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By Omar El-Khairy.
On Monday, at approximately 18:00 Damascus time, Amina was walking near Fares Al-Khouri Street. According to an eyewitness, Amina was bustled into a red Dacia Logan with a bumper sticker of Basel Assad. Amina's present location is still unknown.

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Reforming the NHS
The best thing I've watched on TV for months (alright, it's just about the only thing I've watched on TV for months) was Gerry Robinson's programme on reforming the NHS. The second part is on tonight at 9pm on BBC2, and it wraps up at the same time on Wednesday.
I would like to say that it was eye opening, but anyone who reads Doc Crippen knows full well what it's really like in the NHS. Confirmation of what Doc C has been saying came in spadesful, with a terrifying picture painted of an organisation which is institutionally incapable of doing its job, institutionally beyond reform. Robinson is an enthusiast for the NHS (as a Labour man, it's not surprising). He came over as a thoughtful man and he is clearly a good businessman. But the levels of despair and depression that came over him as he realised what he was up against were a vindication for everyone who argues that the NHS is a national disgrace and cannot be reformed, but should be scrapped.
Or so I thought.
This afternoon I heard him interviewed on 5Live where he set out his position on what needs to happen now that we know the problems. Having seen what he has seen, his answers were breathtaking in their naivety. The NHS should apparently remain free at the point of use. He's not an economist then is he? He should try reading Doctor Crippen on the subject. It needs better managers. Ah, managerialism. Everything will be alright with the right managers. Just a bit more money needed. Another blog, Stumbling and Mumbling, would put him right here.
I was left with the abiding impression that here was a man who had got stuck in the detail of a single hospital, and couldn't see the wood for the trees. He couldn't see the glaringly obvious fact that the NHS is not fit for purpose (to use a hackneyed phrase). The NHS is a zombie organisation. It's dead. Finished. We need to start again.
What we should replace it with is up for debate, or at least it would be if we had a single politician with the cojones to start one. Robinson said on the Radio 5 interview that he knew little or nothing about healthcare in other countries except that healthcare was good in the USA and France. This blindspot might explain why he thinks the NHS is reformable. He knows nothing about countries which have better systems (and in the developed world, that may well be all of them). He might try taking a look at Singapore.
But at the end of the day, Robinson has provided a valuable service, by publicising the state of the NHS and the waste of £27 billion which has been pumped into an organisation which is unreformed and unreformable. For this he deserves our thanks.


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Here . Some additional retro MTB twaddle . I scanned in some old magazines and stuff last week . Early stuff .
The earliest of the earliest is this . In 1987 , cut and paste was a fighting style .
There was an almost total absence of MTB literature . I would buy the odd bike mag but they were literally 95% biased toward roadie with maybe touring thrown in . There was a point when Bicycle Action magazine started to include a section devoted to off-road , called MBUK . A few pages at the back .
So , info was hard to come by . I guess I must have followed up on an ad , and joined the national Mountain Bike Club . It was run by MTB pioneers , Jeremy Torr , and Max Glaskin . It was a very low key ' fanzine' style affair . Just a single sheet of A4 , with the absolute smallest of print , xeroxed by the million . Well , tens . At least . A few issues in came this . Guidelines on how to put on an MTB event . Have a gander .
Kinda funny , eh ? Remember kids , all bikes should have tyres at least 1.5" wide .
Ok , that's it for now .
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text: NILES - Beatrice E. Collier, 91, died Wednesday in Lakeland Hospital after an illness. Survivors include a daughter, Karen E. Andrus of Berrien Springs; and five sons, Eldon C. of Berrien Springs, Larry K. of Buchanan, Keith A. of Winlock, Wash., Ronald O. of Berrien Center and Gary J. of Niles. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Village Seventh-day Adventist Church, Berrien Springs. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today in Legacy Family Funeral Services, Berrien Springs.


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Saturday night, they treated us to this main course, which we'd all admired on the show Man vs. Food:
Yes. That's right. It's a bacon cheeseburger with a grilled Krispy Kreme doughnut for a bun. It was delectable. My dad said that maybe the myeloma cells would be so scared of what I was actually putting into my body that they'd jump right out. I'm thinking that my arteries are so clogged now that the myeloma cells simply can't circulate anymore. Don't worry; I also made a salad that we could place in the center of the table and admire, which made this a healthy meal, right?
The next day, we had lots more family and friends come over for a party with a luau theme. We had obnoxious Hawaiian shirts, paper leis, tons of grilled appetizers ... and this guy:
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This past summer I spent two weeks teaching English in Jordan. I thought, when I'd returned home, I'd write about the experience—a lot. But it's December now and I still haven't. I wrote a few little pieces here and there but not much. I realize now that I've been afraid to, afraid to spill out into words how much the trip rattled me, shaking out the dust of my assumptions and beliefs. I haven't wanted to face this for some time: my newness and what it might mean for my future.
Adjusting back into my current job, as the editor of a weekly community newspaper, was exceptionally difficult. I'd say it took a couple of months. For a long time I just could not focus. I'd come into work, sit my body down into the chair in front of the computer screen, but I still felt thousands of miles away. Where was my mind? I wanted, in a strange way, to be back in the Middle East. But was that really what I wanted? Or was what I craved the newness, the sharp break in my schedule? I was drunk silly on the differentness of it all, lost and disoriented in it and maybe just a little bit in love. In a way it felt like a dream, too. In two short weeks I was plucked from my life and plunged into something drastically different, and, upon my return, it felt somewhat like maybe I had dreamed it all.
Going to Jordan made me realize in a skin on skin kind of way how big the world is. I'd known it looking at a map, but I'd never felt it. You feel the world's bigness in a classroom filled with Arabic-speaking men who, for the life of them, cannot pronounce "P" or "V," and you realize that these sounds never penetrated their language; you realize that the way you speak is not the way millions of other people in the world speak. You feel the bigness of the world when you see the rocks of Petra rising sculpted in the desert air and realize that not too long ago people made their homes in the carved-out crevices.
Not long after I returned, the world's bigness weighed on me. I thought of my two weeks in Jordan, and how much I'd seen of the world—how I'd felt like I my eyes feasted everywhere I went on newness—and realized, sadly, how little I'd really seen. How much more was out there, everywhere. If only I could get to it. I settled back into my life reporting on town budgets and new school policies and the village's installation of new fire hydrants, and felt through to my bones and blood, in a very deep way, that I was missing the great, wide world. I had tasted life beyond the cubicle and beyond the government board meeting and, like an animal tasting blood for the first time, I wanted it more than ever. The ache has dulled in the past few months as I try to forget the wonderfulness, lest I miss it. But, if I am perfectly honest with myself, I do miss it. Sometimes terribly. Maybe not Jordan in particular, but the thrill at plunging into something wholly unknown, serving in it and, in the process, letting it fill you back up.


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Everything in the Bible is true in some sense
Q: This question is trivial, but I am curious. Has anyone who believes literally in Genesis ever calculated how many humans, in addition to Adam and Eve, God actually created? There had to be quite a few to provide spouses for Adam and Eve's descendants, and then later for Noah's descendants. Isn't it strange that those creations are never mentioned? – S.
A: Your question is not at all trivial. For those of us who believe that the Bible is true (include me in) we must be sensitive and rational and loving and attentive and pious in our explanation of how and why the Bible is true. It is not enough to just assert the truth of the Bible.
The truth of the Bible must be carefully and intelligently explicated. What I believe is that the Bible is not a book about everything, but everything in the Bible is true in some sense. This is what I mean by "in some sense":
I believe that some of the true things in the Bible are true because they actually happened. They are historical events, like the Exodus from Egypt, or the ancient Israelite empire, and historians and archaeologists can prove their validity.
I believe that some of the true things in the Bible are true because they describe a moral code that has sustained and ennobled civilization for 4,000 years, like the commands not to steal and not to murder and not to commit adultery and not to oppress the poor. These are true moral judgments and can be affirmed by secular philosophers using unaided human moral reasoning.
I believe that some of the true things in the Bible are true not because they happened or did not happen, but because the meaning of the biblical story is true even if the facts are not. For example, there are no talking snakes, but the Garden of Eden story is true because it teaches us through a fable to respect God's loving commandments.
All the animals did not fit on one boat and a flood did not cover all the earth, but the story of Noah and the Flood is true because it teaches us that our moral failings can indeed imperil all life on earth.
Finally, there are those parts of the Bible that could be true and are true in a miraculous way that's only accessible to people of that particular faith – like the story of Jesus' resurrection.
I realize, of course, that biblical literalists hold that everything in the Bible is literally true. I love and respect these people, but I part ways with them over this belief. My faith in God doesn't require me to believe in talking snakes or donkeys.
I'm uplifted by God's work in nature and history and morality. I'm challenged by the task of making my life reflect my creation in the image of God. If the debate about the truth of religion hinges on the proof for talking snakes, religion cannot, I believe, expand its message of hope and meaning to a world in desperate need of salvation and healing.
Truth can come in many forms and from many sources. It can come from ancient sacred texts and from unaided human reason and from music and art and literature. It can come from many different religions, each sensitive to one of many facts of God's revelation of the truth to humankind.
If you can glean this hope and meaning from nonreligious sources, God bless you (oops).
If you find your path to meaning aided by the sacred teachings of the Bible, God bless you, too. There's too much work to do in our broken world to spend time insulting each other for the many ways we use to find our way to virtue and hope.
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