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Beginning in 2015, elected officials and anti-choice activists began to use a deceptively-edited video smear campaign against Planned Parenthood to argue for defunding the health care provider. As with earlier funding disputes, federal and state attacks again have begun to trickle down to the local level, with local anti-choice activists falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of illegal activity and incorrectly insisting that other health care providers could fill the gap left by defunding Planned Parenthood. The National Institute for Reproductive Health stands with Planned Parenthood and all reproductive health care providers, who provide invaluable services to their local communities.
- Read More: Rewire: Not In My Backyard! As Local Government Attacks on Women's Health Increase, Citizens Are Fighting Back
- Learn how a state-level defunding attempt is impacting municipal and county funding of reproductive health care in Florida.
Municipal and County Disputes over Family Planning Funding
The following month, Greg Rice and other anti-choice residents returned to the monthly Board of County Commissioners meeting to again request the defunding of Planned Parenthood. Rice again called Planned Parenthood "not necessary" as a health care provider in the County, and again cited Attorney General Mike DeWine's biased report. Commissioners Herier and Detrick, citing Clark County's high teen pregnancy rate, continued to refuse to defund Planned Parenthood. They also mentioned that the County funds an anti-choice crisis pregnancy center and support services for young parents, to use "every possible weapon we have" against teen pregnancy. This statement stigmatizes teen parents and contains inaccurate and worrisome implications – deceptive crisis pregnancy centers are not effective in preventing pregnancy and do not provide reproductive health care. Nonetheless, the Commissioners' steadfast support of Planned Parenthood and the continuation of this funding is a victory for reproductive health in Clark County.
- Read coverage of the Board of Commissioners' decision in the Post Independent and RH Reality Check.
- The Post Independent also covered the activist crowdfunding response.
- Visit the crowdfunding page on GoFundMe.com.
- Read Aspen Public Radio's coverage of local activists presenting their $25,000 check to their local Planned Parenthood in Glenwood, CO.
In response, nearly 100 Miami County residents attended a Saturday morning protest to voice their opposition to the exclusion of contraception funding. Community leaders have contacted the ACLU for support in filing litigation against the county for their decision. A local newspaper, the Osawatomie Graphic, published an editorial criticizing the decision and calling on residents to make their voices heard to the Commissioners. According to Kelly Fritz, a health department volunteer, 116 of the 151 county women served by the program did not have health insurance and so face a high risk of becoming pregnant in the next year without the program funding.
After discovering that they could not reject the $8,000 contraceptive grant without rejecting all Title X funding for the County, the Commission chose to revisit the issue at their next meeting. After an hour of discussion in which both sides were equally supported, the Commission decided not to vote again on the issue, therefore rejecting $32,000 in Title X funding. Following the decision, residents of Miami County raised over $9,000 to cover the cost of contraceptives for low-income women for the next year but clarified that it was emergency funding and they expected the Commission to change their votes the following year.
The acceptance of funding then went to the New Hanover County Commission for a vote. Guided by Catlin's belief that funding IUDs was "using taxpayer dollars to fund someone's irresponsibility", the all-male Commission voted unanimously to reject the funds. An immediate outraged response ensued, with the ACLU of North Carolina and Planned Parenthood Health Systems releasing statements condemning the decision. National blogs posted the contact information for Commissioners, who fielded hundreds of calls and emails on the topic, and a petition was posted on Change.org, garnering over a thousand signatures. Jonathan Barfield, the lone Democrat on the Commission, stated that he regretted his decision and was speaking with the county's legal staff to determine if the issue could be reconsidered. A demonstration against the decision took place at a park in Wilmington.
In response, the Commission voted to reconsider the issue at their next meeting on April 2, 2012. Hundreds of people gathered that day to protest their initial decision and show support for family planning. During the meeting, the Health Department made a presentation on the value of IUDs and five residents spoke, with only one voicing her opposition to the funding. The Commission voted 3-2 to accept the $9,000 grant for IUDs for low-income women, with Commissioner Davis stating "I now realize that a woman is being responsible when she seeks contraception from the health department."
A strong community response pushed for approval of the family planning grant. The Chattanooga Times ran an editorial criticizing the Commission's original vote and subsequent delay. Chattanooga Organized for Action (COA) organized a rally on the day of the delayed vote, and several letters to the editor were published supporting family planning. The Health Department administrator made a presentation on the services provided under this grant. After this display of community support, the Commission voted unanimously to approve the family planning contract. In a further show of their newfound commitment to family planning, in April 2012 the Hamilton County Commission approved a resolution authorizing the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health department to sign a five-year, $2.9 million extension with the Tennessee Department of Health for the provision of family planning services.
Two religious leaders spoke at the Board of Supervisors meeting the following week. Pastor Jeff Wartgow argued in support of Women's Health Services, questioning the assumption that most county taxpayers were opposed to funding the clinic. Pastor John Booth spoke against funding and presented a letter of opposition signed by 30 members of his church. Following these statements, the Board unanimously passed a resolution that excluded the $5,000 grant for Women Health's Services, denying them county funding for the first time in four years.
Before the Longmont City Council could vote on whether to provide funding to the Teen Clinic, the clinic withdrew its request for funding. In their statement, they said that they were focused on providing health care, not becoming an advocacy organization. They felt that the discussion about family planning funding needed to happen in the larger community of Longmont instead of the politically charged environment of the City Council. The clinic will try to raise the requested funds from supporters instead.
Former State Senator Jesse Laslovich wrote an op-ed arguing for the preservation of the funds, emphasizing the importance of family planning in keeping families healthy and safe. On the day of the vote, more than 100 citizens attended the town hall and more than 50 people spoke, the majority in favor of funding the clinic. In response to this show of support, the Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to grant the family planning funds for fiscal year 2012, under the condition that the clinic finds a new source of revenue for fiscal year 2013.
However, in January 2012 the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) sent the Board of Commissioners a letter of intent to assess their interest in accepting Title X funding for fiscal year 2013. If the Board chose to reject the funds, DPHHS would solicit interest from other Ravalli County organizations capable of providing the family planning services. The Ravalli County Board of Health sent a letter of support to the Board of Commissioners urging them to accept the Title X funding. After some debate, the Board voted 3-2 to accept the funds. The condition that the clinic eventually find a new source of revenue was not included in this latest motion.
Update: In September 2013, the Ravalli County Commission voted again on the decision to request about $50,000 in Title X funding. The Commission first addressed the issue at a meeting that resulted in a 2-2 deadlock. As a result, they scheduled an emergency meeting at which the fifth Commissioner would be able to be in attendance in order to make the final decision. The public was not informed of this emergency meeting, and only a handful of community members were in attendance when the Board voted to reject the funding request, 3-2. The Title X clinic in Ravalli County currently provides STI and cancer screening and family planning services to more than 400 local low-income women, but the Supervisors who voted against the request cited the requirement that family planning services for adolescents be held confidential as the impetus behind their decision. Commissioner Greg Chilcott stated that "the majority of the board found the social costs were more of a liability than the benefits are worth."
In response to community outrage, the Board scheduled another meeting for community members to voice their opinion on the issue. More than 70 community members were in attendance, the vast majority of whom spoke in favor of accepting the Title X dollars. However, after three and a half hours of testimony, the Commission chose not to reconsider accepting the funding, thus marking the first time in 40 years that Ravalli County would not offer family planning services.
While Christ Community already offers some family planning services and has a significant presence in the community, they do not offer abortion referrals or emergency contraception. Amid accusations that Christ Community outscored Planned Parenthood largely based on political reasons, the Commission allowed Planned Parenthood to resubmit their proposal for funding. On October 17, 2011, the Shelby County Commission voted 9-4 to contract with Christ Community Health Centers.


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Shout-out to Jared for the last-minute inspiration.
When airships clash over the wastelands, they battle with all manner of weaponry, both salvaged from Before and crafted from the ruins. The hydrogen that buoys most airships into the air is ever at risk of combustion. Why send your prize down as a smoking ruin, post-apocalyptic pirates ask, when it could be laden with valuable trade goods and things they just don't make anymore? The patrol zeppelins of green Deseret, the Mexican Empire, and the formidable Prospero of the former Canadian Forces Air Command are known for their willingness to outright destroy hostile vessels rather than bothering with a boarding action, but the guardians of other communities would rather take an enemy airship intact, particularly if they are confronted over the town or valuable, flammable farmland.
The first phase of a boarding action is to close with the target, preferably as quickly as possible. The longer it takes to close into boarding range, the more time the target has to fire back. The defenders generally have the advantage in firepower, as the attackers will limit their fire to harming the crew and crippling their target's engines and control surfaces, but defenders faced with boarding as their alternative won't hesitate to hold back any ship-destroying firepower. Some airships designed for pursuit are equipped with some manner of thrusters to help them close into boarding distance, such as compressed air tanks, kerosene-fueled jets, peroxide rockets, or nitrous injection for their combustion engines. Pirates that can afford the lift for armored plating concentrate it first toward the nose, the better to help survive closing.
The second phase of a boarding action is to actually get the boarding party onto the target. This is a tricky proposition, as envelopes are typically wider than gondolas. Well-equipped raiders use powder, rocket, or spring-fueled launchers to fire grappling lines into their target and reel them in, while those with poorer means must resort to slamming alongside, damaging both craft, and tossing on their hooks. A seasoned raiding vessel can be identified by the rigging allowing its side-mounted engines and other equipment to fold down or swing around to the dorsal or ventral surfaces, out of the way of the smashy-smashy. Another modification popular with vessels expecting to make boarding actions is a level deck built atop the envelope to stage boarders on. If the attackers have a height advantage at this stage, they may have the luxury of lowering boarders down onto the target's envelope (or upper deck, if the target is so equipped) to fight down through crawlspaces and/or rappel down the sides. If the defenders have the height advantage, then the boarders are forced to climb up, affording the defenders a significant advantage in the ensuing melee. Height advantage is crucial enough that raiders and traders alike often opt to carry extra ballast to chuck for a quick boost of altitude. In the case of the desperate and pursued, the precious contents of their cargo hold–for the truly desperate, their passenger berths– must suffice. Experienced raiders that have height advantage try to bait their targets into dropping their ballast or else wait to ensure their target has none aboard before hovering directly overhead to disgorge boarders. More than one boarding action has been ruined by the quarry springing up to slam into the target's underside, damaging the gondola and crushing boarders that had already leaped atop.
The third and final stage of a boarding action is the face-to-face fight between the boarders and the target's crew. The cramped conditions of an airship's interior favors hand weapons, a subject for which the denizens of the wasteland have no shortage of imagination. Firing guns in or on an airship isn't as instantly fatal as some believe–as long as incendiary or explosive ammunition isn't used–and limited small arms exchanges during boarding actions are considered an acceptable risk by most. Blades and clubs, though, have drastically less chance of starting fires that could spread to the hydrogen cells. The wisdom among raiders is to attempt to put boarders onto as many parts of the airship at once as possible. For one thing, it keeps the defenders off balance and makes it difficult for them to coordinate an effective defense. For another, it increases the chance of intercepting any fatalist defenders bent on scuttling the ship. If the defenders have the fighters to spare, they may opt for a counter boarding action, forcing their attackers to reserve some forces to defend themselves, thereby blunting the invading force.
If a boarding action is repelled at this final stage, the game might go into overtime. Both parties may be be weary of the brawl and go their separate ways, trading fire until one goes down or they pass out of range. Or, the defenders may decide that the attackers, having rudely ambushed them and trashed their ship, owe them a new one, and the boarded become the boarders. This usually occurs after pirates find their attack dashed against an unusually tenacious and resourceful crew. This is how some novice crews get their first unplanned upgrade. Sometimes, however, the chase was a ruse and the counter boarding action was the "defender's" plan all along. Want to know how Deseret traders got their reputation as vessels worth thinking twice before hitting? Imagine pulling up alongside a nice, juicy cloudfreighter and getting your hooks in and your raiders on, only to find out that it wasn't flying slow and doughy from a hold full of produce, but a hold full of Danite marines.


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Softpedia is arguably the largest file host on the web, complete with over 850,000 files in its database. Hundreds of them are updated every single day, so not only can you get clean and malware-free programs, but you can be sure that they are as recent and timely as possible. On top of that, it has a fantastic reputation and an easy-to-use interface that makes it painless to browse for programs and drivers of all types.
Even though the site looks like it's straight out of the 90s, MajorGeeks has been one of the most reputable software download sites for over 15 years. When a site has a couple thousand users online at any given time, that's when you know it's providing a great service. Its list of Top Freeware Picks is a great place to start, but don't be afraid to browse the left sidebar and look through all kinds of highly-rated programs that you might find handy.
FilePuma and the aforementioned FileHippo share a lot of similarities, and I'm not just talking about their names. Where FilePuma excels is in its categorization, which is much easier to browse than FileHippo.
FilePuma also has its own Update Detector program to keep your software up to date. Very handy if FileHippo's tool doesn't work well for you or if you don't like it for some other reason.
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DIG: What is the difference between the sheep Gentiles and the goat Gentiles? What will the Gentile nations bring to Jerusalem? Why? Since a city's gates were normally closed at night as a defense against enemies, why are Jerusalem's gates always open? What will Messiah's reign be like during the Millennium?
REFLECT: Are you merely going through the motions of faith in Jesus Christ today, or is He your Lord and Savior? Have you ever sought honor for yourself, only to get dishonor? How did you react? When was the last time you "sought the Kingdom of God and His righteousness," only to find out that later you had been honored? Did you give ADONAI the glory? Why or why not? What did it teach you?
This section shows the relationship between Isra'el, the sheep Gentiles, and the goat Gentiles (see my commentary on Revelation Fc – The Sheep and the Goats). The sheep Gentiles will come to Isra'el to worship the LORD, but the goat Gentiles will come to bring the wealth of the world to her feet. Isra'el, who had grown accustomed to being abused or trampled under foot by the Gentile nations, will find the situation reversed. As we have seen earlier, there is no doubt for the reason why this will take place. The Gentiles will come to worship the LORD their God, the Holy One of Isra'el either voluntarily or involuntarily.
It is interesting that the Gentile nations still have a choice of sorts. The sheep Gentiles of Matthew 25:31-46 who survive the judgment of the Gentiles for their treatment of Israel will enter and populate the nations during the messianic Kingdom. In addition, millions of goat Gentiles who are alive at the Second Coming will go directly into the Millennium in their earthly bodies. These two groups will reproduce and repopulate the earth. But evidently all the children born from these two groups do not become believers themselves, any more than they do today.
In the Millennium, every knee should bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (Philippians 2:10-11). Many will want to bow and confess Yeshua as their Lord and Savior. But in their hearts there will be those who do not want to bow the knee or confess. They will merely go through the motions. Those who do not accept Christ by the age of one hundred will die (65:20). Therefore, sin and death will be present in the messianic Kingdom, and it will be Jesus and His righteous ones that keep sin in check. At the Second Coming, we know that out of the mouth of Christ comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations (Revelation 19:15a). This stern swift judgment that marks the onset of Christ's Kingdom will be the pattern of His rule throughout the Millennium, where He will rule the nations with a rod of iron (Revelation 12:5 and 19:15b). And Jesus promised that believers would rule under Him. To him who overcomes and does My will to the end, I will give authority over the nations; he will rule them with a rod of iron (Revelation 2:26-27; Psalm 2:8-9). Jesus will swiftly judge all sin and instantly put down any rebellion. All people will be required to conform to His commands or face immediate judgment. It's like the Dennis the Menace cartoon where his mom has sat him down on a stool in the corner. And he thinks to himself, "I may be sitting down, but on the inside, I'm standing up!" That's how it will be. Some will want to sin outwardly, but they will not be able to act on it.241
Those living at the end of the thousand years, however, will rebel (Revelation 20:1-6). When Satan is released, those with rebellious hearts will naturally gravitate toward him, which will lead to one final rebellion that will be crushed (Revelation 20:7-10). This will set off a chain reaction of final events: the second resurrection of the wicked (Revelation 20:13), the great white throne judgment (Revelation 20:11-12), the eternal punishment of the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14-15), then the Eternal State will be introduced (see my commentary on Revelation Fq – The Eternal State).
But getting back to the Messianic Kingdom, how will the wealth of the nations be used? Jerusalem, as symbolized by its walls, will be rebuilt in the Kingdom by the means of Gentile assistance. Foreigners, literally sons of your opposition (see 60:14a) will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you (60:10a). The Gentiles will aid in the rebuilding of the ruined City represented by its walls. Those who helped to destroy them would now build them back up again. Everything will once again be restored to balance. The reason that God will do this is clear, speaking to Isra'el, He says: Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion (60:10b). Since it was God's rule of history that brought the walls down, it will be in His rule of history that they will be rebuilt again. They are two sides of the same coin.
Then, Isaiah's attention shifts from the walls of Jerusalem to the gates within. Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that the people may bring you the wealth of the Gentile nations – their kings will lead (see my commentary on Revelation Fi – the Government of the Messianic Kingdom) as Zion's willing subjects in triumphal procession (60:11). Later, in 61:6b, we are told that Isra'el will feed on the wealth of the Gentile nations, and in their riches you will boast. Foreign nations and their kings will be Israel's servants. They will rebuild Jerusalem's walls through whose open gates will flow the wealth of the nations. So the Gentile nations will make pilgrimages to the City to give their offerings.
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined (60:12). The opening word for, shows that the Holy Spirit intends a connection between this verse and the proceeding one. Why will the wealth of the Gentile nations come to Zion with their kings leading the way? Will this be a result of Israelite chauvinism, which looks forward to the day when downtrodden Jews can put their feet on the necks of their oppressors? No, it will not. These Gentiles will be obeying the Lord Jesus Christ; gladly on the part of some, forcibly on the part of others, especially during the yearly celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be mandatory for all Gentile nations and any that refuse to do so will be severely punished. In Zechariah 14:16-19 we learn that punishment also includes the withholding of rain or a plague.
The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the pine, the fir and the cypress together, to adorn the place of My sanctuary. ADONAI will call the Temple His sanctuary and the place of His feet (60:13). As a result of the Temple being rebuilt, the Lord Himself will rule and reign from it (see Db – The Nine Missing Articles in Messiah's Coming Temple). The Gentiles nations will not only aid in the regathering, and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, but also in the rebuilding of the Temple. It will be rebuilt with Gentile wealth. Like the first and second temple, the fourth temple, the Millennial Temple, will be built with cedars of Lebanon. The trees that made Lebanon famous shall be brought to beautify the Temple, by being used either as building materials for its structure or as ornamental groves in its surrounding courts. The phrase the glory of Lebanon is an idiomatic expression for the Jewish Temple (Isaiah 35:2; Zechariah 11:1-3).
People from the Gentile nations that formerly despised Isra'el will recognize that Jerusalem, or Zion, is the LORD's chosen city, the place where He will dwell. The sons of your oppressors will come bowing down before you; all who despise you will bow down at your feet (60:14a). Isaiah had told Hezekiah that some of his sons would be carried off to Babylon to serve them (39:6-7), but now the prophet says that some of their distant relatives, or sons, will come in a worshipful attitude to Jerusalem. Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I Am the LORD; those who hope in Me will not be disappointed (49:23). Only a triumph of grace could achieve this, for it will not be Zion that produces this submissiveness, but the recognition that Yeshua Messiah is in His City as the Holy One of Isra'el.
This is the grace and trustworthiness of our God. When we have brought destruction on ourselves through our own foolishness, He is not content to leave us there. If we are willing, He can turn the situation completely around and make our enemies come to us in repentance. This is the spiritual principle: if we seek honor for ourselves, we will get dishonor; but if we seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33), then God can see to it that even our enemies will honor us. But notice the nature of the honor: it is reflected. And your oppressors will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Isra'el (60:14b). The honor is God's alone and the wonder is that He delights in sharing it with us.242
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September 2006: This description is not up to date.
We are young Central American and North American scientists, with diverse specialties and interests. Our goals are multi–faceted. The internet has facilitated the direct distribution of information by scientists, organizations, governments, and individuals, and this is no less true for Central America; a wealth of information already exists. However, this information is often disconnected and difficult to find. We are collecting and thematically organizing links to sites with information about the region as a whole, or specific countries or areas. Another objective is to collect scientific and conservation data that already exists, from international data centers or national institutions, and process it as needed to create a Central American database that can then be freely distributed to anyone and made more accessible to a wider audience. A long–term goal also is to create a network of researchers and organizations that produce or make use of ecological and environmental data, or that conduct research in the region.
We want to serve a diverse audience, ranging from scientists in the region and abroad, to non–governmental organizations, students, ecotourists, and Central Americans interested in learning more about Central America or their own countries. We want to support and foster scientific research with a regional perspective, both by national scientists as well as those from developed nations. We also want to support regional and international NGOs in their work in Central America.
Our group is working on a voluntary basis, and in a distributed manner. This project will be successful to the extent that more people join us and contribute in any way they can, be it by sending comments on the site, writing descriptions about topics, sending links, letting us know about available datasets, or taking charge of entire topics and maintaining the pages in your own server, wherever you reside. This site is a work in progress.
The boundaries that separate our nations are artificial when it comes to the environment and biological communities. We want to increase the awareness of the shared natural heritage and environmental problems across the isthmus, and increase communication among scientists, resource managers, activists, and individuals.


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January 6, 2004
One Down, Fifty-One To Go
I finished my first book of the year (and inaugural tome in my 52 book project) today, From Beirut To Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman. By far, it is the best book I've read on the dilemma in the Middle East, able to deftly shift perspective from local streets to the global repercussions of the conflict.
Next up is The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami. This summer, my brother lent me two Murakami novels, The Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance, after we discovered a mutual admiration for fellow Japanese novelist Banana Yoshimoto, and these offbeat novels made me a fan.
Thanks for the recommendations so far, I'll be updating my reading schedule as I finish each book. I noticed a recommendation for Maus and Maus II. Does any other favorite graphic novels? That is a genre I have sadly neglected,and this is an excellent opportunity to get my proverbial feet wet.


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Your storage IS your analytics engine
Sure, you can take advantage of the embedded processors, but you can also run your machine learning (ML) neural networks natively on the drives and take advantage of GPU acceleration. With conventional solutions, you would have to ingest your data on the fastest servers, with the most expensive technology, perform your processing functions, and then eventually migrate your processed data to its final resting place. While this approach is effective, it is hardly efficient. Moving large amounts of data around creates backhaul and other issues. And at scale, this can add up to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, just for the additional power consumption.
Our smart drives feature embedded GPUs, or optional FPGAs, and can perform sophisticated neural networking functions locally, right where the data is stored. What this means is you can ingest the data where it will permanently reside, at the lowest CAPEX and OPEX possible, perform your analytics, and then merely send the results to wherever your central indexing resides. This approach is not only cheaper, but is faster, less complex, but also simply smarter. As we continue to usher in 5G capabilities, we have a responsibility to be ecologically conscious.
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Gregory F. Treverton's use of a qualifier ("Oversight of CIA's Secret Operations Is Untidy but on Target," Op-Ed Page, Oct. 10) is revealing. He states, "The Reagan Administration wanted to make use of covert action much more frequently than its predecessor had, and the oversight committees, reflecting the mood of Congress and probably of the American people as well, assented to that expansion of covert action." The case of aid to the Contras attempting to overthrow the government of Nicaragua is an example of covert action which is definitely not supported by the majority of American people.
The question Treverton avoids is the most troubling: Are covert actions necessary in a democratic country? The reality of covert actions is that they are kept secret from the American people because many of them are either illegal (the mining of Nicaraguan waters and the Iran-Contra affair, to give examples of violations of international and U.S. laws) or immoral, and would not receive public support.
Both House Speaker Jim Wright's revelations about CIA activity in Nicaragua and the terrorism finding signed by President Reagan which "appeared to permit assassinations" illustrate this point. Leaks to the press curb such abuses, and the scandal and government denials which follow merely show that the actions should not have been taken in the first place.
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Sex, Lies, Videotapes & the Secretary
Recently I've been introduced to a couple of films I never thought I'd see with my sweet, impressionable, innocent eyes. That was until my pseudo boyfriend introduced me to these movies... (now I can't stop thinking about them. I kinda think he did it on purpose...) Anyway, the first movie that has really impressed, intrigued me and stimulated my intellectual senses is a movie called "Sex, Lies, and Videotape "
Now, I remember when this movie came out in 1989. I was under the impression, as any young mind would think, this was a very, very naughty film, maybe even a porn... OH MY GOD!
Well folks, I was wrong. This was an independent film that tells the story of a man who films women discussing their sexual experiences and fantasies on camera.
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Why are they fighting us? It's again simple: because Christianity did not finish converting the whole World into Christians before an Arab was born who thought that he could do a better job at converting. Most of the "we" are called "Christians" and we are the biggest target. But Buddhists and Hindu's are as well.
But are we Christians? We are not. We may think we are, but as a nation, the US is an amalgamate. We rather are liberals, libertarians, democrats, republicans, even humanists, communists and Jews etc. And our "culture" is defacto hedonism.
And this is how Muslims see us and who they call "Christians". Same for Europe.
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Fighting Islamic State: Getting Down To Root Causes
The international community's countering of Islamic State should not just focus on neutralising violent jihadism but also addressing its root causes and translating that notion into policy.
Food Security Now: New Norm or False Dawn?
The world is experiencing a situation of slower economic growth and lower commodity prices translated into relatively lower Food Price Indices for many countries. This "new norm" benefits urban consumers but poses potential ...
China's proposals for Trans-Himalayan connectivity: consider four economic corridors
Following its "New Silk Roads" policies to improve connectivity with neighboring countries in Asia, China proposed earlier this year to establish a "Trans-Himalaya Economic Region" to be led by India and itself. Details ...
India and Japan: Emerging Indo-Pacific Security Partnership
India and Japan, motivated primarily by shared concerns about China, have been developing a closer defence partnership defined by regular maritime exercises and high-level political consultations. The upward trajectory in ...
India's Act East Policy: Embedding the Andamans
India should rejuvenate its 'Act East policy' by exploiting the strategic location of the Andaman Islands and the waters around it.
Mullah Akhtar Mansoor's Death: Implications of Taliban Chief's Killing
The elimination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a US drone attack is a major setback for the insurgent movement but is unlikely to change the overall nature of the conflict in Afghanistan. Mansoor's killing will ...
Russia's Summit with ASEAN: Pivot to the East?
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US Presidential Election: If Southeast Asia Could Vote
Hillary Clinton, for the Democrats, and Donald Trump, for the Republicans, have emerged front-runners in the presidential nomination campaign. There has not been much talk about their foreign policy stances, especially in ...
Iran's infrastructure projects: India, China competing?
With international sanctions lifted against Iran last week, New Delhi would be wise to step up its efforts to secure the contract for developing the Chabahar port in Iran. Time is no longer on its side as the writer observed ...
Rebalancing with India: safeguarding the Indo-Pacific maritime region
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Candidates for the Columbia City Council and the Columbia Board of Education shared their views on using tax increment financing, or TIF, to pay for infrastructure improvements at a candidate forum yesterday at which discussion topics ranged from healthy eating to public safety.
In February, the council voted down a resolution identifying $70 million worth of projects to be funded with proceeds from a proposed central city TIF district, ending an unpopular push to put the district in place. City leaders had argued a TIF district was the most viable option to pay for improvements to central city infrastructure.
Fifth Ward Councilwoman Laura Nauser, who is running unopposed for re-election, was one of five council members who voted against the resolution, which would have authorized City Manager Mike Matthes to sign an affidavit stating that the projects � which included almost $20 million worth of projects that were considered to be "immediate needs" for downtown infrastructure � would not proceed without TIF.
Nauser said at the forum that she is "not a fan" of financing tools but said cities should be willing to offer economic incentives to attract private enterprise. She said she is not opposed to TIF but said the problem with the proposal was that it was too big in scope. "I think the problem we had with the last TIF proposal was the process was skewed, and we could have done a better job at that," Nauser said.
While the council voted down the TIF district idea, council members have not ruled out supporting more limited TIF proposals for downtown projects that could be used with other financing methods such as bond issues or changes to fee structures.
Ginny Chadwick, one of three candidates on the ballot for the open First Ward seat, said there should be greater collaboration between different stakeholder groups to find a way to improve downtown infrastructure. "We need to come to the table together � the city, the county, the school board � and really create a plan," Chadwick said.
Bill Easley, who also is on the ballot for the First Ward seat, said raising taxes in the downtown area could be considered to finance improvements. "It needs to be studied," Easley said. "I wouldn't want to raise the taxes too high."
John Clark, a write-in candidate for the First Ward seat, said the process behind bringing the TIF proposal forward and the proposal itself were "offensively inadequate." He said he was opposed to the TIF. "It is the perfect example of not how to do big public planning," Clark said.
Neighborhood activist Tyree Byndom also is on the ballot for the First Ward seat but is not campaigning because he is a member of the Baha'i faith and says it does not allow its members to participate in political campaigns.
School board member Jonathan Sessions, who is seeking a third term on the board, said he was opposed to the city's TIF district proposal. Citing the fact that development agreements for two new downtown student apartment complexes were approved after Matthes called for a halt to downtown development until TIF could be established, Sessions said it was "clear" that the city was holding projects back so it could get a "windfall" of money from other local taxing entities. "This wasn't a bailout for developers � the TIF district was a bailout for the city," he said.
Paul Cushing, who previously served on the board and is seeking to be elected again, said he is "totally against" the use of TIF, saying its use amounted to a "hijack" by the city of affected taxing entities.
Helen Wade, who is seeking a second term on the school board, said that district-wide and project-based TIF are "two different animals" and that projects proposed for TIF should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. But she said that, like other school board members, she was opposed to the city's TIF district proposal.
"At the end of the day, we had to do what we had to do to protect our resources," Wade said.
School board candidate Joe Toepke concurred with his fellow candidates, saying there was a "lack of understanding" among different groups on TIF that the city failed "miserably" to solve.
The candidate forum � expected to be the final one before the April 8 council and school board elections � was at the Blind Boone Center and was sponsored by several central-city neighborhood associations and community groups.
This article was published in the Sunday, March 30, 2014 edition of the Columbia Daily Tribune with the headline "Candidates address failed TIF district:�Most differ on how to pay for projects."


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"State of the Chamber" General Meeting Tomorrow!
Thursday, January 24 7:30 - 9:00 AM
Northshore Senior Center Start the year off right by attending the State of the Chamber General Meeting! Find out all of the great things the Chamber has planned for 2013. Also, meet fellow members and get City and community updates. No registration is required. All new members will be invited up to the podium to introduce themselves and their business. Want to bring a door prize for increased exposure? Contact Brittany today!
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During this event there will be up to 15%off all Kenmore appliances "Buy More Save More" Extra 10% when you buy 2 appliances, Extra 15% when you buy 3 appliances, and Extra 20% when you buy 4 appliances. Discount applies to appliances over $399.99 in value with some exclusions.
Grand Opening Celebration on Friday and Saturday extra 10% on almost everything in store, some exclusions apply. On Saturday only the first 10 customer will receive $25.00 Sears gift card plus be entered for a chance to win a $250.00 Sears Gift Card.
Bastyr University Open House
You're invited to our biggest event of the year for prospective students. The Bastyr University Open House happening Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, provides you the opportunity to learn more about the natural health arts and sciences, and will include in-depth presentations about academic programs, campus services as well as department demonstrations. Take time to:
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Bothell Youth Court Launch Celebration
You are invited to attend the launch celebration of the Bothell Youth Court. BYC is a collaborative effort of the City of Bothell Municipal Court and University of Washington Bothell. High school students are in charge of their own courtroom in legal proceedings for traffic infractions committed by teens in the community. The students are the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, bailiff and jury. By empowering teens, youth courts have proven to be a powerful restorative justice model that encourages creativity and prepares teens for the future. The court also fosters community interest in safety, efficiency and civic engagement. Bothell Youth Court will officially begin hearing cases in February 2013.
The celebration will include refreshments and a mock youth court hearing created and staged by our teen participants. We encourage your attendance and appreciate your support of BYC.
Parking Information: Parking pass is available per your request. The South Parking Garage is the assigned parking garage for this event.
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Wednesday, January 30
Chamber Day in Olympia
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Spend the day in Olympia and make a difference in the legislative process! Join the East King County Chambers of Commerce Legislative Coalition for a day of lobbying and advocacy in Olympia. Legislators will be addressing the most pressing issues for business: economic development/job creation, transportation and education. This is a perfect opportunity to share your story with lawmakers about how their policies impact your business. Your participation is needed to bring the voice of business to our elected officials. Highlights:
Cost is $50 per person. Register today!
That's what you help us do everyday at the Northshore Schools Foundation.
Celebrate with us on March 28, 2013 as we share the successes of our past and make an investment in the future of our students.
FEATURING: Norman Rice, C.E.O. Seattle Foundation as the Keynote Speaker.
Your support helps our students achieve the promise of their potential.
Register today!
Cascadia Awarded Prestigious Green Building Certification: First LEED Platinum Building in Bothell
Cascadia Community College kicks off winter quarter and a new year with an announcement that its Global Learning and the Arts Building has been awarded LEED Platinum, the highest level of certification recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council. This certification makes Cascadia's the first LEED Platinum building in Bothell and the third higher education facility in the state.
"This award is a tremendous honor, and represents an enormous commitment by Cascadia, the project architect, and the construction team to ensure that our building met the stringent criteria established for LEED Platinum green buildings," says Dee Sliney, Cascadia's Director of Facilities Services and Sustainability and a LEED Accredited Professional.
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Each year, Harmony Massage teams up with Northwest Harvest to help stock our food banks with nutritious food for those in need. They are extending their special of 10% off your massage when you bring in a food donation for Northwest Harvest.Northwest Harvest can use any nonperishable food or monetary donations. Food items that are nutritious, low in saturated fat, sugar and white flour are preferred. Click here for a list of recommended food items to donate.
Bastyr University: Top Chef to Benefit Teen Feed
Join the Bastyr University Student Nutrition Association on Saturday, February 2, 2013 in an exciting event to benefit Teen Feed, an organization dedicated to feeding homeless youth nutritious meals.
Top Chef Bastyr will feature student chef teams, guest judges and timed culinary victory! Taste unique dishes, enter to win raffle prizes, and cast your vote for the People's Choice Award!
The event will take place on the Bastyr University Campus (14500 Juanita Drive NE, Kenmore) with beer & wine being served starting at 5:30 PM and the competition taking place from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Seats are limited; tickets are $15, available in advance or at the door.
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Chocolate Tasting at Country Village
Shop 'til you drop for your sweetheart and indulge yourself along the way. The shops at Country Village will be holding their 2nd annual Chocolate Tasting Saturday February 9th from 2:00 to 6:00 PM.
Over a dozen shops and restaurants will be featuring samples of their favorite chocolates and treats as you meander through the Village for the perfect Valentine's occasion.
For more information and a complete list of the participating shops, visit our web site at www.countryvillagebothell.com or call 425.483.2250.
BODYWISE Bodywork: AGE-LESS, LIVE-MORE Workshop
Saturday, February 9
At Brew on Bothell's Main Street
· Discover what 3 things age you the fastest and how to reverse their effects· Practice a simple technique that's the quickest and easiest way to reduce stress hormones· Learn about the newest test doctors use to predict longevity and find out ways to score high.
For more information contact Dawn Spiegelberg at 206.898.5327
Wine & Watercolors Party at Kaewyn Gallery at FrameWright
January 29 - "Coupled natural and human systems: Investigating the climatic influences and environmental impacts of the rise and fall of the Mongolian Empire" Avery Cook Shinneman, Lecturer, Center for University Studies and Programs, UW Bothell
February 12 - "What's in a Name? - Immigrant Journalism in a Digital Age" Kristin Gustafson, Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
February 19 - "Race, Taxes and Rights: Taxpayer Identity and the Structure of Racial Inequality" Camille Walsh, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell
February 26 - "Developing School Leaders: Imagining New Roles for Districts, Universities, and Prospective Principals" Tom Bellamy, Director, The Goodlad Institute for Education Renewal, UW Bothell
March 12 - "The provision of educational services and experiences that promote positive post-school outcomes for urban youth with disabilities: To what extent is it happening?" Jason Naranjo, Assistant Professor, Education Program, UW Bothell


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Student Engagement Policy
Student Welfare & Discipline
Through its Student Engagement Policy – Student Welfare Policy, Upwey Primary School endeavours to encourage and reinforce appropriate student behaviours and attitudes, and to promote self-discipline and responsibility.
To achieve these goals, the school relies on co-operation between staff, students and parents.
The establishment and publication of a simple set of school rules and the consistent application of clearly understood consequences for both positive and negative behaviour provide a sense of security and fairness for all concerned.
School Rules
1. Respect others through your speech, manners and actions.
2. Resolve problems calmly, sensibly and fairly.
3. Move and play safely.
4. Take care of the school grounds, buildings and property.
5. Work to the best of your ability and allow others to do the same.
6. Follow Sun Smart rules in the first and fourth terms.
In consultation with the students, each class and specialist teacher may also establish a set of classroom rules which relate to the manner in which students are expected to work and behave.
In managing student behaviour, all members of staff will aim to recognise and acknowledge positive or responsible behaviour on both a collective and individual basis. This may be done through praising, thanking or congratulating the individual child or the group. Our "Student Achievement" awards and "Tribes Awards" are particularly useful in this regard. Teachers may also acknowledge positive behaviour in their classrooms through the use of a "tally" method. By this means, instances of good behaviour contribute to the achievement of a collective reward. The reward is given once the pre-determined tally is reached. It is important to mention that negative behaviour is dealt with but never results in points being deducted from the tally!
Negative behaviour is dealt with, as much as is possible, on an individual student basis. Consistent with the "Assertive Discipline" approach to behaviour management, breaches of school or classroom rules may (depending on their seriousness) attract warnings. If the negative behaviour is either serious or persistent, a student may have to attend a lunchtime detention for up to twenty-five minutes. In this case, the child will be required to complete a detention slip outlining the reason for the detention being given and the steps that could (or should) have been taken to avoid it in the first place. This detention slip needs to be sighted and signed by a parent or guardian before being returned to the school. By this means, we hope to keep parents informed of any difficulties which may be experienced at school.
A student who receives three lunchtime detentions in a fortnight may be required to attend an after-school detention for one hour. Parental approval will be sought before such a detention is instigated and such consultation will decide on the appropriate day.
Formal suspensions or even expulsions are available as options for extremely serious breaches of rules or protracted behavioural problems. Again, these will not be applied without consultation with parents and/or specialist service or support providers.
A copy of the Student Engagement Policy – Student Welfare Policy and Program and other associated documentation is available here.


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Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon are headed back to Annapolis! The brothers have been writing songs and playing music together since about the same time they may have been fighting over Lincoln Logs or little green Army guys. The brothers write songs that, through bare self-expression and humor, echo the lives of others. It's an art they've refined over three albums and in the 50 to 60 shows they play each year. And with each album and tour, the Bacon Brothers move further away from perceived "don't tap on the glass" sideshow to a "raise your lighter and sing along" rock band, garnering fan after fan and shattering the obstacle of perception.
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I am a 30 years old man, who has been married for three years and my wife is currently 5 months pregnant. i realize now that the step i took toward marrying is really a mistake, i should have not married her. I know many of you would be wondering how wicked and heartless i am right?.
Before marriage we used to argue at times, but then it was never extreme and she used to try calm herself after a while,apologizes and says she just flipped and so, but since she became pregnant it has become 1oo times more, highly unbearable and frustrating.
When i heard of her pregnancy i thought to myself that this was the salvation to our marriage, things would get better and we would be happy revived and better off, but no way it goes from one stage of being terrible to the next stage of being worse.
She shouts and screams at me, throws things at me and even raise her hand at me, there was a time she threw a fruit knife at me, it hit me jut below my eyes and gave me a really serous injury, i had to go about lying to people about what happened.
I really do not mind that she has turned me to her personal housemaid but that is understandable due to the fact that pregnancy is really stressful and can be very tiring, i try to help as much as possible but i would love her to appreciate my efforts, she shouts if i do not do the dished on time, if the hot water is not ready on time, if an item is not kept at the right place etc. I sometimes feel like her son rather than her husband.
Please how do i go about divorcing her please help as i am not in love with this current person who barks worse than an angry dog.
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Book to Bollywood – The Oldest Journey, the Newest Paths
Water and stories have a similarity – they take the form of the medium that they are put into. Many authors look at the 'bada pardah' as the end result of their concept. Here are some books that are just crying out loud to become a movie:
Inheritance of Loss: The Inheritance of Loss is set in 1986, but explores ideas that are still touchy today, the eternal conflict that Indians experience when they are juxtaposed between the Indian tradition and Western sensibilities. The book is centered on two main characters: Biju and Sai. Biju is an illegal Indian immigrant living in the United States with his father who works as a cook for Sai's grandfather. Sai is a girl living in mountainous Kalimpong with her maternal grandfather Jemubhai and a dog, named Mutt. The way the plot of this novel switches between both points of view calls for a screenplay adaptation of it. Priyadarshan would be our pick to be at the helm of the movie.
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra creates some of the most interesting characters in this book. A young police officer, a lass dreaming of being a film star, a widow facing life all by herself and several other peripheral characters. This crime and thriller novel entails all the ingredients to become a magnificent Hindi film. We liked what Nikhil Advani did with D-Day, and would like for him to have a hand at Sacred Games.
The Girl with the Golden Parasol: This one has Prakash Jha written all over it. With so many things to put into vision, one would need an eclectic cast, and say what, Mr. Jha already has it. The Girl with the Golden Parasol is set in Madhya Pradesh and touches on almost every issue that plagues a Free India today, globalization, communalism, moral degradation, corruption and caste based university politics. Actors like Irrfan Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Manoj Bajpai, Huma Qureshi could fit any of the characters required in the movie.
A Fine Balance: If ever there was a skirmish of characters, it would be a Fine Balance. Written by Rohinton Mistry, it tackles one very important aspect of life today – adapting. Set in the city of Mumbai, it explores the life of four disenfranchised strangers- a widow, a young student, and two tailors who are forced by their indigent circumstances to share a confined apartment. They learn together 'to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair' in a society suddenly disrupted by the political upheaval. We think Kiran Rao be a good leader for this one.
Deal Maker (Rakesh Wadhwa, Leon Louw):
Written by Rakesh Wadhwa along with Leon Louw, this novel accounts the journey of a boy named Sudesh who travels from a small village to the highest political office in the country. Though it's a fictional story yet it aptly describes the political and economic situation in India. It is a tale of a man who becomes the prime minister of the nation not because he wants to be someone but because he wants to bring about an element of change in the system. He takes it upon himself to become the dealmaker who transforms his country into becoming the golden bird, which it once was. Our choice would be either Anurag Basu or Ashutosh Gowariker to direct this magnum opus.
We can only wait and watch as to how these bestselling novels transform into blockbuster feature films and the mounting interest of filmmakers in the world of literature is truly compelling. And as Jean-Luc Godard has rightly said, "It's not where you take things from – it's where you take them to." Hence, we as an audience can only hope that these filmmakers raise the bar of storytelling via their adaptations of books into films.
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This isn't major news or anything and we all know 50 likes to clown around. He posted this pic of his son on Instagram the other day.
If you read the text, he is clearly calling 6ix9ine mentally challenged and I am sorry but I had to laugh at this. It is funny man!
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50 has become such an Instagram troll man. I don't think that 6ix9ine would care either, likely laughed about it if he saw it but still it is funny.
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A List from Borges
I am rereading Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions, and he has a lovely list, a literary form that I have grown to appreciate more and more since reading Georges Perec's Species of Spaces. The list appears in the story, "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell". I included it here, its spacing slightly rearranged, in its entirely, for your enjoyment.
In 1517, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines. To this odd variant on the species of the philanthropist we owe an infinitude of things:
W. C. Handy's blues;
The success achieved in Paris by the Uruguayan attorney-painter Pedro Figari;
The fine runaway-slave prose of the likewise Uruguayan Vicente Rossi;
The mythological stature of Abraham Lincoln;
The half-million dead of the War of Succession;
The $3.3 billion spent on military pensions;
The statue of the imaginary semblance of Antonio (Falucho) Ruiz;
The inclusion of the word "lynch" in respectable dictionaries;
The impetuous King Vidor film Hallelujah;
The stout bayonet charge of the regiment of "Black and Tans" (the colour of their skins, not their uniforms) against that famous hill near Montevideo;
The gracefulness of certain elegant young ladies;
The black man who killed Martin Fierro;
That deplorable rumba The Peanut Seller;
The arrested and imprisoned Napoleonism of Toussaint L'Ouverture;
The cross and the serpent in Haiti;
The blood of goats whose throats are slashed by the papaloi's machete;
The habanera that is the mother pf the tango;
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Fleming Rutledge is a preacher and teacher known throughout the US, Canada, and parts of the UK. She is the author of eight books, all from Eerdmans Publishing. Her most recent book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, is the product of the work of a lifetime and is being described as a new classic on the subject.
One of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, she served for fourteen years on the clergy staff at Grace Church on Lower Broadway at Tenth Street, New York City.
Fleming and her husband celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2009 and have two daughters and two grandchildren. She is a native of Franklin, Virginia.
Ruminations: Pelagius, Augustine, and the "Rape of Nanking": orthodoxy in disarray (part two)
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Pelagius, Augustine, and the "Rape of Nanking": orthodoxy in disarray (part two)The "rape of Nanking," a terrible atrocity that occurred over six weeks at the end of the year 1937 in the Chinese city (now transliterated as Nanjing) was largely overlooked in the West until it entered the popular mind in 1997 with the publication of a best-seller, The Rape of Nanking, by a young Princeton-born Chinese-American journalist, Iris Chang, who became famous and then developed "reactive psychosis" and took her own life.
The Yale Divinity School has an archive on the Nanking massacres:
And here is a short capsule explaining the horrific six-week episode of mass murder and mass rape:
What has this got to do with the Augustine-Pelagius debate and Christian doctrine?
Here's what. A few weeks ago, wanting to understand more, I went on a binge of watching movies about the events in Nanjing during those terrible six weeks of 1937. One of them, John Rabe, tells the story of a "good German," a member of the Nazi Party, who was a leader of the international community of doctors and missionaries who set up an International Safety Zone within Nanjing, thereby saving hundreds of thousands. (Other hundreds of thousands perished.) The second one, Flowers of War, by respected director Zhang Yimou who has done some excellent work in the past, was tarted up with Christian Bale and a glamorous prostitute (the central episode of self-sacrifice, however, is based on a real event). The third and fourth films, City of Life and Death and Nanjing, are justly admired treatments in quasi-documentary style. The History Channel also has a 40-minute documentary on YouTube.
I have never been bothered by violence in movies and do not flinch from it, in most cases. Often it is clearly just cinema. However, as I watched all this material from the Nanjing massacres (and much of it is profoundly disturbing and truly sickening to see), I was appalled to discover something happening in myself. I am, naturally, ashamed of this, but I am admitting it in the interests of something greater. I began to be repulsed and fascinated at the same time. I began actually to want to see more violent episodes because of the sensations they produced. I could feel something happening in myself that lay far beyond the reach of my conscious will.
Why am I admitting to this alarming propensity? Because I believe it is universal. I believe, with good cause, that any person under certain circumstances can become anesthetized by pure sensation, so that one becomes capable of reactions that otherwise would be very out of character--reactions that in certain circumstances will lead to actions. Take for example the recent book What Soldiers Do by Mary Louise Roberts, which details the appalling behavior of many American GIs after the liberation of Paris, acting with impunity and the active encouragement of senior officers. There have been numerous stories out of our recent wars, from the massacre at My Lai (Vietnam, 1968) to the Haditha killings (Iraq, 2005). The photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (2004) displayed what can happen when ordinary American soldiers are allowed free rein to indulge in sadistic fantasies without fear of repercussions. In Jarhead, his book about the Gulf War, Anthony Swofford told how his Marine unit repeatedly watched supposedly anti-war films like Platoon to bond over their delight in the violent scenes, without any context other than that of warrior culture.
I'm suggesting that there is something wrong with us all, something beyond our conscious wills, that causes us to lose our bearings. The vile torture-murderers of today's ISIS seem truly to believe that they are no worse than the Americans who were in charge of Abu Ghraib. The negotiations now taking place about releasing a cache of Abu Ghraib photos that have so far been withheld from the public are not encouraging in this regard; they are said to be much worse than the ones previously published. The young Americans in the photos we have already seen, giving thumbs-up signs over dead bodies, laughing and joking at the humiliation and torture of others, would have lived and died as ordinary citizens if they had not been placed in the midst of the fog of war with no moral guidance from their leaders.
These human failings, which ail us all even though only some of us get found out, are caused by Sin. Sin is as forbidden a word in the church today as are racial epithets. St Paul's teaching about Sin as a Power operating in the world independently of human positive thinking is little understood and very seldom preached or explained. Instead, the popularity of "human potential" and "human possibility" holds the center. That's what Pelagius believed in. His writings have survived only second hand, but he seems to have feared (as we do today) that our self-esteem and our motivation to do good would suffer if we were to take seriously a gospel of undeserved, radical grace.
The goodness that overcomes evil in this world is not a result of human potential but of divine gift. It lives out of hope and faith in the God who has restored human nature in his Son Jesus Christ, alive in the Spirit as a guarantee or "down payment" of our inheritance in salvation "until we acquire possession of it" (Ephesians 1:14). In this life we must live with the ambiguous fact that the "world rulers of this present darkness" (Eph. 6:10) are as near to us as our own unconscious, and more dangerous to our soul's health than we can ever understand if we continue to look for such health inside ourselves. There is no unsullied location in the human interior where we can find victory over the "elemental spirits of the universe" who seek to enslave us (Galatians 4:3). The only victory over Sin is found in the direct action of God who "sent forth his Son...so through God you are no longer a slave but a son/daughter" (Gal. 4:4-7).
Years ago, the mainline churches used to sneer at Norman Vincent Peale, with his "power of positive thinking," but his form of the Pelagian gospel of human potential has just been replaced by another, in the form of various kinds of self-affirming messages clothed in "spiritual" language, as though Sin did not exist. These lies are not only evasions of the truth about ourselves and the Powers we face, not only pablum about the benignity of the creation as though it were unfallen, but most deceitful of all, they violate the truth about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ who gave himself up to the Powers of Sin and Death in order to save the entire created order from its bondage and to restore the true image of humanity. He accomplished this by recapitulating the human story in his own human life, the only human life that has ever been lived free from the power of Sin. It is precisely in absorbing the onslaught of Sin into himself that he won the victory and was raised into eternal life on our behalf. It is in his agony and death that we see the final judgment upon the infernal Powers, and it is in his resurrection--and in that alone--that we see the final defeat of all that afflicts the human race.
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If you find this post confusing or disturbing, I encourage you to read my post Death and Shamanic Dismemberment for the Pagan Blog Project 2012.
Back in January, I was getting ready to enter the nursing program and was feeling very stressed out. I decided to meditate on it to calm my mind and relax my emotions. I told my guides that I would welcome whatever journey I needed to have since I find that trying to force a journey gets very poor results.
I put on a shamanic drumming CD and got comfortable. I decided to start with visualization. I read about an exercise that was supposed to help you release stress. You were supposed to visualize yourself dropping your stress into a deep well.
So I did just that. I dropped my stress down the well. As I was looking down the well, black tentacles reached out of it and pulled me down the well.
It was pitch black. I was surrounded by darkness so thick I could feel it envelope me. I wasn't alone. I could sense something else circling me in the darkness.
A voice asked me, "What do you fear?"
"The unknown", I replied.
It ripped my left arm off. "What do you fear?" It asked again.
"Not being good enough."
It ripped my other arm off. "What do you fear?"
"Not being there for me family"
Now it tore off my right leg. "What do you fear?"
"Not being able to take care of them"
It tore off the left leg. "What do you fear?"
"Losing control"
What remained of my body was destroyed. I existed without a body. The voice spoke again. "You have faced your fears. They have destroyed your body. Do you feel dead? You still exist. You can exist without your fears to define you. You don't need them."
A small light, like a seed, appeared in the darkness. It began to grow, forming bones, nerves, muscles and organs. "This is what is left of you without fear. Do you see it growing? You no longer need your fears, let them go." The light grew into a new body for me and I possessed it.
The voice spoke to me some more with private instruction that I am not allowed to share.
It was important that I share this journey, because you don't need your fears either. Letting go of fear is a daily process. It may never be complete. But it is a challenge worth taking. If you can let go of your fears, what could possibly hold you back?