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A Lost Interview with Brian BarryNew Left Project
April 26, 2011
Why Social Justice Matters, a sustained critique of inequality in Britain and the US and the illusions which justify it. I lost the audio but recently found a transcript of most of our discussion, though it's missing about 20 minutes of conversation. It reminded me that Barry had some very important things to say which, however cliched it may be to say, are certainly no less relevant today than they were when we met.
What is social justice? What is its status relative to other values, such as liberty?
As far as I am concerned social justice is an organisation of the basic institutions of society that satisfy certain criteria and these are primarily that the allocation of opportunities, rights and resources should be equal unless there is some reason for them not be. And that applies both within countries and internationally.
And the primary reason why they shouldn't be equal is if the inequalities come about as a result of choices for which people can be held fully responsible. Now my view is that far too much has been made of this notion of responsibility as an excuse, if you like, for inequality because the conditions for responsibility are much tougher than is generally realised. Perhaps the core of the book is in the central chapters which are about the abuse of the notion of responsibility among politicians and in general among newspaper columnists and the like. For example, children, to a very large extent cannot be held responsible for their performance in school and, therefore, in getting into higher education and so on. We know that there are huge environmental influences all the way from the womb, nutrition and generally the material conditions – the absence of lead in the home and all that stuff – and that the advantages and disadvantages of children in relation to the resources that their parents can bring to bear, both in terms of language, upbringing skills and again material conditions are so enormously diverse that they increasingly skew the performance of children. I argue that the influence of genetics on any of this is extremely dubious and in fact unproven unless there actually identifiable neurological or physical defects, but they are at best completely residual compared to the enormous influence of the environment. As we proceed into adulthood we can again say that choices very often have to be made from the alternatives that are available to people but if those alternatives are restricted by previous lack of opportunity, then merely to say 'oh, you chose this rather than that' rings rather than hollow and produces really rather little in the way of a justification of inequality.
Equal opportunity is a corollary of the notion that responsibility cuts in only after we can establish that people first of all have worthwhile options, at the least, and that they have the capacity to exercise good judgement – which itself is hard to come by, perhaps hard to come by for everybody. So there's always a limitation to the extent to which people's choices should determine their fate, that's to say a bad decision at some point should not make people destitute. The most that you can get out of the whole notion of responsibility is a certain degree of inequality.
Now as far as the relation of social justice to other values is concerned, I would say that it is overriding in virtually all cases because the importance of establishing the right sort of inequality for a society is so massive that a lot of liberties, for example, that may be regarded as important, such as the freedom to send your child to a private to a private school, have to be curtailed. It is quite clear that if you can spend as much money as you like on your child then it's going to have a big start in life, especially since of course the people who can afford to do that are already going to be giving their children a big start in life anyway. Obviously there are limits imposed by liberty or, more generally, privacy. For example that the number of words that a child is exposed to, the vocabulary it's exposed to while it's growing up, has a fantastic effect on how well children develop and how well they do in school but we can hardly say that parents with a big vocabulary cannot communicate using that vocabulary with their children. So that's an example of the kind of built-in advantage that you can't do anything about. On the other hand there are of course ways of reducing that advantage by providing really first class nursey and kindergarten education which would require small numbers of children and also that the teacher should be of good quality, which requires the whole status of such work to be jacked up. By those means you can do quite a bit to overcome that kind of disadvantage, so I think that the solution generally to the constraints of liberty is find other ways of reducing its advantageous impact.
Similarly, the ability of parents to provide a separate room for children, computers, help and all that kind of thing can be offset to a great deal if the schools themselves are able to provide the equivalent. And I think that means rather more than so called wrap-around education – I think it would be expensive and it would probably require maybe retired school teachers or other people of good will to come in and provide the sort of help and encouragement to children that middle class parents are able to provide. Again, the idea that you can prevent middle class children receiving the treatment that currently advantages them is really impractical. On the other hand, as I am suggesting, you can provide alternatives and also, of course, you reduce the impact of parental help by making less use of assessment based on the kind of work that children do at home.
Provide some more of the details of the relationship between inequalities and injustice in Britain today.
As I've suggested, inequalities go all the way back to conception, or indeed before conception, because the health of the mother, especially, at the time of conception makes a difference. So one obvious way in which inequality manifests itself is in the inability even to pay for a healthy diet and particularly where we have deprived areas, especially housing estates out of town, then we know that the choice of food is less and it's more expensive. So even where parents are aware what a healthy diet consists of – which I think is far more than what the propaganda suggests – they also know that the priority is to prevent their children from going hungry so they are forced to by food that will cause trouble for children and that's part of, although only part of, the wave child obesity that we are seeing.
Inequality has profound effects on the lives of people in many other ways. Inequality, it's been shown, creates stress, which itself shortens life in a variety of ways; it also creates ill health more generally and the differences between life expectancies between middle class and working class people are quite extraordinary, from about 75 to 67. Now this is partly the result of material conditions, poor housing poor diet and so on, but it is also the result of inequality itself – the lower down the scale people are the worse they feel about themselves. Also stress in the workplace is extremely deleterious and you find again that the less control people have over their working conditions the more liable they are to stress. There's a classic study of civil servants which showed that even after you take into account all the known normal risk factors, as you go down from the top to people down to the clerical grade – we're not talking about people who are poor or oppressed in the normal way – you get a systematic increase in especially coronary heart disease but more generally in ill health and earlier death. If it works even in a context like that we can see how enormous that effect has to be across the whole society.
People who don't accept your view about the intrinsic badness of much inequality may nonetheless be persuaded by this kind of evidence that inequality needs to be reduced because of its harmful effects. You discuss a range of other 'pathologies of inequality' – what are some of the most significant?
The pathologies of inequality are very many and various. They, as I've already said, lead to differences in status and self-perception which are important and sources of stress and unhappiness. We know for every society that relative happiness goes up as you ascend the income scale, or, when you have a racist society, as you switch from those subject to racism to those who either benefit or perpetrate it. But also as inequality increases, as it has in Britain (and in most countries but in Britain most remarkably) from the 1980s, you also get an increasing gap between the incomes people have and the aspirations that they have, which is itself a form of unhappiness and leads to the increasing use credit, going into debt, in order to try to bridge the gap. These two phenomena which are leading now to a sharp increase in bankruptcies are a direct effect of the increase in inequality.
Another effect of inequality which has been really pretty well established internationally is the relationship between inequality and crime. The more that you have a group of people who can see no prospects of making a decent living by honest means, the more that disadvantage among them is perpetuated, then the more crime you tend to have and we've certainly seen this in Britain. Now, another important pathology of inequality, which itself makes inequality much harder to get rid of, is the political power that money provides people with. We've obviously seen some gross examples of that recently in the cash-for-peerages business but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The important thing is that by lobbying businesses can get policies that they want – for example, the code for reducing eliminating advertising of junk foods aimed at children has been watered down by an enormous number of negotiations with the firms affected but almost none with nutritionists, the kind of people who would be against it. Very rich people also have a very large influence on policy by the need for parties to get donations. You can see this in the Labour party because as its membership base has declined and as unions have become increasingly reluctant to contribute then rich people are the only resource to fill the gap and so both major parties now are heavily dependent on contributions, including individual contributions. If you didn't have that degree of inequality then obviously you wouldn't get this kind of perversion of the democratic process in which it really is almost more that one pound is equivalent to one vote rather than each person has a vote.
What are your proposals for egalitarian change?
It's fairly clear of course that taxation has to play a large part in this. The fact that people who are making above average salaries but not a great deal above are paying 40% of their incomes in taxes while someone making a million a year is making the same amount clearly means that nothing's being done to address inequality. The situation with respect to wealth is even worse. The Labour government has done absolutely nothing to close any of the loopholes that were created by the Conservatives and indeed before that by ingenious tax lawyers. The largest hole that has been driven through was the extension of immunity to taxation to land which means that all you have to do if you want pass on money without any kind of restrictions is to buy land. Similarly, there are all kinds of rackets involving trusts whereby grandparents pass money on to their grandchildren, for example. And it's really amazing the degree of fuss that's been made about the modest changes to that introduced by the Chancellor in the last budget which don't do anything to eliminate this, they merely curtail some of the further ways of piling up the money.
I think that in the long run inequalities of wealth may be more pathological than inequalities of income, certainly in terms of the perversion of the electoral process but also in terms of opportunity. It's been shown that the possession of wealth by parents who are prepared to pass it on in one form or another to their children makes an extraordinary difference to opportunities – that children of wealthy parents can take risks, for example, that no bank would fund in order to try starting up small businesses or undergo training that may not have high returns until the future, such as training to be a barrister. So I think that the solution to this, or at least the beginnings of a solution to this, is a wealth tax, a tax on actual wealth. This is not a question of just taxing the kind of wealth that yields an income but even more importantly taxing the kinds of wealth that don't produce an income. Currently you can have as much wealth as you like, but provided it's invested in pictures and houses and so on you don't pay income tax on it – you may eventually pay capital gains tax on it but this is at a laughably low rate – whereas a wealth tax would take account of all sources of wealth and as far as feasibility is concerned it would be possible to introduce it over a number of years starting with quite high numbers, say five million, and then bringing it down as more and more records are compiled. Now the problem with wealth tax is that it's very hard for one country to get much out of line with the others and about the highest running in western Europe is two percent. The problem with two percent is of course it's fairly easy to beat two percent with the increase in your wealth so therefore the most it can do is hold down the amount of wealth that people have.
Now I think that if inequality of wealth is as important is as important as I maintain it is it would be worth losing some rich people in order to actually have a wealth tax that would start cutting into inequality of wealth. At the other end you can do something on the lines of the so-called 'baby bond' but much more ambitious, and proposals have been made for children at the age of say eighteen to have access to serious sums of money. This of course would have to be raised by toughening death duties enormously as well as a wealth tax. And this would make some difference by providing some of these advantages to children whose parents can't provide them with the opportunities that wealth provides. Although we have to remember that for many purposes they would still simply lag behind because if everybody gets this, which is the normal idea – that it's a gesture of social solidarity – it will still leave the middle class parents ahead. So I think the problem of unequal wealth is an extremely difficult one, an extremely intractable one, and I don't think that anybody yet has a handle on it.
You also support the more radical measure of an unconditional basic income. Could you explain this proposal and why you favour it?
I think that once you think through the alternatives you realise that moving towards an income adequate to live on for everybody, that is given to all the citizens or permanent residents of a country and eventually should be extended across the world, is the only way of dealing with inequality. People like Polly Toynbee who think their hearts are in the right place are simply barking up the wrong tree in thinking that pushing up wages is anything like enough to solve the problems of poverty, let alone inequality. In the end we have to face it that in contemporary societies where unskilled labour is not required a great deal then many people will not be able to provide a great deal of value added to employers. However much you fiddle around with income supplements and so on you are still going to find that you will have a lot of poor people. Now we have in this country an enormous amount of child poverty and there are proposals to try to halve this or even eliminate it by some date long in the future. The fact is that that could be done tomorrow if we provided people with enough income to live on themselves and a realistic amount of income for children. Obviously this would not be the same amount as an adult but it would be scaled and if you just give people the money then you simply abolish child poverty. Now, as with a wealth tax, this would take some time – I think the introduction of a basic income would have to be phased in because it would have many knock-on effects on the institutions of a society but it would be feasible to introduce it in stages. In the earlier stages you would have to keep all the apparatus that we already have and simply knock the basic income off but even that could make a big difference.
In the case of pensions there is a simple answer which is simply to provide enough for people to live on. Means testing, which is what has obsessed Gordon Brown and has indeed reduced poverty to some extent, has many disadvantages from the point of producing a society of equal respect and to the greatest degree possible equal power. When people talk about the culture of dependency they don't actually mean people who have independent means or indeed people who have unconditionally available incomes. It's dependency on means tested benefits that creates the problems…


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Sunday, October 24, 2010
cd sunday: the postal service's give up
and so we reach the end. way back in june i embarked on a quest to share with you my favorite twenty albums. i hope you've enjoyed the journey as much as i have. it was tough to select just twenty, and made me realize how diverse my collection is - and the way that my collection has changed over the years.
today's final album is by the postal service - a side project of ben gibbard, lead singer of the band death cab for cutie. this album is quirky - part indie rock, part electronica, part ear candy pop. some songs are familiar - you might recognize "such great heights" as the song was featured in us postal service commercials as part of a name copyright settlement, and was covered by the band iron and wine and featured in the indie film garden state.
but the album has even more than that. some of it is melodic enough to be a lullaby (such as "homage" or "see the light"), while others are uptempo enough to be featured in a play-list for the gym workout.
i cannot remember who introduced me to this album. it came out while i was in college but i didn't have it during my semester in south africa which occurred at the end of that year (i know this because my cd folder was stolen on that trip, containing hundreds of cds - many in my current collection of around 400 albums are actually burned copies because of this unfortunate incident, give up is not one of them, which means it was not on the trip). it certainly wasn't very early. in some kind of odd twist, it made me much more curious about death cab for cutie - i'm not sure how often a side project ends up making people interested in the main event, but that is what happened for me.
so why the photo of the capitol building? well the opening track always makes me think of washington with the repetitive line from the chorus, "d.c. sleeps, alone tonight".
it is a brilliant album and i'm baffled as to why a follow-up never came forth. maybe someday my fellow ben will get around to it.
and so, here is the final list. my twenty favorite albums, in no particular order...
1. u2 - the joshua tree
2. dave matthews band - crash
3. cake - comfort eagle
4. blue rodeo - five days in july
5. the beach boys - pet sounds
6. coldplay - viva la vida
7. weezer - pinkerton
8. mates of state - re-arrange us
9. radiohead - ok computer
10. nickel creek - this side
11. u2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb
12. the beatles - the white album
13. sloan - one chord to another
14. o.a.r. - risen
15. paul simon - graceland
16. jack johnson - brushfire fairytales
17. led zeppelin - iv
18. belle & sebastian - the life pursuit
19. sara watkins - sara watkins
20. the postal service - give up
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Within the last several months I introduced you to Kim Cormack's Children of the Ankh series with my reviews of Sweet Sleep and Enlightenment. Today I bring you another story in the series, Wild Thing.
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Wild Thing by Kim Cormack is an exciting adventure into the author's creative mind. As a young girl Lexy is subject to the worst forms of punishment and life one can imagine. The people on the dark farm keep he caged in a stall, feed her water of the dead and throw her into a pit of death. She watches a young girl whom she'd grown fond of die in her arms. Her life is the worst imaginable hell. But that life is what makes her a fierce. Dragon. She lacks emotion, and doesn't care. She kills those who persecute or hunt her. Once she meets the Ankh, her life changes forever.
This book is gory, gritty, and suspenseful. Cormack weaves a violent web that had me cheering for Lexy and hating those who tormented her. Wild Thing is a spin-off of her Children of the Ankh series, where the reader is first introduced to Lexy. Wild Thing is Lexy's story. The plot is similar as the reader follows Lexy's life, her introduction to the Ankh, immortal life, and Enlightenment but it's uniquely different as Kayn's story was mild in comparison. The author's take on immortal beings is distinctive. They aren't necessarily glorious creatures or vampires. They are kids, each with their own story.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
La Chillona
I think with my limited blogging as of late I have failed to mention that I got a dog. She is a cavalier and she is a spoiled brat. (*For the record, I was not the one who spoiled her, I have only had her a month and she is 8 years old). She has some abandoment issues, and as such thinks anytime I leave her, it will be forever. There are lots of good things about her, she is sweet, mellow, house trained, and very amicable in making new acquaintances. She is actually a perfect church dog, even with my youth, she is great. Part of it is that she is 3/4 deaf, so she doesn't hear everything to be distracted by it. But if I could get her to be a little less clingy, we'd be golden. For instance, this morning I at my brother's house and had his dog with me on the couch and he had my "idget" on the chair with him. Well, she just whinned and whinned and then finally he moved her to make her more comfortable and she made a bee-line across the chair over the arm of the couch so she could snuggle next to me. Yep, she's a bit spoiled. (Oh yeah, and she's overweight...so we also have a diet plan, few treats, and lots of exercise). But she's mine, and she thinks I'm the cats meow...so we fair alright.
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A story in today's New York Times describes the filing of charges against a Staten Island couple for embezzling millions of dollars in federal funds intended to provide (ouch) nutritious meals for preschoolers. What caught my attention was that the couple "surrendered to agents of the United States Agriculture Department."
It must really be a drag to be a cop in a department where no one knows there are cops. "Federal agents, huh? Let's see some ID....Agriculture Department? Hey, can I ask you a question about mulching?"
It's time for some of these people to get their own TV shows: "USDA! Put down your weapons and step away from the ground beef!" "Run! It's the Ags!" What a pity criminals don't say "Cheese it!" any more.


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This pretty skirt was made by Linda Baxter Lasco of Paducah, KY. If her name sounds familiar, that's because she is a senior editor at AQS and has authored three of the "New Quilts from an Old Favorite" series: the Sawtooth, Burgoyne Surrounded and Rose of Sharon books. She also helped me with my AQS book "Quilts from the Selvage Edge."
So, back to the skirt. Linda was inspired by Paulette Carr's selvage skirt which was featured here last September. She made it for Faith, the daughter of Sylvia who is also part of the team at AQS. Didn't she do a great job? I love the bright colors and the fancy belt. She even changed her thread to match each of the buttons. Faith is one lucky girl. Nice job, Linda!
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Linda Baxter Lasco's Selvage Skirt
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- Molly Bryn said...
What an adorable skirt! I love the attention to details with the colorful buttons and pocket flower.
Thanks for stopping by lessons from elephants. I hope one day to have a following like yours. See you soon!
- February 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM
- Danielle said...
That is a great skirt! I had the pleasure of taking classes with Linda when she lived in MA. She is an amazing quilter, and I can say for sure, the skirt matches her personality!
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- Darlee Byron said...
This definitely is one great looking skirt... and will look so pretty on this little girl.
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- February 20, 2010 at 10:04 AM
How cute! You are so creative! oxo
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So sweet, love it!
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This little story appeared in the newsletter at work this week, in the Chaplain's Thoughts. My wish for all of you:
A few days ago a friend sent me a moving story about a daughter saying what was likely to be a final goodbye to her father at the airport. They hugged, and the father was overheard to say, "I love you, and I wish you enough."
The daughter was heard to reply, "Dad, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough too, Dad."
I WISH YOU ENOUGH. As the story unfolds, the father shares what was meant by that goodbye.
· I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
· I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
· I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
· I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
· I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
· I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final goodbye.
May you be blessed this week... with enough!


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Play involves straying from the expected, using the familiar in unfamiliar ways, overturning expectations, and pushing boundaries. At least in part, that means that something in a conversation or interaction has to nudge the thought processes of the individuals in question "off the beaten path," ultimately leading the conversation or interaction there as well. Part of what makes play so satisfying is the undercurrent of surprise that ties it to everything else and the "delicious sense of security" (as I imagine C.S. Lewis might phrase it) that the relationship will "resume its original shape" (like a rubber band) once the boundary is no longer being stretched and the tension has been released.
I think teasing is used (subconsciously) on a variety of levels—to map the boundaries of a friendship, to cement a friendship, to affirm a friendship, and to deepen/expand a friendship. You've probably noticed that as people become more comfortable with a friendship or a relationship of any kind, they begin to recognize the natural ebb and flow of the relationship (how the conversation "feels") without having to rely on external signposts, affirmations, or clarifications (such as the phrase, "Just kidding!", facial expressions, or a punch in the arm that affirms that one is still accepted by the person or group in question). In other words play is so much fun not only because of the fun inherent in the activity itself, but also because of the way it feels and what it represents/symbolizes about the parties involved.
Surprise is difficult to achieve without having first established a baseline of expected or "normal" behavior. I have observed that people often use verbal teasing or physical "banter" as a sign of belonging to a particular group. If you are "in," you can get away with it. If you are "out" and you try to replicate the playful behaviors that you have observed, your reception will be hostile at worst, cold at best. Why? Because although you can imitate the behaviors, you cannot imitate the current of energy responsible for the natural ebb and flow behind them (you can't be sure whether they are using 120 or a different voltage, to further the electrical analogy), or the foundation of trust that allows that exchange of energy to occur (wiring, size of the line). It is hard to play tug of war (representative of the ebb and flow of play) until both parties take hold of the rope (a.k.a. friendship/relationship of some sort) AND until both parties accept that inherent in play is the state of being off-balance, the willingness to be surprised.
Because play is ultimately based (at least in part) on the manipulation (or total breakage) of "the rules" (in terms of communication, content, culture, community, and the relationship in question—invisible though they may be), it also generally requires a deep (though, perhaps, unconscious) understanding and internalization of those rules and their accompanying conventions, allusions, and cultures (both geographical and the culture of a particular person or group), among other things. In other words, the most satisfying forms of play are based on understanding and on trust (partially involving the belief that equilibrium will eventually be restored and that the cost of making oneself vulnerable enough to play will be worth it). Picasso is a great example of this. He certainly is famous for breaking the rules, but what distinguishes him as a master artist is that he understood the rules implicitly when he set out to break them—thus allowing him to control (or, at least, to predict) the outcomes.
This idea also has tremendous implications for the classroom (and for any friendship). Play is one way for teachers to discover the "rules" of good teaching (and for people to discover/establish the "rules" of a relationship). It is a way for them to communicate the rules that will be used for learning to students in a non-threatening way (ebb and flow versus brick wall). It is also a way for observers to discover which teachers know those rules (at least subconsciously), which is not to say that one can always pinpoint which rules they know, just that they must have a general sense of the various factors that influence learning (which are complex because they cross so many different fields—neuroscience, psychology, subject area content, cognitive/social/emotional development, pedagogy, methodology, sociology, etc.).
The most satisfying forms of play require both the existence of an established relationship and a broad and deep understanding of the world—be that the world of a specific friendship, family, organization, community, or larger cultural group-though for some parties, the definition of "world" is both narrow in scope and limited in content). Additionally, play, in its richest forms, requires a substantial amount of trust because it demands a significant investment of self (often at the risk of great vulnerability—as is true anytime one chooses to deliberately break "the rules") and a willingness to purposefully put oneself into a state of disequilibrium—to be "off-balance" by consent.
That, ultimately, results in the following issues:
1) Is the climate such that it is "safe" to play?
2) Is there someone with whom to play? (An established relationship that spans at least one common world, founded on an agreed-upon and negotiated set of rules and common experiences?)
3) How "tamed" are the parties involved?
4) How likely is the "rubber band" of the relationship to snap back into its natural shape?
Those questions are not answered as easily as one might think—especially when it comes to grown ups. As St. Exupery's Little Prince once observed, "Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. . . . Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: 'That is a hat.' Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars . . . . I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man."
So, I suppose that since I prefer to talk about primeval forests and stars, and the prevailing topics are golf and politics and neckties, I don't really have much to say as a general rule. Every now and again, though, I try my version of the Little Prince's "experiment." Sometimes it works, sometimes (often) it doesn't.


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It's always hard when time in Bremerton comes to an end. I've been here two short nights and head home this evening. Just in time to get packed for a nine-day trip early the very next morning!
I even had a chance to attend church while visiting this weekend. The Manette Ward was so nice, welcoming, and friendly. I felt right at home and really enjoyed the three-hour block.
Soon it was time to head to the airport to get ready for our 2.5-hour flight home.
But you can't go home on empty stomachs, right?
I love the mountains in the distance.
Lunch indeed! I was so excited to get a little steak and some salad. I don't know why, but steakhouse salads always taste the best!
And today certainly didn't disappoint with crispy lettuce, freshly-shredded cheese, croutons, tomatoes, and red onions. With a little bit of ranch dressing on top, I consider this salad nearly perfect.
Adding hard-boiled eggs would have made it completely perfect, by the way.
To my great disappointment, the tiny steak was $16. And I just didn't want to pay that much for a little meal before heading home. So I opted for the chicken quesadilla from the lunch menu and pretended that I wasn't eating at a steakhouse.
It was good, but most of it went home to Hubby for him to enjoy.
By the time we got to the airport, it was around 1:30 PM. Within just a few hours, we would be loaded up and on our way home!
As you can see, they don't get a ton of jets visiting to Bremerton. We were the only ones on the ramp for this particular weekend.
Everyone else was really missing out, though.
Because of the lower ceilings, the traffic pattern wasn't quite as busy as when we arrived on Friday. But a few brave souls were out and about.
The view from Gladys is pretty impressive since she sits so high. I love it. Even though she seats as many people as Beechjets and Citation CJ4s, she looks much bigger because of how tall she is.
I'm a Phenom 300 snob now, by the way.
It was fun to watch this gorgeous helicopter land in front of the café. A little old man piloting the thing helped his wife down, and they went inside to enjoy a probably-yummy lunch.
Wouldn't that be fun? Just hop into your private helicopter and head for lunch on the other side of the Puget Sound?
He had a good landing, too. He must know what he was doing. And he must be rich.
Soon, we were in the same sky and on our way home. With five people and one dog in back, the flight went quickly with some gorgeous views along the way.
This is one of the best views of Bremerton that I've ever witnessed.
We eventually popped out of the clouds and had a mostly-clear flight home. It's fun to fly past clouds like this because you realize how incredibly fast you really are going!
Rocket! Zooooooooooom!
This was the end of the Puget Sound as we made our way southwest towards home. It was such a nice flight. I was anxious to get home so I could do laundry for my flight the next morning.
Spending a few hours with Hubby would be nice, too, since I wouldn't see him for over a week. Poor guy. Or lucky guy, depending on who you ask!
Are we over Antarctica? Sure looks like it.
And then my favorite part of the entire flight began happening…breathtaking sunsets to enjoy. Look at all of the color layers of the mountains below. Isn't that gorgeous?!
Throw a wing into the shot, and you have something truly fantastic. I have the best office views in the world.
The sunsets last a little longer from 41,000 feet, so this was a real treat. I just hope that I didn't burn my camera's eye by taking so many pictures of the sun tonight.
We are getting closer to evening as the sun completely disappeared behind the mountains in the distance. If I was a poet, I would write something really witty and rhyming right now.
Aren't you glad that I'm not a poet?!
The Valley of the Sun came into view, but it was more The Valley of the Sunset on this particular evening. I didn't mind. We touched down around 7:00 PM local, and I arrived in my garage about an hour later.
Two loads of laundry to do…will it all get done in time to pack at 5:00 AM?
What a pretty view to greet me when coming home! It was a nice weekend in Bremerton, but not it's time to prep for nine days on the road. More fun flying adventures to come!
Happy Weekend!


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Prescribed fires on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest Beginning on Wednesday, April 6th
REDDING, Calif., April 5, 2016 – Beginning on Wednesday, April 6th, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest will conduct three prescribed fire operations to remove ground fuels on National Forest System lands.
On April 6th, the Trinity River Management Unit will be burning up to 95 acres in the Browns Concentration project area, located northeast of Weaverville off the French Gulch Road. (To see a map, click here.) Ignitions should begin around 11:00 a.m. Wednesday and smoke may be visible in the area for the next few days. For more information on this prescribed burn, contact the Weaverville Ranger Station at (530) 623-2121.
During April 6-7th, the Shasta-McCloud Management Unit will be burning up 200 acres as part of the McIntosh project area, located north of Highway 89 approximately 18 miles east of McCloud.(To see a map, click here.) Smoke will be visible from Highway 89 near Bartle. Smoke impacts to the highway will be minimal. For more information on this prescribed burn, contact the McCloud Ranger Station at (530) 964-2184.
Beginning on Thursday, April 7th, the National Recreation Area Management Unit will burn up to 1200 acres on Green Mountain, which is located north of Redding, near the confluence of the Squaw and Pit Arms of Shasta Lake. (To see a map, click here.)The project is part of the Green Mountain Vegetation Management Project which totals approximately 6,500 acres of prescribed fire. The fire will create smoke that will be visible from many areas on the eastern portion of Shasta Lake, along Interstate 5 near Bridge Bay, and the Silverthorn and Jones Valley areas. Implementation is planned to take approximately 2 days. Smoke may continue to be visible a few days following the prescribed fire. For more information about this prescribed burn, please call the Shasta Lake Ranger Station at (530) 275-1587
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27 July 2009
This is the report by Julius Segovia of GMA News on today's 95th founding anniversary celebration of the Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC).
Because of the vast number of attendees, the Araneta Coliseum overflowed and those who could not enter had to content themselves with following the program on giant widescreen TVs. The situation was more or less the same at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex. I can imagine the same scenario in other venues across the country.
Congratulations to our Iglesia Ni Cristo friends on their successful celebration of this special day!


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Hey, all! Happy Friday! Hope you have a relaxing weekend planned...I'm definitely looking forward to that extra hour of sleep when we turn back the clocks on Sunday!
I was inspired when I saw today's Moxie Fab post: Hello from Hedgehog Heaven, so I made a couple of quick his & hers birthday cards. I changed the cardstock bases, used a button on the masculine card, and added bling to the feminine one.
Hope you like them!
Stamps: Porcupine Duo (Studio G), Birthday Wishes (PTI)
Paper: Taken with Teal, Pretty in Pink, PTI white, Echo Park pp
Ink: Adirondack Espresso
Accessories: button & twine (stash), Kaisercraft rhinestones
Friday, November 5, 2010
8 comments:
- Cassie said...
Haha, those are adorable, Ann :)
- November 5, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Laura O'Donnell said...
so cute, Anne!
- November 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Smart Ass Sara said...
These make me want a pet hedgehog. I'm adding it to my Xmas list.
- November 5, 2010 at 3:49 PM
- Vera W. Yates (Ling) said...
Awww, Ann this is sooo cute! I missed my pet hedgehog. They're really the cutest!
- November 5, 2010 at 4:34 PM
- Karen B. said...
These are great Ann! So cute to create a masculine and feminine one! You are so clever.
- November 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM
- Belinda said...
Oh how ADORABLE! :)
- November 6, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Susan (peebsmama) said...
Super cute image and fun use of patterned paper.
- November 6, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- Sheri (a.k.a PaperCrafty) said...
Very cute Ann!!
- November 6, 2010 at 9:41 PM
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(This is a Rambling today)
I was working on an issue last week and it got me to thinking. There are so many times throughout my career where I have had to just sit and look at the screen and just think. I know this sounds just really odd, but it's true. Let me give you an example.
About 10 or 15 years ago (I don't know exactly), I was working on creating a table that had every company in the US in it. This sounds pretty simple doesn't it? The creation of the table was easy but then I got to the part of writing queries on it. But that is a different post for a different day. The point that I am trying to make is that I sat there for hours trying to figure out all the different ways that I could create this table that would store 16 million records. Some of the ways that I was thinking about was to:
- Split the 1 table into many tables and have one table for each State. That way when I ran a query on it I could just look at the State and go right to the table (By the way this was way before table partitions in SQL Server).
- Another way that I thought about it was to Group the States by the area of the country they were in. In my thought process I thought wow, this way I could keep the tables close to the same size but would not have the Maintenance that I would have with the previous option that I mentioned.
- At one time I think I considered creating multiple tables based on the first number in the zip code, or the area code in the phone number.
- I am sure there were others, I just don't remember them now.
The point that I am trying to make here is that the answer was sitting right in front of me. Just leave it as one table and create an index on the table that will work the queries that I need to run. I am not sure if I have a good example up to this point, but what I am getting at is just because you can do something does not mean that you should do it. Any of the suggestions that I had listed may have worked. Each of those suggestions may even be a good suggestion based on a different case. The end result was I spent so much time trying to figure out how to handle this huge (at the time) number of rows that I could not see the forest through the trees.
Good database design starts with knowing how the data is going to be used. There may be more than one answer, and chances are that there is more than one way to do it. The question is can you see the forest.
Maybe we should start looking at some of the database designs that we see and say look at the pictures, look at the lines that represent the keys. Is there to much there? Then maybe it's too complex to get data out of it. I am not saying that databases with a lot of tables is bad, I am saying maybe it should be reviewed to make sure that it's the way it should be done.
I leave you with this thought. There use to be rule when I first started working with databases. If I recall you could have up to 32 table joins in a query, but when you talked to the experts they would say if you are using more the 8 joins then the performance would be awful. Today we can join a lot more than 32 tables in one query and I still think that if you are looking at 8 joins, you may want to review how you are doing things.
Sorry about the Ramblings today. I am still trying to figure out when we lost sight of the goal.


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If there was ever any alloy to specify the type of Steel used in the title, it would be Platinum. One of the most expensive metals on planet earth, and singularly of the rarest.. This is the same embodiment that defines MoS. A superhero movie with a budget in the top expensive 10s, also being a prime gem of celluloid. The first screenshot released of Man of Steel was in mid 2011:
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Man of Steel is Platinum
If there was ever any alloy to specify the type of Steel used in the title, it would be Platinum. One of the most expensive metals on planet earth, and singularly of the rarest.. This is the same embodiment that defines MoS. A superhero movie with a budget in the top expensive 10s, also being a prime gem of celluloid. The first screenshot released of Man of Steel was in mid 2011:
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AWESOME review of awesome movie !!! and i agree, movie is perfect except for lois lane =P Movie of the year
- June 19, 2013 at 4:51 AM
A movie can do great depending on how the audience anticipates it, Thor 2 and Wolverine will make money but not as much or even close to Man of steel or any of the the batman movies after batman begins. Lets face it, Super Man and batman are like two amazing super heros every kid knows about them and wanna watch them on the big screen, but not many know about Thor or wolverine compared to batman or superman more over you and me both know iron man makes money just cause of RD.J, or else it would be a joke too. but Man of Steel, WICKED !!!
- June 19, 2013 at 5:23 AM
- AJaye2009 said...
I was introduced to the world of American
comics by a neighbour at the age of 9. Prior to that I had been reading British
comics; the 'funnies' such as Topper, Beano and The Dandy. I didn't know the
Saturday morning cartoon shows were based on comic books.
My neighbour was a Marvel fan. I became a
Marvel fan. It was Spider-Man. Then in the 80s it was Frank Miller's daredevil.
I stopped reading comics in the 90s. But I still read Frank Miller.
I never read Superman.
Full disclosure. Superman guest appears in
The Dark Knight Returns. No spoilers but – Supes shiv; give no.
I haven't watched any of the Superman films
in a 35 year canon. I have caught the odd snippet on TV much like I've caught a
glimmer of Star wars but I plead the refuge of the irresponsible: it wasn't my
Zack Snyder directed Watchmen of which I
approve. I approve of Christopher Nolan. I approve of Kevin Costner, Russell
Crowe and Diane Lane. None of which will induce me to watch Man of Steel.
I've been following the career of a young man
called Nisar Masoom. Perhaps it's not my place to feel like a father watching a
son grow and mature. Nevertheless I am in witness of a writer. Congratulations
son. Your parents must be proud.
You've persuaded me to watch this flick.
- June 19, 2013 at 6:07 AM
u r welcome my love <3 :p <(")
have to agree with your review (great minds think alike :p)
i was hesitant on watching superman returns (2006), i didnt watch it all this time, just recently watched it (finally!!) when i didnt have anything else to watch
and i have say that it was an awesome movie, right then i decided that i got to watch the next part (which is ofcourse man of steel) :D
gnna go watch it this weekend and am sure gnna love it :D
christopher nolan is an awesome director- also agreed
thank you for taking out your time to write this awesome review :)
- June 19, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Haha! Great minds do think alike.
Superman Returns is favoured by some people. But after witnessing Man of Steel that movie will be just a passing breeze in the air. MoS will be an unforgettable hurricane!
- June 20, 2013 at 5:00 AM
Ae Jaye,
My dear friend bless your comment, and history on comic books. Frank Miller is brilliant - so was 300 and Watchmen. You are an inspiration to me for starting this blog. So it is your place as a mentor to watch my skills grow.
Hope you enjoy the flick. Can't wait for your feedback.
- June 20, 2013 at 5:03 AM
Wicked is just one thesaurus of awesome to describe it. All of the synonyms of awesome encompass Man of Steel. And you're right, Thor 2 and The Wolverine will make money. Though Thor 2 about $200 million more. Still Nolan's superhero movies are derived from human spirit. He does not use traditional comic book trivia. Thanks for the feedback Rashid.
- June 20, 2013 at 5:06 AM
Yup an awesome review of the awesome movie of the year. Lois Lane's character devastated. Hopefully, if any one is chosen as Supergirl, then it should be Olivia Wilde or Megan Fox. Maggie Q could play Lana Lang in my assessment.
- June 20, 2013 at 5:09 AM
Yeah it was way better than the previous ones.
Awesome Review! :D
- January 6, 2014 at 8:36 AM
Thanks for reading man! Yeah way better than all previous parts, including Supergirl, LOL.
- January 13, 2014 at 11:40 AM


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Are you happy at work? Any advice for loving what you doing?
Monday, May 2, 2011
stuck in a rut
Are you happy at work? Any advice for loving what you doing?
15 comments:
- Melanie's Randomness said...
I completely understand the creative rut. I was in one for most of April. Having a new job and just being content with life I just couldn't muster something to write.
But to answer your question. My job recently ended after 4 years, but I always kept saying I'm going to leave it because it wasn't what I wanted to do and it wasnt' challenging at all. However I got stuck there for about 4 years because the money was too good and I was too scared to pursue anything else. Luck be told the company announced they were closing and I was forced to leave. I didn't know what to do but I marched myself to an employment agency and got myself a real good job that actually applies what I've learned in school and is definitely a challenging experience.
So my advice from all of that is sometimes you have to sit down and really look at your finances and then light a fire (Not literally) under your bum to put yourself out there and research new things and new opportunities for your career. I was forced to look elsewhere but I'm ever so glad I did. Maybe talk to a free career counseling agency or something, towns usually have them. Good luck sweetie I hope maybe some of that helps!!
Melanie's Randomness Blog
- May 2, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Megan said...
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- May 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM
I've definitely been there. I recently left my first "real job" after over 6 years there. I worked in marketing and it was exciting and fun, but it had worn me down. The politics of my office had gotten to be too much and I didn't want to play anymore. So, I found something in a completely different industry, doing something that still uses my skills, but isn't in my career field. It was a big risk, and 3 months later I'm still questioning. Sure, I miss my old job, doing what I thought I'd do for the rest of my life. And sure, this new job is good, but slow to get really going, so it can be frustrating.
But you know what? My mental health is so much better. Sure I'm frustrated that I don't have *enough* to do, but I know in time I will and I know that in the long run, I'm much better off than I was when I was killing myself doing something I "loved".
My advice? Find something you enjoy doing and that doesn't make you want to poke your eyes out with hot sticks every day. Take a risk, because even if you fail, you'll learn something along the way and that will make you stronger.
- May 2, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Hollie said...
my fiance is currently going through the same struggle with his job.. we came across these ?'s on the net the other day that really made him think about what he wants out of life.. and I think he's going to start looking for something else to do. Here's a link, if you have a few minutes to spare! http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/
- May 2, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- PoetessWug said...
WOW! Tough one!...I only remeber being unhappy with what I was doing at a time in my life where my purpose for being here was void of God's purpose. Once I learned what he wanted me to do...and I did it...I've been good since then. Being a Bible teacher and a writer fills me up in ways that nothing else can. I think it's because my focus is not as much about ME as it is about helping other people THROUGH me!..My advice, if looking inward is not working, look upward and then outward. :-)
- May 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Jessica said...
I don't have the answer... but I'm in your boat.
- May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Krystal said...
I feel for all of your questions and feelings..and that's like an endless loop of stuff that doesn't get answered unless you do something! what would you regret not doing most i guess?
- May 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Ren- Lady Of The Arts said...
I love my job- I'm a mom- hard work, never dull and it is impossible to lose interest or lack daily challenges.
- May 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM
- la petite coquine said...
It's never an easy position, because let's be honest-you spend more time every week with your colleagues than you do with your sweetheart! If you like the company, just not the job, investigate other opportunities, or ask for other responsibilities-it might keep things fresh. But if it makes you feel any better, know that every single one of us (commenting and not) has been there before.
In the meantime, take time for you. Don't worry about blogging-we're all here when you need to talk!
- May 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- The Many Colours of Happiness said...
I absolutely understand, I have been going through the same thing and it's so hard to keep it from dragging you down. But what I did was write down all of the things I am good at, all of the things that I enjoy doing, and then look at the career that would fit best into this. Hope this helps!
- May 2, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- SJ said...
it's not surprising that this is nagging at you. you spend at least 40 hours of your week at work so it's not something you can ignore!
maybe start looking around and see what's out there? are there financial constraints? i know personally i like having a regular income which pays me enough to enjoy myself while paying the bills even if sometimes my job can be frustrating and slow at times.
but i've been thinking about this a lot as well and thought about going back to school maybe part time next year.
i'm afraid there's no easy answer though, good luck though!
- May 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Tara said...
The best thing I can say about my job is that I appreciate it, which I think means a lot. The thing is, I've had a job that I LOVED - but that job paid little, made for long hours, and I had to work every weekend and every major holiday. So I had to make a decision...stay there and miss out on important family time (holidays), basically give up my most important "hobby" (traveling), and barely have time for myself let alone my friends/a significant other...OR leave that job and find something that meshed better with the lifestyle I wanted. I chose option B and whereas I don't get the feeling of fulfillment from this job that I did from the last one, my life as a whole is quite a bit happier because I do have the time and money to do other things that I love.
- May 3, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Diana Mieczan said...
Its a very good subject. I think its really different for everyone. For me its all about loving what I do but many of my friend have jobs that they are not too happy with but they take it as a comfy income, easy working environment because they know everything about the task at hand and this way they have time to explore different interests outside the working time like dancing, crafts or cooking classes:). Whatever you do will be great as long as you are happy with your decision:)
Hugs and kisses, sunshine
Ps: I'm hosting a cute necklace GIVEAWAY today! Hope you'll join in!
- May 4, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Crazy Shenanigans-JMO said...
I can totally understand this when it comes to being happy when it comes to work. I say if your not happy with work then change it! Life is too short!
- May 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Heather MK said...
Wow, I just came across your blog for the first time today (after you commented on mine!) and I am completely struck by how much this particular post resonates with me. I am in the same situation with my career and question whether or not I should stay on a regular basis... I know I can do more and I feel like I am wasting my talents. Maybe we can help motivate each other from afar as we work through this...?
- May 25, 2011 at 11:26 AM


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Yesterday, on January 28th, I learned that the book publisher I submitted the Warrior SOS manuscript to made me a conditional offer. I was thrilled to learn that Warrior SOS will be published! What makes it even more exciting is that Jan 28th is the birthday of John Cloninger. I dedicated the book to him. He would have been 45-years-old.
John is the reason I created and wrote Warrior SOS.
His son Austin, now 17-years-old -- the oldest of six children -- wrote a tribute to his dad. The words of the song are below and a video of Austin singing the song are below. What a great song! I know his dad, who's watching over him from heaven, couldn't be more proud of his oldest son. What a great kid!
Here are the words to the song, There Stands a Man:
There stands a man my dad
I remember the deployment to Iraq
Momma cried as you packed up your rucksack
I could only imagine the hell to come
Those months were pretty tough
I remember those BDUs and combat boots
Medals, awards, and those war stories too
A soldiers service inspired a boy like me
To stand up for freedom and the weak.
A soldier willing to fight for what's right
A captain who was used to sacrifice
Where ever you are where ever you've been
I know there's one thing to be said
Forever and always there stands a man
Mmmm ya a fightin' man
I remember the car ride home
Mom told me the news and it wasn't so good
Before I knew it the chemo set in
Stage 4 cancer left me on the rim
I remember you fighting strong no givin up
I remember you pushing through like it wasn't much
A husband's love for his family
Taught me to never mix my priorities
A fighter of a husband who loves his wife
A father striving to raise his kids right
Wherever you are, wherever you've been
I know there's one thing to be said
Forever and always there stands a man
Mmmm ya a family man
I remember the day you passed
My heart skipped a beat and things stopped moving so fast
I'm gonna miss you everyday
But I'll carry on watching for our family
A soldier a father a man of God
Taught me so much to forgive learn and love
Wherever you are wherever you've been
I know there's one thing to be said
Forever and always there stands a man
Mmmm ya that's my Dad
Can't wait to see you again.


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All that in turn means that I accept Jesus Christ's retrospective affirmation of the Old Testament as the inerrant and abiding Word of God. It means I accept His prospective affirmation of the New Testament as the inerrant and abiding Word of God.
It means I affirm the Bible's teaching that God is the infinite-personal Creator of all, that I affirm His perfection in holiness, righteousness, wisdom, power and knowledge. It also means that I recognize my unholiness, my guilt, my helpless and deserving vulnerability to His eternally damning judgment for the sinner that I am and the sins that I have done.
It involves my affirming Jesus Christ's word as central and foundational to my worldview — which means nothing less than the fact that I try to think the specific thoughts He holds out as true, but means more than that. It means I try to construct my worldview with His truths at the foundation, and forming the very frame, the matrix, the grid for all else. It influences not merely what I think, but also how I think.
...and you're thinking, "Uh, was that title a goof? Was that supposed to be for another post? Here you got Adrian Warnock all excited, and it's just about dumb old doctrine and truth and Bible and stuff."
Read the first sentence one more time.
That's the miracle.
Thirty-seven years ago today I was converted. The day before I went to bed not believing in Jesus, but at the end of February 11, 1973, I was a convinced believer.
starting here. I hated Christianity, hated the Biblical Christ, despised Christians. I loved my autonomy. I was arrogant and self-willed, and bowed the knee to none. I was dead to God —not to "god," but to the actual true and living God of Scripture.
But God the Holy Spirit showed me my sin and need, showed me God's greatness and transcendent holiness, and showed me Christ's truth and beauty — and He showed me how much I needed Christ, and led me to grab a hold of Him by faith.
That is a miracle on the scale of the creation of the universe and the resurrection of Christ.
Overstatement? Not to Paul.
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6)
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:1-10)
What's more, the Lord Jesus has kept me. That's a miracle.
That I would still make the exact same profession I made 37 years ago today, unwavering and with absolute conviction, is a miracle. My conversion so pressed on me my duplicity, my capacity for shallowness and inconstancy, I thought I'd be lost any moment. I was convinced of Christ's truth, but equally convinced of my depravity, and feared I'd fall away in a heartbeat. But He has kept me.
I was singing "Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come" with great feeling not long after my conversion. But then I could also sing, "'Tis grace that brought be safe thus far, And grace will lead me home." That is a miracle.
"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one." (John 10:28-30)So I write to you today to commemorate a great miracle, the grand miracle of this inter-Advent age: the miracle of regeneration.
And I just cannot praise, glorify, nor credit GOD ALONE enough for His sovereign, redeeming, transforming, keeping grace.


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Government topped the list this week as 30 local governmental units and school districts announced layoffs this week affecting thousands of workers, lead by The City of Los Angeles' announcement of 1,700 job cuts and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced 500 layoffs. We are seeing more local governmental and education layoffs this as we approach the end of the school year as well as government fiscal years - Governments and school boards have to finalize budgets for next year and announcing related layoffs.
Energy was next, as Chevron announced 1,500 job cuts in the Bay Area and throughout the US. Pfizer continues to cut as it integrates post-merger operations as it announced 1,400 pharmaceutical industry layoffs, while Takeda Pharmaceutical revealed 500 Chicago area job cuts. Defense also slashed headcount as General Dynamics/NASSCO laid off 900 San Diego employees and Northrup Grumman cut 330 jobs in Fort Eustis VA.
Health and Hospitals Corporation demonstrated that health care is downsizing, even while the industry is hiring overall, as the organization laid off 500 NYC workers.
Inclusion on this listing doesn't mean the entire industry is down, as some from the same sectors appeared on the "Who's Hiring" article published 5/10/10.
Job seekers: You might want to look in greener pastures than these companies.
Organizations announcing or rumored layoffs for the week ended 5/14/10:
- City of Los Angeles CA (1,700)
- Chevron, San Ramon CA, Concord CA and Various US (1,500)
- Pfizer Inc, NYC NY (1,400)
- General Dynamics/NASSCO, San Diego CA (900)
- Takeda Pharmaceutical, Chicago IL (500)
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"Rabbi, you must help me! I bought a roast, but when I brought the package home and opened it, I found a ham!
Two packages must have gotten switched... We're really short on cash
and this roast was supposed to last us until payday. What can I do?"
"Go ahead and cook the roast."
"But I just told you, it's a ham!"
"Don't worry. God will understand. I promise you, this one time, the traif is kosher!"


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Hello again, card making world.
I lost my password for more than my blog, and after a lot of work I just got it.
I made a lot of cards in the last years, but usually I just give them away and made no good pictures.
Have a nice day,
Laura K
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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During my time in Malmö I worked for an electricity company called Sydkraft. Now owned by Eon, they were the regional electricity company for the southern one-third of Sweden.
My Swedish colleagues were extremely friendly and I remember that once a week we would go to lunch in the nearby Kronprinsen shopping centre and eat fläskpankakor med lingonsylt—bacon pancakes with lingonberry jam. Delicious! On another occasion, we went to a public bath where you alternate between sweltering in a hot sauna and plunging into the icy sea. I remember we got told off for drinking beer in the sauna.
On Saint Lucia's Day, 13th December, we had an unexpected treat when a group of beautiful young women came into the canteen at lunchtime and sang Lucia carols, while we ate ginger biscuits and special buns called lussekatter.
I had weekends free, so I took the opportunity to travel around the local region and further afield. Near Ystad on the south coast of Skåne, I visited a stone circle or "stone ship" called Ales stenar (Ale's stones), magnificently situated on a clifftop looking out to sea. Fans of Wallander may recognise this as the spot where Wallander brought Annette Brolin for a romantic picnic.
Yuko and I also visited the nearby university city of Lund, where the cathedral has a wonderfully complicated mediaeval astronomical clock.
Nowadays, Malmö's outstanding landmark is the Turning Torso building by Santiago Calatrava, the tallest building in Scandinavia, towering above what remains otherwise a low-rise city. But when we were there in 2001, it did not exist, and the city's tallest building was still the Kronprinsen—or possibly the tower of St Peter's Church.
For our Christmas dinner in Sweden, we went Swedish style, including smoked reindeer. If you examine the packaging closely, you'll be pleased to see that Rudolf has, in fact, been allowed to join in the reindeer games.
We bought these "triangle lights" in Sweden and still use them in our window every Christmas. In the picture, you can see lights like these in each of the windows across the courtyard.


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Universal Pictures has attached Ron Howard to direct "The Parsifal Mosaic," an adaptation of the espionage thriller by "The Bourne Identity" author Robert Ludlum.
David Self will adapt the Ludlum novel about a CIA operative who thinks he witnessed the execution of his lover after she was identified as a KGB double agent.
Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer will produce with Captivate Entertainment partners Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith. Imagine's David Bernardi will be exec producer.
The studio, which is separately developing a fourth "Bourne" installment with director Paul Greengrass, and "The Sigma Protocol" (an adaptation of yet another Ludlum thriller), began negotiating the rights for "Parsifal Mosaic," for which it had first-look rights in a deal U made with Captivate, which controls screen rights to the late author's books.
Self, best known for "Road to Perdition," most recently co-scripted "The Wolf Man" for Universal.