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Parlon History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The Parlon name is thought to be derived from the medieval female personal name "Peronel, Pernel, Parnell," which came from the Latin "Petronilla," or "Petronia," which was the name of an early Roman martyr. [1] Other sources suggest that the Parlon name is a reference to Pernelle, Normandy, a place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. "Pernelle was near Valognes, Normandy." [2]
Early Origins of the Parlon family
The surname Parlon was first found in Cheshire where they held a family seat from very early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy, their liege Lord, for their distinguished assistance at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D.
The township of Poulton, with Spittal was once a family seat as the manor was once held by the Parnell family. [3]
By the time of the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273, the family had scattered and entries were found as both a forename and surname: Petronilla de le Le in Oxfordshire; Pernel Clere in Huntingdonshire; William Peronel and Alexander Pernel in Cambridgeshire. [1] "The Parnells are now principally seated in Devon and Cornwall, but there are a few in Cambridgeshire." [4]
Early History of the Parlon family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Parlon research. Another 64 words (5 lines of text) covering the years 1679 and 1718 are included under the topic Early Parlon History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Parlon Spelling Variations
Multitudes of spelling variations are a hallmark of Anglo Norman names. Most of these names evolved in the 11th and 12th century, in the time after the Normans introduced their own Norman French language into a country where Old and Middle English had no spelling rules and the languages of the court were French and Latin. To make matters worse, medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, so names frequently appeared differently in the various documents in which they were recorded. The name was spelled Parnell, Parnel, Parnall and others.
Early Notables of the Parlon family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the Parlon family to Ireland
Some of the Parlon family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Migration of the Parlon family
Because of this political and religious unrest within English society, many people decided to immigrate to the colonies. Families left for Ireland, North America, and Australia in enormous numbers, traveling at high cost in extremely inhospitable conditions. The New World in particular was a desirable destination, but the long voyage caused many to arrive sick and starving. Those who made it, though, were welcomed by opportunities far greater than they had known at home in England. Many of these families went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Parlon or a variant listed above: Walter and William Parnell, who arrived in Virginia in 1623; Edward Parnell, who came to Bermuda in 1635; Daniel Parnell, who settled in Georgia with his wife in 1735.
Norman Conquest
Hundredorum Rolls
The Parlon Motto +
Motto: Te digna sequere
Motto Translation: Follow worthy things.
^ Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
^ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X)
^ Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
^ Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
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India's internet shutdowns costing mobile carriers millions of rupees in lost revenue
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian mobile operators are losing around 24.5 million rupees ($350,000) in revenue every hour they are forced to suspend internet services on government orders to control protests against a new citizenship law, a top lobby group said on Friday.
Countrywide protests have raged for three weeks after India's parliament passed legislation which gives minorities from neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh a path to citizenship but excludes Muslims.
That, coupled with a plan for a national register of citizens, are seen by critics as anti-Muslim moves by the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
To quell protests, government has deployed thousands of police as well intermittently ordered mobile data shutdowns at a time people have used social media such as Instagram and TikTok to wage a parallel battle online. Such internet suspensions have been criticized by internet freedom activists.
On Friday, mobile internet was ordered shut in at least 18 districts in northern Uttar Pradesh state, a telecoms industry source told Reuters.
A Reuters witness received a text message from an internet service provider announcing that home broadband services on the outskirts of capital New Delhi will be unavailable for 24 hours, till the morning of Dec 28.
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Internet shutdowns should not be first course of action, said the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which counts mobile carriers Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS), Vodafone Idea (VODA.NS) and Reliance Industries' (RELI.NS) Jio Infocomm as its members.
"We've highlighted the cost of these shutdowns," COAI director general Rajan Mathews told Reuters. "According to our computation at the end of 2019, with the increase in online activities we believe the cost (of internet shutdowns) is close to 24.5 million rupees for an hour of internet shutdown."
The revenue losses will pile on to the woes of India's telecoms sector, bruised by a price war and saddled with a combined $13 billion in overdue payments following a Supreme Court ruling in October.
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NOM's New Anti-Equality & Campaign
By Peter Montgomery | June 26, 2018 4:58 pm
Image from National Organization for Marriage email.
The anti-equality organization National Organization for Marriage chose the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision to launch a new marketing campaign based on an ampersand.
Wait, what?
NOM's new campaign is seemingly intended as a cheeky rejoinder to the Human Rights Campaign's very successful branding of the group and the broader equality movement with its logo – a yellow equal sign on a blue background.
NOM is urging activists to replace their Facebook and Twitter profile photos with a similarly colored logo featuring an ampersand, as shorthand for the idea of marriage being defined as "one man & one woman." From NOM's Tuesday afternoon email from NOM President Brian Brown:
Dear Friend—Three years ago, the US Supreme Court issued one of the most illegitimate, anti-constitutional decisions in history, imposing same-sex 'marriage' on the nation by a single vote in a 5-4 ruling. Today we are taking a symbolic action to continue our opposition to this illegitimate decision by launching the campaign.
Should that be read "the and campaign" or "the ampersand campaign" or something else? Something tells me this isn't going to catch on the way the equality symbol has.
However awkward this particular project, it is another reminder that, three years after the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, the Religious Right is adamantly committed to reversing what it believes is an illegitimate decision. It hopes to reverse the Court's recognition of legal equality for same-sex couples through additional Trump nominations to the Supreme Court or, if necessary, through a generations-long campaign to chip away at the effectiveness of the ruling by seeking state laws or court rulings allowing governments to treat legally married same-sex couples differently than other married couples.
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A Conversation with Nashville General CEO Joseph Webb
Nashville General Hospital at Meharry has served the city for more than 125 years. Touted as Nashville's original community-based hospital, the facility first opened its doors in April 1890 as City Hospital on Hermitage Avenue.
Now located on Albion Street, much of the hospital's recent history has focused on its financial instability and questions about how ... and if ... it still fits into Nashville's healthcare landscape. With new leadership in place and the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval®, there are growing signs Nashville General has turned the page and started a new chapter in its story.
When Joseph Webb, DSc, MSHA, FACHE arrived in Nashville to take the reins as CEO of Nashville General on Jan. 5, 2015, the seasoned healthcare executive had to address issues across the operational spectrum. Webb said the first order of business was to complete an assessment to determine gaps. "The first thing you have to do is look at what resources are available to you to provide a safe environment for the patient population you are going to be serving," he said. "At the end of the day, that's what it's all about."
After years of interim leadership and public speculation about the hospital's future, one of the initial tasks was to address staffing. "The organization did face a good bit of out migration because of the uncertainty," Webb said. Asked if naming a permanent CEO provided reassurance, he replied, "I think it certainly did. That was the first step towards the city showing the commitment to continuing to operate (Nashville General) as a hospital."
Hand-in-hand with staffing issues were quality concerns. "There had been some issues being investigated by the Joint Commission for Hospital Accreditation," Webb noted. "In addition to that, the window was imminently opening for the full survey, which occurs every three years." He continued, "We began to work expeditiously to look at the gaps in clinical services we knew would be under the microscope of the Joint Commission. What we needed to do was to shore up any areas that were lacking."
With historical issues and lapses in documentation that would be apparent when the Joint Commission team traced back through charts, Webb said the focus had to be on ensuring those problems wouldn't occur again in the future. "Your strategy has to be that you are overwhelmingly confident that you have put in place structures and processes that will change the way those thing are done," Webb said.
However, it also takes money. After the survey last fall turned up deficiencies in infection control, staffing, and safety, the Metro Council agreed to approve additional funding earlier this year to allow the hospital to address both the concerns identified by the Joint Commission and some barriers to ongoing sustainability.
This summer, a Joint Commission team revisited the hospital to drill down in the areas that had been previously flagged. "They were here for three days," said Webb. "What they found was nothing that would have prevented them from giving us full accreditation, which is excellent. You can't ask for anything better than that," he continued.
"In healthcare, the main thing you want to convey to the public is we are a provider of safe, quality care," Webb said. "When the Joint Commission says you have the gold seal of approval that comes from accreditation, you can make that statement."
Although the hospital has now cleared that hurdle, Webb recognizes there is much more work to be done to reposition Nashville General to attract a broader audience, including more commercial pay and Medicare patients, to move toward greater financial stability. Currently, he said about 40 percent of patients are self-pay or indigent.
"The role we feel that we can play here ... the niche that is available to us ... is to be a small community hospital that provides excellent care to its customers. Not everyone wants to drive the large SUV. Some people like to drive the small, economic vehicle," he noted, adding a smaller hospital conveys more of a boutique feel. "If you want high quality care in the setting we offer, which is smaller than you would see at other hospitals in the city, then we are here for you. What we have to do is make sure the people who want to come here have a good experience."
While diligently working to attract new patients, Webb said it is equally important to continue serving those without the financial means to pay. "What this hospital does is to promote the identity of a specific location where you can go and are not likely to be turned away because of your inability to pay ... and that speaks to access to healthcare services." Webb added he believes Nashville's leadership recognizes and appreciates the importance of this role.
In total, Nashville General received a $45 million subsidy from Metro for fiscal year 2016. Webb said new policies have been instituted internally to improve stewardship of those funds. "The major cost of operating a hospital is your labor cost. We've built and implemented a productivity system," he said. "Each leader is responsible for staffing their area according to their critical metrics. We're holding our leadership accountable for it, too. That really wasn't done before."
Webb added supply costs and operational inefficiencies are also being addressed. "We put in place some LEAN-trained individuals to work with directors to make sure where there are opportunities to eliminate waste in the system, they are able to do that."
Webb continued, "When you are trying to improve your financial sustainability, you look at your key cost factors and also how you grow your revenues."
Focusing on the second part of that equation, Nashville General recently opened the outpatient Nashville Healthcare Center, which is a patient-centered medical home, to provide continuity of care from the outpatient to the inpatient setting. A new outpatient pharmacy has also recently opened in close proximity to the clinic. On the inpatient side, Webb said there is a newly renovated and upgraded Labor and Delivery unit.
Having a strong non-profit foundation, Webb noted, is another key component in establishing resources to care for indigent populations. The Nashville General Hospital Foundation (formerly Friends in General) now has a full-time executive director and full board of directors.
"Nashville General is on track to be a hospital of choice," Webb concluded. "We want the value proposition to be that Nashville General is excellent not only for the city but also for the private sector."
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1600 miles, 42 hours & 4 states later, Utah's first Silver Alert subject is safe at home
by: Rick Aaron
Posted: Jun 19, 2019 / 11:24 PM UTC / Updated: Jun 19, 2019 / 11:31 PM UTC
OREM (ABC4 News) – The family of a missing man who was found after Utah's first-ever Silver Alert is grateful to have him back home safely after his epic 42 hour, four state adventure.
80-year-old Robert Jones suffers from Alzheimer's so he didn't realize that his wife Karen was asleep in the next room when he started a two-day journey to find her.
Robert's family thinks he left his house in Orem around 1 a.m. Sunday and asked for directions.
"I believe someone in Orem told him how to get on I-15," his son Brett Jones told ABC4 News. "He asked them where Salt Lake was and they told him how to get to Salt Lake and he got on the freeway and then he just drove."
And drove and drove and drove until he ran out of gas 600 miles away near Pendleton, Oregon.
A good Samaritan gave him a ride to a gas station where his credit card was declined at 9:59 Sunday night but he used cash to fill up in nearby Stanfield at 11:33 and kept going.
"He was aware the whole time that he was lost, that he was looking for my mother and I think he did feel distressed," daughter Pam Wilburn said. "He doesn't quite have the cognitive ability to tell somebody 'I'm lost. I need help'."
The family kept tracking his Discover card Monday morning in Mountain Home, Idaho and Monday afternoon in Winnemucca, Nevada.
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After ABC4 News informed an Orem Police lieutenant about the new Silver Alert system, they put out an alert with a description of his vehicle at 4:04 p.m.
Less than 3 hours later a gas station attendant found him in Wilder, Idaho. 42 hours and an estimated 1600 miles later, Robert was safe…and on his way back home.
"It was just nice to give him a big hug. You know, 'good to see you Dad'," Wilburn said. "He just said 'Sure happy to be home'."
Robert's family tells ABC4 that now he is healthy and happy but has no recollection of his epic, meandering journey.
Brett and Pam say that they're having a security system installed in Robert's home so an alarm will sound if he tries to leave by himself again.
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Three countries (Fiji, Singapore and Puerto Rico) have won their first-ever gold medal at these games.
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Location:Right here
8 hours ago, BlackBolt3 said:
Yeah, even if he doesn't do as many events as he typically does, I can see him in more of a closer type role for relays. If times around the world don't go down by too much for about 2 years, I'll expect a comeback.
I think he's done.
His main reason why he came back from semi-retirement was that he felt he didn't really "give his all" at the London Games, and he didn't want to end his Olympic career by half-assing it. He should feel more satisfied by his efforts at the Rio Games.
Plus, he's getting married soon and already has a child that I'm sure he'd like to spend quality time with. He can kinda get away with missing an infant's time because an infant doesn't really have many interests a parent is missing out on. That'll be different four years from now, once the kid is 5 years old....
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BAM!!! Second encore!
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54 minutes ago, Graham_Clayton said:
Its actually five, so far; Vietnam and Kosovo in addition to the three you mentioned.
Nyk33 881
When you're worse at rebranding than the Chargers.
The US only managed to beat France (without Tony Parker) by three.
That's not good.
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Wow. This is most remarkable eight-year run for any sprinter ... hard to believe that it was somewhat uneventful when he first broke the world record.
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Amazing how Bolt gets the full five-star treatment from the American media. It seriously feels as if they embrace him as if he were one of us. If he were Russian or Middle Eastern, I doubt NBC would strap on kneepads for his coronation as T&F GOAT.
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7 hours ago, Cujo said:
It's probably because he comes from an English speaking country and he's in the most anticipated event of the games. He's also been given a lot of exposure by Puma that Nike or adidas probably wouldn't give.
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I like your old names better than your new names
Location:Australia, excuse my proper spelling ;)
It helps that Justin Gatlin's clouded past makes him the villain in the story.
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Yeah, his only prominent American rival is someone who's tainted, so NBC (and others) aren't going to try and make Bolt the villain in this story.
It also helps that he's probably the only worldwide household name who's not an American, and made his/her name in the Olympics (i.e. not in tennis, golf, basketball, etc.). Probably the only other Olympian who has equal name recognition worldwide right now is Phelps. Even the most US-centric outlets (NBC being the epitome of that) can't possibly ignore Bolt, given his worldwide fame.
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I had some reservations about Golf in the Olympics coming into these games for a few reasons. For one, some of the best names didn't come, but most especially because they had to blow millions to build a new course because Rio didn't previously have a championship caliber golf course. Also, Golf is one of those sports where in a small sample anyone of professional caliber can show up with their A game and win, which means that there was a good chance that some rando, and not the World's best would take gold. I guess that could be good for the sport, but it wouldn't present the Gold to the truly best. But my concerns were unfettered. I thought the Men's Olympic golf tournament was just fantastic and it was a lot of fun to see the players grow more and more prideful as the tournament went on and Rose and Stenson are two of the World's best so I have no problem with their place on the podium. I hope for two things in Tokyo: 1. there has to be a team event. It just makes too much sense. It'd be the Ryder Cup on steroids. 2. I hope seeing this more of the World's best decide to participate in 2020 because it was really awesome. I'm looking forward to the Women's tournament on Wednesday.
I was the happiest for Matt Kuchar who was only on the team because a couple Americans decided not to play, and then was beaming when he accepted the Bronze medal, almost in disbelief that he was able to earn something that he never expected to be possible. Rose and Stenson had to have felt the same - it was strange seeing the three medalists return to the 18th green in their country's official podium sweats. They're golfers, they leave, change into less formal clothing to accept their medals - it was goofy. Kuchar looked especially uncomfortable in the nike sweatsuit and volt green sneakers.
9 hours ago, McCarthy said:
Golf Magazine contribitor, John Sens worded it well.
Think back on some of the most riveting golf events of your lifetime. Did this competition rank anywhere near your top 10? Your top 20? Your top 50? No disrespect to the deserving champion (his genuinely impassioned reaction to his win was the highlight of the four days for me) or to any of those who competed, but the lack of electricity was palpable in the crowd. The Olympics is supposed to reside somewhere near the summit of a sport. This event never got much higher than base camp.
And to John Sens I say so f****** what? For many sports the Olympics are the peak of that sport, but for the ones that are established outside the Olympics it's not as big of a deal as other championships held in that sport and that's just fine. Almost none of the world's best basketball players would choose a gold medal over an NBA championship nor would a tennis player take a gold medal over a Wimbledon title. This is the first Olympic Golf tournament in 112 years. How could it live up to the prestigious tournaments that have generations of history? That's a ridiculous standard to hold this first tournament to.
The other part of lacking that energy and juice was that it was held in a place that doesn't really have much of an interest in the sport and they still had a good turnout. That was basically Brazil's first time hosting a world class tournament, which is why they were constantly being told to turn off their phones and cameras and to be quiet. They were new, and you know what, that's great for the sport! In subsequent Olympics in Tokyo and then any of the 2024 candidates it'll get bigger and more prestigious and will be held in places that have more of an appreciation for the sport.
edit: and I listened to today's new Shackhouse podcast episode and Geoff Shackleford who was there said the atmosphere was great and the men's tournaments was a huge success that brought some of the organizers from USGA and PGA to tears so whatever, John Sens/dfwabel.
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I didn't watch much men's golf, not least with 4-6 available channels showing other Olympic sports I can rarely enjoy. With its pretty run of the mill leaderboard, I simply felt like I could watch golf any other week of the year. A team event like best ball or alternate would be great & maybe invite some lesser knowns for more drama.
With the next big golf events right around the corner, FedEx & Rider Cups, this Olympic event didn't feel very special.
My Olympic viewing habits for golf are same for tennis. I can't really get excited for the same slew of tennis players battling it out as the rest of the year. At least with basketball & hockey, the pros are playing on and against unique teams.
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Where do we post about basketball? Latest I've seen is US is likely to play Argentina in the quarterfinals.
I hope this booger eater shows up; Durant's been super lazy during the Olympics and it'd be nice to see him give a damn.
12 hours ago, 2001mark said:
This is true. Every PGA event is an international individual tournament, which is why I was disappointed to find out there wasn't a team event. That's the way you set the Olympics apart from other golf tournaments.
Here's how I'd do it: Monday and Tuesday is the team event, Ryder Cup style. Wednesday-Saturday is the individual tournament. Then repeat the following week for the Women's tournaments.
14 hours ago, McCarthy said:
Agreed entirely. There are a significant number of sports where the Olympics aren't the most prestigious competition:
Baseball (upon its 2020 return)
And you can even make an argument for including some of the recent X-Games additions to the Winter Olympics (some of the freestyle skiing events, and snowboarding) on that list. There's no requirement that the Olympics be the pinnacle of every single sport featured in it. As long as the competitors care about the competition, it's worthwhile.
And I wouldn't at all be surprised to see a gold medal i golf be the feather in a golfer's cap someday, much as a gold medal in tennis is today. No, a gold of tennis gold medal will never be (and should never be) as prestigious as a major championship or a Grand Slam event win, but it is a noteworthy accomplishment nonetheless. It would certainly garner more attention than, say, a Masters event victory in tennis or a WGC victory in golf.
I would also try a mixed (gender) team event.
I'm okay with Olympic soccer, having teams from all over the world is rare.
It helps a lot that the Olympics and the World Cup line up with each other. I don't know if it was an accident or planned that way, but I think there's room for both; they'll always be two years apart from each other.
5 hours ago, Cosmic said:
And the U-23 aspect keeps the two from being redundant to each other. It's a pretty good setup, all things considered. Have the Olympics always been U-23?


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COVID scared to cancer aware
October 13, 2020 Bryan Kawasaki
Apple Valley woman seeks routine screening despite COVID fears; diagnosed with early-stage cancer
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sue Jones was afraid to come to the hospital for routine, diagnostic tests — like her mammogram. After being reassured by a colleague about safety precautions being taken at hospitals across the country, she decided to get checked out. The decision may have saved her life. Sue was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. Submitted photo
As the High Desert continues its fight against COVID-19, fears of contracting the virus have led to many instances of delaying care. This is the third installment of a multi-part series highlighting the potential risks of waiting too long to seek medical attention and the precautions St. Mary Medical Center is taking to keep our patients safe. If you or anyone you know is in need of vital emergency care, please call 9-1-1.
APPLE VALLEY (Oct. 13, 2020) – As dystopian images began to emerge out of New York and Italian hospitals — early epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic — Sue Jones, 50, of Apple Valley, couldn't help but wonder if going to the hospital for routine, diagnostic tests was worth the risk of contracting this new and unknown disease.
"Watching the news of all these COVID hotbeds made me think going into any clinic would be like going into COVID central," Jones said. "I remember thinking, 'Do I really want to go in or wait it out a bit?'
"I didn't want to get exposed."
But while these indelible news clips would frequently circulate through her mind, she had trouble completely dismissing the idea of seeking medical treatment, especially when it came to her annual mammogram.
Just five years earlier, doctors had discovered a large tumor on one of Jones' ovaries, a cancer scare she described as "mind-numbing."
"After they told me it was probably cancerous, I didn't hear much else," said Jones, who recalled doctors telling her there was only a 5-percent chance the tumor was benign. "It was a shocking experience. I didn't believe it could be true."
Two days after finding the tumor, Jones was sent to a gynecologist to undergo more tests before being referred to University of California, Irvine Medical Center to see an oncologist.
At the time, she was living on-base at Ft. Irwin, a roughly 2 1/2 hour drive north of Irvine — plenty of time to let her fears run wild on her way home from doctor appointments.
"It was like I was driving on autopilot," Jones said. "They convinced me I had (ovarian cancer), which the survival rate is very low. You can get yourself in a very bad mental state, especially when you start looking things up online."
Soon after meeting the oncologist, Jones underwent surgery to remove the tumor, which doctors said had low malignant potential. Jones said she felt like she had hit the lottery, but the weeks of uncertainty and trepidation had a lasting impact, later acting as an effective counterweight to her COVID-19 fears.
While she fought against self-induced paralysis of going to the hospital, an informal conversation with a public relations colleague at St. Mary Medical Center helped sway her decision to seek treatment.
During the course of the conversation, Jones, who works as the spokesperson for the City of Victorville, was reassured of the safety precautions hospitals are taking during the pandemic to limit the spread of the virus — the tipping point in deciding to schedule her screening.
She did, and quickly learned she had early-stage breast cancer, and, thankfully, a good prognosis.
"Because I caught it so early," Jones said, "I have a favorable prognosis and much higher survival rate which is why early detection is so important."
Sue Jones, bottom right, poses for a picture with fellow City of Victorville employees. It has become a tradition for city staff to wear pink every Thursday throughout the month of October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Submitted photo
Due to the infancy of the cancer — the tumor was small and the cancer had not spread to her lymph nodes — Jones had multiple treatment pathways available to her, eventually deciding to opt for a lumpectomy and radiation.
Jones admits that her first cancer scare helped mentally prepare her for her current bought with cancer, but realizes her situation could have been made much worse had she succumbed to her initial fears of seeking care.
"If the tumor was larger and if it had spread to other tissue, I'd have to have a mastectomy and a whole host of additional surgeries," Jones said. "My outcome could have looked very different had I not come in."
A study by Epic Health Research Network of 39 health systems with a total of 100 hospitals across 23 states found that in the very early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, routine screenings for breast, colon and cervical cancers dropped as much as 94 percent compared to relative January averages.
While Jones still has five weeks of radiation ahead of her, she hopes telling her story might help others who might suffer from similar COVID-related fears.
"Please don't delay routine tests because early detection is so, so important to your health and future," Jones said. "From my experience, I believe health care professionals take extraordinary protections to safeguard you.
"Don't worry about going to the hospital. You're in good hands."
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Paradoxically, the same genomic arguments about the nonexistence of biologically differentiated racial categories can work in a different way to re-racialize Brazilian society. The genetic data are used to argue that everyone is more or less mixed and that Brazil is a heterogeneously mesti�o nation. But this argument easily resonates, in the wider public sphere, with a racialized conception of the nation, understood as a population that has been constituted by the mixture of three original racial stocks: the concept of 'mesti�o' has great difficulty in shaking off its racialized genealogy (Young, 1995), even if the geneticists argue that race has no biological reality in general and specifically in Brazil. Thus, the re-geneticization of the social order makes more available new types of genetic data and idioms to think about social identities: the identity of mesti�o, which is deeply racialized, is validated in genetic terms, even as race itself and racial differences are denied.
Peter Wade and Michael Kent, "Genetics against race: Science, politics and affirmative action in Brazil," Social Studies of Science, Volume 45, Number 6 (December 2015): 831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312715610217.
Skin color remains big barrier
Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Campus Life, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science on 2014-02-02 22:16Z by Steven
Park Si-soo
Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a "good boy" in many aspects.
The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains why he is one of the top players of an intramural soccer club.
Notwithstanding his good standing, he still has a hard time associating with his classmates, mainly because of his "exotic" appearance. The 15-year-old's father is Pakistani and his mother a Korean native.
"That's a huge disadvantage in making new friends among young children," said Kim Young-im, a counselor who has interviewed numerous biracial children, including Min, in Ansan, home to one of the country's largest population of low income immigrants.
"Children tend to get along with those who share similarity in looks and other visible characteristics. But he is different (from others) in many ways."
For that reason, Kim added, it's a common trend in the industrial town to see "exotic-looking" teenagers hanging out together, isolating themselves from their peers of Korean parentage.
"This is a problem that is very difficult to address," the counselor said. "The government and school authorities have tried hard to solve this with various kinds of measures. But I think many of these programs turned out to be in vain."
The number of biracial students like Min in Korea is estimated at 55,780 as of last year, representing 0.86 percent of the 6.53 million students enrolled in primary and secondary schools nationwide. The figure is expected to steadily increase to reach five percent by 2020, according to the education ministry…
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Text & Link Modeling
Written text is one of the fundamental manifestations of human language, and the study of its universal regularities can give clues about how our brains process information and how we, as a society, organize and share it. Among these regularities, only Zipf's law has been explored in depth. Other basic properties, such as the existence of bursts of rare words in specific documents, have only been studied independently of each other and mainly by descriptive models. As a consequence, there is a lack of understanding of linguistic processes as complex emergent phenomena. Beyond Zipf's law for word frequencies, in this project we focus on burstiness, Heaps' law describing the sublinear growth of vocabulary size with the length of a document, and the topicality of document collections, which encode correlations within and across documents absent in random null models. We introduce and validate a generative model that explains the simultaneous emergence of all these patterns from simple rules. As a result, we find a connection between the bursty nature of rare words and the topical organization of texts and identify dynamic word ranking and memory across documents as key mechanisms explaining the non trivial organization of written text.
This research has been published on PLoS ONE and can have practical applications in text mining. For example, improved algorithms to detect the topic of a document could lead to better contextual ad matching techniques. The Similarity Cloud illustrates the shared topicality between two documents or collections, which is captured in our model. See the press release.
Prior work explored models for the growth of the Web's link graph that take into account the content of pages. A 2002 paper in PNAS studied the relationship between the similarity among pages and the probability that they are linked to each other. A 2004 paper in PNAS proposed a model incorporating these findings to reproduce not only the link structure but also the distribution of similarity between linked pages, given a background distribution of similarity among any two pages. Combining the text and link generation models will give us a framework to understand to entire process by which information is created and linked on the Web.
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We analyzed three data sets:
The Industry Sector data set is available from Andrew McCallum's data repository.
Our crawl of 150,000 Web pages (459MB) sampled from the ODP in 2007. This contains 15 directories, with 10,000 random HTML pages from each of the 15 top level categories.
Our set of 100,000 Wikipedia topic pages (38MB) randomly sampled from an English Wikipedia dump in 2007. Built by Jacob Ratkiewicz, this is a single file where topic term vectors are represented in sequence, separated by empty lines. Each topic is a sequence of lines, one line per word. Each line has two columns separated by spaces. The first column is a term ID, the second is the number of times the corresponding term occurs in the topic.
For each data set we removed HTML/Wiki markup, then conflated the remaining terms using the Porter Stemming Algorithm.


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Old, New, Borrowed, Blues
There was an interesting feature article by Laura Barton in the Guardian the other day, entitled 'The New Blues'. Acknowledging that the story of the blues is a story of evolution and metamorphosis, she asks: "where does it [the blues] now stand, and where is it headed?"
Her response is that "the blues has begun to twist and turn again, with a raft of new artists embracing and emboldening the form. Where the blues of the White Stripes was sparse and pared-back, the latest take seems fuller, more elaborate". As examples she cites Benjamin Booker, Alabama Shakes, Rag'N'Bone Man's "melding of hip-hop and blues", and "the twisted desert blues of DD Dumbo".
Now, I like Laura Barton's writing on music. I find it thoughtful, wide-ranging, and now and then quite beautiful. She can invoke the very personal meaning to her of a song or an artist, perhaps at a particular time, to unlock new insights for me as a reader. I also have to confess that to date the music of Rag'N'Bone Man and DD Dumbo has yet to reach my ears, though I do have Benjamin Booker's album, and I'm passingly familiar with Alabama Shakes. And with all that in mind I have to say that I don't think Laura is tapping into anything new or distinctive here.
The essential problem with her premise is that in the course of its reinvention of itself over the last century, its encouragement of a thousand flowers to bloom, the blues has already hooked up with some of the forms that her examples quote as elements in their sound. Maybe the artists she mentions offer a different slant, and good on these explorers for their travels, but let's not kid ourselves that they are boldly going where no artist has gone before. Indeed one of the defining characteristics of the blues is that its connectedness to many forms of popular western music is already wired in - it doesn't take much thought to realise that it sits at the nexus of not just gospel and jazz, or other black genres such as soul and funk, but also rock'n'roll, rockabilly, blues-rock, country, folk, Americana and even bluegrass.
Just have a think about of Robert Plant for a minute. Zeppelin didn't just plunder R&B standards and turn up the volume. 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You', 'Gallows Pole' and 'Battle of Evermore' all added a folk dimension, while 'Kashmir' drew on Arabic sounds. His 80s album Now And Zen played around with hip hop sampling. When he reunited with Jimmy Page for Unledded, 'Yallah' and 'City Don't Cry' were both North African inspired, and the live performance included an Egyptian Ensemble. And in recent years he's been exploring a variety of different sounds and directions - including his Grammy-award winning and - to my mind - deadly dull Raising Sand collaboration with Alison Krauss.
Which raises another question. Just because something is new doesn't necessarily mean it's good. No harm to Benjamin Booker, but I'm not convinced he's a breakthrough blues performer. The opening track on his album, 'Violent Shiver', sounds like nothing so much as Stiff Little Fingers. This may account for the enthusiasm of his label boss Geoff Travis, of Rough Trade, but doesn't necessarily make it original, and if it's any good it's not really much to do with a blues influence. Have a listen to Tim Timebomb doing 'Sixteen Tons' or 'St James Infirmary', on the other hand , and you'll hear a good example of punk inflected blues. Those are covers, rather than original? Okay, so try out the 2009 album The Disco Outlaw by Jack-O and the Tennessee Tearjerkers (aka Jack Yarber) which strikes me as a much more satisfying example of 'new wave blues'.
Thumbs up to Laura Barton for giving some airtime to contemporary blues. But let's not try to insist that because something is new - if indeed it is new - it must be good, because it ain't necessarily so. The blues will progress anyway, it always does. And by the same token, let's not overlook something great simply because it isn't out of left field.
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Humans · Economy
Nigeria's Muslim-only social media
Boko Haram, Google, Islamic, Muslim, Nigeria, social media
A Nigerian startup has set up a Muslim-only social networking app that allows the Muslim community to interact, supplicate and learn from each other, while offering them an alternative to the mainstream networks that have fanned Islamophobia.
The mobile application dubbed Tutlub has been developed by Yusuf Hassan the founder of NextUmmah, a company that specializes in Muslims-for-Muslims digital products.
Tutlub is Arabic, meaning to ask, a name Yusuf picked to embody the spirit of asking. "To ask other Muslims to connect with you, to ask Allah (Islam for God) for help and to ask for knowledge from Allah, Islamic leaders and friends," said Yusuf.
Yusuf could not stand the hate and ignorant sentiments directed to Muslims on social media which he said further fanned intolerance. "A Muslim cannot post a simple dua (prayer) on social media without being attacked and branded a terrorist. I felt that the world had greatly misunderstood Islam and it was not fair. I had to do something," he said.
Riding on the impressive internet penetration in Nigeria that stands at 93 million according to Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC, the industry regulator, Yusuf decided to carve his niche by targeting Muslims who were looking to interact with each other on the internet but were afraid to do so on mainstream media.
Muslims make up 50 per cent of the over 180 million Nigerians according to the CIA fact book. It is this group that Yusuf has had his eyes on.
"I decided to think differently following my personal experience on Facebook where I was misinterpreted and stigmatized based on posting Islamic content. Such stigmatizations and misrepresentation discourages some of us from posting and engaging with Islamic content as much as we would prefer to. Furthermore employers nowadays do check potential employees' Facebook pages and a Muslim candidate with a page full of Islamic content might be misconstrued," said Yusuf.
The journey to get the app registered and accepted by network operators and even Muslim scholars was long and bumpy. Muslim content was disallowed by mobile network operators like MTN and Globacom following directives by some scholars on whether or not Islamic contents were appropriate for such purposes.
"I couldn't understand why this had to be. I pushed for discussions with Islamic scholars in Nigeria concerning the appropriate use of Islamic content and got approval from the highest Islamic body in Nigeria, the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs before the network operators could agree to use the content," Yusuf told Fairplanet.
It was worth it. The group moved from 0 user to second most trending app on Google play store listing for Muslim social network within one week of launch and became among the top 20 social apps in Nigeria.
To date there are over 30,000 prayers posted on the app and more than 100,000 Amins, the responses given by users after reciting the prayers.
The application has also inspired another novel use. According to Yusuf, Tutlub is helping fight indoctrination and radicalization of young people by terrorist groups like Boko Haram the Nigerian terrorist outfit that has meted untold violence and suffering to the citizenry.
As social media becomes ubiquitous and widespread and countries step up surveillance, the terror groups have found new recruitment platforms in social media where they create groups and virtual communities affiliated with the terrorist web sites. This allows them to bridge the gap between sympathizers and leadership. Sympathisers mostly consists of vulnerable youths who are looking for a cause and a source of income.
To counter this, Tutlub connects users with verified and vetted religious leaders who they can request prayers and advice from. "By so doing we will help in our own way to solve the problem of indoctrination through social network by providing moderate, vetted and verified Muslim leaders for users to ask questions. This exhibits true modern values of Islam and support Muslim individuals at risk of misinformation by extremist groups," Yusuf said.
While currently only available in Nigeria, Yusuf is working on having Tutlub go global to reach a larger Muslim population and avert further radicalization.
The platform is gravitating towards related Islam only social network like Muslimface.com which enjoys fanatical following in South East Asia and Middle East.
The social networks are providing a safe haven at a time when reports show that Muslims live in fear of attacks both online and offline. One such report, We fear for our lives, offline experiences of anti-Muslim hostility, commissioned by Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks)shows that there is a growing concern that online bullying of Muslims online could materialize in the real world.
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Tutlub is Arabic, meaning to ask, a name to embody the spirit of asking. "To ask other Muslims to connect with you, to ask Allah (Islam for God) for help and to ask for knowledge from Allah, Islamic leaders and friends."
Yusuf, the founder, could not stand the hate and ignorant sentiments directed to Muslims on social media which he said further fanned intolerance.
"I decided to think differently following my personal experience on Facebook where I was misinterpreted and stigmatized based on posting Islamic content. Such stigmatizations and misrepresentation discourages some of us from posting and engaging with Islamic content as much as we would prefer to."
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Poll Wars: The Liberals Are Back On Top
Oh dear. Yesterday the grinning religious fanatic Andrew Scheer was flying high, after a Forum poll showed him and his Cons leading the Liberals for the first time in a long time.
But I wondered whether the poll was an outlier.
And now it seems it was.
And poor old Scheer isn't grinning anymore.
Not after a new Nanos poll suggests the Cons are still trailing the Liberals by a healthy margin.
The latest Nanos federal ballot tracking has the Liberals at 38.5 per cent support, followed by the Conservatives at 32.5 per cent, the NDP at 14.6 percent, the BQ at 6.0 per cent and the Greens at 5.7 per cent.
And the grubby little monkey is still trailing Trudeau by a gap the size of the Grand Canyon.
Nanos tracking has Trudeau as the preferred choice as PM at 45.3 per cent of Canadians followed by Scheer (21.2%), Mulcair (9.4%) and May (4.3%). Eighteen per cent of Canadians were unsure who they preferred.
And while the Liberals may have lost two or three points, that's within the margin of error.
And even if it is real, it's not surprising considering the way the shameless Scheer has been trying to portray the Liberal proposal to end income sprinkling as a monstrous attack on every small business in the country...
When in fact that's nothing more than a big lie.
Only about one in eight small-business owners are likely to be affected by a Liberal proposal to end income sprinkling, according to new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
A study from the left-leaning think tank says small-business owners most likely to be affected by the tax-savings measure are male, professionals such as doctors or lawyers who make more than $216,000 a year and with spouses or adult children who don't work.
Awwwwww. So much for those poor little mom and pop stores.
David Macdonald, senior economist of the centre and author of the study, said family-run businesses such as restaurants or stores are not likely to be affected.
His research suggests 77 per cent of small-business owners do not benefit from the tax break, while another 10 per cent wouldn't gain enough to offset the cost of setting up the scheme.
And surprise surprise, or tinkle tinkle little sprinkle, Scheer is only defending the interests of the greedy One Percent.
Mr. Macdonald said that his study, based on data from Statistics Canada and tax filers, showed income sprinkling was almost entirely benefiting wealthy Canadians.
And when Canadians realize that Scheer is indeed a grubby Con artist, AND a ghastly bigot...
He won't be going anywhere.
Especially now that his golden coach has turned into a pumpkin...
And he has been revealed to be a shameless liar just like his former leader.
Poor Andrew Scheer, it must have been a hell of a party yesterday.
But it just didn't last very long...
And of course this still applies...
Either we destroy those dirty lying Con hogs.
Or they will destroy us...
Labels: Andrew Scheer, Nanos poll, The Con Tax Scam, The Death of Con Canada
What a great country we live in! Went to do blood work yesterday and then an ultrasound today, each time in and out, easy peasy!
But of course if we didn't pay taxes, we wouldn't be able to get that type of service. I hate paying tax as much as the next Joe, but hey it's a necessary evil.
Greenthumb
pollsters are the economic shock troops of the 1% intellect
no that took 6 months I heard it from Mike Pence.
Thanks for updating yesterday's post Simon. I didn't believe the Forum poll but it was still good to read that nothing has really changed. And thanks for the laughs, that illustration of Scheer as the ugly sister was priceless.You are so right the Cons are shameless.
It does show that the Liberals need to wake up and sharpen their focus. They are doing a good job but they often screw up on messaging.
Well Simon, even though the Rebel fortunately burned out, the Cons still have a large gang in main stream media promoting Scheer and his nonsense. Post Media's Mark Bonokoski claims the Forum poll indicates "...if Canadians trudged to the polls today, Scheer would be Canada's next prime minister...'. RG
Simon did you see the smelly anti-choicer they tried to ram down our fucking throats today?
I have to wonder was Forum's "poll" from yesterday a means to give the Cons a boost? Is its founder Dr. Lorne Bozinoff a Con supporter?
Nothing would surprise me given the Con propensity to cheat when or wherever they can to get elected. That's what they do. Dean (I'm innocent!) Del Mastro is living proof of that.
We best prepare ourselves for the run-up to the 2019 election as I'm certain the vestiges of the Harper crime family will be up to their old tricks of deceiving Canadians into voting for them.
As an American I had no idea your media was so full of cons like ours is. Bothsiderism and apologists galore. To think that CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, etc., get accused of having a "liberal bias" when they fed Trump's ego and insatiable craving for attention for two years (more if you count his stupid reality show) is ridiculous.
How it is your press is allowed to continue employing a convicted felon like Conman Black astonishes me. Harper really did commit quite a bit of damage over a whole decade, that Trudeau is going to need a lot more than a year and a half to clean up. Not the least of which is the con-biased slant of the CBC, and the proliferation of noxious hate speech all over Facebook and the prospect of hostile foreign powers latching onto these shameless con outlets to influence elections. Like the #MacronLeaks and Russian malfeasance in Germany that may have had an effect on the recent outcome, where even though Merkel got a fourth term, actual Nazis won their highest percentage since 1933.
Look up the blog Anti-Racist Canada to see the most vile spew and death threats against the prime minister spread all over social media -- and Mark Zuckerberg does absolutely nothing about it. To him everything is just data devoid of any real-world human context. As Foghorn Leghorn once said "I say, I say, that boy there, he ain't right in the head."
What is it about con papers named "Post" that they all seem to be more like Compost? The New York Post is Don the Con's favorite for a reason. It was Archie Bunker's favorite too. That's got to tell you something right there.
Everything is yellow journalism now. Or should I say golden-shower journalism, all the birdcage liner that's fit to print?
The Washington Post has begun to show some signs of life and their investigative staff are currently doing the Lord's work. New York Times have been dropping some bombshells, however I will not be subscribing until the awful Maggie Haberman is gone. NYT ran a headline saying Comey's letter threw the election to trump. Yes, one man's actions, not an entire toxic click obsessed climate created by you and your friends. Had you done your fucking jobs that letter would have been a fart in the wind.
hi Greenthumb...you're absolutely right. Many Canadians take our wonderful medicare system for granted, but it couldn't exist if people didn't pay taxes. I have never ever complained about paying my share, and the only things I demand is that the rich pay their share too...
Hi Steve...I don't know what to think about polls these days, and since nobody has ever asked for my opinion, and so many have proved to be wrong, I probably should ignore them. But I believe they can detect a trend, which is why I was so surprised that the Forum poll seemed to come out of nowhere....
hi anon...you're welcome. It was the least I could do after helping to spread both panic and despair. And I'm glad you liked the picture of Scheer as the ugly sister. He certainly is ugly and those Cons are shameless...
hi anon...I couldn't agree more. The plans to make our tax system fairer is an excellent idea, but taxation is complicated, and they tried to do too much in a hurry. They need to break up the three parts of that plan, and spend time explaining to Canadians what exactly they are doing and why. If they had done that the Con artists would never have been able to distort their plan beyond recognition...
hi RG...I saw Bonokowski's column and managed to read about a third of it before moving on. But what do we expect from Lisa Raitt's former flak? He's an absolute idiot and so is she. The Con media is doing their best to distort reality, which is why it's so important for our side to fight back. I hate to use the expression "fake news" but that is what Scheer and his Con artists are doing, and they need to be stopped...
hi anon... I did, and I was glad to see that the Liberals didn't allow that farce to continue. Scheer's contempt for women is so disgusting, it's about time he was called out....
hi anon 8:54.... yes I'm afraid our media is full of Cons just like yours. In fact, I believe the situation is worse here than it is in the U.S. You at least have some great papers like the Times and the Washington Post, and many others. Here there are fewer media outlets, and more concentration which allows the corporate hogs to wield more influence. And even the CBC has a Con board left over from the Harper years, and regularly disgraces itself. Fortunately most Canadians aren't swayed by the partisan bias. And the even better news is that Postmedia the media conglomerate most responsible for that blatant bias is on its last legs, and with a little bit of luck will soon go down like the Titanic. So needless to say, I spend quite a lot of time praying up an iceberg... ;)
hi JD...I don't know where that Forum poll came from. I like to think it was just incompetence, but apparently Forum did call the last election better than the others, so I can hardly wait to see what their next poll shows. I don't think Forum had any evil intentions, but you're right when you say that progressives need to prepare themselves for the run-up to the next election. The Cons tried to steal the two last elections with their robocalls and plans for voter suppression, and you can be sure that the Con crime family will try again. There is nothing I fear more than the complacency of progressives.
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Revisiting Anglican Classics 2: A.M. Ramsey, The Gospel and the Catholic Church (1936)
Posted byrevjmorris November 17, 2021 Posted inUncategorized
Is this the greatest book of Anglican theology published in the twentieth century? I think there's a good case for saying so. It's certainly one of the most influential, and a book which retains much of its freshness and vitality 85 years on from its publication.
It's not without flaws. So let's get those out of the way first. Its assumption of something like a single Patristic witness, while consistent with the Anglo-Catholicism Ramsey had embraced, won't stand up to critical scrutiny now. The book was written before great strides were made in liturgical and Patristic scholarship, and Ramsey himself came to recognize its deficiencies. Likewise, the latent assumption of a largely self-consistent New Testament voice would sit uncomfortably with many Biblical scholars today, though some schools of thought (e.g. canonical criticism) would be happier with it. Perhaps most seriously, there's a somewhat undefinable, and philosophically unexplored, quality to the central claim made in the book that the order of the Church is itself an expression ('utterance' is the word he uses) of the Gospel. With it, Ramsey pulls history and proclamation together in a way that echoes his interest at the time in neo-Orthodoxy, and the influence of Barth's translator Hoskyns, though it probably also reflects a lingering influence from the philosophical Idealism of his mentor William Temple, and others.
Maybe I'm biased – well, I am! – but though some people would regard Ramsey's appreciation of F.D. Maurice as mystifying, I wouldn't be among them. Ramsey plainly understood Maurice's intellectual breadth and imaginativeness, and grasped that the whole with Maurice is always more than the sum of the parts – admittedly another way of saying it's not always clear how Maurice ultimately justifies his position. But Ramsey perceived the importance of Maurice's attempt in The Kingdom of Christ (1838; completely revised 1842) to honour his own Anglican perspective while at the same time taking to heart the precious truths proclaimed in other, separated Christian traditions, and in a way his book echoes that same fundamental move. I have to admit, though, that Ramsey is always much more readable than Maurice – in fact, that very readability is one of the great surprises of the book, and something that keeps it alive even today. It's one of the best-written books of modern Anglican theology, without question.
So why 'the greatest'? Ramsey spotted the abiding problem of modern Anglican theology, and tried to think a way through it. That is, quite simply, the cohabitation of two (or even three, though the third is less easily defined) completely different and apparently irreconcilable theological systems within the one Church tradition – the Evangelical appeal to the authority of Scripture and its consequent 'leaping over' the importance of the tradition of the Church, and the Catholic appeal to the authority of Church tradition and its apparent demotion of Scripture. The one position mandates (I'm not saying this is what all Evangelicals think – it's a kind of tendency or norm) a sort of Scriptural simplicity that has the unfortunate side-effect of rendering much of human history otiose, the other a sort of traditional identity that embraces the significance of history but risks losing the radical message of the Gospel. If there is a third, it is of course the 'Liberal' appeal to reason, or rather to the adaptability of the Gospel and the Church to changing human situations, which implies in turn the susceptibility of both to critical interrogation. Ramsey leans very heavily on Maurice in his reading of this 'third' position (not that he simply identifies Maurice with it), but since Maurice's concept of 'reason' was the spiritual capacity entailed in Coleridge's use of the term, and not a logical, 'rationalist' view, it doesn't directly affect the main lines of Ramsey's case.
Ramsey's solution is effectively to argue that each of these two positions is incomplete without the other. They are really two sides of one reality, God's speaking – God's Word – in history. And since Ramsey accepts in the fullest sense the Pauline theology of the Church as Christ's body, the Gospel is articulated not only in the Church, i.e. functionally as the Word of God is read, proclaimed, and taught, but through the Church in sacramentum and in its own very ordering. This is a classic Coleridgean-Mauricean move – the limitations of two positions are transcended in a fusion of both. Stephen Sykes (in The Integrity of Anglicanism, 1978) hated the resultant confusion (as he saw it), but he did I think miss or at least underestimate the extent to which Ramsey was trying to take the Church as we have received it through history seriously as the endeavour of the followers of Christ to remain true to his word. Ramsey's argument is the authentic Christian riposte to Nietzsche's 'There was only ever one Christian and he died on the cross'.
The need for these two positions to 'speak' to each other, to be seen as part of the one reality of the Church, is so evident from the recent history of division and disagreement within the Anglican Communion, and particularly my own church, the Church of England, that the abiding relevance of Ramsey's effort surely doesn't need pointing out. Of course – and he was well aware of this – it doesn't resolve the actual, messy task of trying to work out how to regard different issues and different historical changes as they impact upon the Church, but it does defend the basic Anglican endeavour to contain these apparently different ecclesiologies within the one body, and indeed to articulate an overarching ecclesiology that can do justice to both. This was not only something of which Anglicans needed to be reminded in the 1930s. It was also something essential to holding together their ecumenical ambitions, which ranged over both Protestant denominations, and the Old Catholics, Orthodox and Roman Catholics. No one has set out a more compelling vision of what an Anglican ecumenical strategy should aim to do than, by implication, Ramsey did in this book.
There are two further points. One is that, although at first reading one might be struck by Ramsey's attempt to fold the Evangelical appeal to the Gospel into arguments about Catholic order, an equally important move is the modification he makes to the traditional 'Catholic' position in Anglicanism. Gone is the somewhat narrowly defined, 'supercharged' (the word I think is Peter Nockles's) theory of tactile, manual succession as the constitutive element of apostolicity, as received from the Tractarians. Ramsey moves things on, allowing an opening out of the understanding of apostolicity to include a fidelity to the Gospel and an identification with wider currents of Church history, and thus enabling the broader view of apostolicity that was later to emerge in, for example, the Porvoo agreement, but also in the work of the Faith and Order Commission of the WCC from the 1970s on. Ironically – though he again he would have been aware of this – from a Roman Catholic perspective, this was merely stretching the concept of apostolicity to its appropriate breadth. A mark of that was Yves Congar's appreciation of Ramsey.
Finally, Ramsey achieves all of this not by a simplistic or crude idealization of the Church. He had a thoroughly Augustinian notion of the Church as itself, in the specific conditions of history, often deeply flawed. It needs constant reform, constant recall to its foundations – that is the importance of the Evangelical constitution of the Church. I'm often struck today by how easily people seem to be disillusioned by the Church, and by Church leaders. When did we learn to be so naïve? The Church is called to be a peaceable, loving, safe and affirming community, but it will always fail, just as much as it succeeds. It's made up of sinners, after all. Any alternative view would be a kind of Pelagianism, a trust that by our own efforts we can perfect ourselves. We can't. 'Catholicism always stands before the church door at Wittenberg', wrote Ramsey, 'to read the truth by which she is created and by which she is judged' (p. 180).
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Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich End Their Engagement After 2 Months
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By Zoe Papadakis | Friday, 25 September 2020 11:02 AM EDT
Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich are calling it quits two months after getting engaged, according to reports. It was not an easy decision for the "Sorry Not Sorry" singer and her former fiance, but it was something they needed to do for their careers, a source revealed to People.
"It was a tough decision, but Demi and Max have decided to go their separate ways to focus on their respective careers," the insider said. "They have respect and love for one another and will always cherish the time they spent together."
Lovato and Ehrich began dating in March, and Ehrich popped the question on July 22. Lovato shared the news in an Instagram post that month.
"I knew I loved you the moment I met you," she captioned a photo of the former couple embracing on the beach.
"I'm honored to accept your hand in marriage," she added. "I love you more than a caption could express but I'm ecstatic to start a family and life with you. I love you forever my baby. My partner. Here's to our future!"
Earlier this month, Lovato revealed that she and Ehrich decided to take a chance on their relationship by quarantining together during the coronavirus pandemic and it had made things between them stronger.
"We were able to share this time together that we wouldn't have normally gotten to spend," she said on "The Morning Mash Up" on SiriusXM Hits 1, per People. "And that accelerated our relationship on a level that you can't really explain to people, but quarantine either makes or breaks the deal. And it really made that. So I'm really blessed, really fortunate, and continuing to count my blessings every day."
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Red Sox fall to Tampa Bay
Junichi Tazawa gives up three runs in eighth inning
Updated: 2:17 AM EDT Sep 12, 2015
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Junichi Tazawa was charged with a blown save in his third straight appearance.He gave up three runs in Tampa Bay's five-run eighth inning Friday night and the Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 on Friday night.Tazawa's recent efforts have raised the question of whether the right-hander might be wearing down in the final month of a long season."I don't feel any different," Tarawa said through a translator. "I think it's more missed location, just mechanics, release point. The last couple outings were better, but today was definitely off."Asdrubal Cabrera and J.P. Arencibia hit two-run homers in the Rays' big inning. Cabrera's homer came off Tazawa (2-7) and Arencibia tacked on two more runs with a homer off Noe Ramirez. It was Arencibia's fifth homer in 34 at-bats at the major league level this season.Andrew Bellatti (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win.Boston slugger David Ortiz remained two homers shy of becoming the 27th player to reach 500. He had an RBI double and a single in four at-bats. He was also walked intentionally.Enny Romero replaced Rays starter Chris Archer with two on and no outs in the sixth and gave up a run-scoring double to Travis Shaw and Pablo Sandoval's RBI infield single that tied it at 3. Ryan Hanigan gave Boston a 4-3 lead with a sacrifice fly off Brandon Gomes.That lead held up until the bad inning for Tazawa, who has a 6.54 ERA over his last 32 appearances after posting a 1.33 ERA in 29 games through June 11.Interim manager Tory Lovullo dismissed the notion that Tazawa is out of gas."I really don't think so," Lovullo said. "He's in tremendous shape. He wants to be in that moment. I just think his fastball command right now is inconsistent, puts him into situations where he is predictable at times."The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead on Ortiz's double to deep center in the first. He moved past Chipper Jones into sole possession of 32nd place all-time with his 1,624th RBI.Archer lasted five-plus innings despite a stretch where he tied a team record with seven consecutive strikeouts. He allowed three runs, five hits, two walks and struck out eight.Wade Miley allowed three runs and seven hits over seven innings for Boston, coming back from a rough first inning to retire 11 straight at one point.Boston's Mookie Betts extended his career-high hitting streak to 16 games with a seventh-inning single.Red Sox second baseman Brock Holt left game in the seventh inning with upper back spasms.
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Junichi Tazawa was charged with a blown save in his third straight appearance.
He gave up three runs in Tampa Bay's five-run eighth inning Friday night and the Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 8-4 on Friday night.
Tazawa's recent efforts have raised the question of whether the right-hander might be wearing down in the final month of a long season.
"I don't feel any different," Tarawa said through a translator. "I think it's more missed location, just mechanics, release point. The last couple outings were better, but today was definitely off."
Asdrubal Cabrera and J.P. Arencibia hit two-run homers in the Rays' big inning. Cabrera's homer came off Tazawa (2-7) and Arencibia tacked on two more runs with a homer off Noe Ramirez. It was Arencibia's fifth homer in 34 at-bats at the major league level this season.
Andrew Bellatti (3-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win.
Boston slugger David Ortiz remained two homers shy of becoming the 27th player to reach 500. He had an RBI double and a single in four at-bats. He was also walked intentionally.
Enny Romero replaced Rays starter Chris Archer with two on and no outs in the sixth and gave up a run-scoring double to Travis Shaw and Pablo Sandoval's RBI infield single that tied it at 3. Ryan Hanigan gave Boston a 4-3 lead with a sacrifice fly off Brandon Gomes.
That lead held up until the bad inning for Tazawa, who has a 6.54 ERA over his last 32 appearances after posting a 1.33 ERA in 29 games through June 11.
Interim manager Tory Lovullo dismissed the notion that Tazawa is out of gas.
"I really don't think so," Lovullo said. "He's in tremendous shape. He wants to be in that moment. I just think his fastball command right now is inconsistent, puts him into situations where he is predictable at times."
The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead on Ortiz's double to deep center in the first. He moved past Chipper Jones into sole possession of 32nd place all-time with his 1,624th RBI.
Archer lasted five-plus innings despite a stretch where he tied a team record with seven consecutive strikeouts. He allowed three runs, five hits, two walks and struck out eight.
Wade Miley allowed three runs and seven hits over seven innings for Boston, coming back from a rough first inning to retire 11 straight at one point.
Boston's Mookie Betts extended his career-high hitting streak to 16 games with a seventh-inning single.
Red Sox second baseman Brock Holt left game in the seventh inning with upper back spasms.


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Speaker: Christina Dunbar-Hester. March 5th, 2021, 1PM EST.
"I Was Trying to Drag People Into Caring": Governance, Diversity, and Controversy in Open Technology Projects.
In recent years, conflicts over values and practices have emerged in hacking and free/libre and open source (FLOSS) communities, centering around diversity and inclusion. This talk presents ethnographic research on feminist hacking and "diversity" efforts in mainstream hacking, which have gathered momentum in these communities in recent years. It explores how participants work through thorny issues of inclusion through their practices with artifacts and with one another. It illustrates how there is more at stake in "hacking diversity" than a politics of representation can capture, and argues that how diversity advocates bound their interventions matters for both hacking communities and "tech" more broadly.
Christina Dunbar-Hester is the author of Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures (Princeton U Press, 2020) and Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press, 2014). She is a faculty member in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, USA, and she holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University, USA. Her writing and research centers on the politics of technology, with a main body of work focused on media and tech activisms, and more recently moving into new areas having to do with infrastructures and ecology.
Organized by the Algorithmic Media Observatory, Concordia University and co-sponsored by the Infoscape Research Lab and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) Western University.