – the murder of innocent children.
It's hard for me to understand how anybody calling themselves "Christian" can support abortion. The Bible tells us that children are a blessing. They are not an inconvenience, which is what abortion is all about.
Psalm 127:3 says: "Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."


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Dominant Roark blanks punchless Padres
Righty needs just 105 pitches to finish off complete-game masterpiece
WASHINGTON -- Tanner Roark wasn't ready to start thinking about making history as he stood on the mound, but the notion did cross his mind during a spectacular outing on Saturday.
"I think every pitcher knows, but I wasn't trying to think about it at all," the Nationals' young starter said about his chances of throwing a perfect game. "I just wanted to keep going out there and get guys out -- and throw strikes and not try to make perfect pitches or anything like that."
Roark was practically unhittable, retiring the first 16 batters he faced en route to the first complete game of his young career, a three-hit shutout, as the Nationals cruised to a 4-0 victory over the Padres on Saturday in the 500th game at Nationals Park.
"Me and [catcher] Sandy [Leon] were on the same page, so I don't think I shook him off all game -- maybe once," said Roark, who added eight strikeouts with just one walk.
From the outset, Roark (2-0) was dominant, retiring the first three Padres hitters on nine pitches and rolling from there. San Diego catcher Rene Rivera was the only Padre to get the ball out of the infield during the first five innings, when he flied out to right in the third inning. Roark also got some help on highlight-reel plays by Anthony Rendon to remain perfect.
"I just feel confident out there on the mound and I feel strong," Roark said. "Just getting ahead of hitters is the biggest thing. Strike one is the best pitch you can throw, and that's what I try to do."
The overmatched Padres had no answer for Roark, except for Rivera, who looped a single to center, just past a stretching Danny Espinosa, to break up the perfect game with one out in the sixth inning. The crowd of 31,950 responded by giving Roark a standing ovation, as Leon came out to talk to his pitcher.
"He was working with, really, all the pieces," Leon said. "He was hitting his spots with all the pitches -- breaking ball, slider, changeup. It's nice to catch him."
The Padres' patient approach didn't work, as Roark quickly put San Diego's hitters in a hole.
"If the guy is throwing strikes and you're taking pitches, you're going to be behind in the count," Padres manager Bud Black said. "... If you're trying to make him work, you're going to be 0-1, 0-2 awfully quick. He was throwing strikes and working both sides of the plate with his fastball. We just couldn't square any balls up."
Of all the Nationals' starters, Roark might have been the last one people picked to get the team's first complete game of the season. But in nine career appearances (three starts) at Nationals Park, Roark has given up just one earned run and 19 hits in 35 innings.
"He competes and he's got the ability, certainly, to pitch at this level," Washington manager Matt Williams said. "He's got four quality pitches that he throws, all of them for strikes. He can hit, he can bunt. So he does well out there."
Roark had just one complete game on his professional ledger, in 2012 for Triple-A Syracuse, and hadn't come close in the Majors. So he was appreciative of the opportunity to finish what he started.
"It feels really good," said Roark. "It gives me confidence that I can pitch at this level and keep pitching for as long as I can. It's a good feeling and a good win. When you have the run support like we did today and the defense behind you, you get more confidence in all your pitches."
The Nationals jumped all over San Diego starter Andrew Cashner (2-3) in the first inning, although he did not get much help from his defense.
Rendon started the rally with a sharp single to left. Jayson Werth followed with a hard chopper that ate up second baseman Jedd Gyorko and was originally ruled an error, although it was later reversed.
Adam LaRoche drilled an RBI single to left and the cutoff throw was thrown away by Yonder Alonso in a misguided effort to try and nab LaRoche at first, allowing Werth to move to third. Ian Desmond followed with an opposite-field double and Espinosa tallied a sacrifice fly to give Washington a 3-0 lead.
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TOWNSEND — Antique store furniture filled with a colorful collection of goods nestles inside fellowship hall. From soaps and jewelry to quilts and cards, the carefully chosen merchandise gleams.
Cozy Corner is open for business. Housed in the Townsend United Methodist Church, the store's main purpose is to raise money for local and church charities.
"We're all working to reach out a lot more than we do," said the Rev. Joan-Anne Westfall. All of the profits from the store are given to the Townsend Ecumenical Outreach and the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
TEO provides help to Townsend residents in the form of food, clothing and sometimes more. UMCOR provides emergency relief throughout the world. The connection between the Townsend church and these charities is well-established since the church already contributed 10 percent of the profits from every fundraiser to these organizations.
The gift store, a longhledlonged dreamed of by Lynne Connors after she saw a similar church store in Arizona, opened in March. The store is a team effort, even in its conception. Another organizer, Paula Giardinella, wanted a year-round venue following a successful craft fair in November.
"It was an old idea that finally happened," Connors said.
Together with the third organizer, Judy Bureau, the shop took shape. The fixtures, sitting unused in a barn, were donated.
Other church members, friends and family were enlisted to contribute handmade goods or to put them on consignment. When the weather is cooler, the shop has hand-dipped chocolates. Select vintage goods are available.
Buying locally is part of the shop's values. Spices, mostly wild or organic, come from a business on Cape Cod. The inspirational cards are made by two Massachusetts companies.
Even the vendors contribute goods to the shop to help with fundraising, Connors said.
The shop is testing the waters right now and learning when the best times to be open are, Giardinella said. It is usually open every other Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and after the 11 a.m. Sunday services. There are no Sunday services or Sunday shop hours during August.
"We want to have more regular hours," Giardinella said. The group needs more help so opening hours can be scheduled. "We're trying to piggy-back on events," she said. The Cozy Corner opened during a craft fair held on the common across the street.
In spite of the challenge of limited hours, the shop is exceeding the expectations the team set back in March the organizers said.
An open house is scheduled Saturday, Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Refreshments will be offered.
The Townsend United Methodist Church, the "Historic Meeting House on the Hill," is located across from the common at the intersection of Routes 119 and 13 in Townsend.


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(CNN) -- Dr. David Edelson, a weight-loss specialist in Manhasset, New York, hears the stories of dozens of patients each day -- most of them grappling with serious weight problems, after a lifetime of obesity.
Along with coaching on diet and exercise, Edelson gives about half of these patients a pair of prescriptions. One for phentermine, an amphetamine that made up the "Phen" half of "Fen-Phen," the ill-fated diet drug that was pulled from the market in 1997 after some users developed heart-valve problems. Another, for topiramate, an antiseizure medication.
While Edelson creates his own combination, a company called Vivus has developed the phentermine/topiramate combination into a new anti-obesity drug: Qnexa (pronounced kyoo-NEX'-uh).
In one study of more than 3,000 patients, those receiving a low dose lost on average more than 5 percent of their weight, and kept it off for a year. Patients on a higher dose lost more than 10 percent. But the numbers weren't enough to sway an FDA panel, which on Thursday said the drug should not be sold because the benefits are outweighed by safety concerns ranging from increased heart rate to thoughts of suicide to possible birth defects.
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While the drugs are not approved specifically for weight loss, "We know they work," Edelson told CNN in a phone interview. While there are four other medications approved to treat obesity, in Edelson's experience, patients quickly build up resistance. "Patients tend to lose 10 or 20 pounds, but then they get stuck." With the combination, he says, they lose two or three times the weight, and keep it off longer.
"We've got to think of obesity as a disease, with 400,000 preventable deaths each year," Edelson said. "This is a great tool."
The final vote was 10-6. Dr. Abraham Thomas, a panel member and head of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Center at Henry Ford Health System in Michigan, voted "no" and said he was concerned that there was not enough safety data.
"The effectiveness was extremely good, much more effective than anything on the market. We just didn't have enough data to say the FDA should approve it," said Thomas. "I voted 'no' because we need to make sure a safety study gets started early."
There were several potential safety issues raised at the meeting. Eighteen percent of patients taking Qnexa in the clinical trial dropped out because of adverse events, compared with just 9 percent of the patients getting a placebo.
Another flag: Patients receiving a high dose had increased heart rates, on average.
Dr. Lamont Weide, a panel member and the chief of endocrinology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical School, said the heart-rate finding was worrisome in light of Qnexa's likely widespread use if it were to be approved.
"When you expand this to millions of people, people who should not be taking the drug, will be taking it," Weide said. "If you accelerate heart rate in someone with risk for heart attack and arrhythmias, that's a potentially very dangerous thing."
Of the individual components, most of the discussion was focused on topiramate. In some studies, patients on topiramate performed worse on tests of the ability to think clearly. Other studies showed a significant increase in suicidal thoughts.
Thursday's vote is not Qnexa's last chance at approval. The vote is strictly a recommendation, although FDA officials usually accept the advice of their advisory panels. A spokesman for Vivus said the drug maker is disappointed with the vote but is close to completing a larger study that will satisfy the safety concerns. "We're confident about the ultimate approvability of this drug."
A final FDA decision is expected by October.
At the meeting, Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the advocacy group Public Citizen talked about a study, published in the journal Diabetes Care three years ago, that showed a high rate of neuropsychiatric effects for patients using topiramate for weight loss. The authors said they did not think the drug was appropriate for such patients.
"That should have been the end of it right there," Wolfe said Friday.
But Edelson, who says he's been using the combination since seeing it described at a conference a year and a half ago, was dismayed by the panel's recommendation.
"I understand they need to make sure they've done their due diligence, but at the same time we're facing a crisis here. We're facing an army of obese patients, and we're using a pop gun. We've got a water gun," he said in an exasperated voice. "Finally, we have a new age tool and they're holding it back from us. I just don't understand it."
In his experience, says Edelson, "There clearly are some side effects, but they're mild and easily manageable by an experienced physician."
Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist and CNNHealth's Diet & Nutrition expert, said she steers clear of medication for most of her patients, and that weight loss drugs pose special risks.
"These medications need to be taken long-term, so you have to be a little more conscious of the side effects," she said.
Weide agreed that the lack of long-term data was a major concern.
"I think physicians are coming to realize that obesity is a chronic disease. It's not like a sore throat, where you take your medicine and go off it. You're probably going to be on it for a long time," he said.
Weide said he was uncomfortable supporting approval, based on trials lasting just a year.
"You don't want to be in position later of 'Oh, I wish I would have known, I wouldn't have done this,'" Weide said.
Unclear is whether Thursday's vote signals a greater hesitation by the FDA to sign off on new anti-obesity drugs. Two others, Contrave and lorcaserin, are scheduled for hearings this year.
Contrave is another combination of older medications -- in this case, an antidepressant and an opioid antagonist, used in anti-addiction therapy. In theory, it could blunt the craving for food the way it blunts the hunger for heroin or alcohol in an addict.


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To follow up the Mosaic Movement Resources as promised, here's some articles, audio's and video's for you Rob Bell fans. I've been downloading all of their sermons since back in 2002, but again, to be on the safe side, all links here are just what's currently available on the web.
*Note, I only link to resources that are already available on the web and I don't have a practice of distributing or re-distributing any content.
Articles, Interviews, News, and Notes
Audio Resources
Video Resources
For those of you who aren't up to speed on Rob and Mars Hill, I'd say they're the Mac of the megachurch world. clean and simple. Rob Bell's an excellent communicator who does his homework, especially with contextualizing ancient Jewish culture. Their church is legend for exploding by word of mouth as Bell preached through Leviticus the first year.
Nooma video's have been the latest craze. People thought I was being silly for spending money on them a few years back. You can borrow them from me if you're in the area.
I'll try to keep this resource page up to date, let me know if there's anything worthwhile that I'm missing. Feel free to share this link on your sites/blogs.
Breaking News – Rob Bell resigns from Mars Hill – official release
One Reason? He's partnering with 'Lost' executive director to create a new tv series on ABC
Full transcript of Rob Bell's "Dear Mars Hill" Farewell letter
Rob Bell talk and Q&A at the Viper Room July 24th 2012
Official Rob Bell bio via Mars Hill Bible Church
Rob Bell re-emerges for a "2 Days" Private Event – Best notes I've found on the gathering
Rob Bell's upcoming book in 2013 – What We Talk About When We Talk About God
"Love Wins" Companion guide to be released Nov. 15th 2011
New Tour – Fit to Smash Ice begins in Toronto Nov. 10th
NY Times and Christianity Today on the Rob Bell 'Love Wins' controversy
Rob Bell CNN article on suffering
The Gospel Coalition questioning if Rob Bell is a universalist
Rob Bell's next book "Love Wins" & the sermon that inspired the title
Tony Jones drops that Rob Bell's next book in 2011 will tackle universalism
Rob Bell 2.0 where are the artists
On the dangers of video preaching
Interview – 'tying the clouds' on leadership journal
Awesome Sketch-notes from Drop Like Stars Tour
Rob Bell interview with United Reformed Church
Free kindle and b&n ebooks of Velvet Elvis for first 2 weeks of Feb 2010
Interview w/ Rob Bell on preaching & new media
Rob Bell interview at Youth Ministry on contradiction & communication
Drop like Stars Tour summary notes here and here.
CT magazine interviews Rob Bell on the Giant Story
Rob Bell live from NPC interview
Rob Bell interview by TearFund.org
Finally has his own domain name RobBell.com
Rob Bell's new book and tour "Drop like Stars"
Rob Bell profile in grand rapid press
Interview with Rob Bell on Read the Spirit
Rob Bell Q&A at Neue Magazine
Rob Bell on Politics 2008
Rob Bell on 7 Big Questions with McManus, Driscoll, and Warren
Transcript of Nooma 'open'
New community support site heartsupport.com from Mars Hill led by Rob Bell's brother Jon Bell and article
New interview on sex, god, and sex gods
(11/2007) interview with Bell via the Wittenburg Door
Rob Bell – The pastor's no square – in Time Magazine
Article of Rob Bell on nytimes and his tour
Article on the preaching revolution
Brian McLaren & Rob Bell – Zondervan Conversation transcript from 2005
Great summary article of when Rob Bell was interviewed at Mars Hill
Leadership Journal article on "What leaders can learn from Rob Bell"
Out of Ur article titled Heresy on Tour? 2007
Notes from The God's Aren't Angry Tour here, here and here.
Conversation with Rob Bell nov/2007
Rob Bell on preaching today – crafting a sermon
Wittenburg Door interview with Rob Bell Sept/2007
The Ooze interviews Rob Bell July 2007
Barnes & Noble interview with Rob Bell
Notes on the Eucharist from Rob Bell's talk at the Q Conference
Article on Volunteerism at Mars Hill
Ben Witherington reviews one of Rob Bell's talk
Notes from Sex God Q&A
Excellent resources thanks to aspiringindie
– 50 pages of notes from the "Isn't She Beautiful" pastor's conference
– Blog entry and 9 pages of notes on the Sex God tour
– Rob Bell's recommended reading list pdf & Newest reading list
Stats from the Calling all Peacemakers sermon series
Excellent notes from Isn't She Beautiful 2007 here.
Interview with Christianity Magazine UK Feb '07
Great wikipedia biography
Reviews on the Everything is Spiritual tour here, here, and here
Beliefnet interviews Rob Bell
Article on Christianity Today on mhbcmi
Preaching.org review of using Nooma
Past 12 weeks of teaching at Mars Hill here.
Some of the past message series are available for purchase here.
the MOTHERLOAD from the early years, 1999-2002 including Leviticus Series
Rob Bell's first message ever at Mars Hill back in 1999
If you dig through their online store you can actually find several messages for free including a series on Isaiah 61, Colossians Remixed, The New Exodus, and "Directions". The rest are a dollar a message and well worth it.
Rob Bell at Point Loma Nazarene University Chapel
Duke Divinity School 2010 Hickman Lecture Convocation
Rob Bell interview at Ohio Writer's talk 12/2009
Rob Bell interview on mission, community, & new forms of church
Past forty or so messages archived on Odeo
Additional archived messages
Rob Bell conversation at Greenbelt with Martin Wroe
Rob Bell Talks at North London Vineyard
Rob Bell on Love Wins Love Wins
Several chunks of Rob Bell interview at tearfund
Beautifully Angry mp3 by Rob Bell from EmergingConversation
Beautifully Angry
Rob Bell at Mosaiek Church – Flames of Heaven
Flames of Heaven
Rob Bell at Mosaiek Church – Barefoot and breathing
Barefoot and breathing
Healthy Grieving 2005 by Rob Bell
Healthy Grieving
A Revolutionary Christmas
Catalyst Interview with Rob Bell on Sabbath
Catalyst interview
Between the trees by Rob Bell
Between the trees
Sheep and goats and you and me
Sheep and goats and you and me
Rob Bell interview on episode ten of x3church.com podcast
Jesus Wept Jesus Wept
Audio Review of Velvet Elvis
Interview with Rob Bell
Another interview with Rob Bell
Communicating Christ in Contemporary Culture Parts 1,2, and 3
Suffering mp3
Having nothing and having everything
Transforming History – Rob Bell at Rock Harbour. Notes here.
Transforming History
Also here's a link to the entire Mastering the Art of Living series by Rob Bell. I'm not sure how long this one will be around for. I listened through it back in 2004 I believe and thought it was absolutely phenomenal.
Rob Bell & David Crowder have a Jam Session, another one here.
Rob Bell official Vimeo Video Channel
From structure to Spirit
Rob Bell Video message at PLNU Writer's Symposium – do itunesU search
Poets Prophets Preachers Video is now available for digital download
See below for a 12 minute video of excerpts from poets, prophets, preachers conference
Rob Bell comments on his brother's addiction at Heart Support
Rob Bell – Chairs – supporting 20liters.org
Video of Rob Bell on Haiti
Art of the Sermon almost ready
New film series coming out called Build your house on that coming out mid 2010
Rob Bell Nooma 23 – Corner
Rob Bell interviews shane hipps on technology
Rob Bell from difted on Vimeo.
Rob Bell endorsing TNIV translation
emerging/emergent church in America
Rob Bell at seeds of compassion forum with the Dalai Lama and archbishop desmond tutu
These video's below are all from Willow, links courtesy of Yuling
The Nazarite Vow
Between the Trees
We're over here
Jesus and Domitian
A Day of Atonement
Covered in the Dust of the Rabbi
Full video's from the Nooma series (I'm surprised it lasted this long, looks like some of the video's have been removed. Feel free to let me know if you find alternative links).
Matthew / and here
Clip from the Everything is Spiritual Tour, another clip by zondervan
Nooma – Name – full extended preview available at the NoomaAuction site
Full Nooma clips on Googlevideo/Youtube currently – Rain, Trees, Flame, Sunday, Noise, Kickball, Luggage, Dust, Bullhorn, Lump, Rhythm, Matthew, You
First 17 full-length Nooma's also viewable in high quality on Vimeo here
Rob Bell video on the book of revelations at WillowCreek
Rob Bell regarding SexGod on CNN
Five downloadable clips from Everything is Spiritual on iTunes
Rob Bell interview for the Evolving Church conference 2007
Clip from Sex God tour in Michigan
Video not of Rob Bell, but one of the "Way of the Master" guys in response to the Bullhorn Nooma.
Video by youthwork.co.uk did an excellent video interview with Rob Bell, asking tough questions on how the church really started, emergent labels, and not becoming Ted Haggard. Hosted by premier.tv here.
Love Wins – Official site of latest book and tour information
Classes and Groups offered at Mars Hill
Drop like Stars paperback now available and tour film for download
Rob Bell conference reclaiming the art of the sermon – Poets, prophets, preachers with Shane Hipps and Peter Rollins
Mars Hill bible Church
Complete audio inventory of every message since Mars Hill began in 1999-2006
Rob Bell Facebook fan page
Rob Bell on officially on twitter
Mars Hill sexual accountability community walkpure.org
Music at Mars Hill – Official site
Nooma clips and study guides – You can by the DVD's here
Mars Hill Narrative Theology Statement
Rob Bell's recommended reading resources
Just Start – Good Samaritan DVD with Shane Claiborne and Desmond Tutu
Rob Bell, Phillip Yancey, and Lee Strobel in The Big Ask DVD – Thanks Darren
Isn't she beautiful – seminar for leaders celebrating the local church January 2007
Velvet Elvis – First book / Some study guides
Sex God – Second book
Jesus wants to save Christians – third book / Site
Purchase the Everything is Spiritual DVD
Rob's tour on "Sex God" with a pdf of the 1st chapter! Thanks Lacey
Calling All Peacemakers European Tour
New Tour: The god's aren't angry in the U.S., DVD for purchase
xxxchurch visits Mars Hill for Porn Sunday
Official Nooma Myspace page
Nooma Auction site of tshirts from 'name' – including video
Ben Witherington reviews Nooma 1-5, 6-10, and 11-15
Rob Bell's band formed at Wheaton College – Ton Bundle (_Ton Bundle)
Rob Bell had a previous northern gospel / punk rock band called Big Fil
Listen to a single called Princess
– You can't really tweet the gospel


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Here's what's going to happen: In a few minutes, Shane Carruth will walk into this dauntingly cavernous auditorium, look out on nearly 1,300 people, and let go of a secret. It's a late-January afternoon in Park City, Utah, and Carruth is at the Sundance Film Festival to premiere Upstream Color, his second film. Few in Hollywood have seen it. Until a few months ago, barely anyone even knew it existed. Yet today's screening at the Eccles Theatre has been sold out for days, prompting forlorn fanboys to wander the theater's parking lot, hoping for a miracle ticket. Like the people already inside, they have no idea what Upstream is about. They just know they've been waiting for it for nearly a decade.
The last time Carruth brought a movie here, it was 2004's Primer, a mind-fogging, barely budgeted thriller that he wrote, directed, scored, produced, and starred in. It's about two garage-tinkering engineers who create a device that manipulates time. The machine they build is a ramshackle box, one that's both inscrutably complex and endearingly low-end, kind of like the movie itself. Carruth, a former engineer, crammed Primer with submerged plot points, tech-spackled dialog, and snakelike timelines, little of which make sense until the second viewing—or even the 10th. And because he shot it for a mere $7,000 in suburban Dallas, Primer lacks the garish CGI or carb-starved goon-hunks that make most modern sci-fi movies so depressingly juvenile. The awkward geniuses look real, and so does their invention. Carruth reclaimed sci-fi for the scientists, and even those who were baffled by the film couldn't wait to see what he'd do next.
And then he disappeared.
Months passed, then years, without a new movie. Carruth's single-entry IMDb page began to look less like the résumé of a promising upstart and more like the larky one-note legacy of a guy who'd left filmmaking for good. His disappearance made Primer's found-object oddness all the more pronounced: In the final scene of the film, Carruth's character signs off with an ominous voice recording, one that now seems almost comically on-the-nose. "You will not be contacted by me again," he says. "And if you look, you will not find me."
With Primer, Carruth reclaimed sci-fi for the scientists. Then he disappeared.
But last winter, seemingly out of nowhere, Carruth resurfaced with word of a new movie, sending film blogs and Twitter feeds into a holy-crapturous fit, the kind usually reserved for superhero sequels. Like Primer, Upstream Color was shot around Dallas in near secrecy, with Carruth again taking on most of the duties himself, serving as writer, director, composer, producer, costar, and main investor. (He won't disclose the budget, feeling that such talk unduly dominated discussions of Primer, but he allows that it was "pretty thrifty.") Carruth also announced plans to release the film to theaters himself, meaning that he'll control the marketing and rollout—and that he'll get to avoid the cavalcade of preening and promotion that most filmmakers must endure at Sundance. Until this afternoon, he's managed to keep the film pretty much to himself.
Which is why, in the days before the festival, he began hearing the rumors going around Hollywood agencies: that Upstream was three and a half hours long, with no scene lasting more than a second. Or that Upstream was actually two movies.
Carruth has a dry, almost recessed sense of humor, yet he sounds borderline giddy when discussing all this speculation. "Keeping stuff from people in this industry," he says, "is the most fun hobby in the world." Nine years ago, Carruth was primed to make the leap from insular, small-scale thrillers to conglomerate-backed mall-magnets, another Bryan Singer or Darren Aronofsky or Christopher Nolan. But he found himself on an alternative timeline, and he seems happier there. "There isn't a molecule of Hollywood that touched this," he says of Upstream. "I quit answering the phone from anybody in LA. I thought, 'I'm gonna use the tools that are right here. And then it'll be in the world, and people won't know where it came from.' "
A spaceship in the woods. This is what Shane Carruth sees one day, looking out the backseat of his parents' car. It's the mid-'80s, and Carruth—age 11—is being driven through the green-lined back roads of Alexandria, Virginia, his latest hometown. His father is an engineer, and the family goes wherever the work is, most recently bouncing between the suburbs of DC and Dallas. But because his father's latest job is with a government defense contractor, Shane isn't allowed to know what he does or even where he works. On this day, however, the trees open up to reveal two hulking white orbs in a distant field. They look like a pair of misplaced Epcots, and as the car passes by, Carruth notes a slight deviation in his parents' body language, an unfamiliar motion that tells him, this place means something. "So that's where you work, Dad?" he ventures. There's no response. The car keeps going. And now Carruth knows he's right. That brief, seemingly oblique exchange of information moves his father's story forward. Because that's all a story is, really: information. Flashes of data, some moving so fast they can barely be seen at all.
Carruth grew up in—among other places—Korea, South Dakota, and upstate New York. His father was an Air Force staff sergeant, and before settling in Texas, he and his three younger siblings spent years "changing homes, changing friends, needing to figure out our new environment," remembers his brother John. "We had to create our own entertainment." Carruth and his siblings would spend days hanging out in the woods or rooting around some local construction site, building dirt forts.
As he got older, he dove into his father's trove of gadgets, making stop-motion Star Trek movies with a cumbersome video recorder. Like most kids of the VHS era, Carruth was unknowingly enrolled in a sort of stay-at-home film school, a curriculum heavy on the Amblin canon—E.T., The Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark—not to mention sci-fi afternoon-killers like Time Bandits and Wrath of Khan. His mom eventually landed a job at a video store, and Carruth constantly begged her to bring home the 1985 sci-fi fantasy Explorers, about three kids who, using a home computer and a lot of junk shop hardware, secretly build a spaceship in the woods.
At school, Carruth excelled at math and science—his favorite subjects—but he was often bored. He was curious and contrarian, two qualities that can make adolescence even more torturous than usual. "He's always questioned authority, questioned ideas," John says. "We don't debate with Shane anymore, because he'll debate both sides—and win both."
Carruth eventually enrolled at Stephen F. Austin State University, earned a math degree, and embarked on a string of jobs, including a gig at Hughes Electronics, where he worked on flight simulation software. The money was good, but years later he's hard-pressed to recall the name of a single coworker from his engineering days. It's as if this part of his life never happened at all.
What he really wanted to do was make movies. For a while he worked nights and weekends on a novel, only to find that his writing style didn't lend itself to prose. "I wouldn't do internal monologs," he says. "I wouldn't write what was going on emotionally. And at some point I realized that if all you're writing is description of what's happening, you're actually writing screenplays."
But an early attempt at a script turned out terribly, and his first real job on a movie set, doing sound work for a local indie, proved unfulfilling. So Carruth stuck with the engineering jobs, never fully satisfied. "I was on the cusp," he says. "I was thinking, 'I've gotta pursue this. I've gotta figure out how to make a film.' "
He puts a hand to his head, feels around, and pulls back a finger covered with blood. The 29-year-old Carruth has just woken up in a hospital. He doesn't know how he got here. Later he'll remember driving home from an engineering job, then darkness, and then a voice telling him it's OK to go to the bathroom. Eventually he'll find out that one of his tires blew out, causing his car to flip over. But for now, all he knows is that there's blood on his hand and that this is very bad. He gets up to look in a mirror and sees a monster looking back—"like the Elephant Man," he'll later recall. He'd always wondered what would happen if he somehow became disabled or deformed, worried he'd be unable to handle it. But seeing himself now, the fear is gone. He realizes how quickly humans adjust to their situation, how easily we acclimate. While he convalesces, he watches movies—'70s paranoid classics like All the President's Men and The Conversation. They are films in which information is a weapon, something the characters—and the filmmakers—can withhold or deploy to their advantage. Inspired, Carruth begins writing a new script. It's called Primer.
Ten years after he finished Primer, Carruth is surprised that people still want to talk about it. He's 40 now, but he doesn't look too different than when he made his screen debut, with gifted cheekbones, subtly expansive eyes, and a lithe runner's physique. "I've always been anxious about Primer," he says. "There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws."
Primer's surface blemishes—the rough sound, the sometimes harsh lighting—are especially frustrating to Carruth, as he spent months planning out the shoot, hoping to minimize mistakes. "Filmmaking is problem-solving," says Casey Gooden, who produced Upstream and acted in Primer." And Shane's interested in the finest details." Carruth took still photos to use for storyboards and created diagrams explaining Primer's numerous spacetime complications.
Much of his preparations, though, simply consisted of him talking for hours on end with his costar, a former software company employee and substitute teacher named David Sullivan. Because of the movie's tight budget, Carruth decided to shoot only one take of each scene—a pragmatic decision, perhaps, but also a deeply crazy one. He and Sullivan drilled themselves on their parts, sometimes meeting at a local library to recite dialog. "Our acting couldn't be the problem," Sullivan says. "Because there were too many other things that could be the problem."
After shooting, the editing process devoured weeks, then months, and finally two whole years. Some members of the cast and crew lost contact with Carruth entirely. Finally, in January 2004, the movie screened at Sundance and quickly became the talk of the festival.
Part of Primer's appeal, oddly enough, is its sheer inscrutability. The film is thick with rapidly overlapping dialog, much of it delivered at a low murmur—Altman audio at Sorkin speed. Many of the story clues are small, almost subliminal: a sideways glance, a seemingly tossed-off line, a minuscule wardrobe change. Though only 77 minutes long, Primer is packed with so many details that you want to revisit it immediately.
"From a first viewing of Primer, you're inevitably confused, but you know that it makes sense," says Looper writer-director Rian Johnson, who turned to Carruth for help in developing some special effects (which ultimately proved too costly) for his own time-travel film. "It's that kind of dangerous fishing hook that can draw in a conspiracy theorist—the tantalizing notion that if you can put all the pieces together, this will add up to something."
Primer wound up winning a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, beating out such soon- to-be-huge movies as Garden State and Napoleon Dynamite. Everyone in Hollywood wanted to talk to Carruth. They all wanted to know what he'd do next.
From time to time he thinks about his religious upbringing. For a while, his parents belonged to a progressive, hippie-ish community called the Lord's Chapel. The congregants met in a high school gym or at potluck dinners, where they sometimes spoke in tongues. What bound them together was a belief that they could find new truths in ancient words. It's a universal need—to take something obscure, find patterns in it, and eventually unlock it. It's the same urge, he'll come to realize, that led us to invent narratives. To tell stories.
In the summer and fall of 2004, Carruth began traveling from Dallas to Hollywood. He took countless meetings with film people and at one point even developed an idea for a single-season TV drama. But after a while, he got the sense that no one really knew what to do with him."I don't think anybody looks at Primer and goes, 'That's the guy we have to get for Iron Man,' " he says.
"I get obsessed with little things and go down the pathway too far."
For a while, Carruth tried writing a romantic coming-of-age story set on the high seas. But soon he began mapping out something much bigger, an epic sci-fi story called A Topiary. It's a tale told in two parts: The opening section follows a city worker who becomes obsessed with a recurring starburst pattern he sees hidden everywhere around him, even in traffic grids. He eventually joins with other believers, forming a kaffeeklatsch-cult that's soon undone by greed and hubris.
The second half follows a group of 10 preteen boys who discover a strange machine that produces small funnels, which in turn can be used to build increasingly agile robotlike creatures. As their creations grow in power and size, the kids' friendships begin to splinter and they're forced to confront another group of creature-builders. The movie ends with a massive last-minute reveal, set deep in the cosmos, suggesting that everything we've just seen was directed by forces outside the characters' control.
A Topiary consumed Carruth. He wrote much of it in the Dallas suburbs, living off the money from Primer. "There's no way I could have done that if I had a wife or a family or health care," he says now. "There's a way to live that is incredibly thrifty."
While working on the script, Carruth used a 3-D computer program to design all the creatures himself. And since the movie would require hundreds of effects shots, he began visiting f/x houses to learn about their workflow and to see how he might create his own effects. He even built his own small-scale CGI system, renting cloud computers and writing code. "That's where I lose my time," he says. "I get obsessed with these little things. I think there's some novel way to find a solution, and I go down the pathway too far."
After Carruth finished a first draft of the script, he gave it to director Steven Soderbergh, a fan who had reached out to Carruth after he saw Primer. Soderbergh asked his friend David Fincher to serve as co-executive producer. With their names and their blessing, Carruth made a mock-up trailer for investors, one that incorporated some of his own effects work plus images from many of the Spielberg movies he watched growing up. With a budget in the low $20 millions, Carruth began meeting with possible backers, a process that ended up consuming yet another year.
"Nobody ever said no," Carruth says. "It was always enthusiasm and amazement and 'We can't wait for this!' Meanwhile, no money's sitting in the account." He kept lowering the budget, getting it down to about $14 million, but even that couldn't secure an investor. "If this were the '70s, people would be throwing money at him," Soderbergh says. "It's just a different time now."
Finally, Carruth realized that A Topiary was a problem he simply couldn't solve. Worried he'd be forever stuck in a loop of endless meetings and fruitless go-aheads, he walked away. "I decided that if nobody was gonna say no, I was gonna have to say no," he says. "It sort of just broke my heart."
It's been a few years since Primer debuted. It has taken this long, but they almost have it cracked. A sort of community has formed. People fill up message boards and YouTube videos and multipart critical exegeses with their thoughts on Primer, picking up on each abyssal clue, building on one another's discoveries. Carruth occasionally logs on to see what they've come up with, and he realizes: They're getting it. Maybe no single individual has put together the movie's puzzles, but together, as a group, they're getting close. They're finding the information and turning it into meaning.
On a gray afternoon in Park City, Carruth sits in the kitchen of the house he, his mother, and his siblings' families have rented for Sundance. There are rows of air-drying baby bottles on the counter, not far from a still-sealed case of scotch. Empty ski lifts squeak teasingly in the sky nearby, and several reliably raucous bars sit just a few blocks away.
Sundance is a wholly customizable experience. You can choose to spend the entire week in the dark, mainlining as many movies as possible, or you can get caught up in the brand-stamped promenade of party-hard horseshit that goes on downtown. Carruth has no time for the former and no patience for the latter. He rarely ventures far from this house, save for the occasional Upstream Color screening or press interview. With the exception of the casual get-togethers he throws here with his family, he doesn't go to a single Sundance party. "I'm not trying to foster some weird reputation of being a recluse," he says. "But some of that stuff, it's really not fun. I get spun up." He covers his face, his hands forming a pair of giant spiders. "I feel my face crinkling from trying to smile and look like a nice person, when all I wanna do is go to bed or read."
He took a similarly standoffish approach to creating the film. Carruth didn't make any announcement when he started working on his long-awaited Primer follow-up. Only a handful of people even knew he was making it. "He wanted to keep it as quiet as possible," costar Amy Seimetz says. "There's something really nice about being able to work and not have to answer any questions before you know what the movie is."
Though the movie gossip site CHUD eventually broke word of the project's existence—and one local newspaper in Plano, Texas, even tracked Carruth down on the set—few in Hollywood caught wind of it. It helped, of course, that a lot of people had stopped paying attention to him altogether.
Like Primer, Upstream Color is a tough film to synopsize. It's about a young woman named Kris (Seimetz) who's abducted from a bar, drugged with a worm-derived substance, and placed under a hypnotic spell by a methodical thief who forces her to empty her bank accounts. Her life ruined, she meets Jeff (played by Carruth), who has undergone a similar trauma. Eventually, they find their memories beginning to merge and their lives becoming tied to other organisms around them, including a herd of pigs.
Upstream is dense with information, though much of it is visual. Some scenes do indeed last just a few seconds, but there are also long, crucial passages with no dialog at all. It's beautifully baffling, a love story as fractured as its lovers, and one that takes several viewings to even begin to absorb. "I don't even try to describe it to people," Soderbergh says. "I go, 'You've just gotta see this thing, and then we'll talk after.' "
At the Eccles Theatre, right after the premiere of Upstream Color has concluded, Carruth takes the stage to a large swell of applause. It's hard to know what anyone will make of a movie that features pigs, worms, and a smidge of gunplay—even at Sundance, where a movie called Pigs, Worms, and a Smidge of Gunplay is likely playing down the street, waiting for a Fox Searchlight deal. But when the lights come up, there are only a handful of empty seats.
Many of the crowd's queries indicate an enthused confusion about the film, viewers gamely struggling to synthesize the movie's flashes of data into a story. Carruth does his best to talk them through it, bracketing his thickly worded responses with rapid-fire "um"s and earnest "wow"s. The last question, though, throws him. A woman wants him to clarify some of the made-up science that drives the story—but what she's really asking in a politely roundabout way is: What the hell did I just watch?
"So the plot didn't land," Carruth says. "Gotcha." He then goes into an explanation that, if transcribed here, would count as a spoiler, albeit a thoroughly incomprehensible one. It involves pig corrals and symbiotic experiences, and by the end, Carruth himself almost seems a bit tripped up. "Does that answer anything?" he asks in mock exhaustion.
A few hours later, at a downtown hotel bar, Carruth and some of the Upstream team sip whiskey and scroll through their iPhones, looking at the initial reviews. "The sum-up," Carruth says, "is 'I got it, but you're not gonna get it.' " (Over the next several days, the conventional wisdom will evolve from stunned praise to backlash-baiting mini-mania. A Time.com headline—"Did One of the Best Movies Ever Made Just Debut in Park City?"—aptly encapsulates the sense of bewildered awe.)
Carruth knows Upstream isn't some four-quadrant crowd-pleaser. But he needs it to be at least modestly successful, however one defines "modestly successful" for a low-budget, self-released indie movie nowadays. Carruth says he's ready to start another film—a darker take on the maritime romance he began almost a decade earlier—but only if he can once again finance it himself. "My ability to make another film is directly connected to whatever revenue this movie generates," he says. "It's not like, 'Maybe I can buy a house someday.' It's more like, 'I get to make this film exactly the way it needs to be.' " It is almost as if the movie already exists, as if Carruth's role is merely to discover it. Maybe it's what he's been working toward this entire time. Maybe he's just only now able to see it.
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Almost six years after six men were shot execution-style in a Surrey penthouse apartment, three of their accused killers are set to go to trial Monday.And for families of the victims — including two uninvolved bystanders — the wait for justice has been agonizing.
Steve Brown's brother-in-law Ed Schellenberg was fixing fireplaces in the Balmoral Tower on Oct. 19, 2007 when he was shot to death on the 15th floor.
"Ed went to work one day and never came home," Brown said in an interview this week, adding that he'll be in the courtroom Monday with family members for the start of the trial.
"My wish is that the evidence gets out there in the public realm," he said.
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Eileen Mohan's son Christopher was the other victim randomly grabbed and shot to death along with four young men involved in the drug trade.
Mohan has spoken out for years about her quest for justice for her 22-year-old son, who lived with her in an apartment across the hall from the person believed to have been the target of the gangland slaying.
Mohan has saved her holidays for five years so she can take the time from work to attend the trial.
"A lot of families don't have the opportunity to do what I'm going to do on Monday, which is go and represent my son in court," Mohan said. "I need to know what happened. I need to see each person who is accused in this horrible massacre that took my son's life."
Families of the other four victims — brothers Michael and Corey Lal, who were 26 and 21, respectively, Eddie Narong, 22, and Ryan Bartolomeo, 19 — have been less vocal publicly since the murders.
But they are also expected to be at B.C. Supreme Court Monday for the opening statement by Crown prosecutor Mark Levitz.
Samantha Hulme, who speaks for the attorney-general's criminal justice branch, said this week that the first of two Surrey Six trials is expected to last up to a year. The date for a second trial for accused killer James Kyle Bacon has not yet been set.
Cody Rae Haevischer, 29, Quang Vinh Thang (Michael) Le, 28, and Matthew James Johnston, also 29, are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder in connection with the slayings.
Le is facing a single count of murder for allegedly killing Corey Lal. Haevischer and Johnston face six counts of murder for each of the victims.
At the time of their arrest, police said the accused were members of the Red Scorpion gang and had a dispute with victim Corey Lal over drug trafficking territory.
All three have been in jail since their arrest in the spring of 2009. In fact, Haevischer is facing additional charges related to an alleged jailhouse assault on Oct. 22, 2010.
The Surrey Six case has been in months of pre-trial hearings before Justice Catherine Wedge, who is presiding over the judge-alone trial.
Wedge, who was appointed to the B.C. Supreme Court in April 2001, is a former union lawyer. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a law degree in 1980, after years of competing for Canada as an equestrian — including in the 1976 Olympics.
In addition to Levitz, prosecutors Catherine Murray, Geoffrey Baragar, Daniel Loucks, Matthew Stacey, Louise Kenworthy, Alex Henderson, Kathleen McIntosh and Heather Guinn have been working to prepare the case for trial, Hulme said.
On the defence side, Brock Martland and Michael Tammen are representing Johnston, Simon Buck and Alexander Willms have been retained by Haevischer, while Le is represented by Christopher Johnson, Shelley Sugarman and Andrew Nelson.
The Vancouver Sun will provide daily coverage of the trial, which could last up to a year. But there will be some restrictions due to publication bans that have been imposed. The Sun and other media outlets have challenged the bans during pre-trial hearings.
Mohan said she knows it will be tough sitting through months of graphic evidence and witness testimony.
She also said she has confidence in the judicial system and the case prosecutors have put together.
"The spirit of justice has to kick in in this case, especially when my innocent son's life was stolen right from the doorstep of his home," she said. "That for me is unacceptable. That is where you have to feel most secure and most safe."