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WaterSan Perspective Reporter and
November 19th, 2012
Seven in ten women in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a safe toilet, threatening their health and exposing them to shame, fear and even violence.
This means that on World Toilet Day, 19 November, 297 million African women and girls lack safe and adequate sanitation and of those 107 million don't have a toilet at all.
A survey commissioned by WaterAid of women living across five slums in Lagos, Nigeria, showed that one in five had first or second hand experience of verbal harassment and intimidation, or had been threatened or physically assaulted in the last year when going to the toilet. Anecdotal evidence from other African countries suggests that the scale of the problem may be much larger than this.
Barbara Frost, Chief Executive of WaterAid, said:
"When women don't have a safe, secure and private place to go to the toilet they are exposed and put in a vulnerable position and when they relieve themselves in the open they risk harassment. Women are reluctant to talk about it or complain, but the world cannot continue to ignore this."
"Adequate sanitation, coupled with access to clean, safe water to drink, transforms lives, improving health, safety and productivity. Governments are urged to take action and invest in access to sanitation and water."
Other studies from Uganda and Kenya show that such experiences of fear, indignity and violence appear to be common in Africa wherever women lack access to safe and adequate sanitation.
Sandimhia Renato, 18, from Mozambique walks 15 minutes every day to defecate in the bush.
"Sometimes when I go I feel ashamed and go back without defecating. Sometimes I wait until dark to go there so no one can see me. I will be very concerned about Diani, my daughter, going to the bush because it is so far from here. At night it is very dangerous. People get killed. A woman and a boy were killed with knives. One woman I know of has been raped."
Security came out as a recurring concern in the poll of women from slums in Lagos, with 67% of respondents saying they feel unsafe even using shared or community toilets in a public place.
Poor hygiene has serious implications on health. Every day, over 1,000 African mothers lose a child to diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of adequate sanitation and clean water.
Lack of decent sanitation also affects productivity and livelihoods. Women and girls living in sub-Saharan Africa without toilet facilities spend 20 billion hours each year finding a place to go in the open, according to figures released in a WaterAid briefing.
Barbara Frost continued:"This World Toilet Day, WaterAid is joining the call of hundreds of organisations around the world, for governments to keep the promises they have made to get adequate sanitation and safe water to the world's poorest people".
WaterAid has also released a new film showing what it would be like for women in the western world if they also lacked sanitation. The film can be viewed online at www.wateraid.org/1in3


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Did she stop writing? Did she die? Or did she write but her letters were not saved?
The last letter that I have was dated 26 March 1909, Medford, OK. In that letter she mentioned that she had thought about going to Caldwell, Kansas but had changed her mind. Also in her letter she said:
Woolsey's have all had the grip and are not well yet have not seen Mae since the holidays. Melvin and family started back to their claim last friday. I am glad I do not half to go out their.
In another case of rushing I did not look up the information I have gathered on Toley's family. Woolsey's was not a surname, she was referring to her brother, Woolsey Robinson and his family. Woolsey was married to Martha E Cromwell and they had at least two children, Melvin and Cleo. I'm guessing that Martha went by Mae. Melvin Robinson married about 1906 and had two children by 1910. So it appears that Toley followed her brother to Oklahoma. By 1910 Wooley and Melvin had moved to Kay County, OK.
I have searched the 1910 census six ways to Sunday and I can not locate Toley. I tried both nationwide searches and by guessing where she might be. I used every variation of her name that I have.
I found an old message board posting by Steve Robinson, who seems to have information on Melvin's family. The email account associated with that post is no longer any good. I have also used member connect at Ancestry to contact someone who may have more information. I have added what I have found about the family to a public tree there too.
I spent several hours yesterday trying to solve the mystery of what happened to Toley. I have other projects that need my attention and so I will reluctantly set this aside - for now. I am hoping that if I post what I know about her and her family here that someone will stumble across this post with the answer.
I have found her name listed as Clarinda A. Robinson, Lourinda E. Robinson, Louola Robinson, Etola Robinson, Etoley Robinson, Toley Robinson. She was born about 1858 in Indiana to Parker Robinson and Clarinda.
Other children of Parker and Clarinda Robinson:
- Sarah Robinson, born abt 1837, Indiana. Married Peter B. Gosline. They lived in Buchanan, MI and South Bend, IN. Both are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Buchanan, MI. Their children were: Ralph C. Gosline, Amelia G. Gosline and Edward Robinson Gosline.
- William Robinson, born May 1839, Indiana. He may have married Matilda and had children: Daniel Robinson and Dora E. Robinson. They lived in Berrien County, Michigan.
- Woolsey Robinson, born July 1843, Indiana. He married Martha E Cromwell in 1880. By 1900 they lived in Hickory, Grant, OK. in 1910 and 1920 I found them in Tonkawa, Kay, OK. Their children: Melvin Robinson and Cleo Robinson. (Possibly Melvin Woolsey Robinson.) By 1930 Melvin was living in Turlock, Stanislaus, CA.
- Daniel Robinson, born abt 1846, Indiana. He married Mary Alice Wilson. In 1880 they were living in Dowagiac, Cass, MI and I haven't found them for certain after that date. Children: Mabel Robinson, Viola Robinson, Clarence Robinson and possibly others.
- Celia Robinson, born abt 1850, Indiana. She married Jefferson Dalrymple in 1873. In 1880 they were living in Benton, Berrien, MI. I did not find them after that. They had at least one child: Rosco Dalrymple.
- Abner Robinson, born abt 1852, Indiana. He married Elizabeth and they lived in Dowagiac and Buchanan, MI. I think they were living in Baldwin, Alabama in 1920. Children: Leland A. Robinson and Nellie E. Robinson.

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Extraordinary changes are underway in today's American health care system. The New Medicine, a special PBS series on integrative medicine, aired on March 29, 2006 to an audience of over 4.2 million people.
Recognizing the importance of public awareness to the growth of integrative medicine, early in its history, The Bravewell Collaborative resolved to create a high-quality Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series similar in scope and quality to Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind.
Judith Moyers, executive producer for most of Bill Moyers' work, provided counsel to the Bravewell Collaborative on a pro bono basis. Middlemarch Films, an award-winning and highly respected producer of documentary programming was retained and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), highly regarded in the industry for its national productions, was secured as the sponsoring station.
PBS approved the two-part series for nationwide, prime time viewing and made it part of the PBS Health Initiative. The New Medicine series aired for the first time on March 29, 2006. More than 561 local PBS stations nationwide broadcast the show to an estimated 4.2 million viewers.
Episode I reveals how science is proving the power of the mind-body connection. It features advances in immunology and neurobiology and NIH-funded research studying the underlying biological mechanisms involved in healing. Relationships between stress and the immune system, and between the brain and treatment of chronic pain are explored.
Episode II examines the growing acceptance of holistic, mind-body medicine and ways it is changing health care in areas such as physician training, the hospital environment and the doctor/patient relationship, and how it is ultimately making medicine more humanistic.
On November 3, 2006 the production was awarded a FREDDIE for excellence in health and wellness media, the nation's highest honor for medical media.
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Ronald Blumer. Editors/Co-Producers: Donna Marino and Sharon Sachs.
Music composed by Richard Einhorn.
Major funding for The New Medicine was provided by WebMD Health Foundation.
Additional major funding was provided by: The George Family Foundation and Penny and Bill George, The Lura & David Lovell Foundation, The Christy & John Mack Foundation and Christy and John Mack, The Simms & Mann Family Foundations, The Bernard Osher Foundation, the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, William Sarnoff, and Ruth Stricker and Bruce B. Dayton.
Additional funding was provided by: Wyeth, The Globe Foundation, Novartis, Definity Health Corporation, Colburn and Alana Jones, The Michele & David Mittelman Foundation, The Rudolf Steiner Foundation, Complementary Care Foundation, The Fullerton Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation.
The New Medicine Physician Advisory Board:
- Brian M. Berman, MD
Founder and Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD
Founder and Medical Director, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, La Jolla, CA
- Mack Lipkin, MD
Director, Division of Primary Care, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center School of Medicine
- Woodson Merrell, MD
Executive Director, Continuum Center for Health and Healing, Beth Israel Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
- Ralph Snyderman, MD
Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
- Esther Sternberg, MD
Director, Integrative Neural Immune Program and Chief of the Section on Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health
Contributing institutions:
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- The David Center for Children's Pain and Palliative Care, Hackensack University Medical Center
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Ohio State University Medical Center
- University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine
- W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Blue Shield of California
- Drexel University College of Medicine
- University of California, San Diego Student-Run Free Clinic
- Center for Integrative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
- Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota


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Where They Play, Rich Conservatives Like Zoning
A Commentary by Froma Harrop
The weekend's memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. On Sunday, he moseyed across the Long Island Sound to the beachy pleasure dome of billionaire conservative David Koch, in Southampton, N.Y. -- for a $75,000-a-couple dinner to raise money from like-minded Republicans. Not far away, Koch's brother Bill, a fellow funder of conservative causes, holds court in the exclusive waterfront enclave of Osterville, on Cape Cod.
The brothers' family business, based far away in Wichita, Kan., is a notoriously careless emitter of toxic wastes. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts ranks Koch Industries as America's 10th worst air polluter. Thus, not a few eyes roll as Bill continues to lead the long fight against a planned wind farm off Osterville's shore. You understand, it would mar the alleged environmental perfection of the waters in which he sails.
The region's choice corners are chock-a-block with rich Democrats, too, but it is politically their natural habitat. Why do conservatives from elsewhere hang out in places that tax and regulate and do all kinds of other mean things to rich people like themselves? The reason is that these are nice places, and they are that way precisely because they tax and regulate. And these guys know it. If cooler summers were all they craved, they'd be partying in Upper Wisconsin.
A libertarian friend, a journalist from Texas, once told me she'd like to live in a nice, preserved New England village, but no one there would buy her politics. I told her that if the region bought her politics, the village wouldn't be nice and preserved. Google the words "McDonald's" and "Osterville," and the first link is "Places for McDonald's near Osterville," not "in Osterville."
The West's libertarian ethic is a beautiful thing when it comes to letting folks get fat, smoke pot or otherwise conduct their lives in peace. But the belief that a man can do anything he wants on his land often leads to destroyed environments.
New England had a piece of environmental good luck when America's boundaries started expanding. The land was useless from an extractive-industry point of view. Little gas, little coal. Ditto gold, silver and other metals. At the first opportunity, even farmers fled the rocky soil for the fertile Midwest.
And so the Yankees had to switch to plan B. They built factories, using river power, until put out of business by cheaper energy and labor elsewhere. This was at bottom a knowledge economy that continues to this day. The modern version relies on universities to churn out computer, biotech and other inventors of new businesses. Another part of plan B was to become financiers to the national economy.
As investors, New Englanders fanned across the country extracting riches from other regions. They did mining, oil drilling, railroad building. How their activities harmed these other environments was, in most cases, the last thing on their minds. They made sure that their kids attended prized schools back East and that they themselves would not spend their summers near an open pit mine in southern Arizona. They came home to the fresher breezes and charming villages of the Northeast. And the rich from other regions joined them for the summer party.
It's one thing to pollute other areas. It's another to despoil where one goes for recreation. It's animal nature not to dirty one's own nest. Wherever the well heeled -- no matter how freedom-loving they profess to be -- go to play, you can be sure of one thing: The place will be zoned to its teeth.
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A ghostly woman covered in white moves slowly, shaking. A man with long hair wails and plucks a guitar. A harmonium drones. Puppets emerge to the tunes of a flute and the beat of a drum, and a whimsical world is created that feels like a fairytale set to song, sometimes melancholy and sometimes full of life.
This is just a typical performance from the Brooklyn band Cookie Tongue, a "freaky folky family" currently in the throes of raising funds to record their latest album, Orphan Arms.
Cookie Tongue sprang from the brain of musician and visual artist Omer Gal in 2011. Upon their East Coast rebirth about a year ago, the band is now additionally comprised of Jacquelyn Marie Shannon, Chris Carlone, Brandon Perdomo, and Liza Pavlovna. Similar to Omer, all the other members also make their own art, from Butoh dance and theater to textile art and videography.
"My first band was with an ex-girlfriend in Israel. She was really into theater and fantastical worlds," explains Omer. "When I moved to San Francisco, I moved alone, so that mixed with being in a new place created new songs. I was doing my MFA, there was a bunch of other artists there. Through jamming with them, I started writing songs that I felt were good enough to call Cookie Tongue."
He adds that the first Cookie Tongue included yet another ex-girlfriend, who was the group's violinist. "I can't play music with someone who isn't family," he explains.
Upon his move to New York, Omer left the woman and the former iteration of the group behind yet again, but had already met his next partner in art and life.
"I met Omer at a Cookie Tongue show in San Francisco," said Jacquelyn. "I went to a couple of shows and [it was] a super blown-away, I can't believe this exists kind of thing. I just remember how transportive it was. I felt like I was in a book or another world."
Jacquelyn, who initially joined the band as a Butoh dancer and now also plays an assortment of instruments, moved to New York from San Francisco around the time Omer did to study Butoh under the instructor Vangeline. There, she met Chris Carlone and Brandon Perdomo, other core members of the band.
Omer met the band's newest member Liza on the street selling what he calls "Shithead shirts," hand-painted t-shirts he makes bearing grotesque (yet somehow endearing) faces. These shirts are also available as rewards for donating to the band's Kickstarter.
The uniquely fantastical nature of Cookie Tongue allows the members, especially Omer, to bring more than just interesting instruments and surreal sounds to the project. The focus is never just on music, but creating an entire world through their performances, whether this be through puppets, storytelling, dance, animation, or something else entirely.
"When I thought the music wasn't good enough in the beginning, I added the art to it to make it feel like even though I'm not completely sure about this, I have the art, which I know is good," Omer explains.
"We were talking about the theatrics of our shows, but how does that translate to an album? And so that's one of the fun challenges, how we capture that theatrical experience in a soundscape," adds Jacquelyn. "This is what we look like, this is what we feel like, and the challenge of translating that into sound. There's a lot going on besides the music."
Orphan Arms isn't Cookie Tongue's first album– that was 2014's Biotic Rituals, a selection of songs sporting similar vibes but more indie-rock peppiness. But that was recorded with the San Francisco iteration, and they are starting fresh. Well, maybe not so fresh, per se.
"I think this album is gonna be a little more, sort of soggy dust. Gravelly, brownish, grayish texture," Omer says when I inquire about it. "Grainy. And kind of a little bit desaturated."
Omer and Jacquelyn explain that the "witchiness" of their surrounding community (they consider Bushwick's Tarot Society a "home base") has also impacted the band's sound and image.
"I think what we're seeing especially right now is this kind of renaissance in the idea of magic," says Jacquelyn. "Looking for magic, looking to a fairy tale and figuring out what that means to us."
As many bands do, they're using Kickstarter to raise funds for their album, with a reach goal of $5,000 to record the songs and press them onto vinyl. They saw the video pitch element of crowdfunding as an opportunity to make what is essentially a short film that manifests the spirit of Cookie Tongue, feeling more like a piece of art than the familiar "here's why you should donate" spiel.
And even that's a bit different. Omer and Jacquelyn talk at length to me about the importance of family and community, whether in the band or beyond. Cookie Tongue's previous iterations were more casual, Omer says, but this one truly feels like a family. He recounts seeing Devendra Banhart play a show in Tel Aviv and being affected by the band, how each member got to be in the spotlight and even the audience was invited to be a part of it.
"When I saw them walk out of the club I thought, I want a band like that," he recalls. "I want a band that's like a family."
"We are really into knowing who wants to be a part of the community," says Jacquelyn. "It's not just donate because it's a good thing to do, but because we want you to be part of this thing that we're building."
Cookie Tongue will be having a fundraiser dinner and performance at a secret location this Sunday, February 19. Find out more by contacting them through their Facebook page. Their Kickstarter concludes on February 22.


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The hard times that most Americans continue to experience don't seem to be making an impact on their representatives in Washington. Now a new report might shed some light on why. According to a Washington Post story this week, "Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity."
Members of Congress have only been getting richer over the last 25 years.
"Over the same period," the Post continued, "the wealth of an American family has declined slightly, with the comparable median figure sliding from $20,600 to $20,500."
Nearly half of all members of Congress are millionaires, the New York Times pointed out, and yet many of them don't see themselves as rich. "I don't see myself as a man of great wealth," Representative Ed Pastor, Democrat from Arizona, told the Times. "To say that I'm enjoying a millionaire's lifestyle — well, I can tell you, I guess a millionaire's income doesn't go very far these days."
And though most Americans would probably be happy to have a net worth, like Pastor's, over $1 milion, it's true that compared to some of his colleagues in Washington, Pastor is merely doing all right. Compared to Sen. John Kerry, whose average net worth the Post calculated to be $231,722,794, or Rep. Darrell Issa, the richest person in Congress with an average net worth of $448,125,017, Pastor looks like a regular working stiff.
But the real comparison isn't between members of Congress. It's looking at these ultra-wealthy politicians in comparison to the folks they represent.
So here, we present 10 of the richest members of Congress, men and women whose wealth utterly dwarfs that of their constituents. While these aren't the 10 richest according to the raw numbers, they're the ones whose districts are largely still suffering the consequences of the slow economy.
1. Rep. Mike Kelly, Republican, Pennsylvania District 3
The Post quoted Kelly, who represents a working-class Western Pennsylvania district, as saying, "Let's stop railing against the really wealthy because I got to tell you something, as a guy who has had to pay his own way his whole life, I am greatly offended by the idea that somehow someone in Washington knows how to spend my money better than I do."
But Kelly's idea of paying his own way includes inheriting a car dealership, marrying a wealthy oil heiress, and making some money from the government bailout of the auto industry. As a car dealer, he also profited from the government's "Cash for Clunkers" program. In 2010, he was the 22nd richest member of Congress, with an average net worth of $34,612,518.
Meanwhile, 16 percent of the people in his district—and a whopping 46 percent of its African-American population — live in poverty. 33,403 children, or 24 percent, are poor, and 9.2 percent of the adults are unemployed. The household median wage is a mere $42,639 – almost $8,000 less than the national average — and 9 percent make less than $10,000 a year. Only 1.5 percent make over $200,000 a year, and nearly 14 percent used Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (commonly known as SNAP or food stamps) in the past year.
2. Rep. Diane Lynn Black, Republican, Tennessee District 6
Black was elected to Congress as part of the Tea Party class in 2010, from a mostly suburban and rural area east of Nashville, and is the 25th richest member of Congress, with an average net worth, according to the Post, of $31,272,522. Her husband is CEO of a company called Aegis Sciences Corp., which according to its Web site "was founded as a sports anti-doping laboratory at Vanderbilt University" and "has evolved into a full service forensic sciences company providing toxicology and consulting services."
Despite the fact that 16 percent of her constituents live in poverty, including 23 percent of the children and a full 39 percent of Latino residents, Black voted against the payroll tax cut and unemployment extension. (Her district also has 11.1 percent unemployment.) The median income for a household is $43,712 a year, and 8.1 percent make under $10,000 a year, with 15.2 percent needing food stamps to help feed their families.
3. Rep. Jim Renacci, Republican, Ohio District 16
Jim Renacci was also elected to Congress in 2010, and with his average net worth of $42,060,709, became the 20th richest lawmaker. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, his fortune comes from nursing homes, real estate investments, car and motorcycle dealerships, a bar and grill, an arena football team and a minor-league baseball team. The Plain Dealer also reported that he sold 40 cars worth $754,167 under the Cash for Clunkers program, and that he had to pay $1.3 million in back taxes in 2006 to make up for misreporting on his 2000 form.
Meanwhile, in Renacci's district, unemployment is 11 percent, 83,518 people (or 13 percent) live in poverty, which includes 22 percent of the children and 39 percent of African Americans. Only 2.2 percent make over $200,000 a year, while 6.5 percent make less than $10,000 a year and the median household income is around $46,000.
4. Rep. Kenny Marchant, Republican, Texas District 24
Marchant was a close ally of then-Texas governor George W. Bush, and according to the Sunlight Foundation has the fifth-largest holdings in oil companies among members of Congress. The 17th richest Congressperson in 2010 is a member of the Tea Party Caucus and has an average net worth of $49,340,275. Marchant is a real estate developer who owns a home construction company.
Marchant's district is fairly well-off, with a median income of $57,031 a year, but 20 percent of its children still live in poverty as does 23 percent of its Latino population.
5. Sen. James E. Risch, Republican, Idaho
Risch was elected to replace the disgraced Senator Larry Craig (who was arrested for soliciting in an airport bathroom). He's the 16th richest member of Congress, with an average net worth of $54,088,026. A longtime politician and former Idaho governor, Risch apparently came to his wealth through his time as a lawyer. According to the Spokesman-Review, "Risch is well-known in Idaho as a self-made millionaire who built a fortune as one of the state's most successful trial lawyers while also building a political career as a longtime state senator from Boise."
Meanwhile, back in Idaho, 15.7 percent of the population are living in poverty, including 80,316 children. Thirty-two percent of the state's Native American population also fall beneath the poverty line. The median household income is only $43,490, and only 1.8 percent make more than $200,000. Ten percent of Idaho's civilian labor force is unemployed, and 12.5 percent were on food stamps at some point in the last year.
6. Sen. Bob Corker, Republican, Tennessee
Corker is the largest landowner in Hamilton County, Tennessee. He was accused, when mayor of Chattanooga, of illegally using his position to push through a land deal between one of his companies and Wal-Mart. The 15th richest congressman, Corker's average net worth in 2010 was $59,550,022, according to the Post. And he's a fan of the Bush tax cuts, which unsurprisingly keep his own taxes low.
Corker's constituents in Tennessee have a median wage just over $40,000 a year, and 17.7 percent of them are below the federal poverty line. Twenty-six percent of Tennessee's children, 29 percent of its African-American population, 34 percent of its Latinos and 36 percent of its Native American residents live in poverty, while 11.3 percent are unemployed and a full 17 percent used SNAP benefits to get through the last year.
7. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, West Virginia
Yes, he's one of those Rockefellers. He's a great-grandson of the famed John D. Rockefeller, the first Democrat in a Republican family, and often a fairly progressive voice on economic issues. He offered a public health insurance option amendment to the Senate's version of the healthcare reform bill (it failed) and co-authored the CHIP program, which gives low-income children health insurance.
Still, the fact remains that Rockefeller is incredibly wealthy. The 10th richest member of Congress in 2010, his average net worth was $99,057,011 according to the Post. Meanwhile, his constituents are the poorest on this list—18.1 percent of West Virginians live in poverty, and the median household income in his state is $38,218. Just 1.4 percent make over $200,000, and 15.4 percent have used food stamps to get by this year. 8.9 percent of West Virginians are unemployed.
8. Rep. Vernon Buchanan, Republican, Florida, District 13
Buchanan, the eighth richest member of Congress in 2010 with a net worth somewhere around $136,152,641, was the founder of American Speedy Printing Centers and also got rich selling cars. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported in 2006 that Buchanan "uses offshore reinsurance companies in Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands to reduce taxes on extended warranties sold by his auto dealerships," which, it pointed out, is neither illegal nor uncommon, but is controversial and provoked a defensive statement from the then-candidate that he had always paid his taxes, "But I don't think anyone should pay more taxes than they owe."
Buchanan's district has seen poverty rates increase since 2007, with 15 percent now under the poverty line and 13.7 percent unemployed. Nine percent have used food stamp benefits in the past year, and 6.1 percent are making less than $10,000 a year.
9. Rep. Michael McCaul, Republican, Texas District 10
McCaul is married to the daughter of Clear Channel Communications' chairman and was the second richest member of Congress in 2010, clocking in with an average net worth of $380,411,527. In addition to voting against the payroll tax cut, McCaul voted to cut off mortgage modification aid for underwater borrowers under the Home Affordable Modification Program and echoed the same old claim that the wealthy are "job creators."
But back at home in Texas, plenty of McCaul's constituents are still having a rough time: 7.3 percent of them are unemployed, and the poverty rate has increased since 2007, with 13 percent of the population and 18 percent of children living below the poverty line. Nearly half his district's poor (65,142 out of 128,357) are Latino.
10. Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican, California District 49
"In Mr. Issa's case, it is sometimes difficult to separate the business of Congress from the business of Darrell Issa."
Those were the words of Eric Lichtblau, writing in the New York Times this August about the activities of the man the Washington Post calls the richest in Congress. According to the Post, he has an average net worth of $448,125,017, and Lichtblau noted that unlike many other wealthy members of Congress (including Rockefeller and Sen. John Kerry), Issa takes a direct hand in running his outside business.
In Issa's Southern California district, 14 percent of the people and 21 percent of the children are living below the poverty line. 13.8 percent are unemployed, and 5.1 percent used food stamps in the past year. Median household income is relatively high —$57,399—but 5 percent still make less than 10K. While Issa has been good at bringing home projects that enhance his private wealth, it seems that many of his constituents are not feeling the benefits.
Lichtblau wrote, "As his private wealth and public power have grown, so too has the overlap between his private and business lives, with at least some of the congressman's government actions helping to make a rich man even richer and raising the potential for conflicts."
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I don't know about you, but I love to gaze at the sky. It's easy to get lost in the amazing beauty of days when the sky is clear blue or when filled with fluffy white clouds. I especially get excited when I'm privileged to get a glimpse of a beautiful glowing sunset. I can only think of our amazing Creator!
Next time you're outside, don't take the sky or granted, notice its breathtaking beauty, and let it carry your thoughts to the One who created it!
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skys proclaim the work of His hands. Psalm 19:1
As for our home, we are still waiting for it to sell...we're beginning to wonder if His plan is for us to stay put; at least for now. I love our home and I would be delighted if we stayed...one thing is for sure, keeping our home "show ready" is really quite stessful! This too shall drift away like a floating cloud :)


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Developing Church Health
- Dr. Paul Dean
- 2006 13 Sep
Church health is a major issue in evangelicalism today. Entire books have been dedicated to the subject. Ministries related to church health are now pervasive with certain individuals emphasizing that issue over church growth. Church splits often hurt many individuals involved and bring reproach upon Christ Himself. Breaches in relationships must be repaired if the church is to be seen for what it truly is: the body of Christ. Real differences from the world and real spiritual power must be demonstrated in God's churches. While a number of dynamics are involved in church health, practically speaking, we must learn how to minister to individuals in the church who are facing differing problems. In so doing, we will then be in the process of developing and maintaining a healthy church. So, how can we do our part?
First, we can do our part to develop and maintain a healthy church if we understand our union with the body of Christ. We must see and treat one another as family. Too often persons in the church see one another as adversaries. This concept is foundational and ties the following implications together. These implications are grounded in 1 Thessalonians 5:14-15 . There, Paul addresses the "brethren." We are brothers and sisters and in union with one another by virtue of our union with Christ. In light of that reality, there are practical issues in terms of relationships with which we must deal.
Second, we can do our part to develop and maintain a healthy church if we understand our focus on the body of Christ. In other words, in terms of relationships, our focus must be others and not ourselves. When conflict arises, the most common response is a focus on oneself by way of anger, an unwillingness to seek reconciliation, or the slander of a brother. In his word to the Thessalonians, Paul emphasizes a focus on others. Elsewhere he says, "Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus (Phil. 2:3-5)."
Third, we can do our part to develop and maintain a healthy church if we understand our ministry to the body of Christ. As we focus on others, we will minister to others. Paul offers a word of exhortation in terms of helping those within the body who face different issues leading to different dispositions or heart attitudes. He simply says, "Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all (1 Thes. 5:14)." Rather than tear others down, we are to help those within the church who are hurting or who have perhaps fallen into sin. We are to deal with them in ways that are relevant to that with which they are struggling. Highlights may be given here.
The first thing we can do in terms of ministry is "warn those who are unruly." The word translated "warn" is the Greek word rooted in nouthesis from which we get our word "nouthetic" which relates to the specific discipline of biblical counseling. The verb noutheteo refers to imparting understanding, setting right, or laying on the heart. The emphasis lies in not only influencing the intellect but in moving the will. The word is often translated admonish, warn, remind, correct, etc. The word literally means to put in mind with particular reference to training by the Word through encouragement or reproof.
In addition, the concept carries a specific pastoral function in the New Testament and indeed, a primary function. Pastors are to confront nouthetically individuals in the every day ebb and flow of their ministries. Believers are to do the same in regard to one another. We members of the body of Christ are to shepherd one another in appropriate ways. In this particular context, we are to help those who have broken ranks come to their senses.
The second thing we can do in terms of ministry is "comfort the fainthearted." That is, we are to give encouragement to those who are prone to lose heart. The Christian life is not always easy. Difficulties assail the Christian from all directions. Those who are prone to fall behind are to be surrounded by those who are strong in the Lord. They are to be protected from wolves and encouraged in the midst of difficulty. A primary application is that of encouraging others toward perseverance.
The third thing we can do in terms of ministry is "uphold the weak." In this case, the primary application is that of holding one up who is prone to fall into sin. We are to hold one another accountable and aid our brothers and sisters in the battle against sin. We help them to stand in the midst of temptation (much like the admonition to stand in Ephesians 6:10-18 ) or we help them up after they have fallen prey to sin.
The fourth thing we can do in terms of ministry is be "patient with all." The Christian life, the spiritual battle, the shepherding ministry to which all of us have been called to one degree or another, is long and arduous. People fall and they fall again. We are to be patient. Believers act like saints and they act like sinners. We are to be patient. Brothers seem to get victory and then they lapse. We are to be patient. We are to be patient with all.
The fifth thing we can do in terms of ministry is not render evil for evil. Paul says, "See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all." It is possible that Paul has in mind here those false interlopers who were not only slandering his own name but were leading the Thessalonians astray. As the saints see the truth of the situation, they are not to render evil back for the evil that has been perpetrated upon them.
At the same time, it may be that all Paul gives here is general admonition. In either case, his point is the same. We are not to render evil for evil to anyone. We are not to take revenge. We are to leave that to the Lord. We are not to retaliate.
The sixth thing we can do in terms of ministry is pursue what is good. Paul does not stop with what we are not supposed to do. He gives us the positive dynamic or action on the other side. We are to "pursue what is good both for [ourselves] and for all." We are to keep up the chase in regard to that which is good. The good is whatever is good in the situation. It may be God's glory, it may be sanctification, it may be what is true, it may be what is wholesome, etc. We are to pursue the good thing for ourselves and all those whom God brings into our lives.
Fourth, we can do our part to develop and maintain a healthy church if we understand our benefits from the body of Christ. At least four beneficial implications can be gleaned from the foregoing. In doing our part, we will be bring much glory to the Lord, aid in the sanctification of others, watch unto our very own souls, and bear witness to Christ's changing power.
With Paul's teaching here, there is a sense in which we are getting a crash course in shepherding souls, biblical counseling, and/or pastoral discipleship. As we take his teaching to heart in these practical ways, we will not only reap the noted benefits, we will also be doing our part to develop and maintain a healthy church body for the glory of God and her joy in Him. Let us be about shepherding one another to and for the health of the church.


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Since long before the 2010 Winter Olympics when curling attracted a lot of attention from the American audience, this popular winter sport has been a fixture of small towns and big cities around the world. Download the greatest curling app on Android and discover what everyone's been talking about.
As the skip, you'll see the house in fullscreen, place the arrow on the ice wherever you'd like. You can drag the target around the house and the area in front of the house. This target will provide a line for your rock to travel but does not guarantee the placement of the rock. Your rock will curl off that line so keep that in mind when you choose your target. Once you are satisfied with the placement of the arrow click the ok button.
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Hotel La Maison du Monde Hotel lies in Cogolin, a small village near the renowned Saint Tropez resort. This brand new property is housed in an old mansion dating back to 1860, completely refurbished to satisfy the needs of today's travellers. Among the facilities offered, you will find a beautiful park surrounding the whole structure, an outdoor swimming pool, Wi-Fi Internet access, an elegant library, a terrace. The friendly staff will always be at your disposal to suit all your needs and to ensure you a comfortable stay. The hotel furthermore features a meeting room hosting up to 20 persons and other two meeting rooms subject to advanced reservation (equipment available on request). The reception is staffed until 9 p.m., so it is advisable to call the hotel in case of late arrivals. The property offers hot and cold drinks as well as a small menu featuring salads, crêpes, etc. available all day long. Your pets can stay free of charge and are more than welcome!
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The Committee on Improving Judicial Oversight and Processing of Probate Court Matters ("Probate Court Committee') issued its Final Report to the Arizona Judicial Council ("AJC") and the Supreme Court in June 2011. Filing of the Final Report concluded the work of the Probate Court Committee.
To view the Final Report click here
The Supreme Court adopted new rules and changes to the Rules of Probate Procedure in December 2011, based on the recommendations made by the Probate Court Committee in its Final Report. Of the 24 probate rules adopted, 15 took effect February 1, 2012 and 9 are effective September 1, 2012.
On June 18, 2012, the Arizona Judicial Council will consider proposed administrative rules and training curriculum necessary to implement the Probate Rules effective September 1, 2012. The Probate Rules with the September 1st effective date fall into 4 main areas:
1. Training for attorneys serving as appointed counsel or guardians ad litem; for court investigators and for non licensed fiduciaries.
2. Changes to Arizona Code of Judicial Administration ("ACJA") § 7-202: Fiduciaries to implement statutory changes resulting from Senate Bill 1499 and other amendments necessary to implement the new Probate Rules.
3. Probate Forms. A new ACJA § 3-302 adopts statewide Probate Forms.
4. Statewide Fee Guidelines. A new Section § 3-303 adopts the recommendation of the Probate Court Committee for statewide Fee Guidelines.
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Rome, Italy (CNN) -- A priest who was accused of sexually abusing children -- and whose subsequent move from one location to another the pope approved when he was a German cardinal -- has been suspended, his archdiocese announced Monday. The priest was later convicted.
The priest, identified only as H, violated the terms set out for him after his conviction, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a statement. It did not say what the violation was, but at the time of his conviction by a German court, he was ordered to pay a fine and not work with children again.
The priest's superior also resigned, the church said.
The pope -- then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- approved the man's move in the wake of the accusations from Essen to Munich in the early 1980s, but the archdiocese said the cardinal was never personally aware of the details of the man's case.
The priest was in therapy for having abused children when he was transferred, the archdiocese said.
Officials said the priest was released from church service in 2008 and was no longer serving actively as a priest. He was a church counselor for tourists.
The move comes as hundreds of alleged victims have come forward in Germany, claiming priests abused them. Some allege the abuse was sexual, while others refer to physical violence such as slapping.
German lawyers representing alleged victims said there are more than 300 cases across Germany.
Ursula Raue, who is representing alleged victims of sex abuse by a Jesuit order in Berlin, said she "must have had around 1,000 calls, none of them less than half an hour long."
"Many people keep saying to me that this is the first time anyone has actually listened or believed my story," she said.
Although she's a lawyer, in this instance she describes herself as a go-between between the alleged victims and the Jesuit-run Canisius College in Berlin. She has 160 cases she's looking into throughout Germany, she said.
The Vatican has been working hard to defend the German-born Pope Benedict XVI as the scandal spreads.
As the head of the Vatican's doctrinal arm in Rome before he became pope, Ratzinger "initiated intense activities to confront, judge and adequately punish the crimes in the context of ecclesiastical legislation," Vatican spokesman the Federico Lombardi said Saturday.
"The line he followed was always one of rigor and coherence in dealing with even the most difficult situations," he said. Read why the allegations could mean trouble for the pope
Also on Saturday, a top Vatican official said Catholic Church officials never prosecuted more than half the roughly 3,000 priests accused of sexual impropriety in the last decade.
There has been "no trial" in 60 percent of cases, mostly "because of the advanced age of the accused," said Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, head of the Vatican office that investigates crimes the church considers most serious.
The priests in those cases were subject to "administrative and disciplinary provisions" such as instructions not to celebrate Mass or hear confessions, Scicluna told L'Avvenire, the Italian Catholic bishops' newspaper.
Those cases include some of the most "sensational... which have caught the attention of the media," he said, without revealing more details.
Scicluna insisted the priests in question had not been absolved of their sins.
"It's true that there has been no formal condemnation, but if a person is obliged to live a life of silence and prayer, then there must be a reason," he said in an unusually revealing interview.
Scicluna was talking only about investigations by the church, not by civil authorities.
The Vatican released an official English translation of the remarks, which come as accusations of child abuse by priests sweep across Western Europe.
A damning Irish government-backed report into child abuse by priests led four bishops to resign in December, and Pope Benedict XVI is expected to issue a formal statement, or pastoral letter, about it before Easter.
The Netherlands, Austria and Germany also are facing new allegations of child abuse -- including ones in a diocese once directly connected to the pope and to his brother, Georg Ratzinger.
The coming months are likely produce more sexual abuse allegations across Europe.
"It is like a tsunami or an extensive fire," said the Rev. Andreas Batlogg, editor of the German Jesuit magazine Stimmen der Zeit. "The estimated number of undetected cases seems to be far higher than the yet known ones."
Nearly every day since the end of January, more Germans have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, with roughly 170 reporting such abuse.
Two self-identified German victims were connected to a boy's choir that was directed by the pope's brother from 1964 to 1994.
Scicluna's disclosures about the number of complaints and the results come as the Vatican fights to show it is handling the problem properly -- and to protect the pope.
About 20 percent of priests accused of "delicta graviora" faced full trial by church officials -- many of which ended in convictions, he said. Ten percent requested a discharge from the priesthood, and the pope summarily dismissed 10 percent, Scicluna said.
A small minority of the 3,000 complaints against priests accused them of abusing children, he added.
"About sixty percent of the cases chiefly involved sexual attraction toward adolescents of the same sex, another 30 percent involved heterosexual relations, and the remaining 10 percent were cases of pedophilia in the true sense of the term," he said.
About 300 priests were accused of child abuse between 2001 and 2010, he confirmed.
He said the problem was "not as widespread as has been believed."
"Please don't misunderstand me. These are of course too many," he said.
There are about 400,000 Catholic priests around the world, he said, in an attempt to illustrate that the number of complaints against priests is relatively small.
Most of the complaints came from the United States, he said.
Scicluna said the Vatican should reconsider its policy of not prosecuting particularly old complaints.
The Vatican has a 10-year statute of limitations on child abuse, starting from the date the alleged victim turns 18. Pope John Paul II introduced the policy in 2001, at the height of scandals in Boston, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California.
"The limit of 10 years is not enough in this kind of case," Scicluna said. "It would be better to return to the earlier system of 'delicta graviora' not being subject to [a] statue of limitations."
CNN's Hada Messia in Rome and Dan Gilgoff in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report


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As a successful blogger, website owner and general all round wonder I get a lot of spam – it comes to this blog, it comes to my www – wickedly wonderful website www.thecatsdiary.com and it comes to my personal email address – email@example.com. Most of the spam is from some arse or the other advertising rubbish that wasn't freely available before the internet you know the stuff replica designer crap badly made in China, doggy loans, equally dodgy insurance and very dodgy invitations to get rich quick Nigerian scams, escorts, pills that make bits of men err more err 'prominent' all of a sudden and so on.
However there are some spammers who try to make conversation or indeed pass a compliment about a brilliant Cat's blog or www – wickedly wonderful website in the hope that vanity will prevail and the flattered feline will drop his guard for a moment and allow the spammer to comment on his blog say for instance, then the flood gates are open and the spammer can post any amount of annoying rubbish on what is a brilliant blog and in turn spoil it for all.
So I thought that I would, just for a moment, reward a spammer or two with "The Cat's Two Finger Trophy" (yes it is remarkably like the Football World Cup Trophy but with Churchill's golden saluting fingers sticking out of the top tee hee) and let the spammers know that although they stand about as much chance of getting through my security as I do of winning the Nobel Peace Prize their nonsense is read by me and then deleted.
The award for the most persistent spammer goes to – some arsehole at a betting site with over two hundred spams a month and rising. Happily this rubbish gets filtered out by a marvellous, friendly feline, but I'd blush if I was to tell you who that feline was!
The award for the worst google translate phrase from the original (probably Indian) goes to – some idiot at a Breitling Watch replica website. But it could also have come form the same address just insert a different ridiculously expensive designer watch product and you get the same replica rubbish, for "Your phrase is matchless…" when commenting on my 'It Was Snowing!'blog?
The award for the most offensive spam goes to – Someone called 'biking' at a website for Irish escorts, sadly I can't report here what they said because young people and Cats use this blog and my www – wickedly wonderful website www.thecatsdiary.com. Mind you! I would like to know if you were in the market for an 'escort' and I think we all know what one of those is, would you choose an Irish one?
The Award for the most nonsensical comment goes to some plonker at a Tattoo website for "Excuse, I have thought and have removed the idea". Mmh how nice!
The Award for the most irrelevant comment goes to some Chinese site for – "For a long time I here was not." I too for a long time I was here not especially when I am some where else place – what think you?
The Award for the best disguised spam goes to another escort agency for "Pretty interesting place you've got here. Thanks for it. I like such themes and anything connected to them. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon."
Of course I would reproduce the web and email addresses for all my winners but that would sort of shoot myself in the paw don't you think?
Still while we are on the subject of pests on the web aren't Google doing everything they can to become as unpopular as Microsoft – just thought I would mention that! Here in the Czech republic they are not the dominant search engine and so they do everything to displace the search engine that is dominant called www.seznam.cz.
Google advertise at tram stops, on the metro, at the airport and whenever you log on to search on google (a rare event for me I use bing) you type in google.com in the address line expecting to go to a site in English and as the page loads google's spy network realises that you are in the Czech republic and delivers google.cz which is annoying when it is in a language that this English and Cat speaker doesn't understand and it does it every single time without fail – how annoying is that?
Just a quick note on the trophy design.
Being English I had to feel for the English in general even though I live in exile when first Russia and then Qatar won the world cup competition to host the game and earn vast amounts of money unless of course you are South Africa who lost billions – or should that be 'lost' billions?
The trouble with the English bid and the English is that they play by the rules – although I have to say I think that it showed just what a richard-head (dickhead to any adults reading) young prince Willie is when he said that three world cup delegates had personally promised him that they were voting for England and then in the final count England received just two votes and one was their own har ha – what an idiot and Cameron as well made an absolute twot of himself. (The word 'twot' is very much like the word 'twat' but the word twot can be used in mixed company har ha).
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How Right-Wing Evangelicals Stigmatize the Mentally Ill
On a Veteran's Day broadcast last November, two of America's most influential televangelists claimed that good Christians can't get PTSD.
Kenneth Copeland, who is famous for pitching a fit when a senator tried to investigate his nonprofits and for inspiring a measles outbreak, said, "Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me. You get rid of that right now. You don't take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn't take psychology; that promise right there [in the Bible] will get rid of it."
Copeland's guest, conservative revisionist historian David Barton, agreed, adding, "We used to, in the pulpit, understand the difference between a just war and an unjust war. And there's a biblical difference, and when you do it God's way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you're esteemed."
Barton believes that anybody who behaves "biblically" during war can't get PTSD. Unfortunately, there is a logical flip side to this statement: someone who has PTSD must have not been biblical in his actions, and thus he is ultimately responsible for his own PTSD.
Understandably, a lot of people are upset by Barton and Copeland's assertion. Even the staunchly conservative Gospel Coalition (TGC) and America's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), made no bones about their distaste for Copeland and Barton, the former calling them "profoundly stupid," the latter "callow and doltish."
That's an aggressive attack, especially given that a significant number of Christians, including leaders at SBC and TGC, share Barton and Copeland's belief that mental illness can be cured by faith. A September survey by LifeWay showed that fully 35 percent of Christians and 48 percent of self-identified evangelicals believe prayer alone can heal serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder.
The idea that major illnesses can be cured by prayer feeds the idea that mental illness is the fault of the ill. A 2008 survey conducted by Baylor psychology professor Matthew Stanford showed that 36 percent of mentally ill church attendees (and former church attendees) were told their mental illness was a product of their own sin, while 34 percent were told their illness was caused by a demon. Forty-one percent were told they did not really have a mental illness, and 28 percent were instructed to stop taking psychiatric medication.
These numbers reveal an ingrained distrust of mental illness and the mentally ill. This distrust has a dramatic and negative impact on people's lives, alienating them from their peers and causing them to question the validity of their own experience, a process that often causes Christians to leave their churches. One of the participants in Matthew Stanford's study described his experience:
I felt shunned at the church. A lot of the other members acted as though they didn't want to get close to me. A lot of people were afraid of me. The pastor didn't want anything to do with me. Therefore, I no longer attend any church at all. I watch church on TV. I am already paranoid; I didn't need anyone keeping their distance from me. It makes me depressed to go to a regular church in person because of how I am treated.
Stanford, a self-described, "very conservative, evangelical Christian" is quite critical of how his fellow Christians handle the issues surrounding mental illness, claiming that the mentally ill are "modern-day lepers": treated as "unclean and unrighteous" and "cast out" from their communities.
Amy Simpson, another popular Christian voice who critiques mental health stigma in the church, echoes these sentiments. She wrote in her book, Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church's Mission, "The church allows people to suffer because we don't understand what they need and how to help them. We have taken our cue from the world around us and ignored, marginalized and laughed at the mentally ill or simply sent them to the professionals and washed our hands of them."
This widespread stigma has its genesis in an attempt to create a system called "Nouthetic" or "biblical" counseling, a system that was supposed to fix the damage psychiatry caused to Christianity. Biblical counseling had its genesis in the anti-psychiatry movements of the '50s and '60s, which united leftist intellectuals like Thomas Szasz with conservative Christians and fringe groups like Scientologists. The founder of biblical counseling was author Jay E. Adams, whom Stanford called the "Moses of the biblical counseling movement."
Adams' quintessential work, the 1970 Competent to Counsel, proposes that mental illness occurs not because one is "sick" but because one is "sinful." Psychiatry, in attempting to treat a disease, is thus ineffective. This idea led Adams to create a method that addressed the sinful roots of mental illness and was based on scripture.
This method was Nouthetic counseling, which comes from the Greek noutheteo, meaning "to admonish." Adams believes in solving people's mental health problems by "confronting" them over their lack of faith. He posits that the best way to deal with sin is to meet it head-on, bible in hand.
Adams' methods were a product of their time. A negative attitude toward the mentally ill pervaded America in the '70s and '80s, embodied by the Reagan revolution, which stigmatized America's homeless and destitute and blamed the downtrodden for their own plight. Meanwhile, Christians had come to distrust the secular world, which they believed was responsible for dissolving marriages, encouraging homosexuality and undermining the Christian faith. They wanted to set up their own institutions that would be separate from the secular world, and thus needed their own psychiatry. In this milieu, Jay Adams' ideas found the perfect ground to grow in.
The philosophy introduced by Adams in Competent to Counsel birthed a movement, and Nouthetic counseling grew to become a discipline. Although Adams' specific brand of Nouthetic counseling has gone out of style, biblical counseling, which builds on his ideas, is in.
Nowhere is biblical counseling more in vogue than the Southern Baptist Convention, which adopted a resolution on mental health last August that supported "research and treatment of mental health concerns when undertaken in a manner consistent with a biblical worldview."
In fact, it was the boss of the SBC spokesman who called Barton and Copeland "callow and doltish," Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president Russell Moore, who brought counseling into the SBC. In 2005, as the dean of theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Moore unmade the school's trademark "Pastoral Counseling" program, which integrated psychology with theology, and replaced it with an Adams-inspired biblical counseling program.
While the SBC doesn't agree with Adams on every issue, it hasn't tried to hide his influence in its current curriculum. The resources page for SBTS's Biblical Counseling department contains nearly 30 of Adams' works, alongside works of conservative Calvinists like Sovereign Grace Ministries's disgraced founder CJ Mahaney and megachurch pastor John MacArthur.
If the resources page is any indication, most of the people SBC considers adept biblical counselors also happen to be staunch theological conservatives. This is perhaps because anti-psychology tends to fit in with the conservative mindest: Matthew Stanford mentioned that in his personal experience, a significant number of pastors distrust psychology because they are angry the APA stopped calling homosexuality a mental disorder.
Stanford said, "They bring up homosexuality, and say 'why did the APA take it out of the diagnostic manual?' There's this idea that psychology is legitimatizing sin, or saying it's okay to sin."
Perhaps this is what Moore was talking about when he claimed that, in a speech on SBTS's new biblical counseling program, "There's an ideology driving the research" of psychologists, or when he claimed that pastoral counseling failed "because it is so naive about the presuppositions behind secular psychologies." Even if he isn't specifically talking about homosexuality, Moore thinks that psychology has inherent anti-Christian undertones.
This might hint at why Copeland and Barton felt the need to speak out against PTSD treatment on TV in the first place, and why the contemporary church is so prone to stigmatizing the mentally ill: seeking treatment for clinical depression, even being clinically depressed in the first place, can be construed as being anti-Christian. It can indicate that somebody has embraced the "psychiatric mindset" instead of trusting God with their mental illness. In this world, the mentally ill are not just stigmatized, they are suspected sinners.


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Discover how to quickly potty train your puppy even if you don't have any past dog training experience.
Potty training your puppy has to be done properly. If your dog doesn't completely understand the entire process he or she will continue to have accidents inside your home and will not understand why that's not okay. But, if your puppy does understand the potty training he or she will not use the bathroom inside your home.
So just how early can you start potty training your puppy? Is it best when your dog is a puppy, a young dog, or an adult dog?
Well, there are two things you need to worry about when potty training young dogs. The first thing is if they have developed mentally enough to be able to understand commands, and the second is how long they can hold their bathroom urges.
Why This Doesn't Work - First off, if you didn't punish your dog while they were in the process of using the bathroom, they will not know why you are doing this and will begin to think it's normal behavior for you to do this which will make them begin to fear your presence. Secondly, even if you do catch them at the right time and punish them, they will think you are punishing them for using the bathroom in front of you. This will cause them to start using the bathroom inside in hard to find places (such as under furniture, in corners, etc.), plus they will not use the bathroom when you take them outside for fear you will punish them.
Why This Doesn't Work - While this may sound like a good idea, there is one large flaw. Using newspapers or potty pads lets your dog think that its okay to use the bathroom inside your home. When you remove the pads, your dog will still think it's okay to potty inside.
Why This Sometimes Doesn't Work - Unfortunately, dogs are pack animals and want to be with their family. When they are put into their crate they feel as if they have been abandoned by their family and begin to cry, whine, bark, and howl. Eventually, they will fear the crate and will resist going in causing frustration and anger between you and your dog.
Why This Works Best - Some dogs respond differently to ceratin commands and techniques than other dogs. For example, putting your dog on a feeding schedule may be all some people need to do to potty train their dog, while other people may just need to use a crate. So by combining multiple methods into your training routine, your dog will make progress much faster and will be able to become fully potty trained in less time.
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Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
Description of Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
- Contractile cells that wrap around the endothelial cells of blood vessels are known as pericytes. Orbital hemangiopericytoma is a rare, solid, slow-growing tumour that arises from the proliferation of pericytes in the orbital blood vessels but can involve blood vessels in the conjunctiva, choroid, optic nerve or skin of medial canthus.
- Hemangiopericytoma constitutes 1-3% of all biopsied lesions of the orbit and 1% of all lacrimal sac tumours. This tumour could be benign or malignant, and starts around 40 years of age with a predilection for men.
Pathophysiology of Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
- Orbital hemangiopericytoma is caused by inordinate layering of sheets of pericytes around improperly formed blood vessels within the orbital structures. The tumour cells contain few cytoplasmic organelles and are formed from pluripotent mesenchymal cells surrounding the blood vessels. "Staghorn" vessels are thin-walled, branching blood vessels seen specifically in hemangiopericytomas.
- They have ovoid or spindle-shaped nuclei. 75% of the lesions are encapsulated and well-circumscribed while 30% of orbital hemangiopericytomas look very similar to a malignancy. They stain uniformly for CD34 and vimentin while 70% are positive for Leu-7.
Symptoms and Signs of Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
- Clinical presentation is variable. Patients could present with any of the following symptoms:
- Painful or painless, slow-growing mass in the orbit
- Proptosis and exophthalmos
- Raised pressure within the orbit
- A painless mass near the medial canthus could be a lacrimal sac hemangiopericytoma
- Epiphora or watering of the eyes
Orbital hemangiopericytoma commonly involves the superior orbit and are commonly ballottable on palpation. There could be visual loss, proptosis during exophthalmometry and decreased extraocular muscle motility depending on location of the tumour.
Diagnosis of Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
- Even though proper clinical examination will aid in reaching a probable diagnosis, imaging studies like Computed Tomography or Magnetic Resonance Imaging help in planning for surgical excision. Definitive diagnosis is reached only through histopathologic evaluation of the tumour.
- Hemangiopericytomas are easily confused with various orbital masses like fibrous histiocytoma, hemangioma, glomus tumour, sarcoma and vascular malformation.
Treatment of Orbital Tumors - Hemangiopericytoma
- Definitive management of a case of hemangiopericytoma is complete local excision of the tumour along with the capsule. Maintaining proper haemostasis during surgery is of paramount importance as the tumour is highly vascular.
- There has been some buzz about the role of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in preoperative management of the tumour, but with limited benefit.
- There is an overall 89% 5-year-survival rate seen in hemangiopericytoma. There is also a possibility for local recurrence and local metastasis, but distant metastasis to lung, liver, bone and mediastinum is a rare occurrence.
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Laurie DeMartino Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006
These multi-use labels were designed as part of a new identity system. The new identity centers around the "art" in DeMartino. As individual labels they support the system, and combined as a whole they create a poster used as a moving announcement. All components were letterpressed, including the 18 x 25 label poster.
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"Energetic, content-rich brand and design elements, creating visual interest with the use of multiple techniques."
Collections: AIGA 365: 28 (2007)
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Brand and identity systems design
Format: Brand and identity systems, Stationery, Label
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