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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Full Spectrum of Grace
Last Saturday I wrote some thoughts about the color of grace. My conclusion was that grace is gray. Not because that is how God intended it to be, but because we are all recipients of something that is much greater than our sin, failures and the collective perversion of our flesh.
In other words, in a perfect world, the grace of God would be reflected back to a lost, dark and dying world as pure white, because the only thing that would inhabit fully sanctified believers is the Spirit of God.
Here's the kicker, few among us have remained submitted to that divine process of sanctification. I say submitted because our justification occurs with no effort on our part, but the sanctification process occurs only with the willingness of the one being sanctified. A willingness to operate in the full Spirit and Wisdom of God's guidance, i.e. what's best for us as given by Him.
The darker the grace appears in the life of a believer, the less sanctification is occurring. Where and when the grace of God runs out in a scenario like that, seems to be predicated upon ones doctrinal position regarding the reformation. Armenian or Calvinist the choice is yours. Or maybe we should offer a neo-reformation view; Calmenian. Who knows?
Regardless of what we were taught and what we believe, somewhere in the mix of our doctrine, the Living Truth of God and His intentions for redemption here on earth are hidden. Like an enigmatic ocean the things of God are received by humanity only because of the grace of His revelations given to the willing and obedient. So what that really means is; we'll get it when we fully get Him. And most of us don't have as much of Him as we really could have.
Pardon me for being blunt, but most of the ministers that I've know, once I've gotten to know them, were far less saintly than I had imagined. As a matter of fact, two years spent as a presbyter here in the Iowa Ministry Network many years ago, was about as rude of an awakening as it was when I found out Jimmy Swaggart was doing porn and the prostitute thing; very disillusioning.
My point is this: Salvation comes to those who BELIEVE. Beyond that, only the Holy Spirit knows how much a person is trying to follow the principles of the Bible, let alone the precepts. More often than not, the Pentecostal / Holiness church have taken the tack of precept over principle. We've used LAW as the bench mark of not only ones personal holiness, but often as a reflection of the collective soul of the church. Anyone remember Carry Nation? Probably not, but she was part of the seed bed of our early beginnings as a holiness movement.
But the amazing thing is; LAW never brought salvation to anyone, but only the revelation that we are law breakers. So why do we have laws? I mean within our fellowship [e.g. the blank 2010 Credential Renewal Questionnaire collecting dust on my desk]. I can't speak for anyone else but, but I think I'm miles from the full revelation of truth on this matter.
If you don't want to think of Grace as a thing with the nanometer electromagnetic spectrum of light, that's fine. Then how about thinking about it as a pendulum?
On the far left is LAW, then moving toward the right is FOLLY, and then moving from right center is WISDOM, finally ending the radius of the pendulum swing all the way to the right at SPIRIT.
Since we know that the Letter of the Law brings death, but the Spirit produces life; somewhere in between these two extremes is where most of us live. Since we are saved by Grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, the ideal is to live in Wisdom and Spirit. But most religious folks tend to live in Law and Folly.
The opposite of law is spirit. The opposite of wisdom is folly. The life goal of every believer should be to live in Wisdom and Spirit. For therein lies the secret of Christian discretion. As the Spirit speaks to the heart of a willing disciple, He will speak the reason WHY behind what is "right or wrong" in any given thing we face in this life. Remember, all things are lawful, but not all things are wise or advisable to engage in. So we can be saved, but operate stupidly in folly, rejecting the wisdom or the why behind what we should or should not do.
The only reason I don't do certain things in this life is because I don't want to offend some religious folks. Especially those who hold sway over my present career choice [i.e. my credentials].
On the other hand there are things I would never do, not because it jeopardizes my credentials, but because I'm aware of the limitations on my weaknesses and therefore I don't want to ruin relationships, the testimony of God, and possibly my very own soul. All of which we run the risk of loosing when we reject the wisdom of doing or not doing something.
Make sense?
Let me put it this way, behind everything that is recorded in the Bible, and behind everything that is genuinely spoken or done in the name of the Lord, by His servants [his people], has dynamic or very powerful meaning. God's not kidding around, albeit He is a God of joy and laughter, He is no fool.
In 1 Corinthians 14:11 [a favorite passage of mine] Paul states the following: "If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me." (NIV)
Now granted, most of you reading this should by now understand that only the renewed spirit of a man can fully understand the things of the Spirit, they are spiritually discerned or understood. To the uninitiated or the pre-believer, the teachings of scripture and even the preaching of the cross are simply foolish and very confusing.
So understanding from a spirit standpoint is critical to following the guidance of God in this life. But here's the curious thing about the passage above [I know the context is orderly worship with minimal messages in tongues]. Paul uses the same word choice for "meaning" as Luke uses for "power" when the Holy Ghost comes upon a person [Spirit baptism]. That's right, dynamis, is the word we've translated as MEANING.
Don't MISS THIS! If and when we don't know the Spirit power behind the guidance being given, we will NOT GET IT! We will look like a calf at a new gate. We won't have a clue. We will be dumbfounded. And if that dumbfounding continues on, we will turn against the guidance. We will view it as LAW and therefore we will move toward folly. And once we move toward folly, the end result is rebellion.
Rebels are not born; they are cultivated in the ignorance of folly. So too with believers who are not give the divine WHY behind what they should or should not do.
Now here's the real hurdle: Who among us can be trusted to have the WORD OF THE LORD on any given matter [beyond what is written in black and white of the Scriptures]? We've rejected the 5 fold office, thereby rejecting the apostolic authority necessary for genuine influence.
Example: I had a nice chat with our Network Superintendent and two nice chats with our Network Youth Director about the use of secular music at our Network youth events. Reason being, we've taken great pains to teach our students the WHY behind NOT listening to secular music. As a matter of fact, in the Kinney household we've taught our two kids that most secular stuff is to be suspect [T.V., movies, music, pop culture, etc.]. When the use of AC/DC Back in Black is used at a Network Youth convention, and a visiting unbeliever friend of my son said; "Hey I've got that album… why did you tell me that I shouldn't listen to that kind of music if they're using it at a church thing?" [Paraphrased sic]
Mind you, that brought a great deal of confusion to this young man that we'd been working with for over a year. He never came back and told my son we were all just hypocrites. When I approached my leaders about my concerns, I was tacitly patronized regarding their values, the use of secular music and the need to teach the use of Christian conscience and not legalism to our students.
I wasn't asking that we resurrect some "born with a bun" legalism, but I simply could not understand the mixing of secular and sacred [if you believe that there is a difference].
My Superintendent told me he listened to secular music [jazz or something I can't remember], but his inference was that we needed to develop mature students who knew how to navigate the waters of culture and be able to discern what is right and wrong for themselves. I know his intentions are good, but that sounded like relativism to me. He stated that he didn't have a problem with the use of secular music [neither did our Network Youth Director].
I can understand the use of secular media as an illustration as to what NOT to do or be involved with, but not used as bumper music prior to our worship time.
Anyway, I told my Superintendent that I liked beer so why can't I drink a few here and there? Or maybe wine with my steak? He reminded me that I could not operate in that liberty, because I signed a paper and agreed not to do such things as part of my credentialing requirements; argument over. The paper is LAW not SPIRIT.
In my thinking, the use of secular [very Satanic at that] music as a hook or entertainment at youth convention is FOLLY and not WISDOM.
Now my writing could go on for pages and pages, but I'll end with this. Law, folly, wisdom and Spirit are all part of the grace cycle or pendulum. At any given time, we tend to swing left or right, all according to who is CALLING THE SHOTS. That's not necessarily bad, unless those calling the shots have LOST the MEANING behind the VOICE. Ergo our need that each one purposes in his heart as to what GOD is telling him; according to nothing less than Scripture.
If we miss the powerful message and meaning behind what God is trying to say [wisdom] then we will end up in law and folly. Maybe we should let the Holy Spirit set the boundaries, not a group of men or women. Presuming we are willing to accept the natural boundaries and consequences that God tends to set, even within GRACE.
Well… all my love to the brethren. I love my leaders and would not want their job. On the other had, we're still not where we need to be as a fellowship, but if He gives us another century, maybe we'll finally see the "perfecting of the saints".
I know… let's bring back Carry Nation. What do you think?
Saturday, October 24, 2009
If Grace Were a Color
If grace were a color, what color would it be? Some might say red, because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us from all our sin. Others might say white, because of the cleansing work of Jesus' blood, we are made spotless and white as snow. Again, another beautiful picture of what occurs because of the atonement, but really. If we had to use known principles and laws of physics and nanometer electromagnetic wave lengths, what color would grace be?
Today I woke up later than usual. Monday through Friday I'm usually up not long after 5:00 AM. Sunday's my alarm goes off at 4:00 AM. Saturday's I don't set an alarm, but I usually wake up about six o'clock. Today I slept till just after eight o'clock. It felt good. I've been sick so maybe I needed a bit more rest.
Anyway, I woke up slowly. Nursing a cup of fresh coffee, I sat down to watch the Saturday morning news shows (magazines) on Fox News. They had a guest musical group called Sister Hazel. They were pretty good. At least what little bit I heard of them. I'm sure they've been around a while; I'm just out of the music loop these days.
Finding a good band that sings about life without using gratuitous sexual imagery or violence is a good thing. Maybe that's what these guys do, but as I listened to the song they played, these words came to my mind. Grace is Gray.
By the time they finished, and I was on to my third cup of Joe, I couldn't shake those words. So I Googled the question: Are black and white colors? I found a great link to a site called Color Matters. Lots of great info on the science and even the psychology of color, but it only furthered my curiosity about the color of Grace.
About a month ago while I was at a ministry conference, one of the speakers was using the text from the Gospel of John chapter one where Jesus is referred to as the Light. John further states that "darkness" cannot "comprehend" or "understand" the Light. It was during that message that I began to ponder what light really means in terms of our relationship with God. The subject is enormous.
The passages in John are all too familiar for most of us, but how often do we really take into consideration the concepts of darkness (black) and light (white) in terms of their relative relationship to the grace of God? If you're like most, you probably have not given one hour of thought to the matter.
Here are my introductory thoughts. If black, when referring to color and pigment, is the absence of color, then white is the presence of all color in the spectrum. When referring to black and white when it comes to light, there is no true "black" light. Black or darkness is simply the absence of light.
When you shine a bright light into the dark, unless there is an object out in the darkness somewhere for the light to reflect off of, the light just seems to disappear into the black.
If and when light does find an object to reflect off of, the color of the object appears the way it does, because some portion of the light spectrum is penetrating the object, and the rest of the light is bouncing off the object. For instance when we see a red apple, the pigment in the apple skin that allows for everything in the light spectrum to penetrate except for red, that is what causes us to see the apple as red. In other words, that particular nanometer electromagnetic band width is thrown back at us and we see red. All the while the other color wave lengths of light are penetrating the object.
Here are the thoughts that flooded my mind weeks ago regarding darkness and light. If Jesus is the Light, and I believe what the Bible says that He is, and prior to our receiving Him as Savior and Lord, we were nothing but darkness. By saying yes to Him as Savior, He then places something in us.
That something is His Spirit, and that Spirit is the beginning work of grace in our lives. Yet upon initial examination of God's work in the new believer, one might not fully see the white light of God's complete atoning work and sanctification in that person. God must first fill that person with objects of His grace, Spirit and renewal before more and more light can be reflected back out from that person. And that sometimes takes time.
We know from our study of scripture that there are at least three types of soil that receive the seed of God's Word, but the quality of the soil is predicated upon the amount of God stuff a person accepts into their life. Or for that matter Jesus spoke about a spiritual analogy of a person being cleansed from demonic influence, yet not furnishing their soul house with new God stuff and the demons came back all the more powerful and destructive, because new God stuff was not put in the house.
You see, the more of God and God stuff we have inside of us, the more we will reflect His glory. The less of God and God stuff we have inside of us, the less we will reflect His glory. Ergo our ongoing need to be filled up with God and emptied out of us.
Anything that is not of God is dark and light just simply penetrates it. God's light is not reflected off. But since God IS the substance of all things, the more of God one has in their life, the more light will be reflected from that life.
Here's where my idea of grace being gray comes into play. The color gray is a color that is allowing only half of the light spectrum to penetrate, and the other half reflects back.
Since I without Christ am nothing but black, not able to reflect anything what so ever, the very beginnings of God's presence in my life, a little bit of God substance in me, may very well reflect back an image that appears slightly gray. You know, not fully sanctified and reflecting all of God that is possible, but only reflecting measured amounts of God's handy work.
I think this way because, the times that I need more of God's grace, are the times I need less of me and more of Him. So my life kind of looks gray from the outside looking in. Not entirely black and doomed for all eternity, but not entirely illuminated to the place of pure white light. Just kind of, well you know, gray.
And the funny thing is, most religious people can't accept the color gray when it comes to grace. They cite Jesus' words to the Laodicean church about being "lukewarm" and stuff like that. They say (I've said it too) we are too be "hot" or "cold". And with that I would agree, but the truth is that most Christians are simply lukewarm. They're gray. Not black as the ace of spades nor white and pure as the driven snow. Just gray!
Yet we're condemned (I've condemned) for being noncommittal or apathetic. We're called carnal, even sinful. Still my contention is that most of us who are recipients of God's grace are kind of tweedy gray.
Granted, we all know and love the party line about Christian growth and victory, but when it comes down to it, most of the Christians that I know (even ministers) are just plain gray. They're not setting the world on fire for Jesus, because they're too caught up on this week's episode of The Office. Or they not out setting the world on fire for Jesus, because they're too caught up working as much over time as they can, because they live above they're means. Or simply put, they're just spiritually lazy.
Now I ask you, are you the powerhouse Christian you should be? Are you the mover and shaker you should be? Are you saving the planet like you should be? Right, me too, we're not. So what color is grace?
What color is this beautiful element that God so richly and freely gives to us all? I say it's gray. Because that's what it looks like to me. That's what it really appears to look like, in all reality.
I had lunch Friday with a dear pastor friend of mine. We've known each other for many years. It had been a while since we talked. He's moved away to a different part of the state, but had business in town this week so we shared a meal together.
We talked about the church he was pastoring and the challenges that he was facing. But more than that, we talked about the "grayness" of our fellowship. We talked about the lack of integrity and purity in the pulpit today. We talked about the pain pastors are feeling these days.
Frankly, it was a heavy conversation, but it all the more emphasized what I'm trying to hash out. Grace is gray. Because if grace is not gray then, lot's of ministers are heading for hell. And millions of congregants with them!
Screw the sinners who don't know Jesus, what about the "Christians" that are nothing more than gray when it comes to grace? Either they're all lost or grace really is gray. And if that's the case, if integrity and purity really don't matter, then let's just get drunk and forget the whole thing.
I know the Father probably weeps over the brokenness of His Church, but either grace works or it doesn't. If it does, then we're all safe. If it doesn't, there will be hell to pay on judgment day.
At this writing, I think Grace is Gray. Oh I'll probably get some negative feed back, but that's okay. Hell, I don't know anyone who is able to tell me they are pure as the driven snow while here on earth, so I'm thinking gray is the color.
I know that by faith we are 100% justified in the Father's sight, but look around. Find me one person that's 100% sanctified and I'll show you pure white grace. Most of us are simply just gray.
My advice, get a tie that looks nice and contrasts with the color gray. Don't worry, almost every color works with gray.
Well there's my thinking on the Color of Grace. Oh I know more could be said, but I'm feeling kind of gray right now so I'll let you go.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Last week I got hit with the flu. Not sure if it was H1N1, but they gave me Tamiflu, Zpac and lots of rest. It's no fun being sick.
Now this week rolls around and I'm back into my regular routine, but still feeling a bit sick and tired. Oh not sick and tired like "I'm really sick and tired of the mess in Washington" or "I'm sick and tired of eating leftovers", but still just a little sick and a little bit tired by the end of the day.
I was pondering that statement and wondered how many people go through life sick and tired. I mean beyond just a little flu bug and fatigue. But I mean people who are really sick and tired of life, job, family, spouse, church, etc. all the while not knowing what to do about their feelings?
I believe there are lots of people in this world, especially here in America, that are sick and tired of their lot in life. Now granted, most of us Americans live cushy lives compared to two thirds of the rest of the planet, but even right here in the good ol' US of A, I think people are pretty sick and tired.
Paul the Apostle tells us that "godliness with contentment is great gain" (1 Timothy 6:6), but really, how many people live that charge? We have been seduced into discontentment.
We are plied with two lies that most find inescapable. Lie #1: you'll never be good enough or happy enough. Lie #2: if you buy this or have this or wear this or live here or there, you will be. The unfortunate thing is lie #2 is just that… a lie. And lie #1 is so ingrained into our psyche that we just keep running on that crazy treadmill and we're getting pretty sick and tired of it all.
So what's the answer? A new job? A new car? A new house? A new spouse? A new faith? A new church? A new TV? I don't think so.
The answer is this: Accept the fact that you never will measure up, but in Christ you have all you need and there is no working or earning your place in that relationship. Relax… find that Rest you read about in Hebrews. Secondly, take a look at how great your life really is. At any given moment in time, there are thousands and even millions of individuals that are far worse off than you are. Give thanks for crying out loud.
So the next time you're just sick and tired, thank God that you're NOT really sick or so tire that you can't make it another day, because the cancer has overwhelmed you or you've been evicted from your home or worse yet you're just bored and discontented.
I'm thankful to have been sick and just fatigued. And nothing worse.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Worthy of a Blog
Many of my blogs are just random thoughts about life and God, but this one may be different. Not that there won't be the random interjection of my brain damaged thinking (you should see the CT scan of my head – Dr. said lots of head trauma), but my hope is that I can express what God did this last Sunday morning (October 4, 2009). And the best thing was it had nothing to do with my orchestration, but all about my abdication. Hey, there's a novel idea… being Spirit led. How scary might that be?
All during my Saturday afternoon preparation time and my bright and early (okay groggy) Sunday morning prep time I was struggling with direction as to what I should preach. Now mind you, it wasn't the normal "sermon block" that I was experiencing. Something was very different.
On the contrary, what I felt was as if all my gallant efforts to establish an outline and subject matter were noble, but unnecessary. That's right noble, but unnecessary.
All too often we who stand at the sacred desk, week in and week out, somehow believe that we are a critical key to what God wants to "do" in the lives of people. How sorely mistaken we are.
The New Testament is relatively clear as to how church was done in the first century. Gathering was fundamental. Eating was usually part of the gathering. Communion and prayer were included too. Impromptu singing and psalm making were also part of the make up. And finally as the Spirit led, someone brought a Word. That's right someone (Acts 2:42-47; 1 Corinthians 14:26; Colossians 3:15-17). Not necessarily the pastor or teacher, maybe, but not necessarily.
Now here's the amazing part. Upon arriving at church with "my" agenda for the day, a struggle ensued. I had many things that I believed were important to "say" to the congregation, but God had another idea. As I labored through my Sunday school lesson, something was cooking inside me. You know, that feeling like something was wrong – in a right way.
By the time we were all upstairs in the sanctuary, singing praises to the Lord and taking communion, I knew my agenda would be shelved. The new plan, or rather God's plan, was to be led by the Spirit.
When the appointed time for my "sermon" came, I could not move forward. I could not initiate the things I had planned. So I did what any self-respecting neo-Pentecostal pastor should do… I did nothing.
That's right. I took the microphone stand and a live mic and put it down in front and essentially said, with all the love and sincerity I could express… you do it. Yep, "You do it!"
Oh I gave some direction as to what I believe the Spirit was leading, but one of the most amazing moments happened in twenty years of ministry. We saw Jesus appear, we heard Jesus speak, entirely through the Body and not through an Office.
I obeyed what the Spirit had spoken to my spirit and Unity happened. Continuity flooded the place. Numerous individuals began to share and weep as to what God had been speaking to their hearts. And not surprisingly, a theme was emerging. (Hmmm… could it be The Mystery? You know the one that we're supposed to be administrators of?)
God began to speak to us, through His Body. And the message was VERY CLEAR. I could not have planned it better and thank God I didn't.
At the beginning of the year the Lord spoke very clearly to my heart, and I passed it along to the congregation. In essence, I was done "planning" or "casting" vision for THEM. Because in twenty years of being a pastor, I've set out many vision plans for many people over many years. And I've spent lots of energy and time trying to convince or cajole people into "doing" what I thought they should be "doing" to advance "my" vision for the church, usually to my chagrin. This year the Lord told me… "Just teach them to hear Me."
Last Sunday was that day. It was a day when God spoke and there was continuity in Spirit and in Truth. Could I say it this way… we were all on the SAME PAGE.
My hope is that we can continue with this "Open Source" of leading, this Body inclusive leading that emanates from the Spirit alone and not from man. May God help me to yield the floor to His Body and His presence.
For all of you holding onto traditional means of leading and doing church, get ready because your paradigm is about to shift. And the only thing stopping it is YOU.
Power to His people! I'll keep you posted.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Granite's Great But...
It was about ten years ago that my dad died. His passing was nothing less than typical of a cardiac patient with many related health issues. I think it was a stroke that finally took him. That's what they said.
The winter following his death was challenging and took a bit of time to absorb the fact that he was gone and it wouldn't be until we are united in heaven someday that I would get another hug. Love you dad. Now I wear Skin Bracer. Maybe my kids will remember that smell too.
We buried him in a small cemetery on the north side of Urbandale, Iowa. It took many months for the headstone marker to be placed. The caretakers of the cemetery told us that they had to let the grave settle. As a matter of fact it was just a dirt pile for the longest time. No grass or anything. That kind of bugged me. It seemed disrespectful in some way, but I finally understood their rationale.
Eventually the stone was set in its proper place. Dad's name, date of birth and date of death on one side and mom's name and date of birth on the other. She's yet living so the date of death is yet to be inscribed. Plus, what do you do with her new married name? I'm happy for you mom and Glenn. Viva Wisconsin!
Anyway, I was thinking about our lives and how when it's all said and done, there is usually more said than done. Jesus told us to live our lives so that we produced fruit that lasts. That thought has haunted me today.
Not withstanding a wonderful piece of fruit like Chad Schlak, I wonder how much fruit from my dad's life is still hanging around. By the way, Chad's on the cusp of his second career as a missionary teacher. Now there's some lasting fruit. Love to you Edmund, dad would be exceedingly proud.
But really, do any of us have that great of a lasting impact on very many people? In light of how many people live and have lived on this planet, most of us simply pass into eternity with little to no ripples. In just ten short years the concentric circles of my dad's 67 have all but settled out to a glassy sea that once reflected the mark he was making while alive.
We use granite and stuff like that to make headstones. I guess because it's supposed to last a long time. But you know what? If no one comes to the stone to clean it or trim the weeds around it, mildew and foliage overcome the only vestige many of us can hope for. Sorry dad, I've not stopped by lately.
My point is this: Most of us live our lives not knowing how the story will end. What will our legacy bear? Since our lives are like stories unfolding week in and week out, a question surfaces in my mind. Who's writing your story? Will our lives be the kind of stories that must be told or read over and over, or will they just be shelved with all the other dime-store-paper-back novels or end up in the "only a nickel" box at an estate sale someday?
I ask my Father to help me write a better story. I ask Him to develop the characters that come and go in my life so that my story becomes a rich and lasting one, because mildew and foliage can't grow on a good story. As a matter of fact, good stories have a tendency to grow into great stories. Time and poor memories tend to achieve this phenomenon. But in reality, good stories affect how we think and often how we act. Think about that for a moment.
May God help me to leave more than a chunk of granite as my legacy, because granite's great but… a good living Life story makes far more sense to me. How's your story coming along?
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Support Grows for Broad Water Protection, But Legislation is Narrow
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Freedom chemical spill has sparked a wave of demands for major improvements in clean water protections, but so far West Virginia lawmakers are crafting a narrow response.
They're discussing a bill to tighten the regulation of above ground storage tanks, but many of their constituents want much wider reforms.
Cindy Harrah-Cox of South Charleston is the wife of a retired coal miner and mother of a woman made sick by the spill.
She says legislators have been too afraid of losing coal and chemical employment.
"We've been held hostages by these jobs," she stresses. "We're afraid of these big companies pulling out.
"But at what cost? Dying young? The air and water is killing us. So, is it worth all that?"
Harrah-Cox, like many attending a clean water vigil at the statehouse this week, said the spill had made her angry and afraid.
Several organizations were registering new voters at the event.
The Freedom spill is the third major chemical incident in the Kanawha Valley in five years, according to Maya Nye, spokeswoman for People Concerned About Chemical Safety.
Nye says hundreds of chemicals – like those that ended up in the Elk River – are sold without detailed studies of their safety.
She says tightening the rules on storage tanks might have prevented the Freedom spill, but it wouldn't be enough to protect residents from the many pollutants that slip through the loopholes.
"If you want a quick fix, sure, we can just look at the above-ground storage tanks," she says. "But we need to take a comprehensive look of chemical safety – not just in this valley, not just in this state, but across the country."
Critics of Freedom Industries have described the company as renegades and say the rest of the industry should not be punished for one company cutting corners.
But Nye says the state doesn't enforce the rules now on the books, and doesn't take enough input from citizens.
She says that empowers bad actors.
"Our state is so dependent on chemicals, is so dependent on coal, that it seems like it's easy for our government to kind of turn a blind eye sometimes, when it's the industry that feeds us," she maintains. "And I understand that."
But she calls it unwise in the long term.

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Boise Family Photos|Boise Train Depot
How cute are these guys?! Those kids are just adorable and were so silly. It was soooo cold out. I mean like 12 degrees I think, so they did amazing. Hey, any session with kids where I get some kind of giggles and no one has a melt down is a win in my book!


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Creating Southeast Asian Superheroes for the next generation
One of the subjects we're regularly asked to discuss at conventions and conferences is "Southeast Asian Superheroes," a subject that author Nor Sanavongsay and I are deeply interested in.
Growing up in the 1980s in America, we were surrounded by many amazing, astonishing and incredible superhero stories just as they were starting to hit their stride. It was over a decade since the Batman show, but it was still on in regular reruns. The Super Friends had been on since we'd been born, but would draw to a close by 1986. This was the time we'd see some amazing stories first come into print, such as The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, The Crisis on Infinite Earths, Secret Wars, G.I. Joe and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There were no shortage of heroes and stories being told and reinvented and these captured our imagination as we rebuilt our lives in the US. By the time we were regularly reading comics, the X-Men were starting to become a powerful, if sometimes problematic allegory for the Civil Rights movement.
Although Superman has his roots as a stand-in for the Jewish experience, many in our community could relate to having to feel like a schlub no one respected just to fit in to a home that we hadn't been born in. But Clark Kent still wanted to use his powers to do good in the world. He wanted to stand for something, and in many ways he embodied the American promise that even if you were, in many ways, always an alien, you could still do your best to help as many as you could. That aligned with Lao values, and really, the values of so many other communities who have made their way to the US.
That being said, the idea of superheroes also represents an interesting set of questions for Southeast Asians. In preparing for our talk, we had questions about how different communities would or wouldn't embrace the idea of superheroes, and what would they expect of them?
In many Southeast Asian nations, you would ask: Would our superheros be endorsed by the authorities, or would they be seen as vigilantes operating outside of the law? How would we feel if they were part of the system, or if they jumped in because their community was just too remote to be adequately served by the authorities?
Would we accept a pulp fiction-style superhero who flat-out executes criminals without judge or jury, or would we say that's offensive to our traditional sensibilities, no matter how much the bad guys have it coming?
What types of threats would they go after? Criminal syndicates and gangsters? Foreigners and aliens trying to steal valuable resources? Monsters from outer space or ancient legend? There were so many possibilities to consider.
Origin stories for Southeast Asian superheroes were a subject of debate because for Lao and others, many of the classic roots stories for superheroes seem highly implausible. There's very little opportunity to be exposed to mutagenic radiation, and there isn't quite the culture where "wealthy industrialists trying to fight crime on the streets in disguise" seems likely, for example. We did have a good laugh considering the origins for characters like Wolverine or Hellboy, where everything he knows about himself could constantly change every other year. In the aftermath of the Secret War, stories like those aren't that far fetched for many of our families.
One of the prevailing concerns is that in the aftermath of the colonial era, it's still very difficult to find our own legends and traditions in our own words, on our own terms. Finding the research for the legendary heroes of our past really takes a great deal of commitment, because so many translations and interpretations are often quite incomplete. In extreme cases, the translations have been known to leave out exactly the bits that everyone would find interesting. Or else the translation has such tortured and inconsistent language that it might as well be unreadable. Fortunately, we're seeing a wave of writers and artists who are trying to address that for the next generation.
One area that's also a challenge is encouraging the creators of Southeast Asian superheroes to avoid cliches and overused tropes, or lazy origin stories. We'd also hate to see them written in a way that their culture has no bearing on their behavior. Does that mean we go so far as having the Southeast Asian superheros constantly taking off their boots before entering a building? Most likely not. Nor are we likely to see conversations like "Are you going to send him to prison? No, he's lost so much face, that's punishment enough."
But at the same time, other taboos in our culture can set some interesting limits or create interesting opportunities that would set them apart from their international counterparts. How would they operate as a team? Or would they prefer to do things solo? How are they tied to their temples or schools? Would they be conflicted if the crisis was taking place during the new year or during a lunar eclipse? There are some intriguing possibilities.
To date, Marvel and DC comics have had a shaky history presenting interesting and original Southeast Asian superheroes to the point that I almost didn't want to really see them trying anymore. You had some who were just flat-out dragon lady martial arts assassin caricatures. Others were the children of prostitutes during the war, or looking for revenge on American G.I.s in the states. One was the "Celestial Madonna." Many of them had an odd habit of getting killed off and brought back repeatedly, which, granted, is par for the course for being a superhero. Then there's the Cambodian American Kevin Kho, who got transformed into the One Man Army Corps, then apparently knocked into a transdimensional portal by a dweeb named Captain Boomerang. Which hardly seemed fair, but "Comics, everyone!"
In any case, this is just a snapshot of some of the things we're looking at. We'll discuss this subject more in the near future, but I hope it provides a fun sense of the possible.


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Quick Facts of Robin Tunney
|Full Name
|Robin Tunney
|Date of Birth
|1972 /06 /19
|Marital Status
|Chicago, Illinois, United States
|Eye colour
|Hair colour
|Bob Gosse, Andrew Dominik, Nicky Marmet
|5 Feet 4 Inch
|52 Kg
|Body Measurement
|32-23-33 inches
|Online Presence
|Wikipedia, twitter,facebook
|Net Worth
|$ 4 million
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Short Description of Robin Tunney:
Robin Tunney is a popular American actress. She is recognized for her role as a 'Teresa Lisbon' in the television series "The Mentalist" (2008–2015), as well as former roles in the films including "Encino Man" (1992), "Empire Records" (1995), "The Craft" (1996), "End of Days" (1999), "Supernova and Vertical Limit" (2000), and the television series "Prison Break" (2005–2006). She is active from 1992 to present.
Early life:
Tunney was born on June 19, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois, the United States. She is the daughter of a car salesman (father) and a bartender (mother). Tunney is Irish American her father was from Straide, County Mayo, Ireland, while her maternal grandparents were from Clare Island. Tunney passed her child life in Orland Park, a southwest suburb of Chicago. but she was raised Roman Catholic, studied at Carl Sandburg High School which lies Orland Park and the Chicago Academy for the Arts in Chicago.
Regarding her career. Tunney moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of 19, and obtained various recurring television roles on Class of '96, Law & Order, Dream On, and Life Goes On. She gave her invention performance as a suicidal teenager in Empire Records and invited further attention by playing a sorcerer in 'The Craft'.
The led role in the pilot episode of House as a kindergarten teacher who drops before her class and descends into aphasia, she was credited as a 'special guest star.' In 1997, Tunney starred with her husband Bob Gosse's Niagara, Niagara with Henry Thomas in a show where garnered her the Best Actress award Volpi Cup in 1997 Venice International Film Festival. Tunney also was highlighted opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1999 supernatural action film 'End of Days'.
She had a few roles in the film August released on July 11, 2008. Tunney also starred opposite Simon Baker in the CBS drama series like The Mentalist, playing Teresa Lisbon.
Personal life:
Tunney married producer and director Bob Gosse on Oct 4, 1995, After 11 years, they divorced in 2006. Again Tunney was engaged to Australian writer and director Andrew Dominik in 2009 but they broke their engagement in August 2010. Tunney engaged to interior designer Nicky Marmet on Dec 25, 2012, while on vacation in Rio de Janeiro. They welcome their son, Oscar Holly Marmet, was born on 23 June 2016.
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Mumbai police have booked three men for allegedly trying to extort money from Metro site construction workers. The police said that a case was registered with the Charkop police after two labourers who were working on the Metro site, were assaulted by three unidentified men. According to the police officials, the main accused Pradip Ahir was arrested a day after the case was registered, while his two accomplice is still absconding.
The police said that the incident took place in the wee hours when the construction workers were working at the DN Nagar-Dahisar metro route (Metro 7). The complainant Rahasya Tiwari alleged that he is employed as a site supervisor.
"On April 28, while we were working, three unknown people approached us and started demanding protection money. One of the accused who identified himself as Sandip Ahir claimed that the Metro construction was taking place in full swing and threatened to stop the work if they fail to give him the protection money," said the complainant Rahasya Tiwari in his statement to the police.
Following the incident, Tiwari informed his superiors about the threats. "He asked me to ignore such people. On June 6, the trio again came to the site and started demanding money from us. As I refused, the trio started abusing me and even assaulted me. Two labourers who were present at the site intervened following which they were assaulted by the three. They even picked an iron rod from the site and assaulted the two labourers," said the complainant in his statement to police.
The trio threatened them of dire consequences if they failed to give them protection money. After they left, the complainant took the two labourers to Shatabdi hospital and after providing them medical aid, they approached Charkop police.
Senior police inspector Pramod Dhaware from Charkop police station confirmed the arrest and said that the investigation was in progress.
He said, "We have identified the two others involved, and we are trying to trace them." The police have booked them for extortion and assault.
Incidentally, on Sunday, a three-year-old girl had fallen inside a pit made for Metro pillar's construction and died.


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Sarabande: New Jewellery
By BEL JACOBS
In an old warehouse near Kingsland Road, an extraordinary institution has been nurturing the brightest young minds of the future. Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation was set up in 2012, to nurture those who - as its namesake so powerfully did - want to push boundaries, challenge orthodoxies; to rebel.
So far, scholarships have been awarded to 24 extraordinary talents, picked by creatives whose friendships with McQueen inspire them to continue his legacy of beautiful insurrection.
They include Andrew Bolton, Sarah Burton OBE, Dinos Chapman, Giles Deacon, Katy England and Nick Knight OBE.
Now, ahead of the new Leopard Awards for Excellence in Jewellery, the Foundation launches its first Jewellery Series. Talks, a workshop, a unique showcase will introduce visitors to the work of five of the Sarabande's most exciting jewellers-in-residence.
On November 2nd, 3rd, and 5th (2pm to 8pm), the Foundation will transform itself with fascsimiles the jewellers' own studios. Visitors will be able to meander the installations, talking to the designers as they work.
On November 4th, 11am to 4pm, the space hosts a workshop where members of the public can work with the jeweller of their choice, experimenting with designs and materials to create their own piece of jewellery.
On November 7th, Antiques Roadshow jewellery expert Joanna Hardy will be in conversation with Hemmerle (7pm to 9pm), speaking about gems and the history of jewellery; on November 8th, British designer Solange Azagury-Partridge offers insights into the business of jewellery (7pm to 9pm).
Who are the five Sarabande jewellers? Coline Assade, winner of the 2016 Winterson Prize, creates contemporary pieces using traditional techniques; he will be showing a collection of talismans imbued with 'forest spirits'.
Charlotte Garnett makes anti–anxiety 'pocket pebbles' and 'fiddle jewellery', ergonomically designed to work with the seven key ways in which the hand moves.
Benjamin Hawkins is a traditional goldsmith who creates bespoke pieces using deluxe materials and gemstones.
Trained goldsmith Castro Smith, Sarabande's newest jeweller-in-residence, recently visited Japan to learn intricate hand-engraving techniques.
Esna Su creates woven knitted leather sculptures that can be worn on the body. She is currently working on a project using Swarovski crystals and works responding to the belongings refugees carry with them or have lost.


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I think authors can learn a lot from each other, particularly about marketing and promoting their books. Authors with several titles under their belts have already seen and experienced many things that new authors haven't yet gone through, and they have a lot to share. With that in mind, today's post features an interview with Sheila Lowe, the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, 2nd Edition and a recent novel, Dead Write: A Forensic Handwriting Mystery, published by the Signet imprint of the Penguin Book Group. As a veteran author who writes for a major NYC publisher, I think Sheila has some great words of wisdom for all up-and-coming authors.
- How much help did your publisher give you in the marketing of your book?
These days, publishers expect authors to do most of their own marketing. My publisher (Penguin) lists me on their site; they sent out notices of my book to reviewers (though this time they did not send out advance reader copies), and they distribute the book many places where books are sold, including Kindle. If I request a review copy for someone who has asked, they will send a book to that person. Apart from that, the success of the book is pretty much up to me.
- Did you hire a publicist, or did you work on marketing and promotion on your own? If you hired a publicist, what types of things did they do for you?
I do have a very low-cost publicist who handles book sales at my launch parties and some other events, and who also has arranged for some semi-local talks for me, some which actually pay(!). In the past I had a publicist who charged a monthly retainer plus fees for events. However, we weren't on the same wavelength about what events or bookstores would work best for me.
- What types of marketing activities did you handle on your own?
I'm active in organizations in my genre, such as Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, as well as professional organizations. I attend conventions where I appear on panels, and meetings where I lecture. I send out bookmarks and signed custom bookplates to readers and to bookstores that want them. I write articles. Drop in book signings, as well as some scheduled ones. Speak at book clubs and guest blog. Because of the nature of my work as a handwriting analyst, I'm sometimes called by the media for comment when there are stories in the news where there are also handwriting samples (most recently, Tiger Woods), so that helps get my name out, too.
- Which marketing activities have been the most helpful in selling your book?
I'm still trying to figure that out. When I do, I'll do more of it!
- Which marketing activities have not worked for you at all?
Scheduled book signings have very limited success, which I hear from other authors, too, even big name ones. Book store sales people have told me that signings don't often generate more than 1 or 2 sales, and that 5 books sold at a signing is considered a huge success. This is probably less true at small, specialty stores that have a loyal customer base who attend everything they schedule.
- What was the biggest misconception you had before you started promoting your work?
That my (major) publisher would be helping me sell books. The sad fact is, the large publishing houses have so many authors and so few publicists that mid-list authors can't expect much in the way of promo. I've heard it said that publishers expect their authors to use their advance for marketing, which means you don't ever break even unless your books sell hugely. When I was with a very small publishing house, there was a great deal of personal help in promotion. Ironically, that's how I got to move to a big house—the small publisher sent my first book out for review and it got a starred review in Publisher's Weekly, who called it "a dynamic debut." That got the big publisher's attention.
- How vital is social media such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. to your marketing?
I'm not sure yet, but I think they are important, at least to some degree. I believe we create readership by selling one reader at a time until a book goes viral. I've heard it said that one happy reader represents five more. I don't know whether that's true, but if it is, I'd like to precipitate a very big sneeze!
- How vital is niche marketing to promoting your work? How did you identify and reach out to your book's niche audience?
For me, it's important because I'm well known in my field (handwriting analysis) and colleagues around the world read my books. However, the down side is, it's a very small field. I need to reach out more to people in related fields, such as psychologists and lawyers, as my protagonist is a forensic expert. But then, my fiction books are psychological suspense, so they can be enjoyed by anyone who likes reading mystery.
- What advice do you have for new authors when it comes to marketing and promoting their books?
Have a marketing plan before you even look for an agent or a publisher. Write it out so they know you are committed to marketing and promoting the book yourself. If you do, you're far more likely to get a book deal than a writer who expects to sit back while the publisher does everything. These days, that's not going to happen. It's probably even more true in non-fiction, but non-fiction is much easier to sell. There are some helpful books on writing book proposals that include great info on how to create a marketing plan.
About Sheila Lowe:
About Sheila Lowe:
Like her character Claudia Rose in the award-winning Forensic Handwriting Mysteries series (NAL), Sheila Lowe is a real-life court-qualified handwriting expert who testifies in a variety of handwriting-related cases. She's also the author of the internationally acclaimed The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, 2nd Edition, and Handwriting of the Famous and Infamous, and Sheila Lowe's Handwriting Analyzer software.


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Yesterday we celebrated Janet Mann, in her completion of a term as Vice Provost for Research. The vice provost roles are designed as three-year terms of senior faculty who want to improve the university through applying their energy to key aspects of its work – education, faculty affairs, and research. Each of the vice provosts lead a group of permanent staff, who are the real heroes of all the work of the provost's office. A time of transition like this prompts reflection on what changes have occurred over the past few years.
The vice provost for research oversees one of the most challenging areas of the university. Georgetown is a small research university that is striving to increase its impact in the scholarly world. Much of the effort of the provost's office, which Janet led, had the goal of supporting our faculty in increasing applications for external funding. In doing this we learned that basic processes supporting research could be improved. We had work to do.
Part of the challenge in growing research activity is that it has an administrative character that is quite different from that of the educational mission. External grant opportunities are a 12-month phenomenon. They do not disappear in the summer months. They are quite diverse in their time constraints. For example, some research contracts are one-year agreements; in that year, staff resources must be assembled, subcontracts let, space utilized, and research products delivered. The pace of academic administration typically does not have such time pressures.
Staffing decisions for externally funded research teams also produce different personnel issues. Commonly, research teams are assembled for projects and then disassembled when the project is completed. Thus, the notion that each position fills a permanent need doesn't usually apply. Further, often the team proposed in the grant proposal is a large part of the reason that the grant was awarded. If one of the proposed members of the team was not a current university employee, unusual speed of hiring them is an important attribute of conducting the research. Over the past three years, we've made some progress on describing how research activities pose different administrative challenges, but much more is needed.
Janet and her colleagues also launched other mechanisms supporting faculty to increase their scholarly impact. The main campus tripled the number of internal Senior Faculty Research Fellowships for faculty, providing needed time to start or finish key research projects. We've attempted to improve the evaluation process for these, using best practices from other grant programs. We've created a course banking program for tenure-line faculty, which allows them flexibility to assemble more time for non-teaching research activities, under their own control. We've created partial sabbatical draws, which allow faculty to piece together other time for intensive research activity, when it can best benefit them.
Finally, it's worth noting efforts to improve the practices of the Institutional Review Board for behavioral and social science research. This is an area undergoing external changes in policies for human subjects' protection. An external review group connected to an accreditation group, the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, helped us in identifying a set of practical changes that would serve the institution well. We're pecking away at that list, attempting to provide better services for researchers, while strengthening the protections of human subjects.
Of course, there is much work remaining to be done on all the issues above. We thank Janet for launching work that will keep the provost's office busy for many years.


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A massive marble sculpture (well, bits of it) depicting the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (you'll remember him from the film Gladiator….here is a clue, he was played by Richard Harris!) has been unearthed at an archaeological site in Turkey. So far they have found the 3ft head, 5ft-long right arm and lower legs cut off above the knees . Emperor Aurelius reigned from 161AD until 180AD and was known as one of the "Five Good Emperors". The pieces of the statue were found in the largest room at Sagalassos's Roman baths (typical!). It is believed the statue was destroyed during an earthquake probably between 540AD and 620AD.Other statues have also been unearthed in the room including Emperor Hadrian and Faustina the Elder(the wife of the emperor Antoninus Pius).Archaeologists are expecting to find statues of their respective spouses under the rubble some time soon.
Look What We Dug Up
August 27, 2008 at 4:52 am (Interesting, Statue Unearthed)
Tags: Archaeologists discover, Marble statue unearthed, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, Roman Statue, Sagalassos's Roman baths, Statue of Roman Emperor found, Turkey
Damn That Carbon Dating!
August 4, 2008 at 5:11 am (Whoops We Made A Mistake, You've Got To Be Kidding)
Tags: 13th century, Anna Maria Carruba, carbon dating, Cicero, Lupa Capitolina, not old, Roman Statue, Rome, Romulus and Remus statue
The famous Roman statue of the twins, Romulus and Remus, sucking from the she-wolf (Lupa Capitolina) has been carbon dated and guess what? It ain't that old. Well, it is old, but just not as old as everyone was led to believe. It seems the experts just assumed that the bronze was made by the Etruscan's in the 5th century BC. Gee, they even had proof,Cicero, a Roman statesman of that period described the statue as having a damaged paw after being struck by lightning. It would take until 2006 before someone called Cicero's bluff. Anna Maria Carruba, an Italian art expert, was adamant that is was a ruse. She argued that the statue had been cast using a wax mould, something those Etruscan's knew nothing about. To make matters worse she suggested that the paw was actually a casting mistake (ouch!). Well, thanks to carbon dating they now believe Lupa Capitolina was manufactured in the 13th century, about 800 years ago, in the Romanesque Period. So what does this mean , will it retain its importance in Roman art? I am thinking not. Whew, lucky Dan Brown didn't use Lupa Capitolina in the Da Vinci Code (that would have been embarrassing!).


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The Material Girls exhibition at Rainham Hall
A new textile art installation will be coming to the Hayloft at Rainham Hall during September 2017. The Material Girls, a local collective, will be creating pieces inspired by our 'Remembering the Day Nursery' exhibition.
Visit the Hayloft (first floor of Stables Cafe) at Rainham Hall, Wednesday to Sunday, 20 September - 1 October 2017, 11am-4pm, to see a new textile art installation by the Material Girls entitled 'Goodnight Children Everywhere'. Entry: Free.
Based on the borders of Essex and East London, the Material Girls have been exhibiting together for over a decade. Revelling in their differences this group strives to present the very best of technique and concept to create awareness of the wonderful diversity to be found in the world of textile art. The Material Girls have been collaborating with Rainham Hall on creative projects since 2015, producing engaging and intriguing artistic responses as part of a wider exhibition programme.
This year the Material Girls are crafting new pieces in response to our current exhibition about the state-run war-time nursery which operated at Rainham Hall between 1943-1954. If you'd like to find out more about how the pieces were created then don't miss the opportunity to meet the artists on Sunday 24 September 2017, 1pm-4pm in the Hayloft.


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Having ready made herb sauces and dips can help turn up your basic recipes and bring on the flavor. This creamy cashew sauce doesn't contain any dairy. I recommend using a high-speed blender for a smoother sauce. Drizzle over enchiladas, tacos, warm zucchini noodles or better yet use as a salad dressing for some extra zing! It's also perfect for dipping raw veggies!
Be creative with you cashew cheese! You can add so many wonderful herbs to make it special: parsley, basil, chives, cilantro, summer savory, mint, dill, rosemary, thyme
- 1 cup raw cashews
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder or 1 garlic clove
- pepper (to taste)
- Soak raw cashews in water for at least 1 hour, preferably 3 hours. Drain and rinse.
- Add all ingredients into your high speed blender and blend for 30 to 60 seconds or until a smooth and creamy.
Makes about 2 cups.


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Eveleth Sylvia Heckathorn, 93, of Fostoria, passed away Monday, August 6, 2018 at the Good Shepherd Home, Fostoria. She was born August 1, 1925 in Pelican Rapids, MN to Elmer & Anna (Möën) Sleen. She married Charles E. Heckathorn January 17, 1947 and he died in 2005.
Surviving are children, Karen Miller (Richard Johnson), Craig (Helen) Heckathorn, Karla (Tom) Grine, Kevin Heckathorn & Kirk Heckathorn all of Fostoria, sister Joyce Piepho of Colorado Springs, CO, brother Robert (Dorean) Sleen of Waseca, MN, grandchildren, Kelly (Mike) Stevens, Shannon (Melinda) Miller, Chad (Jayne) Heckathorn, Adam Grine (Abby Bomer), Ashlee (Tyler) Day, all of Fostoria, Andy (Melanie) Rumschlag of NewYork, Abby (Jason) Smith of Fostoria, Sean (Courtney) Heckathorn of Texas, Kylie Heckathorn & Kirk Heckathorn Jr. of Old Fort, 17 Great Grandchildren, 6 Great Great Grandchildren.
Eveleth is preceded by her husband Charles, parents, sister Laverne Haarstick, son in law Charles Miller and her angel granddaughter.
Eveleth retired from Seneca Wire and was a member of Hope Lutheran Church both in Fostoria.
Funeral Services will be held Thursday, August 9, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. at the Hope Lutheran Church, Fostoria, Ohio with Reverend Dr. Larry Knigga officiating. Burial will take place at Knollcrest Cemetery, Arcadia, Ohio. Visitation will be held prior to services from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Thursday at the church.
Memorials can be made to Hope Lutheran Church or Bridge Hospice.


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Sports Night: A's trade Sonny Gray
Voisin: The A's keep ripping off fans. This time, they trade Sonny Gray. When will it stop?
Sonny Gray is the latest star to be developed by the A's and then traded away. Team officials have been using the same sorry excuse for too long.
Bay Bridge Series: Semien's grand slam helps lift A's past Giants, 8-5
Marcus Semien hits a grand slam off reliever George Kontos in the sixth inning, and the A's hold on to beat the Giants 8-5 Monday, hours after trading ace Sonny Gray.
Kings: Solid background – and keeping his sanity – makes Williams ready for front-office job
Brandon D. Williams, the Kings' new assistant general manager, did all he could to succeed, including law school.
49ers: Secondary running low on safeties after Jaquiski Tartt is injured
The 49ers may have to add to their secondary after their three top safeties were injured in the first five days of training camp.
Raiders: Grand jury declines rape charges against rookie Conley
A grand jury in Cleveland decides not to charge Raiders rookie Gareon Conley with any crimes after a rape investigation.
Olympics: Los Angeles reaches deal with leaders for 2028 Games
Los Angeles reaches an agreement with Olympic leaders that will open the way for the city to host the 2028 Summer Games.
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Grading the Show E3 2017: Ubisoft
As we do every year, today we're here with our thoughts on the E3 Press Conferences. Today we're grading the E3 press conference for Ubisoft. In a show that decided to not have Aisha Tyler come back as host, how did the worldwide studios at Ubisoft fare? According to our writers, splendidly.
Ubisoft, Deliver Us From Boredom
Allen Kesinger
You can always count on Ubisoft to bring make a colorful appearance at E3. And although they arrived noticeably subdued, I feel confident that there was the best presentation of E3. The benefit, of course, is that Ubisoft doesn't need to waste time trying to sell me hardware. That said, I think they convinced me to purchase a Nintendo Switch so I can play Mario + Rabbids, an X-COM game set in the Mushroom Kingdom. From there, they delivered game after game that really attracted my interest. Skull & Bones had me ready to jump on my couch like Tom Cruise until they revealed to be an online-only multiplayer game. Booooooo.
The biggest surprise, however, was the existence of Beyond Good & Evil 2. Seeing Michel Ancel on stage crying after the reveal trailer made me so happy considering the game's long absence since the teaser in 2008. I've been anxiously awaiting a follow-up to one of my favorite games and while it didn't really explore how it will play, the realization of the game's aesthetic was jaw dropping. I could have done without the all the swearing because it seems out of character but if that's what it takes to get a sequel in my hands, well….
Great job, Ubisoft! We can always count on you to keep things fun and lively.
PS. Please bring back Aisha Tyler.
An Excellent Showing
Brandyn Boyd
Apparently, Ubisoft is the only company that remembered to bring surprises to E3. The show kicked off by showcasing gameplay from Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, which, shockingly, looks like an excellent take on the strategy role-playing genre. We received another trailer for Assassin's Creed: Origins, in addition to more info on other well-known entities, such as gameplay from Far Cry 5 and a release date for South Park: The Fractured But Whole. T
here was a performance-fueled announcement for Just Dance! 2018 that was mercifully short. Where Ubisoft really knocked it out of the park, however, were the new games and the teases. Ubisoft finally answered all the prayers of Black Flag fans and are making a full-fledged pirate game in Skull & Bones, transforming naval combat into a For Honor PVP-styled experience. South Park will be getting an entry on mobile devices. Starlink is a new way to sell expensive toys. There's even some kind of weird VR project in the works featuring. . . Elijah Wood?
Of course, the biggest announcement was the show's closer: Beyond Good and Evil 2. The former vaporware received a breathtaking (and surprisingly vulgar) new trailer before an emotional Michel Ancel came out on stage to personally thank the audience. It's hard to say when BGE2 is actually coming, or what, exactly, the "Space Monkey Program" is, considering that the game's website immediately went down following the reveal. Nevertheless, Ubisoft knocked it out of the park, giving us a great mix of what's coming this year, as well as glimpses into the company's future.
Ubisoft is Reborn
Brandon Brodsky
Every E3, I can't help but wonder what Ubisoft will do to make us cringe that year. This year, I was pleasantly surprised. The Mario and Rabbids crossover game may be a bit strange, but it looks genuinely fun and interesting. There were a few titles like The Crew 2, Assassin's Creed Origins, and Steep that snuck their way into the conference, but the rest of the games showed were really great to see. Ubisoft has seemed to take the route of being different and unique with games like Transference, a psychological horror game created for VR that seems to be very unconventional and certainly interesting. They even decided to change up the formula for games like Far Cry 5, which seems to have abandoned the typical themes we've seen since the first in favor of a more relatable and interesting plot structure. I am genuinely interested in this new entry in the series for the first time in years.
We got a new trailer for South Park: The Fractured But Whole, as well as a new mobile game of the same franchise. There was also a reveal of a new pirate game that takes inspiration from Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and looks like a great new addition to the list of Ubisoft's IPs. Of course there was a lot of fluff, but the final bombshell at the end of the presentation absolutely destroyed any chance that the competition had over the past two days. Beyond Good and Evil 2: enough said. It looks gorgeous, hilarious, and takes place before the first game. This title is very clearly filled with passion and love from the developers, and the weight of the announcement felt very real. Overall, it was a very enjoyable conference and has officially restored my faith in Ubisoft as a company.
That So Called Showstopper...
Jukka Piira
Let's get it out of the way right away. The so-called showstopper, the long-awaited sequel to Beyond Good & Evil, or prequel as it turns out, probably amazed a whole lot people. But I'm downright appalled. This swearing and rioting lump with obnoxious cast of characters, obviously meant as comic reliefs, couldn't be farther from the ideals Beyond Good & Evil was built on. I'd better say no more, it made me so upset. As for the rest of the games, the sequels we already knew about failed to impress as they seem to concentrate on all the wrong things, like turning Assassin's Creed into a Tom Clancy game.
Come on, you can't fool, that hawk in Origins is a drone from Ghost Recon! Some new IP's surprised though. Mario & Rabbids is probably cool for the fans. I'm not a fan so... Skull & Bones could be fun. Basing a game entirely on naval battles from Assassin's Creed III and Black Flag, where they were only part of the package, is risky. Hopefully Ubisoft can expand it into a working sea battle environment with as much planning as unexpected events involved.
A Heartfelt Show
Alex Mateo
This year, Ubisoft put on the best press conference it's ever had. That's not actually saying much; I haven't really been impressed by any of its previous showings. Regardless, this one had a lot of heart, from the excitement of Shigeru Miyamoto appearing on-stage to show off the Ubisoft-developed Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle to the finale announcement of one of the most long-awaited games, Beyond Good and Evil 2. My excitement upon these two games' official reveals made up for other lowlights, like the annual awkward Just Dance presentation. Seeing everyone on stage crying with excitement over their games' lineup was a beautiful sight, and I could truly see the passion they claimed to have. Overall, while not every game was interesting to me, the overall presentation brought a smile to my face.
Unbelievably Solid
Brian Tyler
Leave it to Ubisoft to break from tradition and host the most solid of the press conferences so far. Beginning with an almost out of no-where (except Laura Kate Dale told us about this MONTHS ago) home run, Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, and ending with the long, long, LONG awaited Beyond Good and Evil 2, I was content throughout their show. Thanks, Ubi and Yves for holding down Monday for us.
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It's official – today is World Sandwich Day and Subway shops around the world will come together for their largest fundraising event, the Subway "Live Feed", an initiative to help fight hunger globally.
To celebrate the movement, every local customer who visits a Subway shop on the day has the opportunity to buy a sandwich, salad or wrap and get one free for a friend, and help Subway give a meal to someone in need through Foodbank Australia.
Every meal donated on World Sandwich Day will become part of the global Subway movement and will be tracked through the Subway "Live Feed" digital ticker, via SubwayLiveFeed.com.au. The ticker will also be showcased in high profile areas around the world. Subway is expecting to donate hundreds of thousands of meals across Australia, and millions more globally.
Subway Australia has partnered with Australia's largest hunger relief charity, Foodbank, as part of the initiative which will assist the 3.6 million Australians experiencing food insecurity annually.
Each year, Foodbank deliver more than 63 million meals to Australians seeking hunger relief through the help of farmers, manufacturers, retailers, and its thousands of volunteers across the country. Out of these, almost 4.5 million go to South Australians.
Brianna Casey, CEO of Foodbank Australia says she is delighted to be part of Subway "Live Feed" for the restaurant's largest fundraising event.
"We are expecting to feed hundreds of thousands of Aussies seeking hunger relief through Subway "Live Feed", and we are thrilled to be a part of this exciting campaign," Brianna says.
"Hunger relief is such an important issue globally, as well as in Australia, where 15% of the population has experienced food insecurity in the last 12 months. It's terrific that Subway will be helping us put food on the plates for vulnerable Australians and their families," Brianna continues.
The fundraising event will be supported by a host of Australia's favourite celebrities, and by simply dropping in to your local Subway shop on 3 November, you can help make a difference to a fellow Aussie in need.
The charity day will be occurring across over 1,450 Subway shops across Australia.
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This weekend marks the first ever KTM UK Adventure Rally, which follows on from the success the Austrian bike manufacturer has had with similar events across the globe.
KTM UK's event will be held at the 6,600 acre Sweetlamb complex, in the heart of the Cambrian Mountains, from Friday 29th June to Sunday 1st July.
Sweetlamb offers some of the very best off-road riding in Britain, and the mixture of gravel roads, skill sections and specific courses will give all 75 participants a great opportunity to test the off-road capabilities of their KTM adventure bike.
A fleet of 1090 & 1290 Adventure demo motorcycles, all equipped with our acclaimed TKC 80 Twinduro tyres, will be available for test rides.
Chris Birch will be leading a number of rideouts over the course of the weekend, and there's also a skills show from Paul Bolton, plus Ady Smith's KTM Off-Road School to help participants improve their riding.
We are delighted to be involved with the inaugural UK event, as Continental have developed a strong technical partnership with KTM.
The Continental TKC 80 Twinduro is KTM's original equipment tyre of choice for a number of their Adventure R models, and is also factory fitted to the Enduro 701 from sister brand Husqvarna.
If you're at Sweetlamb this weekend, enjoy!
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Another timely ditty from David Rovics.
Authored by Chris Hall
Faith and a little politics
Another timely ditty from David Rovics.
Authored by Chris Hall
August 22nd or 23rd of August 1927 the US State murdered Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
"Did you see what I did to those anarchist bastards?"
– Presiding Judge Webster Thayer
Read more at libcom.org, and also at http://saccoandvanzetti.org
And here's a great version of the song Sacco and Vanzetti by David Rovics.
Authored by Chris Hall
The company that I work for is very much committed to tolerance amongst it's workforce and strives to ensure it doesn't come across as some kind of political or moral arbiter. Which I think is perhaps the most sensible route for any company to take. So I'm surprised to see that the Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is using the Starbucks company to wade into such political waters.
Why does he have to take such an aggressively intolerant stance towards a large section of his customers, and even his shareholders? If Howard Schulz wants to project Starbucks as being generally supportive of gay 'marriage' then surely he could do that without taking up arms against those who don't support such legislation?
He has crossed a line, not by using Starbucks to actively promote such an agenda but by opening up on those who don't agree with such a move. He told shareholders at the annual shareholders meeting that Starbucks wants to "embrace diversity of all kinds," he then moved on to tell a shareholder who personally supports traditional marriage that he should sell his shares and invest in some other company.
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What message does that make Starbucks send to a large portion of it's customer base? It's certainly spawned a movement to boycott Starbucks, caused some to set up a Dump Starbucks website and led to a loss of revenue. A Ratners moment perhaps?
Anyways, time to whip the intolerance card out methinks.
Authored by Chris Hall
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Having spent a few years unemployed under Thatcher and Major I can really feel for the people featured in this BBC article.
The quote from Ben Gillet sums up how it can be when you're in such a situation, it shows how alien this sort of existence is and how far away it is from what man needs.
"I have no routine, I have nothing to set my day by," he says. "It's sometimes light, it's sometimes dark, that's the passage of time as far as I'm concerned now."
Go read the article. Pray for change to their circumstance and for a change to the system that dumped them there.


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A sound knowledge of how informal green spaces are used, or of why they are not being used, can inform planners and decision-makers when intervening in such spaces to increase the liveability of urban neighbourhoods.
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst CSA+ CS0-001. The Total Course
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Welcome to CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst CSA+ CS0-001. The Total Course from Total Seminars and Brent Chapman.
This course covers everything you need to know to pass your CompTIA CSA+ Certification (CS0-001) Exam. The first goal of the course is to make you an outstanding cybersecurity analyst and in the process, make sure you are ready to pass the CompTIA exam.
The course covers all the CompTIA CSA+ CS0-001 Objective Domains:
- Threat Management: 27%
- Vulnerability Management: 26%
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Topics include:
- Threat and vulnerability management
- Conducting an analyzing reconnaissance
- Responding to network-based threats
- Securing a corporate network
- Cyber incident response
- Determining the impact of incidents
- Preparing the incident response toolkit
CSA+ provides substantial earnings potential
A career in information security analysis ranked seventh on U.S. News and World Report's list of the 100 best technology jobs for 2017. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for an information security analyst is $90,120 per year.
CSA+ certified skills are in-demand
Properly trained IT security staff who can analyze, monitor and protect cybersecurity resources are in high demand. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts that information security analysts will be the fastest growing overall job category, with 37 percent overall growth between 2012 and 2022.
Follow the CompTIA Cybersecurity Certification Pathway
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- This is a complete and comprehensive CompTIA CSA+ Certification (CS0-001) course. It is designed to prepare the student to be able to take and pass the Cybersecurity Analyst exam and become CompTIA CSA+ Certified
- Learn skills to break into a career in information security analysis, which ranks 7th in the 100 best tech jobs for 2017, and is predicted to be the fastest growing overall job category between 2012-2022. Cybersecurity Analysts earn a median pay of $90,120
In this series, Brent will teach you everything you need to know about becoming a CompTIA CSA+ certified Cybersecurity Analyst. This introduction includes an additional resource link to the CompTIA CSA+ exam objectives.
At the beginning of each section, you'll find a downloadable PDF of the notes for each chapter.
Understand pen testing methods & procedures.
Learn about the teaming process, & how to keep a security program in a "ready state."
Learn about detecting counterfeit hardware & fraudulent software files.
Learn about risk evaluation methods & logic for prioritization of threat responses.
Understand the importance of correct policies & procedures used to protect assets.
Learn about setting up vulnerability scanning criteria, reviewing resources & scoping.
Create & configure a Nessus scan.
See how remediation can be addressed in various environments.
Learn the implications, methods, & processes of collecting digital forensic data.
Learn the ins & outs of keeping a forensic investigation on track.
Learn to use hash methods to maintain the integrity of a file.
Use Windows-based tools to manually collect evidence for forensic investigations.
Use Linux-based tools to manually collect evidence for forensic investigations.
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Divorce-Related Fear: Facing Monsters with Might
Vampires, ghosts, and goblins. Halloween is full of spooky images intent on putting a shiver in your timbers. But the shiver-me-timbers fears of Hollywood and trick-or-treat all pale in comparison to the multitude of heart-felt fears that can come with separation and divorce.
Changes and uncertainties rock your world. The future is unknown. Finances change. Concerns over living life alone or over single parenting are intensified by the sense of loss and self-doubt that come with divorce.
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The circle around the bear represents the mind, body and spirit. The clusters of the seven circles represent the seven grandfather teachings, honesty, truth, humility, love, wisdom, courage and respect.
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