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est le sixième album du groupe de punk rock The Offspring. Il est sorti le  chez Columbia Records.
Le disque fut produit par Brendan O'Brien qui collabore de nouveau ensuite avec le groupe pour l'album Splinter.

Musicalement,  est orienté dans la même lignée que son prédécesseur Americana.

Les titres Original Prankster, Want You Bad et Million Miles Away serviront de singles pour la promotion de l'album.

C'est sur cet album qu'apparaît pour la première fois la tête de mort enflammée qui deviendra le logo du groupe.

Liste des titres
 Intro - 0:05
 Come Out Swinging - 2:47
 Original Prankster  - 3:42
 Want You Bad - 3:23
 Million Miles Away - 3:40
 Dammit, I Changed Again - 2:49
 Living In Chaos - 3:28
 Special Delivery - 3:00
 One Fine Day - 2:45
 All Along - 1:39
 Denial, Revisited - 4:33
 Vultures - 3:35
 Conspiracy of One - 2:17
 Huck It (titre non indiqué) - 2:40

En plus
Ce disque contient une plage CD-Rom/multimédia sur laquelle figurent les clips de Pretty Fly (For A White Guy), The Kids Aren't Alright, She's Got Issues, et Why Don't You Get A Job, ainsi que les karaokés (versions muettes ou chantées avec un léger décalage par rapport aux versions de l'album) d'Original Prankster et One Fine Day, plus encore un bonus, Huck It:non pas le clip de la chanson du même titre (qui ne lui sert même pas de bande-son), mais un mélange d'images de concerts et de sports extrêmes. Ainsi qu'un lien vers le site Internet du groupe.

Album musical sorti en 2000
Album publié par Columbia Records
Album produit par Brendan O'Brien
Album de The Offspring
Album certifié disque d'or en Italie
Album certifié disque d'or en Allemagne
Album certifié disque d'or en Argentine
Album certifié disque d'or en Belgique
Album certifié disque d'or au Brésil
Album certifié double disque de platine au Canada
Album certifié disque d'or en Espagne
Album certifié disque d'or en Finlande

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I would love to be able to spend Valentine's Day with my husband. Unfortunately, this will not be a possibility this year unless some sort of miracle happens. You see, He just accepted a new position in the DC area and has to work there during the week. I stay back where our home is with our children. I also have to take my dad for surgery on Valentine's Day for another fistula. He is on dialysis three times a week do to complete kidney failure. So again, my wish would be to spend Valentine's Day with my husband.
Nothing really, I don't need a day to know my husband loves me!
I would love to receive jewelry and have a romantic dinner with my husband!
Just some quality family time is good for me, some cuddling with hubby once pack the kids off to bed!
A bouquet of flowers and chocolate will do, and a dinner date with my hubby and our son.
I would like some chocolates!
Romantic dinner with my hubby is hard to beat!
a massage would be heavenly!
I would just like to go out to a nice dinner and the to a movie. Still havent seen the fnal Twilight.
I would love a new watch or engagement ring, lol.
I'd like to just sit and watch a movie with my wife – just her and I – no kids.
Date night with hubby with dinner and snuggle watching a movie!!
I would love to have a fondue date with my hubby!
my husband to not have to work so we could have a quiet dinner at home and watch a movie.
I would love a date night with my husband and a diamond ring.
I would love to receive a call for a date on Valentines Day. Not likely to happen so instead I would love to have a nice supper with my Boys.
I would love an uninterrupted dinner w my husband.
I would love to be treated like I was the most important thing in my husbands world – he would give me flowers and take me to dinner and then a nice romatic addition, a walk on the beach or a hotel or something extra special. Don't get me wrong, my husband is great he just isn't romantic.
for valentines day i wold love to go out on a date with my husband with no kids responsibility and walk around the beach at night!
I would like to receive Roses!
I would love to take a mini vacation with my hubby!
just being with my husband and hearing from my children, i usually get roses..
I really don't want anything! I'm happy just spending time with dh! 🙂 Unfortunately I will be working that evening so we'll probably try to go out to eat on Wednesday.
I would like to win some pretty jewelry.
I would love it if my husband gave me a box of See's Candies and let me take a bath — without the kids interrupting!
I'd love to go out and have a nice dinner with my husband.
I want to go away for the night alone and I get to!
I would love to just have a nice meal with my husband.
I would love to get Godiva Chocolate & flowers….& perhaps go out to dinner.
I would love to go to Dinner and a Movie.
I hope to get a box of chocolates, a card and some flowers, I'll cook a nice dinner.
I would like to go out to dinner and spend time with my children.


We had a great get together again this year! A big "Thank You" to everyone who took part.
Once again we discovered new connections. Last year Emmett O'Connor's daughter Marion joined us. She was back with us this year. And we were joined by Ambrose O'Connor's daughter Mary, age 91.
Oren Frood's great grandson Jonathan brought along some wonderful photos. Possible Wilson and O'Callaghan relatives searched family trees to find connections.
Sharon (O'Connor Line) helped us sort through Killeen connections.
Garry A. is interested in Irish families of the Valley and has joined us each year and is a great resource.
Bruce and Gerry Mc came to Kanata from Pembroke, and shared with everyone photos of the day.


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'Utter shock': How sudden government U-turn on Christmas rocked Penarth
How sudden government U-turn on Christmas rocked Penarth
Penarth at Christmas in 2020. Picture: Penarth Town Council
RESIDENTS, retailers and hospitality traders have been reacting to the news of a Welsh Government U-turn on a five-day Christmas "relaxation period".
On Saturday First Minister Mark Drakeford announced a sudden Tier Four lockdown restriction for Wales, which then started at midnight.
Traders said they had no warning, with some scrambling to extend their opening hours for the day.
All non-essential shops and other services such as gyms have now closed, while hospitality traders can only serve takeaway food.
The previous Christmas restrictions – allowing two households to mix in a bubble for five days – will now only apply on Christmas Day.
Jason Payter – owner of Windsor Tea Rooms in Penarth town centre – said the new rules mean tens of thousands of pounds have now been lost.
The First Minister made the announcement on Saturday
"We have been preparing for our busiest week of the year, and put a lot of money on food and drinks," he said. "We were looking forward to a good period of trading.
"Then very suddenly on Sunday my phone started buzzing and it became apparent we'd lost it all.
"It's not ideal but if the government is convinced it will save lives then it's something I'm not going to oppose.
"I've decided we will be completely closing – it's not viable for us to open as a takeaway service.
"My concern is that it seems like it [the lockdown] could last until April. It certainly seems as though we're in it for the long haul this time."
Karen Dunlop, who owns Umpa Lumpa Sweet Shop and is a key organiser of shop local scheme Shop Penarth, said the lack of notice has had an impact on morale in the town.
Karen Dunlop
"We totally understand the dangers and the decision, but we'd have liked more notice," she said.
"There are so many traders who have to pre-order stock before Christmas – and especially for hospitality a lot of that stock you can't keep.
"It was utter shock [when she found out on Saturday] and very upsetting. I could have cried after all the work our staff have put in."
Umpa Lumpa will be operating a delivery service to try and compensate for the closure.
Nick Osborne, owner of Wasons DIY store – which will be staying open – says he feels "we've returned to uncharted territory".
Nick Osborne
"I feel very sorry for our retailers because we've gone back into the unknown again which we didn't anticipate," he said.
"Many retailers have now been left in a very unfortunate situation, and I hope they will receive further support from the government."
Penarth mother-of-two Jemma Yorke – who along with husband Michael has put a lot of effort into maintaining community spirit through a town advent trail this month, said she is trying to stay positive for her children.
"We've had to change our plans so many times in recent weeks," she said. "I'm one of three siblings and I won't be seeing any of them this Christmas.
"My in-laws and parents are vulnerable so we've decided we'll be spending Christmas as just the four of us.
"The upsetting part is the timing just before Christmas. I'm very conscious lots of parents were saving their big present shopping until pay day.
"I think we were all hoping 2021 would see the end of the pandemic, but this just seems to be quite brutal confirmation that that's not going to be the case. I don't think it was hugely surprising to many people, but to hear it officially felt quite sobering.
L-R: Michael, Austin, Jemma and Millie
"We're doing our best to stay upbeat for the children, because they don't really know the impact of this. It's not fair on them for us to be down during Christmas."
Mr and Mrs Yorke's advent trail around Penarth is continuing as planned, and people can view the houses involved until January 5.
Dinas Powys resident Liz Richards says she'll now be spending Christmas with her husband after the new rules were announced.
"We'd usually go and see my sister but we're all in the vulnerable category, so we'll be staying put," she said.
"We feel fortunate to have a very good selection of village shops – including Glenn Griffiths [the local butcher] who has been brilliant and is delivering what we need.
"It's been crucial for us because even as vulnerable people we couldn't get any supermarket delivery slots for Christmas.
"My worry is that a lot of these independent shops might have to close if this one [lockdown] lasts a long time. We have lots of nice independents here that I worry about.
"I don't disagree with the decision as such. It reminds you how tenuous life is. And because of that, while we'll be spending Christmas as just us this year, I'll be doing my best to make the most of it – and hoping that we'll be all together again next year and this will all be over."

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Sudbury Town è una stazione della metropolitana di Londra della Piccadilly line situata sulla diramazione di Uxbridge tra la stazione di Alperton e la stazione di Sudbury Hill, ed è compresa nella Travelcard Zone 4. La stazione sorge al confine tra il borgo londinese di Ealing e quello di Brent e serve il sobborgo di Sudbury, che forma la parte occidentale di Wembley.

Storia
La stazione fu aperta il 28 giugno 1903 dalla District Railway (DR, oggi la District Line) sulla sua nuova estensione verso South Harrow dalla stazione di Park Royal & Twyford Abbey (chiusa in seguito nel 1931 e rimpiazzata dalla stazione di Park Royal.

Questa nuova estensione fu, insieme con i binari già esistenti fino alla stazione di Acton Town, la prima sezione delle rete metropolitana ad essere elettrificata e a sostituire le locomotive a vapore con motrici elettriche. Le linee di profondità all'epoca esistenti (la Waterloo & City Railway - oggi la Waterloo & City Line, la City & South London Railway - oggi parte della Northern line, e la Central London Railway - oggi la Central line) erano già elettrificate fin dalla loro costruzione.

L'edificio originale della stazione fu demolito nel 1930-31 e rimpiazzato da una nuova stazione in preparazione al passaggio della linea dalla District alla Piccadilly line. La nuova stazione fu progettata da Charles Holden in un moderno stile europeo con l'utilizzo di mattoni, vetro e cemento armato. Come le stazioni di Sudbury Hill a nord e di Alperton a sud, e come altre stazioni che Holden disegnò per le estensioni orientali e occidentali della Piccadilly line (come Acton Town e Oakwood) Sudbury Town ha un atrio/biglietteria alto e squadrato che si eleva al di sopra di una bassa struttura orizzontale che ospita negozi e altri locali della stazione. I muri di mattoni della biglietteria sono punteggiati di finestre a cleristorio e la struttura è coperta da un tetto piatto in cemento armato. L'edificio è stato dichiarato monumento classificato di Grado II il 19 febbraio 1971; il 20 luglio 2011 la classificazione è stata elevata a Grado II*. Parte della segnaletica originale della stazione utilizza il carattere tipografico Johnston Delf Smith, una variante del carattere tipografico standard Johnston utilizzato dalla London Underground.

Il 4 luglio 1932, la Piccadilly line fu estesa in direzione ovest oltre il suo capolinea originale di Hammersmith, condividendo la linea con la District line fino a Ealing Common; da Ealing Common a South Harrow, la District fu rimpiazzata dalla Piccadilly line.

La stazione oggi
La stazione è stata recentemente ristrutturata. Nel 2008 sono stati installati nuovi tornelli più larghi per una maggiore comodità di accesso dei passeggeri.

Interscambi
La stazione è servita delle seguenti linee di autobus urbani:
 : 204, 245, 487, H17.

La stazione di Sudbury & Harrow Road della National Rail si trova a circa 350 metri di distanza verso nord, mentre Wembley Central, sulla Bakerloo line e sulla Watford DC Line della London Overground, si trova circa 1 km a est.

Galleria d'immagini

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 La stazione di Sudbury Town nel 1926 (Archivio fotografico del London Transport Museum).
 La nuova stazione, 1931 (Archivio fotografico del London Transport Museum).
 Biglietteria, 1931 (Archivio fotografico del London Transport Museum).
 Vista delle piattaforme e dell'edificio principale, 1932 (Archivio fotografico del London Transport Museum).

Stazioni della Linea Piccadilly


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Launches, News, No10 Petitions Website
No10 petitions system goes live
Posted by Tom Steinberg 14th November 2006
Posted in Launches, News, No10 Petitions Website
I'm very pleased to announce that the petitions system we've built for 10 Downing Street has gone live today.
I'm very grateful for the hard and often inspired work put into this by Chris Lightfoot and Matthew Somerville, as well as the civil servants who have helped to build a petitions system which I believe is in a real class of its own.
The most notable features are:
1. Petitions are accepted and published, regardless of the political slant of the petition. However, if they break the Ts&Cs (a petition that doesn't actually ask for any action, for example) then they are put on a special rejected petitions page: they don't just vanish. We think this transparency feature is probably unique.
2. The site is being launched in beta, and will change over time. This might seem too commonplace to note for many of you, but it reflects a willingness to see a public IT service evolve in response to users, not simply fulfil a contract agreed in advance. mySociety exists partly to spread good practice in the public sector, and we think this is a nice example of that in action.
3. The code, including Chris's amazing high-load optimised engine, is all open source.
Any questions? Come into our chat channel at www.irc.mysociety.org or mail us at hello@mysociety.org.
Taggedcitizen to government, e-government, load bearing, open source, petitions, transparency
Any chance of setting up a "no" column?
e.g "We the undersigned want a flat tax"
We the undersigned oppose this petition
Tom Steinberg
I'm afraid this is something that we won't be doing. You see, petitions are valid because they count the total number of people willing to put their name to something. But the moment you have a contrary position, you get something that looks like a poll, or a vote, but which isn't representative. You see, they're different beasts, and we would be doing little but increasing the amount of confusion on the internet if we added this feature.
However, you can create a petition contrary to another petition – nothing wrong with that, as two separate counts.
Isn't it true that the Government only counts a petition as a single piece of correspondence regardless of the number of people who sign it?
Dominic Pinto
Nice to see – [broken link removed] that 'my' or 'our' petition becomes 'theirs' ………. which we cannot do anything with (other than print or file) without permission or license.
There's current discussion on the AoIR list
(The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
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see the following taste, that you might like to reply to:
"I have two remarks to this interesting debate – leaving aside the
question of who is delighted (or not) for what reason 😉
@petitioning without deliberation
Well, even when discussion spaces are missing, having something like
public petitions online does make the current petitioning system more
transparent and accessible – let's not forget to note that – which
feeds well into new forms of more deliberative democracy as well
because other deliberative arenas (e.g. media, or those alternative
discussion spaces Stephen suggested) may pick up the petition issues
and carry them into the public sphere, that in turn can exert
"argumentative control" over the political administrative system (in a
siege-like manner, to speak in Habermas' terms).
However, the lack of discussion spaces on No 10 petitions
is a disappointment
* given that it would be more convenient for citizens to discuss the
petition issues on the same site (and they would probably want to be
listened to in most direct ways),
* given that state bodies need to transform themselves into more
deliberative institutions as well to meet the challenges of democratic
* given that the e-petition-forerunner-system,
http://www.e-petitioner.org.uk, has a discussion space, and
* given that Matthew Taylor himself, the (or an?) outgoing No 10
Strategy adviser, has recently called for more deliberative spaces
rather than more channels for citizens to express their demands:
http://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2006/11/the_challenge_f.html
@consideration of ePetitions
The flood of petitions (500+ in the first few days) may be viewed as a
success. However, knowing how much ressources it takes to process
petitions, it also undermines the credibility of the
e-petitioning-system at No 10. It is beyond imagination that the No 10
administration can pay attention to an extra 500 petitions that stream
into No10 every couple of days on top of the paper petitions even at
the most rudimentary level. That is, they must have filters in place,
such as number of signatures received or the like, which they need to
make transparent to maintain credibility – and credibility is probably
the most important ingredient for success in this realm.
On a further note, which explains my interest in this issue, I want
point you to the e-petitioning system at the German Parliament, which
Zebralog is currently evaluating:
Public Petitions at the German Parliament:
Zebralog evaluates pilot project
http://www.zebralog.de
Greetings, Matthias
PS: I'm going to post this thread to do_consult
(http://groups.dowire.org/groups/consult/index.xml) as well as people
there should be interested in reading this
Matthias Trenel
Zebralog e.V.
trenel@zebralog.de
My own comments on Friday to the first posts on the air list follow; again, you may like to comment:
There are no obligations on the UK government. The
Scottish Parliament seems to be further on though see
http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/
This site is a product of mysociety.org, and related
involved people who were/are behind
theyworkforyou.com, and other on-line enterprises
going back 10+ years.
These are all examples of amongst other things making
the proceedings of the legislature, and government,
more understandable, approachable, responsive,
accountable, and help check and hold the executive to
The UK system is in many respects still a feudal form
of government on which has been grafted over time
various additional attributes, such that there is in
the modern era now a government representing a
minority of the popular vote exercising all the powers
of the monarch (the 'prerogative' powers) plus those
that had been taken under parliamentary or statute
control. All in all, there is very limited scrutiny or
holding to account by the legislature of either the
passage of legsilation, or the actions of the
executive.
At the end of course, you can always throw the
bastards out …….. 🙂 ….. but it may, in the
database state, be too late by then.
Mass petitions have a long history – Wat Tyler and the
Peasants Revolt of the 14th century being an early
example of a mass petition albiet with some bloody
features, and a negative outcome.
Listen also to the discussion from this morning's BBC
Radio 4's In Our Time at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
Other examples might include the Pilgrimage of Grace
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/grace.html; small
scale ones e.g. one handed in by an MP on behalf of
constituents
http://www.derekwyatt.co.uk/news_item.aspx?i_PageID=113440
Petitions to Parliament concerning the Corn Laws
http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/cornlaws/petition.htm
Petitions to Mr Tony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6147842.stm
[broken link removed] – he'll
still accept paper petitions, and these often get good
media coverage, which is part of the reason for so
doing, but not all e-petitions will be accepted or put
up on the government site.
— Ildiko Kaposi wrote:
> Wainer,
> What's the reason for your disbelief?
> I took only a cursory glance at the sight, so I'm
> not well-informed.
> First of all, I don't know what the online
> petitioning implies exactly,
> i.e. whether there are any obligatory consequences
> for the Right Hon.
> Blair or government policy. But online petitioning
> as such is practised
> elsewhere, and e-democracy has been something of a
> priority for the UK
> government, so this seems to fit the pattern.
> Am I misreading the initiative?
> Ildiko
> >>> "Wainer Lusoli" 11/17/06
> 1:56 PM >>>
> Still rubbing my eyes in disbelief
> Any thoughts, anyone?
Tom's reactions to the comments and remarks on the air list included:
> Lastly, please note that for those of you who think I'm ignoring the
> fact that there ARE discussion forums on other petition sites, please
> just absorb the following scale difference:
> * Total petitions submitted on and offline to Scottish Parliament in
> first 7 years : 964
> * Total petitions submitted online to No10 site in first 6 days: 925
> I look forward to your feedback on this issue very much.
> best,
> Tom Steinberg
The petition with the most numerical support so far is:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to repeal the Hunting Act 2004.
Submitted by Nick Onslow FRES – Deadline to sign up by: 15 November 2007 – Signatures: 9366
Some of the less well supported I posted before.
I'd observe that crude numbers (as in how many petitions are posted, or even the numbers supporting any one petition) are only one element of any evaluation. The nature of the petition, and what is being demanded, must count; and longer-term the effect and/or impact, contrasted/compared with more traditional methods.
The concommitant publicity and coverage of 'traditional' petitions following marches on Downing Street, rallies in Central Hall Westminster, petitions to Parliament, lobbying Parliament, etc., are all well used and well known means of political campaigning – though how effective they are is a big question. But effectiveness can be measured in how much the publicity rallies even more people to the cause (e.g. Make Poverty History), although impact on government policies may be less than hoped for.
The crude numbers game was one of the main criticisms made at the Portcullis House meeting about theyworkforyou ….. by both MPs and others.
Dominic,
You quoted me from that list, but I think you missed the core question I posed for everyone there, and anyone reading this:
"Do you consider it possible to design deliberative discussion system on a site as sensitive as No10 which will generate debate sufficiently mature as to merit the sizeable public spending on moderation that would be required? If so, how?"
In my view, that's what's at the heart of your three posts above…
In a representative democracy there will (or perhaps that should be) be multiple fora for 'deliberative discussion' for 'debate' that is 'sufficiently mature' to justify the cost of moderation. I paraphrase, and slightly distort, as I'm not aware of any means that meet your tests …… the Houses of Parliament don't (slight qualification that the second chamber does probably do more mature things than the junior one). Judging by the quality of what this government in particular, and other governments generally, have come up with in the recent Queen's speech, and the pitiful 'japes' of their spin machines, rubbishing of individuals seem as 'not one of us', and the general pauicty of real debate, and the impoverishment of our archaic form of government, I see little justifcation of the No 10 site.
The petition system exposes people concerns and interests, and enables 'my' support to be
made public also. So perhaps these will reach a wider audience, and delivered 'direct to Downing Street.' The publicity and exposure of a mass petition delivered publicly reaches (or potentially reaches) vastly more than any of these do. A suggestion to try and measure reach would be to record site hits and naviagtion to individual petitions, and show this, as well as the actual signees.
Friends are highly dubious about this petition system, and that the support of say the repeal of the Hunting Act is representative.
And at the end of the day, it is still a matter of what significant impact or effect these have. Surely you don't envisage Blur or Broon acting because the highest number counted support the repeal of the Hunting Act? 🙂
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From: "Wainer Lusoli"
To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:58:27 -0000
Subject: Re: [Air-l] epetitions
Hi Tom – and others
As much as I like your stance on the whole petition issue, I think the question is ill posed: too many leads in one rhetorical, type II [negative answer] stem.
To your specific question, the answer is: yes, it would have been possible to build in deliberation. It has been done in relation to Parliamentary Committees, and in departmental consolations. Why not with No10?
Were you allowed to do so? I don't know, you should tell us, did you ask?
Should money follow maturity? No, it should foster maturity. That is the point of deliberation [you you believe deliberative theorists].
Is moderation too expensive when billions are spent in man+equipment in Iraq [that people in Britain seem reluctant to accept]? Well, I leave that to No10.
Curious – and I'd welcome comments as to why – was the nature of this rejected petition off the No. 10 site:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to launch an independent review into the privatisation of the British railway network that considers whether it was the right thing to do.
Submitted by Rajesh Joshi
More details from petition creator More details cannot be shown
Petition Rejected
This petition has been rejected because:
It contained party political material
Additional information about this rejection:
Sorry, your reference to Baroness Thatcher makes it difficult for us to accept this. If you could just
remove the reference to her, then we are clear of party political issues.
I couldn't see any party political reference, and in any case why should that be a bar? After all, the
electoral and legislative system is predicated on party politics.
Doh! Or has something really deep and significant been overlooked?
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Just rather intrigued that there has been no reactions – maybe too busy coding – either to Air or to this.
And my last post 2 days ago is awaiting moderation.
Ding! I should petition Blur to do something about this!
x-posted from air-l – apologies for the delay, but I didn't see it in the volume of mail ;til this morning.
I'm not familair at all with it, but it appears that in the Scottish system there is some tangible and visible impact – at least some form of public hearing about most(?) petitions.
Is that a likely development? We could see powerful parliamentary committees questioning the government closely on what steps it will be taking?
From: "Matthias Trenel"
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Petition Tony Blair, online that is
Hi Ildiko,
> Is this the pilot the Bundestag modelled on the e-petitioning system
> the Scottish Parliament?
Yes, that's right. As far as the technology is concerned: The
Bundestag adopted the e-petitioner system that was developed by the
International Teledemocracy Center and first employed by the Scottish
Parliament (later also by Local Authorities in England: Kingston and
Bristol). But the similarities might stop beyond technology, e.g. the
Bundestag hasn't had a public hearing for public petitions yet while
that happens with almost all petitions in Scotland, as far as I know.
Best, Matthias
Hello Dominic (and your colleagues by proxy),
Let me tackle your various questions and arguments.
>Friends are highly dubious about this petition system, and that the support of say the repeal of the Hunting Act is representative.
They are completely entitled to feel that way about this or any other initiative we run. However, I'm afraid that whilst thousands of people per day are making use of it, though, that's not a good enough reason to persuade me to suggest to the trustees, developers or our volunteer community that we should annul our contract and close down the site.
> Surely you don't envisage Blur or Broon acting because the highest number counted support the repeal of the Hunting Act?
Speaking personally, I think you're probably right about the chances of the pro fox-hunting people getting a repeal of this act under this government. However, I hope it is pretty obvious that we didn't build this petition system because we thought the government would and should do everything that was petitioned for: it is simply a new channel in our multi-layered representative democracy. It does not make the rest of the political universe vanish.
>yes, it would have been possible to build in deliberation. It has been done in relation to Parliamentary Committees, and in departmental consolations. Why not with No10?
Excellent news – please point me to examples. I am especially keen to see ones that can deal with over 1000 parallell discussions on different topics.
> Were you allowed to do so? I don't know, you should tell us, did you ask?
No, I didn't ask. I was much more concerned that the process of actually signing and making petitions should be percieved as transparent and trustworthy by most users, as it clearly is. However, we have now added lots of features that I didn't ask for, and nor did No10 as the site was being designed. This is what it means to run a beta.
> Is moderation too expensive when billions are spent in man+equipment in Iraq
You might have noticed that mySociety hasn't launched any military action in Iraq recently. This is a question to direct to No10. I am sure your view that this is a good use of money will form part of their considerations on the issue of discussion systems – you can let them know directly by mailing the support address on the petitions homepage.
>I couldn't see any party political reference, and in any case why should that be a bar?
There is a strict division of powers over rejections or acceptances – this is No10's business not ours. However you appear to have quoted No10's justification in your own email, relating to Mrs Thatcher. If you think that they should have allowed her to be mentioned, please drop No10 a mail through the support address on the homepage of the petitions site.
>Is that a likely development? We could see powerful parliamentary committees questioning the government closely on what steps it will be taking?
As Stephen Coleman would doubtless point out now, the executive and the Parliament are different things. I'm not aware of any such plans, but why not ask your MP to raise the idea in the House of Commons? Personally I would be happy to see petitions given some sort of more formal status, although I have not spent much time working out exactly what. Do you have any views?
MYstIC G
lo Steiny,
Just thought I'd drop you a message to say congratulations. The e-petitions website has now conclusively proven in spectacular fashion (with the road charging petition) that any government just isn't ever going to listen.
Hope you're well.
Rob / MYstIC G
I've just posted an exchange with Tom about the road pricing petition on my blog…
http://baconbutty.blogspot.com/2007/02/no-10-road-pricing-petition-beware-what.html
Making five suggestions…
Tom – greetings and congratulations on all the innovations of mySociety including, it seems, the engine in the No 10 petition site.
I agree that a massive discussion board would be impractical and pointless. But I do think the system has some amplifying biases that could be at least attenuated and misses opportunities for more deliberation.
Here's some suggestions:
1. Allow users to define 'counter petitions' or 'variant petitions' and make these accessible from the original petition to which they refer. This would create a cluster of proposals around an issue – and reduce search and transactions costs for those wishing to express a different view. Perhaps some threshold of signatures might need to be reached before that system cuts in – with an editorial judgement about what can be added as counter petitions or variant petitions to a popular petition.
2. Without having a free-for-all discussion board, you could allow the petition originators to elaborate and update their case as the petition goes on – or this is too much trouble for the 'long tale' of small petitions, allow more editing rights when a petition reaches a threshold of signatures (1,000, 10,000 – depending on the distribution). Editing rights could include posting updates and responding to arguments made in the media or by critics. If it was a sufficiently small number, you could allow the right to make external URL links – I would welcome the opportunity to make a case on road pricing (or many other things) as I have here on the barely read "Bacon Butty" using links to quality assure and add credibility to the and argument.
3. Create an 'oppose' option for any petition. I've seen the rationale for not doing this on the No 10 web site, but I don't think stacks up – in fact, the asymmetry in effort required to oppose a popular petition is huge and the experience disempowering and frustrating. Why should saying 'no' be made more difficult and saying 'yes'? I think there is a risk of too much analogy with paper petitions – but that breaks down when the transaction cost of signing and collecting signatures is so low.
4. Have ministerial or PM responses added to the petition while the petition is open, but triggered by passing thresholds of signatures (eg. 1000, 10,000 – whatever would keep these to an acceptable number)… what a pity that the PM didn't set out the case he eventually e-mailed at an earlier point in the development of the road pricing petition.
5. Not so sure about this one, but should there be a bit more quality control, so that petitioners reflect real world choices and don't embed falsehoods or misleading statement in their petition? Supposing an editorial standard about equal to the letters page of a local newspaper was applied? The guidelines don't seem to allow for misleading propositions as long as they are clearly expressed! Would you allow a petition that tells the government to "stop giving free mobile phones to asylum seekers"? So what about the implication in the road pricing petition that the govt would be tracking our every move?
William Overington
I recently tried to add two petitions. Both have been rejected twice.
The first petition has the following page.
[broken link removed]
The "More details cannot be shown" details were as follows.
The initiator of this petition is not an architect and is not
involved in the construction industry. The Design for
Manufacture competition included the following sentence. The
competition will focus on capturing the benefits from modern
construction and on stimulating public discussion about what
Homes for the 21st Century should be like. The idea in this
petition is as a result of the initiator of this petition
thinking about what some homes for the 21st Century could be
like. The Design for Manufacture competition has its own webspace.
There were no allegations about anything in the petition at either first stage or second stage. Indeed, the "More details" notes were the same at both stages and nothing about allegations was claimed at that stage.
The second petition has the following page.
The intention of this petition is to provide an idea which
could hopefully help in the implementing of the
[broken link removed] cheap drugs petition. The duration
of this petition is 11 months so that when the
[broken link removed] cheap drugs petition is completed,
this petition will already be completed and ready to support
the [broken link removed] cheap drugs petition.
At the first stage, there were no "More details" notes.
My original wording was as follows.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to initiate a
feasibility study involving expert input from government
departments and from the pharmaceutical industry as to whether
it is feasible to introduce a symbol, a logo, which may be used
on the packaging of a pack of pharmaceuticals such that the
logo conserves all logos and other information related to the
quality of the pharmaceuticals in the pack yet cancels the
licence to sell the pharmaceuticals in that particular pack in
the developed world: the intention being that if this idea is
feasible and becomes implemented then hopefully some
pharmaceutical companies would make and distribute packs of
pharmaceuticals carrying one or more copies of the logo for use
by hospitals and doctors in the poorest countries of the
developing world at the incremental cost of producing them
without on those particular packs seeking to recover the
development costs of the pharmaceuticals in the pack.
This was rejected with the remarks.
Your petition was classed as being in the following categories:
* Wording that is impossible to understand
So, I reworded it and added some notes.
Yesterday I resubmitted exactly the same stage 2 texts that are published in the government webspace, but this time with no "More details" notes.
I am concerned about the assessment process and that the government webspace is damaging the idea in the first petition by claiming that allegations have been made, when no allegations whatsoever have been made. I am concerned that right-minded people may shun the idea because of the factually wrong claim about allegations which is being made in the government webspace. There is something seriously wrong with the assessment process. Readers of this post are welcome to form their own opinion of the quality of the assessments from reading the above texts of the "More details" sections.
Francis Irving
The problem is that you put too much text in the main body of the petition, and not enough in the "More details". Also, you cannot put your own name or any URLs in the "More details" section.
The best thing to do is to resubmit your petitions correcting that.
I am pleased to say that the idea contained in the eutopia petition, which was later in the eutopia-estate petition, is now rewritten in a new petition with the short title eutopia-housing, and that the eutopia-housing petition has been accepted and is now open for people to consider signing.
The closing date for signing the petition is 15 January 2008. The period of seven months was chosen so that the petition would close early next year and hopefully the Prime Minister will agree to the request in the petition and that the competition can open in the spring of 2008.
However, in order to succeed the petition needs a good number of signatures. If the petition receives one signature each day on average while it is open then over two hundred signatures will be achieved.
However, there are many ifs in the process before the housing estate is built and put into use, though if it is built and put into use, then maybe it will be the first of a number of such housing estates around the country.
I am pleased to say that the idea contained in the interactinglogo petition, which was later in the metacertificator petition, is now rewritten in a new petition with the short title special-mark, and that the special-mark petition has been accepted and is now open for people to consider signing.
The closing date for signing the petition is 18 March 2008. The period of nine months was chosen so that the petition would close a few weeks before the [broken link removed] cheap drugs petition.
The intention of this petition is to provide an idea which could hopefully help in the implementing of the [broken link removed] cheap drugs petition. The duration of this petition is nine months so that when the
[broken link removed] petition is completed, this petition will already be completed and ready to support the [broken link removed] petition.
However, in order to succeed the petitions may need a good number of signatories. Whilst it is possible that the Prime Minister might act upon them upon their merits regardless of the number of signatories, a good number of signatories would help them to become acted upon. Indeed, lots of signatories might lead to government responses before the closing dates of the petitions. At the time of writing this text, the [broken link removed] cheap drugs petition has eight signatories, including me and the [broken link removed] special mark
petition has just one signatory, namely me.
I feel that the two petitions have a good possibility of leading to major benefits if they are acted upon by the Prime Minister.
slsatchel
A sugestion to try n measure reach would be to record site hits and navigation to individual petitions, and show this, as well as the actual signees.
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Vegetarian Dinner Party is meant to make vegetarian and vegan cuisine viable for the everyday, and for more formal occasions as well. The 21 mouthwatering three-course menus complemented by wine matching, and instructions on how to prepare aperitivs will encourage anyone—friends and family, neighbors and acquaintances—to try vegetarian, vegan, or gluten free cooking. And teach you step by step how to make delicious and extraordinary dishes as well as a rich variety of easy-to-prepare options.
For me, cooking, entertaining guests, and eating are relaxing and enjoyable, and count among the joys of life. Anyone wishing to find culinary inspiration can find it under recipes. For those who wish to broaden their knowledge of vegetarian cuisine, see under Cooking Classes.
Vegetarian Dinner Party promotes meat-free nutrition and a changed way of life. To this end it advocates strict scrutiny of one's own dealings with milk products, eggs, meat and fish, because the most sustainable animal welfare is practiced at the checkout line. Thus under press/links you will find articles and notes on my book as well as on vegetarian and vegan nutrition.
Being a dinner guest who happens to be vegetarian or vegan is often felt as a complication. The same goes for many restaurants. It is tiresome to only ever find one or two vegetarian items to choose from on a menu. From a vegetarian and vegan point of view, Berlin is a true highlight among cities and has been recently nominated as vegetarian capital of the world. But once you are in Paris, Regensburg, Buenos Aires or Hong Kong, it becomes difficult, unless you opt for an Italian bistro—but who wants to always eat pizza or pasta? Vegetarian Dinner Party thus has a section out and about, where I report on my experiences here and abroad.
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Songs, stations and tangents. The companion blog for Early '70s Radio: The American Format Revolution, a book by Kim Simpson (Continuum, 2011).
Chart Song Cinema: The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
"Come Saturday Morning" (1969)
The Sandpipers
Written by Fred Karlin and Dory Previn * Produced by Allen Stanton * Arranged by Nick DeCaro * 45: "Come Saturday Morning" / "Pretty Flamingo" * LP: Come Saturday Morning * Label: A&M * Billboard charts: Easy listening (#8), Hot 100 (#17) * Entered: 1969-11-15 (easy listening), 1969-12-20 (Hot 100)
Reviewing Alan J. Pakula's The Sterile Cuckoo in late 1969, Roger Ebert complained about its reliance on the "Semi-Obligatory Lyrical Interlude," a then-fashionable movie device depicting "lovers floating over the countryside" to the sound of the "hit single on the sound track." For Ebert, The Sterile Cuckoo's three such scenes interfered with its "rhythm" and wrongfully presented lead characters Pookie (Liza Minelli) and Jerry (Wendell Burton), who stumble together into an imbalanced college fling, as "conventional lovers."
More than a few listeners would likely be OK if those three scenes were all the movie contained, though, especially if the Sandpipers' lovely "Come Saturday Morning" (which climbed to #17 in 1970 and became an easy listening staple) is what drew them into it in the first place. The song features unambiguous lyrics by Dory Previn about a weekend-oriented relationship, a wistful melody by Fred Karlin, and the most sublime musical arrangement (courtesy of Nick DeCaro) the "Guantanamera" Sandpipers, a vocal trio from LA, would ever take part in. It's the song itself that gives those soft focus scenes an appropriately bittersweet context, and in his criticism, Ebert's tin ear is showing.
Without those scenes, all that's left is novelist John Nichols's not-so-inspiring story of two awkward college freshmen, Liza Minnelli's irritating chatter, and Burton's wishy-washiness. Those musical scenes really do help sustain the film and improve the odds of viewers sticking around past the mid-way point, at least. And in the present-day era, where pre-existing pop songs routinely appear as soundtrack filler, I honor films like The Sterile Cuckoo for commissioning songwriters to provide unique, story-enhancing material.
(Coincidence: The Sandpipers also performed the title track to the satirical film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which Roger Ebert co-wrote the screenplay for. The song appeared on the group's 1970 album Come Saturday Morning, named after the very hit single that accompanied The Sterile Cuckoo interludes Ebert disdained.)
The 1968 version of the Paul Williams-Roger Nichols tune "To Put Up with You" on side B (from Softly, a few albums previous—also arranged by Nick DeCaro) was an ideal aesthetic and contextual match for side A, and it must have been carefully selected, if not considered at one point for the soundtrack. (The hit version of "Come Saturday Morning" did not appear on Paramount's The Sterile Cuckoo soundtrack album.)
Side A: "Come Saturday Morning"
Side B: "To Put Up with You"
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Early '70s Radio: The American Format Revolution
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"Kim Simpson does a superb job analyzing the manifold factors that contributed to the radio format revolution while advancing the reader's understanding of a transformative period in American culture. Ultimately, Simpson's astute assessment of radio's second heyday adds richly to the ever-growing canon of media studies. Early '70s Radio is must reading for anyone interested in the unique role specialized audio programming played in an era of historic social change."
–– Michael C. Keith, Author of The Radio Station
"All of the men and women, though the latter were few in music radio for many years, took radio programming seriously not only as a career, but also with passion for its viability. This included the disc jockey, the program director, and the general manager as more and more of them graduated from programming into management. Thus, I'm pleased to read this wonderful, compelling book by Kim Simpson. He treats with respect what all of us in the 60s and 70s took seriously. It was our life! And he employs penetrating wisdom and astonishing perception to correlate music with the cultural mores of our times and depict what really was and why. Great book!"
–– Claude Hall, B.J., M.Ed. Radio-TV Editor, Billboard, 1964-79, and Assistant Communications Professor, State University of New York at Brockport, 1983-89
"Too often we separate the agendas contained in business plans from the decisions of daily life. Kim Simpson's Early '70s Radio reunites the items found on playlists with the passions and polemics that infused a complicated decade. His skilful scholarship and attention to detail clarify that what we listen to and how we lead our lives do not march to separate beats, for our actions and our aesthetic preferences bear subtle and significant harmonies."
–– David Sanjek, Professor of Music Director, Salford Music Research Centre University of Salford, U.K.
"Early '70s Radio is a fast-paced romp through the formatting revolution that changed the ways pop music continues to be sliced and diced. Surprises pop off every page. Examining everything from monster hits to obscure and often-hilarious novelty tunes, Kim Simpson shows how Top 40 splintered into middle of the road soft rock, album-oriented hard rock, crossover soul and disco, and country pop. Each format promised to serve up a distinct listening demographic to hungry advertisers. Yet Simpson uncovers fascinating commonalities across the dial—including the increasing desire of stations to attract women instead of men—that fundamentally changed the sound of pop music. And who knew there were so many songs featuring children in the era? If you ever wondered about the roots of the Miley Cyrus/Justin Beiber phenomenon or how Glee learned to appeal to parents and their kids at the same time, Early '70s Radio delivers. I'll never listen to 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' or 'Rubber Duckie' the same way again."
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"Music historians are only now discovering what most everybody in the 1970s already knew: commercial radio formats really really mattered. Looking at the five key strands (Top 40, MOR, rock, R&B, and country), Kim Simpson surveys a moment when identity politics and counterculture were becoming niche marketing and new kinds of mainstreams. You can't explain what happened to American popular music after the 1960s without understanding these processes, and Simpson provides an able, accessible guide through a daunting range of sounds and contexts."
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Safe Harbor turns at-risk teenage boys into mature and dependable young men. Boys who enroll at Safe Harbor may be caught up in depression, rebellion, behavioral and school issues, minor drug use or trouble with the law, or the upheaval of a loss in their life. Often, boys who are struggling benefit from a less narrow view of the world, one not so centered on themselves or keeping up with their peers.
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More about Christian boarding schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut:
Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area. The city is part of the Greater New York City Combined Statistical Area and the fifth largest city in New England (behind, in order: Boston, Worcester, Providence, and Springfield.) Bridgeport is also the center of the 41st largest urban area in the United States, just behind Austin, Texas (40th).
The city is marked by its attachment to its famous resident, the circus-promoter and once mayor P.T. Barnum. Barnum built three houses in the city, and housed his circus in town during winters.
Other than Black Rock and parts of Brooklawn which were originally part of the township of Fairfield, Bridgeport was originally a part of the township of Stratford. The first English settlement on the west bank of the mouth of the Pequonnock River was made somewhere between 1639 and 1665 and was called Pequonnock. This village was renamed Newfield sometime before 1777. More people settled further inland and to the West and the area officially became known as Stratfield in 1701, likely due to its location between the already existing towns of Stratford and Fairfield. During the American Revolution, Bridgeport was a center of privateering. In 1800, Newfield village was chartered as the borough of Bridgeport, and in 1821 the township of Bridgeport, including more of Stratfield, was incorporated. Finally, Bridgeport was chartered as a city in 1836.
The city was home to the Frisbie Pie Company, and therefore it has been argued that Bridgeport is the birthplace of the frisbee.
The city is also home to the first Subway Restaurant, opened in the North End section of the city in 1965.
Excerpt about Christian boarding schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut, used with permission from Wikipedia.
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Safe Harbor was founded "accidentally" 30 years ago when a judge asked the founders, Robbie and Doug Smith, to care for a troubled boy on their large sailboat, instead of that boy being sent to juvenile hall for the weekend. The judge, a friend of Doug's, wouldn't take "No" for an answer, even though the Smith's were retired and about to embark on an around-the-world trip on their boat. The success of that weekend triggered more pleas by the judge for the Smith's to help more boys, until the Smith's needed more help. A nonprofit program was launched and formalized in 1984. Safe Harbor is now an established charitable nonprofit maritime-based boarding school based in Jacksonville, Florida. It utilizes maritime principles, discipline and seamanship as a therapeutic model for helping turn around at-risk teenage boys. Safe Harbor provides a safe, structured, and exciting alternative to therapeutic boarding schools and harsher juvenile programs.
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Living Stones Leaders to LGBT Community – We're sorry for the past mistreatment, now allow us to continue our mistreatment with the misuse of Scripture.
By Kathy Baldock on March 10, 2016 in All Posts, Bible/Scripture, Education/Hist., Presentations & Conferences
I hope this post finds its way to the members and attendees of Living Stones (LS) Church, Reno, Nevada. I have already made an effort to go directly to your pastor. In short, I was told I am wrong, on the wrong side of church history and orthodoxy, so I am addressing this directly to the people in the seats.
UPDATE 9/16/18 Living Stones has recently placed a church plant in my neighborhood. Knowing their policy, I once again began to alert people as to their deceptive policies. Pastor Ken Wilson, co-pastor Blue Ocean Faith, Ann Arbor, MI, wrote an excellent post about this new genre of hipster "gay friendly" churches popping up in urban areas. They appear welcoming, but typically demand LGBTQ lifelong celibacy, or heterosexual marriage for them. I also went back and listened to the "homosexual apology" message given by three other Living Stones pastors. I include short assessments of those messages a the end of this post.
I have lived and worshipped in this city for over three decades. My two grown straight children are the ages of many of you; they are Sami, 28, and Andrew, 30. Many of you went to grade school, high school or UNR with them. I know LS attracts a large, trending toward young population. I care that the young people of Reno/Sparks have been given scriptural "reason" to further drive away lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from the Kingdom of God.
[This is one of a three-part series on Pastor Harvey Turner. Head Pastor of Living Stones, Reno teachings on homosexuality, gender/sex, and complementarianism.]
I watched Pastor Harvey's March 6th video "The Doctrine of Sex — Homosexuality". Though I believe his intentions were honorable in apologizing to the LGBT community for poor treatment by the Christian community in recent decades, the sad irony is that he followed his letter with misuse of texts that serve to foster further mistreatment of the LGBT community.
Dearest current generation of conservative Christians, use the talents and skills you've learned in education to ensure that what you are being taught from your pulpits is accurate. Apply the wisdom of God, and be guided by the Spirit and a call to ethical treatment of those of your friends who are gay.
I'm 60. Christians in my age group are guilty of not having questioned what faith leaders told us about gay people. From the late 1970s to about 2004, the merger of conservative religion and politics in America was a nightmare (just look to the proof of where it has gotten us in this election). The unholy marriage rallied its fear-fueled rhetoric around the God-hating, family-threatening, child-recruiting, country-destroying, filthy gays.
LGBT Christians at GCN Conference
We fell for it. We didn't have access to the excellent resources now available to refute those claims. We rarely knew or had relationships with LGBT people, never mind those who identified as Christians. You have so much more access to check for the truth. Pursue it.
Make sure your theology expresses itself in the ethical treatment of those who are still marginalized in our churches. Be better than my generation of Christians.
When Pastor Harvey uses the six passages of Scripture referring to same-sex behavior in the Bible, you should diligently be checking your leaders, and not just listening lazily.
Are good practices of exegesis being applied to Scripture?
Who is the author? Who is the audience? What is the cultural or historical context? What was the original intended meaning of the passage? What did the specific words used mean at the time of writing?
It's not appropriate to reach back into history and assign unintended meanings to ancient passages. In other words, a text cannot mean what it never could have meant at the time it was written.
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The Bible passages referring to same-sex behavior were written in a time, by authors, and to an audience bound in patriarchy (men hold power over women), and gender hierarchy (men are superior to women).
Every one of the six passages was written through these lenses, and should be read and understood as intended at that time. Women were far inferior, and for a man to submit to the social or sexual role of a woman was the worst thing he could do or be.
Sodom — men wanted to violently rape the angels and humiliate them by using them as one would sexually use a woman.
Leviticus — God warned His people to not act like the pagan cultures they were leaving and about to once again enter. They used boys sexually to penetrate, as one used a woman. In ancient cultures, no two men of equal status engaged in sex; there was always an age or power differential.
Romans 1 — Paul was speaking to the Stoic Gentiles here. He was trying to tell them they too needed a Savior. Their law, as opposed to the Jew's Law, demanded that, to be in alignment with nature, they had to be self-controlled, maintain male sexual and social dominance, and sex was to be toward procreation. Romans 1 is a scene of "Stoics Gone Wild." Paul lays the groundwork to show that only a relationship with Christ could save them from their lack of control and lives lived for themselves.
1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy — again context, and original language of two Greek words. Arsenokoites is most closely translated as "men who have sex with boys," condemning the use of males as less-than, as women. Malakos means soft or "effeminate" which in the 1611 KJV was an accurate translation. It meant to have the disposition of a woman, as believed in ancient cultures: lustful, promiscuous in sex, given to excesses, lazy, deceitful, and yes, sexually in the submissive position.
Every time the word "homosexual" appears in a modern translation, it is referring to lustful behaviors of men using males, mostly boys or slaves, sexually, treating them as a woman. This is not loving; it is using and lust. There are no examples of equal-status males in loving relationships. It was not part of ancient culture.
Throughout history, and particularly in ancient cultures, dismissive attitudes toward women, along with men who engaged in same-sex behavior, have been intrinsically tied together. Of course then, we would expect historical texts to reflect that the worth and dignity of penetrated men would be reduced to the low status of women.
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Medically and culturally, we have only begun to understand that there are people who are romantically, emotionally, and sexually attracted to the same sex since the turn of the 20th century. It is absolutely impossible that texts written 3400 years and 2000 years ago were referring to these relationships or to gay people.
Medically and culturally, as same-sex attracted people (not men with boys, which had been more common, but men with men) began to become visible within society, they were soon shamed to the edges. In the 1940s through the 1970s, gay people were labeled as sick, mentally ill, and a threat to the country. They were severely oppressed. In the mid-1970s, the designation of mental illness (which never had any research behind it) was lifted.
It was then that the Christians of my generation resurrected the dying persecution, but this time, in the name of God.
Please, this generation of Christians, undo our damage. Yes, be very sorry along with us for what we did, but don't prolong this mess by misusing passages, as we did. We imposed our cultural prejudices onto Holy Texts and marginalized people. This is one of the major sins of my generation of Christians. We mistreated people in the Name of God.
Kori, Andrew and Becky
You have resources. You have gay and transgender friends. You have the internet to search out good information. Until you expand your empathetic listening to hear the voices of the marginalized, you will be guilty of our sin by continuing to wrongly interpret Scripture.
The time is now for many flawed lenses (historical, social, medical, psychological, political, and religious) through which we have viewed the LGBT community to be challenged. When you empathetically hear the voice of marginalized and do something to alleviate the pain, you will see a more broad expression of God and His love.
New life will come to the church. It is my opinion that the singular group of Christians who excel most at grace, mercy, and unconditional love are LGBT Christians. They have had to battle to the get to the heart of God through the roadblocks we have constructed to try to stop them. They've been richly rewarded.
Please redeem the conservative Christian church. Save us from our ignorance and conditional love. Figure it out. Dig in for yourselves.
CONTEXT of Scripture is essential. Please consider investing time in viewing this overview of my research. Thanks.
As a start, here are progressive inclusive interpretations of the six passages of Scripture, which do not view passages through severely flawed lenses.
This is a list of highly useful books, to be read in order:
Kathy Baldock, Justin Lee and Matthew Vines
Torn — Justin Lee (gay Christian)
Walking the Bridgeless Canyon — by me, Kathy Baldock (it is even available nearby at Sundance Book Store)
God and the Gay Christian — Matthew Vines (gay Christian)
Changing Our Mind — Dr. David Gushee
Making Sense of the Bible — Pastor Adam Hamilton
Bible, Gender, Sexuality — Dr. James Brownson
Ancient Law & Contemporary Controversies — Dr. Cheryl Anderson
This issue is too important to ignore. Press in and be diligent by reading both sides before settling into your personal doctrine about faith as it intersects sexual orientation.
The message preached at Living Stones last Sunday was damaging.
Damaging to the membership because you will continue to be part of the problem as well as depriving yourselves of the richness of fellowship with God's LGBT children. It is also immeasurably damaging to LGBT people, and LGBT Christians.
Every professional medical and health care organization in the U.S. acknowledges that homosexuality is a natural variation of human sexuality.
It is time for conservative Christians to embrace God's diversity in design, to stop shaming people for who they are, and to welcome LGBT people to become part of community. Without condition. No orientation sublimation. No demand that they remain celibate for life. No hope that they get heterosexually married. None of it.
Straight people get married and create family. Gay people get married and create family. (I did an entire series answering objections here addressing history of marriage, marriage as a civil right, marriage equality, biblical support for same sex marriage, the "imperative" toward procreation, and complementarity .)
Your pastor cautioned me, "The movement that you are part of is extremely small for a reason." Ah, but that is the nature of prophetic movements and calls for justice. They do start out small. God still uses the least likely and powerless to confound the dominant structures so that they may know it is God's doing. (1 Corinthians 1:28)
God is using the LGBT Christian community to show us our blind spots in loving well, and how to extend true grace, and mercy. Within five years, maybe less, the major shift will have happened within the church to include LGBT believers, unconditionally. Please become part of this redemption.
Thank you for hanging in there on this long read. This is not a simple issue.
Kathy Baldock
UPDATED 9/19/18: ALL Living Stones Churches in the Northern Nevada area have the same policies described above.
Living Stones Sparks, Pastor Kyle Bateson message
From the onset, I would strongly suggest that if one wants to be heard by the LGBTQ community, Bateson not use the term. When wondering if homosexuality is inborn, created by environment, or chosen, Bateson concludes that it does not matter because it is sin. Ridiculously, Bateson asserts, "Sin affects us so deeply that is affects our biology."
Bateson tells his congregants to "be a friend of sinners" hoping to make LS Sparks "a safe refuge."
Pastor Bateson needs to to better biblical and contextual work on this topic, an equally, listen to LGBTQ people. Listen, not tell. His church is not a safe refuge.
Living Stones Carson City, Pastor Candidate Louis Wartgow message
Wartgow also places homosexuality in the category of sin, but it is "not a big league sin," it is just another one. In contrast to LS's policy, he contrasts LS to the horrendous Fred Phelps group. No groups is as damaging and off message on so many topics as the Phelps clan, but that certainly does not exclude LS from the severely damaging to the LGBTQ community category.
Wartgow's go-to book for more complete discussion of homosexuality is Kevin DeYoung's book, which I have thoroughly reviewed on Amazon. Wartgow, along with Turner and Bateson, believes God has not created people along a spectrum of human sexuality, but rather The Fall brought sin to people. He does a quick run through Romans 1, a verse which was never used to comment on homosexuality until 1971, really, in The Living Bible, for the first time. Here is my take on Romans 1, looked at in historical context.
I am not hopeful that this redemptive transformation is on the near horizon for Living Stones. If you want to participate in a truly more welcoming and inclusive community, try The Rock Church in Sparks. The worship style and community are similar to Living Stones, but non-oppressive to those who are marginalized, and those who love them.
Additionally, in the upcoming Sunday sermon, you will be given Deuteronomy 22:5 as the proof text about trans people and asked how this passage can be used to inform you about gender dysphoria and transgender issues. Sadly, here is another misuse of Scripture that adds to the mistreatment of those who are transgender.
Post #3: Complementarianism is just patriarchy and gender hierarchy with a more palatable name.
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We spent four days in Beijing, gaining a better insight on China's capital. The changes taking place in China are perfectly illustrated on this shopping street near our hotel as Western brands blend with traditional shops and restaurants.
A tree-lined street leading to the Confucius Temple. We also found our second suprise craft brewpub in an adjacent hutong.
The gate to Guozijian Street and Confucius Temple.
One of the many character-filled hutongs (alleyways) of Beijing.
A local man at Gubeikou Village, our guesthouse near the Great Wall, enjoying watching his neighbors playing badminton.
so after holidaying in china you only took picture of rural,historical places and old man! and many people would think china is a backward? where all the building,and skyscrapers in china beijing?
Thanks for commenting. Our blog documents our experiences as we travel the world. Beijing has a rich history and with only three days in the city, skyscrapers were not on our list of things to see. However, I'm certain you'll see some skyscraper pictures when we visit Shanghai in a few days.
When we return from our travels, I'll write more in depth about our experiences in China and my perceptions of the modern China you mention. Hope you'll check back then!


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Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turks and Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas. Its most distinctive characteristic is the use of the common handsaw as the primary instrument, along with various kinds of drums, box guitar, concertina, triangle and accordion.

The saw is played by scraping an object, usually an old knife blade, along the saw's teeth, while bending the saw to produce a different timbre.  The sound is similar to a paper being ripped, and is believed to be the origin of the term ripsaw.  Rake-and-scrape derives from the method used by a player to create sound from the saw.

Though little is known for certain about ripsaw's genesis, two major theories include that the instrument was played to imitate the sound of the güiro, a Dominican and Haiti percussion instrument, and that Loyalist colonists in the United States brought their African slaves to the islands and these slaves invented the ripsaw to imitate the sound of the shekere instrument.

In the Bahamas, Cat Island is the only place to celebrate rake-and-scrape on a large scale.  During June's Labour Day celebration, the island holds a Cat Island Rake and Scrape festival.

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External links
 Music in the Turks and Caicos Islands at Turks and Caicos Tourist Board
 Ripsaw Music & Our Musical Heritage, by David Bowen, Cultural Officer, Turks & Caicos Tourist Board.

Bahamian music
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There is a misunderstanding that working in an office means combing endless emails while holding the phone in one hand and scribbling notes in the other. There are better, more productive ways for people to spend their working day. It took me several degrees and several careers to realize that I needed to streamline my process by working smarter, not harder.
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To increase daily productivity, you must learn to focus on one task, and it's useless to do it all at once. A few key tactics can increase productivity and sharpen your overall ethics.
If you are working full-time, morning and evening may be the only components of the day you can use this time by staying organized and setting the priorities of the day: Clear and Evernote are two apps that give users a checklist Creating an in-app pre-bed list allows you to clear your mind and plan enough. During sleep, your brain processes and prioritizes some of these tasks, even though you do not realize that you are thinking about it.
Every morning I review and edit my list before doing any of the tasks. This prevents me from putting someone else's to-do list over my own – which is exactly what happens when I start my day responding to emails. This practice also applies to meetings. Preparing an agenda in advance sets goals and goals, keeps the team on track, minimizes distractions, and leads to a more productive conversation for the entire group.
Multitasking shares your attention. Stretching too thin will make you feel ineffective and frustrated because you have focused on the product during the process. The anxiety you experience when procrastinating is caused by pain in the area of the insular cortex. It sends warning signals that cause stress when you worry about the final product. Instead of a task and the process that you need to achieve that goal, you will be less likely to experience that anxious feeling. It is therefore not surprising that the reduction of mental energy to stress factors ultimately contributes to increasing overall efficiency and achieving more.
You can begin to reform your work habits using a conditioning technique known as the Pomodoro technique developed by entrepreneur Francesco Cirillo. The technique teaches practitioners to focus at short intervals and work with time, not against it. It's pretty easy: devote your mind to an activity for 25 minutes. Set a timer so that you can search for motivation on a regular basis. Then take a five-minute break before starting another 25-minute cycle. These short, simple sessions provide the optimal timeframe to focus on individual tasks and to enforce a process-oriented approach.
Tools like the Pomodoro technique become null and void if internal and external distractions are not ruled out. Their culprits could be garrulous employees, social media, emails, a quick check on scores – the list goes on. Do not be reactive. To avoid temptation, turn off your phone, turn off notifications, and download applications that let you manage your incoming messages. Inbox Pause allows you to temporarily hold emails. If you want to read an interesting article, drop it in the Pocket App, where the content is saved for later viewing.
It is important that you reserve some time for the focus, without interruption. Whether you prefer early in the morning or late at night, find time and commit to it. Engaging in your own goals will enable you to start the day more positively and complete with a sense of accomplishment, regardless of how events develop in between.
It's unrealistic to demand a daylong, dedicated focus. For this reason, Pomodoro technology and other time management systems involve frequent breaks. These bequests allow your mind to rest and switch to a diffuse mode. They reward you for your concentration. When it's time to lose focus, do all the things that would otherwise have served as a distraction. Take a walk, meditate, meet colleagues, check your emails, or read articles stored in the Pocket App. Such breaks are important for building up willpower and recovery.
Realize that you do not have to do everything at once to make the most of your day. In fact you can not. Create a clear to-do list, use productivity tools, and develop ways to focus on individual tasks more efficiently. With a little practice you will be surprised how much you can achieve.
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