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By Dave Hogg, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Tyler Austin looked pretty comfortable in his debut with the Minnesota Twins.
Austin hit a two-run homer, Kyle Gibson pitched seven effective innings and the Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Saturday night.
Austin was acquired in the July 30 trade that sent Lance Lynn to the New York Yankees. The 26-year-old Austin, who hit .223 with eight homers in 34 games for the Yankees before the move, was recalled from Triple-A Rochester on Friday.
"He looks like a modern-day player — his first three times up were a walk, a strikeout and a homer," manager Paul Molitor said. "That's what today's game seems to be about."
Austin connected on a Francisco Liriano slider in the fifth.
"My first time up he threw me some good changeups, and I swung through them," he said. "I swung through another changeup on 2-0, but he left a slider over the plate on 2-1 and I put a good swing on it."
Minnesota improved to 2-4 on its seven-game trip. Gibson (6-9) allowed one run and seven hits, struck out four and walked two.
"The defense played great," Gibson said. "My fastball command was a lot better tonight, and that means more balls in play. They really picked me up when I needed them."
Detroit lost for the seventh time in eight games. Liriano (3-7) allowed three runs and six hits in five innings while dropping to 0-6 in his last 13 outings.
"Every time I feel like I'm getting into a rhythm, I'll walk a couple guys or make a couple bad pitches and it gets away from me," he said. "I've got to find a way to stay focused on the next pitch instead of getting frustrated when I make a mistake."
The Tigers rallied in the ninth against Trevor Hildenberger, who got a chance to close after Fernando Rodney was traded to Oakland on Thursday.
Victor Martinez led off with a walk, and Niko Goodrum followed with a drive to right for his 12th homer. Jim Adduci then singled, but James McCann struck out looking, rookie Victor Reyes flied out, and JaCoby Jones struck out for the third time.
"We needed one more hit, and we just couldn't get it," Detroit manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Mac had a great at-bat, but they got him on the 3-2 pitch, Victor hit the ball hard but right at someone, and then they get the strikeout to end it."
It was Hildenberger's first save of the year and the second of his career, both coming at Comerica Park.
The Tigers jumped in front on McCann's RBI single in the second but didn't score again off Gibson.
"I've known Gibby for a long time, and you can really see how he has learned to pitch," said Gardenhire, who managed the Twins in Gibson's first two seasons. "We've got a lot of young hitters, and he took advantage of them."
The Twins tied it in the third when Eddie Rosario scored on Liriano's wild pitch.
Austin's ninth homer gave the Twins a 3-1 lead, and Rosario's RBI double off Zach McAllister put Minnesota ahead by three in the sixth.
Twins: 1B Logan Morrison was placed on the disabled list, and he will undergo season-ending hip surgery. . RHP Michael Pineda (elbow) pitched three scoreless innings for Class-A Fort Myers in his second appearance after Tommy John surgery.
Tigers: LHP Daniel Norris pitched two innings for Detroit's Gulf Coast League team, allowing one unearned run. He has been sidelined since April 30 with a groin injury.
Goodrum's homer was his second in as many days and his third of the season against Minnesota. Goodrum, who was drafted by Minnesota in 2010 and made his major league debut with the Twins last season, is hitting .320 with eight RBIs in 25 at-bats against them this season.
Before Sunday's series finale, the Tigers will retire the No. 47 of newly inducted Hall of Famer Jack Morris. Morris won World Series championships with three teams, including the Tigers and Twins, and will be the ninth player to have his jersey retired by Detroit. Alan Trammell, who also went into the Hall of Fame this year, will have his No. 3 retired on Aug. 26.
"It will be an honor to be here, because I was a coach in Minnesota when Jack helped us win in 1991, and we are great friends," Gardenhire said. "The fans here adore him, and so do the fans in Minnesota."
The teams finish their three-game series with Detroit's Matthew Boyd (6-10, 4.33 ERA) facing Kohl Stewart, who will be making his major league debut for the Twins.
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In July 2016, a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled on the Philippines v. China case regarding South China Sea maritime rights. The arbitral panel had an opportunity to chart a constructive approach to one of the foremost legal questions of the Asia-Pacific. However, where it should have chosen to foster mutually cooperative tendencies on ill-understood provisions of the law, the award performed a disservice with consequences that will reverberate for a considerable time to come. On July 12, any illusion of judicial fair-play and moderation in the case was irretrievably shattered.
In a sweeping judgment that was as harsh as it was reckless, the arbitral tribunal in The Hague constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued a thoroughly one-sided award, ruling that many of China's maritime claims — and actions in defense of those claims — in the South China Sea were contrary to UNCLOS and had thereby violated the Philippines' sovereign rights and freedoms.
The ruling was harsh because although the arbitrators enjoyed ample latitude to carve out a constructive, mid-path interpretation of a critically important but ill-defined provision of maritime law (Article 121 of UNCLOS regarding the definition of "rocks" and "islands"), it instead chose to indulge in a tortuous train of legal thought that lacked basis in case law and produced a zero-sum outcome that overwhelmingly favored Manila. The ruling was reckless because the arbitrators dismissed an earlier ruling in sea law (regarding "historic rights" in maritime spaces) with a breeziness that was inversely proportional to its tenuous reasoning on the "island/rock" issue. At minimum, the panelists bore an obligation to lay out a reasoned basis for overturning legal precedent. Instead, they resorted to a superficial explanation that was lifted almost word-for-word from the Philippines' March 2014 memorial to the court.
Itu Aba: From "Island" to "Rock"
One of the most significant elements of the ruling was its finding that Itu Aba, the largest feature in the Spratly group, and which is currently occupied by Taipei, is not an "island" capable of generating a 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) but is instead merely a "rock" generating only a 12-nautical mile territorial sea. The ambiguity of Article 121(3) regarding the definition of an "island" capable of generating an EEZ has long vexed legal specialists and lay persons alike: in order to qualify as an island, a feature must be able "to sustain human habitation or economic life of [its] own."
The wording that became the agreed text in April 1975 was the product of an informal consultative process which left few records of its work due to the deep divisions among the state parties regarding the distinction between islands and rocks. No consistent trend had been discernible in state practice. Unable to form a consensus on this "island/rock" distinction, the Meetings of the State Parties of the Law of the Sea Convention (SPLOS) have periodically prevented statutory international expert bodies from weighing in on the issue until the divergence of views is resolved. Taking the cue, international courts have found artful ways to navigate around this contested definition in the course of maritime delimitation cases. The result was a de facto literalist bent to the interpretation of Article 121(3) — to the somewhat preposterous point that even tiny features enjoyed the benefit of the doubt and were granted rights typically accorded to larger, fully entitled islands.
On July 12, the arbitral tribunal threw decades of jurisprudential caution out the window by directly addressing the distinction between "islands" and "rocks," and added an arbitrary "historical use" test in the case of features that are difficult to define. Effectively, henceforth, features "which haven't sustained human habitation or economic life of its own" are to be categorized as "rocks." Itu Aba in its natural form, however, can sustain human habitation and economic activity and has shown it to be the case in recent history. As such, the tribunal proceeded to heap another disqualifying test: the "human habitation" referenced in Article 121(3) was to "be [now] understood to involve the inhabitation of the feature by a stable community of people for whom the feature constitutes a home and on which they can remain."
Having substantially transformed the meaning of Article 121(3) from "rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own" to "rocks which haven't sustained a settled community of inhabitants or economic life of their own" (Itu Aba has served as a temporary residence for extended periods but not a permanent home), the tribunal thereafter struck down the capacity of Itu Aba and every other high-tide feature in the Spratly group to generate an EEZ or continental shelf.
The tribunal's interpretation bears little resemblance to the letter or spirit of Article 121 and its reasoning situates itself at the outer end of the academic literature on the subject. The provision lays down no requirement — implicit or otherwise — that the "human" presence referenced be an exclusively civilian one; that the "habitation" on the feature be a "non-transient one who have chosen to stay and reside;" that the feature must furnish an abstract "proper standard" of lifestyle; or that the feature's entitlement was exclusively intended to benefit an indigenous population. And while the object and purpose of Article 121 was indeed intended not to enable a tiny feature to generate a disproportionately large entitlement to maritime space, there is utterly nothing in the official record of the Law of the Sea negotiations to suggest that a "stable group or community" standard was envisioned to qualify a feature as a fully-entitled island that can "sustain human habitation."
"Historic Rights" and the Nine-Dash Line
"Historic rights" in maritime spaces obtain in two forms — as an exclusive right and as a non-exclusively-exercised right. The former, typically as a "historic title" or "historic waters" right, pertains to maritime areas appurtenant to a mainland coast, bears the hallmark of state sovereignty, and is directly referenced in the territorial sea provisions of UNCLOS. By contrast, in waters within a semi-enclosed sea that were hitherto the high seas but have since become part of a coastal state's exclusive maritime zones, a privately-acquired and non-exclusively exercised historic right of access may continue to prevail. This latter right originates not in the text of UNCLOS but from the body of general and customary international law that is preserved by UNCLOS and is applicable in each of the maritime zones created by it.
The arbitral tribunal was right to observe that China cannot enjoy any form of exclusive "historic rights" in the South China Sea that is not appurtenant to its mainland coast. Especially in waters that are within its nine-dash line, such exclusive rights to fish or conduct minerals-related activity has been decisively superseded by UNCLOS. However, the tribunal was wrong to observe that China cannot enjoy a non-exclusive "historic right" of access where traditional fishing is concerned, in waters that are within its nine-dash line but have since become part of the EEZ of its littoral neighbors in the South China Sea. Chinese nationals can indeed enjoy such a right.
The principle of "shelving differences and seeking joint development" has been rendered hollow and the raison d'être that sustains the envisaged Code of Conduct undercut.
In a landmark ruling in the late-1990s, Eritrea v Yemen, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that there are "important elements capable of creating "historic rights" [in the semi-enclosed Red Sea] …falling short of territorial sovereignty." So long as the right of access for traditional fishermen "constituted a local tradition, [it was] entitled to the respect and protection of the law … and was not qualified by the maritime zones specified under UNCLOS." Mauritius v United Kingdom (2015) reconfirmed that "states may possess particular rights … by virtue of … local custom" which operate "for all intents and purposes equivalently" in each of the maritime zones created by UNCLOS.
On July 12, the tribunal cherry-picked the arguments that were expedient, disregarded those that could have validated a non-exclusive Chinese traditional fishing right of access within the nine-dash line, and was remiss in laying out a reasoned basis for its casual ignoring — and overturning — of a landmark precedent.
The tribunal did agree that Manila is entitled to reach beyond the text of the Convention to enjoy a non-exclusively exercised traditional fishing right in the territorial sea of the Scarborough Shoal, which was part of the body of general international law preserved by UNCLOS. The tribunal's reasoning for why China was not granted similar allowances in foreign EEZs was unsatisfactory. Its limitation of artisanal fishing rights to territorial seas rather than other exclusive maritime zones constituted an arbitrary narrowing of the jurisprudence created in Eritrea v Yemen.
The tribunal offered no reason why the established jurisprudential basis by which non-exclusive "historic rights" form in maritime spaces is, as of July 12, legally unsustainable. In Eritrea v Yemen, the ICJ had reached beyond the Western legal tradition to imaginatively rule that such rights accrue as a sort of servitude internationale (i.e., as a sort of non-possessory right or interest in access and resources) in waters that were hitherto the "high seas" within a semi-enclosed sea but have since become part of a coastal state's EEZ. By extinguishing this landmark ruling without so much as an explanatory footnote (in an award otherwise crammed with 1,498 footnotes), the tribunal also tore down an economically useful and rational concept — servitudes/easement — that both the ICJ and its predecessor, the PCIJ, have recognized in judgments spanning the 20th century.
It also begs the question: what legal justification still remains for the preservation of this non-exclusive right of access in territorial seas, such as in the territorial sea of the Scarborough Shoal which the tribunal affirmed in favor of the Philippines? After all, a territorial sea, like an EEZ, is also an exclusive maritime zone and prior to its expansion from 3 to 12 nautical miles by UNCLOS, the waters therein too, like in the case of the EEZ, had hitherto been the "high seas." What's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander.
The five-member arbitral panel enjoyed a golden opportunity to chart a constructive, mid-path approach to one of the foremost legal (and political) questions of the Asia-Pacific. It could — and should — have chosen to foster mutually cooperative tendencies on both these critically important but ill-defined or ill-understood provisions of the law. Had Itu Aba been ruled a fully-entitled island, it could have furnished a basis for Sino-Philippine oil and gas joint development in the overlapping area of entitlement. Now, with no geographic overlap to contend with and a de facto delimitation of the China–Philippines maritime boundary furnished, the principle of "shelving differences and seeking joint development" has been rendered hollow and the raison d'être that sustains the envisaged Code of Conduct undercut. Equally, had the tribunal re-confirmed that a local custom-based traditional fishing right was preserved across all the exclusive maritime zones in this semi-enclosed sea, it could have furnished an incentive for the nine-dash line to be thrown open on equal terms as a common fishing ground for all artisanal fishermen of every littoral state that borders the sea.
In lighting a judicial fire under the law and politics of the South China Sea and placing the two on a collision course, the arbitral tribunal has performed a disservice. The consequences will reverberate for a considerable time to come — with international law, likely, ending up the poorer.
2 Comments To This Article
1st a disclosure: I'm an American ex-pat living in the Philippines with my FIlipina wife and our family. I believe that bilateral discussion and a joint agreement agreement are the best approach. The US and Canada have been in such a state for many, many years (probably as long as Canada and the US have been neighbors,) with no solution. It. But it's fair with mutually benificial understandings. But it is not a fair discussion when the larger more power country takes the most continuous issue off the table. When the weak are dictated to at the outset , they do what the weak have done since the Magna Carta, they go to court. I'm of the belief that sovereignty and the state of the economic zones be on the table. I can imagine a joint development agreement that provides a non-exclusive economic zone based on traditional culture and use, that is controlled by an authority. Such an agreement should recognize a 12 mile limit to sovereign national waters for each and place all recently created islands under the jurisdiction of the authority. But, if China and the Philippines will not put sovereignty on the table at the outset how can such an agreement or any other be reached. To me China demanding a bilateral agreement on its own terms and not participating in the court proceeding is as much as fault here as anything the US or the Philippines have done. Intrasegence is always unproductive. Can someone please tell me where I'm wrong here?
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Catalog Number102731781
TypePhysical object
Dimensionsoverall: 3 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 2 1/4 in
DescriptionThis is a power tube with a 1 + 6 pin septar base and two pins for the plate extending out the top of the envelope. One pin is larger than the others to provide the pin-one orientation. This tube looks similar to the type 832A, but there subtle differences to the way the plates are supported and connedcted to the pins on top of the tube. This is a spare tube for Register Driver S/N 6.
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In Brooks' (Pressure Points, 2013, etc.) thriller, Wolfgang Schmitt's latest undercover gig for the FBI puts him at a Las Vegas hotel-casino to bring down mobsters.
Doing a covert assignment for the FBI made a millionaire out of Wolfgang, a former model. But when his offshore account suddenly disappears, it's clear that the feds want his attention to coerce him into going undercover again. Wolf poses as a hit man offering his services to Lynn Valentine to off her hubby, Phillip. Feds can then charge her with conspiracy and subsequently squeeze her for info on the mob-tied casino, Xanadu, that the Valentines run. Wolf is under the guise of being Lynn's personal trainer, but a wary Phillip and his muscle-bound crony let Wolf know he isn't trusted. Speaking of trust: Wolf's old FBI contact, Sherlock, has him secretly keeping an eye on the rogue agents who gave Wolf his current operation. Things only get worse (and more confusing) when cops arrest Wolf for murder. Brooks' novel opens as a straightforward spy story but gradually turns into a gleefully convoluted tale. FBI agent Renee, for example, is dubious from the start: she'd been assessing (and dating) Wolf as a woman named Carolyn and joins him in Vegas as Lynn's assistant Nicole (her real name isn't known). By the time Wolf loses contact with Sherlock, he's dealing with more bodies and a couple of kidnappings and making so many deals with shady people that readers' heads are likely to spin. Yet the story is surprisingly easy to follow since Brooks keeps the numerous characters and aliases in line. And while the final explanation of Xanadu's nefarious affairs may not be entirely convincing, the across-the-board resolution doesn't leave anything up in the air. Wolf's perpetual cynicism is solid comic relief, even when his sharp tongue and rash attitude in the company of various thugs come at the expense of his safety, as when Phillip's goons make sure Wolf is well-acquainted with a few weightlifting plates. But his faults help him stand out. Unlike James Bond, Wolf walks away from a blackjack table with nothing but sardonic remarks for the dealer.
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The manor house was purchased by the Saarland state government in 1989, which together with the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate established the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science. The first seminar took place in August of 1990, in so doing preparing the way for the rapid growth of the Center's renown at both the national and international level. A modern annex, whose architecture is harmoniously nestled in the surrounding countryside, was constructed.
The Center, along with its adjoining facilities and the garden terrace, is available to invited seminar guests only.
The chapel, built in 1760 and originally part of the middle section of the old manor house, is used by the Catholic parish of Wadern. It is open for viewing on Sunday afternoons. A knowledgeable guide shows the visitor the wall paintings and the paintings depicting the Stations of the Cross, the works of Octavie de Lasalle von Louisenthal, the "Painter Countess".
The Baroque garden located across from the Center was recreated in 2001 in the course of the "Gardens without Limits" project.
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Published by Verein für Heimatkunde Wadern e.V., 1990. Dagstuhl guests can read this book and other publications in the heraldic room.
Opening hours of the chapel:
- Mo.-Th.: 10 am - 4 pm
- Fr.: 10 am - 4 pm
- Sa., Su.: 10 am - 4 pm
- 1st Sunday of the month: Guided tours in the chapel including the opening of the Stations of the Cross (?) from 3 - 5 pm
- Guided Tours for Groups: Available on request
- Further information and enquiries:
- Tourist-Information der Stadt Wadern
- Tel. 06871/5070
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Richard Dresser is a Founder and President of the WGI. His plays have been produced in New York, regional theater, and Europe. They include the widely produced ROUNDING THIRD, which was just made into an indie film starring John C. McGinley and Garret Dillahunt.
Another play, BELOW THE BELT, was made into the film HUMAN ERROR. He wrote the book for the musicals JOHNNY BASEBALL (about the Curse of the Red Sox) and THE HOLLER, a bluegrass ghost musical.
In television he's written and produced on a number of shows ranging from HBO's "Vietnam War Stories" to "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" (starring Blair Brown) and "The Job" (starring Denis Leary). He teaches at Rutgers and Queens College.
Lulie Haddad is the first Vice-President of the WGI. She is an award-winning documentary producer, director, and writer. She has worked on mostly on American History films for PBS. Earlier in her career she worked for ABC News, Wall Street Journal Television and VH1 as well as produced films in India and Mexico. She helped launch the Veterans Writing Program for the Writers Guild Initiative and helped run the workshops during its first years.
Willie Reale is the Second Vice-President of the WGI and writes for the stage and screen. He was nominated for two Tony Awards for A Year With Frog and Toad, which he wrote with his brother, composer Robert Reale. With his brother (and Richard Dresser) he has written (and is still writing) Johnny Baseball, which was produced at the American Repertory Theater.
Mr. Reale has an Academy Award nomination in the best song category for his work as a lyricist on the movie Dreamgirls and has won 3 Emmy awards for as the writer/producer behind the recent reinvention of 1970's literacy classic, The Electric Company, now airing on PBS. Willie has worked written extensively for network television and has been nominated 3 times for Writer's Guild Awards.
In 1981, Reale founded The 52nd Street Project, an organization that brings inner-city children together with professional theater artists. He served as the theater's artistic director for 18 years. He wrote "52 Pick Up," the Project's how-to manual. The 52nd Street Project's programs are currently being replicated at 14 sites across country and in Europe. In June of 1994, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his ingenuity in creating theater and theater education programs for young people.
He is married to theater producer, Jenny Gersten. They have two children, Augustus and Leonardo.
Susanna Styron is the Secretary of the WGI, screenwriter, director and documentary filmmaker. Her writing credits include the Columbia Pictures feature SHADRACH, starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell, which she also directed.
Susanna co-wrote, with Bridget Terry, the TV movies BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN-UPS and INTO THE NIGHT for Hallmark Hall of Fame; and TAKING BACK OUR TOWN and CROSSING THE LINE for Lifetime. She wrote and directed for the TV series 100 CENTRE STREET created by Sidney Lumet, and has written for the series BORGIA created by Tom Fontana. Susanna wrote and directed the award-winning 2017 dramatic short HOUSE OF TEETH. Her documentary feature OUT OF MY HEAD premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and won Best International Documentary at Melbourne International Documentary Festival 2018.
Susanna's non-fiction essays have been published in The Yale Review, Spin Magazine, The New York Times, and Real Simple magazine. She teaches Writing for Television in Columbia University's graduate film program.
Christopher Kyle serves as Treasurer of the WGI. His film credits include Serena, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence; Oliver Stone's Alexander; and two films directed by Kathryn Bigelow, K-19: The Widowmaker and The Weight of Water.
His plays include Plunge and The Monogamist, both of which premiered at Playwrights Horizons; The Safety Net, which premiered at Broken Watch Theatre in New York; and Boca, which premiered at Charlotte Repertory Theatre.
He is a former Guggenheim Fellow in drama and a graduate of the MFA program in playwriting at Columbia University.
Fred Graver is a writer and producer in New York. He has been SVP of Original Content and Social at Discovery Communications and the Creative Lead for TV at Twitter.
Fred's career spans comedy writing and producing (Late Night With David Letterman, Cheers, In Living Color, Jon Stewart), interactive producing (The MY Vh1 Awards, ZoogDisney), and creating shows that span the web and television (Best Week Ever). He has 7 Emmy Nominations (including one for the post-9/11 Concert for New York City) and 3 Emmys, as well as a NAACP award and a Webby.
Ann Toback has served as the Executive Director of the Workmen's Circle since June 2008. For more than a century, the Workmen's Circle has been cultivating a proudly progressive, diverse and inclusive community rooted in Jewish culture and social and economic justice activism. A lifelong progressive activist – whose grandparents met at a union hall – and trained attorney, Ann previously served as a union leader at the Writers Guild of America, East, as the Assistant Executive Director during her tenor from 1999-2008. A highlight of Ann's union career was successfully directing and organizing the 2007-2008 Writers Guild strike on the East Coast before coming to lead the Workmen's Circle.
During Ann's tenure as the nonprofit's first woman leader, she has led the Workmen's Circle through a reboot process, resulting in a new progressive Jewish learning-based mission rooted in intergenerational learning, cultural celebration, and applying a Jewish lens to social and economic justice activism.
Since announcing their new work, the Workmen's Circle is proud to have launched a growing network of eight Jewish cultural complementary schools, which attract many different kinds of families seeking community, hands-on Jewish learning, and social justice activism.
In 2015, the Workmen's Circle made the strategic decision to reengage around its progressive roots and launched a new activist agenda prioritizing the Fight for $15 campaign. During her tenure, the organization has worked fiercely to remain a bulwark in the fight for the dignity and economic rights of immigrants, fairness in labor practices and decent health care for all Americans.
Previously, Ann served as an attorney at Rosenberg and Shapiro. She attended Boston University School of Law (J.D., Mediation and Litigation) and SUNY Buffalo (B.A., English Language and Literature/Letters).
Tom Fontana is a Founder of the WGI and has written and produced such groundbreaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, Oz, The Philanthropist, Copper, and Netflix's Borgia. He has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers' Guild Awards, Four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar, and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva.
Fontana serves on the boards of Stockings with Care, the WGAE Foundation, The NYPD Police Museum, DEAL, The Creative Coalition, The Acting Company, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Center for Creative Voices in Media.
Michael Weller is a Founder of the Writer's Guild Initiative of the Writers Guild of America, East and a permanent member of the counsel of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Weller is the author of 40+ produced plays, the best known of which are Moonchildren, Loose Ends, Spoils of War, and Fifty Words.
Films: "Hair" (for Milos Forman), Ragtime, (for Milos Forman), Lost Angels (Hugh Hudson). Recently, he wrote the book for a musical based on the Boris Pasternak novel "Dr Zhivago." An adaptation of the novel The Fill Catastrophe by David Carkeet, premiered at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in July/August 2015.
Based on private mentoring throughout his career, he designed and developed the acclaimed Mentor Project for of the Cherry Lane Theatre, and served for it's first ten years ten years as it's Supervising Mentor.
He work has earned an Academy Award nomination, an N.A.A.C.P. Outstanding Contribution Award, Critics Outer Circle Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant and a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, and the Helen Merrill Award. The Broken Watch Theatre Company named their playhouse in his honor.
Adam Brooks is a Canadian-born filmmaker, living in New York City.
His last film was Definitely, Maybe, which he wrote and directed. His writing credits include French Kiss, Beloved, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Practical Magic and the Academy Award nominated short film, Duke of Groove.
He directed Almost You, winner of the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Invisible Circus, and the pilot of the Bravo television series, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce.
Adam is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He was a three-term council member of the Writers Guild of America East and is currently on the board of Writer Guild of America East Foundation.
Chris Albers has been a monologue writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien since 1995. He has also written for Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman, The Jon Stewart Show and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, as well as numerous award shows and specials.
Chris is a past President of Writers Guild of America, East (2005-2007). Before being elected President, he served on the Council and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee. During Chris's term as President, the Guild was finally able to organize the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. This led to organizing most of Comedy Central. In the first months of his term he scheduled a series of meetings with Writers Guild of America, West in neutral cities across the country. During those meetings the two unions reached agreement on a number of outstanding issues, which ended an extended period of hostility. Guidelines were put in place to ensure that the unions would work more as partners in the future.
Over the years Chris has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards, and in 2007 he won an Emmy for his work on Conan. During that same time he has been nominated for 13 Writers Guild Awards, and won six. In addition to writing, Chris has co-produced numerous specials, including the GQ Men of the Year Awards and The Writers Guild Awards. He teaches a comedy-writing course at Columbia University's Graduate Film School.
Eric Bogosian is an actor, a celebrated playwright, and author of three novels and most recently, a non-fiction history. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his play Talk Radio, and is the recipient of the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear award, as well as three Obie Awards and the Drama Desk Award. In the spring of 2015, Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide was published by Little, Brown. He is married to director Jo Bonney and lives in New York City.
Marshall Brickman, born in Brazil of American parents, attended New York public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a double baccalaureate in both science and music.
He entered show business first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen, a precursor of The Mamas and the Papas, whose flamboyant life-style and eccentric harmonies defined the post-folk era of tuning up, turning on and cashing in.
Trading in his Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo for an IBM Selectric, he secured a position as writer/director on Candid Camera, America's original reality show, a wildly successful early experiment in monetizing public humiliation, for which he hereby apologizes. His stint on Candid Camera lasted just over 3 months, about three days short of a nervous breakdown.
Fleeing Candid Camera as from a burning building, Brickman found solace as a writer and then head writer for Johnny Carson, whose late-night show on NBC emanated from ironically named Radio City in midtown Manhattan, a stroke of luck that allowed him to stay as far from Los Angles as possible while still retaining U.SA. citizenship. In 1970 he left NBC to become producer/head writer of Dick Cavett's late-night show on ABC. Among the many ground-breaking events that Cavett introduced into the late-night formula was the night presidential hopeful George McGovern was interviewed by last-minute guest host Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics. The result was enlightening, frightening and similar to watching a python ingesting a small cow.
Meanwhile he had started a collaboration with Woody Allen, a young comic who opened for the Tarriers at Fred Weintraub's Bitter End, the legendary coffee house that provided exposure to upcoming talent in music and comedy. They worked at odd hours on screenplays and material for Allen's early TV appearances, which provided Brickman with the impetus and economic freedom to pursue work outside the restrictive area of TV. Eagerly seizing the opportunity, Brickman watched Mr. Allen negotiate both the creative and practical issues confronting an artist working in a commercial environment; it was an experience like no other; Brickman learned things that can't be taught and never laughed as hard as the time spent roaming the city with a certified genius, and discussing art, politics, women, the state of the business, and why Durwood Kirby was considered funny, even by people with college degrees.
Mr. Brickman's film work as author (or co-author with Woody Allen) includes Sleeper, Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan, (AA nomination) and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As film writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains it All. In television: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer, 1967-'70); The Dick Cavett Show (head writer/co-producer, 1970-'72).
Brickman's recording (with ex-Tarrier Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, released in 1970, contained the surprise hit "Dueling Banjos," achieved platinum status, and remains a healthy seller over 40 years later.
His first foray into musical theater resulted in Jersey Boys, which won the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann, Grammy and many other awards worldwide, is in its eleventh year on Broadway, has been seen by twenty million people worldwide and is currently the 10th-longest running show in the history of Broadway.
Mr. Brickman's other theatrical efforts include "Turn of the Century," which played to capacity houses in Chicago, and "The Addams Family," starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, which ran for two years on Broadway and to date has had over four thousand first and second tier productions internationally.
In addition to his work in film and theater, Mr. Brickman has published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. He is the 2006 recipient of the Writers' Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement.
His current project is a stage musical celebrating the life of western star Roy Rogers, scheduled to premiere early in 2017.
After over 40 years in the business, trying to balance talent with opportunity and watching the careers of colleagues, both successful and less so, he can reduce what he's learned into one succinct bit of wisdom: above all, it's important to be lucky.
Crowned the "Unknown King of Comedy" by New York Magazine, Andrew Bergman is the writer and director of The Freshman, Honeymoon In Vegas, It Could Happen To You, So Fine and Striptease. He has also written The In-Laws, Fletch, and co-wrote Soapdish, as well as The Scout and Oh, God, You Devil.
Bergman began his motion picture career at the very top, writing the story and co-writing the screenplay of the classic Blazing Saddles. He went on to write such other memorable comedies as The In-Laws, Fletch, and Soapdish. In fact these four Bergman movies, plus The Freshman, were nominated by the American Film Institute as among the greatest comedies of all time. In 2007 the Writers Guild of America awarded him the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing.
Andrew Bergman has also written the Broadway hit Social Security, directed by Mike Nichols, which had a one-year run in 1986. His most recent work, the musical version of "Honeymoon In Vegas," written with the composer Jason Robert Brown, ran on Broadway during the 2014-15 season. The New York Times called it "a classic Broadway musical…a revelation."
James V. Hart was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and grew up on Drive-In Movies and Saturday Matinees in Ft. Worth Texas. Soon after graduating from SMU in Dallas (class of '69), he began producing films. His first feature film, Summer Run, opened the USA Film Festival at SMU in 1972.
Hart settled in New York City with his wife, son and daughter, and began his screenwriting career. His writing/producing credits include: Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg, based on an idea by Hart's then six year-old son; Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola; Muppet Treasure Island, directed by Brian Henson; Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, directed by Kenneth Branagh, as producer with Coppola and John Veitch; Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, also directed by Brian Henson, a Jim Henson/CBS mini-series; and Tuck Everlasting, directed by Jay Russell for Disney, with Sir Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek and William Hurt.
Hart's first novel, Captain Hook Adventures of a Notorious Youth, about the early days of James Hook at Eton before his adventures with Peter Pan, was published by Laura Geringer Books for Harper Collins in the fall of 2005. The novel was named one of the "Top Ten Young Adult Books" in 2006 by the American Library Association, and is due out in Germany in April, 2007. Hart is writing the sequel, Captain Hook Pirate King, for a 2009 release.
He adapted Clive Cussler's best selling novel, Sahara, for Paramount Pictures and Baldwin Entertainment — starring Penelope Cruz and fellow Texans, Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn. Hart also contributed to Lara Croft – Tomb Raider II, also for Paramount and Lawrence Gordon Productions.
The Snow Goose, Hart's adaptation of the Paul Gallico novel, is being directed by Christian Alvart, which Hart will also produce. He is currently adapting Ayn Rand's classic and massive novel, Atlas Shrugged, for Baldwin Entertainment, starring Angelina Jolie.
J.V. is currently writing and producing his first animated spectacle with children's book illustrator, home town friend and fellow SMU graduate, William Joyce, and the director-animator Chris Wedge who created Ice Age and Robots with Joyce. The new animated epic for 20th Century Fox, based on ancient faerie legends, will also be a series of books by Hart and Joyce beginning in 2009.
Richard LaGravenese was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Emerson College and NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing.
LaGravenese's first professional gig was as a contributing writer for the Off Broadway revue "A MY NAME IS ALICE" directed by Joan Micklin Silver.
Screenwriting credits include; THE FISHER KING (directed by Terry Gilliam, Oscar nomination): THE REF, (directed by Ted Demme), A LITTLE PRINCESS(directed by Alfonso Cuaron)… UNSTRUNG HEROES (directed by Diane Keaton)….THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (directed by Clint Eastwood), BELOVED (directed by Jonathon Demme), RUDE AWAKENING (w/Neil Levy), and WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (directed by Francis Lawrence).
LaGravenese has written and directed: LIVING OUT LOUD starring Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito and Queen Latifah…PARIS J'TAIME, with Fanny Ardent and Bob Hoskins… FREEDOM WRITERS, starring Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey (HUMANITUS Award Winner for Screenplay) … and P.S. I LOVE YOU starring Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Kathy Bates Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Harry Connick Jr.
He co-directed and co-produced with Ted Demme the Seventies film documentary for IFC, entitled "A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE" (National Board of Review William K. Everson Award winner for film history and an Emmy nomination for best documentary). He has also taught a 14 week Master Class for Screenwriting at Emerson College.
He lives in New York City and Connecticut with his wife and daughter.
Warren Leight is the showrunner and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed NBC/Universal Television drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," now in its 17th season.
Leight was formerly the showrunner and executive producer of HBO's "In Treatment" (Peabody Award, Humanitas nomination), the FX drama "Lights Out," and NBC's "Law and Order: Criminal Intent."
Leight's play "Side Man" won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play and was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Other plays include "No Foreigners Beyond This Point" (Drama Desk nomination), "Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine" (ATCA nomination), and the books to the musicals "Leap of Faith" (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk nomination) and "Mayor" (Drama Desk nomination).
Leight is a current member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and is the former President of The Writer's Guild of America, East.
Leight was raised in New York City. He lives with his wife and daughters in New York. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/warrenleightTV
Kenneth Lonergan is a Pulitzer- and Academy Award-nominated playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program.
His first success came with the play This is Our Youth, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. This was followed by Pulitzer-nominated The Waverley Gallery, based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and he Drama Desk Award-nominated Lobby Hero.
Lonergan's film career began with his screenplay for the gangland comedy Analyze This. He was subsequently offered a job writing The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Lonergan directed his next screenplay for You Can Count on Me, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Drama and was Nominated for both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Lonergan went on to contribute to the screenplay for Gangs of New York, which was nominated the Academy Award and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay.
Most recently, he wrote and directed the film Margaret starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, and Matthew Broderick.
Jenny Lumet is the author of RACHEL GETTING MARRIED for which she received the 2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award, Toronto Film Critics Association Award, and Washington D.C Film Critics Association Award. She also received an NAACP Image Award. She is also the author of the screen adaptation of THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD, The Language of FLOWERS, and doctored REMEMBER ME, BOBBIE SUE, HONEYMOON WITH HARRY. She is currently at work on the UNTITLED MONSTERS PROJECT for Universal Studios.
She authored the pilots The Weissmans of WESTPORT, CRAZYTOWN, and THE BERESFORDS and consulted for Fox Television's SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Jenny is presently at work on a series Pilot for Amazon Television, and a series Pilot for CBS Television she has authored several other original screenplays including KINGDOM OF LOUIE and SAMBO. She serves on the Council of the Writers Guild of America East and the Board of the Writers Guild Initiative. She generated and chairs the WGAE's first Diversity Caucus. She is an Executive Director of BINDERCON, a conference for Women and Non-gender conforming writers.
Jenny Lumet lives in Manhattan with her two children.
John Markus began his career in high school, supplying jokes about his rural Ohio hometown to Broadway columnist Earl Wilson. His early career included the revival of the animated Mighty Mouse, and Working Stiffs.
After an assignment on Paramount's Emmy-winning Taxi, Markus joined the original writing staff of The Cosby Show, where he was Supervising Producer, Co-Executive producer and show runner until 1991. During his tenure, he wrote or co-wrote 67 episodes, earning an Emmy, a Peabody, back-to-back Humanitas prizes, and a People's Choice award for "The Greatest Sitcom of All Time."
He co-created the Cosby spin-off A Different World, and the Al Franken series, Lateline. He was consulting producer on The Larry Sanders show, co-writing the Emmy-nominated Ellen Degeneres episode, "Ellen: Is She Or Isn't She?" His plays, The Sons of Liberty and The Fabulous Lipitones have been produced around America.
He created the Destination America television series, "BBQ Pitmasters", which takes the first in-depth look at the world of competition barbecue. And has just finished "The Kings of BBQ Barbecue Kuwait", an award-winning documentary film chronicling the mission of cooking authentic-style BBQ for our troops stationed in The Mideast. Mark has garnered many awards for his BBQ, including a PhB from the Kansas City Barbecue Society — an honorary status bestowed upon only a handful of proven Pitmasters.
Eric Overmyer is a playwright and a television writer/producer. In television, he has worked on numerous shows, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, The Wire and New Amsterdam.
Graduating as a theatre major from Reed College, Overmyer began his career as a playwright. His plays include On The Verge, The Heliotrope Bouquet, In a Pig's Valaise, Don Quixote de la Jolla, Native Speech, Mi Vida Loca, and In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe.
Overmyer has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and received an Edgar Award for the television feature Rear Window.
Currently, Overmyer is a co-creator of Treme, a new TV series about musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans. Treme is scheduled to premier on HBO in fall 2010.
Lowell Peterson has been Executive Director of the Writers Guild of America, East since 2008.
Peterson's vision is a Guild that can be the center of writers' creative and professional lives, even as the distribution, financial and artistic models continue to change. He has worked to increase opportunities for film and television writers. He continues to lead an effort to bring more diversity to writing rooms.
His digital media initiatives have included seminars and other events to explore the financial, technological, and artistic dynamics of new media; a digital media training program; and organizing creators in that sector. He worked to expand the skills of newswriters and ensure their continued relevance as broadcast news shifts to additional platforms. Under his leadership, the Guild's organizing and communications capacity have been greatly expanded.
Peterson was partner in the law firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein where he represented a number of unions, including the Communications Workers of America, the Laborers, and the United Auto Workers. Representing laid-off workers in the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies, he won tens of millions of dollars in severance pay, and in many other cases he defended unions from attacks on organizing and other activities.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is a TONY and OBIE Award winner, and a force of nature . A triple threat in the greatest sense of the term as an actor, writer and director.
Ruben made his debut as a screenwriter with HBO's Lackawanna Blues for which he received multiple honors including The Humanitas Prize, a Christopher Award, National Board of Review Honors, An NAACP Award and an Emmy, Golden Globe and a WGA nomination. Lackawanna Blues originally was commissioned by the prestigious Public Theater in New York City as a stage play. Ruben penned the play to pay homage to the remarkable woman that raised him in a boarding house in Lackawanna, New York. Ruben performed the play portraying almost three dozen characters accompanied by Blues master Bill Sims Jr. on guitar.
Ruben's vast acting credits span the stage, Television and Film. On Film he starred opposite Halle Berry in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Denzel Washington and Russell Crow in American Gangster, Demi Moore and Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks, Samuel L. Jackson in SHAFT, Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate, and John Travolta in Domestic Disturbance to name a few.
Presently, Ruben is co-starring in the ABC television drama Castle with Nathon Fillion. Also for the small screen, Ruben portrayed the famed African-American chemist Dr. Percy Julian in the critically acclaimed PBS NOVA special Forgotten Genius, starred opposite Gregory Hines in The Red Sneakers for Showtime, in the Mini series American Tragedy with Christopher Plummer, Solomon and Shebawith Jimmy Smits and Halle Berry, marking the first time a biblical movie was made starring actors of color, and he starred opposite Christopher Reeves in Rear Window among many others. Ruben's other Television credits include: Law & Order, The West Wing, Hallmark's Little John, Canterbury's Law, Whoopi, NYPD Blue, Early Edition, Third Watch, NY Undercover, Dear John and Michael Hayeswhich he co-starred in for CBS television.
Ruben made his Directorial debut with August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. to rave reviews. Ruben then went on to direct GEM at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Earlier this season Ruben directed a tribute to August Wilson and his legacy at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. Ruben's New York directing credits include Mr. Wilson's Seven Guitars and most recently Leslie Lee's The First Breeze of Summer for The Signature Theater Company in New York City where Ruben currently holds the position of Associate Artist, facilitating the season honoring the historic Negro Ensemble Company. In the Spring of 2009 Ruben will direct Naomi Wallace's Things of Dry Hours at New York Theater Workshop.
Ruben made his Broadway debut as Buddy Bolden in Jelly's Last Jame, opposite Gregory Hines. Ruben's portrayal of Canewell in August Wilson's Seven Guitarswon him an Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award cementing his place in the landscape of American Theater. Ruben's most recent Broadway performance was as Caesar in August Wilson's Gem's of the Ocean opposite Phylicia Rashad. Ruben's regional Theater and off-Broadway credits are too numerous to mention spanning 30 years and numerous wonderful roles.
Ruben received a Master Of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an honorary Master's Degree from A.C.T. in San Francisco, a Bachelor of Arts degree from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton and an honorary Doctor Of Humane Letters Degree from Buffalo State College in 2006. Other Awards and honors include Outer Critics Circle, Dramalogue, Clarence Derwent, Glen G. Bartle award from SUNY Binghamton, Distiguished Alumni Award from Wayne State University, three Audelco Awards. Blackfilmaker's Award, a N.A.M.I.C. Award and an HBO Comedy Arts Festival Theater Award.
David Simon is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer.
A former crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, he is the creator of the celebrated HBO series The Wire, which depicts the political and socioeconomic fissures in an American city.
His other television credits include the NBC drama Homicide and HBO's The Corner, Generation Kill and Treme. His most recent project, Show Me A Hero, an HBO miniseries depicting the 1987-93 housing desegregation battle that divided Yonkers, N.Y. The author of two books of narrative non-fiction, "Homicide" and "The Corner," Simon is a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
He can be found on his website, DavidSimon.com.
Michael Winship is President of the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, is the Emmy Award-winning senior writer of the public television series Moyers & Company and its website, BillMoyers.com. He is a veteran television writer and producer whose other credits include Bill Moyers Journal, NOVA, American Experience, Square One TV and 3-2-1 Contact, as well as made-for TV movies and many arts, music, documentary and public affairs specials.
In addition to public television, Winship has worked for CBS, the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), the Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime, Turner Broadcasting, the Disney Channel and National Geographic, among others, and written for many national publications and websites.
He has been nominated ten times for the Writers Guild Award for outstanding achievement in writing and received it three times. For his work as one of the leaders of the 100-day Writers Guild strike against the studios and networks in 2007-08, he received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Officers Award. Winship also has produced two plays in Los Angeles: The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, by Robin Soans, and Charlotte: Life? Or Theatre? by Elise Thoron.
James Yoshimura is a Japanese American writer and producer, best known for his screenwriting work on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the short-lived Fox series The Jury, for which he served as a co-creator. He also co-wrote Homicide: The Movie, a made-for-television film that came out in 2000, after the series ended.
Yoshimura began his career writing for theater after attending the Yale School of Drama. His plays include Union Boys and Mercenaries.
He has received two Emmy Award nominations: one for Homicide: The Movieand one for the Homicide episode "Subway," which also won a Peabody Award for excellence in television broadcasting.
He is currently working on Courtroom 302, a new series for HBO, with Tom Fontana, Tom Kelly and Frank Pugliese.


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Fear will prompt complaining.
We think that perhaps God doesn't understand my circumstances. Perhaps God has forgotten about me. Perhaps God doesn't deliver on all his promises — and I need to take care of things myself.
So, we start complaining.
That's what the Israelites did to Moses.
The mass of Israelite people who had gathered on the banks of the Red Sea looked up to see six hundred of the pharaoh's best chariots thundering down upon them.
Maybe the Israelites did have a good reason to be terrified. Even though God had just miraculously delivered His people from Egyptian slavery, the sight of a formidable army would certainly get my attention. The key is how are we going to respond.
Confronting the face of adversity can cause short-term memory loss. We quickly forget all the times God has blessed and provided for us in the past when we have faced an uncertain present and a unpredictable future.
It was fear that caused the Israelites to respond by complaining. They were even willing to bargain away their freedom to save their lives. They were willing to be enslaved than fall victim to the sword. They didn't trust that God would deliver them — again.
Sometimes we do the same thing.
We would rather be enslaved by fear rather than experience the freedom of trusting God.
Fear is a byproduct of a false sense of security. By trusting the world to provide and to protect, we are enslaved by the world. We end up choosing to settle by existing off the crumbs from the table of what God provides rather than feasting at the table of God's care.
Freedom experiences the presence of the Holy Spirit by placing our dependence upon Him. By exercising trust, we receive opportunities to grow in our knowledge of God. Adversity then becomes one of the greatest gifts God gives us to exercise our trust in Him.
For these reasons, Moses cries out to the people, "Don't Fear! Trust God will take care of you. He will fight for you. Just quit striving and wait upon Him." (Exodus 14:13-14)
But there is something more.
True freedom is experienced when we exercise it. Freedom remains a concept unless we use it. Conquering fear means taking off the chains of fear that keeps us imprisoned.
It means to stop complaining and start walking.
Right after Moses encourages his people, God says to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me?" Tell the Israelites to move on." (v. 15)
How can God deliver His people if they remain on the banks of the Red Sea cowering in fear? God is saying, "What are you waiting for? Trust me. I've got this. You know what you need to do. So do it!"
Circumstances don't seem so overwhelming when we trust that the Lord's got our back. The Lord daily delivers us when the threatening chariots of fear are wiped out in the seas of His grace.
Complaining is absorbed by rejoicing when we turn to trust God's promises.


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Remix Contest: Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Give Me A Sound
Got holiday plans? You better reschedule. This August, you'll be spending your days in the studio, creating your very own remix to Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren's 'Give Me A Sound'. A dreamy, eclectic tune that calls for a new and original interpretation... by you!
In May 2012, after 6 years of collaborating, the debut album of US trio Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren was a fact. 'Give Me A Sound' rides that significant C,M&J sound that so many have gone to love. Diverse and colorful, the title-track to the album now provides a solid base for upcoming producers to create their very own version, in the official 'Give Me A Sound' remix contest!
If your remix makes it as the ultimate favorite of Matt Cerf, Shawn Mitiska and Jaren, you will not only have the remix released on Armada Music's S107 Records, included in the official single release of the track, but you could also win a pair of KRK KNS 8400 Studio Headphones, exclusive sound sets from Freshly Squeezed Samples and even a 100£ in cash!!! So if you think you've got the creative mind we're looking for and you know your way around in the studio, then hurry up and start working on the remix!
Remix parts of 'Give Me A Sound' are available on Beatport.
The remix contest ends August 31st, so keep an eye on the deadline and don't be late!
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VA Code in Flight Submission - CPRS Order Entry/Results Reporting Patch OR*3*312 test v13
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This patch contains the several changes to reports in CPRS found on the Reports Tab. This patch also addresses a patient safety issue as described in issue #1 (PSI/PSPO #970).
1) This patch adds a new Pharmacy report to the Clinical Reports on the
Reports Tab in CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System).
The name of the report is All Medications.
It includes All Inpatient and Outpatient Pharmacy data for a patient.
The data in the report can be limited by using date range parameters
defined by the user. To determine the data that is included, based on
date range selection, the logic is to first look for Last Fill Date,
then Issue Date, then Order date (depends on if the date exists for the
drug/RX being screened.
When data is added to the report it will initially be sorted by STATUS,
beginning with Active Susp, followed by Active, followed by Discontinued,
followed by Expired, followed by Pending
(alphabetically within each of those three groups). Users will have the
ability to sort the report in different sequence by clicking on a column
header, thus sorting by that column.
The All Medications report will be placed as the first item on the Pharmacy
menu on the CPRS Reports Tab.
The All Medications report supports Remote Data Views (RDV) from remote
Facilities. Please note that remote data will not be available from all
sites until every VA site has installed this patch. Only sites that have
installed this patch will return remote data for this report when being
queried. If a remote site is queried that has not installed the patch,
no data is returned and no message is given to the user indicating that
the remote site may or may not have data. This will not be a problem once
all sites have installed the patch, usually within 30 days of the patch
being released.
This report was created in response to a Patient Safety Program Office
(PSPO) Issue PSPO 970.
The API's (Application Program Interface) created by this effort will
also be used by the VistaWeb application to create the same report
in VistaWeb. VistaWeb is a web based inter-facility patient reporting
2) This patch changes the Date Range selection logic for the
Pharmacy All Outpatient report. Prior to this change, the report
had no beginning and end dates, and would display all data when the report
was selected. With this change, the user can specify a date range
for pulling outpatient pharmacy data. To determine the data that is
included, based on date range selection, the logic is to first look
for Last Fill Date then Issue Date, then Order date (depends on if the
date exists for the drug/RX being screened.
This change is being made at the request of the DoD BHIE AHLTA Project
to allow more flexibility and so that Date Range parameters are passed to
external interfaces like VistaWeb and DOD queries.
As part of this change the name of the report is being changed in CPRS
to more accurately reflect the data being selected/displayed. The
report name will change from "Pharmacy All Outpatient" to simply
"Outpatient Medications". To be consistent, VistaWeb will also be
making this change sometime in the future.
This report not only exists on the Dept. of Defense Reports, but also
on the Clinical Reports | Pharmacy menu. The same change to the report
name will also be made there.
In the past, most of the DOD reports would include local VA data
when the report was selected. With the installation of this patch,
Local VA data will not be included with any of the DOD reports found
under the Dept. of Defense Reports menu. It will still be possible
to get local data, as well as DOD data, on the same display for these
reports by selecting the same report under the Clinical Reports menu.
3) This patch fixes a potential problem on printed reports that show
the Lab Accession #. Accession numbers that extend beyond 10 characters
get truncated when printed at the top of the report. For example, an
Accession # of "SPLB 03 1648" was printing as "SPLB 03 16". This patch
corrects this problem by extending the Accession # column in the
OE/RR Reports File (#101.24) to 16 characters for all reports that
contain the Accession # column.
4) This patch re-exports entries with internal numbers greater than 999
and entries 3 (ORRP AP ALL) and 24 (ORL ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY)
from the OE/RR Reports file (#101.24). This is a common occurrence
when new entries are being sent out in this file. Entries above 999
are considered nationally controlled entries in this file. Locally
created entries in this file are generally done in entry numbers less
than 999. If you have created or modified entries in this file with
an internal number greater than 999 or #3 and #24, those changes
will be lost. To preserve any local changes, either save them off
someplace before installing this patch, or move the changed entries
to internal numbers less than 999.
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This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 13 "Three Sentences" (B-)
I had seen before I watched this episode – unfortunately, since I don't like spoilers – that this show was finally going to address Jack's death. That happened, a little bit, enough that we saw pictures of Jack at his funeral, and his children, that showed that he wasn't much older than at their first separate birthday parties. Jack pushing the idea of having another kid while they were juggling three different celebrations at the same time did seem inopportune, and that didn't end up leading to anything, though it does seem like Jack was alive for a few more years after that. Seeing both Randall and Kate ostracized at their own parties explained how they grew up to be isolated in their own ways, Randall so hyper-competitive and Kate having trouble forming connections with people because they like others better. The best part of this episode was that Toby didn't let Kevin just whine about how great his wonderful life is and the many women he has to choose from, and instead pushed him to make a grand gesture for the woman he loves. Not going to either Sloane or Olivia and instead to Sophie, who turned out to be both his ex-wife and Kate's childhood best friend, was a nice twist, and I'm looking forward to seeing him get serious with her both in the past and the present. Randall teaching William to drive was somewhat sweet, but it wasn't the most effective plotline. What I really didn't like was Kate's trip to a "fat camp," as she called it, where she met an obnoxious, petty character played by Adam Bartley. I was excited to see him since I like Ferg on "Longmire," but his insistence on breaking up Kate's engagement is totally unnecessary and annoying, and not at all what Kate or this show need right now.
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"Wow! We've studied for 3 hours? It feels like 20 minutes!"
"Can't we have 4 hours to study?"
Those were some of the comments that were heard in class today as the students were studying 1 John. After reading the whole book 5 or 6 times yesterday, we started doing chapter studies today! What was amazing was that they wanted MORE time!
This is is always encouraging to see and hear. We pray that the fruit of this limited time in classes will lead into a lifetime relationship with God and His Word.
This is about the time that friendships are being strengthened. Will you pray for students as they begin to form this fellowship with each other?
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— 2 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeedour fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. ~1 John 1:1-4 (ESV).


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I think having reliable friends is important because of at least two reasons. Firstly, having reliable friends means friendships that are based on openness so I can count on my friends no matter what. They will not hide any information that will make their partners feel left behind.
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U.S. men sweep podium at Grand Prix, Shaun White wins gold
When Shaun White fell on his first run in the snowboard halfpipe finals at the U.S. Grand Prix at Park City Mountain Resort on Friday, hundreds of fans attending the event were shocked.
When White recovered on his second run and scored an impressive 97.25 to defeat second-place finisher Scotty Lago by a whopping 3.25 points, no one was surprised.
"He's an amazing rider," Lago said. "You can never count him out. Honestly, it's a battle for second (when White participates)."
Lago won that race for second place, earning a score of 94.00 on his second run to claim silver, beating out Luke Mitrani. Mitrani finished third to complete an all-U.S. podium.
"It was one of the better runs I've ever put down," Lago said. "I couldn't be any happier."
Lago capped off the run by completing a front side double 1260 with a truck driver grab, something he attempted for the first time at the X Games but had never landed in competition.
"It's probably the best feeling in the world when you're riding away knowing you landed the run you wanted to land," he said.
Lago added that he always enjoys competing in Park City.
"Park City has a lot of good memories for me," he said. "This is where we ended up making the Olympic team in 2010."
Now Lago and his U.S. teammates have their sights set on another Olympic Games, this time in Sochi, Russia. An Olympic test event will be held there from Feb. 10 to Feb. 17, 2013.
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My parents and I have come in contacted with skunks a couple of times around are house in the city.
We have been lucky in the since that the car only got sprayed. The only bad part is someone forgot to roll the window up and the smell lasted two months in the car. I decided to try a product called "For Every Home" that I started to sell.
My mom was surprised that after 3 more weeks she had less of a smell.
I used 3 bottles of the Growling Green Apple Spray and 2 odor eliminators. Plus my mom keeped the windows down as well.
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Happy New Year! 2012 marked a hugh year for the Capital Bonsai Blog with over 24,000 views in 2012. Capital Bonsai has also expanded into the realm of YouTube with more videos planned for 2013.
To further raise the profile of Capital Bonsai a new logo has been designed by my friend and Bonsai Museum volunteer Danny Coffey.
Danny, a graphic designer by trade, has recently decided to take his love of bonsai to the next level and as of Jan 1st is on his way to Japan to begin his trial apprentice with Mr. Junichiro Tanaka of Aichi-en. If accepted, Danny will begin his formal multi-year appreticeship following in the footsteps of current Aichien apprentice Peter Tea.
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Understanding Important Tools in Real Estate: Comparables
If you are not familiar with real estate terms, the vernacular can be confusing and overwhelming. It truly is like learning a new language! But we are here to help. Today we will talk about comparables (or comps).
Comparables (comps) is a real estate appraisal term that refers to properties that are similar to the property of which the value is being sought. They are properties in the same area that are around the same size, in similar condition, and have similar features. Whether you are buying or selling a home, you can learn a lot by comparing similar homes. 2 Important Facts About Real Estate Comparables or Comps
Buyers will use comps to help them decide what price to offer on a home, while sellers will use them to determine the best list price for their home. Realtors utilize comps on a regular basis to keep track of the local market.
One major key for a comp is proximity. When trying to price a home or find out its value, it's vital that the homes you are comparing it to are close by. The market can be different in other locations, so the comparable property should be as close as possible. The same neighborhood is best. If the same neighborhood isn't an option, you can branch out, but not too far.
Homes that are currently "pending" make the best comps. This is because a deal has already been made on a pending home, so it reflects current stats on the market, which fluctuates frequently. When looking for comps, it's important to stick with sales in the past three months and never more than six months ago. If a home was sold over six months ago, that data is not up to date with the current market.
Another important aspect of a good comp is the home's features. It's vital that the homes being compared have similar features. Consider things like views, upgrades, number of bedrooms, location of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, square footage, size of lot, etc. How to Find Real Estate Comps to Determine House Value
Keep in mind that there may be information that your Realtor is privy to that you are not when it comes to comparables. If you don't understand why a similar home is determined to be worth more or less than yours, your Realtor can explain it to you. There are many conditions that can influence the value of a home. Also remember that comps are estimates, not appraisals. They are not written in stone, but they are a useful tool for both buyers and sellers.
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No let-up in decline of construction industry
The Irish construction sector remained firmly in contraction in December, although there were signs the decline eased as activity, new orders and employment all fell at weaker rates.
However, purchasing activity and the use of sub-contractors both decreased sharply.
The Ulster Bank Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) – a seasonally adjusted index designed to track changes in total construction activity – posted 43.0 in December, up from 42.6 in the previous month.
The reading showed a further steep reduction in activity, although the rate of decline has eased slightly from its weakest level in May 2012.
On a positive note, improved sentiment was recorded, with panelists expecting improved economic conditions and a stabilisation in the market over the coming year.
Simon Barry, chief economist for the Republic of Ireland at Ulster Bank, said the December reading of the PMI pointed to ongoing and broad-based declines in construction, as activity continued to slide across the three main sub-sectors – residential, commercial and civil engineering.
"Looking back over 2012, it is clear that the construction industry continued to face an extremely challenging environment, with last year marking the sixth year in a row of contraction.
"One disappointing aspect of the sector's performance in 2012 was that the hoped-for stabilisation failed to materialise, and the industry continues to be dogged by recessionary conditions," he added.
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This ATC triptych was made using stamps from The Angel Company. I love the little "scrabble" tile letters. I wish TAC was still in business. I loved their stamps.
Anyway, this one is for my travel friends. I used crackle glaze on the "travel" letters and also the labels on each panel. It was colored with copic markers.
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Three Statements
From the DIA press release titled "Web filter will focus solely on child sex abuse images":
A filtering system to block websites… will focus solely on websites offering clearly objectionable images of child sexual abuse.
From a letter from Nathan Guy, Minister of Internal Affairs:
I support the Digitial Child Exploitation Filtering System that has been developed by the Department of Internal Affairs to help prevent access to child sexual abuse images. The filtering system will focus solely on known websites offering clearly objectionable images of child sexual abuse.
However, Rory McKinnon has also been writing to the DIA to collect information for an article he wrote for the NZPA. He asked: "Can the minister personally guarantee that the blacklist will not "creep" (that is, expand its scope to include anything other than child sex abuse)?" The response (written by Trevor Henry, Senior Communications Advisor, Regulation and Compliance – 17/7/2009) to this letter was a little different:
The Department confirms that the scope of the filter will be confined to websites carrying images of children being sexually abused but there may be circumstances when a website that contains text files might be blocked. For example, an instructional manual for child abuse or a diary relating to the abuse of an actual child might be blocked.
Scope Creep
You may note that the first two statements very clearly say that the only websites to be filtered will be those that host images of children being sexually abused. The third statement contradicts the first two. It includes examples of other material that might be blocked by the filter, such as a text manual or a description of abuse.
Now, maybe you don't think that filtering a manual or diary about sexual abuse is that bad – but that's part of the problem. It often makes sense to extend something just a little bit further… then a little bit further… until finally you end up somewhere quite different from where you started.
For example, if you can filter an article that describes how to sexually abuse a child, can you also filter an article that explains how to get around the filter to read the first article?
The Australian system experienced this exact problem. They started by banning objectionable images and ended up banning entire websites that revealed what was being filtered.
Trusting the Government
Now, it probably bears repeating that I have no sympathy for those who create and distribute child pornography. My argument has always been that filtering won't work, and that doing it secretly will lead the government to abuse it.
On the second point, the DIA's position has been that we have to trust them and whatever secret review process they set up. But why should we trust them?
They refuse to give anyone a copy of the full list so that it can be audited, and when asked for a partial version of the list without the full addresses, they revealed that they have started deleting the records so that no one else can audit them either.
Now we find that their statements about only filtering images are also incorrect. The scope of what they're doing has already grown before the system is out of the trial phase.
Internet filtering is not going to stop child abuse or child pornography and any such scheme is too open to abuse by the government. We should abandon it now – personally I'd rather we spent the money on preventing child abuse.
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Morris Nye
Oops, there goes textfiles.com
Damned archive of BBS files and it's filthy filthy American style free speech.
Jack M.
It always strikes me that if they have:
(a) a seemingly definitive list of websites with childporn,
(b) a pretty much universal hatred of child sexual abusers by everyone including other criminals, the hacker community, the public at large, and every government,
(c) Interpol,
…then surely it must be a fairly simple matter to find these people, and deal with them appropriately (roast over slow fire, etc). I just don't understand why this problem has to be dealt with at the "demand" end and not at the surely much more effective "supply" end.
Am I just not getting it?
– Jack M.
The UK police have started "taking down" sites (by having their DNS registrar remove the entry, I think) that engage in the heinous crime of ticket touting.
They are (deliberately, I think) blurring the distinction between companies (outside the UK) that are blatantly fraudulent and sites that are genuine, but break the UK-specific law that bans the resale of Premier League soccer tickets. That law has no equivalent in most other countries, and the companies are outside UK jurisdiction. But that doesn't stop the cops from claiming a global right to remove DNS entries (presumably with the compliance of the registrar).
@Jack: Yes, sadly you are not getting it. Clearly, this is all just a ruse to install censorship infrastructure in New Zealand. As I wrote here ( http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6637 ) there are technically very simple means to take many of these sites down, which do NOT require international cooperation of law-enforcement agencies, and so on. But yet, law enforcement and governments rather have the means to censor the internet. So, what do they do? They continue to let children be exploited and further allow children to be abused, even help the abusers by NOT doing the simple and effective thing to take the sites down, just so that they have a reason to install censorship technology and 'train' the public in accepting this. It's disgusting and someone should consider suing them for not doing what they are required to do, which is to take down those sites when they can and therefore for assisting in the production and distribution of childporn.
@Thomas: This feature creep is exactly what we all expected, isn't it? New Zealand is not alone in this. As far as I know, this problem has been reported from every single one (!) of the countries that have installed means to filter.
Yes, sadly scope creep does seem to be inevitable and is one of the main reasons I'm against Internet filtering.
It's worth remembering that most of the people doing this are working with the best of intentions (at least I think they are). The problem is that their best intentions inevitably lead to undesirable outcomes.
How is this scope creep though, it is still child abuse material?
They have not said they will block sites that offer any other material. is a story depicting a child being raped not child abuse or as they put it a manual on abusing children not child abuse. I see this is part of the scope.
They have also said that they are setting up a code of practice that will dictate the running of the system, apparently they have refused YOU the list but can you not see why. additionally if they were hiding something wouldn;t they just run a quick legislation change through without public consultation rather than setup a voluntary system.
the australian system had too many varialbes regarding material on there list to ever be effective, at least they are limiting the scope to just child abuse.
I asked the DIA about text specifically, and the reply I got was pretty much identical to that:
My question:
Also, given this justification:
The distribution and viewing of images of this abuse – wrongly called child pornography – is trading in human misery. It is the result of real children being sexually abused and exploited in the worst possible way. Each time anyone anywhere in the world accesses one of those images, the child depicted is victimised again.
why does the filter cover written and drawn material, where there is no evidence that any child has been harmed in its production?
Their answer:
Child sexual abuse material does include text and drawn images because both can support the exploitation of children for sexual purposes. The Department conducts prosecutions for the possession of this type of material. While the filtering list will principally contain websites with images of the sexual abuse of actual children, there may be circumstances when a website that contains text files might be blocked. For example, an instructional manual for child abuse or a diary relating to the abuse of an actual child might be blocked.
Now, the material they can prosecute over includes writing which appears to support the production of child pornography. It doesn't have to be pornographic in nature, just expressing that opinion. They ARE going to block this material, but they don't mention it unless they're specifically asked. Otherwise they're happy to give the impression, in highly emotional terms, that they're only blocking material in which actual children have been harmed.
Joseph – it's scope creep because they have repeatedly said that they would only be filtering actual images of children being abused. They've been 'selling' the system based on that idea while secretly extending it further. While it's pretty icky, no children are actually hurt when someone writes a story.
I do look forward to seeing their proposed code of practice and monitoring group, but I fear it's going to be more "trust us even though we're already been caught lying to everyone".
Emma – I thought the DIA was at least acting in good faith, but now with this news and the deletion of records, I fear that this may not be entirely the case.
I do not see this as lying though, I still think stories about child abuse are written by those who want to abuse children. Do you still want those available. How do we know if the story is not based on fact? does it not still fuel the demand? but as you mentioned they are stating that it is imagery they will mainly focus on which is good, I personally like that they take the stories out to as most people enjoy the stories in penthouse and playboy just as much as the images.
the code of practice from what I have read dictates what a site must have to be included in the list. I am sure there will be an oversight type setup to review it once the filter is running


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He walked in the room and said "you have a real problem".
He showed me the MRI pics, and where a normal tendon would be a black line, mine was white and frayed. Then he showed me a different pic where there was supposed to be a black circle (not sure where exactly that was), and it looked like a smushed semi circle.
He wants me to wear this lovely boot for 6 weeks.
He said it is caused by overuse, but I don't run nearly as much as some people I know!!
So, he said my running season is over. I most likely won't run again until next year.
I am having a very hard time with this. I started crying in the Dr.'s office, and haven't stopped yet.
Running is MY thing. Running is who I am. I don't get to be a Mom, so running is my baby! I'm mad! Can't I have something I love? Why does everything have to be taken from me?
Ok. I'm going to try to think positive. I know lots of people have/had injuries and had to take time off. Some of you guys have shared your stories with me. So I know if other people can get through it, I can too.
One good thing is I bought a bike and have been biking. I love it. Thankfully I can do that, I am glad to be able to do something.
I have no doubt that I will run again. I will run marathons again. This may be taken from me for now, but you better believe I will get it back.
Now I'm off to cancel the 3 marathons I had scheduled for this fall. Ahhh the tears!!