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Due to the ever increasing pressure for healthcare facilities to improve their HCAHPS scores, the patient experience is becoming more and more like a stay in a hotel. Ranging from the basic patient comfort to the softer interior designs, hospitals are finding more creative ways to enhance a patient's visit.
The days of turkey sandwiches and chicken soup are over. Some hospitals offer extensive menus consisting of turkey burgers, pastas and even NY strips! Ordering off the menu itself has even become a patient friendly process. A patient can simply make a call from their bed down to the kitchen who will take their order. Since many patients are on restrictive diets due to medications or illnesses, when a patient attempts to place an order with the kitchen, the 'server' is able to access the patient's dietary restrictions and give gentle ordering directions to the patient.
The warmer color pallets and softer lighting in not only the patient's room but throughout the hospital have created a more inviting atmosphere as opposed to the drab and sterile environment of the past. Some hospital networks are even designing custom patient gowns to ease the discomfort and embarrassment most feel when walking around in an open back gowns.
As the hospitals seek more creative ways to improve their HCAHPS scores, there is no telling what the future could hold for patient care.


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I first travelled to Bali, Indonesia in 1991 and fell in love with the people and the island itself. I felt an instant connection and travelled there as a tourist each year. It was some 6 years later that I would start the manufacturing arm of my business, Palas Jewellery, in this gorgeous country.
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Gasoline prices in Utah have risen 2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.20 per gallon as of Monday, June 18, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 1,171 stations in Utah. This compares with the national average that has fallen 2.4 cents per gallon versus last week to $2.89 per gallon, according to GasBuddy.
Utah gasoline prices are the seventh highest in the nation, according to Michael Blasky, spokesman for AAA Utah, who said Moab's average price per gallon was $3.39. Gas prices have continued to rise in Utah even as national prices began to stabilize after Memorial Day. As of Monday evening, Utah was paying the seventh-highest price for fuel in the country. The state has seen a six-cent increase above Memorial Day prices, among the largest post-holiday price increases in the nation.
"Utah gas prices are being driven by strong demand for gasoline, which is leading to a very busy summer travel season," said Blasky. "But the good news is we may be seeing our summer peak for gasoline this month. All eyes will be on the upcoming OPEC summit in Austria, where oil-rich nations may decide to raise their levels of crude oil production. That would pump more oil into the supply chain, and ultimately lower the cost of fuel," Blasky said.
Average gasoline prices on June 18 in Utah have ranged widely over the last five years: $2.59 per gallon in 2017, $2.38 per gallon in 2016, $3.02 per gallon in 2015, $3.57 per gallon in 2014 and $3.73 per gallon in 2013, according to statistics from GasBuddy.
Including the change locally during the past week, prices yesterday were 61.3 cents per gallon higher than a year ago and are 4.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has dropped 3.1 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 60.9 cents per gallon higher than a year ago.
Areas in Utah and their current gas price climate: Provo–$3.14 per gallon, up 3.9 cents per gallon from last week's $3.10 per gallon. Ogden–$3.18 per gallon, up 3.9 cents per gallon from last week's $3.14 per gallon. Salt Lake City–$3.16 per gallon, up 4.7 cents per gallon from last week's $3.12 per gallon.
"Average gas prices in the U.S. have fallen to their lowest in a month, following oil's continued slump as OPEC appears poised to adjust oil production levels and the U.S. nears its hitting 11 million barrels of oil pumped per day, the highest level ever," said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy. "Oil bulls may see their day again this summer, but the prospects of higher oil supply have diminished the value of oil for the time being, and that's leading to what nearly every American has been rooting for as of late–lower gas prices. While many are still bitter over having to pay more than last year, prices certainly could have moved higher if there hadn't been pressure on OPEC to act now that the (previous) glut of crude oil has been absorbed into the market. We see gas prices falling slightly into late June or early July before odds rise of hurricane season leading to some volatility at the pump, which could lead prices higher short term."


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Quixotic Shawl Kit
$ 69.00
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The Quixotic Shawl KAL, designed by local knit wear designer Petra Breakstone.
Kit Includes:
- 4 colors of hemp, cotton and modal fingering yarn. 300 yards of each colorway.
- Beads
You will need a size US4/32" circular needle, size 10 crochet hook, stitch markers.


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Need vegan queso and need it fast? Look no further! This recipe requires just 7 ingredients, 5 minutes, and 1 blender. Let's do this! ... Read more →
Moroccan-Spiced Eggplant and Tomato Stew
Friends, I've been dreaming of this dish for so long and it's finally here (after much toil and experimentation). Whenever we travel abroad, I always try to order eggplant dishes because I love seeing how other cultures prepare eggplant. I try to study the spice mixtures and ... Read more →
Smoky Harissa Eggplant Dip
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Chicken a la Equator
Today I travelled to the Equator in Ecuador. I even had one foot in the northern hemisphere and the other in the south. Now how cool is that?
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The painting mediums can be broadly divided into two categories:
- Dry Mediums: These include oil pastels, chalk pastels, crayons, pencil colors, charcoal etc.
- Wet Mediums: Most popular wet mediums are watercolor, acrylic, oil and gouache. Gouache medium is gaining a lot of popularity these days among the learners and the professional artists alike.
In this article, I will talk about…..
Many people can draw, but only few can paint well. For many of us, the very thought of applying colors in their drawing can be daunting due to the fear of spoiling the drawing. Are you one of them?
One reason for your dislike of putting colors in your drawings could be the bad experience you have had with the dry mediums (oil pastels, crayons, pencil colors etc) because these are slow and tiresome as I find them. But really it's just personal preference; artists make them look completely effortless. So if you are on the same line as me, the perfect answer to your problem is the Watercolors.
Watercolor medium is good for people who are starting to learn the wet mediums. The name itself suggests that these are water based. These paints are transparent in nature. The painting process generally involves going from lighter tones to the darker. Once a darker tone is applied, a lighter color cannot be applied over it. And the best thing about watercolors is that they are least messy compared to other mediums. And they flow easily on the paper.
The first step is to know what kind of materials should be used. Here is a quick guide:
Materials Required
- Pencil and eraser
- Paints: A Common mistake that people do while buying the watercolors is that they buy poster colors. They are different and there is a difference between how both types of colors work. Any good quality watercolor paints will work. I would suggest that you buy artist watercolors instead of student watercolors because the latter are not very good quality.
- Recommended shades: Gamboge Hue, Yellow Ochre, Crimson Red, Prussian Blue, Sap Green, Burnt Sienna
Just these six and you are good to go. And you don't need white and black 😉
- Brushes: Medium sized round synthetic brush is good if you are a beginner.
- Paper: any paper that absorbs the water well and does not warp too much is fine for watercolors. The commonly available sketchbooks in the market are fine for learning.
- A piece of cotton cloth to wipe your brush.
- A container for water: make sure the water is clean.
- A mixing plate: you can use the ones commonly available in the market. Or you can also use any plate from your home. But it is best to use a white surface as you will be able to see the proper shade of colors that you are mixing.
Painting Steps
Now that you got your materials, here are few General rules to keep in mind before you start painting-
- Decide where the light is coming from in your composition. Colors will be applied accordingly
- Hold the brush like you would hold a pencil or a pen, not too close to the bristles
- Never use too much water with the paints
- The more water you mix, the lighter shade of the color
- Clean your brush into the water every time you use a new color
STEP 1. Start with drawing a simple object or composition. Keep your pencil lines light.
STEP 2. Start by painting the part where the light is falling directly. This is done either by applying small strokes or a whole patch of color.
Step 3. Now mix a darker shade and repeat this process again and again while moving towards the darker side of your object.
Step 4. To obtain a really dark color like black to color the shadiest areas of your object or drawing, mix red, blue, brown and maybe green. We don't usually use black because if you have ever looked closely around you, even in shade you will see different colors, it is never completely black. The more you observe the more you learn.
Step 5. Paint the surface on which your object rests and make a shadow of the object.
And it's done!!!!!! 😉
You can see the application of these steps in my next post as I create a painting of an apple using water colors.


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Rhea Pendant
The Rhea Pendant features a drop Tahitian pearl hanging from a hand-set micro-pavé jump ring. This design pairs perfectly with our Gravity Chain.
- Jump Ring: 2.3mm thickness, 8mm inside diameter, approx .8 total carat weight
- Pearl: 13mm Tahitian pearl
Variation details:
- CCW - white pearl with an 18k rose gold link on black rhodium plated .925 sterling silver jump ring, with champagne, cognac, and white diamond mix
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Illustrator, writer, project producer and instigator of many talents. I work in science communication, urban sketching, comic books, erotica, and commercial bespoke projects.
While the resulting product or service has to be of the best quality possible, the real value is in the process of creating the content.
I work in the in-between spaces. Places where law and art meet, where scientists employ me to communicate difficult concepts through comics. Where animated chickens can illustrate a business accelerator's goals, and a unique laser cut box can revive a theatre performance that was lost to the ages. Not always social and critical, my work is an amalgamation of processes and ideas to create a whole.
I mostly work with direct clients who want a bespoke art piece, be a tattoo or a short story. I've worked with online and paper publications, done exhibitions of archival projects, and exhibited in small galleries.
I am also creative director of Ffangaí, a community arts organization based in Cardiff. And editor of the bi-annual publication SUDDENLY:Mushrooms.
I am available for commissions.
Future Exhibitions:
- June 2019 – The Lit Exhibit: Rituals, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, New York
Past Exhibitions:
- 8th of November 2018 – Display of Coiba Project Images, at the Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, California
- October 2018 – Cracks in the City, part of Made in Roath Festival, at One Fox Lane, Cardiff
- Summer 2018 – Last Minute Exhibition, at The Gate, Cardiff
- 26th October – 5th November 2017 – Inc: A Showcase, at Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
- 20-24 June 2016 – Creative Cardiff's Pop-up Creative Hub at the Wales Millennium Centre
- 2 June – 2 July 2016 – Tropical Paradise – Paper Arts, Bristol
- 20-27 May 2016 – Cardiff School of Art and Design 2016 Summer Degree Show
- 11-23 December 2015 – No Fit State Archive Exhibition – NoFitState, Roath, Cardiff
- 13 October 2015 – Café Collisions Anthology Launch and Spoken Word Event – Cardiff Made, Roath, Cardiff
- 15 August 2015 – A Colour performance for An Overhead Map of Now – The Abacus Rooms, Cardiff
- 28th May 2015 – Snapped-Up Market: Bicycles – The Printhaus, Canton, Cardiff
- May 2015 – Reportarger Award –
Universityof the West of England, Bristol
- March-May 2015 – Art with a Heart's H20 – Water – Art With a Heart Art Centre Altrincham
- January 2014– ParquesFelices urban intervention – Panama City, Panama
- November 2014 – Are You Lost Yet? 2 – The Abacus Rooms, Cardiff
- April-June 2014 – (
Im)material Artefacts – National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- June-August 2013 – Historias Imaginadas: Mundos
queno existieron– Panama City, Panama
- February 2019 – Broken Pencil – participation in the 2019 Deathmatch with the short story Gargling Tree
- July 2018 – An Incomplete Timeline of Isthmian
Identit(y/ ies) – Illustrations and Article Published by Porridge Magazine
- January 2018 – Coyote Crosses the Continent – Publishing contract with Wordcatcher Publishing
- February 2016 – The Cardiff Review, Jelly by Ellen Davies
- 13 October 2015 – Café Collisions Anthology – Cardiff University
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Following the trend from Hollywood, the French cinema industry has launched an initiative called "5050 Pour 2020" (5050 by 2020), which looks to increase equality and diversity in the field. The movement, which is backed up by the supporters of the #MaintenantOnAgit (Now We Act) anti-domestic violence campaign, are looking into founding an Equality Observatory to maintain accountability on the issues and progress made on the matter.
The group which recently launched a website to support its platform, recently made an announcement regarding how, even though their industry has not been affected by an event like the one surrounding controversial Harvey Weinstein, they still believe that advocacy is required to improve the current state of the industry.
The movement conducted a study of gender equality behind the scenes. Starting from 2006, the study revealed that 23% of French films have been directed by women. Furthermore, budgets for films directed by women tend to have a budget about 36% smaller than the ones allocated for male-directed feature films.
As for award ceremonies, the group voiced their concern regarding how only 19% of nominees tend to be female. Although these numbers may not be encouraging, their study also found out that, when it comes to awards ceremonies, 57% of editors that have been nominated in the past 42 years are women.
With the César Awards taking place on Friday (the Academy Awards of France), supporters will show their involvement by wearing white ribbons. Some of the French artists that are part of this movement include Lea Seydoux, Lily Rose Depp, Michèle Halberstadt and Jacques Audiard.
Source: Deadline – "French Film Industry Launches 50/50 By 2020 Equality Initiative."


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'Smart casual' is one look you should achieved of, as you wanted to be in trend for today's fashion. Why? because folks these days are fond and pleases already to these casual and neat looking styling hence getting up yourself in such style are probably updated and make you look more chic and trendy.
When to wear?
If you are a man though, being to a casual on the daily basis is perfectly fine especially if you does work in a corporate which you should wear off something presentable and neat looking naturally. But if you are a woman like myself, I think we should just kill our women suits for something important like attending in events, weddings and even to our company parties or annual gatherings. Because suits for women are forfeiting formality and being religiously engaging on what you're attending for or to your current do. So, suits for women should be in place or it was really basing on what kind of occasions you're attending to.
To learn more about the suits – on when you should wear it or where the right place to wear it. You can search over google as a lot of suits enthusiasts out there are done in writing about them.
Accessories For Accentual
It doesn't mean that having your own expansive suits can really makes you look neat and chic. Because you'll have to exert an effort to, to achieved the total look you'd be trying to pull off. And one of which was getting your suits done by having some accessories added to it for accentual. Yes! suits should be accessories as well especially for the women suits. Though men suits are in need of some but I think women should have some better like the broach, scarves and other neck accessories that can turn to the suits more looking elegant and exquisite.
For men, they should have some handkerchief for their suits chest pocket. And they can even has a pair o cuff links in both sleeves for them to be looking so dandy.
The full outfit
Might be hard wearing the business casual, right? especially if it's not something that you're used to. But CT Shirts, who are experts in men's fashion and retailers of men's shirts, have made some suggestions that you should really look out to for you to know further on how you can style your suits better.


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Show Details for the week of August 14th, 2017
On The Monitor this week:
- Interfering in Venezuela while accusing Russia of interfering here – Dan Kovalik
- Understanding Brexit, Trump, and Austerity – Mark Blyth
More about this week's guests:
Dan Kovalik teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is Senior Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He has worked for the USW since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he has served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as "one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States." Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. He is also the author of The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia. He was recently in Venezuela and contrasts focusing on any possible allegation regarding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, while the U.S. government is openly getting away with interfering in Venezuela and elsewhere.
Mark Blyth is a political economist whose research focuses upon how uncertainty and randomness impact complex systems, particularly economic systems, and why people continue to believe stupid economic ideas despite buckets of evidence to the contrary. He is the author of "Capitalism in Crisis: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next" Foreign Affairs, Summer 2016, "Ideas and Historical Institutionalism." Contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (New York: Oxford University Press 2016) With Oddny Helgadottir and William Kring, "The New Ideas Scholarship in the Mirror of Historical Institutionalism: A Case of Old Whines in New Bottles?" European Journal of Public Policy, December 2015, "Just Who Put You in Charge? We Did: Credit Rating Agencies and the Politics of Ratings," chapter for Alexander Cooley (ed.), Rankings and Ratings Organizations and Global Governance (Cambridge University Press 2015) (with Rawi Abdelal), The Future of the Euro ((co-editor with Matthias Matthijs) New York: Oxford University Press 2015).
Show Details for the week of July 24th, 2017
On The Monitor this week:
- Christopher Wray is President Trump's nominee for FBI Director. He was unanimously approved for a full Senate confirmation hearing before the August recess. We look at the issues beyond the allegations of Russian "meddling" with Emily Berman
- Military Budget proposals of at least $600 billion per year are working their way through Congress.Although President Trump promised to avoid unnecessary wars, he still is seeking a major increase in the already gigantic U.S. military budget, a risky contradiction, says Ivan Eland.
More about this week's guests:
Show Details for the week of June 12th, 2017
On The Monitor this week:
- Mike Dieterich on the lost economic opportunities caused by the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
- Joe Lauria on Hillary Clinton's election loss, through her own words and the thoughts of some her closest aides.
More about this week's guests:
Mike Dieterich is a LEED Accredited Professional, environmental scientist, award winning producer, and bestselling author. He has worked in the sustainability industry with local-small businesses to state agencies, federal groups, international companies and nonprofit organizations. He is the author of Renew & Sustain: A cutting edge approach to being socially responsible, environmentally conscious, and incredibly profitable for businesses, schools, and government.
Joe Lauria is a veteran foreign-affairs journalist. He has written for the Boston Globe, the Sunday Times of London and the Wall Street Journal among other newspapers. He is author of the just-released book How I Lost By Hillary Clinton. Quote: "Without a shred of evidence Clinton claimed on Wednesday night that there were 1,000 Russian agents working with Trump to defeat her. She blamed, 'The kinds of things that were in WikiLeaks — you laugh, but people were obsessing over this stuff. Obsessing over it.' The kind of things that were in WikiLeaks were her own words, which she ought to read in my new book to understand why she really lost." Vox reports: "Hillary Clinton blames everyone but herself for her 2016 loss." From the book description: Clinton's "own words, found in this book, tell the real story of how it happened. The title includes Clinton's byline as she has unwittingly written the story of her own defeat in her speeches and her emails and those of her campaign staff. "At a time of widespread dissatisfaction with business-as-usual politics, the Democrats chose to field a quintessential insider. Her campaign dwelt little on policies, focusing overwhelmingly on the personality of her opponent. That this strategy was a failure is an understatement. Losing an election to someone with as little competence or support from his own party as Donald Trump marked an extraordinary fiasco. The refusal of the Democratic leadership to identify the real reasons for their defeat is not just a problem of history. If Democrats persevere with a politics that prioritizes well-off professionals rather than ordinary Americans, they will leave the field open to right-wing populism for many years to come. Drawing on the WikiLeaks releases of Clinton's talks at Goldman Sachs and the emails of her campaign chief John Podesta, as well as key passages from her public speeches, How I Lost By Hillary Clinton also includes extensive commentary by award-winning journalist Joe Lauria, and a foreword by Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks."
Show Details for the week of May 1st, 2017
On The Monitor this week:
Since we have passed the "first 100 days" into the Trump administration, it is time to assess two key issues:
- As a candidate Trump often said he wanted to run the country like a business. His business acumen is one of his supposed strong suits. So what exactly does "Trumponomics" mean? And can "Trumponomics" extend the economic recovery that started after the 2008 global recession?
- The Democratic Party was mired in internal conflict both before and since election day. Revelations of DNC officials doing everything they could to tip the balance in favor of a Clinton nomination are continuing to emerge. What is the current state of the Democratic Party and its efforts towards party unity?
We discuss these issues with Stephanie Kelton and Robert Borosage
More about this week's guests:
Stephanie Kelton is professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She served as chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee in 2015 and then became an economic advisor to the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign. She was the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the top-ranked blog New Economic Perspectives and a member of the TopWonks network of the nation's best thinkers. In 2016, POLITICO recognized her as one of the 50 people across the country who is most influencing the political debate. Her book, The State, The Market and The Euro (2001) predicted the debt crisis in the Eurozone, and her subsequent work correctly predicted that: (1) Quantitative Easing (QE) wouldn't lead to high inflation; (2) government deficits wouldn't cause a spike in U.S. interest rates; (3) the S&P downgrade wouldn't cause investors to flee Treasuries; (4) the U.S. would not experience a European-style debt crisis. She recently wrote the paper "Can 'Trumponomics' extend the recovery?"
Also see: "Bernie Sanders' Economic Advisor Shreds Trumponomics" in CounterPunch.
Robert Borosage writes a weekly column for The Nation magazine and is a senior advisor of People's Action. He is the founder and president of the Institute for America's Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America's Future. The organizations were launched by 100 prominent Americans to develop the policies, message and issue campaigns to help forge an enduring majority for progressive change in America. Mr. Borosage writes widely on political, economic and national security issues. He is a Contributing Editor at The Nation magazine, and a regular blogger at The Huffington Post. His articles have appeared in The American Prospect, The Washington Post,Tthe New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He edits the Campaign's Making Sense issues guides, and is co-editor of Taking Back America (with Katrina Vanden Heuvel) and The Next Agenda (with Roger Hickey).
"For all the urgent pleas for unity in the face of Trump, the party establishment has always made it clear that they mean unity under their banner," Borosage wrote in a recent article. "That's why they mobilized to keep the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Representative Keith Ellison, from becoming head of the DNC. It's why the knives are still out for Sanders and those who supported him."
Borosage commented that "Democrats are in the midst of a major struggle to decide what they stand for and who they represent." And he added: "Part of that is the debate over a bipartisan interventionist foreign policy that has so abjectly failed."
Also see: 'Shattered' Reveals Clinton and Sanders Staffs Struck Deal to Hide Protests: Democratic National Convention reality much different than media coverage
Show Details for the week of February 6th, 2017
On The Monitor this week:
- A round up of US national security news with Jonathan Landay
- William Black on the Trump administration's dismantling of the Obama administration's already insufficient post-2008 financial regulations
More about this week's guests:
Show Details for the week of September 19th, 2016
- The Wells Fargo scandal and settlement with William Black
- U.S. Violation of Syrian Ceasefire with Reese Erlich
Bill Black is an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC). He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
The Los Angeles Times reports this morning: "The Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on aggressive sales tactics employed by Wells Fargo employees that led to a $185-million settlement package with federal and state regulators. Five senators requested a committee investigation into the bank's pressure-cooker sales practices that pushed thousands of Wells Fargo employees to open as many as 2 million accounts that customers never asked for. Scheduled to testify at the hearing are John Stumpf, chief executive of the San Francisco-based bank, and Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."
Professor Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and senior deputy chief counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement.
His book, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One (University of Texas Press 2005)
Reese Erlich is a veteran foreign correspondent. Erlich's books include The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis, Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence and Empire, Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect.
Reese Erlich's history in journalism goes back 42 years. He first worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for National Public Radio, CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutche Welle and Market Place Radio. His articles appear in the SF Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.
Erlich's book, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You co-authored with Norman Solomon, became a best seller in 2003. The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis was published in 2007. Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba was published in 2009. Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence and Empire, was published in 2010. The paperback edition of Erlich's book Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect was published this week.
Erlich shared a Peabody Award in 2006 as a segment producer for Crossing East, a radio documentary on the history of Asians in the US. In 2004 Erlich's radio special "Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving," won a Clarion Award presented by the Alliance for Women in Communication and second and third place from the National Headlines Awards.
Quote: "The U.S. bombed Syrian government soldiers and a Syrian military base, with estimates off 62-90 dead and over 100 wounded. The U.S. says the attack was accidental. However, on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry attacked the Assad regime for continuing its air strikes and for not allowing delivery of relief supplies to besieged cities — only briefly apologizing for the U.S.-caused death and destruction. The tone of the comments suggest the bombing raid was an intentional effort to pressure Assad and the Russians. Regardless of the intent, objectively the attacks are a huge setback to the announced U.S.-Russian ceasefire and proposed military cooperation against extremist rebels. The Russian government has called for a special meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the matter."
Show Details for the week of August 22nd, 2016
- On the Cynicism of the Clinton Foundation with Ken Silverstein
- On America's Racial Wealth Divide with Josh Hoxie
Josh Hoxie is the director of the Project on Opportunity and Taxation at the Institute for Policy Studies. Josh joined the Institute for Policy Studies in August 2014 heading up the Project on Opportunity and Taxation. Josh's main focus is on addressing wealth inequality through the estate tax, a levy on the intergenerational transfer of immense wealth. Josh grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and attained a BA in Political Science and Economics from St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.
Josh worked previously as a Legislative Aide for U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the longest serving independent in Congressional history, both in his office in Washington, DC and on his successful 2012 re-election campaign.
According to a new report, it would take the average black family 228 years to accrue the same amount of wealth that white families have today. The report is called The Ever-Growing Gap: Failing to Address the Status Quo Will Drive the Racial Wealth Divide for Centuries to Come . Josh is one of the main authors. You can read analysis of the report here by Chuck Collins (senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good (www.inequality.org) and Dedrick Asante-Muhammed (director of the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative at the Corporation for Enterprise Development).
The report release coincided with the 2nd anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, MO. police officer, which spawned the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for racial justice across all segments of society. Here's a summary of key findings within the report:
- "If current federal wealth-building policies remain in place, it will take the average African-American family 228 years to amass the same amount of wealth that white families have today and it will take Latino families 84 years to reach that goal
- "By 2043, when households of color will constitute a majority of the U.S. population, the racial wealth divide between white households and African- American and Latino households will have doubled from about $500,000 in 2013 to $1 million.
- "The Forbes 400 will see their average wealth skyrocket to $48 billion by 2043—more than eight times the amount they hold today. During that same period, the average wealth for white families will increase by 84% to $1.2 million compared to $165,000 for Latino families (69% growth) and $108,000 for African-American households (27% growth)."
The Corporation for Enterprise Development and IPS call for a range of reforms to address the problem, including fixing an "upside down" tax system that currently doles out more than half a trillion dollars annually to help primarily wealthy households get wealthier, while providing almost nothing to lower-income households.


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Choosing a Supplemental Plan
Supplemental insurance helps you cover your healthcare needs for items your regular insurance plan doesn't cover. As far as healthcare is concerned, the most common types of supplemental insurance includes vision, dental, critical illness and accident insurance. Although services covered vary from plan to plan, the majority of options tend to follow a fairly similar pattern. For example, supplemental vision insurance tends to include eye exams and glasses, where supplemental dental insurance can include services like teeth cleanings. Accidental insurance covers things like injuries experienced in a car accident, while critical illness insurance covers expenses caused by life-threatening diseases.
If you have a serious illness, having supplemental insurance can help offset the costs and save you money in the long-run. Additionally, supplemental policies are a little more flexible in nature. For example, if you opt for an accident supplement policy, you'll find things like housecleaning can be covered through your plan. Or if you choose to enroll in a chronic illness supplement plan, you might be covered from unreimbursed time off work. Every supplemental policy is different so become familiar with the plan language to know which policies you can take advantage of.
On the flip side, having supplemental insurance will add a monthly expense to your budget. Not to mention, insurance coverage plans have limits and you'll probably have to exhaust your traditional insurance policies before tapping into your supplemental options.
When determining whether you need supplemental insurance, read and understand what benefits your regular policy will provide and under what conditions they'll provide it. Consider things like waiting periods, illnesses covered and any requirements you'd have to fill to claim your benefits. If you find that your regular insurance policy leaves some gaps open, research supplemental health plans. In addition, if you decide to look into an additional health insurance policy, it is advisable that you have an insurance professional do a needs analysis. By determining what your needs are presently and in the future, you'll be better prepared to make decisions about whether supplemental insurance is right for you.
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- Understanding Health Insurance
- Choosing a Health Plan
- Common Barriers – Affordability & Costs
- Medication Benefits & Your Formulary
- Interacting with Insurer
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Week 2 – Momentum GathersMKMMA | 0 comments | by Dr. Andrew Millar
This has been a great week as a Guide to watch my members process the MKE information. As I told someone, this is not a difficult course but it is also not an easy course, especially in the beginning. Much of our success depends on our willingness to plunge in and meet each challenge as it appears. We get to see how our old blueprint wants us to respond under stress, recognize it and change the pattern. After all, in the beginning, that is the job of the Conscious Mind. Plant the seed as my member Aissa puts it so well:
"Just imagine that your life is a garden.
The soil is your mind, the seeds are your thoughts, and water are your actions."
You can follow her full blog at https://intoku48615144.wordpress.com/
Or as Larry Wright writes:
"I am happily and earnestly working through all of the details and the specificity of the Master Key Experience and making sure I am doing everything properly and in a timely manner."
Now that is holding the right intention. Read Larry at https://thesnakeden.home.blog/
Carol Cain does a good job explaining how it is going for her at https://onwiththenewme.home.blog/
"It's been a challenging time this week with completing all of the reading and assignments, but I have been absolutely determined to stick to the plan and keep the momentum going no matter what. Mostly because, "I always keep my promises" rang in the space between my ears like a gong when I would even half consider letting something slide. Cool effect! It works like a champ and that's what I want, real change."
So, all we need to do is to remember that the Conscious Mind is the gatekeeper to our Subconscious Mind and that we may use our will to condition and train ourselves according to creative thought.


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Digital Marketing Strategy - a User Centred Approach
Amcor is one of the worlds largest packaging companies, servicing a wide range of industries, from pharmaceuticals to food and beverage.
Predominately, Amcor grows through M&E; their sales channels control most of the narrative for generating leads and converting to new business, however, for certain industry segments the sales team are limited by capacity, meaning the company is limited to grow in those segments.
Amcor had identified several key industry segments in Europe that they had a product fit for but low penetration and low Sales resources. The challenge was to develop a new lead generation channel for this industry, which relied less on sales and could tell the right story to the right decision makers across multiple segments in their local language..
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Tzu & Co. kicked off their LOAD process; analysing the landscape for both macro and micro factors influencing behaviours. Working with Amcor, Tzu then setup a user research phase with a goal to understand the 'people' behind the decisions, and the motivations, influences, frustrations and channels used to make decisions.
Conducting numerous interviews, in multiple languages, across several subsets of decision makers provided the insights, along with the market and online analytics intel, to define the journeys key decision makers and influencers were going on to decide on their packaging supplier. This intelligence allowed Tzu to define the primary areas of opportunity, in both short term and long term, to reach the right people, at the right place with the right messaging at the right time.
Communication plans, channel plans and end-to-end experiences were then designed, followed by training with key staff members to ensure long-term success
This same methodology and template is being rolled out across different industry targets around the world, allowing Amcor to target customers through digital marketing channels and speak directly to the customer need.


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Ji anyone has written a book more critical of religious faith than 1 have, I m Eiot aware of it,
For many years I taught an introductory theology course entitled "The Problem of God" to Georgetown University undergraduates. It was always a challenge to make out a suitable reading list for this important academic experience, but my fellow instructors and I were convinced that our students should be exposed to the most erudite of the unbelievers. Our rationale was that any mature commitment that intelligent young people might make to a religious faith, if they so chose, should be critically tested by the very best opponents. The course was at times troubling to some students and especially to the rare youngsters who came from creationist backgrounds or whose previous religious education had not dealt frankly w i th the natural sciences. But it was also an eve-opening course for students from nonreligtous and atheistic backgrounds. They had to go through the process ot learning that religion is infinitely more ntranced than they had ever imagined. Additionally, they would be exposed to theologies that would be much more devastating in their criticism of the demonic and barbaric aspects ofh umar rel ¡giosiry than any o fthe new atheists are.
I cannot speak for other college professors today, bur in my own classes the new books by Daw kins, Harris, and Hitchens wTould never have made the list of required readings. These tirades would simply reinforce students' ignorance not only of religion, but ironically also of atheism. At besr [he new atheistic expositions would have been useful material (or outside reading* group projects, or class presentations. And the point of these peripheral exercises wo uid not have been to provide anything in the way of an increase of wisdom and knowledge. Rather, it would have been to see how well the relatively light fare the new atheists serve up compares with the gravity of an older and much more thoughtful generation of religious critics.
The most original "new" msighr in Hitchenss book, for example, is chat "religion is man-made" (8, 10, 17* 52, 54, 99-100, 115, 130, 151, 156, 167-68,181,202,229, 240).This refrain rattles through the pages of his critique with all the force of a startling revelation. My students would have knmd it interesting, to say the least, that such a hackneyed insight would be the organizing center of a best-selling new book, After coping with the science-inspired atheism of Sigmund Freud or Qertrand Russell and the humanistic idealism of Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Manx, the new atheism would have appeared rather haggard since it provides little in the way of a new understanding of why religion can be so dangerous.
As far as enhancing knowledge of religion is concerned, the new atheists do little more than provide a fresh catalog of the evils wrought by members ok the theistic faiths. Meanwhile> truly inquisitive young minds remain restless for deeper insight. Even Freuds theory of religions origin, along with those of Feuerbach and Marx, no matter how flawed it may have seemed to my students« at least held their attention and started them thinking about whether the whole business of religion might be an illusory human creation. In comparison with the old masters of the projection theory my students would have found Hitch ens s book rather tame stuff. For wrhile Feuerbach, Marx, and Freud provide interesting theoretical frameworks for their theories, ! litehens provides nothing of the sort.
On tlie other hand, I suspect that my students would have been titillated by rhe recent writings of Dawkins, Dennett, and others who profess to give a biological, evolutionary explanation ofwhy people believe in God. They would have learned in our course that there is no good theological reason to object to any scientific attempts to understand religion, even in evolutionary terms. The course would have made it clear that religion can and indeed should be studied as a natural phenomenon. After all, this is the only way science can study anything, and its insights are completely compatible with any good theologv. But for reasons I expand on in chapters 5 and 6, my students would have rightly wondered whether evolutionary theory^ or any natural or social science, can give a complete and adequate understanding of religion. During our one-semester course students would already have encountered in Freud's book The Future of an Illusion the claim thar science alone is a reliable road to true understanding of anything. And they would have learned from other readings that this claim is a profession of faith known as scientism* a modern belief system that has the additional mark of being sell-contradictory.
Why self-contradictory? Because scientism tells us to take nothing on faith, and yet faith is required to accept scientism. What is remarkable is that none of the new atheists seems remotely prepared to admit that his scientism is a self-sabotaging confession of faith. Listen to Hitchens: "If one must have faith in order to believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished (71). But this statement invalidates itself since it too arises out of faith in things unseen. There is no set of tangible experiments or visible demonstrations that could ever scientifically prove the statement to be true, In order to issue the just-quoted pronouncement with such confidence, Hitchens already has to have subscribed to the creed of a faith community for which scientism and scientific naturalism provide the dogmatic substance. And Hitchens must know that most people do not subscribe to that creed, perhaps because there is no "evidence" for it.
"Our god is logos? Freud proudly exclaims in The Future of an Illusion, candidly signifying the creedal character of the central dogma enshrined hy the whole community of scientific rationalists." The declaration makes for good class discussion, but whenever I asked my classes to evaluate Freud's claim that science is the onlv reliable road to truth, it did not take them long to recognize that the claim itself: is logically self-defeating since it could never be justified by any conceivable scientific experiment. Most of my students would have had no difficulty realizing that scientisrn is also the self-sub verting creed that provides the spongy cognitive foundation of the entire project we are dignifying with the label "new atheism/'
Had they been required to read Harris's two books, my first-year collegiates would also hardly have tailed to notice how often the Stanford graduate student exhorts his readers to give up their belief in God because it is not based on "evidence." Evidence is a word that shows up with great frequency in Harris's manifestoes, signifying its importance to the young scholar, But since it is clear that for Harris evidence really means what is available to scientific knowing, there is nothing in his working assumprion that my students would not have encountered already in the empiricist naturalism that Freud and Russel! adopt as their shared world view.
For this reason, after taking ' The Problem of God" course, the vast majority of our undergraduates would have deemed it silly tor anyone to maintain that science can decide the question of God. Yet this is exact! v what Richard Dawk ins, the j worlds best-known evolutionist, claims in The God Delusion (48, 58—66). Harris and Hitch ens also agree with Dawkinss assertion, even though they seem too circumspect to blurt it out so plainly Science, Dawkins believes, can decide the question of God because of its potential command of all the relevant evidence. Yet this claim likewise makes no sense for the simple reason that scientific method by definition has nothing to say about God, meaning, values, or purpose. It took a long time tor human thought to arrive at the point oi realizing, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, that it does not need to talk about God all the time when explaining how things work. So rh inkers of great genius came up with a method of inquiry we now call "science*' wrhich can tell us a lot about the world by looking only at natural causes. But here we have Dawkins, who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, telling us that the question of God has now become appropriate subject matter for science too. Dawkins surely must notice the irony, bur it does not bother him, "It may be/ he confesses, "that humanity will never reach the quietus of complete understanding, but if we do, I venture the confident prediction that it will be science, not religion, that brings us there. And if that sounds like Scien-tism, so much the better for scientism/ ^ Being so explicit is an improvement on trying to cover up the new atheisms grounding assumption, but it docs nothing to firm up the logical softness of that uncertain foundation.
l ogic, however, was not the only issue that our introductory theology course had to consider. Also at stake was whether, if wc seriously held atheism to be true, it would make a big difference to our lives and self-understanding. The new atheists, of course, would respond that it should make a big difference. But would it? We saw in the previous chapter how their four evident truths have the purpose of eliminating unnecessary misery and thus promoting happiness. But their popular and readable books offer no profound discussion of what "happiness" means/1 The image of human fulfillment that emerges from their writings is one in which our present lifestyles will remain pretty much the same, minus the inconvenience of terrorism and creationists. Our new self-understanding will be informed by Darwinian biology hut we can expect that our moral and social instincts, rooted in biology as they are, will remain unmodified except for slight cultural corrections that will need to be made after religion disappears,
Unlike the sheltered circumstances that the social!v conser-
vative new atheism seeks to save, the classical atheists, whose writings my students were required to read, generally deman dcd a much more radical transformation of human culture and consciousness. This transformation became most evident when we moved on from Freud, Feuerbach* and Marx to ihe much more severe godlessness in works by Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—the really hard-core atheists. To them atheism, ¡f one is really serious about it, should make all the difference in the world, and it would take a superhuman effort to embrace it. "Atheism," as Sartre remarked, ^s a cruel and long-range affair. ^ Along with Nietzsche and Camus* Sartre realized that most people will be too weak to accept the terrifying consequences of the death of God. However, anything less would be escapism, cowardice, and bad faith.
By contrast, my students would have noticed immediately that the authors 1 am examining in this book want: atheism to prevail at the ieast possible expense to the agreeable socioeconomic circumstances out of which thev sermonize. The new
atheists' ¡merest is in preserving rather than radically reforming the cultural milieu uncritically reflected in their wishes for a safer world. They would have the God religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—simply disappear, after which we should be able go on enjoying the same lifestyle as before, only without the nuisance of suicide bombers and TV evangelists. We should be able to salvage the best that life has to offer right now, but without worrying about getting blown up by God-inspired fanatics.
Not that the new atheism, once implemented, would make no difference at all But it would be a cosmetic correction in comparison wTirh the seismic redefinition of human existence that the truly serious atheists demand. The rwo most significant changes the new atheists want to make are, first, that science rather than faith would become the foundation of the new-world culture, as Freud and Russell had already anticipated; and* second, chat morality would be rooted completely in reason. Science, they hope, would be emancipated from superstition, and the ethical instincts that natural selection has been sculpting in our species for over 2 million years wrould be finally liberated from their crippling bondage to religion/' People would then continue to cultivate essentially the same values as before, including altruism, but they would get along quite well without inspired books and divine commandments. Educators wTould be able to teach science without creationist intrusion, and students would learn that evolution rather than divine creativity is the ultimate explanation of why we are the kind of organisms we are. Only propositions based on "evidence" would be tolerated, but the satisfaction of knowing the truth about nature by way of science would compensate for any ethical constraints we would still have to put on our animal instincts.
This approach to atheism, of course, is precisely the kind that nauseated Nietzsche and made Camus and Sartre cringe in their Left Bank cafes. Atheism at the least possible expense to the mediocrity of Western culture is not atheism at all. It is nothing more than the persistence of lite-numbing religiosity in a new guise. Please note that I am not promoting Camuss absurdisr philosophy or Nietzschean and Sarrrean nihilism either. But these more muscular critics of religion were at least smart enough to realize that a full acceptance of the death of God would require an asceticism completely missing in the new atheistic formulas. Atheism, as my students acquaintance with Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre would have clarified, must be thought out to its final logical conclusions. In this respect the new atheism, when measured against the stringent demands of a truly thoroughgoing unbelief, would be exposed as differing only superficially from the traditional theism it wants to replace. The blandness of the new soft-core atheism lies ironically in its willingness to compromise with the politically and culturally insipid kind of theism it claims to be ousting, Such a pale brand of atheism uncritically permits the same old values and meanings to hang around, only now they can become sanctified by an ethically and politically conservative Darwinian orthodoxy. It the new atheists wishes are ever fulfilled, we need anticipate little in the way of cultural reform aside from turning the worlds places of worship into museums, discos, and coffee shops.
In this respect the new atheism is very much like the old secular humanism rebuked by the hard-core atheists for its motisiness in facing up ro what the absence of God should really mean, If you're going to be an atheist, the most rugged version o( god-lessness demands complete consistency. Go all the way and think the business of atheism through to the bitter end; before you get coo comfortable with the godless world you long for, you will be required by the logic ot any consistent skepticism to pass through the disorienting wilderness of nihilism. Do you have the courage to do that^ You will have to adopt the tragic heroism of a Sisyphus, or realize that true freedom in the absence of God means that you are the creator of the values you live by, an intolerable burden from which most people would seek an escape. Are you ready to allow simple logic to lead you to the real truth about the death of God? Before settling into a truly atheistic wo rid view, you would have to experience the Nietzschcan Madman's sensation of straying through ' infinite nothingness/ You would be required to summon up an unprecedented degree oi courage if you plan to wipe away the whole horizon of transcendence. Are you willing to risk madness? If not, then you are not really an atheist/
Predictably, nothing so shaking shows up in the thoughts of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. Apart from the intolerance of tolerance, which we noted earlier, and the heavy dose of Darwinism that grounds many of its declarations, soft-core atheism differs scarcely at all from the older secular humanism that the hard-core atheists roundly chastised for its laxity. The new soft-core atheists assume that, by dint of Darwinism, we can just drop God like Santa Glaus without having to witness the complete collapse of Western culture—including our sense of what is rational and mora]. At least the hard-core atheists understood that if we are truly sincere in our atheism the whole j web of meanings and values that had clustered around the idea of God in Western culture has ro go down the drain along with its organizing center. Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre, and perhaps several of their postmodern descendants, would have nothing to do with the vapid skepticism that fails to think atheism through with perfect consistency.
"If anyone has written a book more critical of religious faith than I have, Im not aware of it," declares Sam Harris,8 My students might not be so sure. Has Harris really thought about what would happen if people adopted the hard-core atheist's belief that there is no transcendent basis for our moral valuations? What if people had the sense to ask whether Darwinian naturalism can provide a solid and enduring foundation for our truth claims and value judgments? Would a good science education make everyone simply decide to be good if the universe is inherently valueless and purposeless? At least the hardcore atheists tried to prepare their readers for the pointless world thev would encounter if the death of God were ever j taken seriously They did not form a project to kill God since they assumed that deicide had already taken place ai the hands of scientism and secularism. But they wanted people to face up honestly ro the logical, ethical, and cultural implications of a godless world.
Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre also tailed to embody the tragic heroism that they thought should be the logical outcome of atheism. They turned out to be very much like the rest of us. Still, their failure actually fortifies the conclusion that at least some of my students arrived at in "The Problem of God" course: a truly consistent atheism is impossible to execute. And if hard-core atheism cannot succeed, it is doubtful that the sofi-core variety will make it either. After reading Nietzsche's fevered discourses about the creation of new values that would need to take place once people reaiize that the God idea is fiction, the actual ethical prescriptions he endorsed ended up sounding at best like a juiced up version of the oki He thought that once we realize there is no Creator, our own newly liberated creativity would be able ro impregnate with wholly new meanings and values the infinite emptiness left behind. After we have drunk up the sea of transcendence, there should be endless room for a whole new set of ethical imperatives. Yet one can only be disappointed with what Nietzsche devised. His new set of rules for life sound at one extreme suspiciously like monkish asceticism, and at the other like run-of-the-mill secular humanism: Be creative." "Pont live lives of mediocrity!" "Dont listen to those who speak of otherworldly hopes!" "Remain faithful to the earth." Nietzsche in no way leaves behind what he first heard from the Bible. His call to a Fresh "innocence of becoming" and "newness of life" is at least a faint echo of the biblical prophets and Paul, only without the virtues of love and hope,LJ
Similarly, Camus made a curious transition—without telling us exactly why—from the absurdism of his early writings, The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, to the moving humanism or The Plague and the rather traditionalist preoccupation with mora! guilt in The Fall He must have come to realize that the utter hopelessness of his early nihilistic atheism could not provide a space within which people can actually live their lives. Meanwhile Sartre, once he had assured us that there are no God-given commandments, ended up sounding almost religious in issuing his "new" imperative, namely, h Accept your freedom!1 For the early Sartre it was always wrong (' bad faith") to deny our freedom and that of others. But as much as he wanted all of this to sound radically new, in order to make his atheism palatable he had to argue that his "existentialism" is really a form of "humanism after all.3" So if even the hard-core atheists fail to Carry out their program of erasing every rrace of transcendent values from their moral universe, then how much less can our soft-core atheists expect, logically speaking, to accomplish such a goal?11
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