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Preferred Provider Organizations for Health Insurance
Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) are comprised of a network of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers that work with a health insurance carrier or another type of third-party administration organization to provide managed care health plans. The providers in the network provide healthcare services to people who purchase the carrier's health insurance plan, at a reduced rate compared to the costs of non-insured healthcare.
- PPO Plans: The Basics
PPO plans resemble HMO plans in that both types fully cover the costs of network-provided healthcare visits. However, unlike HMOs, PPO plans offer consumers a certain degree of flexibility when it comes to choosing a primary care doctor. In fact, under a PPO plan, policy owners can chose not to have a primary care doctor at all. With a PPO plan, you may also visit specialists without a referral from a doctor (again, in contrast to an HMO in which a doctor's referral is needed for specialist visits.
PPO plans differ from HMO plans yet again in that on a PPO plan, you may visit doctors and specialists who are not in the organization's network. However, non-network visits do incur costs for the policy owner, with the insurance covering only part of the cost.
Another advantage of PPO plans is that they tend to have wider geographic coverage, meaning that the network extends further than an HMO network. In fact, while HMOs rarely provide out-of-state coverage, PPO plans frequently do provide this benefit.
This increased flexibility does come at a price, however. PPO plans are typically more expensive than HMO plans that provide consumers with a much lower degree of choice and flexibility in their healthcare. PPO policy holders usually pay higher premiums, and must also cover part of the cost of visiting non-network providers (in the form of co-payments that must usually be paid at the time of the visit).
- What do PPO Plans Cover?
A standard PPO plan may provide some or all of the following:
- Visits to network primary care doctors
- Visits to network specialists
- Diagnostic laboratory tests
- Emergency treatment
- Procedures that require hospitalization (including essential surgery)
- Prescriptions
- Partial reimbursement of the costs of using non-network providers (each individual plan offers this benefit in varying degrees)
- Dental services (optional; not offered by all plans)
Most plans do not include coverage for alternative treatments and therapies such as homeopathy, aromatherapy and acupuncture. Elective surgery, such as cosmetic surgery, is also excluded from coverage.
- Who should use a PPO Plan?
PPO plans can be purchased by individuals and families, and are also available for small and large businesses. Unlike HMO plans, which can usually be obtained only though an employer, a family or individual does not need to obtain PPO health cover via an employer.
PPO plans are ideal for families and individuals who want low-cost healthcare, but want more flexibility than an HMO plan provides. Families with members that need specialist care will also find a PPO more suitable than an HMO, as the PPO allows family members to visit specialists without a primary care doctor's referral, and also pays partial costs of non-network visits.
These plans are also suitable for anyone who travels out-of-state frequently, as the PPO can provide out-of-state healthcare cover.


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Report NEP-AGE-2011-09-22This is the archive for NEP-AGE, a report on new working papers in the area of Economics of Ageing. Claudia Villosio issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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- OKUMURA Tsunao & USUI Emiko, 2011. "Effect of Pension Reform on Pension-Benefit Expectations and Savings Decisions in Japan," Discussion papers 11065, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
- Clemens Hetschko & Andreas Knabe & Ronnie Schöb, 2011. "Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 399, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
- Pettersson, Jan, 2011. "Instead of Bowling Alone? Unretirement of Old-Age Pensioners," Working Paper Series 2011:14, Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
- Arnaud Chéron & Jean-Olivier Hairault & François Langot, 2011. "Age-Dependent Employment Protection," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-00623282, HAL.
- Bonleu, A. & Cette, G. & Horny, G., 2011. "Capital Utilisation and Retirement," Working papers 343, Banque de France.
- Alan L. Gustman & Thomas L. Steinmeier & Nahid Tabatabai, 2011. "The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula," Working Papers wp248, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center.
- Randall S. Jones & Satoshi Urasawa, 2011. "Labour Market Reforms in Japan to Improve Growth and Equity," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 889, OECD Publishing.
- Alvaro Forteza & Irene Mussio, 2011. "Assessing Redistribution in the Uruguayan Social Security System," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1211, Department of Economics - dECON.
- Nicole Woo & Janelle Jones & John Schmitt, 2011. "Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2011-19, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
- Grégory Ponthière, 2011. "Long-Term Care, Altruism and Socialization," PSE Working Papers halshs-00622385, HAL.
- Richard Jong-A-Pin & Jochen O. Mierau, 2011. "No Country for Old Men: Aging Dictators and Economic Growth," Working Papers CEB 11-039, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
- Alexander Ludwig & Thomas Schelkle & Edgar Vogel, 2011. "Online Appendix to "Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare"," Technical Appendices 08-168, Review of Economic Dynamics.


text: This shot at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse took a while to get. Lighthouses, like benches, are a motif that shows up a lot in my pictures. The concept of a lone lighthouse and its keeper has always been fascinating to me. So given the chance to drive the Pacific Coast Highway, I marked off every lighthouse that I could get to. I think from Morro Bay to Portland, I left out only two. But alas, I wasn't fortunate enough to get to all of them. The first one, was under construction. The second and the third one was closed. I got one or two in between, and then headed to the last one, the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. As soon as we got there, it started raining. Hard. Determined to get a good shot of at least one lighthouse, I refused to leave. A park ranger came around and asked us when we were going to leave, because everybody else was gone, but the park wasn't closed yet. I assume if we left they would close the park. Disappointing the ranger, we stuck around, and eventually we were rewarded with this beautiful sky.


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CMS196M automated mapping of an EM grid at high resolution.
The cryo-correlative stage, CMS196M can automatically map EM grids at high resolution making it a simple matter to find and record the co-ordinates of the key areas of interest in your sample. The video above shows how easy it is to set up the CMS196M with the new LINK software and create high resolutions maps of the full EM grid.


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Leaders of Hindu and Muslim organisations will meet in Kozhikode (Calicut) on Thursday to create a congenial atmosphere for the rehabilitation of Muslim families that fled Marad after the May two carnage, which claimed nine lives.
Disclosing this in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday after a meeting with Kerala Chief Minister A K Antony, Indian Union Muslim League general secretary and Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty said both sides had expressed their willingness to hold talks in a friendly atmosphere without any mediators or preconditions.
With this, the rehabilitation of Muslim families, for which the government had set October two as the deadline, is likely to be delayed further.
Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, IUML, Hindu Aikya Vedi, Araya Samajam and representatives of Muslim organisations would take part in the meeting, the minister said adding he, along with E Ahmed, MP, and PWD Minister M K Muneer, would be representing his party at the talks. IUML supremo Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal would attend the meeting if required, he said.The initiative for the meeting had come from the organisations and not the government.


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River Rendezvous
The Baraboo River Rendezvous is held the first part of September with the Spirit Lake Mountain Men arriving from all over the Great Lakes region. These pre-1840s fur traders gathered each autumn to trade furs and stories while enjoying games of skill. Throwing axes and tossing around loaded beaver traps is just part of the fun. Dressed in buckskins and woolen garments these rendezvous events were a means of making a living before the Great Lakes region was settled. Left click on the photo to enlarge it.


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Hey! Check me out! I've been included in a post over at Gluten Free Betsy post our awesome Chicago Women's Mag Mile 5K.
Earlier this year I was also featured as a Face of Fitness with Trainer Nik. You can read that full post right here:
Real Faces of Fitness - #5 Spotlight on Tahnee Lacey, Chicago, IL.
No intro can do this woman justice. She's an improv comedy whiz, she just did a half marathon, and she's a survivor of years spent with Cheetos and Tostitos in hand. Simply put, Tahnee is clever and unstoppable. In her own words, "Be strong, kick butt, love yourself and remember to support each other."
Writing about one's fitness journey is more difficult than it sounds. Mine is more like constant dips into a pool before you finally realize it's warm outside but cool in the water and you really do love swimming. So you dive in.
Let's start at the beginning. I was active enough as most kids are and I played basketball (this is a big deal if you know how short I am) and danced ballet until about the time I hit puberty. It was then that I got curvy, discovered theater and preferred watching TV and eating Cheetos to sports. The most I did throughout high school was dance the night away at ska shows which is a great workout, but not enough. I went through years of my mother telling me I should work out and me, being a petulant teenager, responding with a "no, thank you."
There were years in college where I believe I had a mild case of body dismorphic disorder. I would go to Anna's Taqueria in Boston and order a delicious burrito and chips and salsa and would spend my time at the register assuming the employees were thinking I was fat and didn't need to eat that much. I joined a gym but never went. I just wasn't ready.
A few years later while still in college, I became a dog walker. This meant that I was walking all day long and more when my dogs lived up four-floor walk-ups. Inevitably I got into better shape but I still ate terribly. When I graduated and started working in an office, I gained the weight back as I was doing improv at night and eating lime Tostitos in my spare time.
I moved to Chicago around 2006 and started a full time office job, worked at Second City and took classes in their conservatory as well as at IO, and I performed every chance I got. Needless to say, I didn't care about my health. In about 2009 when I was performing significantly less, I discovered All About Dance. It combined my love of dance with my hatred of working out and I loved it. Eventually I petered out and tried every gym that would offer free classes including FlyWheel, Real Ryder, Shred 451, Indigo Studio, Barre Method... until I met Enrgi. By "met" I mean I bought a one week pass and then quickly handed over my credit card because I was in love.
I joined Enrgi with my amazing friend, Annie, as I would rather watch TV than work out and needed the push. But what I found at Enrgi is that all of the teachers and other students at Energi are so damn nice and so damn motivating. I also did myself a solid and bought a deal that requires me to go 16 days a month otherwise I would have to pay more. Being the cheap person I am and loving the place as I do, I typically go 20-25 days a month.
Around this same time last year, Annie and our other friend Mel pushed me to start running on our lunch breaks. When we began I found it embarrassing that I could barely run .25 miles, but they never judged. Annie and Mel were excellent coaches and so supportive. Less than a year later (this May) I ran my first half marathon.
Last Memorial Day, my dad died of a heart attack and my grandmother is slowly falling apart. ENRGi and running have pushed me to work out, but the poor health of my family is what I find truly motivating. I am working out like what some people call a crazy person because I don't want my heart to stop because I didn't nourish it. And I don't want to spend my 80s falling apart.
My journey has had stops and starts, but the support I have received from others has been astounding and it feels beyond lovely to give it back to them. I was actually talking to my grandmother the other day and said to her, "the weight that you are doesn't determine who you are as a person." I think that might have been the biggest thing for me. As someone who always cared what I look liked on the outside, I no longer do. I feel amazing and so much stronger these days, but what's more important is that I am able to give that light to others. You can think of me as the pool floatie. Wrap me around your arms and I will help you stay up.
Be strong, kick butt, love yourself and remember to support each other.


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The Ashbury invitation, from the Fresh Collection, features bright stripes, arrows and eclectic typography. It's one of my more modern invitations and I love the square layout - worth every extra cent of postage!
Pool and green is such a fun and playful color scheme, so this ended up being one of my favorite inspiration boards. While I tend to lean towards colors in the 'grey' spectrum, I appreciate those that love to use color and can pull off fun and bright color combos. What's nice is that I can pretend I know what I'm doing on this little blog here.


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Mood: hopeful
Current WIP: coming of age paranormal
In contemplating this blog, after reading both the serious and funny previous blogs, I thought everything that makes me go hmm are either rules I learned as a child or the truly stupid things I do almost every day of my life. All I can do is say hmmm, laugh, and move on. So here they are.
I hate that saying "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Oh, I understand about turning your life around and starting over, but please. If that's true, what the hell was yesterday?
I'm perpetually on and off a diet. What I've never figured out is how does eating one pound of something not on the list make me gain 5 lbs? I know it has to do with calories and all that, but really…it's just not fair!
I'm forever trying to organize my life. I know I should just give up and accept that it can't be organized. One of the things I do is go through important papers, or heirloom items and put them in a secure place. The problem is then I can't find it again. Recently, we signed up for a security box in our bank. Of course, we haven't put anything in their yet because I've already forgotten the special pin and I don't want to admit it to them yet.
What does "I was scared half to death" mean? That's one of those phrases I hear a lot from younger people. If it happens again are you then completely dead?
Why is it on the inside I feel 28 years old (and have for a long time) but the outside never agrees? I remember when I was a teenager my grandmother said she was stuck at 26. I thought she was crazy. Now I've joined her. (In the picture on the left do you see a young woman or an old woman?)
Why are the teeth most people get pulled called wisdom teeth? I lost mine at age 19, does that mean the only wisdom I have is whatever was gathered by 19? Sometimes I think it's really true.
To round out the last two I reminisced about what my mother and grandmother passed down to me as daily rules. They all revolved around the liklihood of being hurt and then being embarrassed. Here are my two favorites.
Mother: Be sure to always wear clean underwear in case you have to go to the hospital and the doctor needs to remove it.
Grandmother: Never shave your legs in case you step off the curb and hurt yourself. I cute guy may need to massage your leg to make it better and he doesn't want to feel all that prickliness when the hair starts to grow back.
I'm looking forward to 2009 and a whole new year of doing stupid things. In fact I'm going to bask in stupidity. Truly, it's the only way to remain sane. 🙂
Happy Holidays everyone. From my house to yours, I wish you many blessings in the coming year. Our wonderful cat, Belle, is in the pic below. She has taken up permanent residence in front of the fireplace this winter.


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How Poor Communication Can Destroy a Relationship
We all believe we have great communication skills. It is everyone else around us who has the communication problems, right?
The truth is, most of us are not taught how to communicate effectively. We see things, feel things, perceive things from our unique perspective and we assume others see, feel, and perceive things just like we do. When they don't, we feel frustrated, ignored, unheard.
If we want to have healthy, satisfying relationships, we must learn healthy communication skills.
Here is an excerpt from my new book, Peace For a Lifetime, that shares how poor communication can destroy a relationship.
Several years ago I was working with a middle-aged couple, Rick and Audrey, who had been married for fifteen years. As I questioned Audrey to learn more about what wasn't working in their relationship, she openly shared her frustration with Rick. From her perspective, he just wasn't willing to meet her needs. Her primary complaints were Rick's lack of affection and lack of help around the house. I followed up by asking what she had done previously to address her concerns with Rick. She replied she had told him repeatedly he was selfish and didn't care about her at all.
Rick for his part, was mostly silent during my initial conversation with Audrey. He seemed frustrated and angry just hearing her complaints. When I addressed him to find out his concerns, his only response was, "Her." He described he is usually attentive and doesn't go out with his buddies to drink; he just doesn't know what her problem is. "I think when she gets like this, she's just crazy," he explained. "I should have known she'd be just like her mother. This really has nothing to do with me. I'm just here to get her the help she needs."
I asked Audrey if she had ever shared with Rick her specific complaints and how she felt about them. She replied he should know. "If he loves me, he should know the things that are important to me and should try to meet my needs."
While I understood Audrey's perspective and her frustration with the dynamic at work between the two of them, thinking that Rick was able to somehow know what her needs were if she was not able to communicate them clearly was a stretch.
To be honest, most of us at some point have had the experience of expecting or assuming someone should know something about us even though we have never communicated our thoughts or feelings to them. So often we carry hurts and frustrations regarding unmet needs that we have never spoken.
This illustration shows, among other things, how poorly Rick and Audrey communicate with one another. In her attempt at communicating, Audrey accuses Rick of being selfish, of not loving her or trying to meet her needs. Rick feels defensive and lashes back by placing the blame on Audrey, calling her names, and belittling both her and her mother. None of this communication is healthy and none of their interactions will bring Emotional Abundance (EA)—being able to effectively manage our emotions so we can appropriately respond to the people and circumstances around us—to the relationship.
Your relationships don't have to be the source of such frustration. You don't have to feel so alone with your partner. You can learn effective communication skills that will breathe new life and new hope into your relationship.
I share simple, practical life steps in my book, Peace For a Lifetime, that can help you understand the life God desires for you. This material can help you create and experience an indestructible peace – not just for today, not just for tomorrow, you can experience peace…for a lifetime!
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System and Server Administrator - SAP HANA Stack (m/f)
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IT System Administrator - Server Administrator - SAP HANA Stack (m/f)
Our software solutions are going to revolutionize the construction industry and therefore need a fast, reliable and secure backbone. Our vision is transporting real-time construction management systems onto construction sites all over the world. The heart of our Software-as-a-Service platform is a SAP HANA database on top of which we are creating our HTML5/JavaScript frontend. Frontend and backend communicate via RESTful Services and/or ODATA. Like it? Read on!
Your job would be to
- Set up and maintain our server infrastructure and company networks
- Ensure security of our services and servers against attacks from the evil outside world
- Create a well integrated application stack to enable high quality development, marketing and overall company workflows (e.g. Confluence, JIRA, Stack, Salesforce, Jenkins)
- Administrate our servers (company intern and SAP HANA cloud instances) and tweak them for performance and scalability
What we are looking for
- You are experienced when it comes to networks, servers, application stacks and databases
- You know the hardware that fits best
- You know Linux, Hudson, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Stack, Apache, Tomcat, SSL, VPN by heart
- Security is a must for you
- First experience with SAP HANA and SQL is desirable
- You are able to adapt to new systems like SAP HANA
- And you like the challenge to get the most out of every system
What we bring to the table
- A smart team striving to become the "next" big thing in construction software
- Challenging tasks & wide-spread career-choices
- Hands-on experience with SAP systems which will be of great value to you
- Flexible work-times. 9 to 5 is not a must
- A great office environment in Berlin Mitte including a ping-pong-table
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your documents in German or English to email@example.com and tell us about your availability and salary expectation. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
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Retrieve Lament: Rachel Spies' mourning story/
Throughout this week that we call Holy, I've invited a few friends who have companioned in suffering with Christ and His people to share a bit of their stories with us. I'm grateful to today's guest - a friend from our beloved church family (and writing group) in Austin - for sharing from her experience of a relentless lent. I'm also grateful to Rachel for her skill in expressing the inexpressable in a way that welcomes us into her grief, and thereby, our own. This is no small gift, and I pray that God will raise up a canopy of protection over Rachel's family, as she and Jonathan continue to wait for resurrection. I pray this for all of us in the various forms of suffering we encounter waiting for the help of a risen Christ. Would you read with me, and listen with an open heart for any words Christ might be speaking to you through Rachel's story?
Retrieving the lament of that which is almost unbearable to name
The past five years I have lived in Lent. The church calendar has ticked by but I have stayed here in the barren place, the dark place where hope is for others and resurrection is a belief but not tangible. It's one of those long stories, too long certainly for this space, with long emotions and long components, but familiar too – grief, hurt, expectations not met, illness, grief, uncertainty, abuse, adoption, mental illness, destruction. Many families enter into these lands, and many families fall apart. We did. Some families are able to weather the storm. We couldn't.
Last year I had four children, this year I have three. Or maybe I still have four. I don't know how to answer that question. Last year my daughter knew nothing of violence or crime or the physical power that men can yield over women. This year, at eight years of age, she is a sexual assault statistic. I will never be over that, never.
Five years ago when I heard the word "rad," I thought of 1980's slang. Now I think of attachment disorders and all the hell they entail.
I am a writer, a poet of sorts I suppose, and my offerings are often written on the page. These are a few of the laments I retrieved over the past few years.
I had a son
Before and After
Real Live Monsters
Support for South Sudan
Rachel grew up and still lives in Austin, TX, where she enjoys writing, her family, and searching for the perfect margarita
(You can read all of the Retrieve Lament stories from previous years here.)


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After a lifetime love affair with my birthplace, it hasn't been easy to leave it and move on. But circumstance sometimes offers us change, willy-nilly, will we/won't we. And so it happened here. I could choose to see this change that suddenly loomed large on my horizon, this uprooting from my comfortably settled complacency, as an oppressive burden or as a door opening on new vistas – new people, new places, new experiences.
I cut my teeth on my grandmother's endless store of maxims: "What can't be cured, must be endured." "No use crying over spilt milk." And the unforgettably garbled line from Jane Ace, of early radio days, "You've got to take the bitter with the batter!" So I naturally chose the opening door.
Saying goodbye to the land on which I could walk confidently even in darkness and to all the "critters" with whom I shared it was painful. There are memories in every turn of the path, in every ancient tree still standing.
In this pine grove my father called the crows, imitating them so well that they flew down crying, "What? What?" In this winter field, he taught me to read the tracks of wild things passing through, to look for the hunting hawk, spiraling so high it was only a black dot against the clouds.
Who now would feed my wintering-over robins? Who would be watchful to leave the sumac berries glowing through the snow and the wild-rose hips uncut for hungry deer, when forage is scarce? I didn't expect that my tenants – the woodchuck, rabbits and all the others – would miss me. I knew that I would miss them.
But life is more than sitting on the deck watching wildlife parade by. First, it's family and being where they are. Alternately apprehensive and hopeful, my husband and I weighed the pros and cons of what we'd lose and what we'd gain and made our momentous decision.
We, who had never planned to move again, especially not in our elder years, left all behind and journeyed onward, accompanied by dire predictions of disaster from some and cheerleading encouragement from others.
Everybody was right! A few disasters along the way and many heartening events marked the trek to our new beginning. I discovered again how helpful and how kindhearted people are. And how readily friendship is offered by newfound neighbors – a dozen eggs and a bundle of rhubarb from the neighbor to the left and an offer of all the blueberries we can pick in July and August from the neighbor to the right.
Having come to our new home in the depths of winter, we found spring and summer unwrapping surprises every day. I'd mourned the loss of my old flower garden, but spring brought me beautiful clumps of bleeding heart at my doorstep. Soon lilacs burst into glorious clouds of white and purple. Now daylilies are splashes of brilliant orange on a green canvas. I left behind myriad bright birds, but a feeder filled with seed and hung from the deck reveals a wealth of goldfinches, cardinals, and chirping sparrows.
Today, I can truly say that I feel at home again. I've learned that home is more than just a certain place. It's a state of mind that we carry with us wherever we go.


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Angel's Hero is book one in the Angel series and is released today. Book two is Angel's Truth and is expected to be published on 14th March. Reviews for both books are to follow but in the meantime check out the excerpt for Angel's Hero below.
The blurb….
CIA Agent Aaron "Angel" Collins doesn't take many things on faith. He trusts his gut, his eyes, and his husband, Jordan, an Army Captain. When his commanding officers deliver news of Jordan's death, Aaron needs proof. The facts don't add up, and Aaron must decide if he can trust Major General Troy Hart to assist in his quest to discover the truth.
Captain Jordan Collins is battered and disheartened in an Afghanistan prison, but definitely not dead, though he learns his own government believes he is. His only mission now is to stay alive and make it home to Angel, if he can find an ally among the enemy. But someone in the US government will stop at nothing to make sure he never leaves that prison, And Jordan must reevaluate the lines between friend and foe if he is ever to return to his Angel.
July 2013 Langley, Virginia
CIA Agent Aaron Collins pushed his shoulders together as he strode through the hallway to his supervisor Mick Keller's office and rapped on the door. As if waiting for him, Keller swung it open. "Come in, Collins, come in. Have a seat. Can I get you a drink?"
"No, thank you, sir," Aaron replied, shifting in the hard wooden chair. His boss wrung his hands as he circled his large desk. "Is everything all right?" Clearly not, he answered himself.
Bosses tended not to call emergency meetings on a Friday to discuss the company's upcoming Keller sat behind his desk and adjusted his glasses.
"I need you to brief Foster on the POW situation in Afghanistan. The two of you are switching cases."
Aaron blinked. "My team and I have been working with the military on that mission for months. We're three weeks from deployment."
"Yes, Foster will assume your leadership role."
"Foster? He's a paper pusher!" Aaron exclaimed.
"Collins." Keller's voice held a warning.
Yeah, God forbid the agency admits the truth about the competence of their employees.
"Sir, he really is not qualified."
"He will be once you brief him. We need you here, Collins," Keller told him.
Aaron tilted his head to the side. "Why do you need a field agent here?"
"You're one of our best," Keller said.
"And… you're afraid to send me because you have reason to doubt safety?" Aaron extrapolated.
"It is a rather volatile situation," Keller hedged.
Of course it's volatile! Fucking enemies have our men! "What aren't you telling me?"
Keller shook his head. "It wasn't my decision."
"Well, whose decision was it? Have you thought of calling them an idiot?"
"Not all of us have your finesse," Keller replied.
"I'll be there, or you need to give me a reason that I can't, beyond the stuffed shirt above you said so," Aaron said.
Keller removed his glasses and massaged his eyes. "No, that's all the reason either one of us require. Your job is here for the next four months."
"I have the most information about this mission," Aaron tried once more, but even as he spoke, he knew the battle was over.
"None of us know very much," Keller responded with a sigh. "I'm sorry."
So am I. "Can I still get updates?"
"You know we can't." Keller paused, then added, "He'll be all right, Collins."
They weren't talking about Foster's competence anymore. Now Keller referred to Aaron's husband, Jordan, an Army Captain also assigned to this mission. "Of course he will. I only wish I could help."
"You'll help by training Foster," Keller replied.
Right. "Is there anything else, sir?" Aaron asked.
"No, you may go home."
"Thank you." Aaron stood, shook Keller's hand, and walked out of the building after grabbing his messenger bag. Ducking into his car, Aaron leaned his head back on the seat. He dialed Jordan's cell.
"Hey, Angel, you done already?" Jordan asked, the perkiness in his voice signaling that he did not get the same news today.
And like magic, the sound of Jordan's nickname for him eroded the edges of Aaron's own bad mood. "Yep, you?"
"Two beers in at home," Jordan responded. "I've got dinner started."
"See, now I think you're vying to steal my nickname from me." Aaron started the ignition and put his foot on the brake.
"Never happen. You okay?" Jordan asked.
"Uh… do we have anything stronger than beer, or should I stop?"
"Oh, boy." Jordan's tone grew serious. "We have whiskey, if that will do."
Best you can get in the US. Aaron released a breath. "That'll work. Love you."
"Love you, too." Jordan ended the call and Aaron began the twenty minute trek home to Maryland.
To find out more about Liz Borino and her books visit her website.


text: Hey podcast people! I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Aaron Bushell, the creator and producer of The Benefit of Hindsight podcast, to talk about my company's journey. Aaron's podcast focuses on entrepreneurs and how they got started, what has made them successful and what, if anything, they would do differently. You can find the episodes on his website or your favorite music/podcast service. Have a listen during your next commute! Thanks again to Aaron for the amazing opportunity!


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The Secret Power That The Well Wield
If there were one secret truth that I could tell others about being sick, it would be that every nasty thing that you say, or even semi-nasty thing you say and do sticks with us. Even when you think you are phrasing words in the nicest way possible, we know what you mean. The worst thing about those words is that we save them, and we hold them with us when we are too sick to get out of bed.
Those words and moments are what we snuggle up with when we miss our kid's plays, when we can't make it to work again, when we miss another big family event. It's like a record, on repeat, and our confidence is shot: we're not worthy. Your words, your eye-rolls, your side-glances, that's what we hold in our hearts, no matter how much kindness we receive to wash it away.
I've received more kindness than I can describe, but I've also received some nastiness, and no matter how much I try to forget it, no matter how much I try to pretend it didn't happen, it's impossible. It's like a weight and balance. The bad is stronger than the good; if only because it's so damaging to the weakened heart that has had to face so much.
I've heard "are you sure you wouldn't feel better if you didn't take all that medication?" So, every time I take my prescribed doses, I doubt myself. I wonder if I'm hurting my family, myself, everyone, by taking my medication. I have stopped taking it, and ended up in the hospital, in so much agony that I couldn't move, which was certainly worse. Thanks, "kind," and well-meaning person, whose own business you should've minded.
I've heard "are you sure you really needed that first brain surgery?" as I scheduled an appointment with my neurosurgeon, for my second one. That same person said, "I mean, obviously you probably don't need this one either." I'm not sure that neurosurgeons hand out brain surgery as indiscriminately as liposuction, but I'm sure I needed the first one, and that I need this second one, but thanks for telling me you doubt me. It makes me feels great to know that every time you see me lay down, or miss something, you are there, sitting cross-armed and mumbling under your breath, "ugh, again with the headaches!"
I've heard sugar-coated comments like, "well, you seemed fine yesterday; why you are so miserable today? Can't you just take some of your medication, or something?" In this person's eyes, I was either faking yesterday, or today. And worse, it can be fixed with a few pills that either I, or she, has assigned curative properties to. In other words, she doesn't believe that I have a permanent, degenerative condition.
I've seen more side-eye glances and eye-rolls than I can count, when I walk with a cane one day, and then leave it home the next. To me, a day without the cane is a victory. To them, leaving it home means I was faking the day before; or worse, that it was a ploy for sympathy, not that I was petrified of falling down on unsteady ground, or humiliating myself or son by doing so. But, when you look at me with an eye-roll, that you maintain just long enough for me to see, it makes me feel, not that I'm not making the best decisions to protect my health, but that I'm a malingerer, and that I should just stay home from the events I can actually make it to, regardless of cane.
Worst of all, I've been abandoned by friends that I've known for years, friends who simply either didn't know what to do or say, or who simply vanished. These hurt the worst of all. They just disappeared. Anyone with a chronic illness has had this happen. I don't recommend confronting these ghost-friends, because it's not pretty; people don't like being told they aren't nice people, and their defense tends to be that it's your fault in some bizarre way, as if a sick person who had zero contact with someone is somehow at fault for their own abandonment. That sting never, ever heals.
So, the secret truth that I want others to know is that you wield an amazing power to hurt the already damaged. Your words and actions can cause immeasurable pain and suffering. However, you can cause the exact opposite too. A simple phone call, a card, a few kind words. Just sitting quietly can lift our spirits more than you know.


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We've all seen it, and some of us might not want to admit it, but we've been there. The perfect Instagram shot of a mission trip. It's hard to distinguish between the purpose of the trip and the purpose of the post. Is this about "likes" or the Kingdom? There's nothing inherently wrong with social media, but let's dialogue a bit about the collision of social media and short-term missions.
One of the dangers of social media is creating a virtual life, separate from reality. We don't often realize it, but we may use social media to numb or escape our boring or painful existence. The problem is, when we go on a mission trip, everything we feel in our culture (and everything we escape from) will be exaggerated because of the atmospheric change of the new culture. Social media can especially help us escape one of the scariest things in our society - silence. It's hard to wait in general, but when we're always connected, always hurried in the deepest parts of us, it's really hard to stop, rest and be quiet. It's hard to let our minds wander and be patient, but much of serving God, and much of other cultures are filled with natural places of pause. Wanting to escape will especially happen when we're in a new place with new people, and missing faces or activities from home. Instead of the weight of figuring out what to do, it's easier to pull out our phones. We might also be tempted because we don't want to "miss out" on things happening while we're away.
Social media is especially addictive because it lacks the "stop" triggers normally present at the end of a newspaper or an article. We can end up scrolling and scrolling… and spending way more time on things we actually value less. If we value being present and engaged, and if we know this is healthy, how can we set good boundaries on our screen time / social media use while on the field?
These are personal convictions, not mandates. We encourage prayerfully considering this, inviting accountability, and creating a new rhythm for your time on the field. The biggest argument against posting a bunch is not saying "no" to the "evils" of social media but a better "yes" to being aware and present. When we do this, we choose deep conversations, richer relationships, more intimacy with our team(s), and better personal tools as we learn to engage in awkward, difficult or new situations. We'll develop longer attention spans, allowing space for creativity. We desire most of all for you to be healthy, to use social media as a tool, but know how to connect and be present. Here are some rules as you think about using this tool to share and connect with others.
Examining motivation.
Ask questions. "Why am I posting this?" "How does this make me look?" "Is this an accurate portrayal of the local culture or church?" "What story does this communicate about the local culture or church?" "Who does this honor?" This helps us identify unhealthy motivations for posting. If you're still unsure, try sleeping on it or taking a few hours to consider if you really want to post.
Picking the hero.
The more we can highlight local ministries and heroes, the better. Those are the real stories to tell. Your photos can tell stories about local church members or missionaries, who are doing long, faithful, sometimes mundane work, or who are stepping out boldly in faith in their community. This is an opportunity to not use social media as it's often used - a platform to make much of ourselves - and instead, honor others serving the Lord, or even call for prayer for those we go to partner with.
Use a post to teach or break stereotypes.
Use a post as a teaching tool about missions or culture, especially when it broadens perspecive. In the DR, a post sharing about the local church leading in zeal and listening to the Holy Spirit could give better perspective of the Majority World Church. A photo of a typical after-church meal may reveal the beauty of collectivist culture blended with the church. Glimpses of "real" ministry are helpful for people – especially elevating relational ministry and listening over projects and tasks.
Call for prayer.
Social media can be a tool to unite, if we choose to use it that way! Prayer is a great uniter. We may get to see immediate impact because of prayer, or it could be an ongoing situation that we choose to stand in faith with those in the midst of it - regardless of whether we stick around to see results. Sharing a need, whether on your team or from the local church, can unite brothers and sisters around the world in prayer for God to move. Faith can be multiplied as we join together to pray.
Don't shame or pick a fight.
Never use social media to shame or call out. Online conversation can easily dissolve into arguments. We forget people are behind online accounts, and hurt follows. You may be experiencing convictions or new insights, perhaps into American culture, during your time away. Creating a post intended to "jolt" everyone to your new reality may cause them to bunker down more in their way of thinking. People tend to have reactionary responses when engaging over the Internet. These conversations are best had in person. Social media is not a tool to change the opinions of others.
If you do anything, just don't do this.
Avoid posting pictures of [most often white] Americans with underprivileged people for the sake of a "like". This narrative is so perpetuated online that avoiding it is most helpful. We understand you may build relationships with awesome kids during your time. You can both take and save photos for yourself, but if you're choosing just a few photos to tell the story, these may get lost in the noise of typical missions trip photos.


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Viva la Revolution
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Che Guevara
Our political system is a product of years of democratic evolution that has been built on grass roots support and class warfare. Politics was invented to control Kings and express the wishes of the people. Every so often the scales tip one way and one persuasion or other gets the upper hand. Very occasionally it tips so far one way that there can only ever be one outcome. Rebellion. An apathy towards the masses anger and an ignorance of the consequences of division is allowing this to became a new modern day reality. Is it unconstrained and rampaging? Yes, pretty much. Give it time and the same steady course and it will become a tumult. For as is said and as is true, it really only ever comes down to one thing, consent. A consent less and less of us are subscribing to. Just as we all instinctively know that these people no more represent us than do the stakeholders of JP Morgan, their detachment becomes our detachment. Take for example the way politicians still claim expenses even after all the scandals. They are literally laughing in our faces. The Lords is full of freeloaders and sycophants who cling on to their EU pensions like the poor cling on to their children. Add to that the links our political leaders have to businesses that profit out of government along with the sell off of the country's assets and you have an act of plunder on the grandest of scales. Red, Blue, Yellow, it doesn't matter, they all feed from the same trough. The Blairmites still infest Labour. The Etonian's still own the land and the Tories. While the Liberals have always betrayed any principles they supposedly had for a taste of power.
In the quest for justification we've ended up with an epidemic of blame aimed towards disadvantaged people that's reminiscent of the darker days of history. It's the same with the middle east 'war lust' and the vacuous appeasing of tyrannical regimes like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Well, all that could be about to change with David Cameron's announcement of an EU referendum in June this year. We now have a chance to change shit and shake the foundations of the globalist elite. The bank bailouts showed us it is an 'us and them' society and that the rich will always be saved from ruination while the poor are sacrificed. The wealthy will always come first, especially with a Cameron led Tory government. So what can we do? It's simple and obvious. A vote for Brexit and Trump is our last chance to blow "the shit" right back in the faces of the established order and regain control of our countries.
We know resistance is out there, we've been predicting it for a long time and that time is right now. At this point I have to graciously thank the idiot Cameron who's vanity and intellectual ineptitude have persuaded him to call an early EU Referendum in two months. I am convinced this is the single biggest mistake in the history of establishment control. An error of such magnitude and monumental proportions it will lead to Brexit, President Trump, the collapse of the EU gravy train and the reemergence of Nationalistic right wing politics. The icing on the cake for the EU will of course be Merkel's act of World War II penitence that led her to invite the world's economic migrants to come and take whatever they want from Europe without any adaption to European culture and it's laws. What will Brexit and Trump lead to? Wilders? Le Penn? civil war? I doubt the first two, but the thirds a real possibility. Who knows!? Its gonna be a turbulent 24 months ahead.
In conclusion, I don't think this is the end, I think its just the end of the beginning. This is not a time to sit back and watch the show, its the time spring clean the yard and invite your mates round. We are gonna win this one eventually, mark my words. ✌????
"The net's gonna break, the earth's gonna shake
That's all it's gonna take to cure the world."
p.s the song should be Jerusalem, but hey..


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Detectives, are you ready for a challenge? The suspect's name is Elizabeth Short, and she has been linked to multiple homicides including the disappearance of fellow detective Mary O'Neil. The FBI has profiled her as one of the worst psychopaths in history, and all they know is that she loves playing games. Can you and your best detectives solve her riddles and games, to discover the truth?


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Friday, February 1, 2013
Pastor Anderson on the Alex Jones Show
And also on the Nightly News:
Best of all, he was able to make it to Texas and back without being molested by the TSA! Which these days, is newsworthy in and of itself.
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I saw both shows and he was great!! We are so grateful for all his work and also to you because I know he could not do all that he does if it wasn't for you. I was wondering though is he getting sick of talking about the tribulation just a little? haha. I'm sure probably not if not the opposite but I can just imagine him walking in your house and saying.."no one mention the T-word." :) Now next stop...the 700 club oh please!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 3, 2013 at 5:35 AM
I watched the incredibly englightening Pastor Anderson intervention on Alex's show and was surprised to learn that there were differing views on the subject of the rapture in protestant Christianity.
As mainstream muslim however, I would like to make a comment on Pastor Anderson assertions that muslim were waiting the "mahdi" who would be the antichrist.
To make the story short, mainstream (90%) muslim's belief are (simplified) :
- Jesus ("Issa" in arabic) was a prophet of God and not God hiself, his diety being introduced later on in Christianity based on Paul accounts whom we believe was a Jew falsely convert to Christianity in order destroy it from inside (as have made many later centuries jews on both Islam and Christianity : research Sabbatai Zevi, David Franck, etc ...)
- The Bible contains elements of truth but was modified over time both by Rabbis and the Church (see Council of Nicea and others) so that eventually so much distortion deviated the true religion that God sent Prophet Muhammad to restore true monotheism (believing in God alone and stop deifying prophets (Jesus) or saints (St Mary) ).
- In the end times, the Anti Christ ("Dajjal" in arabic) will be the messiah of the Jews through whom they accomplish their project of world domination for a certain period (the tribulations)
- After tribulations, Imam Mahdi (a sort of future prophet) will come back to lead the fight against the Antichrist
- At a certain point, imam Mahdi will be surrounded by the AntiChrist forces in Damascus (Syria's capital), Jesus Christ will come down from heavens and vanquish the AntiChrist
For more you can see this video in english : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwtogPSMsg
Peace be upon you
- AnonymousFebruary 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Thats huge! I can´t wait to watch it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2013 at 1:56 PM
You should post the one he did about the disciples having swords. All the anti-guns ignorant peacenics who talk about Jesus being peaceful never fully read the Word of God. Not only did the disciples have swords but he allowed Peter to defend Him physically and he did not stop him until AFTER Peter had cut off the soldiers ear. He didn't allow Peter to kill the soldier but he did allow him to maim him.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 11:46 PM
Rev 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.Delete
If you live by the sword you will die by the sword.
Joh 18:11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
shall we to also not drink of the same cup our Lord drank of?
Mar 10:39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
Luk 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Joh 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Obviously you and Steven have not over come the world but live in the world fighting for and earthly kingdom when the Kingdom of Heaven is not of this world.
Joh 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Will you be found of him in peace? or with a gun in your hand fighting?
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Fight the New World Order is not commanded in scripture.
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2013 at 2:06 PM
so what happens after? is this the end? or is there a 1000 year reign? then is it just heaven or is it a new heaven and earth? where will saved live? on earth? or in heaven? where is heaven anyway?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Great interviews. I also saw the Alex Jones- Piers Morgan "debate". I was laughing the whole time. Alex is funny (and right) in a crazy sort of way. Anyway, did you hear about the former navy seal sniper Chris Kyle? Live by the sword, die by the sword is all I have to say.ReplyDelete
Will have to watch. Love Alex Jones and Pastor A!ReplyDelete
So thankful for these kinds of men........God knows we need more of em'
- AnonymousFebruary 4, 2013 at 10:08 PM
also nice interesting stuff. they mentioned peter but didnt peter get rebuked by jesus for using his sword? didnt jesus say his time was not yet? and his kingdom was not of this world? im just remembering so i may have some things wrong? thanks! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM
That's intersting Mohammed. But our oppisition to Islam isn't just based in end times prophecy but the fact that we a Christians believe Jesus Christ is the son of God.ReplyDelete
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to esablish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. -Isaiah 9:6-7
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel -Isaiah 7:14
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
...I am the way, the truth , and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. -John 14:6
So Christ was not only prophet But the son of God and the Savior of all mankind according to the Bible.
as far as the Bible being imperfect because rabbis tampered with it....the Jewish religion hates Jesus Christ to this day.
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
why would the Jews write a book that tells them Jesus Christ is the on;y way and then Murder him?
as far as the church tampering with Gods word I partly agree with you. The Catholics, new evangelicals, and many protestants have tampered with Gods words but I'm and independent, Baptist. and we believe the King James Bible, which was never tampered with. If you compare the KJV with other Bible versions you will see they're not even similar. The Bible has this to say about people who tampere with Gods word...
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:19
The "theologians" who who tampered with the word of God have damned their souls to Hell. The King James Bible is the only book that was taken from original recieved texts that hd been (sometimes secretly) passed down from generation to generation. The Catholic confiscated it and tortured and killed those who translated and printed it. It was never using the recieved text but other version that they themselves had written and taken from cults. The king James Bible is the recieved texts.
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM
if jesus allowed peter to protect him by msiming soldier, why then did he heal the man by putting his ear back on? didnt he do that? im still confused bc jesus talked about peace, but then said i havent come to bring peace but a sword? maybe ive misread? i guess he brings a sword bc its division- his way or no way? but hos way is spiritual peace and love? thats his kingdom. but maybe self defense is differen? but then he says to lovee your enemies, turn the other cheek and walk two miles? guess im confused? i long for a world where there is no evil, so id vote for no arms, but i guess just bc you have an arm doesnt make you evil, you can shhoy for fun, hunt, or self protect....all wirh a truly loving heart i guess?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2013 at 8:39 PM
I'm anon at 11:53. Sorry for all the typos, I was rushing.ReplyDelete
Nice job! Thankful for pastors who speak the truth! Enjoyed the film also. Looks like you were in our area and we didn't even know it.ReplyDelete
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I had a strong argument with my (at that time) wife. I went outside the house to the front yard and grabbed a plastic chair to sit on the driveway. I sat down and looked at the stars by tilting my head back and resting it on the chair back support. I kept hearing a buzzing sound (like a floresant light). I tried to ignore it, but I was angry so I turned my head with annoyance to my right where the noise was coming from. Thinking it was the street light to be at fault. I saw hovering above the light where the next neighbor lived a big black triangle craft. It had three orange/reddish lights. One at each corner. It was just hovering like searching making that buzzing voice. I got up from my chair really fast and went inside the house. A minute later I went out to look, but it wasn't there. I looked around to find it and saw three red lights on the sky by the butte mountains. Then one flew fast like a comet then the second followed and finally the! last remaining. It seemed to dive down and disappeared.
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Why does this always happen in the shower?
How often do you get good ideas while taking a shower?
For many people good ideas seem to happen when they're in the shower, of all places, and there's nothing else to distract them. There are even scientific theories on this.
Lao-Tzu, the Chinese Taoist philosopher, taught a principle known as "Creative Quietude" through which one could accomplish great things without appearing to work hard for them. To me, this is a valuable lesson worth pursuing. Because our deepest moments of inspiration don't come when we are rushing around, checking the iPhone, occupying our mind with TV, video, phone, email, facebook, or anything else. Our moments of inspiration come in quiet moments of deep thought. Like, er, in the shower.
The problem is, it's a little impractical to take a shower every time we want inspiration.
So in this busy day and age, I would like you to remember to borrow from Lao Tzu whenever you want a jolt of inspiration. He said:
"We can clarify troubled waters by slowly quieting them."
He also said.
"Silence is a source of great strength."
But how do you find that rare moment of quietude, from which inspiration and creativity may come?
It may be through sitting quietly, or reading, or yoga, or walking, or massage. Somewhere without distraction. If nothing else, this week's blog gives you an excellent excuse to sit on the sofa doing not very much.
Lao Tzu taught that all straining, all striving are not only vain but counterproductive. One should aim for inner tranquility. From there comes spontaneity and creativity. Agree/disagree? Let me know below.
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More Life Is Beautiful
Vegas, 2002. Pay phones were as plentiful as CD players, and the Huntridge was where you played, but only if your band was going somewhere. The Killers played that stage, then sold out Wembley Stadium a decade later. In the meantime, the city became a launching pad for another platinum-selling rock band, Imagine Dragons. And though the two have played festivals together in other cities and countries, their guitar players had never met … before now. And I had never attempted a three-way international phone call.
Wayne Sermon: First of all, I just want to say how awesome it is that we're doing this. I'm a big fan, and Imagine Dragons has a lot of respect for you guys as the torchbearers of the Las Vegas music scene.
Dave Keuning: Well, thanks. I enjoy your stuff, as well. There was one of your singles I heard before I knew it was you guys ["Every Night"], and I was like, "Wait, that's Imagine Dragons? They're huge. I've heard that song everywhere!"
WS: I'm curious what the scene was like before we got there, to have to start off in a city that wasn't known for live music.
DK: It seems like another era now. When we used to go to the Boston and check out bands for free, you'd just walk in and there'd be a band playing almost every night. Cafe Roma was another place that would have bands a few times a week, also free to go. And the Junkyard was around—we had some of our first shows there. Almost every place we played at no longer exists … and a lot of the bands we used to do shows with are gone. We came out of nowhere, style-wise. Most of the bands were punk or metal, and we come in with this ... whatever we sound like. Nobody was doing that, so we stuck out like a sore thumb, for better or worse. You know, a lot of people hated us for it, and a lot of people thought it was a nice surprise. I wouldn't even know where to go if I was in town and I just wanted to see a band, I guess sometimes there's bands at the Beauty Bar.
Corlene Byrd: When was the last time you were Downtown?
DK: Once or twice a year I go down there. It's changed a lot.
WS: I remember our first show pretty vividly. It was this place called Sinister Rock Bar. We'd been a band for probably six days. I had just moved to Las Vegas. We did, like, a week of rehearsals, we got some songs together and we practiced for eight hours each of those days. We were frantically trying to get things together, so that sort of set the whole pace of our band. We've been like that ever since, just at this frantic pace. Since then we've played other places like Beauty Bar, the Cheyenne Saloon and the Bunkhouse. We also played a lot on the Strip, doing half covers, half original. We'd play in the lounges at Mandalay Bay; we played at O'Sheas, which was unbelievable. The stage was, like, 5 feet by 5 feet.
DK: We didn't playing covers on the Strip, but we did play a show at Gameworks. We did a battle of the bands there. That was interesting.
CB: Have either of you been exposed to bands that cover your music?
DK: No, I want to. I'd love to drop in and watch people play our songs. I'd just like to watch the guitar player and be like, That's not what I do.
WS: Yeah, it's interesting to hear the reinterpretations of your guitar parts. I think we were in Florida, playing this show in a club and walking down the alleyway, and we heard "Radioactive" being played live. It was coming from next door, and it was a church; there was a Christian band covering "Radioactive." So we kinda snuck in there and taught them how to play it. So that was kind of a weird experience as far as covers.
DK: Wow.
CB: What do you think Life Is Beautiful could mean for the city?
DK: I think Vegas should definitely have a yearly festival, whatever it is.
WS: I totally agree. We've had a chance to do a lot of festivals now, and we've definitely grown to love the environment. Our favorite part has always been meeting other bands. There's a certain kind of isolation to doing your own tour, so when you go to a festival, you see other bands and you can talk and reconnect with why you're doing it in the first place.
DK: I know exactly what he's talking about. You get up, you go inside, you soundcheck, you eat, you play the show, you get back on the bus and do that over and over again. You can kinda get to be in your own little world after a while, and the festival breaks it up a little bit.
CB: Dave, is there any advice you can give Wayne as he gets ready for his first arena headlining tour?
DK: Just have fun and try extra hard to entertain people. … And don't be shy about stuff onstage. I know sometimes with me, I feel awkward moving around, but I also feel like that's what I'm supposed to do. They didn't just pay to watch me stand there. … Sometimes I stop and think in the middle of the show that there's this many people here. You know, it all starts with a dream in your bedroom, practicing guitar. If you remember that, you'll appreciate those arena shows.
WS: Not that long ago we all rented a band house together, eating ramen and scraping by.
CB: I still remember the meals Dave used to eat, like Cheetos with rice.
DK: I made rice and ramen noodles, because you could get a bag of rice for, like, three bucks down the street. I did everything to flavor it up. I'd either slice some hot dogs …
CB: You used ketchup. You had condiments.
WS: A little bit of ketchup, that's genius!
DK: That's all I had! I would put that in the rice so it wasn't just rice. When we got a little bit of money, I was maxed out on ramen noodles, so I have not had ramen noodles since, and I will never have ramen noodles again.
DK: I heard you were playing on a Bilt Guitar. That's pretty cool, 'cause you're the only other person I know who has one.
WS: Yeah, I heard you got some awhile back as well. Those guys are pretty awesome. They're cool guys, and they sort of just do whatever you wanna do.
DK: Yeah, they're cool guitars, and most people don't know they exist.
WS: Does yours have any effects in it or anything, or is it just the guitar?
DK: No, I've got some effects in it. I've got one with a little bit of drive and delay, and I've got another one that I specially modified with an octave thing in it. It's pretty cool, pretty unique and I use it a little bit here and there on Battle Born.
CB: Do either of you have advice for current Vegas bands?
DK: Find your sound and work hard on your songs and hope people like you for who you are.
WS: Just keep going, 'cause when other people quit and you keep going, that's what separates you.
Imagine Dragons Saturday, October 26, 6:45-7:45 p.m., Life Is Beautiful Festival's Downtown Stage
The Killers Sunday, October, 27, 9:40-11:10 p.m., Life Is Beautiful Festival's Downtown Stage