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Monday, September 26, 2011
What Would Happen?
16 comments:
- Pamela Terry and Edward said...
Loved every second of this.
- September 26, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- AlisonHS said...
That was WONDERFUL! What a great way to start the week!
Thank you!
- September 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM
- Babylon Sisters said...
love this - so inspiring - thanks!
- September 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- DM said...
It's funny how some Moby songs have that effect on us. "One of these mornings" does it to me. It hits you like right under or inside your diaphragm....that's my best way of describing it without using my hands.
- September 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Kelly said...
That was wonderful to watch this evening, after a particularly hectic Monday. Great looking snail, too. Do't see many of them around SoCal much, lately.
- September 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM
- cpaoutsourcing said...
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- September 27, 2011 at 2:56 AM
- Cathi said...
Loved this! I have been doing all of this - slowing down in order to notice, enjoy, listen to everything around me! Thanks for sharing!
- September 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- 24 Corners said...
We should all pay much more attentions to snails, Moby...and you, this was sublime and brilliant Lisa...the spark of mellow inspiration for the truly important has been ignited...thank you.
xo J~
- September 27, 2011 at 12:53 PM
- Emily said...
Moby is genius., and would appreciate your video. My answer is "yes" to all of your questions. A big "YES"!!!
- September 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- Julia @ The-Bulb.com said...
Ah, thanks Lisa! This arrived in my inbox just at the right moment - I was sleep-deprived and stressed but you set me right. I was so inspired I posted about it this morning on my blog, www.the-bulb.com.
I love the way you write and your worldview. Keep creating the way you do.
x Julia @ the-bulb.com
- September 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM
- pve design said...
yes to more breathing, listening, exploring, cooking, celebrating and to living deeply.
lovely lisa-
- September 28, 2011 at 2:45 AM
- The Buzz Blog @ Diane James Home said...
WOW - need I say more? You are indeed an inspiration and a soothing balm for our hectic lives. Thank you, Lisa! XOXO Cynthia
- September 28, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- Miriana said...
Thank you Lisa - another totally inspiring post. I love how you make me think about important stuff like that.
- October 1, 2011 at 4:17 AM
thats exactly the way i feel about this song:
i love that feeling!
- October 1, 2011 at 9:16 PM
- Blue Turtle said...
I'm a big fan of Moby. And his latest is big!
J. Harp
writer @ Interior Design Pro
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In the country of Georgia, a small group of self-styled "guerilla gardeners" are all that's standing between a city park and a luxury hotel development. It is a new kind of protest movement for this former Soviet republic.
Since January, activists have been keeping a 24-hour vigil in frigid weather to keep bulldozers from rolling into Vake Park, one of Tbilisi's grandest green spaces, adjacent to the city's leafy university district. It is a peaceful public common, much like New York City's Central Park, where young people throw Frisbees and grannies walk stout lapdogs.
"The story going on here goes in all of the parks of our city," says 25-year-old activist Data Lapauri. Pliant public officials, he says, are giving away more and more public spaces to fat-cat developers.
In this case, a company wants to slice off part of this park to build a luxury hotel. Lapauri says if the public loses Vake Park, there's no telling what's next. And if they win?
"This is Central Park, so if we win here, we win everywhere," Lapauri says. "Basically this clash is between parks or concrete."
A bunch of kids protesting in a park may not seem especially monumental. Georgia did, after all, stage the Rose Revolution in 2003, which swept a corrupt regime from power and put the country on a democratic course.
But that movement was directed by political parties headed by powerful, charismatic leaders — not by a spontaneous groundswell of public sentiment.
The guerrilla gardeners are different. They've watched grassroots groups in places like North Africa over the past several years, and figure that if people can bring down dictators, they can protect a park.
"This is probably the first case in the history of Georgian civil society where people are protesting to defend the environment — and this has to do nothing with political parties or any political powers," says activist Tea Kuchukhidze. "We're defending the park and, through that, we're defending our right to live in a healthy environment."
Unlike with large, politically-motivated demonstrations, Georgian authorities can't seem to figure out how to deal with the Vake Park group.
They've tried to crack down several times. But each time they did, says computer engineer Nick Davitashvili, a few blasts on social media would conjure up around a thousand demonstrators to stare down police and the Earth-moving equipment of demolition crews.
"The younger generation can see that by responding to the tweet and coming and standing here, they are actually changing something," Davitashvili says. "They can turn away the police just by standing here, not fighting, not screaming at them, maybe playing music or dancing. They can feel that power and that is a deciding factor to make people understand that it's in their hands. If they come, things will change for the better — if they don't, they should blame themselves."
Authorities say the hotel project isn't actually in the park. These demonstrators say that's bogus and are taking the city to court. In the meantime, Data Lapauri says he's optimistic that reason will prevail.
"They know we are right but they also know that it's not only one case, and if we win here we will not stop here; we will try to bring more positive changes," he says. "They do try to make us look like we are extreme, that we are treehuggers who cry on every single tree that is cut — which is very far from reality."
Lapauri and others say this may seem like "just another protest," but Georgian officials won't be able to disregard grassroots revolutionaries any more.
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Don't Lose Heart
- Cliff Young Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2009 27 Aug
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
I carry a file of prayer requests with me on my cell phone in a digital application. There's a place on each request where I can check-off when the prayer has been answered. At anytime I can refer back to my list to see what needs and desires have been filled and which ones still need to be lifted up.
For several years, the unmarked "answered" box on many of the prayers has left me frustrated and somewhat angry. I look at the list, read through the many heartfelt and heart breaking needs, and it pains me to see them go unanswered.
There are requests for spiritual salvation, medical and emotional healings, relational reconciliations, and economic buoyancy, however, many seem to go unnoticed and be in vain.
Maybe it's just me—praying for something and never receiving the answer I am looking for or never receiving an answer at all?
I wonder if my heart was in the right place when I prayed.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures (James 4:3).
I wonder if I truly had faith in my prayers.
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well (James 5:15).
I believe God knows what I'm going to pray even before I utter a single word.
I believe He cares for every person and about every circumstance we face.
I believe He is in complete control.
However, within my prayers, I sometimes find myself trying to convince Him of what (I think) is best in a situation when I can only see and comprehend a fraction of what is going on. And the only reason I have any understanding whatsoever of the circumstance is by His grace and the knowledge He has given me in the first place.
How do you spell arrogance?
At times I have to laugh at myself as I try to "figure out" what God is up to. After receiving a lifetime of blessings and experiencing incredible "only God" situations, who am I to think I can understand His ways? Why would I even want to try? I would probably just get in His way.
It reminds me of Mary and Martha's plea to Jesus for their brother Lazarus, "Lord, the one you love is sick." When Jesus heard of Lazarus' condition, "He stayed where he was (Jerusalem) two more days." (Before traveling to Bethany less than two miles away, John 11).
Could you imagine being with Jesus at the time He received the news, knowing that Lazarus was a close friend of His? We would have questioned why Jesus didn't leave immediately to be by his side. We would have sympathized for Mary and Martha's anguish as they watched their brother's health diminish. Lazarus himself must have wondered where his friend was, who could have healed him.
Jesus finally arrived after Lazarus has been in the tomb for four days and was greeted by Martha. "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." (John 11:21) Upon seeing Jesus, Mary said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." (John 11:32) The Jews said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" (John 11:36-37)
Martha, Mary, and the Jews all believed Jesus could have healed Lazarus before he died. So, why didn't He?
Before departing Jerusalem, Jesus told his disciples, "Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." (John 11:14) Jesus had a reason and a purpose for not leaving earlier to heal Lazarus.
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him"(John 11:45).
A number of years ago, a very committed, dedicated and faithful couple in my church had a daughter whose life spanned only a week due to complications associated with undeveloped organs. After a week of fervent prayer, we as a church had so many questions as to why God would allow this to happen to such faithful servants of His.
We later found out close to thirty family members and co-workers of the couple came to know Jesus through their child's short life. Was that God's purpose for the life of that child? Is this what God had planned in the midst of their grief? We may never know for sure; we just did what we were called to d pray.
Recently, a local pastor's son was involved in an automobile accident and a worldwide plea for prayer was sent out. Thousands of believers unceasingly prayed for the healing of his body, believed in a miracle, and trusted God. Three days later, the Lord took him home.
A church and a community are left with the question, "Why?"
I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven (Matthew 18:19).
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him (1 John 5:14-15).
Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete (John 16:24).
We look to passages like these, we pray for understanding, and oftentimes we walk away not able to comprehend how the Lord is working and why. However, just because God does not work according to how we think doesn't mean He does not hear our prayers nor care about our situation.
Even as Jesus approached the tomb where Lazarus was buried, knowing full well He was about to raise him from the dead, "Jesus wept" (John 11:35).
Solomon, often referred to as the wisest man on earth, penned these words trying to help us understand it is in God's time and purpose that He works, not ours.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
Whether we ever understand God's ways or ever see clearly how He's working in our lives, or those around us, we should continue to pray because He tells us to.
Men always ought to pray and not lose heart (Luke 18:1).
It is not only our way of communicating and communing directly with our Lord and Savior, but also a major component along our journey of faith.
At the Sunday service following the death of his son, the pastor praised his son for his earlier decision to donate his organs. Five unknown families received the gift of an organ as a result of his son's death.
His sister wrote: "Five lives were immediately saved, and a total of 77 lives will be significantly impacted thanks to Josiah's donated organs. Sometimes miracles happen in ways that we don't expect, but the miracle still happened."
Through all of the prayers that were lifted up for the gift of life, somebody's prayers were answered that day.
We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28).
Cliff Young is a contributing writer to Sandlot Stories (ARose Books), as well as the monthly column, "He Said-She Said," in Crosswalk.com's Singles Channel. An architect and former youth worker, he now works with Christian musicians and consults for a number of Christian ministries. Got feedback? Send your comments and questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
**This article first published on August 27, 2009.


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Earlier this week, tens of thousands of users joined a Steam group dedicated to playing Half-Life 2 on Saturday between 2 and 2:30 p.m. EST, as a demonstration calling on Valve to get its ass in gear and release, or at least officially confirm work on Half-Life 3. How'd it turn out? It was either a great success or a disappointment, depending on your point of view.
I'll go with "success," as the game's numbers shot from 3,000 to more than 13,000 during the protest window, rocketing Half-Life 2 into the top 20 and just short of the top 10 (organizers note that it peaked at No. 11. The figures represent concurrent players.)
Now, when we first reported on this Tuesday, there were 30,000 members of the group. There are now 50,000. So less than half who originally backed this cause actually logged in to do so. And there's no assurance that Valve will acknowledge the demonstration or do anything in response to it.
Still, moaning and groaning over Half-Life 3 is something that takes place every day on gaming interest sites all over the Internet. This was actually a productive action, as it showed Valve that customers still love their games enough to play them seven years after release, rather than abuse Gabe Newell's email to demand one.
"I am personally impressed with what we've achieved today," the organizer wrote. "We're nowhere near done—in fact, we are currently in the process of planning new activities; this was only our first attempt, and, in my eyes, was a success for everyone." It's a success in my eyes, too.
A Red Letter Day: 13,216 fans play Half-Life 2 [Steam. h/t Mythos]
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It becomes less and less a future fever dream every day: Spaceport America in Las Cruces, NM, Virgin Galactic's future home, has gotten FAA approval to begin construction.
Meet Microsoft's New Surface Laptops
The design has been set since September 2007, but now that an environmental impact assessment has been passed, construction can now begin. Branson is banking on the rich still paying for a suborbital flight in our current economic clime, and yeah, I probably believe him.
Virgin Galactic and its SpaceShipTwo/White Knight launch system will be the main attraction, but the spaceport's license for vertical and horizontal takeoffs can be used by any number of clients willing to lease some launchpad time. [Ars Technica]


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SA Orthopaedic Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2309-8309
versión impresa ISSN 1681-150X
SA orthop. j. vol.10 no.4 Centurion ene. 2011
Hippocrates revisited: opening address at the European hip society meeting, Athens, 2010
Ian Learmonth
MBChB(Stell), FRCS, FRCS(Ed), FCS(SA)Orth Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Hippocrates - born on the island of Kos in 460BC - was an ancient Greek physician of the age of Pericles. He is credited with establishing medicine as a profession distinct from the other fields it had traditionally been associated with, notably theurgy and philosophy. He is considered the father of clinical medicine.
Hippocratic medicine was humble and passive. Treatment was gentle, kind to the patient, and emphasised the importance of keeping the patient clean and sterile. There were detailed specifications for 'lighting, personnel, instruments, positioning the patient and techniques of bandaging and splinting' in the ancient operating rooms. The Hippocratic school embraced the clinical doctrines of medical history, clinical inspection, observation and documentation. After the Hippocratic period - with the exception of Galen 129 to 200AD - the practice of taking clinical case histories died out, and the Hippocratic methods were not revived and further expanded until after the renaissance in the nineteenth century.
He is perhaps best known for the Hippocratic oath, which is regarded as the first statement of the moral conduct to be used by physicians, and providing for the first time a complete separation between killing and curing. Formerly, throughout the primitive world, the doctor and sorcerer tended to be the same person, with the power to kill and the power to cure.
Many of us will have taken some form of the Hippocratic oath as part of our graduation ceremony. It is perhaps worth revisiting some of the principles embodied in the modern version of the oath and to examine them in the context of hip surgery today.
'I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.'
One may feel that there is little chance of 'therapeutic nihilism'. Sadly, however, I have often met young patients crippled with arthritis of the hip who have been told they are too young for hip replacement. They are condemned to sacrifice a potentially highly productive period of their lives - professionally, recreationally, socially and the priceless interaction with their children - which could easily be salvaged. Patients need to understand the potential risks, and armed with the appropriate information, they then need to be promoted to the senior partner in the subsequent decisionmaking process.
Overtreatment always remains a potential problem where financial rewards are directly dependent on and proportional to activity level. In addition commercial companies are always keen for us to use new technologies - often at considerable expense - which offer no material additional benefit to the patient.
As Lord Cohen said 'The ability to do an operation is not a good reason for doing it'. Financial incentives should not influence surgical decisionmaking, and we should be aware that nonmedical colleagues already discuss how the socalled 'wallet biopsy' (a quick assessment of what the patient can afford) will influence the extent to which the subsequent programme of surgical treatment is 'unbundled'.
'I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.'
We must never forget that we are doctors first and foremost. Ignorance and fear are the architects of suffering. Listen to the patient. It may well be that reassurance will suffice - despite the numerical evidence of some hip score to the contrary. Sympathy and understanding will always greatly alleviate the anxiety and suffering of the patient presenting for surgery.
'I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for the recovery of a patient.'
The wellbeing of the patient is always of prime importance. As Will Mayo said, 'The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered'. Mercenary considerations should never compromise the best interests of the patient. The surgical ego - a variably impressive organ - should not prevent the surgeon from seeking the best treatment for his patient where appropriate, even if this means referring the patient to another hip surgeon. Thus complex primary hip replacements and difficult revisions should be carried out by surgeons with a special interest and expertise in these areas.
The patient should never be placed at risk where a surgeon explores new techniques or technologies which he hopes will favourably differentiate his practice from his colleagues.
'I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart or a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability.'
Every hip belongs to a patient - who has fears, expectations and aspirations, and a wider constituency in the community including family and friends. We are overwhelmed with data and statistics. We should not merely aim for the acceptable, but should strive for perfection in every case. Remember that if only one hip out of every 100 fails, for that patient - and for their family and friends - the failure rate is 100%.
Three professional skills determine the hip surgeons' management of the patient with hip pathology: decision making, technical execution and problem solving. In the UK today, all too often patients are referred for hip replacement on the basis of screening with a hip score, such as the Oxford Hip Score, by GPs or extendedrole practitioners (nurses and physiotherapists). This is the surrogate for decision making. The hip surgeon is in danger of being sidelined as no more than a technician. As treatment centres proliferate, administrators may well ask why should hip replacement surgery not be carried out by suitably trained dexterous nonmedical practitioners - as already occurs in many branches of surgery (carpal tunnel release, lens extraction, etc).
It is essential that we defend our professional status as doctors and clinicians, who are also surgeons, and continue to treat our patients as whole human beings.
'I will prevent diseases wherever I can, for prevention is better than cure.'
Appropriate intervention by paediatric hip surgeons should reduce the need for reconstructive and replacement surgery in later life. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine may resuscitate the need for the osteotomy skills of our predecessors, for success will depend on restoration of alignment and normal biomechanics of the hip.
I would therefore suggest that the moral doctrine of Hippocrates remains relevant today. Let us again embrace it as hip surgeons, as we strive to optimise the management of our patients crippled by hip pathology.
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Alfonso Soriano must be pissed. Despite leading Barry Bonds by a comfortable margin with days to go in voting, mlb.com pulled strings to get Barry Bonds to leapfrog him for the final slot.
Bonds, nearing 43 years old and having a historic year as the left fielder of the Giants, concluded action on Sunday with 750 homers, just five behind Hank Aaron's all-time MLB mark of 755, and will be starting for the NL in his home park. He overtook Alfonzo Soriano of the Cubs in the late balloting to snare the third and final starting NL outfield spot by 122,878 votes.
So let's do the math. On June 25, Russell Martin was leading Paul Lo Duca for the NL Catcher spot. For over a month, the Dodgers had an all-out campaign focused solely on Martin to get him the final spot. And in the final three-day push, Martin got an extra 741K votes to solidify his slot.
Bonds trailed Soriano by 122K votes on June 25. With three days to go, he turned that deficit into a 120K vote lead for the final slot. This is a swing of 242K votes, or about a third as many total votes as Martin, the focus of entire campaign from the #2 most populous city in the US, received during the same time period. Highly unlikely.
Of all the votes cast in the final three days for Bonds or Soriano (almost two million votes in total), Bonds would have had to have received 56% of the total votes. This gets a little squishy because an individual could cast a vote for both players on the same ballot. But think of it this way: For every three Soriano votes, Bonds would have had to have four votes for himself.
Chicago has a population of 2.8 million. San Francisco has a population of 744 thousand, roughly one-fourth the size of Chicago. And yet Bonds outpolled Soriano. Uh-huh.
If you think Bonds legitimately got his way onto the 2007 All-Star Game starting lineup, you have got to be kidding me. MLB snuck him onto the starting lineup because it couldn't afford to have the questions surrounding a San Francisco-based All-Star Game. And I'm not the only one who thinks the fix was on.
ESPN.com didn't have Bonds on its starting lineup. But they're following the mlb line in lockstep as a wonderful, feel-good story. Yeah, right.
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Millennials don't want to have to clock in and clock out. It's not about accountability or time tracking… it's about flexibility. Many of today's young professionals don't stop working when they leave the off – they check emails 24/7, work on projects in the evening when they're inspired, they take calls on the weekends – and they want to know their time is being appreciated. Let's face it: we don't all do our best work between 8am and 5pm, so having some flexibility is essential. If your millennial employee is doing great work and not being unreasonable about hours or time, allowing them that flexibility will encourage them to do their best work and keep them happy.
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So apparently many of you have been making croûtons using a frying pan and I was the last one to jump on the bandwagon... OK, no problem. :) Now tell me: what about a marble cake made with Nutella? Have you guys tried it? Because I'd never seen it before buying this book and now I want to bake it every weekend. :D
Nutella swirl pound cake
slightly adapted from Cake Keeper Cakes: 100 Simple Recipes for Extraordinary Bundt Cakes, Pound Cakes, Snacking Cakes and Other Good-To-The-Last-Crumb Treats
4 large eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ½ cups (210g) all purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup (226g/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 ¼ cups (250g) granulated sugar
1 jar (13oz/364g) Nutella – I used 350g (the size of Nutella jars here in Brazil)
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Butter a round 20cm (8in) cake pan, line the bottom with baking paper and butter the paper as well*.
Combine the eggs and vanilla in a small bowl and lightly whisk with a fork. Set aside. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
In the large bowl of an electric mixer beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally. With the mixer on medium-low speed, pour the egg mixture into the bowl in a slow stream, stopping the mixer once or twice to scrape the sides of the bowl.
Turn the mixer to low speed and add the flour mixture, ½ cup at a time. Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally. After the last addition, mix for 30 seconds on medium speed.
Scrape 1/3 of the batter into the prepared pan. Smooth the surface. Spread ½ of the Nutella over the batter and smooth with a cleaned spatula. Scrape another 1/3 of the batter over the Nutella and smooth. Scrape the remaining Nutella over the batter and smooth. Spread the remaining batter over the Nutella and smooth the top. Run a butter knife blade through the batter to create marbling – do not overmix.
Bake the cake until risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan over a wire rack for 15 minutes, then carefully unmold it. Peel off the baking paper then invert it onto the rack. Cool completely before slicing and serving.
Keep cake in a cake keeper or wrapped in plastic at room temperature for up to 3 days
*you can bake this recipe in a 22.5x12.5cm (9x5in) loaf pan (buttered and dusted with flour). Bake it for 1 hour /1 hour and 10 minutes
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Boosting Health In Everyone's Hometown
There's more to living long and well than medical care.
Good health means more than good medical care. Many other things affect how long we live and how healthy we feel—conditions in our housing and neighborhoods, the social and physical environment of our communities, economic opportunities and the levels of stress in our lives.
According to a landmark University of Wisconsin study, the state of our overall health is attributable to four major factors:
• 20 percent—access to and quality of clinical health care
• 40 percent—social and economic factors in our lives
• 30 percent—individual factors and behaviors
• 10 percent—the physical environment in which we live
The good news is that we can improve these factors to boost everyone's health, no matter where they live. Last year, Kaiser Permanente and Project for Public Spaces released a detailed report of peer-reviewed research making the case that healthy communities foster healthy people.
Addressing these issues is the point of a Centers for Disease Control-funded initiative to improve community health—the National Implementation and Dissemination for Chronic Disease Prevention program, known as Partnering4Health.
As part of the project, the American Planning Association, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), the National WIC Association, Directors of Health Promotion and Education and American Heart Association/American Stroke Association are using community-based solutions to boost health for Americans of all incomes, ethnicities and regions.
They are working to reduce a 21st century epidemic—preventable chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer—by helping communities increase physical activity, nutritious eating, breastfeeding and other healthy ways of living.
Recently more than 200 community leaders from among the 97 communities participating in the program came together in Denver to share best practices and success stories.
"There's more to health than great medical care," declared Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention of the America Heart Association at the meeting.
A spate of recent medical research shows that your zip code can be a more accurate measure of your prospects for a healthy life than your genetic code. Sanchez pointed out that people living in certain low-income, racially segregated areas of Chicago live 16 years less, on average, than those in affluent city neighborhoods because of disparities in income, employment, social support and education.
More real-world evidence for this place-based approach to health was found in the stories that community health advocates brought to Denver from their hometowns:
Kenosha, Wisconsin
A prescription for better health
Recent medical studies suggest that healthy habits can be as effective as some medicines in reducing and preventing many prevalent diseases. Concerned that Kenosha's health statistics rank among the lowest in the state, local Haitian-American physician Junith Thompson worked with local public health groups to design RX pads prescribing patients to eat more fresh vegetables, take up new physical activities, set aside daily time for reflection and other positive lifestyle changes. Distributed by the Kenosha Health Improvement Project, they are now used at a number of clinics and health agencies in southeastern Wisconsin.
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Listen to the music
"In Louisiana, you have to reach people through their culture," explains Mary Schultheis, project supervisor for Healthy Plaquemines Parish Now. In her community, just outside New Orleans, that means music. So she adapted popular songs into public service announcements that promote breastfeeding. A new recording of the classic Mardi Gras song "Iko Iko," now trumpets, "Hey, now. Hey, now. Mothers are breastfeeding!" New lyrics to the '70s soul tune "Mr. Big Stuff," shout out: "It's the right stuff. We're trying to make healthy babies." Another thrust of the organization is to connect more people to existing resources for healthier living such as WIC programs, farmers markets, food shelves and faith-based health organizations.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Health on the corner
Many residents of this predominantly African-American city buy their groceries at corner stores. That's why Make Health Happen!—a coalition of health, government, business and civic groups—engaged six shop owners to stock more nutritious foods. One store was able to add a cooler for fresh fruits and veggies thanks to a donation from the regional YMCA. Another worked with a local graffiti artist to create a mural showcasing the store's new selection of healthy offerings. Lowering the cost of healthy foods through coupons accepted at groceries and farmers markets also boosts wholesome eating throughout this city of 27,000.
Loudoun County, Virginia
Water as one answer to childhood obesity
Since many kids swill sugar-laden beverages throughout the day, Loudoun County's health department introduced "It's Water Time" to encourage elementary and Head Start students to drink more water instead of juice or sweetened beverages. Captain Hydro, a flying penguin toting a water bottle, extols water as the best thirst-quencher in coloring books and other materials for kids and their parents. Promoting breastfeeding, offering healthier options in vending machines and increasing access to nutritious food are other strategies being used to reduce childhood obesity in this suburban community.
Wichita Falls, Texas
Making WIC easier to use
The number of people involved in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition program was falling in Wichita County, Texas, which potentially means a less healthy community. A big part of the problem was confusion among both shoppers and grocery store clerks about what foods were eligible for purchase with the benefits. The county public health office and local WIC office worked together training clerks about the program and distributed handy shopping guides to WIC participants. Transportation was another problem, especially in reaching a local farmers market where special deals were available with WIC coupons. So now fruit and vegetable vendors are also setting up shop at the local WIC office where women enroll and visit for benefits.
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A friendly place for breastfeeding
Mommy & Me, Healthy as Can Be is a new program to make breastfeeding easier and more acceptable throughout this rural county. More than 50 local businesses have become breastfeeding friendly locations thanks to a joint effort by the Southeast Health District and the Partner for Health program at Meadows Regional Medical Center. The medical center also works more closely with the area WIC office now.
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That's not all. Trailnet is pursuing an ambitious plan to connect St. Louis with a network of safe, comfortable, protected bikeways, which will encourage people of all ages, incomes and physical shapes to bike around the city. Tarrant County WIC in Fort Worth sponsors a breastfeeding bootcamp for new moms, with personal instruction. Kansas City, Missouri, features mobile markets, which bring healthy food to underserved neighborhoods by bus with Rollin' Grocer and with Truman Medical Center's Mobile Market. Choosing Health in Lake County—serving a rural area in Western Michigan where 51 percent of kids live in poverty—aims to make "the healthy choice the easy choice" with farmers markets, increased access to WIC programs and healthy food options labeled in groceries and restaurants.
While funding for this CDC program ends in late 2017, "there's no sense that the work is over for these groups," noted Elaine Auld, CEO of SOPHE, who was one of the Denver event's organizers. "People have really rolled up their sleeves so that many of these projects will continue, funded by other sources such as hospitals with their community benefits work."
A number of pressing public health issues surfaced at the Denver conference, which will influence the ongoing work of this emerging healthy communities movement around the country.
"Poor health cannot be explained just by individual behavior," noted Monte Roulier, president of Community Initiatives, which helped put on the conference. "Place really does matter. How do we change physical, economic, social and cultural environments to improve people's health?"
Inequality cannot be overlooked as a health issue. Equity came up often from speakers and in audience discussions. "These conversations are daunting. It's easy to say, 'what can I possibly do in the face of all this? How does a farmers market fix it?" said David Gibbs, a senior associate at Community Initiatives, who is African-American and called the conversations at this meeting notable in their depth. Many participants from low-income communities emphasized that, yes, they need more community gardens, bike trails, and good food options, but unemployment, poverty, crime, and gentrification also impact health issues too.
"The action is local now" was a common refrain heard throughout the four-day conference as news from Washington, D.C. foretold massive cuts in domestic programs, including health. "There is a positive spirit in communities that we can still get things done," Auld observed.
Local success depends on deep community engagement. The expertise and resources of national organizations is critical, but what's most important is that local people feel equipped to make their communities healthier. When they feel ownership of these projects, the results are more far-reaching and lasting.
The power of story. While scientific evidence is mounting in favor of this community-powered approach to health, real-life stories of everyday people in a wide variety of communities are just as important in capturing the attention of the American public—not to mention healthcare professionals, government agencies and funding institutions.
The late Jay Walljasper, Senior Fellow at On the Commons and editor of OnTheCommons.org, created OTC's book All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons. A speaker, communications strategist and writer and editor, he chronicled stories from around the world that point us toward a more equitable, sustainable and enjoyable future. He is author of The Great Neighborhood Book. For more of his work, see JayWalljasper.com.
This article was republished from On the Commons.
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Editor's Note: Part 11 in an irregular series of stories from my many years in Silicon Valley. Part 10 talked about the time I left my job for a competitor and rescinded the offer. This time, a story involving industrial espionage, the SVP of HR and way too many lawyers.
If I could show the leads from the lawyers' lists were gone from our system,
we'd be on a path to redemption.
we'd be on a path to redemption.
The day had started innocently enough. I was hosting our company's public relations firm at the office, as we worked with our product marketing and management teams on interacting with press. At a break, I stepped outside of the conference room and found the longtime senior vice president of HR waiting for me — usually not a good sign.
"Louis, please come into my office," he said, with a tone that made it obvious this wasn't really a choice. So I followed.
We entered his office, only to find another man in a suit was waiting. The HR SVP shut the door behind us, and then turned back to me. "Louis, on the date of (whatever it was), did you upload a list of contacts to Salesforce.com from (an account manager)?"
"I Don't Recall"I paused. In my marketing role over the last few years, I had used Salesforce.com practically every day. It was our customer contact tool that hit all aspects of our business, from prospecting, to forecasting and demand generation. So it sounded like something I'd do. But I couldn't tell him yes or no without looking.
I heard the words escape my mouth as bluntly as Oliver North in the Iran Contra hearings: "I don't recall."
But I promised to check — not knowing exactly what they were expecting to find. Somewhat shaken, but mostly mystified, I opened up Salesforce.com, logged in, did a query, and found I had uploaded a list of contacts into the system on that date. But it didn't have any significance for me than any other list or date. It was just one of the regular requests I'd gotten from our director of Sales Operations, who often asked me to do the imports or set up reports in the system that she was responsible for, but didn't completely understand.
So I went back to the SVP of HR, a little more nervous now, and said that yes, I had uploaded the list on that day. So what was going on?
Unwittingly Aiding Corporate EspionageIt turned out that, unbeknownst to me, an account manager acquired a customer list from his previous employer, complete with contacts and titles, and shared it with his inside sales representative — whose job it was to email and call these prospects to sell them our products. The ISR then sent the list to the Director of Sales Ops, who forwarded the request on to me. So while I had been fulfilling a standard request, I was, in effect, aiding what amounted to corporate theft.
The SVP of HR was clearly not too excited with me about my role in the upload. But he was more annoyed by the director's not investigating the source of the list, and her not being in tune enough with Salesforce.com to do the upload herself — not to mention his being beyond furious with the account manager and ISR who had put us in this mess. Unsurprisingly, the suited man in the HR SVP's office was on the company's legal team, and our competitor wanted us raked over the coals for the impropriety.
Immediately, on the spot, the account manager responsible for obtaining the list was fired. The ISR, whom I considered a friend, was also fired, knowing what the contacts contained and calling against the list. He packed his personal items into a box, took a very lonely stroll trough the parking lot — and I never saw him again.
Running Queries to Solve the Whole MessNow I was back in the HR office. Having somewhat absolved myself, our efforts turned to limiting the damage. The press training boondoggle I'd been working on with the PR team was practically a memory at this point. I told them they could leave whenever they were done as I was busy, but didn't tell them just why I was now occupied.
The HR SVP, and our attorney, wanted to know if I could find all the records that had been uploaded from that list, if I could find out what action had taken place — and if possible, could I remove those records from our company database. Of course, the answer was yes, so long as I knew what questions to ask Salesforce.com.
I started to run the queries, with both him and our attorney looking on. I ran a query showing what Leads had been added to Salesforce.com by my account on that day — and came up with a few hundred. A few clicks on each lead would show if they had been called, or emailed, if any meetings had taken place, and if we had any resulting sales pipeline in our forecast from the illicit list.
I produced reports that showed how many records were in the system, with both he and the attorney taking note of what I found. I was told to take no action on those records, and to be ready to come back into the office at the crack of dawn the next morning to begin the purge.
With Great Data Comes Great ResponsibilityAfter a night to repeatedly think over the previous day's events, I got up early, dressed much better than normal, grabbed my work laptop and headed back into the office to join the SVP, that same attorney, and surprisingly, about a half dozen more lawyers, who represented the competition, and had been sent to confirm we were in compliance. We entered the boardroom, centered with a long table seemingly carved from a massive cedar tree, and I had the projector all to myself.
Whether I could perform the next tasks correctly were central to showing if we were acting in good faith.
My task was clear — explain to everyone in the room what had been uploaded, show how it could be extracted from our main database, and then destroyed forever in a way that was unrecoverable.
After an opening introduction from the HR SVP, I fired up Salesforce.com, ran the same queries as the day before, highlighted the records, and started the purge. As I'd delete 100 records at a time, the attorneys for all sides would mark it. I'd pause for agreement to continue and move to the next set of 100. Soon, the records were out of the main DB, and into the Trash.
Then, with everyone around the table nodding in agreement, I emptied the system's Trash, so the records were truly gone. Then, the attorneys flipped through hard copy printouts of the offending names and cherrypicked customer data to see if could be found. "Jane Smith of Acme," they might say. I'd search. No records found. "Evan Jackson of Key Labs?" No records found.
The Salesforce.com database was clean. I was pretty much off the hook — having shown I had the capability to both get us into the mess and get us out of it. But it didn't mean our company was found without fault. Those prospect companies on the lists were added to a "Do Not Contact" registry that fell across our entire sales organization for at least a year forward, and had us saying no to many different potential sales opportunities as a result.
In the next few years, the SVP of HR left our company and later became the Executive Vice President at a pre-IPO firm that eventually went public and made him undoubted millions. The director of sales operations didn't last long, finding her role replaced by her predecessor, who was returning to the company — later telling me how stunned he was that personal keepsakes he'd left in his desk drawers remained untouched while he was away. I stayed another five years or so, exceptionally more skeptical now about importing any leads to Salesforce.com from any source that Marketing didn't explicitly gain ourselves. And that ISR, according to LinkedIn, seems to have recovered and since enjoyed a solid career in sales management.
The experience was not one I had expected to have when taking such an active role with our customer relationship management system, but with great data comes great responsibility. When it came to proving ourselves in a room full of lawyers, we had survived.


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Well, 32 months into his presidency, Obama has finally released his jobs and deficit reduction plans. Surprisingly, he is not attempting to obfuscate his true motivation this time. As Obama said yesterday, it is "simple math."
It's $1.57 trillion in comprehensive tax hikes + $1.08 trillion in non-existent war spending + $430 billion in phantom savings on interest payments + $320 billion in savings from cuts to healthcare providers (the inevitable sequestration will already cut DocFix), throwing granny off the cliff with tighter rules from the death panel, and a magical willingness to cut waste and fraud + $250 billion in other mandatory savings, most of which will never materialize – the $447 billion stimulus 2.0 = $3.2 trillion.
OK, simple enough; however, there is one important detail of the 'Obamaian formula' that has not been advertised. As part of the Stimulus half of the plan, Obama will cut payroll tax revenues by $240 billion, or 36%, of the entire annual revenue (projected at $685 billion) of the so-called Social Security trust fund. Where is that money going to come from? How will they fill the SS shortfall, which is already projected to be $50 billion?
You guessed it: general fund revenues.
Tucked inside this 155-page behemoth is a provision to transfer funds from the general Treasury to the Social Security Trust Fund." Here is the relevant provision (page 8 ) in section 101(e) and 102(e) of S. 1549:
(e) TRANSFERS OF FUNDS.–(1) Transfers to federal old-age and survivors insurance trust fund.—There are hereby appropriated to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund established under section 201 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401) amounts equal to the reduction in revenues to the Treasury by reason of the application of subsections (a) and (b) to employers other than those described in (e)(2). Amounts appropriated by the preceding sentence shall be transferred from the general fund at such times and in such manner as to replicate to the extent possible the transfers which would have occurred to such Trust Fund had such amendments not been enacted. (emphasis added)
So on top of the annual $50 billion transfer to compensate for the inherent shortfall in payroll taxes, we will now be transferring an additional $240 billion in 2012. Remember that we have already raided the general fund to pay for this year's payroll tax cut. According to the Social Security Administration, $105.4 billion from the general fund was transferred to the non-existent SS trust fund.
Consequently, not only are we funding current retirees with current payroll taxes of workers, we are supplementing the shortfall with other taxes and/or more debt.
This might be a good time to review the differences between a Ponzi scheme and what has become of Social Security:
1) A Ponzi scheme is voluntary; SS is mandatory
2) Payouts from a Ponzi scheme are funded from the monies of current investors, but lack the ability to raise taxes or service debt. Government can do all those things to sustain Social Security.
3) The payouts from Ponzi schemes may be collected by the investor's heirs. Social Security, for the most part, is not passed down in inheritance.
4) The trustees of Ponzi schemes cannot tax the payouts to investors; government can.
5) When Ponzi schemes fail, the perpetrators go to jail. Those who destroyed Social Security can force us to contribute more, receive less, and/or receive it later.
6) Ponzi schemers purposely defraud their investors by promising invisible investments. Government-run Social Security schemers purposely defraud their victims by promising a non-existent trust fund (as proven by the general fund transfers).
You can call it a super-charged Ponzi scheme or a big-government scheme, but dare not offend anyone by calling it a plain old Ponzi scheme. Either way, Republicans must not support the Obama scheme to transfer funds from the general fund for the purpose of his reelection bill.


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iCOMPEL How-To (Part5)
iCOMPEL® How-To (Part 5): Creating schedules for digital signage.
This video shows how to create schedules for the iCOMPEL® digital signage player. Schedules are used to determine when and how long layouts should play on your signage. The video covers how to get into the scheduling function from the main menu, and how to add, edit, and override a schedule. It also shows how to view items on a schedule and their scheduled playout (by time and day), and how to activate a schedule.


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July 11, 2006
Gliffy - Diagrams Made Easy
* Flow charts
* Workflow documents
* Class Diagrams
* Network Diagrams (like in this diagram)
* Database schemas
* Website layouts/wireframes
* Room plans
You can export the diagrams in SVG, JPEG and PNG formats, so it's easy to publish them on a web page or to import them in a more powerful tool like Microsoft Visio. Gliffy keeps track of all the revisions of a diagram, so it's easy to revert to earlier versions.
You won't find too many templates like in Microsoft Visio, you can't incorporate too much data in the diagrams, there aren't UML diagrams, but Gliffy is a useful tool for those who don't need all these features. Besides, unlike Microsoft Visio, Gliffy is free and seems a perfect fit for Google Office package.
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It seems fine for flow charts, workflow, etc.. Export to Postscript (eps) and/or PDF files formats and render math symbols or equations would be a valuable plus.ReplyDelete
I like it any way.
- AnonymousJuly 11, 2006 at 2:38 PM
has it come out of alpha testing ?ReplyDelete
The last time Pete Cashmore and me spoke , it was still in pentesting
Yes, now it's in beta. And the registration process takes less than 30 seconds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 12, 2006 at 7:09 AM
This is what I was looking for weeks. Great link. Thank you very much for the post. I hope this Gliffy.com system is safe, and I don't lose any work.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2007 at 8:12 PM
I just started searching for an online visio-like web application and fully agree that gliffy should be wrapped up into Google Office Package. Hope they buy it soon... :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2008 at 2:58 PM
They allow UML now along with some more features. Why hasnt google bought this?ReplyDelete
Because it's Flash based. http://www.diagram.ly, on the other hand isn't.ReplyDelete
True that Google probably won't buy a Flash-based application. Diagramly seems like an okay app too (and no Flash!) but I'll be sticking with Lucidchart for the foreseeable future (no Flash and more robust).ReplyDelete


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Canucks Song: Against All Odds (Luongo's Lament)
After a tumultuous and unpredictable season (and off-season), Roberto Luongo is back in the crease as the Vancouver Canucks' undisputed number one goaltender. There is no doubt that the past 18 months have taken its toll on Bobby Lu.
Thus, I proudly present to you Luongo's Lament to the tune of Phil Collins' hit Against All Odds. And I'm so proud to welcome my friends Marie Hui and Arielle Tuliao as the featured vocalists. You'll see that they are lovely, talented, and amazing.
With Cory Schneider returning with his new team – the New Jersey Devils – on Tuesday, I thought it would an appropriate time to present this song. Enjoy!


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This article first appeared at TheBlaze.com.
Unless you've been sleeping under a rock, you've noticed the growing clash between religious freedom and issues like same-sex marriage and forced funding of abortion. Last week, the Supreme Court heard a landmark case on whether the federal government can compel a business to fund abortion drugs in defiance of the religious beliefs of the business owner. It's merely one such case amid a flurry of lawsuits that even includes the Little Sisters of the Poor. Or, consider these situations involving gay marriage:
In Oregon, a couple that owns a bakery, the Kleins, are being sued and called before the state for not making a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony. The Kleins note that being forced to make such a cake against their will would violate their Christian beliefs and freedom of conscience.
In Colorado, another bakery owner, Jack Phillips, awaits a possible jail sentence for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
In Washington State,a florist is being prosecuted by the state's attorney general for declining to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding.
In Ocean Grove, New Jersey, a Methodist camp meeting association lost its tax-exempt status for declining its wedding pavilion to two lesbians for a same-sex ceremony.
In New Mexico, the state Supreme Court ruled against the owners of Elane Photography, judging that they violated the state's Human Rights Act by refusing to take pictures for a same-sex ceremony. The ACLU opposed Elane Photography, as did one of the justices, who recognized that the ruling violated Elane's religious freedom but argued that such is the price of "citizenship" in America today.
In Massachusetts and Illinois, Catholic Charities, one of the oldest and most established private adoption agencies in America, has been forced to cease services because it will not provide adoptive children to gay couples.
And then there's any number of figures demonized, boycotted, picketed, pressured, or fired for expressing their opposition to gay marriage: the president of Chick-fil-A, the owner of Barilla pasta, Craig James of Fox Sports, or Arizona's governor.
These are merely a few of many examples. All involve religious believers invoking their sacred First Amendment rights, only to have those rights rejected by those describing themselves as "liberal" and professing "diversity" and "tolerance." In truth, you are not free to disagree with liberals on this issue. They won't let you. They will compel you. They will see you in court, in bankruptcy, maybe even in jail.
Liberals tolerate only what they agree with.
But what's really going on here? What's the bigger picture? Well, these actions of liberals/progressives aren't a surprise when you delve deeper into the logic of their ideology. Consider:
Liberals/progressives have a hierarchy of rights. They don't look at competing rights in a pluralist system in the typical way that we've long been accustomed to in America. For instance, Americans typically—through the political and judicial process—have carefully sought to balance competing rights: property rights, civil rights, religious liberty, freedom of conscience, speech, press, federal rights, state rights, the right to life, and so forth. Picture all of these rights laid out in a line, with each prudently considered among the others, and with respect to the others.
Unfortunately, that is not how liberals/progressives operate. They act according to a hierarchy of rights that—consistent with progressivism—is always progressing, or changing, or evolving. Right now, for liberals/progressives, sitting atop the totem pole in this hierarchy are so-called "marriage rights" and "abortion rights." In the past, they called these things not rights but "gay marriage" or "freedom of choice." Quite shrewdly, however, they've framed these "freedoms" as "rights," along the lines of "civil rights." Equally shrewd, they push them forward under the mantra of "tolerance." It's a brilliant move that's working extremely effectively with millions of Americans.
But here's the main point: for today's liberals/progressives, the likes of "marriage rights" and "abortion rights" rise superior to other rights, certainly above religious rights and property rights. We see this in the gay marriage examples listed above. It also applies to the Obama HHS mandate requiring religious believers to fund abortion drugs. In all these cases, there's one commonality: liberals/progressives disregard the religious rights and property rights that they are steamrolling in the name of gay marriage and abortion. Religious rights and property rights are subjugated to a kind of liberal/progressive gulag. They are deemed bottom-of-the-barrel, and in no way nearly as important or worthy of consideration.
Again, the startling irony is that these same people fancy themselves champions of tolerance, diversity, and "equal rights." That has never been accurate, and they are proving it now with special uncompromising rigidity. They are pursuing what they've always pursued: selective tolerance, selective diversity, and selective equal rights. Religious rights are not among their select.
A quotation that sums up this thinking comes from gay activist, law professor, and EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum. When asked about the conflict between gay rights and religious rights, Feldblum said, "I'm having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win."
That's very clear. An attorney colleague of mine says of Feldblum: "Supposedly a Constitutional Law scholar, she holds that view despite the fact that religious freedom is actually in the Constitution!"
Yes, but to liberals/progressives it doesn't matter. They have a hierarchy of rights, one that's always changing. And right now, religious rights are their bottom-dwellers. For religious believers who disagree with them, too bad. They'll see them in court.