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I know everyone has been sharing their flood stories already. And I love this!
Sharing stories motivates us all to love and good deeds.
However, I am aware that your time is valuable and spread between relief efforts and other obligations. So here's a quick story of how God's people are making a difference in my life during all of this.
My youngest sister's family's house flooded. In the wake of the flood, at least 5 local churches have touched down personally in the lives of my family.
First Baptist Sterlington
First West Fairbanks
Gateway Assembly
New Life Community Church
While 2 have delivered care packages and clean up kits, the other 3 have provided manpower. These are just the folks I could keep tabs on; there are some workers who have come and gone that I never got to officially meet. I'm sure there were more involved and I apologize if I have left anyone out.
Word In Action
I recently wrote a paper, "How Theology Impacts Ministry" using the example of Acts 6:1-6 as the primary source.
I witnessed my neighborhood, in community together, on mission, living this out, in the past week.
It's amazing to look at the similarities in these two stories!
1. Conflict Resolution
In the story in Acts, the apostles are forced to make a decision due to a complaint about neglect.
In Sterlington now, the church is awakened due to a natural disaster that caught everyone by surprise.
The local Church has never been so united and living out their true calling since I've been here. This is not meant as an indictment at all, but as praise.
"The church is being the church." And they're really proving that statement, which has almost become a cliché, should and can be reclaimed.
2. Exemplary Teamwork
Sunday after worship gatherings, people were flooding into the house helping us tear out sheetrock.
You would think these guys were professional crews.
It's not just that they had skills; they worked together amazingly.
We would have never completed the amount that was completed in an evening with the 3 people we had.
At one point, my brother stopped to watch their workflow just to analyze and adopt some of their effectiveness.
3. Service Coordination
Between meals, tools, and equipment neighbors are calling, contacting, and showing up without pause or hesitation.
Even when the flood first hit, I was riding with a pastor to drop off a shop vac. When we made it there, a house full of people were already helping.
As I spent the day with this man; I watched as he was getting phone calls and text messages literally every 2 minutes. It was almost always someone asking how they could help.
His response was proximity based.
"Help those right in front of you and closest to you; that's the best thing you can do right now."
4. Prepared and Mobilized
As good as these examples may be, pastors delivering loads of "flood buckets", shelters housed in church building, care packages delivered by church staffs, meals and hospitality for workers and so on, it is the mobility of the "lay people" that blows me away.
I don't mean to take away from church leadership by pointing to this. In fact, I think it goes to credit them in the long run.
These people all have an urgency about them that says they have help that others need and they want to deliver.
And deliver they are. Even today, while my brother-in-law and I are at work, a crew from another church is coming to do heavy lifting. They are rolling up wet flooring to stop the damage.
5. Selfless Family
In all of this, I've seen people who were once strangers hugging.
They recognize each other as family.
I hope I've not been so consumed in my little circle that I've not been able to be the kind of family that all of these have been us to us. God forgive me.
As quickly as these waters rose, the Church is leading the way in bringing relief.
And seriously, that fast! In some cases, while the water was and is still rising; they are out fighting it with each other.
Thank God for these examples! The town of Sterlington has been functioning largely on of the volunteer base of the church and the impact has been critical.
In all of this, JESUS is exalted!


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Fishing is like raising children: both require patience, physical and emotional endurance, and a pocket full of worms to entice cooperation. Catch your next meal with today's Groupon: for $375, you get a four-day, five-night fishing trip at Rough Rock Lodge in Minaki (a $750 value). Choose between two date ranges:
- May 21–31
- July 9–August 20
Rough Rock Lodge transports anglers from civilization to a secluded, wind-protected bay in the heart of Ontario's Sunset Country, where fishermen pursue the "grand slam" of walleye, northern pike, muskie, and smallmouth bass as well as yellow perch and black crappie in the surroundings of the Canadian wilderness. The four-day, five-night fishing trip bunks freshwater Ahabs in cabin accommodations with a housekeeping plan, meaning they are responsible for bringing or catching their own food and finding the resolve to not hit snooze more than three times.
Amenities include wireless Internet access, 24-hour electricity and heat including hot water, bed and bath linens, and cooking equipment such as dishes, utensils, pots and pans, and a stove. Pole-wielding pilgrims also get use of Rough Rock's new 17' Misty River boats, outfitted with 40-horsepower Honda four-stroke engines (gas and oil provided), bow-mounted trolling motors, depth finders, three pedestal swivel seats, live wells and bait wells, life jackets, and landing nets to put on the head of whoever gets the most snags. Prime fishing spots range from bays and weed lines to rock piles and mid-lake reefs, all within 5–10 minutes by boat. Rough Rock adheres to a catch and release policy—fishermen may harvest catches within the legal limit for shoreline lunches or enticing the local wildlife into wrestling matches, but they must photograph and release all trophies.
Rough Rock Lodge is boat-in lodge located on Rough Rock Lake, 45 miles north of Kenora on the Winnipeg River System. Buyers of this Groupon will have to arrange travel by car, plane, or all-terrain segway to the designated pick-up spot, where Rough Rock's lodge will transport travellers the rest of the way by boat. Travellers must bring their own fishing equipment but can acquire fishing licenses on-site as well as supplemental equipment at the tackle shop, including those plastic fish that sing upbeat tunes. Add meal plans (breakfast $15/day, dinner $40/day) and guide service ($200/day).
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Expiration varies. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person, may buy 2 additional as gifts. Limit 1 per visit. Valid only for option purchased. Reservation required; subject to availability. Must sign waiver. Must provide own rods, tackle and supplies. Must provide own transportation to pickup/drop off points. Extra fee for meals. Advance reservation required for meals. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
About Rough Rock Canada Fishing Lodge
Miles of towering evergreens surround the campgrounds of Rough Rock Canada Fishing Lodge, where rustic cabins look out onto the waters of the Winnipeg River System. In the calm, secluded bay, guides help guests track down and pose with trophy-sized northern pike, walleye, and muskie. Both before and after a day of fishing or wildlife watching, chefs at the resort prepare meals in the main lodge, including hearty breakfasts and dinners such as cornish hen or sirloin steak. After dining on house-made specialties, guests can retreat to rustic cabins equipped with modern amenities such as WiFi Internet and laser-guided throw pillows.


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Mr. Lorean Frederick Seymour, 96, went to his heavenly home on March 20, 2015. A native of Greene County, he was born October 2, 1918, the son of Lum Chadwick and Lena Turnage Seymour. Fred served in the US Army and subsequently the United States Air Force spanning a career of more than twenty years. After retiring from the US Air Force, he assumed a position with the State of North Carolina where he was a Geodetic Surveyor. Fred was a member of Hull Road Original Free Will Baptist Church in the Arba Community and served as Church Clerk for many years.
In addition to his parents, Fred was preceded in death by his wife, Kathryn Jones Askew Seymour; brothers, Willie Edward Seymour and Raymond Seymour; and sisters, Elvyn Dot Seymour and Lily Jean Seymour West.
His surviving family includes his children, Lona Seymour Sharp of Pennsylvania, Delores Askew Jones and husband, Ed, of Darlington, South Carolina, and Gary Askew and wife, Angie of LaGrange; grandchildren, Robert Sharp and wife, Angela of Pennsylvania, Joseph Sharp and wife, Jen of Pennsylvania, Reynolds Askew and wife, Sherry of Kinston, Shannon Askew Sowers and husband, Michael of LaGrange, Roscoe Askew and wife, Keri of Snow Hill, Julie J. Beasley and husband, Wes of Florence, South Carolina, and Kristen Jones of Darlington, South Carolina; great-grandchildren, Madison, Mikala Lorean, Joshua, Nora, Cody, Steele, Daniel, and Ethan; sisters, Jewell Seymour Harris of Huntersville and Violet Seymour Boyd of Greensboro; brothers, Leonard Seymour and wife, Becky (Sue) of Kinston and Ben Seymour and wife, Ruth of Raleigh; and sister-in-law, Grace A. Seymour of Snow Hill.
Graveside Services with Military Honors will be held 2 PM Tuesday, March 24, at the Snow Hill Cemetery with Reverend Leon Grubbs officiating.
The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the graveside and other times at the home of Gary and Angie Askew. Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to Hull Road OFWB Church, 3984 Hull Road, Snow Hill, NC 28580. Online condolences may be made at www.taylor-tyson.com


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Looks like the ground floor is not that much damaged. They could possibly clean up the first (ground) floor while tearing down the second floor where it seems most damage was done to. Possibly in 2-3 months the first floor could be operational again.
Not a chance, their best bet is to start from scratch. They own the entire block and this is the opportunity to go big with a nice and modern structure lay out.
The entire block, and then some. They had just taken over the side street leading into Calle Sanchez, and constructed two more enclosed parking areas. One being the lot used for motos and pasolas, as well as the space/building across from there.
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Larriberau, our Napoleonic farmhouse, is situated in its own land with majestic 400 year old oaks providing natural shade, private ALARMED12m x 6m pool, reached through a LOCKED gate and FENCE, and stunning views in every direction. The house has been lovingly restored , retaining all its French charm and romanticism, beams and large fireplaces, whilst, at the same time, providing all modern comforts. The house sleeps up to 12 plus babies.
Larriberau is in the department of the Gers, in the old region of Gascony., South West France. Auch, the capital of this area is 20 minutes away, the Pyrenees one hour.
Larriberau is situated on an escarpment with magnificent views in every direction. The Pyrenees-just 50 miles away, are a tantalisingly beautiful sight. Surrounded by tranquil rolling countryside, the village is 4 kilometres away, with alimentation and excellent restaurant. Bakery at 5 minutes.2 market towns 12 minutes. Great food, excellent wine.
Round and About.: There is plenty to see and do locally. Auch, a lovely old city and the capital of Gascony, is a mere twenty minutes away, and is reputedly the home of the Three Musketeers. All around are beautiful Bastides including Bassouses, Larresengle. and Fources. Nearby at Seissan and Marciac are activity lakes. At Vic Fezensac you will find bull fighting. Thermal baths at Lectoure and Castera Verduzan. At Lectoure can be found Bleu de Lectoure who have re-started the art of dyeing with blue pastel.
Village fetes can be found most weekends, and a world renowned jazz festival at Marciac in August.
The Pyrenees, 50 miles away, offer all outdoor pursuits, such as paragliding, rafting canoing. salmon fishing
Several golf courses nearby.
Other Information: Toulouse and Pau airports are 90 minutes equidistant from the house. Please contact the owner if you would like any travel hints. Full information booklet on local activities and restaurants.
1st to 8th September 2018 DISCOUNTED from £1850 to
We bought Larriberau "en ruines"-no water, no electricity!! in 1989 .We now have an idyllic house in a wonderful position, which many people return to.We visit at least four times a year, and still find it magical.
Please see our website: www.gasconysummers.com
Nony Buchanan purchased this farmhouse in 1989
A good reason to holiday at Larriberau is that we love it ourselves, and take great pleasure in others who choose to have their holiday in our second home, having a happy comfortable stay, in the knowledge that if they have any problems at all, we will do our very best to rectify these as quickly as possible, so that the enjoyment of the stay can continue unabated.
Outstanding position , sitting high, in amazing countryside, , with MAGICAL views of the Pyrenees when they are out.
You have a really beautiful house and it's perfect for Sauveterre parents..Terrific weekend., thank you
If you are interested in being in a place that is not a "destination", but is truly french, try Gascony. We did not hear a word of unsolicited English for 10 days.
Nony and Hugh have taken an old set of buildings and turned them into a magnificent getaway. We comfortably had up to 11 people on the property. Our outdoor feasting on the local meats, cheeses and produce will never be forgotten.. Nor were the two evenings we ate indoors at the huge dining table. No one who stayed wanted to leave - the place is that charming and comfortable. The grounds are perfect, with sweeping views of the most quiet countryside I have ever visited. The pool was in perfect shape. I felt compelled to water the plants every other day because they deserved it! You might find a cricket or two in the house, but if that is not your style there is always Disney World. (Go here)
This is a very special home, set in the wonderful rolling hills and farmland of the Gers. The property is very well equipped and is a real home from home. Plenty of crockery and cooking utensils, as well as kitchen and laundry essentials, which one often doesn't find in holiday rentals. The beds are really comfortable, with good quality linen. The new shower room is a welcome addition, there is good water pressure and plenty of hot water. The pool is massive and is cleaned once a week. The owner and cleaning ladies could not have been kinder or more helpful and there is plenty of information on things to do and places to eat, which is what we did most of all. Places we recommend as 'must see/do:- Samatan Monday market, the biggest and best in the Gers; Domaine de Bile, (the FlocFarm), producer of an apperitif peculiar to the region. The owner speaks good English, so try a guided tour followed by a tasting of Floc and Armagnac; Mirande is a pretty market town as are any of the bastidee villages; Les Routiers in Masseube for simple good quality low cost French food and wine; Le Papillon in Auch is more formal but the food is excellent; the Patisserie La Tropezienne on the road into Auch has spectacular gateaux and pastries; many of the towns and villages hold festivals at the weekend where you can taste local produce and eat a set meal in the town square -Jegun was particularly good. If you love France, or are new to the country,this property and the region is all you will need.
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect base to explore the Gers. The beautifully-appointed home offered spacious bedrooms, comfortable public rooms -- equipped with modern conveniences -- fabulous pool, and lovely gardens. Nony was an exceptional host; always quick to reply to our communications. She provided extensive and invaluable recommendations for activities and restaurants nearby. We highly recommend this property!
We had the most fantastic stay at this amazing house, we have already booked to go back! The house is beautifully furnished and has all you would need. There is so much space and the kitchen is very well equipped. The house was so clean and the pool was amazing. We had lots of outside space for games such as 'tip and run' and French Cricket! We also managed to find a local tennis court in Labejan which had the most incredible panoramic views and was free to use (they gave us the key for the time we had left there). The games barn was brilliant, we had so many games of table tennis, table football and darts.
I can't wait to be back!
Wonderful villa- with plenty of room for 8 of us. There was lots to amuse us- with the bookshelves of books, cupboards full of games, the games room (with table tennis and table football), swimming pool and the incredible countryside all around us. Amazing to each have our own bathroom. The decor is wonderful- with loads of homely touches, making you feel instantly relaxed. Near to local towns with weekly markets which was wonderful to do our food shopping at and then come home to barbecued french feasts. Views are incredible with snow capped pyrennes in the distance. Lovely place for relaxing, exploring, walking, shopping and spending time in a luxurious, clean house. Perfect for a group holiday.
Nous avons passé un séjour exceptionnel de calme avec toute notre famille dans cette maison où tout est pensé pour le bien etre de chacun. Un point à revoir cependant : toutes les notices concernant la maison sont en anglais.....nous avons eu beaucoup de mal !! de plus étant français nous avons dù faire le change des livres en euros, ce qui nous a couté plus de 100 euros....regrettable !!!! Ceci n'enlève rien à la qualité de notre séjour ! Merci !
Larriberau is situated amidst magical rolling countryside with far reaching views and sunflowers! and at the very heart of the Gers in Gascony. The house sits on an escarpment with magnificent views on all sides, outside a small hamlet of three houses.To the South, on a clear day, the Pyrenees-just 50 miles away-are a tantalisingly beautiful sight. The views are truly spectacular,and the sunsets romantic. Amidst such restful country, there's wildlife of all descriptions. But despite the peace, it is not remote. This is the France we all dream of. Peace, quiet roads, the sound of silence. And then good food, and a glass of wine. The excellent vineyards of Madiran and Buzet are not far away, and there is always a good restaurant within easy reach!
Golf: South West France, with its undulating countryside is well endowed with golf courses.
Golf d'Embats is the excellent 18 hole golf course at Auch, the Capital of Gascony, and is a short distance away from Larriberau. Green fees average 35 Euros. There is also a very good retsaurant.
The Golf de Pallane, now an 18 hole course, is built around the grounds of the Chateau at Tillac. Again, you will find an excellent restaurant.
Less demanding are the smaller 9 hole courses at Masseube and Lannemezan.
All these courses are within a short distance of Larriberau.
There is plenty of variety and the courses tend not to be crowded.
Further afield there is an excellent course at Eauze, Golf de Guinlet, and a further course near Toulouse.
There is plenty of variety and the courses tend not to be crowded
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This website is confusing!! It works on "nights" ,ie: Saturday 6th June to Saturday 13th June, would APPEAR to mean you leave on Friday 12th June. You leave on the 13th!!
The house is generally available from Saturday to Saturday, but the house is also available on different days of the week, and very often for less amount of time than those stated.
See our website: www.gasconyrentals.co.uk


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Lvtutorial webblog was launched November 11th, 2015, this weblog are mainly focus on information technology, the basic programming skills, using the new framework that is the most popular nowadays.
The main purpose of webblog is to share information about programming that founder knows and want to share. Lvtutorial will focus on step by step way to learn programming for beginners, and note the experiences, the problems and the solution that we have ever done and experienced.
Currently, lvtutorial will focus on two framework and some experiences :
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Also on this website:
Toby Johnson's books:
GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness
GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe
MATTER: updated, revised & expanded edition from Lethe Press
with Afterword by Mark Jordan
THE FOURTH QUILL, a
novel about attitudinal healing and the problem of evil
CHARMED LIVES: Spinning Straw into Gold: Reclaiming Our Queer Spirituality Through Story
Books on Gay Spirituality:
White Crane Gay Spirituality Series
and Excerpts:
Toby's review of Samuel Avery's The
Dimensional Structure of
Funny Coincidence: "Aliens Settle in San Francisco"
Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate
Why gay people should NOT Marry
What's ironic
A Bifurcation of Gay Spirituality
Q&A about Jungian ideas in gay consciousness
What Jesus said about Gay Rights
Common Experiences Unique to Gay Men
Is there a "uniquely gay perspective"?
The Reincarnation of Edward Carpenter
Interview on the Nature of Homosexuality
What the Bible Says about
Mesosexual Ideal for Straight Men
of Gay Liberation Activity
Why Gay Spirituality: Spirituality
as Artistic Medium
Easton Mountain Retreat Center
Andrew Harvey & Spiritual ActivismThe Gay Spirituality Summit in May 2004 and the "Statement of Spirituality"
"It's Always About You"
Joseph Campbell's description of AvalokiteshvaraYou're Not A Wave
What is Enlightenment?
What is reincarnation?
How many lifetimes in an ego?
Emptiness & Religious Ideas
Experiencing experiencing experiencing
Going into the Light
Meditations for a Funeral
Meditation Practice
The way to get to heaven
Buddha's father was right
Advice to Travelers to India & Nepal
The Danda Nata & goddess Kalika
Nate Berkus is a bodhisattva
John Boswell was Immanuel Kant
The Two Loves
The Joseph Campbell Connection
Campbell & The Pre/Trans Fallacy
Gay Spiritual Functions
The Sinfulness of Homosexuality
for a study of gay nondualism
"The Evolution of Gay Identity"
"St. John of the
Cross &
Religious Articulations of the
The Moulting of the Holy Ghost
The Hero's Journey as archetype
Marian Doctrines:
Immaculate Conception & Assumption
Prostitution and the Nature of Evil
Hu: "God is present here"
The Life is in the Blood
The mystical experience at the Servites' Castle in Riverside
Great Dance according to C.S.Lewis
The Techniques Of The World Saviors
Part 1: Brer Rabbit and the
How Gay
Souls Get Reincarnated
In honor of Sir Arthur C Clarke
What are you looking for in a gay science fiction novel?
Toby's friend
and nicknamesake Toby Marotta.
Harry Hay, Founder of the gay movement
About Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first
man to really "come out"
Michael Talbot, gay mystic
Book Reviews
Be Done on Earth by Howard E. Cook
Pay Me What I'm Worth by Souldancer
The Way Out by Christopher L Nutter
The Gay Disciple by John Henson
Art That Dares by Kittredge Cherry
Coming Out, Coming Home by Kennth A. Burr
Extinguishing the Light by B. Alan Bourgeois
Over Coffee: A conversation For Gay Partnership & Conservative Faith by D.a. Thompson
Dark Knowledge by Kenneth Low
Janet Planet by Eleanor Lerman
The Kairos by Paul E. Hartman
Wrestling with Jesus by D.K.Maylor
Kali Rising by Rudolph Ballentine
The Missing Myth by Gilles Herrada
The Secret of the Second Coming by Howard E. Cook
The Scar Letters: A Novel by Richard Alther
The Future is Queer by Labonte & Schimel
Missing Mary by Charlene Spretnak
Gay Spirituality 101 by Joe Perez
Cut Hand: A Nineteeth Century Love Story on the American Frontier by Mark Wildyr
Radiomen by Eleanor Lerman
Nights at Rizzoli by Felice Picano
The Key to Unlocking the Closet Door by Chelsea Griffo
The Door of the Heart by Diana Finfrock Farrar
Occam's Razor by David Duncan
Grace and Demion by Mel White
Gay Men and The New Way Forward by Raymond L. Rigoglioso
The Dimensional Stucture of Consciousness by Samuel Avery
The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love by Perry Brass
During the fascination with "Eastern religions" in the 60s and early 70s, our generation got exposed to reincarnation myths, especially the naive sort of reincarnation that was described in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical variation on Hindu Vedanta and that got popularized by Timothy Leary with the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the myths of the "bardo."
In the naive understanding, reincarnation offers solace in the face of death by assuring that you will come back in another life. Just wait. It'll be OK.
Orthodox Buddhism has a much grimmer notion of reincarnation. For Buddhism imagines the universe as infinitely long in both directions. So, for them, human souls have been reincarnating for billions and billions of years, a Cantor set of previous lifetimes all besot with suffering and longing to get off the wheel. So the Buddhist aim is nirvana, which means extinction and an end of the cycle of reincarnation. Of course, this notion of an infinitely old universe has been disproved.
I think the way you would experience reincarnation as solace and reprieve from death is by remembering your LAST lifetime now. Reincarnation of your soul isn't going to be any good for you in the NEXT lifetime; it's only solace in THIS lifetime.
So one of the things the Buddha is supposed to have experienced during the 21 days after he was enlightened under the Bodhi Tree was the recollection of his past lives.
I think what the myth of "recollection of one's past lives" means is the realization that you now are the leading edge of all the accumulation of human experience. We are the present culmination of all previous lives human beings have lived. And so when I think back about people who've lived before--relatives, mentors, figures of history, etc.--I can understand that that was "me" in an earlier life.
I am one with the Mind of All Humankind.
Personal survival in an afterlife isn't very relevant to spirituality.
In fact, the belief in heaven and hell has allowed Christians to put off social justice and solution to problems into a time after death, and kept people dependent on the priestly caste for exoneration from Hell.
I say we only experience change. Experiencing creates time. At the level of human brain, experience IS a change in the polarity of the surface of a neuron. At the level of the cosmos, change is gravity. The universe IS the propagation of activity across the surface of spacetime, and the lines along which change happens most smoothly warps space, and the "force" that shapes the universe of matter is gravity. Gravity and change are indivisible and both are a result of experiencing.
What is having the experience of the universe?
In a twist on the Abbot and Costello routine, maybe the answer to that question is "What." I mean, it is asking the question "what?" which causes experience to happen. The cosmos develops life and consciousness in order to ask the question "What?" and asking the question is what causes the universe to develop life and consciousness.
Toby Johnson, PhD is author of eight books: three non-fiction books that apply the wisdom of his teacher and "wise old man," Joseph Campbell to modern-day social and religious problems, three gay genre novels that dramatize spiritual issues at the heart of gay identity, and two books on gay men's spiritualities and the mystical experience of homosexuality. In addition to the novels featured elsewhere in this web site, Johnson is author of IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD and THE MYTH OF THE GREAT SECRET (Revised edition): AN APPRECIATION OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL.
Johnson's Lammy Award winning book
SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of
Human Consciousness was published in 2000. His Lammy-nominated
book GAY
PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature
of God and the Universe was published by Alyson in 2003. Both books are
available now from Lethe
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Beyonce: Back to Work After Halloween Party
Beyonce rocks a red blazer as she heads to an office building in New York City on Tuesday (November 1).
The 30-year-old entertainer and mama-to-be celebrated Halloween the night before at a party at The Darby. Bey dressed up as a bumblebee – be sure to look at pics if you haven't seen them yet!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Beyonce
Have you checked out Beyonce's video for "Party" yet?
Bey's younger sister Solange and Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland both make appearances in the new clip.
FYI: Beyonce is wearing a pair of Alain Quilici booties and Alexander McQueen skull leopard print scarf.


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Hold Fast: Stories of maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the S/V Pestilence... Over the course of two winters, four members of the Anarchist Yacht Clubb rescued a derelict boat from the inhospitable waters of Ft. Lauderdale, named it the S/V Pestilence, and sailed south to Haiti. Hold Fast describes what drew these friends to the ocean, and tells the story of what they discovered in the sea. It paints a picture of the S/V Pestilence in the context of all the sailing maniacs who have come before them, and ultimately attempts to suggest that the secret is always to begin.
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MacLeod, Hold Fast! Ja, I sanction! ...simply as I Will Never Sacrifice My Right of Freedom of Travel! Been there, done that and... alas, still in this Life, NOT alas for Our Peoples! We are the Warriors, by land, air and seas! ...Yes, I actually DO understand the simple comment of yacht Masters ... been there and done that and I can actually swear of proof Internationally, that no "Bast*rdisation* gives someone an Honour without actually deserving it! We are the Beserkers! Tochter von Olaf The Black! "superkat" RNZCG, Australia Borne, 1964. ...right under the poms noses :)
great film. inspirational. takes sailing & adventure films/novels/genre onto the next level. could be subtitled "anarchist guide to sailing", or even, 'rough guide to sailing' or simply 'anarchists ahoy'. slocomb would be proud, and unlike tristan jones' accounts, this is factual.
Short take: makes me want to find a cheap boat. Well worth the time to download and watch. Just do it.
Longer take: many times it's more a narrated slideshow than a film, but obviously there was only a tiny (if any) budget, and with a limited crew it's certainly more important to focus on sailing rather than filming. So that lack of good footage is excusable, and it doesn't detract from the interesting story. I suspect the personal back-stories of these individuals would be pretty interesting too, so it's disappointing that there's so much focus on the what and how, instead of the who. The narrator's attraction to sailing and his personal experience comes through, but nobody else seems to have a voice. Maybe they were just shy?
Don't let my criticism stop you from viewing. The story itself overcomes any weakness in the telling. In fact, a slicker production and more organized structure wouldn't fit with the minimalist lifestyle depicted and implied - so going too far in that direction would make it seem fake. Overall, I really enjoyed this film and highly recommend it. Hopefully it becomes part of a series of stories.


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Penn State Head Coach James Franklin got right to the point..."I would really appreciate one of these Rose Bowl helmets for my man cave, already sent out a request for that."
Even James Franklin knows how cool this is. He's coaching in the Rose Bowl with a Penn State program that's been through so much to get here, but they did thanks to his leadership.
If I remember right I was like the fifth (fourth) head coach in like twenty seven months at Penn State if you count interim head coach said Franklin. That is a lot of change in a short period of time and really completely different philosophies.
A Reporter asked USC Coach Clay Helton: "Just curious what your thoughts are on what James Franklin has been able to do a Penn State?"
"Outstanding", prompted Helton. "To think kind of be where they were at 2 and 2 and then run off 9 straight and I think about the opponents in the big games that they were a part of, just shows the resiliency of that team and a tremendous leader in Coach Franklin of what he's been able to do this season especially down the stretch."
Landon said: "And coach Franklin will try to do something even more impressive, win the granddaddy of them all and notch his first ever 12 win season."
"To me that's a different threshold", added Franklin. "There's only a handful of teams in the country that are going to do that. that's something that's significant."
So is just playing in Pasadena.
"At some point I'm I am going to look up", gushed Helton "and I'm going to go back to be at a 12 year old kid for a second and just let the goosebumps happen."
"If you have a bucket list as a coach this is one of the things that you want to do in your career" Franklin chimed in, "and I don't know if you could have written a better script for the Rose Bowl with USC and Penn State coming together"
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"I don't hold to any creeds. I just believe the Bible."
I've heard this statement more than once from very sincere people who are desperate to hold fast to the faith "once, for all delivered to the saints." As a Protestant, and a Reformed believer at that, I vigorously hold to and defend the doctrine of Sola Scriptura: The BIBLE is the sole, infallible rule of faith and practice. Everything God wants us to know about Him is contained in the 66 books of God's Holy Word. Everything about the way He wants to be worshipped is found in the Bible.
So what use is there to a creed, a confession, or a catechism when we have the Bible?
Creeds, confessions and catechisms are simply statements of faith- summaries of what a particular church believes the Bible teaches.The modern-day equivalent would be the "statement of faith" of any given church.Creeds, confessions, and catechisms are tools we can use to understand our faith more clearly. They are completely and totally subject to the Word of God. It is NOT NOT NOT the other way around.
I think so often that we Protestants are absolutely terrified of looking "Roman Catholic" that we eschew anything that's older then our own denomination or anything that could be deemed "traditional". We forget that we are part of the "invisible church" which is the number of true believers from the beginning of time. From Adam and Eve who first believed the Promise to the churches today- we are all one church. We can learn from our past as well as our present.
Creeds.net defines creed in this way:
"Creed \'kreed\
[ME crede, from OE creeda, from Latin credo ("I believe" the first word of the Apostles' and Nicene creeds), from credere to believe, trust, entrust; akin to OIr cretid "he believes"]
1: a brief authoritative formula of religious belief
2: a set of fundamental beliefs
3: a guiding principle
The Creeds and Confessions produced by the Christian Church over the centuries are not inspired additions to Scripture nor in any way replacements for the words of Christ and his apostles or the prophets which preceded them. Instead these human documents are carefully considered and usually thoughtfully worded responses to various issues, heresies and historical situations that have troubled the Church and the world over the centuries. Creeds are statements of faith that are true and authoritative insofar as they accurately reflect what Scripture teaches. Those linked here have been found useful either by the entire Church or by important segments and/or denominations of it over the ages. They are thus helpful "measuring sticks" for orthodoxy. Canons but not the canon.
Some have said the creeds are man made and hence should be ignored in favor of Scripture. Should we then dispose of all sermons, Bible study texts, commentaries, doctrinal outlines, books on theology, devotionals, et cetera? Certainly not! The creeds do not masquerade as Scripture and many specifically point out that it is the Scriptures themselves which are "the only infallible rule of faith and practice." Yet as Christians is it not valuable to consider how the Holy Spirit has spoken to our brothers and sisters over the millennia as they have struggled with various issues, poured over the Scriptures and often fasted and prayed heartily with their fellow Christians in the light of the inspired texts? Surely, to quote the pulpit prince C. H. Spurgeon to his students,
"you are not such wiseacres as to think or say that you can expound the Scripture without the assistance from the works of divine and learned men who have labored before you in the field of exposition . . . . It seems odd that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others." (Commenting and Commentaries)
Even if we reject some of their insights at least we should pause to consider what they have gleaned from Holy Writ and how their historical situation influenced their Biblical interpretations. Let us remember the words of Peter when he said, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter 1:20-21 KJV)
-www.creeds.net (bolding is mine)
This is such a great discussion of the importance and value of creeds. Readers might be surprised to learn that creeds can be found in the Bible. Take, for instance, the Sh'ma, the first ancient creed of the Jews: "Hear O Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One." That is a creed. It is a statement of belief that the Lord is One.
Peter's confession that Jesus is the Christ in Matthew 16 is yet another creed (it is also a confession, but that's another post for another day.) He is making a statement that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God. He is simply stating what he believes.
Creeds unite us with other believers. Each and every week, my husband, children and I stand up in church and state with every other believer in the room what we believe about God- we state the Apostles ' Creed. We are united in a common belief about these things, and not just with people in our own church, but with believers all over the world who confess the same beliefs. The Lord's Day is a time of corporate worship and we confess together what we believe corporately.
Another GREAT use for creeds is as a teaching tool. I am charged by God to teach my children the Faith. I am also charged to make disciples. The Apostles' Creed is a great jumping off point for teaching the basic truths of the Christian faith: " I believe in God, the Father". Well, who is God? How is He our Father? I have an earthly father- so who is this "God, the Father"? "Maker of Heaven and Earth"- God made heaven and earth? I thought creation was just a bunch of random evolutionary processes over millions of years, says the new believer. You can use the creed to summarize these basic truths about God. It's easy for a child or an adult to memorize.
Creeds also put a hedge around the Christian faith. They are written statements of belief that separate us from all those groups who claim to be Christian, but who distort or pervert one or more of the basic doctrines of Christianity. Any Mormon out there can pick up his Bible and prove his view of baptism or Jesus Christ just by using the Bible. There are Mormons who devote their LIVES to proving Mormonism from the Bible alone. So how do you know that your church is different and that what it is teaching is TRUE? Well, one helpful way is to turn to a creed. If you believe, as I do, that the historic creeds of the Christian faith fence the faith, then you'll see everyone who holds to them inside the fence and everyone who denies the truths contained within them as outside of the fence. In other words, you'll find it easier to identify brothers and sisters in the Lord if they can affirm these truths. Just look at the statement of faith in your own church. If a prospective member agrees with that statement, they will be approved for membership. If they disagree with the statement, they won't be approved for membership. The church's doctrine and the congregants won't jive and one or the other will feel pretty uncomfortable if the relationship continues.
The search, of course, is ALWAYS for what is TRUE- not where you feel you fit in. And how do we measure what is true? The only infallible source is God's Holy Word- the Bible.
I would encourage anyone who is suspicious of creeds to look at them and test them against Scripture. There are three "ecumenical" creeds (Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian), meaning that the doctrine contained in them is held by all Christian churches without dispute. If you're not sure if your church teaches something in these creeds, or if you think anything in these creeds is wrong, send me an email or comment and I'll see if I can answer your question.
Creeds are simply a summary of belief- a statement of faith. Just because it's old doesn't make it Roman Catholic. Why am I going to reinvent the wheel and write something new about basic Christian doctrine when its already been spelled out for me a thousand years ago or more?
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Occupy Participants Occupy DialogueSubmitted by Sisyphus on Fri, 11/04/2011 - 3:59pm.
Individual participants from six Idaho communities, from all reaches of the state, join Marcia Franklin to discuss why they are taking action. Frickin' frick, when you get Harry, Rigby resident in his mid 60s, calling in support, this movement is definitely tapping a nerve. The link for these episodes is on the Dialogue website and also contains links to sites for each of these movements. The web extra segment follows after the jump. read more »
Occupy Boise Needs Supplies For Tent CitySubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:55pm.
In case you haven't heard, the fine folks at Occupy Boise helping to focus the traditional media on things that matter to 99% of us, have decided to elevate their profile by forming up a tent city on the site of the old Ada County Courthouse adjacent to the Statehouse. So far it appears there won't be much push back, but we're dealing with bright crimson state officials, so far.
Not sure how we as a society can deploy riot gear encrusted police armed with tear gas and other weapons on people whose only crime is camping. Its not like they ruined the economy. Here's the list of things they need to get going. Please note their number one need, and if that's not doable then do what you can. read more »
Bill Moyers Puts Occupy Wall Street in ContextSubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 1:44pm.
Longtime journalist and commentator Bill Moyers was the keynote speaker on October 20 at the 40th anniversary celebration of Public Citizen, the "countervailing force to corporate power".
A copy of the speech is here but its not a transcript. He is a great orator. read more »
Keep Wall Street OccupiedSubmitted by Sisyphus on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 2:23pm.
I'm not asking for money. I'm asking you for five minutes to do what you've always wanted to do. You get loads of supplications from banksters in the mail everyday. Take a minute to establish a dialogue. Tell them how you feel about junk mail or anything else that may be bothering you.
And for those who think that none of this is gonna make a bit of difference, it already has. If you believe this is just about dirty hippies wanting entitlements, Matt Taibbi pummels that media driven fallacy. Here's a quick and dirty report on the efforts and failures of your government in holding Bankster's accountable. And if you still doubt, know that this movement isn't necessarily divisive, the one percent agree with many of the objectives. Keep your eye on the prize. read more »
Occupy Boise October 22, 2011Submitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:36pm.
Redistricting Panel Unanimously Approves a MapSubmitted by Sisyphus on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 3:20pm.
Redistricting Panel 2.0 approved a map setting forth legislative districts for the next ten years. Take a look at this .pdf. There's some grumbling, particularly up north on the monstrous size of district 7 and its geographic disparity. This map will result in a change of personnel in the Statehouse pitting incumbents against incumbents, some of whom are in House leadership. I'm personally pleased with the urban heavy districts in Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Twin Falls, Nampa and Couer d'Alene, where Democrats will have a fighting chance. But those appear to come at a price in Moscow and Lewiston. Take a look and leave comments about the good, the bad, and the ugly. read more »
Ada County Private Probation Services SuedSubmitted by Sisyphus on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:49pm.
Dave Frazier at the Boise Guardian broke the story on a law suit filed in state court seeking to form a class of individuals who have been harmed by alleged shoddy administration by a private for-profit entity under contract to manage misdemeanor probation matters for Ada County. Fraz has been getting an inordinate quantity of complaints since May. The sole Defendant in the court action is Ada County Misdemeanor Probation Services, Inc. which appears to be owned and operated by a former bail bondswoman Nancy Cladis. Fraz states that the lawsuit primarily addresses charging probationers in excess of the amounts authorized by state law but acknowledges other allegations he's received:
Complaints have persisted and dominated the GUARDIAN news blog for the past week or two. Some of the commenters offered stories of intimidation and alleged they were forced to take repeated urine tests and rent electronic devices when their crimes were not alcohol or drug related. One writer described having to fill out an "evaluation card" claiming he was satisfied with the services provided.
A common thread in all the blog discussion was a fear of going to jail if the probationer didn't comply with their private probation officer's demands. read more »
Oh Condi CondiSubmitted by Sisyphus on Thu, 08/25/2011 - 2:08pm.
I'm baaaaack. Now that d2 has officially un-fucked June and July, its time to blog again. And lo, we have today the discovery that normalization of relations with a ruthless Libyan dictator was done the old fashioned way,
through skilled negotiations, a consummate diplomat with firm credentials, the token female in a paternalistic White House batting her eyes at a misogynistic cretin responsible for killing hundreds of innocent Americans. And let's not forget the role these hypocritical senators played. Steve Earle's song seemed quite prophetic. read more »
Its a Wonderful Life...To Throw in the RiverSubmitted by Sisyphus on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:10pm.
NSFW. Fry and Laurie ponder what would happen if Rupert Murdoch had never been born. H/T Bluegal. The scandal seems to be unfolding in a manner I've not seen since Watergate. Primer here. Video of today's events and updates here. read more »
The Bipartisanship of the Angry GnomeSubmitted by Sisyphus on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 4:28pm.
The junior senator of Idaho weighed in on the delicate negotiations occurring between Republicans and Democrats regarding authorization from congress for America to pay its bills. Risch compared the president to the sensationalized trial defendant Casey Anthony.
"Barrack Obama is to good government (as) Casey Anthony is to a good mother."
His Idaho Republican audience loved it. Senator Risch then went on to say that America really isn't in danger of a default since we have a good credit rating, yet he and fellow Republicans are willing to do just that, refuse to pay United States debts, shattering once and for all the notion they are the party of fiscal responsibility. I know we shouldn't negotiate with terrorists, but what's the incentive to negotiate with assholes? read more »
Payette Lake Fish High in MercurySubmitted by Sisyphus on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 3:56pm.
Fish and Game warns anglers about eating mercury laden fish in many of SW Idaho's waterways. Now the Idaho Division of Public Health is warning about fish in Payette Lake, the ever popular recreational area vital to the City of McCall. Not surprising, since McCall is just downwind from the Ash Grove Cement Co. in Durkee, southeast of Baker City, Oregon, which, in 2008, was the fifth largest mercury polluter in the nation. Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin, especially for children. It interferes with the brain and nervous systems, resulting in birth defects, loss of IQ and developmental problems. Those massive watersheds capture the airborne mercury and bring it right down into our waterways, the lifeblood of Idaho. The EPA sharply curtailed these emissions. No Republicans were utilized in getting the EPA to protect Idaho's water. Indeed Congressman Simpson looks to reward them by slashing EPA's budget. read more »
"Schadenfreudegasm": Your Primer on the Phone Hacking ScandalSubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 3:32pm.
This is a good run down of the Phone Hacking Scandal that is doing major damage to sith lord Rupert Murdoch's media empire. If one single person can be identified for the demise of the fourth estate as an integral part of a functional democracy, it's Rupert Murdoch. The scandal exposes depth of his manipulative intrusion into the halls of government and power. Murdoch's empire was founded on the false premise of a liberal media. Its with no small irony that the professional journalists at the Guardian are credited with exposing the illegal, unethical, and corrupt actions of all players in this deceitful web.
The intrigue continues today with a Reuter's report that demonstrated that Murdoch's American News Corporation actually made money when paying it's taxes.
Over the past four years Murdoch's U.S.-based News Corp. has made money on income taxes. Having earned $10.4 billion in profits, News Corp. would have been expected to pay $3.6 billion at the 35 percent corporate tax rate. Instead, it actually collected $4.8 billion in income tax refunds, all or nearly all from the U.S. government.
Fox News, the editorial pages of his Wall Street Journal and other Murdoch outlets often rail against taxes. Their attacks on government benefits for the elderly, the sick, the jobless and children focus attention on the uses of tax dollars and away from his aggressive efforts to enjoy the benefits of civilization without paying for them.
The column has mysteriously disappeared however. You can find similar content here. Media Matters is dogging this as well. It appears Murdoch's reach is just as vast in America as it is in Great Britain. But you knew that, didn't you. The scope should frighten you. read more »
Media Blackout for Sun Valley Media MogulsSubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 4:13pm.
They're baaaaack. Every year money moguls and media mavens get together in Sun Valley to
plot the demise of humanity measure their dicks get together for deal making. As a result they keep it exclusive and limit exposure to the very media they foment and control. And since the press is not going to pee in their boss's Wheaties, very little information usually comes out of the Sun Valley conference. But if someone gets Rupert Murdoch's attention could they please ask him to comment on this major scandal in Great Britain. This scandal has been brewing for years, and despite a media blackout in the states on the story, Financial Times' editorial board is nowdemanding answers.
Senior managers at the UK subsidiary should be held responsible for what happened on their watch. The idea - assiduously peddled for a long time by News Corp - that the hacking was the work of a "lone wolf" was never credible. Indeed as the allegations mount up, what is emerging is an industrial-scale operation where, in many cases, it was the first resort of journalists pursuing a story to engage the so-called "dark arts" of the private investigator and phone hacker. In these circumstances, the idea that bosses did not know what went on would be a poor excuse even if one accepted it.
Mr Murdoch must set aside personal loyalties and remove those executives with any involvement in the affair - whether through their role as editors or at a corporate level. That includes those responsible for handling the company's response. For a start, Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News Corp's UK operations, should go. Assuming the allegations are correct, as the editor of the News of the World when Ms Dowler's phone was hacked, her position is untenable. Although she has pleaded ignorance, the final responsibility was hers.
But it is no longer enough just to dismiss people. The affair has inflicted great reputational damage on News Corp. This should be of concern not just to Mr Murdoch but also to the company's wider shareholder base. After all, the group is seeking to expand its UK interests massively with the acquisition of the broadcaster, BSkyB.
Word is that Murdoch hopes to dump Hulu at this conference but he hasn't shown up as of Tuesday. The times I've made the mistake and driven through the Wood River Valley during this conference, the Hailey Airport is lined up and down with enough private jets to completely pay for Haitian relief. But of course, they didn't pay for them. We did through tax breaks. read more »
Another Embarrassing Idaho Right Wing ExportSubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 1:50pm.
Remember that dickhead Gary Glenn from the 1980s who helped champion Right to Work and who fled the state for the Midwest after losing his Ada County Commission seat? Me neither. But apparently he's heading up the Michigan branch of Bryan Fischer's hate group, the American Family Association. And this week he buttressed the Village Idiot's hatred of teh Gay, arguing that they should be second class citizens and actively discriminated against.
Glenn: Herman Miller, which is a major employer and corporation in Holland [Michigan], a furniture company, supported this so-called gay rights ordinance on the claim that it allowed them to attract the best and brightest.
Harvey: Here we go, yeah we heard that before.
Glenn: What ridiculous folly to suggest that only those individuals who engage in homosexual behavior given all of its severe medical consequences constitute the best and the brightest. It's not really bright to engage in behavior that puts you at dramatically higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse and AIDS and cancer and hepatitis, and according to various sources, premature death. So to suggest that engaging in that type of behavior defines someone as the best and brightest, which seems to be the line coming out of corporate America, is just ridiculous.
Harvey: You're right. And higher rates of domestic violence and unstable relationships. I would not think of a homosexual person as a good employment risk, I just wouldn't.
Nice broad brush. So, of course, we should deny work to them. And, of course, we should mandate promiscuity for them and deny them a committed monogamous relationship. Logic is not his strong suit. So he's in the right organization. read more »
Idaho Democrats Lose Another Lion in the PartySubmitted by Sisyphus on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:07pm.
On June 29, 2011, Carl Burke died in the same Idaho hospital in which he was born 86 years before. Carl helped create one of the biggest law firms in the state and was well known in legal circles before and behind the bench. But his influence, power and prestige were far more accomplished in the political realm. From the obituary:
Carl chaired and managed the U.S. Senatorial Campaigns for his life-long friend, U.S. Senator Frank Church, in 1956, 1962, 1968, 1974 and 1980. In 1976, he traveled the country as Chairman of Senator Church's campaign for President of the United States. He was the Idaho State Chairman for the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential campaigns. He was also a friend and confidant of Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus, who, as U.S. Secretary of Interior, appointed Carl to the U.S. National Parks Systems Advisory Board, where he served as a member and chairman for six years. In 1959, Carl served as a United States Delegate for the First Atlantic Conference of NATO in London, replacing former President Harry S. Truman who was unable to attend.
I knew Carl as a colleague and a casual acquaintance, a person I could have a chat with as he walked his dog in the foothills of Boise. Carl was quiet, kind and personable. His unassuming ways hid his powerful legacy exemplified in a story relayed to me of when Mr. Burke had to substitute at an appellate hearing for one of his partners who had died unexpectedly. It was a federal court case originating in Boise on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based out of San Francisco. Carl's partner had lost the case on summary judgment, meaning that Carl had the daunting task to convince a three judge hearing panel that one of their fellow judges screwed up, on a case that Carl had only picked up a week or so before hearing. read more »
Otter Was For Obamacare Before He Was Against ItSubmitted by Sisyphus on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 2:34pm.
Think Progress picked up on this hit piece by the Idaho Reporter highlighting comments made by Otter regarding "Obamacare" and his interest in creating a health insurance exchange in Idaho. IR's purpose was to denigrate Otter's position by comparing it to the libertarian Cato Institute to demonstrate some hypocrisy by the Governor. I don't disagree.
Idaho may be part of a multi-state lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, but that isn't stopping Republican Governor Butch Otter (R) from taking credit for some provisions included in the law. Otter is a proponent of the exchanges and a provision that allows young people to remain on their parents' insurance policies and is now claiming that Democrats "co-opted" his ideas and added them to their bill :
"There is a big difference," he says, between Obamacare and a state health insurance exchange. He says the Idaho exchange was crafted in Idaho to address needs as identified by Idahoans, not put together by bureaucrats in Washington. "That was one of the first things that came up when we started working on our health care reform and our health care needs in Idaho in '07. I called a bunch of folks from all aspects of the health care industry together and said, 'OK, what should health care in Idaho look like?' The whole idea of insurance exchanges, which is providing insurance packages, providing a certain level of co-pay, providing a certain level of deductible, all of those things. We've been working on that since '07. It was just co-opted into the Obamacare bill."
Idaho was ahead of the curve in supporting health care exchanges, says the governor, citing, for example, his support of keeping children on a family insurance plan until they were 23. "All Obamacare did is say we're going to make it 26. So there were a lot of things that we were doing but for the most part they were all voluntary. We weren't compelling people to do anything."
Otter's ideological hypocrisy is compounded by a factual one since Idaho mandates that Idaho college students buy health insurance. But worse for Idaho is the fact that Health and Human Services has allocated $27.9 million in which Governor Otter has further mandated that no Idaho official accept. This executive order further protects bad practices by insurance companies. One thing is for sure, Otter's inconsistencies play poorly for Idaho. read more »
Exposing Your KochSubmitted by Sisyphus on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 2:53pm.
The game plan for Koch penetration is set forth in the Powell Memorandum. You should be aware of their invasive plans after they're done tea bagging you. Please read it and see if the 1971 Memo looks familiar to you. H/T Digby. read more »
Rex Rammell Frog Marched to JailSubmitted by Sisyphus on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 3:48pm.
UPDATED 6/27: Dumber than dirt. Clearly Rammell continues to eschew professional legal help. Rammell sent out a press release to emphasize how extraordinarily stupid he is.
My problem is, even after citing the law to the judge, he still will not allow me to argue it before the jury. So what do you do if the law is clearly on your side, but the judge will not allow you to use it? You inform the jury of their right to ignore the judge's interpretation of the law.
The judge instructs the jury on the law. You cannot argue to a jury that the judge is full of shit. Know why? Because the law says so. Do you know why the law says so? Because juries do not make the law in our society, they enforce it. That last line is yet another log on the fire of Rammell's self immolation on this charge. Only that one will be used at his sentencing displaying an utter lack of remorse.
Classic line: "..and they're handcuffing me and treating me like a criminal." This is pretty fresh but it appears as if the Bonneville County Prosecutor (correctly) decided to charge trifecta (Governor Congressman Senate) candidate Rex Rammell (R-Wingnuttia) with felony jury tampering for his efforts to instruct prospective jurors of their right not to follow the law. (Jurors have no such right, the judge instructs them on the law, and they stand in judgment of the facts as presented by the attorneys.) In inimical Rammell form, he attempts to grandstand the event by calling a press conference to turn himself in. The deputies follow protocol, handcuff him, and with much ado, take him to jail.
At one point it appears that he was asked if he had any weapons, to which Rammell replied "Well I figured you could probably find one...". He refuses to get in the car unless they loosen the handcuffs and then complains in true libertarian fashion "Ah hell, you guys on a poor budget? I can't even get my knees in here". Its sad yet amusing that any other person doing this kind of 'restricting and obstructing' would have had their face grounded into the pavement, hog tied, and thrown in the back of the squad car. And yet Rammell asserts he is treated with disrespect. Very sad. Ignominy thy name is Rammell. I suspect Rex will become rather obsessed with being deprived of his freedoms after this. Glad it was a Republican that took him down.
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I don't know if this is directly in response to Eric Cantor picking up his marbles and going home from the deficit reduction talks, but it should be. But then again what the hell do we care. These Republican assholes are playing Russian roulette with the economy. Just refuse to play and pass a jobs bill out of the senate. The gun is empty.
More to the McGee StorySubmitted by Sisyphus on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 4:58pm.
The Idaho Statesman wrote an editorial pleading for the public to allow Senator McGee to have his say. Who is stopping him? He said nothing at his arraignment and has been very quiet ever since. So has most everyone else close to McGee or the story.
First let's acknowledge that there are two distinct venues for the airing of Senator McGee's side of the bizarre circumstances leading to his arrest and his donning of an orange jumpsuit. Citizen McGee must answer to society for his crimes in the tightly controlled courtroom setting subject to formal procedures designed for criminal justice. But in addition, Senator McGee must answer to the people of Idaho in the court of public opinion, a location Senator McGee voluntarily placed himself in ascending the ladder of a promising and ambitious political career. Traditional media plays a crucial role in the latter venue and while the venues overlap, the trad med shouldn't simply wait until Senator McGee chooses the time and place for providing an orchestrated defense.
There are many unanswered questions in which the public has an interest. Three memes suggest themselves immediately; 1) the logistics of the evening in question; 2) the Good Ol' Boy network obviously in play; and 3) the culture of alcohol that emanates from the Statehouse. Obviously there is overlap among the three but there's enough for stories on all three. read more »


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"The culture of democracy is still far away," he said.
A rather telling comment about the dictators who've run Egypt for decades. Funny how when they were in power, they claimed Egypt was a democracy. And now that their dictatorship is threatened, they say Egyptians aren't ready for democracy. Given this attitude, the protesters are right to be concerned that Mubarak and his cronies have no intention of making any concessions to protesters nor allow genuine democracy to come to fruition in Egypt. Suleiman further undermines he and his fellow autocrats believability (what little remains of it) with vague threats of martial law and cracking down on the protesters who, in turn, become more determined in the face of threats.


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Last week, on my last day in New York, I ran to the hardware store to get tape for the boxes I was packing. While picking up my tape I overheard an argument between the store owner and a customer.
The customer from Israel had purchased an electronic device at the store, and he came back to pick up a converter for the plug. The owner wanted him to pay $2 for it, but the customer claimed, "You told me that this will work in Israel - you should just give it to me. I don't have two dollars to spare".
Sensing that this argument could escalate, I took $2 out of my pocket and gave it to the owner, who seemed surprised. The customer thanked me and left the store.
One hour later, I was on my way to Newark Airport in New Jersey. I was using my phone as a GPS with voice navigation to help direct me to the airport. Stuck in heavy traffic, not even out of Brooklyn, the battery died and I didn't have a car charger for my phone.
At the next traffic light I opened my window and tried to get the attention of the neighbouring driver. "Sorry, my phone just died, I'm trying to get to the Holland Tunnel, do I take a left after the bridge?" The African-American lady in the car managed to say yes, and then the light changed.
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"This was so out of character for New York," I thought to myself. Then, my encounter a few hours earlier at the store appeared in my thoughts. No question this was a more generous act than mine, but kindness has a ripple effect and the ripples have a way of getting bigger...
I went to the Chabad conference in New York to charge myself, but while trying to charge my phone, I experienced generosity and care, and that left a great lasting impression on me.


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Georgian American Alloys, Inc. Announces Personnel Changes At Its Subsidiary Businesses
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Georgian American Alloys, Inc. ("GAA") announces personnel changes at its subsidiaries, Felman Trading, Inc. ("Felman Trading") and Felman Production, LLC ("Felman Production"). Felman Trading's Chief Executive Officer, Vladyslav Mikhyeyev, will be resigning from his position, effective immediately. While Mr. Mikhyeyev will cease handling sales immediately, he will stay on in a consulting role to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities and duties. Mordechai Korf, GAA's president and CEO, and the Chairman of Felman Trading's Board of Directors, has been appointed CEO of Felman Trading.
Mr. Korf states, "We thank Vlad for the leadership and vision he has provided Felman Trading with since its founding. He has been an integral part in helping to make Georgian American Alloys a market leader in the ferroalloy industry." Current GAA team members Mendel Sossonko and Jonathan Brook will lead Felman Trading's sales efforts on an interim basis. Mr. Sossonko already serves as Sales Director for CC Metals & Alloys, LLC, another GAA subsidiary. Mr. Brook is intimately involved in Felman Trading's sales and logistics as its Logistics Manager. Yury Mordasov will continue to oversee European sales from his position as Director of the affiliated Swiss trading company, Felman Trading Europe, AG.
In addition, Sergiy Protashchuk has resigned from his position as Financial Manager for Felman Production. "We appreciate Sergiy for all of his hard work with Felman Production over the years, and wish him future success in his next venture," stated President and CEO, Mordechai Korf. Mr. Korf has tasked GAA's Mony Bistritzky and Kseniia Bezkrovna to oversee the sourcing of Felman Production's raw materials on an interim basis.
Of the departures, Mr. Korf stated, "While these types of departures are always difficult, they are also to be expected in growing companies such as ours, and represent an opportunity to continually improve internally as well as strengthen our external alliances with our suppliers and customers. We are especially confident that our current team will continue to provide the high quality service that our customers have come to expect."


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Andy Cates skippered Red Rooster III on a ten-day trip that returned October 6 after fishing at Alijos Rocks, near Magdalena Bay and at Cedros Island. There were 28 anglers aboard, who found a good catch of yellowtail, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and dorado.
Ed Scheenstra of Ontario won first place for a 114.6-pound tuna he got at Alijos Rocks on a sardine, a 2/0 circle hook 60-pound Ande line and a Shimano 30 reel.
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Dennis Paget of Victorville was second, for a 99.4-pounder, and Ramon Alonso of San Diego won third place for a 95.5-pound yellowfin tuna.
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Mark Seals of Cambria is a regular on the Searcher, and a regular in the jackpot lineup after Searcher trips. October 8 was no exception, when Seals took first place once again after a five-day trip with skipper Art Taylor.
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Those Guadalupe tuna are tough, said Seals, as he posed with his 85.8-pound yellowfin. He added that he got it in 40 minutes with a sardine on a 2/0 Mutu hook, 40-pound P-Line, a Penn 16S reel and a Sabre 655C rod.
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Dave Hartog of Whittier was second, for a 75.6-pounder, and Dan Baladez of Oxnard was third, for a 73-pound Guadalupe yellowfin tuna. Western Outdoor News sponsored the trip, and gifted anglers with Seeker rods and many other fishing items as prizes.
Bit All Day
Brian Evans skippered Mike Keatings Spirit of Adventure on a Seeker-Soft Steel sponsored four-day trip to San Martin, Guadalupe and Cedros Island. Cedros was the only place he found good biters, he said, but thats where they bit from dawn to dusk. Spirit anglers released four black sea bass on the trip, said chartermaster Joe Pfister of Seeker. Other Seeker reps on the venture included Willie Ames, Brian Porter and Jim Scarlata.
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Limits of yellowtail from Cedros Island produced all the jackpot winners. First place went to Stan Kovacevich of Norwalk for a 39.6-pound yellow that bit a sardine on a 2/0 Eagle Claw hook, tied to 40-pound Soft Steel line on an Accurate 665 reel and a Seeker 6470 rod.
Hiro Tanaka of Osaka, Japan and Craig Honkanes of Carlsbad won second and third places, for yellowtail of 31 and 28.3 pounds.
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Bruce Penny of Cypress, fishing with a sardine on 60-pound Soft Steel line and a Seeker 660 XXH rod, found a huge broomtail grouper of 74.5 pounds.
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John Klein skippered his Qualifier 105 on a six-day trip to Cedros and Guadalupe islands, and docked the rig at Point Loma Sportfishing October 8. The trip was sponsored by Accurate, and was taped by a television crew.
Greg Tate of Lawndale won first place, for a 77-pound yellowfin he took with a sardine on a 6/0 Gorilla hook, 40-pound Ande line, an Accurate 870 XN reel (a new, narrow model) and a Calstar 655 rod, after a 30-minute fight.
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I got it just before dark, said Tate.
Accurate national sales manager Linda Hicks won second place, for a 72.7-pounder, and Derek Cornell of San Diego was third, for a 71.1-pound yellowfin.
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Basics of a Static Website
What is a Static Website?
A static website or a webpage is a collection of items like text, images and multimedia elements containing marked up content created with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and stored in a web server. The browser retrieves the content from the server when a visitor enters the URL of a static site. The retrieved content is then interpreted to display it as an attractive site in the browser window.
Pictorial representation of a browser displaying a static website content is shown in the below picture.
Basically both static and dynamic sites works in a similar manner. But the bigger difference is that the static page is a single page contains all information while a dynamic page is assembly of many single pages. You can check out the article on difference between static and dynamic web pages.
Features of a Static Website
- Static site is mainly used to distribute a fixed information from the web server to the browser running on a client computer.
- All visitors will see exactly the same content each time when the page is loaded.
- When a visitor enters a URL in the web browser running on a computer, browser sends an HTTP request to the server. The web server simply sends an HTTP response to indicate the availability of the requested URL. The response will be completed by sending the content of the requested URL to the client. In general web server does not perform any code processing in a static web page.
- Browser interprets the marked up content and displays it in the browser window to give a look and feel to the website. This is the reason the same website looks different in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, since all these browsers have their own way of interpreting the HTML markups.
- Static site is more appropriate for distributing fixed content which is not to be updated frequently.
- Generally the content of the static site is created and updated directly by the site owners.
Creating a Simple Static Webpage
Follow the below steps to create a simple static web page, in this example the content is located on your own local computer hence no server is required separately. (This means the local computer acts as a client as well as a server).
- Open any word processor, in this example we explain with a Notepad for Windows operating system.
- Copy and paste the below code in the Notepad.
<title>WebNots - Static Page Example</title>

Create Your Static Website

Here is the content of your site.
- Save the file as staticpage.html on your local desktop.
- Open the file using any browser like Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. (Double clicking on the file will open it in the default web browser).
Look and Feel of the Webpage
The HTML file opened with Chrome will look like as shown in the picture below.
Notice the content of the original file and the look in the browser, all the HTML tags are converted in the browser accordingly and only the content is displayed excluding the spaces. For example, the content in between the h1 tags are interpreted as a heading during the display in the browser window.
The same content will be loaded every time you open the file since there is no interactive processing neither at server nor at browser side.
For a real case in the internet, the HTML file will be located on a web server with a page name on the domain like "www.domain-name.com/staticpage.html". The web page will open in the browser window when a visitor enters this URL directly on the browser address bar or when this URL is redirected from a search result.
Static Webpage Contains All Details
A static webpage contains all the required information to be displayed on that page. Let us take an example of a simple blog page with the name "blog-post.html" as shown below. When this page is a static page then all content relevant to header, main content area, footer and sidebar are available within the "blog-post.html" page. You can right click and view the source of the page to find all relevant details.
Creating Live Static Sites
The easiest way to create live static webpage is to create a HTML page as explained above. Then upload the HTML page and relevant linked resources like images and stylesheets to the web server using file transfer protocol.
There are also pre-compiled frontend frameworks like Bootstrap will help you to create static pages quickly by reusing builtin blocks.
The last option is to use website builder tools like Weebly, Wix and Yola. All of these service providers offer free service with limited features and paid service with complete features. Most of these tools offer combination of static and dynamic pages for building a complete website with larger number of pages. There are advanced content management systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal for building more sophisticated dynamic sites.


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After Celine, Now Selfridges Looks to Seniors for Inspiration
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Cara Delevingne, turn away now; in fashion, it seems it's the senior citizen who's in demand in 2015 so far. So far we've seen Celine's campaign featuring Joan Didion, Helen Mirren appear as the face of L'Oreal, and now iconic U.K. retailer Selfridges is also celebrating the older person in a project called Bright Old Things. The campaign is a twist on its "Bright Young Things" campaign, which has previously featured young creative talents; this one features the work of people aged from the late 40s to their 80s who have taken up a new career later in life.
They include the likes of Molly Parkin, a journalist who became a successful artist in her 80s, and Tony Gibson, a product designer-turned-vlogger. You can explore their stories on the website or go to a pop-up boutique at the London store to buy products and items designed by the Bright Old Things. There's also an art installation and a series of events, taking place in both London and Manchester. Photographer, illustrator and director Todd Selby, aka "The Selby," curated the project.
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Flying Eagles defensive midfielder Abdullahi Alfa is delighted he was named in Nigeria's preliminary squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The hardworking youngster was listed in the Flying Eagles squad expected to report at the Serob Legacy Hotel in Abuja on April 12 for the first phase of the preparations for the U-20 World Cup.
As soon as the list was released by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday morning, the excited Alfa couldn't hide his joy when he spoke to SL10.
Alfa will convene with 34 other players for camping from where a final list of 21 players will be selected to prosecute Nigeria's games at the World youth championship in New Zealand.
He said: "I'm so happy being named in the team to converge on Sunday in Abuja. I will like to use this medium to thank my coaches for believing in me."
The 18-year-old starred for the Golden Eaglets at the FIFA U-17 World Cup two years back, featuring in every single game.
The Flying Eagles are in group E of the U-20 World Cup, alongside Brazil, Hungary, and North Korea.


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Christopher Godley has been named Sonoma County's interim emergency manager, stepping into the role recently vacated by a former official who faced criticism over the county's failure to send more widespread public alerts during the firestorm last year.
Godley's appointment was announced by county officials Tuesday, though he began work on Monday. A Santa Rosa resident, he brings to his new assignment more than two decades of related experience, having been San Jose's emergency management director from 2010 to 2013 and before that serving as Marin County's emergency services manager and the deputy emergency services coordinator in Sonoma County for many years.
Godley, 53, most recently worked for the engineering firm Tetra Tech as director of emergency management and also advised Santa Rosa officials in the October fires' aftermath, officials said.
In his interim role, he is working as a contractor through Tetra Tech, which the county is paying $6,000 a week, according to his boss, Jim Colangelo, the interim director of the fire and emergency services department.
"I'm very happy about this," Colangelo said of Godley. "He's got an incredible amount of experience ... It's great to have another hand on deck."
The county is retaining Godley on an initial two-month contract that will likely be extended, Colangelo said. The county plans to launch a national search to fill the emergency manager job on a long-term basis, but that process won't begin in earnest until after officials make progress on determining the future staffing levels and organizational structure of the emergency services division, according to Colangelo.
The previous emergency manager, Christopher Helgren, was reassigned in mid-February to a different county government job. But he retired effective Monday, a county spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The Press Democrat reported last year that Helgren, 56, had in 2016 ruled out using Amber Alert-style cellphone messages during local disasters over concerns they couldn't be targeted to an area smaller than the whole county. A recent review from the state Office of Emergency Services — released after he was reassigned — faulted Helgren's decision, describing it as "influenced by a limited awareness and understanding" of the system and based on "outdated information" regarding its technical abilities.
Helgren and emergency coordinator Zachary Hamill also were at an out-of-town conference when the firestorm erupted, two days after the National Weather Service issued a red-flag warning for extreme fire risk over the weekend. Supervisors and County Administrator Sheryl Bratton have publicly questioned that decision and said in the future they would seek to ensure emergency officials remain in the area during such warnings.
As the new interim emergency manager, Godley's priorities will include leading the county's efforts to develop a community emergency warning program in partnership with other local agencies and members of the public, officials said.
Godley will also study different staffing models for the emergency services division in advance of providing a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors sometime in the coming months. The division is currently housed under Fire and Emergency Services, overseen by the County Administrator's Office. Supervisors are considering whether to move it elsewhere, perhaps under the Sheriff's Office.
Should another major disaster arise during Godley's tenure, he said he'd seek to warn residents as much as possible, including through the Wireless Emergency Alerts system the county didn't use in October.


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Mumbai: Journalist Jigna Vora, arrested in
connection with the murder of senior scribe Jyotirmoy Dey
on Tuesday moved the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime
Act (MCOCA) court here seeking in-camera trial in the case.
"Vora has filed an application seeking in-camera trial in
the case. She has also sought that the media should be totally
restrained or it should reveal the source of the stories,"
said special public prosecutor Dileep Shah.
However, it was argued in the court that there is no
provision under MCOCA seeking a media gag, he said.
Vora, Deputy Chief of Bureau of `Asian Age`, was arrested
on November 25 under MCOCA on charges of providing key
information like supplying licence plate number of the
motorcycle and address of the slain journalist, to gangster
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His aide Rohee Thangappan Joseph was arrested earlier and
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Shinde, Arun Dake, Sachin Gaikwad, Anil Waghmode, Nilesh
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Apparently, Rajan was upset with two articles written by
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Jigna had instigated the overseas based underworld to
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A supplementary charge sheet would be filed at a later
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Few Candidates Visit Georgia's IDP Settlements
More than 30,000 Georgians were displaced by the August 2008 conflict over South Ossetia. Approximately two-thirds have been resettled into 36 new villages or apartment buildings, known as IDP (internally displaced person) settlements.
Residents claim that very few candidates have campaigned in the settlements. "No one comes. Not from the government or from the opposition," said Spiridon Romelishvili, a middle aged IDP originally from Tskhinvali, adding that everything he knows about the May 30 election he has learned from television. "If they had come, of course I would have wanted to talk with them. But no one is interested in us, in the situation here."
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