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In other to discourage The Netherlands from administering a negative vote in its dreaded "anti-Ukraine" referendum, the President of the European Commission Jean Claude Junckers turns to good, old fearmongering. By warning that a Dutch 'No' against the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement might lead to a continental crisis , Juncker hopes to turn the tides in favour of the Yes-voters .
I totally disagree with Juncker's fearmongering, and think instead that the lackluster European Commission and Council and the total lack of fundamental unity and fresh, new ideas within the EU are much more dangerous for the future of the EU than this Ukraine-EU Association Agreement being abolished eventually.
"The European Union is perhaps the best crafted product ever...
With currently the poorest marketing department in history to advertize it"
Ernst Labruyère – 9 January 2016
These are populist times, there is no denying it. Every proposal that is made and every decision that is taken by the 'powers that be', is regarded with the utmost distrust by large parts of the population and by radical politicians who gain influence from the current pandemonium in the political arena's of Europe.
The European Union and its predecessors, bedrock of Western European stability for so many years since the 2nd World War, are currently like the ugly duckling in a beauty contest: everybody is aware that it could become a swan one day, but for now we look rather at its ugly appearance and its obvious flaws.
And these flaws are not very hard to find, unfortunately. In spite of the fact that its total leadership has been renewed less than one-and-a-half years ago, the EU operates seemingly more lackluster than ever. The 'new' leaders Jean Claude Juncker – as 'Chief Commissioner' – and Donald Tusk – as President of the European Council – fail blatantly in their battle against the lack of new, fresh ideas and totally absent pizzazz in the EU. And now the EU almost falls apart under internal conflicts and quarrels based on self-interest of the different member states.
As a provisional low we might look at the current Chairmanship of the European Union, filled in by The Netherlands. The Dutch PM Mark Rutte gets a leading role in trying to guide the EU through arguably the toughest time of its sheer existence.
In spite of the undeniable qualities of Rutte as 'shopkeeper' and 'manager' of the EU, he even boasts about having no grand vision and no important ideas about what the EU should become in the coming years and decades. While PM Rutte thinks that having such a grand vision is only detracting from the tasks that lie ahead, the Union as a whole almost falls apart, because of the fact that citizens in every country think they are better off without the interventions, vast tax-expenditure and meddlesomeness of the EU.
In 50 years, the EU has turned from a 'bond of archenemies-turning-into-close-collaborators' into 'a bureaucratic, self-reinforcing monster and prestigious-job-machine for overdue politicians', seemingly without a clear 'raison d'etre'. And still PM Mark Rutte thinks that it is dangerous to have a 'grand vision' and a dot on the horizon to travel to in the near future.
And now there is the Association Agreement of the EU with the Ukraine, that should take away trade barriers and other bureaucratic thresholds in the trade between the EU and Ukraine, thus enabling easier traffic of people, goods and services, as well as creating a bigger cooperation and understanding between all the countries involved. Although it is widely denied that this is the first step towards a full membership of the EU for Ukraine, there is little doubt that the Ukraine does see this Association Agreement as such anyway.
This association agreement was at least one step too far, according to the right-wing multimedia and lobby platform GeenStijl (i.e. litterally 'no style', but also 'not fair' in daily speech), that likes to throw a large stone in the pond and does not scare away from a mild dosis of populism and guerilla journalism, against whoever p*sses them off at a certain time.
Associate journalists of GeenStijl started a national lobby for a Dutch referendum under the moniker 'GeenPeil' (i.e. 'no gauge'), in order to mobilize a firm 'No' against this association agreement, instead of the hammer-beam-ish 'Yes' that would otherwise have been administered by the Dutch government.
GeenStijl/GeenPeil managed to collect 427,000+ autographs (as of January, 2016): more than sufficient to force the Dutch government to indeed organize this referendum.
Probably the first autographs came from jokers and troublemakers, who saw this as a golden opportunity to pull a trick on the Dutch government and annoy the people in charge. Little later many other people voted also in favour of this referendum: worried citizens, who were opposed to this particular agreement from the beginning, and other Dutch people who see the EU itself as a threat for the stability and democracy in The Netherlands,
And now the referendum is a fact of life of which the final outcome cannot be ignored lightheartedly by the Dutch government, without them making a total fool of themselves.
When a clear 'No' would be the outcome of the referendum, the Dutch government has to choose between either alienating the Dutch population (i.e. by signing the association agreement with Ukraine anyway) or the leaders of the European Union (i.e. by NOT signing the agreement).
Unless the 'Yes'-camp would have a landslide victory after all, this referendum is in fact a lose-lose situation for the Dutch government. The odds for such a landslide 'yes' victory are minute, in my humble opinion, when we look at the current stance against the EU in The Netherlands.
To be frank: even I consider this referendum to be a quite difficult decision. While the association agreement could be an enrichment for both the Ukraine and the European Union and open the way for closer cooperation and better mutual understanding, it would put further pressure on the relation between Russia and the EU.
And whether we like it or not and irrespective about how we think about "Vladimir Vladimirovich" Putin, Russia is definitely a force to be reckoned with and one that we need to reach a situation of stability in Europe. And in his slightly paranoid eyes, a membership of the EU and a membership of the NATO are two birds of the same feather.
My second scruple is about the Ukraine itself. While most European think that our 'friends' live in the western part of the Ukraine and our 'enemies' in the eastern part of the country (i.e. the Russia-oriented rebel groups), the situation is slightly less black and white. Within the current Ukrainian political system a number of extreme right parties, like Right Sector and Svoboda, have considerable influence in various important layers of society. These are parties with dangerous and reactionary ideas that must never be incorporated in the European Union.
On top of that, there is the ubiquitous and profound corruption in the country. With the association agreement, the European Union could not only become an involuntary accessory to this corruption, but it could also mean that millions and millions of European tax money are squandered in the form of structure funds, landing in the pockets of the wrong people.
On the other hand, the EU has brought more and broader positive change within Europe, than any other special interest group could have brought. With the combination of financial/economic carrot and stick and with its nearly incorruptable charisma, the EU is a beacon of light in a world of darkness: numerous European citizens have now a better life than they ever dreamt of having in the past.
Being part of the European Union is something that would be in the best interest of the Ukraine and even of Russia itself [before you start a rant against me: I consider this to be impossible myself, without an enormous change in leadership reaching from top to bottom in Russia – EL].
Anyways, President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker is extremely concerned about the GeenPeil referendum and today he responded in a way that many leading politicans do: fearmongering.
The following article was printed in the NRC Next:
A Dutch 'No' during the Ukraine referendum on April 6 'could open the floodgates for a large continental crisis'. This was stated by Jean Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission in an interview with Dutch newspaper NRC.
Juncker: "Russia would pluck the sweet fruit of an easy victory", when the Dutch voter abolishes the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU.
According to Juncker it would also be easy bait for populists, who want to blow up the EU. "So let's not change the referendum into a referendum about Europe" says Juncker. "I truly hope that the Dutch will not abolish the agreement for reasons that don't have anything to do with the agreement itself".
Some parts of the agreement, regarding trade, came already into effect on January 1st, 2016, albeit on a preliminary basis. However, as there is no time limit for this preliminary phase, reversing these parts can take place by unanimity alone.
To that respect, the influence of a Dutch 'No' is probably very limited, as the Dutch government does not have to take over the outcome of the referendum. When more than 30% of the voters show up, the government must only reconsider the treaty.
Nevertheless, the Dutch voter 'must understand that this question superseeds the Dutch interest', according to Juncker. He calls the Dutch voter "to act like a European strategist", on April 6.
Juncker might have a point with his request to not treat the referendum on the agreement as a referendum upon Europe. Too many of the statements coming from GeenPeil seem indeed to point in that direction:
When you look at the development of the Greek crisis, the inconsiderate Dutch money transfers to Europe of billions of Euros in after-taxes and the unrestrained hunger for expansion of the EU, than the question rises: how much influence has the voter left upon the democracy? How far may politicians go in stretching their mandates to do things at will?!
This snippet alone shows a combination of classic fearmongering and spreading doubt about the honourable intentions of the EU leaders.
On the other hand: Juncker's threat that this referendum may lead to a continental crisis within the EU is also widely exaggerated and – consequently – classic fear mongering. Even the concept that Putin will be smiling by the prospect of having an easy victory, seems a little bit over the top, for the simple fact that Putin could not care less probably.
In my opinion 'the only thing that the European Union has to fear, is the European Union itself'. At this moment, the current European Union and its current leaders are their own worst enemies.
So many Dutch and European citizens are completely fed up with the lackluster, totally uninspired and utterly bureaucratic modus operandi of the EU itself. There is no basic unity between the member states of the EU, there are no fresh ideas, no dots at the horizon and no feeling that things will be better soon, when we look at our European leaders.
Nowadays Europe seems to consist of managers and does not have genuine leaders. From the best thing that could have happened to Europe [my own opinion – EL] after the 2nd World War, the Union has degenerated to a bureaucratic extravaganza for job hunters, third grade career politicians and mindless apparatchiks.
The best crafted product ever is currently advertized by the poorest marketing department of all times; irrespective of those marketeers being national or pan-European politicians.
European people want to have answers to their questions and people, with their own hopes and fears, want to have a safe beacon to rely on. European citizens also want to be inspired by truly great politicians, in my humble opinion, where we seemed to have so many of in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Not that these politicians were flawless, uncorruptable and/or always right: far from that. Some of them have even made grave mistakes and left their country in a worse shape than when they arrived.
Yet, when I think about Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Margaret Thatcher, Valerie Giscard-d'Estaing, François Mitterand, Giulio Andreotti and for The Netherlands Wim Kok, Ruud Lubbers and Joop den Uyl, it seems that these guys and lady were all about inspiration and about having a story to tell to the people.
It seems that Europe and the EU nations could use a few of such politicians very badly.


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The quality of start-ups shortlisted for tonight's Europas just goes to demonstrate the booming European technology scene. The vast differences in culture, language and business across the region leads to a huge variety in technical innovation which is well represented across the 22 different award categories.
Based on the positive response from my look at Wooga and Lyst, let's throw the spotlight on a few more of Europe's great success stories ahead of the party.
Nominated For: Best Entertainment Startup (Audio or Video), Lightweight (less than 12 months and/or less than $134,000 USD in funding)
The internet was a 2D universe until SketchFab created an environment for people to design and view 3D models. The claim that it's "like YouTube but for 3D files" is backed up by the fact that you can simply embed SketchFab for free anywhere on the web. There are sites that offers ways for 3D makers to display and upload their 3D models but until SketchFab's founders Cédric Pinson and Alban Denoyel plunged into entrepreneurship, there had never been a way to truly see the models in real space.
Tapping into the collective frustration around CAD visualisation tools, SketchFab is a business that solves a professional problem for designers while simultaneously creating an open platform for anyone to use these tools.
However the story behind the story is around the rapid advancement of 3D printers and scanners, something I'm sure the company is keeping a keen track of. If SketchFab could partner with the key printer manufacturers and provide a 3D download option then they are suddenly sitting in the much converted technology sweet spot that connects software and hardware.
Nominated For: Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup, Best French Startup
While this may lose a bit of the Kerouac romance that comes with standing in the rain with your thumb in the air, BlaBlaCar is a safe and effective tool for long distance car sharing. Most importantly, it is a fun name to say.
However, it is not just a frivolous and quirky branding tool, the name comes from the fact that you have to indicate how chatty you are on a scale of "Bla", "Blabla" or "Blablabla".
The site provides a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community with easy connections between drivers and passengers. Features like improved trust and transparency is encouraged with an improved ratings system and mandatory phone number verification. When you're talking about car sharing, BlaBlaCar is an intriguing option and very in-depth when it comes to helping match up the right passengers with each other.
We're excited to see BlaBlaCar, SketchFab and more startups at Tuesday's Europas event. We'll be tweeting from @DynInc all night long and yours truly will be presenting the Best Culture Startup award.
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As I was reviewing some images from gorgeous Karine + Rohan's Cape Winelands (South Africa) Wedding, I wanted to post these black and white images.
It's sometimes a little bit daunting to look back through a large selection of images, but it's almost always rewarded as I was able to rediscover these photographs.
I plan on a new edit of this wedding for the forthcoming website.


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Screen legends Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make movie magic as the captivating star-crossed lovers, Hubbell Gardiner and Katie Morosky. Theirs is a classic love story sparked by the attraction of opposites, played out against the backdrop of American life during times of foreign war, domestic prosperity and McCarthy-era paranoia in Hollywood.
Winner of two 1974 Academy Awards Best Song and Best Score, this special 25th Anniversary Edition of the 'The Way We Were' has been digitally remastered so you can enjoy this romantic epic the way it was meant to be seen and heard.
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They say that I, while wandering restlessly from place to place, reached Africa. I was the one who dropped the venomous reptiles, the snakes in the 'Dark Continent'. I am a monster, a Gorgon, the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto; I am Medusa.
The days when I was a golden-haired, fair maiden, crossing the streets of Manhattan, you helped me dodge a red bicycle. How would I have known that the smell of fish on your hands would attract me like it did never before? You reminded me of someone. I knew where to find you again. Thus I followed, I traced the smell. After my art class, which usually ends at 4, I couldn't lie to my companions about how I won't be able to hang around with them; not today, because today I had planned to see you again. I couldn't frame an attractive story about being in love for my colleagues, because I didn't have any. I never could fall in love since the day Athena turned me into a monster, gave me snake hair, made me gruesome and ghastly. Everyone left me alone to rot. Isolated and shunned. But I found you, with a promise to never leave again. I treaded towards the alley down the street, crossing the Bakery, the brand showrooms, down to the fish market. The crowd was thin, I searched for you down to the corner of Harvey's.
People were throwing rough gestures at each other. A group of men and women were gearing up for a mug of foamy beer. I was heading deep into the centre of the market. The smell was getting stronger with each step. Scales were scattered everywhere. I clutched my rolled canvases harder, disfiguring an already disfigured creature with a face as beautiful as a lioness and, hair as wavy and curly as a loathsome bunch of snakes.
As I was delving deep into the market, I noticed faces staring at me, people pointing at me, turning to take a glance; I was different, I didn't belong.
I crossed lanes after lanes, tracing your smell, and there you were sitting on a platform, a lit cigar between your lips. Tall, muscular, wearing a red German cap on an ochre jacket and deep brown pants. You had wrapped up your day's work. Your shell fishes, tunas, prawns and salmons were all sold out. You looked tired after the daylong bargaining when you shouted for a mug of beer. And then, when you turned to settle yourself back, you noticed me, standing amidst the crowd, looking at you. How long did we hold the stare? It seemed like ages. The first chills of winter had already grasped the city, and as the sun was setting down, the red and orange hue on your face reminded me of the crimsoned Atlantic. I imagined you riding the sea on your horses, like you always did. Creating waves and storms, and again making the sea appear silent and tender, vulnerable like a new born baby.
You stood up. The crowd of men and women were busy discussing their ordeals, addressing one another in filthy code languages. The place was corrupted. And it was already 6; children were drawing men to the brothels. You saw me crouching in a corner. Perhaps because of the cold, or perhaps because I felt afraid. You took the trouble to ask me, you made me feel comfortable— yet again the snakes were stirred by the waves of the sea.Even today, after ages and centuries, after so many books and theories written on me, written on you, the abandonment only excites me more. I show the world that I can fight alone, that I still stand strong even after being beheaded. Every night, I (silently) rejoice and sink into my bed. Medusa was in love.
My art was complete. With shades of blue and black, I painted her on the paper. Medusa was never so beautiful. Her hair, black and wavy as the darkness of the night. Her eyes, blue and deep as the ocean. Her face, golden as the Sun. She is not hideous, she never was. She stands tall on the cliff that ends at the sea, holding her sceptre, she reigns as the Queen of the Isles.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Room 1's Mascot
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Hi Mr Wiseman,ReplyDelete
Morris is a really funny monkey. I would like to take him home with me. I know we would have heaps of fun together. Morris you are the best! Keep it up (LOL).
From Quasia
Hi Mr Wiseman, thanks for allowing me to come into your classroom today. It was great to meet Morris. He was very well behaved when I came in, but I kept a look out for my keys just in case! I can't wait to see some of his experiences at the weekend. JamesReplyDelete
Hi my name is Lauren I really enjoyed reading about room 1's mascot. Your Monkey looks really cute and also has very beautiful colours around it.ReplyDelete
I really do want to vist you Mascot one day.
Lauren :)
Hi My name is Perenara,ReplyDelete
I like how you put who Morris is and what he is next time you could tell were he came from maybe.


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SICB Annual Meeting 2013
January 3-7, 2013
San Francisco, CA
The transition from water to land was a major evolutionary event in vertebrate history that precipitated a sudden explosion of species diversity. This transition was by no means simple, with the first land animals encountering numerous challenges for movement, support, respiration, osmoregulation, and sensory perception. How did solutions to these challenges evolve?
One avenue for gaining insight into the problems faced by early terrestrial vertebrates is to examine modern species faced with analogous demands. Just as the first sarcopterygian fishes to move onto land may have moved between water and land regularly, many living species of fishes also make use of both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Similarly, amphibians that regularly move between water and land face the dual functional challenges of the two environments. Studies of such groups have the potential to clarify our understanding of the initial evolutionary terrestrial transition in vertebrates by illustrating the functional demands placed on body systems that must navigate two very different habitats.
But such insights need not run in only one direction. Just as understanding extant systems can inform studies of extinct taxa, studies rooted in evolution and the fossil record can provide new perspectives for studies of modern systems. The functional solutions employed by modern species to bridge aquatic and terrestrial habitats may have deep phylogenetic origins, and may not be the only ones that vertebrates have used during the history of the lineage. Information on past invasions of land may give significant insight into why modern amphibious taxa perform as they do.
Recent fossil finds and popular accounts of their discoveries have increased public appreciation for the significance of the Paleozoic land invasion. Furthermore, building evidence for the effects of global climate change on environmental conditions has also stimulated greater interest in understanding organism-environment interactions. The goal of our symposium is to bring together a diverse array of scientists at all career stages, spanning fields of paleontology, physiology, behavior, biomechanics, and robotics, to highlight their research in topics related to vertebrate land invasions. We have organized the topics to synthesize a broad body of knowledge about water-land transitions in the distant past and among extant species. We intend this symposium and complementary sessions to point the way to future studies by both promoting integration across perspectives, and by promoting training of the next generation of scientists examining land invasions and environmental change.
• SICB Society Wide
• SICB Divisions: DVM, DAB, DCB, DCPB, DEDB, DEE, DPCB, DNB
- Alice Gibb, Northern Arizona University, Department of Biology, Flagstaff, AZ
- Miriam Ashley-Ross, Wake Forest University, Department of Biology, Winston-Salem, NC
- Richard Blob, Clemson University, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson, SC
- Tonia Hsieh, Temple University, Department of Biology, Philadelphia, PA
S3-1.1 Saturday, Jan. 5, 08:00 COATES, M. I.: Vertebrate diversity and phylogeny across the fish-to-tetrapod transition
S3-1.2 Saturday, Jan. 5, 08:30 ANDERSON, P*; FRIEDMAN, M; RUTA, M: Diversity and Disparity of the vertebrate feeding apparatus across the invasion of land
S3-1.3 Saturday, Jan. 5, 09:00 PIERCE, SP*; HUTCHINSON, JR; CLACK, JA: Historical evolution of early tetrapod movement
S3-1.4 Saturday, Jan. 5, 09:30 DAVIS, Marcus C: The deep homology of the tetrapod limb: Combining fossil and genetic datasets.
S3-1.5 Saturday, Jan. 5, 10:30 MARTIN, K.L.*; MORAVEK, C.L.; CARTER, A.L.: Brave New Propagules: Terrestrial Embryos of Aquatic Fish
S3-1.6 Saturday, Jan. 5, 11:00 WILSON, JM*; CHEW, SF; IP, YK: Metabolic and osmoregulatory challenges of emersion in fishes.
S3-1.7 Saturday, Jan. 5, 11:30 JEW, C.J.*; WEGNER, N.C.; GRAHAM, J.B.: Physiology in deep time: Using extant vertebrates to model behavioral and functional aspects of the Devonian land transition
S3-2.1 Saturday, Jan. 5, 13:00 VAN WASSENBERGH, S.*; MICHEL, K.: Feeding and swallowing on land
S3-2.2 Saturday, Jan. 5, 13:30 KNUESEL, Jeremie*; KARAKASILIOTIS, Konstantinos; CRESPI, Alessandro; RYCZKO, Dimitri; CABELGUEN, Jean-Marie; IJSPEERT, Auke Jan: Gait transitions between swimming and walking in salamander: lessons from numerical modeling and robotics
S3-2.3 Saturday, Jan. 5, 14:00 KAWANO, S.M.*; BLOB, R.W.: Comparative appendicular function during terrestrial locomotion: implications for the invasion of land
S3-2.4 Saturday, Jan. 5, 14:30 GIBB, A.C.*; ASHLEY-ROSS, M.A.; HSIEH, S.T.: How is a morphology that is under strong selection for swimming performance "repurposed" for terrestrial locomotion?
Mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus) jumping off of a flat surface.
Photo by Miriam Ashley-Ross and Benjamin Perlman, Wake Forest University, and Alice Gibb, Northern Arizona University


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I'm super excited to be heading off to Saskatchewan after today's day of work. Jonathan and I will be spending 3 days on my parents farm, my favorite place! I've been looking forward to this time away for quite some time now and even though we don't have a whole lot planned I know the time will go by so fast as there's always something to do on a farm plus it's so beautiful.
I'll probably end up with a few new blog post as a result of this trip so hopefully I'll remember to take as many pictures as possible. Mostly I'm excited about a project I finally completed this week and I've so badly want to write about it and show pictures but I want to take pictures on the farm with it to better show it off. So I'll just have to be patient.
Anyways hope everyone has an awesome weekend! Only 5 more hours till mine starts.


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15 Oct 10/15/17 "THE BIG THREE: SEX, FINANCES, COMMUNICATION" – Pastor Shane Idleman
Complete Sermon Notes
The Big Three: Sex, Finances, Communication
"Our marriage is very sick. The cause would be neglect, and inviting toxic things into the marriage such as anger, abuse, pornography, selfishness, pride, and arrogance [all tied together]…It's been a very slow and sad death – we've been on life support for many years. This illness affects so many others than just the 2 of us, yet, we both know the cure! If we would allow God to breathe His word, His plan, and His way back into the marriage we could avoid the tragic death of our marriage!"
All 3 are destructive when driven by selfishness – Sex: is a good thing.
Main Bulk of Sermon SCREEN: 1 Corinthians 7:4 [NIV], "The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife."
It's an act of giving not receiving. Why fornication and adultery are wrong.
It's a God-given desire – BUT when we deny our spouse it can devour.
Pornography is adultery – Matthew 5:28 [NIV], "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Are you opening the door in your home – Harvey Weinstein –
No longer attracted to your spouse – arguments increase, as does discord.
This affects the other two areas as well – financial irresponsibility and communication breakdown.
ENCOURAGEMENT: Temptation is also an opportunity to do what is right.
The flesh is never satisfied! Those who have a problem in this area, also have problems in other areas:
SCREEN: Jeremiah 5:7-9 [NKJV], "…'Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. Shall I not punish them for these things?' says the Lord…".
SCREEN: Romans 1:24-25 [NKJV], "In the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever."
When the desire is conceived, sin is born – an exchange takes place.
"I need to do better"is a mental exercise,but victory comes in the application:
Expose & Repent – "You know, I've been struggling in this area."
Prov. 28:13 [NIV], "Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy." James 5:16, "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer – "One act of obedience is better than a 100 sermons."
Prayer as a lifestyle – Men would live better if they prayed better.
Fasting starves the flesh – When the flesh is full it is satisfied and in control.
Boundaries are safeguards – When you remove you also have to add.
SCREEN: Drive it out! Joshua 17:12-13 (NKJV), "Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. And it happened, when the children of Israel grew strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out."
Understand your enemy – Temptation peaks, then subsides. H.A.L.T.
SINGLES: Paul basically says in 1 Corinthians 7:2 that it's good to stay single, but since there is/was so much sexual immorality each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Singles can care for the things of the Lord.
Finances – Most who are having marriage troubles don't give.
Sit down, make a list, pray, and give – A Blessed Marriage involves compromise – put others first.
This area, more than any other, will truly reveal your heart.
Are you in a financial rut? Begin giving…
Are you doing well financially, but lacking peace and purpose? Begin giving…
Communication – Shutting down is shutting out –
The devil wants to upset communication then he can plant divisive thoughts.
Communication tips: Respect design. Timing is everything:
1. Don't flood with too much info. 2. Don't revisit past pain. 3. Don't have the wrong attitude – seek to listen and understand. 4. Do say, "Let's revisit this later" if need be.
Our marriage is very sick. The cause would be neglect, and inviting toxic things into the marriage such as anger, abuse, pornography, selfishness, pride, and arrogance…It's been a very slow and sad death…If we would allow God to breathe His word, His plan, and His way back into the marriage we could avoid the tragic death of our marriage!"
The problem – most lack communication with God –
Psalm 85:6 – "Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?"
Quicken – Recover – Repair – Restore


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Don Winslow's 'Savages' gets film and prequel
Mystery writer Don Winslow is getting an unexpected bonus out of Oliver Stone's adaptation of his book "Savages," about pot growers in Southern California getting in too deep.
First, the film begins shooting next month with the Oscar-winning director at the helm. With Stone comes a star-heavy cast, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Salma Hayek, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson and Benicio Del Toro.
So what's the bonus? Winslow is now writing a prequel to "Savages," an idea that came out of working with Stone and screenplay co-author Shane Salerno, Deadline Hollywood reports. Not coincidentally, the new prequel will be published by Simon & Schuster around the time of the film's release in 2012.
"Savages," which juxtaposes high-end California living with the dangers of the drug trade, includes a powerful drug cartel, a beautiful girl's kidnapping and a dangerous criminal scheme. Our reviewer called it a "marvelous, adrenaline-juiced roller coaster of a novel" and it includes lines such as: "You can spend fifty thousand years practicing meditation or you can buy a gun."
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Photo: Don Winslow in 2008. Credit: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times


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By Mark Paulette
There's a notion out there, popular among one specific member of The Drive that since taking the reigns as Red Sox team president, Dave Dombrowski, has decimated the organization's minor leagues by making questionable moves to obtain major league talent. It's hard to argue that the cupboard currently is significantly barer than when Dombro took over, but have these players amounted to anything of value? Let's start from the beginning.
- November, 2015: Dombrowski trades centerfielder, Manuel Margot; shortstop, Javier Guerra; utility-man, Carlos Asuaje; and pitcher, Logan Allen, to the San Diego Padres for closer Craig Kimbrel.
Margot went 0-for-4 Tuesday night in his return from a 34-day DL stint. After starting off the season with three home runs in his first nine games, Margot has leveled off and is hitting .254 with four homers, 13 RBI and five steals in 48 games. The 22-year-old has shown the capability to be a solid option for a cellar-dwelling team like the Padres and looks as though he will blossom into an above-average leadoff hitter. Though, Margot had nowhere to go in the Sox organization, blocked by the "Killer B's", and likely wouldn't even be on the major-league roster in Boston.
The other three guys? Asuaje made his major-league debut last year hitting .208 in seven games with San Diego and this year is 4-for-15 in six games with the big club while posting a .250/3/35 line at Triple-A El Paso. Once again, Asuaje was a logjam victim in Boston's organization, though might be on the team right now. I mean hell, Tzu-Wei Lin has appeared in five-straight games.
Guerra has never advanced past A-Ball, where he hit .202 last year and is slashing .216 with four homers in 72 games this season.
Finally, there's Allen, who is 5-4 with an impressive 2.11 ERA in 13 starts at Single-A Fort Wayne.
Yet none of that matters, because Craig Kimbrel is currently the best closer in the game having converted 29-straight saves at Fenway. Kimbrel is in another universe in 2017, as was evident by his dominant month of May in which he allowed just two hits and zero earned runs.
Outcome of trade – Win (Dombro's record: 1-0)
- December, 2015: Dombrowski trades pitchers, Jonathon Aro and Wade Miley, to the Seattle Mariners for pitchers, Carson Smith and Roenis Elias.
Miley started 19 games for Seattle, going 7-8 with a 4.98 ERA, before being dealt to Baltimore where he is 3-5 in 15 starts this year with a 4.48 ERA.
Aro tossed two-thirds of an inning for the Mariners last year, and has appeared in relief in nine games at Triple-A Tacoma in '17, going 2-0 with an ERA of 4.96.
Sadly, those minimal returns are enough for the M's to come out on top (as of now), as Smith threw just 2.2 innings for the Sox last year before being lost to Tommy John surgery. Meanwhile, Elias, who recorded an ERA of 12.91 in three games with the Sox last year, made just one start at Pawtucket this year, allowing 10 hits, nine runs and seven earned before being lost to a muscle strain after four innings of work.
Outcome of trade – Loss (Dombro's record: 1-1)
- July, 2016: Dombrowski trades second baseman, Wendell Rijo, and pitcher, Aaron Wilkerson, to Milwaukee Brewers for infielder, Aaron Hill.
Rijo hit .238 with four RBI in Single-A Carolina which somehow was good enough to merit a call-up to Double-A Biloxi, where he's currently hitting .194 with four RBI. Wooooo!!!
Wilkerson is trapped in Double-A as well, where he's spent most his career. The 28-year-old is 5-3 in 13 starts and has pitched in 78 minor league games over seven seasons.
We're going to call this one a draw, though, as Hill offered the Red Sox diddlysquat once he came to town. (.218/2/9 in 47 games).
Outcome of trade – Wash (Dombro's record: 1-1-1) (Suddenly this is soccer.)
- July 2016: Dombrowski trades infielder, Luis Alejandro Basabe, and pitcher, Jose Almonte, to Arizona Diamondbacks for pitcher, Brad Ziegler.
Basabe is in his second full season of A-Ball and has struggled mightily since being dealt from the Sox. At the time of the trade, Basabe was hitting .310 in 64 games at Salem. Since, he hit .217 in 45 games to round out last year and so far in '17 is batting just .229 with two homers and seven RBI in 53 games.
Almonte has a 3.32 ERA in 70 career starts between rookie ball and A-Ball, as the 21-year-old has shown promising signs, though is still a long way from the majors.
Because of this, Boston (for now) wins the deal by default. Ziegler was a solid option in the back-end of Boston's bullpen during the second half of 2016 as the team won the AL East. The then-36-year-old posted a miniscule 1.52 ERA in 29.2 innings over 33 appearances.
Outcome of trade – Won (Dombro's record: 2-1-1)
- July, 2016: Dombrowski trades pitcher, Anderson Espinoza, to the San Diego Padres for pitcher, Drew Pomeranz.
This was a painful swallow for many, as Dombrowski parted ways with the Sox top pitching prospect in Espinoza to acquire an injury-prone all-star in Pomeranz. At just 19 years old, Espinoza has yet to pitch this season due to an arm injury. He went 6-11 with a 4.49 ERA in 24 starts between the two organizations a year ago. Some comparisons have the young righty as Pedro-esque, but we can't overlook the fact he's only a teenager.
After quite a bit of shakiness last year and the first part of this season, Pomeranz has rather surprisingly settled into the Sox rotation to post a 7-4 record, including an ERA of 1.53 over his last three starts. This may come as a shock to some, but I'm not afraid to say that at this moment, the Red Sox have won this trade.
Outcome of trade – Won (Dombro's record: 3-1-1)
- August, 2016: Dombrowski trades pitcher, Pat Light, to the Minnesota Twins for pitcher, Fernando Abad.
Light appeared in 15 games for Minnesota after the deal last year, posting an ERA of 9.00. The fire-baller has since been waived by the Twins, picked up by the Pirates, waived by the Pirates, and picked up by the Mariners, where he's currently in Triple-A with an ERA of 4.82 in 24 total appearances.
After miserably failing the eye test in 2016, Abad has somehow danced around the raindrops this season, going 2-0 with a 3.42 ERA in 23.2 innings. That's good enough to come out the victor.
Outcome of trade – Won (Dombro's record: 4-1-1)
December, 2016: Dombrowski trades third/first baseman, Travis Shaw; infielder, Mauricio Dubon; and pitcher, Josh Pennington to the Milwaukee Brewers for pitcher, Tyler Thornburg.
This is where Dombrowski's reputation takes a bit of a hit…Let's begin with the positives. Pennington has yet to pitch in 2017. That's it.
Dubon hit .276/2/24 in 71 games at Double-A Biloxi before earning a call to Triple-A Colorado Springs, where he's appeared in four games, hitting .263 with three RBI. The 22-year-old is showing promise of being a solid utility infielder at the major-league level, with everyday player upside. That hurts a little.
This hurts a lot. Travis Shaw is absolutely raking as the cleanup hitter for the Brewers. Shaw has posted a .294/17/57 line thus far, and if you're keeping score at home, has more hits, runs, doubles, home runs, RBI, a higher average, on base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, and waaaaay less errors than all Red Sox third baseman combined this year.
Yeah, that one hurts even more considering Thornburg, who had an impressive 2.15 ERA in 67 innings last year, got hurt before he even threw an official pitch for Boston. Official diagnosis – Tommy John. Official trade outcome – loss.
Outcome of trade – Loss (Dombro's record: 4-2-1)
December, 2017: Dombrowski trades second baseman, Yoan Moncada; pitcher, Michael Kopech; outfielder, Luis Alexander Basabe; and pitcher, Victor Diaz, to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher, Chris Sale.
The Sox had to pay a hefty price to get Sale and that's just what they did, forking over baseball's top prospect in Yoan Moncada. Moncada is hitting .278/9/27 in 64 games with Triple-A Charlotte, though it's just a matter of time before the last place White Sox give him the call.
Kopech is 4-4 with an ERA of 3.38 and has an eye-popping 94 strikeouts in 72 innings pitched. Oh, and his agent claims he can throw a baseball 107 miles per hour.
The brother of Luis Alejandro, Luis Alexander is hitting .215 with three homers in advanced A-ball.
And Victor Diaz is currently playing on some team called the Kannapolis Intimidators, where he's 0-1 with an ERA of 6.35 in five games out of the 'pen.
Despite all the glowing reviews of the first two names mentioned in this deal, I could care less, because Chris Sale, to put it mildly, is a freaking monster. His historic start with the Red Sox has seen him go a cool 10-3 with a 2.77 ERA while being on pace for well over 300 strikeouts, a plateau which has only been crossed once since 2002, (Kershaw, 2015). He's the clear-cut choice to start the All-Star game, the alfa dog of the Sox rotation and everything and then some that Sox fans could've dreamed they were acquiring. Either Moncada or Kopech will need to go on to careers where they develop into arguably the best player at their position to make this trade a draw. Both will need to do so for Chicago to come out on the winning side. Sale has been an All-Star and finished in the top-6 in Cy Young voting each of the five years he's been a starter in the league and is on pace to do it for a sixth-straight year. I challenge Moncada and Kopech to do the like.
Outcome of trade – Won (Dombro's record: 5-2-1)
So based on my definitive ranking of Dave Dombrowski's dealings whilst in charge of the Red Sox, he comes out with an overall record of 5-2-1 (.625 winning percentage). Two years ago Boston was mired at the bottom of the AL East and looking for a quick fix. While some fans out there may be distraught at the sight of an empty cupboard, these deals have undoubtedly made the Red Sox better in the present. And that's exactly what Dombrowski was brought in to do.
Mark Paulette is the senior producer of The Drive, weekdays 4pm to 6pm on 92.9fm The Ticket and streaming live at DriveShowMaine.com. Follow us on Twitter, @DriveShowMaine and "Like Us" on Facebook, Drive Show Maine.


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Springtime is a time of beauty but also a time of renewal and of new life. What better way to celebrate the coming light and warmth of summer than reflecting on the places where we can feel Christ's light and spirit and where we can remember the covenants that will bring us eternal life in the world to come? Here are a few stunning pictures of temples in springtime.
► For the story behind this incredible picture, click here.


text: We reclaimed this crate from a farm in Central California. Then we turn it from a tired, old crate, into a reclaimed wood coffee table with hinged storage. Absolutely Gorgeous. Some fruit crates have writing or paint on them, and others do not. We have no choice of what we get, when we get it. Each piece has tons of charm and even more character. Sealed with Water Based Poly. All pieces are shipped from Truckee, CA. Please allow 2-3 weeks for completion of your item.


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After launching Müller's new Müller Milk brand (which you can read more about here) we began rollout to all of Müller's milk products, including cream, butter and milkshakes – starting with the FRijj pack design.
Our redesign keeps the logo and vibrancy of the previous FRijj pack with some subtle tweaks. We introduced the Müller Milk cowprint to bring consistency across Müller Milk products, maximise recognition and boost awareness of the Müller Milk brand, and added art by our in-house illustrator to amp up the flavour cues and draw attention to new products and an improved recipe.
We've also extended the design out to new SKUs, including a low sugar product and a limited edition British athletics range.
The redesigned core FRijj pack launched in April. Spot it in a supermarket near you, and let us know what you think!


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Requires liquefied natural gas tanks to follow Site Evaluation Committee criteria. This bill also requires the energy siting process to include consideration of the economic impacts on residents.
New Hampshire's demand for natural gas for electricity and home heating has been rising, as has the cost of electricity. Electric rates in New Hampshire (and New England) are among the highest in the United States. This has led some to argue the state should seek to increase natural gas capacity by encouraging the construction of new gas pipelines. Where those pipelines would be built, and the costs and benefits of those pipelines, are issues that lead to impassioned debates sometimes based more on emotion than facts.
Federal control over which pipelines get built
Any pipeline that crosses state lines must get approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The authority of FERC to regulate interstate pipelines completely overrules state regulations, including state laws about eminent domain.
Learn more about eminent domain in New Hampshire.
However, FERC must note where a project violates state or local regulations. FERC may then request a revision of the project to bring it into line with local ordinances. FERC also accepts public input while evaluating the costs and benefits of a project.
State powers
For projects that stay within New Hampshire, the state Site Evaluation Committee (SEC) gets final say on approving or turning down proposals.
The SEC is also required by state law to approve interstate pipeline projects—even though they can't reject anything the federal government has already okayed.
While the SEC can't block a federally-approved pipeline, it can request changes, such as wetland restoration or erosion control, and historically federal regulators have shown some consideration for such requests.
In recent years the New Hampshire Legislature has also considered many bills regulating pipelines. Those bills have addressed eminent domain, insurance requirements, cleanup procedures, and more. Given the ultimate power of FERC, legislators have killed most of these bills.
Pipeline funding
Pipeline companies must also raise funds to build new pipelines, usually by contracting with energy suppliers and other businesses that agree to purchase natural gas in the years to come. Since the energy market is always changing, it can be difficult for pipeline companies to lock businesses into these long-term contracts.
The biggest area of debate right now is whether electricity providers – particularly Eversource – can enter into long-term contracts to purchase natural gas and then bill customers for those contracts. These long-term contracts fund new pipelines.
The Public Utilities Commission ruled that such contracts violate New Hampshire's utility restructuring laws from the 1990s. Those laws prevent utilities that sell electricity from also owning their own power sources. Ideally this forces utilities to buy electricity from the cheapest power plants, rather than making customers pay for a company's own less efficient power plants.
Some legislators want to change this law because they believe allowing utilities like Eversource to support pipelines by making a long-term contract will encourage more pipelines to be built. They argue that this will lower energy prices by increasing the supply of natural gas.
Recent history
In 2016 Kinder Morgan announced that they were suspending a proposed natural gas pipeline through southern New Hampshire. Kinder Morgan said there was not enough interest from prospective customers to fund the pipeline.
Right now there are no other proposals to extend interstate pipelines through New Hampshire. There are, however, several proposals for expanding natural gas pipeline networks within the state, such as the Granite Bridge project from Manchester to the Seacoast.
"For" Position
"New Hampshire should promote the construction of new pipelines."
- New Hampshire already has some of the highest electricity rates in the nation. A shortage of natural gas contributes to high electricity rates. State government should do whatever it can to increase the supply of natural gas and therefore lower electricity rates. According to a 2015 study from the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, "Failing to expand the region's energy infrastructure will cost New England households and businesses $5.4 billion in higher energy costs (in 2014 dollars) between 2016 and 2020."
- Many older fossil fuel power plants are being retired, which is going to create even more demand for natural gas power in the coming years. According to ISO New England, "More than 4,200 megawatts (MW)—an amount equal to almost 15% of the region's current generating capacity—will have shut down between 2012 and 2020 and is being replaced primarily by new natural-gas-fired plants."
- Natural gas much cleaner than other non-renewable sources. Even renewable energy sources have environmental costs, such as the toxic impact of mining rare earth metals needed to manufacture solar panels. It therefore makes sense for New Hampshire to increase the use of natural gas.
- Natural gas is cheaper than renewable energy sources. For example: according to a Brookings Institute study of energy generation costs, $29 million in solar capacity investment must be made to produce the same electricity, with the same reliability, as a $1 million investment in a natural gas-powered plant.
- Even if New Hampshire chooses to get most of its energy from renewable sources, natural gas power plants are critical to grid reliability. The supply of wind and solar power waxes and wanes with the weather, whereas natural gas is always there to meet demand.
- Injuries and spills are very rare on pipelines. According to a 2013 report from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, "Americans are more likely to get struck by lightning than to be killed in a pipeline accident."
- In the short term, pipeline construction creates jobs and boosts the economy.
"Against" Position
"New Hampshire should not promote the construction of new pipelines."
- While natural gas prices are low now, there is no guarantee they will remain low in the future, as fossil fuel markets are historically volatile. Increasing the region's reliance on natural gas, instead of diversifying our portfolio of energy resources, makes us more vulnerable to potential price spikes.
- The cost of renewable energy sources is expected by many to decrease in coming years. According to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, technology advancements will lower the cost of solar power 66% and the cost of onshore wind power 47% by 2040. State government should therefore not allow electricity providers to saddle ratepayers with long-term contracts to purchase natural gas.
- Due to laws aimed at reducing carbon emissions and other pollution, the demand for natural gas will likely decrease in the coming years, eliminating the need for any new pipeline. A 2017 study prepared for the Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and other partners concluded, "Existing laws and regulations will cumulatively require New England's use of natural gas for electric generation to decrease by 27 percent by 2023, relative to 2015 levels."
- According to a 2015 report from the Analysis Group, Inc., completed on behalf of the Massachusetts Attorney General, the New England electricity grid will stay reliable at least through 2030, even with no new pipeline. The report concluded, "We find that power system reliability will be maintained with or without electric ratepayer investment in new natural gas pipeline capacity."
- While natural gas burns cleaner than other fossil fuels, the extraction and transportation of natural gas causes the release of methane, which traps more heat than carbon dioxide and is a contributor to climate change.
- Residents close to a pipeline may suffer from lower property values or even have their property seized through eminent domain.
Requires a town to vote on whether or not to site a liquified natural gas storage facility in the town.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules for reporting lost and unaccounted for gas by natural gas companies. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from acquisition of natural gas capacity or supply or interests in natural gas infrastructure at ratepayers' expense.
Requires a certificate issued by the Site Evaluation Committee to include a provision that the applicant guarantees funding for restoration efforts in the event of environmental damage caused by the facility.
Requires the Site Evaluation Committee to issue a certificate for an energy facility if the committee fails to act within 365 days of acceptance of an application.
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine if gas pipeline capacity contracts with a term of more than one year are in the public interest.
Allows electric utilities such as Eversource to pursue contracts to purchase capacity on natural gas pipelines and/or electricity from new transmission line projects, provided that the contracts will lower electricity rates and/or improve the reliability of the electric grid. The Public Utilities Commission would still have to find that the contracts are in the public's best interest.
Prohibits any tariff, tax, or fee on any electric ratepayer for the purpose of financing the construction of a high pressure gas pipeline.
Establishes protections for property owners if a pipeline company takes their land through eminent domain. For example, this bill sets up a process for the pipeline company to pay for reloaction, temporary housing, and legal expenses.
Establishes criteria for high pressure gas pipeline applications, including compensation to property owners in eminent domain proceedings. This bill also requires 75% or more of the gas transmitted into New Hampshire to be distributed within New Hampshire.
Requires owners of gas transmission pipelines to maintain insurance or provide a bond against any loss resulting from failure or malfunction of a pipeline.
Makes various changes to the laws regarding the use of eminent domain for pipelines. For example, this bill allows an owner whose property is taken under eminent domain to require the pipeline company to acquire the entire property, not just a part.
Prohibits any tax or fee on ratepayers to fund a gas pipeline.
Requires utilities and pipeline companies to pay a royalty on natural gas intended for sale in a foreign country.
Establishes a study committee on stranded costs associated with pipeline capacity contracts. The bill was originally written to require the public utility commission to determine whether any pipeline capacity contract with a term of more than one year is in the public interest.
Requires that every compressor station for natural gas transmission built in New Hampshire after July 1, 2016 shall obtain the power for its operation from external energy sources.
Establishes a tax on revenues received under contracts for natural gas transmission via in-state pipelines.
Requires new construction of underground pipelines and storage tanks to be below the frost line.
Originally written to require a pipeline company to purchase all of a resident's land when the land is taken through eminent domain. The Senate rewrote the bill to instead increase the criteria for the Site Evaluation Committee to consider when approving pipelines.
Establishes a 5-year tax deferral from the business profits tax, the business enterprise tax, and the utility property tax for the expansion of natural gas distribution systems.
Should NH promote the construction of new pipelines?
Issue Status
In December 2017, Liberty Utilities filed an application to build a 27-mile, $340 million natural gas pipeline along Rt. 101 from Manchester to Stratham. The project has to receive approval from both the NHPUC and the state Site Evaluation Committee before it can proceed.
Check back to this page for updates on public hearings and comment periods for the project.
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The Supreme Court ruled decisively Monday that religious institutions should be eligible to receive public funds for purely secular purposes.
Even though the state's denial of funds likely would lead only to "a few extra scraped knees," Roberts said, "the exclusion of Trinity Lutheran from a public benenfit for which it is otherwise qualified, solely because it is a church, is odious to our Constitution all the same, and cannot stand."
"This decision is encouraging," responds WFA president Julaine Appling, " For a change we have an opinion on this type of issue that is faithful to the First Amendment and not hostile to religion. Other cases with religious freedom implications will be on the court's docket next session, including a baker in Colorado who, based on his religious beliefs, won't do cakes for same-sex weddings."


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First day of ELDs hit KeepTruckin, Omnitracs, and BigRoad with technical issues
Frustrated truckers lash out on Facebook
On Monday, December 18, the ELD mandate went into effect. Thousands of new users who had waited until the last minute to configure their systems plugged in and turned on for the first time. Several ELD vendors, from KeepTruckin to Omnitracs, BigRoad, and One20 saw massive spikes in usage and service calls. Drivers reported a plethora of problems with their ELD devices—and even if outages were not officially acknowledged by the ELD providers, users still experienced severe lags and impaired functionality.
KeepTruckin seems to have experienced the most severe disruptions to its service on the first day ELDs were required to be on every truck. KeepTruckin tried to roll out a new update to their system last weekend, just before the mandate hit, but it wasn't available on Monday. Brian Elston of Stout Transportation said, "both their dashboard [and] driver KeepTruckin accounts have been offline and unavailable." KeepTruckin said that it bought extra server capacity in anticipation of a surge of new accounts, but underestimated the volume. "The request volume spiked far beyond expectations, due to the extremely high number of users connecting for the first time," the company said.
The disruptions were mostly isolated to new users, KeepTruckin said, and that "drivers who have already logged into the KeepTruckin app and connected to their ELD can continue to log their hours as they normally would." A Dec. 18 Facebook comment from KeepTruckin customer Damir Usanovic, belied the company's official line: "Since this morning it's not recording status changes at all, even though [Dashlink] is connected. Too bad, as it was bulletproof 7 previous months since I installed it." KeepTruckin customer Yuriy Fabyan wrote "Keep trucking stopped recording and also wouldn't connect to the app in my dad's semi, his company also got a few guys with issues… I don't think they were ready for this," at 1:09 AM Tuesday morning on KeepTruckin's Facebook page. Clearly the technical issues were not limited to new users.
Omnitracs users reported difficulties logging into their accounts; the company said that the issue was with a customer portal, not with the ELD product itself. Phillip Pedro wrote on Omnitrac's Facebook page on the morning of Dec. 18: "I am sure Omnitracs is aware that the ELD Mandate started today. You're customer portal is down and/or degraded, your terms. We have no visibility to make sure we comply with the mandate because you were not ready for TODAY! Your support for the last couple of weeks has been lacking at best. Lack of confidence in your ability to help carriers stay compliant. Nothing on your website about the degraded portal so I thought I would put it on your facebook page so others know that you have a HUGE problem.!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
On Facebook, BigRoad customers reported problems with their ELDs—Joe Baker wrote on the afternoon of Dec. 18, "we originally had 1 to 2 units glitching, now we're up to 7 units glitching and randomly jumping to on duty while driving"—and customer service delays. John Joseph wrote on BigRoad's Facebook page on Dec. 18, "Tech support is by far the worst I've ever seen."
FreightWaves will continue to cover this story as it develops.
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THE thoughtful student of universal history can plainly see, under the clear light afforded by modern research, that the line of continuity from the lowest savagery, to the highest civilization is unbroken; the vast interval between the two extremes being filled by "the series of advances through which the marvelous and complicated mechanism of refined societies has issued from the savage condition in which the first men long lived."
Anthropologists study closely the myths, customs, and traditions of uncivilized tribes of our own time, as they are thought to present the most reliable ideas of ancient peoples when they were in a similar stage of mental development.
This method commends itself to that large class of cultured minds, trained in the doctrine of evolution, who believe that, in examining things present, they have data from which to reason in regard to what has been; there being no necessity for imagining other causes than those now in action to account for the past in either the physical or psychical world.
The savage regards all Nature as a combination of distinct intelligent personalities. He draws no line of separation between himself and material things, but thinks every object upon which his eyes rest is endowed with life akin to his own. He even believes that the sky, wind, sun, and dawn are persons, "with human parts and passions." He looks upon the lower animals as more powerful than himself, and therefore worships many of them as divine and creative. This crude personalism has well been termed the distinctive philosophy of primitive culture.
Totem is a word introduced into our literature by an Indian interpreter of the last century, but it is only within recent years that totemism has been studied scientifically. It prevails almost universally among the aborigines of Australia at the present time. It is also found among savage tribes in North and South America, as well as among peoples in the same primitive stage of culture all over the world. The totem is never an isolated object like a fetich, but always a class, such as species of plants or animals—usually the latter—which certain stocks of men worship, and from whom they consider themselves descended. The clans take the name of their animal deity, such as Wolf, Bear, Serpent, Raven, and Fox. The stock name is generally traced through the female line, and no man is allowed to marry a woman who has descended from the same animal ancestor.
- ↑ Suggested by reading A Washington Bible Class, by Gail Hamilton.


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A Sylhet court yesterday rejected the bail petition of industrialist Ragib Ali and his son Abdul Hye and sent them to jail for a second time in a case filed for grabbing the endowment property of Tarapur Tea Estate by forging land documents.
Mohammad Mostain Billal, additional chief metropolitan magistrate in Sylhet, sent them to jail after they appeared following the order of a special Sylhet court, said advocate Shamim Ahmed, additional public prosecutor of the former court.
Earlier on August 9, Special District and Sessions Judge Dilip Kumar Bhoumik upheld the verdict of Sylhet's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) after hearing the appeal of Ragib and his son. The special court also ordered the duo to surrender before the lower court concerned before September 17.
On February 2 last year, they were sentenced to 14 years' rigorous imprisonment each by the CMM court and fined Tk 10,000 each, in default of which they will have to serve another three months in jail.
In 1990s, Ragib started grabbing the land of the estate after forcing its legal Shebayet (caretaker) Pankaj Kumar Gupta to leave the country.
After grabbing 422.96 acres of the estate, Ragib built a medical college hospital, sold 337 plots, and established some other structures on the land. In 1999, a parliamentary watchdog on land affairs found the allegations against Ragib true and recommended legal action.
Six years later, in 2005, then land commissioner of Sylhet Sadar SM Abdul Kadir filed two cases against six people, including Ragib, with Sylhet Kotwali Police Station – one for grabbing the endowment property after forging documents of the land ministry and the other for misappropriating Tk 1,000 crore, the aggregate value of the property and the cash deposited in the bank accounts of the tea estate.
After a long legal procedure, the then Chief Justice SK Sinha ordered resumption of the case proceedings on January 19, 2016, and on May 15 that year, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) filed a charge sheet accusing Ragib and his son in the first case. In the other case, the PBI charged the duo along with Ragib's daughter, son-in-law, a relative and the caretaker.
On August 10 that year, arrest warrants were issued against all six, and on that day Ragib and his son fled to India. Later, on November 12, Abdul Hye was arrested while returning to Bangladesh, and on November 24, Ragib was arrested in India.
They had been in jail until October 29, 2017 when the Supreme Court upheld their bail petition and allowed them to walk out of prison.
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Dr. Finniss is a leading expert in the clinical applications of placebo. He is part of a group of international researchers at the frontier of placebo research, proving that the response is far more complex than sugar pills and deception. For example, researchers have been able to show that morphine is almost half as effective when patients don't know they received it. In other words, the effect of a drug is the combination of the pharmacology of the drug and the effect of your brain knowing that you're having the drug and the therapeutic ritual of the drug administration.
As the lead author of research published in The Lancet, Dr. Finniss sparked international debate by showing there are actually two main kinds of placebo effect. There are the benefits patients receive by taking a pill they believe will help and there's a white-coat effect – which showed that simply visiting a doctor can make a person feel better.
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Anyone looking for a signal from the September 12 Senate and House primaries that Democrats will go into the November campaign as a clearly defined antiwar party didn't get it. There was no high-profile win for an antiwar challenger to a prowar incumbent, like that of Ned Lamont over Joe Lieberman in the August 8 Connecticut primary. In fact, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who (although never as slavishly supportive of the war as Lieberman) remains essentially on board with the mission, won a convincing 4-to-1 victory over labor activist Jonathan Tasini's sincere but underfunded campaign. In Maryland, where former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume staked an uphill run for an open Senate seat at least in part on his blunter opposition to the war than frontrunner Ben Cardin, Cardin won.
Both Clinton and Cardin ran smarter than Lieberman, sharpening their criticism of the Administration's conduct of the war as primary day approached. Clinton finished the season denouncing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, while Cardin, who had once resisted timelines, ended up talking about the wisdom of removing US ground forces from Iraq by the end of 2007.
So it will be that, in Senate races this fall, Democratic nominees will run the gamut from the Bring the Troops Home position articulated by Lamont to the murky criticisms of Cardin and Clinton to the "stay the course" line of Nebraska maverick Ben Nelson. For the most part, Democrats will be more antiwar than their Republican foes, with the possible exception of Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee, a war critic who beat back a conservative GOP primary challenge with, ironically, the support of a White House that did not believe anyone to the right of Chafee could hold the seat. Chafee might still lose in a fall electoral season where polls suggest that voters, frustrated in general by Administration missteps and in particular by the refusal of the President to recognize degeneration of conditions in Iraq, are ready for change.
On the war, the change message will come through a lot louder and clearer in a number of House races, thanks in part to victories of candidates such as Marylander John Sarbanes, New Yorkers Yvette Clarke and John Hall, and Minnesotan Keith Ellison. Running in crowded primary fields, all four won by mounting antiwar campaigns that promised to jump-start the Democratic Party as an opposition force in Congress. Sarbanes, the son of retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes, sought an open seat, campaigning on the theme that Congressional Democrats must use all the political and procedural leverage they can muster to force the Administration to present an exit strategy. It was a message similar to that of veteran activist Donna Edwards, who at press time narrowly trailed centrist incumbent Al Wynn in another House district in Maryland–where a busy primary day also saw law professor and Nation contributor Jamie Raskin, with an unabashedly progressive campaign, upset an entrenched state senator.
In New York, Clarke broke out of a multicandidate contest for a Brooklyn seat once held by Representative Shirley Chisholm by making a high-profile pre-primary appearance with Representative Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, one of the most identifiable Congressional critics of the war. In a GOP-held district north of New York City, Hall, a founding member of the rock band Orleans, parlayed endorsements from antiwar Representative Maurice Hinchey and antinuclear allies like Bonnie Raitt and Pete Seeger into a big win.
Ellison, whose campaign distributed Bring Our Troops Home Now literature throughout the Minneapolis-based district, is an African-American who converted to Islam. His campaign was compared by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to those of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash shortly after casting a critical 2002 vote against authorizing Bush to invade Iraq. Like Wellstone, Ellison targeted so-called unlikely voters–among them peace activists who have grown frustrated with both major parties and members of a burgeoning Somali community and other groups with concerns about foreign policy.
Sarbanes, Clarke and Ellison are all well positioned to win in November. Hall's got a tough race ahead of him, as do other primary winners who are war critics, like New Hampshire's Carol Shea-Porter and Arizona's Gabrielle Giffords. And it's important to remember that the war is not the only issue; in Arizona, for instance, Giffords will be running against a Republican who is so extreme on immigration issues that the White House tried to prevent his nomination.
As attention turns to November, Democrats are in the running to take back the House. But they have to recognize that George Bush and Karl Rove will do everything they can to scare Americans into voting their fears rather than their hopes, and to excite the hard-core base. Instead of taking comfort in positive polls, Democrats would be wise to sharpen their message on the war, and other issues, and to study Keith Ellison's smart strategies for expanding their base by getting war foes and foreign-policy critics to the polls.


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Kicking Away the Ladder: Corporate Economics Vs. Democracy
In this talk, Noam Chomsky focuses on the problems of democracy development. He discusses the so-called grand economy, as touted by Milton Friedman and others, which Chomsky describes as a great failure for the majority of the population.
Chomsky also details the history of the US trajectory, after WWII, towards becoming the most powerful state in history using military and economic policies that were anything but democratic. He looks in particular at the history of the US domination of Latin America, as well as at recent Latin American challenges to US neoliberal policies. He closes by encouraging solidarity work across the hemispheres to help build a global justice movement.
Talk 60 minutes; Q&A 25 minutes. Filmed December 1, 2006 at English High School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.


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Marlene King had previously warned fans that season 7 of Pretty Little Liars will deliver shocking twists in almost every episode. Now, after revealing the top plots for the upcoming season in a min-video, the show creator disclosed the first scene of episode 1.
"Episode 701 of #PrettyLittleLiars FADE IN: The quiet calm of a moonlit night, in the forest outside of Rosewood," she wrote in one of her tweets.
This has sparked speculation about the safety of Hanna, who was kidnapped by a hooded person in the PLL season 6 finale, with many speculating that the mysterious person was Jessica DiLaurentis' identical twin Mary Drake. However, the show creator added that plans were in place for the upcoming season and the twists would "blow fans minds".
King has also announced that work has started on the script for season 7. "When I write my first script of the season I'm constantly writing actors real names instead of their characters," she wrote.
In the season 6 finale, Hanna took blame for the death of Charlotte and despite of the efforts put in by Caleb, Spencer, Aria, Ezra and Toby, she gets kidnapped.
"You know, it's not out of the question," Ashley Benson told ET teasing her character Hanna's fate. "Marlene has hinted to that too, just to get the fans curious. I mean, it really could be Hanna, you never know. You may not see me next season, guys."
The final scene revealed a person wearing knee high boots dragging an unconscious Hanna in the basement of the church where Alison's sister Charlotte was killed.
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In an update this evening, it said that its valuation guidance website has had 751,679 hits so far.
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Rising rates of crime in any state is a sign of destruction and disturbance for the citizens. Punjab has recently seen an increase in the crime rates in different parts of the state because of some unruly elements of the society. The government is trying its best to curb such negative activities and help citizens lead a peaceful life. Amritsar is one of those states that are facing a high rate of increase in the crime scene and therefore various Non-Government Organizations of the city have come together to raise their voices against the same.
Naming their banner as 'Amritsar Speaks', they are trying to raise their voice against the crime and spread awareness amidst the citizens to help the government and the authorities in the best possible way to curb the nuisances. An NGO by the name of Mission Aagaaz was also a part of this group and one of their members mentioned that the crime rate has been increasing in the state since last many years and it is the need of the hour to curb the same.
Amidst the discussions, various people were of the view that it is the easy access of money to the youngsters and the issue of drug addiction that is resulting in the increase of these unruly activities. Various anti-social elements are influencing the youth of the state to get into such activities and destroying their future the government is coming up various inspirational campaigns and laws and regulations to inspire the young guns of the society to get back on the right track and stop destroying the decorum of the society.
Along with the government and the authorities, it is also the responsibility of the residents to help them in solving out the cases and provide with the required information. It is the terror of such anti-social groups due to which the residents don't speak out much and are living in a constant state of fear and terror. Various surveillance plans have been worked out by the government to help in keeping a check on the theft accidents happening around various cities of Punjab. The surveillance department can help in creating a feeling of security amongst the residents and catch the thieves around the area.


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Dayton, Tenn. (September 19, 2017) — Bryan College announced the addition of a four-year engineering program. This program is set to become available to students by the beginning of the Fall 2018 semester.
The new Bachelor of Science in engineering* major will feature two program options in mechanical and civil engineering. Throughout their course of study, students will gain knowledge in manufacturing engineering to better equip themselves for careers after graduation.
Bryan currently offers 25 accredited majors with 49 unique fields of study at Bryan, so the addition of this program will further the variety of studies available to students. Bryan's program will differentiate from other regional schools in that courses will be taught from a Christian worldview and will present information in a missions-focused context.
"One of the major goals with this program is to provide students with the knowledge and resources to go into the mission field, both locally and globally, to make a difference in the world for Christ through engineering," said Dr. Lyle Smith, Director of Engineering Development.
To accommodate the program, Bryan plans to renovate sections of the third floor of Mercer Hall in order to offer state-of-the-art lab space, a large-tiered classroom, faculty offices, and a conference room for the incoming Engineering department. A separate Maker Space will also be added to offer students access to resources and equipment to construct class projects.
"The engineering program is a wonderful opportunity for Bryan College to enable students the chance to live out our mission statement. This will enable them to work both in industries here in the United States, as well as in countries around the world," said Dr. Stephen Livesay, President of Bryan College. "Doors are open in virtually any country to engineers who can assist with infrastructure needs and sanitation and clean water projects while sharing the gospel."
Prospective students interested in majoring in engineering are encouraged to apply now to Bryan to be able to start the program in fall of 2018.
*The Bachelor of Science in engineering is pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Bryan College is a private, non-profit, Christian liberal arts institution located in Dayton, TN. Bryan College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and offers 25 majors with more than 50 unique fields of study and three graduate programs with more than 10 specializations and two certificates. The Bryan motto, "Christ Above All" can be found not only emblazoned on the college logo but also pursued in the lives of Bryan faculty, staff, students, and alumni. To lean more, visit http://www.bryan.edu.


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