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Christianity and Tolerance
The Christian community has always struggled with its sense of balance. It has wavered between extremes of one sort or another, primarily between strict legalism and wild abandon of any and all standards. And much of this wavering and confusion stems from a failure to grasp and define the meanings of words like love, holiness, doctrine, justice, and mercy.
One of the best ways to convey an idea is through examples, and two of the most divisive and controversial subjects facing the Christian community today center on marriage/divorce and treatment of welfare and illegal aliens. This is not exclusively an American problem either, since there are Christians around the world who must face these issues, though not all to the same degree.
But before we can address these issues, we must define our terms. Sin is whatever God says it is, not what our culture says it is. To be sure, we should be sensitive to culture and try not to alienate people, but culture does not displace God. If God were to say that it's a sin to wear orange shoes on the second Tuesday of each even-numbered month, then it would be a sin. It matters not whether we love orange shoes, or that wearing them does no one any harm, or that there is nothing sacred about a particular Tuesday or month. What matters is whether we treat God as God.
The same goes for justice. God is the ultimate measure of justice and fairness; if not, then we make ourselves the judges of our own Creator, the source of all standards. And we must remember, imperfect beings that we are, that God is not obligated to explain everything to us just to prove that justice will be served. God owes us nothing, and everything we do have has been given to us.
So now let's apply these principles to the matter of same-sex marriage, or homosexuality in general. First of all, homosexuality is just a subset of sexual behaviors that God calls sin. Not even heterosexuals can have just anyone they want, anytime they want. And some sexual behaviors that even most homosexuals view as deviant are not addressed in the Bible at all (e.g. pedophilia and bestiality), yet no one thinks for a moment that God approves of such behavior. It should be enough for God to tell us what is permitted.
And what is permitted? One man and one woman (Gen. 2:24), to "become one flesh". Nothing is said in that passage about the need to produce children, by the way. Certainly that is the usual result, and God did say to "be fruitful and multiply" (Gen. 1:28). But the unity of flesh is what constitutes marriage. In other words, sexual activity is restricted to that between one male and one female, and it is this physical union that the Bible defines as marriage.
But the objections come: What about the patriarchs and their many wives and concubines, or the matter of divorce? Jesus gave the answer to both when he said that God has in the past made concessions to human frailty, but it was never meant to be that way (Mat. 19:8). And in each instance of polygamy there were unpleasant consequences. God has not micromanaged the human race, nor even the people of Israel, and especially not the church. Rather, God has set boundaries and limits within which there is much freedom to either earn or lose rewards. But what God never permitted was sexual intimacy beyond or outside of marriage between male and female human beings. And in the Christian community, the standards are raised, not lowered.
The issue of "age of consent" is one of those things not discussed in scripture, but again the principle of "consent" should be governed by what we know about mental and physical health. Love must trump gratification, and if someone is not mature enough to understand what it means to make a lifetime commitment to not only sexual intimacy but also childbearing and child rearing, then it is surely a sin to engage in such behavior. Also, a man who is not willing or mature enough to be a father and husband, who views his wife as a "ball and chain" (even jokingly) and his children as burdens only their mother must carry, is unfit for marriage.
And this leads to the issue of divorce. Too often people rush into a relationship without due consideration of their maturity or commitment. Such hasty hookups are doomed to failure. People don't consider whether the person they want to marry would be likely to take care of them when they're sick, or to help with each other's chores or family income, or to be willing to settle into the boring sameness of life. The "life of the party" requires a lifelong party, and most of life is anything but a party.
Jesus' teachings about divorce are typically taken out of context to mean it is absolutely forbidden except for unfaithfulness, and that a divorced person is to be shunned and shamed.1 The Christian community has failed greatly to show any compassion, let alone to examine the context of what Jesus or Paul said. And it has used a double standard in applying such shaming most often to women. The church, like the world, has turned a blind eye to male promiscuity, even approving of it as a rite (and right) of manhood. But to this day, female promiscuity is despised and shamed. If a man cheats or divorces, he often continues with his life and any church status remains unchanged and unhindered. But if a woman does the same, her life is ruined and she is rejected as dirty and worthless. We approve of men having slept around before marriage while also demanding that women remain virgins until marriage. But Jesus never had a kind word to say to those who were heartless and hypocritical.
One characteristic of the mature Christian is humility (Mat. 7:12, 20:26, 1 Cor. 13:4-5), and another is to "die to sin" (Rom. 6:2). We are not to keep pushing the limits of God's mercy and grace, to see how much we can get away with. We are not to cling jealously to perceived rights, even if we believe they're divinely sanctioned, but to lay them down and serve others rather than seek to control them. We must remember that God makes the rules, and that mercy is extended to the repentant, not to the indulgent. The Jesus who told the woman caught in adultery, "Neither do I condemn you", is the same Jesus who said, "Go, and sin no more" (John 8:11).2
But what about people who illegally enter a country? Must the Christian community not only accept them but also support them and demand they be treated as legal citizens, because this is the only way to express the love of Christ? This issue is actually related to the tolerance of sexual sin, since it presumes that love would never "judge" in any way. That is, in both cases the Christian community has redefined sin as "not showing love", and has redefined love as "accepting everyone and everything".
Are these new definitions accurate? Not in the slightest. To use another example in scripture, Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 5 that the church in Corinth was to expel a man who was living with his stepmother. He didn't even ask or consider whether the couple was happy and faithful and committed. Instead, he condemned their relationship as sin, and of a sort that not even the non-Christian world accepted— the same non-Christian world that accepted homosexuality. No tolerance was offered, either for the man or his lover, or for the "tolerant" church. They, sinners though they were, were commanded to throw the man out of their fellowship "to hand him over to Satan".
Now let's apply this accurate understanding of love and tolerance to the matter of welfare and illegal immigration. Paul taught that Christians who fail to care for each other are worse than unbelievers (1 Tim. 5:8), but also that those who refuse to work should not be fed (2 Thes. 3:10). So when we allow anyone and everyone to not only occupy our country (which includes our "neighbors" and family) but also to live on the backs of other people's labor, we are showing contempt for our own working people, our own neighbors, our own families.
The great hypocrisy of those who champion illegal immigration and the welfare state in the name of Christ is shown when they turn around and condemn Israel for "occupying Palestinian land". Are the people flooding America's southern border not "occupying" land that does not belong to them? Are they not living as parasites on the backs of the working poor, whose taxes are taken by force to support these foreigners? How does this in any way show Christian love to the taxpaying citizens? Is love to come at someone else's expense? Does the country they leave bear no responsibility for poor living conditions that make people want to flee? And if they're not fleeing starvation or oppression, then why is burdening the American taxpayer for them the loving Christian thing to do?
It isn't just a lack of love that the Christian community needs to be concerned about, it's a lack of standards. Even non-Christians often condemn us for the latter. To paraphrase Jesus' rebuke of people for failure to love "sinners" (Luke 6:32-34), "If you accept everything the culture around you accepts, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that." We are called to be pure and to be like Jesus, who not only reached out to sinners but also condemned those who placed on others the heavy burdens they themselves would not lift (Mat. 23:4).
What kind of Christians are we when we show no concern or compassion for our own people? What kind of witness is that? Whether it's blind support of illegal immigrants and welfare-entitled lazy parasites, refusal to recognize sexual sin, or double standards for men and women, we show contempt for God and people when we fail to balance compassion with holiness and fairness. Love never comes at someone else's expense (except the free choice of the person showing the love). We cannot say we love fellow believers, or fellow citizens, if we condemn them and force them to give up the fruit of their labor for the lazy and ungrateful. Neither do we show love for God or the Christian community when we allow the unholy and sin-indulgent into our fellowships.
There are good, sensible, and righteous reasons why we don't allow our neighbors to have free access to our homes, food, and supplies, especially when they have all of those things themselves. And even if the truly needy show no gratitude or intent to support themselves, they are not to be supported. There is no love or tolerance in forcing "charity" at the point of a gun, or even at the point of a sharp tongue. True Christian love is expressed in self sacrifice, and true Christian tolerance is never at the expense of the holiness of God.
- See this article and this article, and search for the word "divorce".
- The man was never brought to him by those hypocritical Pharisees, which they knew the law required. Both they and the man were sinning at least as much as the woman, but Jesus did not offer forgiveness to them, since he knew they only brought the woman to try to trap Jesus rather than to administer justice.


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Well, I warned that this blog would jump around a bit. This one will be a good example.
A common cliche is, "learn from your mistakes." Certainly, like most cliches, there is truth in this statement, but the problem with the statement is that it hard to learn from mistakes because mistakes are often associated with many missteps. So, I like to think that it is easier to learn from near misses – situations that were very close to success except for one or two obvious missteps. A semantic? Maybe. Or maybe I just don't want to dwell on outright failures.
Anyway, back on point. This story goes to a project that I was working on when I was at Radialpoint in the summer of 2007. Radialpoint is a company that focused on selling software-as-a-service through large Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
We received an RFP from one of the world's largest ISPs. Normally not a lot of good comes from an RFP, but this one was a perfect fit with our product strategy and roadmap. A small team of us worked on the RFP response, and after being added to the short-list of potential vendors, we put together a killer proof-of-concept and a prototype for a desktop application that would handle all service (software) downloads for subscribers. It would handle marketing (advertising), provisioning (downloads and uninstalls) and updating of the services – both free (e.g. Adobe Acrobat) and paid (e.g. online backup). It also had a really good business analytics back end that reported on service levels, churn, most popular applications, reasons for failed downloads, and many other measures.
The prototype demonstrated that we already had the client-side software and – more importantly – the back end servers to handle the service provisions, reporting and load. The proof-of-concept was a Flash-based (it was 2007!) UI that really showed off what we could do from a look-and-feel and user experience perspective. We also put forward a plan for how we would handle smart phones. Remember that this was around the exact time of the first iPhone launch in the US and almost exactly one year before the launch of the Apple App Store.
The ISP in question loved our proposition and our vision for the future. So, did we win the business? No. To make a short story long, we drastically overpriced the proposal. We would have done well with 10% of the price we quoted. In the end, the ISP went with the second choice because they came in much cheaper. That vendor never came through on the promise – and to the best of my knowledge – the desktop application for all services (effectively an ISP App Store) never made it to market.
So what is the learning from a near miss? Get it ALL right. In this case, when you are first to market, find a business model that works for all parties and don't price yourself out of a market that doesn't even yet exist!
Yes, I often dream about what we might have accomplished. Certainly many other ISPs would have jumped on for their own services-based "stores," but whether or not they would have dominated the market instead of Apple, that is a question to which we will never know the answer.
One thing I can say is that I never plan on letting something I can control get in the way of unanswered questions again.


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On Her Shoulders
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Language: English and Kurdish/Arabic
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On Her Shoulders follows 23‑year‑old Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a young woman who, in August of 2014, lost 18 members of her family during the Sinjar massacre in Iraq. Murad is Yazidi, a minority ethno-religious group that has been targeted by ISIS and the focus of their genocidal campaign. Murad was a young student who spent her time farming before ISIS came and killed nearly half of her town, kidnapping her and other young women, raping them and using them as sex slaves. Since her escape, Murad has committed her life to speaking out and providing a voice for millions of Yazidis who are still imprisoned and cannot speak up for themselves.
The film documents Murad as she travels throughout the world, speaking to British Parliament, media and public officials on behalf of the Yazidi population. Footage of Murad's navigation through the Western World, as she relays her experiences, is powerfully juxtaposed against the superficial gestures of media and time-consuming bureaucratic procedures. Some of the most powerful scenes occur when Murad speaks directly into the camera, expressing her opinions and reflections on this process. The film works towards the day Murad will present to the UN General assembly, asking for accountability and acknowledgement. (Margaret Rorison).
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Month: March 2015
February 23, 2015 | While you are taking your first few steps, it's still just
easier SAFER for us to place you in the walker when we need to accomplish things around the kitchen. Safer for you, but maybe not-so-much for our ankles! You pick-up some serious speed, and the dog literally runs away when he hears those rumbling wheels. You love him more than anything, and he is just so sad to be sharing the spotlight he avoids you as much as he can. Poor guy…his depression is obvious in the photos, but your adoration is too!
1st Birthday Party!
February 21, 2015 | The big day finally arrived, your BIRTHDAY PARTY! We really wanted both friends AND family there, so it was a rather big event. You were a little sick the week prior, and I was so worried we would have to cancel. But per usual, you amaze me & recovered in time to celebrate. I made a promise to myself that I would enjoy the party and really only take photos of the cake. I mostly stuck to it, and thankfully my friend Eric grabbed my camera for a few photos with ME in them! There was food, cake and cupcakes, lots of people who love & care about you, and KIDS. I also crochet'd your party hat, but the strap was too tight so it lasted about .2 seconds. You had a blast, and napped like a champ when it was all over. We asked for no gifts, and really people followed the rules well! Except for family, but they get a pass…we love you little Bean!
More Sledding
February 16, 2015 | This sled has turned out to be a GREAT purchase around here. While this season the snow wasn't too frequent, we made sure to bust it out any chance we could. The photos don't show it, but you LOVE to be pulled around in this thing. Bundling-up is a little rough, but once you're outdoors it's the best. Your hands got a bit cold this time, so the outing ended in tears. But it was worth it…right? 🙂
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E's Birthday Party!
February 14, 2015 | Our BFF E celebrated her first birthday with an adorable pink&gold party. It was gorgeous, and precious, just like Miss E! I brought the big camera so I could snap a few cake images (my favorite) and I'm so glad I did. The cake was infamous (even if their dog snagged the leftovers from the counter), and E opened her presents pretty darn well! She knew what was going on…and our E managed to jump right onto her new toddler-trampoline before the birthday girl even had a chance!
With all the babies, I also managed a few photos of R & O getting a bottle…and being wary of this giant baby girl trying to grab their feet!


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General Motors said that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding with a buyer for the Hummer brand. You can find more details of the deal in Nick Bunkley's report here, but G.M. is keeping the buyer under wraps for some reason. So who is it? Let the guessing game begin. …
Here is what we know:
• James Taylor, Hummer's chief executive, emphasized in a news release that Hummer is a "globally recognized off-road brand." Variations on the word "globe" was mentioned at least four times in the release.
• Mr. Taylor also said the proposed agreement would "maximize the brand's potential through new, innovative off-road vehicles with improved efficiency and alternative fuel powertrains." Bold is mine.
• The deal will keep Hummer dealerships and 3,000 jobs in the country, including engineering and manufacturing jobs.
• The Hummer assembly plant in Shreveport, La., will continue to assemble the H3 and H3T through at least 2010.
• Nick Richards, a Hummer spokesman, told Mike Levine at PickupTrucks.com that under the new management team, sales outside North America were expected to grow beyond the current 30 percent of total sales.
• Mr. Richards also said that G.M. would shift H3 production from its plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, to Shreveport. The Port Elizabeth plant builds right-hand-drive H3s for Africa and markets in Europe and Asia, like India.
Factoring in all of the above, Hummer's new owner would have to be a global company that is already well established in the marketplace. The company would have to have the resources and technology to develop alternative-fuel trucks. In April, G.M. said it expected bids from three prospective buyers. At the time, those buyers were thought to be the usual suspects: a Chinese investor or company, and the Indian automakers Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors.
In February Bloomberg News reported that Sichuan Auto, a small Chinese company, was looking into buying Hummer. But Sichuan Auto quickly denied the report, which didn't make much sense in the first place because the sum of Sichuan's total assets was around $500 million, which was roughly the price tag then proposed for Hummer.
On Monday, Nick Reilly, G.M.'s Asia-Pacific president, said that there was interest in China in Hummer, as well as Saab and Saturn. But he spoke only in broad terms on the strength of the market in China and G.M. China's plans to meet that demand.
What about Tata Motors? Tata, which has just begun selling its Nano compact car, is a huge company. But it also owns Land Rover, which it bought along with Jaguar, from Ford. And recently, it had to use some creative refinancing to keep the companies afloat. "Both the acquisitions were made, I would say at an inopportune time in the sense that they were near the top of the market in terms of price," Ratan Tata, chief executive of Tata Motors, told The Economic Times in May, two weeks before refinancing the bridge loan Tata used to buy Land Rover and Jaguar last year.
With Mr. Tata seemingly hesitant to stretch his company out any further, Mahindra & Mahindra is the more likely candidate for Hummer, although Mahindra previously said it was not interested. But Mahindra has been looking to expand into the United States, where it sells tractors, for quite a while. It has an American distributor in Global Vehicles, which claims to have a network of more than 300 dealers and to be on track to sell a Mahindra pickup in limited numbers in the United States by the end of this year. Mahindra has been developing a diesel-hybrid. It even has produced its own version of the Humvee, called the Axe.
Of course, there could be a dark horse — one report mentioned a Russian company, though that seems like a stretch — but whatever it is cannot depend on sales in America, where the brand is synonymous with the greed and glut of the past decade.


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Seonaid Campbell
Her name is pronounced Shona, and sounds even prettier in her Scottish accent. Dr. Anson says that coaxing Seonaid from her position as hospital staff nurse in 2000 was the best thing she ever did. Seonaid was trained by our doctors and is now one of the most experienced and busiest nurse injectors in the country (really!). She immediately puts her patients at ease with her kind, comforting and gifted hands.
Kim Rienzi
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Rochelle Kreidel
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Kristin Puppos
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Cathy Holdaway
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Evanne King
Evanne is an essential part of your surgical experience and your postoperative care. She was handpicked by Dr. Silver for her exceptional skill and her efficiency in the operating room. Evanne enjoys seeing patients from their original consultation all the way to their final result.
April Dahl
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Laura Matos
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Stacie Molina
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Gail Ewing
Gail joins the practice with over 20 years' experience in the Dermatology field. Gail is also a licensed Aesthetician whose passion for skin lead her to us, and is now Dr. Tam's medical assistant in our Cosmetic Dermatology Department. Gail will ensure your overall experience is both professional and educational.
Amanda Howe
Amanda is our deeply caring Coolsculpting technician. She loves seeing patients sculpted into their perfect body image through this non-invasive technique. Amanda comes to our practice with a background in laser and dermatology and is currently pursuing her nursing degree.
Dawn Ward
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Julie Reed
Julie's warm, cheery personality is felt by all who meet her. Joining our team from the Midwest, Julie is looking to meet new people and discover everything Nevada has to offer. With over a decade of experience in Aesthetics, Julie has a real passion for bringing out the best in every person's skin.
Whitney Kies
Whitney's love of skincare, and passion for aesthetics shines through to every patient she encounters. She enjoys educating patients on how to properly take care of their skin, and maintain great results. Originally from the Midwest, Whitney is joining our team from Australia, bringing 5 years of experience to our practice.
Lisa Blaziek
Lisa is one of our most valued Lead Surgery Coordinators. She has been loyal to the practice for over 8 years. She holds an aesthetic license that has become invaluable when sharing her knowledge and expertise with patients. Her compassion and good humor is the perfect combination to establish rapport and put you at ease. She loves being part of the exciting and positive life changes each patient decides in her office.
Sandra Moreno
Sandra is a sweet and compassionate coordinator ready to guide you through your surgical journey with Dr. Edwards. She is very thorough, ensuring that every step of the way, you receive the highest in patient care. Your well-being is her number one priority and she works hard to make sure that you have the best possible experience.
Cynthia Woods
Cynthia has worked in medical aesthetics since earning her aesthetic license in 2005. Her top priority is to insure patients are well informed and confident that they will receive the highest level of safety and compassionate care every step of the way. Her favorite aspect of her work is the gratification of helping patients achieve their goals.
Macie Rifley
Macie is a sweet smile and friendly welcome to all of your office visits. She has a lifetime of knowledge about aesthetics and plastic surgery and is able to thoroughly answer many of your questions. Macie is always eager to ensure that your experience with us is as personable and positive as possible.
Patti Uriarte
Patti is a welcome addition to our amazing front office team. She will greet you with a welcoming "New Yorker hello" and do her best to ensure your experience here is a pleasant one. Patti always strives for a great patient experience.
Kristin Willis
Kristin is an absolute delight to have in our front office staff. She comes with our wealth of knowledge in the aesthetic industry and she is always willing to assist you with all of your scheduling needs.
Alyssa Delin
Alyssa is the kind voice that answers your phone call and the smiling face that welcomes you to our office. She is your first touch point when checking in to your appointment. Alyssa maintains the organization and ambiance of the front office.
Kelly Froby
Making your experience pleasant and engaging is Kelly's main goal. She is here to ensure that all your questions are answered and your mind is at ease. Let her know how she can help you feel quickly at home in our offfice! Kelly is available to share about her experiences with the services she's had and the current promotions, as well.
Sarah del Valle-Vose
Sarah has truly grown up in this office. She started filing as a teenager and now leads our office operations. Sarah can be relied on for her no-nonsense approach to tasks and her "family" approach with our patients as she knows just about every patient by name!
Chanelle Ates
Chanelle breathes new creativity and life into the online community of our practice. With a keen eye for design and communication, she cultivates a well educated digital platform where patients stay well educated and informed. She oversees both the practice and FIXMD's marketing initiates.
Andrea Dieter
Andrea is our fearless Practice Administrator and Business Manager for FIXMD. She oversees the entire staff and coordinates with the doctors and various team leaders. We all rely on her strength, organization and common sense approach. She has been with us since 2003 and has been instrumental in the growth of this practice.


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CEC acquired a biodiesel refinery with a capacity of 900,000 litres per annum to produce an environmentally friendly and low-cost fuel as an alternative to fossil diesel. The production of biodiesel is a positive step in terms of enhancing energy security in Zambia by reducing imports of fossil fuels. The biodiesel project at CEC utilises Jatropha and soya bean seed oil as its primary feedstock material.
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MindOUT Talks Bi
We caught up with Kitty from MindOUT, Brighton's LGBT mental health project, to talk about their bi-specific work.
Hello! Tell us about the project?
MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay men, bisexual, trans, and queer people based in Brighton.
We provide advice and information, advocacy, a peer support group programme, wellbeing activities and events, a peer mentoring service, an out of hours online chat service and a food & allotment project.
We also work around the country to deliver LGBTQ Affirmative Practice training for Mental Health professionals and seek to influence national policy & practice
There are a number of social and/or support groups out there for bi people. What's the one MindOUT offers and how does it work?
MindOut offers support around mental health. Therefore, the bi group is run by and for bi people who have experience with mental health issues. It offers a safe and judgement free space for those with such experiences. The group is a closed group, meaning an assessment is required beforehand by a member of staff to gage what service users want to get out of the group and whether they will be suitable for the space. The group has a maximum of eight spaces and will run for nine weeks. As opposed to a 'drop-in' style group the same people attend every week. This helps to emphasise a feeling of safety because faces become familiar and attendees are able to build a good rapport with the others in the group. After the nine weeks are up we would hope to continue the group based on how popular it may or may not be.
People might be familiar with MIND – is your service only open to people who are having mental health issues?
We are separate from the organisation MIND, and someone does not need a formal diagnosis to attend a MindOut group, but it is intended for those that identify as having or have mental health issues. Unfortunately, LGBT+ who struggle with their mental health are not hard to come by. Bisexual people report poorer mental health than either heterosexuals or lesbians and gay men, higher levels of anxiety and depression, more current adverse events and a higher frequency of financial problems*. Research published in the Journal of Public Health in 2013 also showed that bisexual women are a third more likely to have self-harmed than lesbians, and nearly two-thirds more likely to report an eating problem.
Are the things that have come up different with bi clients than for your other services?
Bi clients frequently reiterate feelings of isolation. Often they feel excluded from both heterosexual and gay spaces. This is often due to prejudiced ideas such as bisexuals being confused, greedy and sexually promiscuous. But also there is a real issue with bisexual erasure, bisexual people are often portrayed as straight people experimenting or gay people too afraid to come out of the closet. Often they are caught in a limbo where they are too queer for the straight world and too straight for the queer world. Stonewall reported that bisexuals are less likely to feel comfortable being out at work than lesbians or gay men and less likely feel workplace LGBT networks were helpful. This reflects how isolation and prejudice can affect bisexual people's everyday lives.
And is there any other upcoming bi work with MindOUT?
Currently we do not have any bi-exclusive plans other than the group (which will hopefully change once Pride is out the way). But one of the most important things is that we are always working in a bi-inclusive way every day and always ready to challenge biphobia. Bi people are running our services and sharing our spaces and this is what is important to us.
Finally – is Brighton the only place with a project like this in the UK?
This I cannot be sure of. But what I am sure of is that we have had a lot of bi people come forward saying that they are excited by this new group because they feel there is nothing out there for them and this to me speaks volumes about the number of bi spaces that are available. I do also know that we are unique as one of the few organisations that is dedicated solely to the mental health of LGBT+ people.
Thanks and keep up the good work! How do people get in touch?
Contact us on 01273 234839 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
* for more on this see King, M and McKeown, E, 2003
This article first appeared in Bi Community News magazine issue 143.
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My parents have been married 50 years and they're still going strong
Of the many things they've taught me, three stand out
Fifty years equals 2,607 weeks. Fifty years equals 18,250 days. Fifty years equals 438,000 hours. Fifty years is a long time.
But love helps time pass quickly. So, it's safe to say—fifty years have zoomed by for my parents.
My mom and dad recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. They've been married five . . .
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In the blink of an eye
A poem for my older son, who turned 10
In the blink of an eye
In the blink of an eye
you grew;
ten years gone by
i knew
the day
you were born,
my life
had changed
In the blink of an eye
you smiled;
a dimple
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sip of youth
dance of joy;
In the blink of an eye
i try
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to hear your laugh
to . . .
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This is why empathy between a parent and child is important
After dislocating my finger, I'm forever grateful for my kids' love and concern
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I was 4 and I'll never forget.
Our gazes locked. A kindergarten classmate; her eyes, red, swollen. Tears streamed down her face.
I felt something. You know the feeling. Starts in your heart, works its way through your throat, eyes, rolling like the surf crashing toward shore.. . .
This story will make you question manhood
Being only tough and strong limits boys and men
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Take it like a man.
How often have you heard this expression? Or maybe one of its cousins: Man up. Don't be a sissy. Be a man. Don't cry.
When I played university football, emblazoned at the top of our dressing room, in huge, black lettering, read the words: INTIMIDATE AND . . .
Maybe I don't want to stop this feeling
(Even if it hurts)
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Maybe I don't want to stop this feeling
(Even if it hurts)
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sometimes anger
but always
hard to detach
maybe i don't want to
stop this . . .
My son broke his collarbone and my heart skipped a beat
A morning in Urgent Care reminded us to slow things down
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The pain must have been excruciating upon impact. I cringe at the thought of my seven-year-old's collarbone snapping.
The call came in at 11:03 a.m. The school secretary said he fell playing soccer. They put his arm in a sling; after tears, he returned to class. She said he seemed okay. . . .
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It takes a child to make the man
A poem
It takes a child to make the man
Dandelion seeds
land on our noses.
Slide down the hill,
check out our poses!
Wiping out in the mud,
Ribbon Bear laughs
at J's mouthful of slop
and S's tumbling flop.
Let's do it again!
all three of them yell,
it's obvious to tell
laughter and friendship
are innate and true
and watching these
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A Flower Clock Garden
Many plants have a biological clock, which regulates the time of day that their flowers open and close. For example, the flowers of catmint (Nepeta cataria) - also known as catnip - open between 6am and 7am; orange hawkweed follows between 7am and 8am; field marigolds open at 9am and varieties of Helichrysum1 wake up for 10am. Other varieties follow, with Convolvulus opening at noon.
By making observations of the times when flowers open and close during the day, Carolus Linnaeus (the 18th-Century Swedish botanist, recognised as the father of taxonomy), conceived the idea of arranging certain plants in an order of flowering, so that they constituted a kind of floral clock. This was described in Linnaeus's Philosophia Botanica (1751) in which he referred to it as an horologium florae (floral clock). Apparently, Linnaeus was able to use his clock to determine the time accurately to within half an hour.
In Philosophia Botanica Linnaeus described three groups of flowers:
Only Aequinoctales are suitable for use in a flower clock.
It is thought that Linnaeus probably never planted a 'flower clock' but rather made accurate observations on plants growing at various localities. This is partly because his son, Carl Linnaeus fil., began to write a thesis on Horologium Plantarum which was never completed. It contains only a few examples of Aequinoctales and does not contain a description of a flower clock as such.
Following Linnaeus's observations, it became popular for 19th-Century gardeners to plant up 'flower clocks' in which the flowerbeds were laid out in a circle or an annulus to form the clock face. The 'clock face' was divided into 12 segments, each of which contained flowers that either opened or closed in that one-hour time period.
The University of Uppsala in Sweden, where Linnaeus was a professor, has a public flower clock, and details of the flora can be viewed by clicking on the link (this link also has a flower clock which operates on 'Javascript'). To make a flower clock one must be prepared to replace species at the end of flowering.
What flowers can I use?
Unless stated otherwise, these times are the approximate times that the flowers open. The exact opening times vary according to the latitude and climate of the garden.
Jean Franç aix - L'horloge de flore
Linnaeus's idea for a collection of flowers that opened or closed at a particular time of day was taken up by the French composer Jean Françaix in his composition L'horloge de flore (The Flower Clock), a concerto for solo oboe and orchestra. The following list gives the hour of the day, the French names, the English and the botanical names of the plants he chose to represent in this piece:
The Edinburgh Floral Clock
Unfortunately, a flower clock which is both attractive and useful is an impractical proposition. This is because many of the flowers look very similar, being yellow weeds; and many also occur in particular ecological niches. To overcome this, various attempts have been made to illustrate the concept, usually in the form of a clock-face decorated with the image of the flower that is open at that time of the day.
Other so-called 'flower clocks' don't even attempt to illustrate the concept, but consist of a clock-shaped flower bed planted up with attractive flowers. A particularly fine example can be seen in Edinburgh's Princes Street. Here, the floral clock has hands operated by a clockwork mechanism. The clock face is made up of thousands of small plants, mainly sempervivens, and the clock hands are also covered in plants. The Edinburgh Floral Clock is used to publicise organisations and special events.
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A floral clock features in the fictional city of Quirm, in Soul Music, one of the books in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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You are either with Abdul Qader Mullah or against him!
Whichever of the two you are, you can be sure of one thing that this determinism in the dominant political discourse has mauled our ability to think. It puts a premium on buying in one or the other narrative, denigrates any attempt to question, contemplate and reflect, and punishes even slight violations with fatwas and labeling. I find it lethal to progress.
The hanging of a leader of Bangladesh's banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Abdul Qader Mullah, by its war crimes court is the latest fault line. You can either celebrate 'the much deserved death of a mullah' or mourn over another vicious attack on Pakistan's sullen pride.
Remember, if you tried to question the credibility of the court and the legal process you will be pushed to the side on which you may not be standing, notwithstanding the fact that not a single human rights organisation across the globe thinks that the court met even the basic requirements for administering justice.
You shall face even sterner expulsion orders if you dared to discuss the role of Pakistan Army and its cohorts in Bangladesh in 1971, without any regard to the fact that the entire world considers it an undeniable truth that heinous acts of mass crimes were committed against Bengalis.
This dogmatic approach has driven us into suffocating narrows. How can one breathe in some freedom? I see no other option but to push the black and the white a little bit apart and fill some grey in between. Here is my attempt to give some context to the debated act.
There can be no doubt about the fact that the Jamaat was hand in glove with the army in its bloody campaign in 1971. Jamaat, in fact, was its sole important ally in that country; it was its ears and eyes. But one can also not deny that all the Jamaat members in Bangladesh had not migrated from Pakistan. They were a 'local' political force.
In the general elections of 1970, the Awami League had won 160 of the total 162 seats of East Pakistan. This emphatic popular verdict had served as the main legitimiser for the party. The Jamaat won no seats, not even a single one. But before writing off the Jamaat as a nobody in Bangladesh's politics, consider one more fact.
In the same elections, the Jamaat had polled a little over one million votes in the then East Pakistan and that was more than what it had got in all four provinces of West Pakistan put together. The Jamaat polled a third of these in its second biggest bastion of power, urban Sindh. There was one Jamaat voter for every 13 Awami League voters in the Bangladesh-to-be.
In the last general elections held in 2008, Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh had the electoral support of 3.2 million voters compared with 33.9 million of Awami League. This implies that the Jamaat has survived as a political force in that country.
But perhaps, more important than the Jamaat's electoral size is that its ideology found new takers in Bangladesh's politics. General Ziaur Rahman who ruled Bangladesh after the assassination of its founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, reinstated Islam in politics. He recognised it as an important constituent of the identity of the people of that country.
General Ziaur Rahman cannot be doubted as a reactionary counter-revolutionary as he was in the vanguard of the 1971. In fact, he is credited with making the first declaration of independence that was broadcast from a captured radio station in April 1970.
General Ziaur Rahman did not rule by decree alone. He was a popular leader. His party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has won more elections than the Awami League and formed the government three times.
BNP allies with the Jamaat and the allegiance is not merely 'spiritual' as the two have contested elections and formed governments together. The BNP's electoral successes and its ideological and electoral alliance with the Jamaat imply that the notion of Islamic identity is not a minority view in that country.
The electorate in Bangladesh is split in the middle. They either support the Islam-leaning BNP or the secular-nationalist Awami League. The difference between the votes of the two parties is usually wafer-thin. Barring the elections of 2008, it has in fact been negligible, and the party demonstrating a better ability to translate the same votes into more seats has been forming the government.
Bangladesh's present parliament will complete its term on January 24 and according to the constitution amended by the Awami League elections, must be held within 90 days before its expiry. The elections are to be held on January 5 and all opposition parties have announced to boycott these. They don't want the elections to be held under the Awami League government but the AL has undone the constitutional clauses providing for a setting-up of a non-partisan caretaker government.
The transition from one elected government to the next has been a bone of contention in the Bangladeshi political system since long. In 1996, the elections held on February 15 were boycotted by the Awami League and all others on the same grounds and had to be held again on June 12 after the BNP government agreed to amend the constitution to provide for a caretaker government.
The caretaker government in 2006 extended its tenure and mandate through a court ruling and ostensibly tried to work on a minus-two (Hasina and Khaleda) formula on the behest of the country's military. (General Musharraf was able to experiment a similar thing in 2002 in Pakistan. Conversely, the extended government of non-partisan technocrats sanctioned by the highest court is known as the 'Bangladesh model' in Pakistan.) The intervention barely survived two years and elections were held on December 29 in 2008, resulting in a landslide victory for the Awami League.
The party got all it could ever wish for. It was as powerful as was Bangabhandu (Sheikh Mujib) in the years after the country's independence. It enjoyed more than a two-third majority in the Parliament and an unhindered full term to deliver on its promises. And what did it deliver? Barely a thing and I am afraid a dead Mullah cannot compensate for all that it did not accomplish.
There is nothing that suggests that the Awami League can expect a great performance at the coming polls. The indications are that an opposite is more likely. Relinquishing power is hard and whipping a dead horse is an old strategy of those who don't have the courage and the acumen to face the realities of the day. But if they really believe that it will finally rise and take them past the great electoral hurdle, they are only deceiving themselves.
In my humble opinion, the hanging of Abdul Qader Mullah is more likely to fillip the cause of the Jamaat, and within the Islamic political band the more extremist and violent ones will now find greater acceptance among their supporters.
The Awami League has supposedly gifted its supporters with a cause célèbre without realising that it can simultaneously serve as a greater rallying point for its opponents, besides that it can radicalise the discourse and deepen the divide.
The entire saga is in fact more likely to hit back at the League itself. The Jamaat is banned. Its members cannot contest elections but they cannot be barred from casting their votes. Who will they vote for? The BNP will definitely be the main beneficiary of 'the League's largesse'.
The Awami League suffers from the negative effect of incumbency and its stubbornness on the issue of the caretaker government has denuded it of many supporters. All this is likely to lead to a triumphant return to power of the League's opponents. It does not take much to foresee how they will react in the divisive environs that the League will leave behind as a legacy.
The ghost of Abdul Qader Mullah will return. We have yet to see whether he was more vicious alive or dead.


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Lost in the current debate of healthcare coverage are two charts that illustrate the real effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on our healthcare system.
The first is our National Healthcare Expenditure – or NHE. The Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates and forecasts our NHE for each year through 2022. They also forecast what the NHE would have been without the ACA. While the effect of the ACA is significant and meaningful in other ways – this chart highlights the nominal effect of the ACA on our NHE (through 2022). The data (published in January of this year) is online here (pages 6 & 7 – Table 2/2a).
There is no way to color this forecast other than grim. Basically, on our current trajectory (with the ACA), in less than 10 years our NHE will be about $5 trillion per year.
Which begs the question. If Obamacare doesn't really address the cost of healthcare – what big effect does it have – and what is all this current noise around winners and losers? In a single word, the big effect of the ACA is coverage – not cost.
Back in February of this year, the (non-partisan) Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported about 58 million uninsured people in the U.S. (here). That includes unauthorized immigrants and people who are eligible for, but not enrolled in Medicaid.
It's popular to argue that the number of uninsured is less, but what we also have to consider is what happens when anyone from this group shows up at an Emergency Room. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) legislation (here) requires that everyone be treated "regardless of ability to pay." Some may be successful in applying for Medicaid coverage retroactively, but that's a big unknown, and at least according to some, an unfair assumption.
The second chart is this one created from data by the CBO. Here's how the CBO forecasts the effect of the ACA on the uninsured also through 2022 (February 2013 data here):
In combination, these two charts highlight 4 critical points:
1) Our healthcare problems are much bigger than just our current debate around coverage and who qualifies as a winner or loser
2) The ACA doesn't solve our uninsured problem (but it clearly and dramatically reverses the long standing trend of excluding people from coverage)
3) At least in theory – we're adding millions to coverage without exploding our NHE
4) We haven't really started the debate around the cost of healthcare – and how to reign in our enormous (and growing) NHE
The huge (and rising) cost of healthcare delivery really is the 800lb elephant in the room. Beyond that, the point these charts drive home is just how much work there is ahead after our scorched-earth battle of coverage. That battle often gravitates to the absurd idea of who's paying for someone else's coverage – and how much more (or less) that should be. In effect – what's fair? The best answer I saw to this absurd question was a tweet I came across last month.
"Everyone knows you don't debate fairness with those too childish to understand adverse selection." Austin Frakt – The Incidental Economist (here)
Beyond the fairness debate is the question of alternative solutions – and what are those? That refrain also remains the same – as summarized by Josh Barro late last month.
"But what about the tens of millions of Americans who currently lack health insurance and are about to get access to available, affordable coverage? Where is the conservative sympathy for people who would be worse off if the law doesn't go forward? Nowhere. Because for all the needless complexity of liberals' approach to improving health insurance and helping the sick, conservatives don't have one at all." Josh Barro – Business Insider (here)
All of which brings us to one final chart. Of all the ones I've seen – and used – this one (with OECD data from 2011) still represents (at least for me) the best graphic representation of our continuing national healthcare crisis.
With an enterprise software engineering background, I cover the intersections between technology, innovation, and policy that are unfolding inside one of America's…
With an enterprise software engineering background, I cover the intersections between technology, innovation, and policy that are unfolding inside one of America's largest industries – healthcare. First appearing in Forbes as a Contributor in 2011, I've written for a wide range of global brands and print publications. My first book – Casino Healthcare – released in 2016. Twitter handle is: @danmunro


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