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Thursday's solar flare rated as a powerful M2-class sun storm.
BREAKING!!! official video. NASA; major solar flare Jan 19. M-class flare expected Jan 21. Auroras expected.
Today's M2.6-class Solar Flare produced a nice Coronal Mass Ejection, which appears to be Earth directed. Current forecasts have it to arrive on January 21, 2012 at approx. 22:30 UT (let's give or take 7 hours… it's over 90 million mile journey after all).
Our friends at the NASA Goddard Space Weather Lab are predicting possible strong geomagnetic storms. What will it mean for us? Possibly some Aurorea and perhaps some communications interruption. No major issues are expected.
A view of the Active Regions 1401 and 1402 over the past couple of days shows the development of those beautiful sunspots. Then two views of the solar flare through the SDO instrument before concluding with views from STEREO Ahead and Behind.
Credit: NASA SDO & NASA STEREO
The solar flare occurred at about 11:30 am EST (1600 GMT) and touched off a massive solar explosion — known as a coronal mass ejection — aimed at Earth, space weather experts and officials said. The charged particles from the sun explosion should reach Earth by Saturday night (Jan. 21), and could amp up northern lights displays when they hit the upper atmosphere.
Particles from the storm are heading toward earth at more than 600 miles per second.
M-class storms are powerful, falling between the weaker C-class flares and the most powerful X-class solar storms, which can pose a threat to satellites and astronauts in orbit, cause widespread communications interference and damage infrastructure on Earth when aimed directly at the planet.


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A Worm in an Apple
Louis J. Sharp
How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from the inside. But, how does he get there? Simple. An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the heart of the apple, then eases his way out.
Sin, like the worm, begins in the heart and works out through the person's thoughts, words and actions. For this reason, David once wrote. "Create in me a clean heart, 0 God.
Upon first reading the above I was reminded of the fact that often I had taken a bite of an apple and found half a worm. Ugh! Did this ever happen to you? The worm was concealed inside without our knowing of its presence. Yes, I have wondered how it got inside, but never pursued the thought any further.
However, there is a spiritual lesson for us in all of this. Our blessed Lord and Savior warned of corruption within, saying; "0 generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" (Matt. 12:32). Any hidden evil will come out. Concealed, gnawing worms may be revealed. Thus, the need of repeated warnings about the condition of our hearts: Jesus clearly understood the fountain of sin.
One of Jesus' most scathing rebukes is in reference to this matter of "inside corruption." In Matthew 23:25, Jesus said: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess." Thus he severely warned: "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also" (23:26).
Mark's gospel has Jesus saying: "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders" (7:21). None can help but see the need for a "clean-up" job within the heart.
According to the Hebrew writer, our hearts are the source of unbelief. "Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God." (Heb. 3:12).
The apostle Peter graphically portrays this condition: "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls; an heart these have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children; Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness" (2 Pet. 2:12-15).
The question asked in the old gospel hymn, "Is thy heart right with God?" needs repeated emphasis. Corruption within brings forth evil fruit. Get your heart right in order to live right.
Say, are there any concealed worms living within your heart?
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The Witness
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There is a lot to be excited for in 2014 if you're a soon to be PS4 owner.
The PS4 is coming and right behind it a new year full of some amazing first-generation exclusives. 2014 is promising to be a good year for gaming and it's going to be a good year for the PS4. Sony's poised to get a lot of sales on their new console, and while there has been some delays for titles on their new console, it may be for the best.
It's important that developers have the time they need to release their games right the first time. There's plenty to look forward to in the coming year after the PlayStation 4 hits the shelves. The PS4, has a bright future ahead of it and we're going to take a look at some interesting titles coming our way along with the new year.
Note: This list consists of console, timed and PlayStation platform exclusives.
This online racing game is coming to us free of charge as the calendar turns to the new year. The game's being developed by Evolution Studios and is a bit different from the previous racing games they've developed. This isn't meant to be a simulator, but more of an arcade racing game.
The open world racer combines elements of cooperative sandbox play that promises to entertain any fans of racing games. If you're looking for a game where you can just drop in and race with, or against your friends without having to go through the process of selecting and tuning your car to just the right adjustments and want to get right into the action, this games' definitely for you.
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Having attended the Association of Jewish Studies Conference twice before, I am very much looking forward to being able attending a third time. Having first attended in 2008 in Washington, DC and attending the following year in Los Angeles, I am glad that it is returning to Southern California, enabling my attendance.
With it taking place in San Diego, it is easy for me to reach, travel-wise. Of course, I am also grateful to my wife allowing me to go and her taking our kids for those days.
I am curious to see who will be there. One thing I have already noticed is that several of those presenting papers are people whom I know and are my peers, which will be great and did not happen in either of the previous conferences.
I am greatly curious to see how different the tweeting is. When I attended in 2008 and 2009, while I was engaged on Twitter about the conference, it seemed there weren't many others engaging in it. However, I am hopeful that there will be more discourse taking place in that space about the conference.
One thing to which I am looking forward is being in a space where there is such great intellectual discourse, curiosity, and scholarship, and being able to soak in it and to be enriched through the experience. I love such cerebral gatherings and events, especially on topics of great interest to me.
I am also looking forward to re-connecting with people who are engaged in these endeavors and whom I haven't connected with in-person (as opposed to online (primarily Facebook)). It will be great to be enriched through these conversations and see how my knowledge and experience will be enriched through these interactions.
I am most looking forward to sessions on rabbinics (such as rabbinic literature, Talmud, etc.), but – as in my attending previous AJS conferences – also seeking to go beyond just that field. Obviously, I am also curious in Bible, but we shall see which other panel discussions in other fields I attend.
Finally, for anyone who has read my previous blog posts here on attending AJS conferences (see below for a listing), will see that my writing style has greatly improved over the years since then. Also, I don't plan on throwing all of my notes on to the screen. Furthermore, I think I took notes using pen and paper, then transcribed them, thus there are some non-sentences going on in some of those posts. Instead, I am aspiring to take notes and do writing on my tablet, which will yield an easier transferring of notes than transcribing. Also, I don't think I will be throwing all of the panels on the same post. Hopefully, if I am able to compose them well enough, I will post them separately on Matters of Interest.
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TIN or Triangulated Irregular Network stored GIS data for 3D surface model. The basic unit is a triangle. Because a triangle consists of three lines connecting three nodes, each triangle will have three neighbors (except those on the side or periphery). The triangle is represented by a sequence of three nodes. Each triangle may have other associated attributes such as population density, crime rate, etc. in another table.
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Russian art studio Brain Mash has created a gorgeous series of faux-3-D paintings featuring original characters and pop culture icons like the cast of Monsters, Inc. and Slimer from Ghostbusters. Utilizing smart perspectives and clever shading, the images in 3-D Exhibition trick the eye, giving the impression that the gallery goers are really busting ghosts, or feeding a bone to a giant, bounding pug. They're beautiful, and the use of beloved kids' characters like Mike and Sully reinforces the nostalgic fantasy of opening a door and having lifelike cartoons come spilling out.
You can see the rest of the series on Brain Mash's tumblr.
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Faith shaped and set the City of Norwich in Stone. This fine old City has been left with one of the greatest collection of historic religious buildings in northern Europe.
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Jason Day's partnership with caddie Steve Williams was short-lived.
After missing the cut at The Northern Trust at Liberty National Golf Course this past weekend, Day told the Australian Associated Press that he has parted ways with Williams, who has carried his bag since the U.S. Open in June.
"Parting with Steve was a mutual decision and not an easy one to make," Day told AAP. "He is the ultimate pro; it was a real learning experience being exposed to a caddie who has achieved what Steve has. He has worked with the best.
"But it was a disconnect of old school and new school. Steve has become a friend, and I have a lot of respect for him. I thank Steve for everything he taught me."
Day's agent, Bud Martin, also confirmed the change to ESPN on Monday.
According to the AAP, Day will have friend and fellow pro David Lutterus on his bag at the BMW Championship at Medinah this week.
Day lured Williams out of retirement the week before the U.S. Open. Williams was on Tiger Woods' bag for 13 of his 15 major championships. Williams also worked with Greg Norman, Raymond Floyd and Adam Scott. Day had been using a combination of friends to caddie for him over the past two years.
"I am very disappointed with how this year's progressed," Day said at the time. "I didn't play well, and I need to improve that. And I need to start working harder, and that's plain and simple.
"And that started with -- this is no disrespect to my mates that were on the bag. They were very, very hard workers. They were great. But I think Steve will take me to that level and I'm hoping that's the case."
Day had a promising start with Williams. He finished tied for 21st at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and tied for eighth at the Travelers Championship the next week. But then he missed the cut in two events, including an epic meltdown at the Open Championship, and didn't finish better than a tie for 40th at the no-cut WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis.
Day, a former world No. 1, has fallen to 50th in the FedEx Cup standings and will have to play well at this week's BMW Championship to advance to the season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
Day is in ninth place in the International Presidents Cup standings. Only the top eight players in the standings are guaranteed spots on captain Ernie Els' team. Els will also make four captain's selections for the Dec. 9-15 event at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Day's native Australia. Players can accumulate points through the BMW Championship.


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A shop assistant was assaulted as she tried to stop a shop thief.
Susan Frost was left shaken following the attack over a £6.99 bottle of vodka at the Birstall-based store.
Jonathan Rayfield, 31, pleaded guilty to charges of theft and assault following the incident at the Kwik Save Supermarket on January 16.
Ms Frost was working behind the counter at the Low Lane convenience store when Rayfield approached and asked for a bottle of Glen's vodka.
She retrieved the bottle and held it up but Rayfield reached forward over the counter, grabbed hold of the bottle and pulled it towards him.
Prosecutor Vanessa Jones said: "There was a tussle as he pulled it from her hands and she tried to grab it back from him as she stepped down from the counter.
"She stumbled and he pushed her to the chest so she struck a cubbyhole."
Jowett, of Westcombe Court in Bradford, then left the shop leaving Ms Frost feeling "shocked and shaking."
Paul Normandale, mitigating, said that his client had serious mental health issues and was reported missing that day.
He added: "My client accepts that it must have been a terrifying incident for the young lady."
Magistrates asked for a report and adjourned sentencing until February 21.


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September 30, 2012
GREENWOOD, S.C. - Greg Rikard of Leesville, S.C., weighed a two-day total of 10 bass for 31 pounds, 8 ounces to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League South Carolina Division Super Tournament on Clarks Hill Lake in Greenwood, S.C., on Sunday. For his victory, Rikard earned $6,400.
"It feels real good to win, but I've been there before," said Rikard, who has more than $80,000 in career winnings on the Walmart BFL circuit. "My knowledge and experience on the lake was the key to my victory this weekend."
Rikard was running and gunning fishing shallow. He said that he fished around 30 unique areas each day, and all of his fish came out of 5 feet of water or less.
"I was targeting shallow points of grass in the mid-lake area," Rikard said. "I threw three main baits this week. I alternated throwing a shad-colored and a white-colored Santone Lures spinnerbait. I caught quite a few fish on them. I also threw a chartreuse shad-colored Ima Bill Lowen Square Bill crankbait and a homemade buzzbait. All three baits produced fish that I weighed in.
"There were time windows when the bite would just turn on," Rikard continued. "The bite was real good until around 10 a.m., and then it would fade. Then, it would pick up for me again in the afternoon and they would bite pretty good from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. I caught a lot of fish, and you just had to cull through them to get the weight.
"The main thing that helped me win this event was my equipment," Rikard went on to say. "My Ranger boat ran great, and my Denali Rods were crucial. I also ran a HydroWave on both days, and I'm positive that it got me a few more bites than I would have normally."
Rounding out the top 10 pros:
2nd: Mark Abbott, Ninety Six, S.C., 10 bass, 30-2, $2,200
3rd: Lyn Langston, Timmonville, S.C., 10 bass, 26-1, $1,466
4th: Tim Jones, North Augusta, S.C., 10 bass, 24-14, $1,027
5th: Michael Murphy, Lexington, S.C., 10 bass, 24-13, $880 + $1,000 Evinrude Bonus
6th: Eddie Herlong Sr., Prosperity, S.C., 10 bass, 22-8, $807
7th: Kenneth Miles, Evans, Ga., 10 bass, 22-4, $733
8th: Mark Inman, Greensboro, N.C., 10 bass, 21-8, $660
9th: Chad Cook, Summerville, S.C., 10 bass, 20-15, $587
10th: Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C., 10 bass, 20-2, $513
Complete results can be found here.
Moore takes co-angler crown
Tim Moore of Newton, N.C., weighed in 10 bass totaling 20 pounds even Sunday to win $2,200 in the co-angler division.
Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers:
2nd: Jeff Rikard, Leesville, S.C., 10 bass, 18-8, $1,100
3rd: James Spivey, Whiteville, N.C., nine bass, 17-5, $734
4th: Keith Thomasson, Abbeville, S.C., nine bass, 17-1, $513
5th: Todd Lawrence, Rock Hill, S.C., 10 bass, 16-13, $440
6th: Brian Moss, Inman, S.C., eight bass, 16-11, $403
7th: Jason Hueble, Whitmire, S.C., nine bass, 16-11, $367
8th: Shane Cantley, Elgin, S.C., 10 bass, 15-10, $330
9th: John Cook, Matthews, N.C., eight bass, 15-8, $293
10th: Stuart Toney, Raeford, N.C., seven bass, 13-10, $257
Complete co-angler results can be found here.
The top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers based on point standings will qualify for the Oct. 11-13 Regional Championship on Kerr Lake in Henderson, N.C. Boaters will compete for a top award of a Ranger Z518 with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard and a Chevy Silverado, while co-anglers will fish for a new Ranger Z518 with a 200-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard.
The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 40 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and compete to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing - the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the EverStart Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.
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FLW is the industry's premier tournament-fishing organization, providing unparalleled fishing resources and entertainment to our sponsors, fans and host communities. FLW is offering anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money nationwide in 2012 over the course of 191 tournaments across five tournament circuits, each providing an avenue to the sport's richest payday and most coveted championship trophy - the Forrest Wood Cup. FLW is committed to providing a lifestyle experience that is the "Best in Fishing, On and Off the Water," through a variety of platforms including tournaments, outdoor expos and the world's richest fantasy sports game - FLW Fantasy Fishing. For more information about FLW and FLW Fantasy Fishing, visit FLWOutdoors.com or FantasyFishing.com and look for FLW on Twitter and Facebook.


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Historical fiction, Religion & spirituality | eBook
A deep spiritual vein runs through this novel, a story which attempts to resurrect the life of Luke the Evangelist. Featuring a host of both factual and fictional characters, The Scribe discusses the aftermath of the crucifixion and the birth of the gospels.
An Irish writer living in Wexford, Ireland, this writer's works include The Nationalists, The Soaring Spirit, Kolbe and Land of Our Father amongst other works.


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Section 504Section 504 is the part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which protects qualified individuals with disabilities. It is a civil rights act which protects the civil and constitutional rights of persons with disabilities. Section 504 and special education are two separate divisions.A person qualifies for a 504 plan if he or she has a mental or physical impairment which substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities and the impairment must impact the child's education. Major life activities include caring for one's self, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working. When a condition does not substantially limit a major life activity, then the individual does not qualify under Section 504.Some possible categories where Section 504 might apply could be: asthma, HIV, Tourette's syndrome, ADD/ADHD, alcoholism, heart malfunctions, communicable diseases, blood disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, drug addictions, respiratory conditions, epilepsy, cancer, birth defects, etc.Students who do qualify for a 504 plan may receive services and accommodations to assist them in their educational advancement. Possible services might include: related services, program/classroom modifications, and test accommodations.Ms. Margaret Schlegel, the Director of Special Education, is the 504 Coordinator. She facilitates the 504 process, which is very similar to the special education process. The differences between 504 and special education are as follows:
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PLACE is a collection of designs, thoughts, and inspiration for a creative and intentional lifestyle.
I grew up in a small town in Kansas, which provides a deep rooted appreciation for hard work and handcrafted solutions. I received my formal design education in Boston and after a successful career in commercial design returned to the Midwest with my husband and children to be near family. I love variety and my other creative endeavors have ranged from creating a line of hand-crafted greeting cards that were distributed nationally, a line of widely published commercial office furniture, and a line of organic garden seed kits that were sold through Anthropologie. The creation of numerous products allowed me to express my creativity while my children were younger and now I'm able to apply this extensive knowledge to help others.
Design inspiration comes from everyday life, but having a few classics to fall back on doesn't hurt. Guiding inspiration for our home came from Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt, Charles and Ray Eames, and most all Midcentury Scandinavian design.
Design and creativity is woven into our everyday family life. My own home that I designed, along with my husband, 8 years ago has been an evolving canvas to test new ideas, incorporate new materials and push the boundaries on affordable and sustainable design. Our home has won numerous awards and been published extensively in local and national periodicals. This overwhelming response has confirmed my belief that people desire carefully edited and thoughtful design solutions. I'm humbled and excited to share my point of view with you.
Place / blog is a collection of thoughts, inspiration, and designs for a creative and intentional lifestyle.
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Daniel Doron, The Jerusalem Post, Nov 11, 2004
Most economics graduates know economic 'technology,' but nothing about the ideas underlying a free-market economy. Despite Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's courageous economic reforms, the Israeli economy remains mired in low productivity and growth. High unemployment, low wages, and the inability of hundreds of thousands of families to make ends meet create serious social problems.For some 60 years of socialism and then statism, our economy has been choked by heavy government regulation and red tape, by inefficient monopolies, and the misallocation of investments by a banking duopoly.For decades, Israel has been saddled with "progressive" labor laws and unemployment benefits that have diminshed the incentive to work. This is why a nation with arguably the best human capital, a country in which more than 100 billion foreign dollars have been invested, cannot provide most of its workers with more than a $1,200 average monthly wage.But instead of drawing the obvious conclusions and working on pro-market reforms that will unleash Israel's enormous potential, powerful ideological groups and vested interests - peopled by our university-educated elites - are fighting tooth and nail to preserve the status quo. They fight to make Israeli workers even more dependent on welfare and political handouts.Generously funded by Diaspora Jews who ought to know better, such NGOs as The New Israel Fund (with an annual budget in excess of $20 million) are spawning hundreds of shell organizations run by Marxists.In a Social Activism Day at Hebrew University, almost all the booths enlisting student volunteers were New Israel Fund, pro- Palestinian and anti-capitalist fronts. These "social action" organizations, pursuing the double agenda of anti-Zionism and anti- capitalism, reflect the teaching of many of our professors, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Protected by academic tenure, they teach Marx as a great economist, but barely mention market economics, and if yes, only negatively (from a long litany of market failures to the "fact" that Milton Friedman - an ally of Pinochet - has not only ruined the economy of Chile but also Israel's, as adviser to Menachem Begin).A search of the Hebrew University library catalog reveals hundreds of citations for Marx, but only three for Smith, Friedman and Hayek. In 30 years, Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom has been borrowed 12 times - an indication of how often he is mentioned by our liberal and pluralistic professors. Most graduates of economics know only economic "technology," but nothing about the ideas that underlie a free-market economy. There is no course offered on the history of economic ideas.THE WELL-FUNDED welfare lobby never rests. In the recent Sderot Social Conference, it assembled various groups from academia, the government and other "social agency" bureaucracies (such as the Jewish Agency) with NGO advocacy groups to promote what they call "a civil agenda" - as distinct from the economic and security agenda that they claim dominates two other famous gatherings, the Herzliya and the Caesarea conferences.And what is this "civil agenda"? You guessed it: poverty, the income gap, minority "rights" - anything that calls for more government intervention and expenditure. Poverty's root cause - our anti-productive system - was not even mentioned.By appealing to politicians and top bureaucrats with the populist tactic of holding the conference in a development town rather than in a posh hotel, the conference managed to draw quite a few of them to its panels. But poor organization and an attempt to touch on all the pet peeves of the welfare lobby - from advocacy of greater government involvement in economic "development" and employment, in education, health, and welfare to feminism, protest movements and anti-establishment films, to "who is a Jew," to mourning (an "anti-military" issue) to feminist issues and to discrimination against minorities - made this a very confusing event lacking any focus.But perhaps a focus was not even intended. Maybe the main purpose of the conference was to advance a radical leftist agenda to center stage. The telltale sign that this is so was the partial funding of the conference by The New Israel Fund, and the granting by the conference of its Social Prize to two of the fund's most radical organizations.But more about the conference.On a building at the entrance of the impressive Sapir College campus in Sderot, a huge sign read: "Education will prevail." The questions that sprang to mind were "When?" and "In what manner?"For more than 60 years, Israel has been spending on education as much as, if not more than, any Western country. The results, however, are dismal. Not only do Israeli elementary school pupils lag behind those of many less-developed countries in language skills and mathematics, but our higher education is also in grave trouble. Admitting ever more ill-educated students, the universities do very little to help them catch up on the educational basics that must underpin all learning.Instead, in most humanities and social science classes, they get indoctrinated in crypto-Marxist ideas, "post modernist" nihilism, and a hostility toward markets and enterprise.Consequently, most university students graduate with a Third World statist-welfarist orientation. They believe that the national income somehow descends from heaven like manna, and that the only problem is howto divide it equitably according to the mantras of "social justice."Since most of the Israeli elites are university trained, this acquired mind-cast has had a harmful effect on public debate and policy, and on Israel's economic performance and the state of its society.*******Israel now has its own "Campus Watch" watchdog and web site, entitled Israel Academia Monitor. See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=72429and visit its web site at http://israel-academia-monitor.com/See also http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/nov/21_10.htmlLet's all help spread
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A Mt. Lemmon wedding at Sunrise
When a couple lives to rock climb together – and got engaged on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley – where do you think they'd choose to hold their wedding ceremony? Well yes, of course! Their favorite mountainous spot.
For Russ and Amy, that place happens to be the 'Wall of Trundling Trolls' in the Santa Catalina Mountains, near Tucson. I had the huge joy of creating and leading their wedding ceremony, held on November 11, 2011. Thankfully I have a few photos, because words feel pretty feeble in attempting to capture the magic of this place. Being up there as the sun rose in a fiery sky and the full moon set amidst silver clouds, made it all the more magical!
I opened the ceremony by ringing a bell and smudging the couple of honor with sage. I shared John O'Donohue's Blessing For Marriage. Before exchanging their personal vows and rings, I shared a few of Russ and Amy's beliefs about marriage:
" To both of you, entering marriage means being together in a completely honest and loving way. It means walking beside each other because you pretty fiercely want to. While beside each other, you become who you really want to be."
Pretty wise words, eh?
I love how the 'dogs of honor' were with us, too – Bear and Abby – Amy and Russ's fur kids. Little Miss Abby perched herself on the rocks right next to us, during the whole ceremony. She definitely took part in the fun!
During the ring exchange, I shared the meaning and symbolism of the rings Russ had custom-made out of stainless steel by a friend, with an heirloom diamond in Amy's ring from his Grandmother. A videographer was capturing this all on tape for friends and family to see later, so the storytelling was important for many reasons!
No doubt for Amy and Russ after a two-year engagement and lots of planning, PLUS the hour long hike into this breathtaking site, my pronouncement of their marriage and their big kiss was a great exclamation point on an amazing morning. Then Russ had even more in mind: he packed in a big bottle of champagne for us to enjoy a celebration toast, too!
What a completely amazing place and time for a ceremony. I feel so grateful to have been a part of this and wish you the best in life, Mr. & Mrs. Whitacre! Here we are together after the climb out. I think your smiles say it all! Congratulations with lots of love to you always!


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The ESIP Federation, in cooperation with NOAA, seeks to share the community's knowledge with scientists who increasingly need to be better data managers, as well as to support workforce development for new data management professionals. Over the next several years, the ESIP Federation expects to evolve training courses which seeks to improve the understanding of scientific data management among scientists, emerging scientists, and data professionals of all sorts.
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If you're a small business or entrepreneur you can bet your bottom dollar that the high gas prices are affecting you. It probably will be your "bottom dollar" too!
Regardless of what the politicians are telling us, and regardless whether you deliver your products to the client or not the price of fuel is affecting you. It's affecting your business because it's affecting the consumer – your consumers.
In a recent survey done by the National Retail Federation they state, "Whether gas prices pose a fiscal or psychological concern consumers are affected regardless of income."
Some interesting stats show that from the number of adults nationwide16.4% delayed a major purchase such as cars, TV, or furniture. Dining out has been reduced by 25.2%, 31.2% decreased vacation travel plans, 17.3% are spending less on groceries, and 23.7% are spending less on clothing.
That equates to the fact that restaurants, travel agencies, motel/hotels, car dealers, furniture stores, and retail clothing stores are all going to be affected by gas prices. If any one of those listed is the business you're doing, then your bottom line of profits is definitely affected. The interesting part of all that is that it didn't matter if those polled were in the $50K+ income bracket or less than $50K, the results were the same.
The only distinction seemed to be that adults in the age bracket of 45-54 years of age had the highest percentages but with the same outcome. For instance of the 25.2% of adults that reduced dining out, 28.6% of them were in that age bracket, and so on down the line. The survey also noted that 70% of the consumers of that age group were impacted by higher gas prices.
As you might have guessed, when these survey figures were broken down by region the West was higher in all categories than the NE, Mid-West, or Southern regions. Still only 5.7% of us have increased carpooling.
It's a fact, whether we like it or not, that every penny spent on gasoline is a penny kept from retailers. Looking beyond just the retail industry, what about the service business. The cost of doing business for a repairman is going to increase as the expense for gasoline increases, and ultimately his prices will reflect that increase. It doesn't matter whether he's doing electrical, roofing, renovating, plumbing, whatever service drives up to your home is going to cost more in the long run.
Ultimately, as the domino effect goes into play, those who can least afford price increases will be the hardest hit. Seniors and retirees on fixed incomes just have to suck it up and bear the price increases. As the survey pollsters have said income levels didn't vary results of choices, it still varies the ability to handle the domino effects. If income remains stationery but prices rise, there's definitely an affect on those with fixed incomes.
For the entrepreneur to overcome the situation it requires some really extreme methods. Following are some tips to keep your expenses down:
* Order supplies online, anticipating a price increase, and have them delivered to you.
* Research your competitors online and save the gas.
* Group doing an errand or two when they're in the vicinity of a scheduled client meeting.
* Do more of your business by mail, email, or on the internet. You can do just about anything from paying a vendor to transferring funds from one bank account to another on the internet, and you don't use any gas. The only time you have to go to the bank is to make a deposit.
* If you conduct business at Trade Shows and have to travel find ways to cut corners. Carpool to the airport with a colleague or even a nearby competitor. (You're both going to be doing business at the same show anyway.) Perhaps, you can combine two trips with only one return home after the second trip. Perhaps putting an ad in the Trade Show program can save you making a trip. (You could use that plan for the less important trade show.)
* Consider whether media advertising for your business would be cheaper than what you've been doing in person considering gas prices.
That's just a few ideas to get those little gray cells working. After all, as an entrepreneur you've done marketing on a shoestring before. I'm sure you can come up with at least ten more ideas than I've given you. You might also want to check out the web site: http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?=(put in your zip code)
At that site you can find the cheapest gas prices in your area. I'd venture to say that these rankings change daily, so check it out when you need gas.


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Monday, October 27, 2008
Now is the time to plant bulbs for spring. Tulips for the most part should be treated as annuals and replaced every year, or at least supplemented for best show. Daffodils are reliably perennial.
The easiest way to plant bulbs is to loosen soil, and plant according to bulb planting instructions, usually about 5" deep, and about 4-5" apart. Cover, add compost if necessary, water, and add some mulch for the top.
Voila! In spring you have a beautiful display of colorful bulbs.
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Once the poets resounded over the battlefield; what voice can outshout the rattle of this metallic age that is struggling on toward its careening future? And indeed it hardly requires the call, its own battle-din roars into song. But so far no-one has succeeded in singing an epic of peace. What is it about peace, that keeps its inspiration from enduring and makes it almost untellable? Should I now give up? if I do give up, mankind will lose its story-teller. And once mankind loses its story-teller, then it will have lost its childhood.
While I was in North Carolina for Christmas, I picked up a copy of The Independent and noticed a sad theme for the end of 2002 issue: suicide. David Need's review of Jack Miles' Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God (Vintage Press) says Miles, who won a Pulitzer for God: A Biography, presents a Jesus who "is an incarnate God, come to kill himself, in order to rob the Devil of the power of death." Needs is rightly disturbed by this thesis, but initially I thought it was odd that he expressed great worry over the possible influences of Miles' Jesus, especially among those who would imitate a god-man "who, so as to preserve his power, destroys the world." Suicide surfaces later in the same issue of The Independent in a movie review of The Hours, a film based on a novel that is a tribute to Virginia Woolf. The film critic, Godfrey Cheshire, wonders if in The Hours' depiction of "acts of radical self-determination, including suicide," the film endorses "suicide as an existential choice." Chesire knows he is on dangerous ground here, but he pushes on to claim that
"Ultimately, the act–or threat–of suicide serves not to deny or obliterate life, but to underscore the preciousness of each moment, day or hour. . . . No matter how damaging they may be to oneself or others, in every radical act of self-determination lies the hope of a life fully lived, and a life fully honored."
This is foolishness. No one responds to real suicide or real threats of suicide with this sort of romantic, aesthetic appreciation. It must be a good measure of deadness in our overmediated minds that makes us feel "life" or hope in the vicarious experience of violent, especially suicidal, self-determination in film or fiction. After reading Cheshire's review, I no longer felt that David Need was odd in his concern that some people might read Miles' and find desperate, suicidal acts somewhat attractive. Need is on to something. Elsewhere in my holiday reading, I came across something that reminded me that a nihilistic death-wish–to preserve or even, paradoxically, to create power and/or oneself through self-destruction–is deeply ingrained in the Western mind. J. R. R. Tolkien makes this warning in The Return of the King, which is the last book of The Lord of the Rings. There, a radically deformed mind is depicted in Denethor, who has become possessed with the enemy, Sauron's, totalitarian dream of power in the very effort of opposing him. Denethor goes mad and tries to kill himself along with his wounded, unconscious son, Faramir, but Denethor only succeeds in killing himself. Trying to call Denethor back to sanity, Gandalf the wizard tells him,
"Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death. And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death."
Need, Cheshire and Tolkien returned to my mind on December 26 when I (who seldom watch any TV) perversely took in two consecutive episodes of CSI which were followed by another realistic violent crime program. Often single episodes of old ER reruns make me wonder about the psyches of people who routinely watch trauma shows. (Perhaps the acronymic titles serve to mask the too-obvious fact that we are watching aestheticized depictions of sterile, morbid, quintessentially modern scenes: the Emergency Room, the Crime Scene Investigation.) I switched the channel to the NewsHour on PBS which featured a spot on Atlanta's notorious urban sprawl, which is also a kind of urban death-wish as everyone (especially dystopic sci-fi writers) intuitively recognizes. Following this feature there was an interview of Chris Hedges, a New York Times reporter who has won an award for Human Rights Journalism and a Pulitzer for writing on global terrorism. Hedges spoke about his book, War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (Public Affairs, Perseus Group, 2002):
[War is] maybe the supreme drug of human existence. It has a fantastic… a quality of the grotesque, a dark beauty; and the bible called it "the lust of the eye," and warned believers against it. It creates a landscape that's almost beyond the realm of imagination. Of course you have the adrenaline rush, you have that exhilaration that comes with that constant flirtation with danger. And it becomes hard to live outside of its environment, often even for the victims.
Hedges read the following passage from his book on the air:
"We believe in the nobility and self-sacrifice demanded by war, especially when we are blinded by the narcotic of war. We discover in the communal struggle the shared sense of meaning and purpose, a cause. War fills our spiritual void. I do not miss war, but I miss what it brought. I can never say I was happy in the midst of the fighting in El Salvador or Bosnia or Kosovo, but I had a sense of purpose, of calling. And this is a quality war shares with love, for we are in love, also able to choose fealty and self-sacrifice over security."
How has Hedges dealt with this experience, which he found so attractive? He says he has not chosen security:
I wouldn't put it that way. I would say I've chosen not to engage in the necrophilia that is war, not to flirt with my own destruction anymore. You know, the ancient Greeks and Romans… for the ancient Greeks and Romans, war was a god. And it began with the sacrifice of the other, but it always ended with self-sacrifice and self-annihilation. And I think when you don't understand war, when you allow war to control you, that's what war's final cost entails: Self-obliteration.
As Gandalf or Elrond might say, this is good and wise counsel, not just about war but about the deeper issue: how we make meaning in our lives and world, how we use our power in choices of self-determination.
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I woke up this morning feeling off. Have you ever been that way? It's an odd feeling to say the least and a scary feeling at most. I often take "pride" in feeling "normal". I'm not always real sure what normal is, but for me it's knowing what the day is about to bring and what tasks I have on hand to "accomplish". But this morning, I felt off...odd...out of place.
The days that I feel this way are the days I immediately say, "OK, God, What do you have in store for me today, because I don't feel right?". These are the days I am more aware of the people around me, the songs I hear have a new message, and I know that I need quiet time to hear God's very still voice.
A heavy heart I have today, a melancholy type of mood. Emotions are a funny thing. They can leave you on top of the mountain or they can leave you in the valley of despair. Although feelings are important, I know they can mislead. That is why I am right now on guard, and praying for God's Wisdom.
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As you may know, I love mineral makeup. They are preservative-free and you can use them on your eyes, lips, face, and even nails. I did a tutorial on how to use pigments on your nails, please click here to view if you haven't seen it before.
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After checking if your pigments are lip safe or not, it is fun time! Usually, mineral blushes are lip safe and the amount of pigments is less in there compared to eye shadows where they are full of pigments.
The easiest way to use mineral pigments on your lips is to dip a lip balm into your jar of pigments and glide it on your lips. Yes, it's that simple! If you want a matte color, just use a waxy lip balm such as the original ChapStick. If you want more shine, use something like the Nivea Essential Care lip balm.
The second way to use pigments on your lips is to apply it with a lip gloss. However, since lip gloss is a liquid, to avoid contamination, you should take a small aliquot of pigments out of the container and dip your lip gloss wand in it. Also, you can mix a little bit of clear gloss with the pigments to create a customize color as well.
Last but not least, you can use pigments on top of your lipstick to add more dimension to the look. For example, you can pat some glittery red pigments on top of your already applied red lipstick for an extra pop. People will want to know how you get that beautiful look.
That's all for now, folks! I hope you enjoy the tips. If you have any extra tips on how to use mineral pigments, I'd love to hear from you.
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Charles Krauthammer has a wonderful article on why Australia is such a good friend of our nation, and why we like them so much in return. One reason? Australian House of Representative members like Julia Gillard who express their distaste for opponents in rather plain terms: "I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.''
Regardless of your politics, the article's quite a good read.
(Krauthammer admits some bias to Aussies, having married one.)
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Structures created during cataclysmic collisions between objects left over from planet formation or something unknown?
Space news (July 13, 2015) – collisions indicating possible gravitational effects of unseen orbiting exoplanets or consequences of the star traveling through interstellar space –
Space scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope recently completed a visible-light imaging survey of the debris field systems around 10 young stars between the ages of 10 million to 1 billion years old. Debris fields they studied in order to better understand the early solar system and formation of the planets.
"It's like looking back in time to see the kinds of destructive events that once routinely happened in our solar system after the planets formed," said survey leader Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory.
What did the survey find?
Space scientists studying the evolution of stars and the formation of planets used to think debris fields surrounding young stars should be composed of simple pancake-like structures.
The complexity and diversity in debris fields studied in this recent survey strongly suggest this scenario is a little more involved than theories suggest. Facts indicate the possibility of gravitational effects of unseen exoplanets hidden within the dusty debris, the results of the young star traveling through interstellar space, or something unthought of as the reason for the deviation from theory.
"We find that the systems are not simply flat with uniform surfaces," Schneider said. "These are actually pretty complicated three-dimensional debris systems, often with embedded smaller structures. Some of the substructures could be signposts of unseen planets." The astronomers used Hubble's Space Telescope
Imaging Spectrograph to study 10 previously discovered circumstellar debris systems.
Star HD 181327 Shows Huge Debris Spray
The ring-like debris system surrounding star HD 181327 has irregularities space scientists think could be due to a recent collision between two bodies on the outer part of the system.
"This spray of material is fairly distant from its host star — roughly twice the distance that Pluto is from the sun," said co-investigator Christopher Stark. "Catastrophically destroying an object that massive at such a large distance is difficult to explain, and it should be very rare. If we are in fact seeing the recent aftermath of a massive collision, the unseen planetary system may be quite chaotic."
"Another interpretation for the irregularity is that the disk has been mysteriously warped by the star's passage through interstellar space, directly interacting with the unseen interstellar material. "Either way, the answer is exciting," Schneider said. "Our team is currently analyzing follow-up observations that will help reveal the true cause of the irregularity."
As of 07/09/2015 space scientists have verified the existence of 1858 exoplanets, including 468 exosolar systems with multiple planets, and 92 Earth-size terrestrial-type planets. The structure and overall architecture of the systems discovered so far are more diverse than astrophysicists first proposed.
During this time, space scientists have only viewed about two dozen light-scattering, circumstellar debris systems due to their comparative faintness and proximity to their parent stars. Despite the small sample size in exoplanetary debris systems astronomers view a surprising variety of architectures.
"We are now seeing a similar diversity in the architecture of the accompanying debris systems," Schneider said. "How are the planets affecting the disks, and how are the disks affecting the planets? There is some sort of interdependence between a planet and the accompanying debris that might affect the evolution of these exoplanetary debris systems."
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[UPDATED — 08.09.08 @ Noon EDT: Dr. Peter Rost, over at PharmaLaw blog has done a nice job of following-up on the main points of the below post, and added significant additional detailed analysis — linking mine. Thanks!]
I was alerted, by both Salmon and Wolf, to a fascinating thread over on Vertex's Yahoo! stock chatboard. It was there that I was allowed to "stand, even if only for a moment, on the shoulders of giants", and see the teleprevir (Vertex) v. boceprevir (Schering) next-generation Hepatitis C trials from a much-clearer vantage point.
As Wolf first correctly pointed out, right here, in our comment box, an "initial, preliminary" pass over the Vertex v. Schering study abstracts might lead one to conclude that Schering's candidate is yielding better response rates. If one takes a moment to listen to independent experts in these matters (or, stands for a moment, on those Titans' shoulders), it becomes clear that Vertex's drug candidate may actually be beating Schering's on response rates. We already know the Vertex product is far less likely to cause serious adverse events (Schering's is three times more likely to lead to severe adverse events, in Schering's own words). And that is the crux of the flim-flam on efficacy — it seems Schering is not counting some of its drop-outs (or adverse events) in its calculations of response rates. At least 16, for certain. How so?
Let's read from a summary of what can be seen, from above the forest canopy, about the Schering-Plough press release of Monday, through the eyes of experts on the Vertex boards:
. . . .The Schering press releases consistently refer to a total of 595 patients in the Sprint 1 study of boceprevir. So, let's take that as a given.
The EASL 2008 abstract refers to 59 patients in the low riba arm, and removing those leaves 536.
The EASL abstract and yesterday's press release specify 104 in the control, which leaves 432.
The EASL abstract and yesterday's press release specify 206 in the combined lead-in arms, leaving 226.
As far as the no-lead in arms, the EASL abstract specifies 226, while the press release specifies 210.
The EASL abstract figure of 226 agrees with all of the other numbers, and yesterday's press release specifies 210. The EASL abstract figure of 226 agrees with all of the other numbers [See slide 12 of that PDF link — Ed.].
So, the preponderance of evidence supports the 226 figure being right. Until there is some other explanation, I will assume 226 is right.
But then we are missing 16 patients, and since this an intention to treat analysis they should be there If they had achieved SVR, Schering would certainly have included them as it would have greatly improved how boceprevir looks. But, they didn't.
When Vertex reported their Prove 1 and 2 results they specified the number of patients who had dropped out for adverse events, as well as though who had dropped for other reasons and who had been lost to follow. Vertex counted all of these dropouts as failures, even though most of those lost to follow-yup had had an SVR at last contact. Schering, however, has only reported discontinuations due to adverse events; they have not included those lost to follow-up. Are those 16 patients lost to follow-up? If so, they should have been in the calculations. And if so they would lower the SVR rates by about 4 to 5 points in the no lead-in arms. . . .
It is curious that Schering chose to press release, rather than publish, in a peer-reviewed journal these interim boceprevir results. It is doubly curious, given that Vertex made announcements of important progress on its teleprevir efforts, in Vertex's second quarter 2008 press release on the Friday immediately prior to Schering's Monday presser. That knee-jerk reaction, by Schering's External Communications Group, smelled of desperation, to me, at least — given that it is undisputed that Vertex holds a commanding lead in the race to obtain FDA approval. From these two pressers, then, we may also glean that teleprevir is showing a lower incidence-rate related to severe adverse events, at least in Phase II trials. So, why would Schering be desperate?
Well, the most recent Schering Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC, shows (at page 31, fourth full paragraph from the bottom; when added together with the figures in the second full paragraph on the top of page 32) that Schering generates more than $580 million in revenue (in just the first six-months of 2008) from treating Hepatitis C — but that revenue stream is essentially flat, to slightly decreasing. If we generously assume Schering will sell about $1 billion worldwide of its current generation Hep C treatment drugs in 2008, we begin to see why the race for the next generation Hep C candidate is so critical to Schering.
The "best case" for Schering is that it keeps — but essentially cannibalizes — this existing $1 billion in annual revenue, by being first to market with boceprevir — and is able to convert its Hep C patients to the new regimen. That will let Schering grow share, at least a little.
Now, if — as most predict — Vertex's teleprevir beats Schering's product to market, with at least similarly comparable efficacy — this $1 billion franchise will very quickly vanish from Schering's revenue line.
That is why the press release — that is the hurry — that is the desperation.
Should Vertex "win out", here, Schering will be missing another $1 billion per year in future revenue-streams. Not just opportunity cost, but erosion of existing revenue, as doctors switch Hep C patients worldwide to teleprevir, the next generation Hep C standard of care.
So this likelihood, plus the continuing decline in the Vytorin/Zetia franchise truly spell deeper woes ahead for Schering. On that last subject, Schering cautioned investors — in its most recent Form 10-Q — not to expect as robust sales of, and equity income from Vytorin/Zetia in the second half of 2008, as were seen in the first half. Scheirng's first half 2008 was off 26 percent — and Schering itself is cautioning that will get worse — at the profit line (from the bottom of page 40):
. . . .Based on the expectation of lower U.S. sales from the Merck/Schering-Plough cholesterol joint venture, Schering-Plough expects that equity income will be lower in the second half of 2008 than it was in the first half of 2008. . . .


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The execution for death-row inmate Kosoul Chanthakoummane, who was convicted of killing a real estate agent in McKinney, was halted by an appeals court.
Chanthakoummane was set to die by lethal injection on July 19, however a Collin County trial court is set to review an appeal which says the case used improper forensic evidence and scientifically invalid testimony, according to an article by Kylie Madry for The Dallas Morning News.
He was convicted in 2007 for killing real estate agent Sarah Walker in a model home in McKinney in 2006, the article states. Chanthakoummane maintains his innocence.
The court found him guilty of stabbing Walker in the face and neck in a model home in what his defense attorney called a robbery gone-wrong.
But went wrong is an understatement. A medical examiner testified at Chanthakoummane's trial that Walker was beaten, bitten and stabbed. Of her 33 stab wounds, 10 were deemed fatal wounds. The jewelry she had been wearing was stolen.
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A jury convicted Chanthakoummane after 30 minutes of deliberation and testimony about DNA evidence that placed him at the model home.
As a teenager in North Carolina, Chanthakoummane received parole after holding two women at gunpoint before stealing a car and evading arrest.
The execution, which was planned for next month, is being put off while the court reviews the forensic evidence.
Click here to see what some real estate agents are doing to stay safe following the tragic event.


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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Ephesians 5: thoughts and a tiny bit of actual experience
I just have a few thoughts and if they work out somewhat on the screen I may actually hit "publish". I realize that the topic was really "what is your experience on this topic" so I put in a couple of things at the end but really I couldn't think of anything much to say about that, so this is mostly just thoughts. But they are LIVED thoughts ;-)
First, bottom-line -- women and men are equal in human dignity and freedom of will. So whatever "submit" means, it doesn't mean "accept the fact that you are second-rate". That is probably too obvious to be said. But after all, some men in some periods of history have thought that women were inferior and they have even imagined they had the support of the Church on this so perhaps it isn't as obvious as all that.
God formed the first woman from the rib of the man, but He specially created her soul and the same is true of all her daughters. The Queen of the Angels and the pre-eminent among mere humans is a woman, after all. So no inferiority in value and worth.
Second, St Paul was writing corrective advice -- advice that wouldn't be necessary if there hadn't been a Fall and the consequences of the Fall. That's probably obvious too.
Thirdly, and this just occurred to me, St Paul was writing instructions in the wake of Jesus's teachings on marriage as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus had done something rather revolutionary to the Jews of His time. He had authoritatively restored the original state of marriage which had been temporarily somewhat abrogated due to "the hardness of your hearts." But now those hearts of stone were to be turned into hearts of flesh. Couples were no longer allowed to divorce; marriage was a sacrament and for keeps. Family had always been a primary unit to the Chosen People, though I expect the concept had become Hellenized and Romanized during the latter days. But now, the conjugal relationship had been revealed to have a deep, Eucharistic meaning, analogical to that of the Bridegroom and His Bride, the Church. But such new insights sometimes are attended with confusion. I could see that this new equal footing, this acknowledged complementarity and reciprocal completion, could be attended by some confusion about how to apply the truth to daily life.
This leads me to my fourth thought, which requires going back to the Fall, where Eve, the mother of us all, seized command of the relationship by taking the fruit and eating, and then giving Adam, from whose rib she had been formed, the fruit. The fruit to me thus seems to have been handed over with an implied directive. Adam then relinquished command out of a desire (apparently) to stay close to Eve at all costs, and he took the fruit, surely against his better judgment. Here I admit I am going out on a limb. But I am going to argue that this story plays out as a prototype of the female and male "natural" fallen tendencies in relation to each other, and that this has something to say with regard to Paul's corrective injunctions.
Men, I would argue, don't have to be told to submit. It is something that comes very naturally to them. It is part of their strength, and it can also be a weakness. Sure, they will jostle for first place. But I am always struck by how on athletic fields and in other masculine areas, men are able to acknowledge the best among them, and admire the one who comes in first, without hard feelings or jealousy OR cringing servility. In the past, the best men have had no problem kneeling to a king without feeling a loss to their own dignity. In fact, the most masculine men are usually the ones who can serve nobly and faithfully. Think of the centurion who Jesus spoke of admiringly, who drew the analogy between the men who served him and then applied it to Jesus's power.
Think also of chivalry and the romantic ideal -- a man naturally thinks in terms of service, I believe. Where I think he may sometimes need to be reminded is in the area of "love"-- that is, a faithful and long-term drawing-together, a willingness to be perfected and completed by the other, to stay in the holistic relationship and in the true sense "husband" and cultivate his family rather than making his role a sort of stylized formality. I think that this kind of wholehearted love and commitment is harder for a man. Perhaps Adam reneged on his role when he basically took the "whatever" role when Eve set it upon him, and then laid the blame on her for his own lapse of commitment.
Women, I would argue, don't have to be told to love. They will love whether told to or no. They are attracted to the good even when it's hidden, and receptive to it. They look for completion in a relationship. But they have a harder time submitting, putting their agenda in second place. Even their service and sacrifice can be a form of control if they don't watch out. Ask me how I know, as long as you don't expect me to answer. But "sub-missio" implies making your mission wholeheartedly subordinate to that of the other. I would argue that the feminine difficulty with this goes back to Eve's seizing of the initiative in the relationship of our First Parents, and was decisively set back to rights by Our Lady's Fiat at the Annunciation.
When we look around us at today's post-Christian society, surely we see some corroboration of this hypothesis. What do we see happening when tradition and religion fall by the wayside? We see women taking command of their families as single moms. We see men loving women for a little while and then leaving them in charge, carrying through on the "whatever" role. I am not saying that the single moms struggling to survive or the dads shut off from their family and children WANT to be that way. But this is the sociological picture; this is what seems to be playing out in the default mode, which seems to corroborate Paul's cautionary words.
And look at the churches when women take more of a hand in running things. They do it well; so well that the men tend to shrug "whatever" and decommit, letting the women manage things, to the detriment of the nature of the Church. Again, I don't think men have to be told to submit; they have to resist doing it when it's not right.
A man and a woman brought together in matrimony look into each others' eyes and need to see each other as their companion on the way to Heaven and in the noble duty of raising children equal in spiritual dignity to themselves. My guess is that St Paul was trying to help, by removing a particular type of scale from each partner's eyes that might prevent them from seeing each other truly. How that relationship works out in day to day -- this doesn't seem to be specified by the Church, and I imagine for good reason. Each marital relationship is in a sense a special creation.
To me, the injunction to submit includes respect and warm affection for my husband's differences, the way he is even when it doesn't seem as good as "my" way, and avoiding the temptation to live "through" him (which seems to me to be a form of un-submissiveness). It meets staying committed to him as himself, not as someone to shape and mold, no matter how indirectly. It means not "enabling" him in order to make him dependent on me, and not trying to make him miserable with my moods. But these are particulars, and mostly negative. They won't necessarily apply to anyone else, and they certainly aren't what lies in the heart and soul of our relationship. They are what you might call habits, goals, warning signposts where I've stumbled in the past.
I DON'T think it has much to do with who stays home -- in our case, both of us stay home and work, though his endeavors bring in more money than mine do, and mine are more closely connected with house management and child-raising. But that seems to me to be totally irrelevant -- leaving the home as a norm for economic reasons seems like a post-industrial-revolution artifact to me, somewhat unnatural for both spouses, and I hope it ends up going away! In the past men and women worked in complementary roles and house management, trade and child-raising were much more inter-connected than they seem to be now. But that's (to me) a rather different topic, and so now I'll let this post trickle out to its conclusion.
I will just add that I personally don't find it easy at all to be truly submissive, as opposed to simply passive or withdrawn. And I'm not a choleric and I don't enjoying managing things. So I'm sure it must be very hard indeed for someone whose temperament is more commanding. But I don't think it's easy for any woman.
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Wow, this is fantastic, Willa! This is the freshest reading of this line from scripture that I've read in a long time. And it rings so true to me! I'm going to print it out and read it to my husband.ReplyDelete
As usual, Willa, your reasoning and ability to articulate that reasoning are spot on. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.ReplyDelete
Willa, I read the same posts you did and yours is by far my favorite. You expressed some things here that I have never heard put quite that way, I believe there is some wisdom here. Also, as I was reading I took special note of your mention that Eve was taken from the rib (meaning cell, I believe?)of Adam. I never noticed it before, but that verse alone should disprove the women-are-inferior argument. We're made of the same 'stuff' if you will. Not eloquent, I know, but hey, it's late here and I'm tired. I was too chicken to post my response to the original post, very glad you posted yours.ReplyDelete
Brilliant, Willa!ReplyDelete
I also like that you threw in the part about work location. I completely agree that having our work so separated from our home is post-Industrial. Wendell Berry would definitely say so, and I think the Industrial impace of zoning laws is what we see played out now. Many of the jobs that men leave home to work used to be comfortably done at home, but that is now illegal. We don't allow buisness and home life to mix.
My husband worked at home for a few years, and our homelife definitely benefitted. I think I will always miss that, and I hope he gets to come back home someday...
I totally agree with you that men naturally submit, and that it is both a strength and a weakness. That alone is reason for we women to take care, is it not? My sister-in-law and I have often talked about this (our husbands are twins). At one point early in her marriage, she stopped telling her husband what she wanted, just so she could find out what he wanted--he was so, so willing to serve her! I had to do something similar when we had only one child.
I really loved this. It rang so true. I, also liked what you wrote about both parents working at home for most of history. SO true. Thanks you for this great article. You should write a book about this.ReplyDelete
Excellent post - thanks. I think you're right - especially the point about churches where women end up running everything (and I say this as a woman, running something at a Church, LOL).ReplyDelete


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- When you're pregnant, both you and your growing baby need healthy fat to feel your best. Fat is especially important to your baby's developing brain and nervous system.
- Healthy brain function. They put you in a good mood and keep you mentally sharp.
- Are the building blocks of hormones
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- Essential for vibrant, glowing skin, hair, and nails. A lack of healthy fats in your diet can lead to dull, flaky skin, brittle nails, and dry or easily-damaged hair.
- Easing the spike in blood sugar that results from eating carbohydrates.
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Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fat. While all types of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are good for you, omega-3 fats are proving to be especially beneficial.
Benefits of omega-3 fatty acids:
- Prevent and reduce the symptoms of depression
- Protect against memory loss and dementia
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The following is a list of plant foods rich in essential fatty acids:
Sources of Omega-3 fatty acids: flax seeds, hemp seeds, canola, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, soybeans and its products such as tofu and tempeh. Dark green veggies such as kale, collards, chard, parsley, seaweed, and cereal grasses (wheat & barley grasses) are also good sources because all green (chlorophyll-rich) foods contain Omega-3 fats in their chloroplasts.
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Sources of Omega-6 fatty acids: sunflower, safflower, soybeans, hemp seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, flax seeds.
Omega-9, or monounsaturated oleic and stearic acid, is a non essential fatty acid produced naturally by the body whenever there is enough of either Omega 3 and 6 essential fatty acids. However, if you do not have enough omega 3 and omega 6, then you must get omega 9 from your diet.
This fatty acid plays a role in preventing heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels. Other benefits of omega 9 are that it reduces hardening of the arteries and improves immune function.
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The war on data throttling has been raging on for what seems like forever, with many users left furious that their carrier would slow data speeds to a crawl after X amount of gigabytes (usually two). While most carriers draw a clear line as to when throttling will occur, AT&T has taken a rather shady approach with its unlimited customers in the past, simply stating that "the top five percent of users" will be throttled. The problem is, most users want to know their exact data limit, so this ambiguous barrier just hasn't been good enough.
Today, however, AT&T announced a change to its policy that finally gives a real 'data cap', leaving users with no doubt as to when throttling will begin. Not only that, but the numbers are actually more liberal than we've seen offered by other carriers: 5GB for LTE devices and 3GB for non-LTE devices.
While it's still unclear to what speeds users who break these caps will be throttled down to, it's at least good to see Big Blue setting some clear guidelines. Even though throttling isn't something that we are all happy about or agree with, it's pretty safe to say that we can all call this one a win for unlimited users on AT&T.
With mobile data usage continuing to skyrocket and the availability of spectrum scarce, AT&T, like other wireless companies, manages its network in the most fair way possible so that we can provide the best possible mobile broadband experience for all our customers.
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