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The phrase substitutionary atonement does not occur in the Bible, but the concept underlies the Biblical teaching about salvation from beginning to end. What do these words mean? What is their significance today? Can we leave them aside as relics of a bygone era? Or are they an essential component of our knowledge of Jesus Christ and his salvation?
We know what 'substitute' means. We substitute margarine for butter, and most recipes turn out much the same. Or we think of the sports field, where one player substitutes for another, fulfilling his role, and the game goes on. A substitute takes the place of another. It stands for the other, instead of the other, doing what the other would normally do, filling the role the other would normally fill. Whatever was the desired outcome, it is achieved by the substitute, instead of being achieved by the original.
'Atonement' is not so commonly understood. To 'atone' is to make amends, to make reparation for some offence or injury done to another. The word means literally 'at one'. Atonement then is the action by which previously divided parties are reunited. In a religious setting, 'atonement' is the process of making peace, or achieving reconciliation, between man and his god/gods. In the Bible 'atonement' refers to the action decreed by God for the re-establishment of a positive relationship between man (the sinner) and himself (the holy God).
This Biblical concept of substitutionary atonement is based on a number of significant Biblical teachings:
[1]God's holiness
Firstly, God's holiness is so pure and perfect that neither sin nor the sinner can survive in his immediate presence (Exodus 33:21-23). This awesome purity and otherness of God is depicted in Scripture by descriptions of brilliant, dazzling light and glorious radiance (Isaiah 6:1-7; Ezekiel 1:25-28; Matthew 17:1,2; Acts 9:1-4; Revelation 1:12-18). In the presence of such holiness even the godliest of men are overcome. In the presence of this holiness even our righteousness is filthy (Isaiah 64:6).
[2] Our sinfulness
Secondly, standing in stark contrast to the holiness of God, is the sinfulness of man. This sinfulness is not merely a matter of our many individual sins, but, more importantly, the basic orientation of our hearts and minds: we are sinners. From the original rejection of the authority of God in Genesis 3 our mindset has been one of rebellion against him (Romans 1:18-31; 3:9-18). Even when we appear to be religious the god or gods we worship are those we have made for ourselves, either with our hands or with our thoughts, gods we can manage and manipulate. It is out of this foundational sin in which we reject God that all specific acts of sin originate.
[3] Separation from God
Thirdly, all of this sinfulness and sin bars our entry into the presence of God (Isaiah 59:2,3), incurs his wrath (Romans 1:18), and holds us captive to an inescapable and fatal punishment (Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12; 6:23). We, like the servant in Jesus' parable, stand before the King with a massive, unpayable debt, and nothing with which to pay (Matthew 18: 21-35). Utterly destitute. Utterly incapable of making good our standing in his presence. It is an impossible situation.
[4] God's amazing love for us
Fourthly, the amazing and incredible thing in all of this is that God, the holy One, still wants us, the sinners, to live (John 3:16; Ezekiel 33:11; 2 Peter 3:9). In an act of extreme love he provides a way of escape. As we saw in the study on justification, God's action in the death of Jesus Christ enables him to do two things at once: to remain true to his justice and holiness, and at the same time to acquit and accept the sinner (Romans 3:25b-26).
He does all of this by means of substitutionary atonement: the action in which reparation for our sins is made on our behalf by a substitute. When Jesus Christ died on the cross he was taking the punishment for our sins. He died for us. We could almost say: he died as us. The Old Testament anticipates this action of Jesus Christ in the role of the Passover lamb (Exodus 12:) where the lamb dies instead of the firstborn in the house; and in the regular Hebrew sacrifices (Leviticus 1 to 7) and the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16) where animals die as substitutes for sinners. The Old Testament also makes direct prophecies of the death of Jesus Christ as a substitute for sinners (Isaiah 53:4-11).
The New Testament teaches that substitutionary atonement is the key significance of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Paul calls this death 'a sacrifice of atonement' (Romans 3:25); he says that 'Christ died for the ungodly', and 'Christ died for us' (Romans 5:6,8; italics added) where the 'for' means 'instead of' or 'in the place of'. So effective is this substitution that Paul teaches that the believer died with Christ: his death was our death; when he died, we died (Romans 6:1-11; 7:1-6; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 2:12,20; 3:3). We must never understand the 'for' in 'Christ died for us' to be merely a kind act, such as drying the dishes for someone, or buying a gift for someone. It is far, far greater than that. It is the 'for' of substitution. In this substitutionary 'for' Jesus Christ took that all what was ours - all the sin, guilt, condemnation, wrath, judgement, punishment, rejection by God, separation from God, death. He took it all. As Peter wrote: 'He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree' (1Peter 2:24). As Paul wrote: 'God made him who had no sin to be sin for us' (2 Corinthians 5:21).
That is not all that is involved in this substitutionary atonement. By this death Christ wiped out our debit balance. That in itself leaves us at zero. But he does not leave us there and say, 'Okay! You're on your own now. I've wiped out your sin debt, now you make good your own righteousness, you build up for yourself that one hundred percent goodness that God requires of you one hundred percent of the time. The ball's in your court.' God knows, even if we don't, that such a salvation would not last, even for an hour.
In this incredible exchange in which Jesus takes what is ours, he also gives us what is his. The New Testament expresses it this way:
'For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!' (Romans 5:10).
'If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection' (Romans 6:5).
'In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus' (Romans 6:11).
'It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption' (1 Corinthians 1:30).
'God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God' (2 Corinthians 5:21).
' ... giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light' (Colossians 1:12).
' ... he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation' (Colossians 1:22).
' ... you have been given fulness in Christ ... ' (Colossians 2:10).
' ... your life if now hidden with Christ in God' (Colossians 3:3).
- He took our sin: he gives us his righteousness.
- He was rejected by God: we are accepted.
- He bore our condemnation: we are free from accusation.
- He took our guilt: we are given peace with God.
- He was cursed for us: we are blessed in him.
- He died: we live.
In this way Jesus Christ, our substitute, made atonement for our sin. In this way God reconciled us to himself.
This act of God in Christ Jesus, this substitutionary atonement, makes two things clear and certain:
- the sheer impossibility that we could ever save ourselves, and
- the sheer impossibility of those who genuinely trust in Christ ever losing their salvation.


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A Royal Affinity
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Three hundred years ago history suffered no division. Academics and amateurs were happy with the same mixture of fable and truth. King Lud lurked in the mists of London's antiquity: and Brit, hoary, woad-stained, festooned with improbable legends, remained a convenient island terminus for the British Kings' genealogy on its remorseful journey back through David, Noah, and so to Adam and the first thunderclaps that started it all in 4004 B. C. True, skepticism had been spawned, and throughout Western Europe grave and dedicated men were poring over charters, deeds, and cartularies, and casting a jaundiced eye on those monkish tales that had done service for history for nearly a thousand years. By 1600 the professional historical world had started and the grosser forms of historical fable were being pushed into children's books, but the day of the amateur was far from over. Disentanglement, in fact, has never been achieved. Indeed the true professional was a rare bird before the late nineteenth century, at least in the English-speaking world. History remained literature: the domain of gentlemen who could read, write, and think. Even the great classics of our historical literature—Gibbon, Macaulay, Prescott, Parkman, Motley, and the rest were written by men who, by German standards, possessed next to no historical training and, apart from Gibbon, showed it clearly enough. Now all is changed: the gulf between professional and amateur is so wide that it is immediately discernable. The difference does not lie in type of historical activity. The story of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, for example, possesses obviously resounding popular appeal and has attracted amateurs like butterflies to sedum, yet it was a professional, Garrett Mattingly, who produced the most widely read, the most deservedly popular piece of historical literature on the subject, not by rejecting his professional training and standards or even vulgarizing them, but by using them as the basis of his art and so giving it a depth, a profundity, a truth that no amateur could match.
And historical truth, it would now seem, can rarely be achieved outside the professional world. Certainly these three books under review lack it. In spite of their parade of unpublished manuscript sources and bibliographies replete with learned articles, they are incurably amateur. What scholarship they have, they tend to wear askew, as if a child had hurriedly dressed in its parents' clothes. They are not all as bad as Miss Wright, who has scarcely had time to cover the nakedness of her historical knowledge with a few shreds and patches of bibliographical patter. She solemnly refers several times to the London Bureau of Records and its unpublished manuscripts. There is no such place. Whether a major work of scholarship is in or out of her bibliography must be based on either whim or ignorance. J. F. Chance's monumental works on the diplomatic history of Western Europe in the early eighteenth century has obviously not been read, although very germane to Miss Wright's purpose if she ever wished to…
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Ok ladies and germs I have a challenge. What is the best FOUR DOOR family car currently on the market for 20k. I do not care if it is an auto or a manual. You have 2 kids in their teens who need to be driven around to practices, so leg room is essential. Also you like to go on vacations once year or more and usually you drive about 1000 miles so you'll need a big trunk for the luggage.
As you can see from the picture above I nominate the Lincoln Navigator. One with 50k from 2007-2008 can be found for roughly 20k. For me ever since I was four I have always had a crush on these big things. It has more than enough room for just about anything you need to haul and the security of 4x4 in the tough midwestern winters. Also I think they look the business. Plus I can haul wood for the fireplace in the winter time.
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Dieting is something that most of us have tried in the past. Whether it's going on a nutrient-strict diet that attempts to strip certain things like carbs from your day or following a low-calorie diet in order to lose excess weight, dieting can sometimes be put in a bad light. In fact, there are probably hundreds of articles on the internet talking about why dieting never works or how small changes can make a bigger difference than a drastic diet. Some of these articles have merit, but most of them are jumping on the bandwagon of "diets don't work!" and will exaggerate their claims just to get views and stir more controversy.
Sadly, this just misinformation and for many people, diets can help in more ways than they would imagine. In fact, you might even believe much of it because you've tried to diet in the past but you've seen the same thing; it just doesn't work out for you, you're end up paying a lot for foods you don't usually eat and you feel upset at the end of the dieting period and you've not lost weight. To help you out, we've put together four of the most common reasons why your dieting isn't working and how you can fix it.
Are you having too many cheat days with your diet? It could be the thing ruining your diet the most! (Image: Pexels)
1. You're not sticking with it for long enough
Diets can help you lose weight, but only if you stick with them for long enough. The truth is, if you burn only 100 more calories than you consume in a single day, you're still going to lose weight but at a much slower pace. If you stick with it for long enough you'll eventually see results, but this isn't what people want to be told. People want instant gratification so they try to consume as few calories as they can one day, but then they'll binge out on their cheat day or they'll only be able to stick with it for a couple of days before they give up.
The key here is to make lifestyle changes that you can actually stick with. Don't go on a diet that doesn't suit your tastes or one that puts you too far out of your comfort zone. If it's something you can turn into a habit and includes foods that you already eat on a regular basis, then you can always stick to it and make it work for you.
There are some really easy switches to make which will benefit you long term: change your cooking oil for healthy oils, cutting out snacks and switching sugar drinks for water are simple changes which make a big difference.
2. You haven't found the right diet for you
Speaking of diets that can fit your needs, you also need to find the right diet. There are things like the shake that weight diet which involve soups and shakes to help you lose weight, there's the infamous Atkins diet that is fantastic for meat lovers and there are also some diets that revolve around eating nothing but natural food.
Whatever diet you pick, it has to connect with you and be relevant to your interests and needs. If you hate the foods you're eating, then it's going to be a terrible idea to stick to your diet and force yourself into it.
Going out for dinner, partying and special events with lots of snacks and food can add lots of calories to your day, especially if you're not watching what you eat! (Image: Pexels)
3. The diet you picked includes exercise
Some diets have a small fine print that say you must exercise for a certain amount each day. These are the types of diets that are usually scams or not worth your time because exercise can make anyone slimmer as long as they watch their calories. It doesn't need to be a specific diet or types of foods that you have to eat as long as you're mindful of how much you consume each day. However, it is completely possible to lose weight without having to exercise much at all, and this is what most good diets hope to achieve.
4. You're not watching your portions
Another good point is to watch your portions. Make sure you're sticking to the exact amounts that each cooking plan or diet guide is giving you. If you eat more than the intended portions, then you're consuming excess calories that need to be cut out in order to lose weight.
Much of this advice is general information about how you should approach eating in the first place. If you want a healthy transformation then it's incredibly important that you try your best to stick to this advice instead of aiming for silly "crash" diets that just aren't sustainable. Remember that the word diet should mean the types of foods that you eat on a regular basis. It should become a regular thing, not something you do temporarily unless you have the discipline to stick with it for temporary weight gains or loss.
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One of those moments for me was with Daniel, one of the kids at the Eugemot Orphanage in eastern Ghana. After a couple of days on the ground, our mission team from Arab spent some time with the children down by the creek. We watched a few of the older ones doing their chores, washing clothes on the rocks by the stream. Some were there to fetch water to carry on their heads, in characteristic African fashion. But Daniel, among others, was one of the younger ones there to play.
Two times he started to jump into my arms and twice I refused. After all, I still had my phone in my pocket. But the third time, I gave in and opened my arms, and here he came. Whoosh!
I turned him over my shoulder head first, threatening to drop him in the water behind me, just as I had always done with my own kids. He squealed with delight. I turned him back over, and that's when they snapped the picture.
For just a moment, all the children of the world shined with the same light in many different colors, whether they were my own children or one of God's many children. As Thomas Merton famously said of others he saw in one of those prism-like moments on a street corner in Louisville, how could I possibly tell them they were all shining like the sun?
What an experience it was to go to Ghana. During the New Year holidays, twelve other adults from Arab First United Methodist Church went with me to Hohoe, a village in eastern Ghana. We went to visit Mama Eugenia and the Christian orphanage that we have supported for a number of years there. We visited during the New Year's holiday, a major time of thanksgiving for Ghanian people. We went to church late New Year's Eve after enjoying hours of African drumming, singing a mixture of folk and gospel songs, and dancing by the bonfire. In addition to the over 30 orphans in residence, many of the older ones had come back to the orphanage from their stay at high school or the university to celebrate at home.
After the big feast, I remembered how to use a saw and a shovel, for in the hot African sun, we helped lay the foundation for a barn we had raised the money to build near their new dormitories. As a result, they will be able to store crops and be more self-sustaining, as any orphanage in a third-world country should be. We made concrete bricks with shovels, dirt, cement, water, and molding. We helped bag a crop of corn. We visited three churches, one of which was a house-church, and offered food relief to families in poverty. We walked through the village to see goats and chickens crossing the road at every turn. We met the local chief and paid our respects. Each night, we had dinner together and reflected on the miracles of the day.
I have been on mission trips before and knew the experience would bless me in more ways than I could possibly bless others, but I had no idea how much I'd be touched by their faith. Ghana is a very Christian country. It is third-world, yet their faith is so simple, so beautiful. They pray to God every time they get in the car, and they believe God provides the food they have to feed their family ... tonight.
It seems there is "God language" and symbolism everywhere. I walked down the dusty street near our hotel to see little shops called "The Lord is My Shepherd" and "His Mighty Hand." I saw "God's Grace Beauty Salon" and "Blessed Assurance Fashion." The bumper stickers on taxis had phrases like "Nothing without grace" on them.
On the Sunday we were there, we had some Sabbath time. After going to worship in an outdoor chapel hut, we headed through the jungle to the waterfalls. In good Methodist fashion, we held a baptismal remembrance service in the cold fresh water and brought home stones to remember it by.
As far as shopping, well, that's not what we were there for but we did stop by the marketplace. Several in our group made it home with djembes (west African hand-made drums) or cutlasses (that's what they call machetes).
I am grateful for the twelve friends I will always cherish for they shared this experience with me: Robert Burton, Brian O'Dell, and Lois O'Dell (the three who coordinated the trip), Tammy Bass, Carl Ivey, Ben Richey, Marc Scarbrough, Lexi Scarbrough, Hannah Shirley, Tarah Sloan, Lianna Smith, and Peyton Tanner. They poked fun at me for being the only one on the whole team that liked Spam and for how short my old shorts were (I had planned on leaving them there!). Half of them were young adults on their first overseas trip, some on their first plane flight ever. What a joy to share this with them.
From the four-hour swinging van rides navigating all the potholes, to the strange way everyone said "you're welcome" when they first saw us on the street, to the daily dose of rice and red sauce, going to Ghana was an intense, fun, deep, and powerful experience. By our standards, they didn't have much ... but on the other hand, they had much more. There was joy always on their faces, and so much about everyday life to love.
But my favorite part? That's easy. It was playing with the children.
Steve West is a husband, father, minister, musician, and writer who pastors Arab First United Methodist Church. His blog, "Musings of a Musical Preacher," is found at www.stevewestsmusings.


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Sean Dyche insists Burnley need to be more assertive away from home, following Saturday's 0-0 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
The Clarets picked up their first point of the season on the road, putting in a fabulous defence performance to give them a share of the spoils.
They had to deal with an onslaught of pressure from United, who recorded the highest amount of shots at goal (37) since the Premier League began.
Despite taking many positives from the result Dyche is adamant there is still room for improvement and that his side need to work on their killer instinct away from Turf Moor.
"I'm really proud of the shape, the basic things we did right, all the ugly things you need to do we did and I'm pleased with that. I won't take that away from the guys,
"I just think when you go to Old Trafford and they go down to 10 men you need to smell blood and try and go for the three points, and that's where we need to grow now."
"In the Championship we would have stepped all over them but today we just looked a little bit unsure", Dyche said.
The manager was quick to praise his side's belief and commitment in particular that of goalkeeper Tom Heaton, who kept his third clean sheet of the season;
"Whatever the result today there was a great belief in the side, it was more of where and what we want to be away from home," he added.
"Tom was excellent down at Southampton and he was excellent again today but he knows he has to be, teams at this level probe in different ways especially teams like United.
"It's important for the players to keep focus and know what they're doing which they did particularly well today."
Burnley became the first team to stop Jose Mourinho's men scoring at home this season - and despite gaining a hard earned point Dyche admits his managerial instinct is disappointed they didn't come away with more.
"To come to Old Trafford and get a point, however you do it, is important and it's very important psychologically in the Premier League and to help us grow.
"I just wanted to come here and take the game on, as a manager you always question everything even when you come away with a result like that".
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Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. The Aelfir who had brought trade and riches, and a future full of promise. But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned forbidden zone, where humans were trapped behind boundary walls 100 feet high. The only people Clara can trust are the Relic Guild, a secret band of magickers sworn to protect the Labyrinth. But the Relic Guild are now too few. To truly defeat their old nemesis Moor, mightier help will be required. To save the Labyrinth - and the lives of one million humans - Clara and the Relic Guild must find a way to contact the worlds beyond their walls.
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Singapore Airlines can become the first airline company to use blockchain
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Blockchain technologies are attractive not only to financial organizations, state bodies, but also to airlines. Singapore Airlines announced its plans to implement blockchain technology in its loyalty program KrisFlyer. This innovation will provide a new way of using bonus miles, Reuters reports.
The company plans to launch a digital wallet this summer and sign partnership agreements with several retailers in Singapore and other countries.
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A remarkable story out of Wandiligong today.
A woman adopted a puppy after an eagle dropped it in her backyard, according to 7News.
She heard the animal in her backyard, adopted him and gave him the name Wandi.
Experts believe he was dropped by an eagle due to the multiple scratch marks on his back.
But the woman got a shock when she took the vet for a DNA test and discovered Wandi was 100% Alpine Dingo.
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Anna May Wong, dubbed "the best dressed woman in the world," made the most of the few opportunities available to her as a Chinese-American actress in Hollywood during the 1920s and 30s, starring in films including The Toll of the Sea and Daughter of the Dragon. But often her best was not enough. In 1937, Wong was passed over for her dream role as O-Lan in The Good Earth, the film adaptation of the Nobel prize-winning book. Luise Rainer, a white actress, was given the role instead, and went on to win Best Actress for the role. 1 Five years later, a disillusioned Wong found a rare starring role in the low-budget Lady from Chungking, one of her final films.
Set in China during WWII, Lady from Chungking follows Chinese guerillas as they plot against the occupying Japanese forces. When two American pilots, Rodney (Rick Vallin) and Pat (Paul Bryar), are shot down and captured, the group plans to rescue them. Wong stars as Kwan Mei, the leader of the Chinese fighters. Atypically, all the Chinese roles were played by Chinese actors, but the Japanese General Kaimara was played by white and terribly miscast actor Harold Huber. The film also features Frankenstein star Mae Clarke, who shines as Lavara, a cynical American singer who has never been to the States. But aside from Wong and Clarke's performances, the film is unremarkable and benefits from running merely 68 minutes.
Lady from Chungking was part of Wong's two picture deal with the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Both films, Bombs Over Burma and then Lady from Chungking, were clearly post-Pearl Harbor Anti-Japanese war propaganda. In the latter, when General Kaimara pulls a gun on POW Rodney, Rodney shoots back with, "Remember Pearl Harbor, General? Wait until I turn my back." Kwan Mei asks for Lavara's help, telling her, "Your life and my life mean nothing. It's the future generation that counts now."
While Chinese roles were finally filled by Chinese actors, the film is replete with stereotypes and racial slurs. American pilot Pat tells Kwan Mei about his pet name for a girl back home: "I called her lotus blossom on the account of she liked chop suey." General Kaimara and the other Japanese characters constantly call the Chinese characters "coolies." And while the Chinese representation is better in the film than most other Hollywood productions at the time, it was likely only because the war-time climate, which called for Anti-Japanese propaganda.
The film suffers from its B movie status and its low budget shows, especially when compared to Paramount's 1932 film Shanghai Express, in which Wong more than held her own across from Marlene Dietrich. Wong had a much smaller part as a Chinese prostitute in Shanghai Express, but the film is of a much higher quality and is one of her most memorable roles. It is a shame that only a B movie like Lady From Chungking gave Wong the opportunity to drive the narrative, combat cultural stereotypes, and give the kind of rousing speeches women—especially Asian American women—never get to deliver.
Wong was dedicated to accurately and positively representing Chinese-Americans—she even donated her pay for both PRC films to the China War Relief Fund—but often she only got the opportunity to do so in these types of B-movies.2 After Lady From Chungking, Wong would star in only two more films and in 1951 she starred in "The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong," the first television show starring an Asian American woman—but the show would be cancelled after only one season.3 Ultimately Wong was a star bound by the racism of the society she was born and raised in. An undeniable screen presence, she was never quite allowed to fulfill her potential during the stifling era in which she worked.
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There are a lot of "name-brand" summer blockbusters this year — Star Trek Into Darkness, Man of Steel, and The Lone Ranger — but few ideas new to the American mainstream. Into this darkness comes Guillermo del Toro, bearing Pacific Rim: a live-action realization of a classic anime fan's every wet dream, brought to life by the Hellboy director's impressive visual aesthetic. This may not be the best movie of the summer, but it's a solid contender for the most awesome.
The back-story is dispensed with in a massive, sometimes clunky info-dump at the beginning: giant monsters — the "kaiju" — started appearing through a mysterious portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and attacking our cities. Our existing defenses inadequate, the nations of the world decided that the most effective defense would be to build giant mecha — the "jaegers" — manned by a pair of neurally-linked pilots to wade out into the ocean for hyper-powered fistfights. Twelve years later even that strategy is faltering, and the jaegers mount a final effort to try to stem the increasing kaiju tide from their last stronghold in Hong Kong, the Shatterdome.
Let's stand back and get some perspective here: the biggest Hollywood action blockbuster is centered around "kaiju", an obscure Japanese loanword referring to giant movie monsters from nerd staples like Godzilla and Pulgasari. And these are opposed by giant mecha, sci-fi anime's stock-in-trade, popularized in America by the likes of Robotech and Voltron. This is the Japanophile geek's equivalent of those comic books that feature both Superman and Batman, and it's the biggest thing going in mainstream movies this summer.
And for the really devoted anime fans out there, this movie reads like the closest thing we'll ever get to a mainstream adaptation of the supremely weird psycho-apocalyptic series Neon Genesis Evangelion. We've got the mecha fighting the kaiju, the neural links, and even the psychological trauma, or at least motions in that direction. It's different enough, though, to steer clear of the tarpit of movie rights A.D. Vision and Gainax have been fighting over for years.
The characters are, well, somewhat forgettable. Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) used to be a Jaeger pilot along with his brother until a mission went bad and only he got out alive. He was really good, though, so the head of the jaeger program, Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), seeks him out to pair him up with a new co-pilot in his old, refurbished jaeger. In the Shatterdome he meets up with other pilots like the hotshot Australian Chuck Hansen (Robert Kazinsky), who butts heads with Raleigh right away, and aspiring pilot Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), who needs to overcome her own traumatic past.
The story, by Travis Beacham with Del Toro's help, clearly wants to delve into their psychology more than it has time to, even with over two hours to work with. Other than the scale of seeing these fights on the big screen, this could have worked better as a television series much like Evangelion did. One episode can focus on Raleigh; another on Mako; another on Stacker. We've got an endless stream of kaiju, so there's room for at least one big fight per episode, with something about the fight helping advance the characterization.
There's also a pair of scientists: the uptight theoretician Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) and the hyperactive neurobiologist Newton Geizler (Charlie Day) who help drive forward what's going on with the kaiju since we can't exactly listen in on monster conversations. They might have filled in more story-driven episodes, like Newton's efforts to secure a brain from black-market kaiju chop-shop dealer Hannibal Chau (Ron Perlman).
In a movie, all of this can feel a bit rushed and reduced to shorthand. The neural link mechanism is a nice touch Del Toro uses to show — not tell — us about Mako's history, but even this can become a bit of a gimmick. The acting is less than subtle, but there are some wonderful character performances from Day and Gorman. And of course it's always great to see Elba let loose as he does in his Agincourt speech. Ultimately, though, nothing can take too much time away from the fight scenes.
Which sequences are, in a word, spectacular. Big, bold, and brash, this is the red meat that twice-copied VHS tapes of animated action could never deliver. As action, there's a little too much Transformers in them for my taste; lots of fast, audience-pummeling sound and light with little coherent sense of space. But, in a way, this is what anime action can often feel like. Besides, at least some of these scenes actually do some heavy lifting of the plot, not just container ships. And there's lots of memorable, fan-pleasing change-ups from awesome to super-awesome, making for classic conversations about "the time when…" "yeah! and then…", punctuated with punching and smashing sounds. If I sound snide here, I don't mean to; this sort of visceral, adolescent satisfaction is why so many geeks came to love kaiju and mecha in the first place, and it wouldn't be a proper tribute without them.
Among the audiences that see Pacific Rim, it's certain to be a favorite. I've watched more than a few blockbusters, and it's been a long time since I've felt such a palpable sense of excitement in a theater during a movie. The audience even erupted into cheers and applause at the post-credits bonus scene, louder than they did at any point during Man of Steel or Into Darkness. The only question now is whether mainstream audiences will buy into a blockbuster without fifty or more years of name recognition.
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Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps
Going on a trip can be such a stressful experience. There are hotel reservations to make, restaurant reservations to place, activities to plan out, and tickets to buy. What if you forget something, or you discover that the place you wanted to visit for your dream vacation falls far short of being anything anyone would describe as a dream?
I do recall a time when people planned out road trips using paper maps. In fact, I still have memories of my dad staying up late the night before a trip, and tracing out the whole route in pencil on a paper map that he would fold up and hand to my mother the next day. She was the navigator. Unfortunately, she was also a nervous wreck on the road (no pun intended), and spent more time screeching about my Dad's reckless driving than she did focusing on the map and providing driving directions.
Things are so different today. Now there are GPS devices. Even better, most smartphones provide mapping applications that are just as effective — if not more effective — than many GPS devices The 9 Best iPhone GPS Apps Read More on the market today. One of the best online mapping GMapCatcher: Take Online Google Maps Offline Read More services on the planet at the moment for preparing for a big trip is clearly Google Maps Get Creative And Make Your Own Maps With Custom Layers On The New Google Maps With Google unveiling a completely revamped Maps, now available to all, creating your own maps has become easier than ever. You can create private and public maps, share the maps with specific individuals, add descriptions... Read More .
Google Maps provides solutions for all the issues you face when planning a major trip. In this article, I'm going to walk you through the ways you can use Google Maps to plan every aspect of your next big trip, starting with hotel reservations, all the way to predicting the weather, and planning out your transit routes. Once you're done here, there will be no unfortunate surprises left to ruin your dream vacation.
Creating Your Trip Map
The first order of business of course is creating the trip map itself. This is the digital version of that paper map you used to scrawl directions and notes all over. Well, now you're going to fill in your digital Google Map with those directions and notes. Some of these you might have heard of, while other Google Maps features may be new to people. Using all of these features on a single map makes this an ideal tool for planning a big trip.
You can create your map when you find your first location to save to it. For most trips, the first spot you'll want to set up is probably the hotel. I'll cover hotel research on Google Maps in the next section, but the way to create your map once you find it is to click on the location and click on "Save to map".
Change the dropdown to "Create a new map…" and then click the Save button. This creates a new map under "My places", which you'll see in the left pane next to the Google Map you have up. You can rename the map to whatever you like, and also make it either publicly available to anyone online, or keep it as a private, unlisted map.
If you're planning out a personal family trip, the odds are you will probably want to keep it Unlisted.
Researching the Perfect Place to Stay
Google Maps is definitely my favorite place to research for the best hotels 10 Best Hotel Search Engines to Get the Best Deals When You Travel Are you a last minute hotel booker or one who plans out trips months in advance? If you are a business traveller, chances are that you are the former. If you aren't, then you are... Read More to stay at. During my trip planning for Orlando, I went to the Google Map for Orlando, Florida, and then in the search field typed "hotels". All of the hotels in the area show up on the map as location markers, and all along the left pane you'll find the addresses, phone numbers, and reviews for each hotel.
When you see the one that looks like it'll make the perfect place to stay during your trip, just click on the location marker. On the larger box that comes up, you'll see the Save to map option. Once you click "Save to Map", this is where you'll either create the new map described above, or just select the map you've already created. You also usually have the option here to click on the actual hotel website link so you can research it further.
By the way, if you click on the reviews link for the hotels, you'll be swept off to the hotel's Google + review page.
There, you'll typically find the address and phone number, all of the available reviews from other Google users, and best of all there's usually a booking price right on the page and a link to book the hotel.
Travel Plans and Transit
If you're driving through a city during your trip, the first thing you'll want to check out is the traffic layer. You can enable that view just by clicking on the Map icon in the upper right corner and enabling the "Traffic" option.
What good does looking at current traffic do for you when you're planning a future trip? Well, the cool thing about the Traffic view is that you can click on the "change" link and set the view to show you what the traffic typically looks like at a certain time and day.
If you know you'll be driving through a city during your trip on a certain day and time, you can identify the potential problem spots using this tool, and try to avoid them by taking alternative routes during your trip. You'll be surprised how much time this tactic can save.
The feature that I used most often during a business trip to Philadelphia last year was the Transit feature in Google Maps. I absolutely love this feature when I'm ever visiting a city with a public transit system. To enable it, just click "Get directions" in Google Maps, type the two addresses that you'll be traveling to and from using public transit, and make sure to click on the "Public Transit" option in the navigation menu. That one looks like a city bus.
This set of directions gives you bus numbers to take in order to navigate your way through your route. This display will show you public transit entry/exit points for things like the subway or for bus pickup and drop-off points. You'll see the path that you'll be traveling using public transit highlighted in blue.
If you're really confused by the local public transit system, just scroll down the navigation details in the left pane, and you'll find detailed walking directions that will tell you exactly what to do along each leg of the route. It'll tell you exactly how far to walk and what buses or other public transit to take along the way.
Best of all, if you click to print the public transit navigation details, you'll even get a detailed printout that includes the time that the trip will take, and the total cost of all public transit fees.
You can print this out as a PDF and save it on your smartphone. Now you don't have to worry about not having enough cash on hand – you'll know exactly how much you'll need before you even head out!
Watching the Weather
Another useful feature in Google Maps for planning your trip is the Weather layer that you can enable by clicking under the map icon in the upper right corner, and then selecting the weather layer. What you'll see is a pretty cool grid of temps and little weather-condition icons over each major city or town in the area you'll be visiting.
Knowing the weather is useful not only during your trip, but also for planning ahead when you want a decent forecast. On the pop-up 5 day weather forecast, you can click on the "10-Day" link to visit weather.com and get a longer weather forecast for the time you'll be traveling to the area.
Exploring the Area
Do you want to see what an area is like before you decide to visit it? Thankfully, there are lots of ways to explore an area where you plan to vacation by using Google maps. One of those is to enable the Webcams layer in Google Maps.
Once you do that, you'll see all available webcams displayed on top of the map. Clicking on any one of them will show you a snapshot of the live webcams in that area. This is a great way to see what the size of the crowds look like in the area during certain times of day, or just checking out an area to see if it's as nice as you expect it to be.
Another way to explore the area, which is also one of the more popular features in Google Maps of course, is Google Street View.
The beauty of Google Street View is that there are now so many places in the world where you can explore special spots, even when the location is nowhere near any public road. This is the case for many of the Walt Disney theme parks by the way.
Take some time and explore those areas before your trip. Make sure that the location you want to visit really looks like the travel brochure describes, or how you've read about from reviews online. Doing this is actually a lot of fun, and you may even come across some pretty strange and amazing sights in Street View What Is THAT? 9 Of The Weirdest Things You Can See On Google Street View I have to say that I have been on some really cool adventures in Google Street View. I've strolled down cobblestone streets in Italy, cruised along the mountainous shoreline of northern California, and creeped along... Read More that you never expected.
Planning Your Itinerary
So, you've mapped your hotel, you've researched and printed a PDF of your public transit routes, you've explored the area in Street View, so what's left? Well, don't forget that the highlight of most vacations is food and activities. You can map out an itinerary of everything you find on Google Maps by just finding those interesting spots on the map and clicking "Save to Map."
You can save restaurants, theme parks, historic sites, and anything else that you discover in Google Maps to your convenient Trip Map that you created at the very start of your research. Once you're done, you can just click on your saved map to check out or print your vacation itinerary.
All of these features make it really easy and ultra-convenient to plot out your next vacation and make sure that you've got all your bases covered before you even take one step outside your door.
Have you ever used Google Maps to plot out your vacation? What other tools do you recommend that people use? Share your ideas and feedback in the comments section below!
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Harrington wrote her first novel in college and is still polishing it. "You grow as a writer just as you do in every other aspect of your life," she said. "I have pulled that novel off the shelf and have worked on it some and am optimistic that it will be published – different than it was when I first wrote it, but recognizable."
She began writing children's stories when her three daughters were young. "We read a lot at our house," she said. "I liked making up stories for them when they were younger and they enjoyed them as well."
It was natural, then, when she was facing a challenge within her own family that she would write about it. A few years ago, Harrington's mother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "We had to make some decisions about where she was going to live and who was going to care for her," Harrington said. "We decided that the best alternative was for her to come and live with us."
That entailed adjustments for everyone, particularly the children. "Each of the girls has her own relationship with her grandmother," Harrington said. "I think it has been particularly hard for my oldest daughter because she has vivid memories of her grandmother when she was well. My youngest daughter does not have as many of those memories, so the adjustment was different."
LUCY SHAPIRO IS NOW 11 YEARS OLD. When her grandmother came to live with the family, Harrington suggested that Lucy keep a journal. She did and that is the basis for the book "Lucy's Cool (and totally true) E-Journal."
"I wanted for Lucy to have a place where she could express her feelings without fear," Harrington said.
Lucy began by keeping a journal on her computer. "It was my mom's idea," she said. "But it's really good because you can say things in a journal that you can't say to anyone. I don't keep the journal on the computer anymore; I write it now."
While the book is based around Lucy's journal, it is partly fictional. "I certainly didn't want to invade her privacy," Harrington said. "She and the two other girls were part of the book throughout the process."
The book sees Lucy and her friends through a space of time. It deals with grandmother's coming to live with the family, pre-teen friendships and school. "At first I didn't think anyone was going to read it," Lucy said. "But they did and people think it's really good. I guess I think it's cool now."
Harrington plans to write a series of books about Lucy and her friends. The second one is slated for publication some time next year. "My mom lets me read the books before she sends them away," Lucy said. "I edit them and sometimes she takes my suggestions and sometimes she doesn't. We are going to do more of them."
LUCY, A SIXTH-GRADER at Burgundy Farms Country Day School, doesn't know whether she wants to be a writer or not. "I might want to be a writer," she said. "But I like astronomy and photography, too."
As for Harrington, she has met two goals. "Children seem to like the book and it might help someone to better cope with a relative who has Alzheimers," she said.
She has been invited to conduct a workshop for children on just that topic. "That really is the point, isn't it," she said. "To write and to help others."
Harrington's book is now available through Scholastic or on the Internet. It will be in bookstores in July.


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Fabric: White lycra from Spotlight dyed red, and this lace from MintFrog on Etsy
Notions: Elastics from Booby Traps, rings from sewingcraftnotions on Etsy
Pattern: Ohhh Lulu Scarlett and Ivy
Size: S in the bra, M in the briefs
Special touches and alterations: Added rings to front of straps of the bra, took in sides of briefs by several cm (didn't measure!)
The lace is another beauty from Mint Frog on Etsy, and I dyed the other fabrics and elastics with Fire Engine Red (No. 402) acid reactive dye from Dharma. I was lucky that the color matched the lace so well, I hadn't used this dye before and wasn't sure what it would come out like!
I love the pretty back detail on this bra. It's so nice for wearing under summery tops with low backs.
I'm not sure why I added rings to the front straps of the bra. They aren't included on the pattern, don't match anything, and don't serve any purpose :P But they are there now and don't bother me that much.
The briefs came out quite large at first, so I took them in by shortening the elastic on the sides. They still have a bit of a droopy bottom, but other than that the fit is good now. If I were to make them again I would probably size down.
The only other issue I had was that after a couple washes, the elastic on the sides started to fray!! I ran over it a couple times with a zig-zag stitch and it seems to be ok for now. I have some of the elastic left over, so I could replace it later down the track if I wanted to.
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|Dr. Allen Gabriel, right, and Dr. Alex Soroceanu, an orthopedic resident from Montreal, wash a wound with a high-pressure sprayer to prepare for surgery at Hôpital Adventiste in June.
One year later, local aid workers share experiences in devastated nationThis article by staff writer Tom Vogt appeared in the Columbian newspaper on the anniversary of last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti. It features stories of local Vancouver volunteers including our own and several of my photographs from the trip...
When people saw the scenes of devastation on their TV screens, it didn't take long for many of them to respond to the earthquake in Haiti.
But even before the television coverage notified the world of the disaster on Jan. 12, 2010, two Clark County families were intimately involved in it.
Washougal resident Walt Ratterman was trapped and killed when the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince was shaken to pieces.
At another jumble of broken concrete, Vancouver native Chris Rolling helped save a girl who'd been trapped in the ruins.
Rolling, who runs a nonprofit in Haiti, was finishing up some errands in the capital when the quake hit late that afternoon. When the shaking stopped, Rolling heard people crying from the pancaked ruins of what had been a three-story school for girls.
"People in the first two floors were dead," Rolling said last month while visiting his family in Vancouver.
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Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!


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Helena BONHAM CARTER
English actress
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Bonham Carter was born in Golders Green, London. Her mother, Elena (née Propper de Callejón), is a psychotherapist. Her father, Raymond Bonham Carter, who came from a prominent British political family, was a merchant banker and served as the alternative British director representing the Bank of England at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s.
Bonham Carter has two brothers, Edward and Thomas. She was educated at South Hampstead High School, an independent girls' school in Hampstead, London, and later at Westminster School, a co-educational independent school near the Palace of Westminster. Bonham Carter was denied admission to King's College, Cambridge, not because of her grades and her test scores but because school officials were afraid that she would leave mid-term to pursue her acting career.
When Bonham Carter was five, her mother had a serious nervous breakdown, from which it took her three years to recover. Upon her recovery, her experience in therapy led her to become a psychotherapist herself – Bonham Carter now pays her to read her scripts and deliver her opinion of the characters' psychological motivations. Five years after her mother's recovery, her father was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. He suffered complications during an operation to remove the tumour which led to a stroke that left him half-paralysed and using a wheelchair. With her two older brothers at college, Bonham Carter was left to help her mother cope. She would later study her father's movements and mannerisms for her role in The Theory of Flight, before his death in January 2004.
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"Nope, the pictures are not actually focused. My clients are not accepting this picture and they are going to throw me out of this project" –is this the tone of you after photographing for hours and at the dead end of the project. Then actually you are not alone. Thousands of photographers like you have the same thought about their photos that product, people or scenery whatever the image is, they are not focused and obviously not viewing the full details being blurred in some portions of the subject. So,
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David unveils plans for a Box Village and Innovation Precinct in Swansea's SA1
Plans for a Box Village and Innovation Precinct in Swansea's SA1, have been unveiled by University of Wales Trinity Saint David as part of its £300million new SA1 Swansea Waterfront development
Plans for a Box Village and Innovation Precinct in Swansea's SA1, have been unveiled by University of Wales Trinity Saint David as part of its £300million new SA1 Swansea Waterfront development
The exciting project is based on the idea of converting shipping containers to provide flexible, affordable space for start-up companies bringing students, academics and businesses together to share expertise to explore new ideas for growth. The idea has been used widely around the world, including, most recently in Croydon, Elephant and Castle and Brixton in London, where this novel approach to building design has been used effectively to promote and stimulate creativity, communication and collaboration between the occupiers.
Serving as a catalyst for the long term economic development of the region, the scheme will also enrich the student experience at UWTSD, with direct connections to industry that will enhance their employability and provide them with the entrepreneurial and business skills they need to start their careers.
Major investment in digital infrastructure is at the heart of the Swansea Bay City Region's 'Internet Coast' bid to the UK Government for a City Deal, which is worth an estimated £500million to the regional economy over the next 20 years.
An integral part of that bid is 'The Swansea City and Waterfront Digital District Project', which aims to create a vibrant and sustainable city centre that facilitates the growth of higher value activities (particularly technology businesses) and acts as a key driver for the regional economy. Positioned as a first phase of the City Deal initiative, it will provide the launch pad for 'Digital Quarters' across the region. University of Wales Trinity Saint David's proposed Box Village and Innovation Precinct will complement and help to successfully drive forward that vision.
The University's Box Village, a phased 20,000 square metre development, will consist of a series of pavilions (Hubs), each with a particular focus linking directly with aspects of the University's academic programme and creating 'communities of practice' bringing students, academics and businesses together to explore ideas and create opportunities for the development of new businesses, products and services.
A Creative Industries Hub, for example, will serve a thriving community of creative-industries businesses with a particular emphasis on music and performing arts. A Health & Well-being Centre will provide a focus for a wide range of health and well-being related activities with community facilities proposed including a pharmacy and GP surgery that will also provide a student health service to the University and a fitness centre.
A Sport & Fitness Hub will provide a Sports Hall with associated support spaces that can also be used to accommodate a range of University and community events.
Catering, retail outlets and events spaces throughout Box Village will provide opportunities for the communities to meet and share ideas as well as providing a new leisure destination for the University and the wider Swansea community.
Once a business has grown enough to exceed the space provided in the Box Village, it can then be accommodated in the Business Innovation Precinct, which will be purposefully designed as a mixed-use building to bring together the academic support of the University's Faculty of Business and Management (and the adjacent Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Engineering) with the business innovation of SMEs.
The University's vision for SA1 Swansea Waterfront is to create a neighbourhood with academic activity at its core to attract companies to collocate with the University to exploit knowledge, develop skills, support existing companies and attract new investment into the region.
Phase 1 of the £300 million development has already commenced to create a new facility for the Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, as well as new library facilities. In addition, the University has made significant investment in SA1 through the purchase of the two Technium buildings, as well as the Cyprium Building, which are home to a range of private companies, a number of whom are already collaborating with the university to develop new products and processes.
Professor Medwin Hughes, DL, Vice-Chancellor said: "Box Village and the Innovation Precinct will enable us to further exploit knowledge and expertise to create new enterprise hubs and high skill accelerator schemes to grow new businesses linked to our portfolio, develop the skills of current businesses and attract new investment into the region. Through such activities the University will create new opportunities for employment, helping to generate more footfall and spending in the city centre and to retain some of the brightest entrepreneurial talents from within the UWTSD Group in the region; ensuring that we are investing in our home grown talent to our mutual benefit."
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text: Fire fighters at the scene of a triple car bombing in a Shia neighbourhood [AFP] Yahya al-Atawi, a senior Sunni Muslim cleric in Tikrit, said that Ali al-Nida, the head of Saddam's Albu Nasir tribe, had received the body. "The body is now in Awja and they will probably bury it tonight," Atawi said. It is Muslim practice to bury the dead within the day. An adviser to Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Shia prime minister, had earlier said the government wanted Saddam, 69, to be buried in a secret location in Iraq to prevent the site becoming a place of pilgrimage for rebels. Sectarian violence But the execution did little to help stem the sectarian violence tearing the country apart. On Saturday, car bombs set off by suspected insurgents from Saddam's once-dominant Sunni minority killed more than 70 people in Baghdad and near the Shia holy city of Najaf, in areas populated by Shia Muslims oppressed for decades and now in the ascendant. Maliki, his fragile authority among fellow Shia significantly enhanced after he forced through Saddam's execution over Sunni and Kurdish hesitation, reached out to Saddam's Sunni followers. "Saddam's execution puts an end to all the pathetic gambles on a return to dictatorship," he said in a statement as state television showed him signing the death warrant in red ink. See also: Obituary: Saddam Hussein Timeline: Saddam's life Iran welcomes Saddam execution"I urge...followers of the ousted regime to reconsider their stance as the door is still open to anyone who has no innocent blood on his hands to help in rebuilding...Iraq." Loss of influence There is little prospect of peace from al-Qaeda's Sunni Islamists, but Maliki and Bush hope that more moderate Sunnis may choose negotiation over violence. Unusually, the government did not even see a need for a curfew in Baghdad. Protests in Saddam's home town and in the Sunni west were small. Although resentful at a loss of influence, few Sunnis found much to mourn in Saddam's passing. Many Kurds were disappointed that Saddam was not convicted of genocide against them in a trial yet to finish. With violence killing hundreds every week, Iraqis have other worries. Even celebrations in Shia cities and the Sadr City slum in Baghdad were brief and fairly restrained. Mohammad Kadhem, a journalist in the Shia city of Basra, said: "It's a great joy that I can't even express. I can't believe what I'm seeing on television - Saddam led to the gallows where he hanged tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis." Deadliest month Your Views "Saddam's execution puts an end to all the pathetic gambles on a return to dictatorship" Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister Send us your views Meanwhile, the deaths of six soldiers pushed the US death toll to just two short of the 3,000 mark as December became the deadliest month for Americans in Iraq for more than two years. Bush has promised to unveil a new strategy in the new year. The United Nations, the Vatican and Washington's European allies all condemned the execution on moral grounds. Many Muslims, especially Sunnis, making the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca were outraged by the symbolism of hanging Saddam on the holiest day of the year at the start of Eid al-Adha - some Shia also said his death was a suitable gift from God. A witness in the Dujail trial said he was shown the body at Maliki's office: "When I saw the body in the coffin, I cried. I remembered my three brothers and my father whom he had killed." After complaints of interference by Shia politicians in the trial, the speed of the execution may add to unease about the fairness of the US-sponsored process. Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former judge Awad al-Bander will be hanged for the same crimes in January. SOURCE: Agencies


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College students use of alcohol and related consequences: Exploring differences by gender and sexual orientation
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The objective of this dissertation was to explore the differences in the use and misuse of alcohol and related consequences in a large nationally representative sample of college students who have clearly identified their sexual orientation. Differences among college students who participated in the 2005 National College Health Association survey were examined by gender and by differences in self reported sexual orientation. The results for each of the eight proposed research questions were presented. This study suggests that college students are a much more heterogeneous group in regard to their use of alcohol and experienced consequences then was perhaps previously acknowledged. The results from this nationally representative sample add to the nascent body of evidence suggesting that significant differences exist in the college student population in the frequency, amount, and related negative consequences of alcohol use by college students, not only by gender, but by sexual orientation as well.


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Looking back over the 'age of austerity' since the 1970s, we know that the welfare state has declined. We know that welfare payments have become less generous, some people have seen their entitlements curtailed, and we've been left without the same protections that the welfare state gave us in its 'golden age'. But according to a lecture by Paul Pierson at LSE on Tuesday, these common-sense beliefs are wrong – when we look at the data, we instead see the resilience of the welfare state. And in a second reversal of common sense, Pierson argues this shows the weakness not the strength of the left: the wealthy have achieved their goals through other means – or put more controversially, that in focusing on the welfare state, we are missing the point.
To argue that the welfare state has been 'resilient' may come as a surprise in the UK – OECD figures show a large fall in the generosity of unemployment benefits, which is nicely shown in the figure below from Peter Kenway's report last year. But it's easy to miss the areas where benefits payments have expanded – the rises in receipt of all types of disability benefits, the increase in the length of retirement, and the increasing transfers to families (e.g. through tax credits). Despite all of Thatcher's attempts to cut welfare spending in the 80s – and the long-term effects of technical rules on uprating benefits each year – even the Iron Lady didn't manage to cut welfare spending overall.
Unemployment benefits haven't kept pace with rising living standards
So far, this is the classic Pierson argument on the resilience of welfare states. Where his argument became really interesting, though, was in saying that this 'resilience' might be illusory.
An imaginary resilience
According to Pierson, the 'soft version' of this argument is from Gosta Esping-Anderson: the welfare state may not have disappeared, but it has been a 'frozen landscape' while the world around it has changed. Given the 'new social risks' that a number of researchers have talked about, the old welfare state is now failing to protect us from the fears that really matter, and is discriminating against the new victims in favour of those with the classic risks of the welfare state. In my own terms: we live in a 'risk society' under a new, bloodier form of capitalism, and the welfare state has simply failed to keep up.
This is a depressing picture – but it pales in comparison to the cynicism of the 'hard version' that Pierson and Hacker outline for the US in their latest book (which Charlotte has brilliantly described in two posts on Inequalities). In this climate of austerity, the left have hung on to the welfare state as a 'Maginot line' – in other words, as their main line of defence against the onslaught of neoliberalism. Yet this focus on the welfare state has been a distraction. Instead of resilience being positive, it simply shows that the interests of corporations and certain parts of the wealthiest classes have been served through other means – in particular through "financial de-regulation, changes in marginal taxation rates, corporate governance reform and industrial relations", as Charlotte summarises it.
Is this true in the UK?
Pierson may have been over-stating his argument on Wednesday – and I have probably taken this argument to extremes that Pierson would not defend. Against this, we have to accept that the welfare state is going to be a key battleground in the UK, given massive attacks on the most vulnerable people in society (as Daniel has pointed out).
But it does capture something, at least for the UK. I've already argued that New Labour fundamentally failed to change the economic structure of British society, and so it's little surprise that their ability to challenge inequalities was limited. And increasingly I've seen thinkers and politicians on the left realise this – after seeing Lisa Harker argue something similar, you can now hear these arguments coming out of frontline Labour politicians, not least Ed Miliband.
While we have been focusing on the welfare state, then, we haven't noticed that the battleground has changed, and that the left has been outflanked rather than outfought. Perhaps it's now time for inequalities researchers to follow Pierson's – and Charlotte's – call, and move on from our obsession with the welfare state.
[You can hear the lecture here – but you may want to skip the first half hour or so, before he gets to his main argument].