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MomSense: A Common-Sense Guide to Confident Mothering - eBook
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Through personal stories from real moms and proven, practical advice, MomSense helps moms honestly assess their skills, embrace their mothering instincts, and develop their own unique mothering style. Rather than pushing one "right" way to be a mom, this liberating book shows moms that they are the best mom for their kids and that they can have contentment, joy, and confidence in their role. A perfect gift for a new or experienced mom, MomSense is also an excellent resource for women's small groups and MOPS groups.
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"God doesn't make mistakes. He has divinely paired you to be the mother of your child. You can best invest in your child by developing your own personal MomSense - and this book shows you how."
--Elisa Morgan, speaker/author, She Did What She Could; publisher, FullFill
"Jean Blackmer offers moms a rare treat: a book that encourages women to trust their instincts and to think critically (to be skeptics, even!). Through fun-to-read, power-packing stories mixed with solid advice, Jean at once affirms, empowers, and equips moms to be the kind of moms God created them to be."
--Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira, author, Mama's Got a Fake I.D.: How to Reveal the Real You Behind All That Mom
"Ever felt like somehow you missed mommy orientation class? Does it seem that all of the women in your play group got the secret kid manual and you were not on the distribution list? Take heart! In this amazing little book, you will discover all the gifts you already possess to be a great parent. After a dose of MomSense you can't help but be encouraged to be the kind of mom God designed you to be."
--Kathi Lipp, author, The Husband Project
"You don't have to be perfect to be the perfect mom for your child. But you need an endless supply of MomSense. Here it is!"
--Carol Kuykendall, author, speaker, MOPS consulting editor
"MomSense is a must-read for any mom who has ever wondered if she has what it takes to thrive during motherhood. As a mother of three preschoolers Jean reminded me, with wisdom gleaned from her own journey, that I can do this! She encouraged me, inspired me, and provided me with the resources to take action. Any mom who wants her parenting to make a difference should grab a copy."
--Tracey Bianchi, pastor for women, Christ Church of Oak Brook; author, Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet
"Do yourself a favor and bathe in the wisdom of this book--you'll emerge with more confidence and strength in what every mom has inside: the power to be a great mother."
--Lisa T. Bergren, author, Life on Planet Mom and The Busy Mom's Devotional
"Reading MomSense is like spending time with a wise, warm friend, full of both challenge and grace."
--Shauna Niequist, author of Cold Tangerines and Bittersweet
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Empowering A Woman to Be the Best Mom She Can Be!
Mom intuition is something a woman brings to her mothering, something that is often not really learned, just known - an inkling, a sixth sense, or a gut feeling. Common sense is using good sense and sound judgment in practical matters. Mash them together and you have MomSense.
Life can be overwhelming but when children become part of the picture, a mom may feel that her life is out of control. In MomSense, author Jean Blackmer guides new and experienced moms through the plethora of advice that is available today. MomSense illustrates that moms do not need to seek perfection but finding their own unique mothering style is what really counts with their kids today. Readers will discover that they already possess the instincts and the ability to think critically to be confident moms and to raise confident kids
Blackmer showcases "real mom" stories that are proven and practical advice for moms. MomSense provides clarity and helps moms honestly assess their skills, embrace those instincts, and develop their own unique mothering style. This practical and hope-filled book equips moms to mother with confidence, contentment and joy. Each chapter provides thought-provoking "MomSense" questions and a section of "Mama Drama" scenarios for moms to discuss in groups making this an excellent resource for study groups.
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I'm pretty sure my baby has not gained any weight in a month. She was gaining like an ounce a week, but now I don't think she's even gaining that. She is still so hard to nurse and will only eat a little banana baby food every once in a while.
She *did* get 6 teeth in a week this last month, and is working on her cuspids now.
But my question is this: what will they say to me at the pedi's office?
She will only take a little bit of milk from a sippy. She won't take a bottle. I'm so scared they will tell me to put her on formula, but even then, I don't know how I would get it into her!
I'm worried about her iron too. She's a pretty fussy baby, but she's also prolly always a little hungry.
Has anyone ever had a baby like this that just refuses to eat or nurse for months and months?? I've kept her growing up until this month. I'm sure I could make it sound like she hasn't nursed as much because of her teeth.
My supply is good. I always pump when she just completely refuses to nurse. During the day, I don't go more than 4 hours without pumping or nursing. And at night, I nurse her every 2-3 hours, sometimes 4, if I turn my alarm off in my sleep and don't wake up until she wakes me up.
I am still nursing her like 7 or 8 times a day, but they're not always full feedings, meaning, my breast doesn't always feel completely empty when she's done. It is less heavy, but just not that really soft nearly floppy empty feeling. Her diapers are wet but not great.
The good things:
She's not dehydrated. She's a slobberbox. She is pulling up on everything and beginning to cruise in the last few days. She's hitting milestones. She poops at least once a day and it's usually a blowout.

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Anders Magnusson's BSD-licensed pcc compiler has been imported into NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD's src tree. Anders wrote to NetBSD's tech-toolchain list: "It is not yet bug-free, but it can compile the i386 userspace. The big benefit of it is that it is fast, 5-10 times faster than gcc, while still producing reasonable code. The only optimization added so far is a multiple-register-class graph-coloring register allocator, which may be one of the best register allocators today. Conversion to SSA format is also implemented, but not yet the phi function. Not too difficult though, after that strength reduction is high on the list."


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'Hitman: Absolution' video game plays up Chicago
Local gamers shooting their way through "Hitman: Absolution" this week may notice they're guiding Agent 47 into familiar turf. That's because Chicago is the primary setting for the latest in the "Hitman" series. The iconic cityscape frequently has been the backdrop for movies and TV shows, but this marks the Chicago's most high-profile appearance in newer video games. Did the "Hitman" developers get Chicago right? RedEye played the game and talked to one of the directors to find out. By Ryan Smith for RedEye Want more? Discuss this article and others on RedEye's Facebook page.
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This past winter, Baltimore school officials fervently defended two of the system's most liberal expenses for employee compensation — overtime and leave pay, saying the costs documented their hard work and underscored their commitment to trimming the central office.
Using salary data obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act request, The Baltimore Sun found that the system had paid out $14 million in overtime over four years and $64 million in unused vacation, sick and leave pay benefits to employees when they resigned or retired.
"There are costs of doing business, and this is one of those times where we just need to make sure that those dollars are always being scrutinized," the system's chief of staff, Tisha Edwards, said of overtime costs.
And while officials said they understood why the system's generous leave payments were called into question, Edwards said, "We do think it has a place in the school system, and we don't think it reflects an unreasonable expense."
But at the same time officials defended the payouts to The Sun, they were also acknowledging problems to independent auditors who found that much of the overtime paid to employees was unsubstantiated by records, according to preliminary findings outlined in an audit submitted to city school officials by the Office of Legislative Audits. The preliminary report was obtained by The Sun.
Additionally, auditors said in the draft report that the system's leave payouts were "excessively generous," about four times as much as other large districts around the state paid out. And auditors also noted in the draft document that the system had paid some employees for more days than they were allotted.
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Minnesota Ready for Deadline on Health Marketplace
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota is ahead of many other states facing a federal deadline to declare whether they will set up a health care marketplace to help people and small businesses get private insurance.
Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton began pushing to develop a state-tailored health insurance exchange shortly after taking office in early 2011.
The state has received more than $70 million in federal grants, and much of Minnesota's progress report is online for consumers to see.
Thursday evening, the Obama administration responded to a request for more time from Republican governors by granting states a month's extension, until Dec. 14.
The Minnesota Legislature is expected to make major decisions early next year, including how to pay for the exchange after federal money goes away and who will run it.
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text: People need to learn all through their lives. We live in a society that rewards continual acquisition of skills and knowledge. Scouting provides structured settings where young people can learn new skills and develop habits of continual learning that will help them succeed. From its foundation, Scouting has offered a concrete program of discovering, sharing, and applying knowledge and skills.


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Girls on Film: The Legacy of 'Annie Hall'
Girls on Film is a weekly column that tackles anything and everything pertaining to women and cinema. It can be found here every Thursday night, and be sure to follow the Girls on Film Twitter Feed for additional femme-con.
Thirty-four years ago Tuesday, the 50th Academy Awards were held, boasting a show-down between the neurotic past and the fantastical future – Annie Hall v. Star Wars. In one corner was Woody Allen, the cerebral filmmaker whose idea of comedy was intellectual discussion and chatter intermingled with well-placed Marshall McLuhans. In the other was the epic, sci-fi blockbuster that helped change how Hollywood viewed cinema. Woody won the battle, with Annie Hall earning little gold men for Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Actress.
Yet the win was bittersweet – a last hurrah as Star Wars began to change the way Hollywood thought about film, moving from the deeply challenging interpersonal stories of the '70s to a big-budget, big-mayhem, big-effects mindset of the future. (A coincidental turning point as well, as both were up against the ballet film Turning Point that year.)
By this point in the cinematic cycle, it seems almost unfathomable that a film discussing intellectual curiosities while touring through the demise of a relationship could win for Best Picture, let alone become one of U.S. cinema's beloved classics. This is a love story with no feverish intent for people to live happily ever after, no urge to boil complex human emotions into superficial romps that hold little value. In fact, the romance isn't as important as the personal trajectories of its characters. Annie Hall is a cerebral journey, one resting mainly on the shoulders of Diane Keaton, which makes it even more of a curiosity. (As much as Allen is present, the force of Annie Hall informs his every word, making her a notable presence even when she's not on-screen.)
Women wearing vests and ties whilst talking about poetry aren't the women who gain mainstream attention these days, so I can't help but wonder how Hollywood's Star Wars change affected women on the big screen. Though Allen's seminal film definitively impacted cinema, did Annie Hall leave a legacy of her own, or merely act as a lone icon not only for her generation, but each one that followed?
Looking at the Academy's Best Picture nominees, the late seventies were certainly a different time for women. Before the big blockbuster could being its stranglehold, we were treated to nominees offering love with Jane Fonda's Coming Home and female independence with Jill Clayburgh's An Unmarried Woman in 1978, and fierce custody battles with Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer and a tough labor union fight for Sally Field in Norma Rae in 1979. There was an insistence in the female spirit and fight, on an exploration of the many facets of life.
Perhaps it's an end-of-decade fervor. The early '80s offered up minimal female-centric Best Picture offerings, generally relegated to romance and family without the cerebral edge or diversity until 1985, which boasted a killer year for women with Meryl Streep's Out of Africa, Whoopi Goldberg's The Color Purple, Kathleen Turner's Prizzi's Honor, and Kelly McGillis' Witness. (The only male-centric offering for Best Picture? Kiss of the Spider Woman.) A year later, there was Marlee Matlin's Children of a Lesser God, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest's Hannah and Her Sisters, and Helena Bonham Carter's A Room with a View. One year after that, Holly Hunter took on the TV world with Broadcast News while Glenn Close had a Fatal Attraction and Cher was Moonstruck.
The '90s, unfortunately, ended the habit with a decade almost solely dominated by British romance in minimal quantities. Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling and Frances McDormand's Marge Gunderson were the lone lights to balance the retro fare and straight-forward romances. Luckily, the new millennium brought a touch more diversity to a still-waning Best Picture presence. Julia Roberts became the new fight-for-rights heroine with Erin Brokovich, films like The Hours delved into the female experience, and Hilary Swank was a boxing Million Dollar Baby. When five nominees became ten, 2009 offered up romance and family woes until 2010 finally used the space to offer four films ranging from ballet neurosis to family drama to determined revenge, and finally to one-girl-against-the-world drama.
Between Annie Hall and Norma Rae, it would've been no jump to assume a future Hollywood rife with just about any characterization an actress could dream of. Or, at the very least, that the films considered the "best of the year" would relish in the dynamic women that once had such power that they could dominate The Force. For each great female performance in a Best Picture that followed, the shadow of Annie Hall dampens the glow. Only three have names easily recognizable to the casual viewer at large – Rae, Starling, and Brokovich.
Sure, there's a much larger world out there than the Best Picture Oscar can encapsulate, even with its now ten nominees. Though 2011 boasted only one Best Picture nominee with women as the focus (The Help), we can remember the behind-the-scenes work on Bridesmaids and the indie stunners like Pariah and We Need to Talk About Kevin. But these aren't mainstream wonders. It would take a wildly successful resurfacing to make these films part of the future, everyday consciousness.
It's not even about the reverence, or lack thereof, that Annie creates, but rather the potential of what could have followed. The women that Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Jill Clayburgh, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field encapsulated so well quickly disappeared, only momentarily revived in the likes of Holly Hunter or Glenn Close, before becoming forgotten. And it's not a matter of who is behind the camera. If a diminutive, neurotic white guy can create such a woman, anyone can.
It's sad that instead of inspiration and vibrancy, Annie Hall's legacy is disappointment and wishful thinking. I'm just grateful that I was born in her immediate shadow, just one month later, before it was dampened.
The above chart details how many Best Picture nominees at the Oscars boast women in starring roles (excluding 10 ensemble pieces with notable female roles).
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This month, scientists with the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) will install one of many planned Geophysical Ocean Bottom Observatories (GOBO), in which a permanent seismograph station will be established on the sea floor for monitoring earthquake activity. ODP is funded in large part by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
"Installing a seismic station in an ocean basin will be like filling in missing portions of a mirror or lens in a telescope," says Bruce Malfait, director of ODP at NSF. "It will allow us to examine regions of the earth's interior that are only poorly imaged at present by stations on a few islands, or the 30% of the earth's surface occupied by continents."
The global network of on-land seismic stations provides sufficient earthquake monitoring capabilities for large parts of the earth's surface in continental regions and on some islands. However, oceanic regions that cover approximately 70 percent of the earth's surface remain largely unmonitored, creating large "holes" in worldwide data coverage for low magnitude earthquakes and for earth's deep interior.
Scientists aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution will drill into the oceanic basement of the Indian Ocean, a region of the world where there is a lack of ocean-bottom seismograph stations. The expedition, referred to as ODP Leg 179, began when the ship departed Cape Town, South Africa, on April 21. It concludes with a port call in Darwin, Australia, on June 6.
"During the past 10 years our knowledge of deep earth interior processes has greatly improved with the development of new generations of global seismic monitoring networks," says John Casey of the University of Houston, co-chief scientist for the expedition. "The need for ocean-bottom observatories is driven by the lack of observations in large tracts of the world ocean where neither continents nor islands are available to place observatories."
Before laying the groundwork for the new seismic observatory, ODP will test a new drilling system designed to drill large-diameter casing into hard fractured rock on the sea floor. The new drilling system, called water hammer drilling, uses a percussion drill similar to a jackhammer but is driven by fluid rather than air. If the tests are successful, reentry systems will be placed on the boreholes, allowing scientists to return to these locations to conduct future experiments.
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Iran is a particularly interesting case when it comes to the adoption of free software. Like many nations outside of Europe and North America, there is no ethos of paying for software, and in fact Iran is not a signatory of the WTO copyright treaty, which implicitly and de facto means that foreign software may be freely distributed within Iran without paying licenses. So Windows and other western commercial software is widely and inexpensively available. Nevertheless, Linux and other Free Software has a foothold among the computing community similar to its popularity elsewhere.
So without further ado, here's the interview:
LR: Before we begin, let me mention that in countries like Iran, people are not forced by the law to comply with copyright to use computer software. Almost every piece of software can be obtained for a very small amount of money or even for free.
Since I am committed to distinguishing "free as in free speech" from "free as in free beer", I've adopted the practice of always saying "gratis" and never "free" when I mean "zero price". That way, when I say "free", it always means "azadi".
LR: Therefore, those who choose to use and advocate free software do so for pure philosophical reasons and due to real love for freedom, and they have great respect for you and what you've done.
RMS: Since others may also read this text, I include here the definition of free (azadi) software.
Free software means, software that respects the users' freedom and community. For any program, either the users control the program or the program controls the users.
In order for the users to control the program, they need these four essential freedoms.
0. To run the program as you wish.
1. To study the program's source code, and change it, so it does your computing as you wish.
2. To make exact copies and redistribute them to others when you wish.
3. To make copies of your modified versions and redistribute them to others when you wish.
We call that "free software".
If the users don't control the program, then the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program. This is nonfree software. It's an injustice, and our goal is to get rid of the injustice.
I launched the free software movment in 1983. In 1984 I started developing a free software operating system called GNU. In 1992, GNU was nearly complete, missing one essential component. In that year, Torvalds liberated Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. The operating system that millions use is basically GNU, with Linux added.
LR: When you started the GNU Project, you stepped down from your job at the university. Considering the fact that the project needed investment, did you receive any financial support? Did you have a major sponsor?
RMS: The term "investment" is not applicable here, because that implies spending money on a business to obtain a larger subsequent profit. I set out to do a large job, but it wasn't a business and the purpose was something more important than profit.
I quit my job at MIT when I started writing code for the GNU operating system because I wanted to make sure MIT would not be able to claim copyright on the code I wrote for GNU.
Evidently, financial support was not crucial at the beginning, because I made progress on my own, which drew others to help.
LR: Does the GNU Project produce any revenues to cover it's own costs?
RMS: That question presumes a centralized project which is not how it works. The GNU system is composed of many components, and each component has its own developers. Some of those groups obtain funding in various ways, but they do it separately and independently. Some groups are composed solely of volunteers.
LR: Could you please update our readers on the current status of HURD? Do you agree that HURD is now even more important than before due to the rejection of GPL v3 by the Linux Foundation?
RMS: The Hurd needs lots of work to be competitive in practice with Linux, but I don't keep track of the details.
The problem caused by having Linux under GPL v2 is that it can be tivoized -- used in "tyrant" products that don't allow the user to replace the operating system with her own version.
Let's assume the Hurd were practically as complete as Linux. The Hurd does not allow tivoization, so it can't be used in tyrant products. But that would not stop them from making tyrant products -- they would use Linux instead.
Thus, in order to put a stop to tyrant products, the Hurd would need to be not just equal to Linux, but far superior. That does not seem to be a likely prospect. As a result, I don't know any way we can technically put an end to tyrant products that use free software.
What we can do, at least, is to stop them from using our code. Releasing our code under GNU GPL v3-or-later achieves that.
LR: Mr. Torvalds has provided almost no sensible and acceptable reason for refusing to update the license. In his opinion that's not necessary and the version 2 is enough. What do you think about his decision? Will linux lose support from corporations' side if he agrees to use GPL v3?
RMS: He told me that he appreciates many of the improvements in GPL v3 but objects to one of them: the requirement for manufacturers to tell users how to install modified software in the products they buy.
Many of today's computers are designed so the manufacturer can upgrade the software but the user can't change it. Under those circumstances, the executable is not free software even though its source code may be free. We call this "tivoization" or "lockdown", and we call the device a "tyrant". Many Android phones are tyrants: they contain executables of Linux compiled from free source code, but the executables are nonfree since users are blocked from running theirmodified versions.
GPL version 3 prevents this abuse by requiring the manufacturer to tell you whatever key is needed to sign your own version of the program so it can run in the device. That is what Torvalds objects to. He wants to permit tivoization of Linux, and according to what he told me, that is his reason for rejecting GPL version 3.
LR: Does GPL v3 impose limits on installation of multimedia codecs and proprietary applications?
RMS: I can't see why it would do that, but the question is vague, so I have trouble answering it. If you specify a more precise scenario, I would be able to give a sure answer.
LR: Right now there are many non-free binary blobs inside the linux kernel. Don't you think that linux is moving off from freedom towards being a proprietary software?
RMS: Linux moved off the path of freedom when the binary blobs were included in it. Whether it is now moving even further from that path, I don't know. Either way, freedom calls for rejecting the blobs. That is why we maintain Linux-libre, our own 100% free software modified version of Linux.
LR: Right now, what's the main focus of FSF and what exactly the output is?
RMS: The FSF has four main activities: infrastructure, campaigns, GPL enforcement, and education/fundraising.
Infrastructure means the servers such as www.gnu.org and savannah.gnu.org that GNU uses.
Campaigns means efforts at education and political instigation, such as DefectiveByDesign.org and PlayOGG.org.
GPL enforcement means writing to companies that violate the GPL (with software copyrighted by the FSF) and informing them that that is copyright infringement and they must stop.
Educating the public about free software and fundraising are combined because the same activities usually achieve both results.
LR: There's been a lot of debate on what is the proper title for GNU/Linux. However many users still have a lot of questions in this regard. Most references offer  definitions for an operating system that are more or less like this: "A system software that connects the software with the hardware." What that definition in mind, why shouldn't we call an operating system simply "linux" or "HURD"?
RMS: The right name depends on what collection of software you're talking about.
With the definition cited above, you're talking about the kernel and drivers -- only. Linux is a kernel, so perhaps you might be talking about Linux.
However, if you're talking about a distro such as Trisquel or Debian, that's a lot more than "software that connects the software with the hardware". Those distros are complete, usable systems -- basically the GNU system, with Linux added. So you should call them "GNU/Linux".
I define "operating system" as "the collection of software that implement the usual activities and provide a base for implementing other activities." GNU is an operating system in this sense, as was Unix, and so are these distros.
By the way, "software" has no plural. It is like "literature" or "petrol". Any number of programs are "software".
LR: Recently Digitizer published statistics (based on an analysis on the number of lines of codes for all software inside Ubuntu 11.04 main repositories. They announced that only about 8 percent of the code belonged to the GNU Project. What do you think about that?
RMS: I don't know how they reached that figure. How did they claim to determine which code belonged to the GNU Project? There is no simple way to determine that from the code in any simple way. Perhaps they omitted some GNU packages and undercounted.
However, it will probably be true in a few years that GNU packages are only 8%. When that happens, Linux will probably be 0.8%. These numbers both decrease, and the reason is that more different projects contribute to the system. The decrease reflects our success at attracting more free software developers.
This has no effect on the relationship between GNU, Linux, and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a development of the GNU/Linux system, which started in 1992 as the GNU system plus Linux.
LR: You announced that in gNewSense, GNU's share was %15 while Linux only had a %1.5 share.
RMS: I don't remember the precise figures, but that looks about right. What this shows is that the system is more GNU than Linux.
LR: Therefore, if we choose the amount of code as the criterion, each distribution would probably have a different name, as many projects other than Linux and GNU are involved in distros, and the ratios are constantly changing.
RMS: If the question is whether to call the system "GNU/Linux" or "Linux", those things have no effect on that. However the rest of the system may change, GNU remains a much bigger contribution to the system than Linux is. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many.
LR: Do you think that the amount of code is a proper index for naming a distro?
RMS: No, I don't think that is the sole basis. I mention it because it is an objective and verifiable fact about the system today.
However, I think the fact that the GNU Project started the development of this system, and gave it the name GNU, is a stronger reason to consider the system as a development from GNU.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
LR: Aside from GCC, which part of GNU could be regarded  part of the  operating system core? What actually justifies calling GNU the base of GNU/Linux?
RMS: Binutils, Coreutils, Bash and GNU libc are just as central and necessary as GCC and Linux. However, this concept of "core" seems to be an artificial distinction. From the beginning, we aimed to make GNU a complete Unix-like system, not merely a "core".
LR: Then could we still call a GNU-free operating system (which uses EKOPath instead of GCC and zsh instead of bas etc) GNU/Linux?
RMS: If you replace all of GNU, the result would not be GNU/Linux. But why seek to do such a thing?
LR: The number of distributions is increasing rapidly. Although this helps free software to cater to  tastes and needs of more people, some people say it is a waste of time and energy that could have otherwise been spent on upstream projects. Do you agree with them? What's your idea about a unified,  standard distro?
RMS: People and organizations often think that the first thing to do when they join the free software community is to make a distro. If their goal is to develop their skills, perhaps this is a useful way to do it, but I think most of these distros don't serve much other purpose.
Thus, I urge people to concentrate their efforts on helping the existing free distros, rather than making new distros.
See gnu.org/distros for information about the free GNU/Linux distros.
LR: Contrary to the original ambitions of the Free Software movement, many distros are shipping non-free programs. What harm could this do to the movement? What can be done about this issue?
RMS: The direct effect of the use of nonfree distros such as Ubuntu GNU/Linux is that some people install GNU/Linux but they don't get all the way to freedom.
If that were the worst consequence of nonfree distros. it would be unfortunate but would not put the movement's goal at risk. Even if these users have not got all the way to freedom, they have taken a big step towards freedom. However, the nonfree distros have another effect that does much deeper damage: it gives people the wrong idea of what our work is intended for.
The developers of Ubuntu don't say, "We're sorry that this distro does not fully deliver the freedom that only free software respects." They don't mention "free software" at all. Instead they talk about "open source", and they say that their goal is to deliver the "best possible user experience".
So what is our goal? Is it to win freedom, or to have an appealing user experience? It is for you to decide what your goal is. However, newcomers to the free software community are more likely to get their ideas from Ubuntu than from the free software movement. Thus, most of the people who come into our community learn to seek the "best possible user experience" rather than their freedom.
To prevent this from washing away the free software movement is a constant effort, and that's why I am so strongly concerned about the problem of nonfree distros.
LR: Our readers are really eager to know what distribution and desktop environment you personally use.
RMS: I use gNewSense, which until recently was the only 100% free software GNU/Linux distro that ran on my computer. This computer, a Lemote Yeeloong, has a Chinese processor which is more or less a MIPS.
There is now one other distro that runs on the Yeeloong, Parabola, and I hope to try it soon.
I do most of my work in a text terminal, because that is more efficient for me, but I also have GNOME running.
LR: A number of institutes committed to the spread of free software like Sourceforge and Google Code ban IP addresses from Iran and other companies under US sanctions and restrict their services to those countries. In addition, a few months ago Redhat prevented active Iranian contributors from entering its managerial board. What"s your opinion? Which one is more more important, abiding by US laws or helping all users have access to and a say in free software?
RMS: You're comparing a purely legal question with an ethical question, and there is no comparison between them.
US organizations can't get away with disobeying US export control law. They would be stopped. The FSF obeys US export control law too, and would not sell products to Iran. Whether this law is just or not, I can't blame US organizations for complying with it.
But does US export control law require repositories to block connections from Iran? The FSF's lawyer told us that we are not required to block connections, so we don't block connections. Why the staff of Sourceforge and Google think this is required, I don't know. It would be interesting to ask them, but I think they would give vacuous answers.
Turning from the legal question to the ethical question, it is wrong and absurd for US to apply trade sanctions to free software. That doesn't stop business or the state in Iran from getting and using free software, it only inconveniences individual Iranians, while hampering them from contributing to the world's shared knowledge.
LR: As we assume that many software developers don"t actually care about those sanctions, many Iranian users bypass the censorship and download the code. Do you think they"re doing something bad, both morally and legally?
RMS: Legally speaking, they are safe: the US cannot prosecute people in Iran for doing this. Morally speaking, it is wrong for trade sanctions to apply to free software.
LR: How can a software developer make a living out of free software? Apart from donations and paid support, are there any revenue models for free software?
RMS: Most paid software development consists of writing custom software. That business could exist almost unchanged in a world in which all software is free: the same clients would pay for the same work, and get similar software, but they would receive it as free software. There are numerous small companies which already do this.
This is not the only model, but it is a common one.
LR: As you"ve admitted before, the open-source model has won more fans compared to the free software model.
RMS: There is a misunderstanding here: these are not two "models". Free (azadi) software is not a "model". It is a philosophy, a campaign for certain specific freedoms for software users on ethical grounds. (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.)
Open source is also a philosophy, but it's a very different one, which is not about ethics; its values are values of practical convenience.
Open source seems to have more supporters. I don't know why, but I have guesses. First, the media usually adopt the open source philosophy's assumptions and mention only that name. Thus, more people encounter the open source philosophy than ours. Second, open source disagrees less with the establishment than we do, and that makes its ideas less controversial.
LR: Some people believe that the free software movement and its philosophy is n ot limited to computers and could be generalized to other branches of science. Do you agree with them? Do you believe that something called "free science" or "free knowledgeâ could be pursued? How, the way you see it, is it possible to trigger similar movements in other fields of knowledge?
RMS: The free software movement applies to software. What is software?
A program is a work of authorship which is used to tell a computer how to do a job. In other words, it's a work used to do practical jobs. Users deserve to have control of the jobs they do, so they need to have control over the work. That requires the four freedoms.
The same argument applies to other works that are designed to do practical jobs. For instance, recipes for cooking, textbooks for learning or studying, and reference works for looking things up. All these should be free.
"Knowledge" is a very different kind of thing from software. Works can relate to knowledge: a program can embody specific knowledge, and a textbook can teach specific knowledge, but knowledge is not a work like a program or a textbook. Thus, I don't think we can talk about "free knowledge" in this particular sense of free. Knowledge raises different ethical issues. Likewise science.
LR: What"s your idea about adding a new term to free licenses that bans the use of free software for military purposes? As you know free software is being widely used by governments for military purposed and sometimes for oppressing people. Can anything be done about that?
RMS: Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the program as you wish. If a license restricts how you can run the program, the program is not free software.
This criterion is crucial. We cannot accept programs in the GNU system which have limits on what they can be used for. If we did, different programs would come with different limits. One program, perhaps written by Muslims, might ban use by restaurants that serve alcohol; another program, perhaps written by the Munich Oktoberfest committee, might ban use by restaurants that do not serve alcohol. Continuing along these lines, we might end up with a system that nobody would be allowed to use.
The idea that we could stop governments from launching wars of aggression, or from torture, by conditions in software licenses is absurd anyway. Who enforces these licenses? Governments do. If we sued a government for using our software in those activities, the government would say, "We were compelled to go to war to protect the country, and that wasn't torture, merely 'enhanced interrogation'." Or it would simply legislate an exception for itself.
LR: What do you know about free software community in Iran? if you"re invited to events related to free software will you accept it?
RMS: I know very little about the free software community in Iran. Even in some countries which I visit often, and in which I know some of the local issues and activists, I would find it hard to answer such a general question.
I would not take the risk of visiting Iran under its current government. I make statements that criticize that government, and I fear I might be imprisoned or worse if I went there.
LR: Looking at the past, what do you think have been your best and worst decisions?
RMS: Sorry, I don't like confessing my biggest mistakes to strangers.
LR: What should be the next step in helping the society to care about and protect its freedom?
RMS: I have trouble responding because the question is not really meaningful. This doesn't work by "steps". Rather, there are many different areas where we are pushing, and many areas where our adversaries are pushing, and it all happens in parallel.
However, it is clearly crucial to make a tablet and a mobile phone that can be run without nonfree software.
LR: Your comments about Steve Job's death created a lot of debate among Apple fans and Free Software advocates. A number of Free Software and Open-source figures like Eric Raymond criticized your tone and blamed you for what they called being too harsh and insulting Apple users.
RMS: Actually, Eric Raymond said I was right about this. He seemed to uncomfortable agreeing with me, and added gratuitous insults so the tone would not seem friendly. But he said I was right on every point of this issue.
Others seemed to have a knee-jerk condemnation of criticizing someone who has died. One person told me it was unfair for me to criticize Jobs when he could not defend himself -- never mind that the entire PR staff of Apple was busy telling us how much the world had lost.
Frankly, I don't care about Jobs very much either way. I am concerned about the people whose freedom is harmed by his products, and by other products that follow the same avenue.
LR: What's the best way to advocate Free Software? Some Free Software users engage in technical debates with Microsoft and Apple fans, trying to convince them GNU/Linux is more powerful. Another group focus on philosophical and cultural aspects of Free Software and try to make people care about their freedom. Which of the two mentioned approaches are more effective?
RMS: They are both "effective" but they lead to different results.
If you convince people that some free software is technically superior, they might run some free software, but they will remain ready to use nonfree software in the areas where that is technically superior. They will continue to judge an important question based on superficial issues. This is just a partial success.
However, if you convince people that they deserve freedom, they will start rejecting nonfree software whether it is technically inferior or technically superior, because they will see that free software is ethically superior. They will understand the important question and judge it right. This is a full, deep success.
Another weakness of technical arguments is that nontechnical people probably won't care about them at all. But they can understand ethical arguments. Ethical arguments are the only way we can convince nontechnical people to become free software supporters.
I figure that users can judge for themselves whether program A is more convenient than program B. So I don't try to convince them about that sort of question, except when someone has preconceptions about free software and has not tried it. I focus on talking about freedom.
Original Persian language article here.
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Hannon is ranked 11th in the mile but his time is just three and a half seconds behind the top seed. Tao is currently No. 10 in the pole vault and has a good chance to repeat his All-America performance from a year ago.
At last year's NCAA Indoor Championship, the MIT women finished in 16th place while the men finished in a tie for 32nd. Tech secured six All-America nods, as Morton (long jump/triple jump), Tao (pole vault) and Jones (400m) were joined by Amy Magnuson (55 HH) and Emily Hwang (pole vault).


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leximack wrote:i am feeling heaps better now, 6.30-8.30am commute tomorrow, or atleast thats what i am hoping for, if i cant handle it i will shortcut it to work and get there early. Planning to do my 38km commute with an add-on at the rouse hill end. Will see how i go.
Good stuff. I'm hoping for a decent ride tomorrow of at least 30km since I'm feeling a lot better now. Can't have you getting further ahead of me .
Similar weather again tomorrow so hopefully no rain when I get on the road.


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Recivit 67 micrograms, sublingual tablets
Recivit 133 micrograms, sublingual tablets
Recivit 267 micrograms, sublingual tablets
Recivit 400 micrograms, sublingual tablets
Recivit 533 micrograms, sublingual tablets
Recivit 800 micrograms, sublingual tablets
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Keep this leaflet. You may need to read it again.
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What Recivit is and what it is used for
What you need to know before you take Recivit
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What Recivit is and what it is used for
Recivit contains the active ingredient fentanyl, which belongs to a group of strong pain-relieving medicines
called opioids.
Recivit is used to treat breakthrough pain in adult patients with cancer who are already taking other opioid
pain medicines for their persistent (around-the-clock) cancer pain.
Breakthrough pain is additional, sudden pain that occurs even though you have taken your usual opioid painrelieving medicines.
What you need to know before you take Recivit
Do not take Recivit:
if you are allergic to fentanyl or any of the other ingredients of this medicine (listed in section 6);
if you are not regularly using a prescribed opioid medicine (e.g codeine, fentanyl, hydromorphone,
morphine, oxycodone, pethidine), every day on a regular schedule, for at least a week, to control your
persistent pain. If you have not been using these medicines you must not use Recivit, because it may
increase the risk that breathing could become dangerously slow and/or shallow, or even stop (see
section 4 "Possible side effects").
if you have severe breathing problems or severe lung disorder;
if you are currently taking monoamine-oxidase (MAO) inhibitor medicines for severe depression (or
have taken them in the past 2 weeks).
if you suffer from short-term pain other than breakthrough pain.
Warnings and precautions
Recivit contains an active ingredient in an amount that can be fatal to a child, and therefore keep all
tablets out of the sight and reach of children and non-patients at all times.
Keep the tablets in a locked storage space and do not store the tablets once removed from the blister package.
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking Recivit.
Tell your doctor before treatment if you have or have recently had any of the following, as your doctor will
need to take account of these when prescribing your dose:
your other opioid pain medicine taken for your persistent (around-the-clock) cancer pain is not stabilized
you are suffering from any condition that has an effect on your breathing (such as asthma, wheezing, or
shortness of breath);
you have a head injury;
you have problems with your heart especially slow heart rate, irregular heartbeat, low blood volume or
low blood pressure;
you have liver or kidney problems, as these organs have an effect on the way in which your system
breaks down the medicine.
If you take antidepressants or antipsychotics, please refer to the section other medicines and Recivit.
Children and adolescents
Recivit shall not be used by children and adolescents below 18 years.
Other medicines and Recivit
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking, have recently taken or might take any other medicines,
Monoamine-oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (used for severe depression), see "Do not take Recivit" above.
Tell your doctor if you have taken this type of medicine within the last two weeks,
Sleeping pills, medicines to treat anxiety, antihistamines, tranquillisers, some muscle relaxants or any
medicines which might normally make you sleepy (have a sedative effect),
The risk of side effects increases if you are taking medicines such as certain antidepressants or
antipsychotics. Recivit may interact with these medicines and you may experience mental status changes
(e.g. agitation, hallucinations, coma), and other effects such as body temperature above 38°C, increase in
heart rate, unstable blood pressure, and exaggeration of reflexes, muscular rigidity, lack of coordination
and/or gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea). Your doctor will tell you whether
Recivit is suitable for you.
Any medicines that might influence the effect of Recivit (by effecting the way in which your body breaks
down Recivit), such as:
- medicines that help control HIV infection (such as ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, saquinavir),
- medicines used for treatment of fungal infections (such as ketoconazole, itraconazole, or fluconazole),
- medicines for treatment of bacterial infections (such as clarithromycin, erythromycin, telithromycin)
including tuberculosis (such as rifabutin, rifampin),
- medicines used against severe nausea (such as aprepitant, dronabinol),
- medicines for treatment of high blood pressure or heart diseases (such as diltiazem and verapamil),
- medicines used for depression (such as fluoxetin or St. John's wort),
- medicines used for heartburn and indigestion (such as cimetidin),
- sleeping pills or sedatives (such as phenobarbital),
- medicines to control epileptic convolutions/seizures (such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, oxcarbazepine),
- anti-viral medicines (such as efavirenz, nevirapine),
- anti-inflammatory or immunosuppressive medicines (such as glucocorticoids),
- medicines for the treatment of diabetes (such as pioglitazone),
- psycho-stimulating medicines (such as modafinil).
Certain types of strong pain killers, called partial agonist/antagonists e.g. buprenorphine, nalbuphine and
pentazocine (medicines for treatment of pain). You could experience symptoms of withdrawal syndrome
(nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, anxiety, chills, tremor and sweating) while using these medicines.
Recivit with food, drink and alcohol
Recivit may be used before or after, but not during, meals. You may drink some water before using
Recivit to help moisten your mouth, but you should not drink or eat anything while taking the medicine.
You should not drink grapefruit juice while using Recivit because it may affect the way your body breaks
down Recivit.
Do not drink alcohol while using Recivit. It can increase the risk of experiencing dangerous side effects.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding
If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your
doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking this medicine.
Recivit should not be used during pregnancy unless you have discussed this with your doctor. You should
not use Recivit during childbirth because fentanyl may cause respiratory depression and withdrawal
symptoms in the foetus or in the new-born child.
Fentanyl can get into breast milk and may cause side effects in the breast-fed infant. Do not use Recivit if
you are breast-feeding. You should not start breast-feeding until at least 5 days after the last dose of Recivit.
Driving and using machines
You should discuss with your doctor whether it is safe for you to drive, or operate machinery after taking
Recivit. Do not drive or operate machinery if you: are feeling sleepy or dizzy; have blurred or double vision;
or have difficulty in concentrating. It is important you know how you react to Recivit before driving or
operating machinery.
Driving in the UK
The medicine can affect your ability to drive as it may make you sleepy or dizzy.
• Do not drive while taking this medicine until you know how it affects you.
• It is an offence to drive if this medicine affects your ability to drive.
• However, you would not be committing an offence if:
– The medicine has been prescribed to treat a medical or dental problem and
– You have taken it according to the instructions given by the prescriber or in the information provided
with the medicine and
– It was not affecting your ability to drive safely
Talk to your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure whether it is safe for you to drive while taking this
Recivit contains sodium
This medicinal product contains 0.651 mg sodium per tablet. To be taken into consideration by patients on a
controlled sodium diet.
How to take Recivit
This medicine should be taken by placing the tablet under your tongue (sublingual use).
Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor or pharmacist has told you. Check with your doctor or
pharmacist if you are not sure.
If your doctor switched you to Recivit, you must not use the previous medicine containing fentanyl
concurrently for the treatment of your breakthrough pain. Dispose of the previous medicine. However, keep
using the opioid pain medicine you take for your persistent (around-the-clock) cancer pain during your
Recivit treatment.
Initial Phase – Finding the most appropriate dose
For Recivit to work successfully, your doctor will need to identify the most appropriate dose for treating a
single episode of breakthrough pain. Recivit sublingual tablets are available in a range of strengths. You may
need to try different strengths of Recivit sublingual tablets over a number of episodes of breakthrough pain to
find the most appropriate dose. Your doctor will help you do this and will work with you to find the best
strength of tablet to use.
If you do not get adequate pain relief from one tablet your doctor may ask you to take two tablets to treat an
episode of breakthrough pain. Do not take a second tablet unless your doctor tells you to as this may result in
overdose. Your doctor will advise you which strength of tablet to use.
You must always use the dose of Recivit as prescribed by your doctor – this may be a different dose from
that which you have used with other medicines for breakthrough pain.
Maintenance Phase - Once you have found the most appropriate dose
Once you and your doctor have found a dose of Recivit tablets that controls your breakthrough pain you
should not take this dose more than four times a day. A dose of Recivit may consist of more than one
If you think that the dose of Recivit that you are using is not controlling your breakthrough pain satisfactorily
tell your doctor, as he may need to adjust your dose.
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Taking the medicine
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remove any remaining tablets from your mouth,
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- keep the person awake by talking to or shaking her/him now and then,
- make sure the person has free airways and is breathing.
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you should contact your doctor. Your doctor will evaluate if you need medicine to reduce or eliminate the
withdrawal symptoms.
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Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
The most serious side effects are
severe breathing problems (uncommon, may affect up to 1 in 100 people),
low or extremely low blood pressure and shock.
If you become very sleepy and/or experience any of the above mentioned side effects, you should stop taking
Recivit and you or your caregiver should contact your doctor immediately and call for emergency help.
Very common (may affect more than 1 in 10 people):
Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people):
confusion, anxiety, seeing or hearing things that are not really there (hallucinations), abnormal
asthenia (weakness),
headache, muscle jerks, feeling of dizziness or "spinning", loss of consciousness,
dry mouth, taste alteration,
low blood pressure,
vomiting, abdominal pain, indigestion,
sweating, itchy skin,
accidental injury (for example, falls).
Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people):
decreased appetite, wind, abdominal bloating, tooth decay, blockage of the gut (ileus),
tingling or numbness, difficulty coordinating movements, convulsion (fits), coma,
abnormal dreams, feeling detached, depression, mood swings, excessive feeling of well being,
shortness of breath,
blurred or double vision,
skin rash, increased or altered sensitivity to touch,
difficulty passing urine.
Not known (frequency cannot be estimated from the available data):
flushing, feeling very warm
receding gums, tooth loss
swelling of arms and legs
Withdrawal syndrome (may manifest by the occurrence of the following side effects, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhoea, anxiety, chills, tremor, and sweating).
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What Recivit contains
The active substance is: fentanyl.
Each sublingual tablet contains 67, 133, 267, 400, 533 or 800 micrograms of fentanyl (as citrate).
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Definitely worth two dollars for any SW GM with a little time change up the campaign to fit his own. Or to use with Mars SW.
Five dollars would probably be too much.
Although titled Rebels of Mars there is little to do with the Rebels.
A small force of Earthmen have shown up on Mars and are entangled in Martian politics, love triangles and slavers. They aren't the lead characters either. The PC's are mercenaries hired to find someone that has run afoul of the Rebels. We don't even run into the rebels until the last two adventures out of five.
There are some vague possibilities for further adventures for the rebels, but these seem to be merely two or three sentence hooks not real plot points.
Character motivations, plots and plans are not fully discussed until the end of the book in the Dramatis Personae section. However, the adventures keep referring to these motivations, plots and plans throughout the campaign.
With only 5 adventures PCs are not likely to advance more than 3 times. As a campaign/story arc it is very light and requires a lot of work on the part of anyone wanting to use it as something meatier.


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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Gendered language and Early Christian thinkers - pt 2.
However, much of the theology they describe cannot be extracted from underneath the baggage of masculine language simply because it is so essential to what they're trying to describe. For many of these early thinkers, God is the Father precisely because Jesus is the Son; God is Almighty because of the existence of creation - I'm looking at you, Gregory of Nazianzus. The description of the relationship between God and Jesus is inexplicably mixed with the Father/Son language; it is an essential point of their argument that we consider God and Jesus within the structure of a parent-child relationship.
Consider the example of the king in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince. As the little prince travels from his little planet, he comes across several people, one who is a king. However, he's the only person on the planet, begging the question of what he really is king over. Although the king would argue he's king of his planet and the stars and universe, there is nothing there that makes him a king. Having a kingdom is an essential part of being a king. This example applies to some of the arguments made by early Christian thinkers; God is God because of the relationships God has with creation and Jesus. God is God the Father because Jesus is a son.
Much of their writings were the foundation for theology from then on; their writings were referenced and built upon for centuries by theologians who created systematized theological doctrines. Both the original writings and the later writings based on church fathers are still influential today. These texts are not just a part of the distant past; they continue to impact and shape current theology. The inherent gendered relationship became institutionalized; while some people throughout the ages have found ways to incorporate alternative metaphors (the medieval mystics are particularly good at this), it's largely been dominated by the father-son relationship.
A large project for future study would be a re-thinking of these early Christian theologians, an attempt to try and describe the relationship between Jesus and God without automatically falling back on father-son language; to extract their meaning and place it in an inclusive setting. Some of the terms used for Jesus in the Bible include (in addition to Father/Son language) logos (Word) and Sophia (wisdom). It's possible to be more inclusive and it's biblically based as well.
Bringing in these inclusive terms doesn't invalidate the father-son relationship as described by the early thinkers; it adds to it. The problem occurs when we rely exclusively on one metaphor without fail. If God is incomprehensible, then we should be using as many ways as possible to describe what we experience. For every God the Father, we should use a God the Mother. For every God as Lord, we should incorporate God the servant.
While this focused mainly on the role of gendered language in early Christian theology and literature, another topic worthy of discussion is gendered language today. A comment on the earlier post actually inspired this post, but looking back, I realize that I only further clarified the points already made without addressing the Jesus as Son language used in today's theology and liturgy. I will address that in a future post, however, if someone is interested in this topic, I suggest Elizabeth Johnson's She Who Is and Rosemary Radford Ruether's Sexism and God-Talk. I really enjoy Johnson's book and will be reading it in the scant free time I have before my next semester starts.
To get you started thinking about this language, I leave you with the concepts of imago Dei and imago Christi - the image of God and the image of Christ. What does it mean for one to be imago Dei? What does it mean for a white, hetero man to be imago Dei compared to a queer woman of color? Or anyone, for that matter? What does imago Dei and imago Christi look like?
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- Amelia said...
Great post, Lindsay. I think you did a great job addressing this issue in both your posts. I hope people who were dissatisfied with your last one come back to read this.
- December 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM
- Amelia said...
I rejected one of Mike's comments because of his repeated use of loaded terms that I did not feel comfortable with.
If he reads this again, I suggest to him to re-state his argument without resorting to commenting on the poster.
Just a head's up.
- December 20, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- Amelia said...
Hey Lindsay, I keep commenting because I find myself having to moderate inappropriate comments on your well-written posts.
Mike seems to be coming out as a bit of a troll (using words like "feminazi's", "pathetic", and "pitiful." I wonder if he's someone who has commented here under a different name...
- December 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- lindsay said...
Thanks for all the hard work you do anyway!
- December 21, 2008 at 11:17 PM
For every God as Lord, we should incorporate God the servant.
I think in my understanding, the "servanthood" aspect of the Godhead is encompassed by Christ, while the "Lordhood" aspect is encompassed by YHWH.
In terms of your question re: "imago dei" and "imago christi", I have been fond of talking about "The 6 billion faces of God" both to express this idea, and also to suggest that God's interactions with His/Her/It's/Their (a pronoun for a deity that is many-in-one and one-in-many, and all genders, is hard to pick!) people, has to be essentially individual - God will have a different "appearance" depending on to whom God is communicating. The Prophets in the OT strike me as a classic example: Ezekiel, a very ritual-based man, receives visions and messages couched in very ritualistic styles; Jeremiah's messages are in tune with Jeremiah's own personality, and so on.
This, of course, feeds back to your point about needing to use more than one metaphor, more than one angle of view, to appreciate the wonder of the Godhead, of the Lord and of the Christ.
Since God is infinite, and we are but a finite part of His(etc) Creation, for us to comprehend the totality of God's splendour is impossible, just as it's impossible to know the exact and true value of π.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Dwight P. said...
I hope you continue to monitor this post, but I think it's important.
I come at it from a straight (sorry: no pun intended) orthodox position, and I fight with people all the time about this issue -- some of them my closest friends. And I think the issue roots in a fundamental disagreement about what is at stake: For me, "Father," "Son," and "Holy Spirit" are not metaphors that can be tossed out, but they are the revealed Names of God the "Trinity." They, of course, have metaphoric overtones and meaning -- especially in the extent to which they posit a relational character to the Godhead (what a hiddeous term) rather than a kind of Greek philosophical staticism.
The human problem (perhaps "The" original sin) is that we try make ourselves the dominatrices of the universe: We want things to comport with our view of reality. Thus, if "father" is a male figure in our heads, then "Father" is an inadequate "image" for God. Yet, Jesus himself called on us to call the One who sent him and to Whom he had recourse in his hope "Father" -- not "like-father".
Part of the metanoia of Christian faith (we can't require it of any other faith tradition, of course) is the "Breaking" of our images, thought-patterns, "paradigms," and the like on the reality of Christ -- following him, not as a springboard for our speculation, but as the molder of hearts, souls, minds, and strengths.
On the de-genderizing of language, then, I raise one question: Which member of the Trinity is not "creator" (as I read Genesis 1, they all are) or "redeemer" (what did Jesus do that God was not involved in, e.g.) or "sustainer." The danger of Modalism is that it posits a different God from the one we claim in the Name of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Keep thinking, people, but don't let your thoughts be untied from the Great Tradition.
- January 22, 2009 at 9:03 AM


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I've searched around but couldn't find any documentation on this.
I was happy to discover the autostart application functionality! I would be more happy if there was a way to specify *where* to start the program. There's a line in the .config/autostart/foo.desktop file called Exec=foo. Perhaps there's some syntax like this Exec=foo --workspace3 ?
You can log out and save your session with the apps open on the workspaces and xfce willl start the as you left them.
or you could use devilpie.
I'm aware of the session and devilspie option. However, the developers saw it fit to include an autostart application function - functionality "normally" covered through sessions and devilspi - and I can't help but think there must be some more than this. I hope this will be expanded on in the final release
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Luxury Escapes: Dunton Hot Springs
At first glance you may be thinking; "Since when is staying in a log cabin considered luxury?" Well check out this small and exclusive resort in the Colorado Rockies. I think if I could spend a few nights here, I would feel like I was in heaven. It sure would be a get-away from New York City!
Dunton Hot Springs is a ghost town restored and transformed into a dream vacation destination. There are 12 different cabins to choose from and each offers simple and rustic decor plus other unique features whether it be an outdoor shower, a tee-pee or a private hot spring with a cold plunge tub. At least one even has a full kitchen. Other resort amenities include a spa, yoga and pilates classes, a bath house and chef prepared meals using local ingredients. Open year round, activities range from hiking to snowshoeing and even Heli-skiing! Wish I was packing my bags today!


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Just wanted to let people know that we are booking in August for studio shots and September for location shots, so if you are wanting fall pictures, better send me an email :)
Monday, June 30, 2008
My editor brooke had her baby about a month ago, and she is finally editing again. This is her sisters kids. I am so excited she is back, I am sooooo behind on editing! Brooke you are the best!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Taylor, Aubrey, Jenna, Kierra, Miley
Wow look at these 5 beautiful girls. They were so much fun to shoot, girls love to get their pictures taken, they didn't want to stop. I wish boys liked getting their pictures a little more.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
aarie & ava
I have been dying to use this old pram, and finally I had a mom willing to let me try it out.
I loved it, and am sure I will be doing more location shots with newborns, she was better outside then inside.
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nieporte family
The cutest family ever! Sorry only have the girls picts up. Dan didn't know there were two folders to edit with this family, but I couldn't help but post some of them. These girls are adorable.


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We don't have to do Common Core to raise mathematics standards. We don't have to do Common Core to work with other states. Raising standards and Common Core are two different things. —Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka
SALT LAKE CITY — Criticism of the Common Core State Standards is intensifying as Utah's election season progresses.
Utah has been a part of the consortium of states implementing common educational standards for more than two years. But the topic has gained notoriety in recent months, from multiple bills debated during the legislative session asserting the state's educational sovereignty, to candidates for public office frequently being questioned on their support or opposition to the standards.
The Common Core State Standards are a set of achievement benchmarks in mathematics and English language arts. They are voluntarily adopted, with the goal of improving college- and career-readiness among students as well as establishing a degree of educational consistency between states.
To many, however, that push for inter-state consistency and collaboration echoes over-reaching federal control of local education. After 10 years of hearing educators lament the teach-to-the-test burden of No Child Left Behind, many parents are crying foul.
The group Utahns Against Common Core has launched a petition on its website and has gathered more than 1,000 signatures. The petition calls for a withdrawal from the common core standards and demands that full control over curriculum and assessments be given to local school districts. It also calls for the state to develop a five-year plan to remove any and all dependence on federal education funding.
Sydnee Dickson, director of teaching and learning for the State Office of Education, said most of the concerns she's heard regarding the standards are based on misinformation. She said much of the furor over Common Core is politically-motivated — stemming from anti-federal sentiment and ignoring the standards themselves — and is perpetuated by blogs instead of factual data.
"We're already seeing higher pass rates," she said. "Our experience since we began the adoption is that it's changed the instruction. Teachers are expecting more rigor."
Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka said she supports raising education standards in Utah, but doesn't agree that the states needs national benchmarks to do so.
"We don't have to do Common Core to raise mathematics standards," she said. "We don't have to do Common Core to work with other states. Raising standards and Common Core are two different things."
Ruzicka, like many opponents of Common Core, foresees a federal takeover of education with Utah's participation held hostage by federal dollars. Dickson said that there is no tie between adopting the standards and receiving federal funding and emphasized the standards do not threaten state sovereignty.
"Teachers and school districts are still in control of what is being taught and how it's being taught," she said.
The topic was addressed recently at an April 11 Republican gubernatorial debate. Nearly all the candidates expressed a need for greater local control of education, with Morgan Philpot and William Skokos stating explicitly their opposition to the Common Core State Standards.
"I will fight to get us out of Common Core," Philpot said, drawing cheers from the crowd.
Gov. Gary Herbert, who has overseen the adoption of the Common Core standards, instead focused on the need for greater rigor in Utah classrooms and spoke favorably of shutting down the federal Department of Education.
While anti-federal ideology plays a large part in the debate, there is also a concern among some parents, like Alisa Ellis, that the common standards would impede well-performing students from accelerating their education. Ellis has worked with her children to get ahead in math and hopefully complete AP Calculus in their junior year of high school. She said she was unsure what effect the new benchmarks would have on students in the tops of their classes.
"How can you take a whole nation and put it into the same window without hurting the top and bottom?" Ellis said.
Dickson said that under Common Core, accelerated tracks and honors courses will continue to be available. If a student is gifted enough to skip courses, parents and school districts can work together to make that happen.
She also said that with AP examinations taken independent of a classroom, there is nothing to stop a student in their junior year from registering for and taking the test if they feel proficient.
Dawn Davies, Utah Parent Teacher Association vice president, agreed with Dickson, saying the standards set a minimum benchmark for each grade but do not prevent anyone from moving ahead. She said the standards help make students better able to meet global and local business needs and prepare students who are entering or exiting the state.
"We are a mobile society and as people come to our state we need to have the high standards," Davies said.
Ruzicka, however, downplayed the need for inter-state consistency as a solution in search of a problem.
Ellis said she is more worried about federal control than the standards themselves. She said she met with Herbert and members of the State Board of Education but that they had failed to answer her questions, instead turning discussion back to the benchmarks raised under Common Core.
"There's no harm in raising the standards," Ellis said. "I just don't think it should be done the way it's being done."
Dickson said officials focus on the standards because that is, in essence, what the Common Core State Standards are. She said the peripheral discussions of socialism — she's heard the standards referred to by opponents as the "Communist" Core — and federal manipulation is little more than political fodder in a campaign season.
"I have yet to hear any of the political comments that are valid," Dickson said. "It's all steeped in fear and not fact."
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