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Championship Wolves have confirmed the signing of Razak Boukari on a four-year deal. The 25-year-old winger has agreed terms and completed a medical at Molineux to become boss Stale Solbakken's sixth signing of the summer.
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So, I've been living for about six months within the shadow of the Capitol dome. I leave next month, but my impression of America is forever changed.
It's a decent neighborhood, but more than a little odd for a guy coming from the Northwest. There are parked, black cars on every other corner, engines running, sunglassed drivers at the wheel. There are cops everywhere. We are told they can and do listen to our phone conversations and are likely watching us walk our dogs. It's enough to make somebody paranoid. I've watched too much television.
Still, none of that bothers me, to be honest. I've got nothing to hide. Anybody who listens to my phone conversations is going to get bored. And will likely wonder why I don't just make a shopping list.
But maybe the bourgeoning surveillance state should bother me.
The whole NSA spying thing didn't bother me until those who were for it started touting the fact that spying on American citizens might stop a terrorist attack. To me, that felt like manipulation.
Certainly, stopping terrorism is serious business. And it would be great to stop an attack. So far, reports are mixed on whether the sort of spying made known recently has helped.
Could they stop a nuclear attack by spying on us? Certainly. But collecting internet data is a small part of that operation. There are other ways to catch potential terrorists. I don't like it when government press releases frame this is though it's their only option. We can't kill freedom to protect freedom.
But here's my problem. It's getting a bit tiring to hear "stopping terrorism" as an excuse for just about anything. We spend billions of dollars, put thousands of soldiers in harms way and sustain thousands of casualties all to stop terrorism. Has this saved lives? Yes, it likely has. And yet at the expense of what? People are killed in robberies and car jackings and mass shootings, too. Why aren't we spending billions to stop that?
There's one reason: Stopping crime isn't a political issue and terrorism is. No administration wants a terrorist attack to happen on their watch. The "war on terror" may be more political than patriotic.
And administrations, both Republican and Democratic, will justify spying on their own citizens to save their own political bacon.
But are we really okay with that?
If your local police force could stop domestic violence by putting cameras in everybody's home, would you be for it? How much privacy are you willing to give up to stop crime? How much of your life are you willing to concede to the government?
I think we should be willing to give up some, but allowing the government to seize internet records or tap phone lines without having to report what they're doing is too far to be justified by using the "stopping terrorism" ace card.
I don't support Edward Snowden. Governments has the right to have and keep secrets. The ends don't justify the means, but in this case the ends made us all aware of an overreach of power. It's a paradox, I know, but one that is easily parsed. I'm glad word is out about what the NSA has been doing. And I'd like it to stop, or, at the very least, be justified publicly.
What we are saying when we allow the government to spy on us is that we trust them not to use information against us for their own ambitions. But what human being longing for power isn't going to abuse the information that flows across their desk? Nixon couldn't resist. Are we saying there's nobody else out there wired like Nixon?
I really liked our old Checks and Balances idea. I'd like for us to return to that. And I'd also like for us to understand that Freedom has consequences, including crime and potential terrorism. I prefer those consequences to the consequences of government overreach.
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More often than not, the lion's share of economic activity in the United States stems from consumer purchases, which comprise roughly two-thirds of domestic economic output.
That said, most anything and everything related to consumer spending is closely scrutinized and tracked, whether it be automotive and housing sales, and things more related to day-to-day consumer spending like department stores, big-box retailers, and e-commerce-related shopping, among things, as well. It also goes without saying that retail sales activity is closely monitored by supply chain stakeholders top determine things like volume trends according to seasonality and other things related to strategy such as asset allocation for motor carriers, railroads, and intermodal service providers, and also more forward-looking things like site selection for 3PL's and warehousing and distribution types.
In short, when it comes to retail sales-related news and data, it is something that holds the ear of basically all supply chain stakeholders.
That is why it was interesting to see last week's data issued by the National Retail Federation (NRF), in which the organization lowered its 2014 retail sales forecast, due to a slow first six months of the year (and largely negatively influenced by the terrible winter weather), but noting that retail sales are expected to be strong over the next five months to finish the year.
Looking at the numbers the total 2014 retail sales figure was dropped from an anticipated 2014 annual gain of 4.1 percent over 2013 to a 3.6 percent estimate. And for the first half of 2014, NRF said that retail sales were up just 2.9 percent compared to the first six months of 2013, with sales through the end of the year expected to be up 3.9 percent annually.
In a blog posting, NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz wrote that first quarter economic growth was weaker than expected due partly to poor weather and compared with what was reported at the end of 2013, real estate, inventories and exports were all weaker in the first quarter, which, in turn dragged down progression and growth expectations. And with that as a backdrop, he explained it is reasonable to expect modest growth for the near future, with no expectations for the economy to come "roaring back," and "further improvement in growth will likely continue at a modest to moderate rate."
While this news could be viewed as lukewarm to a degree, Kleinhenz said it is better to look at things with a big picture view, explaining that economic fundamentals remain strong while the characterization of the economy is not simple.
"Employment during the first six months of this year expanded at its strongest pace since 2005, and households continue to repair their balance sheets," he wrote. "Business and consumer confidence have edged higher, manufacturing activity has expanded, state and local revenues have risen, and inflation pressures remain tame. Despite these improvements, lackluster income growth, uneven housing demand and the cautious attitude by businesses toward capital spending remain drawbacks in terms of further economic growth. Additionally, there remains a hint that global economic growth is still unsteady, affecting the overall picture for U.S. expectations."
Other factors to watch and keep in mind, cited by Kleinhenz, included; how consumer spending should be able to positively leverage labor market gains; potentially, the new reported high for America's household's net worth; pent-up demand and inflation remaining below the Federal Reserve's target, with that growth keeping things on track for the Fed to raise interest rates around mid-2015; consumers remain cautious, selective, and price-sensitive and raises issues about how fast the economy is expected to grow.
Even with such a mixed bag of things to pull from, Kleinhenz concluded by saying the NRF is optimistic that the economy will gain in strength over the rest of the year.
Again, retail sales data is a metric that supply chain stakeholders need to follow and pay attention to. Freight depends on it, perhaps now more than ever.
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Feb. 28, 2012 | You have got to hand it to Stephen Chikhani, the reputed on-again/off again love interest of Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, he sure knows how to moved a good story along.
"There's a way bigger story than sex tapes," Chikhani said to a reporter today at his hearing in a San Jose courtroom for drug possession.
The deliciously delivered line now sits on the tongues and vibrant imaginations of many Alameda County residents and local officials. Many contacted today noted the sensational nature of the Nadia Lockyer Affair by parsing the eight word quote. "Did you notice he said tapes--as in plural," said one county employee.
Are they more salacious videos out there? A YouTube video posted Monday morning claiming to contain the raw performance of Lockyer and Chikhani was quickly pulled from the site. One person who viewed it described it as tame, nor looking anything like Lockyer. It is believed to be hoax. To further the intense gossip and speculation over the video, some posit if Chikhani seeks to hold something over Bill and Nadia Lockyer, it would make no sense to reveal the video without any gain. Therefore, there is something more.
The rapidly increasing county and state embarrassment surrounding the Lockyer's even gained the attention of one of Washington's most bawdy bloggers. The Wonkette posted this tongue-in-cheek story today titled, "Nation's Sexiest Supervisor in Meth-Fueled Sex-Tape Sexytime." The posting imagines Bill Lockyer's carnal excitement while watching the video and wondering if "Nadia is back in rehab again, where hopefully she will meet a nicer boyfriend."
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Although some local media outlets and columnists are now calling for Lockyer to resign (the Contra Costa Times used the opportunity to add Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi to the list, for good measure), not one elected or county official will publicly go on the record calling for her to relinquish her seat on the board of supervisors. That soon may change.
If I were a betting man, I would say Lockyer resigns before this Friday. Some believe Chikhani's comment today was merely a bluff, but if it isn't, it may be a clear signal to the Lockyers that he intends to drop the biggest bomb of them all on them and the county, whatever it may be. And if it has anything to do with the cryptic text message written by Nadia Lockyer, we could be on the eve of destruction for the legacy of her husband and the reputation of Alameda County.
Alameda County politics is a symbiotic environment. When one large piece is suddenly extinct, the whole organism is changed. In a time of continued large-scale budget deficits at the county and city-level, we have no idea how this mess will affect the region, but it will surely benefit no one.


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The tournament has a unique format, with each team playing in four doubles matches and eight singles matches. Both the singles and doubles matches will be comprised of two flights – the white flight and the blue flight. The top four singles players on each team will play on the blue flight, while the bottom four will play on the white.
"This is our inaugural Fall Invitational event, and we are very excited to welcome renowned tennis programs such as Georgia Southern, Nebraska and South Alabama, for what I'm sure will be a weekend full of highly competitive matches," tournament director and assistant coach Cesar Vargas said.
Friday's matches begin at 9 a.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 8 a.m. Doubles play will begin each day, followed by the eight singles matches. A point system will be utilized to name a winner from each flight, with two-set wins awarded five points and three-set wins awarded four points.
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Finally, once in a while an editorial writer will actually create an original article from the release, or use information from the release in a related article. They may even call for an interview. About half of the time, in my experience, an interview will result in a decent mention of the company/website; about half of those will actually link to the site from the online article. To get to the interview stage, though, you have to have a compelling release or very lucky timing (to hit the right reporter working on a related story).
As far as newsletters, 90%+ are published online in addition to their email version. Usually, they link to a site they are discussing; if you are a sponsor/advertiser, then you should make sure they will link to you properly.
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When students kicked in the door of the main administrative building, the Maagdenuis, at the University of Amsterdam on February 25, the "New University" - or "De Nieuwe Universiteit" - movement introduced a new aesthetic dimension of protest.
The Maagdenhuis occupation, a protest against the financialization of higher education and against the concentration of decision-making power at the university, disrupted the everyday flow of doing, changing the normal organization of human sense experience on campus. By taking a building and reorganizing human activity inside, with emphasis on dialogue, deliberation and shared decision-making, occupiers created new aesthetic conditions necessary for a new politics, as philosopher Jacques Rancière, who recently visited the Maagdenhuis to show solidarity with UvA students, suggests.
Politics remains "aesthetic in principle," Rancière, once wrote. By blurring boundaries between the expressible and ineffable, Rancière argues that aesthetics affirms antagonisms that the administrative order would rather see reconciled under its own imposed expectations.
Aesthetics appears, he wrote, in the creation of "uncertain communities that contribute to the formation of enunciative collectives that call into question the distribution of roles, territories and languages." The Maagdenhuis has become space for a tension-filled community of students and teachers to advance a political aesthetic in the occupation, enabling an experience of the institution not as a given thing, but as a complex of social relations subject to change.
After a 1995 decision transferring public ownership of real estate to universities like UvA . . . education and research considerations started taking a backseat to commercial concerns regarding real estate planning.
Speaking to UvA occupiers, Rancière affirmed the salience of recasting space - like the Maagdenuis occupation - for political struggle against what in Dutch they call rendementsdenken, a rationality characterized by over-zealous concern with profit maximization and efficiency. Indeed, this is the mission of the occupiers: Democratize and decentralize the university to transcend the established order of rendementsdenken.
The Rise of Rendementsdenken at UvA
Ewald Engelen, a professor of finance and geography at UvA who spoke about the perils of the financialization of higher education at the Maagdenhuis occupation, explained in a coauthored article, published in 2014, how rendementsdenken became the ruling logic - and logic of rule - at his university. After a 1995 decision transferring public ownership of real estate to universities like UvA, he and colleagues argued, education and research considerations started taking a backseat to commercial concerns regarding real estate planning. The state's retreat from management of real estate demanded tighter account of "costs, profits, assets and liabilities" at the university, setting "in motion a process of internal reorganization to produce the transparent cash flow metrics that were required to service the rapidly growing real estate debt," the academics wrote.
Reorganization of the university's governance structure in 1997, tying funding among different units within UvA to so-called "key performance indicators," required a system of measuring, ranking and validating academic outputs.
Attempts to put a price on everything, maximize output and run the university like a company have had disastrous results.
The new process of fund allocation demanded "transparency." This type of transparency differed from the kind demanded by proponents of antibureaucratic, direct democratic decision making. As Engelen and others showed, the former kind of transparency instead entailed quantification of all possible aspects of academia.
This would, the university maintained, establish proper incentives, improve the quality of education, attract more students and make UvA more competitive.
Harriet Bergman, a first-year research master graduate student in philosophy at UvA also studying economics at the undergraduate level, told Truthout attempts to put a price on everything, maximize output and run the university like a company have had disastrous results. She said the rule of rendementsdenken devalues important areas of inquiry - like language studies - not easily translatable into profit, while education at the university now tends to be treated in a merely instrumental way.
"It's becoming a degree factory," she said about UvA.
Natalie Scholz, professor of history at the university, wrote that struggling "to keep up with the output expectations in everything we do," as demanded by the existing university structure, "we are quickly paralyzed by the thought, 'You are not good enough.' "
She said this culture of fear and shame is tied to the university's obsession with reputation and public image.
"It suddenly feels like you're harming the university when you become critical," she told Truthout over the phone while away in Vienna, a city with its own history of student radicalism dating back to the "world revolution" of 1848, when students in the Academic Legion militia led the struggle against Habsburg absolutism.
In the past, critical perspectives combined with action, prompting reorganization of UvA along democratic lines, but much of that has been reversed.
After a series of student protests in the 1960s - including an occupation of the Maagdenhuis in 1969 - the state passed the Academic Governance Act in 1970, giving students a say in academic affairs and situating decision-making power within the faculty. Modernization of this act in 1997 shifted control to an executive board increasingly comprised of politicians, financial analysts and consultancy firm managers.
Prioritizing supposed efficiency at the expense of human beings and allocating - or rescinding - department funds based on related exchange-value criteria institutes an insidious mechanism of divide and rule.
Engelen and colleagues claimed this "professionalization" amounted to "corporatization" of the university. The professionals who came to command the institution required market metrics to evaluate and save education, their article explained, and administration of output-based evaluations, combined with UvA's new use of financial instruments and real estate, provided theoretical justification for those professionals with purported expertise to wield greater power in the academy.
"Their way of thinking is just so detached from the everyday reality of our work," Scholz said.
The Netherlands cut university budgets by 4 percent in 2002, which translated to a 14 million euro income loss for UvA. That same year, UvA purchased its first interest-rate swaps for 34 million euros as a means for managing risk, exchanging uncertain future interest payments for a secured flat rate, locking the university into set financial contracts. Together with the UvA board entering credit negotiations with four banks - ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank and BMG - this deepened dependency on financial markets outside its control.
Scholz said this is all coeval with administration just being "negligent of the simple humanity of the people working at the university."
Prioritizing supposed efficiency at the expense of human beings and allocating - or rescinding - department funds based on related exchange value criteria institutes an insidious mechanism of divide and rule, she said.
"It impedes creativity," Scholz said. "It impedes real interesting work, and it also poisons social relationships."
Patricia Pisters, professor of media studies at UvA, recounted how she - like many others - watched this all unfold for too long.
"I was chair of the department and have seen all this happening," she told Truthout in an email. "For many years I tried to cope and deal with everything as well as I could. But on so many levels, so many things are really, really worrying - that I decided to speak out."
"It was just . . . people being so extremely angry that they - unplanned - kicked in a door and stormed in and didn't want to leave after that.
Pisters cited multiple "entangled" issues at UvA. She said the issues include imposition of a business model approach, move to a centralized mode of governance, increasing control mechanisms, bigger bureaucracy and constant cuts with crucial funds diverted to entities outside the university.
Responses to Rendementsdenken at UvA
Scholz said she sympathized with students when they first occupied the Bungehuis, despite some colleagues calling the move counterproductive.
"I thought from the beginning, 'You know, maybe I don't know exactly, but it feels like a great chance to open up the debate,' " she said.
The UvA Board of Directors - or College van Bestuur, CvB - threatened to fine students up to 100,000 euros per day during the initial occupation at the Bungehuis back in February.
"The university acted like, I would say, a multinational company and not a university," Scholz said, about the administration's intimidation tactics.
Bergman, 23, said the Bungehuis action was "really well planned" and "really well organized," which inspired people.
She said police evicted students from the Bungehuis upon the administration's request, but then plans for a demonstration the next day got even bigger.
Some 1,500 people - herself included - participated in the demonstration, she said, which culminated with about 300 students spontaneously entering the Maagdenhuis.
"It was just, well, people being so extremely angry that they - unplanned - kicked in a door and stormed in and didn't want to leave after that," said Bergman, who chairs the ASDV Bonaparte debating society.
A general assembly ensued, she said. Teachers and students discussed for four hours if they should stay or go, what they really wanted and whether they would soon get evicted.
The decision to stay opened what Rancière would term a new aesthetic dimension for antagonistic politics. Transformation of the space piqued the interest necessary for transformative experiences to take place, Bergman agreed.
She said at first many people just thought, "Oh, this building is appropriated. I'm angry as well, so I will join."
Scholz, meanwhile, was abroad when the Maagdenhuis occupation started. She was in Gainesville, Fla., for a conference talk, when it went down, she said.
But, she said, soon after the occupation began, one student who had been in her seminar garnered admiration for facilitating a discussion when the mayor of Amsterdam visited. She said he ensured that everyone - even those in formal positions of power - waited their turn to speak and did not interrupt.
Students adopted hand signals and borrowed select assembly practices from those used during assemblies in the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.
Both the democratic process within the occupation and the initial direct action involved in the Maagdenhuis "appropriation," as students call it, differ from use of established channels deemed ineffective by many occupiers.
"It was just impossible to have discussions or real debate with the UvA in the legally admitted way," Bergman said. "So we had to do something like civil disobedience in order to get through to them."
Within the occupation, Bergman said, efforts are made to ensure all voices are heard.
"They're so conscious of being respectful and empowering to others," Scholz said.
At UvA, a trend toward flexible contract employment continues apace as it does in the US, with low-wage contingent faculty shouldering greater teaching loads under precarious labor arrangements.
Bergman said they have a general assembly every day with "an open character," where many come to discuss big decisions like reacting to statements from the CvB, how to deal with power structures, and in what ways to engage the government. Smaller assemblies are held daily, she said, to figure out how to run the building, who to invite to speak, how to address people causing problems and how to make sure the building is clean.
During the day, between 100 and 150 people are walking in and out all the time, she said, while around 50 people clean, sometimes have a beer and then sleep at the Maagdenhuis at night. Up to 500 or 600 enter for large lectures like the one delivered by Rancière or the talk American anthropologist David Graeber gave while sitting cross-legged on a rug surrounded by hundreds of students.
Graeber, who helped organize the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York, circa 2011, and is now a professor at the London School of Economics, returned home to an occupation at his own university.
Students occupied the central meeting room of the administration at LSE, the Vera Anstey Suite. They are demanding authentic democracy by way of "a student-staff council, directly elected by students and academic and nonacademic staff, responsible for making all managerial decisions of the institution."
Bergman said the occupiers at the Maagdenhuis spoke with occupiers at the Vera Anstey Suite via Skype.
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Higher education in the Netherlands more closely resembles the university situation in London than anywhere in the US.
Students at UvA do not face the same tuition-and-fees-based, debt-financed model of higher education that predominates in the US.
A March 2014 study by Demos found more than seven in 10 college seniors in the US borrow to pay for higher education with an average debt exceeding $29,000. This "debt-for-diploma system," as authors of the study labeled it, emerged in the US just two decades ago, when state funding for college started being rolled back and education became increasingly privatized.
"It's not comparable to that level," Scholz said, comparing UvA to American universities. The "parts of the university landscape" where similar neoliberal regimes have been introduced, she added, are expanding, however.
In the Netherlands, though, the state still pays for most of a student's higher education.
They are calling for a shift away from a "quantitative, output-based financial model to qualitative forms of evaluation" and for an agreement about equitable workloads with job security.
Bergman said about 70 percent of the education is paid by the state, and heretofore, it also provided "study finance" of about 250 euros per month to cover college expenses and make it easier for students to study. However, she added, the monthly stipend is going to be stopped and the money will be given to "the university" - in the rendementsdenken context "the university" does not mean students - directly.
At UvA, Bergman said, a trend toward flexible contract employment continues apace as it does in the US, with low-wage contingent faculty shouldering greater teaching loads under precarious labor arrangements.
George Blausten, a professor in the humanities at UvA who came to Amsterdam from the US, pointed out that the eviction of the Bungehuis coincided with National Adjunct Walkout Day in his home country.
Occupiers at the Bungenhuis also discussed openly how to end precarious labor at UvA and help ensure academic workers in the Netherlands they will have a job the next year and year after that, Bergman said.
In the US, the number of tenure-track professors has decreased since 1975 as greater reliance on adjuncts and graduate student workers to teach university classes has become common.
But, Bergman said, with the budget cuts hitting those in the humanities at UvA the hardest, the administration there plans to fire about 150 full-time equivalents.
"Those will be the graduate students teaching and everybody with a flexible contract," she said. "So it's actually that the people who have a job - the people who have tenure - those are the ones now having even more work to do. They also have to give the first-year courses now."
Ongoing Struggles for a New University
Staff formed ReThink UvA partly in response. In conjunction with other occupiers, they are calling for a shift away from a "quantitative, output-based financial model to qualitative forms of evaluation," and for an agreement about equitable workloads with job security.
The organization advances demands similar to those made by students, Bergman said, but they do not claim the occupation themselves and provide more of a teachers' perspective.
It is very hopeful to see that there is knowledge, patience, room for individual voices, room for mistakes, and . . . a deep feeling of urgency and necessity."
"They sort of wanted to show that they, as teachers, also were left out," she said, "and that they aren't just a group of radicals or people appropriating a building. So they can sort of push for the same demands as the students have without having to be all on - without all agreeing or having consensus about if they support the appropriation or not, and also without having to explicitly say that they are part of the New University movement."
Pisters wrote in an email to Truthout that a return to participatory governance is called for by students, and staff could help, but it is necessary to also avoid situations where faculty and students assume even greater administrative duties without addressing existing overwork issues.
Under the existing regime, workers everywhere exhaust themselves - and the planet - in the labor process, Pisters explained.
Too much knowledge on the work floor is currently ignored, she added. Pisters also cautioned against micromanaging, holding endless meeting where nothing gets decided and letting departments become "little islands" again.
"But again, what I find amazing is that there is an enormous wisdom of the crowd - of students and staff," she said. "In reactions, in email exchanges, in the General Assemblies and meetings, it is very hopeful to see that there is knowledge, patience, room for individual voices, room for mistakes, and . . . a deep feeling of urgency and necessity."
The UvA executive board met with New University students in late March. Hans Amman, on behalf of the CvB "presented a 10-point plan that vigorously addresses the concerns of the academic community," according to an official university statement.
"They want us to talk about the 10 points and not about our demands," Scholz said. "They're promoting their 10 points whenever they can."
Bergman said the board does not want to give any consequences to the "conversation sessions" with occupiers, and those on the board only go so far as to say students' concerns will be added to the agenda and their opinion will be taken into account.
"Screw us and we multiply," reads the banner still at the center of the Maagdenhuis, indicating to the administration the movement's eagerness to fight back while reinforcing for the New University an unwillingness to be ignored or co-opted.
The occupation, following Rancière, realized an aesthetic universe replete with new pedagogies that imply production of new social relations and even new kinds of people.
Scholz said part of the struggle is never to ignore the "human complexity in everything that we do" and acknowledge the always-present interconnection between "logical thinking and emotions" that makes meaning - or the struggle over it - even possible.
"It brings collective action to a new level of - you could say, even - humanness," she said about evolving Maagdenhuis aesthetics.
Bergman confirmed that students intend to expand that aesthetic politics and escalate the struggle if necessary.
"We're still not really sure how we're going to escalate because we already have the symbol of power," she said. "We already have that. So I'm not sure how, but I think that strikes will be the logical next step."


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Then take a look at this article where government entities again made 2nd amendment , America loving, types the terrorists. Can't have Islamic terrorist blowing shit up, because that would hurt their sensibilities. After all, these fucking murderers are part of the religion of peace and they will fight back. Accusing people that actually believe in the constitution and that our government has basically destroyed our freedom and our nation, knowing full well that they will not really do anything, but desperately hoping they will, all so the abusive and nanny state government can justify more fascist-type action, is quite cool though.
I have no doubt that the government types feel people that think Leviathan has become too big and has eroded our constitution and limited our freedoms, especially while they are actively trying to deny us the right to protect ourselves from them, are a bigger threat than the people that have told us they will force us all to bow to their god or kill us otherwise. Historically tyrannies have always feared their people far more than they have feared any foreign enemy, after all.
The ONG 52nd Civil Support Team training scenario involved a plot from local school district employees to use biological weapons in order to advance their beliefs about "protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights." Portsmouth Fire Chief Bill Raison told NBC 3 WSAZ-TV in Huntington, West Virginia that the drill accurately represented "the reality of the world we live in," adding that such training "helps us all be prepared."
Internal ONG documents provided to Media Trackers after repeated delays provide further context to what WSAZ-TV reported last winter. In the disaster-preparedness scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School employees poisoned school lunches with mustard gas, acting on orders from white-nationalist leader William Pierce.
The ONG team discovered biological weapons being produced in the school, requiring activation of containment and decontamination procedures.
Yeah, this sure as hell makes perfect sense! A government that spies on us all, all the time, and uses its powers to attack its enemies of course is going to think that people that see it for what it is will revert to using schools to wage war against it. But us pointing out how said government is abusing its powers and tyrannical in nature, is people engaging is conspiracy theories. And the government is already preparing to turn loose its military on people it doesn't like. Have no doubt that that's precisely what these exercises are about: identifying any entities within the chain of command of the ONG that might not follow orders.
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The fires burning in Southern California continue to have an impact on the power grid. More than 8,800 Southern California Edison customers were without power as of early Thursday morning, the utility reported
The majority of the outages, 6,300 customers, are due to the Thomas fire along the Ventura County, while 23 customers lost power due to the Creek fire near Sylmar, and 48 customer were impacted from the Rye fire in Santa Clarita, according to Edison's website.
With weather reports of strong winds gusts expected the rest of the week, Edison officials indicated it could be a while until crews can repair the damages.
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Think of sailing holidays and Split probably isn't the first place that comes to mind. Despite boasting one of Europe's most attractive coastlines, a welcoming and consistent climate and the chance to explore an alternative Mediterranean culture, the Dalmatian stretch is still all too often overlooked. However, thanks to the arrival of budget flights in the area, and the country's appetite to embrace tourism, things are beginning to change.
Luka Grubor, director of Sail Croatia, rowed in the Sydney Olympics, winning gold, so he should know a thing or two on the subject. His company, which organises tailor-made sailing trips, has been growing steadily ever since its inception four years ago. As word spreads, Split and its adjacent islands are becoming an increasingly popular alternative for experienced sailors and landlubbers alike.
Luka freely admits that Croatia is a country still finding its feet as a tourist destination, but its charms are numerous; the food is decent and there's something attractive about the unpretentiousness of the area.
According to Luka, the country's growing tourist industry has been working to change perceptions of the region and country, which many people previously knew very little about beyond the news reports of the war in the early 1990s. While Dubrovnik has reaped the benefits of media attention in recent years, and is now firmly on the tourist map, Split and its neighbouring islands are slowly catching up.
Split offers excellent conditions for new sailors. A small sea, no tide and stable weather mean things needn't get too hairy. The myriad of tiny islands dotted around the area are close enough together to island hop, and there are a few unexplored parts for you to go and play Columbus.
The little-known island Hvar is a big attraction with its grand castle and fashionable restaurants and bars. For the more experienced sailor, extreme sailing conditions can be found if you're looking for a challenge. But as much as anything, if you're coming to Croatia you're coming because you want a taste of something different and that's exactly what you get.
The local excitement of Saint Duje Day (the patron saint of Split) made my trip to the area all the more vibrant. There's a slightly surreal carnival atmosphere, with thousands of people making their way through the markets and stalls. Every year there is a special boat race between Oxford, Cambridge and Split teams - an event that causes a real buzz among the crowds that line the coastline. It's well worth catching if you're rowing-inclined.
Island hopping
Many tourists visiting Croatia fail to hear about, let alone discover, Hvar. Thanks to this well-kept secret, the island – a seven-hour round boat trip by ferry from Split – is wonderfully serene and well worth the effort of the extra boat trip. The generally calm waters and Mediterranean climate of the Adriatic mean that a boat ride to Hvar is a smooth and relaxing experience. And ok, for the impatient of you, there are faster catamarans available, but what's the fun in that?
The island is fairly tourist orientated, but elegantly so, and it is curiously glamorous. The dock regularly fills up with luxury yachts and Croatian celebrities are regular visitors to the smattering of bars and restaurants by the quay (you know, the tall, dark hunk from ER, Goran Visnjic?). A castle sits imposingly in the centre of the island, and the mildly arduous climb up to its gates is well-rewarded. The panoramic views of the island, and the perfectly preserved castle prison (something that will no doubt delight children and those interested in penal history) are not to be missed.
Standing at a little more than 100 square miles, the island offers just enough to fill a day trip (or two if you want see everything), and it's worth seeking out the quieter spots to see a genuine slice of island life. The 2,000-year-old rustic town of Sucuraj is home to more wizened old fishermen than you could shake a stick at (not recommended, as this is a sign of aggression in many European countries). Just as profound a sense of history comes from exploring Hvar castle. It is also alleged that Hvar is the site of the first public theatre in Europe, although the island was less full of thespian pilgrims than you would imagine.
Curiously enough, the tiny island also boasts one of the regions' most popular night clubs, the intriguingly monikered Carpe Diem; presumably where patrons are encouraged to seize the day by getting tipsy and dancing to Europop. Boats run late at night for revellers to return to their hotels on the mainland.
Accommodation is available on Hvar but Split is by far the more popular choice as a base for island trips, and you could not visit the area without spending a day wandering this magnificent city. Dominating the city centre is Diocletian's Palace, a landmark that has to be seen to be fully appreciated. Locals still live within the castle walls, and washing lines and grubby windows poke out from nooks and crannies in the ageing stone blocks. Unlike other famous European landmarks, the palace in Split is not something to be looked at from a distance and revered, but is very much a living and breathing, organic part of the city.
Split may not be at the top of most traveller's "must visit" lists, but this haven on the Dalmatian coast and its neighbouring islands, Hvar in particular, are well worth a trip for a refreshingly different slice of Mediterranean life. And reclining on a yacht in an all but empty sea, you can't help but feel you've found somewhere secret that the rest of the world hasn't quite discovered yet. With all that's going for it, you have to wonder - is Split the next hot sailing destination?
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Jack Arnott travelled with Sailcroatia.
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A public consultation event about Kier Homes' plans to build 48 homes off Kettering Road, opposite Stamford AFC's current ground, is being held on Thursday at Stamford Arts Centre from 1pm to 7pm.
The drop-in session is for members of the public to view the draft planning proposal and talk to a planning consultant on the issue.
Kier Homes has submitted a screening opinion to South Kesteven District Council but is still to submit a planning application for the site.
Developers must submit a screening opinion to find out whether an environmental impact assessment is needed.
A protest group, called Stamford! Protect Our Green Spaces, has been formed to fight plans to build on the greenfield land on the outskirts of Stamford.
The group is concerned about the loss of an iconic view of Stamford, the impact of extra traffic in Kettering Road, particularly as plans to demolish the football ground opposite to make way for 54 homes have already been approved.
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SAN FRANCISCO --State auditors issued nearly 10,000 administrative penalty assessments to workers' compensation claims administrators totaling nearly $1,270,000 in 1997, according to a new report issued by the Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Workers' Compensation.
"These numbers continue to be unacceptably high," said DWC Administrative Director Casey L. Young in releasing the report. "Although many claims administrators do an excellent job, overall the statistics in this report show that this industry needs to improve its performance.
"Again this year, we are finding unacceptably high amounts of unpaid compensation due to injured workers, late payment of benefits, and failure to notify employees of their rights to benefits in a timely manner," he said.
Young noted that the average number of penalty citations per audit subject was 239, the average amount per penalty assessment was $136 and the average total in penalty assessments per audit was $32,548.
"All of these figures have risen since last year," he said, noting that the number of penalties assessed increased by 3.3 percent, the dollar amount in penalties increased by nine percent, and the average amount per penalty assessment increased by 5.4 percent. This is in spite of the fact the number of files audited during the year was down about 4,000 from 1996, Young said.
The division's Audit Unit completed 39 audits during the year, 29 of which were randomly selected and ten were "targeted." Targeted audits are based either upon the results of a previous audit or the investigation of complaints received by the DWC. In addition to the audits, 18 investigations of complaints were completed, in which 89 claim files were reviewed.
The number of audits and investigations completed was down from previous years because the audit staff was involved in several lengthy ongoing investigations into claims handling practices at certain claims adjusting locations during the year. The results of those investigations will not be reported until they are complete, expected sometime during 1998, Young said.
According to the report, a record amount in penalties for one audit was assessed in 1997, when Legion Insurance Company was assessed 1, 168 penalties totaling $158,940. The non-random audit resulted from a complaint investigation conducted in 1996 and disclosed $22,355 in unpaid compensation in 23 claims.
On the other hand, some 1997 audits showed excellent results, the report says. Auditors found little or no unpaid compensation due after reviewing a number of files at some adjusting locations. In other cases, a follow-up audit after an earlier audit showed the amount of compensation due had declined dramatically.
In 1997, auditors found unpaid compensation due to employees in about 16 percent of the indemnity and complaint files audited, up from 12.7 percent in 1996. In those files where there was unpaid compensation due, the average amount was $894, up from $819 in 1996.
Again in 1997, failure to provide proper benefit notices to injured workers or sending them late was the most common type of violation, accounting for over 48 percent of penalties assessed and about one third of the penalty amounts.
"Benefit notice violations are important because they keep injured workers informed of the status of their claim," said Young. "Failure to provide these notices increases the chances of unnecessary litigation." The full audit report will be available on-line from the Division of Workers' Compensation home page, accessible from the DIR website.


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More Than One Way Home Part 4: Free Prayer
With Part 4 of "More Than One Way Home," Daybreak contributor Madonna Hamel returns with her series on faith and spirituality in the Okanagan.
With her segment entitled Free Prayer, she sits down with Bruce Muirhead -- out in front of his motor home along Dehart Road, in Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood.
After his wife died in 2006, Bruce sold everything and hit the road until one day last summer.
That's when Bruce had a dream that instructed him to drive his motor home to Kelowna, put out a sign that reads "Free Prayer," then sit -- and wait.
Bruce says he asked his friends for guidance and when one of them revealed he'd had the same dream, Bruce figured that was confirmation enough.
Most days Bruce can be seen sitting in one of his lawn chairs, beside his Free Prayer sign, on Dehart between Gordon and Lakeshore Road. That's where Madonna Hamel found him last week.
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as a dog expert ho was a zero. The canine which was leading Mr. Hansen
about was a cocker spaniel. And while it wns true that Mr. Hansen was on
duty he was positively not on the trail of murderer, robber or other evil
doer. He was acting in the capa "ity of nursemaid to tho dog.
Mayor William Hale Thompson Is tho owner of the dog, nnd Mr. Hansen,
detailed from Town Hall to guard the mayor's home In the Chase apartments,
3200 Sheridan road, performs as part of his duties those of wet nurse to
"Well," queried the reporter, "how do you like the Job?"
"Oh, nil right," said Mr. Hansen. "Cocker's not a bad sort. A bit ten
pcrnmentnl nt times, but we get along. I'm taking him out for his nightly
constitutional now."
Cocker now manifested a desire to continue his evening stroll nnd tho
two departed. The fourth cstater resumed his trek, cogitating the happy let
of at least one Chicago dog a full-grown policeman at $115 a month for a
The Police Will Not Catch This Murderer Asleep
LAKE FOREST, ILL. About midnight Mrs. Cyrus n. Adams, Jr., fancied
she heard burglars and colled out the department, which responded In
the person of Chief of Police James Gordon, ably assisted by Policeman
William Hcnsell. Mr. Adams, by tho
way, Is a chicken fancier, and on tho
night in question had 17 Rhode Island
Reds of aristocratic lineage domiciled
in the back-yard chicken coop. They
were resting peacefully, so far ns
known, when suddenly their squawks
rang out and completely rent tho night
air. It was then that Mrs. Adams
sounded the alarm.
Now when Chief Gordon received
the summons he immediately notified
Policeman Hensel for the reason that
'Mr. Hensel Is peculiarly embittered against nil members of the chicken-coop
thief fraternity. Mr. Hensel, himself a chicken fancier, was recently guarding
the residence nnd chicken coop of Mrs. Capt. WlUlam A. Moffett when some
marauder Invaded his own coop and cleaned It. Mr. Hensel has vowed ven
geance. Well, the two officers sped to Mr. Adams' home In an nutomobilo nnd
rushed out to the coop with revolvers drawn and electric flashlight gleaming.
They entered the coop. The squawks by now had ceased. The reason was
apparent. Each of tho 17 Rhode Island Reds was dead. They had squawked
their last squawk.
Investigating the surrounding terrain nnd coop Interior for finger prints
or footmarks they discovered evidence that the assassin belonged to tho un
gulata and not the homlnldne class of mammal. That Is to say, tho murder
wns committed by a weasel. The police nro searching for him.
WW- ix-a
One of the Unusual Tragedies of the Great War
ALLENTOWN, PA. When the wife of Private Miles C. Booth of the One
Hundred and Eighth machine gun battalion heard last eummer that he
had been killed In action during the fighting on the Marne, she mourned for
him for a time and then married Wll-
lara George Smith.
Private Booth has now turned up
at hts homo here alive and almost
well. It nppears that the shell which
killed four of his comrades on' July 22
only wounded him.
Tho situation Is 'complicated by
the fact that Smith, tho second hus
band, was also a soldier In France.
StlJsi rmge to Mrs. Smith nnd reached the
front shortly before tho nrralstlco was
rtgnod. Both Booth and his wife view tho Hilxup with a philosophical air of
"mistakes will happen." Booth says he Is going back to the hospital in New
York, where army surgeons nre still treating his wounds.
"Why should I make trouble for her?" ho flays. "She is a mighty fine
girl, nnd, with mo 'dead' as reported, I don't wonder that 6omo other man was
attracted to her."
The wife, who Is now living with Booth's two children as "Mrs. Smith,"
nt Fullerton, Is just as philosophical.
'"I heard Miles had been killed and went In mourning for him," sho said.
"Nobody said anythlns when I' later began to keep company with my second
husband, who is also a good man."
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The land of the negligee Is f lie laud
of perpetual summer that may be found
within four walls inclosing a steam
heating apparatus, or In other walls
that look out upon summer skies. The
negligee Is no respecter of climates;
It Insists upon being colorful nnd flow
erful nnd euehnntlngly suggestive of
spring zephyrs and garden paths,
whatever Its environment. It Is an in
spiration, an invitation to leisure and
Idle hours, a hnppy change from or
dinary work-n-day clothes. Every
womnn should do herself n kindness
by adopting n pretty negligee as a
playmate. It will put her lh a pleas
ant frame of mind.
Usually theso fanciful garments nre
made of sheer and soft materials as
lace, georgette, chiffon and fine mulls,
thnt float about tho figure no more
burdensome than the air nnd not very
"long" on protection. Crepe de chine
nnd very thin wnsh silks make negli
gees n little bit heavier and equally
soft and becoming. The same gay
colors nre used for these. One of
them Is shown In the picture made
with nu nccordion-plnltcd skirt of
light pink crepe de chine and n short
kimono of the same material. This
kimono Is true to form so far as its
embroidered wild roses and rose foil
age aro concerned, but It departs from
the original Japanese model, having
fronts that lengthen Into n girdle that
ties In tho back. Its neck nnd front
edges have folds of georgette crepe
set In, nnd a border of narrow black
ribbon. The ribbon follows the girdle
to tho end but the plaits stop at the
waistline. Tfccse folds of georgette
with the band of black ribbon make a
pretty finish for the flowing sleeves,
The skirt of this negligee Is long, as
Is the rule with negligees. It might bo
even longer. Sntlu slippers go well
with It, but there nre mnny lovely
fancy boudoir slippers of ribbon or
other materials to choose from, since
a negligee must have footwear of Its
own chnracter to go with It.
5 1
The blouse of georgette crepe needs
no one to sing Its praises. This ex
qulslto fabric is a permanent acqui
sition, and has made a place in the
esteem of women that It will be dif
ficult to usurp. But we are grateful
to the blouse makers who have turned
their talents to designing new styles,
in which two colors, Instead of one,
are used. This color combination lends
up to new trimming Idens and lends nn
added interest to Incoming styles In
oprlng blouses. f
Along with tho two-color blouses
comes thread embroidery, morestrong
ly featured this season than ever. In
tho plcturo abovo a blouse of light
and dark georgette is shown, with
light and dark heavy embroidery silk
making a rich decoration for It, In an
embroidery that Is quickly done nnd
Is not heavy. Any two colors thnt
harmonize niny bo used In these two
color blouses. Favorite combinations
aro beige and navy, cerise and navy,
coral and ivory, black and white, gray
and rose, purple and champagne,
American Beauty and navy, or cherry
and navy, the last being the Victory
Tho blouse pictured Is In the slip
over style, but it fastens on tho shoul
der. A panel of the, dark georgettt
at tho back and front Is split Into two
panels at Its lower half and serves as
a background for the thread en
broidery. Tho sleeves havo deep cuffs
of tho dark georgette and a flare at
the bottom finished with n band of the
dark crepe. A pretty finish for tho
round neck Is made by twisting the
light nnd dark embroidery silk to
gether In a rope of which loops and
ends are mnde and placed at the front
of tho neck.
It will be noticed that the belt of
the skirt worn with this blouse sets be
low the normal waistline nnd is fitted
about tho figure. This gives a new
long waist which appears to be mak
ing headway as a feature of spring
WASHINGTON. Thoughtful observers abroad of a philosophical turn of
mind nro predicting a considerable "Americanization" of Europe ns n
result of tho great war. Points made by them includo these: Millions of
American Boldlcrs have brought tho
stamp of American personality to Eu
rope. Tho work of matcrlnl recon
struction for years to come will bring
to Europe thousands of Americans of
force nnd Individuality. There will
necessarily be an Increasing assimila
tion of American ways. An Indication
of what Is coming Is the fact that tho
women of Europe have already fallen
In love with tho American soldier.
There will be n certain percolation
of what may be called tho "American .
language" Idioms, quick turn of phrases, unusual sentences to fit emergen
cies, sparkling verbal lmninr. Tho English, however, will not accept either
tho American Intonation or pronunciation.
Baseball may become popular, but tho British will not supplant cricket
with It. Men may take the place of women ni barkeepers In England. There
will be a greater market than over for American plnys. The British theater
will remain ns It Is. with Its buffet, lounge, cardroom nnd other conveniences.
Europe will likely adopt many American dishes. There Is a longing for
grapefruit for breakfast. Buckwheat cakes aro liked wherever tried. Broiled
chicken, corned beef hash and waffles have an appeal that cannot be resisted.
American bncon, however, Is not populnr In England; It Is too salty.
Americans are the best-dressed people In tho world ; ordinary men In the
streets of New York or Chicago aro dressed with a precision not equalled In
nny great city of Europe. In Europe, Americans dress rather after their
home style than according to tho local style. Hitherto Paris has been the
world center of women's fashions nnd London the center for men's fashions.
There Is likely to bo a rage for certain American articles of nttlre. Perhaps
In Paris and London signs will bo seen, "The latest from Fifth avenue."
In the Industrial world American efllclcncy has taught Europeans so
many things that tho effects are beyond estimate nnd enumeration In reason
able space.
Hun Helmets Prizes in Next Victory Loan Drive
REPORTS from American headquarters In Germany show that 40 ware
houses and barracks In tho Coblenz region, crammed with millions of
dollars' worth of war materials, abandoned by the Germans, will revert to
the United States by default. The sup
plies were not Inventoried by the
enemy and cannot be turned over to
the allied pool under the armistice
One "hundred men of the salvage
department have comp!eteda month's
work In checking up these materials.
They have made an Inventory of only
six of the warehouses so far, and their
report comprises CO typewritten pages.
In nddltlon, Investigators are contin
ually finding new caches. The mate
rials range from needles nnd songbooks to huge guns, locomotives and shells.
The salvagers have begun shipping tho best of them into France, including
a trainload of machine guns, ammunition and accessories. Army officials
hold the opinion that much of the stuff Is not worth shipping space to the
United States. Disposal of goods that are usable and yet not valuable enough
to transport across the Atlantic Is uncertain. Possibly they will be sold to
France. Materials that cannot be sold will be destroyed.
From 00,000 to 70,000 German helmets are being loaded on freight cars
for shipment to the United Stntes to be distributed ns prizes In connection
with the next Victory loan campaign.
The shipment consists of cavalry officers' bright steel helmets and PniS'
slan guard helmets, all of fancy design and most of them spiked. These have
been In great demand by souvenir hunters.
This spoil Is none too large. Judging by the demands upon congress from
every part of the country for trophies. Cannon or field pieces are preferred,
but trophies of any kind arc better than nothing.
'J terOrtifj.
Uncle Sam's Allies Are Asking Smaller Loans
AMERICA'S job ns banker for the allies was lighter In January than at nny
time since the nation entered the war. Only $170,000,000 was paid out as
loans to the nllles up to January 25. Credits established and payments made
were reported as follows:
Credit. Payment.
Great Britain 14,165,981,000 4,C32,O00.O0O
. 2,436.427,000 2,036,427,000
, 1,310.000,000 1,271,000,000
, 256,145,000 237.045.000
"allies' 'A
m LlChT
Payments on this account for a
long time ran nrouud $400,000,000 a
month. The reduction Is cnused prin
cipally by the curtailment of shipments of food, for payment of which the
American credits had been largely used.
Total credits extended by the treasury now amount to S8,5S8,773,000, but
only $7,854,810,000 has been actually paldgout under these credits.
Greece, Liberia and Roumanla havo never presented claims for pay
ments. Russia still has $137,000,000 to her credit on the treasury books, al
though she has not applied for money since the revolution.
Until congress enacts the pending bill advocated by the treasury to
authorize loans to the allies for other than strictly war purposes, officials do
not look for much change in tho present low rate of demands on the Amer
ican government.
One of the effects of the wnr Is that billions now seem as ordinary as did
millions a few years ago and no sum seems Impossible.
Oil to Supplant Coal in Our Merchant Marine
PLANS looking to vastly Increased use of oil fuel by American merchant
vessels have been developed nt conferences between heads of the larger
oil producing Interests, ship owners nnd representatives of the shipping board.
John II. Rosseter, director of op
erations for the board, announces thnt
details oT tho proposals tentatively
accepted are being worked out prelim
inary to action toward the establish
ment of additional oil bunkering facili
ties at various ports and co-operation
with tho oil producers to assure a
steady supply of fuel.
"Oil fuel Is the real solution of the
American merchant marine problem,"
Mr. Rosseter said In outlining the poli
cy under development. "What is
chiefly necessary Is complete co-operation of the various enterprises and
interests concerned, and during tho last few days we have succeeded In reach
ing an understanding, I believe, with the oil producers preliminary to pro
ceeding further.
"It would be manifestly uneconomic to establish hew bunkernge facilities
In ports where they now are available, and yet It will be necessary to widen
tho facilities for oil supply to vessels. We have consequently secured ussur
onces thnt the existing plnnts will be operated In conjunction with tho system
tho board Is contemplating establishing.
"The Importance of oil fuel to the future of the American merchant
marine, I believe, cannot be overrated. It means the difference between suc
cess and failure, In snort."
RAEL. (May Be Used With Missionary Applica
tion.) LESSON TEXT Exodus 32:1-34:9.
GOLDEN TEXT The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man avallith
much. James 6:16.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Deut 9:6
29; Eph. 3:14-21; James 6:16-18.
PRIMARY TOPIC Ask God's hSp for
others. Memory Verse James 5-16.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Praylng for other
INTERMEDIATE TOPlC-Inlcrcedlng
for others.
SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC The
value of Intercessory prayer.
Less than six weeks have elnped
since Israel took the oatli of allegiance
to Jehovah. In less than forty days
they flagrantly break the first and sec
ond commandments.
I. The Golden Calf (32:1-0).
1. Moses' delay (v. 1) This they In
terpreted to mean that their leader
had either lost his way In the dark
ness or had perished In the fire thnt
hovered over the mount.
2. The people's demand (v. 1). They
demanded of Aaron that he make them
a god to go before them. Their pro
fession of allegiance to God collapsed
as soon as the strong personality of
their leader was no longer felt.
3. Aaron's cowardly compliance (vv.
2-4). He was nn eloquent man. but
lacked moral courage. Many today
can talk fluently, but vacillate before
the real Issues of life. In order to
gain time with the rebels he demand
ed that they cast off their Jewelry and
bring It to him. Perhaps he thought
that their love for It would caue thoin
to forego their demands, but they
cheerfully gave up their Jewelry for u
false god. Aaron, like many compro
mising men of this age. opened a door
which he could not shut.
4. Wanton revelry (vv. 5, C). See
ing their disposition, Aaron erected an
altar and proclaimed a fast unto Je
hovah. Ho no doubt wished them to
worship the Lord through the Image,
but he had made a god for them and
it was a very short step to the heath
en orgies connected with Idolatrous
II. God's Burning Wrath (32:7-10).
God's nature Is such that he cannot
tolerate a rival. No gods shall be be
fore his face. The rlvul must be "re
moved or the people must be consumed
with divine wrath. God does not own
them as his people, for they had cast
him off.
III. The Mediation of Moses (32:11
14). The declaration of a divine purpose
to destroy the Israelites did not deter
Moses from making Intercession for
them. What was his threefold plea?
(vv. 11, 12, 13).
Moses knew full well thnt the people
deserved to die, therefore he could not
plead any merit on their part. His
plea was based wholly on God's pur
pose for Israel. Through his Interces
sion God relents.
IV. Judgment Falls (32:15-35).
1. Moses broke the tables of testi
mony (vv. 15-10) emblematic of the
breath of their covenant with God.
2. Moses destroyed the image (v. 20)
nnd made the people drink of the wa
ter which contained Its dust, thus mak
ing them to experience In a physical
sense the bitterness which results from
sin. "
3. Moses showed Aaron that he was
Inexcusable for his part In the dis
graceful affair (vv. 21-24).
4. Moses called for those who wouldi
take a stand for the Lord to gird their
swords and slay all who stood out in.
rebellion. The tribe of Levi rangedf
themselves on his side and became the
instrument by which God chastened his
people (vv. 23-29).
5. Moses confessed the great sin of
the people nnd begged that God would
forgive them. He was willing to suf
fer the punishment himself, If possible,
and let the people go free. The Lord
declared to him In answer that every
man should bear his own sin (vv. 80
35). V. The Covenant Renewed (33:1-4-9).
1. Moses' commission renewed (Ch.
2. The second tables of the law
given (34 :l-9). In the giving of these
tables he reiterated God's Justice, but
gave particular emphasis to bis mercy.
"The Lord God, merciful and gracious,
long-suffering and abundant in good
ness nnd truth, keeping mercy for
thousunds, forgiving Iniquity nnd
transgression and sin, and that will by
no means clear the guilty; visiting the
Iniquity- of the fathers upon the chil
dren, and upon the children's children,
unto the third nnd fourth generation."
What to Pray For.
Oh, do not pray for easy lives. Pray
to be stronger men. Do not pray for
tnsks equal to your powers. Pray for
powers equal to your tasks. Then tho
doing of your work shall be no miracle.
But you shall be a miracle. Every day
you shall wonder at yourself, at the
richness of life which has come to you
by the grace of God. Phillips Brooks.
Those who fallow Christ are blessed
with the fellowship of Christ Wher
there Is fellowship there Is fellowship.
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Wake County gets mixed results at General Assembly
by Burwell Stark
RALEIGH — At their meeting, Monday, Wake County commissioners heard a recap of the 2013 legislative session from a county perspective, which included a summary of the county's legislative goals.
In the words of presenter Denise Foreman, assistant to the Wake County manager, out of the goals outlined by the county, they received credit for accomplishing "about two and a half."
Protecting the county's interests
According to Foreman, the county had outlined seven goals prior to the legislative session.
The successfully accomplished goals were the Wake County Board of Commissioners vacancies bill, which allows the board to appoint a replacement to fill a vacancy that may occur, and legislation that would allow the City-County Bureau of Identification (CCBI) to move its accreditation deadline from 2013 to 2016. This would give CCBI time to achieve accreditation in some of its specialty services as well.
CCBI met the original accreditation deadline but can now "add some of those specialty services and still be compliant with the extended deadline of July 1, 2016," Foreman said.
The partial credit achieved in this year's legislative session concerned board of education elections.
At the outset, the commissioners sought permission to have the Wake County Board of Education "run five members from district seats (districts to be determined) and four to run in at-large seats."
Currently all nine board members are elected by district.
Forehand told commissioners, "The reason I say partial credit is because the legislation that was approved wasn't what you all identified in your local goals but it did modify the elections."
The final bill, S.L. 2013-110 (SB 325), modified the election dates for the board of education, but it mandated that all nine members continue to be elected by district.
Partnering with other counties
Also speaking to commissioners was Johanna Reese, director of government relations with the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC). She presented the statewide update changes that were made at the General Assembly which have an impact on counties.
Reese began by outlining the successes seen by counties at the legislature. One of the main accomplishments was the protection of county budgets by the General Assembly. The legislators "kept their pledge to not shift unfunded mandates to counties."
Another success was the lack of transfer of transportation responsibilities from the state to counties.
Counties also saw a slight increase in tax revenue as a result of this session's budget. S.L. 2013-316 (HB 998) broadens the sales tax base by expanding the services that can be taxed to include service contracts (i.e., warranties and service contracts), movies and other amusements.
However, S.L. 2013-316 also permanently removes the corporate tax set-aside for school construction needs and given to county boards of education based on their average daily membership (ADM), known as the ADM Fund.
Another major victory outlined by Reese was SB 321, which caps the rate counties have to reimburse medical providers for the treatment of county prisoners. According to the bill, the new rate is the lesser amount of "either a rate of 70 percent of the provider's then-current prevailing charge or two times the then-current Medicaid rate for any given service."
Of note, the legislation was passed by both houses of the General Assembly but has yet to be signed by Governor McCrory.
Not all of the goals outlined by the NCACC were achieved. In addition to the permanent elimination of school construction funds based on ADM, Reese pointed out no new community mental health dollars were appropriated as the legislature chose not to restore the $20 million for community mental health services.
Instead, the 2013-14 budget redirected $9 million for additional local psych beds, created a statewide telepsychiatry program to alleviate emergency room wait times for involuntary commitments, and set aside $4.6 million for adult care group home transition issues.
Looking ahead
Of the five Wake County legislative items that did not get accomplished, one is still on the table.
HB 726, Wake County Commissioners Responsible for School Construction, is still eligible for next year's short legislative session.
Additionally, Foreman said that the county delegation would continue to seek repeal of the requirement for counties to provide office space for the NC Department of Corrections' Probation Office saying it was another example of an unfunded mandate.