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What a difference a decade can make. Business reviews, summing up Bulgaria's economic situation in early 2007, just after it joined the EU, present the picture of a Balkan tiger. In 2006, real GDP growth was projected to reach 6.1 percent. The state budget would post another record surplus of over 3 percent of GDP, with inflation hovering around 6 percent. Unemployment was in single figures. The Emerging Europe Monitor reported:
"Bulgaria's economic outlook should remain bright, with robust investment providing a solid platform for GDP growth and accelerating exports over the medium term … with Bulgaria looking increasingly likely to enter the single currency before most of the EU-10 states."
In fact, since 1998 Bulgaria's economy has been growing at rates of at least 4 percent each year. Since 2000 Bulgarian GDP growth has outpaced the Central European Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). As a result of this growth (and the weakening of the US Dollar) Bulgaria's GDP per capita rose from $1,576 in 2000 to $3,123 in 2004, and is estimated to have reached $6,609 in 2008 (Deutsche Bank Research). It will have quadrupled in eight years.
The decade since 1997 has also seen other impressive developments. Since 1998 government deficits have never exceeded 1 percent of GDP. Investment has leapt from roughly 15 (in 2000) to 25 percent of GDP. Capital goods have become the fastest growing category in the recent import boom, increasing companies' competitiveness and laying the basis for sustained high growth. Unemployment has fallen from 18 percent in 2001 to less than 9 percent in 2008. Since 2001 average wages have begun to increase significantly, from 240 Leva in 2001 to 538 Leva in September 2008 (the currency is pegged to the Euro).
One cause of this transformation is a spectacular increase in foreign direct investment (FDI). From 1992 to 1996 average FDI was $153 million per year. In 1997 it was 636 million. In 2000 it reached more than $1 billion. Since 2003 annual FDI has exceeded $2 billion every year. Most of it is linked to green-field investment (i.e. new companies being set up), and not simply the privatisation of existing companies. In the five years up to 2008 net FDI inflows averaged over $5 billion per year.
The competitiveness of the Bulgarian economy has also been reflected in its export performance. The value of Bulgarian exports almost tripled over the last decade, from less than $5 billion in 1997 to $14.4 billion in 2006.
By 2004 the accumulated value of FDI per capita had nearly caught up with levels in Poland. The banking sector had been completely restructured; by 2004 85 percent of commercial banking assets were in private banks, most of them foreign owned.
Whereas the Bulgaria of 1996 had been diplomatically isolated, the Bulgaria of early 2007 is a full member of all European institutions. Since 2001 Bulgarian citizens have been able to travel freely to the EU. In 2004 Bulgaria joined NATO and in January 2007 it joined the European Union.
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From the kickoff, the Rapids controlled the ball in the Houston half, but a turnover in the midfield led to a Houston attack down the left flank where their first chance at goal would turn into the only score of the night. Jason Johnson carried the ball towards the top of the arc and found a seam between four Rapids defenders to the feet of Scottish international Calum Elliot who, after taking a touch, fired a shot to the upper left corner and out of the reach of Steward Ceus in the second minute.
For the remaining 89 minutes, Colorado were not short of chances to equalize and pull ahead. The Rapids responded almost immediately with an effort from Atiba Harris who battled with defender trialist Franck Songo'o inside the 18-yard box, but was unable to get the shot off. At the opposite end of the half, Johnson had a chance to double Houston's lead with a close range shot despite pressure from Marvell Wynne and Drew Moor, and the six-foot-six goalkeeper Ceus was able to get low to deflect the strike.
Entering the second half down a goal, Rapids coaching staff once again made a complete lineup change, allowing a trialist goalkeeper Clint Irwin from Elon University a chance to prove himself in net. Up front, Cesar Romero made his presence known to the Dynamo defense, with several attempts at goal including one from above the penalty mark that substitute Dynamo keeper Erich Marscheider nudged outside the post.
In the 79th minute, Rapids Homegrown Player Dillon Serna from Brighton, Colo., made one of the more dangerous advances of the night, ripping a left footed half-volley from the top of the box that forced Marscheider to come up big for the save. With a handful of parries from Colorado in the last 10 minutes, the Houston defense held on tight to the shutout and one-goal lead until the final whistle, leaving the Rapids with a second loss of the week.
The Rapids have one remaining match in Tucson, taking on the San Jose Earthquakes this Saturday at 11 a.m. MT, streamed live on ColoradoRapids.com.
Scoring Summary:
HOU – Calum Elliot (Jason Johnson) 2'
Colorado Rapids lineup: Steward Ceus (Clint Irwin 46'); Marvell Wynne (Brian Mullan 46'), Drew Moor (Brenton Griffiths 46'), Diego Calderón (Shane O'Neill 46'), Kory Kindle (Anthony Wallace 46', Chris Klute 61'); Hendry Thomas (Dillon Powers 46'), Pablo Mastroeni (Nathan Sturgis 46'), Kamani Hill (Nick LaBrocca 46'); Atiba Harris (Walter Martinez 46', Andre Akpan 83'), Deshorn Brown (Cesar Romero 46'), Tony Cascio (Dillon Serna 46').
Houston Dynamo lineup: Tally Hall (Erich Marscheider 61'); Warren Creavalle (Kofi Sarkodie 46'), Eric Brunner (Bobby Boswell 46'), Jermaine Taylor (Anthony Arena* 46'), Mike Chabala (Jimmy Nealis 46'); Luiz Camargo, Adam Moffat (Je-Vaughn Watson 46'), Alex Dixon (Giles Barnes 46'); Franck Songo'o* (Brian Ownby 61'), Calum Elliot* (Brian Ching 61'), Jason Johnson (Cam Weaver 46')
*Trialist/Guest player
Disciplinary Summary:
HOU – Luiz Camargo (caution) 32'
COL – Kamani Hill (caution) 37'
COL – Chris Klute (caution) 81'
Notes: Anthony Wallace started the second half at left back, but was replaced in the 61st minute by Chris Klute after taking a slight knock. Rapids athletic staff will monitor and we'll update ColoradoRapids.com when we know more... Andre Akpan was a late game subsitute, though not due to any injury.

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- And Facebook is the clear market leader: Top brands allocated 57% of their social media budgets to Facebook in 2012, according to Technorati Media's 2013 Digital Influence Report. Twitter and YouTube each only mustered 13% of social budgets. By the fourth quarter of last year, mobile revenue made up 23% of Facebook's revenue. According to social ad optimization platform TBG, Facebook's mobile ads have the highest click-through rates by a substantial margin. Furthermore, native in-stream ads are perfectly transferable across devices, whereas display ads can have issues on a smaller screen.
- But, brands don't know how to value "Likes,"and are not overwhelmingly convinced their Facebook spend is effective: Brands simply can't quantify the value of a "Like." Researchers have attempted to calculate the potential value of a user who "Likes" a brand, but those numbers vary wildly. Social Media Examiner's 2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report surveyed 3,000 marketers, and 41% said they are "uncertain" about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing. The report also found that 17% flat-out said the site is ineffective for marketing purposes. Only 32% agree it is effective.
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Alex Lloyd was introduced to music courtesy of his father's beat-up, old guitar and the sessions that father and son spent working their way through a Beatles songbook (Lloyd preferred the group's latter, more studio-oriented stuff). His teenage years were spent playing at every opportunity: in the bedroom, at parties, and on the streets of the Sydney suburb of Balmain. Eventually, he was noticed as the lead singer of Sydney indie band Mother Hubbard, who was popular for their live performances and achieved some degree of success on record.
After one Mother Hubbard album, Lloyd wanted to take a major musical shift toward more of a technology-based sound. The members agreed to differ about the direction Lloyd wanted to take, leaving the singer to record the songs he had written for the next album as a solo, instead of a group, album. It also allowed him to throw himself much deeper into that technology than he might have if he'd still been recording with Mother Hubbard. The more he worked on the songs, the further he moved from the album he had initially imagined.
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Commissioner Goldmark to attend National Public Lands Day volunteer celebration in Yacolt Burn State Forest Event marks the 9th Annual Pick Up the Burn
OLYMPIA Members of the media and public are invited to join Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark and volunteers in celebrating National Public Lands Day in Yacolt Burn State Forest, north of Camas on Saturday, September 24.
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is hosting the 9th Annual Pick Up the Burn event, which coincides each year with National Public Lands Day (NPLD), along with our co-sponsors: Pistons Wild Motorsports, Jones Creek Trail Riders Association, and Pacific Northwest 4-Wheel Drive Association.
Who: Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark
What: National Public Lands Day - Pick Up the Burn
When: Saturday, September 24
8 a.m. - Volunteer sign in
9 a.m. - Welcoming remarks, words of appreciation and safety briefing
Following the mornings remarks and briefing, volunteers will spend the day cleaning up garbage in the forest, followed by a lunch at 2 p.m. provided by Pistons Wild Motorsports.
Where: Jones Creek Trailhead, Yacolt Burn State Forest
Why: Each year, thousands of volunteers across the nation renew their commitment to supporting public lands. For nine years on NPLD, volunteers and DNR staff have cleaned up and hauled thousands of tons of garbage from the Yacolt Burn State Forest, including hulked vehicles and old boats.
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Steve Watt: In Memoriam (University of Natal Press Pietermaritzburg 2000) provides a Roll of Honour of Imperial Forces in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, 25 000 soldiers, women and civilians, who laid down their lives for the British Cause whether they were from Britian, South Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, Canada, or New Zealand. The book offers alphabetical lists by name, regimental number, regiment, type of casualty, place, date of death, where buried and whether the name is listed on a monument or in a graveyard, with location. Particulars of age and religion of the deceased, where available, are given.
John Stirling: The Colonials in South Africa 1899-1902 (Blackwood, Edinburgh 1907). A mine of information; some individual names such as those mentioned in dispatches, are included as well as details of each unit's operations during the war.
Darrell Hall: The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer War (University of Natal Press 1999) gives a useful list of British Regiments and the dates of their period of service in South Africa, with the battles or field operations at which they were present. Hall also gives a list of the Colonial Forces with SA arrival and departure dates, and a list of SA units with details such as when and where these were raised and disbanded. Men who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Anglo-Boer War are listed alphabetically, as are names of graveyards where Imperial Soldiers were buried. There are brief biographies of some of the major personalities associated with the war.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A cholera outbreak across Nigeria has killed 24 people and infected 952 in the first four weeks of 2014, following a surge in cases last year, according to the Ministry of Health.
The number of cholera cases went up more than tenfold in the West African country in 2013. There were 597 cases and 18 deaths in 2012 compared to 6,600 cases and 229 deaths last year, according to the latest government epidemiological report.
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A diarrhoeal disease, cholera can be managed with good hygiene and sanitation as well as basic health kits and oral rehydration solution, a cheap and readily available mixture of salts and sugars. Left untreated, it can cause death in up to 50 percent of cases.
UNICEF has been supporting Nigeria's Ministry of Health and Rural Water and Sanitation Agencies to respond to the outbreak, including provision of essential supplies, a UNICEF spokesman told Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine's newly elected parliament on Thursday approved two presidential allies for the posts of prime minister and parliament speaker, but the vote was nearly overshadowed by a violent brawl between government supporters and opposition lawmakers.
The Party of Regions led by President Viktor Yanukovych and its allies secured a majority in the Verkhovna Rada following an October election condemned as unfair by the West. But three opposition parties made a strong showing and vowed to challenge Yanukovych's grip on power.
Some took that literally. For the second day of the new parliament's work, fists flew as opposition lawmakers chanted "Shame! Shame!" and "No to defectors!"
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Yanukovych ally Volodymyr Rybak, a 66-year-old former mayor of the eastern city of Donetsk, interrupted his speech in frustration.
"Esteemed deputies, let us calm down," he said as the fight continued and he was widely ignored.
After a short break was announced and the fight ended, Rybak was elected parliament speaker.
Later in the day, parliament voted to approve acting Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, a staunch Yanukovych ally, as the country's premier. Azarov, 64, who has served as Yanukovych's prime minister for nearly three years, will have to manage an economy heading into a recession, a shaky national currency and negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on securing yet another bailout loan for Ukraine.
The opposition refused to take part in both votes and its members stormed out of the hall in protest, leaving Yanukovych to address a half-empty parliament in a video statement.
The chaotic parliament scenes did little to assuage the West's concern over the state of democracy in this ex-Soviet republic, whose leaders are under fire for the imprisonment of former premier Yulia Tymoshenko deemed politically motivated by the West.
The European Union put on hold a key cooperation agreement with Ukraine over Tymoshenko's jailing. On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution in which it reiterated that "the country must prove its commitment to genuine democracy before an agreement can be signed."
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News broke overnight that Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the most successful managers that world football has seen, has stepped down as manager of Manchester United. So who better to reflect on one of the most successful managers in European football than one of the most successful managers in American soccer? We caught up with Dominic Kinnear to get his thoughts on the career of Sir Alex.
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Certificates and Service Broker
This topic describes how SQL Server uses certificates for Service Broker remote security. Service Broker remote security refers to operations that involve more than one SQL Server instance when those operations use either dialog security or transport security.
Service Broker remote security maps an operation from outside an instance to a SQL Server database principal. The operation then proceeds in the security context of that database principal, with normal SQL Server permission checks. For example, when a message arrives for a conversation that uses dialog security, Service Broker uses information in the message to identify a database principal for the remote side of the conversation. SQL Server then verifies that the principal has permission to connect to the database that hosts the destination service, and permission to send a message to the destination service.
SQL Server uses certificates to verify the identity of a remote database, and to identify the local database principal for the operation. Therefore, installing a certificate in SQL Server constitutes a statement of trust in the database that holds the private key for the certificate. Carefully manage the certificates that you install and the remote service bindings that you create.
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To verify the identity of a remote server, SQL Server must receive information that can be decrypted with the public key in a certificate owned by a local database principal. If SQL Server can successfully decrypt the information, it means that the remote database contains the private key that corresponds to the public key in the local certificate. Once SQL Server verifies the identity of a remote database, the remote database can act with the permissions of the local database principal.
For transport security, each database must trust the other database. Transport security can use either certificates or Windows Authentication. For more information on transport security, see Service Broker Transport Security.
For dialog security, the initiator of the dialog must trust the target, and must be able to verify the identity of the target. However, the target may allow connections from initiators that do not provide identifying information. In this case, the initiators use the public role in the database that hosts the target service. Dialog security always uses certificates. For more information on dialog security, see Service Broker Dialog Security.
SQL Server does not provide automated methods for configuration of Service Broker security by means of certificates.
Certificate Requirements
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The key modulus must be less than 2048.
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A self-signed certificate created with the Transact-SQL statement CREATE CERTIFICATE meets the requirements in the preceding list. Certificates that are loaded from a file may not meet these requirements.
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The Contemporary Relevance of Augustine's View of Creation
Davis A. Young
Dept. of Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies
Calvin College Grand Rapids, Ml 49506
From: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 40.1:42-45 (3/1988)
A common impression exists among lay Christians and many non-Christians that the church interpreted Genesis 1-3 literally until the last two centuries. This allegedly traditional rendering includes the idea that God created the cosmos over a span of six ordinary 24-hour days, that there was no death in the world until the fall of Adam, and that at the time of the fall God introduced many other unpleasantries into the world-order as a punishment for sin. Included is the notion that thorns and thistles were not part of the original creation. Moreover, one encounters the suggestion that the church firmly held to these traditional ideas until the early 19th century, when geology proposed the concepts of an old earth and death before the appearance of man. The conclusion for many evangelicals is that these traditional ideas are the plain teaching of Scripture, and that attempts to avoid these plain teachings arose because of an unholy desire to accommodate biblical teaching to the dictates of an anti-Christian modern science.
That such a reading of church history is simplistic becomes clear when we consider the views of Augustine, the church's greatest theologian between Paul and Aquinas, on Genesis 1-3. Although we can gain an inkling of Augustine's approach to Genesis 1-3 from scattered comments in Confessions and The City of God, deeper insight is now possible for a wide audience with the recent publication of a fresh English translation of his great work, On the Literal Meaning of Genesis.' The few studies of Augustine's view of creation that are based on the Latin text are not widely accessible. It is my judgment that anyone seriously interested in the Genesis-science discussion should take the time to study this new translation. It is full of surprises. I wish to make a few observations about Augustine's general approach and his specific interpretations of the text of Genesis 1-3.
General Comments About Interpretation
Intriguing as Augustine's interpretations of specific texts may be, let's first look at some general attitudes that Augustine displays towards the text and its interpretation.
1. Augustine stresses that his interpretation of Genesis 1-3 is "literal" [according to its literary genre – and not at all what people mean by literal today] and not metaphorical or allegorical
Augustine had tried his hand earlier at interpretation of Genesis (A Commentary on Genesis: Two Books against the Manichees) and adopted a more allegorical method. He later came to reject that method and in this more mature work, written in his late fifties just before The City of God, he is concerned "to discuss Sacred Scriptures according to the plain meaning of the historical facts, not according to future events which they foreshadow" (p. 39). Given his strong commitment to literal interpretation, it is fascinating to recognize that the outcome bears absolutely no resemblance to modern literal interpretations. For example, he concludes that in Genesis I the terms "light," "day," and "morning" bear a spiritual, rather than physical, meaning. Yet for Augustine, spiritual light is just as literal as physical light, and the creation of spiritual light is just as much a historical event or fact as the creation of physical light. What is literal for one person may not be literal for others.
2. Augustine claims that the interpretation of Genesis I is not at all obvious and is fraught with difficulties.
Commitment to a literal interpretation does not solve all problems, nor does it lock the exegete into only one reading of the text. Perhaps more than any other interpreter, Augustine was painfully aware of the difficulties of the text. On point after point he lays out the various possibilities and often does not know how to commit himself. He freely acknowledges the many problems and options. He says that he has
worked out and presented the statements of the book of Genesis in a variety of ways according to my ability; and, in interpreting words that have been written obscurely for the purpose of stimulating our thought, I have not rashly taken my stand on one side against a rival interpretation which might possibly be better. I have thought that each one, in keeping with his powers of understanding, should choose the interpretation that he can grasp. Where he cannot understand Holy Scripture, let him glorify " and fear for himself. (pp. 43-44, emphasis mine)
He further observes that "It is a laborious and difficult task for the powers of our human understanding to see clearly the meaning of the sacred writer in the matter of these six days" (p. 103). How different is his attitude than those who, disregarding the labors of many of the church's greatest minds over the past two millennia, have convinced themselves that the fundamental interpretation of Genesis 1-3 is perfectly obvious. If we follow Augustine's lead, we will be very careful before using the words "the clear teaching of Scripture" in connection with these chapters.
3. .Augustine claims that we ought to be willing to change our minds about the interpretation of Genesis 1-3,
particularly as new information comes to light.
Consistent with the claim that Genesis 1-3 is difficult and obscure, Augustine repeatedly urges restraint, flexibility, openness to new interpretations, and openness to new knowledge that may provide insight into the text. He says that "in matters that are obscure and far beyond our vision … we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it. That would be to battle not for the teaching of Holy Scripture but for our own, wishing its teaching to conform to ours, whereas we ought to wish ours to conform to that of Sacred Scripture" (p. 41).
4. Augustine is particularly emphatic that we ought not to make absurd statements about what the Bible says when such statements flatly contradict what people already know from other reliable sources. We ought not to rigidly and dogmatically commit Scripture to interpretations that can easily be shown to he f4ise on the basis of physical evidence.
It seems to me that the following lengthy quotation cannot be heard enough because it is so terribly relevant to the present discussion about Genesis and earth history. Augustine says:
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men…. Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by these who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion. (pp. 42-43)
It seems to me that some of the young-earth, flood geology proponents of this century exemplify those whom Augustine had in mind. One can only guess at the damage done to evangelistic efforts among scientists by the persistent claims of Christians that the Bible teaches a young earth and a global deluge.
Augustine sees only trouble in committing Scripture to interpretations that supposedly provide information about the physical structure of the earth or the cosmos. Consider these two examples:
Let no one think that, because the Psalmist says, He established the earth above the uater, we must use this testimony of Holy Scripture against these people who engage in learned discussions about the weight of the elements. They are not bound by the authority of our Bible; and, ignorant of the sense of these words, they will more readily scorn our sacred books than disavow the knowledge they have acquired by unassailable arguments or proved by the evidence of experience. (pp. 47-48)
But someone may ask: 'Is not Scripture opposed to those who hold that heaven is spherical, when it says, who stretches out heaven like a skin?' Let it be opposed indeed if their statement is false…. But if they are able to establish their doctrine with proofs that cannot be denied, we must show that this statement of Scripture about the skin is not opposed to the truth of their conclusions. (p. 59)
Augustine shows respect for scientific activity, and does not want to put Scripture in a situation of conflict with it.
5. Augustine is obviously interested in the science of his own day and interacts with it. He takes extra-biblical knowledge seriously.
For example, it is clear that he accepts spontaneous generation of organisms and the four elements of Greek thought. He expends considerable effort in relating Genesis I to the four elements and to the Greek theory of natural places: "One must surely not think that in this passage of Holy Scripture there has been an omission of any one of the four elements that are generally supposed to make up the world just because there seems to be no mention of air in the account of sky, water, and earth." (p. 76).
From his general approach to this text, it would appear that Augustine, the great theologian, a man saturated in Holy Scripture, actually encourages the church not to cling dogmatically to specific renderings of the text but to rethink its interpretations in the light of genuine extra-biblical knowledge. Perhaps we should pay him serious attention.
Specific Interpretations
Now let's look at some of Augustine's specific interpretations of the first chapters of Genesis.
1. Augustine says that God created all things simultaneously.
There can be no mistaking that Augustine teaches that God created everything simultaneously in the beginning. Some things were made in fully developed form as we see them today, and other things were made in a potential form, so that in time they might become the way we see them now. Augustine went far beyond any superficial reading of the text by claiming that neither the creation nor the subsequent unfolding took place in six ordinary days. He is explicit that God did not create the world over the course of six temporal days. "The sacred writer was able to separate in the time of his narrative what God did not separate in time in His creative act" (p. 36).
2 Augustine says that the six-day creation structure has nothing to do with the passage of time during creation but is a logical framework
Augustine repeatedly stresses that the six days are not six successive ordinary days. They have nothing to do with time. For him, this is unequivocally the case for the first three days before the making of the sun, but he is equally inclined to say the same of the last three days. The days are repeatedly claimed to be arranged according to causes, order, and logic. For example: "These seven days of our time, although like the same days of creation in name and in numbering, follow one another in succession and mark off the division of time, but those first six days occurred in a form unfamiliar to us as intrinsic principles within things created" (p. 125). The days of creation "are beyond the experience and knowledge of us mortal earthbound men … we must bear in mind that these days indeed recall the days of creation but without in any way being really similar to them" (p. 135). Further, "we should not think of those days as solar days…. He made that which gave time its beginning, as He made all things together, disposing them in an order based not on intervals of time but on causal connections" (p. 154). And finally, "But in the beginning He created all things together and completed the whole in six days, when six times he brought the 'day' which he made before the things which He made, not in a succession of periods of time but in a plan made known according to causes" (pp. 175-176). Why does the narrative employ the device of the six days? "The reason is that those who cannot understand the meaning of the text, He created all things together, cannot arrive at the meaning of Scripture unless the narrative proceeds slowly step by step" (p. 142).
As the six days have nothing to do with the passage of time, Augustine relates them to the knowledge that intellectual creatures-that is, angels-have of created things, both as they exist in the Word of God and as they exist in themselves. This knowledge was made known to the angels in the six ordering steps: "That day, which God has made, recurs in connection with His works not by a material passage of time but by a spiritual knowledge, when the blessed company of angels contemplate from the beginning in the Word of God the divine decree to create" (p. 134). Or, "The seven days … with which we are familiar … are like a shadow and a sign reminding us to seek those days wherein created spiritual light was able to be made present to all the works of God by the perfection of the number six" (p. 145). There is no doubt that Augustine's view is strange and difficult to absorb, but he has a ready comment for us: "And when you hear that all things were made after day was made, you may possibly understand this sixfold or sevenfold repetition which took place without lapse of time. If you cannot yet understand it, you should leave the matter for the consideration of those who can" (p. 150).
3. Augustine does not envision the fall resulting in fundamental structural changes in the cosmos, or even the introduction of death into the animal realm.
For many Christians, Genesis teaches that substantial changes occurred in the structure of creation at the time of Adam's fall. There is widespread belief that thorns and thistles were specifically introduced into the world to be an annoyance to sinful human beings. Such plants, it is thought, did not exist in the original creation. That was certainly not Augustine's view. He says:
We should not jump to the conclusion that it was only then that these plants came forth from the earth. For it could be that, in view of the many advantages found in different kinds of seeds, these plants had a place on earth without afflicting man in any way. But since they were growing in the fields in which man was now laboring in punishment for his sin, it is reasonable to suppose that they became one of the means of punishing him. For they might have grown elsewhere, for the nourishment of birds and beasts, or even for the use of man. Now this interpretation does not contradict what is said in the words, Thorns and thistler shall it bring forth to you if we understand that earth in producing them before the fall did not do so to afflict man but rather to provide proper nourishment for certain animals, since some animals find soft dry thistles a pleasant and nourishing food…. I do not mean that these plants once grew in other places and only afterwards in the fields where man planted and harvested his crops. They were in the same place before and after; formerly not for man, after- wards for man. And this is what is meant by the words to you. (p. 94)
It is a further surprise to note that Augustine does not even see animal death and corruption as a direct result of the fall. In answer to the question as to why animals eat each other, he claims that it is because that is the way they were made. Human sin is not considered as the cause. Moreover, it is because we are fallen that we perceive animal death and corruption as an evil.
One might ask why brute beasts inflict injury on one another, for there is no sin in them for which they could be a punishment, and they cannot acquire any virtue by such a trial. The answer, of course, is that one animal is the nourishment of another. To wish that it were otherwise would not be reason- able. For all creatures, as long as they exist, have their own measure, number, and order. (p. 92)
He also speaks of death as follows: "For He has wrought them all in His wisdom, which, reaching from end to end, governs all graciously; and he leaves not in an unformed state the very least of His creatures that are by their nature subject to corruption, whose dissolution is loathsome to us in our fallen state by reason of our own mortality" (p. 90, emphasis mine).
4. Augustine suggests that the bodies of Adam and Eve were created mortal
Augustine raises the interesting question: why would Adam and Eve have to eat if they were created immortal? "It is difficult to explain how man was created immortal and at the same time in company with the other living creatures was given for food the seed-bearing plant, the fruit tree, and the green crops. If it was by sin that he was made mortal, surely before sinning he did not need such food since his body could not corrupt for lack of it" (p. 97). His solution is that Adam and Eve were created with mortal bodies. Their death was the result of their sin, but Augustine suggests that, had they not sinned, they would have been given the spiritual bodies with which we will be endowed at the resurrection.
He was mortal … by the constitution of his natural body, and he was immortal by the gift of his Creator. For if it was a natural body he had, it was certainly mortal because it was able to die, at the same time immortal by reason of the fact that it was able not to die. Only a spiritual being is immortal by virtue of the fact that it cannot possibly die; and this condition is promised to us in the resurrection. Consequently, Adam's body, a natural and therefore mortal body, which by justification would become spiritual and therefore truly immortal, in reality by sin was made not mortal (because it was that already) but rather a dead thing, which it would have been able not to be if Adam had not sinned. (pp. 204-205)
Those interested in the issue of human origins should take a closer look at Augustine's views.
1. It is historically inaccurate to maintain that modern science alone forced the church to come up with ideas about Genesis 1-3 that differ from the allegedly traditional views. Many of Augustine's interpretations are plainly at variance with what are commonly perceived in evangelicalism as traditional views of Genesis. And, I might add, he was never accused of heresy for his views. It is plain that we cannot accuse Augustine of departing from the plain meaning of Scripture in order to make peace with science as we know it. Obviously, Augustine was not looking over his shoulder at scientific geology or paleontology. It is therefore all the more remarkable and significant that he adopts positions generally not perceived as the traditional church positions.
2. Given that a theological thinker of Augustine's genius arrived at the views he did after years of careful study of the text, it is incumbent upon us to approach the early chapters of Genesis with far less dogmatism and far more humility and caution than we often do. Augustine's interpretations should help us guard against facile claims about the obvious meaning of these texts. The point here is not that we should adopt Augustine's specific interpretations (I've got problems with some of them myself, but that we should recognize what Augustine recognized: namely, the early chapters of Genesis are in fact complex and do not tender easy, pat answers. Once the entire evangelical world comes to grips with that simple conclusion, we will have made some progress.
1. St. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, translated and annotated by John Hammond Taylor, S.J., 2 vols. (New York: Newman Press, 1982). All page references in the text of this paper are to pages in volume 1.


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5 bad blockbusters that took your money
These summer movies broke bank, audiences' spirits
Maybe you got pulled in by the "everyone else is seeing it" factor. Perhaps the bank-breaking ad budget wore you down. Maybe the production costs were so wow-worthy they had to be seen on the big screen.
Or, hey, maybe we can chalk it up to a good ol' guilty pleasure.
Whatever the excuse, everybody's been roped in to seeing a bad blockbuster at one time or another. You know, the kind of movie that when you look back and all the hoopla is gone, you realize that what you spent good money on was just a horrible waste of time. You and a million other suckers.
How does Hollywood continue to garner success from such nonsense? Ask a sociologist; we're just here to let you know which ones they are. Here are the five worst awesomely-successful movies ever ...
No. 5: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" -- $309 Million
Here is a film that suffers because it comes on the heels of the first two entertaining "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies. And as the third in the original trilogy, it was also responsible for tying together all the loose ends.
While it does do that, it does so in terrifically disjointed fashion. And in a film that lives by its special effects, humor and fun, a twist-and-turn storyline is a big, clashing mistake. What the heck was going on in this thing anyway?! Who were the good guys?
Though some may not care because it still "looked cool," it made it impossible for anyone interested in plot to get sucked in. All the cool-looking stuff that was happening required a distracting, "Why?"
And hey, how did what's-her-name's legs always stay shaved?
No. 4: "Austin Powers in Goldmember" -- $213 Million
It's like when you're at a party and you are making people laugh. You're on a roll and think you can do no wrong. But do you quit while you're ahead? Noooooo. The recent success changes you, makes you cocky and you blurt out something that falls flat and unfunny. Wham! Now you're stuck leaving on a low note.
Enter Austin Powers. It seemed Mike Myers thought anything that entered his melon would be comic gold after having audiences in stitches in his previous movies. So he haphazardly threw it out there.
This was comic fool's gold, for "Goldmember." The main character wasn't funny and the same old figures from the previous films were retreads.
Viewers just had to watch and try to laugh at all the misses. But with $200 million-plus at the box office, maybe Myers got to let out some genuine guffaws.
No. 3: "Star Wars: Episode I" -- $431 Million
Yeah, yeah, "Star Wars" is untouchable, right? Um, no. Just because a film series is adopted as cultural lore doesn't mean it's every entry is golden -- it doesn't even mean they're necessarily good.
Movies that are a piece of a larger whole have the responsibility to make things interesting for the newbies. Sure, for those who were primed to eat out of George Lucas' hands -- the Star Wars fanatics -- this film was going to be a slam dunk.
But for everyone else, the first film in a trilogy of prequels lacked any endearing characters to follow. It was lifeless and boring. The best part was the big fish. And one can say all this before even mentioning Jar Jar Binks.
But hey, a history of success does apparently give gobbledy-gook films like this a pass -- to the tune of $431 million.
No. 2: "Pearl Harbor" -- $199 Million
Wow. OK, so pretend you're a surfer and a wave is coming. Either you catch it and ride it to shore in all its glory or you don't and you watch it drift to shore with a look of, "What the heck was that?"
Missing out on this cinematic wave left a lot of people on the outside looking askance at what was being lapped before them on the screen.
Oh, it had all the elements -- the love stories, the musical score, the fear of battle, the heroism. But if you don't "catch the wave," the drama is empty, lame and even laughable. There was nothing here to draw viewers in -- heck, there wasn't a wave to catch!
And you know what? The U.S. military kicked in funding for this movie. That means if you saw it, you paid for it twice.
No. 1: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" -- $402 Million
This debacle made a cool $400 million. So apparently some worthwhile purpose was being served by it; it's just that being a good movie wasn't one of them.
The film's attempts at story and character are drowned within a blender of metallic action. As is commonly the complaint of big summer blockbusters, it had few endearing human elements. But unlike others in the genre, it took this trend to new highs (or lows).
It was so lampooned by critics that director Michael Bay officially apologized for it. It was so lampooned that one considers defending it out of pity. Well, that is, until you see the money it made. But, hey, you can't buy respect.
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[Image: Surveillance cameras for sale in China; photo by Timothy O'Rourke for The New York Times].
While these cameras and other forms of remote sensing are being installed to keep Olympic athletes and their screaming fans safe during the coming summer's Games, the worry is that the surveillance will simply stay put:
- Long after the visitors leave, security industry experts say, the surveillance equipment that Western companies leave behind will provide the authorities here with new tools to track not only criminals, but dissidents too... Indeed, the autumn issue of the magazine of China's public security ministry prominently listed places of religious worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras.
- Honeywell has already started helping the police to set up an elaborate computer monitoring system to analyze feeds from indoor and outdoor cameras in one of Beijing's most populated districts, where several Olympic sites are located. The company is working on more expansive systems in Shanghai, in preparation for the 2010 World Expo there – in addition to government and business security systems in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Changsha, Tianjin, Kunming and Xi'an. General Electric has sold to Chinese authorities its powerful VisioWave system, which allows security officers to control thousands of video cameras simultaneously and automatically alerts them to suspicious or fast-moving objects, like people running. The system will be deployed at Beijing's national convention center, including the Olympics media center. I.B.M. is installing a similar system in Beijing that should be ready before the Olympics and will analyze and catalog people and behavior.
James Mulvenon, director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, remarks that "the pace of technological change means that products with mainly civilian applications, like management computer systems with powerful video surveillance features, [have] blurred the distinction between law enforcement and civilian technologies." And it's in that blurring that some U.S. security firms have potentially brushed up against the outer edge of illegal commercial activity: that is, supplying China with these cameras might at least partially violate "a sanctions law Congress passed after the Tiananmen Square killings" in 1989.
[Image: Surveillance in China; photographer temporarily unknown, though this appeared in The New York Times several months ago].
All of this also highlights the increasingly intense overlap between film production, the political administration of urban space, and the private security industry, whereby three otherwise unrelated fields become nearly indistinguishable from one another – or, perhaps more accurately phrased, they become erstwhile partners in pursuit of different goals.
In fact, I have often thought it would be interesting – and I have actually written an entire unpublished novel about a very similar idea, set in London (attention, editors! seriously!) – if a well-known, and wealthy, film production firm such as Universal Pictures, or Warner Brothers, or even Film Four, were to sign a legal contract with, for example, the City of London, after which Universal would financially underwrite the installation of a brand new and geographically extensive security camera system.
Universal (or whomever – maybe Bollywood will do this) would retain all legal rights to the footage thus generated – the ultimate reality TV show: London in real-time – yet they'd be contractually obligated to let the City of London use the footage for law enforcement purposes. Beyond a certain timeframe, though, Universal keeps all the film.
Meanwhile, the City has found itself an additional revenue stream and a partner in fighting crime (or, at least, in filming it), and reality TV – reality cinema – has never had it so good. A bottomless well of new footage.
All London needs is a good editor™.
So might that be the urban security model of the future? Cities will lease urban image rights to film production firms? Your willful participation will simply be assumed.
Soon, London, New York, and Tokyo are owned by Sony Pictures; Paris, Rome, and New Delhi sign binding contracts with Warner Brothers; and every other city in between falls to one of half a dozen rival production companies.
Armed film companies replace mayors and town halls as the urban administrators of tomorrow.
Taxes are cut almost to nothing: government revenue is entirely film-generated. You can syndicate the events of yesterday on televisions round the world, and earn tens of millions of euros in the process.
After all, what would you do if you found out that New Line Cinema, or Dreamworks, or Canal+, had just installed tens of thousands of cameras throughout greater Moscow – and that the footage being generated was starting to show up on TV?
We are the stars now®.
Perhaps I should add that I think this is a very dystopian scenario, and I am not at all advocating that it be implemented; nonetheless, the literary and cinematic possibilities are, for me, quite exciting – and, to be frank, it sounds financial workable for both parties.
In any case, if you're off to Beijing for the Olympics next summer, don't forget to look your best: you'll be on film...
(Vaguely related: Filmmaker Adam Rifkin talks to Wired about the cinematic possibilities of CCTV – with belated thanks to Christopher Stack!)


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The Indianapolis Colts have been busy locking up free agents, but aren't close to a contract with their top priority, Vontae Davis.
With the legal tampering period set to begin Saturday, the Colts and the cornerback aren't close to a contract agreement, The Indianapolis Star's Stephen Holder reported Friday.
According to the report, the sides are "relatively far apart in negotiations."
Beginning tomorrow, the exclusive window for teams to negotiate with their own free agents ends. If other teams bring heavy offers to Davis' door, it could stall or derail talks between he and the Colts.
This week, the Colts signed linebacker D'Qwell Jackson and punter Pat McAfee announced Friday on NFL Network's "NFL AM" that he agreed to a five-year contract to remain in Indy.
However, general manager Ryan Grigson has yet to close a deal with Davis, his most important defensive free agent.
Davis sits at No. 13 overall in Around The League's top 101 free-agent list and is the third overall cornerback left on the market.
The Colts have plenty of salary-cap space, so even if Davis hits the open market, it's not sayonara, but it won't make it any easier to retain him, either.
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The New York Times is talking about how hipsters are taking over San Francisco, and how the art scene here is dead. I just smile and nod, since people have been saying a version of this for decades.
San Francisco was born in revolution and chaos: taken from the Ohlone by the Spanish, liberated into Mexico, planned and built by a Spanish-English coalition, ceded by Mexico to the United States. It's been shaken by earthquakes, and economic and political upheaval, every twenty or so years.
I don't think a silver bullet and wooden stake could kill this town of "the cops, the crooks, and the big rich."
|Paddling on Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park
Yes, it's expensive to live here. It felt expensive when I first moved here in 1979, and lived in a roach-infested one bedroom flat on Post between Polk and Larkin for $400 a month. We lasted just a few months before we fled for a cheaper city.
And yes, an awful lot of tech employees have moved into the Mission and there's been a kerfuffle of protest. Meanwhile, 4,000 additional people moved into my neighborhood just last year. We didn't make the news, because OMI isn't hip, hell, it's just newly reclaimed from serious drug violence. Its petite charms are yet to be discovered by the press and the hipsters.
|The view from my office in OMI
Quiet, child-rearing techsters are moving into the OMI as those originally forced to move here in the 1960s are selling off their inherited properties before the next housing bust. It's a quiet, orderly changing of the guard, and I hope it happens just as slowly as it possibly can. My neighbors on either side are sweet, wise women who help keep their kids' lives together in the face of still-rampant racism and underemployment. Nobody hates us over here in OMI, not yet anyway. It's not a badge of honor to be one step above drug-trade violence, but I'll take what I can get.
You can see where the hipster stereotype is coming from. At a recent visit to a Mission coffee shop, I saw a lot of people in porkpie hats, completely absorbed in their digital devices, ignoring the world around them. So I think the hipsters, who are spending upwards of 70% of their income on rent, have a little more work to do if they want to belong instead of be reviled. I know it's possible, because I see it in my OMI neighborhood every day.
San Francisco, the first beautiful thing I found after my mother's death, has artists and writers who live and work here without angels, municipal, corporate, or private--it's not any more artistically dead here than when the Summer of Love morphed into the Winter of Dirty Sidewalks. Whether it's Noir City, LitQuake, Outside Lands, or smaller salons and gatherings, we're here, and we're creating every day—directly, or indirectly by supporting city-wise initiatives like San Francisco Beautiful or 826 Valencia. Perhaps we could be less iconoclastic, and instead grow better skills of cooperation with each other but we're not dead. Far from it, my friends. And, like the rollickingly open port city we've always been, we welcome you, whether or not you live within our 47 square miles.
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