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With the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, AKA Healthcare Exchange, insurance is available to all Americans, however those that do not sign up for health insurance will be penalized.
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With the Affordable Care Act penalties are assessed by the amount of months that a person is without health insurance. For instance, if you didn't have health insurance for three months out of twelve a prorated amount will be tacked on when you do your taxes.
How much will I be penalized for not purchasing health insurance after the Affordable Care Act is in effect?
There is a one-time penalty per year of $95 or 1% of your income in 2014, whichever is higher. For example if your individual income was $45,000, your penalty would be $450 for the year. There is also a penalty for each child that is not covered at $47.50 per child, for an out of pocket max for family at $285. To learn what your specific monthly premium under the Affordable Care Act would be call 800.930.7956.
If I am in between jobs will I have to pay a penalty for not having health insurance?
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Are there other ways to be exempt from paying for health insurance under ObamaCare?
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Next door to the old Sunrise Manor Nursing Home is a building that is still being used by Sunrise Manor. This building is the daycare center. Elderly persons stay there while their sons and daughters or guardians work in the daytime.
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Brentley Williams, the 17-month-old grandson of Randy and Janice Williams, and son of Micha and Harley Williams of Elizabethtown, was the winner of the 13-24 month baby contest at the Heartland Baby Contest on Aug. 23. He's held by his grandfather, Randy.
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The South Fork Mud Sharks won the eighth annual Mud Volleyball Tournament held Aug. 22 at Freeman Lake Park in Elizabethtown. The Sharks were undefeated in the 12-team tourney. Proceeds benefit Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana. From left, Tyler Howell, Tyler Hornback, Larry Howell, Kayla McDowell, Katie Hornback, Cody Howell, Bethany Akin and Kay Howell.
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Much of their business was via robberies of many Mendoza and Lorenzana cargoes traveling through Zacapa. Once considered one of the most powerful and violent families in Guatemala, the Leones have since gone underground. On March 25, 2008, Zeta gunmen killed 11 members of the Leon clan in Zacapa, including Juancho Leon (pictured), one of the group's leaders.
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You can't tell by looking at him, but 74-year-old Patrick Diener has only one lung. The former marathon runner and retired teacher had his right lung removed seven years ago as part of his aggressive treatment for lung cancer.
A non-smoker (he quit more than 50 years ago), Patrick noticed one day how thin he was, and asked his doctor for a chest X-ray.
"I trained for a lot of marathons and I never got that thin," he said. The X-ray showed a tumor "the size of an Irish potato," Patrick recalled. That quickly led to further tests and a referral to Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Thoracic Cancer Program. The Milwaukee resident was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in 2005. In addition to the tumor, the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in the center of his chest, but not beyond.
Patrick underwent carefully coordinated treatment including chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. His multidisciplinary team included Elizabeth Gore, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin radiation oncologist; Paul Ritch, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin medical oncologist; and Mario Gasparri, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin thoracic surgeon.
Before treatment, Patrick's prognosis looked challenging, Dr. Ritch said, and the tumor was too big to remove surgically: "We discussed his case at our multidisciplinary tumor board, and decided to be very aggressive to achieve the goal of getting him to surgery."
Patrick first received two cycles of chemotherapy alone over about seven weeks, followed by seven weeks of concurrent chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The plan was twofold: first, to kill any cancer cells present in the lymph nodes or elsewhere in his body, and second, to shrink the tumor to make it easier to remove surgically.
"He had the resilience to go through aggressive therapy, and he responded dramatically well," Dr. Ritch explained. The tumor shrank enough to make surgery possible, and Patrick's lymph nodes were clear of cancer, which was an important achievement.
"The hope is always to remove only a portion of the lung," Dr. Gasparri said. "We want to preserve as much lung as possible. At the same time, we have to take out as much lung as is needed to eradicate the tumor." Although the tumor was smaller after treatment, it was still large enough to warrant removing the entire lung.
Before deciding to remove a patient's lung, Dr. Gasparri explained, the team runs extensive tests to ensure the patient can tolerate it. "We want to make sure the patient can still be active, maybe a step slower, but still be able to participate," he said. "We select these patients very carefully."
Patrick's care was thoroughly coordinated from the beginning.
"Before radiation began, we understood Patrick might have his right lung removed," Dr. Gore said. "Therefore, we knew it was vitally important that we minimize delivery of radiation to the left lung. The multidisciplinary approach for him was critical, and it was important for all of us to be part of management decisions for his care prior to starting therapy. We all have an academic and clinical focus in lung cancer," she added. "This is vital for providing the highest level of carefully coordinated care for our patients."
Not every patient would have tolerated treatment like Patrick's. "There is a fair amount of controversy over how to treat patients with advanced lung cancer," Dr. Gasparri said. "We tend to be very aggressive with these patients. Some other centers might have been reluctant to follow this course, but we've had very good results."
While Patrick didn't participate in a clinical trial, Dr. Gore said, clinical trials offer important options for lung cancer patients. "Current trials are evaluating exactly his situation to see if we can improve the response rate prior to surgery with new drugs. It's important to give our patients those opportunities," she said.
While he can't run marathons anymore, Patrick stays active, going to the gym every day, gardening, and photographing Milwaukee's east side, where he lives. In fact, some of his pictures were recently displayed at St. John's Cathedral.
He's grateful for the care he received. "Everyone looked after me, and if I wanted something special, they'd go out of their way to get it. The best care was here," Patrick said.
"It's a remarkable outcome for an aggressive disease," Dr. Gasparri said. "Patrick was fit, and he was also very positive, with a strong support system. His outcome confirms that it's worth doing everything possible in treating patients facing similar challenges."
The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center offers comprehensive care in one location. Each specialized cancer program includes a complete team of physician experts who focus on a particular form of cancer or group of related cancers. For patients, the benefits are completely coordinated treatment and the most advanced care available. Learn more about our disease-specific cancer programs or to make an appointment, call 866-680-0505.
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I have just upgraded Ubuntu from 13.04 to 13.10. It seems iBus have been made big changes.Then I just go to system setting -> text entry settings -> add "Chinese pinyin" and "Japanese anty" input method. It works well when I input Chinese or Japanese in terminal or .txt file. But when I want to input Chinese and Japanese in Emacs. Even though I have enable ibus-mode in the buffer and change to Chinese pinyin or Japanese anty input method. It just output the English word.
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NEW CASTLE, Del. - The panel that sets Delaware's official revenue projections has offered a mixed bag in updating its financial forecast.
The Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council on Monday lowered projected revenues for the current fiscal year by $26.5 million, saying some $45 million in corporate income taxes will be collected in the fiscal year starting July 1, rather than this year. An overall drop of about $51 million in estimated corporate income tax was partially offset by an increase of almost $17 million in estimated personal income taxes.
For the coming fiscal year, DEFAC boosted revenue estimates by $37.6 million, reflecting the shift in collecting the $45 million in corporate income taxes. An $11.7 million increase in personal income taxes was offset by a $16.3 million drop in estimated bank franchise taxes.
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Being a designer I tend to think in a more abstract way than most people. But for me that is more satisfying. So when I was asked to do this reflection I instantly turned to the blogs that I follow to try and find an image that can express what I feel in regards to the reading. Many of the photographers that I follow are surrealist photographers which means their work centers more around the hyper natural state of things, the images have an other-worldly quality to them. I connect with that type of imagery more so than some paintings and abstract artwork.
What stood out to me in the reading this week was the question posed of "what does it mean to be the servant of the LORD?" That question became very personal when I applied that question to how I try to be a servant to God and others. For others it is easy because of their presence in my life physically, but for God it is a little bit different. After reflecting on that and looking through some photography I found an image that communicated what I thought about being a servant (See the image here). The image is of a man and woman carrying a cross through the water. The symbolism within the image is very powerful, the cross representing the life of Christ, his death and resurrection, and the water representing the baptismal qualities of Christ's life. Relating to me personally it communicates the need to be as "Christ-like" as possible to be his servant. Trying with his help to be the best representation possible, and by representing Christ we are sharing his story with others that we encounter and empower those around us.
I hope the image had a meaning for you and is a fun different perspective to see from!
Here's the thing about me: I am a planner. It's how I function and it's what I do, often to overwrought and borderline obsessive detail. During autumn quarter of my freshman year, I walked into my faculty advising appointment with all four years of college planned out -- down to what quarter I would take so-and-so class required for my major and fully aware of which courses were only offered every other year. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. We haven't even touched my extensive lists or penchant for color-coding information -- all done via cloud computing to easily sync multiple devices and provide cross-platform compatibility. Of course.
Why exactly am I disclosing this? Because I want you to be able to gauge what it means when I say this week's Lectio -- on subverted messianic expectations and plans going awry in God's upside-down kingdom -- resonates with me. With its many doubts and re-evaluations, I feel like this past year has been an exercise in ruined plans and unanticipated changes. Transitions like graduating can do that to you. This summer, in particular, was all sorts of unexpected.
For one, I moved around a lot. Over the span of four months, I finished out a lease, sub-letted, house sat, couch surfed, and then returned home. For another, I was still job hunting. Given that most of my fellow accounting majors had received job offers six or more months ago, I was rather frustrated. Working at my internship took up more space than intended, and many life-giving relationships weren't given space at all. So on and so forth. It wasn't a terrible or overly tumultuous situation, by any means, but it's certainly nothing I would have chosen for myself. I like steps falling neatly into place and, needless to say, post-graduation goals didn't involve such steps as living with my parents.
And yet -- this was the summer I needed. Oh, don't get me wrong; I resisted and resented being caught in suspension. But having my expectations broken was a slow revelation, a begrudging transition that led to its own remarkable transformation. Remarkable, really, because it basically happened in spite of me. Remarkable, yes, in that way deserts look like coarseness and desolation until you look again. (That's a lesson I keep learning -- always look again.)
Look again, and it turns out displacement can be a space for generosity. It's the strangest feeling to house-sit for people who manage, even in their absence, to extend the warmth and hospitality of their home. It's a wonderful and curious thing.
Look again, and y'know that whole job thing? There might be biases to confront and ways to re-imagine your context. For me, putting aspects like business networking (which I was inclined to decry as thinly veiled self-interest and disingenuous conversation) in terms of pastoral ministry (i.e., "What does it look like to minister and serve someone I've just met?") shifted my entire perspective. After all, networking involves meeting real people who have real qualities about them if you're willing to honestly engage.
Look again, and there's reason enough to be thankful for family. Car problems and a series of doctor appointments taught me -- as much as I fuss about being independent and having everything under control already, gosh -- young adults still need their parents. What ever the shape or scope of our (sometimes strained) relationship is, I am knit to my family.
When you don't get to choose for yourself, you are put in the incredibly humbling place of learning to receive. When I am stripped of my tools in desert exile, I cannot fashion the image I most like -- human plans with human forms and human beauty; I cannot twist my creative capacity to cast my own limited visions. (Or, at the very least, it's much more difficult to do so. I'm pretty good at mucking things up and finding ways to build a golden calf or two in the wilderness -- all the while thinking myself terribly resourceful for melting what gold rings and material I do have -- but that illusion gets thrown down rather quickly.) If I respond faithfully, it is posture of dependence. It's waiting like a baby bird to be fed, open need and all.
A friend once put it for me like this: sometimes God makes confetti out of our big plans for ourselves and uses it to celebrate God's greater design for the kingdom. On my part, I am learning how to not be a party-pooper when the time calls for it -- how to celebrate when the barrenness of the desert becomes a source of renewal, how to see divine glory when pagan kings are used as instruments for deliverance, how to rejoice when dead has come to life and what was loss has been found.]]>
The Center for Biblical and Theological Education
and the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University
The School of Theology Book Celebration
Featuring these recent publications from School of Theology faculty members:
Please join us for coffee and snacks, as well as a brief overview of each book. Those in attendance will receive a free copy of one of these books. Space is limited, so RSVP early in order to ensure your place and select a free book.
We hope you can join us for this special opportunity to celebrate theological scholarship geared for the life of the church!
Thursday, October 18
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Fine Center, First Free Methodist Church (adjacent to campus)
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Now that we are nearly two months from the construction and installation of "Paradigm Shift," there are several things that continue to surface in my mind as important ingredients to this installation. The first has to do with process. As our team went away for the summer, we had each read and re-read the book of Mark from beginning to end, multiple times to prepare for our conversations in the fall. During fall quarter, we met weekly and found points of overlap in our communal understanding of the narrative. What surprised me was not the sense of certain scriptural accounts standing out, but rather the themes that surfaced. One of those themes was how events were repeated, and the disciples still didn't get it. Moving by boat on the Sea of Galilee from one place to another, the wind and waves arise and the disciples fear for their lives as they wake Jesus. Jesus rebukes the storm and the disciples are amazed. (Chapter 5) Jesus says " Do you still have no faith?" In chapter 6, Jesus tells his disciples to take a boat and go ahead of him. Again, he walks on water and they are terrified when they see him in the storm. He got in the boat with them and the wind died down. Mark's account says "they were completely amazed." This repetition of similar events, including the feeding of 5,000 and 4,000 point to Jesus' sovereignty over normal reality, normal paradigms associated with the way things work. And the disciples lack clarity to see what is going on. So repetition became a theme that acted as a visual element to be included in the piece.
"Immediately" is used over and over again in Mark, and provides short-segmented glimpses in the narrative. This idea of glimpses became an element reflected in the way walls were lifted slightly (16") to allow viewers from the outside to get glimpses of others moving through the piece. There is an awareness of engagement from the outside, but one doesn't know what is being "engaged" unless they enter in themselves! Christianity from the outside is only as good as engaging what is "inside." Throughout Mark, the outsiders seem to be more perceptive than the insiders. Inside/Outside became an important ingredient.
There are two possible entrances. One is a triangular door, and many people have tentatively poked their head in to see what might be inside, then chose not to enter. (These are all metaphorical actions, by the way). The other opening is a small doorway with an angular top. (4'6") In fact, inside, there are two more short doors, requiring one to duck low to gain entrance. Through humility, one can enter the semi-circular space through this door to come into a confining space and move through two more humbling entrances. It is this humility that brings one into a tall semi-circular space that cannot be experienced or understood unless one enters in. By the time the viewer enters and leaves this space, they have changed direction, they have "repented." As a group, we saw this as the "Holy of Holies" space. After talking with a number of people who have experienced the piece from the inside, this tall space seems to have done it's job. People come in, look up, and often spend more time in this space. When Jesus breathed his last (Chapter 15:37) the next line says, " …the curtain of the temple was torn in two, top to bottom." (v.38). The sail that hangs down references this event, recorded in three of the four gospels. Immediately, across town, the curtain in the temple ripped from top to bottom, signaling a "Paradigm Shift."
Finally, the beam across the top connects the tall curved wall with the tall-slim leaning wall creating the triangular entrance. This beam acts as a continuum and serves as a support for the sail-curtain in the Holy of Holies. The Holy Spirit continues to guide, reveal, and enable each generation to see the larger reality that we attest to. Mark had the courage, foresight, and tenacity to put forth his collection of encounters with Christ, and led the way for the other gospels. Indeed, Mark is a "Paradigm Shift" for the early church and for us.]]>
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Going through Mark was the first step in beginning to conceptualize the art/theology installation. We were encouraged to look for and identify main themes that could serve as a foundation. While reading Mark, I couldn't help but notice the stupidity of the disciples. I didn't expect them to be geniuses, but their shortcomings and lack of understanding seemed to jump out at me as Mark gleefully highlighted their collective ignorance. Jesus had to regularly repeat himself and break down parables in further explanation for them. The man was even driven to anger because of them! Going through the gospel, I find myself thinking, "How dense can these guys be?" Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is right there beside them, in the flesh, traveling and performing miracles and yet they are unable to make clear connections. The twelve had, unfortunately, fallen under my unforgiving and severe eye of judgment.
Well, God is never one to give up on an opportunity to open my eyes to a bit of empathy and insight. Little did I know, while working on this installation, I would experience a very humbling change of heart toward the twelve chosen men of God. As much as I hate to admit it, over the nine days building the piece, I found myself in very similar situations as the "duh-ciples."
There I was, a visual communications major who had never built anything larger than a small box in her life, and I was expected to build 12 ft walls with intimidating power tools that could probably take my fingers off if I wasn't careful. I was a bundle of timid anxiety from the first day out. While building the piece, I often found myself unable to comprehend the big picture of what we were doing at the moment. Even though Professor Feldman would patiently explain it to me multiple times, I could feel the look of complete and utter incomprehension plastered to my face as he explained why we were doing what we were doing. Thankfully, the man is a saint and kindly waited as my brain tried to wrap itself around the foreign concept of curved wall blocking. After repeated experiences like this, I found it was easier to stop asking why. I realized it was difficult for me to visualize the pieces while they were still naked 2 x 4's and scattered bits of plywood. I found that if I was just obedient and patiently completed the task I was given, step by step, the walls slowly began to take shape and understanding began to dawn on me.
As we continued and became more familiar with the process, the work made more sense and was easier to grasp. Nevertheless, there would always be those times when we were asked to do something new and I would find myself completely lost without anything to hold on to except for the reassurance that Professor Feldman knew what he was doing. It was in the midst of this experience that I realized I was just like the disciples. I had thrown myself into a large project that I had no idea how to begin or where to start. I had no more skill of carpentry and architecture initially than the disciples had in public speaking and evangelizing. We were ordinary people thrown into situations beyond our comfort zones, but we were there because we wanted to be. We may not have understood everything that was going on, but we had a leader who knew what he was doing and whom we trusted in. Thus ended my brief reign as a superior being to the disciples. Now, I take comfort in having shared a similar fish-out-of-water situation. I feel that if the twelve and I were able to talk over a hot beverage, we could commiserate and bond over our common failings. Like the disciples, I may not always see and understand the big picture at first, but I try my best to remain obedient and keep the faith in the one to whom I have entrusted my life. As long as I take it step by step, it will be built.]]>
What has been your interaction with the art installation in Martin Square? Have you spent time looking at it? Have noticed other people walking through it? Have you wondered about its meaning or had conversations about it?
One of my favorite parts of Mark's gospel is the way Jesus' arrival on the scene of 1st century Palestine affects every person who encounters him and affects them differently. The presence of Jesus Christ in Mark prompts many paradigm-shifting encounters. I love the way Jesus loves outsiders who sometimes have the most poignant things to say about him and that Mark's account of Jesus feels chaotic but masterfully planned. For those who encounter Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, things are not what one would expect.
On the team that designed and built the installation, I am the only student who has never taken a formal art class. Art has a distinct way of intimidating me. Thus, it is understandable that I had a bit of a difficult time contributing to the artistic process. I avoided saying anything that might betray my artistic ignorance. Perhaps this is a feeling you resonate with—fearing that the meaning of the installation will be over your head. It is a feeling quite familiar in the Gospel of Mark.
From that intimidation, I focused my artistic experience on meaning. I now relate this experience to that of a parent. I helped create something that is from me but utterly independent from me. During the process, I wanted a clear concise meaning for the installation: a thesis statement to solve the question of meaning. But just as a mother prepares for the birth of her child with hopes and intentions for who that child will become, she cannot control every aspect of her child's becoming. Instead of tight fisted control, she must open-handedly embrace the mystery of her child becoming independent. I, like the mother, am learning that what I labored over for weeks has become its own entity where meaning cannot be dictated by the hopes and intentions of the artists but rather, new meaning is discovered with each new encounter. Even as one of the artists the layers of unintended meaning I have discovered since the completion of the installation surprises me.
The process of creating Paradigm-Shift has provoked a paradigm-shift within me just as Christ caused paradigm shifts within many who encounter him. I hope that you would risk engaging Paradigm-Shift with the Gospel of Mark in hand so that you might physically experience the way something can prompt a paradigm-shift that reverberates Christ.]]>
In our weekly discussions approaching the construction of "Paradigm Shift," the seven of us had many decisions to make about what sort of experience we wanted our audience to have, and importantly, what implications that experience would have about the book of Mark. One of the most significant decisions we discussed and made as a team centered on this question: "Do we want it to be a journey or a destination?" Did we want this reflective piece to have a destination, an obvious point of completion after which the viewer would turn around and leave? Or did we want a sense of journey, an ambiguity of whether the end had been reached and whether there even was one at all? We opted, unanimously and rather quickly, for the latter. In my reflections since the completion of the project, this aspect stands out to me and speaks to my life and faith loudly.
In the construction process, as I attempted to line up each block just right and get each screw in precisely the right spot, my perfectionist tendencies were quickly exposed. I love having an end in sight, a clear distinction of where I stand, a to-do list to check off. The past year I have been learning that what is sometimes most frustrating about life is also what makes it most beautiful– it is a journey. Maybe this is not something that everyone has to make him or herself consciously aware of, but I did. We enter in with our individual context and baggage, we walk through slowly, we speed up, we get lost in the crowd, we encounter, we grow, we heal, we move on, we look back, we learn. Sometimes we are unsure of where we are in the process or whether we are doing anything right at all. Christ is not someone we encounter only to check off our to-do list. In Mark we watch Jesus himself constantly moving from one place to the next, inspiring awe, faith and sometimes fear, but the people who encountered him weren't content with that. They entered into the journey.
"Paradigm Shift" provides me, personally, with a space that allows comfort and beauty in ambiguity. As I stood within the installation's enclosed semicircle, I heard two girls as they exited the piece and smiled:
"I think we went in the wrong way."
"Did we?"
"I don't know."]]>
Hopefully, those who are a part of the Seattle Pacific University community have had an opportunity to see and walk through the installation in Martin Square. Many of you might have asked yourself a simple question, "What is this thing?!"
I might reply to you, "This is an installation that was part of a group's reflection on the Gospel of Mark." But this answer doesn't necessarily give you any more information. Why? Because an answer to this question, "what is it?" is not simply a question about the installation, but also about art and about the Bible.
What is art? What are the Christian Scriptures? Do these questions have anything to do with one another? The relationship between art and Christian Scriptures depends somewhat on how you define Christian Scriptures. For many, Scripture is a veritable "answer book," an encyclopedia of living that points us to the answers of our daily and lifelong questions. If understood this way, art that is done in conversation with Scripture is simply material that expresses some underlying idea. Put differently, art is a riddle to be "figured out," deciphered so that we can get to the real meaning.
The group that designed and built this installation began with the book of Mark. We read through it several times over the summer, reflected upon specific parts, prayed diligently and gathered together in September to share the ideas, impressions and passages that we saw, felt, and read. What we discovered was not only a variety of similar themes, but also that these themes were understood in different ways. We grabbed onto hope in similar places, but for different reasons. It could be said that the "answers" we saw, put different questions to us that we then had to re-approach the text with.
In the process of talking and reflecting we came to find that the book of Mark was not a puzzle to be figured out, but a living thing that seemed difficult to pin down, that brought us into something, encountered us with someone. This idea of encountering is another way of thinking about what Scripture is. Scripture is, itself, something that arose out of a people's attempts to understand and share the significance of an event, of a person. In many ways, we could say that the gospel of Mark arises out of an encounter. While written after Jesus' death, the book attempts to make sense of his life, death and resurrection and re-encounter people with Jesus' life.
This process of narrating Jesus' life was not the singular task of one man, but a communal process of stitching together various stories, teachings, and accounts of this man's life in order to faithfully tell who Jesus was and what he means for the world. What our group came to find was that this communal process of discerning our encounter with the gospel of Mark was not much different. The patching together of observations, connections, impressions, and themes all served to create a space where Jesus and his work could begin to be discerned and lived within.
If Christian Scriptures are about proclaiming this encounter of God and the world, about giving voice to a community's discerning of what they saw in this particular man Christ, perhaps we can also begin to see the connections, in fact the necessity of art as we interpret the Word of God. In art, the visual (the aural too) work to encounter the viewer with beauty or pain, anguish or peace, or all of them together. Art confronts the viewer with something about the world and ultimately requires the viewer to ask something of themselves and their place in the world.
When we read Scripture we might come to find its truthfulness more profoundly when we stop seeking from it "answers" and become open to the encounter beckons us to. This truth of this installation (or Mark?) is not to be puzzled out or deciphered, but comes only when one sits with, looks upon, prays with, not once or twice, but returns again and again each time spotting new shadows, seeing new lines, listening for the shifts of sound. But even more its truthfulness comes when we are not satisfied with our perceptions or lines of vision, but offer them to one another and allow ourselves to be surprised in the process.]]>


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Does he remember....
Does he remember the first time you two DTD?
It came up the other night that FI doesn't remember the first time him and I DTD :( Neither do I but still stings...
Does he remember the first time you two DTD?
It came up the other night that FI doesn't remember the first time him and I DTD :( Neither do I but still stings...
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He does! I really made him work for it and he made me a special dinner before hand so it was kind of a big deal :)
Of course he does! I remember it like it was yesterday. Even reember what we were both wearing that night. Weird! It was almost 9 years ago :)
I wouldn't worry about it that much since you don't really remember either ;) Just make sure to give him a night he will never forget!!!
We both do. And so does our former roommate =-)
Altiel - LOL :D
DH and I both remember, it was very special.
lol....umm yes we both do since we were each others firsts. We were soo young and in 10th grade in high school. I also remember what we wore even though it was 4 years ago :)
I wouldn't let that bother you because he probably doesn't exactly remember because you two have replaced it with much better memories :)
yep he remembers. I made him wait quite a while for it and it was my first time so he was super gentle with me.
yeah, it was our wedding night. He remembers really well!lol! it has only been 80 days...
Yes he does actually! Which is actually really sweet considering the kind of guy he was back then.
Yep! But I made him wait for it and it was killing him. :)
He remembers!! We reconnected through facebook and spent 5 months talking/skyping everynight so when I finally flew down to see him...well it was pretty unforgetable. :P
DH does, but I don't at all. I was wasted after a frat party haha. Romantic, I know.
I read this the other day and asked FI if he remembered the first time and I was floored! He remembered more about it than I did!!
Yeah he does, it was when we first started getting serious.. he finished really fast and can't get over the embarrassment!!!
I dont think he does. Will ask and report back.
He definately does. Doesn't remember the anniversary of our first date, but remembers the date of that! It was memorable for both of us ;-)
All I know is it was the second night which was on a Sunday... he knows that too but I couldn't tell you the exact date


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For our money, we want Alvin Greene back in. Here's why:
Dana Milbank writes:
… [A] large number of patriotic Americans, mostly from states won by Mitt Romney last week, have petitioned the White House to let them secede. They should be careful about what they wish for. It would be excellent financial news for those of us left behind if Obama were to grant a number of the rebel states their wish "to withdraw from the United States … ."
Red states receive, on average, far more from the federal government in expenditures than they pay in taxes. The balance is the opposite in blue states. The secession petitions, therefore, give the opportunity to create what would be, in a fiscal sense, a far more perfect union.
Among those states with large numbers of petitioners asking out: Louisiana (more than 28,000 signatures at midday Tuesday), which gets about $1.45 in federal largess for every $1 it pays in taxes; Alabama (more than 20,000 signatures), which takes $1.71 for every $1 it puts in; South Carolina (26,000), which takes $1.38 for its dollar; and Missouri (22,000), which takes $1.29 for its dollar.
As Politico points out, whether or not the health reform law is able to operate as it was intended — and expand coverage to about 30 million previously uninsured Americans — largely depends on the extent that governors agree to cooperate in their states. But some Republican governors have already made it clear that they don't plan on playing nice during Obama's second term
Since the Republican takeover of the House in 2010, voting laws restricting access to the ballot began passing in states across the country. But until two months ago, they had received little national attention. Now, a federal judge has blocked Ohio's "right church, wrong poll" law that discounts provisional votes cast in the wrong precinct. In Florida, residents incorrectly removed from voter polls for being noncitizens have had their voting rights restored. And a federal court rejected Texas's voter ID law on Aug. 30. Series about voting rights, such as MSNBC's "Block the Vote" continuing segment, are now being aired during primetime TV news.
Behind the turnaround is a network of civil rights and advocacy groups, along with branches of the federal government, that have been battling these laws as they crop up. In Ohio, the Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party sued Republican Ohio Secretary of State John Husted alleging that the restriction on early voting violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Litigation by the Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization, spearheaded another Ohio suit that challenged the state law that provisional votes mistakenly cast in the wrong precinct could be discounted. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has led the charge against that state's voter ID law.
The Brennan Center has advocated for voting rights from Wisconsin to South Carolina.
The Department of Justice itself, along with other advocacy and civil rights groups, challenged Florida's so-called "voter purge," which removed thousands of eligible voters from the rolls in an attempt to crack down on noncitizens voting. The program was reversed on Wednesday.
A South Carolina lawmaker and the author of a voter ID law considered discriminatory by the Justice Department testified in federal court Tuesday that, while crafting the bill, he had responded favorably to a racist email in support of the measure.
State Rep. Alan Clemmons acknowledged his reaction in the second day of arguments before a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over whether the law violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The federal trial over South Carolina's voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator insisting his work on the law was aimed at fighting fraud and instilling public confidence in the election system.
During morning testimony, state Sen. George "Chip" Campsen III cited examples of fraud that he took into consideration while drafting early versions of South Carolina's law. These included vote buying, voter rolls indicating a woman who showed up at the polls had already voted, and press reports of voters being registered in both South Carolina and North Carolina.
But under questioning from Justice Department attorney Anna Baldwin, Campsen, a Republican, said the examples he gave did not involve the type of fraud that requiring photo identification would address.
"None of the examples you gave in your testimony involved incidents of impersonation?" Baldwin asked.
"Correct," Campsen answered. He also said he could not find cases of voter impersonation in South Carolina, but added that the state lacks the tools to root them out.
In South Carolina, a yearly income of $16,900 is too much for Medicaid for a family of three. In Florida, $11,000 a year is too much. In Mississippi, $8,200 a year is too much. In Louisiana and Texas, earning more than just $5,000 a year makes you ineligible for Medicaid.
Governors in those five states have said they'll reject the Medicaid expansion underpinning Obama's health law after the Supreme Court's decision gave states that option. Many of those hurt by the decision are working parents who are poor — but not poor enough — to qualify for Medicaid.
A federal judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit in which Nebraska and six other states tried to block part of the federal health care law that requires contraception coverage.
U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom of Lincoln dismissed the case Tuesday, saying the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the action challenging part of the Affordable Care Act.
|South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley • In a written statement, explaining her reasoning for slashing the budget of the state's rape crisis center budget. Crisis centers only help a small portion of residents, and distract from the state health department's goal of providing treatment to all residents of South Carolina according to Governor Haley. "Being raped is traumatic enough, but having to navigate that system, going to court by yourself, going to the hospital for a really intrusive and painful exam by yourself is horrific," counters South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault executive director Pam Jacobs, adding, "Unfortunately, that's the solution rape victims may be in if this veto is not overridden." source (via • follow)
The House Ethics Committee officially reopened Wednesday an ethics complaint that accuses South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley of illegally lobbying for two previous employers before she became governor.
Bartee, who is a retired U.S. Secret Service agent, is one of four candidates for Oconee County sheriff. He is accused of trying to arrange to have retired circuit Judge James C. Williams Jr. kidnapped.
Bartee is accused of trying to arrange the kidnapping after Williams filed an action asking for a judgment on whether Bartee was qualified to run for sheriff. The action also asked for an injunction against creating ballots with Bartee listed as a candidate.
Bartee was to compete in the June 12 Republican primary, along with current Oconee County Chief Deputy Terry Wilson and former sheriff's captains Donnie Fricks and Mike Crenshaw.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, appearing on The O'Reilly Factor is continuing to deny that the GOP is waging a war against women and their civil rights.
What are you meaning by "well," Haley?
Is it "well" that all of the drops of people in the labors force were women, or that 88 percent of jobs that went to anyone during the recession went to men?
Haley, in your own state, women are only paid 76 cents of every dollar that a man makes, and only own 28% of businesses, even though women make up over half of the state's population!
Nikki Haley, if this is what you mean by women doing "well," I would hate to see what it means when women are "struggling."
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Two well-placed legal experts have independently told Palmetto Public Record they expect the U.S. Department of Justice to issue an indictment against South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on charges of tax fraud as early as this week.
A highly ranked federal official has also privately confirmed rumblings of an investigation and possible indictment of the governor, though the official was not aware of the specific timeframe.
Yesterday, Palmetto Public Record exclusively reported that the Internal Revenue Service has been investigating since March of 2011 the Sikh worship center run by Gov. Haley's father. At least five lawsuits have been filed against the Sikh Society of South Carolina since 2010, alleging that the group bilked contractors out of nearly $130,000 for the construction of a new temple.
Gov. Haley is reported to have managed the temple's finances as late as 2003, and our sources believe any indictment would center on what happened to the missing money.
Nikki Haley and the Temple Loan: Where did the money go?
But if and when the indictment comes down, what will it say? The investigation began with the Internal Revenue Service looking into evidence that the Sikh temple run by Gov. Haley's father violated its tax-exempt status by supporting Haley's bid for governor, but that's not a criminal offense. So what did the IRS investigation turn up that got the Justice Department involved?
In 2009, the Sikh Society of South Carolina took out a $750,000 loan from BB&T Bank with the help of bank president Mike Brenan. The purpose of the loan was to build a new temple on the Sikh Society's land in Chapin, but for some reason the contractors never got paid. At least five lawsuits have been filed against the Sikh Society since 2010, alleging that the group bilked contractors out of nearly $130,000.
Meanwhile, the new temple sits half-complete off Broad River Road as weeds take over the abandoned construction site. In order to recoup their money, the contractors have asked a judge to foreclose on the temple and sell the land, leaving the Sikh Society without a place to worship.
So what happened to the money? Did it "disappear" into the Randhawa family's million-dollar waterfront home on Lake Murray, or (as our sources have speculated) did some of it go into the governor's campaign account? Whatever happened to the money, we do know what happened to Brenan: Gov. Nikki Haley appointed him to the state Board of Education.
With creditors closing in, the Sikh Society began asking its worshipers and other members of the community to donate money — ostensibly to finish building the temple, but in reality to pay off the society's mass of outstanding debts. Donors are asked to mail checks directly to the Randhawas' house, even though Gov. Haley's father isn't the society's registered agent.


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