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A man who raped a 15-year-old girl at his parents' house in Airdrie after plying her with drink is behind bars.
Christopher Collins attacked the drunken teenager after taking her to his parents' home while they were away on holiday.
The girl returned home later that night wearing men's clothes before her mother called the police.
The 31-year-old pleaded guilty to a rape charge when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow last week.
Collins was remanded in custody and now faces a lengthy jail term when he is sentenced next month.
The court heard how the victim had gone with Collins as he drove her friends home in June last year.
Afterwards, Collins claimed he had to stop off at the house in Lubnaig Place in Burnfoot to pick something up.
Prosecutor Shirley McKenna said that while there, he handed the teenager a vodka and Coke.
Collins then gave the girl a second drink and later a beer. The court was told the victim eventually felt "really drunk".
He later had sex with the girl while she was heavily under the influence of alcohol and not able to give consent.
The victim's mum, meantime, was worried about her daughter and called Collins.
He claimed he had been looking after the girl after she got drunk.
But the mum demanded he bring her home as she had appeared fine earlier that night.
When the girl got home she was "distressed" and wearing men's clothes.
The mum reported Collins, now of Motherwell, to the police.
Forensic tests confirmed he had sex with the girl that night.
Judge Lord Turnbull deferred sentencing for reports.


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For a mess-averse mom like me, I'm quite proud of myself for making colored rice for my children to play. I've known about the benefits of playing with rice for a while now, but every time I thought about putting it to practice, all the mess-averse fiber in me says no. My brain naturally takes me to a world of mess as a result of allowing rice as a play medium. I shudder every time! Yeah, I'm a bad mom. However, this has all changed because more and more I'm convinced that rice is a very good sensory play for the children. Several years ago when one of our children had sensory problems, a therapist brought over a tub of rice for her to play. She was allowed to squeeze, stomp, fling, fill, and touch with it while the rest of the kids sat and watched her, doubtless with much envy. So, today, I've put a stop to that envy from years ago. Truth be told, they have already forgotten that, but I haven't.
While plain white rice is fine to play with, colored rice is lot more appealing and fun. It is very simple to make. The recipe I used was:
3 cups of uncooked rice
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Pour 3 cups of rice into a Ziploc bag. Mix the vinegar and the food coloring in a bowl, and when you've reached the desired color, pour the mixture into the bag. Seal it and massage it well so the rice is well colored.
The kids made purple, turquoise, and orange rice.
After the rice is well coated, we laid them out on trays to dry.
Even before the rice is completely dried, the kids already started to play with it. It's just too much to resist. I certainly didn't stop the child from composing a message of "I love you" to me.
After rice is dried, I boxed them and handed them over to the kids. To keep the mess more contained, I laid down a bed sheet on the floor and let them go at it. I keep telling myself that it's ok. . . it's going to be ok because I can simply vacuum all the stray rice up and the room will be restored to a rice-free room once again.
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OFF LITTLE TORCH KEY, Fla. (WSVN) — Crews came to the rescue of three teens visiting South Florida after, officials said, their rental boat capsized off the lower Florida Keys, Tuesday afternoon.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the boys' vessel started taking on water about two and a half miles into the ocean, off Little Torch Key. The boat capsized shortly after.
The teens, who were visiting from Orange County, Calif., managed to climb on top of the hull. One of them had a cellphone with him and called for help.
Monroe County Marine Deputy James Hager had just pulled his Sheriff's Office patrol boat out of the water when he heard the call over his police radio, at around 3:15 p.m.
Speaking with 7News over the phone, Hager said he was able to locate the teens. "When I came across them, I felt relieved just due to the fact that it took us a while to find them, and the fact that they were so far from land," he said.
Hager said crews were able to reach the vessel before it went underwater. "We're thankful that boat was still floating when we got there, as well," he said. "The only thing that was sticking out of the water was the bow of the boat, and all three were kinda just able to hang out on the boat."
Hager then safely brought the teens back to shore.
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Changed the headlight assembly on a 2009 Volkswagen Touareg now the lights won't change me on
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Did you disconnect the battery while performing the work? You might have shorted the circuit out, check the fuses.
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I thought this was an intriguing project and I wanted to share it here before the Indiegogo campaign wrapped up.
Erik Jorgensen is working on bringing the "lost archives" of Frank Herbert to light. Herbert's writing as a journalist is not nearly as well known as his masterwork Dune, of course. But what a journalist like Herbert chooses to pay attention to is revealed in his writing. Jorgensen has digitized his writing from 1949 – 1953 in Santa Rosa, California.
Maybe someone should do the same with Herbert's writing in the Puget Sound area, no?
Good luck, Erik, on getting the project up and operational!


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I'm a colorful wall seeker and making kissy faces has always been a struggle.
1. I struggle at all things adulting, not sure how I make it through the world some days
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I got a steak the size of my own torso for Christmas. At least it was the size of my torso before I ate it. Now my torso has grown considerably and the steak is . . . well . . . gone. This incredible piece of beef alone was worth the trip back to the States but the cultural insight that came from the experience along with my smoking hot date made for a phenomenal night.
I love me a good ol' Texas steak house but tonight I couldn't help thinking what it would be like to bring a Chinese friend into a place like this.
Let me back up and say that part of my job is to help foreigners (and by foreigners I mean people who are not Chinese) make a healthy transition into life in China. Part of that part of my job is to talk about restaurants. Foreigners (like me) often get overwhelmed by the volume and the chaos of a Chinese restaurant (see diagram). In the West we like our space. We like to talk at a reasonable level to the person or persons at our table and we lay unspoken claim to the airspace around us. It's considered inappropriate to even listen into another table's airspace. That's called eavesdropping and if you get caught you could be arrested or even worse . . . given a dirty look. On the flip side it is your responsibility to maintain a volume level that makes eavesdroppers work for their reward. Get too loud and management will say "Sir, I'm gonna' have to ask you to keep it down or leave the premises." In Texas they just shoot you.
In China restaurants are typically loud. The meal is often a family, office or community event and it's common to see large groups gathered around a massive round table with all of the food placed in the middle and spun around for easy access. You can have your space but there is no obligation on the part of anyone else in the room to stay out of it. If you want to be heard . . . talk louder than the person at the next table. If you don't want them to hear you . . . wait until you get home. Restaurants in China are not designed for starry-eyed, candle lit romance or personal conversations about chaffing. A challenge for most Texans who are of course known for romance . . . and chaffing.
That said, I think the Texas Roadhouse would throw most of my Chinese friends into some type of cross-cultural cardiac arrest. Open the door and BLAM! Loud speaker Country music. . .
I'm imagining trying to explain to my Chinese friend (over the volume of the loud speaker) the concept of sexiness and how that can apply to a farm vehicle. At the same time a group of senior citizens are hovered around a barrel filled with peanuts which they are sucking the salt off of, eating the nuts and then throwing the shells on the ground. In fact the entire entry way floor is layered with spit covered peanut hulls. "This is why we don't take our shoes off in America." 200 people are wading through the peanut shells while they wait for a table and a dozen twenty year olds with matching t-shirts and headsets are working like ants to push them in and out.
BLAM! Country music "WAY DOWN YONDER ON THE CHATTAHOOCHEE NEVER KNEW HOW MUCH THAT MUDDY WATER MEANT TO ME"
Me explaining . . . "See the muddy water is actually a good thing because it's kind of a symbolic reminder of his childhood when he learned how to swim . . . and about girls . . . and probably beer." A twenty year old with a head set leads us to our seat in a room filled with enormous moose and buffalo heads and big screen TV's all playing different versions of ESPN except for the three over the bar which are all playing the exact same version of ESPN. None of them can be heard however, because . . .
BLAM! Country music "I WANNA' CHECK YOU FOR TICKS . . ."
Explaining again . . . "A tick is a tiny little parasitic bug that lodges onto your skin and sucks your blood until it swells like a balloon and can give you lyme disease . . . or mule fever . . . or fresh water malaria unless you yank it out and crush it with a spoon which makes it splatter all over. But the singer is really trying to be romantic because . . . what he's trying to say is . . . um . . . I like you."
Our uber-friendly server bounces to our table "Hey folks, my name is John Bob are ya' ready to order, or do ya' need a few minutes? If you'd like I could start you off with drinks and some Rattlesnake Bites."
Frightened look. "Not what it sounds like."
BLAM! Country music "I GOT FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES WHERE THE WHISKEY DROWNS AND THE BEER CHASES THE BLUES AWAY . . . Cunningham party of three, your table is ready!"
My inquisitive friend asks, "Why does he want to chase blue away with alcoholic drinks? He doesn't like blue?"
"Yes. That's exactly right. He hates the color blue and in some parts of Texan culture it is believed that the only way to chase blue away is to pour massive amounts of alcoholic beverages on it. In other parts of the country they use chocolate and ice cream but in Texas, mainly alcohol."
"WHHHOOOOOP! "WHHHOOOOOP!" A parade of twenty year olds with headsets and identical t-shirts emerge from the kitchen clapping and yelling loud enough so they can be heard over the music and the thousands of people who were already trying to talk loud enough to be heard over the music. "HEY EVERYBODY PLEASE JOIN US IN SAYING HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO JOE BOB. ON THREE LET'S GIVE HIM A BIG YEEE HAAAWWWW! ONE! TWO! THREE!"
And a whole section of people screams "YEEE HAAAWWWW!"
Confused look. Running out of explanations, "I think 'Yee Haw' means Happy Birthday in some parts of southern Tex . . . never mind."
BLAM! Country music "CAUSE IT'LL FEEL LIKE THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IS COMIN' DOWN ON YOU. BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY . . . OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE."
Raised eyebrows. "um . . . you ready to order? They've got a steak the size of my torso."
Culture shock shows no favoritism.


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04/01/2015 - "This study aimed to investigate the expression of Wnt2 protein in pancreatic cancer tissues and pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs), and determine its effect on the biological functions of pancreatic cancer cells. "
04/01/2015 - "These results suggested that Wnt2 protein secreted by PSCs promoted the progression of pancreatic cancer by activating the classic Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. "
04/01/2015 - "Wnt2 protein plays a role in the progression of pancreatic cancer promoted by pancreatic stellate cells."
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01/01/2009 - "These results indicate that up-regulation of the Wnt-2 protein might play a role in the development of colorectal cancers, as an early event of carcinogenesis. "
01/01/2009 - "Wnt-2 protein was expressed in the cell membrane and cytoplasm and up-regulated in 74 (61.7%) of 120 colorectal cancers. "
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Continuing the theme of reeds and rushes here is a photo of the Common Reed, Phragmites.
Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
Originally uploaded by Peter Orchard
Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
Originally uploaded by Peter Orchard
It has the vernacular name of Common Reed because it is SO common. You find Phragmites just about anywhere in lowland Britain where there is water! It occurs in fens, swamps, ditches, lakes and on riversides, both in brackish and alkaline waters, even in acid bogs!
This plant can cover large areas and forms an invaluable habitat for birds. Here in Dorset, of course, some parts of Poole and Christchurch Harbours and Radipole Lake and Lodmore are all examples of Phragmites reed beds. If you want to find Bearded Tit or Cettis Warbler, Water Rail or Bittern, even Marsh Harrier, then it is a large Phragmites bed you need. They are also used by swallows and starlings for roosting, often in large numbers.


text: On 9/15/06, Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.net> wrote: > Trying to sing it from the Disney and HP pulpits - if nothing else - > maybe it necessarily off-key. Thinking no one would notice from where > he was singing it made it arrogantly off-key. But you see, for me, if Steve Jobs ran some humvees into Average Podunk U or CC, and planted a Pixar flag, opened a boot camp for gnu math teachers (trailers on the field), that'd probably be a big step up in lifestyle for the students. Flatscreens in all dorm rooms, professors who knew something. Once the humvees were gone, maybe next morning (a fleeting circus), students would be left with the impression: oh, there *is* a life after college, and it has high standards too (maybe higher). > And that's just the beginning of some of my problems with the Kay's stance. > > But I've beaten that dead chicken into the ground by now. > > Art Disney is a stronger teacher than Heidegger in my book. Some of those candied-ass profs are preaching up barf bag philo compared to we I get from some of these Silicon Forest execs. Walter Kaufmann was strong, Rorty. I've had some good teachers. If the Ivory Tower had any pride, it'd have raised the CP4E banner all on its own long ago (why should DARPA have all the fun?). And it did, but only over some of its towers (it's really a whole campus ya know, not just this one minaret or whatever). Kirby


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These nongovernmental organizations also do lobbying so that they can get more charity in order to help out all of their programs.
There are some nongovernmental organizations that are well-known in Los Angeles and around the world and there also some that are not as popular, whether a nongovernmental organization is well-known or not the work that they do is huge, and they are working for the better good of the community and also they want to help people in other countries that need their assistance as well.
Chiapas Children's Project
Chiapis Children's Project is an non-governmental organization that tries to help children that are need in the indigenous Mayan communities. These are communities that are in the area of San Cristobal. The Chiapas Children Project offers educational assistance and it endeavors to create a learning environment where all members of the community value education and where education is available to all of the members of that community.
Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors is a Los Angeles-based nongovernmental organization that helps children and families to prevent poverty and helps them to find relief from hunger, diseases and natural disasters.
Coalition to abolish Slavery and Trafficking
This coalition is Los Angeles-based and their main goal is to abolish slavery in the entire world. They also strive to give power to the survivors of human trafficking and they help these survivors to succeed in life and they help them to also help other victims of human trafficking to achieve their general human rights.
DARE International
DARE International is a very well-known Los Angerles based nongovernmental organization. DARE international has the mission to stop gang violence and incorporate the importance of not doing drugs and staying away from gangs into schools for children all around the world.
Captive Daughters Films
Captive Daughters Films is a nongovernmental organization that is based in Los Angeles. This organization makes films that help to promote activism for human rights. Their purpose is to educate people all around the world about human trafficking and other abuses through their films and through creative media.


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Free Offer 11-2 (9-3) Held up, headway 2f out, ridden to challenge and every chance approaching final furlong, stayed on same pace, 5th of 12, 2l behind Re Barolo (10-0) at York 1m 1f hcp 0-105 (2) gd.
Algarade 3-1 (9-1) Tracked leader, led on bit over 2f out, ridden out, won at Great Leighs 1m 2f fll hcp (4) pol beating Bavarica (8-0) by 1 1/2l, 7 ran.
Princess Cocoa (IRE) 11-4 (8-9) Tracked leader, ridden over 2f out, led entering final frulong until headed close home, 2nd of 5, 1/2l behind Piper's Song (9-3) at Beverley 1m 2f hcp 0-80 (4) gf.
Casa Catalina (IRE) 33-1 (9-4) Tracked leaders, ridden to challenge over 2f out, kept on same pace final furlong, 3rd of 8, 2l behind Military Power (9-6) at York 1m 2f 3yo hcp (2) gd.
Calakanga 18-1 (8-12) Held up behind leaders, effort and switched right 2f out, kept on well to lead inside final furlong, won at Chepstow 1m 4f mdn fll (5) gf beating Ethereal Flame (8-12) by 1l, 8 ran.
Prelude 5-1jt-fav (10-4) Took keen hold, chased leaders, ridden over 2f out, edged left over 1f out, one pace, 6th of 13, 4 1/2l behind Thorny Mandate (9-7) at Chester 1m 4f ldy rds hcp (5) gf.
Storyland (USA) 3-1fav (9-0) Behind, headway 3f out, ridden to challenge over 1f out, pressed leader and every chance inside final furlong, no extra close home, 3rd of 13, 1/2l behind Casilda (9-4) at Salisbury 1m 2f fll hcp (4) gf.


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Ready to brainstorm with me?
What are your thoughts about offline businesses running affiliate promotions in their email campaigns?
Affiliate marketing, the marketing and selling of products that you didn't create (the popular choice being a digital product over physical), is perhaps one of the fastest ways to generate money online these days.
But is it a blanket "good idea" for everyone?
Let's take a look at an example.
The pet store owner
Let's say Happy Pets, Inc. is your friendly neighborhood pet store.
Sandra, the owner, decides she wants to build a website for her pet store. She sells pet hygiene products, pet toys, pet food and the usual crates for dogs, doggy day beds and hamster cages. Super cool pet stuff yadda yadda.
Sandra realizes she should also build an email subscriber list for Happy Pets, Inc from her site traffic (and walk-in customers). Having a subscriber list would allow her to email regular customers about special promotions she's having in the store or about pet events that her store organizes and hosts.
She gets right to work signing up for Aweber (affiliate link) and starts building her list.
So, she's driving traffic to her site and sees her subscriber count go up. Life is good! Now what? Sandra doesn't have any noteworthy sales happening over the next several weeks nor are there any events on the books.
But she also doesn't want her email list to go unattended and she wouldn't mind seeing an influx of cash.
Would it be appropriate for her to email her list to promote a dog training book she found on Amazon? She doesn't sell books at her small store so her customers likely wouldn't expect an email like this.
What about promoting a pet accessory she doesn't (or can't stock) at her store?
Do you think an affiliate promotion like this would come across as desperate to the pet store subscribers?
You'd agree that all of Sandra's promotions should be tightly focused on the pet industry, right? But would there by any exceptions to this?
Your feedback
Let's open discussion on this topic in the comments.
First, what has your experience been with affiliate marketing?
Second, please answer the questions posed in the above section. I look forward to reading your feedback on this.
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Signups have been VERY light and I don't know if people just don't realize it or if we are just going to have a light turnout. Either way we will be here and SUPER STOKED for the new set release!
We have 5 events this weekend. All cost $25 per person ($50 for a 2 headed Giant Team)
First off we will have a Midnight prerelease AFTER the FNM. At Midnight I will hand out kits and you will have 1 hour to build the best deck you can. Then we will play 3 or 4 rounds of Swiss and I will hand out prize packs to people with the best records!
Saturday Morning at 11AM we will start handing out Kits and you will have 1 hour and we will play 4 rounds of Swiss.
Saturday evening, starting at 5PM we will have our 2 Headed Giant tournament. You and a partner combine your 2 kits and build the best 2 decks you can. We then play 3 rounds of swiss and hand out packs to the best records.
On SUNDAY We have Single sealed at 11AM and 2 headed Giant at 5pm.
Please ask any questions you have, I hope to see you all here!


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ARTSwego Director Mary Avrakotos sits at her desk with a poster of Pakistani musician Arif Lohar spread out on the floor in front of her. Lohar is not well known in the United States, but he is a superstar in his native Pakistan.
"One of his YouTube videos is up to almost 8,000,000 hits," Avrakotos said.
Lohar was on Oswego State's campus from Monday until Wednesday as part of Caravanserai, Oswego State's year-long exploration of Pakistani arts and culture. Students and faculty had a chance to see Lohar in concert at the Campus Center Arena, as well as the oppurtunity to attend classes and workshops led by him.
Oswego State students can pat themselves on the back for making opportunities of this magnitude possible.
ARTSwego is the program responsible for most of the concerts and extra-curricular arts activities available to students and faculty on the Oswego State campus. ARTSwego would not be able to put on concerts and run the programs it does without funding provided by the arts fee, paid by students each spring semester.
"What we're trying to help foster is a lifetime of participating in the arts," Avrakotos said.
The student arts fee is $25. Avrakotos said the money from this fee, along with money from external grants and ticket sales, is used to fund a lot of the events and programs ARTSwego puts on around campus. These include the Performing Arts series, the Ke-nekt' Chamber Music Series, the Living Writers Series and several different workshops and classes for both students and faculty. ARTSwego also puts funding in with student run radio station WNYO for the musical artists who come to campus as part of the Oswego Indie Series.
Avrakotos said it is important for students to get out of their dorm rooms and enjoy the arts that are available to them and made possible by the arts fee.
"Somehow we have to drive home that there's a difference between watching a video and going to a live performance," Avrakotos said.
"Telling Tales: The Arts and Discovery" is a program funded by ARTSwego. The program explores the many different ways humans tell stories through the use of art, literature, music and performance. Five resident artists were brought in to assist students and faculty with hands-on workshops, including Paul Rajeckas, Cynthia Hopkins and Christopher Monger.
Avrakotos spoke highly of these artists and the program itself, saying the experiences students get from these workshops sticks with them longer than what they learn in classes.
"You forget what you learned on the test," Avrakotos said. "You never forget the transformative experience."
Avrakotos also stressed the importance of these programs being able to reach and have an impact on students in all majors, not just the ones related to the arts.
"What the effort is here is to say that creativity is a core value, it is something we need to teach," Avrakotos said. "We don't need to teach it to theatre students.We don't need to teach it to music students. We don't need to teach it to art students. We need to embrace it for all the disciplines. In our world that is changing so rapidly, creative thinking is what everyone is going to need to do."
Oswego State's location compared to universities located in large metropolitan areas plays a role in the need to provide students with more chances to enjoy the arts on campus.
"We have a large residential campus," said Fritz Messere, dean of the School of Communication, Media and the Arts. "You find that there's opportunities that are appropriate to a residential campus that might not be needed if the campus was in downtown New York City."
Cynthia Clabough, chair of the Art Department at Oswego State, said the arts fee started as a way for students to collectively fund an arts series at the school. She said it is important for programs such as the ones funded by ARTSwego to continue to run because the programs bring students, faculty and the community together.
"Without student's fees, it wouldn't be possible for it to be as outstanding as it is," Clabough said.
Clabough also pointed out that it is not only students, but faculty as well who contribute to the arts fee. She said these programs and events help students and faculty to work together on many different levels.
"Through faculty collaboration comes student collaboration," Clabough said. "That's the real goal."
Clabough added that Oswego State acts as the cultural center for the entire county of Oswego.
"Students not only are giving themselves an incredible gift, but giving the community an incredible gift," Clabough said. "Without the arts fee, the students would have a cultural desert on campus."
The student arts fee is a key component to keeping arts programs funded and allowing Oswego State to offer a wide range of activities for students of all areas of study.
"We want to have activities related to what's appropriate to students and have a diverse set of programs," Messere said. "The arts fee helps to do that."


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Post From Wealthwatch.world Chat Room 9-28-15
Wealthwatch Late Night Butifldrm Chat 9-28-15 Part 1 of 2
Oneness: in other news ... Who Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize? Posted: 09/28/2015 1:12 pm EDT Updated: 09/28/2015 1:59 pm EDT Oneness: www.huffingtonpost.com/mi...
Oneness: Talk is rife about bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on those who concluded the Iran nuclear deal.. Attention, therefore, is focused on Secretary Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Their sharing of the prize could be seen as a neat way to honor the achievement without judging who exactly is most responsible for it.
There is precedent -- let us recall how Oslo decided to pair Anwar Sadat with Menachem Begin in 1978, and then Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994.
Now, in a sense, we are facing a similar situation. Here is why. There are a number of premises that underlie the judgment that the nuclear agreement is a monumental accomplishment in the cause of peace. Yet, they in fact are all of dubious validity. Oneness: :ermm:
Oneness: in other news
Oneness: Taliban overrun Afghan city of Kunduz ... BBC News - 4 hours ago ... www.bbc.com/news/world-as... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34377565
Oneness: The Taliban have overrun the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, taking control of most areas and freeing hundreds of prisoners from its jail. Hundreds of militants stormed the city before dawn, quickly seizing key buildings and advancing on the airport. The government says it has sent reinforcements to Kunduz and fighting is ongoing.
Oneness: This attack is one of the most serious security breaches since the start of the Taliban insurgency 14 years ago. But the Taliban's main challenge will now be to hold the city. Kunduz has a huge strategic significance as it is considered a gateway to Afghanistan's northern provinces and shares a border with Tajikistan, Afghanistan's Central Asian neighbour.
The Taliban already control huge chunks of the province's rural areas, where the majority of the population live. The insurgents have intensified their fighting in the province over the past two years.
They are the dominant militant group in the province, with an estimated 2,000 fighters.
But there are also reportedly hundreds of foreign fighters associated with al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
The Afghan security forces are stretched thin as they deal with multiple attacks all over the country. Bad governance in Kunduz is also a key problem. Incompetence and intimidation by some local officials have alienated many in the province.
Oneness: ‹@Lauren305› ... personally i would vote for the baghdad girl ... Noof Assi.
Oneness: The Baghdad City of Peace Carnival started four years ago, with a young woman named Noof Assi. "We started talking to people about a celebration for peace day in Baghdad," Assi says.
She's referring to International Peace Day, which is September 21 — and which hadn't been celebrated in the war-beleaguered Iraqi capital. "Everybody was taking it as a joke and never taking us seriously," she says, "because, like, in Baghdad? Celebrating peace?"
Butifldrm: Good evening everyone!
Butifldrm: I thought I'd stop in and say hello
Butifldrm: I see you were talking about the Taliban
Oneness: it appears same old same old here ... everybody just waiting at the waiting wall
Butifldrm: I read today that ISIS is now attacking the Taliban
Oneness: yes, heard about afghan fighting on npr today
Butifldrm: www.inquisitr.com/2451296...
Oneness: well i do not know about isis talban conflict
Butifldrm: Lots of things happening today Geo politically
Butifldrm: i wish I were a fly on the wall during the Obama and Putin meeting
Oneness: www.express.co.uk/news/wo...
Oneness: that is real intense
Oneness: black standard flying in Afghanistan
Butifldrm: Oneness I read that this morning
Butifldrm: yea
Butifldrm: the whole Middle East is on fire and it appears the Whole World is looking at the US -- Saudi Arabia has pulled 78B out of Western markets
Oneness: even mexico selling dollars
Butifldrm: Saudi is trying to save their reserves
Butifldrm: ‹@Oneness› now that's interesting
Butifldrm: I did not know that
Oneness: mexico trying to keep peso afloat
Butifldrm: I'm sure...alll the emering economies are suffering from low oil prices and the high dollar
BOBBY: Butifldrm....... got a question when you got time
Butifldrm: Ok Bobby Shoot
Oneness: ‹@BOBBY› just like everybody else, watching the pope, waiting at the waiting wall, all in all doing pretty good, thanks for asking, how about you bobby ?
Donnie: wow - short term top circled - and 2 solid red bars down - looks like we're going to test those previous lows.
Butifldrm: ‹@Donnie› I believe you are correct
BOBBY: Butifldrm..... what kind/type of influence do you think Russia will be in the near future?
BOBBY: Oneness..... all good on my end
Butifldrm: IMO opinion. A great influence. Putin is a strong and cunning leader
Butifldrm: We are going to witness a shift geopolitically
Butifldrm: Donnie IMO it's going to be a slow and arduous descent
BOBBY: that would take care of the second question lol. .... thanks
Butifldrm: ‹@BOBBY› have you looked at this thread. wealthwatch.world/showthr...
BOBBY: Butifldrm....... yes... i keep current on the posts....... one of the great things on this site
Butifldrm: It's great to be able to look at both sides then make you decision
BOBBY: Butifldrm..... Chattels posted an interesting post about lines being re drawn ........
Butifldrm: Wow I did not see that
Butifldrm: Lines meaning influence or countries
BOBBY: very good read/ perspective on the whole mid east
Butifldrm: I see a shift coming for sure
ladyfox: hello guys what new lines in the mid east
BOBBY: Butifldrm...... in my opinion. .... influences and countries go hand and hand
Butifldrm: Today I read a Reuters article where Saudi was drawing out 78B from Eastern Markets
Butifldrm: Sorry it was Bloomberg Butifldrm: www.bloomberg.com/news/ar...
Butifldrm: All oil producing countries trading oil in the Dollar are in trouble right now
Butifldrm: This here in lies the reason the Fed cannot increase interest rates
Butifldrm: Look at Iraq. They are trying to sell sovereign bonds and with a B- rating are having a huge problem
Butifldrm: The Bonds are to pay over 10% which is huge for a zero percent interest rate global economy. Yet they are having problems
Butifldrm: Selling these bonds
Butifldrm: Saudi has a Sovereign wealth fund that could last them for years but they too are selling Bonds to protect their reserves Butifldrm: www.economist.com/news/fi...
Oneness: ‹@BOBBY› can you copy /paste Chattels post about lines being re drawn ... here in chat ? ... thanks
Butifldrm: So Iraq is competing on the global market to sell their bonds at a B~ rating
Butifldrm: Yes I woul love to read that‹@Oneness›
Butifldrm: Iraq Bond Sales english.alarabiya.net/en/...
chattels: " ..............when this conflict with ISIS is over one day, new borders will be drawn on the map." rudaw.net/english/intervi...
chattels: " It is important that Iraq becomes an inclusive country. If it does not become so, then I think that the division of Iraq at some point might become a reality. "
chattels: " It is true that Turkey and the KRG have a relatively good relationship. But it is only until the time, I fear, that the KRG declares independence. "
chattels: Barzani has said on several occasions that changes caused by DAESH make it impossible to return to the status quo.
Butifldrm: That is a great article you brought to chat
chattels: ‹@Butifldrm› To which article are you referring ?
Butifldrm: the separatist article from Rudaw
chattels: Many of the internally displaced persons will not return home, IMO
chattels: and there are a total of about 2.5 million
chattels: approaching 10 % of the Iraqi population
Butifldrm: Erdogan, IMO is desperate from his loss of Power since pro kurdish majority has taken over the government
chattels: ‹@Butifldrm› He is a very dangerous man, IMO
Butifldrm: ‹@chattels› I know it is sooo sad
Butifldrm: So many refugees from iraq and syria
Butifldrm: ‹@chattels› yes he is
Butifldrm: He IMO is ten times worse than Assad
chattels: ‹@Butifldrm› the human and economic costs are and will continue to be staggering
Butifldrm: ‹@chattels› I know and not just within the middle East, but in Europe too
chattels: David Romano, a columnist with Rudaw and Professor at a U.S. University, and I have developed some rapore - he travels extensively in Turkey and Kurdistan
Butifldrm: ‹@chattels› and the real sadness is that the global economy is in such a bad state there is no way to take care of the refugees/migrants
chattels: He often writes about the Erdogan government and the complexities of the Turkish - Kurdish relations chattels: See rudaw.net/english/authors...
chattels: On August 17th, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced that efforts to form a coalition government had failed and he was returning the mandate to do so to President Erdogan.
This came as a surprise to just about no one, since President Erdogan clearly wants to redo the June 7th elections that denied him the majority needed to create an executive presidency.
The deadline to form a government is August 23rd, after which Mr. Erdogan can call for new elections in November. chattels: rudaw.net/english/opinion...
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Jesus and Christianity
And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.
~Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823[1]
eeping in mind the points already made in a previous section about prophets (namely that they are often maniacs and/or charlatans), let us cast a skeptical eye on Jesus and see how he fares.
The tale of Jesus was circulated orally amongst his followers after his death. Before crystallizing into the four gospels the story was certainly embellished. The narrative that emerged was heavily influenced by god-man stories from the Old Testament and other religious traditions, and perhaps also by stories of the many other "messiahs" who started their own apocalyptic cults around the time of Jesus. The tale was further colored by the agendas of particular story tellers. Such is the nature of oral tradition. Myths arise in short order.
There is a striking similarity between miracles depicted in the New Testament and other pagan mythologies. Jesus was not the only Son of God born to a virgin (there was also Romulus). He was not the only spiritual leader to heal blindness by his spittle (Vespatian did too), or to raise the dead (Apollonius of Tyana pulled off the same trick), or to turn water into wine (Dionysus did it first). Such god-man themes were borrowed from older pagan traditions familiar to the first Christians.
The mythology surrounding Jesus tempts one to question whether there was a real Jesus at all. Perhaps the entire story was cut out of whole cloth. But, while there is certainly no irrefutable proof that Jesus existed, the early success of the Christian church indicates that he probably did. There was enough time between the death of Jesus and the writing of the gospels for a mythology about Jesus to form, but not enough time for a completely fictional character to become mistaken as factual due to excessive literalism. The New Testament accounts of Jesus are assuredly littered with fabrication, but the most parsimonious interpretation of the information available points to an actual, historical figure. He wasn't the Jesus you learned about in Sunday School, but he was probably a real guy. So who was the real Jesus?[2]
Certain biographical tidbits from the gospels are probably true. One random example: It seems plausible that Jesus truly had a brother named James (whom Paul in his letter to the Galatians claimed to have met). Scholars debate these tidbits, but a few assumptions seem relatively safe, and a general picture of the historical Jesus emerges.
He was a peasant Jew from Galilee. He lived at a time when Jews lived under Roman occupation and were particularly susceptible to the promise that God was on the verge of establishing a kingdom for the Jews on earth. He was influenced by John the Baptist. The crucifixion was a real event.
And perhaps some vestige of the historical Jesus remains in the general tone, if not the actual words, of the teachings ascribed to him. His sermons were suited to his audience of poor, rural, uneducated Jews. His central message was that the kingdom of God was close at hand and was not for the rich, but for the poor, i.e. his audience. His apocalyptic ideas were nothing new; they were actually common. What was radical about the teachings of Jesus, and what was possibly the key to the later triumph of Christianity, was the egalitarianism.
Jesus was almost certainly not as famous in his day as the gospels indicate, but he at least succeeded in acquiring a small following. This tells us something about Jesus but even more about the psychology of his followers – the impoverished Jews who first took to his message. Who is most vulnerable to a message of divine deliverance from poverty and oppression? Oppressed peasants. The needy. Jesus preached to the poor, the outcast, and the chronically sick.
As for the miracles in the gospels, as already indicated, those are mostly fictions borrowed from other traditions. But some of the healings may have been real. Of course, by Hume's maxim ("no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish") we assume that Jesus did not actually have magical healing powers. But his followers believed he did, and he exploited their faith and the power of the placebo effect to perform healings in the exact same way as modern faith healers do.
So Jesus was a real man, subject to the same urges and psychological flaws as the rest of humanity. He believed that a new monarchy of peasant Jews would be established on earth, with himself as the monarch. And he evidently performed faith healings. It is apparent that Jesus had the same sorts of grandiose beliefs and engaged in the same sorts of behaviors as modern cult leaders who we judge to be venal and/or delusional. What might these facts imply about the character of this man?
We must accede that Jesus might have been like modern cult leaders, who preach love publicly but exploit their followers privately. The only real accounts we have of the character of the Christ were written by Christians. How many current and recent cult leaders are truly as pure and good as their followers believe? Isn't it at least possible that Jesus was a Sathya Sai Baba?
Yes, it is possible. But we've now ventured into pure speculation. We can only base our judgment on the evidence available. The Jesus depicted in the New Testament is admirable, and it is plausible that he was as benevolent as advertised. He might have been delusional but there is no indication that he was a charlatan in the god-man business for material gain; on the contrary, his willingness to die for his cause suggests he was a true believer. For better or worse that's the best information we have about the Nazarene.
In conclusion, the evidence suggests that Jesus was a historical figure, and though his true character is lost to history, it is entirely possible that the historical Jesus was as fine a person as any other spiritual leader who ever lived. The same could not be said for the figureheads of other prominent religions were they to be similarly scrutinized, and so Jesus deserves a measure of respect.
Now let us delve into the man's doctrine.
Many of the moral teachings that are ascribed to Jesus are quite wonderful. The Golden Rule, the admonishment against hypocritical judgments, the injunctions to turn the other cheek and to love thy enemies, the command to share with the poor, and the lesson of the Good Samaritan – all laudable. To the degree that Christians follow these teachings they are indeed an inspiration to the rest of us, a light of the world.
There is some question as to whether the behest to "resist not evil" is as nice as it sounds, for to fail to resist evil is to embolden and abet evil doers, and how can this be moral? This quibble requires an intentionally naïve interpretation of the text. Jesus promoted non-violence, not cowardice (as is clearly revealed by his own example). He was exhorting against meeting wickedness with wickedness and hatred with hatred. Notice that reckless pacifism does not seem to be a problem in Christian nations. The moral teachings of Jesus must be seen in light of his eschatology; they were practical for his immediate followers, who sincerely believed the world was going to end any day, and who in the meantime needed a few rules to help them get along with each other. The Golden Rule was never meant for complex moral quandaries like whether or not it would be right to assassinate Hitler. In practice, Christians have found that passive resistance and measured self-defense accord with a non-excessively-literal reading of the text.
In fact, the Christian principles of equality and empathy are at least partially responsible for modern democracy, the abolition of slavery, and equal rights for women and minorities. Of course, Christian institutions stood in the way of progress. Christian churches supported slavery and actively oppressed women and minorities. We should chalk this up, however, to the general tendency of religion to squash critical thinking and individuality, to grant unchecked power to the undeserving, and to protect comfortable biases and the status quo. Because religion gives undue authority to the priest class, it is easily exploited by corrupt people to further their petty personal agendas. Let's give credit where it is due to the philosophy of Jesus, and blame Christian institutions for the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch burning, condoning slavery, anti-Semitism, etc.
However, while some of his moral teachings are laudable, it is difficult to see how the key religious beliefs of the historical Jesus should be of any interest whatsoever to modern audiences. His central message was that the kingdom of God was at hand, and of course it wasn't. Specifically, he expected an apocalypse to come within the lifetime of his immediate followers. Christianity at first was a rather unremarkable doomsday cult. The apostle Paul was so convinced that "the appointed time has grown short" that in 1 Corinthians he advised the unmarried not to bother with marriage. The legacy of Jesus' absurd eschatology is that every generation of Christians in the past 2,000 years has convinced themselves they live in the end time. There is a long history of Christian numerologists forecasting the date of judgment, inciting mass hysteria, and then recanting and recalculating when "judgment day" comes and goes uneventfully, leaving the faithful baffled, disappointed, and decidedly unrapturous. The continued failure of the apocalypse to show up is the humiliation of the Christian religion (and leaves the rest of us thanking the absence of Yahweh). And at this point Jesus' prediction has been so overshot that even if earth were hit by an asteroid tomorrow and human civilization burned to the ground, it would be far too late to vindicate him (as if anyone at that point would care). But these sorts of issues never bother the faithful.
A naturalist has a difficult time with many core Christian doctrines, e.g. the existence of God and Satan, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus, the promise of Heaven, and the impenetrable brain-scramble called the Trinity. These doctrines are difficult to accept merely because, like most religious doctrines, they either make supernatural claims or defy common sense. Believing in them is therefore foolish. There is one Christian doctrine, though, that is especially vile: the doctrine of salvation. You are commanded to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior – whatever that means – or else to suffer in Hell for fifty years! Oh wait, it's not fifty years. Not a hundred years. Not a thousand years or even a million. If you fail to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour before you die, then you are sentenced to suffer in Hell for eternity.
Aside from the theological problem of reconciling the existence of Hell with a supposedly omni-benevolent deity (which in my view is insurmountable), this doctrine is starkly, violently, unforgivably oppressive. It is the sort of creepy psychological bullying often employed by child abusers to compel obedience and crush independent thought. The Christian religion is a spiritual mafia, making offers that cannot be refused.
This is a brilliant move, of course. If you want your cult to be successful, tell people that being human is a mortal sin, and then offer obsequiousness to your prophet as the only pathway to forgiveness.
Most Christians aren't bothered much by the thought of Hell, though, because they have agreed to the bargain, and herein lies the second problem with the doctrine of salvation. Christians know they are saved and this makes them smug. Their salvation is independent of their moral behavior; it's nice to be nice to other people but ultimately not that important. Frequent screw-ups are to be expected since humans are sinners. The screw-ups are okay; Christians are safe. They're in. No matter what, they get to go to heaven. Hell is for all those other people, the out group. This makes Christians superior. The unsaved might be pitied or they might be hated, but they are not regarded as equals. Or at least this is sure how it seems to us, the unsaved.
It is ironic that the followers of Jesus, the consummate egalitarian, ended up becoming a bunch of smug bastards who think they're better than everybody else.
Perhaps the problem is that Christians use up all their humbleness prostrating themselves before their heavenly god and have none left over to offer their fellow earthlings. To those of us outside the fold, Christians appear to be people who get off on telling strangers what they can't do. They're insufferable moralists half the time and raging hypocrites the other half. They're as rigid and unforgiving as a cold slab of stone when applying their codes to others, and as pleading and pathetic as watery-eyed dachshunds when they themselves need forgiveness for the exact same transgressions.
To be fair, there really are Christians who strive to love their neighbors and to judge not. Many Christians are extraordinarily decent human beings, brimming with genuine altruism without a hint of condescension, quietly doing their part to live righteously and to make the world a little bit better. These are admirable people and much can be learned from them. These sorts of Christians won't be found filming evangelistic infomercials, parading their children outside abortion clinics, or spewing hate-rants on Fox news. How such Christians cope with the doctrine of salvation is a mystery. Probably they manage by keeping the whole thing fuzzy in their heads or by mentally redacting chunks of scripture. They find a way to take the good from their religion and leave the bad.
This raises a question: Can the bad be purged from Christianity without losing the religion itself?
The tendency amongst Christians to find Biblical justifications for bigotry toward women and homosexuals is discouraging. But once upon a time Christians found Biblical justifications for racism and slavery, and they eventually grew out of that. So the religion evolves, and it is reasonable to be optimistic that these attitudes can change.
On the other hand, the Christian lust for the apocalypse is absolutely terrifying in light of the tendency in humans to fulfill our own prophecies, and the use of the threat of eternal damnation to compel obedience is despicable. Unfortunately these doctrines are permanent features since they are solidly grounded in the New Testament and date back to the first Christians and the actual teachings of the historical Jesus. Liberal Christians might try to temper the nastier elements of their faith, discreetly dumping the disagreeable doctrines like dead bodies in a swamp at night, but fundamentalists will always dredge them back up. It is one thing to downplay disagreeable passages in Leviticus, but to make Christianity a truly decent and sane religion would require nothing less than whitewashing the core message of Jesus in the New Testament. And so, while there are admirable Christians who are a credit to their faith, and while Christianity has many beautiful aspects, civilization would be better off if all religions, including the religion of the Nazarene, would fade away (naturally and gradually, as adherents lost interest), and allow humanity to progress to whatever comes next.
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- [1]See http://books.google.com/books?id=kNIcAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA284&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q&f=false.↩
- [2]There is a case to be made, compelling at first blush, that Jesus never existed. Proponents of this argument are bothered by all the holes in the New Testement. For example, the Massacre of the Innocents described in the Gospel of Matthew (the infanticide ordered by Herod in Bethlehem) would have been widely documented at the time, but the historical record is silent. The central argument is that all the writings we have about Jesus come from well after his death. Why was there silence about Jesus during his lifetime? This argument may prove that Jesus was less popular in his day than the gospels imply. But it is unsurprising to scholars that nothing was written about Jesus during his lifetime, and they do not see this as proof that Jesus was a myth. The consensus amongst scholars (at least for now) is that a historical Jesus existed.↩


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March Theme
Making Your Mark (Doodles & Mark Making)
March 21-Art Challenge:
As a Focal Point
Journal Prompt:
Coming into focus
Journal Prompt:
Coming into focus
For this challenge i wanted to create my journal page about focusing on life's little gifts. I included my camera and pictures that i have taken of nature.
For my background:
1. i glued down some text paper pieces (that i tore from an old dictionary)with Matte Medium
2. i added color with Splash Inks
3. i then mixed some black acrylic paint with some Modeling Paste and used a palette knife to apply it over a camera stencil that i created
I love the way Modeling Paste creates a dimensional effect!
4. i cut out a round circle from the dictionary paper and glued it down in the middle of my camera lens and outlined it with a black stabilo pencil
4. i then added texture with acrylic paints, stencils and stamps
If you are interested in creating
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