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Atlanta Braves
The Dodgers took down the Braves last night after a short start from Sean Newcomb, winning 7-4, but there were still lots of good outcomes in this one. We witnessed Nick Markakis collect his 2,000th career hit and also saw Ozzie Albies get his first of many hits as he launched a three-run homer.
Alex Wood got his revenge last night against the Braves after having his worst start of the season against Atlanta a few weeks ago. He looked like the guy he had been all year last night against his former team, going six innings allowing seven hits and just one run.
On the braves side, it was Sean Newcomb who went just 4 2/3 innings giving up three runs, but only four hits. The Problem??? Walks… He gave up seven of them also striking out that many in the process. His control issues are becoming a reoccurring issue, much like they were throughout the minors.
The Braves scored in first inning after a two out single by Freddie and then a double into the gap by Tyler Flowers. In the 3rd inning, the control issues started to kick in for Sean Newcomb, who walked a batter and gave up two hits, proceeding to walk the bases loaded. Luckily, he was able to get out of the inning allowing just a single run. In the 4th, Newcomb walked the lead off hitter and two hitters later, gave up a two-run homer to Chris Taylor. Nick Markakis got his 2,000th career hit with a one out single to left field in the bottom of the fourth. Fast forward to the 7th inning when Enrique Hernandez hit an RBI single and Yasiel Puig grounded into a double play that scored a run. In the 9th, Austin Barnes hit an RBI double to score Logan Forsythe off of Ian Krol. In the bottom half of the ninth, with the Braves down by six, Ozzie Albies came up after the first two hitters got on base and came up with his first major league hit. A three-run shot to left center field into the first row of seats. It would not be enough though, as the Dodgers won it by a score of 7-4.
After the game, Sean Newcomb spoke to the media about his walks problem and said "I've just got to do a better job of pounding the zone and stop trying to miss so many bats. I think I'm trying to be too fine, trying to punch people out and making things happen myself." Braves manager Brian Snitker also said that Newcomb isn't walking these guys on purpose and that he is just trying to do a little too much, but that they are going to continue to let him take the mound and figure these things out.
Alex Wood improved to 13-1 this season, while Sean Newcomb fell to 1-6. The Braves hitting wasn't bad at all last night, except for again… leaving runners on. They left seven on base and went just 2-8 with RISP, but everyone in the order got at least one hit with the exception of the pitcher. The Braves actually out hit the Dodgers 11-9 but couldn't pull the trigger when needed to. For the Dodgers, they didn't hit great. They had nine hits with five of them off of the bullpen pitchers but did draw a lot of walks. They too did very bad with runners on, even worse than the Braves, leaving eleven on base and were 3-13 with RISP
The Dodgers won the series 2-1, but the Braves are glad that they squeaked one in there. After a short rain delay, twenty hits allowed and eleven walks given up by both teams combined, the game still managed to finish in 3 1/2 hours. The Dodgers now head to New York to play three with the Mets, including Yu Darvish making his debut, and the Braves stay home and invite Miami to play three with the fish.
The struggling Braves are looking for some wins this weekend against a team that has won seven of their last ten games. It will be Adam Conley for the Marlins and R.A Dickey for the Braves, who was placed on revocable waivers a few days ago, so any of these next few starts could be his last in a Braves uniform. The game starts at 7:35 and its John Schuerholtz poster giveaway night as well as Fireworks night. Should be a fun one, and hopefully the Braves can make it look better with a win on Friday night at SunTrust Park.
Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons continue training cap as we inch closer to the first preseason game. If you have yet to do so, go ahead and start checking our week by week season predictions for your Falcons. We break down and predict every game this season to get you prepped and ready to go for what should be a fantastic year of football for Atlanta fans.
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Bonus Book: Clockwork Angel
I finished the first half of the Mortal Instruments series last week and moved on to the Infernal Devices. Only the first of the trilogy has been published and I can't wait for the next two...I think number two comes out in September. I'm not sure what it is about these Cassandra Clare books, but I am definitely hooked. And sleep deprived. It's a good thing the next Mortal Instruments books doesn't come out for a few weeks...I've already put a hold on the book at the library...
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29 November 2014 – 31 January 2015
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The third-party logistics (3PL) marketplace is a lot like an ocean: what you see on the surface is not necessarily indicative of all that's happening below. For instance, by many indications the 3PL industry has never been stronger—the economy has started to bounce back, the United States has become a place to build (and, therefore, ship) things again, the Internet is opening up whole new ways of selling and shipping, and in the oil fields, the advent of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," offers the promise of lower-cost energy down the road.
But beneath the surface of that positive outlook lie some potentially disturbing undercurrents that could affect both 3PLs and their customers in the future. One of the places we look for such signs of trouble is our proprietary AlixPartners Early Warning Model, which tracks the financial health of companies across many sectors, including third-party logistics. Over the years, this model has proved to be a highly accurate predictor of corporate distress (insolvency, bankruptcy, and so forth).
As seen in Figure 1, our model shows that the probability of distress for the logistics service provider side of the industry (taken as a group) is less than 10 percent. That may seem low ... until you consider that the rate has almost quadrupled in the past year and a half, and has risen by about 30 percent since the beginning of this year alone. For 3PL customers, that's what we'd call a warning sign.
Here are some other warning signs derived from our (highly quantitative) model:
A good time to reevaluate
Do those storm signals mean 3PL customers can look forward to a buyer's market, and perhaps lower prices?
Not necessarily. One reason is that a weakened supply base (in any industry, including logistics) can weaken the main customer as well. Weak 3PLs, for instance, could cause their shipper clients to provide skimpy service and unreliable shipping to their own customers. That, in turn, could cause the clients to lose business, and even contribute to the ultimate nightmare: a shipper "disappears" overnight due to financial problems, leaving the customers that depended on its products in the lurch.
Despite that risk, the increased competition we are seeing in the marketplace today suggests that buyers of third-party logistics services should be able to negotiate more favorable agreements in line with market conditions. In fact, now is a smart time for 3PL users to review all of their logistics activities, including whether or not their insourcing and outsourcing decisions are still the right ones given current conditions and future plans. One important area to consider is the service-level agreement (SLA), including whether its terms still make sense or should be renegotiated when it expires.
Providers of logistics services, meanwhile, should reexamine what they offer, and at what price. It will not pay for them to wait for customers to propose renegotiating their SLAs. If they do, they may find out too late that their customers have switched to another provider that has taken a more aggressive posture toward partnering.
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What's on the horizon for 3PL customers and providers? A wide range of service offerings will become more important in the near future. A few examples include:
All these innovations make it increasingly difficult to determine "what lies beneath" the current state of the third-party logistics industry in terms of costs and services, especially since many of the services have been unbundled, insourced, or parceled out over various external and internal providers. However, the good news is that in the ever-evolving 3PL marketplace, tools (such as business intelligence and applied analytics) are available to help companies make responsible and competitively advantageous decisions. To be effective, however, those tools must be coupled with the right kind of experience and insight.
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Rehabilitation Philosophy for Persons with Disabilities
I believe that a good indicator of health is when one gets to fulfill life roles and to participate in activities that are meaningful to him or her. Health should be appreciated not just from a medical perspective. It is very much influenced by contextual conditions surrounding the person. For instance, a person with mobility issues may be able to navigate his/her way around the community if appropriate pieces of assistive device are given to him/her. Similarly, persons with autism with speech limitations may be able to express themselves more effectively if their communication partners drop social prejudices and take time to appreciate their non-verbal communication such as gestures, facial expressions and/or picture exchange systems. This said, physical barriers and the wrongful attitudes of people can be more disabling than a personís disorder or medical condition per se.
In my opinion, persons with disabilities in the Philippines and in other countries for that matter, will benefit from a rehabilitation philosophy that is more social and ecological. Interventions should be client-centered wherein health care providers involve the client and his/her family in the assessment, goal-setting, therapy implementation and discharge planning phases of the rehabilitation process. For youth with developmental conditions such as autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities, I believe that their educational curriculum should place more emphasis on teaching practical life skills rather than on abstract academic concepts. Likewise, integrating therapeutic principles in the teaching strategies will make their learning experience more holistic. This is one of my motivations for establishing the Independent Living Learning Centre (ILLC) in 2003. The ILLC aims to enable its students to attain their optimum level of functioning to be integrated, productive and happy members of society. Itís transition education and job readiness programs teach students to be more independent in self-care, socialization and work. In ILLC, interventions are geared towards optimizing the learnerís potential not just by remediating his/her impairments but by managing environmental barriers as well.
Inspired by a vision of a more inclusive educational system, I established the Academia Progresiva de Manila, (APDM) in 2013. The APDM is a duly accredited school which caters to all types of learners. As ILLCís sister school, the APDM accommodates learners with special needs for inclusion and mainstreaming. It takes pride in espousing progressive educational principles such as child-centered teaching, life-based instruction and respect for diversity.
Apart from philosophical barriers, prevailing pragmatic concerns revolving around the issue of poverty make access to much needed services difficult for many Filipinos with disabilities. It will be impossible for families who struggle to put food on their table to afford costly comprehensive medical, therapy and educational services for a child with special needs. Government health facilities, despite their sincerest efforts, are simply overwhelmed by the complex needs of millions of Filipinos living with some form of disability.
The dire need for accessible and quality services for children with disabilities in poor communities led me to establish the Rehabilitation and Empowerment of Adults and Children with Handicap (REACH) Foundation, Inc. shortly after ILLC. The REACH Foundation, Inc. embarks on partnering with both the public and private sector in establishing community-based rehabilitation programs which render free services to the poorest of the poor. Here, families are empowered with competencies to care for their children with disabilities more effectively. To prevent a dole-out culture, parents of the beneficiaries engage in community-service to advance projects for the communityís benefit and in turn, develop a sense of pride and ownership over the program.
Strengthening Community Partnership
Discharge planning should commence on the day a client is admitted in the hospital. Ideally, this should be a collaborative process. A team conference attended by all the professionals working with the client, family members, advocates and if possible, the person himself/herself, must be present. In this meeting, specific, measureable, attainable, relevant and timely goals have to be set. As a team, they should formulate a plan that is deemed feasible by everyone. Each of the stakeholdersí role has to be defined and documented so as to prevent redundancy and to establish accountability. A good practice to consider is availing the expertise of a case-manager to coordinate with the client and the stakeholders and to monitor the extent in which the clientís rehabilitation program is impacting on his/her health and well-being.
Recognizing the crucial role of the family in the care of a person with disability especially in remote areas, the TheraFree, a nation-wide volunteer mission program was organized in 2002. Rehabilitation professionals such as occupational, physical and speech therapists volunteer to visit remote areas to assess adults and children of varying disabilities and develop home therapy programs for them. The therapists devote time to demonstrate and explain the therapy procedures to the caregivers to help ensure proper carry-over of instructions at home.
Overcoming Challenges
I feel most blessed for being able to practice my passion and expertise. Certainly, I experienced birthing pains in establishing the organizations and programs such as those mentioned above. Considering the radical and progressive educational paradigm employed by ILLC, only four students initially enrolled despite their parentsí prior expressed confirmation. The initial enrollment turnout was way less than the projected and expected number needed to meet the schoolís operational expenses. This was understandably a threat to the programís sustainability considering that ILLC did not receive external funding from government nor from other private funding institutions. To this date, ILLC remains to be self-sustaining.
Firmly believing in ILLCís curriculum, I endeavored to provide my four pioneering students the best intervention possible. I personally attended to the studentsí needs and diligently updated their parents about their progress. With Godís grace, hard work, creativity and a happy attitude towards serving, my students achieved favorable performance outcomes. This swayed apprehensive and skeptical parents to finally try ILLC for their kids. This has enabled me to increase our talented and compassionate pool of personnel. Supported with good administrative and management approaches, ILLC has grown substantially. From four students, more than 1,500 children have already benefited from its programs. From renting a small house, ILLC has been able to acquire its own property and construct a building at the heart of the City. Amidst all this growth, families appreciate how ILLC has managed to preserve its warmth and community spirit.
Cognizant that majority of Filipino youth with special needs come from poor families, I established the REACH Foundation, Inc. With little resources available to hire staff, I personally went to informal settlements to lay the groundwork for a community-based rehabilitation program. Here, I trained volunteer moms to serve as my ëassistants.í We conducted therapy sessions. Soon enough, the project grew and the number of families coming has increased exponentially. With the REACH Foundation, Inc.ís impact becoming more palpable, we have been able to attract the interest and support of funding agencies and local government heads. For instance, the local government of Mandaluyong City in Metro Manila has partnered with the REACH Foundation, Inc. in establishing Project Therapy, Education and Assimilation of Children with Handicaps (Project TEACH), a comprehensive community-based program that regularly offers free services to more than 700 children. This program has attained national and international recognition as a best practice model. The most recent of which was the United Nations Public Service Awards. With this, various local and foreign government leaders and advocates have learned about our work and have come to study our framework for replication benefitting hundreds if not thousands in their respective communities.
Since its launch in 2002, the logistical costs of organizing TheraFree volunteer missions have increased. This made it more challenging for us at the University of the Philippines, College of Allied Medical Professions ñ Alumni Association to reach out to people from remote areas where help is most direly needed. But this did not discourage us from finding ways. With perseverance and a sincere heart to serve, the Unilab Foundation, Inc., a multinational organization saw how aligned our visions were and partnered with us. Through this partnership, we were able to set up an online portal for volunteer recruitment, community organization and data management.
Although the ILLC, the REACH Foundation, Inc and TheraFree have made notable progress in past 15 years, we are the first to acknowledge that we still have so much work to do. From our mistakes, we get to polish our rough edges. Maintaining this attitude towards challenges and believing that failure is just a phase towards bigger success has helped me become steadfast in my work.
Empowering Patients and their Carers
I am a strong advocate of client and family centered practice. Health practitioners have to cease seeing themselves as the sole experts and ultimate decision makers in patient care. Patients and their carers have to be involved throughout the rehabilitation process. As far as implementing therapy procedures are concerned, even institution-based health facilities such as hospitals should consider employing a more social service model wherein a core objective among therapists should be transferring knowledge and skills to the patient and to their carers. For instance, upon receiving adequate training from therapists, carers should be expected to conduct the management procedures on/with the patients as the therapists supervise and give them feedback for improvement. Additionally, I believe that especially in countries with an aging population, fostering balanced values of independence and communal spirit among its people is important so as not to encourage learned helplessness among persons with disabilities and apathy among their carers.
The Advent of Technology
The internet is indeed a convenient source of information but what is out in the world-wide web wonít necessarily be helpful for everyone. Therefore, it is crucial for health providers and consumers alike to be able to appraise information to determine the level of evidence that could support or disprove the effectiveness and practicality of certain treatments and interventions. Bookmarking credible and peer-reviewed websites is a good first step for novice appraisers of information.
With regards to adaptive technology, therapists must carefully assess the clientís capacities, contexts and activity demands first in order to help determine a goodness of fit between the client and the assistive device, whether it be high or low technology. A good practice is having a client trial the recommended technology first before he/she or a funding entity invests on it. This will help prevent wasting time and resources in purchasing unsuitable technology. In communities where resources are limited, health providers and consumers can be creative in indigenizing assistive technology.
The Best Work of Life that Creates Sustainable Impact
Many teachers or therapists who specialize in children with special needs are lured abroad by the promise of better pay and benefits. With vast years of work experience, a good educational background and offers to work abroad, I opted to stay in my country and continue to find deep meaning in actively working towards helping children with special needs from all walks of life to become better equipped for life.
Throughout my career, I have always felt most passionate about establishing programs for the underprivileged. Most of these programs were launched with no fan fair, yet through everyoneís support, these have managed to stay pertinent through the years. Sustainable impact rather than spot-lighted activities should be the benchmark for inspired service.
Message to Millennials Striving for a Life Well-lived
It is important for the youth to have a good sense of self, equity and justice. It is about knowing what is right for oneself and happily pursuing oneís aspirations sustainably.
From Compassion to Action | From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Compassion yields meaning only when service is put to work. Therefore, we must do more than simply hope and must take inspired action. Realizing our goals will require hard work and as we venture further into our lives, we will need to make personal sacrifices. When we stumble and rise in service of others, we become better equipped for bigger success not just for ourselves, but for humanity.
As an educator, I try my best to teach my students to cultivate their potential to become outstanding and we can begin by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. We should not be afraid to challenge established thinking in order to give way for progress and innovation.


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I want to thank Jason, and everyone at the Monastery again for welcoming me with such openness. I'm still amazed that I was granted this opportunity to see shining examples of the teachings of A Course in Miracles, and for the first time in an extended while, I don't feel alone.
Section of me wanted to keep longer, but beneath that desire was the thought that I could be this for the wrong reason; as an easy way to avoid my problems. The stronger feeling was, and is, that my travels will continue.
Before I left, Jason asked if I had had any insights. What I'm about to share was not yet clear during those times; only on the drive away made it happen coalesce.
That morning, several lines from the Vance Joy song kept running through my head, acim teacher "I never should have told you, never should have allow you to see inside. Don't are interested troubling the mind, won't you let it be?" This confused me as I could not think of whatever I had stated that I felt regret for.
Eventually, the phrase, "don't are interested troubling your mind" stood out. This reminded me that probably the most prominent fear I had in coming to the Monastery was that I'd somehow interfere using its residents'satisfaction, simply by my presence alone. This belief that I could negatively affect other people's state of mind has been with me for several years, and has colored many of my past experiences and relationships.
This fear left my awareness soon after I arrived. On the drive away it rose again, but I remembered David saying in one of his videos that minds cannot attack. I cried and laughed, and now feel as if the belief will be (has been?) released.
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They Are Billions is a strategy game that builds management settlements and seeks to survive from the zombie tide. In the distant future, a zombie natural disaster has almost destroyed human civilization. The survivors gathered in the corner of the last days, carefully guarding against infected people and living hard. In this world, hundreds of millions of infected people are wandering. And their goal is the last settlement of this mankind.
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Under the leadership of the new imperial leader, Quintus Koreni, reclaimed the abandoned land occupied by the infected.
48 missions, up to 60 hours of game time.
Construct colonial fortresses in the infected area and survive.
Command the Imperial Army to resist the influx of people.
Use over 90 technologies to strengthen your colony.
Send your hero to explore the abandoned ancient human fortress.
Demystifying the truth behind the Cataclysm… How did this happen?
Survival mode – now available!
In the survival mode, the player has to face a world in which the event, the weather, the environment, and the number of infected people are randomly generated. You must build a settlement in this world that can resist several zombies. This is a fast-paced, addictive game mode. We plan to launch a challenge every week, players can play under the same map conditions, and good players with high scores will be on the leaderboard.
Instant game mechanism with pause
This is a real-time strategy game, but don't worry, you can pause the action at any time and pick the best strategic and tactical decisions.
In pause mode, you can place buildings, give orders to your army, and view all the information in the game.
This is a strategy-based game that has no intention of testing the player's ability to remember dozens of quick keys and quickly press the correct button. Pause time to have fun!
Building your settlement
Building shelters and food for the inhabitants of the settlement. They will live here and work here.
Collecting resources through various buildings and upgrading buildings will increase collection efficiency.
By placing Tesla Tower to expand the energy range of the settlement, build power plants and windmills to power your building.
Building walls, doors, towers and other buildings to defend the settlements and look around, don't let the infected people "take over" your settlement!
Form an army
Who dares to fight the infected person?
Only the most insane guys dare to compete with the infected. Train or hire mercenaries to protect settlements, you need to provide them with money and food, and have to endure their complaints and jealousy, but these battle-hardened heroes will become your edge against the infected.
Each unit has unique skills and personality – get to know them!
The same screen can accommodate thousands of infected units
That's right! Billions of people! Infected people exist in every corner of the world… they wander, sniff, listen, and each has its own AI. Make sounds to bring them overkill them to extract oil resources, but be careful, more infected people will follow.
We design a game engine that can handle thousands of infected units at the same time, accommodating up to 20,000 infected people at the same time.
Do you think the settlement is safe? A large number of infected people will hit the tide. I hope your settlement can sustain their attacks!
Avoid infection
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Jenn Reinvented (The Sweet Water Circle #2) by Grayson Avery
Jennifer Colby-Kittler is the boss. They even call her The Jenneral. But married life is hard, even when you call the shots. When the sizzle in her and husband Russ' romance goes AWOL, Jenn calls in the big guns. They're going to forge ahead and have a second child whether Russ likes it or not. The only problem is that Russ is leaning toward not.
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I was excited to read about Jenn's story after reading Project Kaitlyn last year. There is nothing worse than watching a marriage fail especially when you keep putting unnecessary pressures on yourself as well as your spouse. Jen is her own worst enemy with her take-charge and controlling nature as she decides to have another baby whether her husband, Russ, wants to or not. But ultimately Russ doesn't want another child and he wants a divorce. There is just so much Jenneral one can take over ten years and be treated like a child instead of an equal. But to be honest, Russ does act like a goofy man-child sometimes. Needless to say, their story is depressing, but in typical Grayson Avery fashion, there are hysterical moments as well.
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Thank you Grayson Avery for giving me the opportunity to read this book with no expectation of a positive review.
Grayson Avery is the author of The Sweet Water Circle Series, a romantic comedy series that focuses on childhood friends in their 30's and 40's as they help each other navigate the stormy waters of dating, marriage, divorce, and a whole lot of inappropriate, naughty, and downright hysterical situations.
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The End of Civil Discussion
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Thanks to
Torgeir Fjeld
on the
listserve for passing on
this article
by Yanis Varoufakis from the November 8 issue of
The Guardian
. A brief snip:
When Trump contracted Covid-19, his opponents feared he might benefit from a sympathy vote. But Trump is not a normal president seeking voters' sympathy. He doesn't do sympathy. He neither needs nor banks on it. Trump trades on anger, weaponises hatred and meticulously cultivates the dread with which the majority of Americans have been living after the financial bubble burst in 2008. Obscenities and contempt for the rules of polite society were his means of connecting with a large section of American society.
Varoufakis gives an fairly objective appraisal of Trump as far as it goes--but it does not go far enough. Varoufakis doesn't address a more articulate segment of Americans, mostly conservative intellectuals outside the predominantly left-wing academy, who support Trump for more complex reasons. This "segment" does not have spokesmen per se nor a unified ideology, but the people I am thinking of are Michael Anton, William Voegeli, Heather McDonald, Victor Hansen, Angelo Codevilla, and others.
While these authors may approve of certain aspects of Trump's immigration, trade, education, and foreign policies, they more generally approve of Trump as a stop-gap in a larger and more troublesome culture war. In this they are not so much
Trump as
globalization and our latest incarnation of progressivism, in which Trump plays a unique role. Although he came to office under the Republican party, Trump significantly stands outside
political parties and menaces their proprieties. Largely because of these proprieties, for the last 30 years it really didn't matter which party you voted for--the inevitable result was more free trade, globalization, a look-the-other-way approach to illegal immigration, the slow erosion of the middle class, and an increasingly doctrinaire left-wing presence in the universities and corporate HR departments. Many people, especially middle class people, didn't like these developments but since no major political candidate rose to resist them with more than lip service, they began to seem inevitable. Trump changed that, and in the process so enraged progressives with his MAGA initiatives that they aggressively took to showing the world their usually well-hidden hind end. I'm referring here to the
New York Times'
1619 project
, the recent eruption into the general public of critical race theory, intersectionality, and related identity politics, and the push to make public schools, corporate offices, and government bureaucracies promulgate these views under fear of cancel-culture henchmen. These henchmen have inspired a veritable orgy of groveling among university and corporate administrators, media talking heads, and anyone who happens to float into their cross hairs and gets tarred with such voodoo words as
racist, sexist,
or the various
suffixed labels. This is frightening to the normal American because it says: you've got no place to hide, so mind what you say or we'll rat you out to your superiors and they'll throw you under the bus. Whatever Americans may understand freedom to mean, this is distinctly oppressive, and since it is premised on words or behavior that anyone can rightly or wrongly construe to be
racist, sexist,
etc. and for which there is no defense, you can quickly get separated out from the herd and deprived of career and reputation with no means of appeal. Trump stood in the way of this and actively fought it, both in policy and in everyday speech. So it's no surprise that in this environment to simply say that you support Trump can brand you as a racist.
This all conspired to quietly drive centrists and moderates away from the progressive left and towards the populist Trump. Nevertheless Trump's constant bullshitting, crude epithets, and obnoxious personality were his own undoing among this crowd because even if they agreed with his policies and were sympathetic to his check on progressivism, they detested the man. I don't know how much this played into him losing the election or even if it did. But it seems possible that with Trump out of the picture and without fear of association with him, the opposition to progressivism and its left-wing excesses, now sharpened under Trump, may actually increase during the Biden administration instead of go away. This is because of some of the lessons Trump sympathizers learned during the last four years. They learned that neither the Democrats nor Republicans have shown any understanding or even interest in the deeper issues that allowed someone like Trump to be elected in the first place (or alternatively, they
know the issues but will not give dissenters ammunition by acknowledging them). On top of this, they've seen many progressives relentlessly stereotype and demonize Trumpers as sub-persons with no right to the respect or concern shown to normal people, and the manner of this demonization has a distinctly Bolshevik stench. In the brief time since Biden's election, this demonization has expanded to proposals to compile hit lists of Trump supporters so that they can be ostracized and cast out from future public life (
a brief synopsis
of this from
; follow the Twitter feeds for more depth). These tactics are thoroughly incompatible with civil society but very similar to the ways totalitarian regimes operate. This makes Biden's appeals to unity sound unctuous and false. Things are not likely to return to a now-mythical normalcy. Progressives will never compromise with populists whom they view as their moral and intellectual inferiors at best, and the populists know it and will do battle as best they can. We've seen the last of civil discussion.
Addendum, December 2020
Torgeir Fjeld
an article
John Corvino
and wondered if his views on civility might be relevant here. Here's a brief snip from Corvino's essay:
One might also object [in the pursuit of civility] that some ideas and practices--and by extension, some people-really are beyond the pale: one does not civil polite discourse with Nazis, for example. I agree. Even Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers.
But this approach ought to be used sparingly, for both principled and pragmatic reasons. When outrage becomes our go-to stance, we often lose opportunities for working together to effect needed social change.
Corvino's views are certainly relevant, so long as we keep in mind that civility can't be an end in itself. On the one hand, you could make the case that anything can and should be dealt with in a civil, respectful manner. But, as Corvino points out, this is not likely to happen if either side in a discussion or dispute suspects that their opponent is merely using civility as a strategy in a zero sum game. Also,
is not an appropriate term when applied to political opponents who do not intend to compromise, but are rather intent on scoring points in the short term and vanquishing in the long term. I would argue that civility is only manifested in those willing to compromise
as a matter of principle
, which implies a shared conviction that
is the inevitable and desirable consequence of a free society given the diversity of aims and views among free people, and therefore a mutual flourishing of competing and even conflicting interests must be accommodated as much as possible. But obviously, a pluralistic society cannot accommodate totalitarianism, which attempts to destroy pluralism. And this is a major issue in the current US political climate.
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LDS Population
LDS Members make up 1.25% of the population of Bloomington. The Indianapolis Indiana Temple is anticipated to be completed in 2015. In the state of Indiana there are 41,290 members in 11 stakes, 68 wards, 31 branches, and 1 mission.
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Missionaries Samuel H. Smith and Reynolds Cahoon preached in the cities of Unionville, Madison and Vienna during the summer of 1831. Other missionaries came shortly thereafter, including Parley P. and Orson Pratt. The first branches were organized in September 1831, and the first conference was held on 29 November 1831. Many early saints were from Indiana, including Elder David W. Patten of the Quorum of the Twelve. The first stake in Indiana, the Indianapolis Stake, was organized by Elder Spencer W. Kimball of the Quorum of the Twelve on 17 May 1959. The Great Lakes Mission, created in 1949 from the Northern States Mission, was renamed the Indiana Indianapolis Mission in 1974.
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George Malekkos is a Software Innovation Architect dedicated to accelerating cloud's successful adoption. He is the CEO & founder of Powersoft Cyprus since 1993. He is a member of CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council) and workgroup leader for the whitepaper "Practical Guide to Cloud Service Level Agreement" and was Vice-President of CITEA (Cyprus Information Technology Enterprises Association) for several years.
George is a Guest Lecturer and a train the trainer for Professors on all major University's in Cyprus for "Computerized Accounting".
He is experienced in many European projects under Eureka, Eurostars, FP7 and Cornet and a project leader and founder of European programme Eureka EUNEA/1204/11 project name e-Powercard which is under success stories of Eureka.
Since June 2015 is one of the 30 members of "Digital Advisory Council" of Digital Europe. George is a mentor and a judge on several Start-up competitions in Cyprus and abroad like Digital Champion Cyprus, Hackathon, Microsoft Imagine Cup, Watify Europe and EYA(European youth award) , IDEA and more .
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Useful Bible Studies > 1 Samuel Commentary > chapter 4
The Philistines were the people from a nation called Philistia, on the south-west border of Israel. Although their nation was small, its army became very powerful. It was Israel's most serious enemy during the lives of Samson, Samuel, Saul and David. During that period of history, the two nations fought each other often.
Our passage describes a typical battle during this period of history. The men from each nation gathered in camps, not far away from each other. Then they waited to see which side would begin the battle.
On this particular occasion, the Philistines began the fight, and they were successful. 4000 of Israel's men died in the battle. The other soldiers returned to Israel's camp and they were worried. It seemed clear that they would be unable to defend themselves in the next battle.
Although Israel's people were not loyal to the real God, its leaders still blamed him. God had not supported them in the battle, he had helped their enemies. That is what they said.
Then the leaders of Israel made an extraordinary decision. If God would not fight for them, they would force him to fight for them. They would bring the ark of the covenant into the camp of Israel. If the ark of God was in danger, he would have to fight on their side. That was their plan.
The ark was a box; it acted as the evidence of God's covenant (agreement) with Israel. The leaders thought that no enemy could ever take that away from them.
The Bible warns that people must never test God (Deuteronomy 6:16; Matthew 4:7). In other words, people must not try to control God. It shows a completely wrong attitude towards God. We must be humble in front of God. (A 'humble' person is willing to learn the lessons that God teaches and to obey his instructions.)
Next part: The priests bring the ark to the battle (1 Samuel 4:4-5)
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WATCH: Pixar Have Just Released A Video Which Proves The Biggest Fan Theory The World Will Ever See!
18 January 2017, 17:03
Our minds are, officially, blown!
We're not gonna judge you - we know you have Toy Story (the original, the sequel and the threequel) all on DVD. And how do we know that? 'Cause we have them too.
Put simply, Pixar make some of the best movies out there, and we've watched the entire catalogue a grand total of 72 times over. But you probably haven't seen them enough to notice these incredible easter eggs.
> WATCH: We Dare You Not To Cry At Pixar's New Short Film, 'Borrowed Time'
Y'see, Toy Story uploaded the most mesmerising, mind-blowing video to their Facebook page, which proved that every Pixar movie was, in fact, in every other Pixar movie.
For example, one girl checking out Dory at an aquarium, was actually Riley from 'Inside Out'. And in 'Inside Out', Riley gets a family photo by a statue of a triceratops... The same triceratops in 'The Good Dinosaur'. And then one of them's in 'Monsters University', which has an appearance from someone in 'Toy Story' and - OH EM GEE! - will somebody think of the Pizza Planet trucks?! There's just so many of them!
Pic: Facebook
Basically, what we're trying to say is that our heads hurt, and to soothe them, we're gonna go watch 'The Incredibles'... Until 'The Incredibles 2' comes out. Can you blame us, really?


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For the Word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. (Psalm 33:4)
This song was published by the Worship Art Leadership Institute's (WALi) "Armchair Project." They took it from the key of D to the key of E, and had a woman sing it. I love this relaxed arrangement and what a voice!
The idea for the song came from a time I was reading through the book of Job, especially chapter 37. It is the end of Elihu's speech to Job in which he argues that Job should maintain that God is righteous, just, and redemptive in the midst of his suffering.
Elihu says: "Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back."
Wow, I thought to myself. If only I experienced God's voice in that way - especially His application and guidance for my own life. I know and believe He speaks to me through His Word and visits me through His sacraments and yet I still want to hear his voice like that. Like lightning, in a roar, to me and clearly.
So the song. It begins by acknowledging the truth that we all experience; that when times get hard we can find ourselves straining to hear God's voice through the chaos. This is a reality we face in fear, and in fear we may even begin to believe He is absent... ------>
...The chorus and bridge are prayers for God to speak to us, to speak truthfully and lovingly and in His way. In it we come humble before Him to simply say: speak to us, we yearn for it. Make yourself known as we come to You in faith through Jesus.
The song then ends with a verse echoing the situation of the first verse: a tumultuous storm. And yet this time we re-approach the situation through the eyes of faith and say: "the storm rains and the only thing I believe - in power you reign over me, you reign over everything." Amen to that. Come Lord Jesus.
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Engineer and Mixdown: Chris Steffen
Drums: Bryan Taylor
Keys: Michael Lee
Bass: Sean Hurley
Guitars: Tim Neinhuis & Corey Witt
Vocals: Emily Hamilton
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The Colorado Summer Circuit Kicks Off–More Than $1,000,000 in Cash and Prizes
Parker, CO– It has been an exciting first week at the Colorado Horse Park (CHP) with professionals from around the world completing their first rides of the Colorado Summer Circuit. Summer in the Rockies I has been awarding cash prizes to an assortment of hunters and jumpers, but one combination is already standing out. Allison Kroff and her horse Washington jumped to victory on Thursday, placing first in the $10,000 Open Welcome Stake, the first big jumper class of the circuit.
"It's very exciting, he's just stepping up to this level," Kroff said of her 9-year-old stallion from Holland. "I'm very excited that he marched in here for the first time and jumped around and did his job!" Washington, a Dutch Warmblood with Heartbreaker and Indorado bloodlines, was imported from Holland as a 6-year-old.
"It was a really good course," Kroff reported of the Hector Loyola-designed track. "You had a lot of questions and you had to know your horse very well to be able to answer the questions."
Kroff began riding at a young age in Mesa, Arizona and quickly established herself as a strong competitor in the Grand Prix ring. Among the many highlights of her career was a win in 2005 in the $60,000 Grand Prix of Denver.
After competing at the CHP for eight years in a row, Allison Kroff took four years off, but is thrilled to be back in beautiful Parker, Colorado. Kroff is excited to compete throughout the entire Summer Circuit at the Colorado Horse Park, stating "I love being back here and enjoying the weather and everything else!"
The Summer Circuit will continue through July 22, hosting a multitude of strong competitors and big prize money. Throughout Summer in the Rockies, over a million dollars in cash and prizes will be awarded to the riders. For more information on the events at CHP, visit www.coloradohorsepark.com. Also, check out the Flying Horse Photography photo galleries on Facebook, and look for exciting new video footage on the CHP's Youtube channel.
Results–$10,000 Open Welcome
1. Allison Kroff – Washington
2. John Mc Connell – Katie Riddel
3. John Pearce – Johnny B Good
4. Paul Rohrbach – Simple Kaliber
5. Matt Cyphert – Lochivar
6. John Pearce – Chianto
7. Kelsey Van Ackeren – Vernon G
8. Bjorn Ikast – Colorado
9. Ceinwen Muma – Mont Blanc
10. Taylor Alexander – Vicky
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NEW YORK — It was a war of words, and a clash of world views, in the well of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, a lifelong social democrat whose early political career was forged during his native Portugal's democratic revolution in 1974, opened the annual leaders' gathering with a fervent plea for greater international solidarity and cooperation — to fight climate change and economic inequality, to resist rising authoritarianism and halt rollbacks in democratic freedoms, to protect those who face discrimination and persecution, and above all to prevent war.
Guterres concluded his speech by calling for a reaffirmation of the principles of multilateralism and international cooperation upon which the U.N. was founded in 1945.
"We are here to advance the common good while upholding our shared humanity and values," he said. "That vision united the founders of our organization. At a time of division today, we must reconnect with that spirit. Let us restore trust, rebuild hope and move ahead, together."
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In sharp contrast, U.S. President Donald Trump — a Republican by affiliation but often out of step with the party's historic ideological pillars, whose political career began only with his campaign for president following a career in real estate and reality TV — delivered a forceful defense of nationalism and individual state sovereignty, which also served as a denunciation of globalization and a warning against pluralist compromise that included blustery boasting about U.S. military supremacy.
"The future does not belong to globalists" — Donald Trump, U.S. president
"The free world must embrace its national foundations," Trump said. "It must not attempt to erase them or replace them. Looking around in all of this large magnificent planet, the truth is plain to see: If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty, and if you want peace, love your nation. Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first.
"The future does not belong to globalists," Trump added, delivering perhaps the most memorable line of the day in the General Assembly, which is comprised of 193 member states. "The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations, who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences which make each country special and unique."
Opposing views
Guterres and Trump have been circling each other, trading barbed (albeit indirect) attacks on each other's world view for months, if not years.
While it's not clear that the American president gives the understated Portuguese secretary-general much thought, his actions — abandoning the Paris climate accords and the Iran nuclear deal, quitting the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and provoking a series of trade wars — have demonstrated Trump's scorn for the type of global cooperation that Guterres considers essential to the future of humankind.
Meanwhile, it was more than obvious whom Guterres had in mind when he traveled to the summit of G7 economic powers in Biarritz, France last month and complained that the world's wealthiest nations are not doing enough to fight climate change.
And it was more than clear whom Guterres was thinking of when he spoke on Tuesday of a dangerous new risk of great-power conflict.
"At this time of transition and dysfunction in global power relations, there is a new risk looming on the horizon that may not yet be large, but it is real," Guterres said. "I fear the possibility of a great fracture: the world splitting in two, with the two largest economies on earth creating two separate and competing worlds, each with their own dominant currency, trade and financial rules, their own internet and artificial intelligence capacities, and their own zero sum geopolitical and military strategies."
He continued: "We must do everything possible to avert the great fracture and maintain a universal system — a universal economy with universal respect for international law; a multipolar world with strong multilateral institutions."
In many ways, the secretary-general's remarks echoed comments by another American president, Harry Truman, speaking in San Francisco on the day in 1945 when global delegates completed work on the U.N. charter. In that speech, Truman made a fierce case for internationalism as the key to ending wars.
"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice," Truman said. "The charter recognizes this fact because it has provided for economic and social cooperation as well. It has provided for this cooperation as a part of the very heart of the entire compact. It has set up machinery of international cooperation which men and nations of goodwill can use to help correct economic and social causes for conflict."
Like Truman, who was then weeks away from giving the order to drop atomic bombs on Japan, Trump addressed delegates of the U.N. with the possibility of a military strike very much on his mind — a potential attack on Iran that he has threatened on and off throughout his presidency. Trump opened his remarks on Tuesday with a declaration that the U.S. has never been stronger.
"The United States, after having spent over two and a half trillion dollars since my election to completely rebuild our great military, is also by far the world's most powerful nation," he said. "Hopefully it will never have to use this power."
On the one hand, the number seemed unnecessarily exaggerated. The entire U.S. annual defense budget is a bit less than $700 billion. On the other hand, his professed reluctance to using force likely came as a surprise to leaders of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Serbia, Panama and other nations in the General Assembly that have directly felt the impact of the U.S. military's long reach.
"I have the immense privilege of addressing you today as the elected leader of a nation that prizes liberty, independence and self-government above all," Trump said. "That is why the United States rigorously defends the traditions and customs that have made us who we are."
For many leaders in the audience, however, serious doubts about the fundamental principles underpinning U.S. policy have only arisen since Trump took office. And much of their actions, especially among Washington's traditional European allies, now often seem aimed at appeasing Trump and coaxing him back into the Western fold.
When U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday issued two separate statements, one reiterating Britain's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal and another declaring the deal deeply flawed and urging that Trump help negotiate a new one, officials quickly explained the discrepancy by saying it was partly intended to bring Trump back to the negotiating table with Tehran.
When French President Emmanuel Macron decided to skip the custom of issuing leaders' conclusions at the G7 summit in Biarritz, it was a strategy designed specifically with the combustible American president in mind.
Disrupters all around
But there was no mistaking just how disruptive and destructive Guterres believes Trump has been to the international order, delivering remarks in which actions by the U.S. president could easily be lumped together with those of authoritarian dictators. Are journalists the "enemy of the people" in Russia and China, or in America? Are environmentalists viewed as antagonists in Brasilia or Washington?
"We see wide-ranging impunity, including for violations of international humanitarian law," Guterres said in his speech. "New forms of authoritarianism are flourishing. Civic space is narrowing. Environmental activists, human rights defenders, journalists and others are being targeted.
"At a time when record numbers of refugees and internally displaced people are on the move, solidarity is on the run," Guterres said at another point in his address. "We see not only borders, but hearts, closing — as refugee families are torn apart and the right to seek asylum torn asunder."
By contrast, Trump, in his own speech, denounced "open-border activists who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of social justice."
"We are here to advance the common good while upholding our shared humanity and values" — Antonio Guterres, U.N. secretary-general
But it was not just Trump who embodied the disruption that Guterres decried in his speech. As the secretary-general fretted about new forms of authoritarianism, it was Johnson who made arrangements to leave New York early after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that he had illegally suspended parliament.
Guterres was applauded heartily. Trump's remarks did not draw laughter as he did last year when he asserted his presidency in two years had accomplished more than any other, nor did his speech draw much applause. Leaders were mostly silent. The U.S. commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, appeared to fall asleep.
Even in their positivity, Guterres and Trump showed their differences.
"We are here to serve," Guterres said. "We are here to advance the common good while upholding our shared humanity and values."
Trump took another tack. "Love of our own nations," he said, "makes the world better for all nations."